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BBC News", "President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed' - BBC News", "Dartford mother-of-three died after liposuction in Turkey - BBC News", "Biden inauguration in pictures - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 'Patience and perspective' needed in Wales - BBC News", "Racism in ballet: Black dancer's 'humiliation' at racist comments - BBC News", "Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork - BBC News", "Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article - BBC News", "Edinburgh's giant pandas may 'return to China' over Covid losses - BBC News", "Families rescued in Peak District after getting trapped in snow - BBC News", "Covid: Liverpool's leaders call for new national lockdown - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at hospitals - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Scottish cabinet to consider further measures - BBC News", "Cold snap creates 'pop-up' ice hockey rink - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Schools' phased return defended by first minister - BBC News", "Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands - BBC News", "Irish Eurovision singer and Bagatelle frontman Liam Reilly dies - BBC News", "Zoe Davison: Racing trainer dies on same day two of her horses win at Plumpton - BBC Sport", "West Brom 0-4 Arsenal: Arsenal see off Baggies in ruthless display - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: New strain of virus 'accelerating' spread - BBC News", "Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Five teenagers arrested after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £39m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Covid: Not much room for lockdown changes, Wales' first minister warns - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation - BBC News", "Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 - BBC News", "New Year snow flurries fall across England - BBC News", "Covid-19: New variant 'raises R number by up to 0.7' - BBC News", "Suspected Islamists kill dozens in attacks on two Niger villages - BBC News", "Covid: What could 'tougher' measures mean for us? - BBC News", "Pep Guardiola: Man City boss may stay in management longer than planned - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Anti-lockdown protesters arrested at Hyde Park demo - BBC News", "Benjamin Mendy: Man City 'disappointed' after defender breaches Covid-19 protocols - BBC Sport", "Ryan Garcia stops Luke Campbell after surviving knockdown in Dallas - BBC Sport", "County Antrim poultry flock to be culled after bird flu detected - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Restrictions 'could continue' amid rising cases - BBC News", "Hospitals across UK 'must prepare for Covid surge', senior doctor warns - BBC News", "Covid: Regional rules 'probably going to get tougher', says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Covid: Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens in hospital with virus - BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson warns of tougher measures amid Covid surge - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "Covid: Snowdonia National Park wardens 'getting abuse' during lockdown - BBC News", "Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: James Maddison and Harvey Barnes send Foxes second - BBC Sport", "Covid: Nurseries 'teetering on the edge' during pandemic - BBC News", "Archie Lyndhurst: CBBC star died in his sleep, says mother - BBC News", "SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early - BBC News", "Covid-19: Protect us from unlawful killing charges - medics - BBC News", "Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man said he had travelled 100 miles 'for a McDonald's' - BBC News", "RAF veteran receives Covid jab at Salisbury Cathedral - BBC News", "Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd: Alisson saves thwart leaders at Anfield - BBC Sport", "Chris Cramer: Tributes paid after former BBC and CNN journalist dies aged 73 - 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BBC News", "Sri Lanka v England: Tourists wobble chasing 74 after Jack Leach takes 5-122 - BBC Sport", "Universal Credit: Benefit increase only 'temporary', says Raab - BBC News", "G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer - BBC News", "Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs' - BBC News", "Home Office 'working to restore' lost police records - BBC News", "Eurostar: Government urged to 'safeguard' rail firm's future - BBC News", "Covid-19: Running a roadside van when a pandemic cuts traffic - BBC News", "Coronavirus: William and Kate hear from emergency workers - BBC News", "Covid: People broke lockdown rules in 200-mile drive to see friends - BBC News", "Covid-19: More mass jab centres, airport support and a virtual library - BBC News", "Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive - BBC News", "Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island - BBC News", "Universal credit: MPs urge PM to keep £20 benefit 'lifeline' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Further 1,295 deaths recorded in the UK - BBC News", "Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia dies with Covid aged 70 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach - BBC News", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Freeman targets 400,000 vaccinations every week - BBC News", "Lockdown Christmas hits: Lidl pink prosecco and takeaways - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled - BBC News", "Fresh calls for NI mother and baby homes inquiry - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update - BBC News", "Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - BBC News", "Human remains found in search for missing cyclist Tony Parsons - BBC News", "Johnson: 24-7 Covid-vaccine hubs as soon as supply allows - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: The six new lockdown rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: British tourist blamed for Lauberhorn ski race cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Covid-19: We can make this the peak by following rules, says Hancock - BBC News", "Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum £10 an hour - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do the rules compare to last year? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal to save 2,000 jobs - BBC News", "Furlough fraud: I'm still registered as furloughed for a job I quit' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Stricter rules within days - BBC News", "China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy - BBC News", "Media billionaire David Barclay dies, aged 86 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Lockdown lifting 'unlikely' as deaths pass 5,000 - BBC News", "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech - BBC News", "PMQs: Some food parcels are an 'insult to families' - PM - BBC News", "Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 100,000 vaccine doses administered in NI - BBC News", "Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing - BBC News", "Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals - BBC News", "Covid: Birmingham hospitals move 200 doctors to intensive care duties - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p from April in Scotland - BBC News", "Naomi Campbell's Kenya tourism role causes row - BBC News", "Heavy snow causes widespread disruption in Scotland - BBC News", "Covid-19: New test rule for England arrivals pushed back to Monday - BBC News", "David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app - BBC News", "GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC News", "Covid-19: Lockdown measures 'starting to show signs of some effect' - PM - BBC News", "Covid-19: Alabama crowds ignore coronavirus to celebrate championship - BBC News", "Covid-19: New treatment, NHS staff struggles and free meals row - BBC News", "Trump impeachment process: Who are the key players? - BBC News", "Gurlitt's last Nazi-looted work returned to owners - BBC News", "Cramlington woman celebrates 100th birthday with covid jab - BBC News", "People's sonic boom surprise caught on camera - BBC News", "Libby Squire murder trial: Pawel Relowicz 'prowled streets for victim' - BBC News", "Battery lodged in baby's throat for four months - BBC News", "As it happened: Record number of daily deaths reported in UK - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Pfizer v Oxford AstraZeneca v Moderna - BBC News", "Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Fulham: Ivan Cavaleiro earns a point for Premier League strugglers - BBC Sport", "Call for better coronavirus masks for all medical staff - BBC News", "Covid: Play your part in fight against virus, says Patel - BBC News", "YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports record 1,564 daily deaths - BBC News", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan: Hundreds march over arrested man's death - BBC News", "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot - BBC News", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ban shoppers without face masks - BBC News", "Trump impeached for second time - BBC News", "YFN Lucci: US rapper wanted in Atlanta for suspected murder - BBC News", "Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows - BBC News", "Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Who broke into the building? - BBC News", "Britain's Got Talent: Filming postponed due to coronavirus concerns - BBC News", "Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful scenes' in US - BBC News", "National Express to suspend all services - BBC News", "Fears schools will be overwhelmed by laptopless pupils - BBC News", "Trump allowed back onto Twitter - BBC News", "Trump auction for Arctic oil rights sees little interest - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Three teenagers charged with murder after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Biden says BLM protest would have been treated 'very differently' - BBC News", "Essex lorry deaths: Dad learned of son's fate on social media - BBC News", "As it happened: PM sets out Covid vaccine rollout plan - BBC News", "Teachers' grades to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England - BBC News", "Adrian Chiles confirmed in Emma Barnett 5 Live slot - BBC News", "Covid: Seven mass vaccination hubs announced for England - BBC News", "Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Two Louisville officers fired over roles in shooting - BBC News", "Stella Tennant: Family confirms model's death was suicide - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated - BBC News", "Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered - BBC News", "Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Belfast Trust cancels urgent cancer surgeries - BBC News", "Capitol riots: How a Trump rally turned deadly - BBC News", "Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress - BBC News", "Muted response as Clap for Heroes returns - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Moment protesters storm US legislature - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events - BBC News", "Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights - BBC News", "Covid: UK travel curbs to keep out South Africa variant - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Pro-Trump protesters storm the US legislature - in pictures - BBC News", "'Mr Christmas' lights switched off for last time in Croxley Green - BBC News", "Inside one GP surgery's Covid vaccine roll-out - BBC News", "Covid-19: Baby's mother issues mottled skin warning - BBC News", "Trump’s Twitter downfall - BBC News", "ICU hospital staff: 'Scared, sad, petrified, worried' - BBC News", "Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn - BBC News", "Capitol siege: Trump's words 'directly led' to violence, Patel says - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Murder-accused teenagers appear in court - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "McDonald's pauses walk-in takeaways in lockdown - BBC News", "US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington - BBC News", "'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff - BBC News", "Alex Rodda murder: Matthew Mason guilty of killing schoolboy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson makes daily jab pledge as Army helps rollout - BBC News", "Organ donor mum wishes she could help her children in need of kidneys - BBC News", "Meat factories warn Covid absences could hit supplies - BBC News", "Covid tests for Channel hauliers to continue 'until further notice' - BBC News", "Aston Villa plan to play youngsters against Liverpool in FA Cup after Covid outbreak - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout widens as hospital pressure rises - BBC News", "Sainsbury's Christmas sales rise despite smaller turkeys - BBC News", "Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? - BBC News", "Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker says brain tumour has 'shrunk significantly' - BBC News", "Lockdown: 'I've borrowed £4m just to remain closed' - BBC News", "Capitol siege: An eyewitness account from inside the House chamber - BBC News", "Asos frontrunner to buy Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands - BBC News", "Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Top adviser warns France at 'emergency' virus moment - BBC News", "Covid-19: Essex student helps 600 refugees out of 'period poverty' - BBC News", "Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Care home worker thought cancer misdiagnosis was a 'cruel joke' - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims could be out of homes for days - BBC News", "SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched - BBC News", "England in Sri Lanka: Tourists complete six-wicket win and take series 2-0 - BBC Sport", "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Pressure on NHS front line 'relentless' - Hancock - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death than average - BBC News", "Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat' - BBC News", "Snow: Severe weather warnings in place across UK - BBC News", "Covid-19: MPs call for school reopening plan, and will France have a third lockdown? - BBC News", "Putin condemns Navalny protests as Western concern grows - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not a moment to ease measures,' says Matt Hancock - BBC News", "Robert Rowland: Former Brexit MEP dies in Bahamas diving accident - BBC News", "Pandemic prompts Super Bowl ad rethink in US - BBC News", "Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC News", "South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK - BBC News", "US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts' - BBC News", "Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? - BBC News", "'Droves' of Pampas grass pickers at South Shields beach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Mansfield newlyweds, 90 and 86, in vaccination plea - BBC News", "'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents - BBC News", "Covid: Call for long-term plan to help 'burnt-out' nurses - BBC News", "Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger - BBC News", "Dylan Freeman: Mother admits killing disabled son - BBC News", "'Running Man' robber jailed after nearly 13 years on the run - BBC News", "Travellers: Shocking lack of pitches for families, charity warns - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims face 'months' before returning home - BBC News", "Jenners: Building's owner says store 'will remain' despite Frasers move - BBC News", "PTSD: Eyes can reveal previous trauma, study reveals - BBC News", "Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists - BBC News", "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants - BBC News", "Channel 4 Deepfake Queen complaints dropped by Ofcom - BBC News", "Debenhams shops to close permanently after Boohoo deal - BBC News", "Covid: Dutch curfew riots rage for third night - BBC News", "Gordon Brown: Trust has broken down in way UK is run - BBC News", "Q&A: Cwm Taf maternity problems - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Over-70 vaccine letters start but blue envelope delay - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Failings 'affected two-thirds of women' - BBC News", "Mastercard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU - BBC News", "Frank Lampard: Chelsea sack manager with Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive - BBC News", "Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary - BBC News", "Covid: Hays Travel to close 89 shops as lockdown delays 'bounce back' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer self-isolates for third time - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Ways to 'accelerate' vaccine plans being examined - BBC News", "Welsh Valentine's Day: 'Why we mark St Dwynwen's Day' - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Mothers ignored and made to feel worthless - BBC News", "Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police investigate potential breaches at republican funeral - BBC News", "Skewen flooding: Villagers warned not to return to homes - BBC News", "Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled - BBC News", "Covid: Volunteers in Maesteg clear snow for vulnerable to get vaccine - BBC News", "Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: Bruno Fernandes settles FA Cup thriller - BBC Sport", "Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC News", "Couple killed in Cameron House Hotel fire named - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Police support Crown probe into care home deaths - BBC News", "Covid: Sir Billy Connolly receives his first vaccine jab - BBC News", "Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report - BBC News", "Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container' - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say - BBC News", "Festival season 'still possible' despite Glastonbury cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'New variant may be associated with higher mortality' - PM - BBC News", "Inquiry uses legal powers to seek Salmond evidence - BBC News", "Bus driver jailed after passenger's death in Swansea crash - BBC News", "Covid: James Bond film No Time To Die delayed for third time - BBC News", "Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives - BBC News", "Birmingham mosque becomes UK's first to offer Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Hotel quarantine for UK arrivals to be discussed - BBC News", "St Agnes Cold War bunker for sale - BBC News", "Covid: Side-by-side in a London mosque - funerals and a food bank - BBC News", "Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? 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east London.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "Driving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" next week, the Met Office warns.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect the area, close to Niger's border with Mali.", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Manchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breaches Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.", "Mexican-American Ryan Garcia gets up from the canvas to stop Britain's Luke Campbell with a body shot in Dallas, Texas.", "About 30,000 birds are to be culled at the farm near Clough in north Antrim.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describes her as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wishes her well.", "Boris Johnson says regional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The decision to keep car parks open is under \"constant review\", says one national park.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Calls are made for \"front-line\" nursery staff to be supported with funding and vaccines.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "He told police he drove to Devizes for a McDonald's even though the town does not have a branch.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Mother Sara Powell-Davies welcomes its return, but nurseries say they fear for the future.", "Women are sent sexually explicit messages and requests for \"worn\" garments.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Fighting erupted after a man was stabbed in a row between two men from different ethnic groups.", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "The government is aiming to provide grants by April to mitigate the impact of Covid travel rules.", "Patient numbers have risen by 15,000 since Christmas, but infections are stabilising, says Sir Simon Stevens.", "Pupils in England can read works by popular authors online while schools stay closed in lockdown.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later.", "England need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic final session in Galle.", "A decision on whether to extend £20 Universal Credit rise is unlikely before March's Budget, minister says.", "The leaders of the US, France, Germany and other leading economies will meet in Cornwall in June.", "The government is planning new laws to stop England's monuments being removed \"on a whim\" by protesters.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "With traffic down and more people working from home, what is the future for these lay-by businesses?", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.", "But Sir Simon Stevens says the health service has never been in a more precarious situation.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia tested positive for the virus shortly after Christmas but the cause of his death is not clear.", "The man told police he had travelled 14 miles from his home to search for the fictional characters.", "Hashem Abedi and Ahmed Hassan are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh in May.", "Scotland's health secretary says 400,000 jabs could be administered every week by the end of February.", "Lidl, Just Eat and Asos say demand for fizz, takeaways and clothes all rose during December.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Black people are more than four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act in England.", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and NHS Wales chief executive.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry vanished more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.", "The prime minister wants round-the-clock vaccination but adds supply is currently the limiting factor.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The health secretary urges people to follow rules, saying \"individual decisions\" make a difference.", "Rival supermarkets defend their pay, with Asda saying looking at hourly rates does not tell the whole story.", "Some restrictions have been tightened amid concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Amid reports of mass furlough fraud the BBC hears from one worker who quit work but still gets furlough pay.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says because of the \"precarious\" situation in relation to the pandemic more restrictions will be brought in.", "A report from a group of Tory MPs adds to internal pressure on the government to harden its stance.", "Together with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning hotels, retail and newspapers.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson over the provision of \"disgraceful\" food parcels.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "One operator told the BBC his staff were working up to 16 hours a day to help traders.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "The increase is to further discourage shoppers from buying single-use plastic bags.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Sir David will showcase an augmented reality app as part of a drive to prove the uses of 5G.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".", "But Boris Johnson does not rule out tougher restrictions in England, saying they are kept under review.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "These are the lawmakers with a big influence on the impeachment process against the former president.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Pawel Relowicz committed \"sexually motivated\" burglaries before Libby Squire's death, jurors hear.", "Doctors believed 11-month-old Sofia-Grace Hill was rejecting food because she had tonsillitis.", "It comes as Boris Johnson is quizzed by MPs on the government's coronavirus response.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Parents of disabled children are calling for teachers in special schools to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "The Democrats say they sheltered in a safe room alongside others who refused to wear masks.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Police in Atlanta want to question YFN Lucci, 29, over a fatal shooting in the city last month.", "More than 700 intensive care staff at nine hospitals were asked about their experiences for a study.", "Her novel Heart for a Compass is a fictional historical saga inspired by her great-great-aunt.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "Production was to begin later this month but filming and transmission will now be later than hoped.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "Allowing pupils without laptops into schools could limit the impact of the closures, say head.", "The president will be banned \"permanently\" if he breaks the platform's rules again.", "An Alaska state agency emerged as the main bidder at the sale, which was opposed by environmentalists.", "Two boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, are charged with murder after the death of Olly Stephens, 13.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex.", "Boris Johnson has \"no doubt\" there is enough supply to vaccinate the first four priority groups by 15 February.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The broadcaster will be a part-time replacement for the new Woman's Hour host.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Events in Washington spark dismay and criticism of America's politics and leader.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "More than 113,000 Scots have now been given their first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "The president is accused of inciting a riot with his divisive rhetoric - he's unlikely to stay silent.", "Health officials say it was the only option due to the demand for beds as a result of Covid-19.", "A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "News photographers captured extraordinary scenes as Trump supporters stormed the building.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "Dave Edwards lit up his home for 42 years but died before the recent festive season.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "George is recovering after spending three nights in hospital with coronavirus.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "On Wednesday the UK recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths and hospitals are struggling to cope.", "The Tesla and SpaceX owner replaces Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet.", "The home secretary says the US president fuelled the violence, as the PM condemns the \"disgraceful scenes\".", "Two boys and a girl are accused of murdering 13-year-old Olly Stephens in Reading.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Matthew Mason beat 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death to stop their sexual relationship being revealed.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Sarah Bingham's son and daughter have the same rare illness and she is a donor match for both.", "Industry body calls for the early vaccination of workers to keep supply chains running smoothly.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool.", "GPs in England receive doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn of \"stretched\" wards.", "Families had smaller gatherings, but sales still rose 9.3% in the Christmas trading period, it says.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there.", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "The new lockdown has pushed pubs and restaurants into yet more debt, some of which may never be repaid.", "Jamie Stiehm was in the House of Representatives press gallery when protesters smashed at the door.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "The head of France's scientific council suggests a third lockdown is needed amid spread of variants.", "Ella Lambert says the period pain she experiences inspired her to help others.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "Janice Johnston had 18 months of needless chemotherapy, causing her numerous physical problems.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "England complete a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.", "A former Boeing manager says more investigations are needed on the plane, grounded after two crashes.", "Nearly 38,000 people are in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, the health secretary says.", "The highest-risk job roles were in restaurants, care work and manufacturing.", "From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to £190bn a year, a report says.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The crackdown on Alexei Navalny and his supporters fuels calls in the EU for tougher sanctions.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "The changes affecting some customers take effect as finances are squeezed by Covid and Christmas.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after having to twice postpone their wedding.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "A Royal College of Nursing survey found almost 80% were more stressed because of the Covid pandemic.", "As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "Ambrose O'Neill disappeared after the first day of his trial in 2008.", "Only 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any available spaces, research from a charity suggests.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "The building's owner vows it will continue as a department store despite the departure of current tenant, the House of Fraser.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.", "The media regulator decided not to pursue complaints about decency over the channel's satire.", "Online retailer Boohoo will buy the brand for £55m, but not its shops, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The UK's nations and regions are being treated as if they were \"invisible\", the former PM warns.", "What is behind the review of specialist care for mothers and babies in the south Wales valleys?", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "A new report focuses on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.", "The move sparks concerns that customers could see prices rise if merchants pass on the higher cost.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announces he is receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he will be working from home until next Monday.", "A pilot programme for 24/7 vaccinations is among options being considered by the Scottish government.", "Why one family finds St Dwynwen's Day - the Welsh patron saint of lovers - more relevant to their heritage.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier visited the site of the flooding which led to 80 people being evacuated.", "About 118,000 placements for young people are yet to be filled due to coronavirus lockdowns.", "Community spirit praised as helpers clear 7cm of snow so vulnerable patients could get Covid jab.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for rapid testing and priority access to vaccines.", "The two men were guests at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond when the blaze broke out.", "The force said its role is designed to inform prosecutors and does not indicate a crime has taken place.", "The 78-year-old Scottish comedian received his first dose of the vaccine near his home in Florida.", "A report criticises the union after it told its members not to volunteer due to safety concerns.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "The majority of applications for the discretionary part of the test and trace grant are unsuccessful.", "Despite Glastonbury's cancellation, smaller festivals could still go ahead, experts say.", "Boris Johnson says it's more important than ever to be vigilant in following rules and staying home.", "The probe into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond wants to see messages between SNP and government officials.", "Eric Vice, 64, was driving to Swansea University when he hit a bridge.", "The premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, is pushed back again due to Covid.", "Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.", "The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, hopes the centre will dispel false information about the vaccination.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "A bunker built during the Cold War is being auctioned with a guide price of £25,000.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "UK retailers may abandon goods EU customers want to return because it is cheaper than bringing them home.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann warns restrictions are likely to continue after latest extension.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.", "The TV presenter says Mr Trump went on with the conversation, believing it to be Morgan.", "A 14-year-old boy is suspected of murder over \"inconceivable violence\" before Keon Lincoln's death.", "The Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs was recently rated \"weak\" by the care inspectorate for its Covid response.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "A national charity renews its plea for donations to help museums hit by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Paula Badosa reveals she has the virus and apologises for making complaints about quarantine rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "A £500 payment is already available for those on low incomes who cannot work from home, No 10 says.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "A teachers' union says a review delivers a \"scathing\" verdict on how exams were handled in 2020.", "Fines of £800 will be handed to anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people from next week.", "Thousands of files hacked from Scotland's environment watchdog appear on the \"dark web\" after it rejected a ransom demand.", "Boris Johnson says England's measures will be reviewed once the priority groups have had the vaccine.", "Paddy McElhone, 24, was shot in the back by a soldier near his home outside Pomeroy in August 1974.", "Investigators have been targeting offenders who operate online since the first coronavirus lockdown.", "CCTV footage has been released showing fire breaking out in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "Two people died in the blaze at the Cameron House hotel in West Dunbartonshire three years ago.", "A consortium including the fashion chain will no longer bid to buy Topshop and Topman out of administration.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "Clothing was the hardest-hit sector last year, seeing a 25% drop in sales overall.", "Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League comes to an end as Ashley Barnes fires home a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.", "The Japanese car maker has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Parts of Skewen remain underwater with people unable to return to their flooded homes.", "Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after failing to find a \"workable quarantine\" solution following his positive test for coronavirus.", "Simon Midgley's mother says she still does not have answers about how her son died in the fire at Cameron House.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "The minority \"blatantly flouting\" restrictions will face enforcement action, a senior officer says.", "The couple paid themselves the sum despite heavy losses at Mrs Beckham's fashion brand.", "Muller Milk & Ingredients in Somerset confirms 47 dairy workers have tested positive for Covid-19.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Many of those who took part in the Capitol riot are believed to have subscribed to extremist views.", "The curbs may even continue until Easter in an attempt to drive down Covid-19 case numbers.", "Stars of the Essex-based reality show pay tribute to a \"true gentleman\" and \"one of the good guys\".", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest hears.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Under house arrest in Canada on bank fraud charges, Ms Meng has reportedly received death threats.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "The S21 Ultra's support for an S Pen will fuel speculation that the Note range's days are numbered.", "But the expert says the new Covid variant means any relaxation of rules will be a \"gradual process\".", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "One in three trusts in England was running above safe levels of bed occupancy by the end of 2020.", "Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Some urgent procedures including cancer surgery are postponed in one health board area due to Covid.", "Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.", "Hundreds of students say it is not right they will have to wait months for rebates during Covid-19.", "Some housed in the military camp say the conditions are so bad it causes them psychological trauma.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "Armie Hammer dismisses supposedly leaked messages and says he can now not be apart from his children.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Jack Dorsey acknowledges that banning the president undermines the ideals of an open internet.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "Arrivals from most of South America - and from Portugal - will be stopped from Friday.", "Dozens cancel Covid jabs and poor road conditions have a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances.", "Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a \"no-brainer\" that workers should get immunised.", "Scientists are racing to find out more about variants of the coronavirus that are spreading fast.", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer is explaining what went wrong with the launch.", "Samantha Hicks attributed her baby's kicking to sickness having been in hospital with Covid-19.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK.", "Services in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, the Rail Delivery Group says.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "A Scottish shellfish firm owner says he is on the brink of bankruptcy as EU customers desert his business.", "The 19-year-old mounted pavements and jumped red lights through London and three counties.", "Nintendo's first theme park, modelled on levels of its Mario games, was due to open on 4 February.", "More than 45% of this priority group has now been vaccinated, compared with about 30% in London.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "New Brexit trade rules mean Britain's biggest supermarket faces problems importing some fruit, meat and ready meals.", "James Howells threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin - now worth £210m - by mistake in 2013.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "It tops up doses already promised as officials worry that Africa is at the back of the vaccine queue.", "England's cancer, critical care, A&E and routine treatments all hit as hospitals accommodate virus patients.", "Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.", "The government defends its plan to switch to a grant scheme to feed children at half term.", "Our voter panel is divided over the charge of incitement with Trump supporters warning it will deepen divisions.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers could bring in possible measures after a new Covid variant was found in South America.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus have landed in the city of Wuhan.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "The home secretary says her focus is on enforcement but doesn't rule out tougher restrictions next week.", "Dom Bess takes 5-30 as a dreadful Sri Lanka batting display leaves England in control after day one of the first Test at Galle.", "A blind social media star could wait years for a new guide dog due to delays linked to the pandemic.", "The government wants bosses to do more to help victims as reports of domestic abuse soar in lockdown.", "Andy Murray is still hopeful of playing in the Australian Open despite not travelling to Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher and partner Roy Horn were an institution in Las Vegas and beyond.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The retailer insists it has no plans to move online, despite warning shop closures could cost it £1bn.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "The woman, who was Tasered by officers, is taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.", "Sarah Link lived in a caravan on her own drive so she could carry on working and protect her mother.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "Officers \"will not hesitate\" to take action against those breaking the rules, home secretary says.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says social media giants are \"taking editorial decisions\".", "The Labour leader urges ministers to give councils more money instead to protect family budgets.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "Eleanor Wadsworth flew hundreds of aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes, to the front line in WW2.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "But for now, people must stay at home during lockdown and alleviate 'serious' pressure on the NHS.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Electricity is gradually being restored after a huge outage triggered by a power station fault.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Scott McTominay celebrates captaining Manchester United for the first time with an early winner to see off Watford in the FA Cup third round.", "A 107-year-old woman from County Meath is attempting to attend a virtual Mass in every county.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "If Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday, the entire network will go offline.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "Almost 50,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The Labour leader rejects a second independence referendum but calls for other changes to devolution.", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "Boris Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to outline further steps as virus cases rise.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "The British coin collection will also mark the 75th anniversary of the death of novelist HG Wells.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "An NHS chief executive says it 'beggars belief' people took pictures of empty corridors.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions\" by the end of March.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Dan Eliasson, head of the civil contingencies agency, flew to the Canary Islands to see his daughter.", "Tributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The group of more than 200 engineers say Google must live up to its 'Don't be evil' pledge.", "Nóra Quoirin's family say they are disappointed at the ruling and still think she was abducted.", "Boris Johnson warns of \"tough\" weeks ahead, as coronavirus infection rates continue to surge.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "The border crossings between the UK and the European Union face their first day of significant traffic under new rules.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The Labour leader calls for an immediate lockdown in England to get the virus \"back under control\".", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "Lockdown losses mean renewing the 10-year contract to lease Yang Guang and Tian Tian may be unaffordable.", "Police help dozens of motorists who became stranded after heavy snow fell in the Peak District.", "Parliament will be recalled for Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\" as case numbers rise by 2,464.", "Schools in Wales given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", despite concerns by unions.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Her Majesty said the now 75-year-old show had \"played a significant part in the evolving of women\".", "Schools will close for most pupils from Tuesday as people are told to stay at home in new lockdown.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "The government said suspected jihadists ambushed the two villages near Niger's border with Mali.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Championship club said \"several first-team staff and players\" had tested positive.", "England all-rounder Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at Hambantota airport in Sri Lanka.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "The bid approach is the latest attempt by a casino operator to tap into the online gambling boom.", "The locally-produced Covaxin jab was approved on Sunday before completion of third stage trials.", "Supermarkets say card payment problems that led to long queues are resolved, but cause still unknown", "Total deaths involving Covid pass 6,000, including 467 in the week ending 15 January.", "A Cardiff head teacher says keeping schools closed affects disadvantaged pupils most severely.", "The money comes from the liquidation of a firm co-founded by the disgraced film producer.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey says she is \"pinching herself\" over her win.", "Another 7,700 registered with coronavirus on the death certificate brings the total to nearly 104,000.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The UK is the second market - after the US - to get Facebook's latest news feature.", "The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Scientists propose 10 golden rules for restoring forests to maximise benefits for the planet.", "Parents reveal the perils of juggling teaching with work and family life.", "The new measures are likely to apply to British residents arriving in England from high-risk countries.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility for everything that the government has done\".", "Major incidents were declared in north and south Wales as Storm Christoph causes flooding.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Ex-cabinet minister wants \"Britain's favourite animal\" to get same protections as bats and badgers.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Several pupils at the school admitted visiting other households, breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "Lawyers for SMG deny claims it was penny-pinching before the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "Crew are asking to be designated 'key workers' so they can go home without risking public health.", "Campaigners claim changes to the way decisions were made led to a \"shocking\" fall in cases going to court.", "Comedians Meera Syal, Romesh Ranganathan and Adil Ray make a video urging people to get the vaccine.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "The Belfast grammar school says it will use \"other academic criteria\" in the absence of transfer tests.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "It comes as the foreign secretary says the UK will return to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid \"as soon as possible\",", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "The BBC brought a judicial review over reporting restrictions in a now abandoned legal case against Scotland's child abuse inquiry.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The company acknowledges its \"Birdwatch\" idea could be \"messy\", but says it is worth trying.", "Parents and teachers are frustrated and worried about the impact of school closures on children.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "A plan to put the anti-slavery activist on the banknote was delayed under ex-President Donald Trump.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "The Stormont-commissioned research examined institutions run by churches and other religious groups.", "English-speaking parents whose children go to Welsh-language schools say they struggle to help them.", "Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "The Welsh Government misses its target of giving 70% of over-80s the vaccine by last weekend.", "Leaders in the House have brought their article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate.", "The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "The Welsh Ambulance Service boss warns that difficult weeks lie ahead in Covid-19 fight.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "At the age of 14, he sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian teenager to murder police officers.", "The owner of a toy retailer says high transport costs may mean larger toys become more expensive.", "Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence help England seal victory over Sri Lanka on the final morning of the first Test in Galle.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "A group of pensioners seek compensation for what they say was the excessive pricing of landlines.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Nóra Quoirin's parents do not accept the findings of an inquest into her death in Malaysia.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Jonathan Brooks is charged with the attempted murder of Graeme Perks, who was attacked in his home.", "Police have described the killers of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson as a \"pack of animals\".", "Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll but has seen delay and discord over vaccines.", "A red deer had to be put down after being savaged by a red setter in London's Richmond Park.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "Phil Neville leaves his role as manager of England's women and takes over at Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.", "Students call for more support as they continue their studies through another lockdown.", "The Jewish employee had warned co-workers about the danger of Nazis during the Capitol Riots.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "Small armed groups gathered in several US cities but most state capitols were quiet amid high security.", "Annual growth of 2.3% puts China on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Someone is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, the health secretary says.", "The Perth-born actor was best known for screen roles including \"Chancer\" in City Lights and \"Pete Galloway\" in River City.", "Students at Aberystwyth are told not to return unless \"absolutely necessary\".", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "A shortage of computer chips is leading to car factories shutting down for days at a time.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Democrats plan to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Monday, for inciting the invasion of the US Capitol, sources say.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "While GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled, IGCSEs, often used in independent schools, will continue.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "The man charged the 92-year-old £160 and came back a week later asking for a further £100.", "Seventeen million doses have been ordered by the UK and are expected to arrive in spring.", "Sweet Melody becomes the band's fifth number one, and their first since Jesy Nelson left.", "But some performances may be pre-recorded if artists can't travel to Rotterdam.", "The deaths of a further 93 people have been recorded - with the number of patients in hospital at record levels.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Secret recordings revealed \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Students say they will refuse to pay for accommodation they cannot use during lockdown.", "It is the third vaccine to be approved for UK use, after the Pfizer and Oxford jabs.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "We asked people around the US how they responded to the chaotic scenes from the US Capitol.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "Shark attacks are rare in the country and it is thought to be the first such death since 2013.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "The lender says it expects \"downward pressure on house prices\" in 2021 following annual rise of 6% last year.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma becomes full-time president of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "Marks & Spencer's clothes sales overall fall nearly a quarter, but pyjamas are back in fashion.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The men were detained when special forces stormed the Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "Top Democrats call for the president to be removed as he commits to an \"orderly\" transition of power.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "It comes as all of Wales has snow and ice warnings for the next few days.", "The Korean car company originally said it was in talks with the tech titan before backtracking.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 January.", "Satellite data shows that 2020 and 2016 are essentially tied as the hottest years since records began.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms an extended closure of schools.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "A series of streamed music events, shows and releases will mark five years since the singer's death.", "With attendance as high as 50% in some areas, heads call for pupil limits in England's lockdown schools.", "Ramsey was loved by fans for her role as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy film series.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "The first cyclone of Australia’s season has been downgraded but continues to cause danger.", "Reversing earlier assurances, officials say tracing data can be used for criminal investigations.", "Boris Johnson tells a briefing that nearly a quarter of people over 80 have received a Covid-19 jab.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "Sea Shepherd says the collision happened after it came under attack in the Gulf of California.", "Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but said more aid and a clear plan would be needed.", "Boris Johnson made the decision on restrictions \"in the face of new information\", the chancellor says.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The children's commissioner for England and Labour's leader call on firms to help low-income families.", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "A growing divide over education, jobs, and ethnicity threaten the fabric of society, says Nobel laureate's study.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?", "Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "The cancellations, although rare, reflect the pressure some hospitals are under from Covid.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Demand surges as shoppers rush to secure online delivery slots following news of another lockdown.", "In the tightening of restrictions across the UK there is much that's an echo of March - but a lot that's different too.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks Celtic have questions to answer on the grounds for their winter trip to Dubai and says the club's social distancing \"should be looked into\".", "The stationery chain which has 127 stores and around 1,500 employees says shop closures hit it hard.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "Former Buckingham Palace caterer Adamo Canto attempted to sell some items on eBay, a court hears.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "A hearing will decide whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The famous building on London's Oxford Street has been put on the market by administrators.", "Strict new Covid-19 restrictions come into force in Scotland, prohibiting people from leaving their homes.", "A fresh move to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence is under way.", "The personal trainer says he wants to \"give children structure\" during lockdown.", "Regulators say the plane is safe to resume service after two fatal crashes led to its grounding.", "Insurers reject claims that by covering ransomware bills they are funding organised crime.", "But loss of taste and smell may be less likely to affect those with the new strain, a study suggests.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is \"not ecstatic\" about reports the PM will visit Scotland on Thursday.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "Philippa Day was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home assessment.", "The 83-year-old Hollywood royalty is also known as an active climate change campaigner.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson says most people in Scotland are focused on defeating Covid rather than another referendum.", "Images of Jonathan Mok's swollen eye were posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The financial regulator will consult \"shortly\" on a rise from the current limit of £45.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a banned driver in a stolen car drive into a police officer on his motorbike.", "The PM sets the date he hopes England's lockdown will begin to ease, but warns of a \"perilous situation\".", "Boris Johnson also says he shares the \"frustration\" of parents who want to get children back to school.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "Families loaded up on the latest technology and sales increased in China.", "The maps depict the famous sea battle in which the English fleet was victorious in 1588.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "The Army sends a bomb disposal unit to a site where the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is produced.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "The Oscar-nominated actor and his choreographer wife describe as \"difficult\" their decision to split.", "It is the first time the world-famous event will take place in the autumn.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "A \"legacy of poor decisions\" in 2020 and before the pandemic led to 100,000 deaths, scientists say.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "Bailiffs move in to remove people who dug a 100ft tunnel to block the high-speed rail line.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is concerned the UK's travel restrictions will not go far enough.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "Leon Briggs was \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers, a jury hears.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Nurse Eva Gicain says when she held Elleana for the first time she \"didn't want to let go\".", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Has the PM effectively admitted we're heading for a full year of limits on our lives?", "Lockdown led to a surge in reports of fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms, regulator says.", "Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for more than three years.", "Labour calls for key workers to be added to the first phase of the vaccination programme.", "Residents hit upon the idea after the annual street parade was cancelled because of the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs why the UK's coronavirus death toll is the highest in Europe.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "The social media platform removed posts after wrongly identifying the place name as offensive.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Details from a briefing by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for health.", "David Solomon is being punished for the bank's involvement in the fraudulent Malaysian investment fund.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, suffered multiple fractures after coming off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai.", "The “phased” lifting of restrictions will depend on data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations.", "The government faces legal action over its decision to allow the use of a pesticide that harms bees.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba is undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer, the Championship club has announced", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to bolster security in Washington DC.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "Unison chooses Christina McAnea to replace Dave Prentis, who has been in the job for 20 years.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "James Brokenshire will take leave from his Home Office job during further surgery for lung cancer.", "Medical director warns Wrexham Maelor is under huge pressure as numbers of seriously ill patients rise.", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "M&S is buying the brand out of administration, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.", "University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "A document advises doctors that the minimum level of oxygen required in the blood is being reduced.", "Scotland's first minister says she has doubts about whether Celtic's trip to Dubai was \"really essential\".", "\"Numbers are increasing not decreasing\" - inside an emergency body storage facility in Surrey.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "A number of Scottish schools, pupils and parents report Microsoft Teams running slowly or not at all.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Luke Evans portrays the policeman who brought John Cooper to justice for two double murders.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Manchester United will host Premier League champions Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "A study finds that the financial burden on poorer families has increased during the pandemic.", "The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "An industry group wants more state help for people like Jon Wilding, whose business is hit by the pandemic.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges technical problems on the first day the vast majority of pupils in Scotland begin the new term at home.", "About 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the beginning of next month, the health secretary says.", "He wants businesses to do more to protect the planet as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.", "It comes after a Celtic player tested positive less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip there.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Celtic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.", "Details and reaction to Health Minister Vaughan Gething's vaccination rollout plan.", "Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says too many abusers' sentences are not tough enough.", "Lisa Montgomery's lawyers argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy, but her victim's community said otherwise.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "The content will not count in a mobile data allowance to help keep costs of online learning down.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The health secretary says UK vaccine rollout is on track but urges everyone to play their part by following Covid rules.", "The warning from England's chief medical officer comes as seven mass vaccination centres open.", "Joe Biden's presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January.", "In one health board, 30% of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Even experienced exporters are struggling with the system, says the British Meat Processor Association.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford promises more protection to shop workers.", "It comes after reports that protections including the 48-hour work week could be dropped.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "He helped kick-start punk and new wave, and was an influence on the Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses.", "Move follows concern over a new Covid variant which an expert says has already been found in the UK.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.", "Craig Ross was quoted as saying food bank users were \"far from starving\" and more at risk of diabetes.", "The Home Office says it is working to \"assess the impact\" of the issue, which has been resolved.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "Scientists warn UK deaths will continue to rise as the global death toll passes two million.", "Coronavirus restrictions in England affected services, with pubs and hairdressers badly hit.", "Antonio says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour when he was sectioned.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "The NHS fears some communities are being targeted with misinformation, a leading doctor says.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "A variant that is thought to be more infectious has not been found in the UK, scientist says.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Pharmacist Llyr Hughes said 50 patients would be given the Covid vaccine at his pharmacy on Friday.", "The R number in the UK is officially estimated at 1.2-1.3 as a further 1,280 deaths are reported.", "Hospitals with large critical care capacity are taking patients from other areas to ease pressures.", "The Saved by the Bell actor became ill last week and was taken to hospital.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "Wayne Rooney is named as Derby County's new manager, with the ex-England captain also announcing his retirement from playing.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The government says the funding will connect \"left-behind\" communities.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "It is claimed they were seen drinking on Welsh Parliament premises when a ban on its sale in pubs was in force.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "It brings the total number of deaths to 97,329.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "Police uncover a string of late-night \"incredibly selfish\" parties in Kensington and Chelsea.", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Photographs of National Guard members sheltering underground spark anger among lawmakers.", "Some elderly people have been told to travel miles to get the jab or face having to wait to get it.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Presented as a safe pair of hands, he struggled to make himself heard during tumultuous times.", "Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "As the UK rejects £500 Covid pay outs, how are others countries getting people to stick to the rules?", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Injections are to be delivered at Black Country Living Museum where the series has in part been filmed.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Anybody struggling to get to an appointment will be able to rearrange, a health board says.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is \"difficult to justify\", says BMA.", "Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "An intensive care doctor says medics are seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people dying.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on Wednesday's figure.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "As the UK prepares to sever EU ties, Stanley Johnson says he has always regarded himself as French.", "Campaigners say cutting of the 5% VAT rate on tampons and sanitary towels ends a 'sexist' tax.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "The British dance band make some of their biggest hits available for the first time.", "The new year celebrations featured a tribute to the NHS and a message from David Attenborough.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Joe Anderson says Labour should pick another candidate while he seeks to clear his name.", "Former Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty dies at the age of 92 following a long illness.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "The designer of the scene says it is not the first time it has been targeted.", "Several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle despite warnings to stay away.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "Staff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", NHS Providers warn.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Primary schools in only 10 of London's boroughs are due to reopen next week.", "One of hip-hop's most influential MCs, masked rapper MF Doom died in October, his family confirm.", "It comes as most people heeded warnings to stay home - but police issued fines to those who didn't.", "With a Brexit deal done, we look at the challenges to come at British borders.", "The UK’s new single market is not as big as the country, it now needs to encompass the whole world.", "Some lorries heading for Ireland have already been turned away from Welsh ports over wrong paperwork.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething urges \"patience\" as the vaccine programme steps up in Wales.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "The finance minister had visited the Caribbean while his province is under strict Covid lockdown.", "The UK will now leave a 12-week gap between both parts of the Covid vaccination, rather than 21 days.", "The trade border means most commercial goods entering NI from GB now require a customs declaration.", "Boris Johnson celebrates the \"freedom in our hands\" as the long Brexit process comes to a conclusion.", "Firework displays and some religious rituals go ahead, although Covid mutes celebrations.", "The station will reflect on the world's longest-running serial drama across its output on Friday.", "The deal - yet to become a treaty - enables Spanish workers to continue entering Gibraltar freely.", "Omar Elabdellaoui, who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray, suffers burns and is taken to hospital.", "A new campaign is launched to urge people not to become complacent about the Covid restrictions.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "Kim Jong-un calls the US his \"biggest enemy\" and says plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "A self-employed father-of-three calls on UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its Covid support.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Advertising campaign warning people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths are recorded in the UK.", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "The gym owners were given a £1,000 fine after three people were found inside on Friday.", "The friends said they were relieved people would not have to fear being fined for taking a walk.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "West Ham manager David Moyes says footballers must not be \"picked on\" for breaching coronavirus guidelines.", "Councillor Kevin Hughes missed his mother's funeral after testing positive for coronavirus.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "Thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic, figures show.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Eva Williams was unable to travel to the United States for treatment due to coronavirus.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "The new more infectious variant requires tougher measures to control the spread of Covid, say scientists.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Tory rebels hope to get another chance to outlaw trade deals with countries involved in mass killings.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "US tariffs on Scotch whisky and cashmere remain in place as UK fails to reach deal with Washington.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "People accused of crimes in England and Wales - and alleged victims - wait years for a resolution.", "One person is killed and at least 10 are injured after vehicles collide on the Tohoku Expressway.", "Top medical adviser suggests schools in England may reopen region by region after lockdown.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Out of 23,000 professors in UK universities only 155 are black, official figures reveal.", "Court cases face serious delays in the UK and lawyers say more investment in technology would help.", "The government is being scrutinised over trade deals with countries with poor human rights records.", "People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are \"mistaken\", says Lord Sedwill.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Matt Hancock says he will stay at home and urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "The unnamed man lived in Verbier, where the incident happened, police said.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Many parents struggle to meet their children's needs during the pandemic, say researchers.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "Paul Reid was the first person to reach Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, after the bomb was detonated.", "Nicola Sturgeon says although there is \"cautious grounds for optimism\" on case numbers, the strictest rules will remain in place.", "Live updates from Trump's last hours in office before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.", "The artwork has been returned to an Italian museum - whose staff were unaware it was missing.", "A survey by consumer group Which? raises concerns over coronavirus leading to more cashless stores.", "Creator of the BBC crime drama says he \"always wanted to end Peaky with a movie\".", "University of Edinburgh scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by MND.", "Tory MPs want Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries deemed responsible for genocide.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The BBC speaks to Nirmal Purja, from the team of the first climbers to reach the K2 summit in winter.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "Are court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? Helen Grady investigates.", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "India pull off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988 and take one of the all-time great series.", "The first minister says her statement to MSPs will concern the duration of Scotland's restrictions.", "Some 10% of the UK population is showing signs of recent infection, a doubling since October, says ONS.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "A further 1,610 people die with Covid in the UK as Scotland extends its lockdown to mid-February.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "Staff say there was a Covid outbreak after the \"party\" in a shut patisserie at Marylebone station.", "Hackers are selling Depop app account details on the dark web for as little as 77p each online.", "The bank has named the branches that will close between April and September, but aims to avoid redundancies.", "Large parts of northern and central England are expected to face sustained heavy rain from Tuesday.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "One hospital boss said a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worse before they get better.", "He wrote 30 novels about relationships and adventures involving young African American characters.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "He will lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.", "New 2020 car registrations sink to a 30-year low and see biggest one-year drop since the Second World War", "The bakery chain says it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "All eyes are on the Senate runoff in Georgia, a key race that could help define Biden's presidency.", "Latest figures show more than 90,000 people in Scotland had received a first vaccination by late December.", "But there are fears bottlenecks in the system may hamper how fast NHS can deliver vaccines.", "The 19-year-old suffered life-changing injuries during the \"vicious\" assault in north London.", "Founder Annemarie Plas says the initiative will return on Thursday under the new name of Clap for Heroes.", "The US star says she had \"no idea\" what questions were included in a game bearing her image.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The hip-hop star and producer says he is \"doing great\" and \"getting excellent care\".", "A hearing is deciding whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "The government closed schools to help reduce the virus spread but says nurseries should stay open.", "Investment company Hipgnosis buys a half share of 1,180 songs by the Canadian folk rocker.", "The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.", "Cases have fallen below England's but the new variant is spreading fast, the health minister says.", "As Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building, politicians halted debate inside.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The investigators were turned back, with Beijing saying \"there might be some misunderstanding\".", "President Trump and others have made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in two Senate election run-offs.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "One scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "Gordon Ramsay remembers late chef Albert Roux as \"the man who installed gastronomy in Britain\".", "The streaming giant is criticised for \"unfortunate\" timing during the new lockdowns.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Stores seek to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy in new lockdown.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.", "The overnight temperature plunged below -12C in the north west Highlands.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge.", "A driver, who caused a Fife crash that led to his passenger losing her baby, admits causing death by dangerous driving.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Judge rules he has an incentive to abscond if allowed to leave jail before major appeal hearing.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Head teachers warn replacement grades for GCSEs and A-levels must not repeat last year's \"disaster\".", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "Poet Helen Mort is calling for a change in the law after images of her were edited with porn.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "The government says it is considering the move to prevent the virus spreading \"across the UK border\".", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "The House of Commons approves the government's decision to impose tough restrictions across the country.", "FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.", "The BMA in Scotland says it is concerned about the potential impact of delaying the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.", "There will be a \"gradual unwrapping\" of England's lockdown, Boris Johnson tells MPs ahead of a vote later.", "Police say organisers padlocked the door from the inside to stop officers getting in.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "The first minister denies claims she knew about harassment allegations earlier than she told parliament.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw.", "Philip Gannaway served in Wales in World War One and his grave lies thousands of miles from home.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Despite the furlough scheme, employers decided to cut a record number of jobs during 2020.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Firms say they have been advised by officials to set up EU hubs, but the government says it is not policy.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "The claim comes after a coroner ruled two deaths on the M1 motorway were avoidable.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.", "Ministers are urged to intervene amid rising Covid infection numbers at the Swansea office.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "A Sunday Times poll shows 51% of people in favour of holding a border poll in NI within five years.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "He replaces Paul Davies who quit after drinking alcohol with other politicians in the Senedd.", "Conor McGregor is left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier wins their rematch at UFC 257 by technical knockout.", "The UK health secretary also says the UK has identified 77 cases of the Covid South Africa variant.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Tens of thousands braved a police crackdown to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Some guests were found hiding in cupboards when police raided student flats in Birmingham.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.", "TV footage from China shows the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "The Countryfile star will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "A 20-year-old man who spent a week in intensive care says many young people are in denial about Covid.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"horrifying\" death toll underlines the need to follow restrictions.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Customers will only be able to collect from Waitrose stores following a \"change in tone\" from the government.", "The father of a Reading terror attack victim asks why the killer was not considered a danger.", "Deliveries may be delayed in 28 areas due to \"resourcing issues\", the postal group says.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Anna Wintour hit back at claims that the informal picture downplayed Ms Harris's achievements.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Officials say 170 individuals involved in deadly Capitol riots have been identified, and many more will be.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The celebrated 94-year-old broadcaster is the latest celebrity to have a first dose of the vaccine.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A supermarket worker says door staff are facing abuse when they challenge those not wearing masks.", "The facility at the ExCeL Centre also has the capital's first mass vaccination centre on site.", "Overall, patients are now more likely to survive, but death rates are high in intensive care.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "A slump in demand for fashion and homeware during lockdown left many retailers struggling.", "Last year saw 697,000 deaths registered in the UK - 14% above what would be expected.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "People are still holding house parties, raves and gambling gatherings, the UK's most senior police officer says.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "The increasing number of staff off work could prevent the NHS Louisa Jordan opening to Covid patients.", "The Northern Lights were visible overnight from Shetland, Moray and the Highlands.", "The manager of a care home says they were promised the jab on New Year's Eve - but none have arrived.", "Downing Street defends the PM, while the Met Police chief says he did not act \"against the law\".", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "There has been speculation over moves to make lockdown stricter, as infection rates remain high.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest number of weekly deaths and the highest number since April.", "More than a third of people using screens more in lockdown reported eyesight changes, a study suggests.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick turns down Donald Trump's offer, citing the Capitol riots.", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office.", "The laptops and tablets will be delivered to schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Ministers are reluctant to make the rules even tougher at the moment - but would never rule it out.", "A Typhoon aircraft \"safely escorts\" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The number of incidents reported to the child safeguarding panel in England rose by a quarter.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "Sea port managers fear the shift may be part of a long-term trend to ship from the Irish Republic.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Heavy rain is causing flooding and travel disruption, with a warning for ice also forecast.", "Douglas Jones had been enjoying his dream job before the pandemic forced him to return home to southern Scotland.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Joanna Lumley speak out about employees allegedly owed a total of £200,000.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "The UK prime minister wants girls' education in developing countries to be a key international focus.", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but cleaners and porters have been worse hit.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "People in parts of eastern England woke to a thick covering of snow on Saturday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Holiday firms are expecting a \"bumper year\" once lockdown restrictions are lifted.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "The latest UK government data also shows a further 1,295 deaths with 28 days of a positive test.", "Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrates England as a spirited Sri Lanka rally on the third day of the first Test in Galle.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "Centrist Armin Laschet is now in a good position to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor.", "Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain in the US by March.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "A Belfast mother says there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted in Malaysia.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "At least three people have died in a suspected gas blast that destroyed four floors of a building.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "Some 1,820 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours - surpassing yesterday's previous high.", "The package will also see police target dealers and health services help people with addictions.", "Congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and US.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Boris Johnson faced questions on the UK's border policy, and the deletion of police records.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "There has been a fourfold increase in mortgage products for those offering a 10% deposit.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "Doris Hobday's family say they are \"totally heartbroken\" to lose her in this way.", "The big social networks are clamping down on threats of violence amid a tense wait for results.", "Some of the UK's biggest music stars sign an open letter demanding action over post-Brexit touring.", "The President-elect has a laundry list of priorities for his first 100 days in the White House.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Taking down pictures and clearing out desks is part of a huge operation readying for a new president.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "Holidaymakers in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the travel firm says.", "Boris Johnson calls it an \"outrageous\" error which officers are working \"round the clock\" to rectify.", "The new president is sworn into office by Chief Justice John G Roberts.", "The 22-year-old from LA is the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.", "Kamala Harris makes history as she is sworn in as US vice-president.", "Delays to smear tests in lockdown prompt cervical cancer charities to call for home-testing kits.", "It comes as industry workers warn their livelihoods are at risk due to Brexit border problems.", "Nine Met Police officers who broke lockdown rules have been asked to \"reflect on their choices\".", "Paul Pogba scores a superb winner as Manchester United reclaim top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge'. Read the 46th president's address in full.", "Online audiences for singalongs in the Llangollen church have \"exploded\", Father Lee Taylor says.", "Out-of-date tax systems mean people are falling through the cracks for help, MPs say.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The ex-government adviser said the Tories would be seen as the \"nasty party\" by ending the top-up.", "They are all laughing at the camera, but what are the stories of the women next to Kamala Harris?", "More than 2,000 properties in Manchester are affected as police warn some occupants will have Covid.", "Services and waiting times must improve at the NHS's child gender-identity service, inspectors say.", "A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "The role of a president's inaugural cabinet goes beyond just policy - let's take a closer look.", "The body of Joy Morgan was found two months after a man was convicted of her murder.", "From \"the best talent in politics\" to \"Sloppy Steve\" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. And boy, did he.", "The health minister asks the Ministry of Defence to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals.", "A National Audit Office report calls on the corporation to produce \"a long-term financial plan\".", "The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.", "More work is needed to understand its benefits in schools in England given the new variant, health officials say.", "The BBC's James Cook returns to Monklands Hospital eight months on to find the staff struggling against the odds.", "President Biden inked 15 executive orders, moving to rejoin the Paris climate accord.", "His most famous Discworld novels were written in the house in Somerset, the estate agent says.", "Police say the van \"careered\" off the road and the man was rescued from the overturned vehicle.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her father.", "Members of our voter panel all wish Joe Biden well, but they're divided over his chances of success.", "As Donald Trump prepares to leave office, here are some of the key moments of his presidency.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden makes his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States.", "Parts of England prepare for widespread floods as Boris Johnson announces emergency Cobra meeting.", "Images from Joe Biden's swearing-in and first day as the 46th US President.", "The cupped clap of a butterfly's wings may be the key to their flying abilities and their survival.", "Relegation-threatened Fulham lose some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but show battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is named Paris St-Germain boss following Thomas Tuchel's sacking.", "People driving to visit beauty spots in Wales are breaking Covid rules, a Snowdonia park warden says.", "The first doses of the latest coronavirus vaccination to be approved are due to be given on Monday.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Arsenal continue their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "New detectorist Owen Thomas says \"the link with a life that's gone\" appeals to him.", "Just one ticket matched all seven numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "A court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery can be executed on 12 January, despite appeals from lawyers.", "A last-ditch attempt to overturn the result is overturned, days before the White House changes hands.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.", "Volunteers at All Saints Church in East Horndon have praised those who donated £8,700 for repairs.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Amanda Quinn, diagnosed with rapid early onset dementia, says lockdown has been a \"scary\" time.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.", "The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, \"passed away suddenly\" aged 65.", "The cryptocurrency's gain so far this year was almost $5,000 - after the value surged 300% in 2020.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect 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Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "The EU has maintained its diplomatic mission in the UK after Brexit\n\nA diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.\n\nThe UK is refusing to give Joao Vale de Almeida the full diplomatic status that is granted to other ambassadors.\n\nThe Foreign Office is insisting he and his officials should not have the privileges and immunities afforded to diplomats under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt is understood not to want to set a precedent by treating an international body in the same way as a nation state.\n\nAs it stands, the ambassador would not have the chance to present his credentials to the Queen like other diplomatic heads of mission.\n\nThe British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has written to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to express his \"serious concerns\".\n\nThe issue is expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers next Monday when they meet for the first time since the post-Brexit transition period ended on 31 December.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wants to treat the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nThis means EU diplomats would not have the full protection of the Vienna Convention, giving them immunity from detention, criminal jurisdiction and taxation.\n\nThe rights given to staff of international organisations are more ad hoc and less fixed.\n\nThe EU argues it is not a typical international organisation because it has its own currency, judicial system and the power to make law.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab last November, seen by the BBC, Mr Borrell says: \"Your service have sent us a draft proposal for an establishment agreement about which we have serious concerns.\n\nAmbassadors of nation states have certain privileges - including being able to present their credentials to the Queen\n\n\"The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character of the EU, nor do they respond to the future relationship between the EU and the UK as an important third country.\n\n\"It would not grant the customary privileges and immunities for the delegation and its staff. The proposals do not constitute a reasonable basis for reaching an agreement.\"\n\nEU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the \"privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961\".\n\nOne EU source said: \"It seems petty. This is not about privileges, it's about principle. What does it say about the UK, about how much the British signature is worth?\"\n\nSome in the EU also fear hostile states might copy the UK and downgrade the protections granted to EU diplomats in their own countries. This could open them up to being harassed and make them easier for them to be expelled.\n\nA European Commission spokesman said: \"The UK, as a signatory to the Lisbon Treaty, is well aware of the EU's status in external relations, and was cognisant and supportive of this status while it was a member of the EU.\n\n\"The EU has 143 delegations, equivalent to diplomatic missions, around the world. Without exception, all host states have accepted to grant these delegations and their staff a status equivalent to that of diplomatic missions of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and the UK is well aware of this fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nothing has changed since the UK's exit from the European Union to justify any change in stance on the UK's part.\n\n\"The EU's status in external relations and its subsequent diplomatic status is amply recognised by countries and international organisations around the world, and we expect the United Kingdom to treat the EU Delegation accordingly and without delay.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Engagement continues with the EU on the long-term arrangements for the EU delegation to the UK. While discussions are still ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the detail of an eventual agreement.\"", "\"You need to take care of each other,\" President Macron told students in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has promised all university students two meals a day for one euro (88p; $1.21) to help them cope during lockdown.\n\n\"We must be able to provide better support,\" he said at a meeting with students in Paris on Thursday.\n\nIt follows protests in which students called for more help to tackle loneliness and financial problems.\n\nFrance is currently under a 18:00-06:00 curfew, and coronavirus cases have risen steadily in recent weeks.\n\nMr Macron, who addressed students at Paris-Saclay university, also said the government would provide subsidies to pay for counselling and other mental health services.\n\nThe subsidies would take the form of a voucher which students can redeem if they feel the need to talk to a mental health professional, the president said.\n\nHe added that the discounted meals would be available from university canteens and other nearby outlets that are providing takeaways.\n\n\"We remain in a period of uncertainty,\" Mr Macron said. \"We will have a second semester that will have the virus and a lot of constraints.\"\n\n\"You need to take care of each other,\" he added.\n\nThe president spoke a day after students took to the streets to demand more attention from the government. They sought to raise awareness of the rising mental health problems many say they are suffering as a result of the pandemic.\n\nA combination of isolation, inactivity and concerns about the job market has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.\n\nRyan Kennedy says the French government is failing to take student issues seriously\n\n\"I've lived alone in a studio apartment since September - it's the first time I've ever lived alone,\" Ryan Kennedy, a 19-year-old law student in Montpellier, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"Not a day goes by without a friend calling me because they're struggling with their mental health.\"\n\nHeïdi Soupault, a political science student from Strasbourg, sent a letter to Mr Macron last week. \"I no longer have dreams,\" she said. \"If we have no hope or prospects for the future at 19, what do we have left?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our mental health goes downhill in situations like this.\"\n\nMany of the protesting students are calling for a return to face-to-face teaching. Some first-year students will be able to return to the classroom from 25 January.\n\nBut, on Thursday, Mr Macron said all students should be allowed on campus once a week providing certain measures are in place.\n\n\"Given what your generation has already gone through, we cannot but take into account your right to some on-site presence, to exchange with your teachers, and to meet with other students,\" he said.\n\nFrance has had a curfew in place since December, but this was tightened on 16 January to the current hours of 18:00-06:00.\n\nBars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and ski resorts remain shut. Schools, however, are open with extra testing in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Food supply problems into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are \"clearly a Brexit issue\", Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the shortages were \"part of the reality\" of the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"Let's not pretend Brexit doesn't force that kind of change,\" he said, speaking on ITV's Peston programme\n\nOn Tuesday, the NI secretary said images of empty supermarket shelves had \"nothing to do with the protocol\".\n\nRather, Brandon Lewis argued the disruption caused by coronavirus before Christmas was responsible for the shortages of some food products.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol between the UK and the EU requires health certifications on animal-based food products entering NI from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney said it meant \"very real change\" for some businesses, as there now had to be a \"certain number of checks\" on goods from Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said that some companies were not ready for this.\n\nMr Coveney said the Republic of Ireland would work with the UK and EU to \"make sure\" supermarket shelves were not empty in the future.\n\nHe said the Brexit divorce deal agreed with the EU by then-prime minister Theresa May would have caused less separation from Northern Ireland from the UK.\n\nAsked about Mr Coveney's comments, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the disruption had been \"down to both\" Covid and Brexit - but defended the situation.\n\nSpeaking on the Peston programme she said \"there was always going to be a period of adjustment for businesses\" and \"we are now seeing a more rapid flow of goods into Northern Ireland those supermarket shelves are being stocked\".\n\nMs Truss said the government would continue to support businesses, and that \"predictions of Armageddon haven't happened\".", "The education secretary has said he would \"certainly hope\" schools in England could reopen before Easter.\n\nGavin Williamson said he was \"not able to exactly say\" when pupils would go back but schools would be given two weeks' notice before reopening.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools remain closed, apart from to vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister wanted schools to open as quickly as possible but would follow the evidence.\n\n\"If we can open them up before Easter then we obviously will do but that is determined by the latest scientific evidence and data,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe Downing Street spokesman was also less specific about the promise of two weeks' notice, saying: \"We want to give schools as much notice as possible.\"\n\nSchools have been closed to most pupils so far this term, with primary schools closing after one day back, in response to rising Covid levels.\n\nPupils have been told they will be learning at home until at least half-term in mid-February.\n\nBut Mr Williamson was pressed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he could guarantee that schools would reopen at all this term, before the Easter holidays.\n\n\"I want to see them, as soon as the scientific and health advice is there, open at the earliest possible stage - and I certainly hope that would be certainly before Easter,\" said the education secretary, who's responsible for schools in England.\n\nHe said schools and parents would have \"absolutely proper notice\" of when children were going to return, which he said would be a \"clear two weeks\" for teachers and families to get ready.\n\nA lesson from the first lockdown was that it's much harder to reopen schools than to close them.\n\nParents and teachers have to be persuaded again it's safe to go back, families need advance notice to plan their work and childcare, schools need to organise their staffing.\n\nAnd there are other parents who will be pushing for schools to go back as soon as possible, in addition to the vulnerable and key workers' children already attending.\n\nFor Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, already under pressure, it means a high-stakes balancing act - and it clearly remains uncertain whether this will happen for all schools before the Easter holidays.\n\nWhat seems likely, from Mr Williamson and England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries, is that this could be a patchwork return beginning after half-term, rather than a single starting date, depending on local levels of the virus.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union, the National Education Union, said schools and parents needed certainty and not a \"stop-start approach\".\n\nLast week Mr Williamson indicated to the Commons education committee that schools in some parts of the country might stay closed at the end of the lockdown, with a return to the \"contingency\" arrangements, under which schools in areas of high infection would be shut.\n\nOn Tuesday, England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries also said schools might reopen region by region in a phased return after half-term.\n\nLabour has accused the education secretary of causing \"chaos and confusion\" and called on him to resign.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said providing two weeks' advance notice of opening was \"good news coming from an education secretary who normally gives them about 24 hours' notice\".\n\nSir Keir said the government needed to \"give children the ability to learn at home now\" and \"get on with the blindingly obvious\" task of getting testing in place in schools.\n\nAsked about his own future, Mr Williamson said: \"Our focus is making sure that we get the very best of remote education out to all children across the country, making sure that we return schools at the earliest possible moment.\"\n\nIn terms of his own achievements, the education secretary said: \"I'll let other people do the grading.\"\n\nSchools have also been closed by other governments in the UK. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they will remain closed until at least the middle of February, while in Wales the next review of restrictions will be on 29 January.\n\nThe government has also paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges, with health officials saying the new variant meant the risk of missing infections had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Gavin Williamson: \"You would struggle... to find many people who would give him more than an F.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson emphasised that mass testing in schools would continue, clarifying that it was the daily tests for those who had been in contact with a positive case which had been stopped.\n\nThe education secretary was also challenged on the fairness of setting tests as part of the replacement for cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, considering pupils will have missed different amounts of time in school.\n\nMr Williamson said the tests were only \"one element\" for deciding replacement results, which would be based on teachers' grades.\n\n\"That's why we're asking teachers to make a judgement in the round. We're asking teachers to look at the work they've been doing over the whole period of time they've been studying the course,\" he said.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "US President Joe Biden is now speaking from the White House about how his administration will tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe says he has been meeting with his Covid response team, and it will “take months” to turn around the situation in the country.\n\nToday he is going to unveil a “national strategy” on Covid-19, he says, which is “comprehensive” and is based on “science and not politics”.\n\nThe plan, which consists of 198 pages, will start with an “aggressive, safe and effective” vaccination campaign.\n\nBut it will take months to protect everyone, he says, so in the meantime, \"mask up\", he tells the American people.\n\nWearing a mask, he says, is \"a patriotic act\".\n\nTo follow our coverage of his first day, head here.", "The emergency department at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is the biggest and busiest in Scotland.\n\nAmbulances keep arriving, bringing more patients. In a curtained cubicle, one man is explaining to the doctor that he's been in pain for days, but he put off coming in \"because of everything that's going on\".\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, who runs the department, says that while there might be fewer patients coming through his door, there are no longer any \"easy wins\".\n\n\"Those that are coming are the sick people,\" he says. \"We are undoubtedly seeing the effects of people not seeking healthcare for six to 10 months.\n\n\"We are seeing disease that we wouldn't always see and we are seeing it further down the road.\n\n\"We are making more diagnoses that potentially would be made in primary care or outpatient clinics. On top of that we've got lots of Covid patients coming through the door.\n\n\"So it is those two things together that currently put the NHS under that significant pressure.\"\n\nAll over Scotland, hospitals are under severe pressure, with some treating significantly more coronavirus patients than they did during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nPublic visitors are not allowed at the QEUH, but BBC Scotland was given special permission to film to highlight the impact of Covid and the importance of following lockdown rules.\n\nOn the day of the BBC's visit, there are 244 Covid patients. Critical care is running at capacity, and across the whole hospital it's a constant challenge to find space for new patients.\n\nDr Whitelaw says the level of unpredictability is extreme. His team has run out of spare beds.\n\n\"We are ten months into strange and difficult times. It's winter, no-one's had a holiday, no-one's had much downtime.\n\n\"Hospitals are fuller in winter, beds are tighter and patients are sick\".\n\nUpstairs, one ward that previously treated patients with infectious diseases like flu or norovirus, is now a Covid ward. All 28 beds are full.\n\nSome patients here are recently diagnosed, others are coming to the end of their isolation, while some have been stepped down from critical care, but need rehabilitation.\n\nSenior charge nurse Karen Paton says it feels like patients are now sicker for longer.\n\n\"We've had this going on for more or less a year now and staff are beginning to feel the emotional distress of it,\" she says.\n\n\"Having to deal with patients succumbing to coronavirus, and just having the emotions of all the patients not being able to have contact from their families.\n\n\"I think it's beginning to take its toll on everybody.\"\n\nCovid patient Gerry Gilroy says QEUH staff have been \"superb\"\n\nIn one room on the ward is Gerry Gilroy, who tested positive for Covid in late December. By 8 January, the day of his 66th birthday, he could barely get out of bed and couldn't eat.\n\n\"It just hit me and I knew there was something not right,\" he says.\n\n\"I know how serious it is. I never thought it would hit me. It's been a bit of an experience but thankfully I'm on the mend.\n\n\"The staff here are superb. When I get out of here, if I can do something for the NHS I'm going to. Doctors, cleaners, nurses, all top drawer.\"\n\nThe impact of Covid is being felt across the hospital. The acute receiving area used to be the first stop for people who needed urgent surgery.\n\nNow it's where medics like Dr Colin Perry assess Covid patients sent in by their GP or NHS 24. It's another area that's full.\n\n\"In the first wave our ICU was busy and it remains very busy, but during that period we had free beds,\" says Dr Perry.\n\n\"This time we have much more pressure on the downstream ward areas, so it is harder to manage the wider needs of the hospital and make room for patients to move through the system.\n\n\"The numbers are far higher than they were a year ago.\"\n\nRepurposing so many wards to treat coronavirus patients has meant some routine work had to be postponed, but staff are working to prioritise all different kinds of treatment.\n\nHelen Dorrance is a senior surgeon who specialises in bowel cancer at the QEUH. On the day the BBC visits she is operating on patients from another hospital to help relieve pressures there.\n\nDemand for critical care makes it difficult to operate some services, but cancer treatment is still running.\n\n\"We work together as a team across the region to make sure people who are the highest priority get dealt with,\" she says. \"But everyone gets their fair share and access to the care they need.\n\n\"It's not a choice, we do have to provide the best care we can for Covid patients and my critical care colleagues are stepping up to the mark.\n\n\"But the rest of us are making sure the rest of the service runs the way it should, so if you have your heart attack or stroke the right people are there to give you the best care.\"\n\nComing to hospital for any reason during the pandemic is a different experience, and services are stretched.\n\nBut the emergency department's Dr Whitelaw adds that no matter what happens, they will cope.\n\n\"We don't come to work to worry or be fearful, we come to work to do our best and to help,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's an uncertainty about what the next two to three weeks look like.\n\n\"It might be very, very challenging but I have absolute faith that the staff here will continue to do everything that is required.\n\n\"I think the public should be reassured that no matter what is thrown at us we will definitely get through it.\"", "A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge for damage, after heavy rainfall. On Thursday morning, there were more than 200 flood warnings in place across the country", "There is still no long-term decision on whether to cut fees as a review recommended\n\nUniversity tuition fees in England will be frozen at a maximum of £9,250 for the next academic year.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said a longer-term decision on cuts to fees would be delayed until the next Comprehensive Spending Review.\n\nBut education sector groups said the government \"is wasting an opportunity\" to help university students.\n\nMinisters also set out plans to improve post-16 vocational education including student loans for adult learners.\n\nThe DfE also launched a consultation on changing the timetable for applying to university - to a so-called \"post-qualification admissions\" system.\n\nThis would mean admissions being based on the grades achieve by students, rather than not relying on predictions.\n\nThe government outlined its plans for higher education reforms for over-18s in response to a landmark review, commissioned by the government from finance expert Philip Augar. Its recommendations were published in May 2019.\n\nPlanned reforms include making £2.5bn available for technical qualifications for adult learners through the National Skills Fund, a lifelong student loan entitlement for up to four years of higher education and the prioritising of funding for STEM subjects.\n\nBut the Augar review's recommendations to reduce tuition fees to £7,500, alongside implementing reforms to minimum entry standards and foundation years at universities, were not addressed in this latest response.\n\nThe DfE said given the pandemic \"now is not the right time to conclude the review in full\".\n\nAny further reforms are expected to be announced at the next Spending Review.\n\nMr Augar also suggested the return of maintenance grants for poorer university students as part of his review, but there was not mention of this in the interim response.\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: \"Sadly this interim response confirms that there will not be a radical change to the current system.\n\nThe Augar review recommended tuition fees should be cut to £7,500 and maintenance grants reintroduced\n\n\"The Westminster government is wasting an opportunity to make a real difference for students and institutions.\"\n\nProf Julia Buckingham, president of Universities UK , welcomed the prospect of lifelong loans, saying \"it is encouraging to see government's commitment to making lifelong learning opportunities more accessible to all\".\n\nHowever, Prof Buckingham said \"government should provide maintenance grants for those who need them the most, including those considering studying shorter courses on a modular basis\".\n\nAs part of its Skills for Jobs White Paper, published alongside higher education reforms, the DfE said it wanted to \"put an end to the illusion that a degree is the only route to success and a good job and that further and technical education is the second-class option\".\n\nA white paper is a policy document produced by the government to set out their proposals for future legislation.\n\nIn December, the government announced that tens of thousands of adults without an A-level or equivalent would be able to benefit from nearly 400 fully-funded courses from April.\n\nIt was the first major development in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee (LSG) scheme, which was launched in September.\n\nThe government wants to boost the status of vocational education\n\nMr Johnson said it would mean \"everyone will be given the chance to get the skills they need, right from the very start of their career\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"These reforms are at the heart of our plans to build back better, ensuring all technical education and training is based on what employers want and need, whilst providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job.\"\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce director general Adam Marshall welcomed the plans to put the skills needs of businesses at the heart of further education.\n\n\"As local business leaders look to rebuild their firms and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to ensure that the right skills and training provision is in place to support growth,\" he added.\n\nBut organisations representing school and college leaders are also sceptical that there is enough funding for the further education sector to deliver on the proposals.\n\nIn November, an the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said FE colleges and sixth forms faced significant financial uncertainty.\n\nChief executive of the Association of Colleges David Hughes said: \"Colleges have been calling for this, after years of being overlooked and underutilised, but government has to not only recognise the vital college role, it also needs to increase funding.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A9 south of Inverness was among the worst affected routes\n\nHeavy snowfall during Storm Christoph has caused travel disruption in parts of Scotland.\n\nVehicles were stuck on the A9 south of Inverness and many roads in the Borders were affected by snow.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing was closed for a time earlier due to the risk of falling ice before later reopening.\n\nAn amber alert for south-east Scotland was lifted at 08:00 but yellow alerts are in place in other parts of the country until Friday.\n\nTraffic was queued on the A9 after lorries and cars became stuck in snow between Tomatin and Carrbridge.\n\nTractors were used to tow lorries on to cleared stretches of the road.\n\nHeavy snow has also closed the main route to Applecross at the Bealach na Ba.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has been reopened after being closed earlier due to the risk of falling ice\n\nThe A939 Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road in Moray was closed after Police Scotland shut the snowgates due to the wintry conditions.\n\nSnow had also affected traffic on parts of the M8.\n\nOn the Highlands' Far North Line, a landslip between Fearn and Tain stations has affected services.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said a section of the railway was open with a 5mph speed restriction in place.\n\nChris Tracey, Bear Scotland's south east unit bridges manager, said the Queensferry Crossing was temporarily closed for the safety of bridge users.\n\nHe said: \"We had already mobilised additional ice patrols in response to the weather forecast and the bridge was closed at 04:00 when staff observed ice falling from the structure.\"\n\nThe bridge was reopened after the risk had passed.\n\nEdinburgh is one of the areas where heavy snow has fallen\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to avoid travelling in the affected areas.\n\nChief Superintendent Louise Blakelock said: \"Government restrictions on only travelling if your journey is essential remain in place and with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If you deem your journey is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nAvalanche debris on Turnhouse in the Pentland Hills photographed from Penicuik\n\nPeople heading for the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, have been urged to be aware of potential avalanche risk after avalanche debris was spotted on Turnhouse Hill.\n\nTweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the \"full depth\" avalanche had enough snow to knock a person off their feet, or even bury them.\n\nTeam leader Dave Wright said avalanches in the Pentland Hills were unusual and walkers, skiers and snowboarders might not appreciate the potential risk.\n\nHe said there had been heavy snowfalls in the hills this week and the avalanche occurred at some point on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the potential avalanche hazard in all six mountain areas covered by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service - Glen Coe, Lochaber, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Northern and Southern Cairgorms - has been classed as \"considerable\".\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow covered a slice of Scotland from south of Edinburgh to close to the Scotland-England border and was valid until Thursday morning.\n\nHowever, further alerts remain in place.\n\nA Bear NW Trunk Roads' tractor clears snow ahead of a lorry on the A9 at the Slochd\n\nIn north-east Scotland and Orkney, a yellow warning for heavy rain and potential flooding is in place until 04:00 on Friday.\n\nYellow warnings for snow and ice are also in place in parts of northern and western Scotland until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nTransport Scotland said it was \"closely monitoring\" the road network and a multi-agency response team would be operational during the weather warnings.\n\nA snow-covered car in Carlops, in the Scottish Borders\n\nDrivers woke up to snow-covered cars in Haddington, East Lothian\n• None In pictures: Scotland in the snow", "Last March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with Northern Ireland's past\n\nThousands of relatives of Troubles victims have signed an open letter calling for the British and Irish governments to fully investigate decades of violence.\n\nIt calls for the long-delayed set up of an independent team of detectives to pursue new prosecutions and other measures to recover information.\n\nThese are measures included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\n\nThe letter is addressed to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nIt asks for their assurances that their \"human rights as victims will no longer be disregarded or denied\".\n\n\"The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability,\" they said.\n\nThe letter, signed by 3,500 relatives, is being published in the Irish News, Andersonstown News, and US publication the Irish Echo.\n\nThe letter is being printed in several newspapers\n\nMore than 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles and thousands more injured.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to \"intensify\" engagement with victims' groups in addressing the legacy of the past.\n\nThe Stormont House proposals included a new independent investigation unit to re-examine all unsolved killings and a separate truth recovery mechanism to enable families to gain answers in cases where prosecutions are unlikely.\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nHe proposed that after a paper review exercise, most unsolved cases would be closed and a new law would be enacted to prevent the investigations from being reopened.\n\nMark Thompson, chief executive of Belfast-based lobby group Relatives for Justice, said about half of those who signed the open letter are 35 years and under.\n\nHe said the letter \"represents the current and future generations\" and that it \"underlines the ongoing trauma and intergenerational impact that the killing of a relative has also had on surviving families\".", "Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe news was announced on Thursday on the Worthy Farm event's Twitter page.\n\n\"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place,\" said festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.\n\n\"And that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Michael & Emily.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes in the same week that the future of UK music was up for debate at a DCMS inquiry into streaming, and in Parliament regarding post-Brexit music touring visas.\n\nThe full statement on the festival website read: \"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the Festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nIt confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket will now be offered the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume. It had been due to take place in June 2021.\n\n\"We are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden shared his \"disappointment\" at the lack of a Glastonbury 2021, on Twitter.\n\n\"This regrettable but understandable decision is recognition that public health comes first\" he posted, \"and that right now, getting 200k fans together in just a few months looks very difficult to make safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to help the arts on recovery, including looking at problems around getting insurance. I'm Glastonbury will be back bigger and better next year.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said news of this year's cancellation was \"devastating\".\n\nSir Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for ministers to act to protect our world-renowned festivals like this one with a government-backed insurance scheme. Our plea fell on deaf ears and now the chickens have come home to roost,\" he said.\n\n\"The jewel in the crown will be absent but surely the government cannot ignore the message any longer - it must act now to save this vibrant and vital festivals sector.\"\n\nOn 5 January the government responded to a report by UK Music called Let the Music Play: Save Our Summer 2021, which outlined a range of measures that could help the industry get back up and running.\n\nThe government said: \"We know these are challenging times for the live events sector and are working flat out to support it.\n\n\"Our £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund has already seen more than £1bn offered to arts, heritage and performance organisations to support them through the impact of the pandemic, protecting tens of thousands of creative jobs across the UK, including festivals such as Deer Shed Festival, End of the Road and Nozstock.\"\n\nLast year's 50th anniversary Glastonbury was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nMichael and Emily Eavis previously said that Glastonbury \"lost millions\" after cancelling in 2020\n\nLast month, organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC she hoped this year's festival could go ahead, despite the \"huge uncertainty\" surrounding live music in the pandemic.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare,\" she told the BBC, \"but I think we're still quite a long way from being able to say we're confident 2021 will go ahead.\"\n\nEavis said Glastonbury lost \"millions\" in 2020. Her father, Michael, has previously warned the festival \"would seriously go bankrupt\" if they had to cancel again next year.\n\nBut that scenario is unlikely \"as long as we can make a firm call either way in advance\", Eavis clarified to the BBC.\n\nNo line-up details had been confirmed for 2021. But just before Christmas, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the event was not in his calendar, as it would be a \"superspreader\".\n\nAt the start of January, MPs were told that some of the UK's biggest music festivals could be called off by the end of this month.\n\nThe festival normally welcomes 200,000 people to Pilton in Somerset every year\n\nEvents are \"rapidly approaching the determination point\", after which they'll have to pull the plug, said the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nOrganisers will be in \"absolutely dire straits\" financially if the season is cancelled, added Anna Wade, of Winchester's Boomtown Fair.\n\nThey were speaking to MPs examining the plight of music festivals in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Scientists tracking the spread of coronavirus in England say infection levels in the community may have risen at the start of the latest lockdown.\n\nInfections in 6-15 January were up by 50% on early December, with one in 63 people infected, Imperial College London's initial findings suggest.\n\nSwab tests from 143,000 people indicate 1.58% had the virus during in early January - up from 0.91% in December.\n\nMinisters say the report does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown.\n\nThe latest round of results from Imperial College's React-1 infection survey - one of the country's largest studies into Covid-19 infections - are interim with the full set of results to be published in a week's time.\n\nBut Imperial College London's Prof Paul Elliott warned if the high prevalence continues \"more lives will be lost\".\n\nThe report also says there are \"worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections\" and Prof Elliott said the third lockdown - introduced on 6 January - was not having the same impact as the first, in April.\n\nLondon had the highest level in the January period - 2.8%, up from 1.21% in early December.\n\nProf Elliott old BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R rate - which represents how many people an infected person will pass the virus on to - was \"around 1\".\n\n\"We're seeing this levelling off, it's not going up, but we're not seeing the decline that we really need to see given the pressure on the NHS from the current very high levels of the virus in the population,\" he said.\n\n\"To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwhelmed, infections must be brought down,\" Prof Elliot added.\n\nBefore the Covid rules were tightened, the restrictions faced by people in England varied depending on where they lived.\n\nThe researchers say the government's latest daily case figures, which show a slowdown, may reflect a drop in cases just after Christmas, which is only now being registered.\n\nAnd they suggest infection levels may have gone up in early January as a result of people's activity increasing after the Christmas holiday period.\n\nThey admit there is some uncertainty in their data amid a \"fast-changing situation\" but say it is more up to date than the daily government figures because it does not rely on those being tested developing symptoms and then waiting to have their infections confirmed by a laboratory.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nThe findings of the study are seemingly at odds with recent figures from NHS Test and Trace, which has been reporting recent decreases in daily infections and has prompted some experts to suggest that we might be beginning our journey out of the woods.\n\nThe researchers behind the study say the test and trace figures may be reflecting an initial drop in infections just after Christmas, which is only now being registered on the official figures.\n\nThe study's more up to date findings indicate that infection levels did not continue to fall in the first two weeks of January and may even have gone up. So why has this happened?\n\nData on people's movements has shown that there's been increased activity which the scientists involved say has kept transmission of the virus at a high level. The Department of Health says that the study does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown in England.\n\nBut if this trend continues, say the scientists, the numbers admitted to hospital with severe Covid illness, will not fall in the short term, as some had hoped.\n\nThis is one set of figures over a short number of days so there might be a more optimistic picture when the study reports its full set of results in a week's time. But there is no getting away from the fact that ministers will be disappointed not to have seen a fall at this stage.\n\nUnless things change, even tougher measures will have to be considered.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there will be \"tough weeks to come\" but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring as the vaccine programme accelerates.\n\nIt comes as another 60 NHS Covid-19 vaccination centres in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, will welcome their first patients later.\n\nMinisters have sought to reassure people in the top four priority groups for the Covid vaccination that they will get their jab by the government's mid-February target, following complaints from some GPs about unpredictable supplies.\n\nSome 4.6m people in the UK have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nFacebook mobility data, which tracks people's movements, suggested a fall in activity at the end of December but a rise at the start of the new year.\n\nAnd Prof Elliott said everyone should \"reduce their mobility as much as we can\".\n\nA new, more transmissible variant and the fact larger households and deprived communities were more likely to be affected, may also be factors.\n\nThe Imperial survey is one source of data used to estimate the UK's reproduction (R) number, along with other surveys, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for example, and figures on confirmed cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the React findings showed \"we must not let down our guard over the weeks to come\".\n\n\"It is absolutely paramount that everyone plays their part to bring down infections,\" he said.\n\n\"This means staying at home and only going out where absolutely necessary, reducing contact with others and maintaining social distancing.\"", "Police checkpoints have seen officers questioning people about whether their travel is essential\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December, in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions had been eased in the run-up to Christmas, which led to a sharp spike in cases in January, causing severe pressure on the health service.\n\nMedically-trained military personnel will be deployed to help, but a union has questioned the move and said NI should have entered a stricter lockdown sooner.\n\nWith Stormont ministers extending the current lockdown, could other measures could be on the table?\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that NI is already in tight lockdown restrictions and has been for almost a month.\n\nBut the current measures are now set to remain in place until at least 5 March.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said health officials had not requested any other measures be toughened up at this time, given the duration and extent of the current rules.\n\nThe initial lockdown began last March, with non-essential retail not permitted to open again until 12 June.\n\nBy law people are required to stay at home during the lockdown unless they have a reasonable excuse, such as going out for exercise, medical or food needs.\n\nPeople are also required to wear face masks in shops and on public transport, with only a limited number of exemptions.\n\nThose who breach the rules can face fines, with businesses that break the law also able to be fined if they do not follow the rules.\n\nHowever, DUP minister Edwin Poots has expressed concern that not enough has been done by the PSNI to enforce the laws.\n\nIt is a difficult balance for the executive to strike.\n\nThey previously announced that \"Covid marshals\" would be deployed in the retail sector to ensure social distancing in queues and adherence to the rules.\n\nMinisters want to ensure as many people as possible follow the restrictions voluntarily while ensuring the PSNI has enough powers to manage the situation.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has not ruled out revisiting whether the level of fines people can face should be increased, and said he would raise the matter with his executive colleagues.\n\nThe 2020 lockdown saw many businesses right across Northern Ireland forced to close, with retail and hospitality among them.\n\nThere was confusion over whether construction and manufacturing should stop, with the executive later clarifying that essential work on building sites could continue.\n\nIn the latest lockdown, the sector has been permitted to remain fully open.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all non-essential construction has been ordered to stop during a fresh lockdown there.\n\nLike in the previous lockdown, people have again been told to work from home unless they cannot.\n\nBut it is worth pointing out many companies have had time to prepare since last March, making their workplaces Covid-secure to allow more staff to attend in person.\n\nThe executive has a defined list of essential businesses here.\n\nFace coverings in shops are mandatory in Northern Ireland's shops\n\nThere has also been confusion about what elements of the retail sector can operate.\n\nAll but essential retail shops were told to close on 26 December, and click-and-collect is only allowed for those essential retailers.\n\nBut concerns were later raised that some larger chains were \"gaming\" the regulations by selling non-essential items, with smaller independent shops who had to close arguing they were being treated unfairly.\n\nThe executive met with retailers last week to discuss this, but it seems unlikely it will act to define essential items in regulations.\n\nA similar situation in Wales last year led to criticism after supermarkets were told by law not to sell certain items.\n\nThe majority of pupils are in an extended period of remote learning until after half-term in February, but some children of key workers and vulnerable children are still permitted to attend the classroom.\n\nLast week it emerged that at least eight times as many pupils in Northern Ireland attended schools in the first week of term in 2021 compared to the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nThough part of this is due to special schools remaining open for all pupils, unlike in March to June last year.\n\nThe executive could potentially revisit the list of services it defines as meeting the \"key worker\" definition for childcare, if it wanted to reduce this further.\n\nIt is also possible schools could remain closed to most pupils for a longer period, in line with extending the lockdown to 5 March.\n\nThe executive says workers, builders, tradespeople and other professionals can continue to go into people's houses to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.\n\nBut it does not define further what this type of work should include.\n\nIt is possible ministers could tighten the circumstances in which work can be carried out in someone's home, but the guidance already specifies a limited number of exemptions for allowing others inside your home during the lockdown.\n\nHouse moves are also allowed under the regulations, although they were paused in the first lockdown.\n\nMusic lessons and private tutoring are permitted in someone's home, with mitigations.\n\nDuring the first week of lockdown from 26 December, people were told not to leave their homes between 20:00 and 06:00 every day - effectively amounting to a curfew.\n\nMinisters could decide to impose the measure again, if they felt that was necessary - but initially it was imposed to stop house parties over New Year's Eve.\n\nAll but essential travel is not permitted outside of Northern Ireland, and anyone entering Northern Ireland must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival or face a fine.\n\nHowever, there is no formal travel ban on passengers from Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive had voted by a majority before Christmas not to impose such a ban, despite calls from Sinn Féin for it to happen.\n\nOther parties argued that the public health advice did not propose a ban in law, and that travel from the Republic of Ireland to NI should be restricted as well due to its rise in cases.\n\nThe current guidance states that anyone coming into NI from within the Common Travel Area who is staying for more than 24 hours should self-isolate for 10 days, but there are exemptions for those who \"cross the border\" regularly for work or other essential reasons.\n\nThe executive also does not have a formal limit in law for travelling to exercise, unlike in the Republic of Ireland where it is 5km (3 miles).\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said there is an \"advisory limit\" of 10 miles for exercise in Northern Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "\"I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock.\"\n\nEllie Huddleston, a 26-year-old Londoner, thought she would treat herself to some new work clothes in the January sales.\n\nHaving spotted a bargain, she placed an order for a coat and a number of blouses from two of her favourite clothes brands based in Europe.\n\nBut both deliveries were delayed, held up in customs checks for at least a week, she says.\n\nShe was surprised when she then received a text from courier company DPD, containing a link asking her to pay £58 in customs duties, VAT and additional charges for her £180 order.\n\nOn top of that, the UPS courier for the second parcel showed up at her door several days later, asking for an extra payment of £82 for her £200 coat.\n\nThese charges, imposed by new government rules, have to be collected by the courier firms on the authorities' behalf.\n\n\"I didn't even know when the parcels would be coming - so I sent both back without paying the extra fees and won't be ordering anything from Europe again any time soon,\" Ellie says.\n\nWhen the UK was part of the European Union's customs union, goods could move freely between the country and other member states without import taxes being charged.\n\nBut Ellie was one of the shoppers caught unaware of the fact that those rules have changed since the UK's official exit.\n\nEU retailers sending packages to the UK now need to fill out customs declaration forms. Shoppers may also have to pay customs or VAT charges, depending on the value of the product and where it came from.\n\nHowever, customs charges are the responsibility of the customer, not the retailer, who often has no idea of how much the eventual extra cost might be.\n\nThey cannot be paid in advance and are levied only when the item reaches the UK.\n\nAnother unhappy customer, Graeme from Manchester, paid £300 to buy two pairs of suede winter boots from a German firm online.\n\n\"You couldn't get them anywhere in the UK, so I had no choice but to order them from Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe next thing he knew, courier UPS had sent him a text message saying he had to pay £147 extra before the boots could be delivered. He paid up, but is still waiting for the goods to arrive.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible to find out what the charges would be beforehand,\" he says, \"so I had to take a shot in the dark.\n\n\"I didn't imagine that it would be half as much again.\"\n\nCourier companies are adding charges to some deliveries from the EU\n\nUnder the new rules, anyone in the UK receiving a gift from the EU worth more than £39 may now face a bill for import VAT - with many items charged at 20%.\n\nFor goods costing more than £135, customs duties may also apply, which can range from 0% to 25% of the product you're buying if they have not been paid by the sender already.\n\nThe extra charges are usually collected by the courier on behalf of the government, with customers asked to pay before they can pick up their package.\n\nSome specialist European retailers, such as bicycle part firm Dutch Bike Bits and Belgium-based Beer On Web, recently said that they would stop all deliveries to the UK because of the VAT changes, which came into force on 1 January.\n\nSome firms have started charging additional \"handling fees\" to shoppers to cover costs associated with extra customs checks and paperwork that must be filled out.\n\nRoyal Mail, for example, is charging an £8 fee it says \"reflects the cost of clearing items through customs and presenting them to Border Force\".\n\nMeanwhile, delivery firm DHL says it is charging UK customers 2.5% of the amount paid to clear customs, with a minimum charge of £11.\n\nMail and freight company TNT is also adding £4.31 on all shipments from the UK to the EU and vice versa. It has said this reflects the increased investment it has had to make in adjusting its systems to cope with Brexit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Logistics UK told the BBC that the handling fees were \"a commercial decision by individual businesses\".\n\nBut Michelle Dale, senior manager at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said that new charges could present a major problem for firms in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think what we'll find is that a lot of trade with the EU from a business-to-customer perspective will come to a stop until some of these rules are eased,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The new VAT model ensures goods from EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way and that UK businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from VAT-free imports.\n\n\"The new system also addresses the problem of overseas sellers failing to pay the right amount of VAT when they sell goods in the UK. We anticipate this will bring in £300m in tax every year, to fund essential UK public services.\"\n\nThere is speculation the rules may change, but until they do, Ellie says she won't be buying from European firms.\n\n\"With all that uncertainty around things and whether or not these charges might change, I'd rather just avoid the hassle,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Nearly nine million people had to borrow more money last year because of the impact of coronavirus, government figures show.\n\nSince June last year, the proportion of workers borrowing £1,000 or more had increased from 35% to 45%, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSelf-employed people were more likely than employees to borrow money.\n\nThere was also a large increase in the proportion of disabled people borrowing similar sums, the ONS added.\n\nThis was adding to a \"widening financial gap\" between households.\n\nOverall, young people and low earners have been worst hit by the pandemic, according to the ONS survey.\n\nThose aged under 30 and those with household incomes of less than £10,000 were about 35% and 60% respectively more likely to be furloughed than the population as a whole.\n\nMeanwhile, higher-paid workers were more likely to be on full pay if they were unable to work.\n\nThere has been much focus on a glut of savings ready to be unleashed into the economy when pandemic restrictions are lifted.\n\nThis ONS report shines a light on the reality of this for many ordinary Britons, having to borrow more, amid a hit to incomes during the recession.\n\nDisproportionately this has hit the low paid and the young, and this would have been far worse without the government's support package.\n\nMore homeowners and the over-30s by December expected to be able to save for the year ahead. Fewer renters and under 30s expected to be able to save.\n\nThough the analysis does not include the latest national lockdown, the economic impact of schools closure is also clear.\n\nEmployed parents were twice as likely to experience income loss, though that gap closed when schools reopened. The fear is that this trend will have returned over the past month.\n\nGueorguie Vassilev from the ONS said: \"Many people took a financial hit in the first months of the pandemic, either being furloughed or working fewer hours.\n\n\"What we are seeing now, though, is a widening financial gap between households, where some people are relying on savings or borrowing to make ends meet. Those hardest hit are people on low pay, young people and parents of dependent children.\"\n\nParents living with children were almost twice as likely to report a reduction in income as the rest of the population, the ONS added.\n\nThis gap gradually narrowed throughout the year as schools reopened. Parents were less likely to have a reduced income during the November lockdown than in the first lockdown, as schools stayed open.\n\nHave you needed to borrow a substantial amount of money because of the impact of the pandemic? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden invited Taiwan's envoy to his inauguration - what does it mean?\n\nBiden’s inauguration was marked by many historic “firsts”, and one of them could be a sign of potential future clashes between Beijing and Washington. Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US, was formally invited to the inauguration - the first time this has happened in more than four decades. A video shared on her social media shows her standing in front of the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony. “Democracy is our common language and freedom is our common objective,” Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US said. China views the self-ruled island as part of its territory that it will eventually retake, by force if necessary. And the status of Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in US-China relations, as the US is by far Taiwan’s most important friend. Hsiao’s presence at the inauguration signals the US may continue to demonstrate strong support for Taiwan, despite the fact that many Taiwanese people are concerned that Biden will take a less confrontational stance towards Beijing compared with Trump. By contrast, it’s unclear whether China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended Biden’s inauguration. Earlier today, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Cui had been invited, but did not confirm whether he was present in the ceremony. Hua reiterated China’s position of opposing official interactions between Taiwan and the US. It’s a long-running unspoken rule that Beijing and Taipei’s top diplomats in Washington do not attend the same event, because sharing a stage could be seen as Beijing acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign country.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says that from an educational point of view, he wants \"to keep the extent to which they [children] are out of school to a minimum\".\n\nBut Mr Weir said that decisions about schools during the Covid-19 pandemic must \"be weighed up against the wider public health advice\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme after it was announced that current restrictions will be extended, Mr Weir said that \"nobody wants to see restrictions last longer than they have to\".\n\nHe said the decision to extend lockdown was taken \"very reluctantly but there is a broad consensus in the executive that these are necessary measures that have to be taken to ensure we remain on top of the virus\".\n\nMr Weir added that schools have operated on a slightly different timetable to the rest of the restrictions, and that next week's discussions will consider keeping them closed until 5 March, in line with decisions taken by ministers today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While some young people have found it hard at times, others have learnt new skills\n\nYoung people have been asked to share their experiences of how they have coped during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland said her national survey was important because sometimes views of younger people can be \"surprising\".\n\nShe said the information provided would also help inform the Welsh Government ahead of some tough decisions it will need to make in the future.\n\nA similar survey was carried out in the first lockdown last year.\n\nA recent Prince's Trust Youth Index survey asked young people across the UK about their thoughts and feelings towards the pandemic.\n\nMore than 2,000 responded including 200 from Wales.\n\nIt found 63% of 16 to 25-year-olds said the pandemic had left them \"always\" or \"often\" feeling anxious - 64% said they were feeling like they were \"missing out on being young\".\n\nBBC Wales spoke to a number of children and young people about their thoughts on a variety of issues including home schooling, loneliness and finding out what they are doing to stay positive.\n\nAngel, 16, from Cardiff, is studying for her GCSEs.\n\n\"I've just been confused a lot of the time. All the information out there and it's really hard to process and get to a point where you're in a mindset where you know what's happening.\n\n\"There's such a high level of uncertainty you're constantly worried or actually doubting what's going to happen next.\n\n\"When you have goals for the future it's something to help you get through this but when you're in the circumstances we're in now, it's really hard to find the motivation and a purpose for what you're doing now.\"\n\nTo try and stay positive Angel has been trying to get out for walks during her school breaks or watch Netflix.\n\nShe said she has also tried to learn some sign-language during lockdown and attempted yoga.\n\nEmrys and Clara have been learning home skills\n\nEmrys, 11, from Bridgend, said he misses not having the structure of a school day and seeing his friends.\n\nHe added: \"I'm a social person. I have friends, I chat with them, I play with them, and it's hard not being with my friends but I mean the family will have to do.\"\n\nHe and his six-year-old sister, Clara, have enjoyed going for walks with their parents and have been learning some new skills including washing dishes, cooking dinner and baking cakes.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-year-old Sophie has found it difficult to not get bored during long periods of time in the house.\n\n\"I'd say I cope OK with it at some points, but then not okay with it at other points,\" she added.\n\nSophie said it can be hard sometimes to find things to do\n\nAlicia is studying for her A-levels and has friends who have dropped out of their studies this year because of the stress and anxiety caused by the uncertainty about exams and their futures.\n\nThe 17-year-old also said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being able to see many of her close friends for almost a year.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are, it's less of a luxury now, I need to be able to go out to see them and to work.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Sarah, 16, from Swansea enjoyed going to her local youth club and took part in a local drama group but it how now moved online, giving a different experience.\n\n\"It's quite sad because I used to enjoy being able to do those things whenever it was on, but I think I'm getting used to do everything online,\" she said.\n\nAs a person who does not cope very well with not knowing what will happen next, the pandemic has caused anxiety at times for Sarah.\n\n\"I am finding it quite scary but hopefully things will change and I'll be able to go back soon,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if you're really struggling with something, talking really helps so it would be nice to see people in person.\"\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland conducted a survey of pupils in Wales during the first lockdown\n\nChildren's helpline MEIC Cymru said it had seen a 10% increase in the number of calls from young people, parents, and carers during the pandemic compared with previous years.\n\nStephanie Hoffman, Head of Social Action at Promo Cymru, the charity which runs the helpline, said: \"We're seeing what I'd say are many more substantive contacts, so a lot more contact dealing with really serious issues to do with social well-being, mental health and relationships, as opposed to what we might have seen more of in the past.\n\n\"Now we're dealing with situations which can be quite complicated.\"\n\nOf the survey, Ms Holland said: \"We've heard a lot from adults showing concern for children at the moment, such as parents, carers and professionals working with children about the potential impact of the lockdown on children.\n\n\"Those voices are important to hear, but it's also important we hear directly from children and young people because sometimes they can be surprising.\"\n\nWe know that Covid-19 vaccinations have been on people's minds in Wales - with many wanting to know when they or their loved-ones will receive theirs.\n\nIf you have a question about this issue, a story you'd like to share or a query about anything else related to coronavirus, you can sent it to us using the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nBy the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.\n\nBut Boris Johnson warned there were \"unquestionably going to be a tough few weeks\" while the vaccine was rolled out and urged people to observe lockdown.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to flood-hit Didsbury in Manchester, the prime minister said it was still \"too early\" to say when some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in England.\n\nHe said figures from an Imperial College London survey showed the new variant of the virus to be \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nThe study suggests there was a rise in infections in the community at the start of the latest lockdown in England.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres have opened in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.\n\nTwo million jabs a week are needed for the government to achieve its target of offering a vaccine to all over 70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nGiving a statement in the Commons, Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the country had an \"immense infrastructure in place that, day by day, is protecting the vulnerable and giving hope to us all\".\n\nDescribing this as a \"huge feat\", he said the government was making \"good progress\" towards its target.\n\nAsked about difficulties in getting vaccines to rural areas and whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be prioritised for these as it is easier to store, Mr Hancock said the challenge was that supply was \"lumpy\", with manufacturers working \"as fast as possible\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said new variants of the virus showed vaccination needed to go \"further and faster\".\n\nHe asked if there was a contingency plan in place in case vaccines needed to be redesigned to contain mutations.\n\nMr Hancock said the early indications were that the new variant was dealt with by the vaccine \"just as much as the old variant\".\n\nHe also said 63% of residents in elderly care homes had now received a vaccine.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is now chairman of the Common's Health Select Committee, asked about establishing \"quarantine hotels\" to combat new strains, as well as whether there should be further restrictions on household mixing outside bubbles and mandating FFP2 masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said the clinical advice was that the current guidelines on personal protective equipment (PPE) were \"right and appropriate\" and said \"very significant measures\" had been brought in for international travel.\n\nIn Northern Ireland more than 160,000 people have received a first vaccine dose, while in Wales, where more than 175,000 people have received a jab, people waiting for theirs have been urged to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted her country's vaccine programme was not lagging behind, during First Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nIn England the rollout of the vaccine started with people aged 80 and over. In some regions where the majority of these have been vaccinated, the programmes are now moving on to the over 70s.\n\nHome Secretary Priri Patel, who will lead a Downing Street press conference later, said ministers were working to ensure police and other front-line workers are moved up the priority list, while Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast he hoped teachers and support staff could be moved up the list.\n\nMeanwhile, pumps and sandbags were brought in to protect supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the risk of flood water at a warehouse in Wrexham, north-east Wales.\n\nYoung people in Wales have been asked to share their experiences of the pandemic in a survey by the nation's Children's Commissioner.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Politicians in pearls, the colour purple and warm woollen mittens - these are just a few of Washington's favourite things from the 2021 Inauguration.\n\nWith America's leaders in the spotlight on the inauguration - and world - stage, sometimes what they wear can say more than their speeches.\n\nDC-based fashion consultant Lauren Rothman says Americans have always taken an interest in what political leaders don for inaugural celebrations. And in 2021, with an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis as well as the swearing-in of the first female vice-president, things feel \"even more loaded\".\n\nIt's all about optics for the politically fashion-minded, says Ms Rothman, who helps style politicians for events including inaugurations past.\n\nSo let's see how outspoken this year's inauguration crowd really was, from the Bidens to Bernie Sanders - with a little help from some real fashion experts.\n\nVice-President Kamala Harris' purple ensemble has already made an impact.\n\n\"Symbolically, it's a bipartisan colour because it marries [Republican] red and [Democratic] blue,\" says Ms Rothman, noting a number of elected officials or spouses had opted for purple today.\n\nBut that's not the only reason purple has a special place for US women in politics. The suffragettes often wore the colour in the 1900s while campaigning for women's right to vote.\n\nProfessor Elka Stevens, coordinator of the fashion design programme at Howard University, also notes it's a colour of significance in the black community - one tied to the Christian experience as well. Ms Harris' pearl necklace also made reference to a tradition in her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest all-black sorority in the US.\n\nAdd it all up and Ms Harris' choice of pearls and a purple sharp-cut Christopher John Rogers coat was \"an excellent first building block on what the legacy is of how to look like a woman in power\", Ms Rothman says.\n\nBoth Mrs Biden and Ms Harris also took care to choose emerging US brands for their inaugural looks. Ms Harris' outfit, from head-to-toe, showed off African-American designers.\n\nAnd we can't forget Doug Emhoff either, America's \"first second gentleman\".\n\n\"He chose to do everything that he should, which is to not distract and perfectly fit in,\" says Rothman.\n\nWe can't discuss political fashion without bringing up Michelle Obama.\n\nHer purple Sergio Hudson sweater and palazzo pants plus coat look, along with perfectly curled hair, did not disappoint fans of the former first lady.\n\n\"It's a different dress code and different expectation for women who are first ladies versus people who aren't, like women who are elected,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nFrom baring her arms to wearing both high-end and High Street fashion, Mrs Obama was \"legacy-making\" in a way that hearkened back to Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, Ms Rothman says.\n\nShe also put many \"independent and ethnic American designers\" on the map during her eight years in the White House.\n\nNewly former First Lady Melania Trump, too, had a clear style, often spotted in sleek looks from well-known brands (think Chanel, Hermès).\n\nOne of her favourite designers was French-American Hervé Pierre, but Prof Stevens also notes she faced a challenge dressing all-American as many US labels said they would not dress her.\n\nFor her final look of the day, Melania swapped out the all-black suit she left the White House in for a Gucci dress with a bold orange print.\n\n\"The curtain is down and she's onto the next phase of her life,\" says Ms Rothman of the sharp contrast. \"I think that's what she's using her clothing to signal: that DC is over.\n\nHe may not win the best-dressed award any time soon, but veteran Senator Bernie Sanders certainly won Twitter with his extra large mittens.\n\nMr Sanders' pair of eye-catching woolly mittens were given to him two years ago by a Vermont schoolteacher who made them from repurposed sweaters and recycled plastic bottles. Those, coupled with a snap of him alone in a crossed-arm pose, made for prime meme fodder.\n\n\"What we love about it is that it's so authentically Bernie,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nWhen asked for his thoughts on all the stir his inauguration look caused, Mr Sanders simply said: \"In Vermont we dress warm...and we're not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that's what I did today.\"\n\nInauguration 2021 featured performances from Jennifer Lopez (in a crisp white ensemble) and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it was Gaga's custom black-and-red Schiaparelli gown that stole the show or, more specifically, the large golden dove-shaped brooch she wore atop it.\n\nAside from the Hunger Games comparisons, the almost operatic outfit served another fun purpose in Ms Rothman's eyes.\n\n\"She brought the inaugural ball to the stage in a year where you're not going to get all of the dress up, the ball gowns that we have come to look at and adore and criticise.\"\n\nYouth poet laureate Amanda Gorman was another star on today's stage.\n\nThe self-described \"skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother\", touched on many heavy themes in her verses, but her outfit was a breath of fresh air.\n\nYellow is a colour of hope, energy, light. And her bright red Prada headband was a bold complement. To Prof Stevens, it was almost crown-like.\n\n\"It also honed attention on her hair, because no one else had that particular hairstyle. And we know that hair can be political as well.\"\n\nOur last noteworthy youthful garb of the day was Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter to the vice-president.\n\nHer dainty white collar atop a bejewelled plaid Miu Miu coat was particularly striking - or in the words of Teen Vogue, \"just *chef's kiss*\" - and to Prof Stevens, reminiscent of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\n\"I really thought about our democracy, justice, the collars [Ginsburg] wore and the messages she would send. I think this was [also] an ode to femininity.\"\n\nAnd as for her brother Cole's look? Prof Stevens' takeaway was: \"You need some gloves, young man.\"\n\nAnd last but not least, let's consider the new president and first lady.\n\nProf Stevens says the political dress mirrored a desire to project comfort and to reassure the nation that US democracy is safe and its way of life is \"going back to something familiar\" despite Covid-19.\n\nThere may not have been anything ground-breaking in Mr Biden's Ralph Lauren suit; perhaps the more interesting aspect is the way he wore it.\n\n\"As a Washington insider he's been wearing suits for decades,\" says Ms Rothman. \"He showed that he knows what works.\"\n\nAlso notable with both Biden's ensembles today: the colour blue. Prof Stevens notes that blue is recognised as a colour of trustworthiness; of stability; of confidence, especially for men.\n\nAs for Jill Biden's custom-made, Swarovski-crystal-accented aquamarine coat from the up-and-coming New York Makarian label?\n\nBoth Prof Stevens and Ms Rothman say it signalled responsibility and modesty.\n\n\"We already know [the Bidens] are very united, but it signalled that they're here and ready to do the work,\" Ms Rothman says.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of some older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nA housebound 84-year-old woman said she was told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she could not get to her GP surgery.\n\nStuart Wilson said his mother Julia was immobile and she required two people with a hoist to get her up.\n\nHe said her surgery in Sketty, Swansea, called on Tuesday offering a jab but they were told it would take time to arrange a house visit.\n\nWelsh Government said a mobile service could take a jab to the housebound.\n\nDr Chris Johns, from Sketty Medical Centre, said: \"I can give assurances that no housebound patient is being asked to wait this long for their vaccination.\n\n\"This is a massive undertaking by GPs and we would ask older patients, if they are mobile, to attend one of our vaccination clinics instead.\"\n\nHe said teams have already made close to 200 house calls to vaccinate those unable to come to the surgery and over the next few weeks GPs would continue to go to patients' homes \"where necessary\".\n\nMore than 175,000 vaccines have been administered across Wales so far.\n\nUnder Welsh Government plans, the goal is for everyone over the age of 70 to be offered a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nMr Wilson said the call left his mother \"concerned and distressed\" so with her permission he spoke to the GP surgery himself.\n\nShe has been with the surgery, which is the Sketty branch of Sketty and Killay Surgeries, for about five years, and they are familiar with her condition as she receives home visits for flu jabs.\n\n\"What I can't understand is how they can invite somebody for a vaccination and then turn around and say because you're housebound, they can't give it yet,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not asking for preferential treatment; we're not asking to be bumped up the list. I was disgusted by the total lack of information.\"\n\nMr Wilson said he knew of three other cases where patients have been given the same information.\n\nHe said disabled people should receive equal treatment. He has also taken the issue up with the disability rights association, Disability Wales, who have been asked to comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Those who cannot attend their appointment or cannot travel to the vaccination venue can let your health board know through the NHS booking system. They will then be offered another appointment on another day or at a more convenient location.\n\n\"There are also plans in place for people who are housebound and for care homes, which will mean the vaccine can be safely taken to them using a mobile service if they are unable to attend a GP surgery or mass vaccination centre.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh Government has been criticised over the speed of rolling out vaccines to the over 80s age group.\n\nSteve Hockridge's 92-year-old mother Sheila suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in Cardiff.\n\nHe contacted her surgery but was told they had \"no information\" about when she would receive a vaccine.\n\n\"My confidence in the Welsh Government has been knocked,\" he said.\n\n\"After all the clarity during this pandemic, with this area they seem to be very, very secretive, giving different messages [which are] quite often conflicting.\"\n\nIn Wrexham, Helen Field said her mother, Eileen, 94, was also still waiting to hear about her vaccine.\n\n\"Our relations over the border in the Wirral area who are in a similar age group of over 80s and 90s have all received their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference is quite alarming and I just want to know what's going on in Wales and why they are so slow in putting the vaccines out?\n\n\"Nobody can seem to give us any information and it seems to be so poorly organised.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Every day in Wales we are speeding up the vaccination programme.\n\n\"Thousands more people are receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine and more clinics are opening with 45 vaccination centres operating or due to be operating shortly, and more than 250 GP surgeries being involved by the end of this month. As of 20 January, more than 175,816 people in Wales have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nNI's largest healthcare union has said it has not objected to military personnel being brought in to help medical staff deal with Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Unison said it had questions over the move and there had \"disappointingly\" been no consultation.\n\nAn initial statement from the union on the subject was criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described it as \"appallingly inappropriate\".\n\nA new statement issued on social media, from the union's regional secretary Patricia McKeown, said the first statement had been \"misunderstood\".\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, she acknowledged the initial statement had caused \"stress and hurt\" to Unison members and apologised for that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nIn the union's initial statement, issued on Wednesday, it said it would ask Mr Swann for \"detailed reasons\" for the move.\n\nIt said this would include \"seeking information as to what other avenues of support have been sought, such as securing additional staffing from private sector healthcare providers\".\n\nHowever, following criticism, Ms McKeown said in a new statement on Thursday morning that the union was \"happy to clarify\" its position.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, Unison has not objected to assistance from military personnel.\"\n\nShe added: \"In our experience the deployment of military personnel into public services is a decision taken as a last resort.\n\n\"We were immediately concerned that a request for aid of this nature indicates a crisis that is moving out of control.\n\n\"This is why it is important that we know in advance what options are being explored.\"\n\nThe union said it was important to get detailed information on how, when and where external personnel would be deployed and what the management and accountability structures will be in place for them.\n\nSteve Aiken described the first Unison statement as appallingly inappropriate\n\nSpeaking on Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, Ms McKeown said: \"We put a statement out last night, it said what we were going to do, but it didn't say why we were going to do it.\n\n\"That caused stress and hurt to our members and I am very, very sorry for that. That's why we corrected it.\"\n\nShe added that if military personnel were being brought in \"it means that all options have been exhausted, there's a big decision facing us now and that decision is a stronger lockdown\".\n\nThe earlier statement from the union, issued on Wednesday night, had been criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"Judging by the number of healthcare workers who have contacted me tonight they are absolutely incredulous at the Unison statement this evening.\n\n\"Getting help is what is needed - time for Unison to withdraw its appallingly inappropriate remarks.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley said: \"This statement from Unison is extremely disappointing and is out of step with both Unison's own members and the wider public.\n\n\"I have already been contacted by health service staff making clear that this does not represent their views.\"\n\nHis party colleague Paul Frew tweeted: \"Utterly appalling. A lot of anger tonight for a union that is supposed to support its membership.\"\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Ulster, West Belfast People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said: \"We all recognise that we're in a really desperate situation, a really difficult situation.\n\n\"But people want to see the health service expanded permanently and not just a short-term fix which people have questioned on a number of grounds.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said nurses and doctors were exhausted.\n\n\"What we're really talking about here is a surge of some personnel in order to support out frontline nurses who are dead on their feet,\" he said.\n\n\"The here and now is about saving lives.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin responded to Mr Swann's decision by saying it would not \"rule out\" any measures that help save lives and that \"any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into an orange and green issue is divisive and a distraction\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust, Dr Cathy Jack, told Stormont's health committee that the move would ensure staff can continue to deliver care to as many patients as possible.\n\nShe said the military personnel are \"band 4 medically-trained technicians\" who will \"be working under normal management structures\".\n\n\"This is another group of highly-trained individuals that will support staff and I welcome this.\"\n\nDr Jack said discussions were \"ongoing\" about how private health care providers could help in this phase of the pandemic.\n\nShe said a small number of private lists were being used for surgeries with low-risk cancers and more would be freed up in March \"to allow us to try and catch up on the backlog\".\n\nThe Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request means armed forces staff will assist nurses and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said the Army has previously carried out pandemic roles in Northern Ireland with \"aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning\".\n\nThe health minister added it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.", "An algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest\n\nAt first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches - but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.\n\nAnd scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space.\n\nThe pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.\n\nThe breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.\n\nAnd all the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning - a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety of backdrops.\n\n\"We just present examples to the algorithm and tell it, 'This is an elephant, this is not an elephant,'\"Dr Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath, said.\n\n\"By doing this, we can train the machine to recognise small details that we wouldn't be able to pick up with the naked eye.\"\n\nAfrican elephants are listed as vulnerable to extinction\n\nThe scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.\n\n\"It has a high density of elephants,\" University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said.\n\n\"And it has areas of thickets and of open savannah.\n\n\"So it's a great place to test our approach.\n\n\"While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go.\n\n\"And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft.\"\n\nConservationists will have to pay for access to commercial satellites and the images they capture.\n\nBut this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.\n\nThe scientists say it could also be used in anti-poaching work.\n\n\"And of course, [because you can capture these images from space,] you don't need anyone on the ground, which is particularly helpful during these times of coronavirus,\" Dr Duporge said.\n\n\"In zoology, technology can move quite slowly.\n\n\"So being able to use the cutting-edge techniques for animal conservation is just really nice.\"", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic, figures show.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nMany of these involved police officers being \"coughed and spat on\" by suspected rule-breakers, the CPS said.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nAssaults on emergency workers, which were the most common prosecution, were \"particularly appalling\" and incidents were still taking place, said director of public prosecutions Max Hill.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to do everything in my power to protect those who so selflessly keep us safe during this crisis.\"\n\nAccording to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions - there were 1,137 charges brought for breaking coronavirus laws.\n\nThese included a man who claimed 15 people having a party at his house in Manchester were part of his support bubble and another man in Wales caught travelling between counties to solicit the services of a sex worker.\n\nOverall, 2,106 defendants were prosecuted for 6,469 coronavirus-related offences, with a conviction rate of 90%, according to the CPS.\n\nOther crimes flagged as being coronavirus-related by the CPS, included 480 charges for public order offences, 466 for criminal damage and 464 for common assault.\n\nThese included offences such as coughing and spitting while threatening to infect another person with the virus, thefts of essential items and fraudsters taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nMr Hill added: \"The CPS has had to adapt to a raft of new laws and regulations intended to keep the public safe during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our guiding principle throughout has always been to support the police in ensuring the right person in charged with the right offence.\"", "Marmite is one of Unilever's many brands\n\nUnilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.\n\nThe consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs \"and helped them break the cycle of poverty\".\n\nIt said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.\n\nUnilever is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.\n\nOxfam called the move a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nUnilever, whose products include Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build \"a more equitable and inclusive society\".\n\n\"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide,\" it said.\n\n\"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030.\"\n\nThe wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.\n\nThe firm said it was working with partners to establish exact rates of pay in the 190 countries where it operates.\n\nHowever, Unilever's chief human resources officer Leena Nair said it would pay twice as much as the minimum wage in some countries.\n\nUnilever said it already paid its own employees at least a living wage, but it wanted to secure the same for more people beyond its workforce, specifically focusing on the most vulnerable workers in manufacturing and agriculture.\n\nWhile there is no doubting Unilever's desire to improve the lot of those who make its products, there is also a commercial reason for its living wage initiative.\n\nIt wants all of its suppliers to pay their staff a decent wage by 2030, a plan that has the potential, given Unilever's enormous size and global reach, to change the lives of millions of people.\n\nBut the company also believes the move will give it an advantage in the fierce battle to attract buyers.\n\nAlan Jope, Unilever's Scottish-born chief executive, says customers want to buy products with good credentials, and that this desire has only increased during the pandemic.\n\nMr Jope's comments suggest that the next consumer battlegrounds might not be price, convenience or range of product, but environmental and social considerations.\n\nUnilever wants to get ahead of that trend, and plans to do well by doing good.\n\n\"We will work with our suppliers, other businesses, governments and NGOs - through purchasing practices, collaboration and advocacy - to create systemic change and global adoption of living wage practices,\" it added.\n\nIt has more than 60,000 direct suppliers worldwide, from smallholder farmers to major companies.\n\nAll of them will be covered by its commitment, it said, with millions of people set to benefit.\n\nUnilever already audits its suppliers over climate change commitments, and will use these existing arrangements to make sure workers are being paid a living wage.\n\nSuppliers not willing to sign up may lose their contracts with the firm, Ms Nair said.\n\nAlso by 2030, Unilever said, it would equip 10 million young people with essential job skills.\n\nAdditionally, it committed to spending €2bn (£1.8bn) with suppliers owned and managed by people from under-represented groups by 2025 in an effort to improve diversity.\n\n\"The two biggest threats that the world currently faces are climate change and social inequality,\" said Unilever chief executive Alan Jope.\n\n\"The past year has undoubtedly widened the social divide, and decisive and collective action is needed to build a society that helps to improve livelihoods, embraces diversity, nurtures talent, and offers opportunities for everyone.\"\n\nUnilever chief executive Alan Jope says the firm wants to be a \"positive force in the world\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Unilever wanted to be a \"positive force in the world in tackling this persistent and worsening issue of social inequality.\"\n\n\"Without healthy societies, we don't have a healthy business,\" he said.\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of ethical initiatives by Unilever, including promoting vegan food products and experimenting with a four-day working week.\n\nGabriela Bucher, executive director at Oxfam International, welcomed Unilever's announcement, calling it \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nShe said: \"Unilever's plan shows the kind of responsible action needed from the private sector that can have a great impact on tackling inequality and help to build a world in which everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive.\"\n\nLaura Gardiner, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said commitments such as Unilever's show how some employers \"are leading the way in spreading the living wage through both their business networks, and across their global operations\".\n\nFood services giants Sodexo and Compass Group, which are on the Living Wage Foundation's list of recognised service providers, have made similar supply chain commitments in the UK.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "Wales' former Chief Medical Officer Dame Deirdre Hine thinks the vaccine targets are achievable\n\nPeople waiting for the Covid vaccine need to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\", Wales' former chief medical officer has said.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine said Wales had made a \"very good start\" on delivering jabs.\n\nAged 83, she needs the vaccine herself and accepted there was \"understandable anxiety\" for those still waiting, but said: \"I think we should all quieten down and wait.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nStuart Wilson said he was \"appalled\" his 84-year-old housebound mother had been told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she cannot get to her GP surgery.\n\nDame Deirdre is regarded as one of Wales' leading medical experts, having not only held the chief medical officer post, but being the woman who established the Welsh breast cancer screening programme.\n\nA past president of the British Medical Association and Royal Society of Medicine, she also oversaw the official inquiry into the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK.\n\nIt's not surprising that people are worried and concerned... but I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective\n\nShe told BBC Wales the response from governments had moved forward since then.\n\n\"I can detect some lessons that have been learned from the previous pandemic, the one I reported on. Because, although we had a vaccine then, the arrangements for delivering it were very much less clear and much more protracted than it has been this time.\n\n\"The arrangements for the GPs to deliver, and now pharmacists to deliver, all of that is a tremendous improvement on what I saw at the last pandemic.\"\n\nIn September, Dame Deirdre accused successive governments across the UK of taking \"their eye off the ball\" and failing to prepare for a global pandemic.\n\nShe also correctly warned of the \"real danger\" of a damaging second wave of Covid and has remained critical of failures to get adequate testing and tracing capability up and running in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"I would say the testing and tracing is another matter, and I think there has been justifiable criticism of that.\"\n\nDame Deirdre, who lives in Cardiff, said she was still \"waiting impatiently\" for her vaccine appointment, but called on people to see the bigger picture.\n\n\"Let's get it in perspective. This is a massive logistical exercise, together with a narrow pipeline of supply of the vaccine, and so I'm not a bit surprised that it's taking as long as it is to get round to everybody. But I have every confidence that they will.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, along with other UK nations, has committed to vaccinating all four of the highest priority groups by the middle of February, including the over-80s.\n\nLatest figures on vaccination in Wales show that, as of 20 January, there had been 175,816 people to get a first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for 5.6% of the population in Wales, while 7.1% have received a vaccination in England, 7.3% in Northern Ireland, and 5.7% in Scotland.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has denied Covid-19 vaccines were being held back, following comments from First Minister Mark Drakeford that the supply had to last until February to prevent \"vaccinators standing around with nothing to do\".\n\nMr Drakeford later said on social media that \"nobody is holding back vaccines\" and Mr Gething added: \"We're rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDame Deirdre said she believed the targets were achievable, but people's anxieties were \"understandable\".\n\nShe added: \"Some recent research by Imperial College shows that people in my age group, people over 70, are the people most worried about this pandemic and about their own safety.\n\n\"So it's not surprising that people are worried and concerned, dismayed, when they don't get the letter and then that turns to anger. But I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective.\n\n\"If you'd asked me last May and June whether we would even have a vaccine, I would have been highly sceptical.\n\n\"Then once you've got the vaccine, there is the whole logistical exercise of the publicity, letting people know what's likely to happen, getting the personnel assembled to do that, getting the premises.\n\n\"And it's not easy, it's not easy to do all that very, very quickly.\"", "Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced racial harassment while being a ballet dancer.\n\nThe French performer is the first black female dancer at Berlin's principal ballet company Staatsballett.\n\nMs Gomes claims she was told she did not fit in because of her skin colour, and was asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers.\n\nThe company has responded by saying her allegation \"deeply moves us\" and an internal investigation is underway into racism and discrimination at Staatsballett.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool City Council issued their call after local cases nearly trebled in the past fortnight\n\nLiverpool's leaders have called on the government to impose a new nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon and the city council's cabinet said urgent action is needed because the rise in coronavirus cases had reached \"alarming levels\".\n\nThey said it was \"self-evident\" the tier system has not curbed the variant.\n\nIt had been concentrated in London and south-east England but is believed to be spreading north.\n\nCases in Liverpool have almost trebled in the past two weeks to 350 per 100,000.\n\nThis is despite the city successfully leading the national pilot for community testing, which resulted in it becoming the first city to be taken out of tier 3 and moved into tier 2.\n\nHowever, the recent rise in cases meant Liverpool returned to tier three on Thursday.\n\nWendy Simon is the acting mayor for Liverpool\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, Ms Simon said: \"I think the difficulty with this new strain of the virus is the speed at which it is infecting.\n\n\"What we have seen in these last weeks is that the tier system hasn't worked with this particular strain of the virus.\n\n\"The way the numbers are going, we're likely to go into tier four very, very quickly.\"\n\nMs Simon said officials wanted to \"pre-empt that catastrophe\" and \"recover the economy quicker\", adding: \"We feel these three things - the mass vaccination, the mass testing and certainly a lockdown for a period - is what we need to get the city up and running again.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on us all to act promptly and bring it under control as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ms Simon joined officials at the Labour-run city council to urge the government to \"listen to those at the frontline, both in our hospitals and frontline services\".\n\n\"We as a nation can cope with a lockdown,\" the statement said. \"We have before and we can again.\"\n\nThe city's leaders also called for \"an additional package of welfare and economic support\" to address the \"pain for our retail and hospitality sectors\".\n\nA further 57,725 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.\n\nThe sharp rise in numbers is partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, is \"largely a reflection of a real increase\".\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nLiverpool launched the national pilot for community testing in November\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister said regional restrictions in England were \"probably about to get tougher\".\n\nHe said possible changes included keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down,\" and warned of a \"tough period ahead\".\n\nHe said increasing vaccination would provide a way out of restrictions and that he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "A farmer's field in Scotland has been transformed into a \"pop-up\" ice hockey rink.\n\nLocals in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, have been taking advantage of the clear skies and icy conditions.\n\nOne said the frozen rink had been playing host to skaters and hockey players of all ages and abilities, from six to 60.", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.\n\nThe drugs regulatory authority gave the green light to the jabs developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University and by local firm Bharat Biotech.\n\nIndia plans to inoculate some 300 million people on a priority list this year.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nOn Saturday India held nationwide drills to prepare more than 90,000 health care workers to administer vaccines across the country, which has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General of India said both manufacturers had submitted data showing their vaccines were safe to use.\n\nHowever, opposition politicians and some doctors have criticised a lack of transparency in the approval process.\n\nDr Swapneil Parikh, an infectious diseases researcher based in Mumbai, told the BBC doctors were in a difficult position.\n\n\"I understand there is a need to go through the process quickly, remove regulatory hurdles,\" he said. \"However... [governments and regulators] have a duty to be transparent about the data they have reviewed and the process involved in making the decision to authorise a vaccine, because if they don't do this, it can affect the public's faith in the process.\"\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.\n\nAdar Poonawalla, the company's CEO, told the BBC in November that he aimed to ramp up production to 100 million doses a month after receiving regulatory approval.\n\nThe jab, which is known as Covishield in India, is administered in two doses given between four and 12 weeks apart. It can be safely stored at temperatures of 2C to 8C, about the same as a domestic fridge, and can be delivered in existing health care settings such as doctors' surgeries.\n\nThis makes it easier to distribute than some of the other vaccines. The jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech - which is currently being administered in several countries - must be stored at -70C and can only be moved a limited number of times - a particular challenge in India, where summer temperatures can reach 50C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adar Poonawalla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe local vaccine, however, was approved despite the absence of data on how efficient it can be. It has yet to go through large-scale trials.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General, V.G. Somani, said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nMr Somani said it had been approved \"in public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\nIndia, which makes about 60% of vaccines globally, plans to immunise about 300 million people by July 2021. It will prioritise health care workers, the emergency services, and those who are clinically vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions.\n\nIndia's existing vaccination programme already reaches about 55 million people a year, administering 390 million free jabs against a dozen diseases. It stocks and tracks the vaccines through a well-oiled electronic system.\n\nIndia immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world\n\nPfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved for use in jurisdictions including the UK, the US and the EU, is also seeking emergency authorisation in India.\n\nIn all, some 30 vaccine candidates are being developed in India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Wales went into a new lockdown on 20 December\n\nWales is likely to remain in lockdown for the rest of January as the first minister said he does not \"see much headroom for change\".\n\nMinisters are to review restrictions ahead of an announcement on Friday.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said it was \"very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment\" with the NHS \"under huge pressure\".\n\nWithout further changes, restrictions could be kept until the next three-week review at the end of January.\n\nMr Drakeford also said the Welsh Government was unlikely to tighten restrictions despite the emergence of a new more contagious variant of the virus.\n\nHe said there could be some tweaks \"at the margins\" but no wholesale changes because \"it's difficult to see what more could be done\".\n\nThe government introduced a new four-level system of Covid-19 restrictions on 20 December with people told to stay home and avoid all but essential travel.\n\nA study has found the new variant of Covid-19 to be \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford does not believe the Welsh Government needs to change the system of restrictions it introduced before details of the new variant emerged.\n\n\"We'll keep our plans under review but level four restrictions in Wales are very strict indeed and it's difficult to see what more could be done to them,\" he said.\n\n\"If they need to be tweaked at the margins to take account of the new variation that's what the cabinet here will consider.\"\n\nHe has dismissed calls by teaching unions to suspend the phased return of face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe government's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review the current restrictions ahead of an announcement by the first minister on Friday.\n\nBut when asked whether he expected any changes, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment.\n\n\"Our health service remains under huge pressure and the coming weeks will be very difficult indeed with winter pressures on the one hand and growing numbers of people suffering with coronavirus in our hospitals on the other.\n\n\"We'll review it, as we said we would, but when I look at the figures I don't see much headroom for change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have not criticised the decision to remain in lockdown, but have called for greater scrutiny.\n\nSuzy Davies, Member of the Senedd for South Wales West, said questions would remain \"about how legitimate the decisions of the Welsh Government are\" until MSs had the opportunity to question them in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the announcement was unsurprising given the pressures on the NHS, but called on the Welsh Government to ensure a \"rapid rollout\" of the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Price also called for financial support for people forced to self-isolate and businesses \"during the hardest winter of our time\".\n\nAfter Friday's decision, the next three-week review announcement is not expected until 29 January.\n\nA further 56 people have died after contracting coronavirus in Wales, along with 4,011 new cases, according to data published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dozen people were fined in London for playing dominoes\n\nTwelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.\n\nPolice officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.\n\nThe owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has been asked to consider issuing a fine to the owner of the restaurant for breaching tier four Covid-19 restrictions, the Met said.\n\nA video released by the Met shows the restaurant owner saying: \"They're playing dominoes.\"\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"The rules under tier four are in place to keep all of us safe, and they do not exempt people from gathering to play games together in basements.\n\n\"The fact that these people hid from officers clearly shows they knew they were breaching the rules and have now been fined for their actions.\"\n• None Met breaks up more than 50 New Year's Eve parties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "A woman takes her dog for an early walk in Allendale in Northumberland\n\nMany parts of England have seen snow flurries accompany the arrival of New Year.\n\nAreas which welcomed in 2021 with several centimetres of snow included Northumberland, parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe Met Office has warned worse is to come with more wintry showers forecast.\n\nDriving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" as the cold weather continues next week, it said.\n\nSeveral football matches were cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches.\n\nGround staff at West Bromwich Albion were faced with heavy snowfall prior to their Premier League match with Arsenal at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening.\n\nGround staff clear snow from the pitch prior to the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich on Saturday\n\nFurther snow is predicted mainly inland and particularly over higher ground where above 200-300m a further few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\nThe chill in the air is due to high pressure to the north of the UK, which is dragging air from the east \"which at this time of year is cold\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe cold easterly winds are set to develop next week, bringing wintry showers - particularly around eastern parts - while hazardous freezing fog, frost and ice risks will all continue, forecasters said.\n\nSledging in the snow around Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nTwo women looking out over the snow covered Huntcliff sea cliffs in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast\n\nMeteorologist Alex Burkill said: \"Obviously it's very cold and it's going to stay cold through this week.\n\n\"Whilst there will be some wintry hazards around, it's not really until the end of the week until we see any significant snow.\"\n\nColston Bassett in Nottinghamshire got a light dusting of snow on Saturday\n\nA buried garden Buddha after heavy overnight snow in Buxton in Derbyshire\n\nRAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The message for those who have to drive is to adjust their speed according to the conditions and leave extra stopping distance so 2021 doesn't begin with an unwelcome bump and an insurance claim.\n\n\"Snow and ice are by far the toughest driving conditions, so if they can be avoided that's probably the best policy.\"\n\nA plough clears snow from the roads in Allendale, Northumberland\n\nA man takes his dogs for an early morning walk through the snow in Allenheads, Northumberland\n\nWaterfowl were still active at a snowy Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.\n\nGuardiola, 49, has previously talked of limiting his time in football to pursue other interests.\n\n\"Before, I thought I was going to retire soon. Now I'm thinking I'm going to retire older. So, I don't know,\" Guardiola said.\n\nThe Spaniard signed a new two-year deal at City in November and has won six major trophies at the club.\n\nPrior to his arrival in Manchester, Guardiola, who turns 50 this month, spent four years as manager of Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich.\n\n\"Experience helps you, especially the way I live my profession,\" he added.\n\nGuardiola's five-year stay at City represents the longest commitment he has made to a club in his management career.\n\nHe has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups since joining them in 2016.\n\nDespite going into Sunday's match at Chelsea on the back of a six-game unbeaten run and with two games in hand on most clubs around them in the table, he is cautious about talk of winning a third league title.\n\n\"If you think about what [can] happen in January, February - the two games [in hand], we can lose these two games and anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"So, in the Premier League, every game is so tough and it is better to be calm. The real Premier League, the people I spoke to before I landed here, said everyone can lose to everyone. I didn't see this until now.\n\n\"Now is the first time when I see in the Premier League, one team is able to lose or win seven, and after draw, and after lose. The results are unpredictable.\"\n\nAmong the challengers this season are arch rivals Manchester United, who City face in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have been rejuvenated in recent weeks, shrugging off the disappointment of a Champions League exit with some excellent domestic form.\n\n\"Ole is happier than me,\" said Guardiola, whose preparations have been affected by five players testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"But I am not much concerned about United. I am so busy with what we have to do and what we can do with the players.\n\n\"They are there because they deserve it. Since I arrived I expected them to be there all the time. Sometimes in the last seasons it has not been possible, especially in the Premier League.\"\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police Events This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breached Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.\n\nA spokesperson for the France international said the 26-year-old held a dinner party with guests from outside his household.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\nCity said they would conduct an internal investigation.\n\nMendy was named on the bench for City's Premier League game away to Chelsea on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\n\"While it is understood that elements of this incident have been misinterpreted in the reports [carried by newspapers earlier], and that the player has publicly apologised for his error, the club is disappointed to learn of the transgression and will be conducting an internal investigation,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Mendy said: \"Benjamin and his partner allowed a chef and two friends of his partner to attend his property for a dinner party on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Ben accepts that this is a breach of Covid-19 protocols and is sorry for his actions in this matter. Ben has had a Covid test and is liaising with Manchester City about this.\"\n\nExplaining why Mendy was in his matchday squad on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports: \"First of all the club made a statement; second Benjamin already had Covid in the past - he's been tested every day like all of us and he's negative. He knows what he has done and he will learn in the future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, goalkeeper Ederson, forward Ferran Torres, and midfielder Tommy Doyle are among six City players out of the Chelsea game because of coronavirus.\n\nThe trio have tested positive for the virus, adding to the cases of Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, defender Garcia became the sixth City player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nGarcia, along with a member of staff who also returned a positive test, will now self-isolate.\n\nCity previously postponed their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.\n\nThere have been a number of apparent coronavirus breaches by players at Premier League clubs in recent days.\n\nTottenham criticised three of their players after they attended a party over Christmas, while Fulham are looking into reports that striker Aleksandar Mitrovic allegedly broke coronavirus rules.\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson also apologised after midfielder Luka Milivojevic was pictured with Mitrovic at a gathering in London.\n\nFulham's match against Burnley on Sunday was postponed after an increase in positive cases at the club.\n\nCity also had to cancel their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLuke Campbell's hopes of another world title shot suffered a severe blow as Ryan Garcia rose from the canvas to land a superb stoppage in Dallas.\n\nIn a gripping lightweight fight, Briton Campbell landed a left hook in round two to floor Mexican-American Garcia.\n\nSome asked how the much-hyped Garcia might respond to adversity and while he fought on emotion, he found answers.\n\nCampbell survived a tough attack in the fifth, but a well-placed body shot ended the contest two rounds later.\n\n\"You taught me a lot,\" Garcia, 22, told 33-year-old Campbell as the opponents embraced in the beaten man's corner at the American Airlines Center.\n\nThe jubilant reaction from Garcia's team - including gym-mate Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - hinted at relief, but unquestionably emphasised the statement they knew their man had made.\n\nIn beating a fighter of Campbell's pedigree - and by rising from the canvas to do so - this win served up plenty of answers about Garcia, whose social media following led him to be identified as the world's 12th most marketable athlete in October.\n\n\"I think I showed a lot of people who I really am. I showed today I am special,\" he told DAZN.\n\n\"They wanted to show me as a social media fighter. Anybody who puts you down, remember you're not who people tell you who you are - you are who you choose to be. I chose to be a champion tonight.\n\n\"He caught me, I was like, 'I got dropped, this is crazy'. I've never been dropped in my life. I had to adjust. I knew I could beat him, I just had to get back up.\"\n\nGarcia is the first man to beat Campbell by stoppage. Shortly after the fight Campbell told Garcia in his dressing room that he punched harder than anyone he had ever faced. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist then told his Twitter followers that Garcia has a \"massive future ahead\".\n\nThis stoppage win will add to the kind of hype that has led some American broadcasters to suggest Garcia's star status could bring new fans to the sport in the years to come.\n\nThe 1-3 bookmakers' favourite was carried to the ring on a throne while Campbell waited in the ring in Texas.\n\nBut within two rounds a heavy left hook put Garcia on his back and it is to his credit he got up, took the fight to his rival and won rounds in the aftermath.\n\nGarcia had only twice gone past round four, and his last two bouts had lasted less than 180 seconds in total. He carried a fizz in his punches throughout and a left hook-right hand combination in the fifth rocked Campbell and sent him into the ropes as the bell sounded.\n\nIn a contest that ebbed and flowed, Campbell found some poise after a relentless attack from Garcia when the action resumed at the start of the sixth.\n\nBut a round later, Campbell braced for an attack to his head only for Garcia to beautifully drive a left hand to the body that left him on all fours.\n\nGarcia's team raced into the ring, lifted their man and placed a crown on his head.\n\nHis 21st win in as many fights could earn him a world title shot next, or his preferred bout with American Gervonta Davis.\n\nFor now, it has justified the hype and underlined his threat. After the fourth loss of his career, Campbell will need to regroup if he is to attempt to win a world title for the third time.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "A large poultry flock is to be culled in County Antrim, after an outbreak of bird flu.\n\nThirty thousand birds are to be destroyed as a precautionary measure at the farm near Clough.\n\nIt is the first time the disease has been detected in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland since 1998\n\nThe outbreak affected a business rearing young hens for egg production and it is understood there are other poultry farms in the area.\n\nIt will mean certain movement restrictions in 3km and 10km protection zones around the affected farm, with potential trade implications for other poultry businesses there.\n\nBird flu is a notifiable disease carried by migratory wild birds. It can spread quickly and rapidly causes death in affected flocks.\n\nRestrictions were put in place earlier in the winter in an attempt to prevent transmission to commercial flocks which make up a key part of Northern Ireland's important agri-food industry.\n\nSince 23 December there has been a requirement for all poultry flocks, no matter how small, to be housed.\n\nPublic health advice is that bird flu- or avian influenza - poses a low risk to human health and the Food Standards Agency advises that it does not present a food risk.\n\nPoultry is a £750m a year industry in Northern Ireland which employs 5,000 people. There are around 24 million birds on 650 farms, most of them in counties Tyrone and Antrim.\n\nThe disease has been detected in a number of wild birds in Northern Ireland this winter and in commercial flocks in both Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the short term it will mean no movements on or off poultry farms in the area, with a licensing system being introduced in the coming days.\n\nPoultry products from outside the restricted zone can continue to be traded with EU member states and products from within the zones can be sold on home markets.\n\nOther countries will apply their own rules depending on their assessment of the situation.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey repeated his message for poultry owners to apply rigorous biosecurity measures.\n\n\"Given the level of suspicion and the density of the poultry population around the holding, it is vital that as a matter of precaution, we act now and act fast,\" he said.\n\n\"I have therefore taken the decision to cull the birds as well as introduce temporary control zones around the holding in an effort to protect our poultry industry and stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"An epidemiological investigation is under way to determine the likely source of infection and determine the risk of disease spread.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? Have you recently been treated in a hospital, or due to be treated? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Jo Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nA statement was released on her Twitter account on Saturday night in which her team thanked people for their good wishes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Ms Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wished her well.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, her Twitter account said she had been \"laid low with Covid for a while\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Stevens, who is Labour's shadow culture secretary, was elected as an MP in May 2015.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted: \"All of our thoughts and best wishes are with Jo for a speedy recovery.\n\n\"Thank you to Jo's constituency team for continuing to support Cardiff Central constituents at this difficult time.\"", "The rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December – and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East. But that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all, most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut many public health experts are warning more needs to be done.That’s why we have seen so much debate about schools in recent days.There is a determination to get primary school children back – they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school-age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nIt looks like there is going to be a very difficult trade-off that needs to be made between the damage to education and wellbeing of children and the risk of further spread of the virus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Police said a car which had been parked on a bend in the road in Snowdonia was an \"accident waiting to happen\"\n\nStaff looking after a car park in a Welsh national park have been \"getting abuse\" as crowds continue to gather at popular beauty spots.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snowdonia National Park said the decision to keep car parks open was under \"constant review\".\n\nShe explained closing them could lead to unauthorised parking and would exclude locals with mobility issues.\n\nWales is at alert level four, meaning non-essential travel is banned and exercise must start and finish at home.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nA red Honda was towed away at Pen y Pass, near Llanberis, after police said it had been parked unsafely on a bend, in snowy conditions.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March, campsites, caravan parks and tourist hotspots were closed by the Welsh Government after \"unprecedented\" crowds gathered at beauty spots.\n\nThe Welsh Government decided to close beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Pen y Gwryd in Snowdonia\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had chosen not to close its car parks again because the areas remained open to people living nearby.\n\n\"Closing car parks can lead to unauthorised parking on roads, so we are keeping them open at the moment,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The mountains are open for people to be able to exercise from their front doors. Keeping car parks open allows people with mobility issues to exercise as well.\n\n\"We are working closely with police and Gwynedd council and we are reviewing it constantly.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police say beauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy\" since Christmas\n\nShe said its busiest car park, at Pen y Pass near Snowdon, had been overseen by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period, but in a more educational role than in previous years.\n\n\"Places like Pen y Pass are usually manned anyway but their role has changed slightly. They are getting some abuse, which is a shame,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are adopting a similar approach to police: engaging with people, asking what their plans are then educating them.\n\n\"The majority of the time people are going 'I misunderstood that', or people are saying 'I'm doing what I want anyway'.\"\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nWales is in an alert level four lockdown\n\nPenny Brockman, of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, called on people to help protect themselves and others, including rescue volunteers, by following government guidelines.\n\n\"It is important for people's well-being to walk, but there are probably lots of wonderful places in their own local areas,\" she added.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted a picture of Hamilton the police horse \"staying at home\" in his stable, urging people to be \"more like him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "Nurseries have stayed open during the latest lockdown, unlike schools\n\nNurseries are \"teetering on the edge\" and will \"find it hard to survive with next-to-no funding\" as children are kept home in lockdown, an owner said.\n\nLittle Stars near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by 35% - and Emma Matthews says nurseries are \"running on empty\".\n\nUnlike schools, they have remained open and an industry association wants support so they are around to \"provide places for children in the future\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said funding was available through councils.\n\nDescribing childcare workers as \"front-line\", the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru also called for anxious staff to be made a priority for the Covid vaccine as they work with little protective equipment.\n\n\"We feel we have poured our heart into serving families and want acknowledgement for the early years and the vital part we play in the community,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nLittle Stars furloughed some staff during the lockdown last March, with nurseries open for children of keyworkers only.\n\nLittle Stars nursery near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by more than a third\n\nThey reopened fully last summer and this has remained under Welsh Government guidance.\n\nHowever, many parents have decided not to send children - some because they are adhering to stay-at-home rules, are self-isolating, have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay bills, or are on furlough.\n\n\"The reasons are varied and valid why parents decide to pull children out,\" Ms Matthews added.\n\n\"The situation isn't great and some say 'we will wait and see next week'. It's very difficult to formulate a plan then or to furlough. We are teetering on the edge.\"\n\nLittle Stars is down the road from the new Grange hospital that opened in Cwmbran last November\n\nBefore coronavirus, the nursery looked after 65 children each day - but last week, 47 attended, made up of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.\n\nThere were also 11 babies due to start in January - but only one is attending because of reasons such as new mothers extending their maternity leave.\n\nMs Matthews believes facilities should be open for children of keyworkers only - allowing nurseries to access support for those not attending.\n\nA baby, a toddler and a staff member from Little Stars had coronavirus - and employees are worried for themselves and their families.\n\nIn Wales eligible children can access 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nThey are unable to wear personal protective equipment because of their close contact with children, and describing workers as \"front-line\" who \"keep the economy going\", Ms Matthews said they should be in the priority group for the vaccine and weekly testing.\n\n\"Social distancing is the challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"Face, space and hands... we can only do hands. The others are impossible.\"\n\nThe facility received a grant of £10,000 at the start of the pandemic and a rate relief grant of £1,000, but Ms Matthews wants more support.\n\n\"It's about valuing the service,\" she said. \"It wasn't a very stable industry pre-Covid. But it's made it very fragile now.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to give more help, allowing nurseries to survive and \"provide places for children in the future\" by NDNA Cymru.\n\nIt also said early years staff \"must be a priority for the vaccine to enable them to continue providing support for our youngest children and their families\".\n\nWhile nurseries were closed to all but keyworkers initially, they have been open since summer 2020\n\n\"We all know it's impossible to social distance from toddlers and babies who need close care from nappy changing to the contact and affection that supports their development and learning,\" added chief executive Purnima Tanuku.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said while the rates of coronavirus in Wales remain high, cases in children under five continue to be relatively low.\n\n\"Childcare providers have worked very hard to ensure settings are safe, with low numbers of children on site,\" she added.\n\nThe spokeswoman said funding is provided to councils, enabling them to help childcare settings experiencing financial difficulties and the Childcare Offer for Wales continues to be in place for all eligible children.\n\n\"We are following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation about the people who should be vaccinated first - all those in the priority groups will be immunised as safely and as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nMost school children in Wales will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland said she\"empathises with the concerns of staff\" and thanked them for their work \"during an extremely difficult period\".\n\n\"Nurseries play a really important part in young children's wellbeing and development,\" she said.\n\n\"Any services that can remain open for children is to be welcomed due to the importance for their health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "The man from Luton was fined £200 for travelling to Devizes and also had his car seized for having no insurance\n\nA man told police he had driven from Luton to Devizes to visit a McDonald's, even though the town does not have a branch of the burger chain.\n\nWiltshire Police called his actions a \"flagrant breach\" of lockdown regulations and fined the man £200.\n\nThe 34-year-old was stopped on Estcourt Street in Devizes, a distance of more than 100 miles (160km) from Luton.\n\nHis car was also seized for having no insurance, police added.\n\n\"The distance travelled across numerous counties to Devizes, which doesn't have a McDonald's restaurant, is a flagrant breach of the regulations currently in place.\n\n\"The majority of people across Wiltshire continue to act responsibly and we thank you for that, however, it is important to protect the NHS that we all stick to the rules,\" said police.\n\nThe man was stopped on Thursday evening.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Sara Powell-Davies said she was lucky her nursery was able to open following lockdown\n\nA mother with two young children has said it was \"incredibly stressful\" trying to manage without free childcare during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government's scheme was suspended in April, with funds redirected to pay for childcare for key workers' children.\n\nNow the offer, available to working parents of three and four-year-olds, has been reinstated.\n\nBut there are concerns many nurseries have been operating at a loss.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-old children are able to claim up 30 hours of early-years education and childcare a week for 48 weeks a year under the Childcare Offer for Wales.\n\nThose whose children become eligible in the autumn term, can apply from September.\n\nSara Powell-Davies, from Caerphilly, said it had been really hard to manage without the help during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe mother to three-year-old Tirion and one-year-old Cadel said the free childcare saved the family about £200 a month.\n\n\"It does make a massive difference to our finances every month,\" she said.\n\nMrs Powell-Davies said, while she was lucky Cadel's nursery was open, after-school clubs would not run in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, which would make juggling childcare around work a challenge.\n\n\"It's incredibly stressful trying to manage this anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"We do rely on support like private nursery provision, after-school care [and] wraparound because we don't have any family that is able to support us.\n\n\"So, this is our lifeline.\"\n\nChildcare Offer for Wales gives those eligible 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nChildcare providers are paid £4.50 per hour for every child who takes up a place through the childcare offer.\n\nBut the National Day Nurseries Association said many of its members were operating at a loss as fewer children had been attending and costs had gone up to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku called on the Welsh Government to set up a \"transformation fund to be able to support the sector until occupancy levels pick up and to really review the hourly rate to reflect the additional cost they've had to incur\".\n\nLyn Bourne, of Britannia Day Nursery, said nurseries were a \"forgotten industry\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic, around 70 children attended Britannia Day Nursery in Caerphilly - now there are about 40.\n\nOwner Lyn Bourne said the nursery was losing money every week, but was determined to keep going.\"It is hard financially and emotionally, but we decided we wanted to keep going so we've just done our best to do that,\" she said.Ms Bourne said she hoped the childcare offer would help some parents to bring children back, but said nurseries needed extra financial help from the government too.\"Nurseries are closing every week,\" she said.\"We seem to be a forgotten industry, but we're so important.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed that coronavirus guidance restricting children to groups of eight in childcare would be lifted.\n\nDeputy Minister for Social Care Julie Morgan said: \"Bringing the offer back will not only help parents, but it is crucial for providers too in supporting their businesses to recover after what has been a period of great uncertainty and anxiety for many.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the hourly rate was under review and it was considering extending the offer to parents in education or training or \"on the cusp\" of returning to work.\n\nHe added: \"The childcare offer being restarted funded childcare for an average of 13,000 children per month before the pandemic, a significant investment in the Welsh childcare sector.\n\n\"We have also relaxed some of the regulatory requirements on childcare settings in the national minimum standards to make it easier for them to operate under the current restrictions.\"", "Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and \"worn\" garments.\n\nBoth businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms.\n\nWomen have been sent '\"creepy\" messages on Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and Depop, the BBC has learned.\n\nSome were asked for additional items including worn tights, explicit photos and used underwear.\n\nWhen inappropriate profiles were blocked or reported, some would reappear with a different account, sources told the BBC.\n\n\"During lockdown, the messages have gotten really creepy,\" said Sara Faye, who has sold her clothes on Depop for years.\n\n\"They always want to know how many times it has been worn and if it is dirty.\"\n\nMs Faye used to post images of herself in the clothes on the platforms but has now stopped because of the messages.\n\nWomen often model the clothing they're selling in the photos\n\n\"Don't message me on an innocent second-hand website, just because you can see a hot girl in the photos,\" she added. \"It feels like a violation, you should be able to sell your clothes online without getting harassed.\"\n\nSellers were sometimes offered additional money for used clothing or explicit images.\n\nJennifer Savin - a Cosmopolitan features writer, who recently investigated the topic - was offered ��5 for more than 50 intimate images after posting items on eBay.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of users out there, just trying their luck,\" she told the BBC. \"Who knows if they'd even pay up if they were to be sent the explicit content in the first place?\"\n\nOne online seller, who relies on the profits made on these platforms for a living, said \"it was a balance between feeling safe and needing the money.\"\n\nEstablished clothing brands have also reported receiving inappropriate messages and requests on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium sells vintage clothes and receives many such comments every week.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium says it receives many inappropriate messages every week\n\n\"I get a lot of messages about the model, especially if there are shirts with close-up images,\" said owner Lynnette Peck.\n\n\"I had a fetishist asking what [shoes] smelt like, who wore them and if I could take a photo of myself wearing them.\"\n\nShe has now stopped selling certain items on the website, after receiving explicit photographs through Facebook Messenger.\n\nNaomi Edmondson, who runs lingerie brand Edge o'Beyond, said the business was \"constantly bombarded with creepy comments from men\", often asking for sex.\n\n\"We get so many creepy messages and comments it's too time-consuming to report them all,\" she said. \"A few times I have felt concerned for safety.\n\n\"We create lingerie to empower women, we do not welcome the minority of men who think it's acceptable to send explicit pictures.\"\n\nSome of the women the BBC spoke to said they hadn't reported the messages because they were \"embarrassed\", \"ashamed\" or \"didn't want to risk losing their accounts\".\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Depop and eBay all said they take these kinds of messages seriously and would take action against those who violated policy.\n\nThey all urged users to report and block any accounts which break the rules.\n\nFacebook - which also owns Instagram - said it has built a \"global safety and security team as well as powerful technology\" to remove accounts as quickly as possible.\n\nDepop said it aims to respond to 95% reports of inappropriate behaviour within three hours, during business hours.\n\n\"The issue of women receiving creepy messages when selling clothes online is not a new phenomenon,\" said Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning because to sell on most popular online selling platforms, including eBay and Depop, it is mandatory for users to provide a postal address - likely to be their home address.\"\n\nBut that is technically against the terms and conditions of most selling platforms.\n\n\"The very nature of selling second-hand clothes means that sellers will often post photos of themselves wearing the items,\" she says.\n\n\"That can, unfortunately, attract unwanted attention from buyers who might wish to buy worn clothes rather than just second-hand items.\"\n\nAlthough sites restrict the selling of certain used items, such as underwear, private messaging provides a \"loophole\", she added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "UN peacekeepers ended their mission in Darfur last month\n\nThe number of people killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Sudan's West Darfur state has risen to 83, a medical body has said.\n\nThe fighting in the state capital, El Geneina, began on Saturday after a row in which a man was stabbed to death.\n\nA state-wide curfew has been imposed and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sent a delegation to investigate.\n\nA conflict in Darfur that began in 2003 forced millions to flee and, despite a peace process, tensions remain.\n\nSaturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Union handed over security to the Khartoum authorities after 13 years there, reports the BBC's Youssef Taha.\n\nSimilar clashes in El Geneina last year, which saw Arab pastoralists fight with non-Arab groups, caused hundreds of casualties.\n\nThe most recent fighting was centred around a camp for people who had been displaced by the Darfur conflict. A deadly row between two men escalated into a fight involving armed militias, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said the death toll had risen from 48 to 83, and the number of wounded from around 100 to 160.\n\nMembers of the armed forces were among the victims, it said.\n\nCasualties were likely to rise further as fighting was continuing, the medical body added.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that troop reinforcements would be sent to the area\n\nThe announcement was made after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met top security officials to discuss the violence.\n\nA peace deal involving most, but not all, groups in Darfur was signed last year.\n\nThe Darfur conflict began under the presidency of Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the region.\n\nJustice for the people of Darfur was a key rallying cry for civilian groups who backed the ouster of the president after nearly three decades in power.\n\nThe Sudanese Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional government to deal with the \"unruly armed groups which have been freely moving and terrorising civilians since the collapse of the former regime\", Sudan's news agency reports.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nLast year Mohanad Hashim visited Kalma camp where some of the millions of people who fled flighting ended up:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "A financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday.\n\nThe aim was to provide grants by the end of this financial year, he said.\n\nIndustry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nUnder the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nAll arrivals to the UK after that time will need to isolate for up to 10 days, although the quarantine period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.\n\nPeople will also have to show proof of a negative test taken in the previous 72 hours before travelling.\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show that Public Health England would also be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate, while enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\".\n\nHe added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Courts said the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic and that further details would follow soon.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It will involve grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the Airport Operators Association said the scheme would be a relief. However, it said support equivalent to business rates would only go so far and with the pandemic crisis deepening, a broader package of support was needed for all four nations, to see the sector through the next few months.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said the measures would \"provide much-needed support to many embattled airports, helping them through the challenging months ahead\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes to the UK's travel rules at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nThe new rules will be in place until at least 15 February, he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing on Friday that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nThe travel industry said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTravel operators had already been forced to cancel holidays before the latest restrictions were announced.\n\nEarlier this week, Jet2 suspended all flights and holidays until 25 March over \"ongoing uncertainty\" and budget travel provider EasyJet on Thursday began cancelling holidays up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Saturday, another 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.\n\nBack home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he says.\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he says.\n\nWhile looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.\n\n“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.\n\nInternet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term.\n\nFormed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week.\n\nThe aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged.\n\nOak National Academy is funded by the Department for Education and has provided more than 28 million lessons since the start of the school term on 4 January.\n\nIn the last two weeks, 4.1 million pupils accessed its resources.\n\nThe latest lockdown has seen schools in England close except for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nMatt Hood, principal of Oak National Academy, said: \"It's incredible to be able to add to our offer something vital for children's literacy and their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nJonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said it was \"essential\" to enable as many children as possible to \"access a world of great literature\".\n\nHe added: \"Many children's literacy skills were profoundly affected by the first lockdown and school closures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to support children, families and teachers during this new lockdown period.\"\n\nDescribing the virtual library as a \"fantastic resource\", Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said learning and children's development must continue while schools remain closed.\n\nHe said: \"Reading is hugely beneficial not only for children's literacy skills, but also their mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe first book to feature will be Dame Jacqueline Wilson's The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and will be available to access free for a week from 17 January.\n\nDame Jacqueline said with schools closed, the free online library is needed more than ever, adding: \"I think it's vitally important that every child should have an opportunity to access books.\"", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19.\n\nMany of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers.\n\nMost mosques in London did not open for Friday prayers.\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says parishes that are able to follow guidelines will still open.\n\nDespite coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely.\n\nPlaces of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February.\n\nThe Church of England has told the BBC more than half of its parishes - including some cathedrals - will not open for communal prayer on Sunday. Many have moved their worship online.\n\nThe Church said some of its clergy were shielding, and all parishes were making their own decision.\n\nLincoln Cathedral took the decision to suspend in-person worship and move services online earlier in the week.\n\nRev Canon Nick Brown, Precentor of Lincoln, said the decision was taken \"with a very heavy heart\" but explained: \"To bring people together in worship is at the very heart of our purpose, but having considered expert advice we believe that the best way to help limit the spread of Covid-19 is to suspend public services for the time being.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says it will keep its churches under review to make sure \"the highest standards of safety are maintained\". It is also organising online masses in many parishes.\n\nBritain's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had criticised previous orders for churches to close.\n\nWith more than half of the Church of England's parishes closed for communal worship, thousands of Christians are being deprived of spiritual sustenance, at a time when many feel sorely in need of it.\n\nOther religions are also grappling with the issue and have worked hard to make their places of worship Covid-compliant by, for example, introducing strict booking and ticketing systems.\n\nMany church parishes have adapted by moving services online, a trend mirrored in some Jewish and Muslim denominations. These have been largely successful, and in some cases attracted new audiences from thousands of miles away. However, it's difficult to replicate the sense of community when people can physically and regularly meet up.\n\nOne Rabbi I spoke to last summer admitted he was worried some of his synagogue regulars, kept away by Covid-19, might never return.\n\nThere's also a financial aspect. Places of worship rely heavily on the generosity of believers. Weekly donations have been hit by church closures, and many revenue-generating schemes, such as hiring out church halls, have been cancelled. Many of the country's ancient cathedrals make much of their income from tourist admission fees.\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken different approaches, with all places of worship currently closed in Scotland, for example. Some Christian leaders, largely accepting of initial closures during the first lockdown, have gradually spoken out in favour of being able to make the decision themselves.\n\nBut with most shops and sporting facilities closed in England, some campaigners, such as the National Secular Society, have railed against what they say is \"a worrying deference to religious entitlement\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board has told the BBC although most mosques in England and Wales did open for Friday prayers, the majority in London did not - and it says it has asked its members in areas where the infection rate is rising to work closely with Public Health England and local authorities.\n\nUnder the latest lockdowns in the UK, there are changes to usual practices for worshippers of all religions.\n\nIn the areas of the UK where communal worship is allowed, a number of measures are in place, such as carrying out services in the shortest possible time, and ensuring worshippers do not mingle with anyone not in their own household or support bubble.\n\nFaith leaders have accepted the need for restrictions.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain urges \"strong caution for mosques wishing to continue remaining open to the public for worship... and for tremendous care to be exercised\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, who has been in charge of the Church of England's plans for resuming services, has said \"some may feel that it is currently better not to attend in person... Clergy who have concerns, and others who are shielding, should take particular care and stay at home\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are the rules for places of worship?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need further 36 runs to win\n\nEngland need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic end to the fourth day in Galle.\n\nChasing only 74, the tourists slipped to 14-3 as Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya before captain Joe Root was run out after a mix-up with Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBairstow, who survived a run-out chance of his own, and debutant Dan Lawrence saw England to 38 without further loss before bad light ended play early.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence will resume on 11 and seven respectively at 04:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 359, with Lahiru Thirimanne scoring 111 - his first century for almost eight years - and Angelo Matthews 73.\n\nJack Leach, playing his first Test since 2019, took 5-122 and Dom Bess 3-100 to finish with match figures of 8-130 and set up what should still be a comfortable England victory despite a wearing pitch.\n\nEngland won their most recent series in Sri Lanka 3-0, but their record in Asia - and playing spin - is poor and it reared its head again in a remarkable start to their fourth-innings chase.\n\nSibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, was bowled for two not offering a shot, while Crawley, who was dropped on one, added only eight before a drive was superbly caught at gully by Kusal Mendis.\n\nEngland contributed to their own problems as captain Root, who scored a magnificent 228 in the first innings, was run out by a direct hit by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, colliding with bowler Dilruwan Perera after Bairstow called for a risky single.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence restored calm in a 24-run stand to steer England to stumps, and they remain firm favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka had run Bairstow out just after Root it would have been very interesting,\" former England captain Michael Vaughan said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\nSri Lanka, whose first-innings effort of 135 in just 46.1 overs was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", showed significantly more character and application in the second.\n\nOpener Thirimanne, 76 not out as the hosts resumed on 156-2, moved to his second Test century - 54 innings after his first, the third longest gap in Test history - with a cut for four off Bess.\n\nThe left-hander averaged 22 in 36 Tests before this match and his place was in serious doubt, only for captain Dimuth Karunaratne to be ruled out before the game with a thumb injury.\n\nAfter Thirimanne got a faint inside edge to the excellent Jos Buttler off Sam Curran, former captain Mathews played a dogged 219-ball innings containing only two fours to ensure Sri Lanka at least wiped out a 286-run first-innings deficit.\n\nWhen he edged Leach to Root at slip to be last man out, Sri Lanka were left wondering what might have been had they shown the same discipline first time round.\n\nBess, who took 5-30 in the first innings despite struggling with his length, improved throughout the second innings and took a wicket in the first over of his three spells on Sunday.\n\nHe had nightwatchman Embuldeniya caught by Sibley at short cover off the 12th ball of the day, before returning to have stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal held at slip by Root, and Dickwella caught behind as he attempted to guide the ball to third man.\n\nLeach, who has missed England's past 11 Tests - in part due to illness - yorked Dasun Shanaka and had the dangerous Wanindu Hasaranga superbly taken by Root at slip, before Perera became Buttler's first stumping in Test cricket.\n\nThe wicket of Mathews rounded off Leach's five-wicket haul, the first time two England spinners had achieved the feat in the same match since Derek Underwood and John Emburey in Sri Lanka in 1982.\n\n'It will only mean something if we win' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach on BBC Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't say I bowled well. It has been hard graft out there and I have certainly found I am probably a little rusty.\n\n\"At times I felt I could have done a better job, but the pleasing thing is I felt I bowled better as the game went on.\n\n\"We will come back tomorrow, knock these off and then I can be happy about my five wickets. It will only mean something if we win.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It has been an exciting day's play. Sri Lanka hung in there.\n\n\"Credit to Sri Lanka - we pelted them but on days three and four have shown they are a team that can compete in home conditions.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russel Arnold: \"The start of England's innings was hectic. We saw panic from England, but Bairstow and Lawrence now look like they have it under control.\"\n• None Find all the resources you need to help with education at home\n• None The hilarious hit history podcast is back for a new series", "There are warnings more children could be plunged into poverty\n\nA decision on whether the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit will be kept in place is unlikely before March's Budget, a top minister has indicated.\n\nCampaigners say the uplift, worth more than £1,000 a year, has been a lifeline for the vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nLabour will use a Commons debate on Monday to add pressure on ministers to agree now to extend it beyond 31 March.\n\nBut Dominic Raab told the BBC it was a \"temporary measure\" and the Budget would spell out support \"in the round\".\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Marr, the foreign secretary confirmed that Conservative MPs would be told to abstain in Monday's debate, meaning Labour's \"opposition day\" motion will be approved.\n\nWhile the motion will not be binding on ministers and won't change policy, the BBC's Ben Wright said not opposing it represented an attempt by the government to \"neutralise\" the issue for the time being.\n\nIt showed, he added, how concerned ministers were about the prospect of a rebellion by Tory MPs - many of whom want an end to the uncertainty over the issue - if they had been asked to vote against it.\n\nThe standard Universal Credit allowance, which is claimed by more than 5.5 million households, was increased by £20 a week in April 2020 as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's early Covid economic response.\n\nWhile it was designed as a temporary response to help those unable to work or struggling due to the lockdown, opposition parties and charities say failing to extend will cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected, with millions of households facing an income loss equivalent to £1,040 a year.\n\nThe organisation has warned 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nIts director Helen Barnard said a decision could not be delayed any longer.\n\n\"The chancellor has said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better and our evidence shows it is those with the least who are often suffering the most,\" she said.\n\n\"No one can seriously argue that cutting support for those on the lowest incomes in April will do anything other than weaken our already fragile economy.\"\n\nAsked whether the government should act now, Mr Raab said Monday's debate was a \"political\" move by the opposition and not about the government's overall financial support during the pandemic.\n\nHe promised to \"look at everything in the round\" to make sure support for the most vulnerable was available.\n\n\"Obviously in March there will be a Budget where again that holistic approach can be taken by the chancellor, but we've put that support in place to make sure that the most vulnerable communities can be protected at this very difficult time,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nThe government says it has injected an extra £7bn into the welfare system during the pandemic, including boosting Working Tax Credits by more than £1,000 a year for a 12-month period.\n\nLabour has urged the government to \"see sense\" on Universal Credit, saying that it would be both morally and economically wrong to \"take £1,000 a year from Britain's families\" at the peak of the unemployment crisis.", "The leaders of most of the world's biggest economies will get a brief taste of the English seaside this June as they gather for the G7 summit.\n\nCornwall's Carbis Bay, known for its sandy beach and clear waters, will be the venue for discussions on debt, climate change and post-Covid recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it the \"perfect location for such a crucial summit\".\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7.\n\nLeaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the event, from 11 to 13 June, as guests.\n\nVisit Cornwall estimates the county will make £50m, with the summit providing a boost to tourism and the area's international profile.\n\nBut the likes of US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are unlikely to enjoy an ice cream and a barefoot stroll through Carbis Bay's surf.\n\nG7 summits require security cordons, with anti-globalisation protests having affected several previous get-togethers.\n\nMeasures in place for the meeting in Biarritz, France, in 2019, saw the seaside resort likened to a temporary \"fortress\".\n\nThe Cornish meeting will be the first face-to-face G7 since the pandemic started. Last year's event - scheduled to take place at Camp David, Maryland - took place online instead.\n\nThe previous two UK-hosted meetings were at Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh, in 2013, and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, in 2005.\n\nBoris Johnson invoked the leading role of Cornwall's mining communities in the industrial revolution\n\nThis year, delegates will be put up - with Covid restrictions in place - at the Tregenna Castle Resort, overlooking nearby St Ives, and other locations.\n\nThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth will host international media.\n\nThe UK is hosting the summit as president of the G7 for the year.\n\n\"As the most prominent grouping of democratic countries, the G7 has long been the catalyst for decisive international action to tackle the greatest challenges we face,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that leaders should approach the economic challenges of Covid \"by uniting with a spirit of openness to create a better future\".\n\n\"Two-hundred years ago Cornwall's tin and copper mines were at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution and this summer Cornwall will again be the nucleus of great global change and advancement,\" the prime minister said.\n\nVisit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell said the summit would \"not only showcase the beauty of Cornwall but give us the opportunity to communicate our heritage, culture and the connections\".\n\nLocal leaders said it would provide a \"fantastic opportunity\" to showcase the county on the world stage.\n\nThe government said it would announce more of its plans \"in due course\".\n\nThe G7 meeting comes five months ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.", "A statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour last June, after being pulled down and rolled through the streets\n\nThe government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed \"on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said generations-old monuments should be \"considered thoughtfully\".\n\nThe legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto.\n\nIt will be revealed in Parliament on Monday.\n\nThe plans follow the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston last year and a wider discussion on the removal of controversial monuments.\n\nFour people were later charged with criminal damage over the removal of the Colston statue, and six people accepted conditional cautions over their involvement.\n\nIn the paper, the communities secretary said Britain should not try to edit or censor its past.\n\nMr Jenrick said any decision to remove heritage assets in England would require planning permission and a consultation with local communities, adding that he wanted to see a \"considered approach\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Our view will be set out in law, that such monuments are almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away.\"\n\nMr Jenrick added that he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation's history, saying this was \"at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a 'cultural committee' of town hall militants and woke worthies\".\n\nHe said: \"We live in a country that believes in the rule of law, but when it comes to protecting our heritage, due process has been overridden. That can't be right.\n\n\"Local people should have the chance to be consulted whether a monument should stand or not.\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Metropolitan Police say they are seeking to identify those responsible for the damage\n\nThe death of George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis sparked anti-racism protests across the world.\n\nDuring largely peaceful demonstrations in the UK, the controversial Colston statue was dumped into Bristol Harbour and a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill was vandalised with the words \"was a racist\".\n\nSpeaking in June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country - and the whole of Europe - from a fascist and racist tyranny.\n\n\"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should ... be at risk of attack by violent protesters.\n\n\"Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial.\"\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers, the Bristol charity which runs institutions named after Edward Colston, said it was right that the statue was removed, along with other memorials to \"a man who benefited from trading in human lives\".\n\nThey said it was part of acknowledging Bristol's \"dark past\" and building \"a city where racism and inequality no longer exist\".\n\nFollowing the toppling of the statue, Colston's Girls School changed its name to Montpelier High School and the city's Colston Hall music venue is now known as the Bristol Beacon.\n\nA statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed on the empty plinth without permission in July and was removed shortly afterwards.", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Few people get as unique a take on the movement, mood and feelings of the public than the business owners that sit in its lay-bys.\n\nSince the start of lockdown they have juggled highs and lows.\n\nFrom supporting lorry drivers unable to stop at closed service stations to seeing their customers told to stay at home - and in turn not spend money with them.\n\nSome are now questioning their future and role in a workforce predicted to change its patterns and work from home more in the future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"Travelling nearly 300 miles for a piece of cosmetic plastic for your car is not essential at this time,\" said North Wales Police's Intercept team.\n\n\"The regulations have been broadcast far and wide. Please be mindful you will be reported if your journey is not essential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February. Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use. NHS England said the new centres would offer \"thousands\" of jabs a week. It comes as another 324,233 vaccine doses have been administered across the UK, taking the total above 3.5 million. Check when you will be eligible for a jab.\n\nA financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs. Aviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday. The aim is to provide grants before the end of this financial year, he said. Industry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules. Under the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nMore than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services today, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19. Many of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers. It has also been revealed that most mosques in London remained closed on Friday, meaning Muslims had to make alternative arrangements for Friday prayers. Despite current coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely. Places of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February. Remind yourself of the rules where you live for places of worship.\n\nChildren in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged. The latest lockdown has seen schools in England close to all but children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has expressed his pride at the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for stepping up and having their Covid-19 vaccinations. In a video call with frontline workers, Prince William spoke about his grandparents after being told medics have witnessed \"vaccine hesitancy\" among some communities during the jab rollout. He praised NHS staff behind the rollout of the vaccine, and described the programme as \"tremendous\", saying it didn't \"just happen\". Staff joked they had been \"thinking and dreaming\" of vaccines all day and night with some describing working seven-day weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video call, the Duke of Cambridge said the vaccination programme was \"tremendous\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd it's been almost a month since people in some parts of the UK were allowed to meet in Christmas \"bubbles\", so what impact did this have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of NHS England reveals Covid-19 jabs are being done much faster than people are newly catching the virus\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated four times faster than new cases of the virus are being detected, NHS England's chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC that 140 people a minute were now being given the jab, usually the first dose of two.\n\nBut he said the NHS had never been in a more precarious position, with 75% more Covid patients than at the April peak.\n\nIt comes as a further 298,087 people received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.\n\nThere were also 671 more deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and another 38,598 positive tests.\n\nSir Simon told the Andrew Marr Show some hospitals would open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a trial basis in the next 10 days.\n\nHe said England was on course to deliver 1.5 million doses this week. Scotland has delivered a total of more than 224,000 first doses, Wales has given over 126,000 and Northern Ireland nearly 118,000 - although Scotland and Wales do not report figures at the weekend.\n\nHalf of all over-80s have now been vaccinated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. \"Each jab brings us one step closer to normal,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC that the UK was making \"good progress\" in ensuring every adult was offered a vaccine by September and \"if it can be done more swiftly, that's a bonus\".\n\nMore people have now been vaccinated than have had positive tests since the pandemic began, with 10 more mass vaccination sites due to open in England on Monday.\n\nSir Simon said hospitals and staff were under \"extreme pressure\", however. Asked if the NHS has ever been in a more precarious situation, he said \"no\", adding that the pandemic was a \"unique event\" in its 72-year history.\n\nSomeone was being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, Sir Simon said, and since Christmas patient numbers had risen by 15,000 - the equivalent of 30 full hospitals.\n\nIt means there are 75% more Covid-19 patients in hospital than there were in the April peak, the NHS chief executive said.\n\nAlthough there were promising signs infection rates were falling, he said they were still too high and rising in some areas and age groups, including the over-60s.\n\nHe said the number of critical care beds had been increased by 50% since the first wave of the pandemic but a \"very small number\" of patients were still having to be transferred between regions when hospitals were full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary said there would be increased UK border checks next week\n\nAsked about the ratio of nurses to patients in London intensive care units, Sir Simon said there were sometimes three patients for every nurse rather than the one-to-one ratio normally expected. But patients were receiving the \"highest quality care possible\".\n\nAbout 53,000 NHS staff are currently off work due to the virus, he added.\n\nSir Simon said the health service would only be able to maintain the vaccination rate and \"hold the line if people continue to do the right thing and prevent the transmission of coronavirus\".\n\nVaccinating priority groups by the spring would not mean that \"with one bound we are free\" of coronavirus restrictions, he said. But he added: \"I don't think we will have to wait until the autumn.\"\n\nHe said he suspected that there would be enough supply of the vaccine - \"the crucial thing\" - to begin lifting restrictions before then.\n\nSir Simon also warned that although starting with the most vulnerable groups reduced the risk of deaths, a quarter of hospital patients with the virus were currently under 55 - and therefore not a priority unless they have a medical condition that puts them at additional risk.\n\nAsked about suggestions that some vaccination centres were having to throw away leftover doses, he said: \"The guidance from the chief medical officer is crystal clear: every last drop of vaccine should be used.\"\n\nMany centres were finding they were able to get six doses out of a five-dose vial, and Sir Simon said they should keep a reserve list of staff and high-risk patients who could be contacted to receive a vaccination at short notice.\n\nDr Rosie Shire from the Doctors' Association UK told the BBC that as well as sometimes getting six doses out of the five-dose Pfizer vials, they had also got 11 or 12 doses out of 10-dose AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut she said the uncertain dose count made it harder to know how many last-minute appointments to book in order to use up the supply.\n\nMr Raab said that he was not aware of any delays to supplies from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca and said he was \"confident we have the flexibility\" to deliver enough doses.\n\n\"It is an enormous challenge. We are meeting it,\" he said. \"But we take nothing for granted.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the risk that new variants could prove resistant to vaccines or more deadly meant the UK had to take the \"precautionary approach\" of requiring all travellers to quarantine on arrival from Monday, closing the travel corridors which previously been exempt.\n\n\"We don't want to find in two or three weeks time that our vaccine roll out is imperilled because we haven't taken the precautionary measures on travel corridors,\" he said.\n\nChecks by Border Force on the passenger locator forms filled out on arrival would be increased, Mr Raab said, as would the follow-up calls by Public Health England intended to ensure people were isolating for up to 10 days.\n\nAsked whether the UK would introduce quarantine hotels to ensure people maintained their isolation, he said all potential measures were under review but there was a challenge in the \"workability\" of the proposal.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in the city.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating.\n\nThe Catholic Church said the cause of his death was not yet clear.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nA statement from the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Archbishop.\n\n\"The Pope's Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, has been informed.\n\n\"It will be for Pope Francis to appoint a new Archbishop to succeed Archbishop Tartaglia, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"His loss to his family, his clergy and the people of the Archdiocese of Glasgow will be immeasurable but for the entire Church in Scotland this is a day of immense loss and sadness.\n\n\"He was a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect.\n\n\"His contribution to the work of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland over the past 16 years was significant and we will miss his wisdom, wit and robust Catholic spirit very much.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe statement concluded: \"On behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, we commend his soul into the hands of God and pray that he may enjoy eternal rest.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was a lifelong Celtic fan and the club tweeted their tribute to him: \"We are saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who was a huge supporter of the club and regularly attended matches at Celtic Park.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic offers their sincere condolences to Philip's family and Scotland's Catholic community at this sad time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the archbishop was \"a fine man who was much loved within the Catholic community and beyond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"I always valued my interactions with him and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts are with his loved ones and wider community. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Tragic news about the sudden passing of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia. My condolences to his friends and family.\n\n\"His death will be keenly felt within the Catholic Church and across the wider community.\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\" who \"knew its people and the challenges faced by ordinary citizens, regardless of their faith or beliefs\".\n\nCouncillor Susan Aitken added: \"He was also unafraid to use his position to challenge deprivation, austerity and the ill-effects of welfare reform when he believed it was his duty to call them out.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was born in Glasgow on 11 January 1951 - the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia.\n\nAfter attending St Thomas' Primary in Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St Mungo's Academy before moving to the national junior seminary at St Vincent's College, Langbank.\n\nHe later attended St Mary's College, at Blairs, Aberdeen, before completing his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\n\nOn returning to Scotland, he was an assistant and then parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, St Patrick's, Dumbarton, and St Mary's, Duntocher.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was ordained by then Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, on 30 June 1975.\n\nHe was a leading opponent of proposals to legalise same-sex marriage in Scotland and also criticised ministers over anti-bigotry legislation.\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow is the largest of Scotland's eight dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of about 200,000. It comprises 95 parishes and is served by about 200 priests.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was the eighth person to hold the office since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.\n\nHe followed Archbishop Mario Conti and Archbishop Thomas Winning, who later became Cardinal Winning.", "The player told police he had travelled from his home in Bedworth to hunt the characters\n\nA man has been fined for breaking lockdown rules after travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go.\n\nHe admitted to Warwickshire Police he had driven from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth.\n\nHe was fined £200 for \"contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse\".\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play in ensuring they slow the spread of the virus,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.\"\n\nPokemon Go is a Japanese augmented reality game for smartphones. First launched in 2016, it allows players to hunt for characters that \"appear\" in real-life places.\n\nIt has been downloaded around the world more than one billion times.", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court\n\nThe Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned.\n\nHashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last year.\n\nAnother man who is awaiting sentencing for terror offences is also charged with assaulting the same person.\n\nThe three men are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 7 April.\n\nAbedi, who was jailed in August for murdering the 22 victims of the May 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is also charged with assaulting a second prison officer during the same incident on 11 May.\n\nHassan, from London, whose Parsons Green tube bomb injured 51 people in September 2017, was jailed for attempted murder the following year.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 22, from Manchester, is the third person charged. Last year, he admitted possessing terrorist documents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 400,000 people could be given the Covid-19 vaccine every week by the end of February, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has told MSPs.\n\nHealth teams are ramping up the rollout of jabs, with 1,100 vaccination centres now open and using two vaccines.\n\nMinisters aim to vaccinate care home residents, NHS staff and over-80s by the first week of February.\n\nThey then hope to have completed the over-70 group by mid-February and over-65 and vulnerable groups by March.\n\nThis would see 1.4m people given the jab, and Ms Freeman said the government's \"priority is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, the BMA Scottish GP Committee has warned the vaccine supply is \"stuttering\" and blamed \"bureaucratic hold-ups\" for delaying distribution.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, the health secretary said Scotland faces \"a more perilous situation than at any point in this pandemic\", with the new variant of coronavirus \"increasing in its dominance\" of infections north of the border.\n\nHowever Ms Freeman said there was hope in the form of the vaccination programme, which she said was \"scaling up rapidly\".\n\nA first dose of vaccine has now been given to just over 80% of care home residents and 55% of staff, along with 52% of frontline NHS staff.\n\nAnd in the eight days since 4 January, just over 2% of those aged 80 or over in the community have been given a first dose.\n\nMs Freeman said that age was \"the greatest risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid, and represents well over 90% of preventable mortality\".\n\nThe government is prioritising giving a first dose to as many people as possible, which Ms Freeman said provides \"very high protection\", with a second dose of the same vaccine then administered within 12 weeks.\n\nMs Freeman said that by the end of February, an average of 400,000 people should be getting a jab per week.\n\nJeane Freeman said the vaccine programme was \"scaling up rapidly\"\n\nThe government is also working to set up large vaccination centres in the community, which could handle up to 20,000 vaccinations a week in a single location.\n\nSites include the Event Complex conference centre in Aberdeen, Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and Ms Freeman said work was ongoing to secure more centres in the Glasgow area in particular.\n\nA total of 4.5m adults in Scotland are in line to be vaccinated.\n\nMs Freeman said she was aware that people would \"want to know when it will be their turn\", saying a national advertising campaign would be established to \"inform the public\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"clear not enough people are being vaccinated each day and timetables are slipping\".\n\nHe also asked Ms Freeman whether there were delays to the creation of a national booking system, after speculation that it could hold up the start of mass vaccinations.\n\nThe health secretary said she did not believe it was the case that timetables were slipping, and said there were no delays to the national booking system - adding that it would be \"ready from the beginning of February to do its job\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Labour's Monica Lennon asked how quickly the country could move to a 24 hours a day rollout of vaccines.\n\nMs Freeman said this was \"entirely possible\" once the mass vaccination centres are open, saying she \"would anticipate that would be by the end of February or early March\".\n\nShe said: \"The will is there to do that, if that is what it takes, because the objective is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.\"\n\nThe BMA Scottish GP Committee has said practices \"don't know when their next supply is coming in\".\n\nIts chairman, Dr Andrew Buist, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme the Scottish government \"must do everything possible to ensure vaccine supply is as good as it can be\".\n\nHe said: \"I've spoken with the chief medical officer about this and emphasised we should remove any bureaucratic hold-up to the distribution of this vaccine.\n\n\"People are obviously very anxious to get it as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know what the priority groups are, we have the practices ready and running to give it to their patients. We just need to get the vaccine to them.\"\n• None All over-80s to be vaccinated by February", "More than six million glasses of pink prosecco were enjoyed by Lidl customers over the festive period as strict Covid rules prompted people to indulge.\n\nThe discount supermarket reported record total sales for the four weeks to 27 December with revenue up 18%.\n\nTakeaway firm Just Eat and online fashion retailer Asos have also reported stellar sales for the period.\n\nAll three benefited as restaurants and non-essential shops faced strict curbs or were forced to close.\n\nDemand was so strong, Lidl said it had shifted 7,000 glasses of mulled wine and almost 17,000 deluxe mince pies every hour in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt also sold more than 2.7 million servings of panettone, the festive Italian cake.\n\nLidl continued to press ahead with its store expansion programme in the period, opening four new stores in December at a time when many businesses are closing down.\n\nBoss Christian Härtnagel said: \"Despite this Christmas being a difficult time for many across the country, we are pleased to have been able to help our customers enjoy themselves.\n\n\"As we look ahead to this year, we remain committed to our expansion and investment plans,\" he added.\n\nJust Eat said delivery orders in the UK surged 58% in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe takeaway firm, which operates around the world, said this had been its third consecutive quarter of growth, reflecting the huge demand for takeaway food as restaurants have faced curbs and closures.\n\nBoss Jitse Groen said the firm's progress in the UK was \"particularly exciting\" with demand up nearly five-fold in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nIts UK sales force has also doubled compared with last year.\n\nIt was a similar story for Asos, whose sales for the four months to 31 December rose 36% to £554.1m, something it credited in part to restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nThe fashion retailer, which also operates across Europe and the US, said its active customer base was now 24.5 million, up 1.1 million on the same period last year.\n\nRichard Lim, head of analysts Retail Economics, said: \"Lockdowns, fewer opportunities to mix socially and cancelled Christmas parties have decimated the demand for new outfits this year.\n\n\"But what consumers did spend was focused towards casual-wear and channelled online where the retailer was well position to leverage this opportunity.\"", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people.\n\nMinisters say changes to how people are sectioned in England and Wales will see them treated \"as individuals, with rights, preferences, and expertise\".\n\nBlack people are over four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, relative to population.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind said the changes \"cannot come soon enough.\"\n\nPeople are detained under the mental health act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.\n\nHow long they are detained for varies - but once detained, they are immediately considered to be \"sectioned\".\n\nUse of the Mental Health Act has increased markedly - from 2005/6 to 2015/16, the number of people detained in hospital increased by 40%.\n\nNHS data for England shows there were at least 50,893 new detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 - but the overall total will be higher as not all providers submitted data.\n\nOf those detentions, 5,336 people were black or black British.\n\nThe data also shows that in 2019/20 there were 321 detentions per 100,000 population for people who were black or black British - while there were 73 detentions per 100,000 for white people.\n\nWith the act disproportionately used against black people, the reforms will see a Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework introduced across all NHS mental health trusts - which the government describes as a practical tool to improve the outcome for BAME communities.\n\nWhat ministers call \"culturally appropriate advocates\" will also be developed, so patients from all ethnic backgrounds can be supported.\n\n\"We need to bring mental health laws into the 21st Century,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"I want to ensure our health service works for all, yet the Mental Health Act is now 40 years old.\n\n\"This is a significant moment in how we support those with serious mental health issues, which will give people more autonomy over their care and will tackle disparities for all who access services - in particular for people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe reforms will also ensure that autism or a learning disability cannot be a reason for detaining someone under the act.\n\nIn future, a clinician will have to identify another psychiatric condition to order their detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to be sectioned?\n\nThe current Mental Health Act dates from 1983 and the aim of these reforms, which are widely supported, is to give people greater say over their care and to rebalance the system between the state and the individual.\n\nAmong the recommendations are plans to introduce statutory advance choice documents which will allow people to express their preferred treatment before they reach a crisis and need hospitalisation.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of what is now a long overdue process,\" said Sophie Corlett, director of external relations at the mental health charity Mind.\n\n\"At the moment, thousands of people are still subjected to poor, sometimes appalling, treatment, and many will live with the consequences far into the future.\n\n\"Our understanding of mental health has moved on significantly in recent decades but our laws are rooted in the 19th Century.\"\n\nThe recommendations, set out in a government White Paper, build on the proposals from an independent review of the act, which was ordered by then prime minister Theresa May in October 2017 and which published its conclusions in December 2018.\n\nMinisters intend to publish a Mental Health Bill in 2022, following a consultation on their plans.", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "The numbers of care home residents and staff testing positive for Covid-19 have hit their highest levels.\n\nThere were 1,507 positive tests in care homes in Wales in the most recent week, a 78% rise on the week before.\n\nAcross Wales, 37,026 residents and staff were tested by either the NHS or the Lighthouse laboratories the week beginning 4 January, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nBroken down, 6,466 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 582 (9%) were positive in results from NHS laboratories.\n\nAlso, 248 care home workers tested positive, with about 96% of tests negative.\n\nBut there were another 677 positive test results from Lighthouse labs, which do not distinguish between residents and care home staff.\n\nAll of these categories saw the highest numbers yet recorded.\n\nResidents and staff are supposed to be tested weekly at care homes in Wales.\n\nCare Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing , which showed 137 care homes in Wales (13%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the most recent week available and 31.8% within the last month.\n\nSwansea had 17 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 1 January; Cardiff had 15 homes with at least one case and Bridgend was next with 13 care homes.", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "Tony Parsons was last seen on 29 September 2017\n\nPolice have discovered human remains during a search for a man who went missing more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.\n\nTony Parsons, from Tillicoultry, was last seen on 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nDetectives said the discovery was made during a detailed search of a remote site close to a farm near the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.\n\nPolice said that Mr Parsons' family have been made aware of the discovery.\n\nEfforts to recover the remains will continue over the coming days before a post mortem is held to establish their identity.\n\nTwo men, both aged 29, were arrested and then released pending further inquiries in December in connection with the disappearance of Mr Parsons.\n\nPolice have been carrying out searches in the area in recent days\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Somerville said: \"This is clearly a significant development and extensive work is ongoing to recover the remains and confirm their identity.\n\n\"We have informed Mr Parsons' family, who are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in the investigation are with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Parsons cycled through Glencoe village and was last seen at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel\n\nThe former navy officer, who was 63 when he went missing, was last seen outside the hotel at about 23:30. He then continued south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum but there were no more sightings of him after that.\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nMr Parsons had caught the train to Fort William on the day he was last seen with the intention of cycling the 104-mile (167km) journey home to Tillicoultry.", "Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows, Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe prime minister said the plan was to extend opening hours of vaccination centres - at the moment, most sites run from 08:00 to 22:00.\n\nThe 24-7 service will be piloted in a small number of places first - with NHS staff likely to be offered the option of overnight vaccinations first.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said supply was the limiting factor at the moment.\n\nThe NHS had just over a million doses available last week and used up most of them.\n\nThis week, there are thought to be more but not yet enough to vaccinate two million people - the weekly target the government is aiming to reach in the coming weeks.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said there would be 24-7 vaccination \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK has access to two vaccines at the moment - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and another produced in partnership by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine made by the US company Moderna has been approved but is not yet available to the UK.\n\nMr Johnson praised the work of the more than 200 hospitals and 1,000 GP-led NHS vaccination sites running at the moment.\n\n\"They are going exceptionally fast,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of Monday, 2.4 million people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nThere is actually enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all the highest at-risk groups.\n\nThe problem is that not all of it has been packaged into vials or passed through the final safety checks.\n\nThere should soon be two million doses available each week for the NHS to use.\n\nBut the key question once that is achieved is how quickly and by how much supply can increase from there.\n\nTo make full use of the network of vaccination centres - the ambition is to have 2,700 up and running - many millions of doses will be needed each week.\n\nThere is huge global demand for these vaccines.\n\nAnd while the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is made in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one is made abroad as is the Moderna vaccine.\n\nSupplies of the latter are not expected until the spring.\n\nThis is an issue the government is likely to be grappling with for some time.\n\nBut despite the concerns, it should also be recognised the UK has been quick out of the blocks.\n\nOnly two countries have vaccinated a larger proportion of the population than the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was vital the government moved quickly.\n\nSpeaking about the planned 24-7 vaccination, he said: \"I obviously welcome that and urge the prime minister and the government to get on with this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of the vaccination programme, was also asked about supply, at an appearance before the Science and Technology Committee.\n\nHe said he had a \"clear line of sight\" for the expected numbers that would be available to the NHS for the next few months but refused to give any more detail.\n\n\"The more we show off about how many vaccine batches we're receiving, the more difficult life becomes for the manufacturers,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca vice president Sir Mene Pangalos said one of the issues the firm was facing was that infections among staff had begun to hinder production.\n\n\"I feel that it is critical that those who are working on vaccines are immunised because if you have an outbreak at one of the centres, which we've had actually or in one of the groups in Oxford that's working on new variants, or those working on the regulatory files everything stops.\"", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'Together we can make this the peak'\n\n\"We can make this the peak\" of the coronavirus pandemic \"if enough people follow the rules\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was \"those individual decisions\" that determine the virus's spread and it \"comes down to the behaviour of everyone\".\n\nPeople \"shouldn't take the mickey out of the rules,\" he said.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLatest figures show there are now more than 35,000 people in hospital with Covid - an increase on the spring peak.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to be questioned by MPs on the vaccine rollout later.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also due to announce whether there will be any changes to lockdown restrictions later. Ministers have been discussing the possibility of tightening the current restrictions.\n\nWhen asked on BBC Breakfast if this was the peak of this wave of the pandemic, Mr Hancock replied: \"I want it to be, but that comes down to the behaviour of everyone.\n\n\"Together we can make this the peak if enough people follow the rules which are incredibly clear.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.\n\nOn the news that patients at a hospital in London are to be discharged early and sent to a hotel to help free up beds for critically ill coronavirus patients, Mr Hancock said moving patients to hotels \"isn't something we are actively putting in place\".\n\nKing's College Hospital said it would help to create space for the \"high numbers\" of new admissions and would \"temporarily accommodate mainly homeless patients who are ready to safely leave hospital and will benefit from further support from community partners\".\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nAsked about images of elite footballers celebrating goals with hugs, Mr Hancock said: \"I think elite sport is important because these are tough times, and being able to watch the football on the telly is really important because there's loads of things that you can't do.\"\n\nHe said the Premier League has \"special arrangements to ensure that players are safe\" as well as a testing regime.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks, saying they were \"on track\" to deliver it to 14 million people by mid-February.\n\nVaccines deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi later told the Commons' science and technology committee that he was \"confident\" of achieving this target.\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose. Mr Hancock said 40% of the 3.4m people over 80 in England had been vaccinated so far.\n\n\"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said it was \"pretty clear\" that because of the new strain the Covid-19 infection rate was not going to go down as quickly as it did during the first wave.\n\n\"It now looks like the peak for NHS demand may actually be in February,\" he said.", "Morrisons will become the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour from April.\n\nIt will increase its minimum pay for up to 96,000 workers from £9.20.\n\nRetail trade union Usdaw negotiated the £10 per hour basic rate which is 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.\n\nHowever, other big supermarkets appear unlikely to follow any time soon, with Asda saying that just looking at hourly rates does not tell the full story.\n\nMorrisons said for the majority of its workers the pay increase will be approximately 9%.\n\nPart of the increase will result from changing the company's annual bonus scheme from a discretionary yearly payment into a guaranteed amount in workers' hourly rates.\n\nIt will boost the weekly pay of someone working 36.75 hours a week from £330.10 to £367.50.\n\nUnion members still need to approve the deal. The result will be announced on 12 February and, if accepted, the new rates will be paid from 5 April 2021.\n\n\"The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets,\" said Joanne McGuinness, Usdaw national officer after the Morrisons announcement.\n\n\"It's been a tough time for food retail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic in difficult circumstances,\" said Ms McGuinness.\n\n\"They provide the essential service of keeping the nation fed and deserve our support, respect and appreciation. Most of all they deserve decent pay and this offer is a welcome boost.\"\n\nIn addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a higher London weighting.\n\nRates for inner London will be 85p and for outer London 60p per hour, up from 75p in inner London and 50p in outer London.\n\nDavid Potts, Morrisons chief executive said: \"It's a symbolic and important milestone that represents another step in rewarding the incredibly important work that our colleagues do up and down the country.\"\n\nMorrisons' move propels it to the top of the supermarket pay league, leapfrogging Aldi and Lidl. Will other big rivals follow suit?\n\nSupermarket staff have become frontline heroes in this pandemic and there's a new-found respect for the vital work they do in keeping us fed day-in day-out.\n\nMany consumers may welcome the idea of higher rewards for those staff.\n\nBut supermarkets have already taken on a lot of extra costs in ramping up their operations as well as recruiting thousands of extra staff.\n\nAnd there are no shortage of workers looking for jobs right now, which could keep a lid on pay.\n\nLidl has already announced plans to increase its hourly wage for staff from March, increasing the rate for 20,000 workers from £9.30 to £9.50.\n\nWithin London's M25 motorway boundary the rate has increased from £10.75 to £10.85 an hour.\n\n\"It is only right that we increase the income for our colleagues who are the backbone of our business.,\" said chief executive Christian Härtnagel.\n\n\"This is about recognising their hard work and dedication in keeping the nation fed during a year like no other.\n\nAsda, which pays £9.18 outside London and either £9.76 or £10.31 inside the capital, pointed out that it pays above National Living Wage rules and never employs on 'zero hours' contracts.\n\nAn Asda statement said: \"On top of a competitive wage structure, Asda colleagues also receive a host of benefits which contribute to their yearly earnings, these including colleague discount in our stores and online, special discounts for shops and a yearly performance-based bonus.\n\n\"So simply looking at the hourly rate doesn't tell the full story.\"\n\nSainsbury's basic hourly pay is £9.30, and a statement to the BBC made no mention of any immediate intention to raise the rate.\n\nA spokesperson said, \"Our colleagues do a brilliant job and we are so proud of how they continue to go above and beyond for our customers.\n\n\"We have made two thank you payments to frontline workers in recognition of this in the last year and regularly review colleague pay to make sure we offer leading rates.\"\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"Our hourly minimum starting pay across the UK for non-management Partners in Waitrose is currently £9.10 following a short induction period, with scope for higher pay according to performance.\n\n\"We review Partner pay annually each April and will do so again this year.\"\n\nM&S said their minimum pay for workers is £9.00 an hour, but pointed out that those that worked during the pandemic last April and May were handed a 15% pay reward on top of the rate.\n\nLatest available data suggests Aldi currently pays £9.40 an hour, Tesco £9.30 and Co-op £9.", "As Scotland's hospitals fill with Covid patients and the daily-registered death toll passes 5,000, there are concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact it did during last year's lockdown.\n\nSome of the restrictions announced by Nicola Sturgeon in early January have now been tightened even further.\n\nHow do Scotland's current lockdown rules compare to those imposed last March?\n\nLast March outdoor exercise was allowed only if people were alone or with someone from the same household. It was initially limited to once a day, before this restriction was eased in May 2020.\n\nAll exercise had to be done close to home. No mixing with other households or other any outdoor relaxation was allowed.\n\nNow up to two people from separate households can meet for outdoor sport or exercise. Children under 12 years old do not count towards this number.\n\nThere is no limit on how many times you can go out to exercise each day, but you should still stay close to home and avoid crowded areas.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's clinical director, says police enforcement is used as \"last resort\" against people who break the rules.\n\nThese rules are not expected to change in Scotland. However, the UK government has warned that exercise restrictions may be tightened after \"large groups\" have flouted their own two-person rule.\n\nLast March non-essential shops were ordered to shut along with cafes, bars, restaurants and cinemas. Supermarkets and pharmacies were among premises which could stay open.\n\nIn July a new law made it compulsory to wear a face covering in shops across Scotland.\n\nAll pubs, restaurants and cafes must remain closed in Scotland's level four areas - although they can still serve takeaway food. The definition of \"essential retail\" has also been narrowed, forcing homeware shops and garden centres to close once again.\n\nRules on click and collect will be tightened from 16 January. The service will be limited to retailers selling essential items and access inside premises for collection will not be allowed.\n\nTakeaway customers will also no longer be allowed inside premises for pick-up from 16 January. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nSchools and nurseries were closed last March, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying there were too many absent staff to continue.\n\nMany teachers prepared homeworking packs and some online learning. Parents and pupils had to get used to home schooling.\n\nChildren of essential workers and vulnerable pupils were looked after by staff in childcare hubs.\n\nSchools began the January 2021 term largely via online and remote learning.\n\nAs before, only children of key workers and vulnerable children are allowed in classrooms - but this time there is more focus on learning than simply child care.\n\nThe number of pupils attending school is much higher than last year.\n\nProf Leitch suggests this may be because Scotland has \"too much open\" in the rest of society with working adults in greater need of childcare. He said a \"sweet spot\" needs to be found to keep children and adults safe.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes pupils can return to the classroom in February, but this plan is to be kept under review.\n\nSee where coronavirus case rates have been rising in Scotland with this interactive map.\n\nPeople were told to stay at home except for essential shopping for food or medicine, going out for their daily exercise, or to care for the vulnerable.\n\nEmployers were asked to make provisions for staff to work from home. Wearing of face coverings on public transport was not initially required, but became mandatory in Scotland in June.\n\nIt is a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes. A \"reasonable excuse\" can include essential shopping, exercise or caring responsibilities.\n\nPeople should only go out to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home. It is illegal to travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK unless the journey is essential.\n\nThere are no expectations of enhanced travel restrictions, as the rules are already \"pretty tight\" says Prof Leitch.\n\n\"We have a stay at home law, it is illegal to fly overseas, it is illegal to travel, it is illegal to leave your home without a reason to do so,\" he added.\n\nThe latest contact tracing figures from Public Health Scotland show that since November, shops have accounted for 19% of the places visited by people the week before their positive test.\n\nWhile these figures don't tell us whether people contracted the virus in a specific location, they do suggest the most likely sources.\n\nThe number of cases traced to shopping-related locations increased by 83% between 27 December and 3 January.\n\nOther large increases were seen when:\n\nIn March \"essential\" was the key word for all employers. Businesses were told they could only stay open if what they do was \"essential\" to the effort of tackling Covid or the wellbeing of society.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said building sites should close unless they involved work on an \"essential building\" such as a hospital. Visits from tradespeople were allowed only for \"essential repairs\".\n\nOutdoor workplaces, construction, manufacturing, veterinary services and film and TV production can remain open. Employers have been told to plan for the minimum number of people needed on site to operate safely and effectively.\n\nHome visits by tradespeople are still allowed for essential maintenance. This guidance is being put into law from 16 January.\n\nProf Leitch says the Scottish government continues to examine rules around what constitutes essential and non-essential construction.", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "Sally told the BBC she is still waiting for her P45 despite handing in her notice in November\n\nHairdresser Sally had a surprise when she looked at her tax record with HM Revenue and Customs: \"It said I'd still been getting furlough pay from a job I left in November.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money: \"That was a revelation - none of it had landed in my bank account.\"\n\nHers is among more than 21,000 reports of suspected furlough fraud currently being handled by HMRC.\n\nThe money is either due to fraudulent claims, or is being paid out in error.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, commonly called the furlough scheme was launched in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus crisis, to minimise unemployment. Under the scheme, the government pays 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe number of tip offs to the taxman has spiralled since last April, from 3,000 to 21,378 reports of suspect payments by early January.\n\nSally's former employer told the BBC she did not know Sally had resigned\n\nAt the peak of its use in early May, the scheme was supporting 8.9 million jobs.\n\nIt was extended in January until the end of April 2021 and now also applies to those who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities, or because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe scheme has been widely supported for its role in supporting employers and jobs during the pandemic, but it has been found to be open to abuse.\n\nTax lawyer Anita Clifford said at the 'extreme end' of furlough fraud were 'dormant companies being resurrected' and 'fake employees'\n\nSally believes her former employer broke the rules after she resigned from the salon last year.\n\nShe told the BBC she sent her resignation letter and returned her uniform to her employer in the post in November, but \"heard nothing back\". A client later contacted her asking if she was OK, as they had heard she was off work, \"sick\".\n\nSally started to get her paperwork together to register as self-employed but when she opened her online HMRC account, she noticed she was registered as receiving payments equivalent to those she was getting while on furlough - although the money was not reaching her account.\n\nShe left it a couple of weeks in case her resignation was taking a few weeks to be processed.\n\nTo date, Sally has still has not received a P45, and says she is still registered as being paid through the furlough scheme.\n\nHMRC has called on anyone concerned about suspected abuse of the team to get in touch with the department\n\n\"In the middle of the pandemic, where people are losing homes because they can't get any help, I think it's quite sickening,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wrong, and it makes a mockery of all those people who are suffering.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Sally's former employer, who has denied the claims, saying she did not know that Sally had resigned, and had struggled to get in touch with her.\n\nTax barrister, Anita Clifford, from the firm Bright Line Law, said Sally's experience was \"a classic example\".\n\n\"Whether it's a mistake, or whether some actors are doing it deliberately, continuing furlough payments for former employees is a classic way of defrauding the system.\"\n\nHMRC has previously stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud.\n\nMs Clifford told the BBC that she was seeing businesses coming forward, \"worried about the mistakes that they've made\".\n\nBut she added examples of furlough fraud could be more extreme, where some businesses \"are seeking to claim money for completely fake employees\".\n\n\"In time to come, we'll certainly see enforcement activity, and people very worried about being on the receiving end of a criminal prosecution for some of these things.\n\n\"Certainly where you have dormant companies being resurrected, in order to claim money from the furlough scheme, you have fake employees... businesses being quite unscrupulous, you're not using the funds to pay salaries, I think those are the businesses you'll eventually see being looked at very seriously for criminal prosecution,\" she said.\n\nHMRC told the BBC: \"The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is part of the collective national effort to protect jobs. This is taxpayers' money and fraudulent claims limit our ability to support people and deprive public services of essential funding.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities\n• None What happens when furlough ends?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in Glasgow.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said that Archbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating at home.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet clear.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia, who was 70, was ordained a priest in 1975 and served as Archbishop of Glasgow since 2012.\n\nThe spokeswoman said it would be for Pope Francis to appoint a new archbishop, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.", "Senior Conservatives have called for a \"reset\" in UK policy towards China, including sanctions against officials responsible for human rights abuses.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission demanded a rethink in relations after hearing evidence of abuses from torture to slavery.\n\nIt urged the UK to work with allies to respond to China's behaviour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the UK plays a \"leading role\" in highlighting abuses.\n\nThe Commission made the recommendations in a new report endorsed by two former Conservative foreign secretaries, Lord Hague and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.\n\nIt adds to growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China.\n\nThe Commission says it has heard first-hand evidence of human rights violations in China from dissidents, lawyers, and human rights campaigners.\n\nThis included violations of media freedom, clampdowns on Uighur Muslims, modern day slavery, and the establishment of an \"Orwellian surveillance state,\" it added.\n\nThe group said this showed the need for a \"comprehensive review\" of China policy across UK government departments.\n\nIt also called for the UK to diversify its supply chains to reduce \"strategic dependency\" on China and further efforts to highlight rights issues at the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab announced fines on Tuesday for UK firms doing business in China if they cannot show that their products aren't linked to forced labour in the country's Xinjiang region.\n\nIn December, the BBC revealed new evidence that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the cotton fields of Xinjiang.\n\nMPs and peers are separately pushing for new laws to block trade deals with countries found guilty of genocide, something which for now the government is resisting.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the idea was \"well-meaning\" but it would be wrong to \"sub-contract\" the issue of when to break off trade talks to the courts.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission, established in 2005, aims to highlight human rights concerns and keep the issue high on the party's agenda.", "David (right) and Frederick Barclay receiving their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.\n\nSir David, together with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail and media.\n\nHis death was announced in the Telegraph, which reported that he died on Sunday after a short illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, a former columnist for the paper, paid tribute to Sir David.\n\n\"Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe Barclay brothers, who had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, were known for being media shy and rarely gave interviews.\n\nBorn in Hammersmith, west London, in 1934, Sir David was profoundly shaped by his childhood memories of war, and the death of his father when he was 12.\n\nHe and his twin Frederick - who was 10 minutes younger - started out as painters and decorators, before moving into property and eventually hotels.\n\nTheir success in property and hotels helped them take over Ellerman Lines, a shipping business with interests in brewing, in 1983.\n\nThis provided a launch pad from which they would become billionaires.\n\nAt various times, their hotel portfolio has included a number of trophy assets, including the Ritz Hotel in London, which they sold in March last year.\n\nIn 2012, the BBC’s Panorama reported that the Ritz had not paid any corporation tax since it had been taken over by the Barclays in 1995.\n\nAt the time, Sir David said they had “acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme.”\n\nIn 2015, the twins sold off the hospitality group Maybourne, which included luxury hotels like Claridges.\n\nThe brothers first ventured into media ownership with their 1992 purchase of The European, a pan-European newspaper that shut down in 1998.\n\nThey also bought The Scotsman in 1995 and Sunday Business in 1997.\n\n“After these ventures in the publishing arena, the brothers had nurtured since the 1980s an ambition to own the Telegraph group,” The Telegraph said.\n\nThey acquired the Telegraph Group in 2004 for £665m from Canadian media magnate Conrad Black's Hollinger group.\n\nThe brothers also had a number of forays into retail, including Shop Direct, fashion retailer Very and delivery firm Yodel.\n\nThe pair were knighted in 2000 for services to charity. By this point their foundation was thought to have donated about £40m to charity and medical research.\n\nThe notoriously private twins' relationship was the subject of an extraordinary legal case last year, in which Sir David's three sons were accused by his brother of bugging conversations at the Ritz Hotel, which they previously owned.\n\nIn its obituary the Telegraph said Sir David had been a voracious reader, obsessed with newspapers, business, economics and politics, and had always said he had been educated at the \"university of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "A Huawei patent has been brought to light for a system that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nThe filing is one of several of its kind involving leading Chinese technology companies, discovered by a US research company and shared with BBC News.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nIt now plans to alter the patent.\n\nThe company indicated this would involve asking the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) - the country's patent authority - for permission to delete the reference to Uighurs in the Chinese-language document.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUighur people belong to a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives mainly in Xinjiang province, in north-western China.\n\nGovernment authorities are accused of using high-tech surveillance against them and detaining many in forced-labour camps, where children are sometimes separated from their parents.\n\nBeijing says the camps offer voluntary education and training.\n\nChina's technology companies deny selling software that can be used to pick out Uighur people from the rest of the population by their appearance\n\n\"One technical requirement of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's video-surveillance networks is the detection of ethnicity - particularly of Uighurs,\" said Maya Wang, from Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"While in the rest of the world, such targeting and persecution of a people on the basis of their ethnicity would be completely unacceptable, the persecution and severe discrimination of Uighurs in many aspects of life in China remain unchallenged because Uighurs have no power in China.\"\n\nHuawei's patent was originally filed in July 2018, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .\n\nIt describes ways to use deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques to identify various features of pedestrians photographed or filmed in the street.\n\nIt focuses on addressing the fact different body postures - for example whether someone is sitting or standing - can affect accuracy.\n\nBut the document also lists attributes by which a person might be targeted, which it says can include \"race (Han [China's biggest ethnic group], Uighur)\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News visited the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\", in 2019\n\nA spokesman said this reference should not have been included.\n\n\"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination,\" he said.\n\n\"Identifying individuals' race was never part of the research-and-development project.\n\n\"It should never have become part of the application.\n\n\"And we are taking proactive steps to amend it.\n\n\"We are continuously working to ensure new and evolving technology is developed and applied with the utmost care and integrity.\"\n\nThe patent was brought to light by the video-surveillance research group IPVM.\n\nIt had previously flagged a separate \"confidential\" document on Huawei's website, referencing work on a \"Uighur alert\" system.\n\nIn that case, Huawei said the page referenced a test rather than a real-world application and denied selling systems that identified people by their ethnicity.\n\nOn Wednesday, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee and leads the Conservative Party's China Research Group, told BBC News: \"Chinese tech giants supporting the brutal assault on the Uighur population show us why we as consumers and as a society must be careful with who we buy our products from or award business to.\n\n\"Developing ethnic-labelling technology for use by a repressive regime is clearly not behaviour that lives up to our standards.\"\n\nIPVM also discovered references to Uighur people in patents filed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company Sensetime and image-recognition specialist Megvii.\n\nSensetime's filing, from July 2019, discusses ways facial-recognition software could be used for more efficient \"security protection\", such as searching for \"a middle-aged Uighur with sunglasses and a beard\" or a Uighur person wearing a mask.\n\nA Sensetime spokeswoman said the references were \"regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand the importance of our responsibilities, which is why we began to develop our AI Code of Ethics in mid-2019,\" she said, adding the patent had predated this code.\n\nMegvii's June 2019 patent, meanwhile, described a way of relabelling pictures of faces tagged incorrectly in a database.\n\nLike Huawei, Megvii now plans to withdraw the original version of its patent\n\nIt said the classifications could be based on ethnicity, for example, including \"Han, Uighur, non-Han, non-Uighur and unknown\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it would now withdraw the patent application.\n\n\"Megvii recognises that the language used in our 2019 patent application is open to misunderstanding,\" it said.\n\n\"Megvii has not developed and will not develop or sell racial- or ethnic-labelling solutions.\n\n\"Megvii acknowledges that, in the past, we have focused on our commercial development and lacked appropriate control of our marketing, sales, and operations materials.\n\n\"We are undertaking measures to correct the situation.\"\n\nIPVM also flagged image-recognition patents filed by two of China's biggest technology conglomerates, Alibaba and Baidu, that referenced classifying people by ethnicity but did not specifically mention the Uighur people by name.\n\nAlibaba responded: \"Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates our policies and values.\n\n\"We never intended our technology to be used for and will not permit it to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nProtests have been held across the world to highlight China's treatment of Uighur people\n\nAnd Baidu said: \"When filing for a patent, the document notes are meant as an example of a technical explanation, in this case describing what the attribute-recognition model is rather than representing the expected implementation of the invention.\n\n\"We do not and will not permit our technology to be used to identify or target specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nBut Human Rights Watch said it still had concerns.\n\n\"Any company that sells video-surveillance software and systems to the Chinese police would have to ensure that they meet the police's requirements, which includes the capacity for ethnicity detection,\" Ms Wang said.\n\n\"The right thing for these companies to do is to immediately cease their sale and maintenance of surveillance equipment, software and systems, to the Chinese police.\"", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that “the lockdown measures we had in place, combined with tier four measures, are starting to show some signs of effect.”\n\nLooking at cases of Covid-19 in England, the average for the week ending 1 January was almost 55,000 cases.\n\nThese people will have been infected before England’s lockdown came in on January 6, although much of the country was under very strict measures before then.\n\nSo, using publicly available data, it might be too early to make this assessment.\n\nAnd in the past month, we’ve seen that a couple of days of decline can quickly be followed by a sustained increase in cases.\n\nBut what is clear is that hospital admissions from coronavirus appear to be increasing (they usually peak up to a couple of weeks after high numbers of cases).\n\nThe latest seven day average (ending on January 7) saw 3,705 people admitted to hospital daily in England – that’s the highest throughout the entire pandemic.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up\n\nA coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.\n\nIt shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nThe Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nSinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.\n\nSeveral countries, including Indonesia, Turkey and Singapore, have placed orders for the vaccine.\n\nLast week researchers at the Butantan Institute, which has been conducting the trials in Brazil, announced that the vaccine had a 78% efficacy against \"mild-to-severe\" Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut on Tuesday they revealed that calculations for this figure did not include data from a group of \"very mild infections\" among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance.\n\nWith the inclusion of this data, the efficacy rate is now 50.4%, said researchers.\n\nBut Butantan stressed that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases.\n\nThe Sinovac trials have yielded different results across different countries.\n\nLast month Turkish researchers said the Sinovac vaccine was 91.25% effective, while Indonesia, which rolled out its mass vaccination programme on Wednesday, said it was 65.3% effective. Both were interim results from late-stage trials.\n\nThe latest figures for China's coronavirus vaccine show just how difficult it is to compare vaccines.\n\nOn the face of it, the 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries - the numbers of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer.\n\nA figure for efficacy is reached by looking at how many people developed Covid after being given the vaccine, compared with how many were affected when given a dummy injection. Normally, that is based on people developing obvious symptoms but in this Brazilian trial, people with no symptoms also appear to have been included.\n\nSo it's only when the full data from all trials of this vaccine are published that scientists can analyse its real efficacy, and compare like with like. Only limited data for this Sinovac vaccine is currently available - and experts say that is confusing the picture.\n\nIn the long term, many vaccines against Covid are needed to vaccinate the world and, inevitably, some will perform better than others - but giving as many people as possible some protection is the priority.\n\nThere has been concern and criticism that Chinese vaccine trials are not subject to the same scrutiny and levels of transparency as its Western counterparts.\n\nBoth the Sinovac vaccine and the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have requests for emergency use authorisation pending with regulators in Brazil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe latest news comes as Brazil is dealing with a major spike in cases. The country currently has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world at over 8.1 million, just behind the US and India.\n\nThe BBC World Service's Americas editor Candace Piette says the country is suffering one of the world's deadliest outbreaks but as yet, has not announced when its vaccination programme will begin.\n\nThe delay has been caused in large part by the government's haphazard and divided approach to vaccination, says our correspondent.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "Customs operators have pleaded with the government to prioritise vaccinations for staff they insist are key front-line workers in the effort to keep vital supplies flowing into the UK.\n\nOne operator told the BBC his staff were working flat out - often up to 16 hours a day - to help traders comply with the new post-Brexit customs requirements.\n\n\"A Covid outbreak would be disastrous. Customs clearance staff should be identified as key workers and fast-tracked for vaccination.\"\n\nAnother said he had written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and his local MP for Ashford, Damian Green saying any coronavirus-related staff shortages could force them to close.\n\n\"We have 14 staff. Two have already had to self-isolate, if we lose any more we would have to consider closing\".\n\nRod McKenzie of the Road Haulage Association supports the argument to accelerate vaccinations of port and customs staff.\n\n\"Customs agents are absolutely swamped, they are understaffed by tens of thousands and although volumes have been light thanks to pre-Christmas and pre-Brexit stockpiling, we are approaching a critical point:\"\n\nSteve Cock of logistics firm KGH said that volume would begin to build this week and described Friday as \"a moment of truth\" as volumes would be close to normal, imposing the first serious test of the system's capacity.\n\nThe government told the BBC that vaccination priorities were based on clinical vulnerability determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAlthough the government said it would be looking at key workers beyond the current priorities - like teachers - that would not come till after phase 1 of the current programme ends. That is not expected till late March at the earliest.\n\nAlthough the ports themselves have been running reasonably smoothly, that is because many traders aren't getting as far as the ports as their documentation is not complete.\n\nThe Dover-Calais crossing last week saw only 40% of its usual traffic for this time of year. Many foreign hauliers have been avoiding the UK for fear of getting stuck on the wrong side of the channel or raising their prices by as much as six times to compensate for the additional risks of congestion.\n\nCracks in the system have already started to show with large European delivery firm DPD cancelling road deliveries from the UK to the EU while Ocado, M&S, and Fortnum and Mason have cited problems delivering to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland.\n\nFish and seafood exports have been particularly hard hit.\n\nMany small traders who usually club together to share the cost of space on large lorries headed to their primary markets in the EU have hit serious roadblocks.\n\nProducts of animal origin now need Export Health Certificates signed off by veterinary professionals.\n\nThe burden of getting multiple certificates for single lorries has brought exports to the EU to a virtual standstill for some traders.\n\nThe focus in the UK is understandably primarily on food supplies into the UK and although there are some limited shortages being reported in fruit and vegetable supplies, shelves in the UK are showing very few gaps.\n\nThe problems are more acute in Northern Ireland, which for the purposes of trade is still part of the EU customs area. For that reason, what is happening to food exports from GB to Northern Ireland is perhaps a useful proxy for what is happening to UK food exports to the EU.\n\nThe last thing the UK-EU trade machinery can afford right now is for critical staff - caught in the crossfire of pandemic and Brexit - to be laid low.", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The minimum cost of carrier bags in Scotland is set to double to 10p from 1 April.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the move was to deter the use of single-use plastic bags.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nMs Cunningham said: \"Thanks to the people of Scotland, the introduction of the charge has been successful in reducing the amount of single-use carrier bags in circulation.\n\n\"While the 5p bag charge was suitable when it was first introduced, it is important that pricing is updated to ensure that the charge continues to be a factor in making people think twice about using a single-use carrier bag.\"\n\nSome retailers have pledged to donate their carrier bag charges to good causes, with £2.5m raised in 2019.\n\nPrior to the charge being introduced in 2014, 800 million single use carrier bags were issued annually in Scotland.\n\nBy 2015 this fell by 80% with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 that the number of plastic carrier bags being found on Scotland's beaches dropped by 40% two years in a row with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.\n\nKeep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Barry Fisher said: \"Since 2014 the single use carrier bag charge has significantly helped reduce the number of bags being given out by retailers - saving thousands of tonnes of single use plastic realising a significant net carbon saving and reducing the chances of these items becoming littered.\n\n\"However, there is still an opportunity to challenge individual behaviours and improve consumer awareness which the doubling of the charge will help do.\n\nDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government is looking into creating an exemption on the bag charge for certain deliveries and collections, as was the case last year at the onset of the pubic health crisis.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. 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This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir David will appear in \"very high-resolution holographic video\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to front an augmented reality app letting users see exotic plants and animals in their own surroundings, as part of a government drive to prove the uses of 5G.\n\nThe Green Planet AR app has been given £2.3m government funding as one of nine 5G test projects given a total of £28m.\n\nIt will be released alongside The Green Planet, Sir David's forthcoming BBC series that will show plants in detail.\n\nThe five-part documentary series is expected to be broadcast in 2022.\n\nAugmented reality superimposes virtual objects on to the world around us, meaning the app's users will be able to use their smartphones to see Sir David and \"meticulously detailed graphics of exotic plants and animals\" as if they were in front of them.\n\nThe app will help prove \"how new technology can reconnect us with the natural world whilst demonstrating the power of 5G to a huge new audience\", according to Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman.\n\nThe app will be available in \"set locations\" around the UK. Developer Factory 42 said it does not yet know how many locations, but they could include parks, visitor attractions like Kew Gardens and urban settings. Users will need a 5G-enabled device.\n\nThe other projects sharing the £28m funding include one to provide live, multi-angle HD video streams and replays on phones at sporting events; one to allow people to experience exhibits at The Eden Project in Cornwall from their own homes; and one to control the 113 cranes at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nThey follow nine other 5G trial projects that were awarded a total of £35m in February 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nA-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.\n\nIn a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".\n\nHe promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.\n\nHead teachers said the \"devil was in the detail\" for these plans.\n\nThe letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.\n\nIn the letter to Ofqual he said: \"A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.\n\n\"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students.\"\n\nMr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.\n\n\"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade,\" the letter says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"The top priority is for all those that work in schools\"\n\n\"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.\n\n\"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm.\"\n\nA consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out \"broad and sensible parameters\" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.\n\n\"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year \"following last summer's grading debacle.\"\n\nBut he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.\n\n\"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice,\" he added.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.\n\nShe said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.\n\nTaking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would \"never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open\".\n\nHe said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.", "The prime minister has said lockdown measures are \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but he has refused to rule out extra restrictions in England.\n\nAt PMQs, Boris Johnson said measures were kept under \"constant review\" after Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was obvious more restrictions were needed.\n\nMr Johnson added that vaccine centres would move to 24-7 \"as soon as we can\".\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being \"overtopped\", and appealed to people to follow lockdown rules.\n\nHe said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced new restrictions in Scotland from Saturday, including limiting click and collect services to essential items only and restricting takeaways.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said stronger restrictions were needed in England and accused Mr Johnson of being \"slow to act\".\n\nHe asked the prime minister why restrictions were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the government acted \"within 24 hours\" of advice on the new Covid-19 variant\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\n\n\"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect and we must take account of that too.\"\n\nHe added it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nQuestioned by the liaison committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was \"far, far too early\" to say there could be any relaxation of the lockdown in the middle of February, and \"we've got to work very hard to achieve that\".\n\nHe acknowledged that it was a \"tragedy\" that so many children were missing face-to-face teaching at school and said reopening schools was \"the priority\".\n\nTier four - the highest level in England's tier system which bans households mixing indoors - was introduced on 21 December in parts of south-east England, including London.\n\nIt was then widened to include more of southern England on Boxing Day. England has been in a national lockdown since 5 January.\n\nMr Johnson also said the vaccination programme was going \"exceptionally fast\" but \"at the moment the limit is on supply\" of the vaccine.\n\n\"We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,\" he told MPs, saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details \"in due course\".\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was \"entirely possible\" to offer round-the-clock vaccinations in Scotland once mass sites were up and running by late February or early March.\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible, it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation, saying: \"Most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help.\"\n\nHe said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first Covid patients have begun receiving a new treatment it's hoped will prevent sufferers becoming seriously ill. The patients are part of a large-scale trial testing the effect of inhaling a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection. Developed at Southampton University Hospital and produced by biotech company, Synairgen, early findings suggest the treatment cuts the odds of severe illness by almost 80%. Find out more here.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of those enrolled on the clinical trial\n\nMany hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic have been left struggling to cope, a new study suggests. Researchers at King's College London questioned 709 workers at nine units in England and nearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said it should be a \"wake-up call\" for managers about the need to provide more mental health support. Some staff are they're also facing abuse online and at protests from Covid sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford says caterers must urgently improve the quality of food parcels being provided for low-income families. Catering company Chartwells has apologised after photographs of some parcels were shared online and heavily criticised. The packages - more on them here - are being sent to children who would normally receive free school meals in England. The row could well come up when Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces MPs' questioning later. Our education correspondent looks closely at Mr Williamson - a man whose political obituary has been written so many times he must sometimes feel like the walking dead.\n\nTwitter user Roadside Mum complained about the parcel she received\n\nNurse Kate Fraser said administering the vaccination to Ms Curry had been \"emotional\"\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Britain's top police officer, Dame Cressida Dick, says it's \"preposterous\" to suggest some people are not aware of what the lockdown laws now tell them to do. So how much do you know? Try our quiz.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Democrats, including Jamie Raskin (centre), voted to impeach President Donald Trump, as did 10 Republicans\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over his alleged role in the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHis impeachment for \"incitement to insurrection\" was approved by 232 representatives including 10 Republicans.\n\nDemocrats led the effort to charge Mr Trump with encouraging the riots.\n\nBut some Republicans had backed calls for impeachment.\n\nSo, who are these key players, and what do we know about them?\n\nWhen the impeachment charges go to the Senate for trial, the case for the prosecution will be made by a team of lawmakers, led by Mr Raskin, a Democratic representative from Maryland since 2017 and a former professor of constitutional law.\n\nThe impeachment of Mr Trump represents the continuation of an extremely challenging start to 2021 for Mr Raskin, 58.\n\nJamie Raskin (left) helped to draft the article of impeachment against President Trump\n\nThe congressman's 25-year-old son, Tommy Bloom Raskin, took his own life on New Year's Eve and was laid to rest in early January.\n\nA day after the funeral, Mr Raskin found himself hunkering down with colleagues, shielding from a violent mob that rampaged through the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify November's presidential election result.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the day of the assault, Mr Raskin helped to draw up an article of impeachment against President Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Washington Post, Mr Raskin said his son, who was studying law at Harvard University, would have considered last week's violence \"the absolute worst form of crime against democracy\".\n\n\"It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going,\" Mr Raskin said.\n\nIn total, nine Democrats, including Mr Raskin, have been named as impeachment managers. One is Representative Madeleine Dean, from Pennsylvania, who is one of three women on the team.\n\nMs Dean started her career in law, opening her own three-woman practice in Pennsylvania before teaching English at a university.\n\nHaving been active in state politics for decades, she was elected to the House in 2018, using her seat to champion women's reproductive rights, gun law reform, and healthcare for all, among other issues.\n\nMadeleine Dean has called for a quick trial of President Trump in the Senate\n\nIn an interview with MSNBC, Ms Dean, 68, said she favoured a \"speedy trial\" in the Senate if Mr Trump was impeached.\n\n\"This isn't about a party. This isn't about politics. This is about protection of our constitution, of our rule of law,\" Ms Dean said.\n\nAs the Speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi has been in the spotlight since the riots in the Capitol.\n\nMs Pelosi leads the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, so the 80-year-old had a huge influence over the decision to introduce an article of impeachment against Mr Trump.\n\nMs Pelosi had the House proceed with impeachment after former Vice-President Mike Pence did not invoked constitutional powers to force out Mr Trump, who was then president.\n\nMr Pence said at the time he believed such a move was against the country's interests.\n\n\"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,\" Ms Pelosi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nMr McConnell, a 78-year-old Republican senator for Kentucky, is one to watch in the Senate.\n\nThe upper chamber's former majority leader remains the man at the helm of the upper chamber's Republican caucus.\n\nDubbed the \"Grim Reaper\" by Democrats, Mr McConnell was a thorn in the side of former President Barack Obama, often manoeuvring to frustrate his legislative agenda and judicial appointments.\n\nHe was also the driving force behind Mr Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial in 2019.\n\nIn his last few weeks as Senate leader, Mr McConnell also delayed Mr Trump's trial until after the former president left office, saying there was no time for a \"fair or serious trial\" ahead of Mr Biden's inauguration.\n\nMr McConnell has not publicly commented on whether he supports convicting or acquitting Mr Trump, but he has sent some mixed messages.\n\nMitch McConnell had been loyal to President Trump until the Capitol riots\n\nThough he spent the last four years in the president's corner, the minority leader said the rioters were \"provoked by\" Mr Trump and that he plans to hear out both sides in the trial.\n\nBut later on in January, he also joined the majority of Republican senators to vote for a motion to toss out the impeachment case as unconstitutional now that Mr Trump is no longer in the White House.\n\nMr McConnell may no longer have the final say on all things impeachment, but as Democrats need Republican support to convict Mr Trump with the required two-thirds majority, he still has a key role to play in the upcoming proceedings.\n\nWith just over a week to go before the trial, Mr Trump parted ways with his legal team, including attorneys Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier.\n\nThey were quickly replaced by David Schoen, a trial lawyer, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney, who will lead the defence efforts for the former president.\n\nIn a statement, both attorneys said they didn't believe the push to impeach Mr Trump is constitutional.\n\nDavid Schoen, left, and Bruce Castor will lead the defence efforts for the former president\n\nMr Castor added: \"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history.\n\n\"It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.\"\n\nMr Schoen has previously represented Roger Stone, former adviser to Mr Trump. Stone received a presidential pardon in December.\n\nThe lawyer also made headlines in the past for meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in his final days to discuss possible representation, and for later saying he did not believe the death of the US financier and sex offender was suicide.\n\nMr Castor, a former Pennsylvania district attorney, is known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005. The comedian was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault in a 2018 retrial of his case.\n\nMs Cheney, 54, is third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House. As the daughter of former Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney, she has a high profile in the party.\n\nSo, her support for impeachment is particularly significant.\n\nLiz Cheney has accused President Trump of inciting the attack on Congress\n\nMr Trump had \"summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack\", Ms Cheney said of the Capitol riots.\n\n\"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,\" the Wyoming representative said.\n\nHowever, in a recent test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Mr Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted last week to consider stopping the trial before it even starts.\n\nMs Cheney survived a House Republican vote - 145-61 - to oust her from her leadership position after breaking ranks with other GOP lawmakers last month to impeach the former president.\n\nShe is also now facing a primary challenger for her Wyoming congressional seat after voting to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nBlocking Mr Trump from ever running for office again is one rationale that may motivate some Republicans to impeach the president.\n\nThat reasoning could be attractive to Republican senators like Mr Sasse, who is seen as a possible contender for the presidency in 2024.\n\nElected to the Senate in 2014, the 48-year-old has been an ardent critic of Mr Trump.\n\nBen Sasse refused to overturn the results of November's presidential election in Congress\n\nMr Sasse was firmly opposed to a Republican effort - cheered on by Mr Trump - to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in Congress.\n\nOn the question of impeachment, Mr Sasse said he would \"definitely consider whatever articles they might move\" in the House.\n\nA two-thirds majority would be needed to convict Mr Trump in the Senate, meaning at least 17 Republicans - including Mr Sasse - would have to vote for it.\n\nIn Mr Trump's first impeachment trial in 2020, it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who presided over the proceedings.\n\nThis time, he declined to participate, handing the job over to the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat, who will take the gavel in this second impeachment trial.\n\nMr Leahy was first elected to the Senate in 1974, and is the longest serving lawmaker in the upper chamber.\n\nHe will be presiding in his role as the Senate's president pro tempore - a constitutional officer, responsible for presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws\" when presiding over an impeachment trial.\n\n\"It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "Libby Squire was not seen alive after travelling to Oak Road playing fields with Pawel Relowicz, a court heard\n\nA man accused of raping and murdering a student committed a string of \"sexually motivated\" burglaries in the months before her death, a court has heard.\n\nJurors heard \"trophies\" - underwear and sex toys - stolen from other women were found after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors claim he was \"prowling the streets\" of Hull's student area in search of a victim when he intercepted the \"extremely vulnerable\" Ms Squire.\n\nSheffield Crown Court previously heard the defendant drove Ms Squire - who had earlier been refused entry to a nightclub - to the Oak Road playing fields.\n\nOnce there, jurors were told, he subjected her to an \"act of sexual violence\" before he disposed of her body in the River Hull.\n\nHer remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright QC said Mr Relowicz would claim Ms Squire had \"instigated consensual sexual intercourse\", and he had left her \"safe and well\" on the fields.\n\nRichard Wright QC continued to outline the case against Pawel Relowicz on Wednesday\n\nHowever, Sam Alford, who lives nearby, reported hearing a woman's \"desperate screams\" coming from the direction of the river, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors allege the screams were Ms Squire's and a man seen \"emerging from the darkness\" and fleeing the area was the defendant.\n\n\"Libby was never seen again\", Mr Wright told jurors.\n\nThe screams, and scratches to the defendant's face were evidence Ms Squire had \"fought him off\", the court heard.\n\nMr Wright said the evidence established \"that she was raped by a man whose entire motivation for coming into contact with her that night was to take her away from safety to a remote area well known to him and there to subject her to his uncontrollable sexual urges\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a pathologist concluded he could not establish how Ms Squire died despite \"an obvious bruise\" to the inside of her right thigh.\n\nMr Wright told jurors a CCTV recording made after the last sighting of Ms Squire showed Mr Relowicz performing a sex act in the middle of a street.\n\nA condom found at the scene days later yielded a DNA profile matching the defendant, the court heard.\n\nIn the year leading up to Ms Squire's disappearance, Mr Relowicz exposed himself to women in public and watched them through windows as they changed or had sex, the court heard.\n\nHe also \"burgled their homes with the purpose of stealing their underwear and sexual toys or other objects,\" Mr Wright said.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nFollowing his arrest on 6 February, Mr Wright said, police recovered the pink holdall \"full of sex toys... and some photographs of young women and several pairs of women's knickers and thongs\".\n\nA statement made by Ms Squire's mother, Lisa Squire, was read out in court describing her daughter having battled mental health issues including an eating disorder, self-harming - cutting the top of her arms, legs and chest - and depression.\n\nShe said her eldest child had been afraid of water since she was young, to the point she would not go near a swimming pool when on holiday. She was also scared of the dark, jurors were told.\n\nStatements by Ms Squire's boyfriend Connor James-Pye were also read out, in which he described Libby as being \"a happy drunk\" and that she \"didn't understand moderation\".\n\nHowever, on the night she disappeared, the court heard Ms Squire \"didn't want to go out because she had a lecture the next morning, but she didn't want to let the girls down\".\n\nMr James-Pye last heard from his girlfriend at about 22:30 on 31 January, jurors heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The button battery was stuck in Sofia-Grace's throat for four months\n\nAn 11-month-old girl who was rejecting solid food had a button battery lodged in her throat for four months.\n\nDoctors thought Sofia-Grace Hill had tonsillitis or a viral infection until an X-ray revealed the battery the size of a 10p in her oesophagus.\n\nShe underwent a two-hour operation to remove it and is now on a liquid only diet.\n\nA surgeon said her survival may be due to the battery being old and without charge.\n\nDad Calham, from Swindon, first noticed something was wrong in January 2020 and had countless paramedic call-outs and visits to the GP and local hospital.\n\nShe had a two-hour operation to remove the battery\n\nHe was convinced there was something else going on as Sofia-Grace would only eat pureed food.\n\nAfter another hospital trip in May, she was given an X-ray which showed the battery lodged in her oesophagus was causing serious damage as it had corroded.\n\nMr Hill said: \"I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know.\"\n\nThe button battery is the size of a 10p\n\nSofia-Grace had a feeding tube fitted to help her with food and to stop her throat from closing.\n\nEvery two weeks she has a general anaesthetic to stretch her oesophagus but faces the prospect of further surgery.\n\nMr Hill said: \"The damage has left a pocket in her oesophagus which needs to close but Sofia is improving week by week with regular dilations which is improving her oesophagus.\n\n\"But I know the chance of survival in the first weeks after this happens is very low so we are moving in the right direction.\"\n\nSofia-Grace is improving week by week, her dad said\n\nMr Hill is unsure how Sofia-Grace, now almost two-years-old, got hold of the button battery and warned parents about the dangers.\n\nHe said: \"Just get rid of them or lock them away and don't give your child car keys to play with. Always trust your instincts as a parent.\"\n\nJanet McNally, consultant paediatric surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who is treating Sofia-Grace, said her survival may be because the battery was old and had lost its charge.\n\nShe said that without someone seeing a child swallow a battery or obvious symptoms it was not unusual for it to be missed.\n\n\"Clinicians and the government have been warning of the dangers of button batteries for a long time. But not all parents are aware of how dangerous they can be.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's variant: Two 'spike' changes flagged up\n\nAs MPs have been mentioning today - a coronavirus variant has been found circulating in the Amazonas state of Brazil, and was picked up in Japan in travellers from the region. It’s different from the UK and South African variants, but it contains common mutations - two changes to the virus’ \"spike\" in particular which have been flagged as potentially making the virus more infectious. This is not going to be the last mutation we hear about. At the moment changes are mainly being picked up in areas that do lots of genetic tracking of the virus - it’s almost certain there are other mutations already circulating unseen in other parts of the world. And the virus will continue to mutate - it’s just a question of how, how much and how fast. For now there’s no evidence the virus is becoming more dangerous - but if more people catch it then, left unchecked, more will potentially become ill or die. But the vaccines, which target several different areas of the virus’ spike, should still work - though that’s something that scientists the world over will be monitoring very closely.", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Parents say teachers at special schools often provide medical care and should be treated like other front-line workers\n\nParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are calling for teachers in special schools to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nMany parents have been told their children cannot attend school because of safety concerns about the virus.\n\nNow they want staff in special schools to be prioritised for the vaccine and considered front-line workers.\n\nThe government said special schools should encourage pupils to attend.\n\nLaura cares for son Oscar alone and says their respite support collapsed during the pandemic\n\nStaff in special schools are often required to provide personal and medical care for pupils, such as clearing tracheotomies, on top of regular teaching responsibilities.\n\nThe schools also offer precious respite to many families of disabled children who require a lot of additional care.\n\nLaura Godfrey, 33, from Norwich, is mum to nine-year-old Oscar, who usually attends a school for children with complex needs. His return was delayed at the start of term, despite government advice for these schools to remain open.\n\n\"His school provision is essential to us as a family. Oscar's mental health suffered a lot in the first lockdown, as did mine. It was a very dark time.\"\n\nHe is currently attending school, but Laura worries it could be forced to close in the event of an outbreak.\n\nShe is calling for staff at special schools to be given PPE and access to the vaccine, to keep schools open and protect vulnerable pupils.\n\n\"They should be recognised and treated as front-line staff and afforded the same protections.\"\n\nLaura's calls have been echoed by Mark Powell, CEO of the Dorset-based Diverse Abilities charity which runs a special school in Poole.\n\nStaff at Langside School in Poole were provided with PPE at the start of the pandemic\n\nThe school bought its own PPE in order to remain open during the pandemic but said it was \"very difficult and extremely costly\".\n\nMr Powell described PPE as a \"wonderful barrier to prevent the spread of the virus\" but said it had also been \"a devastating barrier to the development and well-being of our pupils\".\n\n\"The fact we have nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists on site to form part of our children's school provision means that our school can be classified as a health setting, which are at the top of the list for priority vaccinations.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the impact of being out of education \"can be greatest on vulnerable children and those with education, health and care plans\".\n\nIt said special schools should \"continue to welcome and encourage pupils to go into school full-time\" where possible and \"ensure pupils with Send can successfully access remote education\" if they are unable to attend.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend President Trump.\n\nThe Google-owned service has prevented his account from uploading new videos or live-streaming material for a minimum of seven days, and has said it may extend the period.\n\nThe firm said the channel had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.\n\nThe president had posted several videos on Tuesday night, some of which remain online.\n\nGoogle has not provided details of what Mr Trump said in the video it banned, however the BBC has discovered it was a clip from a press conference he had given on Tuesday.\n\nThe move came hours after civil rights groups had threatened to organise an ads boycott against YouTube.\n\nPresident Trump's YouTube channel remains live but he cannot post new videos\n\nJim Steyer - who previously helped coordinate similar action against Facebook last year - had called on Google to go further and take the president's channel offline.\n\n\"We hope they will make it permanent. It is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack to get here, but appears that the major platforms are finally beginning to step up,\" he tweeted after the suspension.YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel\n\nGoogle said that Mr Trump could still face his page being closed if he falls foul of its three-strikes policy.\n\n\"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It now has its first strike and is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of seven days.\n\n\"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Apple chief Tim Cook told CBS News that those involved with the riots on the US Capitol last week should be held accountable.\n\n\"Everyone that had a part in it needs to be held accountable. I think no one is above the law. We're a rule of law country.\"\n\nHe did not mention President Trump by name, but added: \"I don't think we should let it go. This is something we've got to be serious about.\"\n\nMr Trump had already been suspended by Facebook and Instagram following last week's rioting on Capitol Hill, until at least the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nTwitter has gone further by imposing a permanent ban.\n\nAmazon's Twitch has also disabled his account on its platform. And Snapchat has locked his account.\n\nShopify, Pinterest, TikTok and Reddit have also taken steps to restrict content associated with the president and his calls for the results of the US election to be challenged.\n\nYouTube has often been behind its social media rivals when it comes to moderating user-posted content.\n\nOver the years it has come under fire from campaign groups and big advertisers for not acting swiftly.\n\nNow it has followed Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat in restricting Donald Trump's access to its platform.\n\nAnd as so often, there's a lack of transparency about exactly what prompted the President's suspension.\n\nIt's only saying that a video violated its policies on incitement to violence, but is indicating that the issue was the President's remarks to reporters on Tuesday where he refused to take responsibility for the attack on Congress.\n\nOf course, those comments were broadcast on TV channels, including the BBC, and are still widely available.\n\nIt's not long ago that the social media landscape was being described as the Wild West when it came to moderating content - now the platforms suddenly seem eager to appear more cautious than the mainstream media.\n\nIt's amazing what the threat of regulation can do.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bonnie Watson Coleman is one of three Democratic lawmakers to have tested positive since the invasion of the US Capitol\n\nThree US lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after sheltering for hours with colleagues during last week's deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHouse Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider have announced their diagnoses.\n\nLast Wednesday they hunkered down in secure rooms, seeking refuge from an invasion of Congress in which five people died.\n\nSome Republicans were not wearing masks during the ordeal, footage suggests.\n\nVideo shared by Punchbowl News shows several lawmakers apparently refusing facemasks offered to them.\n\nHowever, CBS pictures from inside the chamber show Ms Jayapal was herself not wearing a mask at one point.\n\nMedical experts fear more lawmakers may have contracted the disease, potentially amounting to a super-spreader event at a time when coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise in the US.\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections (22.6 million) and deaths (367,000) in the world, with no sign of the epidemic abating, despite the limited roll-out of vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nOver the weekend, top congressional doctor Brian Monahan told lawmakers and congressional staff who sheltered together from the riots to get tested.\n\n\"The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others,\" Mr Monahan said. \"During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.\"\n\nMr Monahan did not say how many lawmakers were in the room, but called on them to observe social-distancing measures and wear masks.\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was the first lawmaker to confirm she had tested positive on Monday. In a tweet, the 75-year-old cancer survivor said she was resting at home with \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, and Illinois congressman Mr Schneider revealed they had tested positive on Tuesday.\n\nAll three Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of refusing to wear masks as they huddled together for safety last Wednesday.\n\n\"Any member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives,\" Ms Jayapal wrote, calling for mask transgressors to be fined.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe wearing of masks has been an explosive political issue throughout the pandemic in the US, with some lawmakers openly refusing to don a face covering.\n\nA Republican congressman, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, tested positive for Covid-19 after participating in a House vote to reject Arizona's presidential election results on Wednesday.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr LaTurner's spokesperson told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper that he was not in the secure area of the Capitol building where multiple members have since tested positive.\n\nOn Friday Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had warned that Wednesday's rioting would probably have significant health consequences.\n\n\"You have to anticipate that this is another surge event,\" he told the McClatchy news agency. \"You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.\"\n\nCoronavirus has swept through the heart of the American political establishment during the pandemic. One notable outbreak happened in September last year, when an event was held at the White House to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.\n\nSoon after, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus, along with numerous other senior government officials.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "US rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police in Atlanta, Georgia, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local man last month.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested over the killing of the 28-year-old victim.\n\nAuthorities have appealed for help in locating YFN Lucci, 29 - whose birth name is Rayshawn Bennett.\n\nHe is wanted on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity, police told US media.\n\nThey say another man was wounded in the incident.\n\nLast month YFN Lucci released new material under the title Wish Me Well 3.\n\nIn 2018 rapper Cardi B was forced to defend her then-fiancé Offset against allegations of homophobia after he used a lyric by YFN Lucci that included the word \"queer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking.\n\nOne in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nNursing staff were more likely to report feelings of distress than doctors or other clinical staff in the anonymous web-based survey, which was carried out in June and July last year.\n\nVictoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.\n\nHer worst moment was breaking the news of a death on the phone, she said, adding that the screams from the patient's relatives \"will honestly stay with me forever\".\n\n\"Telling someone over the phone and all you can say is 'I'm really sorry', whilst they're crying their heart out, is quite traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.\n\n\"The guilt is just too much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the study, which has been published online but has not yet been peer-reviewed:\n\nThe researchers say the findings are, in some ways, not surprising given the pressures ICU staff have faced.\n\nTheir workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.\n\nLead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\" for NHS managers.\n\nHe said: \"The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high-quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.\"\n\nProf Greenberg said it was important to have \"occupationally focused\" mental health care to try to keep staff fighting fit or, where this was not possible, to ensure they got help to access the right sort of care.\n\nAnd he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.\n\nProf Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was \"really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got sickness rates high all around us and colleagues from all specialities, where they're not accustomed to seeing such ill patients, coming out and trying to help.\n\n\"Understandably the impact of that on everybody's mental health is not insignificant either... it's such a tough place to be in.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"This is an incredibly tough time for NHS staff working on the front line which is why we have invested £15m in support, including 38 local mental health and well-being hubs and a service for staff with complex mental health needs, such as trauma and addiction.\n\n\"The public can also help to support doctors and nurses by following the 'hands, space, face' guidance to reduce pressure on hospitals and save lives.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by mental health issues, the organisations listed at this link might be able to help", "Sarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy\n\nSarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.\n\nHer Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess's great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.\n\nShe has previously written children's books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.\n\nShe said: \"I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world.\"\n\n\"It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names,\" she added.\n\n\"But although her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, were close friends with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, I was unable to discover much about my namesake's early life, and so was born the idea which became Her Heart for a Compass.\"\n\nThe story will include some real people and events and also draw on the duchess's own experiences but she said \"my imagination took over\".\n\n\"I have long held a passion for historical research and telling the stories of strong women in history through film and television,\" she added.\n\nFor the big screen, she conceived the idea for the 2009 movie Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and written by Julian Fellowes.\n\nShe was a producer on the film and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a minor part. The duchess also worked on a documentary about Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Prince Albert's mother.\n\nShe recently revived her children's book series, Budgie the Helicopter.\n\nHeart for a Compass was written with the collaboration of established Mills & Boon novelist Marguerite Kaye, who has created more than 50 novels for the imprint, set in a variety of eras.\n\nThe duchess's novel is a saga that takes in events at Queen Victoria's court and the grand country houses of Scotland and Ireland, and crosses into the slums of London and on to the bustle of 1870s New York.\n\nMills & Boon described the story as a \"fascinating journey of a woman, born into the higher echelons of society, who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass (her heart) and discover her raison d'être - and falling in love along the way\".\n\nMills & Boon is the UK's top publisher of romantic fiction and says it sells one of its novels every 10 seconds.\n\nThe stories are \"written by women, for women, it has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time\", it adds.\n\nOther well-known names to venture into the Mills & Boon world include Made in Chelsea and I'm A Celebrity star Georgia Toffolo, whose debut romance novel, Meet Me in London, came out last year.\n\nBest-selling authors have also created stories for Mills & Boon under a pseudonym, including Destiny writer Sally Beauman (Vanessa James) and The Shell Seekers author Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser). PG Wodehouse also contributed a story in 1912.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "The Christmas Day special saw Ashley Banjo (r) sit in for Simon Cowell\n\nThe filming of the next series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.\n\nProduction on the show was due to begin later this month but will now start at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nITV said it had decided to move \"the record and broadcast\" of the show's 15th series\" to safeguard \"the well-being of everyone involved\".\n\nThe filming of the programme's audition shows typically involves hundreds of people congregating en masse.\n\nIt is understood this has been considered to be unviable due to lockdown restrictions currently in place.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ITV thanked viewers for their \"continued love and support\" for the long-running programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BGT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe filming of last year's Christmas special was also postponed after at least three crew members tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Christmas Day programme saw former contestants return to perform again alongside the show's panel of celebrity judges.\n\nThe show saw Ashley Banjo sit in for Simon Cowell, who spent much of last year recovering from an electric bicycle accident.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to get pupils connected in Wolverhampton is well under way\n\nThere are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.\n\nPupils are learning remotely in England after schools were closed on Tuesday to all but children of key workers and those deemed vulnerable.\n\nBut those without laptops or space to study are now eligible to attend school, under government guidance.\n\nHeads' union, NAHT, said the move could reduce the effect of the shutdown.\n\nSchools were ordered to close to most pupils as a way of limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.\n\nNearly a third of the 2,000 head teachers who joined an online union meeting on Wednesday afternoon reported having between 20 and 30% of pupils in school, the NAHT said.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"It is critical that key worker child school places are only used when absolutely necessary to truly reduce numbers and spread of the virus.\n\n\"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.\n\n\"It is important that all vulnerable pupils have access to a school place, but the government must provide laptops and internet access for every pupil that needs one, so that they can access home learning to take some of the strain off the demand for school places.\n\n\"Nearly half of head teachers who we polled during a webcast on Wednesday evening said that had received fewer than 10% of the laptops they'd requested.\n\n\"It is essential that this is rectified immediately, so that we can keep school attendance figures at a level which will have the desired impact on getting transmission rates under control.\"\n\nJane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, said the rule change could leave her having to accommodate an extra 200 pupils on top of those already on the key worker and vulnerable children list.\n\nShe told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would \"defeat the object\" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.\n\nMrs Girt said her secondary, which has more than 1,500 students, had received 261 laptops from the government since March but about 50% of pupils were sharing a device with another family member.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs on Wednesday that 560,000 devices had been given out to schools in 2020 and a further 50,000 so far this week.\n\nAnd Gavin Williamson reiterated that those without access to remote learning via digital devices could attend school.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are much better prepared to deliver online learning, with the delivery of hundreds of thousands of devices at breakneck speed, data support and high quality video lessons.\"\n\nBut Ofcom estimates there are up to 1.5m pupils without digital devices in their homes, on which they can learn.\n\nAmanda Bailey, director of the child poverty commission in north-east England, said pupils without internet access tended to be concentrated in disadvantaged areas and this meant some schools would be \"largely fully open\", she said.\n\n\"And we know that the most deprived communities are the ones most vulnerable to the health impact of the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"Our main concerns are that we're now nine months into this situation and we're still talking about families not having sufficient access to digital devices or data or the internet.\"\n\nLabour Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Wolverhampton's champion for digital innovation, said the guidance massively expands the number of children who are entitled to go into school.\n\nShe said although plans to support those needing access while self-isolating in her city are at an advanced stage, with rental schemes being accessed and donations sought, the new lockdown changes the game completely.\n\nShe called for a national plan for the transition to remote learning.\n\nCouncillor Momenabadi said: \"Even after Gavin Williamson's statement in the Commons, children across the country are still waiting for that national plan.\n\n\"And even on the devices they've said will arrive; how will these be distributed, when will they arrive, will they arrive in time to ensure that no child misses out on their education?\"\n\nWill you have to send your child back to school because you are unable to supervise home learning? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.\n\nPosting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.\n\nTwitter said that it would ban Mr Trump \"permanently\" if he breached the platform's rules again.\n\nThe move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him \"indefinitely\" on Thursday.\n\nTwitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.\n\nMr Trump tweeted several message on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed Capitol Hill \"patriots\". He also said \"We love you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter said: \"After the Tweets were removed and the subsequent 12-hour period expired, access to @realDonaldTrump was restored.\n\n\"Any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram. That suspension will be reviewed after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nThe social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after the US Capitol attack.\n\nFacebook's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post \"are simply too great\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Facebook had removed the president's posts \"because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent - would be to provoke further violence\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Mark This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said it was clear Mr Trump intended to undermine the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.\n\n\"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump's favoured platform, Twitter, suspended the president for 12 hours on Wednesday.\n\nThe company said it required the removal of three tweets for \"severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy\".\n\nIt said the president's account would remain locked for good if the tweets were not removed.\n\nTwitter has now confirmed the offending tweets have been removed, and he is free to tweet again.\n\nSnapchat also stopped Mr Trump from creating new posts, but did not say if or when it would end the ban. YouTube also removed Wednesday's video.\n\nThe president's supporters stormed the seat of US government and clashed with police, leading to the death of one woman.\n\nThe violence brought to a halt congressional debate over Democrat Joe Biden's election win.\n\nIn the House and Senate chambers, Republicans were challenging the certification of November's election results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nBefore the violence, President Trump had told supporters on the National Mall in Washington that the election had been stolen.\n\nHours later, as the violence mounted inside and outside the US Capitol, he appeared on video and repeated the false claim.", "The controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been ongoing since 1977\n\nThe Trump administration has held the first sale for rights to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but it drew no interest from major companies.\n\nAn Alaskan state agency emerged as the primary bidder at the auction, which has been heavily criticised by environmental groups.\n\nThe sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped.\n\nThe tepid interest comes amid big changes in the energy industry.\n\nMajor companies, including oil giant Exxon, Shell and BP, have said they are focusing their spending on renewable energy, amid a huge slump in oil prices, in part triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the sale was an \"epic failure\" for the Trump administration and the Alaska Republicans, who had backed the move as a way to create jobs and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.\n\n\"After years of promising a revenue and jobs bonanza they ended up throwing a party for themselves, with the state being one of the only bidders,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We have long known that the American people don't want drilling in the Arctic Refuge, the [Alaska native] Gwich'in people don't want it, and now we know the oil industry doesn't want it either.\"\n\nThe refuge is home to more than 200 species of bird including the Northern shrike\n\nMr Kolton said his organisation would continue to fight in court to reverse the sale of the land, which is home to caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds.\n\nThe wildlife refuge is estimated to hold some 11 billion barrels of oil.\n\nOpening the wilderness for drilling and development has been a long-term priority for Alaska Republicans, but development was expected to be costly since the area has minimal roads and infrastructure.\n\nAfter decades of controversy, the sale was finally authorised by the US Congress in 2017 as part of a major package of tax cuts. The auction comes just weeks before Donald Trump is due to leave office on 20 January.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden had vowed to protect the refuge and environmental groups have also challenged the sale, which they say threatens land that provides a vital home to wildlife.\n\nA federal court rejected arguments by environmental groups seeking to block the auction on Tuesday.\n\nPolar bears are particularly at risk of dying in oil spills\n\nAt Wednesday's auction, the Bureau of Land Management said it had received bids for 12 of the 22 tracts of land offered, covering more than 600,000 acres.\n\nThe Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency, was the sole bidder on at least eight of the 12 tracts.\n\nSome bids submitted were \"incomplete\", the bureau said.\n\nThe state agency has said it plans to work with private companies on development of the refuge, which encompasses more than 19,000 million acres overall.\n\nOn social media platform Twitter, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the sale \"historic for Alaska and tremendous for America\".\n\n\"Opening [Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] for responsible resource development could put more oil in our pipeline, put Alaskans to work, bring billions of dollars of investment to our state, support American energy independence, and provide critical revenues to our state and local communities,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Alaskans have waited two generations for this moment; I stand with them in support of this day.\"", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a boy, 13, was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a girl, aged 13, will appear in Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nTwo other boys, also aged 13, have been released on bail, with strict conditions, until 1 February.\n\nThe girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nIn a statement, Oliver's family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe family described the ordeal as \"every parents' worst nightmare\".\n\nThey also sought to highlight those who helped at the scene, including \"a Good Samaritan that tried valiantly to save Oliver\", an off-duty doctor who offered help, and the emergency services.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nParents laying flowers at nearby Highdown School called the killing \"utterly senseless\" and said their children who attended school with Olly were \"devastated\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown urged anyone with information to contact police and not to share any images or footage on social media.\n\n\"This continues to be a very difficult time for the family of Olly. Our thoughts remain with them,\" he said.\n\n\"The Stephens family appreciate all of the kindness shown to them but they have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex\n\nThe father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son's death through social media.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nHis father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until \"we saw his body by our own eyes\" at the hospital.\n\nEight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside the container for at least 12 hours.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how it became a \"tomb\" as temperatures reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C (101F).\n\nThe people trapped inside had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nAt a sentencing hearing set to last three days in front of Mr Justice Sweeney, some of their final desperate phone messages were played in court.\n\nIn one message, a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nIn the background, a voice could be heard pleading: \"Come on everyone. Open up, open up.\"\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read out statements from the victims' families, and the mother of another 15-year-old who died, Dinh Dinh Binh, said her family had \"not been able to get back to our normal life yet\".\n\n\"Our economic conditions and work are negatively affected,\" she said. \"We have had to sell some properties of the family to afford our life.\"\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nTran Hai Loc and his wife Nguyen Thi Van, both 35, were found huddled together in the trailer, and left behind two children, aged six and four.\n\nThe children's grandfather, Tran Dinh Thanh, said: \"At the moment their children are very small - this incident will affect their future.\n\n\"Every day, when they come home from school they always look at the photos of their parents on the altar. The decease of both parents is a big loss to them.\"\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nPhan Thi Thanh, 41, had sold the family home and left her son with his godmother before setting off on the journey.\n\nHer son, who is now being looked after by his father in the UK, said he felt \"very heartbroken with mum not around\".\n\nHaulier boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, was described as a ringleader of the operation. He closed his eyes as the phone messages were played to the court. Other defendants hung their heads.\n\nBoth Maurice Robinson (l) and Ronan Hughes (r) admitted 39 counts of manslaughter in connection with the case\n\nHughes had previously admitted manslaughter, as had 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson, from County Armagh, who discovered the bodies in the trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, of Newry, County Down, who dropped off the trailer at Zeebrugge port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of the same charge by a jury.\n\nThey will be sentenced alongside Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, who were convicted for their role in the smuggling.\n\nGheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison were both found guilty of manslaughter\n\nMr Polnay said: \"These defendants were party to a sophisticated, long-running and profitable conspiracy to smuggle [mainly] Vietnamese migrants to the UK, in the back of lorries, in a deliberate and intentional breach of border control.\"\n\nThe fee was between £10,000 and £13,000 for each migrant, for the \"VIP route\", the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay said seven smuggling trips were identified between May 2018 and 23 October 2019, but there was \"an irresistible inference that there were more events than those that were fortuitously detected\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is inevitable that part of the politics of a pandemic is the perceived relative performance of different countries.\n\nYou can pick your metric to make your comparison, and plenty have.\n\nThe death toll in the UK, and the economic slump, have come in for particular criticism.\n\nBut the government has, for some time, sought to emphasise how the UK is ahead of the game on vaccinations.\n\nThe UK was considerably quicker than the EU, for instance, in licencing the first vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nAt today's news conference, the Prime Minister has pointed out that the UK has already given more people a first jab for Covid than all the other countries in Europe put together.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England, added that the UK has jabbed four times as many people as Germany and 300 times more than France.\n\nBut he acknowledged the scale of the ongoing challenge - trying to vaccinate as many people in the next five weeks as normally happens in five months with the flu jab.\n\nOne final thought: ministers tend to suggest international comparisons are pointless or premature when the comparisons are less than flattering.\n\nThey're rather keener on them when the numbers look better.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Adrian Chiles first joined 5 Live for its launch in 1994\n\nAdrian Chiles has been confirmed as the broadcaster who will replace Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday mornings.\n\nNaga Munchetty now presents the same show from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nChiles has previously presented the same time slot on Fridays, along with the BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day 2, as well as ITV's Daybreak show.\n\n\"Adrian is a wonderful broadcaster who our audience trust and respect,\" said 5 Live controller Heidi Dawson.\n\n\"He has that unique ability to put listeners at ease and make them smile, whilst remaining relentless in his questioning of those in positions of power.\"\n\nChiles, who will present the show on Thursdays and Fridays, joined the station at its launch in 1994 and has featured regularly on shows like Wake Up To Money, and 5 Live Drive.\n\nFollowing his move to mid-morning, Chiles' Question Time Extra Time show will be replaced by a new programme, hosted by Colin Murray.\n\nBarnett, who has moved to BBC Radio 4 to host Woman's Hour, defended herself this week after a guest who was booked to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme dropped out due to remarks the presenter made about her off-air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Capitol riots: How the world's media reacted\n\nShock and contempt for the violent storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters is evident in many reports and commentary on the event from around the world.\n\nFrom Germany's Die Welt daily describing \"disturbing, sad, terrifying scenes\", to the Nigerian Tribune saying \"Trump supporters defile US democracy\", many criticise the outgoing president for what what they see as his role in degrading America's institutions and democracy.\n\nOne commentator in Argentina's leading daily Clarin called it \"the 'scorched earth' legacy of Donald Trump\".\n\n\"Narcissism prevailing over all dignity, he harasses institutions, tramples on democracy, divides his own camp,\" says an editorial in France's Le Figaro.\n\n\"In refusing to quit, Donald Trump exposes the fragility of the American system in a final destructive offensive,\" a columnist says in France's Le Monde. Another headline in the paper calls him \"the insurrectional president\".\n\nIn Turkey, the pro-government Turkiye paper notes: \"Trump's stubbornness stirred the US\".\n\n\"I expect Trump to be tried after this turmoil,\" said one pundit on Egypt's MBC Misr TV, adding that \"the US is no longer a superpower in the full sense of the word\".\n\nSeveral of America's adversaries seized the opportunity to portray the incident as an example of the country's structural weaknesses and what they see as its hypocrisy.\n\n\"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold' — it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill,\" tweeted China's daily Global Times.\n\n\"Capital vandals show fragility of US democracy,\" claimed a headline in the paper.\n\nIn Iran, state TV and radio inaccurately reported that the mayor of Washington DC had imposed \"martial law\", instead of the 12-hour curfew on the capital, which is what actually happened.\n\nAnd in Russia, where the first day of the Orthodox Christmas is currently being celebrated, footage of Trump's supporters ransacking the Capitol dominates state TV.\n\nMorning bulletins have focused on the events in America\n\nRolling news channel Rossiya 24 has played scenes of the violence at length, with no comment other than the caption \"Attack on the Capitol\".\n\nSome channels have also shown sympathy for the pro-Trump supporters, suggesting that they had cause to feel \"cheated\" over November's presidential election, and talked up claims that the event represents a crisis for US and even Western democracy.\n\nRossiya 24 said they were \"dissatisfied with the most scandalous election in US history\", while Rossiya 1 said it was the US system of democracy that was \"to a large degree the cause of today's events\".\n\nEven for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump's departure won't address.\n\nIt is \"a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,\" says one commentator in Poland's conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.\n\n\"Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about 'the best country in the world' lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Medical staff are \"well over half way through\" vaccinating Scotland's care home residents with their first dose against Covid-19.\n\nThe first minister said this was \"extremely important\", as care homes accounted for more than a third of Covid-related deaths in the past week.\n\nBy Sunday more than 113,000 people in Scotland had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nSome 1,100 vaccination centres are set to be operational within a week.\n\nThe government has set a target of giving a first dose to everyone over the age of 80 in Scotland within the next four weeks.\n\nScotland has about 30,000 residents living in care homes for older people.\n\nA further 78 deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, the highest daily number during the second wave of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Records of Scotland said the virus had been mentioned on 183 death certificates in the week to Sunday - with 63 of these deaths occurring in care homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this underlined the importance of rolling out the vaccine in care homes, saying it would hopefully start to significantly reduce the risk of residents dying due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd she said the government would start issuing a daily update on how many people had been given the jab from next week.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to make sure as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so.\"\n\nAs of Sunday, a total of 113,459 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine began to be rolled out on Monday, and will be reflected in statistics from next week.\n\nA total of 36 people have had a second dose of the vaccine, with efforts now focused on giving a first jab to as many people as possible\n\nThis means that people will now not receive their second dose for up to 12 weeks rather than within 21 days - a move that has been criticised by some medics.\n\nBut Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said the first dose gave \"substantial\" protection against the virus.\n\nThe vaccine is being rolled out to health and social care workers in the first instance, then care home residents and other over-80s.\n\nEventually everyone in Scotland over the age of 18 - a total of 4.4m people - will be given a jab, although the government has refused to set targets beyond the initial phase due to uncertainty over supplies.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is in a race between the vaccine and the virus\n\nThe UK government had already committed to publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, and the Scottish Conservatives had been pushing for the Scottish government to follow suit.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said that \"publishing these numbers will increase transparency and give the public confidence that progress is being made in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Scotland that he had been getting inquiries from constituents about when they could expect to get a jab, saying people \"need to know roughly where they are on that list and when they can expect to receive that vaccine\".\n\nScottish Labour called on the government to backdate the statistics and to publish \"a detailed breakdown of how many people in each priority group has been vaccinated\".\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, said: \"Quicker progress must be made on securing vaccinations sites and vaccinators, including the contribution that community pharmacy teams can make.\"\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said over-80s should not worry if they had not yet been contacted about a vaccine appointment.\n\nShe said these were being \"aligned with availability of supply\" in different local areas.\n\nThe first minister said there was \"no need to phone your GP\", and that people would be \"contacted with an appointment as soon as possible\".\n\nShe also said the government was considering \"as a matter of ongoing review\" whether tighter restrictions may still be needed.\n\nScotland has been in a new lockdown since Tuesday, and Ms Sturgeon said it was \"probably too early\" for this to be reflected in the number of new infections.\n\nHowever she warned that the number of interactions people are having needed to be \"radically\" cut in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nShe said shutting down construction, manufacturing and click-and-collect businesses was \"the kind of thing we need to look at if we have a concern that we are not sufficiently reducing the number of people who are out and about and interacting\".", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nThis is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.\n\nFor weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through \"trial by combat\".\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not \"fight\" for their president.\n\n\"This isn't their Republican Party anymore,\" he said. \"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.\"\n\nThen the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted \"stop the steal\" and \"bullshit\" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.\n\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede,\" the president said. \"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\n\nAs the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.\n\nFirst, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was \"largely ceremonial\".\n\nThen Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.\n\nThe House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.\n\n\"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty,\" said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. \"I will not allow the people to be ignored.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started\n\nIn the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.\n\n\"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,\" McConnell said. \"We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost.\"\n\nThe Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to \"stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic\".\n\nHis words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol\n\nThe drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.\n\nIn Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an \"insurrection\" in Washington.\n\n\"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times,\" he said. \"An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.\"\n\nHe concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and \"demand an end to this siege\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are\n\nMinutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.\n\nInstead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being \"stolen\", he told his supporters \"to go home, we love you, you're very special\".\n\nIt was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the \"very fine people on both sides\" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his \"stand back and stand by\" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.\n\nTrump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.\n\nFor the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.\n\nIf this is the \"at long last, have you left no sense of decency\" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.\n\nAs the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.\n\n\"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history,\" he said. \"A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.\"\n\nMore noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.\n\n\"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty,\" tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. \"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.\"\n\nThe condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.\n\n\"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.\n\nCBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.\n\nWhether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy\n\nWednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.\n\nThey will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.\n\nCrisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.\n\nAnd once he decamps for his new Florida home, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.", "The Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel urgent cancer surgery.\n\nThese are known as red flag cancer cases where an operation is expected to impact on a person's recovery and even surviving the disease.\n\nThe Department of Health has confirmed to the BBC that it's estimated that one in 60 people in NI have Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood the trust expects \"many 100s\" of new Covid patients in the next three weeks.\n\nThe demand for bed space is described as \"highly significant\", while a source added that all is being done to \"find beds and staff\".\n\nThey continued: \"People in here are moving heaven and earth to find beds in anticipation of what is coming and that's why some cancer patients even those who have been told their case is urgent are having their surgery cancelled.\"\n\nEffectively the move means that choices are already being made within the health service about who should receive critical treatment.\n\nThe daughter of a 66-year-old woman who was told her surgery has been cancelled has described the move as \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"Mummy was diagnosed with cancer of the lining of the bladder in November, it's since spread to the muscle wall of her bladder. She was told in December her surgery was urgent - but now it's been cancelled.\n\n\"She is so frightened, it is just horrendous and I'm sure mum is not alone.\"\n\nWhile a cancer patient might have been told their case is critical and that treatment is necessary within weeks, some Covid patients are also being told that in order to survive they require treatment immediately.\n\nWith the number of cases soaring this is worse than the first lockdown and according to health professionals there is worse to come.\n\nThe BBC understands that the health minister is expected to respond to the problem in the coming days.\n\nIt is hoped that he will announce a regional approach to tackling cancelled surgeries among the various health trusts.\n\nNorthern Ireland's other health trusts have also begun to cancel operations due to pressures created by coronavirus.\n\nThe Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern trusts have said they will be cancelling planned surgeries.\n\nHospitals have said they were facing a surge in coronavirus cases following Christmas.\n\nOn Thursday, 599 people were in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe Belfast Trust apologised for the \"distress\" caused by the cancellations.\n\n\"Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel all planned inpatient surgery this week due to rising numbers of Covid cases,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe trust said it was contacting those affected and \"will rearrange this surgery as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to ensure continuity of care throughout this challenging time\".\n\nThe Northern Trust said it had \"regrettably\" cancelled the majority of its planned or elective surgeries to \"both free up staff to support the significant COVID-19 surge experience in the Trust and to reduce the clinical risk to patients who are or may be exposed to the virus\".\n\nIt apologised and said it would contacting people.\n\nThe Western Trust said it is \"facing unprecedented pressures due to the escalating rate\" of Covid infections.\n\nDirector of Acute Hospitals, Geraldine McKay, said routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries have now been postponed until further notice.\n\nShe said the decision was \"very regrettable, but necessary\".\n\n\"Red flag and some time critical procedures and clinics will continue, but will be reviewed daily,\" she said.\n\nShould the number of Covid patients further increase, she added, the trust will \"have no option but to move to perform emergency and trauma surgery only\".\n\nA spokesperson for the South Eastern Trust said it was still carrying out some planned surgery, but the majority would be cancelled by next week.\n\nThe Southern Trust said it had taken its decision in response to the \"very significant recent increase\" in the number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nIt said this had been compounded by an increase in trauma workload and recent icy weather.\n\nThe trust said it would continue to provide day surgery and endoscopy across its hospital sites.\n\nOf the 3,359 planned procedures scheduled across NI between 29 December 2020 and 4 January, 3,267 went ahead as planned, according to the Health and Social Care website.\n\nThere were 92 cancellations which amounted to about 3% of all surgeries.", "During a speech earlier in the day, President Trump had asked his supporters to march towards the Capitol in protest. They breached the building while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's win.\n\nProtesters made it all the way to the Senate floor and the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nHere are the key moments in a dark day for US democracy.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "As violent Trump supporters surged past barricades and into the US Capitol, news agency photographers - who were there to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's election win - captured extraordinary scenes.\n\nThe last time government buildings were breached in Washington was in 1814 and the invaders were British soldiers.\n\nBut in 2021 a Trump supporter, carrying the Confederate flag, is walking freely through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the American Civil War. In this image, the oil paintings of political figures in the background emphasise this imagery of the past.\n\nThere have been renewed calls for the Confederate flag to be banned across the US following the anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man.\n\nHowever Mr Trump has defended use of the flag, calling it a matter of free speech.\n\nOne man in a Trump beanie here walks between the red guide ropes, as many visitors might do on a guided-tour to view the Crypt, the Statuary Hall and the Rotunda.\n\nBut this man is carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House, as he poses in front of a painting depicting the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in the war of independence.\n\nAnother man, identified as Jake Angeli, an ardent Trump supporter who has attended a number of the president's rallies, shouts as he makes his way to the Senate Chamber.\n\nHis incongruous garments set him apart from other protesters wearing black hoodies. These Trump activists stand by taking selfies, but he has clearly come here to be photographed by others.\n\nThe apparent lack of a security presence is in sharp contrast to other Washington protests where there is a highly visible presence of heavily armed security forces protecting US institutions.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, identified as Richard Barnett, sits with one boot disrespectfully on a desk that is at the very centre of power in Congress. It is in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nIn the scene, unimaginable days earlier, Barnett in his baseball cap and checked shirt resembles a raconteur regaling friends with tales of his exploits.\n\nThe image went viral as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Ms Pelosi's desk.\n\nThis dramatic image shows how the formal proceedings came to a violent halt as Capitol police officers drew their guns on doors being attacked by protesters intent on entering the House Chamber.\n\nMany commentators asked if they were watching a coup unfold as doors were barricaded and firearms brandished.\n\nThe composition is reminiscent of a scene in a Hollywood Western, the lawmen bracing for the doors to be breached.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden made an impassioned TV address describing the scenes as \"an assault on democracy\" - this chilling picture encapsulates what he meant.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "Ryanair is making big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January in response to the latest Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt warned that few, if any, flights would operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January until \"draconian\" restrictions were removed.\n\nCustomers hit by the cancellations will be advised by email of entitlements to free moves or refunds, it said.\n\nRyanair also cut its full year traffic forecast from currently \"below 35 million\" to 26-30 million passengers.\n\nThe airline said that new Covid restrictions could reduce traffic in February and March to as little as 500,000 passengers each month. It expects January traffic to fall below 1.25 million.\n\nIt said it did not expect these latest flight cuts and further traffic reductions to materially affect its net loss for the year to 31 March 2021, since many of the flights would have been loss-making.\n\nRyanair hit out at Irish and UK governments for the latest lockdowns.\n\n\"The WHO have previously confirmed that governments should do everything possible to avoid brutal lockdowns, because lockdowns 'do not get rid of the virus',\" Ryanair said in a statement.\n\n\"Ireland's Covid-19 travel restrictions are already the most stringent in Europe, and so these new flight restrictions are inexplicable and ineffective when Ireland continues to operate an open border between the Republic and the North of Ireland.\"\n\nIt called on the Irish Government to accelerate the rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that the Danish Government, with a similar five million population, has already vaccinated 10 times more citizens than Ireland shows that emergency action is needed to speed Covid vaccinations in Ireland.\"\n\nRival low-cost carrier Norwegian said its traffic figures had been hit heavily by the pandemic, with customer numbers down 94% compared to the same period the previous year.\n\nIn December, 129,664 customers flew with Norwegian, with the capacity and total passenger traffic both down by 98%.\n\n\"2020 has been a very challenging year and we now find ourselves fighting for survival,\" said Jacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian.\n\n\"The vaccination is now being rolled out across the world and is good news for both the aviation industry and those who want to travel.\"", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "Mr Christmas' light displays attracted thousands of visitors over the years\n\nThe family of a man known affectionately as Mr Christmas has turned off his festive lights for the last time.\n\nDave Edwards, 86, lit up his home in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, with extravagant light displays for 42 years to raise money for charity.\n\nHe died from cancer on the eve of his annual switch-on in November.\n\nHis daughter Sharon Markham called on local residents to \"continue to light up Croxley every year\".\n\nMr Edwards started putting up the light display with his wife - who died three years ago - as a competition with a house across the street, and continued to build on the set over the years.\n\nDave Edwards was dubbed Mr Christmas due to the illuminations at his home in Croxley Green\n\nPeople would travel miles to see the festive lights\n\nMrs Markham said each year they raised about £5,000 for charity, but this year a \"record amount\" of more than £10,000 had been donated.\n\nWhen his family said the 2020 display would be the last due to Mr Edwards's failing health, people across the village rallied together by installing their own displays in his honour.\n\nSharon Markham said her parents were \"such amazing people but their light will always be shining\"\n\nResidents of Croxley Green placed a banner opposite Mr Christmas' home to thank him for his displays and fundraising\n\nTurning off the lights at 21:23 GMT on Wednesday, in an event filmed for the Mr Christmas Facebook page, Mrs Markham thanked the community for its support over the years.\n\n\"Without you we could not have achieved the things we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought turning the lights on was hard enough but switching them off - this moment has been worrying me for months and now it's finally here.\n\n\"For now, though, we say goodbye and we thank Mr and Mrs Christmas for all the joy they have brought us all.\n\n\"We ask you all to continue to light up Croxley every year.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "George had mottled skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down\n\nThe mother of a baby who was treated in hospital for Covid-19 has urged parents to be alert to symptoms such as mottled skin and sickness.\n\nMyer Rudelhoff's four-month-old son George spent three nights in Basildon hospital, in Essex.\n\nHe had patchy skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a sickness bug. I had no idea it was caused by coronavirus.\"\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children can be a sign of coronavirus according to some researchers, but the officially recognised symptoms are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nMrs Rudlehoff, who lives in Basildon, noticed her son had a temperature on New Year's Eve but put it down to teething.\n\nGeorge began vomiting the following evening and on 2 January she called NHS 111, who told her to take him to hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I really did not want to go. I was so scared about him getting the virus there, I had no idea he had it.\n\n\"He got so poorly so quickly when we arrived and was really lethargic. They took a swab and, when they said he was positive, I burst into tears. It was such a shock.\"\n\nMyer Rudelhoff was scared to take her son to hospital but realised he was too poorly and needed treatment\n\nThe mother-of-two said she presumed it was not Covid-19 because he did not have a cough, though he did develop a mild one a few days later while in hospital.\n\nShe said the staff were \"amazing\" and she wanted to reassure parents \"not to be afraid to go to hospital\" if their children were ill.\n\nNurses told her they had treated several other children with the same mottled skin and sickness and asked her to share her story to raise awareness of these symptoms.\n\nMrs Rudelhoff's post on Facebook was shared nearly 7,000 times within three days.\n\nIn the post, she said she felt \"upset, angry and frustrated\" because she had taken the illness very seriously but George had still managed to catch it. He was the only member of the family who tested positive.\n\nGeorge was discharged from hospital and was making a good recovery at home, she said.\n\nGeorge is now making a good recovery at home and is being looked after by his big brother Stanley\n\nDr Kilali Ominu-Evbota, paediatric consultant at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"It's great to hear that George is now back home and on the road to recovery.\n\n\"George's family did the right thing and we encourage parents to seek medical advice with their GP or via the NHS 111 service in order to get the correct treatment for their child.\"\n\nBasildon has an infection rate of 1,265 cases per 100,000 people - compared to the average England rate of 606.9.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Upset stomach' in children may be coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "For the first since April the UK has recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths – one of the highest figures of the pandemic.\n\nRight now, London is at the epicentre of this crisis. Hospitals now have more Covid patients being admitted every day than they did at the peak in April. Many doctors and nurses say they're reaching breaking point.\n\nThe BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh has been allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at London's University College Hospital, which is one of the busiest in the capital.\n\nRead more: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week'", "Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday.\n\nHe takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017.\n\nMr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThat makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined.\n\nMr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark \"how strange\".\n\nAn older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.\n\n\"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves,\" it reads.\n\nThe tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: \"A Blue Senate is very bullish and a potential 'game changer' for Tesla and the overall electric vehicle sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years.\"\n\nExpected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, \"which continues to have an iron grip on the market today\", he added.\n\nMr Bezos is also using his personal wealth to fund space exploration\n\nMr Bezos has also seen his fortunes rise over the past year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant Amazon benefited from stronger demand for both its online store and cloud computing services.\n\nHowever, he gave a 4% stake in the business to his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott after they split, which helped Mr Musk overtake him.\n\nIn addition, the threat of regulation has meant Amazon's stock has not risen as high as it might otherwise have done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nThe owner of a business which has only just made its first annual profit and is still a minnow compared to the likes of Toyota - or Amazon - is now the world's richest person.\n\nIt is the fact that Tesla's share price has increased more than seven-fold in the past year that has sent Elon Musk's fortune rocketing past that of Jeff Bezos.\n\nTo believe the electric car-maker's worth could rise so rapidly in just 12 months is the ultimate example of irrational exuberance.\n\nIt means that Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.\n\nMind you, his many fans will point out that the somewhat eccentric tycoon has constantly confounded the sceptics who bet that he would go bust.\n\nAnd of course 20 years ago another tech visionary was staring disaster in the face when the dot com bubble burst and big profits seemed a distant dream - but Jeff Bezos went on to make those who bet on Amazon very rich indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nDonald Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nFour people have died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nPresident Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nMs Patel said the president's words had fuelled the violence and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, President Trump later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHe has been suspended from his Facebook and Instagram accounts for at least two weeks, and possibly indefinitely. Twitter has also frozen his account.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to Democrat Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the scenes were \"awful beyond words\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"His comments directly led to the violence, and so far he has failed to condemn that violence and that is completely wrong.\"\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nPoliticians across the UK's political parties lined up to condemn the scenes in Washington.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nIt is a truism of British diplomacy that every occupant of 10 Downing Street has to get on with every occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of their politics or character.\n\nPersonal consideration is pushed aside. What matters is the national interest and staying close to one of Britain's closest allies.\n\nThus even now, even after Donald Trump's incitement of the Capitol mob, even though there are less than two weeks until the inauguration, even as close Republican allies jump ship, Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were reluctant to criticise the president by name in their initial response overnight.\n\nYes, they condemned the violence. But of Mr Trump, not a word. This caution was matched by the Prime Ministers of fellow so-called Five Eyes intelligence allies, Australia and New Zealand, both of whom also both failed to mention Mr Trump in their condemnatory tweets.\n\nIn contrast, European leaders were quick to blame the president personally.\n\nIt was only this morning that a British minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, felt able to follow suit in strong terms.\n\nSo was this natural and sensible diplomatic caution in the midst of a febrile crisis?\n\nOr was this, as some Labour figures are already claiming, a function of the closeness between the current UK government and the Trump administration?\n\nIt was only a few weeks ago that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sun that he would miss Donald Trump because he was a good friend to Britain.\n\nWhatever one's views, it is certainly the case that the British government is seen on the international stage by some has having ideological proximity to Mr Trump.\n\nChanging that reputation is seen by many diplomats as a priority in the months ahead, a task made more urgent by events overnight.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in Crown Court.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a 13-year-old girl have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have all been remanded in youth detention custody and a provisional trial date has been set for 21 June.\n\nThe three teenagers, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had appeared at Reading Youth Court earlier on Thursday before the Crown Court hearing.\n\nThe defendants only spoke at the youth court to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nThe court heard the girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Crown Court hearing was told a potential trial was estimated to last five or six weeks.\n\nPolice were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nOlly was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, his family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "Matthew Mason will be sentenced later this month\n\nA man who killed a schoolboy after paying him to stop their sexual relationship being revealed has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMatthew Mason admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda with a wrench in Ashley, Cheshire, in 2019.\n\nThe 19-year-old paid Alex more than £2,000 after he contacted his then girlfriend about \"flirty\" messages, Chester Crown Court heard.\n\nMason, of Ash Lane in Ollerton, will be sentenced on 25 January.\n\nLawyers acting for Mason, who denied murder, had claimed the killing was the result of self-defence or a loss of control.\n\nBut the jury rejected this and found him guilty of murdering Alex by a majority of 10 to two.\n\nAs the verdict was returned, Mason appeared to be crying in the dock.\n\nMembers of Alex's family were also in tears. In a statement, they said they had \"never come across a more selfish, cold and calculating person\" as Mason.\n\n\"Mason has attempted to blame Alex and discredit his name throughout this trial and thankfully the jury were able to see through his web of deceit,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Alex's father Adam Rodda said the trial had been \"very difficult\" for the family and they were relieved Mason had been found guilty of murder.\n\n\"We wouldn't have accepted anything else, we would have been distraught if any other verdict had been given. We prayed and we are obviously delighted that justice has been done,\" he said.\n\nAlex Rodda was killed in woodland in Cheshire\n\nOn the evening of 12 December, Mason said he had picked Alex up from his home and drove him to a remote area of woodland where he told him he could not afford to give him any more money.\n\nThe agricultural engineering student, who was the son of a farmer, told the court he had taken the wrench with him to \"scare him\".\n\nHe claimed that, once in the woods, Alex had threatened to ruin his life \"financially or socially\" and pushed him to the floor, grabbing the wrench and hitting Mason with it.\n\nMason said he managed to get the wrench from Alex and recalled hitting him with it twice, although the court heard evidence of further blows.\n\nAlex, a pupil at Holmes Chapel High School, was struck at least 15 times to the head and his body was found by refuse collectors the next morning.\n\nEvidence showed Alex had been struck at least 15 times with the wrench\n\nThe jury heard Mason had paid Alex more than £2,000 to stop him reporting their \"intimate sexual relationship\".\n\nIn the month before the murder, Alex contacted Mason's girlfriend to tell her that her boyfriend had been messaging him \"in a flirty way\" and had sent an explicit photo and video.\n\nMason denied the claim but began making payments to the 15-year-old's bank account.\n\nBy the time of Alex's death, Mason had transferred more than £2,200 and was asking friends and family to borrow money, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mason, who lived with his family on a farm near Knutsford, admitted having sex with Alex but said he thought it was \"wrong\".\n\nHe told the court he did not believe his friends would accept him if he was gay or bisexual.\n\nIn the week before Alex's death, Mason made internet searches for phrases including \"what would happen if you kicked someone down the stairs\", \"everyday poison\" and \"the mysteries of Cheshire unsolved deaths of missing people\".\n\nBut he told the court he had been searching the terms because he was suicidal.\n\nAlex's body was found in woodland by refuse collectors\n\nAfter killing Alex, Mason had a drink with friends in the Red Lion pub in Pickmere and The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, Cheshire Police said.\n\nHe later returned to the woods and the prosecution believe he dragged Alex's body to the side of the road and attempted to put him inside his car.\n\nAfter failing to do this, he drove away. But a witness had taken a photo of his Renault Clio car parked on the track and reported this to police.\n\nMason was identified as the owner and arrested the next day.\n\nPolice said Mason had dried blood on his hands and there was a bin bag in his boot with a blood-stained fleece, the wrench and Alex's jacket in it.\n\nDet Insp Nigel Reid said: \"Mason had murder on his mind as he drove Alex to his death under the pretence of sexual activity.\n\n\"He chose a secluded place to kill him in cold blood, a place he believed he would go unseen and his crime undetected.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Sarah Bingham said she is a match donor for her daughter Ariel and eldest son Noah (far right)\n\nA mother with two children who need kidney transplants said she wishes she could help both of them, but can only donate one organ.\n\nSarah Bingham's son Noah, 20, and daughter Ariel, 16, have the same rare genetic condition.\n\nMrs Bingham, 48, is a donor match for her children and said her maternal instinct is to donate to both of them.\n\nBut her organ was always due to go to her daughter and two family friends are matches for her son.\n\nHer husband Darryl, 49, is not a match, so cannot be a donor for their children.\n\nBoth Noah and Ariel have nephronophthisis, which causes inflammation and scarring to the kidneys.\n\nMrs Bingham, of Hexham, Northumberland, said although her son is \"very poorly\", he undergoes regular dialysis and is in a stable condition.\n\nHer daughter's kidney function \"has been deteriorating more in the last year\" and she will probably need a transplant first.\n\nMrs Bingham said: \"I was all set to give a kidney to my daughter and then my son went into renal failure and he also needs a kidney. Obviously, I've only got one that I can donate.\n\n\"The renal teams don't push you [to make a decision], because you're putting yourself on the line to donate a kidney.\n\n\"You have to make that call yourself, but obviously as a mum when you've got two children who both need kidney transplants and you've expected to give your kidney to one, and suddenly the other one needs one as well, you feel this dilemma.\"\n\nNoah Bingham is in a stable condition thanks to regular kidney dialysis\n\nProblems began in 2016 when Ariel started to feel constantly tired.\n\nHer fatigue was initially put down to exam stress, but tests at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary found she had the kidney condition.\n\nMrs Bingham was told she would be a suitable donor for Ariel when the time came.\n\nThen, in 2019, Noah became ill and was diagnosed with the same condition.\n\nHe is stable, but would need to put on weight to undergo a transplant.\n\nThe couple have another son Casper, 12, who is being tested to see if he also has the condition.\n\nDarryl Bingham is not a suitable match for his two eldest children\n\nProf John Sayer, a kidney specialist at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who is treating Noah, said nephronophthisis affects about one in 100,000 people.\n\n\"There's clearly a dilemma because there's a shortage of donors for patients needing kidney transplants.\n\n\"But kidney failure itself is not rare. There are 4,500 people across the country waiting for a transplant.\"\n\nHe added patients often face a \"gruelling and terrifying\" wait of about three years for a donor organ.\n\nIn December, Mr Bingham completed the challenge of walking 12,000 steps every day for 12 days to raise money for Kidney Research UK, which has supported the family.\n\nMrs Bingham said that if Ariel's condition was to deteriorate first she would get her kidney\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some supermarkets faced issues over the festive period due to ports disruption\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".\n\nIt argued frontline workers in meat factories should get early vaccinations due to the risk of a rapid spread of the new strains of the virus among key workers.\n\nThe government has set out who will get vaccinated first, which starts with care home residents and the oldest and most vulnerable people.\n\nBut Nick Allen, chief executive of the BMPA, said it would be logical to also prioritise key workers in the food industry.\n\n\"As the new coronavirus variant takes hold across the whole of the UK, we are hearing widespread reports of rapidly rising absences in the food supply chain,\" he said.\n\nSome firms supplying supermarkets \"are seeing a tripling of staff having to take time off work through illness or enforced self-isolation\", he added.\n\nPressures on staff during the lockdown include illness, having to self-isolate, and childcare while some schools are closed under England's lockdown.\n\nDue to the specialised nature of meat production, if even a few key factory personnel such as the foreman or managers are absent, production can stop, Mr Allen said.\n\nEarly vaccinations should not be restricted to the meat industry, according to Mr Allen. All key workers in the food industry should get early vaccinations, he said.\n\nEven supermarkets themselves are having problems with absences, he suggested.\n\n\"The key food supply chains ought to be prioritised,\" he said. \"All food industry key workers should be prioritised [for vaccination]\".\n\nThe government is advised on vaccinations by a group of experts called the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 Chair for the JCVI, said the committee's advice on vaccine prioritisation \"was developed with the aim of preventing as many deaths as possible.\"\n\n\"As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age,\" he said.\n\n\"It is estimated that vaccinating everyone in the priority groups would prevent 99% of deaths, including those associated with occupational exposure to infection,\" the professor added.\n\nSainsbury's boss Simon Roberts also called for early vaccinations for key workers on Thursday.\n\n\"My view is that priority has to be given to those that need it first,\" he said. \"Those on the frontline should be part of that as and when capacity becomes available.\"\n\nAbsence rates for Sainsbury's staff are lower than at the peak of the crisis, but are rising, and have stepped up in the last few days, he said.\n\nThe Sainsbury's absence rate is currently 8%. The business has 172,000 employees.\n\nAsda said that it had seen an increase in employees self-isolating and shielding in line with the rising UK infection rate.\n\nHowever, it said that absence rates were still lower than at the peak of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are taking proactive steps to manage colleague absences by retaining temporary colleagues hired over the Christmas period and are bringing in additional temporary colleagues in those stores that need them the most,\" and Asda spokesman said.\n\nTesco has asked clinically vulnerable staff to stay at home.\n\nMorrisons, meanwhile, is also seeing more absences, but the rate is still more than half that of the peak of the pandemic. It is also a bigger business having taken on 26,000 extra staff during the crisis.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium said: \"While absence rates are currently rising, retailers are closely monitoring the situation in stores and distribution centres and supply chains continue to run smoothly.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs said: \"As we have seen in recent months, the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation and are working closely with the food industry on the workforce and absence related challenges presented by the pandemic.\"\n\nThey added that the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people across the country have the food they need.\n\nUK ports have seen disruption due to the effects of coronavirus on trade and new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Roberts of Sainsbury's said that, so far, the flow of goods from Europe is in decent shape, but there had been some problems in sending food to Northern Ireland.There is still some backlog in general merchandising, he added.\n\nHowever, Scottish seafood exporters warned on Thursday that they had been hit by the \"perfect storm of Brexit disruption\".\n\n\"Weakened by Covid-19, and the closure of the French border before Christmas, the end of the Brexit transition period has unleashed layer upon layer of administrative problems, resulting in queues, border refusals and utter confusion,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\nShe said IT problems in France meant consignments were diverted from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk, \"which was unprepared as it wasn't supposed to be at the export frontline.\"\n\nThere have also been IT issues on the UK side with HMRC, she added.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets,\" she said. \"They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition. If the window closes these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nThe National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations also warned of delays to fish exports due to \"a brick wall of bureaucracy\".", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a \"significant\" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nA final decision on whether the game will take place at all will be made on Friday.\n\nVilla manager Dean Smith, his coaching staff and the rest of the club's first-team squad will not be involved after the outbreak forced the closure of the club's Bodymoor Heath training headquarters on Thursday.\n\nThe club is in discussions with the Football Association and want to fulfil the fixture (kick-off 19:45 GMT) but final confirmation on whether the tie is played is still on hold pending the results of further testing on the young players who are now being considered for selection.\n\nMark Delaney, Villa's under-23 coach, is scheduled to take charge in the absence of Smith and his backroom staff. He will be accompanied by a doctor, physiotherapist and kit staff.\n\nThe game was thrown into doubt when Villa confirmed the shutdown of the training ground after \"a large number of first-team players and staff\" returned positive Covid-19 results after being tested on Monday.\n\nThose affected went into isolation and a second round of tests was carried out immediately, which produced more positive results on Thursday.\n\nVilla are keen to play the game against Jurgen Klopp's Premier League champions, who they thrashed 7-2 earlier this season. Manager Smith had planned to rest several stars for the game but the Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the club's plans into chaos.\n\nThey will now be hoping the additional Covid-19 testing returns a clean bill of health with Villa liaising closely with the FA in the hope of getting the game played on Friday night.\n\nThe meeting between in-form Villa and Liverpool is one of the most attractive ties of the third round, even if both managers were set to field unfamiliar line-ups.\n\nIt also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday goes ahead.\n• None What sport has been hit by Covid-19 this weekend?\n\nElswhere, Southampton's FA Cup third-round game against Shrewsbury on Sunday was called off on Thursday after a significant number of Shrews players and staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nWayne Rooney and Derby's first-team squad will miss their FA Cup tie at Chorley on Saturday following a Covid-19 outbreak which closed their training ground on Monday.\n\nThe Rams' team for the game at Victory Park will be made up of under-23 and under-18 players.\n\nVilla will be doing all they can to ensure Friday's tie goes ahead but the Covid-19 outbreak could also have Premier League ramifications.\n\nVilla are scheduled to face fourth-placed Spurs at Villa Park on Wednesday and they currently stand only three points behind Jose Mourinho's team.\n\nThere must now be question marks over whether that game will take place.\n\nIf the game is off it will only add to the fixture congestion both clubs are likely to face in an already crowded calendar this season.\n\nVilla, even though they planned to leave out several established first-team players against Liverpool, still had high FA Cup ambitions and would have wanted to maintain the momentum that has given them such an impressive start to the season after only surviving in the top flight on the final day of last season.\n\nThey will hope the latest testing brings no further complications in the FA Cup context - then attention will turn to what has the potential to be a hugely significant game on Wednesday.\n• Stream eight live FA Cup third-round games this weekend on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Find out more here.", "GPs in England are receiving doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn about overstretched hospitals.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine is part of the NHS's biggest-ever effort and aims to offer jabs to 13 million by mid-February - including all over-80s.\n\nBirmingham's NHS said there are enough supplies with more to come as politicians warned doses may run out.\n\nSome hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nAnd hospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine to GPs will help increase vaccinations among the top four priority groups who are first in line to receive doses.\n\nThe Department of Health said 1.3 million people in the UK, including almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England, have received at least one dose so far.\n\nWriting to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Birmingham political leaders criticised communication around the vaccination programme in the city.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the vaccination rollout is in its early days, but we have also learned today that Birmingham has not yet been supplied with any AstraZeneca stock, while current Pfizer stocks are scheduled to run out on Friday this week with currently no clarity on when further supplies will arrive.\"\n\nThey added \"it remains unclear who is responsible for overseeing the vaccination programme in Birmingham, and whom we should hold accountable for progress and delivery\".\n\nThe letter is signed by Labour leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward; Liam Byrne MP, Labour's candidate for the West Midlands mayor, and by Conservative MP and ex-minister Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut NHS Birmingham and Solihull told the BBC: \"Thousands of people in Birmingham and Solihull have already been vaccinated and this continues at pace.\n\n\"We have sufficient supplies and more will be coming.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said he has been assured supplies of the Oxford vaccine will be delivered to Birmingham on Friday.\n\nElsewhere, Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described \"teething\" issues with the vaccine rollout there.\n\nShe told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: \"We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'.\"\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history, with an aim to offer jabs to most care home residents by the end of January and the most vulnerable by mid-February.\n\nOfficials leading the vaccination programme are adamant rollout is going to plan - and are cautioning against judging performance too early.\n\nOf course, there will be teething problems, but the fact remains the UK has vaccinated more per head of population than any other country apart from Israel and Bahrain.\n\nWhile rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine started on Monday, it was actually only being used at the hospital hubs up to Thursday.\n\nDeliveries are now being made to hundreds of local vaccination centres. There are 17 in the Birmingham region so they should start to receive doses imminently.\n\nThat should mean there is a vaccine available if they do run out of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAlthough disruption to the rollout of the programme in the city may still happen as local centres are warning they cannot book patients in until they know they have stock available.\n\nBut the fact the city's leaders felt compelled to write to the health secretary to warn about this is an illustration of the pressure in the system at the moment.\n\nGiven the high level of infections and current lockdown, there is a desperation in all quarters to get the most at-risk vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd until the nation sees that translate into significant numbers of people getting vaccinated - 2 million a week is the goal - people will remain on edge.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use on 2 December but requires specialist storage unsuitable for most GP practices, with doses largely delivered in hospitals.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was approved on 30 December and does not require specialist storage. It was first rolled out on Monday to hospitals and to GPs in England from Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One medical centre in London is now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nMr Hancock visited a GP surgery in London to promote the roll out earlier - but staff there said delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed.\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"delighted\" care home residents would begin receiving their first Oxford jabs from GPs this week.\n\n\"This will ensure the most vulnerable are protected and will save tens of thousands of lives,\" he said.\n\nGP Ammara Hughes, a partner at Bloomsbury Surgery, told broadcasters its first delivery of the Oxford jab had been pushed back 24 hours to Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"It's just more frustrating than a concern because we've got the capacity to vaccinate. And if we had a regular supply - we do have the capacity to vaccinate three to four thousand patients a week.\"\n\nMr Hancock described supply of vaccine as a \"rate-limiting\" step.\n\nHe said: \"For the first three days with the Oxford vaccine we did it in hospitals to check that it was working well and it's working well so now we can make sure that it gets to all those GP surgeries that like this one can do all the vaccinations that are needed.\n\n\"The rate-limiting step is the supply of vaccine. We're working with the companies - both Pfizer and AstraZeneca - to increase the supply.\"\n\nMore than 700 local vaccination sites will administer jabs, with the government announcing a further seven mass vaccination sites across England.\n\nAnother 180 GP-led sites, 100 new hospital sites and a pilot scheme involving local pharmacies will open this week.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 19,981 second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab - which was the first to be approved for emergency use in the UK last month - were administered between 29 December and 3 January, NHS England said.\n\nIt came as Rupert Pearse, professor of intensive care medicine and a consultant at the Royal London, said his own intensive care staff are having to care for far more sick patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there would usually be a ratio of one fully-trained intensive care nurse for each patient in a unit but staff are becoming increasingly stretched.\n\n\"Right now we are diluting down to one [intensive care] nurse to three [patients] and filling those gaps with untrained staff and in some instances doctors helping nurses deliver their care... and we're even facing diluting that further to one in four,\" he said.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown, and vaccinations are progressing across the devolved nations.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has reported a bumper Christmas, with sales up 9.3% for the festive trading period.\n\nMore customers bought their food online than ever before, it said.\n\nIn the 10 days leading up to Christmas, it delivered 1.1 million online orders, twice last year's number.\n\n\"Many customers had to change their Christmas plans at the last minute and we sold smaller turkeys and more lamb and beef than normal,\" said chief executive Simon Roberts.\n\nSainsbury's Christmas trading period covered the nine weeks from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.\n\nFor the 15 weeks to 2 January, like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings, were up 8.6%.\n\n\"We now expect, after forgoing business rates relief of £410m, to report underlying profit before tax of at least £330m in the financial year to March 2021,\" the supermarket said.\n\nThat is down from the previous year's figure of £586m.\n\nSainsbury's has delivered bumper festive sales. It's invested heavily in boosting online capacity to keep up with the soaring demand.\n\nSupermarkets have struggled to make money from doing online deliveries, but Sainsbury's says its operation has become more efficient and profitability has improved. As volumes have increased, there are more orders in every van delivering to a smaller radius of customers.\n\nClick-and-collect is a lot cheaper to do than home deliveries. And this accounted for about a quarter of online sales in the final week.\n\nArgos generated more than half its sales from online well before the pandemic. More than 300 Argos counters are now inside Sainsbury's supermarkets, making it easy for people to pick up goods and gifts. Its fast-track delivery service can deliver to customers' homes and collection points within hours and this has seen growth of 62%.\n\nThis is a business that's been well placed to benefit from the huge shift to digital this Christmas.\n\nChristmas and New Year celebrations were constrained by coronavirus restrictions, which limited the number of people and households allowed to meet up.\n\nSainsbury's said that while people had smaller gatherings, they still treated themselves, with sales of the supermarket's premium Taste the Difference range up 11%.\n\nPremium champagne sales were up 52%, it added, echoing similar findings by rival Morrisons.\n\n\"People did more home baking than usual, with mincemeat sales up 24%. Customers still wanted New Year's Eve at home to feel special and we sold a record number of steaks,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\nSales of groceries, general merchandise and clothing were stronger than expected throughout the quarter, particularly since the start of England's second national lockdown, it added.\n\nClothing benefited from better-than-anticipated full-price sales, driven by customers shopping earlier for Christmas and changes to the supermarket's Black Friday trading strategy.\n\nSeparate figures issued by discount retailer B&M indicated that it too had a good Christmas, with like-for-like revenues at its UK stores up 21.1% year-on-year in the 13 weeks to 26 December.\n\n\"With our combination of exceptional value and convenient out-of-town locations, we are confident that our business model will prove highly relevant to the needs of customers in 2021,\" said chief executive Simon Arora.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Shijiazhuang authorities have started mass-testing residents following an outbreak in the city\n\nChina has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.\n\nResidents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.\n\nMore than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.\n\nThe new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.\n\nThis has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.\n\nHebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 before spiralling into a global pandemic.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year, a time when people in China travel en masse to spend the holiday with their families.\n\nBut residents in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak, are now not allowed to leave their local area. Other residents are banned from leaving the city.\n\nIn terms of transport, bus travel has been halted and many flights have been cancelled.\n\nResidents have been banned from leaving the city\n\nIn a sign of just how seriously the authorities see the situation, even the postal service in and out of Shijiazhuang has been suspended for three days. And the restrictions are being tightly enforced - police were photographed in protective hazmat suits guarding the entrance to an expressway.\n\nThree officials in Shijiazhuang's Gaocheng district have been punished for \"negligence\", according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.\n\n\"Villages should identify, report, isolate and treat cases as early as possible, so as to cut off the transmission,\" Wu Hao, a national health official, was quoted as saying.\n\nFive hospitals in Shijiazhuang have been cleared for Covid-19 patients, with three others standing by, the city's Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year - a time when families gather\n\nIt is not the first time China has locked down a city in response to a cluster of cases since the outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nIn October, all nine million residents of the Chinese city of Qingdao were tested in five days after a dozen cases were confirmed. The cases were linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.\n\nThe same month, authorities in Kashgar, in Xinjiang, tested around 4.7m people after an outbreak there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many businesses in Beijing say that customers are still staying away", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just when the hospitality sector thought things couldn't get any worse, it has been hit by another lockdown.\n\nLast year's rolling closures forced Martin Wolstencroft to borrow £4m just to ensure the survival of Arc Inspirations, a bar chain with 17 venues across the north of England that he has spent the last two decades building into a successful business.\n\nAnd the latest lockdown has forced Mr Wolstencroft to ask his bank to lend him another £1m.\n\nHe is far from alone. UK Hospitality says the closure of pubs, restaurants and hotels is costing business owners such as Mr Wolstencroft a total of £500m a month, even allowing for any government support. And that has led to a huge rise in debt.\n\n\"The money that we are borrowing is really just to stand still,\" Mr Wolstencroft said.\n\n\"We'll be coming out of this in a far worse position with far greater debt and it totally reduces our ability to grow our business for the future.\n\n\"And all of this has been brought about through no fault of our own.\"\n\nHe reckons the debt he has taken on so far will take the business six years to pay back, which leaves him facing some difficult decisions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a package of grants worth up to £3,000 a month per property to keep retail, hospitality and leisure businesses afloat until the spring.\n\nBut Mr Wolstencroft, who pays rents of more than £16,000 a month on some of his bars, described the grants as a \"mere drop in the ocean\".\n\nThe effect of taking on huge debts with no prospect of reopening soon is a major threat to millions working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMore than 1,600 restaurants closed last year, costing 30,000 jobs, says property adviser Altus.\n\nWhen bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses are included, almost 300,000 jobs were lost last year as a result of the pandemic, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAnd that figure is expected to more than double in the first three months of this year alone.\n\nKate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, predicts the total will hit 660,000 by the end of March.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls is calling for further support for the industry\n\n\"The longer that these restrictions are in place, the more rapidly businesses will simply run out of cash and be unable to to remain open,\" she said.\n\nA survey of the trade body's members revealed that 80% of businesses did not have enough cash to make it through to April. \"It's going to be unbelievably brutal in the first quarter,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe latest lockdown follows a bruising Christmas period for the hospitality sector, which typically depends on a busy December to tide it over during January, traditionally a quiet month for pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"It's obviously very worrying for our industry,\" says Tim Hughes, who runs the Plough pub at Sleapshyde in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"They have banned takeaway sales of alcohol from pubs, but off-licences and supermarkets can carry on selling it,\" he said.\n\nBetween them, Mr Hughes, his brother and his father run three pubs in the St Albans area. They have already borrowed £350,000 and Mr Hughes says the latest lockdown will force them to take on even more debt just to survive.\n\nMonthly fixed costs at each of the pubs run to £9,500 and only one of their venues qualifies for the full £3,000 grant, so Mr Hughes says the Treasury's support \"doesn't touch the sides\".\n\nIt's the fourth time Mr Hughes has been forced to close the doors to the Plough - and each time it has cost him about £5,000.\n\nThis time, he also had to give away £4,000 worth of jumbo pork, vegetarian and vegan Bavarian bratwursts, bought to give 2,000 customers a substantial meal in the pub's \"winter garden\" during the festive period.\n\nThat was before an unexpected decision to put St Albans into tier three forced him to close the pub. He cancelled those bookings and refunded customers their £16,000.\n\nThe Plough's \"winter garden\", which was booked up for the Christmas period, stands empty\n\nRalph Findlay, the boss of Marston's, which has 1,700 pubs across the country and employs 14,000 people, said some pubs that had been forced to close their doors because of the lockdown would never reopen.\n\nHalf of Marston's employees are under 25, he said. \"I really worry about the impact of this on their employment prospects in places where it's very difficult to find employment.\"\n\nHe has called for pubs to be given more time before they are required to pay business rates again, which will leave pubs facing an £800m bill as soon as the current rates holiday expires in March, according to the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nThat would force landlords, including Mr Hughes, to foot a bill that works out at £25,000 a pub.\n\n\"We are kidding ourselves if we think that more debt upon more debt is going to be sustainable,\" said Stephen Welton, executive chairman of the Business Growth Fund.\n\n\"Past recessions have shown very clearly that it's coming out of a recession - when companies are short of working capital - that they fall over.\"\n\nFor Mr Hughes at the Plough, he is looking for all the support he can get to avoid being put into a \"bigger black hole\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"\"We've taken swift action throughout the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nHe said the grant scheme would continue to support businesses and jobs through to the spring.", "Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here's what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.\n\nI had told my sister earlier: \"Something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what, but something bad will happen.\"\n\nOutside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.\n\nI went inside to the House of Representatives and up into the press gallery, where we were assigned seats, looking down at the rather sombre gathering. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding the gavel, and keeping people to their five-minute statements.\n\nAs we went into the second hour, all of a sudden we heard breaking glass. The air began getting fogged. An announcement from the Capitol Police said, \"An individual has breached the building\". So everyone looked around and then it was business as usual. But after that, the announcements kept coming. And they were getting more and more urgent.\n\nThey announced that the intruders had breached the rotunda, which is under the famed marble dome. The sacred house of democracy was under fire.\n\nMany of us are hardened journalists - I've seen my share of violence covering homicides in Baltimore - but this was very unpredictable. The police didn't seem to know what was happening. They weren't coordinated. They locked the chamber doors but at the same time, they told us we would have to evacuate. So there was a sense of panic.\n\nI was afraid. I'll tell you that. And I've spoken to other journalists who said they were a little ashamed of themselves for feeling afraid.\n\nThere was a sense of \"nobody's in charge here, the Capitol Police have lost control of the building, anything can happen\".\n\nIf you think back to the September 11 attacks in 2001, there was one plane that went down and didn't hit its target. That target was the Capitol. There were echoes of that. I made a call to my family, just to let them know that I was here and it was a dangerous situation.\n\nThere was a shot. We could see there was a standoff in our chamber. Five men were holding guns at the door. It was a frightening sight. Men were looking through a broken glass window and looked like they could shoot at any second.\n\nThankfully there was no gunfire inside the chamber. But for a while there, it felt like it would be a real possibility. Because things were going downhill very fast.\n\nWe had to crawl under railings to get out of the way. I was not dressed to do that. A lot of women were dressed up, wearing heels, because they had come for a formal ritual.\n\nI sheltered in the House cafeteria alongside others. I'm still shaking now.\n\nI have seen a lot as a journalist, but this was something more. This was the collective public sphere being undermined, assaulted, degraded. And I think this was why the Speaker wanted to return and hold the gavel again and go on.\n\nAfterwards I had to decide whether I was going to go back to the chamber too. I decided l probably would, because the message that is sending is: \"You can incite a mob, but we're going to go on\". I think that is a very important political message.", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "More than 26,000 are now in hospital with the virus, according to government data\n\nFrance's top medical adviser said on Sunday that a third national lockdown would probably soon be needed to combat coronavirus in the country.\n\nA strict curfew was implemented last weekend, but cases continue to climb.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises leaders on Covid-19, said \"there is an emergency\" and this week was critical.\n\nHe called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.\n\nProf Delfraissy said data showed a new more transmissible variant first detected in the UK now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions and will be hard to stop.\n\nHe said the country was in a better situation than others in Europe, but described the new variants as the \"equivalent of a second pandemic\".\n\n\"If we do not tighten regulations, we will find ourselves in an extremely difficult situation from mid-March,\" the advisor warned during an interview with BFM television.\n\nThe French government is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if further measures are needed.\n\nOfficials have so far resisted implementing a third national lockdown, preferring an overnight curfew system which allows schools to stay open.\n\nBut daily infection numbers are rising - with the seven-day moving average now above 20,000 despite the 18:00 curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex previously said restrictions could be imposed \"without delay\" if the situation deteriorated further.\n\nThe country's virus death toll topped 73,000 on Sunday, as the country tightened restrictions on arrivals into the country.\n\nUnder new rules anyone entering from inside the EU by air or ferry must now present a negative Covid-19 test result within 72 hours of travel. Those entering France from the EU by road, including cross-border workers, will not be required to take a test.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that all non-essential travel \"must be strongly advised against\" but EU nations have so far agreed to keep borders open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19", "Ella Lambert had never sewn before but borrowed a friend's machine to learn how to make sanitary pads made from cloth\n\nA student whose \"terrible period pains\" inspired her to start a reusable sanitary pad project has helped 600 refugees get out of \"period poverty\".\n\nElla Lambert, 20, from Chelmsford, Essex, started The Pachamama Project during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said she wanted to help women who were unable to buy period products.\n\nNearly 2,500 pads sewn by 150 volunteers have been sent to camps in Greece and Lebanon.\n\nWomen are given four pads each, which are washable and can be reused for about five years, she said.\n\nThe pads are distributed to women in refugee camps\n\nMs Lambert said: \"In March I had terrible period pain, I was being sick, it was awful, and it made me think, I know I'm not the only person going through this.\n\n\"The people I want to help, in these camps, they're experiencing period pain and having to use random tissue paper, cardboard, socks, scraps of material and even leaves - whatever they can get hold of.\"\n\nThe University of Bristol languages student set up her not-for-profit group in March and launched her sanitary product - Pacha Pads - in August, with the help of charities and groups in the two countries to distribute them.\n\nThousands of pads have been made by hundreds of volunteers since August\n\nIt started when she put appeals for material on community groups, she said.\n\nVolunteers from all over the UK came forward to make the products after she developed a pattern, created a guide and explained how to source material for free.\n\nThe products are then sent back to her to be posted abroad, after quality checks.\n\nSome of the sewers came from groups formed to make scrubs for NHS workers during the first lockdown, and who still wanted to be useful, she said.\n\nAlice Corrigan, from The Free Shop of Lebanon, said the project helped with the \"fight against period poverty in Lebanon\"\n\nAlice Corrigan, founder of The Free Shop Lebanon, which hands out the products for free in its shop, said: \"Sustainable menstrual products are very new to many Lebanese and in particular Syrian women.\"\n\nShe added it is not common for them to talk about menstrual activity, so it was important they could be helped to understand its importance and accept it as part of their routine.\n\nKaty Chadwick, technical adviser at the charity ActionAid UK, said: \"For too many women and girls and people who menstruate a lack of access to products impacts on their ability to move freely and to access education and other opportunities.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see new initiatives to support the most marginalised women and girls access sustainable products.\"\n\nAll the sanitary pads are washable so they can be reused for up to about five years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Janice Johnston says doctors who misdiagnosed her \"took so much away from me\"\n\nA care home worker who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer said she thought it was a \"cruel joke\" when she was told doctors had made a mistake and she did not have cancer at all.\n\nMum-of-four Janice Johnston said her \"world crumbled\" when she learned she had a rare form of blood cancer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 2017.\n\nShe had 18 months of oral chemotherapy treatment, during which she experienced weight loss, nausea and bone pain, and had to give up her job as an auxiliary nurse.\n\nWhen the treatment did not appear to be working, she says, medics upped the dosage.\n\nIn 2018, she sought alternative treatment at Guy's Hospital in London. It was there a specialist told her she did not have cancer at all but a different condition.\n\nMrs Johnston was awarded £75,950 in damages after East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability. Staff at the hospital had failed to do the necessary ultrasound scan and bone marrow biopsy before diagnosing her.\n\nMrs Johnston, 53, said: \"The cancer diagnosis was an absolute shock. They said my life span would be shortened.\n\n\"I was at high risk of a fatal stroke or heart attack and I could drop down at any minute. It was heartbreaking and devastating.\n\n\"It didn't sink in until I saw the haematologist. I was in a room with people having serious chemotherapy who looked incredibly ill. I thought: 'I'm like them'.\"\n\nMrs Johnston says doctors told her she would need chemotherapy for life.\n\nThe side-effects led to her feeling \"wiped out\", her hair thinning, her teeth becoming loose and her gums receding.\n\nShe says occupational health told her that her immune system was jeopardised and she could pick up infections easily. That meant she was forced to resign from her job.\n\n\"Giving up work was horrible,\" Mrs Johnston says.\n\nShe was also worried she would not get to see some of her daughters get married or her grandchildren grow up.\n\nThe trust admitted failing to carry out vital tests before diagnosing Mrs Johnston\n\nAfter searching on the internet to find out more about the blood cancer she was told she had - Polycythaemia vera (PV) - she learned that Guy's Hospital offered a different type of chemotherapy and asked her consultant for an appointment there.\n\nMrs Johnston recalls: \"The specialist at Guy's looked over my blood counts and said: 'I don't think you have blood cancer'.\"\n\nThe doctor told Mrs Johnston she had a different condition called secondary PV which is not cancer.\n\n\"She asked if I'd had a bone marrow test and scan of the spleen to confirm the diagnosis - I hadn't had either. My husband thought it was fantastic but I was angry.\n\n\"I thought it was a cruel joke on me. It didn't sink in. My husband couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy - but it had taken my life.\"\n\nOne of the hardest things to cope with for Mrs Johnston was thinking she had been a \"fraud\".\n\n\"I'd been doing some fundraising to try and have something positive to focus on. Cancer Research UK asked if I'd be guest of honour at a charity run in Margate. I stood on stage in front of 3,000 women saying I had cancer.\n\n\"I'm mortified that people will think I made it up. It has made me feel awful and like I have lied to everyone,\" she said.\n\nMrs Johnston now has severe anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"I still get flashbacks to it,\" she says. \"It was two years of my life. They took so much away from me.\"\n\nShe says she wants to \"raise awareness\" about her experience, and for \"anyone that does get diagnosed with it, to ask questions and learn as much as they can about it and if they feel any doubt, to get a second opinion\".\n\nA spokesperson for East Kent Hospitals said: \"A misdiagnosis of this kind is exceptionally rare and we wholeheartedly apologise to Ms Johnston.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Galle (day four of five)\n\nEngland completed a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.\n\nChasing a tricky 164, England were 89-4 on a turning pitch but opener Dom Sibley hit 56 not out to lead them to a six-wicket win.\n\nSibley, who had not reached double figures in the series, put on 75 with Jos Buttler, who made 46 not out.\n\nEarlier, England capitalised on reckless batting to dismiss Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings.\n\nDom Bess and Jack Leach took four wickets each and the hosts would have been dismissed even more cheaply but for 40 from number 10 Lasith Embuldeniya, who finished with match figures of 10-210.\n\nResuming on 339-9 in their first innings, England conceded a first-innings deficit of 37 when Jack Leach was dismissed with only five runs added.\n\nSri Lanka were favourites at that point but England completed a turnaround on a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell.\n\nThe series win is England's fourth in a row and they are also unbeaten in 10 successive Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, going into a difficult series in India which starts on 5 February.\n\nEngland are fourth in the World Test Championship table, 0.5% behind third-placed Australia.\n• None Root urges England not to 'stand still'\n• None TMS podcast: What does England's series win mean for India tour?\n\nThis was also England's fifth consecutive away Test win, the first time they have achieved that feat since World War One. They are developing an impressive winning habit.\n\nSri Lanka's batting, perhaps spooked by the turning pitch, was inept and their effort in the field lacklustre, but England were clinical.\n\nBess and Leach bowled well - far better than their wicketless showing in the first innings - while James Anderson took a brilliant high catch and Zak Crawley two excellent grabs at short leg.\n\nSri Lanka were leading only by 115 when their eighth wicket fell, before Embuldeniya, who had a remarkable game in defeat, dragged them to a score.\n\nThe target looked competitive - the hosts were possibly even favourites - but the manner England in which overhauled it was mightily impressive.\n\nThere was a wobble when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw for a useful 28-ball 29, Root - the dominant player in the series - was bowled for 11 and Dan Lawrence edged behind with a further 85 needed.\n\nHowever, Sibley played the anchor role while Buttler provided impetus in his typically attacking style.\n\nSibley, so at sea in his previous three innings, calmly nudged singles into the leg side. Buttler played thumped drives to the extra-cover boundary, smacked a reverse sweep through point and launched a slog sweep through mid-wicket.\n\nIn the end, England won with ease, Sibley sealing a fine win by tapping for one.\n\nSri Lanka threatened better in this match, having been convincingly beaten by seven wickets in the first.\n\nThey batted well in the first innings and in Embuldeniya they have a fine spinner, playing only his ninth Test.\n\nBut their fourth-day performance was abysmal. Their batting was akin to their performance on day one of the series when they were bowled out for 135.\n\nThe dismissals of captain Dinesh Chandimal - skying a slog sweep to Anderson at mid-on having hit a four a ball earlier - and Niroshan Dickwella, who drove Bess to extra cover two minutes before lunch, were the worst of a series of needlessly aggressive shots.\n\nSri Lanka also disappointed in the field. They were a little unfortunate that Sibley survived three tight lbw reviews, all of which were umpire's call, but their tactics were baffling.\n\nChandimal set the field back and allowed an accumulator in Sibley to tick along as he wished.\n\nThis tour, while important for points in the World Test Championship, always felt like the warm-up act in a huge year for England's Test team.\n\nNext they face a far bigger challenge in India before a summer against New Zealand, top of the Test rankings, India again, and an Ashes series in Australia the winter.\n\nThe biggest plus of this series has been the emphatic run-scoring of Root. He did not score a century in 2019 but made 228 and 186, albeit against a poor Sri Lanka. The skipper amassed 426 runs at an average of 106.50 in the series.\n\nBess and Leach were by no means perfect - they bowl too many bad balls - but finished the series with 12 and 10 wickets respectively.\n\nThe match-winning fifty for Sibley is also a significant boost going into the four Tests in India. Having been dismissed by Embuldeniya in every innings on tour previously, he showed he can grind out a score.\n\nEngland's veteran bowlers, Anderson and Stuart Broad, proved once again they can perform in unhelpful conditions.\n\nThere are question marks, however, about opener Crawley, whose top score in four innings was 13.\n\nThe issues at the top of the order are complicated by the fact Bairstow, who has done well at number three, has been rested for the first two Tests in India.\n\nEngland opener Dom Sibley on Test Match Special: \"I didn't think I'd left any stone unturned with regards playing spin, but then you go back to your room in the evening and think 'maybe I'm not up to this' and have those doubts.\n\n\"It is about accepting those and just believing. It just feels like pure relief at the moment.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed today. We have done all the hard work in the last three days but as a batting unit we made the same mistakes of the first Test. There are no excuses for the batsmen and we've got to learn how to bat like Joe Root.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"A really, really strong performance from England. If you look down from one to 11, most people have contributed.\n\n\"They will have to bowl better in India. But the confidence that this will do for the team, and for Joe Root at the start of a huge year, is huge.\"", "A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max.\n\nThe aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to gain approval in Europe this week.\n\nBut in a new report, Ed Pierson claims that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory is badly needed.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pierson claims that regulators and investigators have largely ignored factors, which he believes, may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nHe explicitly links them to conditions at the company's factory in Renton, near Seattle at the time. Boeing says this is unfounded.\n\nInvestigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor. It sent inaccurate data to a piece of flight control software, called MCAS.\n\nThis automated system then repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft downwards, when the pilots were trying to gain height. Ultimately each aircraft was pushed into an unrecoverable dive.\n\nEfforts to make the 737 Max safe have focused on redesigning the MCAS software, and ensuring it can no longer be triggered by a single sensor failure.\n\nFor Ed Pierson, this does not go nearly far enough. A US Navy veteran, who had a senior role on the 737 production line from 2015-2018, he was a star witness during congressional hearings into the disasters involving the Max.\n\nHe told lawmakers he had become so concerned about conditions at the factory, he had told his bosses that he was hesitant about taking his own family on a Boeing plane.\n\nEd Pierson (centre), seated next to his attorney Eric Havian (right), at a House Transportation Committee hearing on oversight of the Boeing 737 Max certification, on 11 December 2019\n\nHe testified that during 2018, the factory was in a \"chaotic\" and \"dysfunctional\" state as, he claimed, staff there struggled under pressure from managers to build new planes as quickly as possible.\n\nNow, he is worried that these issues have been overlooked in the rush to get the 737 Max back in the air.\n\nHis report draws on material from the official investigations. It claims that both of the crashed aircraft suffered from - what he believes were - production defects, almost from the moment they entered service.\n\nThese included intermittent flight control system problems and electrical anomalies that occurred in the days and weeks before the accidents.\n\nHe claims these may have been symptoms of flaws in the aircrafts' highly complex wiring systems, which could have contributed to the erroneous deployment of MCAS.\n\nHe also points out that sensor failures contributed to both accidents and asks why such failures were happening on brand new machines.\n\nIn the case of the Lion Air plane, a faulty sensor was replaced with another part that was not properly calibrated.\n\nAll signs, Mr Pierson says, \"point back to where these airplanes were produced, the 737 factory\".\n\nHowever, he insists that the possibility of production defects playing a role in the accidents has not been addressed by regulators.\n\nHe claims this could lead to further tragedies, involving the Max or even a previous version of the 737.\n\nMr Pierson's concerns are supported by the celebrated aviation safety campaigner Captain Chesley Sullenberger.\n\nBest known as \"Sully\", one of the pilots who safely ditched a crippled and engineless Airbus plane in the Hudson river off Manhattan in 2009, he too believes that modifications to the Max do not go far enough.\n\nHe believes changes are needed to warning systems aboard the plane, which were carried over from a previous version of the 737 and are \"not up to modern standards\".\n\nCaptain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger (centre) testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the status of the grounded Boeing 737 Max in June 2019\n\n\"Ed Pierson's report is very disturbing, about manufacturing issues in the Boeing factories that go well beyond just the Max, and also affect… the previous version of the 737,\" says Capt Sullenberger.\n\n\"There are many critically important unanswered questions that must be answered.\n\n\"Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must finally become more transparent, and begin to provide information and data, so that independent experts can determine the worthiness of the work that's been done.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a former senior inspector with the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB), who now works as a safety specialist. He warns that Mr Pierson's findings should be viewed in a wider context.\n\nThe report, he says, does make some \"valid observations\" about the pressures on Boeing's production line and quality control, and concerns about specific components.\n\nHowever, he adds that \"taking the limited information in any accident report… and making fresh interpretations of it, is not the same as conducting a new investigation\".\n\nThe issues highlighted, he adds, \"may have been investigated and dismissed already, for good reason\".\n\nThe FAA, meanwhile, insists it only approved the return to service of the Max, following a \"comprehensive and methodical safety review process\".\n\nA worker stands by a Boeing 737 Max plane on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington\n\nIt adds: \"None of the many investigations of the two accidents produced evidence that a production flaw played a role\", and emphasises that \"every aircraft leaving the factory is inspected by a team of FAA inspectors before it is cleared for delivery\".\n\nBoeing itself will not comment on whether the electrical and flight control problems highlighted by Mr Pierson may have played a factor in the two accidents, on the grounds that this is a matter for the investigating authorities.\n\nIt has, however, described suggestions of any link between conditions at Renton and the two accidents as \"completely unfounded\", emphasising that none of the authorities investigating the crashes has found any such link.\n\nPatrick Ky, the head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has previously told the BBC he is \"certain\" the plane is safe to fly.\n\nBut relatives of those who died aboard ET302 are continuing to urge the agency not to allow the 737 Max to operate in Europe, \"until continuing concerns about the aircraft's safety have been fully and openly addressed\".", "People in Lebanon are living under one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Under the round-the-clock curfew, citizens who are not \"essential workers\" have been barred from leaving their homes since 14 January.\n\nLaila, 12, is in Beirut trying to study while her family works from home.\n\n\"We all have our own work to do and when we have meetings we hear each other. It can be a real distraction and stop you from finishing your work on time,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I can't study well because I get stressed with all the work they're giving us. It is definitely not the same studying online as it is in the physical world.\"\n\nFor hairdresser Walid Kanaan this year has been \"extremely difficult psychologically and economically\".\n\n\"I own my shop but still I cannot afford it. I pay the workers' salary so I am really broke,\" says the 45-year-old.\n\n\"It is hitting hard. You can't go out at all or do anything. My wife works in a bank and she is also collapsing. She doesn't know if she will still have her job or not.\n\n\"We don't trust the government that if they bring a vaccine it will be safe to take it. We can only pray for God to protect us.\"\n\nRead more stories from people in lockdown in Lebanon here.", "Teachers were not at significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than the general population, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nRestaurant staff, people working in factories and care workers had among the highest death rates, followed by taxi drivers and security guards.\n\nNurses were more than twice as likely as their peers to die of coronavirus.\n\nSecondary school teachers may have been at slightly, but not measurably, higher risk than the average.\n\nThe ONS looked at death rates from coronavirus in England and Wales between 9 March and 28 December 2020.\n\nIt found 31 in every 100,000 working-age men and 17 in every 100,000 working-age women had died of Covid-19.\n\nThis equated to just under 8,000 deaths among 20-64-year-olds.\n\nBut care workers, security guards and people working in certain manufacturing roles died at more than three times the rate of their peers.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths were among men.\n\nAs well as being more likely to be male, working-age people who died of Covid last year had other things in common: they were much more likely to work in jobs where they were either regularly exposed to known Covid cases or working in close proximity with other people more generally.\n\nMany of the highest-risk jobs were also relatively low paid and may be more likely to be casual or insecure, without sick pay, including hospitality, care work and taxi driving.\n\nAmong teachers, there were 18 deaths per 100,000 among men and 10 per 100,000 among women.\n\nBreaking that down by role, secondary school teachers appear to have a very slightly elevated risk at 39 deaths per 100,000 people in men and 21 per 100,000 in women.\n\nPer 100,000 men aged 20-64, 31 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nPer 100,000 women aged 20-64, 17 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nThese are illustrative examples, not an exhaustive league table.\n\nThe ONS calculated the rate by dividing the number of deaths by the number of workers in each job role.\n\nBecause the numbers for secondary teachers were comparatively small - 52 deaths in total - it's difficult to be certain about their exact risk, but any increase there might be compared with the general population was not considered statistically significant.\n\nHowever, while teachers were not at higher risk than the average, they did appear to be at higher risk than some other professional job roles, which have seen very few or no deaths.\n\nThe ONS excluded from its analysis any occupation that had seen fewer than 10 deaths, and the average death rate for the whole population masks this variation.\n\nThe study also covers periods where there were limited numbers of children attending school.\n\nBut the figures do tell us teachers didn't have an elevated risk of the magnitude faced by health and care staff and by lower-paid manual and service workers.\n\nOther groups of staff studied with higher death rates, including hospitality and some factory and construction workers, also had their usual work paused for similar chunks of that period.\n\nWhile these figures tell us the death rates in each occupation group, they do not tell us the jobs are themselves causing more infections.\n\nThe ONS looked at age and sex but did not adjust for ethnicity, health or socioeconomic status which might influence an individual's risk.\n\nONS analyst Ben Humberstone said: \"As the pandemic has progressed, we have learnt more about the disease and the communities it impacts most. There are a complex combination of factors that influence the risk of death; from your age and your ethnicity, where you live and who you live with, to pre-existing health conditions.\n\n\"Our findings do not prove that the rates of death involving COVID-19 are caused by differences in occupational exposure,\" he added.\n\nThis also just refers to deaths, not infections which may result in serious illness.\n\nSome earlier ONS data suggested certain types of teacher may have an increased risk of catching coronavirus, although again the body did not consider this to be statistically significant.\n\nDirector of policy for the Association of School and College Leaders teachers' union, Julie McCulloch, said: \"When trying to understand rates of coronavirus-related deaths, there are likely to be many complex factors and we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about the relative risks of different workplaces.\n\n\"What we do know is that, when schools are fully open, education staff are asked to work in environments that are inherently busy and crowded. In order to give them reassurance, and to minimise the disruption to education, it is vital that they are prioritised for vaccination as soon as possible.\"\n\nWhether teachers should be prioritised for vaccines has been a matter of debate.\n\nAt the moment the programme is being rolled out based on what will save the most lives and prevent the most severe illness.\n\nAfter the oldest age groups, people with health conditions and frontline staff who are regularly exposed to the virus, the government will have to publish a new raft of priorities.\n\nVaccines minister Nadim Zahawi has indicated more people could be prioritised on the basis of their job role, including teachers, shop workers and police officers.", "Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\nThe scale of credit card, identity and cyber-fraud makes it the most prevalent crime, costing up to £190bn a year.\n\nUK intelligence agencies should play a greater role in responding, the RUSI argues in a report.\n\nPolicing should be better resourced, working more closely with the private sector, it adds.\n\nThe report argues that the scale of fraud against the private sector has an impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business.\n\nMeanwhile, the amount lost by the government in fraudulent claims represents a \"heist\" on the public purse, undermining faith and trust, it says.\n\nIt is the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to, but the failures in responding risk undermining public confidence in the rule of law.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales found 3.7 million reported incidents in 2019-20 of members of the public being targeted by credit card, identity and cyber-fraud.\n\nThe private sector takes the biggest financial losses. One estimate from 2017 put the cost of fraud to businesses at £140bn.\n\nFraud against the public sector, including benefit, tax credit and student loan fraud, is estimated to cost £31-48bn a year, the upper figure larger than the UK's annual defence budget.\n\nThe losses go beyond the financial, the authors say.\n\n\"Fraud has the potential to disrupt society in multiple ways, by psychologically impacting individuals, undermining the viability of businesses, putting pressure on public services, fuelling organised crime and funding terrorism,\" they add.\n\nThe report cites evidence that terrorist groups and lone actors turn to fraud in order to finance their activities.\n\nIn one case, eight supporters of the Islamic State group were convicted of defrauding UK pensioners out of more than £1m, which was alleged to be used in part to fund travel from the UK to Syria.\n\nThe men carried out a type of courier fraud in which they pretended to be police officers, telling victims that their bank accounts had been compromised and needed to be transferred.\n\nBut despite the growing scale of the problem, there is no national strategy for tackling the issue, while the police response is underfunded and lacking focus.\n\nThis makes fraud \"everyone's problem but no-one's priority\", according to the report, written by RUSI experts Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjev.\n\nThe digitisation of everyday life - accelerated by Covid - has only increased the risks, with organised crime groups showing increased sophistication in their tactics.\n\n\"The UK has become a target destination for global fraudsters,\" the RUSI argues.\n\nBut the extent to which international criminals focus on the UK is hard to gauge, because intelligence agencies have not traditionally focused on the issue.\n\nOne senior fraud professional interviewed by the researchers said that despite 30 years of investigating fraud, they still had no idea what proportion of the threat emanated from overseas.\n\nClassifying fraud as a national security issue would help ensure the right level of resourcing and prioritisation, the authors argue.\n\nThey also recommend more focused intelligence direction from the National Security Council, including greater tasking for GCHQ as well as the National Crime Agency to understand the issue.\n\nThey call for better information-sharing and use of data analytics, as well as more money and attention from police forces to address what they call a \"responsibility vacuum\".", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. Devon County Council urged people to avoid travel unless it was absolutely essential and not to travel to find snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Devon County Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMost pupils across the UK have not been in school since before the Christmas holidays - and now Tory MPs are calling for a \"route map\" for the reopening of schools in England. Pupils have been told they will be learning from home until at least the February half-term holidays. And Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says schools will be given at least two weeks' notice to reopen - which he \"hopes\" will happen before Easter. So, with no firm timetable, the chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, has called for a plan to be laid out to MPs. He has asked for an urgent question in the Commons - if granted, Mr Williamson must respond. No part of the UK has yet announced a firm date for schools' reopening - you can read about the different nations' plans here.\n\nThe UK must reform how it is governed or risk becoming a \"failed state\", former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he says Covid has exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions. Recent polls have suggested rising support for Scottish independence - and a potential border vote in Northern Ireland. \"The complaint is that Whitehall does not fully understand the country it is supposed to govern,\" says Mr Brown.\n\nFrance's top medical adviser says a third national lockdown will probably soon be needed to combat Covid-19. Prof Jean-Francois Delfraissy says \"there is an emergency\", adding that the \"UK variant\" now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions. A strict curfew was implemented last weekend but cases continue to climb. You can see police enforcing the 6pm shutdown below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have clashed with protesters who are angry at new coronavirus restrictions. Officers used water cannon and tear gas to clear demonstrators in Eindhoven. They had gathered in defiance of a new 9pm curfew. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller demonstrations in the capital, Amsterdam.\n\nAustralia has suspended a travel bubble with New Zealand - after NZ's first Covid case in months was confirmed to be the South African variant. The infected patient had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice before developing symptoms later. Travellers coming from New Zealand to Australia in the next 72 hours will now have to go through hotel quarantine. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the suspension was done out of an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This explainer looks at various questions - including whether the vaccine stops you spreading the disease.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has condemned as \"illegal and dangerous\" the mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nTens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies across Russia on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.\n\nEU foreign ministers discussed the protests on Monday, but did not agree on further sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn Moscow riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.\n\nThe foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding \"restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny. A week ago he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating parole conditions - a case he condemns as fabricated.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on arrival from Berlin on 17 January.\n\nDemonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests as a \"slide towards authoritarianism\" and called for further sanctions against Russia.\n\n\"Change is in the air in Russia,\" declared Lithuania's new Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as he arrived for his first meeting with EU counterparts.\n\nBut he soon discovered that change is not always in the air in Brussels.\n\nA couple of years ago, one seasoned Spanish politician lamented the meetings of the 27 EU foreign ministers as being \"more a valley of tears\" than a place for decision-making: \"We express our condolence and concern… but no capacity for action comes out of it.\"\n\nUnfortunately for that same politician - Josep Borrell - he's now the man who chairs these gatherings.\n\nThe EU has already imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials - including the head of the FSB security service - over the nerve agent attack on Mr Navalny last August.\n\nBut MEPs are urging the EU to go further and hit Mr Putin's administration \"where it really hurts - the money\".\n\nIn December, the EU unveiled a tougher sanctions regime, including asset freezes and travel bans for foreign individuals accused of human rights violations. It puts the bloc alongside the US and UK, which adopted so-called Magnitsky Acts.\n\nThey take the name of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after reporting massive fraud by Russian tax officials. The EU version does not bear his name, to avoid alienating Russia-leaning member states.\n\nAgreeing on EU sanctions is always tough, as it requires all 27 countries to agree and we're told no concrete proposal was discussed by foreign ministers today.\n\nObservers say the scale of the Russia-wide demonstrations was unprecedented for recent years, and the Moscow protest was the capital's largest in almost a decade.\n\nThey appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.\n\nProtesters, like these in St Petersburg, braved freezing cold to rally for Mr Navalny\n\nThe protests were also notable for the high proportion of young Russians who turned out. Opposition rallies have attracted more young people since Mr Navalny began releasing online investigations into alleged government corruption.\n\nMany protesters said they were angered by the findings of that report, and chants of \"Putin is a thief!\" were heard during Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nSocial media also played a key role in driving young people - many of whom have only ever known a Putin-led Russia - to take to the streets. Posts promoting the demonstrations were viewed hundreds of millions of times on TikTok.\n\nThe flood of videos prompted Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to demand the app take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\".\n\nMr Putin has said no underage children should take part in the protests: \"One must under no circumstances push forward underage people. After all, it is terrorists who act like that, when they drive in front of them women and children. The emphasis is slightly different, but essentially, this is the same thing.\"\n\nPolice should also act within the law, he said.\n\nNo-one should seek to advance \"their ambitious objectives and goals, particularly in politics\" through protests, he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Navalny's video report into this Black Sea resort has been viewed 85 million times\n\nOn Sunday Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an \"interference in our domestic affairs\".\n\nThe embassy said such warnings were a \"common and routine practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.\n\nThe new requirements are tailored to each customer, although some may see a significant rise in demands.\n\nBut the changes will also see charges for exceeding a credit limit scrapped.\n\nJanuary is a pinch point for many in debt and borrowers are being urged to seek help if they are in trouble.\n\nBarclaycard signalled the changes to their pricing structures in November, although some borrowers may have missed the notice, which was titled \"changes to your terms and conditions\".\n\nThe new repayment rates will affect those with Platinum, Initial, Freedom, Forward, Cashback, Littlewoods, Rewards and Hilton Honors cards, but not Premier or Woolwich cards.\n\nFor cardholders who started using their cards in the last decade, the minimum repayment each month has been calculated as the highest of 2.25% of the full balance, 1% of the balance plus interest, or £5. This differed slightly for longer-standing customers.\n\nThe new charges mean minimum repayments will be the highest of between 2% and 5% of the full balance, between 1% and 3% of the balance plus interest, or £5.\n\nThis means some people could see the minimum repayment rise, although some other charges - such as the late payment fee - will be limited.\n\nThe exact percentage depends on the customer and would have been outlined in the November message.\n\nA Barclaycard spokesman said: \"We are increasing minimum payments for some customers to help them pay off debt quicker and reduce the overall interest they pay.\n\n\"This is part of our ambition to ensure that no Barclaycard customer gets into persistent debt - where they pay more in interest and charges than reducing their debt and take a long time to pay this debt off - and is being put in place to support our customers.\"\n\nSara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said that the higher minimum payment may well come as a \"nasty shock\".\n\n\"January is always the tightest month for money for most people. December pay is often early, so the money has to stretch further, and if you put any Christmas presents or expenses on your Barclaycard, this month's bill will be high anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"For people who were hardly managing before, the increase to the minimum payments may tip the bill over into being unaffordable.\"\n\nDebt charities had already warned that the coronavirus pandemic meant the UK was \"sleepwalking into a debt crisis\".\n\nThe government-backed Money and Pensions Service - which offers free guidance - said it was expecting a call about debt at least every four minutes throughout January.\n\nBarclaycard said the timing of the changes - which coincide with lockdown and many people on a reduced furlough income - was unintentional and had been signalled some time ago.\n\nAny borrowers who feel the new repayment levels are unaffordable are being asked to contact the company.\n\nMore broadly, anyone struggling to make debt repayments of any kind is being urged to face their difficulties and seek help.\n\n\"Financial worries negatively affect our 'cognition', which are the thinking processes that support and maintain our mental health. When in a poor state, financial worries cause stress and our cognition fails,\" said Keiron Sparrowhawk, a cognition expert from the Being Well Group, which runs the MyCognition app.\n\nThis could lead to depression and hasty, ill-thought-out decisions, he said.\n\n\"Together, depression and anxiety are distressing and disabling, causing us to spiral out of control and enter a pit of hell,\" he said.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after two previous attempts to wed were delayed by the pandemic\n\nTwo newlywed pensioners are urging everyone to get vaccinated as they were among the first to receive a dose at a new centre.\n\nGeoff Holland, 90, and 86-year-old wife Jenny married in August after meeting at Town View independent living centre in Mansfield.\n\nThe pair tied the knot after being forced to postpone their nuptials twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThey both received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe couple made their vaccination plea as a centre at an old DIY store on Chesterfield Road South, in Mansfield, opened on Monday.\n\nIt has joined 31 other new sites opening across England this week, with anyone aged 75 and over who lives within a 45-minute drive encouraged to book their injections.\n\nMrs Holland praised staff at the vaccination site for the care she and her new husband received.\n\n\"We've been well looked after while we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"People have worked long and hard to get this vaccine so I think people ought to have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time-lapse footage shows how a DIY store was transformed into a vaccine centre in three weeks\n\nMr and Mrs Holland said they both tested positive for coronavirus a couple of months ago after Mr Holland reported feeling unwell.\n\nBoth managed to recover without developing major symptoms.\n\nDespite the delay to their wedding and the ongoing after-effects of the pandemic, Mrs Holland said married life was turning out to be \"brilliant\".\n\n\"Hopefully, one day soon, we'll be able to have a get together and celebrate with our family and friends who couldn't be there on the day,\" she said.\n\nKathryn Turner, Mr Holland's daughter, said the family was thrilled the pair received their jabs.\n\n\"It's fantastic that they are getting the vaccine so their love story can continue,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will help us all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe Hollands met in the summer of 2019 and were engaged the following New Year's Eve\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None COVID-19 Vaccination in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "Of 2,000 Welsh members of the Royal College of Nursing who took part in a survey, 75.9% reported increased stress over the past year\n\nA long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, union officials have said.\n\nLast year the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ran a survey looking at its impact on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses' lives.\n\nOf 2,000 Welsh members who took part, 75.9% reported increased stress and 52% were worried about their mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the pressures on NHS workers.\n\nCarol Doggett, senior matron at Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said nurses were often becoming patients' \"next of kin\" during the pandemic, due to the \"absence of family, particularly at end of life\".\n\n\"Which we would do anyway, naturally, but in the absence of family it's far more profound than supporting them in a holistic way if they were present with us,\" she said.\n\nSenior matron Carol Doggett says the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital\n\nMs Doggett said the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital.\n\n\"Patients are coming in through [the emergency department]. They are sicker. The number of sicker patients has definitely increased,\" she said.\n\n\"That results in them having an extended period in hospital. They can stay beyond Covid. They continue to suffer with those conditions that present themselves as a result of Covid.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Doggett's colleague, Morriston intensive care consultant John Gorst, said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of nursing at RCN Wales, said: \"The Welsh Government needs to set a long-term plan in place to deal with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues amongst nurses as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Nurses are exhausted, stressed and nearing burnout. Every day they tell us that they feel that they have nothing left to give and feel devalued.\"\n\nAlmost a year on from the start of the pandemic nurses have had to find \"ever more physical and emotional strength\" to cope with Covid-19, said Ms Hughes.\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru agreed with the RCN that a \"coherent long-term strategy\" was needed to help front-line workers deal with the pandemic's effect on their mental health.\n\n\"We urge Welsh Government to factor this in to their plans and take the necessary steps to give people the support they need,\" said Simon Jones, Mind Cymru's head of policy.\n\n\"Nursing staff and other healthcare professionals have played, and continue to play, a vital role in combatting the pandemic, often putting their own health and wellbeing at risk.\n\n\"Even before the outbreak, we heard from many healthcare professionals struggling with the mental health impact of things like long working hours without breaks, unsociable shift patterns, and dealing with traumatic events.\"\n\nA mental health support hotline for front-line NHS staff in Wales - Health for Health Professionals (HHP) Wales - has been set up by Cardiff University and has received Welsh Government funding.\n\nThe hotline's director Prof Jonathan Bisson said he was \"encouraged\" by the Welsh Government's investment in HHP Wales along with Traumatic Stress Wales, which helps people who have experienced traumatic events.\n\n\"These two initiatives are taking a long term strategic approach to support health workers exposed to traumatic events,\" Prof Bisson said.\n\n\"HHP Wales offers access to mental health support for any member of NHS staff in Wales and has linked with Traumatic Stress Wales to provide evidence-based treatment to health workers who are experiencing post traumatic stress disorder as a result of traumatic experiences related to the pandemic and other causes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and care workers \"mustn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must demonstrate that they're taking this seriously with a robust workforce strategy that takes into account the mental health needs of workers, including sufficient down time after the pandemic, and addresses the need to retain and recruit more staff,\" said Plaid's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe Welsh Government called the \"commitment and tireless hard work\" of nurses across Wales \"truly remarkable\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS workforce is experiencing and have worked closely with NHS employers and trade unions to create a comprehensive wellbeing package to help support them, which includes a dedicated and confidential Samaritans listening support helpline.\n\n\"We have also expanded our Health for Health Professionals Wales service which offers psychological and mental health support, as well as a number of free-to-access health and wellbeing support apps.\"\n\nRCN Wales said it was glad the Welsh Government was backing projects supporting health workers.\n\nIt said it encouraged the continued development of a \"long-term strategy to deal with the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our nursing workforce.\"", "A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation's biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.\n\nA large blaze has been contained in Adelaide, South Australia after it burned through 2,500 hectares.\n\nNeighbouring Victoria state is facing its worst fire risk in a year.\n\nTemperatures in those states have started to cool but New South Wales and Queensland will see their heatwave continue into Tuesday.\n\nSydney recorded temperatures of above 40C by Monday afternoon.\n\nHealth officials have urged people to stay inside and to avoid physical activity, and for those near bushfires to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\nThe blaze in the Adelaide Hills has been contained but is expected to continue to burn for the next few days, local media reports.\n\nIt is believed to have destroyed several houses but has not caused injuries.\n\nThe blaze has burned through more than 2,500 hectares\n\nPeople in the area have been warned to take care.\n\n\"Smoke will reduce visibility on the roads and there is a risk of trees and branches falling,\" a statement from SA police said.\n\nImages taken on Monday show smoke over Adelaide obscuring parts of the city skyline and prompting some residents to wear face masks.\n\nAdelaide was blanketed by smoke on Monday\n\nAfter the hot spell began on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) issued heatwave warnings for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland.\n\nOn Monday, Victoria's state capital Melbourne recorded temperatures of 41.5C at 12.40pm (01.40 GMT).\n\nPeople in Victoria have been urged to be careful when in water after the state recorded seven drownings over the past 10 days, ABC News reports.\n\nPeople in Sydney flocked to beaches at the weekend seeking relief from the heat\n\nThe heat is expected to linger until mid-week as the hot air mass tracks east across the country.\n\nAfter extreme bushfires and heatwaves a year ago, Australia's summer this year has so far been cooler and wetter. Meteorologists say the conditions are influenced by a La Nina phenomenon.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes in 2019-20\n\n\"In summer we now see a greater frequency of very hot days compared to earlier decades,\" said BoM and the national science agency, CSIRO, in their 2020 State of the Climate report.\n\nThe same report noted that 2019 - Australia's hottest year on record - had 33 days where the national maximum temperature exceeded 39C. That surpassed the total number of days over 39C in the previous six decades.\n\nHeatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural disaster and have killed thousands more people than bushfires or floods.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA woman has admitted suffocating her severely disabled son after suffering a breakdown.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThree psychiatric reports said Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness with psychotic symptoms at the time of the killing.\n\nFreeman attended Acton Police Station to report herself following the killing.\n\nOfficers later found Dylan in his mother's bed surrounded by toys.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nIn the week leading up to the killing, Freeman had spoken about saving the world and being a Messiah, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nFreeman appeared by video-link to enter her plea and will be sentenced on 11 February.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the CPS's Kristen Katsouris described the death as \"tragic\".\n\nShe added: \"Olga Freeman had loved and cared for Dylan for many years, but the strain and pressures of her son's severe and complex special needs had built up and that, combined with her impaired mental health, led to heart-breaking consequences.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Hospital recorded Dylan's cause of death as upper airway obstruction.\n\nThe Met Police said Freeman had spoken to friends about struggling with the responsibility of caring for Dylan.\n\nOn the night before his body was found, Freeman booked two seats on a flight to Tel Aviv and told her friend not to go into Dylan's room.\n\nThe body of Dylan was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nAt the time of his death, his father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain.\n\nHe described his son as \"a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child who loved to travel, visit art galleries and swim\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambrose O'Neill was sentenced in his absence in 2008\n\nA violent robber who went on the run for nearly 13 years has finally been caught and jailed.\n\nAmbrose O'Neill - dubbed \"The Running Man\" due to his ability to evade capture - skipped his 2008 trial over an attack on an antiques dealer.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight years in prison in his absence but spent years at large, until police got a tip-off he was in hiding in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested on Friday and is now beginning his sentence.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said in 2007, O'Neill, of Ludgate Close in Arnold, knocked on his victim's front door in Seagrave, Leicestershire, posing as a pizza delivery man.\n\nWhen his victim opened the door, O'Neill pushed him over, punched him in the face and demanded he open a safe, threatening to kill him.\n\nBut he ultimately left empty-handed and was later arrested.\n\nO'Neill attended the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court but then went on the run.\n\nPolice said they launched Operation Gladiolus in December 2020 in a bid to track him down.\n\nPC James Gill, from Nottinghamshire Police's \"wanted squad\", said: \"We knew he had changed his appearance and lived in an area where people do not know him and he had an assumed identity,\" he said.\n\n\"He was laughing at the police, so we were determined to do everything to find him.\"\n\nA major breakthrough came from an anonymous tip-off suggesting O'Neill may be living with a woman in the Wyberton area, in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice narrowed it down to a house in Causeway and arrested the \"surprised\" O'Neill in the early hours of Friday.\n\nPC James Gill worked in his free time to bring O'Neill to justice, Nottinghamshire Police said\n\nOfficers also arrested a 41-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. She remains in custody.\n\nO'Neill is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 29 January, where his sentence could be extended, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany and her two children have been on a waiting list for more than a year\n\nThere is a \"shocking\" lack of places for traveller families to live in England, according to a charity.\n\nOnly 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any spaces available, research from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) suggests.\n\nIt says the government must \"do more\" to identify land for the community to live on.\n\nThe government says councils are \"best placed\" to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites.\n\nIn October, FFT wrote to all local authorities and private registered site providers in England to ask how many pitches they had available.\n\nIt received responses relating to 251 out of 266 traveller sites - which represented 3,482 permanent pitches and 304 transit pitches.\n\nA transit pitch is a short-term place where people can stay for a set period of usually up to three months.\n\nBethany says she's near the bottom of the waiting list for a pitch in her local area\n\nBethany Rose, 26, and her two children have been on a waiting list for a pitch in West Sussex for more than a year.\n\nShe is currently staying with her parents in their caravan on a registered traveller site. But this is against the rules of their tenancy contract and she will have to move out once the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nBethany has a health condition which means she can often be paralysed from the waist down and she needs to be close to her mum who is her carer.\n\n\"It's frustrating, annoying, aggravating, I feel let down,\" she says. \"I'm disabled. I'm homeless and I have two kids.\n\n\"For anyone normally it would just be like, 'Boof, there you go, there's a property, go and live there'. But I can't do that. I can't even get a house, I can't buy a plot of land, I can't do anything.\"\n\nBethany and her children are currently living with her parents on a traveller site in West Sussex\n\nIt's estimated about 1.1 million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, but Bethany believes it would be easier for her to get a home if she wasn't a traveller.\n\nShe says being a traveller is a huge part of her identity and she wants to live on a site so she can continue to be connected to her heritage.\n\n\"A whole community is there if you need something or something happens,\" she said. \"If you fall or you go to hospital, you can guarantee your neighbour will watch the kids until you come back. If you need a cup of sugar, you can just go round.\"\n\nThe research from FFT comes as MPs were due to debate a petition on Monday against government proposals to criminalise trespassing. However, this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new measures could see travellers facing a fine or prison if they set up unauthorised encampments - currently it's a civil offence.\n\nIn a consultation paper published in 2019, the Home Office said there had been \"long-standing concerns\" about the distress they caused to local communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Tanner posted a video saying she was \"disgusted\" by mess left by travellers in Dorset\n\nIn June 2020, residents in Dorset complained about mess left by travellers on a local park - which included a car being abandoned in the middle of a cricket pitch, rubbish dumped in green spaces and human waste deposited in the pond and lake.\n\nFFT says councils are failing to provide enough sites for travellers to live on.\n\nIn January 2019, plans to spend £5m on new traveller pitches in Milton Keynes were put on hold after a \"heated\" meeting with local residents.\n\nBethany believes councils are not doing more to provide extra sites because of discrimination towards travellers.\n\n\"They're building 50,000 new houses in West Sussex, not one of those places is having a site,\" she said. \"So you've got the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) culture attached to that.\n\n\"For every 50 houses, they could put a site of five which is a whole little community that they can get used to and go, 'Yeah, OK, they're not as bad as people say.'\n\n\"That also means we're not pulling up the side of the roads. We're not being moved off. We're just trying to live like everyone else.\"\n\nMilton Keynes Council changed its plan to build a new traveller site after listening to residents\n\nWest Sussex County Council says when a vacancy comes up on a permanent site all those who have expressed an interest in that location are considered for the pitch.\n\nThe FFT wants the government to reintroduce pitch targets and a statutory duty on local authorities to meet the assessed need for Gypsy and traveller sites.\n\nIt also calls on the government to abandon its proposal to criminalise trespassing.\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy and communications manager at FFT, said: \"It is deeply unfair that while the government is dramatically failing to identify enough land for Gypsy and traveller families to live on, the home secretary is working to create laws to imprison, fine and remove the homes of families living on roadside camps for the 'crime' of having nowhere else to go.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association says it wants the government to publish \"better data\" on the scale of unauthorised encampments and the availability of authorised sites to help councils in England meet their planning obligations.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Unauthorised encampments cause distress and disruption for many people across the country so it's right we are giving the police the powers they need to address this issue.\n\n\"Councils are best placed to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites and decide where they should be, and can apply for funding through our Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme to help build them.\"", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "Jenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838\n\nThe owner of the Jenners building in Edinburgh has promised that it will remain a department store - despite the departure of its current tenant, the House of Fraser.\n\nFrasers Group said it would cease trading at the site on 3 May, with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.\n\nA company spokesman said it would continue as a store and that \"advanced\" talks were taking place with operators.\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nA Frasers spokesman claimed that the landlord had not been able to \"work mutually on a fair agreement\".\n\nHe said this had led to \"the loss of 200 jobs and a vacant site for the foreseeable future, with no immediate plans.\n\n\"Our commitment to our Frasers strategy remains but landlords and retailers need to work together in a fair manner, especially when all stores are closed.\"\n\nAnders Holch Povlsen is one of Scotland's biggest landowners\n\nHowever, Anders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - said it had given Frasers a substantial rent reduction and rent-free periods to cover the lockdowns.\n\n\"Frasers has made the decision that it does not wish to continue in occupation,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see the end of the 16-year association between House of Fraser and this building, but not of the 180 years of Jenners department store.\"\n\nMr Vogdrup told BBC Scotland that it had bought the Jenners building \"out of passion for its architecture and history\".\n\n\"We have been sad to read on social media that we are to close the department store, as that is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought to keep the current tenant and we are now in advanced talks with other partners.\"\n\nHe said their \"first priority\" was to keep it as a department store, while there were also plans to turn some unused parts of the building into a hotel.\n\n\"The Jenners department store and building is the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh,\" he added.\n\n\"We are not turning it into a hotel. It will remain a department store.\"\n\nHe also expects the Jenners name will remain on the side of the building.\n\nMr Povlsen, whose parents set up Scandinavian fashion company Bestseller, is believed to be worth £4.5bn. As well as owning Bestseller he is a major shareholder in online retailer Asos.\n\nHe has previously revealed plans to use parts of the Princes Street building for a hotel, with the rest reserved for retail.\n\nThe plans included the restoration of the building's Victorian facade and central atrium, which is a three-storey, top-lit grand saloon. A rooftop restaurant and bar would overlook nearby St Andrew Square.\n\nMr Vogdrup said the plans to refurbish the store were now on hold due to the current economic climate.\n\nJenners has dominated Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare since the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was opened in 1838 by local drapers Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington, who found themselves out of work after being sacked for taking a day off to go to the races in Musselburgh.\n\nInitially called Kennington & Jenner, the boutique store proved popular for keeping the people of Edinburgh in fine silks and linen, which could normally only be found in London.\n\nBy 1890 the shop had changed name to Charles Jenner & Co and had expanded to adjoining buildings, making it one of the biggest stores in Scotland.\n\nBut just two years later fire destroyed the shop and ambitious plans - backed by the local council - were launched for a new look Jenners.\n\nCelebrated architect William Hamilton Beattie, who also designed the Balmoral and Carlton Hotel, was brought in for the redesign.\n\nCharles Jenner died in 1893 before the work was completed in 1895.\n\nIn 1911 the popular store was given a Royal Warrant.\n\nAfter struggling in the the 21st Century, the Jenners brand was sold to rivals House of Fraser for £46m in 2005.\n\nIn 2018, House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company.\n\nEarly laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine can recognise and fight the new variants.\n\nMore studies are needed to confirm this is true for people who have been vaccinated.\n\nThe new variants have been spreading fast in a number of nations.\n\nThey have undergone changes or mutations that mean they can infect human cells more easily than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nExperts think the UK strain, which emerged in September, may be up to 70% more transmissible.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well. There are already some early results that suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new UK variant.\n\nFor the Moderna study, researchers looked at blood samples taken from eight people who had received the recommended two doses of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe findings are yet to be peer reviewed, but suggest immunity from the vaccine recognises the new variants.\n\nNeutralising antibodies, made by the body's immune system, stop the virus from entering cells.\n\nBlood samples exposed to the new variants appeared to have sufficient antibodies to achieve this neutralising effect, although it was not as strong for the South Africa variant as for the UK one.\n\nModerna says this could mean that protection against the South Africa variant might disappear more quickly.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School in the UK, said this would be concerning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health and science journalist Laura Foster compares the three different Covid-19 vaccines\n\nModerna is currently testing whether giving a third booster shot might be beneficial.\n\nLike other scientists, the company is also investigating whether redesigning the booster to be a better match for the new variants will be beneficial.\n\nStephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said the company believed it was \"imperative to be proactive as the virus evolves\".\n\nUK regulators have already approved Moderna's vaccine for rollout on the NHS, but the 17m pre-ordered doses are not expected to arrive until Spring.\n\nThe vaccine works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being used in the UK.\n\nMore than 6.3 million people in the UK have already received a first dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine.", "Media regulator Ofcom has decided not to take any action over Channel 4's use of a \"deepfaked\" video of the Queen.\n\nThe \"alternative Christmas message\" attracted 354 complaints about decency after it aired on Christmas Day.\n\nIt showed an AI-generated version of the Queen, who made jokes about the Royal Family and the prime minister, and danced on top of a table.\n\nBut after assessing things, Ofcom decided not to pursue the complaints about disrespecting the monarch.\n\n\"In our view, Channel 4 made clear that the images were deliberately manipulated as a device to question societal trust in what we see online,\" a spokeswoman for the regulator said.\n\n\"We also consider that the satirical tone of the film was in keeping with audience expectations of this broadcaster,\" it added.\n\nThat decision is similar to Channel 4's own defence of the satire, in which it argued that the parody left viewers \"in no doubt that it was not real\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Channel 4 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also argued the message of the video as a whole was a warning about the importance of trust, and how easily convincing fake images and video can be created - even uploading a behind-the-scenes video about its creation.\n\nAfter airing on national television in the UK, the video has spread widely online, racking up nearly two million views on YouTube alone.\n\nIt has not, however, been universally popular - on top of the formal complaints to Ofcom, it has a poor ratio of likes-to-dislikes on YouTube - with more than 19,000 likes, but nearly 5,000 dislikes.\n\nDeepfakes work by training a computer to draw a person's face by showing it thousands of photographs of that person, ideally from many different angles and in different lighting conditions.\n\nThe computer can then draw that person's face on top of another actor's performance.\n\nThe more varied and numerous the images used in training the model, the better the result - which is why it is almost universally used to fake the appearance of celebrities, who already have hours of available film or television footage available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there are other limitations on the technology, too.\n\nThe similarity in facial structure, size, and appearance of the actor whose face is being replaced affects the realism of the finished deepfake. It is also far easier to produce a convincing result if the person remains still, as movement can often reveal the artificial nature of the animation.\n\nThe voice must also be replaced by an impersonator and the entire process is incredibly demanding, even for high-end computers, often taking many days of computation.\n\nHowever, the technique is advancing rapidly, and the results are becoming more convincing with each passing year, with major film firms such as Disney actively exploring the technique and developing their own variants.", "Fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nHowever, it will not take on any of the firm's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nBoohoo said it was a \"transformational deal\" and a \"huge step\". But the deal means that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go.\n\nThe 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business.\n\nIn a separate development, Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nA closing-down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as the administrators continued to seek offers for all or parts of the business.\n\nThe company announced recently that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nThe administrators of Debenhams UK, FRP Advisory, said they had undertaken a \"thorough and robust process\" to achieve \"the best outcome for Debenhams' stakeholders\".\n\n\"This transaction will allow a new Debenhams-branded business to emerge under strong new ownership, including an online operation and the opportunity to secure an international franchise network that will operate under licence using the Debenhams name,\" they added.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nIts executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said: \"This is a transformational deal for the group, which allows us to capture the fantastic opportunity as ecommerce continues to grow. Our ambition is to create the UK's largest marketplace.\n\n\"Our acquisition of the Debenhams brand is strategically significant as it represents a huge step which accelerates our ambition to be a leader, not just in fashion ecommerce, but in new categories including beauty, sport and homeware.\"\n\nBoohoo said Debenhams was expected to relaunch on Boohoo's web platform later this year.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will continue to operate its website for an agreed period.\n\nBoohoo's fast-fashion model has come under scrutiny\n\nBoohoo has recently come under fire over workers' pay and conditions and its ultra-low pricing.\n\nAs well as facing questions about the environmental impact of its fast-fashion business model, there have been accusations of widespread abuse of employment law at some of Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nInvestigations last year suggested workers were being paid below the minimum wage.\n\nAfter an independent review of the claims found a series of failings, Mr Kamani said last month that the firm was working to fix the problems, adding: \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"\n\nWhile online retailers have been whittling away at their High Street rivals for years, few could have predicted how quickly bricks-and-mortar stalwarts have collapsed. The pandemic has fatally undermined their already parlous finances. Businesses that appeared to have a chance of survival just a year ago have been wiped out and their brands bought by online players.\n\nThe scale of the change is profound: when Debenhams listed on the stock exchange in 2011, investors valued it at £1.6bn. Boohoo, which was founded only in 2006, already has a stock market value of £4.4bn. Asos, a bit player two decades ago when Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was riding high and toying with a bid for Marks & Spencer, is now valued by the stock market at £5bn.\n\nNeither Boohoo or Asos see any value in the Debenhams or Topshop High Street estates. Instead, they will concentrate on development of the brands and the associated customer data. This is bad news for the 19,000-odd people who work in the branches of Debenhams and Topshop, and will leave councils around the country wondering how they will fill town centres that were based on retail.\n\nBut just as canny entrepreneurs and private equity companies are gearing up to buy struggling pub chains, in the hope of a recovery once lockdown restrictions are eased, so will some investors be wondering what next for the High Street. The British love affair with shopping will not end overnight and a well-placed punt now could have big rewards.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nMeanwhile, one of House of Fraser's flagship outlets, the Jenners department store in Edinburgh, is to leave its Princes Street home after 183 years. It will close on 3 May with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building's owner, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, announced in November 2019 that he intended to convert the site, replacing Jenners with a hotel, cafes, a rooftop restaurant and luxury shops.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Frasers Group said it had been \"unable to reach an agreement\" with Mr Povlsen and that the closure of Jenners would leave \"a vacant site for the foreseeable future with no immediate plans\".\n\nDo you work for Debenhams? Has your job been affected? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The public's trust in the way the UK is run is breaking down, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.\n\nHe said Covid-19 had exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions, who were often treated by the centre as if they were \"invisible\".\n\nMr Brown is urging Boris Johnson to set up a commission to review how the country is governed and powers shared.\n\nBut the PM said his focus was on the pandemic, stressing the benefits of the union could be \"seen everywhere\".\n\nMr Brown's intervention comes amid a looming clash between Mr Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has demanded the UK agree to another Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in May's Holyrood elections.\n\nThe Court of Session is hearing arguments about whether Holyrood can legislate to hold one even if the UK government continues to object.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Brown - who advocates a federal system with more power for nations and regions - says the pandemic has \"brought to the surface tensions and grievances that have been simmering for years\" between Downing Street and the various parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives election win was not 'a signal that the country is at ease' warns Brown\n\nHe points to \"bitter disputes\" over issues such as lockdown restrictions and furlough and said unless underlying tensions were resolved, the UK risked becoming a \"failed state\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, he said at a time \"when all should be pulling together and intensifying co-operation across the UK\" there was division and claims by the leaders of Scotland and Wales and the English regions that they were not being properly consulted.\n\nLast year there were rows between the government and local authorities over coronavirus tiers, with the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, objecting to plans to put the region into the strictest level of restrictions.\n\nMr Brown told Today that while he was \"confident\" that Scotland would still be part of the UK in ten years time, the way the UK was governed had to change.\n\n\"I think the public are fed up. I think in many ways, they feel they are being treated as second class citizens, particularly in the outlying areas, that they are invisible and forgotten.\"\n\n\"Something has broken down in trust and has to be repaired.\"\n\nMr Brown is advising the Labour Party on its devolution strategy - but has also held talks with government ministers including Michael Gove in recent weeks.\n\nGovernment sources say they are focused on taking tangible steps to demonstrate the value of the UK.\n\nThe idea of a fundamental review of the UK's power structures has been suggested as one possible way to counter support for Scottish independence ahead of May's Holyrood election.\n\nBut a series of polls now suggest support for independence is higher than support for the union - and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will demand another referendum if, as seems likely, her party - the SNP - wins in May.\n\nHe is calling on Boris Johnson to immediately set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed, something the Conservatives promised in their manifesto before the last general election.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he suggests it would find that the UK needs a Forum of the Nations and Regions, citizens' assemblies, and a greater focus on the benefits of cooperation in areas such as the NHS and the armed forces.\n\nThe current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer also supports devolving more powers from Westminster but opposes another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe SNP said last week that there would be a \"legal referendum\" after the pandemic if May's Holyrood election returned a pro-independence majority.\n\nAsked if he would stand in the way of this, Mr Johnson said what the British public wanted was for its political leaders to focus on beating coronavirus, adding that the advantages of the UK's four nations working together \"spoke for themselves\".\n\n\"I think people can see everywhere in the UK the visible benefits of our wonderful union,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine programme that is being rolled out by a National Health Service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in Oxford and is being administered by the British Army.\"\n\nBut the SNP said the Scottish people, not Westminster-based politicians, should decide the country's future.\n\n\"No amount of constitutional tinkering from Labour would protect Scotland from Brexit or the Tory power grab - only independence can do that,\" said Kirsten Oswald, the party's deputy Westminster leader.\n\n\"The Scottish people will see right through this attempt to deny their democratic right.\"\n\nA poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in Northern Ireland found 51% of people wanted a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nDUP leader and Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster said such a vote would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nNumbers supporting Wales breaking away from the UK also appear to be rising. The pro-independence campaign group Yes Cymru has said membership swelled from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nPlaid Cymru has also promised to hold an independence referendum if it wins the next Senedd election.\n\nResponding to Mr Brown's intervention, the party's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"It's been clear for many years that the UK doesn't work for Wales - I'm glad that the Labour Party are starting to see that.\"", "Prince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nIt followed concerns that emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThe review by experts from two royal colleges was in addition to the health board's own investigation. Maternity services in Cwm Taf are now in special measures and an independent panel was set up to drive improvements.\n\nHow many incidents are we talking about?\n• None 150cases from 2016-2018 reviewed so lessons can be learnt\n\nThe health board's own investigation looked at 43 cases, including 25 serious incidents. Of these initial cases, 20 were at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and 23 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. The serious incidents include eight stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth, all between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThey came to light after concerns were raised that staff had not been reporting serious incidents.\n\nThe health board said it faced \"extreme\" staff shortages and was urgently trying to make improvements.\n\nBut the review team cast doubt on the ability of the health board to make changes, without more support. It said it was \"dismayed\" that an internal report, written by a consultant midwife, highlighting many safety concerns last September was not acted upon, \"thereby continuing to expose women to unacceptable risks\".\n\nA consultant midwife also identified 67 stillbirths, going back to 2010, which had not been reported by the health board.\n\nThe independent panel decided to widen its scope to look at 350 cases of women who were transferred out of the health board area.\n\nIn October 2019, the panel said it was looking at a total of 150 cases between 2016 and 2018 - including the 43 cases initially investigated. There is still scope to look back at further years.\n\nWho has been investigating?\n\nThe health minister Vaughan Gething ordered an \"independent external review\" by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the Royal College of Midwives last October.\n\nIts findings, published in April 2019, were damning and found services \"under extreme pressure\" and \"dysfunctional\", while mothers had distressing experiences in how they were treated.\n\nCwm Taf's maternity services were placed in special measures and the independent panel overseeing changes has indicated as well as looking back in detail at past cases it wanted to ensure improvements were robust and to look at lessons that could be learned across Wales.\n\nHave any changes been made?\n\nThe royal colleges review team ordered urgent action after visiting hospitals in January 2019 - finding \"a number of immediate quality and safety concerns\".\n\nMeasures included more cover by doctors, strengthened processes for flagging up problems and more support for junior doctors. Cwm Taf now says these have all been completed.\n\nThe latest progress report from the independent panel in January 2020 found the most urgent improvements had been made.\n\nStaffing levels and training had improved, there was a better system for flagging up complaints and surveys found \"high levels of satisfaction\" from women using Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nThe panel was \"cautiously optimistic\" that long term improvements would be made.\n\nChioma Udeogu, who has moved back home to Nigeria\n\nThe review's parallel report on how families were dealt with was perhaps the most powerful testimony on the problems at Cwm Taf.\n\nMothers were said to have been ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised.\n\nOne mother said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nThere was the case of Sarah Handy, who was sent home from hospital in pain with laxatives, before giving birth prematurely at home. Her daughter died.\n\nChioma Udeogu's daughter was delivered stillborn after failings in her care at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in January 2017. An internal investigation has already found midwives failed for 12 hours to carry out antenatal checks on Mrs Udeogu, an engineering student at the University of South Wales at the time.\n\n\"I believe that if I was properly monitored in the hospital I wouldn't have lost her,\" she said.\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nJessica Western says she was not listened to at different points before and after the birth of her baby\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born.\n\n\"I'm only young and I do want to have more kids eventually, but I'm not prepared to put myself through a pregnancy if this could happen again,\" she said.\n\nAnother, Monique Aziz, from Coedely, Rhondda Cynon Taff, whose baby son died days after leaving hospital, said: \"I just want to know if he would have still been here if things had been done differently.\"\n\nWhat else has been happening?\n\nIn the background, there have been long planned changes in how maternity services are organised.\n\nFrom March 2019, doctor-led care for mothers in labour or for babies needing specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a 24-hour midwife unit for less complicated births and will continue to provide all antenatal services, clinic appointments, scans and tests during pregnancy.\n\nThe changes follow long-standing concerns that specialist maternity staff had been spread too thinly. The health board says those changes will help address challenges, including over staffing.\n\nAfter the critical report, the health board's chief executive went on sickness leave and then resigned in August 2019.\n\nStress and sickness absence was reported to be an issue among midwives, in the aftermath of the review.\n\nHow far back to those concerns go?\n\nThe fragility of maternity services in the area can be traced back for at least a decade. In a review in 2011 the Wales Audit Office raised concerns about staffing, skill mix and absences and the health board's ability to deliver maternity services on two sites.\n\nConcerns about the quality of maternity care were also at the heart of a controversial plan in 2014 to centralise some specialist services in fewer hospitals along the M4 corridor. It recommended moving doctor-led care for mothers and children (along with A&E) from the Royal Glamorgan hospital.\n\nCwm Taf health board initially rejected the plan and several months of wrangling followed.\n\nFour years later, the proposals on maternity services are only now being finally implemented.\n\nWhat is the independent panel doing?\n\nThe chairman Mick Giannasi - who has a track record going into troubled organisations, like Anglesey Council and the Welsh Ambulance Service - brings clinical expertise. He is also setting up a system so families can be involved and kept fully informed.\n\nIn the first progress report in October 2019, the panel said there had been progress - around a third of the action points in the improvement plan had been delivered - but a \"significant amount of work\" still needed to be done.\n\nThere had been \"significant\" progress by January 2020 although with more than two thirds of recommendations it was still \"work in progress\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Concerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents\n\nTwo-thirds of women at the heart of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (Imsop) focused on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nIts maternity services have been in special measures since \"serious failings\" were found two years ago.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThis sparked a major independent review, which gave a damning verdict on maternity services in the health board area that covers about 450,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nPublished on Monday, the Imsop report focuses on the care of 27 women, most of whom were admitted to an intensive care unit during 28 \"episodes of care\" between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt found that 19 reviews of maternal care (68%) revealed at least one factor where \"different management would reasonably have been expected to alter the outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nThe panel's chairman, Mick Giannasi, said: \"These findings will be concerning and potentially distressing for the women and families involved, and it will be difficult for staff.\n\n\"Of the 28 episodes of care, we concluded that in 27 of them, our independent teams who reviewed the care would have done something differently. Put simply, what went wrong, might not have gone wrong if things had been done differently.\"\n\nTwo further reviews of stillbirths and neonatal mortality and morbidity will follow later this year. In total, all three independent reviews will looks at 160 cases.\n\nImsop's findings reinforce those of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nThe royal colleges' 2019 investigation found mothers faced \"distressing experiences and poor care\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, with maternity services deemed \"dysfunctional\".\n\nFour key areas have been identified by Imsop as factors which contributed to poor care. These are:\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the latest report recognises things are moving in the right direction for the health board, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The report highlights that women weren't always at the centre of their care and that women weren't always listened to, and that led to harm that could have been avoided,\" Mr Gething told reporters at the latest Welsh Government press briefing.\n\n\"Nothing will be able to change what these women and their families experienced at these two hospitals or the outcome for those families whose babies died or came to harm.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says he is \"deeply sorry\" women and their families were not listened to\n\nHe said he hoped \"families can take some comfort\" from the reviews that have provided answers to questions they were asking.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this report today and those who are still awaiting the outcome of their reviews,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it has been \"working with the panel and families\" to put in place a \"comprehensive maternity and neonatal improvement programme\".\n\n\"It has been a period of reflection during which we have examined the regrettable failings in maternity services of the former Cwm Taf University Health Board and we acknowledge the fact that we still have some way to go,\" said Greg Dix, the health board's executive director of nursing and midwifery.\n\n\"We will never forget the tragedies suffered by women, their families and our staff, and the learning from these cases is a key corner stone on which we are building our improvement plans.\"", "Credit card giant Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.\n\nIt has sparked fears that consumer prices could rise if merchants choose to pass on those costs, especially on items not available from UK retailers.\n\nTransactions with airlines, hotels, car rentals and holiday firms based in the EU could all be affected.\n\nMastercard attributed the move to the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nIt said that only online sales would be affected and that \"in practice\" UK consumers would not notice the change.\n\nThe change affects the \"interchange\" fees Mastercard sets on behalf of big banks, so that its customers can use their payment networks.\n\nFrom October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.\n\nThe EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies.\n\nBritish customers makes tens of billions of pounds of purchases every year from European merchants on credit cards alone - and the hike in fees from Mastercard will affect the majority of those.\n\nThe increase may be relatively small but it's significant, coming at a time when retailers may face extra paperwork and checks - higher costs - for goods coming into the UK.\n\nWith Covid restrictions bringing their own challenges, businesses, especially smaller ones, may be compelled to pass on the costs to consumers.\n\nAnd it's not just items crossing borders. The payments for most items bought on Amazon in the UK are processed via its Luxembourg headquarters.\n\nWith the increase not coming in for several months, international companies may look at ways to reclassify UK sales, to avoid the charges.\n\nMastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU. The banks which receive the fees have said in the past that they are invested in areas such as card security and innovation. This time, however, the trade body which represents them has declined to comment on the rises.\n\nBut Mastercard said that since the end of the Brexit transition period, the cap no longer applied to many payments between the UK and European Economic Area (which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).\n\n\"As a result of the UK leaving the EEA, Mastercard will adapt interchange rates on UK cards to the commitments it gave the European Commission in 2019 for non-EEA card transactions,\" the company said.\n\n\"In practice, only EEA merchants making e-commerce sales to UK cardholders will see a change.\"\n\nKevin Hollinrake, chair of the parliamentary group on Fair Business Banking, told the Financial Times, which first reported the story, that the move \"smacks of opportunism\".\n\nAnd Callum Godwin, chief economist at CMSPI, the global payments consultancy, said airlines, hotels, car rentals and travel groups would be hit.\n\n\"[This will happen] anywhere the consumer is in the UK and the merchant is in the EU,\" he said.\n\nHe added that many firms in these industries were already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nVisa, Mastercard's larger rival, has not announced plans to change its fees but told the FT it was keeping the issue under review.\n\nCompanies in the UK and EU are already facing added costs and delays due to post-Brexit trade rules brought in on 1 January.\n\nSome EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nMeanwhile, UK consumers who have bought goods from firms based in the bloc have found themselves facing hefty charges to cover customs duties, taxes and administration.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The leader says he is \"optimistic\" and is recieving medical treatment\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was \"optimistic\" following the diagnosis.\n\nThe development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000.\n\nMr López Obrador says he will continue working from home, including speaking to President Vladimir Putin about acquiring a Russian-made vaccine.\n\nIt was announced earlier on Sunday that a call between the two leaders will take place on Monday to discuss their bilateral relationship and the possible supply of Sputnik V jabs.\n\nThe Mexican president said last year he would try and acquire 12 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine if it proved effective.\n\nMexico has not yet approved the jab for use, but officials want to expand the country's vaccination program for the population of 128 million people amid delivery delays from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nSputnik V has already received authorisation in a number of other countries, including Brazil and Argentina. Hungary became the first in the EU to give it the green light this week.\n\nJosé Luis Alomia Zegarra, a senior health official, described Mr López Obrador's condition as stable and told a news briefing that \"a team of medical specialists\" were attending to the president.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 1.75m virus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking.\n\nThe nation's confirmed death toll of 149,614 is one of the highest in the world - behind only the US, Brazil and India.", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is isolating after a contact tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating for the third time, after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said he would be working from home until next Monday after being notified of the contact earlier.\n\nSir Keir confirmed on Twitter that he had no symptoms.\n\nThe Labour leader last self-isolated in December after a member of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, but he never showed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe also self-isolated in September after a member of his family showed symptoms - but they later tested negative, allowing Sir Keir to get back to Westminster.\n\nIf you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, you have a legal obligation to self-isolate.\n\nYou then have to stay at home, not going out for any reason, for 10 days from the time you last saw the contact.\n\nIf you don't stick to the rules, the police can issue you with a fine, starting at £1,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor Sir Keir, he needs to stay indoors until next Monday and cancel all his upcoming plans for the week.\n\nHe will still be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday via video link.\n\nThe current list of MPs set to question Boris Johnson, shows that only one will now physically be in the Commons with the PM.\n\nA number of politicians have had to self-isolate during the pandemic, including the prime minister.\n\nThe latest was Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who got a notification from the NHS app to stay at home.\n\nHe had the virus last March, but said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nMr Hancock's isolation period was due to end on Sunday, so he is expected back in Whitehall this week.", "Health and social care staff have been vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow\n\nThe Scottish government is \"looking at all sorts of ways\" to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccine programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe government is considering a pilot of 24/7 vaccine arrangements, chiefly aimed at younger age groups.\n\nA total of 46% of over-80s in Scotland have now had a first dose, along with 95% of older care home residents.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the programme was \"picking up pace\" and \"on track\" to reach all over-70s by mid-February.\n\nShe said the government was \"looking at all options\" to get the vaccine out to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government aims to have the top priority groups - including care home residents and staff, frontline health workers and all those aged over 80 - given a first dose by the end of the first week in February.\n\nFrom Monday, letters are being sent out to people aged 70 to 79 inviting them to receive their first doses. Ms Sturgeon says the programme is \"on track\" to having this group complete by the middle of February.\n\nThere has been some criticism of the speed of the rollout in Scotland, with a greater proportion of over-80s having already received a jab in England.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the programme was \"making good progress\" and said any differences with the rest of the UK were because of an early focus on vaccinating older care home residents - 95% of whom have now had their first dose.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely confident\" that the government would hit its targets.\n\nAnd the first minister said consideration was being given to how to speed up the programme further, saying her government is \"looking at all sorts of ways to accelerate things\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at piloting 24/7 arrangements so that when we get into wider groups of the population, people will have choices about the time they turn up for vaccines.\n\n\"There's been debate about whether people will want to turn up in the middle of the night to get vaccinated - some will and some won't. If that sort of thing is going to add to what we are able to do, it is likely to have the greatest impact when you get down into the relatively younger age groups.\n\n\"If we think it is appropriate there may be some things we try just to see if they would work, and if they don't we won't continue with them.\n\n\"We are looking at all of these options to make sure that as the supply increases, we can get it to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"some early evidence\" that lockdown was reducing the number of new Covid-19 cases, although she said the government would take a \"cautious\" approach to restrictions - which are currently due to run into mid-February at the earliest.\n\nShe also voiced some \"cautious grounds for optimism\" that admissions to hospital are starting to \"tail off slightly\", although she warned that pressure on the NHS would remain \"acute\" for some time.\n\nOpposition leaders called for the vaccine programme to be accelerated and for support to be targeted at key workers.\n\nA mass vaccination centre is being set up at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"People are talking about a 24/7 approach here in Scotland - I think based on the figures so far we need to focus just on a seven day approach, because we are not vaccinating people quickly enough.\n\n\"We are not making the progress we need to, to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack said the vaccine programme \"needs to be accelerated as fast as possible\"\n\nShe said: \"We are all behind this vaccine being rolled out - but it has to be as soon as possible, because people are getting nervous.\n\n\"Whether it's police staff, construction staff, care staff who have been worried for weeks - the vaccine has got to be the top priority, along with the test and trace so we can monitor the impact on the ground and get targeted support to people.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was \"slipping further and further behind England\" and added: \"The first minister's excuses on the rollout of the vaccine are wearing very thin.\"", "The Francis family said they would be exchanging cards and having a special meal for their lockdown St Dwynwen's Day\n\nIt may not be as well-known as Valentine's Day but St Dwynwen's Day is a special time for some in Wales.\n\nSian and Trystan Francis from Rhiwbina in Cardiff do not celebrate Valentine's Day but on Monday will exchange St Dwynwen cards and have a special meal.\n\nMr Francis, 40, said: \"It's just a part of my culture - I didn't know about Valentine's Day until about Year 6.\n\n\"My parents didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all but they did send cards on Santes Dwynwen.\"\n\nSian and Trystan Francis perform as Do Re Mi Canu\n\nThe Welsh patron saint of lovers St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen in Welsh - was a 4th Century princess who lived in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe story goes she was unlucky in love, became a nun and went on to pray for true lovers to have better luck than she did.\n\nMrs Francis, who grew up in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said her family did not speak Welsh but she went to a Welsh medium school and her mother learnt the language as an adult.\n\nMrs Francis, 38, said: \"I think if you're going to celebrate anything that says that you love your partner, then this one is loads more relevant to us because it's part of our heritage and our culture - Valentine's Day is not really that much to do with us.\"\n\nThe family have been busy organising cards and treats for their children, Jac, two, and Mimi, seven.\n\n\"I bought a card for Mimi from a mystery person and that's being delivered tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nShe added Covid had meant the celebration was a bit more low-key this year.\n\n\"I bought some cupcakes but we would normally go out for food and stuff,\" she said.\n\nMenna Llinos and her family celebrated with heart-shaped pizza in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThere was a time when they also marked Valentine's Day before they had a change of heart, she said.\n\n\"Over time we just went, 'actually, it's a bit irrelevant to us',\" she said.\n\n\"And you can never get a restaurant [on Valentine's Day],\" Mr Francis added.\n\nCarys Ingram from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, has been making heart-shaped cookies with her children\n\nMr Francis, who grew up speaking Welsh at home, said their choice was not unusual among their friends.\n\n\"My friends, people within the Welsh-speaking community definitely, celebrate Santes Dwynwen,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a subculture within Wales that does exist within Welsh-speaking communities so I would say Santes Dwynwen is part of that.\"\n\nMrs Francis said it meant they were able to avoid the commercialisation of the better-known celebration.\n\n\"Santes Dwynwen isn't particularly commercialised because it is so niche,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "The first minister visited the site of the flooding, where 80 villagers were evacuated from their homes\n\nResidents have been urged to stay away from homes flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft following reports some had returned against advice.\n\nEighty people had to be evacuated from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday and the Coal Authority is investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nOn Sunday First Minister Mark Drakeford visited the village.\n\nSpecialists said mine shafts in the area were stable, but villagers were told it was not safe to return home.\n\nNeath Port Talbot Council tweeted on Sunday afternoon that some evacuated residents had ignored the warnings.\n\nIt said: \"We are getting reports that some residents who have been evacuated are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing at the site, including safety checks by utility companies. They have asked us to reiterate the request for residents to stay away and that it is not safe to return today or tomorrow.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known how many residents were thought to have returned to their flooded homes or how long they were there for.\n\nBigger equipment is being brought in to \"understand in detail what has caused the blow out\", according to Coal Authority chief executive Lisa Pinney.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past mining on communities, said it believed the \"blow out\" was likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which caused water to back up before breaking out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones warned residents it was unlikely that they could return home by Monday.\n\nMs Pinney said a hand-drilling crew \"determined the precise location and extension of the collapsed mine shaft\" on Saturday.\n\nThe village was flooded after a mine shaft \"blow out\"\n\n\"This now allows us to bring in larger equipment to investigate the wider mine workings and drainage channels in the area around it, so we can understand in detail what has caused the blow out,\" she said.\n\n\"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and found them all to be safe.\n\n\"We will be checking over a wider area in the days ahead.\"\n\nDuring his visit to the village Mr Drakeford was shown the sinkhole which had opened up on Thursday, leading to the flooding.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government confirmed financial support would be made available to people affected by the floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Sunday: \"Particularly for families who have no insurance, this is a devastating event.\n\n\"They will know that the Welsh Government is there to help and we will do that through the local authority which has been here very visibly, helping people in the last couple of days.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: 'We’re throwing absolutely everything at it'\n\nFewer than 2,000 young people have so far started new roles under the government's £2bn Kickstart jobs scheme, data shows.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September, has created 120,000 temporary jobs to date.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC coronavirus restrictions were making it harder for more young people to get started.\n\nHowever, he expected the number to rise once restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"Obviously because of the lockdowns and restrictions, that hampers businesses' ability to bring people into work,\" said Mr Sunak,\n\n\"What we can look forward to, as the restrictions ease, is more of these young people starting those placements.\n\n\"But taking a step back, we announced this scheme first week of July, it went live the first week of September and here we are, just a few months later, with 120,000 jobs having being vetted, funded and created.\"\n\nThe Chancellor insisted that the government had moved at an \"enormous pace\" to set up the programme, which targets youths at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\n\"I've always said my priority through this crisis is to protect, support and create as many jobs as possible, and young people in particular have been at the forefront of my mind,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"We know that they're most likely to work in affected sectors, they're twice as likely to be furloughed, and the ones leaving college are entering a really difficult labour market.\"\n\nYouth unemployment rose to 14.5% between August to October 2020, with 597,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed, up from 11% in the same period in 2019.\n\nLatest data from the Department of Work Pensions shows that as of 15 January, 1,868 young people had begun their placements.\n\nHayden Finlayson, recipient of a Kickstart work placement with Whistl in Bedford\n\nHayden Finlayson, 24, is one of them. He was made redundant from a retail job last summer.\n\nLooking for work during the pandemic proved difficult: \"You start thinking about things - whether you're going to find work again.\"\n\nHe has secured a Kickstart placement at a Whistl distribution centre in Bedford, an opportunity for which he is grateful.\n\n\"I gave it a go. It's a new experience and I want to do new things,\" he said. \"[I'm learning] different skills every day, things I've never done before.\"\n\nBusinesses apply to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nYoung people aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to take them on.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the National Minimum Wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover setup costs and assist in the development of employability skills. The current £2bn budget allows for around 250,000 roles.\n\nFSB's Craig Beaumont says the decision to allow small firms offer placements through a faster, more direct process is four months late\n\nFollowing criticism from small businesses, firms who wish to create just a handful of roles will have the option of applying direct to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nPreviously, small firms who wanted to create fewer than 30 Kickstart jobs had to group together, or use a \"gateway\" provider as an intermediary.\n\nMore than 600 gateways have now been approved, but small businesses complained that they found the process slow and difficult.\n\n\"The decision should have been made in September,\" said Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\n\"There is now a backlog of cases of people who've been appointed through intermediaries, who've not been able to access that work yet. So we need a real focus from the government to clear that.\"\n\nAsked if the scheme would need extending because continuing restrictions could prevent its aims being achieved this year, Mr Sunak left the possibility open.\n\nAnna Szymanowska runs Fighter Shots, which makes ginger-based remedy drinks. She is keen to create three digital marketing Kickstart roles as soon as possible.\n\nHowever, she says her application - which was done in a pool with other businesses - took a long time.\n\nSmall business owner Anna Szymanowska would like to hire three young people for digital marketing roles\n\n\"It was a little bit lengthy, because the first time I heard of the scheme was July or August,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We applied within a month [of hearing about it], and just yesterday we received a contract to sign. So it was lengthy but otherwise well managed.\"\n\nThe Chancellor told the BBC that the changes hadn't been made earlier because Kickstart had been set up \"at speed\". He pointed out other interventions aimed at supporting young people's jobs, including investment in employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships.\n\nTracy Fishwick is the managing director of Transform Lives Company, a social enterprise which helps people into work.\n\nShe believes that the young people chosen to have Kickstart placements will be very important.\n\n\"The young people who really probably would already get a job with a little bit of help - we don't want all the Kickstart jobs going to those young people,\" said Ms Fishwick, who previously worked with the Future Jobs Fund - a scheme for young people created by Labour in 2009.\n\n\"We need to be able to put things in place to support those young people who were already unemployed before Covid.\"", "Volunteers responded to an appeal on social media on Saturday night\n\nVolunteers helped to clear up to 7cm of snow at a community hospital so Covid-19 vaccines could be given to about 300 vulnerable patients.\n\nMore than a dozen people cleared the car park at Maesteg community hospital in Bridgend county on Sunday where the Pfizer-BioNtech jab is being given.\n\nPeople with brushes and shovels came to the rescue after a Facebook appeal and Bridgend council provided a plough.\n\nOne local councillor said their community spirit \"knows no bounds\".\n\nThe Maesteg area had been at or near the top of Wales' Covid case rate chart for a few weeks before Christmas - with an infection rate of more than 1300 cases per 100,000 at its height.\n\nVaccinations were delayed for about an hour on Sunday and Maesteg West councillor Ross Thomas, who helped organise the clear-up, said it would have been a \"disaster\" to have cancelled the appointments.\n\nCovid jabs at four other locations in south Wales had to be cancelled after snow cause widespread disruption across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Thomas praised the local community for preventing their centre from also falling victim to the weather.\n\n\"With a few Facebook call-outs we had a dozen or so volunteers within the hour together with surgery staff, a number of the GPs,\" Mr Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCouncillor Ross Thomas said there would be some aching backs on Monday morning\n\n\"The grounds of the hospital are not small by any stretch of the imagination. It was a valiant effort over two-and-a-half hours to ensure we could allow access to Maesteg community hospital.\n\n\"It's thanks to them that 300 more people in the 80 and over priority group in the Llynfi valley received their jab yesterday.\"\n\nAnother 40 vulnerable patients will receive their Covid jabs on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas said the spirit in his community \"knows no bounds\" and added: \"People rally round, it's a sense of belonging, its genuinely instilled in our DNA in Maesteg and it was on show.\n\n\"Not only did people want to help, I think it's clear there's anxiety in the community about the virus.\n\n\"Ahead of Christmas some local wards here in the Llynfi valley had the highest case rates in Europe.\n\n\"There was the realisation yesterday that it wasn't just shovelling snow out of the way, it was about getting on top of this virus and ensuring the most vulnerable people in this community have a fighting chance moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Early years educational providers in England have been told to remain open\n\nMany staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't feel safe at work\", says the Early Years Alliance.\n\nThe group, representing early years providers, wants staff in this sector to be a higher priority for Covid testing and vaccinations.\n\nNurseries and settings for young children in England have been told to remain open during lockdown.\n\nThe government said the under-fives were \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance received more than 3,500 responses in a survey of staff in nurseries or childcare settings and said these suggested widespread concerns - with half of those who replied saying they did not feel safe at work.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the group, said the safety worries were \"a cause for serious concern\".\n\nHe called on the government to implement rapid coronavirus testing among early years staff \"as a matter of urgency\", adding they should be \"given priority access to vaccinations in phase two of the rollout\".\n\nThere are currently no confirmed plans for lateral-flow testing in nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is looking at whether some high-risk professions should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nAnd Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC's Breakfast programme he would \"very much like to see it\" once the most vulnerable groups had received their jabs.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: \"Keeping nurseries and childminders open will support parents and deliver the crucial care and education for our youngest children.\n\n\"Current evidence suggests that pre-school children are less susceptible to infection and are unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission.\"\n\nThe Early Years Alliance survey also found concerns that staff shortages would make it difficult for some nurseries and pre-school settings to stay open.\n\nDr Amelia Massoura, who runs Stepping Stone pre-school, in Sittingbourne, Kent, said: \"Out of six members of staff, four have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"Fortunately, all have recovered well.\"\n\nVanessa Linehan, manager of Sandbrook Community Playgroup in Hackney in London, said: \"We are happy to stay open to support our families.\n\n\"But we want our staff to have testing and vaccinations as a priority.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities to prioritise appropriate testing for early-years staff through their community testing programmes,\" said the Department for Education spokesman.\n\nThe Department for Education says the under-fives are \"unlikely\" to drive up coronavirus transmission\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq accused the government of \"incompetence and neglect\", saying early-years staff \"deserve... proper access to testing\".\n\nShe questioned why \"the government has refused to publish the scientific basis for keeping early-years settings open in lockdown\" and called on it to \"urgently pull back from the brink of funding changes that could lead to viable early-years providers going bust\".\n\nThe government changed the funding formula for the early years sector in December, basing it on current attendance rather than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the DfE, early years attendance is at 54% of the usual daily level, as of 14 January, leading to a shortfall in revenues.\n\nIn primary and secondary schools, which are open to vulnerable children and children of key workers only, average attendance levels have fallen to just 14%.\n\nRoughly half of nurseries and pre-schools and a third of childminders expect to be operating at a loss by the end of the spring term, based on current levels of government support, according to the survey.\n\n\"Early years providers are the only part of the education sector that the government has asked to remain open to all families,\" said Mr Leitch\n\n\"It is surely not too much to ask for the protection - both practical and financial - needed to ensure that we can continue to do so.\"", "Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nTwo men who died when a fire tore through a luxury five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond have been named.\n\nSimon Midgley and Richard Dyson, believed to be from London, were staying at Cameron House Hotel when the blaze broke out on Monday morning.\n\nPolice have not confirmed the identity of those who died, but relatives have paid tribute on social media.\n\nThe hotel's director has praised the actions of the emergency services in preventing further tragedy.\n\nFirefighters who brought a couple and their baby to safety from an upper floor have been hailed as \"heroes\".\n\nA baby was rescued by firefighters from an upper floor of the hotel\n\nAndrew and Louise Logan, and their son Jimmy, from Worcestershire, were taken to hospital after being brought to safety, but were later discharged.\n\nMore than 200 guests were evacuated from the building when the blaze broke out. A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nSocial media posts suggested that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson were on a winter break in Scotland.\n\nA post on Mr Midgley's Instagram account on Saturday showed pictures of Cameron House Hotel and said: \"Home for the weekend.\"\n\nRelatives have been expressing their shock at news of the couple's deaths.\n\nMr Midgley's sister posted a picture of her brother and his partner on Facebook, while another relative wrote: \"I'm beyond heartbroken.\"\n\nKate Baxter wrote on Twitter: \"Such unbearably sad news.. RIP @SimonMidgleyPR, a shining star in our wonderfully close-knit industry.\"\n\nAccording to his Facebook page, Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company, while Mr Dyson is believed to be a TV producer.\n\nPolice and firefighters remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, with the scale of the damage becoming more apparent.\n\nBBC Scotland's Andrew Black was allowed on site and said: \"The damage to the building is pretty extensive, especially the upper floors. There's a smell of burning wood and we could hear a fire alarm from part of the building still going off.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a wedding due to take place at Cameron House hotel this weekend has been moved to another luxury hotel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage from above Loch Lomond shows the extent of the damage at Cameron House\n\nIn a new statement, Cameron House's director, Andy Roger, praised the \"very swift actions of the emergency services\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone associated with Cameron House Hotel is still coming to terms with the events of yesterday and we are all hugely conscious that two people tragically lost their lives in the fire.\n\n\"Their families and friends are foremost in our thoughts as we co-operate fully with the investigation teams to try to establish the circumstances surrounding this terrible incident.\n\n\"The emergency services were on the scene long into the night and I cannot praise their efforts highly enough. They are true heroes. The firemen bringing out a couple and their young child by ladder from a second-floor room was a heart-stopping moment for all those who witnessed it.\n\n\"We're also enormously grateful for the many, many offers of practical support and good wishes from the UK hospitality industry and also from the local community, which has rallied around to help. It's been a humbling experience, but we are a small, tight-knit community on Loch Lomond and a response like that is typical of our many friends and neighbours.\"\n\nMr Roger said the hotel had made arrangements for the vast majority of the guests to travel home or continue with their breaks and he thanked them for their patience and \"good spirits\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to the staff at Cameron House who he said had shown \"an enormous degree of care and teamwork throughout the last two days\".\n\nLocal people have been speaking of their shock and sadness at what happened at the hotel.\n\nOne woman told BBC Scotland: \"We are just very sad for all the families involved and so sorry for the people who work there.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's absolutely horrific. I think the local community really feels it.\"\n\nReverend Ian Miller, a retired minister who lives locally and was called in to offer guests support in the aftermath of the fire, said those affected \"fell into two groups\".\n\n\"There were those in the side bedrooms which weren't really touched and they just realised they had escaped something terrible,\" he said.\n\n\"But for those in the main building then there were degrees of trauma. Some had escaped with virtually nothing.\n\n\"One man came out in his underwear. Another woman told me she just grabbed her baby, change bag and moved out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue service remained at the scene on Tuesday morning\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, John Gow, from forensic investigations firm IFIC, said: \"There will be a number of strands to this investigation, running in tandem.\n\n\"Obviously, sadly, there is the death investigation due to the fatalities that occurred.\n\n\"There is the origin and cause investigation which is establishing how the fire started and spread throughout the property.\n\n\"It is also likely there will be an investigation to establish if the fire precaution measures were adequate and operated as they should.\"\n\nCameron House, an 18th Century mansion, was converted into a luxury hotel and resort in 1986.\n\nIt is a popular wedding venue and houses the Michelin-starred Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond restaurant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes\n\nPolice Scotland has confirmed it will support the dedicated Crown Office unit which has been set up to investigate Covid-19 deaths in care homes.\n\nThe force said its involvement does not indicate that crimes have been committed but is designed simply to inform prosecutors.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nThe first minister described the impact on the sector as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nEarlier this month Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC announced the new unit and said it would help determine if Fatal Accident Inquiries were to be held into the deaths.\n\nThe outbreaks across Scotland include one on Skye which is under police investigation.\n\nOfficers are looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at Home Farm in Portree.\n\nOn Friday police outlined the support officers will provide to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) review.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said: \"We understand the significant public anxiety caused by reports of deaths among those being cared for and staff in the health and care sectors as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is a matter of great concern for us all.\"\n\nMr Sloan said COPFS is working with a number of agencies and asked the force to gather \"additional information\".\n\nHe added: \"Our involvement does not necessarily indicate that crimes are being investigated and the information we gather on behalf of COPFS will help inform its decision on whether further action is required.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone but Police Scotland will continue to work with COPFS and other partner agencies to maximise public safety, to support and protect the vulnerable in our communities and to support the work of colleagues in the health and care professions.\"", "The comedian's wife shared a picture online of the 78-year-old after he received the vaccination\n\nSir Billy Connolly has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe comedian's wife Pamela Stephenson shared an image on social media of the 78-year-old wearing a mask with a plaster on his left arm.\n\nAlongside the picture, Ms Stephenson wrote: \"Thank God... Billy had his first Covid vaccine today!\"\n\nSir Billy, who lives in Florida, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 and announced he was \"finished with stand-up\" last year.\n\nHe said at the time: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nSir Billy now lives in Florida with his wife Pamela Stephenson\n\nSir Billy joins famous faces including actress Dame Judi Dench, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actor Sir Ian McKellen in receiving the vaccine.\n\nHollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also shared a video of him receiving the jab earlier this week.", "The Fire Brigades Union has held back firefighters from efforts to tackle the pandemic in England with \"unreasonable\" safety demands, a report claims.\n\nIn it, the fire service watchdog says the union has insisted on \"unworkable\" rules for testing and self-isolation.\n\nThousands of firefighters assisted health and emergency services last year but in December, as vaccinations began, the FBU asked members not to volunteer.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they do.\n\nThat is because councils and fire chiefs have pulled out of an agreement on health protection measures, it added.\n\nFor most of last year the agreement allowed firefighters to perform a range of additional duties, including delivering meals, driving ambulances and transporting bodies.\n\nFirefighters returning from roles in potential contact with Covid victims would spend several days self-isolating and being tested to show they were not infected.\n\nBy December, when there was the prospect of firefighters helping with vaccinations, a row over the deal resulted in the union giving new advice to members\n\nThe FBU said in message on 9 December: \"At this time, members are asked not to volunteer and to suspend any expression of interest that they have registered until such time as satisfactory arrangements can be secured that allow a national agreement to be reached.\"\n\nOn 13 January, local councils, which employ firefighters, decided the agreement with the union \"was no longer sustainable or appropriate\", partly because of the requirements for staff to have tests and self-isolate.\n\nThey said these made it impossible to run the fire service flexibly. Fire chiefs argued that police officers and paramedics did not have to isolate and await test results.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they volunteer\n\nThe FBU general secretary, Matt Wrack, told the BBC he still was not able to advise firefighters about additional Covid-related duties because the union did not know what the safety risks would be locally.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to ask people to volunteer if there aren't safety measures in place,\" he said. \"I don't want to see a deadly virus brought into workplaces when we have measures in place which have avoided it in the past several months.\"\n\nThe fire minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, said: \"Brave firefighters have been prevented from stepping up to support the pandemic response because of the actions of the Fire Brigades Union.\"\n\nZoe Billingham, an inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Fire and Rescue Services, said many firefighters had contributed to the effort during the Covid crisis, but much more could have been done.\n\nShe described the union's position as \"deeply regrettable\" and \"not what the public would expect of a fire service\".\n\nThe inspectorate has released several reports calling for the modernisation of fire service working practices and criticising the FBU.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week\n\nAccording to this one, the dispute between firefighters and their employers has held up vital work to protect lives.\n\nIn Greater Manchester requests to the fire service to help with NHS Track and Trace were delayed by 12 weeks.\n\nIn Cleveland, the fire and rescue service had to use non-operational support staff, rather than firefighters, to carry out temperature testing for the local authority.\n\nIn Suffolk and South Yorkshire, there were delays to plans for firefighters to help get into properties where residents were suffering from Covid.\n\nThe FBU says it was not given an opportunity to respond to these claims before the report was published. Mr Wrack dismissed it as poorly-sourced and politically-motivated.\n\nSome fire services have reached agreements with local branches of the union instead so that they can volunteer for the vaccination effort.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week and those giving vaccinations had also received them first.", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Three quarters of applications for a £500 discretionary grant, which aims to help those on low incomes self-isolate, have been rejected, figures suggest.\n\nEmployed or self-employed people in England who do not qualify for the Test and Trace Support Payment because they do not receive benefits can apply.\n\nData obtained by Labour and shared with BBC Newsnight suggests just 12,069 of 49,877 applications were successful.\n\nThe government said it was assessing how the scheme is supporting people.\n\nThe cumulative figures obtained by Labour suggest that between October and December last year, 35,252 applications to local authorities in England for the discretionary part of the test and trace support payment scheme were rejected, while 12,069 were granted.\n\nThe government introduced the Test and Trace Support payment in late September as a way of topping up any benefits or Statutory Sick Pay a person receives.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is a targeted scheme designed to help people on low incomes.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating, can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nLocal authorities in England oversee the entire support scheme, with the qualifying criteria set by the government. They blame overly strict criteria and inadequate government guidance for people being rejected who feel they should qualify for a grant.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England as well as the London boroughs, said some councils were having to turn down applications for the discretionary support because \"people are ineligible or have failed to provide the evidence needed\".\n\nLast month, the self-isolation period for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus was shortened from 14 to 10 days after the time of exposure.\n\nPeople who are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate, face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply. Those who don't self-isolate risk spreading the virus to others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, a GP trainee working at a practice in Luton, says he meets, on a daily basis, people who are faced with what he calls a \"Sophie's choice\".\n\nHe says: \"People come to me with essentially a Sophie's choice situation - I know I have to isolate but also I don't have enough money to put food on my table.\n\n\"If I say to somebody who comes to me with a health problem, you need to take a couple of weeks off work, I've had patients who have come to me and they're in tears.\"\n\nRachel, a shop worker from East London with a disabled son, tested positive in early January and was left in a desperate situation after having to self-isolate.\n\nShe says: \"I didn't have a hot meal for 10 days. I had two bowls of cornflakes and a hot dog. I was hungry. I was petrified\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's been probably the worst two weeks of my life. On a personal level I knew I had no choice but to isolate to keep my son safe.\n\n\"Had I not been in that position I can't guarantee that I would have done the whole self isolation thing because you get desperate.\"\n\nHer local councillor eventually dropped off a hot meal. Rachel was fortunate and received a £500 grant at the end of her isolation.\n\nJosie Tothill said missing two weeks of work \"could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not\"\n\nJosie Tothill from Manchester didn't qualify for the scheme, even though her job, as a personal assistant to a woman who needs mental health support, means she is on a low income.\n\nShe had to self-isolate in October after her sister tested positive. But she did not receive a call from Test and Trace despite being a contact. Only people with a Test and Trace number are eligible.\n\nJosie says: \"It was difficult, but I got by. But for a lot of people, especially if you work in care, you are already on poverty wages, so to miss two weeks of work - that could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not.\n\n\"So you can see, for some people, it's impossible to do that isolation, so it's much harder to control the virus.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, which obtained the figures from local authorities under the Freedom of Information Act, says the government must make sure everyone can afford to self isolate.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it was vital that people who self-isolated were not \"punished for doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The problem is the government established a fixed pot of money and, in some cases, councils have eked it out so much that many people applying for the funding haven't received it.\n\n\"In other cases councils have used up all the money because they have more people applying than were expected.\n\n\"So, we end up with a postcode lottery, if you live in one area you might get the funding, if you live in another area you might not.\"\n\nAnalysis of the figures by the BBC shows that of the applications to the discretionary scheme:\n\nWhile most of councils that responded rejected the majority of applications to the discretionary scheme, a smaller number bucked the trend.\n\nLambeth granted 77% of applications, Haringey and Wakefield 75%, and Solihull 64%.\n\nWhile it's impossible to rule out that applications may be coming from people who are taking a chance, it's also clear that some councils are apparently more flexible about the criteria used on the discretionary scheme.\n\nThe government is putting £70 million into funding the scheme. It said: \"Local authorities are responsible for decisions when it comes to making additional discretionary payments to people who fall outside the scope of the main scheme and are facing financial hardship as a result of having to self-isolate.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the 314 local authorities in England to assess how the scheme is supporting people experiencing financial difficulties.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the government \"needs to ensure its £500 self-isolation payment support scheme is available to those in need of financial support\".\n\nIt says it is \"good\" that councils will receive extra government funding \"to support people on low incomes who do not meet the strict criteria for this main scheme, but who may face financial hardship because of the requirement to self-isolate\".", "Because of its scale, work on Glastonbury's site must begin earlier than most festivals\n\nMusic festivals are \"still possible\" this summer, despite the cancellation of Glastonbury, says the head of the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nPaul Reed said Glastonbury \"is a different beast to most festivals and most likely ran out of time due to the size and complexity of the event\".\n\nSmaller events could still happen if the government ensures organisers can access cancellation insurance, he said.\n\n\"For most festivals, the cut-off point is more likely the end of March.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis called off their festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen,\" they said in a joint statement. \"We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nTickets for the festival, which normally attracts 200,000 people and was due to take place in June, will roll over to 2022.\n\nGlastonbury is the UK's biggest music festival, but it was not the only event to cancel its plans on Thursday. The Country To Country festival, which was due to take place in March, also said its 2021 edition would not happen.\n\nThe three-day event, which attracts some of country music's biggest names to indoor venues in London, Dublin and Glasgow, said it had pulled the plug due to the \"current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel\".\n\nThe announcements came as coronavirus deaths soared in England, with more than 8,500 deaths recorded in the past week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions would be lifted by the spring.\n\nStormzy has already been announced as a headliner for August's Reading and Leeds festivals\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation has raised fears for other music festivals this summer. However, the organisers of Glasgow's TRNSMT said there was \"reason to be optimistic\" that it could go ahead in July, with headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and the Courteeners.\n\n\"Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, it's unable to go ahead this year,\" boss Geoff Ellis told Scotland's Daily Record.\n\n\"By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the government and remain positive about events later in the summer.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Bestival co-founder Rob Da Bank, who tweeted that \"festival season will happen in the UK this summer\", adding: \"Sadly Glasto is such a mammoth beast to plan it ran outta time.\"\n\nSacha Lord, co-founder of Manchester's Parklife festival, added that Glastonbury's cancellation was \"yet another blow\" to freelancers who work in the live music sector.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, Mr Reed said the UK was at a \"serious point in the pandemic and festivals only want to return when it is safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that festivals were currently struggling to get insurance for coronavirus-related cancellations. Last week, MPs from the House of Commons culture select committee wrote to the chancellor, urging him to launch a Covid-19 insurance scheme to protect live music.\n\nThe appeal was backed by more than 100 industry figures, including organisers of the TRNSMT and Parklife festivals. \"We do need government to intervene in this issue,\" said Mr Reed.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expressed his regret at Glastonbury's cancellation and said the government was \"looking at problems around getting insurance\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said on Friday they are in \"regular dialogue\" with public health experts to \"agree a realistic return date for festivals and other large events\". They added they were still helping festivals with the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, \"with many already receiving this support\".\n\nLatitude Festival has been held at Henham Park, near Southwold, since 2006\n\nOther European countries, including Austria and Germany, have launched schemes to cover events that cannot be rescheduled, including music festivals. At present, England has a scheme protecting film and TV shoots, but not music.\n\nHowever, some festivals have been given support by the government's £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, including Womad, End of the Road and Nozstock.\n\nMelvin Benn, whose company Festival Republic organises the Latitude, Download and the Reading & Leeds festivals, said that without an insurance scheme, other events would be left \"staring into the same barrel that Glastonbury stared into\".\n\n\"People can't afford to take that financial risk,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government is holding \"early stage talks\" with insurers, confirmed Tim Thornhill of Tyser's Insurance, which counts Glastonbury amongst its clients.\n\n\"We have helped to put in place the film and TV restart scheme, which the chancellor explained saved 14,000 jobs,\" he said. \"So if we can do something for events, that would be welcome across the industry\".\n\nWhile there is \"no guarantee\" that insurance could be provided, he said there was \"significant urgency\" to finding a solution \"within the next few months\".\n\n\"It's really important that the government supports the industry,\" added Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. \"And they need to start thinking about that now, and not when we reach that point - say in October this year - when there are enough people vaccinated for [live music] to become safe.\n\n\"Nobody wants to go to anything, or take part in anything, that's going to turn into a super-spreader event,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously there has to be a way out of this, through vaccination. And I think we need to make sure that systems are in place so we can get back into doing what we love.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the culture select committee, said the government was working on insurance plans, because of the importance of festivals to British culture and the economy.\n\n\"I've been in to see the chancellor,\" he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"Finally I think there is some movement. I understand that they are dropping some of the objections that they may have had, and that we may end up with an insurance scheme.\n\n\"However, there's a danger that it's too little too late.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: We are enforcing lockdown with increasing toughness\n\nSky News's Sam Coates asks whether, if the new variant is more dangerous, it is right that more people are \"out and about\" during the current lockdown than the first one last year. The PM says that \"we are enforcing the law very strictly with increasing toughness\", meaning increased fines to dissuade risky behaviour. \"It depends on everybody doing the right thing and avoiding transmission,\" he says, adding that is what will be more effective than police action. On why the new variant may be transmitting more readily, Sir Patrick Vallance says it is not believed the new variant has a higher viral load, meaning people \"shed more virus\". He suggests it may be other factors that make it more transmissible. On the current infection rate, Chris Whitty says that while infections are slowly going down \"it is at a very, very high level\". He says that among some age groups - including those 20 to 30 - infections may still be increasing. And on hospitalisations, he says that they are \"broadly flat\" for the UK as a whole, but there are variations between regions. \"That peak is not yet definitely going down yet,\" he says. Deaths will be delayed further with the peak expected in the future, he adds. Video caption: Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty", "The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond is using legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThe documents include messages between SNP officials, civil servants and advisers relating to Mr Salmond's legal challenge to the complaints process.\n\nIt is the first time MSPs have issued such a formal request in the history of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the action was necessary to continue its work.\n\nThe committee was established in the wake of a judicial review court case where the Scottish government admitted its internal investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nThe government had to pay out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to the former first minister, who was later acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate criminal trial.\n\nThe notice, formally issued by Holyrood chief executive David McGill, states that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) \"may hold documents relevant and necessary for the committee to fulfil its remit\".\n\nThe committee is seeking the release of documents detailing text or WhatsApp communications between SNP chief operating officer Susan Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019, that may be relevant to the inquiry.\n\nIt also wants to see any documents linked to the leaking of complaints to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMs Fabiani said: \"Throughout this inquiry, the committee has been determined to get as much information as possible to inform its task.\n\n\"This is a step that hasn't been taken lightly, and is a first for this Parliament, but which the committee felt was needed as it continues its vital work.\"\n\nThe Crown Office has been given until 17:00 on 29 January to respond to the notice.\n\nNever before in Holyrood's history has it attempted to use this legal power of compulsion.\n\nSection 23 of the Scotland Act makes it possible to force a witness to give evidence in person or - as in this case - to hand over documents.\n\nIt sounds straightforward but lots of legal terms and conditions apply.\n\nThat's especially true in this case where MSPs are trying to compel the Crown Office - in charge of prosecutions and headed up by the Lord Advocate.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has potential get-outs if he considers releasing documents would \"prejudice criminal proceedings\" or otherwise be \"contrary to the public interest\".\n\nThat public interest test could be key.\n\nClearly, MSPs think social media messages and other material held by the Crown Office could be relevant to their inquiry and should be released.\n\nThe Crown Office has argued that disclosing evidence gathered in a criminal case for other purposes risks undermining confidence in the police and prosecutors.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has a big call to make - has the prosecution service (which he runs) or the parliament (to which he is answerable as a minister) got the better sense of where - on balance - the public interest lies?\n\nIn other developments, Mr Salmond has been given a deadline by which to appear before the committee.\n\nThe former SNP leader has been given the option of giving evidence to the committee either in person in the Parliament or by appearing remotely on a number of dates in the first week of February.\n\nMs Fabiani said if this was not possible then the \"committee regrets that it will not be able to take oral evidence from you\" although he would be free to submit further written evidence.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had said he was only available in the second week of February.\n\nIn a letter to the committee, the former first minister said this was because he had still to complete two further submissions but the process had been \"hampered\" by the Scottish government's \"failure\" to release its legal advice and the ongoing bid to recover documents from the Crown Office.\n\nMr Salmond's appearance is much anticipated following his written submission earlier this month in which he alleged that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who \"entirely rejects\" his claims, is expected to give evidence in the coming weeks and has said she is looking forward to putting her side across.\n\nMeanwhile, the committee has once again written to the Scottish government urging it to waive legal privilege and release the advice it received from lawyers regarding the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"COPFS has received the correspondence from the committee and will respond in early course.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We will consider the committee's letter - but the Scottish government has already taken unprecedented steps to provide the committee with access to relevant information to allow it to fulfil its remit.\n\n\"The government has, exceptionally, provided the committee with access to a summary of the legal advice on the judicial review on a confidential basis.\"", "Eric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge\n\nA bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.\n\nEric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.\n\nMs Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.\n\nShe was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China, where she had a five-year-old son with her husband, who is also a lecturer.\n\nProsecutor Carina Hughes said the crash left trapped passengers covered in debris and forced to crouch down in the flattened upper deck while they waited to be rescued.\n\nOlympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who was studying at the university, saw Ms Ren hit the front windscreen.\n\nEric Vice is \"consumed with guilt\" his defence barrister said\n\n\"Mr Young says that she was slowly trying to mouth some words to him, but it was inaudible.\n\n\"He described that he held her hand to try and comfort her until the police and paramedics arrived.\"\n\nMs Hughes said Ms Ren had been unconscious when cut out of the bus by firefighters 90 minutes later and was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, with spine injuries, leg fractures, lacerations and a severe brain injury.\n\nAerospace engineering student Richard Thompson, 20, was seriously injured in the crash and required facial reconstruction. Mr Young suffered a head wound and two broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard passenger statements saying the bus appeared to be running late and the driver had been waving passengers on to the bus without scanning their tickets.\n\nMs Hughes said when Vice encountered traffic between Swansea University's Singleton campus and its Swansea Bay campus, he decided to take a different route, one he had taken several times before when driving a single-decker bus.\n\nShe said 21 passengers has been on board, 13 of whom were on the top deck.\n\nMs Hughes said Vice had driven past two height restriction warnings on the route.\n\nThe bus went under the stone arch of the railway bridge, but hit the lower steel bridge.\n\nIan Ibrahim, defending, said it had been \"without doubt a catastrophic error of judgement.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is consumed with guilt - he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.\"\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nJudge Geraint Williams said: \"That fatal error of yours resulted in the death of a promising young academic.\n\n\"Following the crash you stayed at the scene where you witnessed first-hand the carnage you had created.\n\n\"I can't think of a word short of carnage to describe the scene on the upstairs of that bus - but it could have been many, many times worse.\n\n\"The stark reality in this case is that your impatience that day robbed you of the care which ordinarily you applied to your professional driving.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Ms Ren died, Swansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"", "Daniel Craig with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on the No Time To Die set in 2019\n\nThe release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film's website said.\n\nIt had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe film is the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, and marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent 007.\n\nIt also features Lea Seydoux and Rami Malek.\n\nThe delay will come as a further blow to cinemas that have been forced to shut for months at a time because of lockdowns.\n\nEarlier this week, leading film-makers including Danny Boyle and Sir Steve McQueen wrote to the UK Government, calling for financial support for cinema chains because \"UK cinema stands on the edge of an abyss\".\n\nCineworld said in October, when No Time To Die was pushed back for the second time, that delays to big budget releases meant the industry was \"unviable\".\n\nBond's latest move sparked a flurry of other delays to major releases. Sony has pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Peter Rabbit 2, Jared Leto's Morbius, Tom Holland's Uncharted and Cinderella, which will star singer Camila Cabello; while Universal has moved Tom Hanks' Bios from April to November.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said the decision to postpone No Time To Die again, \"while clearly disappointing, is at the same time not surprising given the current situation around Covid-19 in the UK as well as the US and other major film territories\".\n\nThe postponement of Daniel Craig's swansong and other films \"underlines the need for ongoing support for the UK cinema sector\", the trade body's chief executive Phil Clapp said.\n\nThe association is calling on the government to provide \"direct funding\" to chains, which represent 80% of ticket sales.\n\nOne of the major chains, Vue, said the delay was \"understandable\", and that the continuing attempts to release the film in cinemas \"is further testament to our shared belief in a bright future for the big screen\".\n\nHowever, the latest postponement could stoke speculation that the film may ultimately skip cinemas and be released on a streaming platform.\n\nMajor Disney titles like Pixar's Soul and its live-action remake of Mulan bypassed cinemas, premiering instead on the Disney+ streaming service.\n\nWonder Woman 1984, meanwhile, was made available in the US on the HBO Max streaming service on the same day it received a limited cinema release.\n\nLast year, Warner Bros announced its 2021 titles - including sci-fi epic Dune and The Matrix 4 - would all adopt a similar dual release pattern, escalating tensions between Hollywood and US movie theatres.\n\nRami Malek plays the villainous Safin in the thrice-delayed film\n\nThe Dig, a new historical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, was due to be released in selected UK cinemas this month. Now, the film will only be available on Netflix from 29 January.\n\nAsked whether No Time To Die might go down the same route, Fiennes - who will reprise his role as M in the film - recently told BBC News: \"That's a good question and I'm not really in a position to answer it.\n\n\"I would love the idea that people could go to the cinema and have the full effect of the big-screen energy behind the Bond, but I'm sure it's something the people who make these executive decisions are probably considering.\n\n\"I really hope we come through this so people can go to the cinema. Maybe they just have to hold their nerve. But of course we don't know, and there may be financial reasons or imperatives that [mean] they have to put it on a streaming system.\"\n\nIf No Time To Die is indeed released in cinemas in October, it will arrive a full six years on from the release of its 2015 predecessor Spectre.\n\nThat won't be far behind the six years and four months that separated the release of Licence to Kill in summer 1989 and GoldenEye in late 1995 - the biggest gap between two Bond films.\n\nThe last Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices.\n\nOther blockbusters to have been delayed by the pandemic include action sequel Top Gun: Maverick and Marvel's Black Widow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "The bunker is in a rural location near St Agnes, Cornwall\n\nAn \"eerie\" underground bunker built during the Cold War has been put up for sale with a guide price of £25,000.\n\nThe former monitoring post near St Agnes, Cornwall was built in 1961 and is accessed down a 14ft (4.2m) ladder.\n\nSellers have suggested \"a variety of uses\" for the \"out of the ordinary\" property, subject to planning permission from Cornwall Council.\n\nIt was used in the Cold War to monitor aircraft and any potential nuclear threats, said auctioneer Adam Cook.\n\nThe auction will be held online in February\n\nThe bunker was manned by volunteers and consists of an access shaft, a toilet and a monitoring room.\n\nIt is being auctioned online as part of a triangular piece of land on 18 February.\n\nThe site was first opened in 1961 and closed in 1991 and is accessed down a \"rustic vehicular track\", according to the online advert.\n\nMr Cook said it is a former Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post \"but people love calling it a nuclear bunker\".\n\nHe said the bunker would have been one of around 1,500 monitoring posts built in coastal regions in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s.\n\nOld bunk beds remain in the bunker\n\nAccessed by a hatch, Mr Cook described the reinforced concrete bunker as \"a little bit eerie when you're there on your own\".\n\n\"I'm glad I've been down there...[to have] half a chance of explaining it to customers.\"\n\nHe said there was still a sense of what it used to be with an \"old bunk bed\" and a toilet \"which I don't think you'd fancy using but it certainly gives you the atmosphere\".\n\nMr Cook explained it is \"difficult to pigeon hole it onto any one kind of purchaser\" and said the buyer could be anyone from a history enthusiast to a landowner.\n\n\"All kinds could be interested and we're already getting lots of calls about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your comments and story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cold War bunker up for sale for £25,000", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nThey say the new EU trade deal has put costly duties on returns at a time when firms are already struggling.\n\nThe BBC has been told UK High Street and luxury brands have a mounting volume of goods stuck with courier services on the continent.\n\nNone of the retailers would comment on the problem.\n\nAdam Mansell, boss of the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), said it's \"cheaper for retailers to write off the cost of the goods than dealing with it all, either abandoning or potentially burning them.\"\n\nSince 1 January, lots of European customers have been presented with an unexpected customs invoice when signing for goods they've ordered from the UK. These new customs charges are a result of the new EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"It's part of the ongoing small print of the deal,\" said Mr Mansell. \"If you're in Germany and buying goods from the UK, you as the German customer are the importer bringing goods into the EU.\n\n\"You then have a courier company knocking on the door giving you a customs clearance invoice that you need to pay to receive your goods.\"\n\nMany customers automatically reject the goods, refusing to pay the additional surcharges, leaving couriers to take them away.\n\nAbout 30% of items bought online are returned, according to figures from Statista. That has meant large volumes of goods are heading back to the UK.\n\nWhen goods arrive back at depots on the Continent, there is new customs paperwork to complete. \"Export clearance charge, import charge arrival, import VAT charge and depending on the goods a rules of origin document as well,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"Lots of large businesses don't have a handle on it, never mind smaller ones.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen a document that states four major UK High Street fashion retailers are stockpiling returns in Belgium, Ireland and Germany. One brand will incur charges of almost £20,000 to get the returns back.\n\nCouriers and freight businesses that ship from the UK to Europe are also experiencing delays getting goods to the Continent because of the new customs clearances.\n\n\"It's a bigger change than we thought possible,\" explained Shona Brown from Speedy Freight, a courier service. \"Before, we'd get the order to Germany and off the driver would go.\n\n\"Now we've got to do export entry detailing where was it made, the driver needs to go to the customs office at Dover, then customs in Germany on arrival and then sort out the VAT. There are so many hoops to jump through, it's so laborious.\"\n\n\"You've got to have manpower to figure out what to do. And with people working from home it's difficult. For small businesses, it is a huge thing for people to do,\" she added.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards runs her sustainable fashion brand VILDNIS from the UK. She has stopped exporting to her fastest growing market, the EU, because of the new customs processes.\n\n\"I've been involved in logistics before. I expected it to be bad and I am used to shipping to the USA which is difficult. But this is just mind-blowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Every day there is another layer. In the first two weeks we couldn't get answers. For two years we were told to get ready for Brexit. But for these we couldn't prepare.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think we can increase prices but we might just have to say that we can't make the business with the EU work. It is a real shame. There is a huge interest in sustainable fashion in Europe and we might have to walk away from it.\"\n\nUlla did speak with the Department for International Trade for help and advice. She was told that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub in Europe might be a good idea: \"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it.\"\n\nRetailers in the UK and Europe that trade across the new customs border are all still adapting to the rules. Hauliers and customs agents are facing a steep learning curve too.\n\nThe government said: \"Now the UK has left the EU customs union and Single Market, there are new rules and processes businesses will need to follow.\n\n\"We have encouraged companies new to dealing with customs declarations to appoint a specialist to deal with import and export declarations on their behalf - and we made more than £80m available to expand the capacity of the customs agents market.\"\n\nIt added: \"Most businesses use a specialist such as a customs broker, freight forwarder or fast parcel operator to deal with this.\n\n\"The government will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure they are able to trade effectively under the new rules.\"", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "It would be unrealistic to expect all lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland to be lifted on 5 March, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced that the current restrictions, which have been in place since 26 December, would be extended to 5 March.\n\nBut ministers were also told restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMr Swann said the decision to extend restrictions had not been easy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said: \"Can I say that'll we'll have to extend them at that point [5 March]? At this time, no I can't.\n\n\"But it would, I think, be unrealistic to think that we'd be able to lift every restriction come that date because we do see where this virus is going, the trajectory it's taking, the large number of positive cases that we are managing but also the large number of hospital admissions that we currently have.\n\nRobin Swann says the decision to extend the restrictions had not been easy\n\n\"There has to be a consideration and planning put into place - we know Covid's going to be with us for a very long time, we also know it will take time for our vaccination process to kick in and have that major effect.\"\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term break but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church have all confirmed that in-person worship will continue to be suspended until 5 March in accordance with the executive's decision on the restrictions.\n\nThe churches say there are exceptions for weddings and funerals and private prayer.\n\nTwelve more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland on Friday, taking the overall death toll recorded by the Department of Health to 1,704.\n\nIt is a story that changes not only by the day but by the hour and is dictated by numbers.\n\nNever before have we scrutinised hospital figures so closely, especially this week.\n\nAnd the numbers are important as we know how many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available across Northern Ireland and potentially how many will be required in the next 24 hours.\n\nOn Wednesday, 33 ICU beds were available - on Friday that dropped to 18.\n\nBut as we enter a difficult 72 hours, there is a feeling that the health system will cope.\n\nA regional approach to the crisis means no hospital is left to shoulder responsibility on its own.\n\nEvery afternoon a call is made about whether an additional \"pod\" - a bay of beds - is required to be opened at the Nightingale facility at Belfast City Hospital.\n\nIf not, it is felt that hospitals can hold their own for another 24 hours.\n\nCoping is good but comes at a terrible cost - keeping a lid on Covid-19 is only possible because so much else within hospitals has been cancelled.\n\nA heavy price has been paid and will continue to be paid for months, possibly years to come.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more than 100 medically-trained military personnel would be deployed in Northern Ireland to help hospital staff deal with Covid-19 pressures after a request by Mr Swann.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's Health Committee on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said: \"My only concern is that they [military personnel] don't get in the way of the real professionals who are doing the work to save lives.\n\n\"This is slamming the dead cat down on the table to deflect attention away from the inadequacies in the health department at the minute.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann responded by saying he was \"disappointed and disgusted\" by Mr Sheehan's comments.\n\nHe added: \"The majority of our health service workers are actually welcoming them because this is a tough period of time that we are entering into in the health service.\n\n\"To hear some of the comments where he's actually, I think, criticising the level of delivery that our health service has given over these past 10-12 months, I think is disappointing.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be the language that would be reflective of his party leadership in regards to the assistance that we're receiving from the Army.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, had previously said her party's priority had \"always been to save lives\" and she would \"never rule out anything that actually supports the health service\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said on critics of the move to deploy military medics were putting \"political intolerance before patients\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann also said the executive would \"not be found wanting\" in enforcing Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIt came after a district judge said on Wednesday that \"the powers-that-be made a significant error\" in making breaches of some rules punishable only with fines.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Ranaghan told Dungannon Magistrates' Court he would have remanded two defendants from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in custody if he had \"the power to do so\".\n\nShania Devenney, 21, of Kilmacormick Drive, and Nathan Maguire, 20, of Carnmore Lodge, were charged with contravening the regulations when arrested by police who were alerted to anti-social behaviour.\n\nA police officer told the court there had been repeated parties at Ms Devenney's address this month.\n\nThe judge, granting bail, said: \"I cannot consider remanding in custody as these matters are fine-only.\n\n\"The powers-that-be made a significant error when drafting legislation in making these fine-only offences.\n\n\"Had I the power to do so I would definitely be remanding these two in custody.\"\n\nThe PSNI has issued more than 2,000 Covid-19 fines during the pandemic\n\nThe health minister said the executive had asked people \"to work with us\" and had increased the level of fines.\n\nAsked about the judge's comments about enforcement, Mr Swann said he was \"content enough to raise it with executive colleagues and ask the justice minister to have a look at that\".\n\nMr Swann added that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland were abiding by the regulations as it is the \"right thing to do\".\n\nOn Tuesday, police revealed that 2,159 penalty notices had been issued during the pandemic, with fines starting at £200.\n\nThere have been 55 failure-to-isolate fines, which incur a £1,000 fine.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.\n\nNathan said the singalong craze for his The Wellerman rendition exploded in just a matter of weeks.\n\nAnd Friday sees an official release of the shanty, after he was picked up by Polydor records.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Airdrie said it goes to show that if you keep going anything can happen.", "Mr Trump was duped by the prankster, Morgan said\n\nDonald Trump was called on Air Force One last year by a prankster posing as Piers Morgan, the TV presenter says.\n\nThe president, as he was at the time, only realised he had been tricked when he phoned the real Morgan while on his way to vote in Florida last year.\n\nThe alleged security breach is said to have happened in October, but only emerged in an interview Morgan gave to the BBC's Americast podcast.\n\nThe two recently had a falling out over Mr Trump's handling of the pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Jon Sopel why Mr Trump had called Morgan out of the blue this past October, the presenter described \"an absolutely hilarious story, where somebody had called [Trump] pretending to be me the day before and got through to him on Air Force One\".\n\nThe 45th US president didn't realise he had been duped, Morgan said. \"They had a conversation with Trump thinking he was talking to me.\"\n\nIt is not clear who the alleged hoaxers were, but if the story is true President Trump would not be the first political leader to have been pranked.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was foreign secretary, have both been tricked on the phone in recent years.\n\nBut it would revive long-running questions about the security of President Trump's phone conversations.\n\nMorgan became increasingly critical of Mr Trump in the final months of his presidency\n\nThe BBC has asked the Secret Service for comment.\n\nMorgan was a high-profile tabloid editor in the UK who took over from Larry King with a primetime CNN chat show in 2011. He now presents a breakfast show in the UK.\n\nHe was initially supportive of President Trump after his surprise election win but became increasingly critical in the last 12 months.\n\n\"We had a very nice conversation... I always got on well with Trump,\" Morgan said of their October call, but added that Mr Trump's \"character flaws - the chronic narcissism, the desire to make everything about himself\" made him a \"useless leader\".\n\nOn their friendship, Morgan described Mr Trump's behaviour since the November presidential election as \"egregious\" and \"so obviously on a pathway\" to the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\n\"I just felt - no, I'm done with you now,\" Morgan said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recording of the conversation between Elton John and the man he believed was Vladimir Putin", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths \"armed with knives\".\n\nPolice said Keon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road, in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away, added police, who said they had since seized the vehicle.\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nThe investigation is progressing \"at pace\", according to the West Midlands force, which detained the suspect on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nWitnesses who reported the carrying of knives to officers also said shots were heard.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nThe motive remained unknown said police, who urged those who could identify the attackers to contact the force.\n\n\"We are not sure of all the details at the moment, but we do know that Keon was set upon by this group and suffered a series of serious injuries,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, adding that five or six youths were believed to have been involved.\n\nPolice have not disclosed the nature of Keon's injuries. They say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nOfficers are searching Linwood Road after the attack on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Orencas said: \"The death of Keon has shocked the whole community.\n\n\"This level of violence in broad daylight on a residential street is inconceivable, let alone the fact the target was a 15-year-old boy.\"\n\nHe said the family, who were being supported by specialist officers, \"had the worst shock imaginable\".\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the family said they were \"devastated\" by their loss, and remembered Keon as \"fun-loving\" and \"full of life and love\".\n\nThe tribute added: \"He had an infectious laugh that lit up the room whenever he was in it.\"\n\nPolice have seized a crashed car they believe to be a getaway vehicle\n\nDetectives are examining a white car they believe to be the getaway vehicle which crashed into a house on Wheeler Street.\n\nCCTV footage has been seized and the area is cordoned off while investigations continue.\n\nA resident of Linwood Road, who did not wish to be named, said she was shocked to hear someone had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"We've lived here 45 years and I've never heard of anything like this.\n\n\"It's just shocking and really, really sad.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for dash cam and CCTV footage as they piece together the events of Thursday afternoon\n\nLocal Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, described the death as \"extremely tragic\" and \"a needless thing to have happened\".\n\nHe said: \"We must work with police as much as we can to stop this happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home has led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nA total of 13 residents at an East Dunbartonshire care home have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe owners of Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs confirmed the deaths and said that a further seven residents had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nAnother 11 staff members were self-isolating following positive tests.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate rated the home in Lennox Crescent as \"weak\" in its Covid-19 response in an inspection last month.\n\nAt the unannounced check on 26 October, inspectors found the cleanliness of the home a \"significant concern\".\n\nIt went on to describe the cleanliness of the environment and the overall fabric of the building as \"poor\".\n\nInspectors said in their report that they were \"very concerned about the potential risk of infection for residents\".\n\nSenior managers responded immediately and maintenance staff were deployed to clean the home.\n\nHowever, the operators were ordered to carry out a deep clean of the facility by 11 November.\n\nMavisbank owners HC-One said they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nMavisbank was given a rating of \"weak\" in October\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"As we navigate this outbreak, we continue to work closely with all the relevant authorities to contain the virus and safeguard our residents.\n\n\"We are pleased that a number of residents have now recovered, and we continue to closely monitor the health and wellbeing of all those affected.\n\n\"This includes following all government guidance in relation to infection prevention and control.\"\n\nResponding to the Care Inspectorate report, the company said the health, safety and wellbeing of its residents and staff was a priority.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"We were disappointed that inspectors found some elements of our robust infection control plan were not being fully implemented and we acted urgently to respond to this feedback. These issues were immediately rectified so that when inspectors returned, they were able to see and approve of the work that had been completed.\n\n\"Senior staff are also supporting the home and our learning and development team are ensuring that all colleagues complete refresher training which includes our specific coronavirus training modules on the virus, enhanced infection control procedures, and the correct use of PPE.\n\n\"These training modules have been regularly updated to reflect all changes in the guidance over recent months.\"\n\nCaroline Sinclair, of East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said, \"We are aware of this very sad situation and have been working with Mavisbank care home to provide a high level of clinical support to residents at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families of those who have passed and others affected by their loss.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMinisters wrestling with how to ensure people with coronavirus obey laws to self-isolate are to consider paying £500 to anyone who tests positive. It's among options drawn up for England by the Department of Health to encourage people to stay at home, amid fears the current support leaves some unable to afford the time away from work. However, Treasury sources say funding a universal payment to the tune of £453m a week is unlikely.\n\nBritish retail sales saw their largest annual fall in history last year as the impact of coronavirus took its toll. Sales fell by 1.9% in 2020, when compared with 2019, official figures show. Clothes shops were hit hard, with a record annual fall of more than 25%. Meanwhile, UK government borrowing hit £34.1bn last month, the highest December figure on record, as the cost of pandemic support weighed on the economy, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nA Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-related deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland, ahead of prosecutors' decisions on whether they should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution. Care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\". But Linda Duncan, whose 91-year-old mother Anne died last April, argues: \"A lot of the focus has been on the government response but we need this investigation to look at the private operators.\"\n\nHalf of all staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't... feel safe at work\", with about one in every 10 having tested positive since 1 December, according to an Early Years Alliance survey of more than 3,000 staff. Providers in England have been told to remain open to all children during lockdown and the government says under-fives are \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nAs lockdown has forced families apart, grandparents have had to find new ways of keeping in touch with their grandchildren. Annette Landy tells us how reading over video calls to Alicia, eight, and Sadie, two, has made things a little easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Potter and The Secret Garden have proven to be favourites\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you're struggling to understand why vaccinating the most vulnerable won't immediately end lockdown, health correspondent Nick Triggle explains the reasoning.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Florence Nightingale Museum announced it would close for the foreseeable future\n\nMuseums and galleries are \"fighting for survival\" amid the current lockdown, a national charity has warned.\n\nThe Art Fund has predicted that small institutions are likely to suffer most and said more help is needed.\n\nSo far, the charity has only been able to help 15% of applicants to its emergency response fund.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced London's Florence Nightingale Museum is to close for the foreseeable future due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure, according to the Art Fund.\n\nThe charity's director Jenny Waldman said: \"The latest lockdown is a body blow and is leaving our museums and galleries fighting for survival.\n\n\"Smaller museums in particular, which are so vital to their communities, simply do not have the reserves to see them through this winter.\n\nResearch previously conducted by the charity found six in 10 museums, galleries and historic houses were worried about their own survival.\n\n\"Tragically, we are now seeing well-known and much-loved museums facing mothballing or permanent closure,\" Waldman said.\n\nIn November, the charity offered limited edition artworks to members of the public who donated to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nSir Anish, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Michael Landy were among the artists who provided their works to the appeal.\n\nArt Fund has renewed its appeal for people to donate to the crowdfunding campaign, which is called Together For Museums.\n\nNew works of art from Howard Hodgkin, Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker have been added to the items on offer.\n\nJeremy Deller worked on the 2016 Somme commemoration project featuring 'Ghost Tommies' appearing across UK locations\n\nSir Anish said: \"Museums are where we go to engage with art, witness our psychic history and understand ourselves. Today they face great difficulty.\n\n\"The Art Fund campaign gives us an opportunity to help museums to continue to provide access to all in spite of the difficulties of this time.\"\n\nArt Fund has also announced £750,000 of new grants to help 23 museums respond to the pandemic - taking its total spend so far to £2.25 million.\n\nBut that is only a small proportion of the applications the charity has received, which total over £16 million.\n\nRecipients include the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, for a health and wellbeing project, and Portland Museum, Dorset, for a plan to recreate Rufus Castle digitally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spanish player Paula Badosa has revealed that she has the virus\n\nA Spanish tennis player who was among many Australian Open competitors to complain about quarantine rules has revealed she has coronavirus.\n\nPaula Badosa said she had felt unwell with symptoms before testing positive for the virus in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nBadosa is believed to be the fourth competitor to test positive in hotel quarantine, but is the first to identify herself publicly.\n\nOn Friday, she said \"sorry guys\", adding quarantine rules were \"pivotal\".\n\n\"Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always comes first & I feel grateful for being in Australia,\" tweeted Badosa, who is ranked 67th globally in singles.\n\nThe 23-year-old said she had been taken to a separate hotel in Melbourne to \"self-isolate and be monitored\".\n\n\"I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors,\" she said.\n\nVictoria state health authorities said on Wednesday a total of 10 infections had been linked to the event, but a few were \"viral shedding\" cases where the person was not infectious.\n\nMelbourne endured one of the world's longest lockdowns last year and many locals have concerns about the potential Covid risk posed by the tournament.\n\nTennis Australia chartered 15 flights to bring players and their entourages into the country, but three flights had passengers who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBadosa is one of 72 players who have been confined full-time to their hotel rooms for 14 days - under a state health order - after the infections were discovered. She has already spent seven days in isolation.\n\nPlayers who arrived on flights with no infections are also in quarantine but are allowed five hours of court practice a day.\n\nSeveral players have complained about the impacts to their tennis preparation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Confined players have been training in their hotel rooms\n\nEarlier this week, in a tweet reported by Australian media that has since been deleted, Badosa wrote: \"At the beginning the rule was the positive section of the plane who was with that person had to quarantine. Not the whole plane.\n\n\"Not fair to change the rules at the last moment. And to have to stay in a room with no windows and no air.\"\n\nBut Tennis Australia and state officials have rejected assertions that any rules were changed or not clear ahead of time.\n\n\"We're thinking of you Paula, and hoping you feel better soon,\" the Australian Open's Twitter account replied in a message to Badosa on Friday.\n\nOrganisers have said that despite the infections, the Grand Slam will go ahead on 8 February.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nHot dog: Ann Baldwin thinks it looks warm enough for a swim in this shot looking towards Inchcolm Island and Arthur’s Seat from the sailing club in Dalgety Bay, Fife, 10 minutes before sunrise.\n\nLittle sucker: Tessa McAndrew helped this beautiful octopus back into the water after finding him clinging to driftwood on the beach at Lower Largo.\n\nWindswept: Bad hair day for these trees in the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Edinburgh. Claire Dunbar took this picture during one of the many recent snow dumps in the area.\n\nIntricate web: The sun was making an attempt to defrost this frozen spider web in Colin Sergeant's back garden in Motherwell.\n\nHindsight: David Fox thinks this roe deer fawn that he captured on his camera at Strathbraan in Perthshire will be \"a future Monarch of the Glen\".\n\nTrue snowman: Only Gordon Brandie knows what this Highland fling snowman is wearing under his kilt and peg sporran in Faskally, Perthshire.\n\nStill life: Artistic beauty found when looking through a drainage hole in the Arbroath sea wall.\n\nBlurred lines: Sunrise on top of Falkland Hill in the early hours of the morning, taken by Jordan Moreham.\n\nStick together: Judith McIntyre spotted these wooden friends huddling to keep warm this winter in Kingston, Moray.\n\nHowling wind: Three-year-old Poppy enjoying a very windy afternoon walk on Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh with her mum, Sophia Lyons.\n\nCollectivism vs Individualism: Victor Tregubov took this shot of birds in countryside near Glasgow.\n\nStrike a pose: Colin Little on the bank of the River Lossie in Elgin, said: \"This otter posed for a couple of shots before diving under again.\"\n\nBlack and white: Derek Brown took this snowy scene in Stow just outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEbb and flow: Michelle Moggach said it was \"Baltic but beautiful\" at Aberdeen Beach while she gazed at the sea.\n\nAlan Kemp said about 100 fieldfares descended on his pink berry Rowan trees in Murthly, Perthshire and devoured the lot in one sitting.\n\nMindfulness: Shirley Faichney captured a zen moment during a recent sunrise at West Wemyss beach in Fife.\n\nBridge to nowhere: Rachel Abbie was left puzzled as to where her walk was leading at Belhaven Beach in Dunbar.\n\nWinter wonderland: The path for Ross McKellar looks bright in High Blantyre in Glasgow.\n\nAutumn meets winter: Agnes Neal observed a sole woman walking through this peaceful scene in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: David Doogan loves it when this bushy-tailed friend joins him for a picnic in his garden in Glencoe, Argyll.\n\nTop of the world: ...well it was for Katie Gillingham and her friends on Goatfell on the Isle of Arran this week.\n\nEthereal moonlight: Arletta Babicz thought there was a \"magical vibe\" when he took this shot of the most photographed tree in Scotland at Loch Lomond.\n\nFollow the herd: Christopher Barrow thought it was funny when this flock of sheep kept following him while he was out skiing in Almondbank, Perthshire.\n\nPillars of the community: Poll nan Crann pier, known locally as Stinky Bay due to the large amount of seaweed blown onto the beach by storms which then rots in the sun. Seonaidh MacInnes took this picture at night on the Isle of Benbecula.\n\nRising above the herd: Jim Clark thought this beast could have been thinking outside the box when he captured this shot at Glanderston Dam, Barrhead.\n\nVirgin powder: Dan Price-Davies enjoyed Alpine conditions at Clashindarroch Forest while Nordic skiing with his son, Lestin, this week.\n\nCloud inversion: Steve Mitchell took in this stunning view overlooking a snowy drystone dyke at the top of the Cairn o' Mount (B974) road between Banchory and Fettercairn.\n\nWinter Washingland: Louise Harper took this picture of colourful plastic pegs with no job to do during heavy snow in Motherwell.\n\nThe Night Walker: Tamar Lewis thought there was an eerie glow in the sky as she took an evening stroll through Pollok Country Park.\n\nStripped bare: This dead-looking tree brings life to Dave Cullen's picture of the Cramond landscape in Edinburgh.\n\nDuck down: All but one mallard enjoying the food thrown to them at St Fillans in the snow, taken by Kenn Begley.\n\nWinter coat: Glen Tanar cleansed in white, near the summit of Baudy Meg in Aberdeenshire, taken by Neil Marchant.\n\nFyrish sunrise: It's as if Sir Hector Munro ordered his monument to be put in the best light possible for Laura Steel who took this picture in Evanton near Alness.\n\nSun and shadows: Michal Markowski took this eye-catching picture in West Linton using a drone.\n\nHair ice: Jane Tweedie noticed this rare phenomenon while out walking at Craigellachie, Moray. It is also known as ice wool or frost beard and is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.\n\nUdderly mootiful: Izabela Bodzioch took this picture of cows admiring the view of Ben Cruachan covered in snow.\n\nIce bath: Jan Overmeer said he changed his mind about going for a swim in Loch Carron when he was greeted by this frozen scene.\n\nJack Frost: Graeme Mackay was mesmerised by the patterns Mother Nature had made on the sunroof of his car in Aberdeen.\n\nSwan Lake: Bob Smart captured the sheer power and might of this magnificent bird at Townhill Loch in Fife.\n\nFine sunset: James MacArthur captured the fresh breath of brightness burning the last corner of Loch Fyne as the sun dropped below the skyline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for Covid £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.\n\nA universal £500 payment was among suggestions in a leaked Department of Health document.\n\nThere are fears the current financial support is not working because low paid workers cannot afford to self-isolate.\n\nBut a senior government source said the idea of extending the £500 payments to everyone who tests positive had been drawn up by officials and had not been considered by the prime minister.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall said ministers were aware self-isolation was crucial for stopping the spread of coronavirus and the \"options paper\" had been drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health.\n\nShe said it would be discussed soon by the Covid operations committee chaired by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, adding the move suggested there was an admission in government that too many people were not staying at home and a decision needed to be made quickly.\n\nThe story was first reported by the Guardian which said the options paper suggested the proposal could cost up to £453m per week - 12 times the cost of the current payouts.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC he had not seen the leaked document but said the issue of financial support for people self-isolating was \"always kept under review\".\n\n\"We've got to consider all sorts of policies in order to make sure that people abide by the rules, are able to abide by the rules and we get the infection rate down,\" he said.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman denied the government was planning to introduce the new payment, telling reporters: \"We've given local authorities £70m for the scheme and they are able to provide extra payments on top of those £500 if they think it necessary.\n\n\"That £500 is on top of any other benefits and statutory sick pay that people are eligible for.\"\n\nAsked about document, the spokesman said he would not comment on a leaked paper.\n\nIt's impossible to say exactly what proportion of people stay at home for the full 10 days after being in contact with someone who has tested positive, however some evidence suggests the minority of people do.\n\nA government-backed study from September 2020 suggests that just 10.9% of people remained indoors for the full time.\n\nLabour has often cited this report when arguing that people cannot afford to miss work, but a closer look at it suggests that, of those who break the rules, just 8.9% do \"to go to work\".\n\nMost people reported going out for things like shopping or exercise, but also because they didn't think they needed to quarantine as they didn't develop symptoms.\n\nThis research is quite old (done before self-isolation grants came in) and has a relatively small sample size of just 400 people.\n\nHowever, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has also highlighted research that shows that most people don't completely follow the rules.\n\nThis research also suggests that those on lower incomes felt they were three times less able to self-isolate than those better off.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was concern in government about the huge cost of the proposal for the Treasury.\n\nHowever, he said the issue of financial incentives and trying to get people to self-isolate was clearly a live discussion within government.\n\nIt became a legal requirement last September for anyone in England testing positive for coronavirus to self-isolate.\n\nThe £500 grant already available in England is funded by the government but administered by local authorities.\n\nThe same level of payment is available in Scotland and Wales with similar conditions attached. Northern Ireland offers a discretionary self-isolation grant that covers expenses, such as the cost of groceries.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nHowever, there have been high rejection rates for this discretionary grant in England, figures obtained by Labour and reported by the BBC this week suggest.\n\nBetween October and December last year, three-quarters of the 49,877 applications were rejected, the data showed.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish government would welcome the introduction of a £500 payment, as the additional funds it would generate for Scotland could allow for a similar scheme to be set up.\n\nSpeaking at her regular coronavirus briefing, she said: \"We will see whether that transpires or not, but any extra resources for self-isolation we would use to support self-isolation.\"\n\nProf Susan Michie, an adviser on the government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nShe said financial support currently offered to people having to self-isolate was a \"key weakness\" of the government's pandemic strategy.\n\nSharon, a cleaner from Kent, told the BBC if no money were to come in for two weeks she would not be able to afford to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a mortgage to pay,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't even afford to heat my property at the moment because my wages were cut and that £500 payment would make all the difference. I would be able to self-isolate.\n\n\"It wouldn't be enough money, but it would help.\"\n\nThe DoH said it would not comment on a leaked paper but stressed it was incumbent on everyone to help protect the NHS by staying at home and following the rules at \"one of the toughest moments of this pandemic\".\n\nA spokesman said £50m was invested at the time the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme launched and it was providing a further £20m to help support people on low incomes who need to self-isolate.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nOther legal obligations to self-isolate in the UK include:\n\nWould £500 be enough to help you to self-isolate? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last summer's A level results prompted an outcry from students - leading to an independent review\n\nThere was a \"significant failure\" in the way exam bodies in Wales handled awarding student grades in 2020, a report says.\n\nThe independent review found there was \"too much confidence\" in statistical models, and the appeals process in place was inadequate.\n\nQualifications Wales (QW) said it had learnt many lessons and WJEC exam board will look \"in detail\" at the findings.\n\nTeaching union UCAC described the report's findings as \"scathing\".\n\nIts release comes after it was announced this week that teachers will make 2021 grade assessments\n\nThe review was ordered by the Welsh Government following the outcry over initial examination results awarded in August for A-level students.\n\nThe assessment approach resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust, says the review\n\nIn the weeks after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, formal external exams in Wales were scrapped, with schools asked to provide grade assessments for sixth-form and GCSE pupils.\n\nHowever, it later emerged 42% of the A-level grades were lower than those submitted by teachers.\n\nIn her foreword the report panel's chairwoman Louise Casella, said substantial numbers of young people across Wales \"were left feeling bewildered and distressed as they received A level results that bore no relation to their expectation and their abilities\".\n\nThe result decision was reversed, and school's predicted grades reinstated, but not before \"some learners lost their university place and some were not able to progress as planned in 2020\", noted Ms Casella, who is also director of The Open University in Wales.\n\nThe review found that QW and the WJEC board would have known the \"scale of the outliers\" and had \"an insight\" into the likely number of appeals.\n\nBut the bodies failed to fully test \"alternative routes or approaches\" to the statistical models they used to standardise results.\n\nThe review added it was \"surprising\" QW did not explore additional safeguards, after having being previously warned about, and acknowledging that there were potential problems with the statistical process.\n\nThe report said it could not find evidence either WJEC or QW \"acknowledged, accepted or anticipated the scale of the issues\" nor the risk of unfairness to learners, and that it considered this a \"significant failure\".\n\nThe approach last summer had resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust between the teaching profession and the regulator and examining body, added the report authors.\n\nIt said fairness must now be central to planning for 2021, avoiding automated algorithms to predict individual grades, and developing an appeals process.\n\nDelivering the report, the review panel chair added: \"There is now a real opportunity for the education sector of Wales to come together to develop and deliver a qualifications system that puts learners at its heart, not only for the cohort facing qualifications in 2021, but for the longer term.\"\n\nQW said the review had \"some useful findings and recommendations that we are already addressing\".\n\nChair David Jones and Chief Executive Philip Baker said: \"We would have welcomed greater engagement with the review panel so there was full consideration of all the issues.\"\n\nChief Executive of WJEC Ian Morgan, said he was \"disappointed with some aspects of the report\" but the exam board would \"look in detail at the findings to identify areas where we need to take action to continuously improve as an organisation.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has already said teachers will assess grades in 2021\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has welcomed the report and how it would help drive how students are graded by teachers and schools this summer.\n\n\"It is my sincere hope and expectation that our education system can continue to work together to support the progression of our learners in exam years, both through the delivery of these assessment arrangements and through a wider package of support,\" she said.\n\nUCAC Deputy General Secretary Rebecca Williams, said the report supported its call for external moderation of grades, to improve fairness to students.\n\n\"There are longer-term recommendations, including the need to be more ambitious in terms of reform of qualifications and assessment in relation to the new curriculum, and we look forward to discussing these over the coming months,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet.\n\nThe public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve.\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group.\n\nContracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.\n\nThe data has been put on the dark web - a part of the internet associated with criminality and only accessible through specialised software.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"We've been clear that we won't use public finance to pay serious and organised criminals intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds.\n\n\"We have made our legal obligations and duty of care on the sensitive handling of data a high priority and, following Police Scotland advice, are confirming that data stolen has been illegally published online.\n\n\"We're working quickly with multi-agency partners to recover and analyse data then, as identifications are confirmed, contact and support affected organisations and individuals.\"\n\nThe attack locked Sepa's emails and contacts centre but Sepa said \"priority regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services were continuing to adapt and operate\".\n\nSepa said the theft was the equivalent to a fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said the organisation had faced a \"significant and sophisticated cyber-attack\"\n\nSome of the information stolen was already publicly available but other files included data about staff and suppliers was not.\n\nWhere information has been identified to date, staff have been contacted and are being supported.\n\nBrett Callow, of cyber security company Emsisoft, has been tracking the Sepa ransomware attack.\n\nHe said: \"Conti may well be the work of the same people behind another type of ransomware called Ryuk.\n\n\"There are similarities in the code, ransom note and attack mechanisms.\n\n\"When the complete haul of data is posted like this, it usually means the group has given up hope of being able to extract payment from the victim of monetise the data in other ways.\n\n\"It's a loss for them. At this point, they've lost all leverage and the action is intended to serve as a warning to future victims.\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, of Police Scotland's cybercrime investigations unit, said: \"This remains an ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Inquiries remain at an early stage and continue to progress including deployment of specialist cybercrime resources to support this response.\"\n\nThe authorities will be pleased.\n\nIt looks like Sepa decided not to play ball with the cyber criminals.\n\nRansomware is a scourge that is costing organisations billions of pounds and every time a victim pays, it fuels further attacks.\n\nSadly for Sepa this is far from over.\n\nBy the looks of the stash of files that the hackers stole and encrypted, Sepa will have months of work ahead to try to recover important documents and spreadsheets from backups and rebuild their records.\n\nIt's also telling that, according to the hackers website, almost 1,000 people have so far looked at the documents.\n\nWho knows what other criminals or hackers are poring over the files right now.\n\nMaking the documents open to all means that information can be extracted to potentially be used against Sepa in further attacks or extortion attempts.\n\nIt will be months, perhaps even years until the organisation can say it is safe once more and can put this cyber attack behind it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Some 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders have been arrested since the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nInvestigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.\n\nThe operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.\n\nThe Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.\n\nIt also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being exposed to indecent images, and enabling parents to ask officers if someone with access to their child is known to them for cases of abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said some who had suffered child sexual abuse had told her they felt \"let down by the state\", and insisted she was \"determined to put this right\".\n\nRob Jones, an NCA director, welcomed the initiative \"at a time when the threat to children is more severe than it has ever been\", highlighting that last year there were at least 300,000 people posing a sexual threat to children in the UK.\n\nHe said the NCA was focusing on the most dangerous offenders \"as part of the whole system approach\".\n\n\"Many feel they can operate with impunity online - using anonymisation techniques, secure accounts and the dark web - but as we have shown with this operation they are wrong and we have the capabilities to track them down,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones added: \"These are not just images or videos being viewed online.\n\n\"What we are uncovering here is evidence of the horrific, real-world sexual abuse of children.\"\n\nOut of the 320 arrested as part of the NCA's operation targeting the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders, 122 were targeted by NCA officers.\n\nSeventeen were in positions of trust, including a volunteer with the Scouts, church youth group leaders, a social worker, primary school and college teachers, a hospital care assistant, a police officer, and a civil servant.\n\nIn the year ending March 2020 the NCA and UK policing made 7,212 arrests and safeguarded and protected 8,329 children. This was a 50% increase in arrests and a 10% increase in safeguards compared with the year ending March 2019.\n\nMs Patel said that the national strategy would tackle and respond to \"all forms of child sexual abuse, relentlessly going after abusers, whilst better protecting victims and survivors\".\n\nShe added: \"Crucially, it contains a commitment to collect higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, so that the government can build a fuller picture of perpetrators, and tackle the abuse that has blighted many towns and cities across our country.\"\n\nThe government has pledged to support local authorities' responses to exploitation through funding for The Children's Society's Prevention Programme initiative, which has so far trained 13,363 professionals to spot signs of child abuse.\n\nThrough the Online Safety Bill, the Home Office has also said it will ensure technology companies are held to account for harmful content on their sites.\n\nThe Children's Society's chief executive, Mark Russell, has described the strategy as a \"golden opportunity to improve support for child victims of horrific crimes and send a clear signal that child sexual abuse and exploitation are crimes that will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe scheme was also welcomed by GCHQ and charity NSPCC, which said it has received more than 40 calls a day about child sexual abuse since the pandemic began.\n\nGCHQ's director of serious and organised crime said: \"Our work to tackle systemic internet problems, the insight we provide into offender behaviour and our efforts alongside law enforcement to identify and pursue the worst offenders will help to ensure there is no safe space online for these people to operate.\"\n\nNSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said it \"rightly puts the emphasis on early intervention and action across government but added it \"must be backed up with serious investment in support for victims\" - and that children were still being exposed to abuse from teachers and social workers.\n\nSir Peter said: \"It's crucial that no young person is left unprotected which is why it's disappointing the government has not committed to closing the legal loophole that enables some adults to abuse their position of power to have sexual contact with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care.\"", "CCTV footage has been released of the moment a fire took hold in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House admitted charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House pled guilty to charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nO'Malley's lawyer said the night porter - from Renton in West Dunbartonshire - deeply regretted his actions, and did not deliberately start the fire.\n\nDumbarton Sheriff Court also heard that Cameron House did not have proper procedures in place for the disposal of ash, or for training staff.\n\nThe owners also failed to keep cupboards that contained potential ignition sources free of combustibles.\n\nAt about 04:00 on 18 December 2017, O'Malley, 35, cleared ash and embers from a fireplace in the Cameron House reception into a metal bucket.\n\nHe then emptied the contents of the bucket into a plastic bag, which he put into the concierge cupboard.\n\nThe cupboard also contained flammable materials including kindling, newspapers and cardboard.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nAt about 06:40 an initial fire alarm sounded and staff noticed smoke coming from the concierge cupboard.\n\nO'Malley opened the door and flames took hold, spreading to the hall.\n\nHe and two others tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers, but were overcome by the flames.\n\nAdvocate depute Michael Meehan QC told the court the cupboard was well alight and the \"blaze immediately took hold and spread from there\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result of [Cameron House's] failure to keep the cupboard free of combustibles, ash and embers ignited and fire spread in the main building.\"\n\nThe night manager sounded the alarm and called 999. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find a \"well developed\" fire in the mansion, which is near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMore than 200 guests were staying in the hotel.\n\nThe court heard one family-of-three on the second floor had to be rescued by firefighters while a couple on the first floor had to crawl to safety because corridors and fire escape pathways were filling with smoke and gases.\n\nIt was after 08:00 when it was discovered that Mr Dyson, 38, and Mr Midgley, 32, were missing.\n\nFirefighters wearing breathing apparatus found Mr Dyson on a landing at the top of a staircase.\n\nMr Midgley was lying in a fire escape passageway. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.\n\nMr Dyson was taken to hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations said the men's causes of death had been inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nThe couple had travelled from London, and were staying at the five-star resort as the final stop on their winter break to Scotland.\n\nSheriff William Gallacher also heard of an incident three nights before the fatal fire, where O'Malley and another night porter were told not to put ash into plastic bags because it was a fire hazard.\n\nCameron House QC Peter Gray said it was therefore \"extremely difficult to understand\" why O'Malley did not follow this guidance on the night of the fire.\n\nThe court also heard that Cameron House staff were not properly trained in the safe disposal of ash and that no written procedures were in place.\n\nThere was also no procedure in place for emptying the metal ash bins outside the hotel on a regular basis.\n\nThat was contrary to recommendations made in two fire risk assessments carried out by an independent company in 2016 and 2017.\n\nAfter the first report was received by Cameron House management in January 2016, the resort manager agreed there was a lack of a formal procedure for disposing of ash and delegated the responsibility for this to his deputy.\n\nMr Meehan said this report \"should have been a game-changer\" for Cameron House.\n\nWhen the issue was raised again in a follow-up report a year later, managers believed it had already been dealt with.\n\nMr Gray said: \"The resort manager understood incorrectly that all the actions had been completed, including in relation to the written procedure for disposing of ash from open fires.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had also warned Cameron House managers about the risks of storing combustibles in the concierge cupboard in August 2017.\n\nThe audit highlighted the potential danger of fire spreading rapidly through the building because of its age and voids.\n\nA follow-up letter was sent to management in November 2017 - one month before the fire - but combustibles continued to be stored in the cupboard.\n\nCameron House's lawyer added that the failings were not deliberate breaches but occurred \"as a result of genuine errors\".\n\nHe also told the court the fire had gone undetected for a long period before being discovered, and that the hotel had a \"suite of measures in place\" to deal with fire safety.\n\nAn absence of formal procedures for dealing with ashes and embers gave staff the opportunity to improvise, he added.\n\nMr Gray continued: \"I am instructed to extend my deepest sympathies from the accused to the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe said the hotel takes its duties to ensure the safety of its guests extremely seriously.\n\nDetails of what happened at Cameron House were first revealed in court on 14 December last year, but reporting restrictions meant they could not be published until now.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 29 January.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "Shoppers bought far fewer clothes last year as lockdowns meant people had less opportunity to socialise and go out.\n\nClothes sales slumped 25%, the biggest drop in 23 years when records began, official figures suggest.\n\nWhile shops have reported demand for certain clothing such as pyjamas and loungewear has risen, demand for going-out items has fallen sharply.\n\nAnd despite a pick-up in December, clothing sales remain lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"With few opportunities to socialise during lockdown and many people working from home, the clothing sector has been one of the \"worst-affected by restrictions\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nEarlier this month, Marks & Spencer said sales of sleepwear had soared\n\nGrowing numbers of High Street shops have faced financial difficulties due to the temporary store closures imposed during lockdowns.\n\nTopshop-owner Arcadia and competitors Debenhams, Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, Oasis and Warehouse have all slid into insolvency since lockdown measures were first imposed last March.\n\nThe inability to try clothes on in bricks-and-mortar shops, as well as restrictions on eating out meaning consumers are going out less, have all affected sales, the ONS suggested.\n\nAnd the slump in demand for fashion meant that British retail sales saw their largest annual fall on record in 2020.\n\nSales fell by 1.9% last year, when compared with 2019, the largest year-on-year fall since records began in 1997.\n\nRetail sales, including fuel, did see a small increase last month, growing by 0.3% when compared with November.\n\nIt came following the end of England's national lockdown on 2 December. Sales had slumped by 4.1% in November during a month-long shutdown.\n\nBut \"this was very clearly not a Merry Christmas for most of the High Street\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"For most retailers it's the most crucial month of the year to get profit back on track but the large upswing in sales after the pain of the November lockdowns didn't materialise,\" she said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said that some sectors, however, had been \"able to buck the trend\" last year.\n\n\"The increased popularity of click-and-collect and people buying more items from home led to a strong year for overall internet sales, with record highs for food and household goods sales online.\"\n\nIn a sign of the way the pandemic has changed shopping habits, the value of online retail sales jumped by 46.1% in 2020 when compared with 2019 - the highest annual growth reported since 2008.\n\nOnline trade now accounts for more than one-third of all retail sales.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, explained that the rise of online had \"polarised industry performance\".\n\n\"The gap widened between those retailers with the most sophisticated online propositions from those with legacy store-dependent business models,\" he said.\n\nOnline-only retailers such as Boohoo and Asos, for example, have reported strong sales figures in 2020.\n\nSupermarkets in particular have embraced the shift to digital, with online food store sales up 79.3% last year.\n\nThere was also better news from the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, on Friday. It said that it would return a £300m emergency coronavirus loan to the government as trading went \"better than anticipated\" over Christmas.\n\nToday's figures show just how badly the clothing sector has been affected these last 12 months.\n\nFashion is the big retail loser from this pandemic. Who needs to splash out on the latest trends when we're working from home and not going out? And even when clothing shops are open, chances are you can't try things on.\n\nWith all of the Covid-19 measures in place, the fun has been sucked out of shopping. We haven't stopped spending, but most of it is going online. Boohoo and Asos have seen very strong sales growth, for instance.\n\nThe going's far harder for retailers with large numbers of physical stores. The pressures have already taken their toll on the likes of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group and Debenhams.\n\nAnd things may well get worse on the high street before they better. Many retailers are worried about the end of the business rates holiday and of the temporary ban on eviction for non payment of rent in April. These will result in a big increase in costs when sales have yet to fully recover.\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, called for more help for non-essential shops and High Street retailers who continue to be affected by lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"With no end in sight for retailers closed in lockdown, many will struggle to survive under a mounting rent burden, and a return to full business rates in April,\" she said.\n\nShe called on government to offer \"targeted\" business rates relief to businesses worst-affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Decisive action is needed to save jobs, shops and local communities, with town and city centres looking to be particularly hard hit unless the government acts now.\"\n\nEarlier in January, a report from the Centre for Retail Research said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, because of the acceleration towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs 6,000 people directly\n\nJapanese car maker Nissan has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term as a result of the trade deal reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt said it will move additional battery production close to the plant where it has 6,000 direct employees and supports nearly 70,000 jobs in the supply chain.\n\nCurrently, the batteries in its Leaf electric cars are imported from Japan.\n\nNissan would not confirm if this would mean additional jobs at Sunderland, which is the UK's largest car plant.\n\nManufacturing the more powerful batteries in the UK will ensure its cars comply with trade rules agreed with the EU requiring at least 55% of the car's value to be derived from either the UK or the EU to qualify for zero tariffs when exported to the EU.\n\nSome 70% of the cars made in Sunderland are exported and the vast majority of them are sold in the EU.\n\nNissan had issued stark warnings last year that if the UK left the EU without a trade deal, the resulting tariffs on cars and components would make the Sunderland plant \"unsustainable\".\n\nNissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told the BBC: \"The Brexit deal is positive for Nissan. Being the largest automaker in the UK we are taking this opportunity to redefine auto-making in the UK.\n\nNissan's Ashwani Gupta said the Brexit deal had created a 'competitive environment'\n\n\"It has created a competitive environment for Sunderland, not just inside the UK but outside as well.\n\n\"We've decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU]. We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.\"\n\nIt came as Nissan paused one of its two production lines in Sunderland on Friday as disruption at ports caused by the pandemic affected its supply chain.\n\nThe company said the move would affect the line which produces the Qashqai and Leaf, but work would resume next week.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the firm's endorsement of Sunderland as a manufacturing base.\n\n\"Nissan's decision represents a genuine belief in Britain and a huge vote of confidence in our economy thanks to the certainty our trade deal with the EU delivers,\" he said.\n\n\"For the dedicated and highly-skilled workforce in Sunderland, it means the city will be home to Nissan's latest models for years to come and positions the company to capitalise on the wealth of benefits that will flow from electric vehicle production.\"\n\nIt's particularly welcome after the more guarded comments from the boss of Vauxhall's parent company last week.\n\nSpeaking as the tie-up between Fiat Chrsyler and Peugeot Citroen was christened with new umbrella name Stellantis, boss Carlos Tavares said that the future of its Ellesmere Port plant depended on the support the UK government was prepared to offer after its decision to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030.\n\n\"If you change, brutally, the rules and if you restrict the rules for business then there is at one point in time a problem,\" he said.\n\nLooking forward, he said it would make more sense to locate an electric vehicle factory closer to the larger EU market.\n\nIndustry voices welcomed the news from Nissan but reinforced the message from Vauxhall's owners that the government needs to do more to secure the future of the car industry as it electrifies.\n\n\"This is obviously good news and will help the Nissan Leaf avoid any future tariffs, but we are going to need to see a lot more investment in battery production in the UK if we are to preserve the UK as a car manufacturer and exporter,\" said Professor David Bailey of Warwick University.\n\nThe head of trade body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed.\n\n\"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric by 2030,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former boss of Aston Martin and current chairman of electric bus maker Switch Mobility, has gone further. He says that 800,000 jobs are at risk if the UK government doesn't act now to foster battery investment.\n\n\"Without electric vehicle batteries made in the UK, the country's auto industry risks becoming an antiquated relic and overtaken by China, Japan, America and Europe.\"\n\nHe urged the UK government to use every lever at its disposal to make the UK attractive.\n\nUK car investment has fallen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nIn the five years to 2016 it averaged £3.5bn per year. In the four years since it has averaged around £1bn - a fall of 71% at a time when the technology and map of car production are going through their biggest revolution since the car was invented.\n\nThe Nissan decision is therefore a very welcome boost to the UK which is in an international scramble for the investment of the future which is happening right now.", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nSerious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft \"blow out\" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday.\n\nResidents have been told they will not be able to return home this weekend or \"possibly longer\".\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water had built up in the shaft and flooded the village.\n\nCarl Banton, from the Coal Authority, said there had been a \"tremendous amount\" of rain recently and potentially a blockage in the drainage system could have caused the mine shaft to \"blow out\".\n\nMr Banton reassured people that officers had visually checked other mine shafts in the area and were \"not concerned\" any would collapse.\n\n\"The mine shaft in question is the one that was on actually on the water level, it has found its point of weakness,\" he said.\n\nCarl Banton said that while investigations were ongoing heavy rain may have overwhelmed the mine shaft\n\nA major incident was declared as water rushed into the village on Thursday, leaving eight streets underwater as Storm Christoph caused widespread flooding across Wales.\n\nOn Friday, as firefighters continued to pump water out of the village, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) confirmed the Tennant Canal had been polluted \"from mine water\".\n\nLate on Friday evening, Neath Port Talbot council said, for safety reasons, people forced to leave their homes would \"not be able to return home this weekend, and the wait could possibly longer\".\n\nA support centre will open at Abbey Primary School from Saturday, with council officers on site to help people access emergency support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of historical coal mining, are investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nMr Banton said initial findings showed there may have been a build-up of water on the hillside which had \"found its way out\" through the mine shaft, flooding the village.\n\n\"The flow appears to be subsiding... but what we are unsure of is if there is a feed of additional water into the mine workings, from the extensive mine workings on the hillside,\" he added.\n\nAt least 80 people have had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nMr Banton said officers would drill down into the shaft and investigate on Saturday, in the hope that people could soon be allowed back into their homes.\n\n\"A lot of the mining in this area is very old... some of it dates back to the early 1800s... we have no details of how the shaft in question here was originally filled or capped,\" he said.\n\n\"We will ensure the mine shaft is properly capped and sorted out.\"\n\nMartyn Evans, of NRW, said officers were looking at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\n\"We have also carried out tests on other watercourses in the vicinity of the incident. Results indicate there has been no significant impact on those at present,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday night a further 20 homes were evacuated by emergency services as the water continued to rush through the village.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Friday financial support would be made available to people affected by the recent floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\n\"This is the same level of support available a year ago when storms Ciara and Dennis hit Wales, just before the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas said he returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\"\n\nMr Thomas said that with water up to his waist, he was unable to get in to rescue possessions.\n\nHe added: \"We're in a bit of a dip on the road, so you could see it gradually coming up, they were worried it might have been a sinkhole because of the coal mines.\n\n\"It's definitely mine workings, just by looking at the colour of the water, it's an orange colour.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nThe couple are now staying with their daughter, with everyone else who was evacuated from their homes finding accommodation and told to avoid the area.\n\nMore than 30 residents of Cwrt-Clwydi-Gwyn care home were among those moved as a precaution.\n\nIt was a sleepless night for Skewen resident Teresa Dalling\n\nTeresa Dalling, who lives in Dynevor Road, said she had spent the night fearing for her safety.\n\n\"I haven't slept. I was up the back door every two hours checking the water level,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know we lived near old mines and if there's been a collapse, my fear is more could follow and that's terrifying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Kinnock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nUp to 45 firefighters were involved at the scene at the height of the flooding.\n\nIn a joint statement, the police, fire service and Neath Port Talbot Council urged people not to return to their homes until it was safe.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick said: \"We appreciate people are eager to get back to their homes and we are working with partners to allow this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"In the meantime we ask people to please be patient as their safety is our top priority.\"\n\nIn one home, floodwater can be seen filling the living room\n\nFirefighters are continuing to pump water out of the village where people were forced to leave their homes\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Roger Thomas, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters remained in the village, pumping out water.\n\nHe said: \"We will continue to monitor the situation and support our partner agencies and those affected over the next few days.\"\n\nHomes were evacuated at Goshen Park, in Skewen\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said a local rest centre was available, and measures had been put in place to protect against Covid-19.\n\nChief executive Karen Jones said they would continue to support residents who had to leave their homes and they would ensure others had a safe place to go if further evacuations were necessary.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had checked for any potential damage to the railway line, but had found no \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe water has rushed through the streets of the town\n\nA severe flood warning remains in force for the Lower Dee Valley, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThree flood warnings are in place for the River Wye at Monmouth, River Ritec at Tenby, and Bangor-on-Dee, where people were forced to leave their homes on Thursday as flooding saw a major incident declared. Eleven flood alerts are also in place.\n\nSnow and ice could also exacerbate issues for emergency services and those forced to leave their homes, with temperatures forecast to plummet in coming days.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFive-time finalist Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after a solution to find a \"workable quarantine\" following his positive test for coronavirus could not be found.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton was set to fly out to Melbourne last week, but was not allowed to travel on a charter flight after being found to have Covid-19.\n\nThe former world number one had hoped to travel safely and compete as planned on the back of a negative test.\n\nMurray said he was \"gutted\" not to go.\n\nHe was asymptomatic and is now out of self-isolation, but finding a way for him to travel to Australia and then going into quarantine before the tournament starts on 8 February proved too difficult.\n\n\"We've been in constant dialogue with Tennis Australia to try and find a solution which would allow some form of workable quarantine, but we couldn't make it work,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone there for their efforts. I'm devastated not to be playing out in Australia. It's a country and tournament that I love.\"\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, he was ranked too low to gain direct entry into Australian Open so the three-time Grand Slam champion was given a wildcard.\n\nThe Australian Open at Melbourne Park is starting three weeks later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers had to test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which were put on last week by tournament organisers and operated at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOn arrival, the players and their support staff went straight into a 14-day quarantine under the conditions imposed by the Australian government.\n\nThat agreement allowed them out of their rooms for up to five hours a day for food and practice.\n\nHowever, 72 players have been confined to their rooms in a tougher quarantine - which led to some complaints and creative ways of staying fit - after they travelled on three flights where positive cases were found on arrival.\n\nHaving missed his flight to Melbourne, and therefore last weekend's window for the players to begin 14 days of quarantine, Murray was always up against it.\n\nThere are no health issues, and no injury concerns, and Murray had been hoping he could make it to Australia to complete quarantine in time to play a first-round match on either 8 or 9 February.\n\nBut the only \"workable quarantine\" would have included five hours out of his room every day. This was no longer available, and no player - irrespective of age or injury history - would want to play a Grand Slam first-round match just hours after two weeks in a hotel room.\n\nMurray is understandably devastated: he knows that at 33, and with two hip operations behind him, he cannot guarantee there will be another opportunity.\n\nBut it would have been a long way to travel potentially to lose in the first round, and receiving a special exemption may not have sat well with Murray over time.\n\nInstead, he will work with his team on his next move. Montpellier and Rotterdam are the next two ATP tournaments in Europe, although nothing is easy with Covid travel restrictions.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Jane Midgley says she needs answers about the death of her son, Simon\n\nThe mother of a man killed in a fire at a hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond more than two years ago has said it is \"torture\" not knowing why he died.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, died in the fire which fire broke out at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.\n\nJane Midgley said she needs answers about what led to Simon's death.\n\nThe Crown Office said it was committed to ensuring the circumstances around the deaths were aired in an \"appropriate legal forum\".\n\nMs Midgley said every day without answers was like the day she found out about his death.\n\n\"I just live it every single day and I can't cope with it much longer,\" she said. \"I need to know why they are not here and it's so difficult.\n\n\"I need answers. Why are these boys not here anymore? Why did this happen? Nearly three years on, no one is telling me.\"\n\nRichard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she wakes up during the night thinking about her son, asking herself \"has this really happened?\".\n\n\"Nearly three years on, should I still be feeling this hurt and pain?\"\n\nAfter the fire, the emergency services conducted investigations.\n\nWhile this can be a lengthy process, reports from the fire service and the police were passed to the Crown months ago.\n\nMs Midgley criticised prosecutors for not providing her with more information. She added she thinks they should be in contact with her more regularly than every four weeks.\n\nShe said: \"When the Crown say that they regularly update the family and are in regular contact that is always to say... 'it's still ongoing', 'we'll update you with anything significant', 'it's complicated'.\"\n\nShe added that there were many questions she still wanted answers to.\n\n\"The most important thing is finding out why Simon couldn't get out of that hotel that night - what went wrong. I have no idea, I've got to understand, I just need the answers.\n\n\"I need to know how it happened. I need to know why the boys didn't get out of that hotel when it was on fire, how it started, where it started, why they could not get out, could it have been prevented... it is pure torture.\"\n\nFire broke out at the Cameron House hotel in 2017\n\nMr Midgley was a freelance writer with the Evening Standard. Following his death the newspaper's editor, George Osbourne, paid tribute to Mr Midgley's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"Our staff have been in regular contact with the nearest relatives and provided them with information at every stage.\n\n\"The information that can be shared while a case is being investigated is limited so as not to prejudice any potential proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown‎ is committed to ensuring that the facts and circumstances surrounding the deaths of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson are thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies, fully considered by COPFS and, in due course, aired in an appropriate legal forum.\n\n\"The nearest relatives will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party on Saturday\n\nA minority still breaking Covid lockdown rules could make the pandemic \"stretch longer\" in Wales, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nThe \"gold commander\" for policing lockdown across the Gwent force area said he wanted to thank the vast majority for sticking to the law.\n\nBut Chief Superintendent Mark Hobrough said those \"blatantly flouting\" rules would face enforcement action.\n\nNearly 3,800 fines have been issued in Wales for Covid rule breaches.\n\nThe latest figures released by UK police forces revealed nearly three-quarters of those fines went to men, and the largest group falling foul of Covid rules were aged between 18 and 24.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough, who oversees Gwent Police's response to Covid-19, said he and his officers had seen a change in the way the public responded to the restrictions since the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.\n\n\"When it first started there was certainly a lack of understanding among the public,\" he said.\n\n\"We were called for advice and questions on what was allowed or not allowed, which we've certainly seen diminish.\"\n\nHe said initially his force was dealing with breaches of regulations by pubs and bars, or people holding house parties.\n\n\"That has changed over time. We still have experiences of house parties and people congregating in houses, which just isn't allowed obviously.\n\n\"But I think we are also seeing breaches in relation to people congregating in beauty spots and maybe not exercising in line with the requirements.\"\n\nAccording to the National Police Chiefs' Council, there were 3,770 fixed penalty notices issues by the four Welsh forces between the last Friday in March and 20 December last year.\n\nOf those fines, 2,188 were for breaching rules on movement restrictions, while 823 faced penalties for gathering in private properties outside their own households.\n\nA further 113 notices were issued to individuals for staying in Wales when it was not their main residence, and 89 were hit with fines for entering or leaving local health protection areas, when many counties in Wales had separate travel restrictions in place in the autumn.\n\nThe figures also reveal that just two fines were issued in the period for failing to wear a face covering in designated indoor areas.\n\nSgt Dan Wise says enforcement is sometimes the only option for his team\n\nOut on the streets of Newport, and around the rest of the Gwent force area, the officers on the ground said they wanted to educate the public whenever rules changed, but they will enforce clear breaches.\n\n\"Some of the things people have been stopped for are travelling into Wales to look at the snow,\" said Sgt Dan Wise, as he carried out checks on motorists in Newport.\n\n\"Others are travelling to local beauty spots to exercise. Obviously, these are things that are not acceptable.\"\n\nHe said as the pandemic continues, with high numbers of cases and given how easily the virus can spread, \"we will look to enforce where people are blatantly flouting the rules\".\n\nAt the Gwent Police headquarters, Ch Supt Hobrough said he had this message for the minority of \"those people who aren't abiding\" by the rules: \"It would very much be within everybody's interest for them to reflect on the way they are conducting themselves.\n\n\"Because that minority of people who aren't abiding are possibly making this pandemic stretch longer.\"\n• None Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law - GOV.WALES The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Victoria Beckham have paid themselves £21m from their sports and media business since 2019, according to the their latest accounts.\n\nThis is despite continued heavy losses at Ms Beckham's fashion business, where trade has worsened during the pandemic.\n\nProfit at David Beckham Ventures Limited (DBVL), the brand management firm owned by the former footballer and his wife, fell £3.5m to £11.3m in 2019.\n\nThis was in part due to money spent on expansion and charitable donations.\n\nHowever, the celebrity couple still paid themselves a £14.5m dividend at the end of 2019, accounts show, and took a further £7.1m in 2020.\n\nA spokesman attributed the payments to \"profitable performance\" at DBVL, which among other things manages Mr Beckham's strategic partnerships with Adidas and Haig Club whisky.\n\nHe also noted that the company's revenue climbed by £600,000 in 2019 to £16.2m.\n\nHowever, Victoria Beckham Holdings (VBHL), which manages the former Spice Girl's fashion label, fared much worse during that time.\n\nLosses at the business - which is also backed by the Beckhams' former business partner Simon Fuller and private equity firm NEO investment Partners - widened to £16.6m during the year, following a loss of £12.5m in 2018.\n\nIt marked the seventh year the brand has been in the red since it was founded in 2008.\n\nVBHL blamed costs associated with the launch of the Victoria Beckham Beauty business, a new cosmetics range in which the group has an 85% shareholding.\n\nIt also noted that total sales across the whole business were up by 7% in 2019.\n\nNevertheless, auditors BDO, who signed off on the accounts, warned that the business was now reliant on shareholder support to keep going which could \"cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nAs the pandemic hammered the business last April, VBHL had to borrow £9.2m from its shareholders to repay an outstanding bank loan to HSBC after breaking its debt covenants.\n\nVBHL said it was doing all it could to \"navigate\" the coronavirus crisis, including taking \"all actions possible to conserve cash\".\n\n\"All non-essential expenditure is being deferred and hiring freezes have been implemented for open positions.to enable the company to navigate through this pandemic,\" it said.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The White House has just put out a statement marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalised the right to abortion.\n\n\"In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack,\" the statement from Biden and Harris begins .\n\nThey go on to say they are committed to \"codifying\" the judgement, which means pass legislation through Congress that enshrines abortion access into law.\n\nThey will also appoint judges who will support abortion access, they say. Trump, during his time in office, was able to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority, making anti-abortion activists hopeful that Roe v Wade could eventually be overturned.\n\nBiden was the only candidate during the primary to say he endorsed the so-called Hyde Amendment, which says that no federal funds can go towards abortions. After nearly all 22 other candidates came out against the Hyde Amendment, he reversed his stance.\n\nAlthough abortion is technically legal across the US, multiple states have instituted laws that make it nearly impossible in practice. Abortion activists hope that a law would make it more difficult for local governments to restrict access.", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Mick Norcross, 57, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex star Mick Norcross has died at the age of 57.\n\nThe businessman and father of Kirk Norcross, who also appeared in the ITV show, was found dead at his home in Bulphan at 15:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn tributes on social media, fellow Towie stars past and present, including Gemma Collins and James \"Arg\" Argent, called him \"one of the good guys\" and a \"true gentleman\".\n\nNorcross first appeared in the reality show in 2011 in his position as owner of Sugar Hut, a Brentwood nightclub which was often attended by the cast.\n\nHe left the show two years later, stating that the venue's prominent place in Towie had damaged its brand.\n\nThe star posted a tweet to his 505,000 followers on Thursday morning saying: \"At the end remind yourself that you did the best you could. And that's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sugar Hut This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe club tweeted that \"Mr Sugarhut\" had been a \"very talented, friendly and fun guy\" and a \"true Essex legend, who will be sorely missed\".\n\nCollins, who briefly dated Norcross during their time on the show, shared a photo of them together on Instagram and said he had been \"one of the good guys\", while Argent tweeted that he had been \"a true gentleman and a very kind man\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gemmacollins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes were also shared by Towie stars Lauren Goodger and Mario Falcone, with the latter tweeting that he was \"thankful I got the privilege of having you in my life\".\n\nIn another tweet, Mark Wright, the Towie star turned TV presenter and professional footballer, said he was \"a great man, an inspiration to many, always so polite and welcoming\".\n\nPresenter Denise Van Outen tweeted that he was \"such a lovely man\" while TV chef James Martin, posted that he was \"a true gentleman, who I had the pleasure to meet and spend evenings with over the years\".\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex posted a tribute on Instagram, saying the team behind the show were \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThey said: \"He was hugely popular with cast, crew and the audience alike. Charming, generous and host to many of Essex's most glamorous events, Mick will be missed by us all.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesman said officers \"were called to an address in Brentwood Road, Bulphan shortly before 15:15 on Thursday\" and \"sadly, a man inside was pronounced dead\".\n\nThe police spokesman said the death was \"not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. The EU has ordered 600 million doses from Pfizer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been sent bullets in the mail while under house arrest in Vancouver, according to court testimony.\n\nIt was one of several alleged death threats revealed on Wednesday by the company providing her security.\n\nMs Meng was detained in 2018 on charges relating to allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's dealings in Iran.\n\nHer case has created a rift between China and Canada, with Beijing repeatedly calling for her release.\n\nThe chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, where she is facing charges of bank fraud and potentially causing HSBC to break US sanctions.\n\nDays after she was released on bail, she was placed under house arrest in Vancouver. She has been fighting against her extradition to the US, which wants her to stand trial.\n\nThe threats were revealed at the British Columbia Supreme Court by Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of security firm Lions Gate Risk Management.\n\nHe said Ms Meng received \"five or six\" threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020 and that the letters were \"easily identifiable by markings on the outside\". He added that \"sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes\".\n\nThe role of the Vancouver police and any investigations is unclear.\n\nMs Meng has been in court pushing for conditions of her bail to be loosened, including dropping the daytime security detail that constantly follows her.\n\nShe is permitted to leave home between 6am and 11pm and pays for a round-the-clock security detail. She also wears a GPS tracking anklet as stipulated by her bail conditions.\n\nThe government has also granted family members of Ms Meng permission to travel to Canada, sparking controversy.\n\nConservative MP Raquel Dancho said the exception was an \"insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit loved ones\" over the holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raquel Dancho This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe called the move disappointing, noting that Beijing detained two Canadians soon after Ms Meng's arrest in December 2018 and has held them in prison ever since, subjecting them to interrogations.\n\nMs Meng's defence lawyer has argued that Canada is effectively being asked \"to enforce US sanctions\".\n\nHuawei has been one of the main targets of the Trump administration's attack on Chinese companies that it deems are security threats and pass data to the government.\n\nThe US has placed harsh restrictions on Huawei and has banned its 5G equipment from its networks. It also added 38 names linked to Huawei to a trade blacklist.\n\nThis week Huawei came under fire for technology that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technology was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Galaxy S21 Ultra has hardware built into it to make use of the firm's S Pen stylus\n\nSamsung's new flagship Galaxy S smartphone works with its stylus for the first time.\n\nThe S Pen is an optional add-on for the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But the move will fuel speculation the firm will phase out its separate Note handset range.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it had yet to make a decision about this.\n\nThe company's handset sales have declined more quickly than the wider market. One expert said a streamlined line-up might help address this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\n\"There's increasing logic for Samsung to converge the Galaxy S and Note platforms, because there's so little differentiation between the two kinds of devices now,\" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"That would align them with Apple, which also has one big phone launch event a year.\n\n\"My concern is that every time Samsung has announced its Note products in the past, it has planted a seed in consumers' minds that the Galaxy S products have become kind of the old ones.\"\n\nThe benefit of having a stylus is that it is easier to write, draw or annotate notes than using a finger. But to work it requires special hardware under the glass of the phone's display to pass power to the stylus and to track its tip.\n\nThe Android-based Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8in (17.3cm) display, which is only slightly smaller than the top-end 6.9in Note.\n\nIn years past, the Note phones were known as \"phablets\", and their size was the other key distinguishing factor with the S range.\n\nUnlike the Note series, the S21 Ultra requires a special case to stow away the pen\n\nProduct manager Mark Notton said \"we haven't decided\", when asked whether Samsung planned to continue the Note family.\n\n\"It does not mean that Samsung is not committed to the Note category, but is expanding the Note experience across device categories,\" the firm said in a follow-up statement.\n\n\"We will actively listen to consumers' feedback and reflect it in our continued product innovation.\"\n\nThe S21 Ultra will start at £1,149 when it goes on sale on 29 January. The S Pen costs an extra £35 on its own, or £85 when bundled with a case that stores it.\n\nThat puts it in the ballpark of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's £1,179 starting price, which comes with a stylus that slots into its body.\n\nThere are also two other lower-cost models in the new range, neither of which works with the S-Pen stylus: the 6.2in S21 and 6.7in S21+.\n\nAll three models feature a redesigned camera module on their back.\n\nAll the Galaxy S21 phones feature a redesigned camera module on their back\n\nBut while the two lower-end models have three lenses - ultra-wide, wide and 3x-zoom telephoto - the S21 Ultra adds a further 10x-zoom telephoto lens, letting owners shoot action from even further away.\n\nThe handsets also benefit from a new Director's View facility. It lets users film video while getting thumbnail previews superimposed on-screen of what it would look like if they switched to another lens.\n\nAll three phones can film in 8K - double the maximum resolution of the competing iPhone 12 range's native video app.\n\nThe Director's View mode lets users preview how the recorded shot will change in a video if they switch to a different lens while filming\n\nHowever, the handsets may be more notable for following Apple in two regards.\n\nThey have abandoned a slot for a microSD memory card.\n\nAnd they will be sold without either a charger - a decision over which Samsung had mocked its rival. - or earphones.\n\nSamsung posted this ad in October on social media before deleting it\n\n\"We discovered that more and more Galaxy users are reusing accessories they already have,\" the firm said.\n\nSamsung typically unveils its Galaxy range in late February, but has brought forward this year's launch to coincide with the CES tech show.\n\n\"Samsung needs S21 to be a success given that S20 was launched in the middle of Covid first wave in Europe and didn't gain many fans,\" commented Marta Pinto, from research firm IDC.\n\nShe added the earlier launch date could help it compete in the \"premium market\" with Apple, whose iPhones were released later than normal last year.\n\nThe South Korean firm should also benefit from collapsing sales of Huawei's devices in the West, caused by US sanctions that prevent them offering the Google Play store and some of the search giant's other services.\n\nSamsung dedicated a segment of its Unpacked launch presentation to its partnership with Google\n\nBut Mr Wood said Samsung was facing growing competition from other Chinese brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.\n\n\"Samsung's differentiator is going to be its ability to market its strong brand, and the fact it has a very wide product portfolio,\" he commented.\n\nSamsung also aims to widen its appeal with two further accessories.\n\nIt has a new pair of £219 wireless earbuds that monitor what the user is doing.\n\nSamsung's earbuds should automatically adapt their audio output according to what the user is doing\n\nIf they detect the wearer is talking, they automatically turn down the volume of music and amplify the sounds of the nearby environment picked up by their microphones, allowing the owner to have a brief conversation without needing to take them out or manually adjust their settings.\n\nSamsung also is launching the £30 Galaxy SmartTag - a Bluetooth-enabled tracker that can be attached to belongings or pets.\n\nIt will allow an app to show their location, so long as the tag is in range of the owner or anyone else's compatible Samsung device.\n\nThe tracker will compete with similar products from the current market leader Tile.\n\nThe SmartTag will challenge Tile, which already sells a range of Bluetooth trackers\n\nApple is widely rumoured to be working on similar devices of its own.", "The coronavirus growth rate is slowing in the UK and the number of infections is starting to level off in some areas, a top scientist has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nBut he warned the overall death toll would exceed 100,000.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nIt has taken the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767. There were also 47,525 new cases.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the national lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nPeople in England are required to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"much too early\" to say when the number of cases would come down.\n\nBut he said: \"It looks like in London in particular and a couple of other regions in the South East and East of England, hospital admissions may even have plateaued.\n\n\"It has to be said this is not seen everywhere - both case numbers and hospital admissions are going up in many other areas, but overall at a national level we are seeing the rate of growth slow.\"\n\nProf Ferguson added: \"I would hope the hospital admissions might plateau… sometime in the next week, but hospital bed occupancy may continue to rise slowly for up to two weeks.\"\n\nHe warned the overall death toll would be \"well over 100,000\", adding \"there's nothing we can do about that now\".\n\nProf Ferguson added Covid restrictions could be in place for many months to come, adding the new variant's increased transmissibility would mean relaxation of the rules will be a \"gradual process to the autumn\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday that the government will not be introducing tougher social distancing rules \"today or tomorrow\" and insisted that ministers are focusing on increasing enforcement of the current restrictions.\n\nAsked about speculation further measures could include a three-metre social distancing rule or a requirement to wear masks outside, she told ITV's This Morning: \"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a major study led by Public Health England has shown most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months.\n\nPast infection was linked to an 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the finding \"doesn't eliminate\" the risk of people catching Covid-19 again, and infecting others.\n\nShe said: \"We found people with very high amounts of virus in their nose and throat swabs, that would easily be in the range which would cause levels of transmission to other individuals.\"\n\nProf Hopkins said she hoped that after Easter, \"we will start to see reduced infection rates, as we did at that time last year\" and the number of people who have been vaccinated at a \"very high level\".\n\nThe UK is continuing efforts to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, with the prime minister saying that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted on Thursday to say that \"three million vaccines have now been administered\" in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS England published a breakdown of vaccinations by age and region for the first time.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday that he was \"concerned\" about a new Covid variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil and said that the UK was taking steps to ensure it is not brought into the UK.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers met this morning to discuss \"urgent measures to reduce the potential spread to the UK of the Brazilian variant\".\n\nThey could include a ban on flights from Brazil. Arrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast \"the virus is not accelerating as fast as it was\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said \"there are some early signs of optimism\" but emphasised people should follow all guidance as the \"virus is still at a very strong level\".", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nTravel from South America and Portugal to the UK is being banned, other than for British or Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights. The new ruling is being brought in because of concerns about the new Brazilian coronavirus variant and comes into force from 04:00 GMT on Friday. The ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, these countries in the 10 days before their departure for the UK: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Find out more about the new variants here.\n\nDoctors have warned that the recent surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis. Accident and Emergency departments are facing rising delays in admitting extremely sick patients on to wards, NHS data shows. The total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic - and cancer specialists are warning of a \"terrifying\" disruption to their services that would cost lives.\n\nThe government has told schools not to provide free meals to eligible pupils' families over half term, with food to be provided by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme instead. The Department for Education said vulnerable families would continue to receive meals outside of term time through the welfare support they have made available. But councils say the government should be responsible for providing food vouchers during the February half-term, like it did over summer.\n\nA top scientist has said the coronavirus growth rate in the UK is slowing, with the number of infections starting to level off in some areas. Prof Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions. But he warned the overall death toll - currently standing at over 80,000 - would exceed 100,000. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the national lockdown measures in place across the UK are \"starting to show signs of some effect\" but warned that it was still early days.\n\nMany people feel they've put on weight during the pandemic, due to staying indoors more and turning to comfort food. Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, thought she was one of them - but what she believed was a few extra pounds of weight was actually a baby. She gave birth to her daughter Julia just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was even missed when she was taken to hospital in November with Covid-19. She said: \"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nThe UK travel rules have been updated again. Find out all the details you need here.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "Covid-19 patients in England's busiest intensive care units in 2020 were 20% more likely to die, University College London research has found.\n\nThe increased risk was equivalent to gaining a decade in age.\n\nBy the end of 2020, one in three hospital trusts in England was running at higher than 85% capacity.\n\nEleven trusts were completely full on 30 December, and the total number of people in intensive care with Covid has continued to rise since then.\n\nThe link between full ICUs and higher death rates was already known, but this study is the first to measure its effect during the pandemic.\n\nTighter lockdown restrictions are needed to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, says study author Dr Bilal Mateen.\n\nResearchers looked at more than 4,000 patients who were admitted to intensive care units in 114 hospital trusts in England between April and June last year.\n\nThey found the risk of dying was almost a fifth higher in ICUs where more than 85% of beds were occupied, than in those running at between 45% and 85% capacity.\n\nThat meant a 60-year-old being treated in one of these units had the same risk of dying as a 70-year-old on a quieter ward.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine sets 85% as the maximum safe level of bed occupancy.\n\nHowever, the team found there was no tipping point after which deaths rose - instead, survival rates fell consistently as bed-occupancy increased.\n\nThis suggests \"a lot of harm is occurring before you get to 85%\".\n\nPatients admitted to ICUs that were less than 45% full were 25% less likely to die than average.\n\nUsually if a very sick patient's heart stops, everyone on the ward will rush to help them, Dr Mateen explained.\n\nBut when there are too many patients, staff's time is inevitably split, so \"it makes sense that the quality of patient care would be sacrificed\", he said.\n\nWhile extra beds and equipment can, and have, been provided through the Nightingale hospitals and the private sector, finding enough qualified staff has been an issue.\n\n\"You can't just create an ICU nurse who knows how to operate a mechanical ventilator overnight,\" Dr Mateen told the BBC.\n\nThese are highly-skilled roles that take years of training and sometimes decades of experience, he added.\n\nInstead, a \"robust vaccination programme\" and tighter lockdown restrictions are needed to bring down cases and hospitalisations, he believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nCo-author Prof Christina Pagel at UCL added: \"This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher.\n\n\"Our work underlines the urgency of both vaccinating vulnerable groups as soon as possible and reducing Covid transmission in the community to relieve pressure on intensive care.\"\n\nIt's difficult to say for sure that fuller ICUs are actually causing more deaths - it's possible that as they get fuller, only the sickest patients are admitted.\n\nBut Dr Mateen says there was no evidence of rationing - of sick patients being turned away.\n\nEven pre-Covid, data suggests larger ICUs had lower death rates - with a 25% increase in bed numbers linked to a corresponding 25% fall in mortality.\n\nAnd the findings are supported by a wealth of evidence from before the pandemic and from around the world.", "Coach and tour operators have seen an unexpected growth in bookings in the last fortnight.\n\nWhilst there is no doubt that the pandemic continues to put huge pressure on lives and the NHS, this is a small amount of sunshine for the travel industry, which has had a tough year.\n\nTUI, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.\n\nThis was previously a smaller market for them.\n\nNational Express's coach holiday businesses say bookings made by those 65 and over have increased by 185% in the last fortnight compared to last year.\n\n\"Since the announcement of the vaccine, it's given our customer base, predominantly those over 65, increased confidence to book and have that summer getaway in 2021\" says Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at National Express.\n\n\"We launched the brochure for spring-summer 2021 just this weekend gone, and on Monday we took a week's worth of bookings in a day and that's continued so far,\" says Mr Desai. \"What the vaccine does is give certainty and confidence.\n\n\"That then allows the customer and ourselves the ability to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pandemic has been devastating for the travel sector. Tens of thousands of jobs have gone in the UK. Millions of Britons cancelled breaks because the health situation was in flux across the world.\n\nBut National Express now points to returning confidence to travel.\n\n\"Many we've spoken to have had the first jab. They know in 12 weeks they'll get a second jab. It gives them certainty that they can enjoy and look forward to their 2021 holiday. It is something to look forward to, to being with people, with friends, like minded and from the same generation.\"\n\nDawn and Ray - 75 and 78 years old - are from Hampshire and are due to have their first jab soon. They have just booked five UK holidays.\n\n\"We are raring to go once we've got that vaccine, we are really looking forward to it - both of us. We are going to Wales, Leicestershire, to York where there is a mystery tour - and to the Cotswolds'\", Dawn said.\n\nFor Dawn and Ray, it's the ease of coach travel that's appealing, as well as the safety. She adds \"they've looked after us so well in the past, the coaches are clean, we'll all wear masks, we all look after each other.\"\n\nAt the moment, 90% of the bookings with National Expresses coach businesses are UK based, so it looks like another good year for the staycation.\n\n\"European bookings are lower because of the uncertainty on the continent,\" says Mr Desai.\n\n\"The UK wins because of the lack of need to quarantine. And uncertainty about the moves other governments might make whilst away also creates fear.\"\n\nIt's not just UK breaks that are selling. The UK's largest tour operator TUI, famous for its sun-drenched European beach holidays, says there has also been a change in the last fortnight.\n\n\"We're seeing a customer base or age group that wasn't booking before, that is starting to book,\" says Andrew Flintham the MD of TUI UK. \"The over 50s, we assume, is on the back to the vaccine news.\"\n\nWhilst TUI UK boss acknowledges that \"the market is still depressed and it's not where we want it - we are seeing glimmers of hope.\"\n\nTrips to towns in England are among those being booked\n\nThere are also interesting changes emerging in the types of breaks holidaymakers plan to take and the months they're planning to travel.\n\n\"People are booking later into the summer, hedging their bets\" said Mr Flintham. \"More July and August and a lot of demand for September and October.\n\n\"People are booking longer holidays, we're seeing more people booking ten or eleven or 14 nights rather than seven. People are maybe catching up on what they've missed.\"\n\nAs TUI analysed its recent booking data, one trend they spotted is the emergence of large, multigenerational group bookings.\n\n\"It is family time we've all missed. We can't get away from our own families, but our broader families we can't see, and that's feeding into our choices\" Mr Flintham explains.\n\nAfter such a bad 10 months, and TUI cancelling all holidays until the middle of February at the earliest because of the new lockdown, how does the rest of the summer look?\n\n\"I think the summer holiday is on\" says Mr Flintham, \"I think we just need time for people to get that confidence, but yes, we think there will be a good summer this summer\".\n\nFor those who've watched the paralysis brought upon the travel industry since last winter, a morsel of good news about customers booking again is being celebrated.\n\n\"This is fantastic news and to be hugely welcomed by an industry that has been utterly devastated by the pandemic\", says Sophie Griffiths, editor of Travel Trade Gazette.\n\n\"Ten months into this crisis and the industry has still received zero dedicated support from the government despite being unique as a sector in terms of giving out thousands in refunds while getting next to nothing back in for 2020.\"", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "Some 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday\n\nHospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures.\n\nCwm Taf covers Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, which have the highest and second highest Covid death rates.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he \"would not be surprised\" if other health boards were forced to do the same soon, if case rates did not come down.\n\n\"There is real harm being done... because of the level of hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Our critical care units are at 150% of their capacity and that has very real consequences.\n\n\"It reinforces why all of us need to do the right thing in reducing our contacts with other people and follow the rules, otherwise greater harm will be caused.\"\n\nThe news comes as NHS bosses said the number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is double April's peak.\n\nOn Thursday, Public Health Wales (PHW) said a further 54 people had died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 4,117.\n\nMr Lyons said on Wednesday night their field hospital Ysbyty Seren in Bridgend had 74 patients, people they \"wouldn't have been able to accommodate within our usual hospitals\".\n\n\"We are coping, but that's coping because we've been cancelling urgent surgery.\n\n\"We even had to cancel some cancer surgery over the last few weeks,\" Mr Lyons told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"My heart goes out to families and to patients with all the stress and the worry that gives.\n\n\"It's tough times and we're all in it together, and we do see that optimism, that glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but it's hard.\"\n\nNearly half of hospital beds in the health board - which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf- are taken up with Covid-19 patients, including 31 in critical care or on ventilation.\n\nThey outnumber those in critical care with other conditions by three to one.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 2,806 hospital patients in Wales with Covid-19 - 35% of all patients. This is twice the proportion in May.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, the Covid death rate is 283.9 per 100,000 population - followed by Merthyr Tydfil where the death rate is 253.6.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy for the families and the loved ones and very sobering,\" said Mr Lyons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how case rates have changed in each part of Wales\n\n\"We're coping but only because of the dedication of our staff, and it's immensely humbling to see people giving up their spare time coming in doing extra shifts, but the toll on them is immense.\n\n\"In practice our hospitals are full and although we are coping that we're only coping because we've cancelled all but the most urgent surgery.\n\n\"We've redeployed staff who've been incredibly flexible from places they normally work such as outpatients.\"\n\nThe health board oversees three hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and the Royal Glamorgan in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, said earlier this week how she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued outside her hospital's A&E department.", "Six pharmacies will be vaccinating people invited by letter to make an appointment online\n\nSome High Street pharmacies in England will start vaccinating people from priority groups on Thursday, with 200 providing jabs in the next two weeks.\n\nSix chemists in Halifax, Macclesfield, Widnes, Guildford, Edgware and Telford are the first to offer appointments to those invited by letter.\n\nBut pharmacists say many more sites should be allowed to give the jab, not just the largest ones.\n\nMore than 2.6 million people in the UK have now received their first dose.\n\nAcross the UK, the target is to vaccinate 15 million people in the top four priority groups - care home residents and workers, NHS frontline staff, the over-70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nThe vaccines - made by either Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech - are being administered at hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and vaccination centres.\n\nIt comes as the UK saw its highest number of daily reported coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, with the government announcing a further 1,564 deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the Scottish government published its detailed 16-page plan for rolling out the vaccine, including details of how many vaccines it expects to receive every week until the end of May.\n\nThe first pharmacy sites in England to deliver a vaccine have been chosen because they are capable of delivering large numbers of vaccines quickly while allowing space for social distancing.\n\nPeople will be invited by letter to make an appointment at one of the pharmacies, or a vaccination centre, through the NHS Covid-19 vaccination booking service.\n\nAnyone who doesn't want to travel to these sites can still be vaccinated by their local GP or hospital service, but they may have to wait longer.\n\nUp to 70 more pharmacies will be taking bookings for appointments for next week, with 200 in total offering slots over the next fortnight, according to NHS England.\n\nVaccines are currently being offered at more than 1,000 sites, including :\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Birmingham will also host a vaccination centre, with pharmacy staff giving jabs in the store's former clothing section from 25 January.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the rules on which pharmacies qualify to deliver Covid vaccines should be relaxed to allow more to take part.\n\nHow people awaiting vaccines will queue and socially distance in the Halifax store of Boots\n\nAt present, pharmacies have to be able to deliver 1,000 vaccines a week, have enough fridge space to store all the doses, and be able to open seven days a week.\n\nAndrew Lane, of the National Pharmacy Association, said now that the Oxford vaccine had been approved, community pharmacies could store and administer it in the same way as they deliver the flu jab.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine only needs to be stored at fridge temperature, as opposed to the freezer temperatures of -70C required by Pfizer.\n\n\"We're here, we're trained, we will deliver,\" said Mr Lane, who represents Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nNHS England has said that as more supplies of vaccine become available, more community pharmacists will be able to play a role in the programme.\n\nThe government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said staff across the NHS had \"pulled out all the stops to help ramp up vaccinations\" and were working day and night to keep people safe.\n\nProf Claire Anderson, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, said pharmacy teams in hospital, primary care and the community were \"working flat out to support the nation's health\".\n\nShe said she looked forward to the vaccination programme being expanded through pharmacies to benefit patients.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Wednesday that vaccinations would also start being offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week \"as soon as possible\" - but supply of doses was currently the limiting factor.\n\nIt comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the rising numbers of patients being admitted with Covid.\n\nA study published today has shown the impact of packed intensive care units on death rates, finding that patients in England's busiest ICUs in 2020 were 20% more likely to die.\n\nMeanwhile, a government committee is meeting later to discuss whether to stop flights from Brazil coming to the UK because of concern about a new variant of the virus believed to have emerged there.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe strain is one of a small number of new variants which have been spreading, including ones first spotted in the UK and South Africa.\n\nScientists are racing to understand what it means for the vaccines - but most experts think vaccines will still be effective.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bangor student Michelle Francis said students had hardly used rooms and had not been able to use facilities on campus\n\nHundreds of students are preparing to take part in rent strikes after paying for \"hardly used\" rooms during the pandemic.\n\nSome Welsh universities have already offered refunds to students who have been living away due to Covid-19.\n\nBut students in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor claim they are being treated unfairly and are threatening to withhold rent.\n\nUniversities said they were trying to work out the implications of Covid-19.\n\nAnd a solicitor warned students they could face legal action for not paying rent, with long-term implications possible if they lose.\n\nFace-to-face teaching was suspended and many students moved back home before Christmas as coronavirus cases continued to rise.\n\nStaggered returns are being introduced in order to \"help stop the spread of the virus in student accommodation\", according to the Welsh Government.\n\nThey said they had not been living in the rooms or using facilities, despite paying for them, because they were abiding by Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Cardiff University have now offered eligible students rebates or discounts for time not spent living on campus.\n\nUniversity of South Wales said it will be offering a \"rent holiday\" on university-owned accommodation in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for the period 4 January to 12 February.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) said on Thursday it is now offering refunds to students who have not returned to university-owned accommodation while teaching is solely online.\n\nBut students say the offers are inadequate for students already paying £9,000-a-year tuition fees at a time when most of the teaching was online, and they had been unable to use facilities in halls.\n\nWhile the students cannot hold their protests in person due to coronavirus laws, hundreds are now planning to cancel their direct debits, withholding thousands of pounds of rent from universities.\n\nMichelle Francis, who formed the Bangor Rent Strike campaign, said the university's offer of a 10% discount to eligible students living in university-owned accommodation did not go far enough.\n\nShe said students who had chosen to go home for Christmas were not eligible, despite being unable to use facilities paid for during the first term.\n\n\"[We were] advised to have left university from the beginning of December and to come back at 8 February,\" she said.\n\n\"That's 25% of our halls that we've been paying and we're not there... we should be allowed to have that back.\"\n\nSo far over 300 students have joined the campaign to cancel their direct debits paid to Welsh universities and campaigners said the numbers were growing daily.\n\nOn Wednesday, Cardiff University joined other Welsh universities in offering a rent rebate to students living in university-owned accommodation during the pandemic.\n\nBut the full rebate, for the time students are unable to return to live in their accommodation, will not be applied until April.\n\nSwansea University has also confirmed a rent reduction to students in university halls who have been asked to remain at home.\n\nOisin Mulholland of Swansea Rent Strike said the group wanted the university to commit to fairly \"assessing the situation\", including for the coming term, and students who had already moved in should be given rebates as well.\n\n\"There was a window in January, where the Welsh Government said return, but the English government said don't return, and the university said nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"Many students came back and are now trapped in Swansea and can't go back because of lockdown\"\n\nIbrahim Khan said students were struggling and needed the rebate immediately\n\nIbrahim Khan, of the Cardiff Rent Strike campaign, said the rebate was \"too late\" for students struggling financially now.\n\n\"The university should be giving us the rebate this January as opposed to the third instalment in April,\" he said.\n\nLawyers have warned that students would in breach of contract if they cancel the direct debit for their rent.\n\nSiôn Fôn, a solicitor at Darwin Gray, encouraged students to discuss the issue with their families and student unions before taking action.\n\n\"I think a case could be brought forward pretty easily against somebody not paying rent,\" he said.\n\nBut he said students may have a case against the university due to not being able to access advertised facilities, but if the university took legal action it could have long-term consequences for individuals.\n\n\"If the students lose, and even after losing don't pay the rent, that would come up on credit scores, or with the bank, if they're trying to get a mortgage or a credit card it would come up on their record,\" he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How am I going to afford to do my food shop... if I can't go to work?\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff University said technical reasons meant they had to wait until the April instalment of accommodation fees to provide the rebate.\n\nSwansea University said some students had already returned when the stay at home guidance was issued, and it was working through the \"implications of this\".\n\n\"To help with this the university will not generate invoices for any students with university accommodation until May when we have been able to look at these cases,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBangor University said it did not wish to add anything further following its rebate announcement.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided an extra £40m to help universities, including £10m for towards student hardship and support.\n\n\"It would seem fair that students should be eligible for a rebate for the period when a course is online only and we welcome moves by universities to address this,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are actively considering how we can support our students and universities even further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents of an asylum seeker camp in Pembrokeshire says life is 'very bad'\n\nAsylum seekers housed in a military training camp have claimed the \"very bad\" conditions are making them feel increasingly desperate.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, from September.\n\nBut some housed at the camp claim the conditions are unsafe and putting them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for an urgent inspection, but the Home Office said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration David Bolt said he hoped an inspection can begin \"within a few weeks\" and was awaiting further details he requested from the Home Office.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place at the camp, with concerns conditions breach human rights.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the facility was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nNow, asylum seekers have spoken to the BBC about their experiences of living in the camp during the pandemic, with some claiming the site does not abide by Covid-19 rules.\n\nPhotos taken inside the camp show the living conditions in one of the rooms\n\nOne man, who wishes to remain anonymous, arrived at the camp on 1 October.\n\nHe said he had pain from \"old injuries\" obtained in Syria, but had to wait \"four days\" to see a doctor. He also has concerns about hygiene facilities at the camp.\n\n\"There is no observance of the Covid safety laws,\" he said, claiming \"six men\" share a small bedroom, dozens eat in the same room, and some staff preparing food do not wear face masks.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, beds in communal rooms less than 2m (6ft) apart and a bathroom where all the soap dispensers are empty.\n\nThe Home Office said medical need determined GP appointments, social distancing was required, and soap was replenished at the site.\n\nThe man said the camp's conditions had left him in a \"bad psychological state\" and others had attempted self-harm: \"Should I try to hurt myself to get out of here?\"\n\nHe said he and other residents were able to leave the camp as long as they are back by 22:00 GMT, but said he was reluctant to go out due to the \"humiliation, abuse and racism\" he has experienced.\n\nThe site has attracted protests in recent months\n\nWhile some have welcomed the refugees, posting welcome notes outside the gates, the camp has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nThe Home Office said that, where someone claims their mental health is suffering, it would consider if their needs can be met at the site.\n\nAnother resident, from Eritrea, north-east Africa, said life in the camp was stressful, and people were being \"treated like prisoners\".\n\n\"For the Eritrean community in this camp, the most difficult thing is we escaped from our country from indefinite military service and illegal imprisonment,\" he said.\n\n\"So we feel like we are imprisoned in a military camp. It is all coming back to us.\"\n\nOne resident said it was impossible to maintain social distancing in a room with six people\n\nThe man said he had been told to be careful and to abide to Covid rules, but there was \"no protection\" as he was sleeping in a room with five others.\n\n\"Most of the bathrooms - they are broken,\" he said.\n\n\"They are filled with tissues, masks, everything you can find, they are blocked, they don't work.\"\n\nHe said he had not been offered a coronavirus test since arriving about three months ago.\n\nThe Home Office said residents had often entered the UK some time ago, and had been mainly placed in the camp after being in the south-east of England and around London.\n\nIt added that coronavirus tests were only necessary in line with Welsh Government guidance.\n\nIt added that Clearsprings Ready Homes, which manage the camp, took immediate steps to repair damage.\n\nSome have welcomed the asylum seekers in the community\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, has called for an \"urgent\" and \"transparent\" inspection of the site.\n\nIn a letter to the UK's Independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, the MP said: \"We are now not only in the middle of winter, but cases of Covid-19 in Wales are rising at an alarming rate.\n\n\"I am extremely worried that the conditions at the old military barracks are wholly unsuitable to deal with the cold weather and to facilitate effective social distancing.\n\n\"This shows a clear disregard for the health and wellbeing of those being kept in the camp.\"\n\nAbout 40 men took part in the protest outside the camp in November over claims their human rights were being breached\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If we aspire to be a nation of sanctuary, surely we should be looking at how people, while they are with us, are integrated into our communities and given all the services that they need, rather than putting them in a convenient enclosed space in a tiny community which is ill equipped itself to deal with this... Let alone far right protests outside and all the pressure that's put on the local population.\n\n\"We need to make sure that this doesn't set a precedent into the future.\"\n\nMr Bolt told Ms Saville Roberts he had \"received assurances\" from the Home Office that the Penally camp had an independent Covid-19 audit on 4 November.\n\nIn a letter, he said he hoped an inspection could be held \"within a few weeks\".\n\nHe said he was keen to understand how the Home Office \"was assuring itself\" individuals who were particularly vulnerable, including torture victims, potential victims of modern slavery, and those with complex health and other needs, were being identified and action taken to safeguard them.\n\nHe said: \"While on site I would expect the only restrictions to be those relating to Covid-19 and that inspectors would be free to examine the premises and facilities, observe daily life and interview staff and service users, and I would look to the Home Office to ensure that whoever is responsible for managing the site understands that they must cooperate with the inspection team.\"\n\nIn December, the Welsh Labour Government deputy minister Jane Hutt called on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to close the camp, describing the conditions as \"unsafe\" and \"inhumane\".\n\nTom Nunn, a solicitor representing some of the residents at camp, said the Home Office had said the camp should only be used as short-term accommodation for single, asylum-seeking males with no known vulnerabilities.\n\nBut he said 20 clients had been transferred away from the camp due to being vulnerable, and feared a serious incident would happen if things did not change.\n\n\"The majority of them have been detained and/or tortured in their country of origin, many have been exploited on their journey to the UK and a large number have fairly severe mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not be the case that the only effective way of being transferred out is through making submissions through lawyers, and we are concerned about a large number of individuals who for a myriad of reasons may be unable to obtain this representation.\"\n\nThe UK's Minister for Immigration Compliance, Chris Philp, said: \"We provide asylum seekers in Penally with safe, Covid-compliant and weather-proof accommodation along with free, nutritious meals, all paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously and asylum seekers can contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant Help if they have any issues.\n\n\"We are fixing our asylum system to make it firm and fair. We will be bringing forward legislation which will stop abuse of the system while ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armie Hammer has starred in The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as \"vicious and spurious online attacks against me\".\n\nHammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding.\n\nHowever, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly sent were circulated online.\n\nIn a statement, Hammer dismissed the messages and said the subsequent abuse meant he could no longer spend months away from his children while filming.\n\n\"I'm not responding to these [false] claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,\" the 34-year-old said, according to Deadline and Variety.\n\nThe Social Network and Call Me By Your Name actor added that film studio Lionsgate \"is supporting me in this and I'm grateful to them for that\".\n\nHammer has two children aged six and three with TV host Elizabeth Chambers. The couple announced their divorce last summer.\n\nHis name began trending over the weekend after explicit messages detailing disturbing sexual fantasies, which were purportedly sent by him, appeared online.\n\nA spokesman for Shotgun Wedding told the PA news agency that the film's producers accepted his decision.\n\n\"Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision,\" they said.\n\nHammer played the Winklevoss twins in 2010's The Social Network and starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in 2017's acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name. He also appeared alongside Lily James in the Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, which came out last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, he expressed sadness at what he described as the \"extraordinary and untenable circumstances\" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension.\n\nHe also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster \"healthy conversation\" across its platforms.\n\nTwitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account.\n\nGerman leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move.\n\nIn a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe reiterated that removing the president from Twitter was made after \"a clear warning\" to Mr Trump.\n\n\"We made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nHe also accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet.\n\n\"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us….And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nHe also addressed criticism that just a handful of tech bosses can make decisions on who does and doesn't have a voice on the internet - and on accusations of censorship.\n\n\"A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same,\" said Mr Dorsey.\n\nThe decision to remove users, posts and tweets has been criticised by some for violating First Amendment - free speech - rights.\n\nHowever, big tech firms generally argue that as they are private companies, and not state actors, this law does not apply when they moderate their platforms.\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken steps to silence the president, while Amazon shut down Parler, an app widely used by his supporters.\n\nNow Snapchat has also announced that Mr Trump will be permanently banned from its platform too.\n\nIt had already announced an indefinite suspension, but has now decided that \"in the interest of public safety and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence\" to permanently terminate his account.\n\nOn Monday, the German chancellor's spokesperson said she found the social media ban \"problematic\". And the Mexican president said: \"I don't like anybody being censored.\"\n\nIncoming US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wants companies like Facebook and Twitter to do more to take down hate speech and fake news.\n\nHe has previously said he wants to repeal Section 230, a law protecting social media companies from being sued for the things people post.\n\nIt's not clear how Mr Biden intends to regulate Big Tech, though it's likely to be a legislative focus of his.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "A ban on travellers to the UK from South America has left one family fearing it could leave them stranded abroad for months.\n\nThe restriction comes into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday amid fears of a new Covid variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nHowever many flights have now been cancelled.\n\nJon Den travelled to Brazil with his wife Carla, 32, in October so that her family - who live in Goiania - could meet their one-year-old daughter Luiza for the first time.\n\nThe couple, who live in Wolverhampton, are due to fly back to the UK on 6 February but Jon now fears they may be stuck out there for months due to the travel ban.\n\n\"We had planned to visit in February 2020 but we had to postpone because of the lockdown and that was rough on my wife, she suffered a lot,\" the 31-year-old says.\n\n\"Now I think my mum is suffering as she's expecting Luiza to be back, but who knows now?\n\n\"My initial reaction was worry because it's so unknown. The thought of not being able to return home and being stranded is not a nice feeling.\n\n\"I'm hoping British residents will be able to get home but I don't know if the government will organise flights. I think it's a long shot. I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months.\n\n\"We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several Leeds bus drivers were faced with challenging conditions in the snow.\n\nHigh demand and heavy snow have had a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances, with bad weather also affecting coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe county ambulance trust declared a major incident, urging calls only in a \"serious or life-threatening emergency\" due to poor road conditions.\n\nA vaccination centre in Barnsley was closed, with patients told to await new appointments.\n\nCovid testing centres in Kirklees and Bradford also suspended operations.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in force until 21:00 GMT.\n\nMark Millins, strategic commander at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said \"very snowy conditions across West, South and North Yorkshire\" had caused gridlock and made driving difficult.\n\nStaff were \"working extremely hard to reach patients\", he said, but \"hazardous driving conditions and blocked roads mean that it is taking us longer than normal in the worst-hit areas.\"\n\nVaccinations taking at the Priory Campus in Lundwood, Barnsley, were suspended from 15:00 GMT\n\nIn Barnsley, the town's Clinical Commissioning Group issued a tweet advising that it had postponed all Covid vaccinations at one centre from 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt asked those due to receive jabs at the Priory Campus in Lundwood after this time not to travel, and said patients would be contacted with a rescheduled appointment.\n\nThe group said its two remaining centres at Goldthorpe and Apollo Court, in Dodworth, remained open, but those unable to attend would also get a new time and date.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had also seen a surge in calls and urged people not to call 101 for \"non-urgent matters\".\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said the force had received 300 calls to the 999 and 101 numbers in the space of an hour on Thursday morning.\n\nA large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds was criticised for an apparent lack of social distancing after footage was posted on social media.\n\nLiam Ford, who recorded the video, said he saw the \"awful scenes\" after he \"heard the commotion while on a walk round the block\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people have been filmed in a snowball fight in Leeds\n\nPolice urged drivers to stay at home until the roads cleared\n\nMotorists reported hazardous driving conditions on many routes and police warned people to stay at home or allow extra time for essential journeys.\n\nPhil Airey said his usual 30-minute commute from Boston Spa to Harrogate took 90 minutes due to the poor conditions.\n\n\"The gritters have been doing their job but any sort of hill then it's not very good and if you go off onto the little roads well they are not good at all,\" he said.\n\nWest Yorkshire's road policing unit said it was dealing with a number of crashes while the North Yorkshire force said the A59 was blocked near Skipton due to a number of vehicles getting stuck in the snow.\n\nThe Met Office has not issued a weather notice for Friday, but a yellow warning for snow and ice on Saturday is in place across most of northern England and Scotland.\n\nPolice say they have dealt with a number of collisions and accidents\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Charlie Mullins said workers getting vaccinated is \"a no-brainer\".\n\nA large London plumbing firm plans to rewrite all of its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\nPimlico Plumbers chairman Charlie Mullins said it was \"a no-brainer\" that workers should get the jab.\n\nIf they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.\n\nEmployment lawyers said the plan carried risks for the business.\n\nThe NHS is seeking to vaccinate 15 million people from priority groups by mid-February as part of efforts to try to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Mr Mullins said he was prepared to pay for private immunisations for people at the firm, should they become available, which would be done on the company's time.\n\nDoctors have warned that key hospital services in England are in crisis, with reports of hospitals cancelling urgent operations after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nPimlico Plumbers plans to change its contracts for new joiners to require immunisation. It will rewrite its contracts with existing workers and employees as soon as is practical, depending on vaccine availability.\n\nThe firm has about 350 plumbers working as contractors and about 120 employees.\n\nMr Mullins said the firm was \"not putting anyone under any pressure\" to have the jab.\n\nHowever, new starters who were not immunised would not be taken on, he said.\n\nMr Mullins said employees approved of the policy.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer,\" he said. \"I've talked to people who have said: 'I will queue up all night to get the vaccine.'\n\n\"I think it will be the norm in five or six months. To go into a bar or cinema, or go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMr Mullins said he had set aside £800,000 to pay for private vaccinations, but estimated costs more in the region of £100,000.\n\n\"Whatever it costs, I will pay,\" he said. \"I would pay £1m tomorrow to safeguard our staff.\n\n\"If people don't want the vaccine, let them sit at home and not have a normal life,\" he added.\n\nHowever, employment lawyers said this vaccination policy could be risky.\n\nLegally, companies cannot force employees to take a vaccine, said Thrive Law managing director Jodie Hill.\n\n\"They can't jab a vaccine in your arm,\" she said.\n\nPeople who refuse vaccination and are dismissed may have grounds to make a legal claim, she said.\n\n\"Even if they put that [requirement] in a new contract, I don't think they'd get away with it,\" she said.\n\nEmployees with more than two years' service could claim unfair dismissal. But this option is not open to workers and self-employed contractors.\n\nBroadly, people can refuse a vaccination for legitimate reasons such as being pregnant or breastfeeding, for religious reasons, because of disability or allergy, or for ethical vegan reasons if the jab contains animal products.\n\nThe two vaccines approved for use in the UK, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech, do not contain any components of animal origin, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed.\n\nDismissal for employees with one or more of these protected characteristics could give rise to a discrimination claim.\n\nPeople who are hesitant about taking the vaccine for personal reasons would not be able to claim discrimination, but could potentially claim unfair dismissal if they have been with the firm for two years or more.\n\nPeople with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added.\n\nThe company and Mr Mullins have previously faced a lengthy legal battle with one of its former contractors, Gary Smith.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Smith won a Supreme Court ruling over holiday and sick pay. However, an employment tribunal later ruled that he was not entitled to make a claim for the back pay, as he had not completed the necessary paperwork.\n\nMr Mullins insisted that the vaccination change to contracts \"will be done legally\", but said that he was willing to take this matter to the Supreme Court as well, if necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapid spread of coronavirus variants has put the world on alert and triggered a new lockdown in the UK. What are these variants and why are they causing concern?\n\nAll viruses naturally mutate over time, and Sars-CoV-2 is no exception.\n\nSince the virus was first identified a year ago, thousands of mutations have arisen.\n\nThe vast majority of mutations are \"passengers\" and will have little impact, says Dr Lucy van Dorp, an expert in the evolution of pathogens at University College London.\n\n\"They don't change the behaviour of the virus, they are just carried along.\"\n\nBut every once in a while, a virus strikes lucky by mutating in a way that helps it survive and reproduce.\n\n\"Viruses carrying these mutations can then increase in frequency due to natural selection, given the right epidemiological settings,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nThis is what seems to be happening with the variant that has spread across the UK, known as 202012/01, and a similar, but different variant, recently identified in South Africa (501.V2).\n\nHundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world\n\nThere is no evidence so far that either causes more severe disease, but the worry is that health systems will be overwhelmed by a rapid rise in cases.\n\nIn a rapid risk assessment of these \"variants of concern\", the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they place increased pressure on health systems.\n\n\"Although there is no information that infections with these strains are more severe, due to increased transmissibility, the impact of Covid-19 disease in terms of hospitalisations and deaths is assessed as high, particularly for those in older age groups or with co-morbidities,\" the EU agency said.\n\nThe variants have different origins but share a mutation in a gene that encodes the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells.\n\nScientists think this could be why they appear more infectious.\n\n\"The UK and South African virus variants have changes in the spike gene consistent with the possibility that they are more infectious,\" says Prof Lawrence Young at the University of Warwick.\n\nBut as Dr Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, points out, it's the combination of what the virus is doing and what we're doing that determines how fast it spreads.\n\n\"With the new variant, the situation changes more quickly as restrictions are relaxed and tightened, and there is less room for error in controlling the spread,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't have any evidence, however, that the new variant can fundamentally evade masks, social distancing, or the other interventions - we just need to apply them more strictly.\"\n\nThe spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells\n\nWith vaccine roll-out underway, scientists are racing to understand the repercussions for vaccines, which are based on the spike protein sequence.\n\nThere is particular concern about the South Africa variant, which has several changes in the spike (S) protein.\n\nMost experts think vaccines will still be effective, at least in the short term.\n\nDr Julian W Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, says vaccines can be modified to be \"more close-fitting and effective against this variant in a few months\".\n\n\"Meanwhile, most of us believe that the existing vaccines are likely to work to some extent to reduce infection/ transmission rates and severe disease against both the UK and South African variants - as the various mutations have not altered the S protein shape that the current vaccine-induced antibodies will not bind at all.\"\n\nMink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nScientists are carrying out laboratory studies to find out more about the variants. And they are tracking every move of the virus as it hopscotches around the world.\n\nBy taking a swab from an infected patient, the genetic code of the virus can be extracted and amplified before being \"read\" using a sequencer.\n\nThe string of letters, or nucleotides, allows genomes and mutations to be compared.\n\n\"It is thanks to these efforts, and UK testing laboratories, that the UK variant has been flagged so quickly as a potential cause of concern,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nProf Julian Hiscox, chair in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, says that, through the efforts of scientists to sequence the virus, \"we've got a really good handle on variants that emerge\".\n\nIn the short-term, only the harshest of lockdowns will reduce case numbers, he says.\n\n\"What lockdown does is reduce the number of people with the virus and reduce the amount of virus out there and that's a good thing.\"\n\nBut in the long term, Prof Hiscox suspects, we may face a scenario like flu, where new vaccines are developed and administered every year.\n\n\"The problem is, the more variants we get, the greater the chance the virus will be able to escape part of the vaccine - and this may reduce [its] efficacy,\" he says.\n• None New coronavirus variant: What do we know?", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer has released a new video explaining what went wrong with the game.\n\nCD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński admitted they \"underestimated the task\" of adapting the game for consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.\n\nMarcin says he's \"deeply sorry for this and this video is me publicly owning up\".\n\nThe game was arguably the most anticipated release of 2020 but the launch just before Christmas was a disaster.\n\nThe problems led to Sony and Microsoft removing the game from online stores and gamers were offered refunds.\n\nCyberpunk 2077 is a set in the fictional Night City - a dystopian future where pollution and crime are rampant and social inequality is the norm.\n\nIn the video, Marcin explains issues originated from Cyperpunk's \"huge\" scope, particularly the high number \"of custom objects, interacting systems, and mechanics\", making it a complex game.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cyberpunk 2077 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs this was \"condensed in one big city\" rather than spread over a bigger space - it needed greater hardware capability.\n\nSo despite working well for high-end PCs, it couldn't be adjusted to older generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One, making in-game streaming difficult.\n\n\"We hit the ground running on PC. While not perfect, it's a version of Cyberpunk we're very proud of.\"\n\nMarcin adds that testing did not \"show a big part of the issues\" that gamers experienced.\n\n\"As we got closer to the final release, we saw significant improvements each and every day.\"\n\nHe also blames the coronavirus pandemic for creating issues for CD Projekt as they tried to improve performance after launch.\n\n\"A lot of the dynamics we normally take for granted got lost over video calls or email. And we took that hit too.\"\n\nLooks good right? But this wasn't what the game looked like for a lot of console gamers\n\nMarcin added the \"incredibly hard working and talented\" development team should not be blamed for problems, saying the final decision came down to him and the board.\n\n\"Believe me, we never ever intended for anything like this to happen. I assure you that we will do our best to regain your trust\".\n\nAs part of that, he says they intend to fix the problems and improve the game across platforms.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is to fix the bugs and crashes,\" he says, with updates to the game expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"We treat this entire situation very seriously and are working hard to make it right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Julia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world\n\nA mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.\n\nSamantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia's kicking to sickness having been ill.\n\nHer pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November .\n\n\"It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative,\" she said.\n\nWhen Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.\n\nShe said she had noticed a small amount of weight gain but put it down to lockdown and that she thought she might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) as it runs in the family.\n\nMrs Hicks said: \"I felt a bit of movement but I thought it was because I had not been well.\n\n\"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nHer husband Joe said: \"On Christmas Day, I asked her if she was sure she wasn't pregnant, but she said no and she knows her own body.\n\n\"Then on January 1, I had my hands on Sammy and we felt a baby kick.\n\n\"We took another pregnancy test which came back positive.\"\n\nAt that stage, Mrs Hicks thought she was only five or six months into her term and returned to her job in a care home, walking 40 minutes to get there.\n\nTen days later, her contractions began and Mr Hicks rushed her to hospital\n\n\"It was unreal, the doctors only realised Julia was full term when she was born,\" he said.\n\nThe couple, who have two sons aged three and eight, said they had not planned on having more children.\n\nThey have since been \"inundated\" with gifts from friends, family and strangers in Portishead, who have offered blankets and essentials to help out.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone really,\" Mr Hicks said.\n\nHelen Blanchard, Director of Nursing and Quality at North Bristol NHS Trust said: \"We would like to pass our congratulations to Mrs Hicks and her family on their new arrival.\n\n\"As Mrs Hicks experienced when she was cared for at Southmead, it is routine practice to ask people if they are, or could be, pregnant upon admission.\n\n\"However, we would ask a patient to do a pregnancy test if they were undergoing specific operations or procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK - but a final decision has not been taken.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked by Labour MP Yvette Cooper why checks on people arriving from Brazil have not been strengthened, given that a new variant of coronavirus has been identified there.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant from Brazil.\"\n\nThe UK government’s 'Covid-O' committee is expected to discuss the new Brazil variant of coronavirus at a meeting on Thursday.", "People needing to travel by rail during lockdown are being urged to double-check train times, as services are being reduced.\n\nServices in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nIt said the number of trains would reflect the drop in passengers, and provide better value for money for taxpayers who are subsidising services.\n\nPeak services will be prioritised to help key workers, it added.\n\nWhile some timetables have already changed, others will be altered in the next few weeks.\n\nSince the early days of the pandemic, the government has spent billions of pounds covering the fall in ticket revenues for rail companies, owing to low passenger numbers.\n\nCutting some services will save public money, the government said.\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It is critical that our railways continue to deliver reliable services for key workers and people who cannot reasonably work from home, and that they respond quickly to changes in demand.\"\n\nRail usage has slumped, with passenger journeys falling more than 90% to 35 million journeys for the three-month period to June, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nThe figures recovered a little to 134 million for the three months to September - the latest published.\n\nWith fewer passengers, the government argues, it makes sense to run fewer services.\n\nNot least because right now, the government are footing much of the bill; since the start of the pandemic, the government has spent more than £4bn covering the fall in ticket revenues because of low passenger numbers.\n\nThe cuts aren't as deep as they were in March - then services were running around 55% of pre-pandemic levels - which is partly because the train companies want to make sure it doesn't take as long getting the services back up again when they are needed.\n\nLonger term, rail companies are nervous about how quickly passengers, particularly commuters, will return, but for now the message is still firmly \"stay at home\".\n\n\"Train timetables must still meet the needs of those who have to travel, said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.\n\n\"Many key workers rely on the first and last services of the day so it's important that these are maintained. Providing enough capacity for those who are travelling to properly social distance remains vital.\"\n\nAlthough timetables were restored when restrictions were eased over the summer, rail franchising has since been scrapped and replaced with a model which means the taxpayer is currently liable for the losses on the railways.\n\nIn September, the bill had run to more than £3.5bn - and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support is still needed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Jamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead\n\nA Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.\n\nLochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.\n\nHe also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.\n\nMr McMillan described it as a \"very, very serious situation\".\n\nHis comments came after transport company DFDS announced a further delay in exports of group consignments of seafood to the EU.\n\nIt halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.\n\nDFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.\n\nMr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.\n\n\"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.\n\n\"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival.\"\n\nTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday\n\nHe added: \"Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.\n\n\"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.\n\n\"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.\n\n\"If we go another week without that, we are finished.\"\n\nMr McMillan said there were \"sticking points\" in both the UK and France, with transportation hubs in Scotland struggling with increased paperwork and checks by vets.\n\n\"There are sticking points down in France as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There are delays at the borders in France for up to 30 hours, I'm hearing, to clear customs by the time they do all their checks.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scotland Office minister David Duguid said he did not underestimate the struggles the industry was facing with paperwork, IT and ports.\n\nHe said the UK and Scottish governments, fish exporters and the EU needed to come together to work through the issues, which he estimated would last \"weeks\" and not months.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"What I can commit to is that the UK government, whether that's through Defra or the Scotland Office, we are working day and night in resolving the issues that we know about and that we can fix directly.\n\n\"The other issues that are maybe the responsibility of the Scottish government, or indeed the EU on the other side of the channel, Defra are engaging heavily with those parties as well.\"\n\nHowever, when asked directly on the programme how long the problems would last, Mr Duguid responded: \"How long is a piece of string?\"\n\nFish ate up a lot of the time in negotiating the deal for departing the European customs union and single market.\n\nNow grown to become a much bigger political predator, it has started the post-Brexit era by threatening to devour UK ministers with the task of making the deal work.\n\nThe fisheries minister admitted she was preparing for Christmas rather than seeing how the deal had turned out on 24 December. Asked how long it will take to sort out delays, a Scotland Office minister asked: \"How long's a piece of string?\"\n\nThe prime minister says there will be compensation, but it seems that is due to come from the fund intended to expand the fishing fleet.\n\nAnd Michael Gove, who appears to have more of a grasp of the detail, was in the Commons on Wednesday, acknowledging there's a vast amount for the government yet to sort out - and that was only for Northern Ireland.\n\nAt least the province got a grace period before consignments of food require the paperwork now needed to send fish to France. That was sought by fish and meat exporters.\n\nIt's not clear if the request was made of EU negotiators, but it hasn't materialised. Yet coming the other way, the UK has given a six-month preparation period for EU exporters to Britain.\n\nBecause seafood is freshly delivered, it is the product that hit the obstacles first. Meat and dairy are sure to follow.\n\nBeef exporters to Europe are beginning to face delays, while Brexit chickens are coming home to roast.", "A teenage motorcyclist who led police on a 30-minute pursuit at speeds of up to 180mph (290km/h) through London and three counties has been sentenced.\n\nOfficers in Haringey, London, spotted a speeding rider at about 21:20 BST on 20 May and were joined by a police helicopter as they followed it along the M1, through Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe biker mounted pavements, drove through multiple red lights and the wrong way down the motorway hard shoulder before he was arrested at a service station.\n\nMarian Vasilica Dragoi, 19, of Teynton Terrace, Haringey, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence and being uninsured and was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 46 weeks' detention.", "The opening of Nintendo's first theme park has been delayed because of rising coronavirus cases in Japan.\n\nSuper Nintendo World, modelled on levels of the company's Mario games, had been due to open on 4 February.\n\nBut Japan has expanded its state of emergency, due to last until at least 7 February, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the park is located.\n\nThe opening, at Universal Studios Japan, had already been postponed from mid-2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nBut in December, Nintendo posted a video tour of the park in December, starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, among others.\n\nIt is not the first theme park to suffer problems during the pandemic - the shuttered Disneyland theme park in California is set to become a large-scale vaccination centre.\n\nThe state of emergency in Japan, which has so far avoided the types of lockdowns seen in the UK and other European nations, prohibits non-essential trips outside the home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's total number of cases reached 300,000, with more than 4,000 deaths.\n\nAnd many of those have been in the past three months.\n\nThe rising number of cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer, having already been postponed last year.\n\nOrganisers, however, insist the Games will go ahead.", "Nearly 46% of over-80s in England's North East and Yorkshire region have been given their first dose of a Covid vaccine - more than any other area, official figures show.\n\nThis compares with about 30% of over-80s in both London and the East of England who have received a first jab.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan claims the capital is not getting its fair share of vaccine doses.\n\nIn total, more than 2.2 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.\n\nAbout 400,000 second doses have also been administered, despite guidance from the UK's chief medical officers and vaccine advisers, the JCVI, that giving a first dose to as many people as possible was a public health priority.\n\nThe NHS England figures cover Covid-19 vaccinations given to people at hospital hubs and GP practices between 8 December 2020 and 10 January 2021.\n\nAmong the over-80s alone, most first doses - 204,140 - were administered in north-east England and Yorkshire, while the lowest number (92,398) were given to this age group in London.\n\nOverall, more than one-third of people aged 80 and over in England have received at least one dose.\n\nThe figures show that in the Midlands more vaccine doses had been administered to all people in the top priority groups - 387,647 - than in any other area of England. In London, a total of 199,986 first doses were given and in the East the figure was 186,291.\n\nThese include care home residents, frontline heath and care staff, the over-80s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the Covid-19.\n\nThe percentage of the whole population to have received a first dose so far ranged from 4.3% in the north-east and Yorkshire to 2.2% in London.\n\nMr Khan said he was \"hugely concerned\" that Londoners had received only one-tenth of the vaccines that had been given across the country.\n\n\"The situation in London is critical with rates of the virus extremely high, which is why it's so important that vulnerable Londoners are given access to the vaccine as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would hold talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to ensure more vaccines were delivered to reflect the level of need in the city.\n\nLondon has a younger average population than other parts of England and the smallest number of people aged over 80 compared with other regions.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said vaccinating over a third of all over-80s was \"a great achievement\".\n\nBut she said people must continue to follow the guidance that is in place to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"These data will help us to evaluate the protection from the vaccine and to effectively target the roll-out of the programme to help control the virus and save lives,\" she added.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Tesco says it has seen some disruption to food supplies in Northern Ireland since trading arrangements with the EU changed on 1 January.\n\n\"We see this as a challenge at the moment, but not a crisis,\" boss Ken Murphy said.\n\nBut he said the retailer was working closely with government on both sides of the Irish Sea to \"smooth the flow\".\n\nSince 31 December, Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has stayed in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nMr Murphy said certain foodstuffs had faced supply chain disruption going into both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Ready meals have been the most affected as they have an eight-day shelf life so any wait is more likely to have an impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Some processed meat and some citrus fruit has also been impacted, but it is important to stress that our availability in the Republic and Northern Ireland is strong and is very strong in the mainland UK.\n\nLast week, all the major grocers wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove asking him to take urgent action.\n\nBut Tesco said its \"comprehensive preparations and... strong relationships with suppliers\" had allowed it to maintain strong levels of availability during the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Murphy said he was confident Tesco would have the right measures in place to supply Northern Ireland after end of a three month grace period on certain rules and regulations with the EU on 31 March.\n\nHe also said there had also been \"teething problems\" with supply flows from continental Europe to Great Britain.\n\n\"Inevitably there are bedding-in issues, teething issues, that you would expect with any new process that's been set up at relatively short notice,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working our way through those and we would hope over the coming weeks and months that we will end up with a much smoother flow of product.\"\n\nUnder new trading arrangements, food products entering Northern Ireland from Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nMarks & Spencer has temporarily reduced its range of food products in Northern Ireland\n\nA three month \"grace period\" means that supermarkets currently don't need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements until 1 April - but there has still been disruption.\n\nM&S has temporarily reduced its range of food products and Sainsbury's has been sourcing Spar-branded products from an NI wholesaler.\n\nThis week the bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Iceland, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer warned that trade into Northern Ireland would become \"unworkable\" if further new certification requirements were introduced in April .\n\nThe government said a new dedicated team has already been set up and will be working with supermarkets, the food industry and the Northern Ireland Executive to develop ways to streamline the movement of goods.\n\nTesco's comments came as the supermarket giant reported record sales for the Christmas period after customers looked to \"treat themselves\" amid tough Covid restrictions across most of the UK.\n\nUK like-for-like sales were up 8.1% in the six weeks to 9 January, as the supermarket saw a surge in demand for goods in its Tesco Finest range.\n\nBig grocers have benefited at a time when most non-essential shops and restaurants are closed, prompting consumers to spend more on their weekly shop. But they have faced criticism too.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would repay £585m of business rates relief after it was criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the crisis. Most big grocers followed suit.\n\nTesco was later criticised for keeping its shops open on Boxing Day despite union calls to give staff the day off.\n\nIn its results the grocer said it had given all frontline staff a 10% bonus over Christmas. It also said it had shielded vulnerable staff and taken on nearly 35,000 additional temporary staff for the season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells says he wishes he had never thrown away the hard drive\n\nA man who threw away a laptop hard drive containing bitcoin he believes is now worth about £210m wants his council to let him search for it in landfill.\n\nJames Howells had 7,500 bitcoins, a virtual currency, on the hard drive, which he mistakenly threw away in 2013.\n\nHe said he was willing to donate 25% of the value of the bitcoins to his home city of Newport in south Wales - about £52.5m - if he found the hard drive.\n\nNewport council said excavation was not possible under its licensing permit.\n\nMr Howells said if he was to recover the hard drive, he would want the money to be put into a \"Covid relief fund\" for people in Newport to use \"no questions asked\".\n\n\"Imagine how great it would be to say 'I've given everyone in the city a few hundred pounds',\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop.\n\nHe kept the hard drive in his office drawer and \"totally forgot about bitcoin all together\" - so when he had a clear out, he believed everything had been taken off it.\n\nWhen he threw the hard drive away in 2013, the value of the bitcoins was about $7.5m (£4.6m).\n\nBut now they are worth almost 50 times more, with the cost of a single bitcoin currently just over £28,000 after a surge in value.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells: \"When I went up to the landfill site yesterday my first thought was 'I've got not chance'\"\n\nHe said he has asked Newport council if he could search the landfill several times, but had not been granted permission.\n\n\"I offered the local authority 10% of the recovered funds in order to give me permission to search on their property and unfortunately they said no at the time,\" Mr Howells told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What actually happened after that was the value of bitcoin skyrocketed even further. In 2017 the value of my hard drive was approximately £125m, at which point I made them another offer of 10% and unfortunately that offer was refused as well.\n\nJames Howells said he wants to donate a quarter of the money to the people of Newport\n\n\"I haven't actually made an offer to them today, but I'm willing to increase my offer to them to 25%. On today's valuation that would be £52.5m and I'd like to put that into a Covid relief fund for the citizens of Newport.\"\n\nMr Howells said searching for the discarded hard drive would \"not be as hard as you might think\" as he would employ a professional team - and knows when he threw it away so could use that to find a grid reference of where the hard drive is buried.\n\nHe added investors had offered to cover the cost of excavating the landfill, in exchange for a large proportion of the recovered bitcoin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Howells said he wants to meet with the council to discuss what he said would be a \"win-win-win\" situation for him, the council and the city.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the council said: \"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain bitcoins.\n\n\"The first time was several months after Mr Howells first realised the hardware was missing.\n\n\"The council has told Mr Howells on a number of occasions that excavation is not possible under our licencing permit and excavation itself would have a huge environmental impact on the surrounding area.\n\n\"The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "A provisional 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured by the African Union (AU) for distribution across the continent.\n\nAll of the doses will be used this year, promises current AU head South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThis is on top of 600 million doses already promised but is still not enough to vaccinate the whole region.\n\nThere are fears that poorer countries globally will wait far longer than richer nations to be inoculated.\n\nAlthough infection numbers and death rates are comparatively lower across most of Africa, cases are spiking again in some areas.\n\nA new variant of Covid-19 in South Africa is causing particular alarm and makes up most of the new cases.\n\n\"As a result of our own efforts we have so far secured a commitment of a provisional amount of 270 million vaccines from three major suppliers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson,\" President Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.\n\nAt least 50 million of the doses will be available \"for the crucial period of April to June 2021,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, the region is expecting around 600 million doses from the global Covax effort which aims to provide vaccines to lower-income countries.\n\nBut officials are still waiting for details and are now \"happy we have alternative solutions,\" Nicaise Ndembi, senior science adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccines in Africa: What you need to know\n\nMr Ramaphosa said officials are worried that the doses from the Covax effort released in the first half of 2021 will only be enough to inoculate health care workers. With a population of 1.3 billion people and each person requiring two vaccine jabs, Africa would need around 2.6 billion doses to eventually vaccinate everyone.\n\n\"These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible,\" he explained.\n\nAfrica has recorded more than three million cases of Covid-19 and nearly 75,000 deaths. By contrast, the US has reported close to 23 million infections and more than 383,000 fatalities.\n\nThere has been a global rush to buy vaccines, with richer countries accused of buying up most of the supply.\n\nAs many had feared, Africa appears to be at the back of the queue to get Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nThe announcement of 270 million doses by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is also the current chair of the African Union - is good news. This is in addition to those secured by the Covax facility, which is led by the World Health Organisation and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. The facility has secured 600 million doses - enough to vaccinate only a fifth of the continent.\n\nBut it may be a while before any of them get to the continent. The announcements are agreements to supply vaccines. There is still the actual procurement process that needs to happen. Negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWealthier nations had a head start. They already acquired the bulk of the early doses being produced through advance purchase deals with manufacturers. The race is on to meet that demand.\n\nAfrica, on the other hand, still faces funding deficits. There are questions also about the continent's readiness to receive the vaccines. Ultra-cold refrigeration is needed for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Countries are working on building their cold chains. But even this is marred by a shortage of funds.\n\nSo, the continent can only wait.", "The surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis, doctors are warning.\n\nNHS data showed A&Es were facing rising delays admitting extremely sick patients on to wards.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is now more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nCancer experts are also warning the disruption to their services was \"terrifying\" and would cost lives.\n\nReports have emerged of hospitals cancelling urgent operations - London's King's College Hospital has stopped priority two treatments, which are those that need to be done within 28 days.\n\nAnd Birmingham's major hospital trust has temporarily suspended most liver transplants.\n\nIt comes after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nOne in three patients in hospital have the virus - and at some sites it is more than half.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the NHS was facing an \"exceptionally tough challenge\", adding services would continue to be under pressure until the virus was under control.\n\nBut he stressed non-Covid treatment was still happening - with three times as many diagnostic tests and twice as many operations being carried out than in the spring when the pandemic first hit.\n\nThe data published by NHS England showed the scale of the impact from dealing with Covid on key hospital services.\n\nThe figures for cancer date back to November, before the surge in cases.\n\nAt that point, the number of urgent cancer check-ups and treatments being started was at normal levels.\n\nBut since then, concerns have been raised that services have been reduced.\n\nProf Pat Price, of the Catch Up With Cancer campaign, said services were facing the \"biggest crisis\" of her 30-year career.\n\n\"This is a truly terrifying scenario,\" she added.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Surgeons warned the pandemic was having a \"calamitous impact\" on waiting times for planned surgery.\n\nSarah Scobie, from the Nuffield Trust think tank, said services were under \"intolerable strain\", adding \"the worst is yet to come\".\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, agreed: \"The next few weeks are no doubt going to be the most testing in NHS history.\"", "The government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be \"out of step\", a watchdog warned.\n\nA National Audit Office report praised the 'Everyone In' scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis.\n\nBut the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy - with thousands more needing help than expected.\n\nThe government said it was \"regularly taking into account the lessons learned\" from the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson made the pledge to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament shortly before he won the general election in 2019.\n\nAt the time, a snapshot figure taken by the government one evening showed 4,266 people were sleeping on the streets in England.\n\nBut it did not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could have missed people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nResearch by the BBC carried out in February 2020 showed more than 28,000 people across the UK had been recorded as sleeping rough in the previous 12 months - and in England, councils were seeing figures five times higher than the snapshot.\n\nThe 'Everyone In' scheme, launched in March 2020, aimed to provide emergency shelter for all rough sleepers during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nFunding was ended two months later to the anger of many charities, but the government said it had made a number of more targeted funding pledges to tackle the issue since.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) carried out an investigation into the housing of rough sleepers in the pandemic and praised the \"considerable achievement\" of 'Everyone In'.\n\nThe head of the watchdog, Gareth Davies, said the government \"acted swiftly to house rough sleepers and keep transmission rates low during the first wave\".\n\nBut the NAO investigation found between the end of March and November 2020, 33,139 people were given accommodation through the scheme - a number almost eight times greater than the annual snapshot of rough sleepers.\n\nExamples included Bristol City Council which reported it accommodated 400 people in March, despite its most recent snapshot count being 98 rough sleepers.\n\nAnd the London Borough of Southwark had 25 known rough sleepers in March 2020, but within hours of 'Everyone In' launching, it had taken 200 people into hotels, with nearly 1,000 accommodated by November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe government pledged to carry out a review of its strategy to end rough sleeping early in 2020, but the plans took a back seat as the crisis unfolded.\n\nThe NAO said there was \"an ongoing need for a review of the strategy as it is out of step with the government's target\", adding there were now \"important lessons from Everyone In to consider\".\n\nMr Davies said the scale of the rough sleeping population in England has now been made clear, and it \"far exceeds\" previous government estimates.\n\n\"Understanding the size of this population, and who needs specialist support, is essential to achieve its ambition to end rough sleeping\", he added.\n\nThe report also highlighted the large number of people remaining in emergency accommodation unable to move on as they have no recourse to public funds - a condition put into the residence permit of some immigrants meaning they cannot access benefits.\n\nThe NAO also called on the government to \"keep under close review\" its more targeted response to the current coronavirus resurgence, whether it will \"protect vulnerable individuals as decisively\" as 'Everyone in'.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said they were pleased the NAO recognised its achievements with 'Everyone In'.\n\nHe added: \"By November, we had supported around 33,000 people, with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and more than 23,000 in longer-term accommodation.\n\n\"We recently announced an additional £10m to help accommodate rough sleepers and ensure they are registered with a GP to receive the vaccine, and we will invest £750m next year as part of our commitment to end rough sleeping.\"\n\nAsked whether the review into the ending rough sleeping strategy would take place, the spokesman said: \"Our ambition to end rough sleeping within this parliament still stands, and we are regularly taking into account the lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic response, including 'Everyone In'.\"", "The government has defended its scheme to offer free food to struggling families in England over half term - after criticism from teachers' unions and council leaders.\n\nFood will be provided for children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, rather than through schools.\n\nBut councils say the government should provide food vouchers over half term.\n\n\"Vulnerable families will continue to receive meals,\" said a Department for Education (DFE) spokeswoman.\n\n\"Our guidance is clear: schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time.\n\n\"Beyond that, there is wider government support in place to support families and children via the billions of pounds in welfare support we've made available,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, said \"the government should provide food vouchers to eligible families during February half-term as it did last summer\" - and that the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme should be used for other support.\n\n\"During the last full national lockdown, government recognised the significant extra pressures on low income families and extended free school meal provision into the school holidays,\" said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board.\n\n\"Government was explicit that the Covid Winter Grant Scheme was not intended to replicate or replace free school meals, but was to enable councils to support low income households, particularly those at risk of food poverty as we moved towards economic recovery.\"\n\nThe row follows the DFE's publication of guidelines on free meals, after an outcry over pictures of food packages to replace free school meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister and other ministers criticised the quality of what was being sent out by some school food firms.\n\nMarcus Rashford has spear-headed a campaign for holiday food\n\nThe DfE guidance says: \"Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half term.\n\n\"There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\"\n\nThe DFE insists that even though schools will not provide food parcels or vouchers during half term, children will still be supplied with food through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nThis aims to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials.\n\nCouncils are required to work out their own local approach to eligibility, using benefits data and their local knowledge to decide how to support vulnerable families.\n\nMoving to this scheme for a replacement for school meals during half term, with the added pressure of a lockdown, has drawn criticism from head teachers and teachers.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that switching schemes meant \"yet more disruption to free schools meals could lie ahead in half term\".\n\nHe said using this scheme could cause an \"unnecessary logistical nightmare\", suggesting continuing with providing meals through schools would be more simple.\n\nMr Courtney said: \"This week, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson made public statements about how appalled they were by the quality of food parcels shared on Twitter,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut he said ministers should now \"hang their heads in shame\" for threatening more \"chaos and confusion\" over providing food.\n\n\"These are battles which should not have to be repeatedly fought,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman accused the the government of \"badly thought out and last-minute schemes to help with holiday hunger\" which he said were \"leaving families and children anxious\".\n\n\"The government must urgently clarify for families how they will be helped during the upcoming half term holiday so they can be assured that they will not go hungry,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children and early years, said: \"Time and time again this government has had to be shamed into providing food for hungry children over school holidays.\"\n\nFood charities and anti-poverty campaigners, including footballer Marcus Rashford, have repeatedly clashed with the government over the issue of food for poor pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly over school holidays.\n\nThe footballer forced the government to back down in the summer over its plans not to offer free meals in the holidays to poor pupils, whose families were likely to be suffering with reduced incomes.\n\nBut over the October half-term when the provision was withdrawn many local authorities continued to offer them from their own budgets.", "President Donald Trump has just become the only US president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He was impeached on Wednesday for \"incitement of insurrection\" following last week's riot at the US Capitol. However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of Republicans still support President Trump and don't hold him responsible for the violence.\n\nWe've been hearing from lawmakers - but what do Americans think? We asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in.\n\nBelinda is an attorney and devoted Trump supporter of Native American and African American ancestry. She says this second impeachment vote is wrong and misconstrues the facts of what happened last week in favour of political expediency.\n\nThis is unprecedented. There is no justification, no legal or constitutional basis for this impeachment. He did not even receive due process. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. I hope the American people will stand up against this outrage. It's indicative of what would happen in a communist country where we have no free speech rights.\n\nThose who broke in should be charged appropriately for whatever laws they violated. But why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? His rallies have always been peaceful and most of the people on Wednesday were middle-aged and elderly, with children and grandchildren.\n\nIndividuals who violated the law should definitely be prosecuted but I don't see how you can blame someone for a speech and someone else's criminal activity. It can't be selective enforcement of the law.\n\nMelissa is a Filipino American small business owner with two children who had told us the country could not afford four more years of Donald Trump. She says the behaviour he displayed last Wednesday was undoubtedly an impeachable offense.\n\nEverything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution.\n\n[Republican Congresswoman] Liz Cheney said that, if not for the president, last week would not have happened and she's right. If not for him continually fighting the election results, if not for him repeatedly sending the false message the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about an 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened.\n\nEven three months ago, before all the lawsuits and everything else he was saying, I was not shocked by his behaviour. It's all completely predictable because it's just within his character. So the argument by politicians that impeachment could divide us more, I don't see that as the goal of impeachment.\n\nIt can't help but I don't think it will have any impact on deterring violence. There needs to be some kind of statement that the president is not allowed to attack another branch of government. It's a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself of Trump's stranglehold on them.\n\nGabriel is a regional coordinator for the New York Young Republicans and is an outspoken 'Latino for Trump'. He condemns the violence of last Wednesday but says the reaction has been unfair and worries about where the party will go from here.\n\nI do not think that Donald Trump should be impeached. I was in DC at the rally on 6 January - I did not go near the Capitol and went back to my hotel room - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm.\n\nThis is just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. I fear that people will become reactionary and elected officials will use impeachment in the future not as a last resort to uphold our republic but as a tool to remove whoever they don't agree with.\n\nAll violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history and it was not a coup. It's important to dictate that violence is not the answer. The day was supposed to be different. January 6 did something to the Republican Party. The actions of the few will discourage many of the new voters that Trump brought in and made his base.\n\nWilliams is a first-generation Mexican American college student in Atlanta who has been extremely concerned about what he has seen in his country over the past four years. He says the events of the past week justify today's vote in the House.\n\nI believe he should have been impeached. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condemn white supremacy and other threats. That affects us internally within the United States as well as abroad.\n\nIt's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Impeachment failed once, but now he has set the precedent that a president can be impeached more than once.\n\nIn processing the past week, all I could do at first was to ignore it and joke about the situation. It's deeply saddening to me.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Travel from Brazil to the UK could be banned in response to the discovery of a new coronavirus variant.\n\nMinisters have met to discuss possible measures and a block on flights could also be extended to other South American countries in a bid to stop its spread.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"concerned\" about the new variant and \"extra measures\" were being taken.\n\nArrivals from Brazil are currently required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove chaired a meeting earlier to discuss whether measures should be put in place.\n\nNew variants of Covid-19 have also been identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nDuring a two-hour appearance in front of the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday Mr Johnson stopped short of promising a ban on travel from Brazil.\n\n\"We already have tough measures ... to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who is Strategic Response Director for Covid-19 with Public Health England, told BBC Breakfast experts were looking at the Brazilian variant and needed to grow the virus in the UK in order to perform laboratory experiments.\n\n\"So we need to understand the biology of these [new strains], as well as understanding mutations,\" she said.\n\n\"We will be watching them all to make sure that they can't escape your immune response, which is the key thing that we're looking at the moment.\"\n\nA travel ban was put in place on arrivals from South Africa on 24 December, which was later extended to several other nearby countries, following the discovery of a new variant.\n\nLuiz Amorim, a graphic designer in London, said he had travelled to Brazil to spend Christmas with his family and was now worried he may not be able to get home.\n\n\"My wife was also supposed to come but didn't in the end,\" he said. \"Now I am worried I won't be able to get back to her in London.\"\n\nMr Amorim said his workplace had been supportive but he may have to take leave if he was unable to return, with his original flight back having been cancelled.\n\nHe has now booked another flight on 27 January and is \"watching the news closely to see what will happen\".\n\nThe discussion comes after it was announced a requirement for arrivals into England to test negative for coronavirus 72 hours before their journey will now come into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new rules had been delayed from Friday \"to give international arrivals time to prepare\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, described the delay in introducing the new rules as \"truly shocking\".\n\nScotland is taking the same approach to international travellers but will implement the policy on Friday, while Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for delaying pre-departure testing for arrivals to England, describing the situation as a \"complete mess\".\n\n\"Priti Patel has talked tough about the borders but other countries have been doing testing for months and months,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said people were \"really worried\" about strains in other parts of the world, including Brazil, and people would be \"bewildered and they will feel that we're exposed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.\n\nA group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.\n\nThe team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.\n\nThey will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.\n\nTeam leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it \"could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened\".\n\n\"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,\" he said.\n\nThe probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.\n\nChina resisted this investigation because it doesn't want to look back. It sees the potential for more blame, from a group of foreigners. It has its official version of what happened already.\n\nThe government paper published months ago declared \"victory\" in the war against the virus. But it didn't have a verdict - not one it made public anyway - on where the new coronavirus came from nor how it passed to humans. There's been global pressure to answer that, to prevent repeat pandemics.\n\nThe WHO team will be heavily reliant on their Chinese hosts for access: to key places in Wuhan and beyond, and crucially to research material, human and animal samples and data gathered by China's authorities over the past year. The man leading the WHO team said he is open minded. No theories - and there is a range of theories - are off the table. All sides have talked about the importance of the science. But the investigators arrived here as a propaganda effort, lead by China's state media, is in full swing, to question whether the pandemic originated here in the first place.\n\nDespite a lack of any credible evidence it's reported for months now that it was in Spain, Italy or maybe the US before it was seen in China. A campaign intended to undermine the very reason the WHO is, finally, here in Wuhan.\n\nEarlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nChina has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.\n\nProfessor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. \"It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question,\" he said.\n\nProf Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a \"natural event\".\n\nThe visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.\n\nNews of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag \"new virus death in Hebei\" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.\n\nThe country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.\n\nBut new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures being announced next week.\n\nPriti Patel told ITV her focus was on enforcing the current lockdown rules.\n\nIt is thought ministers are considering measures like requiring masks outside or allowing people to exercise only with people from the same household.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK recorded 1,564 new deaths, the highest daily total so far.\n\nMrs Patel emphasised the current stay-at-home rules, under which people are only allowed to go out for a limited number of reasons, including work, essential shopping and providing care to a vulnerable person.\n\nAsked whether further restrictions could include a three-metre social distancing rule, or the requirement to wear masks outside, the home secretary told ITV's This Morning: \"The plans are very much to enforce the rules.\n\n\"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel did not rule out new measures being announced next week, saying: \"We are not thinking about bringing in new measures today or tomorrow.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, she said police would move more quickly to fine people who break the rules.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, more than 30,000 such fines have been issued.\n\nA senior backbench Conservative MP has written to his colleagues to criticise the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nSteve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, which is sceptical of lockdown measures, said that if the government did not change its strategy, \"inevitably the prime minister's leadership will be on the table: we strongly do not want that after all we have been through as a country\".\n\nHe asked his colleagues to impress upon the party's chief whip the need for \"a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the current lockdown restrictions are \"weaker\" than those imposed in March last year, when deaths and hospitalisations were lower than they are now.\n\nHe questioned why nurseries were open when primary schools were closed, and whether estate agents should be allowed to continue with house viewings.\n\nRules have been further tightened in Scotland this week, with new restrictions on click and collect and takeaway services.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSpinner Dom Bess took 5-30 as a woeful Sri Lanka batting display left England in control after the opening day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 135 in only 46.1 overs despite winning the toss on a pitch that offered only a little spin.\n\nEngland closed on 127-2, with Joe Root unbeaten on 66, Jonny Bairstow 47 not out and their third-wicket stand worth 110.\n\nDom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya for four and nine respectively.\n\nSri Lanka's total was the lowest in a first innings in a Galle Test, and was a pitiful exhibition of indiscipline and poor strokes which demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of how to build a Test innings.\n\nEngland, who made five changes from their previous Test in August, were disciplined with the ball and tidy in the field, aside from a drop from debutant Dan Lawrence, with Stuart Broad superb in taking 3-20.\n\nTheir reward was a strong position on their first day of overseas Test cricket since the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and their opening action of a year that includes home and away series against India, a likely two-Test series against world number one side New Zealand and a bid to regain the Ashes in Australia.\n\nThe second day starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday.\n• None 'Right up there with the worst we've seen' - Sri Lanka collapse shocks pundits\n\nWith England's most recent Test being played five months ago, and Sri Lanka playing in South Africa over Christmas and the new year, there was concern that the tourists would not be as prepared as the hosts.\n\nBroad, who had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip and Kusal Mendis, who has now made a duck in four successive Test innings, caught behind in the seventh over, showcased his experience and guile by turning to off-cutters almost immediately.\n\nBess, playing his 11th Test, may have taken his second five-wicket haul in Tests but struggled to find a consistent line and length.\n\nKusal Perera reverse swept Bess' second ball to Root at slip, while Niroshan Dickwella slapped a long hop to Sibley at point to fall for 12.\n\nAfter getting Dasun Shanaka in fortunate circumstances as a sweep rebounded off Bairstow at short leg into wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's hands, Bess produced a beautifully flighted delivery to bowl Dilruwan Perera between bat and pad for a duck.\n\nHe rounded off the innings by bowling the reverse-sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga for 19 as the hosts lost their last five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nStand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews offered some fight with a stand of 56 for the fourth wicket, the former becoming the 12th Sri Lankan to reach 4,000 Tests runs and Mathews the fifth to 6,000.\n\nHowever, both fell tamely in the space of three balls as Broad - who had taken three wickets in 80 overs in Sri Lanka before this match - had Mathews slashing to slip, before Chandimal looped a simple catch to Sam Curran at cover to give Jack Leach his first Test wicket since November 2019.\n• None Why the Sri Lanka tour matters for the Ashes\n\nFor England this two-Test tour, which was cut short in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is a build-up to the four-Test series in India that follows.\n\nTo stand any chance of beating Virat Kohli's side England must play spin well, and they will be concerned by the early inroads that Sri Lanka made.\n\nOpener Sibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, edged to slip via his back pad as he attempted to work Embuldeniya to leg.\n\nCrawley, promoted to open given Rory Burns' absence to be at the birth of his first child, looked to take Embuldeniya over the top - a shot he played superbly last summer - but mistimed it to mid-off.\n\nHowever, Root, whose fifty was his 50th in Test cricket, will be buoyed by the way he and the recalled Bairstow nullified the spin threat as they shared England's highest partnership in Galle.\n\nIt was a chanceless stand, although Root overturned an lbw decision on 20 with replays showing the ball would have gone over the stumps.\n\nBoth he and Bairstow scored around the wicket, with Root playing the sweep to good effect, and Bairstow cutting and flicking through mid-wicket well.\n\nThey will hope to build a substantial first-innings lead and turn the match into a three-innings game.\n\n'England didn't have to work hard at all' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have put ourselves in a really good position. Rooty and Jonny batted really well because the wicket started to spin.\n\n\"I felt I was quite nervous. I hadn't bowled in a game since the Test matches last summer.\n\n\"I didn't feel I bowled as well as I know I can. That's cricket, isn't it? There might be days bowl exceptionally well and go 1-100.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It was a fantastic day for England.\n\n\"The partnership with Root and Bairstow was exactly what was required by Sri Lanka.\n\n\"Mathews and Chandimal are experienced pros. They were playing nicely and then played two rash shots. It was so poor from Sri Lanka.\"\n\nSri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower: \"I'm at a loss for words, I've never seen us bat that badly. They know these conditions well and it should have been a big advantage.\n\n\"England's batsmen showed us there's nothing wrong with the pitch. We batted terribly.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russell Arnold: \"It is not a minefield. It was very poor from Sri Lanka. England didn't have to work hard at all.\n\n\"It is very, very disappointing. It surprised me and I expected a lot more.\"\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Lucy Edwards, pictured with dog Olga, became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter when she guested in 2019\n\nA blind social media star said she could be waiting for years for a new guide dog because of delays connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLucy Edwards creates videos on living with sight loss, which have been watched millions of times.\n\nThe 25-year-old has used a guide dog since she was 17 and said she had lost her independence since her latest dog was retired four months ago.\n\nShe said it was like losing her \"eyesight all over again\".\n\n\"It has really knocked my confidence that in a pandemic I don't have my dog any more,\" Ms Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, said.\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable going outside on my own.\"\n\nLucy Edwards says she struggles to socially distance using her cane alone, as she does not know where people are around her\n\nShe now relies on her cane and her sighted partner, but added she found it difficult to socially distance with just a cane and felt \"scared\" without the support of her dog Olga.\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said the pandemic meant it had been forced to stop dog training for five months last year.\n\nIt said 52 dogs had been trained and become qualified in the Midlands in 2020, compared with 125 in 2019, and added the monthly figures showed a big impact in April.\n\nWhile general dog training is continuing during the third England lockdown, with social distancing measures in place, some orientation and other work has stopped, along with puppy training classes.\n\nWest Bromwich marathon runner Dave Heeley, who was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours, has been waiting for a dog for more than two years.\n\n\"The dog is your best friend, your dog is your mobility and I don't feel that from a stick,\" he said.\n\nDave Heeley has been waiting two years for a dog\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said over the past two years it had matched 80% of people with a guide dog within 16 months.\n\nThe charity currently has about 5,000 guide dogs working in the UK and within the next few years said it was targeting 1,000 new guide dog partnerships a year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Employers \"have a duty\" to support staff who suffer domestic abuse but few have adequate policies in place, the government says.\n\nIt said bosses were in a unique position to help but a \"lack of awareness and stigma\" held them back.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse services have surged in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said employers could be a \"bridge between a worker and the support they need\".\n\n\"It was once taboo to talk about mental health, but now most workplaces have well-established policies in place. We want to see the same happen for domestic abuse, but more quickly and more effectively,\" he said in an open letter to employers.\n\nManagers and colleagues are often the only other people outside the home that victims talk to each day and so \"uniquely placed\" to spot signs of abuse, he said.\n\nThese include becoming more withdrawn than usual, sudden drops in performance, mentions of controlling or coercive behaviour in partners, or physical signs such as bruising.\n\nEmployers did not have to become \"specialists\" in handling domestic abuse, Mr Scully said, but could do more to help, including:\n\nFirms already taking action include Vodafone, which offers specialist training to HR and line managers and support for victims including counselling and additional paid leave.\n\nIn August, law firm Linklaters strengthened its policies and now offers people who need to flee their home but can't stay with others three nights' accommodation in a hotel.\n\nIt also offers the option of paid leave, plus one-off payments of £5,000 to help victims trying to become financially independent.\n\nDomestic violence charity Refuge said it saw an 80% increase in calls to its helpline during the first national lockdown, a trend the government believes has continued.\n\nAnd in November, 43% of respondents to a survey by charity Surviving Economic Abuse showed an abuser had interfered with someone's ability to work or study from home during the crisis.\n\nExamples included hiding phones or computers, removing wi-fi connections, and phoning an employer claiming a breach of lockdown rules, in an apparent effort to get them sacked.\n\nDomestic abuse isn't a new problem, nor does today's call to businesses apply only during a pandemic.\n\nBut coronavirus has highlighted new and existing risks.\n\nFor many victims and survivors, work is a place of respite.\n\nBeing based at home, or on furlough, can reduce communication with team members, and prevent face-to-face chats with colleagues.\n\nI've heard of employers finding simple yet effective ways of supporting staff during the pandemic.\n\nFor example, finding a plausible reason for an employee whose remote communications were being overlooked, to go into the office as a one-off, so they could talk freely and hand over an ID document for safe keeping.\n\nOf course, not every business can afford to offer emergency accommodation or financial support to those in urgent need. But the focus of today's letter is on awareness, using free support and removing stigma.\n\nThe charity Surviving Economic Abuse wants the government to go further, and put paid leave for domestic abuse victims into law.\n\nElizabeth Filkin, who chairs the Employer's Initiative on Domestic Abuse, argues there are real benefits in supporting staff - including around productivity, loyalty and reputation.\n\nEmployment lawyer Sarah Chilton, a partner at CM Murray, told the BBC that all employers have a duty to protect their staff's health and safety while working from home. That includes if they are being subjected to domestic abuse.\n\n\"Where an employee is required to work at home during, for example, the pandemic, the employer should take account of any risk to that person's physical and mental health and safety in the environment in which they work.\"\n\nAngela Ogilvie, global director of HR at Linklaters, said training was vital to spot signs of abuse, especially now.\n\n\"Victims may avoid calls or videos for example. They may become quiet, anxious or tearful, secretive about their home life.\n\n\"And it's being conscious of how you start those conversations because they may be overheard, so you may have to switch your conversation to email or text.\"\n\nMr Scully said the government would consult on ways to help domestic abuse victims at work, for instance by making it easier to request flexible working.\n\nThe government's Domestic Abuse Bill also continues to make its way through parliament.\n\nIt will bring into law a statutory definition of domestic abuse that includes coercive or controlling behaviour as well as emotional and economic abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was set to fly out to Melbourne on a chartered flight arriving there over the next 36 hours.\n\nInstead he remains in quarantine and isolating at home in London.\n\nMurray, who is said to be in good health, remains hopeful he will be allowed to travel safely at a later date and compete as planned.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open runner-up pulled out of last week's ATP event in Delray Beach as he wanted to \"minimise the risks\" of catching a transatlantic flight to Florida.\n\n'He will be refused'\n\nThe Australian Open will start on 8 February at Melbourne Park, three weeks later than usual, because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers must test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which have been put on by tournament organisers and will operate at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOnce they have arrived, they will have to pass a series of Covid tests during a 14-day quarantine in Melbourne before the Grand Slam.\n\n\"Mr Murray, and the other 1,240 people as part of the program, need to demonstrate that if they're coming to Melbourne they have returned a negative test,\" said Victorian state health minister Martin Foley.\n\n\"So should Mr Murray arrive, and I have no indication that he will, he will be subject to those same rigorous arrangements as everyone else. Should he test positive prior to his attempts to come to Australia, he will be refused.\"\n\nMurray's planned appearance at Melbourne Park would come two years after he played there in what he feared would be his final match as a professional.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, Murray is ranked too low to gain direct entry into the tournament so the three-time Grand Slam champion has been given a wildcard.\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Scot is among a number of players to have their plans disrupted.\n\nAmerican Madison Keys, who reached the Australian Open women's singles semi-finals in 2015, said she would not be playing in Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWorld number two Rafael Nadal is travelling to Melbourne in search of a record 21st Grand Slam men's singles title without coach Carlos Moya, who has decided to stay at home in Spain with his family because of the health situation.\n\nWorld number three Dominic Thiem's coach Nicolas Massu has also not travelled after a positive Covid test, Thiem's father Wolfgang told Austrian newspaper Kurier.\n\n'Change of year, but not a change of luck' - analysis\n\nA change of year does not appear to have brought about a change of luck for Andy Murray.\n\nHe is now hoping he will be given permission to arrive in Melbourne late - and outside the window Tennis Australia painstakingly negotiated with the Victorian state government.\n\nIf he does get the green light to travel, having completed self-isolation in the UK and returned a negative test, he will still have to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival.\n\nThat means he won't be able to play in the warm-up events the week before the Australian Open.\n\nBut it would keep alive his hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the year, as players will be allowed out of their rooms to practise for five hours a day during quarantine.\n\nAmerican player Tennys Sandgren, meanwhile, boarded a charter plane to Melbourne despite testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe world number 50, a two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist, tweeted that after testing positive in November he had returned another positive on Monday and might not be able to fly on Wednesday.\n\nBut Australian Open organisers said his medical file had been reviewed by Victoria state authorities and he had then been cleared to fly.\n\nThey explained that players are only allowed to enter Australia with proof of a negative test done just before departure or \"with approval to travel as a recovered case at the complete discretion of an Australian government authority\".\n\nSandgren posted on social media that he had been ill in November but was \"totally healthy now\".\n\n\"My two tests were less than eight weeks apart,\" he wrote. \"There's not a single documented case where I would be contagious at this point.\"\n\nLisa Neville, minister for police and emergency services, tweeted: \"Tennys Sandgren's positive result was reviewed by health experts and determined to be viral shedding from a previous infection, so was given the all clear to fly.\n\n\"No-one who is Covid positive for the first time - or could still be infectious - will be allowed in for the Aus Open.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "Siegfried and Roy were one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher, one half of celebrated magic double act Siegfried and Roy, has died from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 81.\n\nThe pair were among the biggest names in the world of magic and were known for working with lions and tigers.\n\nPaying tribute, David Copperfield called him a \"legend in magic\", and Penn Jillette said Siegfried and Roy were \"pure showbiz and pure class\".\n\nRoy Horn died from Covid-19 complications last May.\n\nThe pair \"invented the full length magic show headlining Vegas\", according to Jillette, who is known as part of the duo Penn and Teller.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiegfried and Roy teamed up in their native Germany in the 1950s, and the highlight of their extravagant shows was their performances with white lions and white tigers.\n\nHorn was attacked by a 400lb white Bengal tiger named Montecore during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003, leaving him partially paralysed and using a wheelchair.\n\nHe underwent lengthy rehabilitation and was later able to walk again, but the attack ended the duo's long-running Las Vegas residency.\n\nRoy Horn (left) had to use a wheelchair after the tiger attack\n\nFischbacher and Horn, whose real name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, had met on a cruise ship and were later signed up by a liner company.\n\nAfter being spotted and signed to perform at a nightclub in Bremen, they went on to tour Europe and brought tigers into their act.\n\nBut they shot to worldwide fame after launching their Las Vegas shows in the 1960s.\n\nTheir unique brand of magic and artistry consistently attracted sell-out crowds. They performed an estimated 5,000 shows for 10 million fans in the city after 1990, when they began performing at the Mirage hotel-casino.\n\nThey were also estimated to have grossed more than $1bn by 2001, which included their thousands of shows at other venues in earlier years.\n\nIn 2004, their act became the basis for the animated comedy Father of the Pride, about the mischievous adventures of a family of white lions who perform with Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas.\n\nHorn's condition improved and by 2006 he was able to talk and walk with assistance from Fischbacher.\n\nIn 2009, the duo staged a final appearance with a tiger (said to be Montecore, but this was disputed by some) at a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher was devoted to his partner Roy\n\nThey retired from showbusiness in 2010. After Horn's death last year, Fischbacher said: \"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend.\n\n\"From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.\"\n\nFischbacher recently had a 12-hour operation to remove a malignant tumour. He had been receiving care at home from two hospice workers in recent days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nPrimark says it has no plans to sell its clothes online despite warning that lockdown store closures could cost it more than £1bn in lost sales.\n\nSome 305 of Primark's 389 global stores are shut - including all 190 UK outlets - but unlike rivals it has no online arm to fall back on.\n\nCustomers have said they would welcome the retailer setting up an online shop.\n\nBut Primark, which saw a 30% sales fall to £2bn in the 16 weeks to 2 January, says the cost would mean price rises.\n\nIt contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nOn Thursday, consumers called on Primark to embrace e-commerce with one tweeting: \"Online sales are thru the roof during the pandemic. You're missing out on a LOT of money.\"\n\nBut the retailer tweeted back: \"We prefer to sell our products in our physical stores but thanks for the suggestion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Primark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince March last year, non-essential shops in the UK and overseas have faced strict curbs and prolonged closures and all are currently shut in England.\n\nIn a statement, Primark said that if all of its stores stayed closed until 27 February 2021, it expected to miss out on £1.05bn of sales - up from a previous estimate of £650m.\n\nThe retailer said it would partially mitigate this by cutting its costs, but did not say if that would mean job losses. It added that it only expected to break even in the first half of the financial year, after seeing healthy operating profits of £441m last time around.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\n\"As a fast fashion retailer they are on a low margins anyway - they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC.\n\nHe said pure online players like Asos and Boohoo could make it work because they were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\nPrimark shops saw strong sales when they reopened after the first lockdown\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nDespite this Mr O'Brien said the retailer was still likely succeed, pointing to the surge in sales it saw when its shops reopened after the first lockdown.\n\nBut Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\n\"They have very loyal customers who love the brand, but they are crying out to be able to access it online.\n\n\"The longer they are not online, the more disruptive it is. The more their customers are discovering new brands and ways to shop.\"\n\nAssociated British Foods also owns food and agriculture businesses. Sales across the group were down 13% in the 16 weeks to 2 January at £4.8bn.\n\nThere are always winners and losers in retail but this Christmas the picture is more polarised than ever thanks to the effects of the pandemic. Just contrast the fortunes of Primark, which doesn't sell online, with Boohoo and Asos which have both reported soaring growth in sales.\n\nAll our big supermarkets have now reported bumper Christmas trading, too, which is no real surprise given we can't go out to eat and so many of us are working from home. This growth has also been driven by an extraordinary rise in internet orders.\n\nWhile Primark is bracing itself to lose £1bn in business as a result of store closures, Tesco says it added £1bn of extra sales online this festive quarter. It's been very tough for many traditional non-food retailers, big and small, who've been unable to make up for all the lost sales from their High Street shops. Looking ahead, the big question is where the online dial will settle when our lives eventually return to normal.", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men died at a property in east London.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, at 04:24 GMT to reports of a disturbance.\n\nTwo men were found seriously injured inside the property and both died at the scene.\n\nThe woman, who was Tasered during the arrest, also suffered non life-threatening injuries. She has been taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA man who lives a short way down the street said he was awoken by the sounds of a woman screaming.\n\nKuddus Miah, 44, said: \"She was screaming 'help, help, call the police'.\n\n\"The police and ambulances were there very quick.\"\n\nThe men who were found seriously injured on Sunday morning died at the scene\n\n\"I got changed out my PJs and went outside and asked one of the neighbours opposite what happened.\n\n\"She said a woman was coming in and out of the house crying out for help.\n\n\"Apparently they were new tenants. We've lived here around 15 years and it's a very quiet neighbourhood, it's shocking.\"\n\nSeveral forensics officers were seen outside the house and a large police cordon has been put in place.\n\nForensic officers have been seen working in the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah and her husband Gary lived in the caravan on the drive for nine months\n\nA nurse who lived in a caravan for nine months to protect her mother from coronavirus says moving back into her house was like \"winning the lottery\".\n\nSarah Link and her husband Gary, who usually share a home with her mother, bought the caravan in March to allow them to isolate.\n\n\"I have cried a river in the caravan, if it wasn't for Gary, I wouldn't have got through it,\" Mrs Link said.\n\nThey moved back home for Christmas after her mother received the vaccine.\n\nThe caravan, bought for £600 and parked on their own drive in Cradley, in the Black Country, allowed Mrs Link to continue working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and her husband at his fishmonger's business.\n\n\"I'd do it again tomorrow. I would do it every time, I would have done anything to protect mum,\" she said.\n\n\"We were thinking it would be four weeks, 12 weeks max, then the summer came and went and nine months later we were still there. It was incredible, I just can't believe we did it,\" Mrs Link, who has been a nurse for 17 years, said.\n\nThe couple both contracted coronavirus in December, but carried on living in the caravan so they could self-isolate and continue to protect Mrs Link's 84-year-old mother.\n\nMrs Link said her Christmas this year was \"magical\" after moving out of the caravan\n\n\"I went back to work properly last week. I still get tired easily and suffer with fatigue, but I'm OK,\" Mrs Link said.\n\n\"It's getting ridiculous the cases... some people still walk around and don't believe it's real. If people came on my ward and see what I've seen.\"\n\nMrs Link said she had not hugged her mother since before March as they were still taking precautions to keep her safe.\n\nShe said Christmas and new year had been \"magical\" adding it was the \"best\" she had ever experienced after being able to move back home.\n\n\"We all cried when it turned midnight, that year we'd all had.\n\n\"It was like winning the lottery, waking up in a proper bed.\n\n\"We're in the warm... I wouldn't be happier if I'd won a million pounds.\"\n\nThe couple decorated the caravan throughout the year\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said officers \"will not hesitate\" to enforce lockdown rules as she defended the way police have handled breaches.\n\nShe said rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths illustrated the need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nIt comes after the National Police Chiefs' Council published guidance saying officers should issue fines more quickly when rules are broken.\n\nMore than 30,000 fines have been handed out by forces in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC figures show 32,329 fixed penalty notices were issued between 27 March and 21 December last year.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test surpassed 80,000 on Saturday, and a further 59,937 people tested positive.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus and scientists have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter.\n\n\"The vast majority of the public have supported this huge national effort and followed the rules,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"But the tragic number of new cases and deaths this week shows there is still a need for strong enforcement where people are clearly breaking these rules to ensure we safeguard our country's recovery from this deadly virus.\n\n\"Enforcing these rules saves lives. It is as simple as that. Officers will continue to engage with the public across the country and will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the public to follow the lockdown restrictions, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that \"every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for not providing \"absolute clarity of messaging\", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr that there had been \"mixed messaging over the last nine months\".\n\nNPCC guidance, published on 6 January, says officers should still offer people \"encouragement\" to comply with the regulations and explain any changes.\n\n\"However, if the individual or group does not respond appropriately, then enforcement can follow without repeated attempts to encourage people to comply with the law,\" the NPCC said.\n\nOn Saturday 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nElsewhere, North Wales Police turned away more than 100 cars at Moel Famau in Flintshire by Saturday lunchtime, and Norfolk Police fined one couple who had travelled about 130 miles (209km) to see a seal colony.\n\nHowever, Derbyshire Police has launched an urgent review into how fines were issued after two women were charged £200 each.\n\nThe pair were stopped by officers for walking five miles from their home with hot drinks, which they were told were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nJohn Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers were under \"immense pressure to do the right thing\" and said with \"such a changing landscape politically and legally\" there were going to be things which did not go right.\n\nHe said the police had to balance the relationship with the public.\n\n\"It's not easy because all we are trying to do in policing is keep as many people safe as possible,\" he said.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Donald Trump's accounts raise a \"very big question\" about how social media is regulated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe companies acted after supporters of the US president stormed Washington DC's Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hancock said the bans showed they were now \"taking editorial decisions\".\n\nCampaigners want social media to be treated as \"publishers\", rather than \"platforms\", meaning more regulation.\n\nBut opponents of the idea argue that it could allow governments to limit debate.\n\nMr Trump faces an impeachment charge, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of encouraging the Washington riots, in which five people died.\n\nTwitter permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account on Saturday, citing the \"risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nBut Mr Trump called this an attack on free speech and suggested he would look at \"building out our own platform in the future\".\n\nThere has been a long-running debate over whether social media companies should be treated in law as \"publishers\", with greater responsibility for dealing with libellous, discriminatory, misleading or incendiary content posted by users.\n\nMr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The scenes, clearly encouraged by President Trump - the scenes at the Capitol - were terrible - and I was very sad to see that because American democracy is such a proud thing.\n\n\"But there's something else that has changed, which is that social media platforms are making editorial decisions now. That's clear because they're choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice on their platform.\"\n\nMr Hancock said that development was likely to have \"consequences\".\n\nAsked earlier about Twitter's decision to ban Mr Trump's account, he told Sky News: \"I think it raises a very important question, which is it means that the social media platforms are taking editorial decisions.\n\n\"And that is a very big question because then it raises questions about their editorial judgements and the way that they're regulated.\"\n\nTwitter's ban on Mr Trump's account followed the increasing use of warning labels on his posts referring to the coronavirus pandemic and the result of the US presidential election.\n\nIn a blog on Friday, the company said its public interest framework existed \"to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.\"\n\nFacebook and Instagram banned Mr Trump \"indefinitely\" on Thursday, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying this sanction would not be lifted until at least 20 January, when Joe Biden is sworn in as the new US president.", "\"Absurd\" council tax rises should be scrapped to ease the pressure on family budgets, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nLocal authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by 5% from April, with 3% used to top up adult social care budgets.\n\nSir Keir said this meant those living in a band D property could see bills rise by an average of £90.\n\nHe added that the prime minister should provide extra funding to councils.\n\nBut the government says the rise in council tax bills, plus extra money from central government, will ensure a real-terms increase in support for local services.\n\nSir Keir wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"It is absurd that during the deepest recession in 300 years, at the very time millions are worried about the future of their jobs and how they will make ends meet, Boris Johnson and [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak are forcing local government to hike up council tax.\n\n\"The prime minister said he would do 'whatever is necessary' to support local authorities in providing vital services - he needs to make good on that promise.\"\n\nSir Keir urged Mr Johnson to \"give families the security they need\" by dropping the tax increase.\n\nHe said families had been treated as an \"afterthought\" by the government during the pandemic, adding that Labour would become the \"party of the family\" under his leadership.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"Council tax plays an important role in helping fund the frontline services needed to respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Our approach strikes a balance between allowing local authorities to address service pressures and ensuring local residents have the final say on excessive increases.\"\n\nA £500m fund to support people struggling with finances meant councils could \"cut bills further for some of the most vulnerable households\", they added, while a £7.2bn support package would help meet \"the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area\".\n\nThe chancellor's Spending Review in November set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Sunak warned the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun, with lasting damage to growth and jobs.\n\nInterviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said there was no scope for a \"major renegotiation\" of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but added that there were \"bits already that need to be improved on\".\n\nAnd, asked about the possibility of another Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, he said that a \"further, divisive\" vote was not \"the way forward\".\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working\", Sir Keir added. \"I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has said such a vote - last held in 2014 - should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" event.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a referendum should take place.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary\n\nOne of the last surviving \"Spitfire Women\", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.\n\nEleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.\n\nThe ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.\n\nDuring the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.\n\nMrs Wadsworth said the \"thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive\" to join the ATA\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.\n\nIn 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been \"looking for a new challenge\" when she joined the service.\n\n\"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.\n\n\"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots \"will remain an inspiration to women worldwide\", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow \"Spitfire Women\" had been \"incredibly brave\".\n\nAuthor Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that \"like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort\".\n\n\"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own.\"\n\nEleanor Wadsworth (bottom row, far left) joined the ATA in 1943\n\nHer son Robert said she had been \"a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother\", who had been \"matter of fact\" about her wartime service.\n\nHe said she would say that \"we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it\".\n\nHer funeral will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wadsworth had been one of three surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" in Scotland, says the deputy first minister as he refused to rule out tougher restrictions.\n\nScotland is facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus, according to John Swinney, whose comments come as the country records its highest death toll so far in the pandemic in the last two days, where 93 Scots died from the virus.\n\nSwinney tells Politics Scotland: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet [on Monday] was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nMr Swinney says Scotland recorded around 130 cases per 100,000 people on Boxing Day, but the figure shot up to 300 just 10 days later.\n\nDespite the new measures put in place, Mr Swinney said: \"It doesn't show much sign of abating to any extent.\n\n\"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary.\"", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Electricity is gradually being restored in Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, which led to every city reporting outages.\n\nHomes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.\n\nPower is now back in most cities but officials warn that it could still be a few hours before electricity is fully restored.\n\nThe outage is believed to have been caused by a fault at a power plant in the south of the country.\n\nPower cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.\n\n\"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\" Pakistan's power minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHomes across the country were plunged into darkness at about midnight\n\nMr Khan later said that power had been restored in most major cities but that it would take a few more hours for the grid to go completely back to normal.\n\nHe added that the outage occurred after a fault developed at the Guddu power plant in Sindh province shortly before midnight on Saturday (19:00 GMT).\n\nInvestigators were at the site to ascertain the cause of the fault, Mr Khan said.\n\nBlackouts sometimes occur in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day. The issue has previously led to street protests.\n\nIn 2013, Pakistan's electricity network broke down completely after a power plant in south-western Balochistan province developed a technical fault.\n\nPakistanis seem to have largely taken this power cut in their stride. Outages lasting a number of hours are not uncommon, though they are rarely on this scale, and normally occur during the hotter summer months. The last time there was a near national blackout like this was in 2015.\n\nSo far, there have been no reports of problems at hospitals, which have their own back-up supplies. A senior member of staff at a major hospital in the city of Karachi told me they could maintain services for 48-72 hours without mainline power.\n\nMany businesses and richer families invariably own diesel or petrol fuelled generators too, allowing them to continue using electricity whenever power cuts occur. There were reports of queues at some petrol stations earlier in the day as people tried to keep refilling their generators.\n\nOthers will have been without internet and phone access, or hot water, but - already used to periods without electricity - appear to have accepted the outage with an air of resignation.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nScott McTominay's fourth-minute header was enough to give Manchester United an unconvincing victory in their FA Cup third-round tie against Watford on Saturday.\n\nWearing the captain's armband for the first time in a much-changed side from Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester City, McTominay found the net after rising to meet Alex Telles' corner.\n\nThe hosts did have chances to increase their lead, but Juan Mata failed to find a finish to an excellent three-man move just before half-time, then Daniel James and substitute Marcus Rashford had shots saved after the break.\n\nBut none of those opportunities were better than that for Hornets defender Adam Masina, who saw his effort blocked by United keeper Dean Henderson not long after McTominay had struck.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How all of Saturday's FA Cup action unfolded\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nNow under their fifth manager in two years, Xisco Munoz, Watford had other chances too - Joao Pedro's header went straight to Henderson and Ken Sema was off target with his.\n\nMason Greenwood and Donny van de Beek did little to press their claims for a regular starting slot in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, while Jesse Lingard - making only his third appearance of the season and the subject of interest from a number of clubs in the January transfer window - showed glimpses of form but eventually faded.\n\nUnited will go into the hat for Monday's fourth and fifth-round draws, while Watford are left to focus on winning promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nGiven the increasing awareness of the effects of concussion, the decision of United's medical staff to take no risks with defender Eric Bailly when he was caught in the head by Henderson's knee as the keeper punched clear was a welcome one.\n\nThe Football Association had hoped to introduce concussion substitutes by now but it has not yet been able to as detailed protocols are yet to be received from Ifab, the world game's rulemakers.\n\nAs Bailly was guided towards the tunnel in the last minute of the first half, Harry Maguire replaced him and helped United keep the clean sheet which ensured they reached the fourth round for the 34th time in their past 36 attempts.\n\nAfterwards, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I think it was his neck. I don't think it was concussion so that is a positive. But we have got to do scans.\"\n\n'I wanted to test McTominay and he delivered' - post-match quotes\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"Scott has got everything a leader has to have. I wanted to test him by making him captain and see how he would react.\n\n\"He delivered and he always does. He was brilliant today.\n\n\"We have always trusted our young men coming through and Scott is one who we believe has the Manchester United DNA in him and knows what it is to be a Manchester United player.\"\n\nMcTominay on captaining the side: \"When the manager told me it was a surreal moment. I've been here since I had just turned five, so that's 18 or 19 years associated with the club and it is a huge honour.\n\n\"I love this club and it has been my whole life.\"\n\nUnited turn their attentions to a big week in the Premier League. Solskjaer's side travel to Burnley on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) knowing victory will send them top of the table above Liverpool - who they then play at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nWatford's miserable run at Old Trafford continues - stats of the day\n• None The last time Manchester United failed to progress in the FA Cup third round was January 2014, when they lost 2-1 to Swansea.\n• None Watford have lost on 10 consecutive visits to Old Trafford, scoring just three goals.\n• None United have progressed from each of their past 17 FA Cup matches against opposition from a lower division, since a 1-0 home defeat by League One side Leeds United in January 2010.\n• None McTominay has scored four goals in 22 matches this season, one short of his best tally in a campaign (five goals in 37 appearances in 2019-20). Three of those goals have been scored in the first five minutes of games.\n• None Watford attempted 18 shots in the match - only in their 2-0 loss at Huddersfield (21) have they had more shots on the road this season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marc Navarro (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Hungbo (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Calculate the impact and how to change it\n• None Sir David Attenborough shows us the forces of nature that support the Earth", "A 107-year-old woman from Clonard, County Meath is attempting a virtual Mass tour across Ireland while in lockdown.\n\nNancy Stewart and granddaughter, Louise Coghlan, have been shielding together since March last year, and have set themselves the spiritual challenge.\n\nThey are attending Mass services across the 32 counties on the island from the comfort of their own kitchen.\n\nLouise said that because they have been shielding for so long together, she is constantly trying to find \"different ways of keeping granny entertained\".\n\nShe said that when she asks Nancy if she wants to watch Mass her \"eyes light up like I'd just given her a million euros\".\n\nNancy, whose favourite saint is St Anthony, said she can hardly believe she is able to watch Mass on a computer or a phone from her comfy armchair.\n\n\"I feel so happy and so refreshed sitting happily in my own kitchen, in my armchair looking at Mass,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I'm trying to believe it's true.\"", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "Amazon is removing \"free speech\" social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules.\n\nIf Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday evening, the entire network will go offline.\n\nParler styles itself as an \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nAmazon told Parler it had found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence. Apple and Google have removed the app from their stores.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nThe move comes after Apple suspended Parler from its app store. The suspension will remain in place for as long as the network continued to spread posts that incite violence, it said.\n\nGoogle removed the app from its store on Friday.\n\nResponding to Google's move earlier, Parler's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nHe also warned that Parler could be offline for up to a week while \"we rebuild from scratch\".\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIn a letter obtained by CNN, Amazon's AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the social network \"does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service\".\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site\", the letter said.\n\n\"However we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.\".\n\nParler will be removed from Amazon's web hosting service shortly before midnight on Sunday Pacific Standard Time (07:59 GMT on Monday).\n\nOn Saturday, Apple removed Parler from its app store after warning the network to remove content that violated its rules or face a ban.\n\n\"Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety\", it said in a statement announcing the app's suspension on Saturday evening.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "The Oxford vaccine rollout started in Wales earlier this week - those figures are not yet included\n\nMore than 14,000 people had their first dose of the Covid-19 jab in Wales in the past week, the latest figures show.\n\nIt takes the numbers on the priority list to have got the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to 49,403 since the rollout started on 8 December.\n\nBut Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK so far, with a lower proportion of people getting a first dose.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that by next week, 60 GP practices and 20 centres would be vaccinating.\n\nHealth officials said the new Oxford vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nThe numbers do not include the first people to receive the new vaccine, which began to be given this week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the real numbers were likely to be higher, with the figures a snapshot based on those vaccines recorded electronically so far.\n\nThey give a breakdown by health board and also show how many people have been given their first dose.\n\nThe figures also include people, such as NHS staff, who work in Wales but live over the border, but do not yet give details of people in different priority categories.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, said: \"We need real transparency on progress of the vaccination process.\n\n\"This must include clear targets and data on how many vaccines come to Wales, and how many are distributed and given out by each health board to each priority group - both the first and second doses - so we can measure this against the targets. This is how confidence can be built that Wales is on track.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"These are early days in our mass vaccination programme. Momentum will continue to build and the speed of our vaccination programme will increase each week.\n\n\"From Monday, the number of people vaccinated will be published daily and we will publish our vaccination rollout plan early next week.\"\n\nThe figure in Wales means approximately 1.6% of people have been vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than other UK nations - and the gap appears to be growing compared to last week.\n\nIn England, nearly 1.1 million people were given the first dose by 3 January. This is about 1.9% of the population. NHS England said 60% of doses have gone to people aged over 80.\n\nIf vaccinations were being given at the same rate in Wales as in England, a further 13,000 people would have been given a dose.\n\nIn both Scotland and Northern Ireland, 2.1% of people have been given a first dose.\n\nHow many people have had a Covid-19 vaccine? Residents in Wales vaccinated by health board, to 3 January Source: Public Health Wales, 7 January. Excludes 224 unknown and 1,024 doses for priority groups living in England\n\nSamantha is keen to have the vaccine as soon as possible and return to work\n\nDental nurse Samantha Davies, 47, who has shielded since March, was overjoyed at the prospect of having the coronavirus vaccine and returning to work.\n\nBut she is now in limbo after confusion over whether she could have the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because of her ongoing treatment for Crohn's Disease.\n\nAfter filling out a questionnaire sent by PHW, a consultant recommended she should have the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.\n\nThis is because of the inflectra infusion treatment she receives every eight weeks to treat her Crohn's Disease - a type of inflammatory bowel condition.\n\nHowever, the Pfizer vaccine is in shorter supply than the Oxford vaccine and the Swansea practice where Samantha works was only offered 10 vaccinations.\n\nAs Samantha, from Foelgastell, Carmarthenshire, is shielding and not in work, she was not considered a priority for one of these.\n\nSwansea Bay health board has since said the advice about vaccines was given in error and pledged to arrange an appointment for her as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's just being home all the time. Some people I know had it two or three weeks ago. The government put me shielding since March on sick pay and I just want to return to work,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was furloughed from April to August, Samantha has been on statutory sick pay since.\n\nDr Gillian Richardson, the senior officer responsible for the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Wales, said the efforts from NHS Wales and PHW had been \"exceptional\".\n\n\"The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low - around 1% - and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS is providing vaccines as quickly and as safely as possible to people in the priority groups.\"\n\nDerek Hinchliffe, 80, says he is \"frustrated\" at not knowing when he will get his first dose of vaccine\n\nHowever, 80-year-old Derek Hinchliffe, who is eligible for a first dose of a Covid vaccine during this period of the rollout, said he was \"frustrated\" because he has had no information about getting the first dose.\n\nMr Hinchliffe, who lives with his wife in Penpedairheol in Caerphilly county, said: \"We've had nothing - no communication.\n\n\"We've got friends the same as us who live in England who have had their first dose, and some of them are having their second vaccination.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies renewed his call for a vaccinations minister to be appointed to take control.\n\n\"Of course we welcome the increase in the number of vaccinations, but the rough calculation is that one in 65 people in Wales has had their jab compared to one in 50 in England,\" he said,\n\n\"Factor in the postcode lottery emerging in Wales, and the picture's not looking great.\n\n\"You're twice as likely in south Wales to have had the vaccination and three times more likely to have had it in mid Wales than in north Wales.\"\n\nDr Richardson called the second Covid vaccine - Oxford-AstraZeneca - which began its roll-out on Monday a \"real game-changer\".\n\nShe said it would help speed up vaccinations considerably.\n\nThere are challenges with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, while the Oxford vaccine can be be kept in a fridge.\n\nBoth vaccines will be available in Wales and the Welsh Government said 40,000 doses of the Oxford jab would be available within the first two weeks - with 22,000 jabs this week.\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said the \"status quo isn't working\" for Scotland but has again rejected calls for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backs devolving more powers from Westminster, claimed another vote would be \"divisive\".\n\nHowever, he said he did not agree with Boris Johnson's assessment that there should not be another referendum for at least 40 years.\n\nThe SNP said a vote would allow Scots to choose how to rebuild after Covid.\n\nLast year Sir Keir said he would set up a constitutional commission to offer a \"positive alternative to the Scottish people\".\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I don't think there should be another referendum, I don't think a further divisive referendum is the way forward.\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working. I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\n\n\"I think there are other things you can do, other arguments that can be made in support of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nAsked about Boris Johnson's 40-year position, Sir Keir replied: \"I heard the prime minister say that and I don't agree with him on that.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Scotland, Deputy First minister John Swinney rejected suggestions that the recovery from the Covid crisis should be a greater priority than another independence vote.\n\nHe said: \"An independence referendum is an essential priority of the people of Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we rebuild as a country from Covid.\n\n\"It would give us the opportunity to decide on our constitutional future and to determine the nature of our economy and how we deal with and support our citizens.\"\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC he thought the 41-year interval between the UK's referendums on joining the EU and leaving it was a \"good sort of gap\".\n\nMr Johnson said in his experience, such votes \"don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once in a generation\".", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.\n\nIt is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's chief medical officers warned of a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" in several areas over the next 21 days.\n\nScotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.\n\nMr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nBoth Wales and Northern Ireland are already under national restrictions.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell people to work from home unless they are a key worker, or it is not possible for them to do so, for example if they work on a construction site, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt is also understood that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has told the prime minister the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the spread of the new variant had led to \"rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\".\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise and to protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who called for a national lockdown in England within 24 hours on Sunday - said: \"I hope the prime minister has been listening to the clear calls for tough national restrictions.\"\n\nHospitals have said they are under \"extreme pressure\" and one of Britain's most senior doctors warned on the weekend that trusts across the UK should prepare themselves for a surge in cases.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals is currently above the level seen in spring 2020.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported on Monday, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nWhat worked before may not work again - even a repeat of the March lockdown may not be enough to contain the new variant.\n\nConsider the R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus onto on average.\n\nThe March lockdown brought R down to 0.6 and led to a sharp decline in cases.\n\nEvery 100 infected people passed the virus onto 60 others, who passed it onto 36, then 21, then 12 and so on.\n\nBut the new variant is thought to be around 50% more transmissible so its R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be around 0.9.\n\nThen 100 infected people would pass the virus onto 90 others, then 81, then 73, then 66 and so on.\n\nThis is a far slower decline.\n\nHowever, uncertainty around the new variant means there are scenarios where its levels plateau rather than fall during lockdown conditions.\n\nIt is going to be a tough start to the year. Even with immediate and tough restrictions there are a projected 20,000 additional deaths in the first months of 2021.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson's address comes as UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nIt means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" is needed.\n\nPreviously, the government described level five as requiring stricter social distancing measures. The first lockdown, which began in March 2020, was when the UK was under level four.\n\nThese Covid threat levels are separate to the regional tier system of restrictions in England.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nThe new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.\n\nIn Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures in light of Mr Johnson's televised address - which will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from 19:35 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will speak amid continued uncertainty over whether schools will remain open to all pupils in England, after several councils requested classrooms stay shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nEarlier on Monday, an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nBrian Pinker said he was \"really proud\" to receive a jab developed in the UK, which will form a large part of the country's mass vaccination plan.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" Mr Pinker said.", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "The Queen's 95th birthday will be commemorated on one of five new coins released this year, the Royal Mint has announced.\n\nThe 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.\n\nThe release of a £5 coin is typically reserved for significant royal events.\n\nIn April the Queen will become the first UK monarch to reach 95.\n\nThe new £5 coin depicts the royal cypher \"EIIR\", above the words \"my heart and my devotion\", a nod to part of her 1957 Christmas broadcast, which was the first to be televised.\n\nDuring that speech, the Queen told the nation: \"In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal.\n\n\"Today things are very different. I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nThe anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novels Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe and is considered one of Scotland's most famous figures, will be celebrated with a £2 coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells, who penned works such as The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, will also be marked on a £2 coin, with a depiction of images from his novels.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain's modern coins came into force, will be featured on a 50p coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television, will be commemorated on another new 50p coin.\n\nAs the Queen's head already appears on one side of all coins in circulation, these five coins will each offer a different depiction from the various stages of her reign.\n\nClare Maclennan, of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said this year's commemorative coins marked \"some of the biggest anniversaries in 2021\", with each coin \"a miniature work of art\" designed as \"a treasured keepsake or gift\".\n\nThe commemorative set will be available to purchase from the Royal Mint website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Hulme said intensive care units at Colchester and Ipswich hospitals were \"at capacity\"\n\nSecurity officers removed Covid-19 \"deniers\" who were taking pictures of empty corridors at a NHS hospital where the intensive care unit is at maximum capacity, its chief executive said.\n\nThe incident took place at Colchester Hospital at the weekend.\n\nChief executive Nick Hulme said it \"beggars belief\" some people were calling the pandemic a hoax.\n\nHe said it was \"the right thing to do\" to keep corridors in outpatients units as empty as possible.\n\nMr Hulme said hospital security had to \"remove people who were taking photographs of empty corridors and then posting them on social media, saying the hospital is not in crisis\".\n\n\"When you've got that sort of social media pressure and those people denying the reality of Covid it really concerns us. Words fail me,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would people do that when we all know somebody who has died from Covid?\n\n\"Of course there are empty corridors at the weekend in outpatients, because that's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We are facing the biggest health challenge we've ever seen and we are still seeing people flouting the [social distancing] rules.\"\n\nPeople had to be removed from Colchester Hospital's outpatients ward for taking pictures of empty corridors and claiming Covid-19 was a hoax\n\nUnder coronavirus pandemic restrictions on social distancing, many outpatient consultations had been moved online or were taking place over the telephone, he added.\n\nPhysical appointments, tests and procedures had been organised differently to avoid crowded waiting areas.\n\nMr Hulme is chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which also runs Ipswich Hospital and he said there were currently 320 patients being treated for Covid-19 across both sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nDialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe retired maintenance manager got the jab at 7:30 GMT from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.\n\nMore than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use on Monday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was a \"pivotal moment\" in the UK's fight against the virus, as vaccines will help curb infections and then allow restrictions to be lifted.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday there was \"no question we will have to take tougher measures\", which will be announced in \"due course\", as the UK struggles to control a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.\n\nOn Sunday more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases were recorded in the UK for the sixth day running, prompting Labour to call for a third national lockdown in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Wales currently have their own lockdowns in place and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a fresh lockdown will begin in Scotland from 00:01 on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout comes as rows continue over whether pupils should return to school with the current high levels of Covid infections.\n\nSix hospital trusts - in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire - have begun administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses ready for use.\n\nMost other available doses will be sent to hundreds of GP-led services and care homes across the UK later in the week, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nMr Pinker, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was \"really proud\" the vaccine was developed in Oxford.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" he said.\n\nMusic teacher and father-of-three Trevor Cowlett, 88, and Prof Andrew Pollard, a paediatrician working at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and lead investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, were also among the first to be vaccinated.\n\nChief nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a \"huge privilege\", saying: \"Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning.\"\n\nSpeaking during a visit to London's Chase Farm Hospital, to meet some of the first people to receive the Oxford vaccine, the prime minister said there were \"tough, tough\" weeks to come.\n\nThere will now be a \"massive ramp-up\" in vaccination numbers \"in the weeks ahead\", Mr Johnson said, and the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions by the end of March\".\n\nAsked when the government will be able to vaccinate two million people a week, Mr Johnson said the government will give more details \"in the next few days... as soon as we have better numbers to give\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Breakfast the Oxford vaccine rollout was a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against coronavirus, saying: \"It's going to be a tough few weeks ahead, but this is the way out.\"\n\nAsked about reports potential volunteers were being deterred by the additional training and forms, Mr Hancock said they were going to \"reduce the amount of bureaucracy\".\n\n\"For instance there's one of the training programmes about how to tackle terrorism, I don't think that's necessary, we're going to stop that,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said this was not delaying the delivery of the vaccine, adding that the next delivery of the vaccine will be \"early this week\" to be \"deployed next week\".\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the vaccines \"give us a route out in the medium term\" but warned the NHS was \"under considerable and rising pressure in the short term\".\n\nFormer health secretary and Conservative chairman of the Commons' health committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted that it was \"time to act\" and the government needed to close schools and borders, ban all household mixing and impose a 12-week national lockdown in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth agreed that a national lockdown was needed, as well as \"rapidly scaled-up vaccine distribution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'This way can save more lives'\n\nAs the recent rise in Covid cases puts increased pressure on the NHS, the UK has accelerated its vaccination rollout by planning to give both doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between jabs.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended the delay to second doses, saying getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nMake no mistake, the UK is in a race against time.\n\nThat much is clear from the decision to delay the second dose of the vaccine to focus on giving as many people as possible their first doses.\n\nSo how fast can the NHS go? Ultimately it wants to get to two million doses a week.\n\nThat will not be achieved this week.\n\nBut Monday marks the start of the NHS putting the accelerator to the floor.\n\nA rapid increase in the vaccination rate should follow.\n\nBut how quickly the UK can go is dependent on several complex processes.\n\nFirst, the vaccine has to be manufactured, then it has to be put into vials and packaged up (known as fill and finish). After that each batch has to be checked and certified before being sent to NHS vaccination sites where there needs to be enough vaccinators and support staff to ensure those doses are given as quickly as possible.\n\nProblems at any one stage can disrupt how quickly the vaccination programme can be rolled out.\n\nWhile there are millions of doses of each vaccine in the country and a total of 140 million of both vaccines pre-ordered, there are currently just over one million - around 500,000 of each - ready to be given this week.\n\nNHS medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"The NHS' biggest vaccination programme in history is off to a strong start, thanks to the tremendous efforts of NHS staff who have already delivered more than one million jabs.\"\n\nHe said the Oxford vaccine rollout was \"chalking up another world first that will protect thousands more over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and more than a million people have had their first one.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second dose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England's medical director for primary care, says it's crucial to get more patients the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine\n\nThe Oxford jab - which was approved for use in late December - can be stored at normal fridge temperatures, making it easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer jab. It is also cheaper per dose.\n\nThe UK has secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough for most of the population.\n\nCare home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and frontline NHS staff will be first to receive it.\n\nGPs and local vaccination services have been asked to ensure every care home resident in their local area is vaccinated by the end of January, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nSome 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week, the department added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first patients have been given the Oxford vaccine - five days after it was approved for use in the UK. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, aged 82, was the first to receive it. It's a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against the virus, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. More than 500,000 doses are ready to go, with care home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and NHS workers at the front of the queue. Some 730 vaccination sites have already been established, we're told, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week. The Oxford jab is easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer version, which was the first to be approved. It's also cheaper per dose. Find out more about how it was developed, and when you might receive one.\n\nThe vaccine news may be positive, but few deny the coronavirus situation in the UK right now is bleak. On Sunday, more than 50,000 new cases were recorded for the sixth day running and Labour is calling for a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson has admitted tougher restrictions are likely. Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce new restrictions for Scotland later, while Northern Ireland and Wales already have their own lockdowns in place. The obvious next step for England would probably be to move more areas into tier four - a reminder of what that means - but our science editor David Shukman says there are other steps under discussion too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanuary is normally a boom time for gyms, but coronavirus restrictions mean many are closed and others can't offer any group classes. At the same time, there's been an explosion in fitness tech, allowing more of us than ever to work out at home. So what does this mean for the future of the gym sector? Our reporter Eleanor Lawrie looks closely. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the UK, see 21 simple ways to get fitter in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports expert Ruth Lowry says exercising outdoors could help us cope with Covid this winter\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many of us to change direction, career-wise, whether out of choice or necessity. Our CEO Secrets series has been documenting some of those forging a new path here in the UK, but the same trends are going on elsewhere too. In India, Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal have gone from stay-at-home mums cooking for their families to chefs providing meals for paying customers. They're plugging the gap left by restaurant closures and finding new identities for themselves. Watch their stories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, are pandemics the new normal?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than 200 workers at Google-parent Alphabet have taken steps to form a labour union in a rare development for an American tech giant.\n\nThey said the organisation will give staff greater power to voice concerns about discriminatory work practices at the firm and how it handles issues like online hate speech.\n\nThe move follows walkouts and other actions by staff in recent years.\n\nGoogle said it would \"continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\n\"We've always worked hard to create a supportive and rewarding workplace for our workforce,\" Kara Silverstein, director of people operations, said in a statement.\n\n\"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support. But as we've always done, we'll continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\nThe announcement of the Alphabet Workers Union comes weeks after Google's firing of a high-profile black artificial intelligence and ethics researcher generated uproar.\n\nThe US National Labor Relations Board also recently ruled the firm had unlawfully fired employees for attempting to organise a union.\n\nGoogle staff stage a walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations\n\nStaff have also mobilised against the firm's \"Project Maven\" work with the Department of Defense and the company's handling of sexual harassment complaints.\n\n\"This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,\" Nicki Anselmo, program manager, said in the announcement.\n\n\"From fighting the 'real names' policy, to opposing Project Maven, to protesting the egregious, multi-million dollar payouts that have been given to executives who've committed sexual harassment, we've seen first-hand that Alphabet responds when we act collectively.\n\n\"Our new union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.\"\n\nThe group was organised by software engineers but is open to all ranks at the company's US and Canadian workforce, including temporary workers and contractors.\n\nIt is affiliated with the larger labour group, Communication Workers of America, but is not seeking formal recognition from the federal government, limiting its bargaining power.\n\nIt represents a small fraction of Alphabet's workforce, which includes more than 130,000 people as of September and roughly as many contractors, vendors and temporary staff.\n\nMembers who join will contribute about 1% of their compensation to the effort.\n\n\"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a meaningful say in decisions that affect us and the societies we live in,\" organisers wrote on Twitter.", "Nóra Quoirin was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development\n\nA girl whose body was found in a jungle during a holiday in Malaysia died by misadventure, a coroner has recorded.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, from Balham, south-west London, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort in August 2019.\n\nThe family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict, which ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThey believe \"layers of evidence\" that were heard at the inquest point towards Nora having been abducted.\n\nThe family were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nNóra, who was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development - was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe Quoirins, whose lawyers had asked the coroner to record an open verdict, said in a statement after the ruling that they have a number of reasons for the abduction theory. These include:\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nora\n\nIn the statement, issued through the Lucie Blackman Trust, the family said they witnessed 80 slides presented in court as the verdict was given, adding that none of them \"engaged with who Nóra really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities\".\n\nThey said: \"The coroner made mention several times of her inability to rule on certain points due to not knowing Nóra enough.\n\n\"It is indeed our view that to know Nóra would be to know that she was simply incapable of hiding in undergrowth, climbing out a window and making her way out of a fenced resort in the darkness unclothed.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We believe we have fought not just for Nóra but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.\n\n\"This is Nóra's unique legacy and we will never let it go.\"\n\nFom the outset Meabh Quoirin believed her daughter had been abducted but Malaysian police insisted Nóra's disappearance had always been a missing persons case and ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThe authorities closed the case in January 2020, and Nóra's parents pushed for the inquest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nóra's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nDuring the inquest, a British pathologist who carried out a second post-mortem examination said Nóra's body had no injuries to suggest she was attacked or restrained.\n\nOn the final day of evidence, an investigating officer who was on duty the morning Nóra was reported missing said he was confident there were no criminal elements involved in her disappearance.\n\nFollowing the coroner's verdict, the Quoirins' legal team have discussed the family's rights moving forward, which include the possibility of applying for a revision of the misadventure verdict at the High Court of Seremban.\n\nLouise Azmi, one lawyer for the family, said they had pressed for an open verdict to reflect the lack of positive evidence in the case regarding what happened to Nora.\n\nAn open verdict would leave open the possibility that a criminal element was involved in Nora's death, Mrs Azmi said.\n\nShe told the BBC based on everything the family know of Nora, \"they continue to believe it is impossible she would have willingly walked away into the jungle\".\n\nThe family's legal team say parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin are \"disappointed\" with today's verdict.\n\nBut, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said her verdict was made not on \"theories\" and \"speculation\" surrounding the case, but on the balance of probabilities of the evidence presented before her.\n\nWith no evidence to the contrary she ruled out foul play.\n\nMoving forward, the Quoirin family now have the possibility to apply for a revision of the verdict with the High Court of Seremban.\n\nThere is precedent of a verdict being overturned in Malaysia before.\n\nIn 2019, following an appeal, a Malaysian coroner's verdict of misadventure concerning the death of 18-year-old model Ivana Smit was overturned in Kuala Lumpur and reopened as a murder investigation.\n\nAccording to Quoirin family lawyer Sakthy Vell, the family say they now need time to consider their next course of action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'No question we're going to have to take tougher measures'\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"no question\" the government will announce stricter measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus \"in due course\".\n\nHe predicted \"tough, tough\" weeks to come, with more than three-quarters of England's population already under the highest - tier four - restrictions.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row.\n\nLabour is calling for new England-wide restrictions to come in immediately.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"inevitable\" more schools would have to close to lessen the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, further new restrictions are to come into force at midnight, including a \"legal requirement\" for people to stay at home. except for essential purposes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was effectively returning to conditions similar to Spring's nation-wide lockdown, with the curbs in place until at least the end of January.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported across the UK on Sunday, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"old tier system\" in England was \"no longer strong enough\" to contain increasing infections.\n\nHospitals are coming under increasing pressure, as cases mount up.\n\nThe old tier system is no longer enough…the figures are only heading in one direction.\n\nThese are the words of the health secretary and a health minister.\n\nBoris Johnson says stricter measures are coming, which immediately sparks the questions \"when?,\" and \"what are you waiting for?\"\n\nDowning Street wants to push a tougher message on adherence to the current rules in England while it assesses the latest Christmas data, but is coming under growing pressure to act sooner.\n\nWith Nicola Sturgeon about to go further in Scotland and the Labour leader calling for an immediate national lockdown, it's difficult to see how the prime minister can wait much longer.\n\nAsked what further restrictions would be put in place, Mr Johnson said: \"What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier four measures on the virus and it is a bit unclear, still, at the moment.\n\n\"But if you look at the numbers, there is no question that we are going to have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.\"\n\nHe said the faster-spreading coronavirus variant that has developed in south-eastern England required \"extra-special vigilance\".\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said new measures could include limits on outdoor exercise and a return to the two-metre (rather than one-metre-plus) social distancing rule, as applied during the first lockdown last year.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London, the prime minister argued that closing primary schools must remain a \"last resort\", adding that the \"risk to kids\" was \"very, very small\".\n\nSecondary schools in England are currently closed until 18 January, except for pupils in their final GCSE and A-level years, who are due to return on 11 January.\n\nAsked whether they could remain closed, Mr Johnson said: \"We are keeping things under review.\"\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged the government to close all schools and UK borders \"right away\", while banning \"all household mixing\".\n\nThe Conservative MP, who now chairs the Commons Health Committee, said these restrictions should be \"time-limited\" to \"12 weeks or so\", after which the roll-out of vaccines would provide \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nMore than 500,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are now available for use, with the Pfizer BioNTech jab having been issued since early last month.\n\nThe virus is winning at the moment, despite science fighting back with a vaccine. New daily cases of Covid have been rising to record levels, which means hospital numbers and deaths will increase too.\n\nMinisters say more measures are coming, but it is not clear yet what that will mean in practice.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already in lockdown, and most of England is under tier four rules.\n\nIn recent days the focus has shifted to schools and whether they can be kept open without making the epidemic worse.\n\nExperts agree that the risk the virus poses to children is still low, but they can spread the disease.\n\nWith a new, more transmissible variant of Covid circulating, the government may have to enact this unpalatable \"last resort\" of closing classrooms.\n\nSome 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government meets later to consider \"further action\", with all of mainland Scotland currently under its own level four restrictions - only some islands are under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, while Northern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely\", and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around four to six weeks.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told Today he was \"incredibly worried\" about the South African variant, saying: \"This is a very, very significant problem.\"\n\n\"We have shown that we are prepared to move incredibly quickly, within 24 hours if we think that is necessary, and we keep these things under review all the time,\" added the health secretary.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said there \"is a gateway of opportunity\" for the UK and Northern Ireland after Brexit.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the trade deal also tackled \"some of the great difficulties that there are with the (Northern Ireland) Protocol\".\n\nThe purpose of the Protocol is to prevent a hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It does that by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nAs a result, an 'Irish Sea border' now exists, with most commercial goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain requiring a customs declaration.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Mrs Foster leads, opposed the protocol and had criticised the establishment of such a border. She told The Andrew Marr show that her party \"didn't want the protocol but it is here\".\n\n\"I have to mitigate against that and my job from now on is to mitigate against those excesses and to hold the government to account,\" Mrs Foster added.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson must bring back \"the spirit of March\" to get control of coronavirus in England, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said the virus was \"out of control\" and a second \"national lockdown\" - including the closure of all schools - was needed.\n\nThe PM had to give a firm \"stay at home message\", Sir Keir told the BBC.\n\nMr Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to set out further restrictions amid surging cases.\n\nIt comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support any move towards tighter restrictions in England, but urged the prime minister to \"stop dithering\" and take action.\n\nThe Labour leader said it was \"inevitable\" that schools would need to close.\n\n\"There is complete chaos, with parents not knowing what is going on. We need to create space for the vaccine now, to be rolled out safely.\n\n\"The virus is out of control. We have got to get it back under control. The more we delay, the worse it will be. The more we delay, the longer schools will be closed.\"\n\nIn March last year, Boris Johnson told people in England they could only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nCurrently, shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together are prohibited in tier four areas.\n\nSir Keir said the government's message needed to be firmer and backed by law, if necessary, to encourage people to comply.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young, he urged the country to get back to \"the spirit of March, where there was a very strong stay at home message\".\n\n\"You only need to go out on the streets now and you see lots of people out and about, you see trains that are half full,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"We need to go back to where we were in March with very very strong messaging about staying at home.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that the closure of schools is now inevitable, and therefore that needs to be part of that plan, as part of the national plan for further restriction.\n\n\"And that means that we need to have measures in place to protect working parents, most in place to enable children to learn at home, and a plan to get schools safely reopened again and that goes back to vaccination. It must be mission critical now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "The Queen said she wished Woman's Hour \"continued success\" in the programme's \"important work\"\n\nThe Queen has sent her \"best wishes\" to Woman's Hour to mark the BBC Radio 4 show's 75th year.\n\nThe 94-year-old noted that the show had \"played a significant part in the evolving role of women\".\n\n\"As you celebrate your 75th year, it is with great pleasure that I send my best wishes to the listeners and all those associated with Woman's Hour,\" she said in a letter sent to the programme.\n\nEmma Barnett read out the message on her first day as the show's presenter.\n\n\"During this time, you have witnessed and played a significant part in the evolving role of women across society, both here and around the world,\" the Queen added in her message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Presenter Emma Barnett reads a message from Her Majesty to Woman's Hour listeners.\n\n\"In this notable anniversary year, I wish you continued success in your important work as a friend, guide and advocate to women everywhere.\"\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C also performed a rendition of The Beatles track Here Comes the Sun, after presenter Barnett had declared that 2021 \"has to be better\" than the previous year.\n\nLater, guest Imelda Staunton, who will play Her Majesty in the upcoming series five of Netflix's royal drama, The Crown, described her as being like \"the original Spice Girl\".\n\n\"The Queen, you think, might be an original Spice Girl because girl power is what she is,\" said the actress, who is due to take over the role from Olivia Colman. \"She became the head of state and all that sort of thing.\n\n\"It's the continuity of The Queen that has been so important... Whether you're a royalist or not, this person has got up and gone to work every day for 60 years, and I sort of admire that.\"\n\nLast month, the Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe message helped to mark a memorable opening day in the hot seat for Barnett, which also saw her discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian under house arrest in Tehran, with her husband Richard and the MP and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBarnett - known for hosting Newsnight and shows on 5 Live - has replaced Jane Garvey, who presented her final edition of Woman's Hour after 13 years last week, saying the programme \"needs to move on, and now it can\".\n\nGarvey's exit came three months after her co-host Dame Jenni Murray also left the long-running show after 33 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Barnett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnett's 5 Live show has been taken over by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who also broadcast her first show on Monday.\n\nMunchetty told listeners she was \"absolutely delighted to be here with you on the first Monday of 2021\".\n\n\"I am so excited to be on board with you on this, the morning show we are making together,\" she added. \"We are going to get to know each other, I promise. There is so much to talk about.\"\n\nEmma Barnett interviewed former prime minister Theresa May on her 5 Live show\n\nWoman's Hour is a topical, conversation-led programme; Barnett has a strong news pedigree. Her previous 5 Live show involved thorough interrogation of politicians, and she has made no secret of her love of politics, not least in her outings on Newsnight.\n\nIt doesn't get any bigger than the Queen, obviously. Interestingly, the other big 'get' for her first show is Sonia Khan, former special adviser to the Chancellor.\n\nSo Barnett's first show indicates very clearly that she will make Woman's Hour newsier and more political.\n\nIt's also a safe bet that short, visual clips of the kind that allowed Barnett's 5 Live show to dramatically increase its impact will also be a big feature of her time in the job.\n\nOne early challenge: getting an even bigger name for next Monday. Any thoughts?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The lockdown announcement contained the clearest indication yet of how quickly the government hopes to vaccinate the at risk groups.\n\nA target of mid February for vaccinating all the over 70s and those deemed extremely clinically vulnerable and frontline health and care staff opens up a pathway to a significant easing of restrictions by the start of March.\n\nBut it will require a rapid acceleration in vaccination rates.\n\nSo far nearly one million people have been vaccinated.\n\nBy the end of the week that number is expected to double.\n\nThe hope is that later in January two million doses a week will be given.\n\nThat will be the minimum needed – there are around 12 million in those priority groups.\n\nBy vaccinating them, there is the potential to prevent close to nine in 10 deaths.\n\nBut achieving that requires a lot to go right.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate that many people, but not all of it has been through the final “fill and finish” process which involves packaging it in glass vials (and there is a shortage of those) and then the batches have to be checked and signed off by the regulator – a process that is taking weeks at the moment.\n\nAnd all of that is before it is sent out to the NHS vaccination centres to inject it into people’s arms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Security has been stepped up in Niger's Tillabéri region, where the two villages are situated\n\nNiger's prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday's attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages.\n\nBrigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's border with Mali.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ethnic violence and Islamist militancy.\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attacks.\n\nAccording to local mayor Almou Hassane, those responsible travelled on \"about 100 motorcycles,\" AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey split into two groups and carried out the attacks simultaneously.\n\nFormer minister Issoufou Issaka told AFP that jihadists launched the assaults after villagers killed two of their group members, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.\n\nMayor Hassane said 75 other villagers were left wounded in the aftermath, and some have been evacuated for treatment in Ouallam and the capital, Niamey.\n\nPrime Minister Rafini visited both of the villages on Sunday.\n\n\"This situation is simply horrible... but investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished,\" he told reporters.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadist attacks for many years.\n\nNiger's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages on Sunday\n\nLast month, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nAs part of efforts to quell the violence, France has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nCoalition forces have become targets, and last week five French soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Mali.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri also come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Derby County said several staff members and first-team players tested positive for the virus\n\nChampionship side Derby County has said \"several first-team staff and players\" have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had closed its Moor Farm training ground and was speaking to the EFL and the Football Association about forthcoming fixtures.\n\nThe club said it would not reveal the names of those who had tested positive, due to medical confidentiality.\n\nIt added they would be isolating in line with government guidelines.\n\nThe outbreak at Derby comes after Sheffield Wednesday closed their Middlewood Road training ground following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nThe Rams were beaten 1-0 by Wednesday in their most recent match on New Year's Day at Hillsborough.\n\nDerby, who are third from bottom in the Championship, are due to travel to Chorley on Saturday for a third round FA Cup tie.\n\nFormer England striker Wayne Rooney took over as interim manager at Derby after the club sacked former head coach Phillip Cocu in November\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon the squad's arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who tested negative before departure, will now isolate for 10 days in accordance with the Sri Lanka government's quarantine protocol.\n\nFellow all-rounder Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and will observe a period of self-isolation and further testing.\n\nEngland's two-Test tour of Sri Lanka starts in Galle on 14 January.\n\nEngland had lateral flow tests and a PCR test at Hambantota airport upon arrival, with Moeen's PCR test returning the positive.\n\nThe rest of the touring parting will be retested on Tuesday morning, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nMoeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.\n\nEngland's last overseas tour, in South Africa, was cut short in December after positive cases in the Cape Town hotel where England were staying. England returned two positive tests - that were later verified as false positives.\n\nLast week England captain Joe Root said he did not expect the tour to be postponed if there were one or two isolated cases of the virus.\n\nSince England's tour of South Africa was called off, Pakistan's tour of New Zealand and Sri Lanka's of South Africa have both continued despite positive cases.\n\nEngland flew on a chartered flight from London to Hambantota on Saturday evening.\n\nAll of the players, and touring party, tested negative before their departure and were sprayed with disinfectant upon their arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe series was scheduled to take place last year but England flew home after the tour was called off on 13 March as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSri Lanka has seen 44,774 coronavirus infections and 213 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGiven the circumstances of their abandoned trip to South Africa, this is clearly alarming for England, however it's important to make the distinction between the two tours. In South Africa, they felt their bubble was breached, whereas this is an issue internal to the tourists.\n\nMoeen will be moved to Galle, the location of the two Tests, for his period of isolation, but given that is not due to end until the day before the first match, he must be considered a huge doubt.\n\nEngland have planned for this sort of issue, travelling with seven reserves in addition to the squad of 16. Three of those reserves - Mason Crane, Amar Virdi and Matt Parkinson - are spinners, but have only Crane's one Test cap between them.\n\nAt the moment, England have not discussed promoting a player to the main squad but should they feel the need to supplement frontline spinners Dom Bess and Jack Leach in their Test XI, then an inexperienced name is set for a big opportunity.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "US casino giant MGM Resorts has made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for British gaming company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by a casino operator to move into the online gambling business.\n\nIn addition to its chain of High Street betting shops, UK-based Entain also owns a number of online sports betting and gambling sites.\n\nEntain confirmed the offer, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but said the price was too low.\n\nIt had recently rebuffed an earlier $10bn (£7.3bn) all-cash approach from MGM, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement, Entain said the latest bid approach \"significantly undervalues the company and its prospects\".\n\nMGM Resorts, which runs the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, now has until the beginning of next month to decide whether to make a formal bid or to walk away.\n\nFTSE 100-listed Entain. which renamed itself from GVC Holdings last month, describes itself as \"one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector\".\n\nAlong with Ladbrokes, it also owns brands such as Bwin, Partypoker, Coral, Eurobet, Gala and Foxy Bingo.\n\nAfter news of the latest offer for the firm, investors started betting on Entain, pushing its share price up by more than 25% to £14.30 a share - above MGM's offer of roughly £13.83 a share - a sign that market watchers are expecting a higher bid.\n\nIf the two firms do reach an agreement, it would follow another deal in September when MGM rival Caesars Entertainment agreed to buy UK-based William Hill for $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\n\"Following Caesar's offer for William Hill last year, a bid by MGM for Ladbroke's owner Entain isn't exactly a surprise,\" said Nicholas Hyett an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The two are working together to take advantage of the recent legalisation of sports betting in the US, a market worth many billions of dollars a year.\"\n\nPredictions about the stockmarket have a habit of making the person trying to guess the future look foolish. No such problem for Laura Foll, a fund manager at the investment firm Janus Henderson. On the Today programme on Monday, she forecast more takeover offers for household names in Britain, noting that the UK markets remained unloved by investors and so - perhaps - undervalued.\n\nAn hour after the prediction a big offer duly landed, with Entain, the London-listed company that owns Ladbrokes and other gambling brands, saying it had received a takeover proposal from MGM Resorts, an American rival.\n\nThe US company is offering to pay shareholders in Entain not in cash, but in new MGM shares - an obvious move given the sky-high rating of US shares compared to those listed in London.\n\nIt looks a carbon copy of last year's deal where Caesars, best known for its Las Vegas properties, bought another venerable name in British bookmaking, William Hill. Get ready for more acquisitive foreign companies looking for deals in bargain basement London.\n\nThe new bid for Entain comes with financial backing from MGM's largest shareholder, InterActiveCorp (IAC), which took a 12% stake in MGM Resorts last August.\n\nAt the time, IAC's chief executive Barry Diller said it planned to work with MGM to expand its online gambling portfolio.\n\nThe attempted acquisition comes as the casino industry faces headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe economy of Asian casino hub Macau shrank 49% in the first quarter of this year, while unemployment in Las Vegas reached 30% earlier in the year and remains well above the US average.\n\nMGM Resorts, which is the operator of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, laid off 18,000 furloughed employees in the US in August.\n\nMany online gambling companies, by contrast, saw a boost during Covid-19 restrictions, prompting many casino owners to pivot their businesses towards online.", "Experts have raised concerns over India's emergency approval of a locally-produced coronavirus vaccine before the completion of trials.\n\nOn Sunday, Delhi approved the vaccine - known as Covaxin - as well as the global AstraZeneca Oxford jab, which is also being manufactured in India.\n\nThe head of Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, defended the approval process, but health experts warn it was rushed.\n\nHealth watchdog All India Drug Action Network said it was \"shocked\".\n\nIt said that there were \"intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data\" as well a lack of transparency that would \"raise more questions than answers and likely will not reinforce faith in our scientific decision making bodies\".\n\nThe statement came after India's Drugs Controller General, VG Somani, insisted Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nHe added the vaccines had been approved for restricted use in \"public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\n\"The vaccines are 100% safe,\" he said, adding that side effects such as \"mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine\".\n\nThe All India Drug Action Network, however, said it was \"baffled to understand the scientific logic\" to approve \"an incompletely studied vaccine\".\n\nOne of India's most eminent medical experts, Dr Gagandeep Kang, told the Times of India newspaper that she had \"not seen anything like this before\". She added that \"there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented or published\".\n\nEven social media users were quick to point out that approving the vaccine before trials were complete was a matter of concern irrespective of how safe or effective the vaccine eventually turned out to be.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech, met reporters on Monday and said the approval of Covaxin had not been rushed. He cited previous examples where emergency authorisation approvals had been given based only on immunogenicity data.\n\n\"Under Indian laws we can get emergency approval for the vaccine based on fulfilling five parameters after Phase 2 trails. That is what has happened with our vaccine. So it is not a premature approval,\" he said.\n\n\"We will complete the Phase 3 trials soon and provide the efficacy data for the vaccine by February.\"\n\nThe company currently has 20 million doses available and plans to produce about 700 million doses this year, Dr Ella said.\n\n\"We have four facilities coming up and we are planning [to make] around 200 million doses in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities.\"\n\nMany scientists and opposition politicians have raised questions over what they say is the hasty authorisation of Covaxin.\n\nBharat Biotech has developed the vaccine with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research - and the effort has been touted as an example of India's might in vaccine development and production.\n\nRegulators say the vaccine is safe and effective. The firm says phase 1 and phase 2 trials have shown good results.\n\nBut scientists say that the government's decision not to release data on the vaccine's efficacy for peer review has raised concerns.\n\nMr Modi has welcomed the approval, saying Covaxin is a shining example of his ambitious Atmnirbhar (self-reliance) India campaign.\n\nBut experts worry that questions over the approval process don't bode well for the campaign. And there could be deeper issues. Many believe that the government needs to be more transparent about the authorisation process because the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme depends on public trust.\n\nThe emergency authorisation also sparked a fierce debate on Indian Twitter on Sunday night between ministers and opposition leaders.\n\nIndia's health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called out opposition leaders for failing to \"applaud\" the country's \"prowess\" in locally producing a vaccine. India makes about 60% of vaccines globally.\n\nMembers of the main opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, Akhilesh Yadav, were among those who raised concerns about the manner in which Covaxin was approved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dr Harsh Vardhan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe approval comes as India gears up to vaccinate its population of more than 1.3 billon people. Amid fears that richer countries are buying up much of the vaccine supply, India too appears to be stockpiling vaccines.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press, Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, said the jab was given emergency authorisation on the condition that it would not be exported outside India.\n\nMr Poonawalla said his company, the world's largest vaccine maker, was also not allowed to sell the shot in the private market.\n\nThis has raised concerns in India's neighbouring countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh, which were primarily depending on the SII to start vaccinating their populations.\n\nBangladesh had already ordered 30 million doses of the vaccine in the first phase, Reuters reported, but now the fate of the order is unclear. The country's health secretary told local media in December that it expected the first batch of the jab by February.\n\nIndia plans to vaccinate some 300 million people on a priority list by August.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nBoth vaccines approved on Sunday can be transported and stored at normal refrigeration temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Co-op, Morrisons and their payments processing provider ACI say they are investigating an IT glitch that created problems for card payments in stores.\n\nLong queues were seen outside some of the Co-op's convenience stores from Sunday amid the snow, with some shoppers asked to use cash.\n\nCo-op and Morrisons said customers were no longer experiencing problems but they, and ACI, were studying the cause.\n\nOne MP said the problem exposed the risks of letting cash use \"wither\".\n\nACI, which provides real-time payments processing for the retailers, said: \"We are working closely with the IT teams at our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologise to shoppers for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe issue comes as contactless payments have taken off in the UK during the pandemic, with fewer consumers using cash to pay for groceries.\n\nCustomers complained about the issue on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jen Bartram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Co-op spokesman told the BBC: \"All card transactions are being processed as usual and our payment process partner is investigating after we experienced an intermittent issue.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused during that time.\"\n\nThe BBC witnessed the card processing issue affecting some of The Co-op's stores meant that self-service checkouts had to be closed, requiring customers to queue to be served at tills manned by staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham\n\nAt some stores, customers queuing outside were warned on Monday evening that transactions had to be \"cash-only\" due to the ongoing issue.\n\nSome customers said they had to use the convenience store's cash machine to withdraw money to pay for purchases.\n\nHowever in other stores, the problem was intermittent, impacting some payment card brands, but not others.\n\nShadow economic secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden said: \"This shows the dangers of letting the cash network just wither away as use declines.\n\n\"The government promised legislation to secure nationwide access to cash a year ago. It hasn't been brought forward.\"", "The case rate in Bridgend peaked just before Christmas, but now we are seeing deaths in hospitals\n\nThe total number of deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales has reached its highest weekly total of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 467 deaths in the week ending 15 January, which is 13 more than the week before.\n\nThis was nearly 40% of all registered deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBoth Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards saw their highest weekly numbers, more than experienced during the first wave.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr had 74 deaths while Cwm Taf Morgannwg had 116.\n\nUnlike during the peak in the first wave in 2020, Wales is also now seeing higher numbers of deaths in north Wales and west Wales.\n\nIn north-east Wales, where there have been the highest case rates of Covid-19 in recent weeks, there were 30 deaths of Flintshire residents, including 25 in hospital. In Wrexham, there were 27 deaths - with 21 in hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board saw 49 hospital deaths in Bridgend - the highest weekly number in Wales. There were also 33 patients who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and six in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nAll counties recorded at least three deaths involving Covid-19 and the total number of deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 15 January, was 5,884.\n\nWhen deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is now a total of 6,074.\n\nRCT, with 752 deaths, has the largest number in Wales, followed by Cardiff with 637, up to the latest week.\n\nWhen looking at crude mortality rates, the highest number of deaths - when taking into account the size of populations in England and Wales - are Welsh areas: RCT, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths from all causes fell from 1,198 in the previous week - the highest recorded during the pandemic - to 1,170. But this was still 314 (36.7%) higher than the five-year average for that week.\n\nThis means deaths have been more than the peak in the first wave of the pandemic - 1,169 deaths in the week ending 17 April 2020 - for two weeks in a row.\n\nThe highest proportion of excess deaths was 84.1% in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools and colleges in Wales moved to online learning before Christmas\n\nKeeping schools shut during the Covid pandemic is \"almost like systematic neglect\" to disadvantaged pupils, a head teacher has said.\n\nCardiff head Armando Di-Finizio said there was a \"fair degree of trauma\" among pupils because of the lockdowns.\n\nOne expert said children from disadvantaged backgrounds were falling furthest behind academically.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it ensured vulnerable children could continue to attend school.\n\nBefore the pandemic the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals who achieved five or more GCSEs was 32% lower than the figure for other pupils in Wales.\n\nAt Eastern High School, where 47% of children receive free school meals, Mr Di-Finizio said the challenges of lockdown were greater for pupils who may not have support or structure at home for learning.\n\nArmando Di-Finizio, head teacher of Eastern High School, says the the attainment gap among pupils is \"widening\"\n\nMr Di-Finizio told Wales Live he did not think the balance was right \"between those who are genuinely vulnerable\" with the virus and young people who are vulnerable in terms of their welfare and wellbeing and their academic progress.\n\n\"I think there would have been other ways to handle this because we are seeing students struggling because of it and the attainment gap is widening for this generation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like systematic neglect of young people that is going on day after day, week after week, month after month.\n\n\"We have to somehow pull this back because I do wonder one day, how the children will look back and judge us in terms of our responses.\"\n\nAnother concern since the pandemic began, he said, was the fact the number of child protection cases at his school has doubled.\n\n\"I don't want to sound alarmist, but I do believe it will take a number of years for us to unpick the traumas that young people go through because we don't know yet just what this lasting impact will be,\" he added.\n\nProfessor Chris Taylor says home learning reduces the ability to provide a \"level playing field\" for education\n\nWelsh Chief Inspector of Schools Meilyr Rowlands, has previously said there was evidence of widening inequality in performance as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSocial Sciences Prof Chris Taylor, from Cardiff University, said this gap was continuing to widen.\n\n\"Closing schools exposes and accentuates the deep disadvantage that many families have across Wales in the different circumstances that they're in,\" Prof Taylor said.\n\nHome learning reduces the ability of schools \"to provide that level playing field\" for educational opportunities.\n\n\"Instead, we're relying on what families and households can produce and provide to support that learning,\" he said.\n\nProf Taylor added some children would \"feel like they've left school at the age of 14 or 15, instead of 18\" in terms of their learning, and the focus for them should be preparing for the next step in their education rather than exams that are not going to happen this summer.\n\nHe said some pupils who may have been planning to leave school at 16 should remain in education until they are 18 to \"remedy some of the missed opportunities\", and that summer school and activities should be put on to help address isolation.\n\nAlmost half of all pupils receive free school meals at Eastern High School in Cardiff\n\nSiân Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, has called on the Welsh Government to publish a plan on how pupils will be helped to catch up with \"lost education\".\n\n\"Those children in more deprived areas have been doubly disadvantaged - coronavirus has been more prevalent in these areas, meaning they will have lost more school prior to the lockdown, and these children are less likely to have the means to access online learning,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had provided \"more than 130,000 [electronic] devices\" since the start of the pandemic for pupils' home learning.\n\n\"We've also recruited more than 1,000 teaching and support staff to provide additional support for learners who may have missed out on teaching time due to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ensured vulnerable children, as well as children of critical workers, could continue to attend school throughout the pandemic, he added.", "A US bankruptcy judge has agreed a $17m (£12.4m) payout to women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.\n\nWeinstein, 68, was convicted last year and jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe payout for his victims will come from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.\n\nThe judge overruled an objection from some accusers looking to pursue appeals outside of bankruptcy court.\n\nJudge Mary Walrath said without the settlement, the plaintiffs would get \"minimal, if any, recovery.\"\n\nThe Weinstein Co was set up as an independent film studio with the disgraced Hollywood mogul one of its co-founders.\n\nThe company collapsed in late 2017, following widespread claims of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress.\n\nThe US judge said that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy \"have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense... although it's clear that money will never give them that\".\n\nThe $17m fund will be divided among more than 50 claimants, with the most serious allegations resulting in payouts of $500,000 or more.\n\nThe settlement was put to a vote of Weinstein's accusers, with 39 voting in favour and eight opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims.\n\nInsurers contributed $35m under the liquidation plan, which also provides $9.7m to the former officers and directors of the Weinstein Co, allowing them to pay a portion of their legal bills over the last several years.\n\nThe directors and officers, who include Weinstein's brother, Bob, also received releases that absolve them of any potential liability for enabling Weinstein's conduct.\n\nThe Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289m.", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award.\n\nTrinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four other contenders with her sixth novel to scoop the £30,000 prize.\n\nJudges said the book was \"utterly original... and feels like a classic in the making\".\n\nA \"delighted\" Roffey said her win was a vote for Caribbean literature.\n\n\"A huge thank you to the judges for exposing my book to a wide readership. I'll be pinching myself for weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nBased on a Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid, the story is set in the Caribbean village of St Constance.\n\nDavid, a fisherman, unexpectedly attracts the attention of Aycayia, a mermaid who is drawn to his singing. When she is captured from the sea during an annual fishing competition, he does all he can to save her, with dramatic consequences.\n\nProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges, said: \"The Mermaid of Black Conch is an extraordinary, beautifully written, captivating, visceral book - full of mythic energy and unforgettable characters, including some tremendously transgressive women.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards have a reputation for picking popular reads: books you would recommend to a friend. And I would definitely recommend The Mermaid of Black Conch.\n\nAt first, the novel might sound a bit odd. Set on a Caribbean island in the 1970s, it is a bittersweet love story between a beautiful young woman cursed to live as a mermaid and a fisherman.\n\nBased on a legend passed down by the indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino, there are touches of magic and snippets of poetry. The book was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel.\n\nBut while it is unusual it is also a joy to read, brimming with memorable characters and vivid descriptions.\n\nWe see the mermaid's \"hair flying like a nest of cables\" while we are told \"sea moss trailed from her shoulders like slithers of beard\" and \"barnacles speckled the swell of her hips.\"\n\nFor me, this was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking novel and a worthy winner.\n\nRoffey, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, secured her publishing deal through Peepal Tree Press, an independent publisher supporting Caribbean writers.\n\nShe then crowd-funded her publicity campaign with the support of fellow authors.\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is set in the Caribbean\n\nRoffey's entry was also named Costa's Novel of the Year earlier this month, alongside winners from four other categories:\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.\n\nTuesday's virtual ceremony also saw London-based writer Tessa Sheridan receive the 2020 Costa Short Story Award.\n\nSheridan won the public vote and £3,500 for her story, The Person Who Serves, Serves Again.\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.\n\nIt is open to UK and Irish authors.\n\nSeamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sebastian Barry are among the authors to have won the book of the year award more than once.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 100,000.\n\nThere have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began, data from the UK's national statisticians shows.\n\nThe figures, which go up to 15 January, are based on death certificates. The government's daily figures, which rely on positive tests, are slightly lower.\n\nIt follows a surge of cases last month, leaving the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland registered 7,776 deaths with coronavirus on the death certificate in the most recent week.\n\nThat total is the third highest of the epidemic.\n\nLast April, there were two weeks with more than 9,000 coronavirus deaths registered across the UK - but there have been no other weeks with more than 7,000 deaths registered.\n\nAbout nine in 10 death certificates citing coronavirus registered Covid as the cause of death.\n\nMost of the deaths have been in older age groups - nearly three-quarters of those who have died with the virus were over 75. One in three deaths were care home residents.\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents health service managers, described the milestone as a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Behind each death will be a story of sorrow and grief,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay tribute, once again, to NHS and care staff who have done everything they can throughout the long months of this pandemic to avoid each one of these deaths and reduce patient harm.\n\n\"We won't know the true impact of Covid-19 for a long time to come because of its long-term effects.\n\n\"But, as well as the high death rate, it's particularly concerning that this virus has widened health inequalities and affected black, Asian and minority-ethnic communities disproportionately.\"\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it was a \"harrowing figure\".\n\nShe added: \"While the vaccine rollout for the most vulnerable is continuing at impressive speed, it will be a while until the benefits feed through to the figures.\"\n\nWe were one of the worst hit countries, if not the worst, in the spring - certainly in Europe and the G7.\n\nTwo big drivers of that were the timing of the first lockdown and the terrible numbers of deaths in care homes.\n\nAs a result, the UK could always rank among the hardest hit nations overall.\n\nBut comparing experiences in second waves is harder.\n\nSome countries have very clearly done better than the UK.\n\nAustralia, for example, has seen very few coronavirus deaths overall, and deaths quite close to usual levels throughout 2020.\n\nBut the US, which had a milder first wave than the UK, has seen steady numbers of coronavirus deaths throughout summer and autumn.\n\nIts death toll has been catching up with that of the UK in the most recent data, covering up until Christmas.\n\nAnd some countries that missed the first wave entirely - such as Poland (shown above) or Germany - have seen significant spikes in deaths in recent months.\n\nWith deaths rising since then in many countries and vaccination programmes only getting up and running, there is still a long way to go before we will know who has had the toughest second wave.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK.\n\nThe UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last year.\n\nSeveral major news publishers, including Channel 4, Sky News, and The Guardian have signed deals with Facebook to provide content.\n\nIt comes as the tech industry's relationship with the media comes under increased scrutiny.\n\nAnd French publishers recently agreed a deal with Google on how a new EU copyright law about news excerpts should be applied.\n\nFacebook News is the social network's own attempt to address the long-running friction between it and news publishers, as advertising spend has increasingly moved to the large tech firms instead of individual news outlets.\n\nThe new feature is set to go live on Tuesday afternoon, Facebook said.\n\nThe new feature is a dedicated tab within the Facebook mobile app, accessible by tapping the three-line icon for more options.\n\nThe tab features a mix of major daily news stories and \"personalised\" news selected for each reader based on their interests, as decided by Facebook's algorithm.\n\nFacebook says it pays publishers \"for content that is not already on the platform\", and says the feature will also provide publishers with new advertising and subscription \"opportunities\".\n\nThe dedicated news feed will have personalisation controls, Facebook says\n\nThat may be partly based on data from the United States, which Facebook says shows more than 95% of traffic on Facebook News is from people who have not read those publications before.\n\nThe social network says the new product is a \"a multi-year investment that puts original journalism in front of new audiences\".\n\nAnd news organisations, for which new readers are often in short supply, are signing up.\n\nIn November, when it first announced the product was heading to the UK, major names such as The Economist, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan were already on board.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's launch, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and Telegraph were also announced, among others.\n\nBBC News has not signed a commercial deal with Facebook News, but may still appear on the tab through public posts it makes on the Facebook platform.\n\nFacebook also says that this new product is a direct result of discussions with the news industry, with which it has often been at loggerheads.\n\nThe tech giant is responsible for driving a lot of traffic around the internet, and a story which performs well on Facebook will often attract more readers than one which does not.\n\nBut Facebook has also repeatedly made changes to its algorithms over the years which have affected news organisations, sometimes with little notice. It has also encouraged organisations to use its features such as instant articles, or to make video content for Facebook.\n\nHowever, it envisions Facebook News as a better solution than earlier attempts, and one it plans to roll out to other countries - including France and Germany - in the near future.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to work out the best ways we can support the industry in building sustainable business models,\" Facebook said in its blog post about the UK launch.\n\n\"As we invest more in news, and pay publishers for more content in more countries, we will work with them to support the long-term viability of newsrooms.\"", "The fake email looks like it has come from NHS Test and Trace\n\nThe NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.\n\nThe scam email includes a link to \"register\" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required.\n\nThe fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment.\n\nThe NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe urged people to remain vigilant: \"These things spring up, we take them down and then they spring up again.\"\n\nBoth the National Cyber Security Centre and Action Fraud have asked anyone who receives a scam email or text to report it.\n\n\"Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic,\" said health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"It is vital that we do not let a small number of unscrupulous fraudsters undermine the huge team effort under way across the country to protect millions of people from this terrible disease.\"\n\nAt the start of January, Derbyshire police issued a warning about a text message scam which offered Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"If you receive a text or email that asks you to click on a link or for you to provide information, such as your name, credit card or bank details, it's a scam,\" the force said.\n\nLast year, tech firms warned that coronavirus was a popular hook for scammers. In April 2020 Google said it was blocking 18 million scam emails a day on the subject.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "Trees must be able to cope with projected climate change\n\nScientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade.\n\nTree planting is a brilliant solution to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity, but the wrong tree in the wrong place can do more harm than good, say experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nThe rules include protecting existing forests first and involving locals.\n\nForests are essential to life on Earth.\n\nThey provide a home to three-quarters of the world's plants and animals, soak up carbon dioxide, and provide food, fuels and medicines.\n\nBut they're fast disappearing; an area about the size of Denmark of pristine tropical forest is lost every year.\n\n\"Planting the right trees in the right place must be a top priority for all nations as we face a crucial decade for ensuring the future of our planet,\" said Dr Paul Smith, a researcher on the study and secretary general of conservation charity, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, in Kew.\n\nIt takes at least a century to restore damaged forests\n\nA raft of ambitious tree-planting projects are underway around the world to replace the forests being lost.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is aiming to plant 30,000 hectares (300 sq km) of new forest a year across the UK by the end of this parliament.\n\nAn African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile (8,048km) forest wall to fight the climate crisis is set to become the largest living structure on Earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A solution that's slowing desertification on the front lines of climate change\n\nHowever, planting trees is highly complex, with no universal easy solution.\n\n\"If you plant the wrong trees in the wrong place you could be doing more harm than good,\" said lead researcher Dr Kate Hardwick of RBG Kew.\n\nAll too often natural forests teeming with plants, animals and fungi are replaced by commercial plantations with row upon row of timber trees, which will be harvested after a few decades, she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is to encourage people, wherever possible, to try and recreate forests which are similar to the natural forests and which provide multiple benefits to people, the environment and to nature as well as capturing carbon.\"\n\nThe review of research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, found that in some cases, planned tree planting does not increase carbon capture and can have negative effects.\n\nKeeping forests in their original state is always preferable; undamaged old forests soak up carbon better and are more resilient to fire, storm and droughts. \"Whenever there's a choice, we stress that halting deforestation and protecting remaining forests must be a priority,\" said Prof Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at RGB Kew.\n\nPut local people at the heart of tree-planting projects\n\nStudies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects. It is often local people who have most to gain from looking after the forest in the future.\n\nReforestation should be about several goals, including guarding against climate change, improving conservation and providing economic and cultural benefits.\n\nSelect the right area for reforestation\n\nPlant trees in areas that were historically forested but have become degraded, rather than using other natural habitats such as grasslands or wetlands.\n\nUse natural forest regrowth wherever possible\n\nLetting trees grow back naturally can be cheaper and more efficient than planting trees.\n\nSelect the right tree species that can maximise biodiversity\n\nWhere tree planting is needed, picking the right trees is crucial. Scientists advise a mixture of tree species naturally found in the local area, including some rare species and trees of economic importance, but avoiding trees that might become invasive.\n\nMake sure the trees are resilient to adapt to a changing climate\n\nUse tree seeds that are suitable for the local climate and how that might change in the future.\n\nPlan how to source seeds or trees, working with local people.\n\nCombine scientific knowledge with local knowledge. Ideally, small-scale trials should take place before planting large numbers of trees.\n\nThe sustainability of tree re-planting rests on a source of income for all stakeholders, including the poorest.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "Clare Ferguson-Walker says she has struggled with home-schooling her two children\n\nAs kitchen tables are turned back into classrooms across Wales, parents admit they are struggling with the return to home-schooling.\n\nFor Clare Ferguson-Walker from Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, the experience has been a \"nightmare\".\n\nShe said trying to educate her two children alongside work has resulted in her relying on universal credit.\n\nGetting to grips with home-schooling in the first lockdown was \"a shock to the system\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to teachers, I can't imagine what it was like for them putting together all these packages,\" she said.\n\n\"My son is 12 and loves gaming so he's quite tech-savvy. When I have managed to pin him down he's been 'go away, dinosaur mother, I know how to do it!'\n\n\"I'm not au fait with these subjects I haven't done for years. It's different to how I learned at school.\"\n\nAs a single parent, Clare said she had found it difficult to juggle home-schooling with her work.\n\n\"At first, in the summer, we were doing Joe Wicks exercises every day then some work. Then it fell into chaos. I tried really hard at the beginning to be organised.\n\n\"I'm an artist and sculptor - that work ended and my income has dried up so I'm on universal credit.\n\n\"It's incredibly tough financially. Life has revolved around looking after the kids,\" she said.\n\nBy the end of the year, she said the pressure had all become too much.\n\n\"The thought of going through that again in the winter months - without sunny days in the garden - the stress really got to me.\n\n\"I was finding myself going repeatedly from the kettle to the fridge and back again in this weird loop, thinking what do I do now?\n\n\"It was like being a caged animal, like one of those bears that starts to pace in a cage. The kids had gone feral by then.\n\n\"I think it's been horrendous for young people and families - we can't even rely on grandparents. Mental health struggles are at an all-time high,\" she said.\n\n\"The one positive is I've got to know my kids a hell of a lot more and there have been times that have been lovely.\n\n\"I think they've learned more sat around the kitchen table when we've been talking about what's going on, they've learned about rational thinking, the importance of science and not jumping to conclusions.\n\nJayne Palmer advises not sitting down at a desk\n\nJayne Palmer from Cardiff, who home-educated both her sons, said there was too much pressure on parents to replicate traditional classroom learning.\n\n\"This is not an ideal circumstance for home-education families either because they are not used to being locked indoors.\n\n\"I think there's far too much emphasis in continuing the set curriculum. Right now it's a complete waste of time. There's pressure to compete in a system parents weren't even involved in.\n\nIt is far more important to \"create and interest in learning,\" she said.\n\n\"There's been a tendency of families to rush to buy desks and chairs and pens. What we find is the best way forward is not to sit down and teach your children - watch documentaries with them, play online games with historical content, practise reading to them, do some cooking, Lego or gardening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss proposals with ministers later, but a decision may not be announced until Wednesday.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry, so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.\n\nQuarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.\n\nThe requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days will apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, because many flights from Brazil come via Lisbon, according to BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.\n\nHe said there had been \"no definitive decision yet\" on arrivals from other parts of the world and this was \"still a live issue\".\n\nWhitehall sources said those quarantining in hotels would have to pay for the costs of their own accommodation.\n\nThe prime minister will later chair a meeting of the Covid operations committee, attended by senior ministers, to discuss the options.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAt the moment, almost all arrivals to the UK need to have tested negative for Covid-19 within the 72 hours before they set off to be allowed entry. Then they still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, although this can be done at home.\n\nIn England, this self-isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days.\n\nQuarantine rules are set separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but have only tended to differ slightly, and there has been a \"four nations\" approach to discussions around hotel quarantine, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut deputy first minister John Swinney said his government would \"go at least as far\" as any Westminster policy, adding: \"If these UK restrictions are at a minimal level, we will look at other controls we can announce - including additional supervised quarantine measures - that can further protect us from importation of the virus.\"\n\nHotel quarantine is already in use in countries including New Zealand and Australia.\n\nJessica Gold (centre), her son William Copsey (left), and her mother, Rossana Gold, are trying to get home to the UK from South Africa\n\nJessica Gold, from London, has been trying to get home from South Africa with her mother, 77, and son, 13, since 1 January - but their flights have been cancelled three times.\n\nShe says the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel when she eventually manages to get home is \"absolutely absurd\".\n\n\"Now we are booked to return on 16 Feb, and there is no way we can or will stay in a hotel to quarantine when I have my own place and we can quarantine there, as we have done in the past,\" says Jessica, who flew out to her safari lodge in Greater Kruger National Park, on business, at the end of November.\n\nJessica, 42, wants the government to get tougher on enforcing travellers' home quarantines, rather than bringing in the hotel rule which she says is \"ridiculous and an extra unnecessary expense during these very tough times\".\n\nJessica adds that she's looking into other ways of getting home earlier, before any potential new rules kick in.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs on Tuesday that bringing in hotel quarantine plans for arrivals from a small number of countries would leave \"gaping holes\" in the UK's defences against any new, unknown variants of coronavirus coming from across the globe.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said all current travel measures were being kept under review and the government \"will not hesitate to take further action\" to combat variants, especially as they could effect the efficacy of Covid vaccines.\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast it was \"going to be tricky\" to identify people arriving from the high-risk countries, as travellers could go to a third country before coming to the UK.\n\nHe said British citizens in Portugal, for example, could travel to Madrid in order to fly back to the UK.\n\nPassengers in Australian quarantine hotels have all meals delivered to their room\n\nIn Australia, travellers are allocated a hotel room on arrival and taken there by bus. Often, entire flights are accommodated in the same hotel.\n\nThe New South Wales government promises to make \"every attempt\" to find suitable accommodation for travellers and families. But availability of rooms means there are severe limits on the number of people who can arrive in the country on any given day.\n\nThe hotel quarantine lasts a minimum of 14 days up to 24 days, providing a person tests negative twice.\n\nThe passenger must cover the cost of quarantine - at about £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children.\n\nFees are waived for those who can prove they are unable to pay, and there are certain exemptions.\n\nBut not following the rules is a criminal offence, and in New South Wales carries fines of around £6,000 for individuals, six months in prison, or both - with an extra fine for each day the offence continues.\n\nHotel quarantine is among the measures credited with limiting cases of coronavirus in Australia - which has a population of around 25 million - to just 28,777 positive cases during the entire pandemic, a smaller number of cases than is currently being recorded in the UK every day.\n\nBut international arrivals to Australia have fallen dramatically since its hotel quarantine policy was introduced in March 2020.\n\nBetween July and October 2020, just 72,111 people arrived in Australia to live, work or visit - compared with 7.5 million people in the same period in 2019, according to Australian government figures.\n\nRob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his hotels would be well-prepared for the expected new policy.\n\nSome already have Covid infection controls in place, he said, as they have been used to host \"step-down\" patients who complete their recovery in hotels to free up hospital beds.\n\nMr Paterson told BBC Breakfast quarantining customers would like to see reduced prices, a contact arrival process, CCTV and security to stop people leaving and meals delivered three times a day outside the door - along with clean linen and towels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “That idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on.”\n\nJoss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, which represents the tourism sector, said he hoped hotel quarantine rules would cover as few countries as possible and told the BBC's Newsnight the industry had been \"decimated\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the Airport Operators Association and Airlines UK said the country already had \"some of the highest levels of restrictions in the world\" and tougher rules would be \"catastrophic\".", "President Joe Biden has said that the US might be able to boost its daily vaccination roll-out targets after criticising the Trump administration’s record.\n\nBiden, who has described the previous vaccine programme as a \"dismal failure\", has committed to getting 100 million vaccine doses done in his first 100 days and has since said: \"I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than one million a day.\"\n\nIs he right about the vaccine roll-out under the Trump administration?\n\nAs of 20 January, when Biden became US president, about 16.5 million vaccines had been administered.\n\nThat is some way off the Trump administration's target of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, fewer than three million people had received a jab by 31 December.\n\nVaccinations have sped up since the start of the year.\n\nThe daily average for the week before Trump left office was less than 900,000, according to Our World in Data .\n\nThat figure has since risen above one million doses a day, and Biden has come under some scrutiny for not setting a more ambitious target.\n\nWhen you look at the countries doing the most vaccinations by population, the US is fourth after Israel, the UAE and the UK in terms of doses per 100 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "A group of MPs is calling for hedgehog nesting sites to get the same protections as those for bats and badgers, in an effort to boost numbers.\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill, which he said would help \"Britain's favourite animal\".\n\nThe spiky mammals should be on developers' \"radar\" when they are planning a project, he added.\n\nA report in 2018 suggested UK hedgehog numbers had halved since 2000.\n\nRough estimates put the population at one million, compared with 30 million during the 1950s.\n\nMr Grayling's amendment would add hedgehogs the list of protected animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis would place a legal obligation on developers to search for the animals and take action to reduce the risk to them from building.\n\nChris Grayling said hedgehogs should feature on property developers' surveys\n\nIt is illegal to kill or capture hedgehogs using certain methods but Mr Grayling said: \"It seems wrong to me, for example, that whenever a developer has to carry out a wildlife survey before starting work on a project that the hedgehog is not on anyone's radar.\n\n\"It is Britain's favourite animal, its numbers are declining and it should be as well protected as any other popular but threatened British animal.\"\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Liam Fox, Andrew Mitchell and Dame Cheryl Gillan are among 13 fellow Conservative MPs supporting Mr Grayling's amendment.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn and Debbie Abrahams have also signed it.\n\nThe Environment Bill - which seeks to write environmental principles into UK law for the first time - will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt includes setting legally binding targets to improve air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction by 2037.\n\nBut some Conservative backbenchers say this is much too slow. They want the targets brought forward to 2030 at the latest.\n\nAn amendment from the Conservative MP, Chris Loder, calls for unmissable targets to reduce plastics waste.\n\nIt comes as a report from Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency claims that the UK's 10 largest supermarket chains put plastic equivalent to the weight of 90 Eiffel Towers on to the market in 2019.\n\nThe study found that while the number of single-use carrier bags fell by more than a third, more than one and a half billion plastic \"bags for life\" were issued by the top brands, and that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the bill would help \"improve the environment for future generations\".\n\nIt added that ministers were \"ambitious\" to \"drive a world-leading programme of environmental reform\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said the bill should be prioritised to complete its passage in this session of Parliament.\n\nHe added that the UK needed legislation that \"recognises the urgency of the crisis and doesn't go backwards\".", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nRules for people entering the UK could get tighter later - with the government expected to enforce hotel quarantine in England for some arrivals. Currently, people arriving in the UK must test negative before setting off, and then self-isolate for 10 days on arrival. This can be reduced to five days in England after a second negative test. But it's feared that not everyone follows the rules - so people could now be told to stay in hotels, where the isolation will be enforced. It's thought the rules will definitely apply to UK citizens and residents arriving from southern African, South America, and Portugal (foreign nationals are already banned from arriving from those \"high risk\" areas). The rules could also apply to other countries. And it's expected that people will have to pay their own way. Although each part of the UK sets its own travel rules, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a \"four nations\" approach is being discussed. Here's a glimpse from last year of hotel quarantine in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, up from 4.9%, as the pandemic continued to hit the jobs market. In November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said unemployment could peak at 2.6 million by the middle of this year - that's 7.5% of the working population.\n\nThe EU has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout - which is partly down to delays from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca (although the latter's jab hasn't actually been approved in the EU yet). Now the EU says vaccine makers must provide \"early notification\" when they want to export vaccines outside the bloc. This could mean more doses stay inside the EU. The UK minister responsible for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident Pfizer - which manufactures its vaccine in Belgium - will deliver for both the UK and the EU. This tweet is from the EU's health commissioner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stella Kyriakides This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have again clashed with people defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 were arrested. In Rotterdam, police fired warning shots and tear gas, after an emergency order failed to move demonstrators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police described the rioting as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nDespite Covid and the strains on the system, there is still kindness - and new life - in NHS hospitals. The BBC's Hugh Pym went to Kings Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, to meet the patients and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This page analyses UK data - including the recent fall in daily cases.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The school's head teacher said it was unacceptable staff were being put at risk\n\nA school has threatened to withdraw places for pupils who have told teachers they are visiting people outside their households.\n\nYew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nHead teacher Martine Buckley said she would take the action when \"parents were putting staff in danger\".\n\nThe Department for Education said \"all vulnerable\" pupils should go to school.\n\nDuring the current lockdown schools are open only to pupils listed as vulnerable and the children of key workers.\n\nFamilies can form \"childcare bubbles\" with one other household, and children who live with two parents who live separately can move between households - but any further mixing is forbidden.\n\nIn a letter posted on the Chadderton school's Facebook page, Mrs Buckley said she was \"upset\" to be writing it \"but I feel I must\".\n\n\"Our lovely children are open and honest and they tell us about their lives and activities,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of them are telling us that they are visiting friends, neighbours and family which is against the law.\n\n\"Our teachers and support staff are putting their own safety at risk to look after your children and they should be confident you are doing your bit to follow the lockdown rules.\n\n\"I am afraid I will have to withdraw the offer of a place in school to children whose parents are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWhile a number of parents applauded the message, others have been angered.\n\nOne man told the BBC his two grandchildren were at the school and children as young as four have been asked about their activities at home, which was \"out of order\".\n\n\"My granddaughters are pretty intimidated by the tone,\" he said.\n\n\"Asking them questions like that and then the answers off the back of that. They come to a decision of whether they are going to displace them or not.\"\n\nThe school has about 660 pupils aged between four and 11.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said during the current lockdown, schools were \"open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers\".\n\n\"We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required,\" she added.\n\n\"We encourage all vulnerable children to attend.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nThe operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it \"deliberately sacrificed safety\" in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack.\n\nVenue operator SMG has disputed claims it \"was akin to the worst kind of Dickensian factory owner, deliberately and cynically sacrificing safety\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as fans left the arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, representing SMG, told the inquiry the firm had always accepted responsibility for security in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nBut he denied the firm had sought to \"blame others,\" adding it had \"simply sought to explain how SMG discharged its responsibilities\".\n\n\"It is for that purpose and not for prevarication, finger-pointing or buck passing that we have sought to explain to you SMG's relationship with all the other organisations involved,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Connor said the company accepted there were \"shortcomings\" with its written risk assessments but maintained it \"did have a system for assessing terrorism-related risk\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing will look at whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, representing BTP, told the inquiry the force made five key mistakes on the night of the bombing.\n\nThis included having no officers on patrol at Victoria station when Abedi made his final journey to the arena and not having an officer in the City Room at the end of the concert.\n\nOther mistakes included failing to complete a written risk-assessment for the concert, officers not following instructions from their duty sergeant and that PC Stephen Corke, the most experienced officer on duty, was not at the arena complex for the end of the event.\n\nBTP has since made significant changes to its procedures since the attack, the inquiry was told.\n\nThese include monthly meetings with the arena operators to discuss events.\n\nThe inquiry, which began in September, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a \"humanitarian crisis at sea\".\n\nMore than 300 firms and organisations are urging for them to be treated as \"key workers\", so they can return home without risking public health.\n\nMore than 90% of global trade - from household goods to medical supplies - is moved by sea.\n\nBut governments have banned crew from coming ashore amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nLarge firms including shipping titan AP Moller-Maersk, oil firms BP and Shell, consumer giant Unilever and mining groups Rio Tinto and Vale, as well as maritime transporters, unions, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other supply chain partners have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.\n\nThey are calling for all countries to designate seafarers as key workers and implement crew change protocols.\n\nThe signees of the Neptune Declaration are warning global leaders that ignoring the risk to crews' mental and physical wellbeing threatens global supply chains, which are crucial to vaccinating the world from coronavirus.\n\nThe firms and organisations hope that world leaders, gathering at this year's virtual Davos Forum, will heed their call.\n\n\"Unified, prompt action from governments and other key stakeholders is needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of the 1.6 million seafaring men and women who serve us all across the seas, and who continue to face extreme risk to their safety and earnings,\" said WEF's head of supply chain and transport Margi Van Gogh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: The stranded sailor yet to meet his daughter\n\n\"By granting stranded seafarers key worker status, and by prioritising vaccine allocation for transport crew, we can prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.\"\n\nAccording to latest data from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and international ship owners body Bimco, there are 1.6 million seafarers serving on internationally trading merchant ships worldwide.\n\nTypically, ICS estimates around 100,000 seafarers are rotated every month, with 50,000 staff disembarking and 50,000 crew embarking ships to comply with international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare.\n\nSeafarers usually work 10-12 hours shifts, seven days a week to man ships, on four or six-month-long contracts, followed by a period of leave.\n\nBut due to the coronavirus crisis and travel bans brought in by many governments to combat new variants of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of crew are spending extended periods at sea, far beyond the expiry of their contracts.\n\nFor those who have been at sea for months longer than their contract stipulates, there is a growing risk to their mental and physical wellbeing.\n\n\"Seafarers are the unacceptable collateral damage on the war on Covid-19 and this must stop,\" said ICS secretary general Guy Platten.\n\n\"If we want to maintain global trade seafarers must not be put to the back of the vaccine queue. You can't inject a global population without the shipping industry and most importantly our seafarers. We are calling on the supply chain to take action to support seafarers now.\"", "Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a \"shocking\" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition is challenging what it said was an \"unlawful\" move by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2016-18.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"substantial change\" in how cases were treated.\n\nAnd it denied the coalition's claim it had been taking on only \"strong cases\" to keep conviction rates up.\n\nAccording to the EVAW, the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence.\n\nIn documents before the court, Phillippa Kaufmann QC said that from September 2016 prosecutors were \"trained away\" from the former CPS policy, including through a series of roadshows.\n\nIn 2017 legally binding guidance on the old approach was removed, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nMs Kauffmann said both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell.\n\nShe cited figures showing an average of 3,446 rape cases were charged per year between 2009 and 2016, compared with 2,822 in 2017, a fall of 23%.\n\nAt the same time the charging rate \"declined precipitously\" from 56% in 2016, to 47% in 2017 and 34% in 2018.\n\nThe court documents note the conviction target was removed at some point between 2017 and 2019, and guidance relating to the \"merits-based approach\" to prosecutions was reintroduced.\n\nThe campaigners are aiming to show there was a policy change and the way the CPS went about it was unlawful.\n\nIf a ruling goes in its favour, the EVAW hopes some cases could be looked at again by the CPS.\n\nLawyers for the CPS argue the case was not suitable for a legal challenge.\n\nIn written submissions, Tom Little QC, says the move away from a \"merits-based approach\" was out of a concern that \"some people were being prosecuted when the case ought not to have been charged\".\n\nHe added the decision to initiate the roadshows and remove the guidance \"did not result in any substantial change in the application of the evidential test in the code for Crown prosecutors\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said: \"Independent inspectors have found no evidence of a risk-averse approach and have reported a clear improvement in the quality of our legal decision-making in rape cases.\"\n\nThe judges are expected to give their ruling in the case at a later date.", "Celebrities including comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali have made a video urging people to get the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe video was co-ordinated by Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray, who said he wanted to dispel vaccination myths for those from ethnic minority communities.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi are among the others taking part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adil Ray OBE 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We all just feel we needed to do something,\" Ray told the BBC.\n\nFake news about the vaccine, particularly in the South Asian community, has led to concerns about uptake.\n\nRay appears in the five-minute video alongside stars like former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, who tells viewers: \"We will find our way through this. And we will be united once again with our friends and our families. All we have to do is take the vaccination.\"\n\nSomali-born British journalist Rageh Omaar and his ITV colleague Ranvir Singh join comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry and Ranganathan to debunk common vaccine misinformation and misconceptions.\n\nRanganathan says: \"There's no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watching where you go. Your mobile phone actually does a much better job of that.\"\n\nAfter posting the video, Ray told BBC Radio Leicester: \"For the British Asian and black communities, at the very beginning of the pandemic we were told they were perhaps the most vulnerable, that there was a disproportionate number of cases and even deaths.\n\n\"Even now there are a disproportionate number of deaths. But nothing was really done about it and that was really quite confusing for a lot of the community. So we felt that we've got to try and take the lead a little bit here and dispel some of these myths.\"\n\nHe added: \"This was recorded entirely independently from the government - the only thing we did do was we went to the NHS website for the correct medical guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith the UK aiming to offer Covid vaccinations to every adult by autumn, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high in the UK, with 85% saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said that those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe UK is recording the ethnicity and occupations of people who receive the vaccine and figures would be published soon, Mr Zahawi added.\n\nLast month, a poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health suggested 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine, compared with 79% of white people.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, recently said fake news was likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the vaccine.\n\nSuch warnings have led the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board to urge places of worship and community hubs to be used as vaccination centres in an attempt to inspire confidence.\n\nThe board's chairman, Imam Qari Asim, said: \"As an imam, my message is simple - do not trust 'fake news', verify before you amplify.\"\n\nThe Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham is being used as a Covid vaccination centre\n\nMany mosques are using their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab, while some imams are sharing photos of themselves getting the jab on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £23m funding for a network of \"community champions\" to spread accurate information and provide support for people in at-risk groups including older people, disabled people and ethnic minorities.\n\nOn Monday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick visited the UK's first vaccination centre to be opened in a mosque, at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.\n\n\"It is absolutely brilliant to see faith communities like this stepping up and playing their part in the vaccine programme,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"We have to build trust, ensure that we counter misinformation and ensure that everyone, regardless of their faith, regardless of what community they're from, gets access to the programme.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "Transfer tests normally used by grammar schools have been cancelled this year\n\nOne of NI's most prominent grammar schools has said it will use primary school test scores to decide which pupils to admit in 2021.\n\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution said it would \"adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school\".\n\nThat is despite the vast majority of grammar schools not planning to use academic criteria this year.\n\nThe tests run by the AQE and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) were cancelled in early 2021.\n\nAs a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are drawing up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.\n\nBanbridge Academy, Bangor Grammar, Belfast Royal Academy and Regent House are among those to have published their admissions criteria for 2021.\n\nNone of those schools are using academic criteria, but pupils applying will have to have entered the AQE transfer test.\n\nSome other grammars like Thornhill College and St Columb's College in Londonderry, which decided in 2020 not to use the PPTC transfer test in 2021, have also published admissions criteria.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) said it was \"committed to the principle that a child should be placed in a school which offers a curriculum best suited to the aptitudes of that child\".\n\n\"For this reason RBAI believes that the use of academic criteria for admission to grammar schools is the outworking of that principle,\" the school said.\n\n\"Accordingly, in the absence of AQE and PPTC tests for admissions, RBAI will adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school.\"\n\nRBAI said scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests will be taken into account\n\nThe school is planning to use standardised scores in the Progress Test in English (PTE) and Progress Test in Maths (PTM) which pupils sat in Primary Five to decide which pupils to admit.\n\nRBAI said that school year was \"the most recent one which has not been interrupted\".\n\nPupils scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests taken under supervision by a teacher will also be taken into account.\n\n\"RBAI is satisfied that this is a reasonable and robust way of selecting pupils based on academic aptitude in the absence of a bespoke test,\" the school said.\n\nRBAI normally admits 150 pupils each year, but received 227 applications for places in 2020.\n\nThe admissions criteria for all post-primary schools will be published on the Education Authority (EA) website on 2 February.\n\nThe UUP assembly member Robbie Butler had proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nBut Education Minister Peter Weir had said there would be \"major problems\" with that approach.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "The UK government should cancel the debt owed by developing countries struggling with the impact of Covid-19, MPs have said.\n\nThe International Development Committee warned that the pandemic was fuelling extreme poverty and food insecurity.\n\nIt was also disrupting routine healthcare, such as tuberculosis immunisations, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was spending £1.3bn to protect livelihoods, improve health systems and distribute vaccines.\n\nMore than two million people around the world have died after contracting coronavirus, with almost 100 million cases reported.\n\nAppearing before the Commons International Development Committee, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted the UK to be a \"force for good in the world\" as it fought the pandemic.\n\nHe defended the government's decision to cut overseas aid spending next year, saying there were \"no easy choices\" given the hit to the public finances from the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts mean the UK will fail to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid in 2021-2, a target that was enshrined into UK law in 2015.\n\nMr Raab said he hoped the UK would be able to reach 0.7% again as \"soon as possible\" but this would only happen once the long-term damage to the UK's balance sheet had been \"corrected\".\n\nLabour said the government was \"betraying the world's poorest.\"\n\nShadow international development secretary Preet Kaur Gill said: \"This move signals a retreat from the world stage, damages the UK's reputation and will only show our allies and detractors that Britain under Boris Johnson is no longer interested in fulfilling our moral or legal responsibilities.\n\n\"Labour are committed to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on aid to tackle global poverty and injustice and will oppose any attempt from this government to damage this country's reputation.\"\n\nMr Raab said he took seriously warnings from Conservative MPs and ex-ministers that to press ahead with the cuts without passing new legislation would be unlawful.\n\nFormer Solicitor General Lord Garnier said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Raab's \"reputation\" and the government's domestic and international standing would be damaged if it was seen to \"flout a clear legal obligation\".\n\nIn tough financial times, Mr Raab said the UK needed to \"make the most\" of its £10bn spending, avoiding \"salami-slicing\" budgets and focusing on a handful of priorities such as climate, biodiversity, conflict prevention and helping the \"bottom billions\" out of extreme poverty.\n\n\"I think we should unabashedly be proud and confident about the moral responsibility we have to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, I see a range of grittier strategic interests in dealing with climate change and humanitarian suffering and indeed trade.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office took over responsibility for overseas aid in September after absorbing the Department for International Development.\n\nOn debt cancellation, the committee said that, due to disruption caused by the pandemic, millions of people in developing countries were more at risk from diseases such as tuberculosis because of missed immunisations.\n\nMillions were more likely to lose their livelihoods because of the global recession and millions of women were more exposed to sexual violence.\n\nThe MPs want the government to provide more aid to address the problems and cancel long-term national debt that was diverting cash away from those in need.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"We'll only be safe from coronavirus when we're all safe - which is why the UK is leading global efforts to fight this pandemic, committing up to £1.3bn of new UK aid to find and equitably distribute a vaccine, strengthen health systems, protect livelihoods and support the global economy.\"\n\nThey added that the UK would use its 2021 presidency of the G7 group of leading economies \"to help the world build back stronger and fairer after the pandemic\".\n\nThis would include \"promoting open societies, championing gender equality and girls' education, and setting out new international approaches to global health security and climate action\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK has announced it will step up its efforts to help other countries, including some of the poorest in the world, to find new variants of Covid-19.\n\nIn a speech in London, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK would share its world-leading genomics expertise worldwide to help countries identify new mutations of the virus and protect global health security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "A senior judge prevented the BBC from properly reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, a court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard how Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), faced an employment tribunal claim in 2019.\n\nLady Smith passed orders which stopped detail of the action being reported.\n\nThe top judge denied any wrongdoing in regard to the claim that was later abandoned.\n\nThe employment tribunal case alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation was from a former senior member of the inquiry legal team.\n\nBBC Scotland has raised a judicial review of the SCAI restriction orders, arguing they were beyond the powers of Lady Smith and her involvement in the case meant any restriction decision should have been made by the employment tribunal.\n\nBut Roddy Dunlop QC, advocate for the SCAI, told the Court of Session the corporation's case was academic as the original restriction order had been overtaken by another order.\n\nMr Dunlop also argued the BBC had not spelled out to the SCAI what detail it wanted to publish in relation to the tribunal.\n\nKenneth McBrearty QC, acting for the broadcaster, told the court the purpose of the original restriction order was, \"not merely to prohibit disclosure or publication of the documents. It was to prohibit disclosure or publication of the very existence of the proceedings\".\n\nHe said: \"It is in effect what is equivalent to what in England has been described as a super injunction. That is what in effect it amounts to because it prohibits even the disclosure of the proceedings.\n\n\"The importance of this case lies with the way the Restriction Order impinged on the open justice principle. If there was a need for an order restricting the disclosure of any material, that is an order to be sought from the employment judge.\"\n\nThe case before Lord Boyd is being heard at the Court of Session\n\nThe Court of Session heard the employment tribunal claim for £2.6m damages was brought in July, 2019, by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.\n\nA news release, issued by SCAI in October 2019, confirmed existence of the claim and a denial that Lady Smith had discriminated against Mr Halley. An initial hearing took place that month and Mr Halley abandoned the tribunal two months later.\n\nBut Mr McBrearty QC said the SCAI press release did not include the full outline of the claim\n\nHe said: \"All that the media was to be entitled to publish was that which the respondent had considered able to include in a press release in circumstances to which the respondent was herself party in the proceedings.\"\n\nThe BBC is seeking declarators from the Court of Session stating that Lady Smith's restriction orders were unlawful.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC said the BBC had the option to present to Lady Smith what it wanted to report on in the case, as per the detail of the media restriction order, and then get her permission to publish but failed to do so.\n\nHe said: \"That simple request is all that needed to be done and it wasn't resorted to. That's why the alternative remedy aspect of this is a problem to the BBC.\n\n\"There needs to be a practical effect, the entitlement to publish could have been obtained at any point by asking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop pointed out that the original restriction orders objected to by the BBC have now been replaced by a new order issued in March last year.\n\nHe said: \"What is the point of challenging orders which cease to have any potency.\n\n\"Why is it we continue to expend grey matter, and more importantly public funds on both sides, in fighting on something which is in any view within the terms of the reference [of the SCAI inquiry] and within article ten [of Human Rights legislation].\"\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Dunlop will continue his submissions before Lord Boyd.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFunding agency Sport England - which has already invested £220m since the start of the crisis - announced the additional money as part of a new 10-year strategy.\n\nThousands of clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms have been forced to shut in recent months.\n\nWith many children having done no sport outside of PE lessons since the start of November, and schools now shut across the county, emphasis will be placed on supporting young people to get active.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed the majority of young people failed to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily exercise in the last academic year. Almost a third of children were classed as 'inactive' as a result of the first lockdown, not even doing 30 minutes.\n\nAnother focus in the new 'Uniting the Movement' strategy will be tackling the long-standing inequalities that have existed within the sport sector and reinforced by the recent disruption.\n\nNew data shows the pandemic has disproportionately affected people from lower socio-economic groups and BAME backgrounds, for whom there was already a clear pattern of low activity.\n\n\"This strategy comes at a critical time\" said Tim Hollingsworth, the chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"We have made significant funding available, but many organisations are struggling, and activity levels have taken a significant hit.\n\n\"At the heart of all this is a ruthless focus on providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind.\"\n\nAndy Reed, Chair of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The impact of the pandemic, growing social challenges and subsequent widening inequalities mean we urgently need a new social contract with sport and physical activity, focused on the wider social outcomes that sport can deliver.\"\n\n\"We must expand understanding, recognition and investment in the contribution that sport can make beyond health and wellbeing, to addressing loneliness and social isolation, improving educational attainment and employability, to community cohesion, and reducing anti-social behaviour and entry into the justice system.\"\n\nA group of more than 50 sports bodies have called for a new government action plan and emergency funding to help them survive the pandemic. The Save Our Sports campaign has warned that the activity sector - which employs nearly 600,000 people in the UK and contributes £16bn to the economy each year - faces an unprecedented crisis.\n\nHuw Edwards, the chief executive of Ukactive, which represents the physical activity industry, said: \"Crucially, before the sector begins its recovery from the impact of Covid-19, it must first survive it.\n\n\"The publication of this strategy needs to be accompanied by a new level of urgency and commitment from the government that it will not leave parts of this sector behind, and provide the necessary financial and regulatory support so desperately needed.\"\n\nBut Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was \"placing sport and physical activity at the heart of its coronavirus recovery plan, and Sport England's new strategy provides a strong base to invest in sports organisations, facilities and people\".\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nIt could take 18 months to draw up plans to rebuild a bridge which was swept away during last week's Storm Christoph, a council has warned.\n\nLlanerch bridge, between Trefnant and Tremeirchion in Denbighshire, is a backroad link to the A55.\n\nThe grade II-listed bridge crosses the River Clwyd and villagers now face a seven-mile detour.\n\nMeanwhile, some people in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, can return home later after flooding caused by the storm.\n\nDenbighshire council said diversions would go through St Asaph while Llanerch bridge was repaired.\n\n\"It means it takes much longer now to go from Tremeirchion to Trefnant or St Asaph,\" he said.\n\n\"I know of one couple that have a horse in stables on the other side of the river - so it's a seven-mile journey each way, twice a day, for them now.\n\n\"It's quite a challenge and we're starting to think about how long we'll need to live with it. Are we talking a year, two, three, or maybe much longer than that?\"\n\nVale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies said the bridge should be rebuilt: \"There are many who would wish to see the bridge replaced like-for-like, although I appreciate that the new structure will need to take into account the challenges posed by modern-day and projected river flows.\"\n\nDenbighshire council's Meirick Lloyd Davies suggested the structure could be widened, similar to the one in Llangollen.\n\nBut the Trefnant ward councillor added: \"We will need money from the Welsh Government and I hope the UK government are also ready to throw something into the bucket because it is very expensive.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We will seek to resolve this as soon as we are able.\n\n\"Final plans for the bridge will involve a number of third parties and it could take up to 18 months or more to resolve.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the condition of the structure was the responsibility of the owner, with local authorities having powers to ensure listed structures were preserved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nSouth Wales was also hit by Storm Christoph on Thursday and in Skewen about 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft, causing a \"blow out\" which flooded properties.\n\nThose living in Jubilee Crescent and Dunevor Road have been told they can return home, but others will have to wait until the Coal Authority has made further investigations.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones told Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We haven't got the exact figures of the number of people who will be able to return home today, there's going to be further assessments this morning.\n\n\"As early as we can, we will release the names of the streets of those people who will be able to go back, but it will be conditional. They need to go back in a controlled manner. We've still got Covid around.\"\n\nHe added houses would need to have their electrics checked and information would be provided on how to do this.\n\nOther people have been warned it could take months before they can go home.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.\n\nIt has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading.\n\nThe initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be \"resistant to manipulation attempts\".\n\nCompanies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms.\n\nTwitter said on Monday: \"We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying.\"\n\nTwitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform.\n\nThe pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be \"misleading or false\", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site.\n\nAdditional notes and flags would then be placed on to content.\n\nTwitter says this new approach could help it respond more quickly when misleading information spreads.\n\n\"Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors,\" Twitter said.\n\nTwitter already adds labels to some misleading news. For example, many of Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud were labelled by the company.\n\nTwitter also reserves the right to remove tweets - and in extreme circumstances ban users - which it did with the US president after the riots in Washington earlier this month.\n\nTwitter, though, wants to go further: \"We don't want to limit efforts to circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention,\" said Twitter's Vice-President Keith Coleman.\n\nParticipants will have to provide a verified phone number and email to take part, in a bid to keep bots and bad actors away, as well as having no recent rule violations against their Twitter account.\n\nPresident Biden said in his inauguration speech that: \"We must reject a culture where facts are manipulated, or even manufactured.\"\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Parents and teachers say they are \"frustrated\" schools will be shut until the February half term and fear the impact it will have on children.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Wales' phone-in, one caller said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".\n\nSo how have parents, pupils and professionals reacted to the announcement that schools may not reopen until 22 February?\n\nDr Dai Samuel welcomed the news as a consultant treating Covid patients - but as a dad he feels some \"trepidation\"\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is also a father and lives in one of the worst-hit areas in Wales.\n\nHe said he had mixed feelings about the decision as he had \"two hats on\" - one as an NHS doctor treating Covid patients and the other as a dad.\n\n\"The hospitals are full and the ITU units only have beds now because they've expanded that capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very precarious position and I just hope that this measure now for the next three to six weeks will hopefully allow us to get through this winter, allow the vaccines to take effect and get us out of this mess come the spring and summer.\n\n\"I'm a doctor so, from a medical point of view, yes [the decision is] a massive sigh of relief, but as a father and someone who lives in Merthyr - a town that's been hit already significantly by the virus and the economical impacts of that - I've got some sort of trepidation because I fear that those businesses now that still remain closed will suffer and will go under.\n\n\"What will happen to that generation of children now who might not get the education they deserve and would have had otherwise… who won't achieve what they could have?\"\n\nTrying to home-school four young children and work is a \"challenge\", said Kaarina Rutta Reuter from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind, 'I should also be working and doing other things',\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen. It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment. I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nThe pressures of juggling home-schooling with her career mean she is working at night when the children have gone to bed.\n\n\"I don't even try to work during the day with the children around because I've just realised it's just not possible.\n\n\"My husband is working full-time but I'm only working part-time, I'm teaching at university so I still have quite flexible hours - apart from obviously teaching hours - it just means that I have to work in the evening or over the weekend, just organise yourself differently.\"\n\nShe said it was \"best not to have too high expectations\" when it came to guessing when lockdown would end and schools would reopen.\n\n\"Like we saw in the first lockdown in spring, in the end it was quite a bit longer than we had all thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hope they could go back in March, that's my hope for now but I think we'll just have to wait and see what will happen with the numbers over the next few weeks, months and just take it from there really.\"\n\nA father called Ron, from Bridgend, told the phone-in with Dot Davies he was predominantly worried about the effects on children, particularly in the south Wales valleys.\n\n\"I just see children deteriorating on a regular basis. I can only speak about my own - I have a teenage daughter and her mental health, her lack of access to her school, her teachers, to her peers, will cause more harm than the virus will cause children.\n\n\"It feels like we are asking our children to donate their kidneys to the vulnerable. We are throwing them under the bus as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nAnna, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Swansea, said the decision to keep schools and colleges closed was \"a big disappointment\".\n\n\"The idea of staying in the house until February fills me with dread because we've been in the house for months,\" she told Newyddion.\n\nAfter a case of Covid-19 in her school, she said she had to self-isolate, adding: \"It's been an age since I last saw my friends, went to school, and really learned.\n\n\"It's really hard. We've been back in school since Wednesday and doing everything online but it's nigh-on impossible. It's not the same.\n\n\"It's really hard to learn. There's this feeling of 'why am I even bothering?' - I really want to go back but I appreciate that might not be possible because people are dying. It's not an easy situation.\"\n\nHer mock assessments before her final assessments - which were brought in to replace exams - have been cancelled until the return to school, which she said has taken away some of the pressure.\n\n\"Without practising, there's a lot of uncertainty. What's going to be in the assessment? So, it is nice to hear they've cancelled them. It's a difficult situation so cancelling them takes a bit of the pressure off children and young people my age.\"\n\nMother-of-three Amanda Williams from Bridgend told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she was glad schools would remain closed and hoped it would minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"I don't believe schools are safe to open at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Until they can classify exactly what the main symptoms are in children I think it's a risk to send children back to school and it's a risk with these new variants.\"\n\nMrs Williams lives in Bridgend county borough, where infection rates are the highest among all Welsh local authority areas. One of her relatives is currently on a ventilator at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital with Covid-19.\n\n\"In the last week I've heard of a lot of people passing away such as friends of friends. It's starting to get closer to home.\"\n\nSarah Curley, a maths teacher and mother of twins, also from Bridgend, said she would \"rather be in school\" but agreed schools remaining shut was the \"safest option\".\n\nShe said: \"In school each day I come into contact with 100-odd pupils and we don't wear PPE.\"\n\nMs Curley said she was glad her school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen in Bridgend, would not be welcoming students back on Monday, as originally planned, because of the area's high infection rates.\n\n\"My anxiety was through the roof around Christmas. I could see the numbers going up and I was thinking, 'I've got to go back into school next week'.\"", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War\n\nThe Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face of a new $20 bill.\n\nA note featuring Ms Tubman, who was born a slave in about 1822, was originally due to be unveiled in 2020.\n\nThe US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner.\n\nBut the effort was delayed under former President Donald Trump, who branded it \"pure political correctness\".\n\nNow President Joe Biden has revived the project, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters the Treasury was \"exploring ways to speed up\" the process.\n\nThe move would make Ms Tubman the first African American to appear on a US banknote, and the first woman for more than 100 years.\n\n\"It's important that our notes, our money - if people don't know what a note is - reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman's image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,\" Ms Psaki said on Monday.\n\nA mock-up of the new $20 note\n\nThe women last depicted on US notes were former First Lady Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Native American Pocahontas, in a group image on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869.\n\nHowever, given the complexities of redesigning and producing US banknotes, the bill is not expected to be released any time soon.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the redesign would be delayed until at least 2026. At the time, he said he was focused on redesigning bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making changes to their imagery.\n\nMr Trump, an admirer of his populist predecessor Andrew Jackson - whose portrait hung in his office - expressed opposition to the redesign.\n\nWhile campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump suggested that Ms Tubman be put on the $2 bill instead.\n\nBorn into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in the cotton fields in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the fourth of nine children born to two enslaved parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Rit.\n\nAs a teenager, she was hit in the head by an iron weight thrown by an overseer, leaving her severely injured.\n\nShe escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.\n\nIn the years that followed, Ms Tubman returned multiple times to Maryland to rescue others, conducting them along the so-called \"underground railroad\", a network of safe houses used to spirit slaves from the south to the free states in the north.\n\nShe is estimated to have made some 13 missions to rescue more than 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network.\n\nLater, she became a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a prominent supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and a famous veteran of the struggle for the abolition of slavery.\n\nAfter the war, Ms Tubman toured eastern cities giving speeches in support of women's suffrage, drawing on her experiences in the fight against slavery.\n\nShe died in 1913, aged 91, surrounded by her family.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent investigation into mother-and-baby homes in the Republic of Ireland\n\nA report into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published later.\n\nThe Stormont-commissioned research was carried out by Queen's University and Ulster University.\n\nIt examined whether a public inquiry should be held into the homes.\n\nAmnesty has estimated about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the institutions operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and other religious organisations.\n\nSome survivors, both unmarried pregnant mothers who were brought to the facilities and children who were later adopted, have long called for a public inquiry.\n\nThe NI Executive is currently meeting to discuss the report and its recommendations.\n\nFirst Minster Arlene Foster tweeted to say she had spoken to survivors of the homes about the report and the next steps.\n\nShe described it as \"a shameful chapter\", adding: \"Now the silence is broken and their stories have rightfully begun to be told\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said earlier that Tuesday's research \"breaks the silence\" around what happened.\n\nShe added that \"what happened was so, so wrong\", and that her thoughts were with the survivors \"who deserve answers to their many questions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe report was commissioned by the Department of Health in 2018 and assessed the period from 1922 to 1999.\n\nIt was completed in February 2020 but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, representing the group Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice NI, said many women were branded as \"fallen\" after becoming pregnant outside marriage and were forced to carry out unpaid labour.\n\nThis \"abuse\", she said, happened on both sides of the Irish border.\n\n\"The state in Northern Ireland not only permitted what happened, but also policed it,\" she added.\n\nAmnesty said there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby home and Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in NI, with the last one closing its doors as recently as 1990.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, NI programme director of Amnesty International, said the report would \"shed new light on the appalling extent and vast scale of the suffering experienced by generations of women and girls in these institutions\".\n\nThe human rights organisation has written to the first and deputy first ministers urging them to meet survivors of mother-and-baby homes.\n\n\"It's time for ministers to listen to the survivors - both the women and girls forced into the homes and the children born there,\" said Mr Corrigan.\n\nThe publication of the report in Northern Ireland comes after a similar investigation into mother-and-baby homes and laundries in the Republic of Ireland, which prompted an apology from Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin.\n\nThis report found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\".\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions which were investigated.\n\nMr Martin said there had been \"profound and generational wrong\", adding it was a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, NI's first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill met the Irish Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman.\n\nBoth Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill said there was a need for the executive and the Irish government to work together in sharing information and to support survivors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time out of school has affected some children who have not established their language skills\n\nParents in English-speaking homes whose children go to Welsh-language schools need more support during lockdown, the Welsh language commissioner has said.\n\nSome parents said time away from face-to-face schooling was affecting younger children who have not fully established their language skills.\n\nOne mother said \"not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given guidance to Welsh-medium schools.\n\nThere are 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual primary schools across Wales.\n\nCardiff council estimated more than 70% of children in Welsh-medium education in the city did not speak Welsh at home.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said any parents concerned about remote learning in should let the school and teachers know in the first instance.\n\nHowever, he said it should be ensured there were \"as many resources as possible to support them\" at a national level and these policies should \"recognise the huge investment that these people are making [into] Welsh-medium education\".\n\nAngela Crabtree said her nine-year-old daughter Ffion had to help her younger sisters\n\nAngela Crabtree, from Caerphilly, said her daughters were partly reliant on her eldest child Ffion to translate Welsh schoolwork.\n\nMs Crabtree, who is on furlough, said keeping up Welsh-language skills had been a challenge for her three daughters, Ffion, Natalie and Chloe, who go to Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili.\n\n\"It's hard if they ask you a question, not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with,\" she said.\n\nNatalie and Chloe are partly reliant on their older sister Ffion to translate Welsh work during lockdown\n\n\"The school has been really good in sending things back bilingually, but I've still got the challenge of trying to make sure that the girls look at the Welsh first.\n\n\"Off the back of the first lockdown I think what suffered most was their Welsh language, especially the middle child, going from the infants to the juniors - her Welsh comprehension fell behind a bit.\"\n\nLisa Jane Thomas, from Cardiff, said she was concerned her youngest child, who attends a Welsh-medium school, was going to be disadvantaged.\n\n\"These are really critical stages and to have so much timeout, it does worry me that may be putting her back [and] is going to make it more difficult for her longer term,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas said she felt there \"ought to be more recognition\" and more could be offered to help parents and children.\n\nYsgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili headteacher Lynn Griffiths said parents make a \"conscious decision\" to send children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nHead teacher of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili, Lynn Griffiths, said of almost 440 pupils at the school, three families spoke to him about issues with Welsh-language learning.\n\nMr Griffiths said it was \"a rarity\" after one family that chose not to send their child back to the school this year, while the two other \"listened to what support we can provide them to enable them to do the best for their children\".\n\n\"But also let's not forget our parents have made a conscious decision to send their children to a Welsh medium school because they want their children to be fully bilingual and the advantages that will give them,\" he said.\n\nCampaign group Parents for Welsh medium education said it was launching new website end of this month to help parents by collating Welsh language resources in one place, due to the extra pressure of lockdown home-schooling.\n\nElin Maher, who is a part of the group, said: \"Obviously, we do acknowledge that acquiring language is done best in the classroom, with the teacher at the front and to be surrounded by the language - we want to reassure parents that the language will be there.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, which has a target of one million people speaking Welsh by 2050, said it appreciated the challenges all parents faced with learning at home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have provided guidance to schools to help them during the pandemic, which includes dedicated support for Welsh-medium learners whose families don't speak Welsh.\n\n\"This includes advice for parents and carers on how they can support their children to use the Welsh language while at home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maaike Neuféglise said she found blood on the floor of her shop alongside upturned stands and damaged equipment\n\nThe Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands.\n\nShops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: \"It's scum doing this\". More than 180 arrests have been made.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nShop-owners in Rotterdam, Den Bosch and other cities spent Tuesday morning cleaning up the debris from Monday night's violence.\n\nRotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb sent a passionate message to \"shameless thieves\" who had caused the damage: \"Does it make you feel good that you've helped ruin your city? To wake up with a bag full of stolen stuff beside you?\"\n\nA night-time curfew from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 was imposed last Saturday to halt the spread of the virus. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine. Mr Hoekstra said they would not \"capitulate to a few idiots\" and anyone who caused damage should be tracked down and be made to pay for it.\n\nSome of the worst damage was caused in the southern city of Den Bosch\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly a million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nRiot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Most of the rioters were youths or young men, and Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks.\n\nIn Den Bosch in the south, rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars. A local woman told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" she said.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nRoads into Den Bosch were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe region's chief prosecutor, Heleen Rutgers, urged parents to ensure teenagers stayed at home. \"Start talking about how to respond to calls on social media to go and turn up somewhere,\" she told public broadcaster NOS.\n\nIn some southern cities, such as Maastricht and Breda, football fans marched through the centres promising to protect them from rioters. Ex-football international Robin van Persie appealed to people in Rotterdam to keep \"our beautiful city\" intact.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon against the rioters, the mayor signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest.\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. The justice minister said he challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nIn Den Bosch, Maaike Neuféglise said the damage to her shop was heartbreaking and ran into thousands of euros. \"Everything's ruined. I saw the videos, it was a complete invasion. There must have been 40 people in our store,\" she told broadcaster Omroep Brabant.\n\nThe city's mayor said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were vaccinated at Cwmbran Stadium on Tuesday\n\nA pledge that 70% of the over-80s would get the Covid-19 vaccine by last weekend was missed, the Welsh Government has admitted.\n\nWeather has been blamed for the problem with figures showing 96,830, or 52.8%, had their first dose.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said many over-80s felt unsafe attending appointments amid the snow and ice.\n\nThe pledge had been made by Health Minister Vaughan Gething in the Senedd, last week.\n\nBut earlier, Mr Gething said that as well as missed appointments, five mass vaccination centres were affected by the conditions and \"a range of additional GP clinics didn't go ahead\".\n\nLatest data shows almost 97,000 of the most vulnerable have had a dose - but there is a lag and it can take up to five days for doses injected to be included in the figures. At least 289,566 people have had a first dose - 9.2% of the population.\n\nThat compares to 10.6% in England, 8.6% in Northern Ireland and 8% in Scotland.\n\nMr Drakeford told First Minister's Questions earlier: \"We will not reach the 70% for over-80s because of the interruption to the programme of vaccination that happened on Sunday and on Monday morning.\n\nA pledge 70% of over-80s would be inoculated by last weekend was missed\n\n\"I won't have people over-80 feeling pressurised to come out to be vaccinated when they themselves decide that it is not safe for them to do so.\"\n\nHe said all of those people would have been offered a further opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of Wednesday.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said Wales was on track to meet plans to offer everybody in the top four priority groups (those aged 70 or over) a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nAround 23,700 first doses a day would need to be given for the first four priority groups to be have a vaccine offered by 14 February.\n\nOn the latest seven day rolling average, it would take 25 days.\n\nBut Mr Davies said: \"Welsh Conservatives would have been the first to congratulate the Welsh Government and its health minister had the target been reached on Friday, but that target has been missed.\n\n\"It's the same old Labour story of taking credit when things go well but look to blame anyone and everything else when it goes wrong.\"\n\nIn the Senedd, he accused the government of running a \"postcode lottery\" for vaccinations, which Mr Drakeford denied.\n\nThe first minister said figures had gone from 162,000 people being vaccinated last week to 230,000 this Tuesday.\n\nHe said that was \"the fastest rate of increase in any part of the United Kingdom\", and accused Mr Davies of wanting to \"run it down\".\n\n\"He leads a Conservative party in Wales, which has reverted to its 19th Century type - for Wales, see England.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he did not think \"blaming snow over the weekend holds water\".\n\n\"Snow did cause problems in certain areas but the problem was that you were still on 24% of over-80s in the middle of last week. There was too high a mountain to climb,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the weather was an \"obvious factor\" on both Sunday and Monday.\n\nIn a statement, he said more than 11,000 care home residents - 67% of the priority group - had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nOver 65% of Welsh Ambulance Service staff had also taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"We have seen a significant escalation in the pace of vaccine deployment here in Wales over the last couple of weeks,\" he told Members of the Senedd (MSs).", "Leaders in the US House of Representatives have officially delivered their article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate, the first step in beginning his trial.\n\nRead more: Trump impeachment trial delayed until next month", "Anyone entering Australia has to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine\n\nAustralia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.\n\nThe comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.\n\nDepartment of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus' escalation in other nations.\n\nDr Murphy spearheaded Australia's early action to close its borders last March.\n\n\"I think that we'll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.\n\n\"Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don't know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,\" he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue \"for some time\".\n\nCitizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.\n\nDr Brendan Murphy (left) was Australia's chief medical officer and now leads the Department of Health\n\nQantas - Australia's national carrier - reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to \"begin to restart from July 2021.\"\n\nHowever, it added this depended on the Australian government's deciding to reopen borders.\n\nThe country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.\n\nAustralia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.\n\nA passenger from New Zealand arriving at Sydney Airport last October\n\nA vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.\n\nExperts have attributed much of Australia's success to its swift border lockdown - which affected travellers from China as early as February - and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.\n\nLocal outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city's residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.\n\nOther outbreaks - including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people - prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.\n\nThe state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated \"hotspots\", following a decline in cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel abroad UK: How to fly during a global pandemic\n\nWhile the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.\n\nDr Murphy said overall Australia's virus response had been \"pretty good\" but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.\n\nIn recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent - which has recorded at least nine infections - is under quarantine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was spat at working as an ambulance paramedic'\n\nAfter experiencing its most difficult period of the entire Covid-19 pandemic in December, the boss of Welsh Ambulance Service said it was still under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nAt one stage, 400 staff - 12% of all workers - were sick or self-isolating.\n\nJason Killens said this was exacerbated by high call numbers and \"significant delays\" handing patients to hospitals.\n\nOne paramedic described questioning whether he was in the right job after being spat at during the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive said it meant \"patients with less serious conditions waited much longer than we would like\".\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter was assaulted by someone who spat at him\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter, describing the pressure he and colleagues were under, said at one point an incident caused him to question whether he wanted to continue working.\n\n\"During the peak of the pandemic last year, I was assaulted by a member of the public where I was spat at in the face,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's really the only time that I've stopped and gone: 'Is this for me?'\"\n\nHowever the \"vast majority of the public\" had been \"absolutely fantastic\", he stressed, adding: \"We've had people waving at us, buying us coffee.\"\n\nLuke Robinson and Stan Baxter must wear more protective equipment when they help patients\n\nFor his work partner, Luke Robinson, their job made it clear how coronavirus had made a resurgence across the country.\n\n\"I worked New Year's Eve and I responded to a number of incidents which involved just regular health complaints,\" he said.\n\n\"But next door or in the adjacent building there's people having parties and you can tell that there's large gatherings going on. And it's really frustrating because it really hammers home that some people aren't listening to the rules.\n\n\"And it's not surprising that we're seeing a second wave now.\"\n\nMr Killens said the pressure was now \"palpably less\" compared to last month, but admitted difficult weeks lie ahead.\n\n\"December was probably the most pressurised period during the whole pandemic for a number of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff that were symptomatic or isolating, that's been at its peak in December.\n\n\"We've seen more work both in the 111 and 999 service, that is patients contacting us with Covid-related symptoms, and of course because of the pressure on the rest of the NHS, we've seen extended handover at some of our emergency departments and what that's meant regrettably is some less serious patients have waited a lot longer in the community than I would have expected.\"\n\nSoldiers have been helping to relieve pressure on ambulance staff\n\nThe ambulance service has been at its highest level of alert - described as \"extreme pressure\" - since early December.\n\nIt was so bad at the beginning of the month, the service had to declare a \"critical incident\", because of severe problems in south east Wales in particular - and one man had to wait 19 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital.\n\nThis strain has been partly blamed for deteriorating ambulance response times, with the situation exacerbated by the fact hospitals are struggling.\n\nAmbulances spent more than 11,661 hours outside emergency departments waiting to transfer patients in December - an equivalent to a total of more than 485 days. The average delay was one hour and eight minutes.\n\nThe Ambulance Service has been hit by high numbers of staff sick or self-isolating\n\n\"We would usually see handover delays through winter - but what's unique this time is the overlay of the pandemic,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"There has to be additional distancing, this means less capacity in emergency departments.\n\n\"Testing also needs to be done before patients are admitted - the additional complexities mean the process is slower and there's less space for patients to go into.\"\n\nHe said the impact of implementing Covid precautions is also affecting how quickly crews can respond.\n\n\"As a result of the virus, we're having to clean vehicles and equipment more frequently and thoroughly than before,\" Mr Killens said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Also there are levels for personal protective equipment that staff have to wear to protect themselves and others. Level three - the highest in some cases.\n\n\"And it takes a number of minutes for crews to put that on before staff treat the patients.\"\n\nTo bolster staffing levels and speed up response times, about 80 soldiers are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service for the second time since the start of the pandemic - along with smaller number of staff from other services like the fire service.\n\n\"They are driving emergency ambulances for us... which means an emergency ambulance clinician can look after the patient,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"They'll drive the ambulance from the scene to hospital... it enables us to put more ambulances on the streets to respond to patients more quickly given the levels of absence that we've seen.\"\n\nParamedics now have to carry out a more rigorous and time-consuming cleaning regime\n\nAfter facing relentless pressure for close to a year, Mr Killens is worried about the impact on mental health and well-being of ambulance and control centre staff.\n\nThe service is focused on \"what we can do to keep them fit and well\", he said.\n\nBut he praised staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" - and insists some of the lessons learnt during the last year will benefit the service during the longer term.\n\n\"I've been in the ambulance sector for 25 years and this is like dealing with a very long incident,\" said Mr Killens.\n\n\"So, a major incident an emergency service routinely responds to generally will be over in a couple of hours. But the level of pressure has been sustained now for 12 months.\n\n\"All of our people have stepped up and done what was necessary and got on with providing the best care in really difficult circumstances.... we will come through it and at the end of the pandemic and will be a stronger organisation for it.\"\n\nHe believes the service is now \"on the home straight\" in dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"We've had two waves of this virus and learnt much along the way, and with a vaccine rollout we have a real opportunity now to see an end to the disruption, the personal impact and the level of death and harm,\" Mr Killens said.\n\n\"By the time we get to the other side of the spring, probably we will be able to return to some kind of normality whatever that will be 18 months into a pandemic.\n\n\"There's a couple of difficult weeks to come, but if we can emerge through February and March, provided we all stick to the rules, because it's easy for the virus to grab hold again if we get complacent .... we'll be in a far better position as we come to the spring.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "Now 20, he was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court after admitting inciting terrorism overseas\n\nThe youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Blackburn, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian to launch attacks in 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life that year after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.\n\nBut the Parole Board now says it is \"satisfied\" he is suitable for release.\n\n\"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in detention, and the evidence presented at the hearings, the panel was satisfied that RXG was suitable for release,\" the board said in a document detailing the decision.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how at the age of 14, the boy adopted an older persona in messages to alleged Australian jihadist Sevdet Besim, 18, instructing him to kill police officers at the remembrance parade.\n\nHe sent thousands of messages suggesting Mr Besim get his \"first taste of beheading\" by attacking \"a proper lonely person\".\n\nAustralian police were alerted to the plot after British officers discovered material on the teenager's phone.\n\nA written summary of the Parole Board decision reveals that two hearings took place to consider the decision - hearings that included evidence from RXG himself.\n\nThe summary records that \"no-one at the hearing considered there to be a need for further time\" in custody and that \"all necessary work had been completed\".\n\nRXG, who became eligible for parole in October, is said to have \"undertaken extensive specialist work in detention to address his offending behaviour, his understanding of Islam and to develop his level of maturity\".\n\nThe Parole Board panel noted that \"considerable progress that had been made\", the summary records.\n\nLicense conditions for the 20-year-old a requirement to live at designated address, wearing an electronic tag, and limits on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nAnzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand\n\nA ban on identifying RXG, made when he was sentenced, would normally have expired on his 18th birthday, but a number of media organisations made representations to the High Court, arguing that he should be named.\n\nBut in 2019, the court ruled identifying him was likely to cause him \"serious harm\", and so granted him lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe decision taken by the judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, has only been made in a small number of cases.\n\nIn 2016, two brothers who had tortured other children in South Yorkshire were granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nLifelong anonymity under new identities was also been granted after release to Mary Bell, the Newcastle child killer; Maxine Carr, who obstructed police investigating the 2002 Soham murders by her partner Ian Huntley; and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger.", "Soaring shipping costs are likely to cause a bounce in the cost of trampolines in the UK this summer, according to one games retailer.\n\nJames Owen, owner of Outdoor Toys, says high transport costs and port congestion may mean larger toys such as swings, trampolines and climbing frames will be more expensive.\n\nTrampoline prices could soar by 40-50%, he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"The port congestion just keeps snowballing,\" he said.\n\n\"More and more issues keep arising,\" Mr Owen added. \"We can't get space out of China, there's a container shortage.\n\n\"Hauliers are really stretched, rates keep climbing.\"\n\nHis firm makes some products in the UK already and rising shipping costs will mean it will become economical to make more.\n\n\"For the first time ever, the ocean freight outweighs the cost of the item,\" in some cases, he said.\n\nDemand for Chinese goods has soared around the world in recent months, placing a strain on existing shipping capacity.\n\nThe price of shipping a 40-foot container on major world trade routes has almost tripled since a year ago, according to research firm Drewry.\n\nHauliers in the UK are also charging more. It used to cost about £650 to haul a container from the port of Felixstowe to the company's site in mid-Wales, Mr Owen says.\n\nThe cost is now up to £1,800 per container \"if you can get the haulier to take it,\" he says.\n\nWhether people will pay the premium for a new outdoor toy is \"a good question,\" he said.\n\nIt emerged over the weekend that Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by seven wickets; take 1-0 series lead\n\nEngland wrapped up a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test of a two-match series in Galle.\n\nResuming on 38-3, needing another 36 for victory, Jonny Bairstow and debutant Dan Lawrence carried England to their target inside 35 minutes on the final morning of an enthralling encounter.\n\nBairstow ended unbeaten on 35 and Lawrence 21, although the latter survived an lbw review against Dilruwan Perera and Sri Lanka did not refer another shout that replays suggested would have been overturned.\n\nAfter England slipped to 14-3 during a frantic end to day four, Bairstow and Lawrence's unbroken 62-run stand guided them to an ultimately comfortable win.\n\nThe second Test starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'It wasn't perfect but England's win ticked a lot of boxes'\n• None 'We are on an upward curve' - Root savours fourth straight away win\n\nEngland are now unbeaten in nine Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, they have won four consecutive overseas Tests for the first time since 1957, and boast five successive wins in Sri Lanka.\n\nVictory improved England's chances of reaching the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in June. They remain fourth in the standings, with the two top sides playing in the final.\n\nEngland out of the blocks quickly\n\nRoot's side have been slow starters in series in recent years - they lost the opening Test against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 2019, and against West Indies last summer.\n\nHowever, Sunday's top-order wobble aside, they were rarely troubled in the first of six successive Tests on the subcontinent - an achievement made all the more impressive given they had one day of match practice before this game.\n\nRoot scored a magnificent 226 in the first innings, and off-spinner Dom Bess and slow left-armer Jack Leach, who returned match figures of 8-130 and 6-177 respectively, found more rhythm as the game progressed, which bodes well for the sterner four-Test series in India that follows this tour.\n\nLawrence can take considerable credit for his first-innings 73 and the manner in which he helped negate England's second-innings nerves alongside the efficient Bairstow, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler was tidy behind the stumps throughout on a dry, turning pitch.\n\nSri Lanka, meanwhile, were left wondering what if. Their collapse to 135 all out on the first day was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", and even an extra 50 runs could have changed the course of this game.\n\n'Very impressive' - what they said\n\nEngland captain and player of the match Joe Root: \"To come here with the little preparation we have had and play in the manner we have is very impressive.\n\n\"We worked extremely hard and for the spinners to come out of the game with two five-fors is a great effort. Without the preparation, it is testament to their characters.\n\n\"It is a good start to the tour. We know we have to keep getting better but I am really pleased with the start we have had.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad on BBC Test Match Special: \"It looked like we could lose a wicket every ball last night. We were pretty happy when play finished last night.\n\n\"It felt calm here this morning. We had a job to do and felt we had enough in tank to chase 30-odd. To do it without losing a wicket is awesome.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"When I think about the preparation England have had, in Loughborough in a tent, one day in the middle in Sri Lanka and then rain, to put in this kind of performance is a great effort.\n\n\"I can't think Sri Lanka will gift England two poor days in the next Test - that match will be really tough.\n\n\"I am happy England have played in difficult conditions and won the game.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed in first innings with bat and ball. As a batting unit, especially playing at home, you have to get a big total in the first innings. It cost us the game.\n\n\"Everyone did their bit in the second innings. We played outstanding knocks in the second innings. We have to take the positives out of this.\"\n\nSri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur: \"The first innings was very poor - it was an unacceptable batting performance.\n\n\"Even if we get 220 in the first innings we keep ourselves massively in the game, so that's where it was lost. We did put it right in the second innings. But it was too late.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches including Manchester United's visit to Anfield: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "BT is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it failed to compensate elderly customers who were overcharged for landlines for years.\n\nIn 2017, Ofcom said people who only had a landline telephone were \"getting poor value for money in a market that is not serving them well enough\".\n\nAs a result, BT reduced the price of its landlines by £7 a month.\n\nBut campaigners are unhappy that \"loyal customers\" have still not been compensated for previous overcharging.\n\n\"Ofcom made it very clear that BT had spent years overcharging landline customers, but did not order it to repay the money it made from this,\" said Justin Le Patourel, founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (CALL) and a telecoms consultant who worked for Ofcom for 13 years.\n\n\"We think millions of BT's most loyal landline customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each, and the filing of this claim starts that process.\"\n\nBT said it \"strongly disagrees\" with the claim that it had engaged in anti-competitive behaviour and intends to defend itself \"vigorously\" in court.\n\nA spokesman for BT said: \"We take our responsibilities to older and more vulnerable customers very seriously and will defend ourselves against any claim that suggests otherwise.\n\n\"For many years we've offered discounted landline and broadband packages in what is a competitive market with competing options available, and we take pride in our work with elderly and vulnerable groups, as well as our work on the Customer Fairness agenda.\"\n\nLaw firm Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) worth £600m. The claim could result in payments of up to £500 each for 2.3 million BT customers, should it be successful.\n\nThe case represents customers who purchased a BT landline contract, but did not also take BT broadband or pay TV packages.\n\nSince 2009, the wholesale costs of providing landlines to consumers have been falling by at least 25%.\n\nBut in October 2017, Ofcom found that all major landline providers in the UK had increased the line rental charges by 28-41%.\n\nOfcom strongly criticised market leader BT for raising prices, saying that customers were being given \"poor value\" for money.\n\nIt added that many of the affected customers had \"been with BT for decades\" and were more likely to be old, on low incomes and vulnerable.\n\nBT announced that it would slash its landline prices by £84 a year.\n\nBT's argument is that Ofcom's final statement did not explicitly accuse it of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nBut independent telecoms analyst Ian Grant says that the telecoms giant \"has a history of abusing its position\".\n\n\"Earlier in 2017, Ofcom fined BT £42m because it was late providing high-speed Ethernet lines, and forced BT to make good the losses of firms like Vodafone and TalkTalk,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Ofcom, which has a statutory duty to stop consumer abuses, could have done the same for these customers. Instead, it allowed BT to get away with a 37% price cut, at a time when the difference between its costs and what it charged customers had risen between 50-74%.\"\n\nMr Grant added: \"It is especially poor that BT was overcharging customers who were mostly over 65, more than three-quarters of whom had never used a different provider, and for whom the telephone was their only communications link.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nóra Quoirin's parents: \"The inquest is a battle we must continue in Nóra's name\"\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle says she believes her daughter's body was placed by somebody in the spot she was found.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019.\n\nHer body was found near the resort nine days after she went missing. A coroner recorded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who thinks Nora was abducted, said the family would \"never give up their fight for justice\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, and her parents have always believed that wandering off from the resort - which is about 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur - was not something their daughter would have done.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Nóra had died three days before her body was found, due to gastrointestinal bleeding from hunger and stress endured over a prolonged period.\n\nBut Mrs Quoirin points out that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in the seven days leading up to her death, with police suggesting the teenager been \"alive and moving\" during the first stages of the search.\n\n\"The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point,\" Mrs Quoirin told the BBC.\n\nNóra's parents Maebh and Sebastien Quoirin want there to be a revision of the inquest verdict\n\nThe teenager's mother pointed out that the inquest had not explained how her daughter ended up in the jungle, where her unclothed body was eventually found by a group of volunteers.\n\n\"I suppose the easiest one to dwell on was the fact there was an open window [in the family's chalet],\" said Mrs Quoirin, who is originally from Belfast.\n\n\"Someone opened that window, it wasn't any of us. That is totally unexplained.\"\n\nMalaysian police have always treated Nóra's disappearance as a missing person case. They maintain there was no suggestion of abduction, kidnap or foul play.\n\nDuring the search for her daughter, Mrs Quoirin told emergency services that their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\n\"Nóra always looked to someone else for reassurance on what she should do next so the idea that she would have climbed out a window - even found a window or seen a window in the pitch black - is in our view crazy,\" Mrs Quorin said.\n\n\"If she had somehow mistaken which door was for the bathroom and had gone out the front door for instance... she was barefoot, she would have instantly felt pain and she would have been absolutely petrified.\"\n\nNóra's parents have asked for a revision of the inquest verdict as \"so many questions have been left unanswered\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\n\"I think it will be impossible to ever have all the answers to questions that inevitably we will agonise over for the rest of our lives,\" Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"We can do more justice by at least recognising who this child was and that she wouldn't have - couldn't have - done the things that have been ruled through this verdict of misadventure.\n\n\"It's our duty to Nora to stand up for that, to really recognise who she was and stand up in the name of all children with special needs, to recognise who these children are, what they represent in our society.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "A doctor has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a \"highly-respected\" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed in his own home.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest in Halam, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday.\n\nJonathan Peter Brooks, also charged with three counts of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Perks is currently in a serious but stable condition, police said.\n\nMr Brooks, 56, of Landseer Road, Southwell, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 15 February.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nThe two men were colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"This incident has affected many of our staff who worked closely with, and are friends with Graeme.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Graeme and his family at this time.\"\n\nMr Perks had served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), which described him as \"one of the most highly-regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nPolice previously said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT on Thursday, after an intruder was believed to have smashed their way into the house.\n\nPolice said Mr Perks was stabbed at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, while his family were upstairs\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia, but returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham.\n\nHe and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors, and were featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keelan Wilson was 15 when he was stabbed more than 40 times\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a \"well-planned execution\".\n\nKeelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018.\n\nThe four murderers acted \"like a pack of animals\" amid rising gang violence in the city, police said.\n\nKeelan's mother Kelly Ellitts said the convictions meant justice for her son, but added \"nothing would bring Keelan back\".\n\nIt emerged a few days after the murder that when an ambulance was called for the wounded boy, his final words included \"tell my mum I love her\".\n\nThe trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the night time attack - carried out by Brian Sasa and Nehemie Tampwo, each aged 20, along with Tyrique King and Zenay Pennant-Phillips, both 19 - was \"not in any way spontaneous\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Barnes from the West Midlands force said Keelan had the \"single worst set of injuries\" he had seen on a victim in more than six years investigating homicide.\n\nThere had been increasing acts of violence between opposing gangs leading up to the murder, including disorder earlier that day, police said.\n\nThat included weapons being brandished in Wolverhampton city centre, and in another incident, Keelan and two others being shot at by a group of youngsters on bikes. No one was hurt.\n\nBut later on, the court heard, the group of four killers ran towards Keelan as he sat in a taxi close to his home, then pulled open the rear door and \"set about him with weapons\", inflicting more than 40 knife wounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keelan Wilson's mother Kelly Ellitts 'hit the floor' when she saw he had been stabbed\n\nMichael Duck QC, prosecuting, said the killing \"was not in any way a spontaneous act of violence\".\n\nHe said: \"This was a well-planned, targeted group attack by a number of youths armed with knives, and that was with the plan to execute another young man.\"\n\nDuring the 13-week trial, jurors heard there was evidence to suggest the victim had \"become embroiled in gang culture\", with his killers believing he had switched factions.\n\nDet Sgt Barnes said it was \"difficult\" to pinpoint a motive \"because Keelan wasn't on the police radar particularly for any such activity\".\n\nKeelan was wounded just metres from his home, receiving 43 stab wounds in total, according to police.\n\nHe had been driving with a friend - with whom he met up after the shooting incident - when their car broke down, which led to a taxi being called.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said while Keelan was attacked on boarding the vehicle, his friend was \"left unscathed\" and fled, making it \"evident\" to authorities that \"Keelan was the only target\".\n\nMs Ellitts said she lived with the shock of her son's death daily.\n\n\"This isn't something that you think of every now and again, this is a daily thing that you have to live with.\n\n\"It's terrible my daughters won't know who he is.\"\n\nOn the day of Keelan's death, CCTV captured a scene from the Wolverhampton city centre disorder that police said was linked to gang activity\n\nSasa, of Long Ley, Heath Town, Wolverhampton; King, of Chelwood Gardens, Wolverhampton; Tampwo of Fern Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes; and Pennant-Phillips, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, had all denied murder.\n\n\"Keelan was a child who had his whole life ahead of him,\" Det Sgt Barnes said.\n\nThe convictions, he added, came after a \"very difficult and long investigation,\" with more than 2,000 lines of inquiry having to be examined.\n\nSome lines of investigation had been met with a \"wall of silence,\" he said.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers said: \"It is an utter tragedy that a 15-year-old child lost his life at the hands of others who are barely older than he.\"\n\nSentencing is set to take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Tell mum I love her' said stabbed boy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, was given a Chinese-developed vaccine\n\nA nurse has received Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine dose after regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.\n\nRegulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distributed among all 27 states.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest death toll from Covid-19 and cases are rising again across the country.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe president, who caught Covid-19 last year and recovered, has said he will not take a vaccine.\n\nAuthorities reported 551 new fatalities on Sunday, the first time in six days that it had fallen short of 1,000 although this could reflect a delay in the reporting of numbers over the weekend.\n\nIn all, more than 209,000 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in Brazil, a raw total figure only exceeded by the US.\n\nOver 8.4 million infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic - the third-highest tally in the world.\n\nHealth Minister Eduardo Pazuello told reporters that the national vaccination programme in the country of 211 million people would begin in earnest in the coming days. Two Brazilian biomedical centres which have been given approval to produce the jabs will be heavily involved.\n\nAbout six million doses of the Sinovac-developed CoronaVac have already been produced in Brazil, while the government is waiting for shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a laboratory in India.\n\nShortly after Anvisa's board gave emergency approval, Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, became the first person to be inoculated with CoronaVac.\n\nHer vaccination was organised by the São Paulo state government, which is led by Mr Bolsonaro's main political rival, João Doria.\n\nThis has been a rare piece of good news today for Brazilians who are grappling with a devastating second wave.\n\nFrom where I am, the city of Manaus, the vaccine does not feel real. People here are trying to recover a collapsed health system and doing what they can to keep their sick relatives alive.\n\nThe pandemic has become deeply political in Brazil. President Bolsonaro continues to present himself as a vaccine sceptic and he was notably absent as the vaccines were approved. Instead, Monday's newspapers will no doubt have São Paulo Governor Doria slapped on their front pages.\n\nHe is expected to run in next year's presidential elections and has backed the Sinovac vaccine from the very start. He was once a Bolsonaro ally and is now his nemesis - but there is no doubt who is leading the way in trying to get the population vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this week researchers said the Chinese vaccine had been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials. This, results showed, was significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nCoronaVac is also being used in China, Indonesia and Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news comes after revelations that a new coronavirus variant has emerged in Brazil. Several cases were traced back to the Amazonas state, where a state of emergency is in place.\n\nManaus, the state capital, has been hit especially hard, with beds and life-saving oxygen running low. Refrigerated containers have also been brought to hospitals to help store bodies.\n\nNeighbouring Venezuela said it had sent a convoy of trucks with oxygen supplies to help Amazonas.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism for his handling of Brazil's outbreak, and several anti-government protests were held last week.\n\nAn opponent of lockdowns, he has previously blamed state governors and mayors for the Covid crisis, saying the federal government has provided all the resources needed to tackle the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack\n\nA warning has been issued by royal parks police after a dog carried out a \"relentless\" attack on a deer that had to be put down.\n\nFootage shows the dog savaging the red deer in London's Richmond Park.\n\nCases of pets worrying deer in London's eight royal parks have shot up during lockdown, police say. They are urging owners to keep dogs on leads.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, a 10-year-old child was injured by a herd of deer being chased by a dog in Bushy Park.\n\nPolice said the incident in the park in Richmond-upon-Thames, which left the child needing hospital treatment, underlined the need for people to keep their dogs on a lead if they are unsure how they will react to deer.\n\nOn Friday, Franck Hiribarne, 44, from Kingston in south-west London, admitted causing or permitting an animal he was in charge of to injure another animal, in relation to the Richmond Park attack.\n\nWimbledon magistrates heard the doe suffered deep wounds, then received a broken leg when it was hit by a car as it tried to flee from the dog. Witnesses described the attack as \"relentless\".\n\nThe deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack in October.\n\nMr Hiribarne, who reported the matter himself to the Royal Parks Office, said he usually walked his red setter Alfie on a lead until he was well away from any grazing deer, and that the dog had been responding well to \"off-lead\" commands.\n\nThe dog owner, who was fined £600, said in a statement: \"I was genuinely shocked and sorry for what had happened and since then I have refrained completely from letting Alfie off the leash in any park.\n\n\"I have also taken a special dog trainer specialised in gundogs to control more accurately any of his hunting instincts. He has made great progress.\"\n\nFour deer have died from dog attacks in the royal parks since March 2020, while there have been 58 incidents of dogs chasing the herds - a big increase on previous years - according to the manager of Richmond Park.\n\nPart of the increase is thought to be down to new dog owners who are unfamiliar with the best conduct around wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville has left his role as manager of England's women and been appointed in charge of David Beckham's Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.\n\nThe 43-year-old was appointed as England boss in January 2018 and his contract was set to end in July.\n\nThe Football Association says it will \"shortly confirm\" an interim head coach until Sarina Wiegman's arrival.\n\nNetherlands manager Wiegman will take on the role after the delayed Tokyo Olympics in August.\n\nFormer Manchester United and Everton defender Neville was the leading contender to manage Great Britain at the Games, but his move to the United States has left the FA needing another option.\n\n\"This is a very young club with a lot of promise and upside, and I am committed to challenging myself, my players and everyone around me to grow and build a competitive soccer culture we can all be proud of,\" Neville said of his American move.\n\nBeckham said of his former Manchester United team-mate: \"I have known Phil since we were both teenagers at the academy.\n\n\"We share a footballing DNA having been trained by some of the best leaders in the game, and it's those values that I have always wanted running through our club.\"\n\nThe MLS side had been managed by former Uruguay striker Diego Alonso before the 45-year-old left by mutual consent earlier this month.\n\nBeckham added: \"Anyone who has played or worked with Phil knows he is a natural leader, and I believe now is the right time for him to join.\"\n\nNeville led the Lionesses to their first SheBelieves Cup title in 2019 and fourth place at the Women's World Cup later the same year, but results since that tournament have been poor.\n\nEngland's struggles under Neville continued at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, where a late defeat by Spain in the final match was their seventh loss in 11 games.\n\nThe Lionesses have not played since that game last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It has been an honour to manage England and I have enjoyed three of the best years of my career,\" said Neville, who won 19 of his 35 games in charge.\n\n\"The players who wear the England shirt are some of the most talented and dedicated athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with.\n\n\"They have challenged me and improved me as a coach, and I am very grateful to them for the fantastic memories we have shared.\"\n\nNeville, who had no previous experience in the women's game before taking over, has made a \"significant contribution\" during his three-year spell, said Baroness Campbell, the FA's director of women's football.\n\n\"The commitment, dedication and respect he has shown the position has been clear to see,\" she added.\n\n\"I will personally miss our many conversations about ways we can improve and progress.\"\n\nEngland are ranked sixth in the world, having been third when Neville succeeded Mark Sampson.\n\nNeville's record against the best sides came under particular scrutiny, with England winning one of their nine games against teams ranked in the top five in the world during his reign.\n\nNeville's record against teams ranked in the world's top five\n\n\"After steadying the ship at a challenging period, he helped us to win the SheBelieves Cup for the first time, reach the World Cup semi-finals and qualify for the Olympics,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"Given his status as a former Manchester United and England player, he did much to raise the profile of our team.\n\n\"He has used his platform to champion the women's game, worked tirelessly to support our effort to promote more female coaches and used his expertise to develop many of our younger players.\"\n\nWhat happens next with England?\n\nThe FA is expected to name England's interim head coach in the next few days.\n\nAmong the favourites is former Norway midfielder Hege Riise, one of the greatest players of her generation - a European Championship winner in 1993, a World Cup winner in 1995 and an Olympic gold medallist in 2000.\n\nAfter retiring as a player, Riise moved into club management in Norway and also coached the country's Under-23 side before spending three years as assistant to then-USA head coach Pia Sundhage from 2009.\n\nShe then joined the set-up at Norwegian club LSK Kvinner in 2012 - becoming head coach in 2017 - as they won six successive titles between 2014 and 2019, while also reaching the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRiise was one of seven nominees for the Fifa best women's coach award in 2020, won by Wiegman in December.\n\nThe new interim manager has no England fixtures booked in the diary, though there has reportedly been discussions over a mini-tournament during the next international window in February.\n\nEngland will not be taking part in the SheBelieves Cup but could host a tournament which would see three other nations take part in a round-robin event.\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches, including Manchester United's visit to Liverpool: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Morgan Le-Riche and other students have questioned if they should be paying full tuition fees\n\n\"I am paying £9,000 for a university degree that is causing me nothing but anxiety and stress.\"\n\nFor Morgan Le-Riche, the university experience since the coronavirus pandemic hit has not been worth the fee.\n\nSome students are calling for reduced tuition fees and more support.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided the most generous student support package in the UK and has appointed a dedicated minister for mental health.\n\nIn announcing a lockdown earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said students in England would not return to the classroom until mid February, with calls for clarity over what will happen in Wales.\n\nMorgan, who is studying criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Wales, said \"something needs to be done to help us students\".\n\nHer Facebook post calling for more help was shared 3,000 times in three days - something that surprised her but also highlighted the depth of feeling.\n\nStudents face an uncertain time with with restrictions currently in place\n\nThe second year student said: \"I don't think the government is understanding students, instead they are only recognising primary and secondary schools - there's no recognition for university students.\"\n\nMorgan was given assignments to complete over Christmas, but said her lecturers had turned off their emails so she could not seek guidance when she was finding work difficult.\n\n\"I feel like the amount of stress I've had has meant I'm not doing a high enough standard of work, that I would normally do, due to the lack of assistance,\" she said.\n\nShe said more time with tutors and spaces for students to come together to discuss mental health would be beneficial.\n\nThe University of South Wales said their course teams are committed to providing \"comprehensive support\" and are \"readily available to offer help and guidance for students\".\n\nStudents in England have been told to work online and remain where they are\n\nA petition calling for the UK government to reduce university student tuition fees from £9,250 to £3,000 has gained more than 400,000 signatures online.\n\nMorgan thinks she has been \"massively let down\" and there needs to be a \"heavy reduction\" on the amount students are paying for their courses.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are the only country in the whole of Europe that provides equivalent up front living costs grants and loans for full and part-time undergraduates, and for post-graduates.\n\n\"This already covers campus-based and distance learners and will continue throughout the academic year.\"\n\nDanielle Herbert believes university students need more focus from government\n\nJournalism student Danielle Herbert, who also studies at the University of South Wales, said online learning has helped her mental health because otherwise a lot of her face-to-face interactions would be limited.\n\nDespite \"lecturers trying their best\", students' experiences since March last year have not been \"adequate for a £9,000 fee\".\n\nThe third-year student from Swindon said the prime minister's announcement of an England-wide lockdown was stressful \"because there was no mention of universities\".\n\nShe said: \"I was left very unclear and confused as to where I stood on travelling back to Wales. As someone who suffers from anxiety, I rely on concrete facts and that wasn't provided. We have been ignored by the prime minister.\n\n\"I had just paid my rent for this term - which was £2,300 - and I looked at my mum and dad and said: 'Am I even going to be able to go back to my student flat'?\"\n\nDanielle has called for more help for students in dealing with mental health issues during the pandemic\n\nShe does not believe students have had the same level of support as secondary school pupils, adding: \"We're still expected to produce the same standard of work without protection whilst there's a pandemic going on - it's really unrealistic.\"\n\nDanielle said having a \"no detriment\" policy in place would help to relieve students' stress.\n\n\"I think there's a real issue amongst students and students' mental health and it's only grown because of coronavirus. I think we will see the consequences of that if nothing is done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"To support mental health services, we have made an additional £9.9m available, as part of efforts to ensure people can access the right support when they need it.\n\n\"In October we announced an additional £10m to support mental health services for higher education students in Wales to increase capacity in students' unions and universities to provide support services.\n\n\"This is in addition to the £27m Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund announced in the summer.\"\n\nThe University of South Wales said the safety and wellbeing of students is its priority and students have access to a \"wide range of comprehensive support for their health, mental health and wellbeing\".\n\n\"Recognising that a number of staff would be on leave over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the course team let students know they were available for help and support right up until the end of term and students were encouraged to ask for support if they needed it,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are providing a full and interactive blended learning offer this term, in line with Welsh Government guidance, so that students can receive good experiences and a high-quality education, enabling them to progress and complete their studies on time.\"", "Software giant Github has apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to be careful about Nazis.\n\nThe employee was fired two days after using the word to describe participants in the US Capitol riots.\n\nBut Github now says that decision was a mistake, and its head of HR has resigned over the scandal.\n\nThe company says it has offered the fired employee his job back, and clarified that \"employees are free to express concerns about Nazis\".\n\nMicrosoft-owned Github is one of the most popular software development tools in the world, with more than 50 million users. News of the internal row was first reported by Business Insider.\n\nPeople associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories stormed Congress.\n\nAs it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: \"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.\"\n\nBut the comment sparked criticism from a co-worker about the use of the word \"Nazi\" to describe the rioters, calling it \"untasteful conduct\" for the workplace.\n\nThe Jewish employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Techcrunch he had been \"genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members\".\n\nTwo days later, he was fired for his \"patterns of behaviour\".\n\nBut the firing led to an outcry from many more co-workers, with hundreds signing an internal letter calling on Github to explain the decision - and to publicly denounce Nazis.\n\nAmid the outcry, the company opened an investigation with an external investigator.\n\n\"The investigation revealed significant errors of judgment and procedure,\" chief executive Erica Brescia wrote in a blogpost. \"Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.\"\n\nShe said the firm had \"reversed the decision to separate with the employee\", and had contacted him - but it is not clear if the employee wishes to return after the treatment he received.\n\nThe company has also issued statements condemning white supremacists, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and those who took part in the Capitol riots.", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A small group of armed protesters held a rally in front of the capitol building in Texas\n\nSmall groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.\n\nProtests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere.\n\nBut many other statehouses were quiet, amid a ramping up of security across US legislatures. No clashes were reported.\n\nThe FBI has warned of armed protests ahead of Wednesday's inauguration.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden will take office two weeks after pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January, leaving five dead, including a police officer.\n\nMore than 25,000 National Guard troops are being deployed to secure Washington. In a sign of just how worried officials are about potential unrest, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Sunday that all Guard members were being vetted because of fears of an insider threat.\n\nAlso on Sunday, a county official from New Mexico was arrested in Washington in connection with the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nCouy Griffin, the founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, had vowed to return on inauguration day with firearms to \"embrace my Second Amendment\".\n\nMany cities had prepared for potentially violent protests over the weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard troops.\n\nPosts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks had called for armed demonstrations on Sunday in particular, but some militias told their followers not to attend, citing heavy security or claiming the planned events were police traps.\n\nSmall crowds of protesters numbering in the dozens gathered in only some cities, leaving the streets surrounding many statehouses largely empty.\n\nMembers of the the Boogaloo Bois were seen outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing\n\nThe New York Times reported about 25 members of the Boogaloo Bois movement were among heavily-armed protesters who gathered at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. But the men - who are part of a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the US government - said they were there for a long-planned gun rights rally.\n\nMeanwhile in Michigan, about two dozen people - some carrying rifles - protested outside the statehouse in Lansing, as police watched on.\n\n\"I am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nA similarly small group of about a dozen protesters, a few armed with rifles, stood outside the Texas Capitol in Austin.\n\nOutside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg, one Trump supporter noted the poor turn-out, telling Reuters: \"There's nothing going on.\"\n\nMore protests are expected on Wednesday, when Mr Biden will officially be sworn into office, replacing Mr Trump as president.\n\nMr Biden will issue executive orders to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.\n\nThe president-elect is also expected to focus on reuniting families separated at the US-Mexico border, and to issue mandates on Covid-19 and mask-wearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Capitol is on high alert ahead of Biden's inauguration\n\nMuch of Washington DC has been locked down ahead of the inauguration. The National Mall, which is usually thronged with thousands of people for inaugurations, has been shut at the request of the Secret Service.\n\nThe Biden team had already asked Americans to avoid travelling to the nation's capital for the inauguration because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local officials said people should watch the event remotely.", "China's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than four decades last year, official figures show, but remains on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.\n\nThe economy grew 2.3% last year, despite Covid-19 shutdowns causing output to slump in early 2020.\n\nStrict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses helped the economy recover.\n\nGrowth in the final three months of the year picked up to 6.5%.\n\n\"The GDP data shows the economy has almost normalised. This momentum will continue, although the current Covid-19 outbreak in a couple of provinces in northern China might temporarily cause fluctuation,\" said Yue Su, principal economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nChina's mainland share markets as well as Hong Kong's Hang Seng posted modest gains on the latest figures, which exceeded economists' expectations, according to a Reuters poll.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 was still a major drain on growth in 2020, with nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants forcing economic growth down to its slowest rate for four decades.\n\nChina's manufacturing sector appears to have recovered, with Monday's data showing a 7.3% increase in industrial output.\n\nExports have also led the way. Data last week showed Chinese exports grew by more than expected in December, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThat is despite a stronger yuan, which makes Chinese exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nChina's economy has seen a strong rebound, while the rest of the world struggles with anaemic demand, millions of job losses, and businesses shutting down.\n\nChina's economic engine roared back to life after a brutal lockdown that saw the Chinese economy contract by a historic 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nWe should always be circumspect about Chinese data - with the usual caveat that the trajectory of the data rather than the figures themselves are a useful guide to how China's economy is growing.\n\nWhat these numbers show is that China's strategy of locking down cities hard and quickly has worked.\n\nA combination of government-led investment and global demand for Chinese goods also helped to power a rapid recovery, and boost exports.\n\nStill - this is the lowest rate of annual growth in more than 40 years for the economic giant. Worries over a resurgence of the virus are also clouding China's growth outlook, with consumer demand still weak.\n\nAnd Beijing is trying to navigate a prickly trade relationship with the US, with the incoming administration unlikely to be softer on China than President Donald Trump.\n\nAll of these challenges will no doubt weigh on Chinese growth in 2021 - but they seem to be in a better place than the rest of the world's major economies.\n\nIt was not all good news from the latest figures.\n\nLi Wei, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said pandemic-related exports and credit-fuelled car and housing sales accounted for much of the growth, while domestic demand lagged behind.\n\n\"Domestic household consumption of food, clothing, furniture and utilities remains below pre-pandemic levels, while the hospitality and transportation sectors continue to face capacity and travel restrictions,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nAlthough retail sales grew by 4.6% in the fourth quarter of 2020, they fell by 3.9% for the year.\n\nMany analysts are tipping growth to accelerate in 2021, but the China Bureau of Statistics has warned of a \"grave and complex environment both at home and abroad\", with the pandemic having a \"huge impact\".\n\nChina still faces many challenges, including continuing trade tensions with the US and how they might play out under the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Although it has been common to hear and see the impact on care homes internationally throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one country where such insight has been rare is China.\n\nPrivate care homes have been growing in popularity in China in recent years, but there are some stigmas associated with the industry.\n\nIn China, many view nursing homes as going against the cultural concept of “filial piety”. This is the belief that the young should respect for and care for their elders, and so many believe the elderly should live with their children, and not live in care homes.\n\nHowever, as cases of the virus grow in the northeast of the country, the official broadcaster CCTV has offered viewers a rare insight into how China’s elderly in these facilities are being protected.\n\nA journalist today has visited the Shijiazhuang Nursing Home. Shijiazhuang is the Chinese city that has been hardest hit by the virus in recent weeks.\n\nIn a 30-minute livestream in which he is clad in hazmat suit and visor, journalist Gu Junling introduces viewers to how the facilities are kept safe, and shows viewers inside the care home’s stockrooms, packed with ample provisions for its residents.\n\nMany of the residents seem happy to speak to the journalist and talk about how they are healthy, and happy. Masks are mandatory for both residents and staff, even in the areas outside on-site. However, far from being kept under house arrest, residents are shown to have sufficient space to go outside, use computers and games rooms.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor Andy Gray who has died at the age of 61.\n\nThe Perth-born star was a well known face on TV and the stage for more than 40 years.\n\nAmong his best known on-screen roles were \"Chancer\" in the 1980s comedy City Lights and more recently \"Pete Galloway\" in BBC soap River City.\n\nHis River City co-star Gayle Telfer Stevens said Gray was a \"national treasure\".\n\nShe added: \"Not only was he an exceptional actor and entertainer who brought so much joy to so many people, he was an extraordinary man.\n\n\"When you were in his presence you could feel it was of greatness. The most kind, clever, funny beyond measure, beautiful man.\"\n\nAndy Gray, second from the left in the back row, starred as \"Chancer\" in the hit 1980s comedy show \"City Lights\"\n\nAndy Gray performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013\n\nSteve Carson, director of BBC Scotland, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that one of Scotland's much loved comedy actors and close friend to many at BBC Scotland, Andy Gray has passed away.\n\n\"On screen and in person he could always make you laugh and was one of the kindest people to have around on any production. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nAndy Gray, pictured with Grant Stott, had been one of the stars at Edinburgh's King's Theatre pantomime for years\n\nMartin McCardie, executive producer at BBC Scotland Studios, added: \"When Andy joined River City in 2016 he had an extremely successful stage, TV and film career behind him, but the character of Pete Galloway turned out to be one of the most popular ever to pass through Shieldinch.\n\n\"Andy took ill in 2018 and he had to leave the show and he had a difficult time. His ongoing recovery was borne with humour and gratitude for what he had. He had unfinished business on River City and we were looking forward to welcoming him back to film with us before the end of the current series.\"\n\nAndy Gray was genuinely one of the nicest people in the world of showbusiness.\n\nWhether you were an actor, or a journalist, or just someone who'd seen him in panto, he was always ready to have a chat.\n\nWhen he dropped out of his Fringe show in 2018, after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, he was inundated with good wishes, but said he wanted privacy to deal with his illness.\n\nHe retreated to his home in Perthshire and took the time to recover.\n\nWhen he returned to the stage of the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh for their 2019 panto, it was an emotional milestone.\n\nWrapped in his Batman dressing gown backstage (he was a huge fan with a shed full of film paraphernalia) he admitted it could be overwhelming. Sometimes the whoops and cheers of the audience at his arrival in the midst of a glitzy song and dance routine would go on for several minutes.\n\nHis co-stars Grant Stott and Allan Stewart watched from the wings and said it had restored the balance of their long established trio. The Kings is one of the only theatres to have a tradition of a pantette - where the cast sit in the auditorium and watch the front of house staff performing the show. Andy wasn't spared the merciless send up, nor would he have wanted to.\n\nDaughter Claire was also in the show - as one of the three bears - and her baby daughter was in Andy's arms for the curtain call. But whether his actual family, or his panto family, or the generations of people who've seen him onstage or screen, it was a moment of hope, as well as joy, that someone who'd brought so much laughter and entertainment to Scotland was back.\n\nThat's why his sudden death at 61 is such a cruel blow.\n\nHe had been campaigning to keep the Kings afloat, and was involved in online performances. He and Allan Stewart had hoped to appear in one of the few surviving pantomimes in Milton Keynes but that too was cancelled.\n\nFriends and colleagues knew he'd been admitted to hospital in the last few days, and feared the worst. Those who simply knew him as someone who made them laugh, on stage or screen, are no less bereft.\n\nTonight the world of Scottish entertainment is in mourning for a gifted comic actor, writer and genuinely nice man.", "Aberystwyth University's vice chancellor told students not to attend lectures unless \"absolutely necessary\"\n\nAberystwyth University has told its students not to return to campus following new advice from the Welsh Government.\n\nA phased return had been planned from 11 January, but this has now been postponed.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure said students should not attend the university, in Ceredigion, unless \"absolutely necessary.\"\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government told learners \"study from home if you can\".\n\nMs Treasure said: \"We are reviewing our plans for in-person teaching and will inform you as soon as we can. Whilst we are reviewing those plans, we don't want students travelling to the university unnecessarily.\"\n\nShe said there were certain exceptions, including students without internet access and those for whom laboratory access was essential.\n\nWales' Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said universities were reviewing their plans based on their individual circumstances.\n\n\"On return, students are also expected to take two asymptomatic tests and comply with rules as they re-join their term time household,\" she said.\n\nDespite the announcement, Bangor University said on Facebook on Friday that it \"falls under the rules of the Welsh Government which allow for a staggered return to blended learning\".\n\nCardiff University said earlier this week that most students would not return to face-to-face teaching until 22 February.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our message to students, staff and universities in general is the same as the rest of the population: Stay home, work or study from home if you can.\n\n\"Only attend your place of work or study if you can't work from home.\"\n\nThe new announcement came after calls for clarity were made because of differences with the rules in England.\n\nAt that point, the Welsh Government and Universities Wales said the plans agreed before Christmas would remain in place.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term unless there is a \"significant\" fall in Covid cases.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "Audi factories, like others, will make thousands fewer cars at the start of this year\n\nAudi is having to slow production because of a computer-chip shortage it is calling a \"crisis upon a crisis\".\n\nBoss Markus Duesmann said it was now aiming to make 10,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year and putting more than 10,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIts parent company, Volkswagen, announced its own go-slow due to a lack of chips last week, alongside rivals such as Honda.\n\nMr Duesmann told the Financial Times carmakers had been caught by surprise.\n\nAfter a poor start to 2020 for new car sales, manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nBut then, at the end of the year, \"everybody was quite surprised by the strength of the market\", Mr Duesmann said.\n\nHowever, ordering new chips is not simple.\n\nCCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber said: \"Semiconductors have a broad range of applications but a very limited pool of companies capable of manufacturing the silicon.\n\n\"Demand is high, and supply is tight\" and any sudden needs \"can prove very difficult to accommodate\".\n\n\"Modern cars are becoming computers on wheels, with an abundance of silicon required to control everything from the infotainment system to camera, radar and lidar,\" he said.\n\nThe demand from carmakers \"competes for manufacturing capacity with smartphones, servers and a host of other segments\".\n\nAnd a boom in the market for devices such as PCs and new game consoles was making it doubly difficult to book manufacturing time.\n\nThe shortages have seen Mercedes-maker Daimler, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all reportedly suspend production for days or weeks at a time.\n\nAnd German car-parts company Continental described \"largescale supply shortages\", with lead times of six to nine months, adding bottlenecks were expected to continue \"well into 2021, causing major disruptions\".", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff are in \"the eye of the storm\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says\n\nTen hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds in the most recent figures.\n\nIt comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care are rising.\n\nEngland's 140 acute trusts had 5,503 adult critical care beds on 10 January, with 4,632 in use.\n\nNHS bosses have warned hospitals could \"hit the limit\" of their capacity this week.\n\n\"I think, this next week, we will be at the limit of what we probably have the physical space and the people to safely do,\" Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said.\n\n\"And, of course, this is the week when we expect also the highest rate of admissions, the highest demand for the care that we're providing.\"\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England show the number of trusts that were, on average, at full capacity in adult critical care across an entire week rose from four to 10 in the week to 10 January.\n\nThis was the highest number in the last 10 weeks for which data was available.\n\nThe increase comes despite trusts adding an additional 50% \"surge\" capacity across the summer and autumn to cope with winter pressures, according to NHS England.\n\nOverall, 30 acute hospital trusts in England had no spare adult critical care beds on 10 January alone. But daily admissions figures can vary from day-to-day as patients move in and out of intensive care.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said nine critical care patients had recently been transferred to other parts of the country because of no beds being available in their local area.\n\nSpeaking about all admissions, Sir Simon said hospitals in England had seen an increase of 15,000 inpatients since Christmas Day.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients and staggeringly every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nHelen Buckingham, from Health think-tank The Nuffield Trust, said the NHS was facing a winter \"like no other\" and, on top of rising coronavirus hospital admissions, critical care beds were also required for non-Covid patients.\n\n\"The NHS has pulled out all the stops to create more beds this year, and hospitals are working together so that patients who need critical care can be moved to other hospitals as necessary - but without more fully trained critical care staff there isn't much further the service can go,\" she said.\n\nThe figures only tell part of the story. The creation of extra beds to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients has come at a price.\n\nCritical care beds have been set up in overspill areas including departments usually reserved for operations. What is more, there is no extra staff to look after these extra patients - so specialist intensive care nurses have been stretched across more patients than normal. Instead of providing one-to-one care for the most sick, some areas are seeing nurses looking after three or four patients.\n\nStaff from other areas have had to be redeployed into critical care departments too.\n\nThat of course comes at a cost to non-Covid services and is part of the reason we have seen planned surgery and even cancer care being cut back on.\n\nA leaked email recently revealed about 200 doctors would be redeployed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham amid fears its intensive care unit could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it had \"significantly\" more patients in hospital with Covid-19 than in April last year.\n\nThe trust had 147 critical care beds available across its hospitals as of 10 January, all of which were full as of the latest figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nA spokesman said the trust would continue to extend its intensive care teams \"so they are able to treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients and those who require time-critical surgery, including cancer operations\".\n\nAiredale NHS Foundation Trust, despite having nine critical care beds overall, said it did not normally experience full occupancy at this time in the year and the ward had both Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"We are experiencing normal winter pressures across the trust, combined with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients, particularly over the last week,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Every bed in ICU that is occupied by a Covid-19 patient is one less available for people who need that level of care for other reasons.\"\n\nSir Simon said the current number of patients in critical care was a \"clear indication of the huge pressure on the NHS\", including ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals.\n\n\"The likelihood is, even with a stabilising of infections in some parts of the country, we're still seeing increases in infections among the over-60s in many parts of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"The forecasts are the pressure on hospitals will only get more intense over the next several weeks.\"\n\nNHS England said critical care services were under \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nA spokeswoman added that hospitals had \"tried and tested plans in place\" to manage pressure from increased Covid-19 and non-Covid patients, including mutual aid practices where hospitals work together to manage admissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "A Republican lawmaker who had been in office for less than a week when she invoked German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Washington speech has apologised for saying that she agreed with the mass murderer.\n\nIllinois Congresswoman Mary Miller had said in a speech on Tuesday outside the Capitol, one day before her fellow Trump supporters ransacked the building, that Hitler had been \"right\".\n\nMiller told the crowd: \"You know, if we win a few elections we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts of our children.\n\n\"It’s the battle. Hitler was right on one thing - that whoever has the youth has the future.\"\n\nHitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933 Image caption: Hitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933\n\nThe comments drew large-scale condemnation, with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum saying in a statement that it \"unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was ‘right.’\"\n\nUnder Hitler, millions of Jews and other minority groups were murdered across Europe by Germany and its allies during World War Two.\n\nOn Friday, Miller insisted that she is not anti-semitic and accused other of \"trying to intentionally twist my words\".\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth,\" she said.\n\nCorrection 23rd June 2022: This post originally described Mary Miller as having praised Hitler and has been amended to make clear that she invoked Hitler in her speech.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "While GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled, the IGCSE exams will go ahead this summer\n\nThe IGCSE exams, usually only taken in private schools, are still going ahead this summer - even though GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled.\n\nExam boards that run IGCSEs plan to offer them, while many other exams have been stopped by the pandemic.\n\nIGCSE qualifications, alternative exams to GCSEs, are not usually available in state schools.\n\nPupils in England whose A-levels and GCSEs are cancelled will depend on replacement grades from teachers.\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's scrapping of exams this summer does not apply to students taking IGCSEs.\n\nA Department for Education report in 2019 found 94% of IGCSEs were taken in private schools, accounting for 164,000 exam entries.\n\nThe decision not to cancel them was welcomed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), representing some of the most prestigious independent schools.\n\nThe HMC's general secretary, Simon Hyde, said their schools \"would be the first to cheer if pupils educated by the state had the same opportunity\".\n\n\"The decision to cancel GCSEs was premature. Exams are the fairest way of assessing what learners know and understand and we would like to see as many pupils as possible take a form of exam in the summer,\" said Dr Hyde.\n\nIndependent schools often offer a mix of IGCSEs and GCSEs for different subjects, although IGCSEs do not count towards school league tables.\n\nThe qualifications - International GCSEs - are offered by Cambridge Assessment and Pearson and are taken in other countries as well as the UK. Both boards say they are planning to go ahead with exam papers for UK schools this summer.\n\nIGCSEs were not included in the cancellation of exams announced by England's Department for Education and it will be up to individual schools to decide whether to continue with them.\n\nJulie McCullloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said: \"It creates another inconsistency, but none of this is easy.\"\n\nShe said it created an \"odd situation\" when GCSEs were cancelled but IGCSEs were going ahead, but she recognised that an international qualification could need a common approach across different countries.\n\nWith the latest lockdown and most pupils studying at home, GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, the exams watchdog Ofqual will launch a consultation next week on a replacement way of deciding grades - but Ofqual does not regulate IGCSEs and they will not be part of the watchdog's proposals.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident\n\nA fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160.\n\nPolice said it was \"crucial\" he was caught as soon as possible as he \"may endanger people's lives\".\n\nDet Insp Kevin Ives described it as a \"disgusting and totally unacceptable assault\".\n\nIt comes after the NHS warned people that no-one should be turning up at doorsteps offering a vaccine for payment, following a spate of fake text messages.\n\nUnder the current coronavirus vaccine rollout plans, people will be invited to receive the vaccine by their GP or healthcare provider.\n\nPolice said the victim allowed the man into her home on the afternoon of 30 December after he said he was from the NHS and there to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nShe said she was jabbed in the arm with a \"dart-like implement\" before being charged £160, which the man said would be refunded by the NHS.\n\nPolice said it was not known what substance, if any, was administered, but the woman had been checked at her local hospital and showed no ill effects.\n\nDet Insp Ives appealed for information to help identify the suspect.\n\nHe added: \"It is crucial we catch him as soon as possible as not only is he defrauding individuals of money, he may endanger people's lives.\"\n\nThe man made a second visit to the woman's home on 4 January, when he asked for another £100, police said.\n\nThe man was spotted in the Tolworth area of Kingston-upon-Thames on 4 January\n\nOfficers released CCTV footage on Friday of a man dressed in a navy blue tracksuit with white stripes down the side, who they want to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nHe is described as a white man in his early 30s, who is about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, of medium build, with light brown hair that is combed back. He speaks with a London accent.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said: \"NHS England will never ask for bank details, Pin numbers or passwords, when contacting you about a vaccination.\n\n\"Any communication which claims to be from the NHS but asks for payment, or bank details, is fraudulent and can be ignored. It can be reported to police via Action Fraud.\n\n\"You will never be charged for the vaccine.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it is \"excellent news\" that a third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.\n\nIt is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being offered on the NHS.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine - 10 million more than planned - but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nIt is the last Covid vaccine with final trial data published.\n\nThere are hundreds still in development, with some expected to report findings in the near future.\n\nAround 1.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far, with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nThat figure includes almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England - people at highest risk of severe illness or death from the virus.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first, as set out in a list of nine high-priority groups, covering around 30 million people in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi welcomed the approval of the Moderna jab\n\nThe prime minister has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care homes residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"This is further great news and another weapon in our arsenal to tame this awful disease.\"\n\nThe UK had originally ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna jab, but has increased this to get even more people immunised as quickly as possible.\n\nIn total, the UK has now ordered 367 million doses of vaccines to protect against Covid-19.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, vaccine deployment minister, said: \"The NHS is pulling out all the stops to vaccinate those most at risk as quickly as possible, with over 1,000 vaccination sites live across the UK by the end of the week to provide easy access to everyone, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"The Moderna vaccine will be a vital boost to these efforts and will help us return to normal faster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Moderna vaccine, an RNA vaccine like Pfizer's, injects part of the virus's genetic code in order to provoke an immune response.\n\nIt requires temperatures of around -20C for shipping - similar to a normal freezer.\n\nIn comparison, the Pfizer/BioNTech one requires temperatures closer to -75C, making transport logistics much more difficult.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab is easier to store and distribute, as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature.\n\nAll of these vaccines require a second booster shot, but a first dose is likely to be given to as many people as possible.\n\nIn trials with more than 30,000, the Moderna vaccine offered nearly 95% protection from severe Covid.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and it takes time for protection to build. For all of the Covid vaccines, we still do not know how long immunity will last.\n\nPeople who have received a coronavirus vaccine should continue to follow social distancing rules to protect themselves and others.\n\nEU and US regulators have already approved the Moderna vaccine.", "The band recently became a trio (left-right): Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards\n\nLittle Mix have risen to top the top of UK singles chart after Christmas songs released their grip on the top 40.\n\nSweet Melody has become the band's fifth number one, three months after it was released - and will be their last with Jesy Nelson, who quit last year.\n\nThe 29-year-old said in December that nine years in the girl group had taken \"a toll on her mental health\".\n\nLittle Mix's victory is part of a huge chart upheaval, after 56 Christmas songs dropped out of the top 100.\n\nAmong them was last week's number one, Wham's Last Christmas, which set a new record for the biggest-ever fall from the top. The festive ballad has now left the chart altogether.\n\nThe previous record-holder - Three Lions, by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - fell from number one to 96 after England crashed out of the World Cup in 2018.\n\nSweet Melody has risen from number nine to number one this week, giving Little Mix their first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.\n\nJade Thirlwall told BBC Radio 1 the milestone was particularly important because it was \"the last single we did as a four with Jesy\".\n\n\"And it's even more special that now, going into 2021 as a three, we've got the first number one,\" she added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Charts This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nAcknowledging a fan campaign to boost the song's chart position, bandmate Perrie Edwards said: \"I just want to squish every single fan who managed to get it to number one.\n\n\"The power they have, I'm sorry. The song's been out for months!\"\n\nWith fans abandoning their festive playlists, the stage was also set for singles that had previously been forced out of the top 40 to stage a dramatic return.\n\nDua Lipa's Levitating jumped 63 places to number five, reclaiming a position it last held on 3 December; and Tate McRae's You Broke Me First rocketed from number 74 to nine. In total, there were 39 new entries or re-entries in the top 75.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's Evermore returned to number one, four weeks after its surprise pre-Christmas release, while companion album Folklore climbed to number 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Harry Styles' Fine Line reached a new chart peak at number two following the release of a video for his latest single Treat People With Kindness, which sees him dance with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\n\nLewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the UK's biggest-selling album of both 2019 and 2020 - also climbed to number six, notching up its 86th week in the top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Graham Norton has been the BBC's Mr Eurovision since 2009\n\nGraham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC Eurovision coverage, has said the song contest will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"There's definitely going to be a Eurovision... The competition element is going to happen,\" he said.\n\nContest organisers told the BBC: \"We can confirm the Eurovision Song Contest will definitely take place this year.\"\n\nBut pre-recorded performances may be used if acts cannot travel to Rotterdam or have to isolate when they get there.\n\nLast year's contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It was replaced in the UK with a programme looking back at the event's history, including a vote to find the greatest Eurovision song of all time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorton told US radio station Sirius XM that if some artists are unable to travel to the Netherlands in 2021, \"they can Zoom in a performance\". He added: \"I doubt we'll be in a stadium full of 20,000 people.\"\n\nOrganisers stressed that while \"the general gist of Graham's comments is correct\", pre-recorded performances will be used if an act can't travel, rather than asking them to perform live from their home country.\n\nThe filmed routines will be shown \"if a participant cannot travel to Rotterdam due to the current pandemic, or in the unfortunate instance of an artist having to quarantine on site\", a spokesman said.\n\nBroadcasters will have to follow a \"strict set of guidelines\" to help them record their \"live on tape\" performances \"to keep the competition fair should it not go ahead in the traditional way\", he added.\n\nThe new rules state: \"The recording will take place in real time (as it would be at the contest) without making any edits to the vocals or any part of the performance itself after the recording.\"\n\nThis year's contest will take place on 22 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872\n\nScotland's hospitals have more Covid patients than ever before - with the number of deaths also \"distressingly high\", the first minister has said.\n\nThe latest figures showed that the deaths of 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nBut the figure includes some people who died over Christmas and New Year.\n\nThere were also 1,530 people in hospital with the virus, higher than the peak of 1,520 last April.\n\nOf these, 102 patients were in intensive care - with Ms Sturgeon saying the statistics showed the \"severity of the pressure\" that hospitals are facing.\n\nThe 93 deaths recorded on Friday is the highest daily figure since the outbreak began - with the previous high being 84 on 15 April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the figure will \"undoubtedly include some people who died over the Christmas and New Year period and the delay in registration because of the bank holidays means that their deaths are only being reported today.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be clear, that is not more than 90 people who died yesterday. It will be people who have died over a period of time.\n\n\"That does not change the fact they are all individuals who have died and have died of Covid.\"\n\nA further 2,309 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which was 8.1% of the tests carried out on Thursday and takes the total number of cases in Scotland to 146,024.\n\nThe figures mean that the total number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nIt believes that more people are using the country's road and public transport networks than during the lockdown last spring.\n\nAnd it has warned that tougher restrictions could be needed to increase compliance with the travel restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the areas being looked at included non-essential click and collect shopping, further restrictions on takeaway food, non-essential construction and whether more people should be working from home.\n\nThe first minister also confirmed that universities and colleges will not resume in-person teaching until at least the end of February.\n\nThis means that students should stay at home rather than travelling back to their campus or accommodation.\n\nThere will be exceptions for cases where remote study is not possible - for example for a student nurse or a doctor on a practical placement.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said any students who have remained on campus will be \"fully supported\" by their institution.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland was placed into level four restrictions from 26 December before additional measures, including closing schools to most pupils until at least the end of the month, was introduced on Tuesday.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Dr Dave Caesar, insisted on Friday morning that coronavirus case numbers in January \"could have been worse\".\n\nHe said the restrictions that were introduced on Boxing Day had helped to \"blunt the spike\" but warned that the country was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDr Caesar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our case numbers are high, but they're not as high as they could have been if we hadn't taken the measures that we undertook from Boxing Day.\n\n\"Our health system is under serious pressure but is coping.\n\n\"I hate to say it, but it could have been worse by this time in January. We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose we're holding our own in very significantly challenging circumstances.\"\n\nNew Covid testing measures for international travellers are to be introduced\n\nNew plans to make international passengers test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to Scotland and England have also been unveiled, with Ms Sturgeon saying she hoped the scheme could start by the end of next week.\n\nIt will mean people arriving by plane, train or boat - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are travelling from.\n\nProf Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said the move was long overdue as the UK had \"really struggled from the beginning\" with limiting the impact of international travel on the pandemic.\n\nBut she said the country should also consider introducing supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside. The BBC looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "Former Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving\n\nThree members of a \"toxic\" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their \"offensive\" conversations were secretly bugged.\n\nThe devices picked up \"homophobic, racist and sexist\" conversations in the offices of Hampshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nA number of force staff referred to it as a \"lads' pad\".\n\nTwo other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".\n\nDet Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired Det Insp Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman were the two who had previously left the force.\n\nTrainee Det Con Andrew Ferguson, who sent colleagues a fake pornographic image of members of the royal family, has been given a final written warning.\n\nThe six men were based at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke\n\nImposing the sanctions, panel chairman John Bassett said the conduct had been \"shameful\".\n\nHe said police officers could not \"pick and choose the standards they will abide by\" in order to create more \"cohesive\" teams.\n\nMr Bassett said PC Ferguson was \"essentially a good officer\" who joined the team three months before the recordings, by which time the \"culture was well-established\".\n\nHe said the officer was \"conflicted by what he witnessed\" and \"felt unable to raise the matter with a supervisor\".\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the force's internal investigation had revealed a \"catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all\".\n\nShe added: \"These officers have failed to deliver on the promise they made to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people.\n\n\"[They] have undermined the trust and confidence of our communities and damaged the reputations of their colleagues.\"\n\nThe six officers have apologised but some told the disciplinary panel swearing was in the \"fabric\" of the police force.\n\nOne also said they felt they were being \"made an example of\" by the force which should have learned from other previous incidents.\n\nIn all, 20 police officers and staff from the unit have faced some sort of disciplinary action.\n\nDuring the misconduct hearing at Hampshire Constabulary's headquarters in Eastleigh, it was heard a \"toxic, abhorrent culture\" developed with officers using offensive terms for women, black people, immigrants, disabled, gay and transgender people and foreign nationals.\n\nJason Beer QC, prosecuting, said the only black member of the team was referred to using racist tropes and references to slavery.\n\nWomen were described using derogatory terms and stared at in the canteen, he added.\n\nThe men admitted some of the charges of breaching standards of professional behaviour against them but claimed it only amounted to misconduct not gross misconduct.\n\nZoe Wakefield, chair of Hampshire Police Federation, said: \"The outdated and offensive views we heard during the hearing have no place in society and they certainly have no place in policing.\n\n\"We should not let the awful language and terminology used by a very small number of police officers tarnish the hard work and dedication of thousands of police officers and staff in Hampshire...\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Growing numbers of students in England have pledged to withhold rent on university accommodation they cannot use during the Covid lockdown.\n\nOrganisers say this is building up to be a major protest, estimating that about 15,000 students at dozens of universities have signed up so far.\n\nThey want a rebate on rent when many students are being kept off campus at the start of term.\n\nBut universities say they only provide 20% of student accommodation.\n\nUniversities UK says this means \"many decisions on refunds will be made by private landlords and other providers\".\n\nIn November, University of Manchester offered a 30% rent rebate for the first half of the academic year, worth about £1,000 to each student in halls.\n\nThe move followed protests over lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic which saw students tear down temporary fencing in one demonstration.\n\nUniversity of Manchester students have been calling for a rent strike\n\nThe reduction will be applied to direct debit payments this month, with students who have already paid for the whole year getting a refund.\n\nBut organiser of the Rent Strike Now campaign, Ben McGowan, said the new lockdown means students are still paying for halls they are unable to return to which has prompted a wave of student anger.\n\nOn Twitter, campaigners listed more than 40 universities where they said students were pledging to withhold rent.\n\nThe campaign group Rent Strike Now tweeted a list of universities where there are campaigns\n\n\"Most of us are being told not to go back so we're paying for accommodation we can't use and there's been no extra support from universities and government,\" added Saranya Thambiranjah, a first year at Bristol University who also helps run the campaign.\n\n\"Rent striking is a great way to make our voices heard and get universities to listen our concerns.\"\n\nStudents at universities not yet part of this campaign have said they will organise similar challenges on their own campuses, including Coventry and Keele.\n\nRebecca Hyde is having to do her journalism course in her bedroom\n\nAt Nottingham Trent University, student campaigner Rebecca Hyde, who is doing a masters in broadcast journalism, said 244 students had so far pledged to withhold rent on university halls since their campaign was launched a few days ago.\n\nShe believes universities should do more to help students who are having to pay for rooms they are unable to use through no fault of their own.\n\nShe says her course leaders have been brilliant but missing out on using studios and running \"news days\" with her fellow students \"is just so disappointing\".\n\nNottingham Trent University says it understands student concerns over rents and urged the government \"to show leadership to find a solution that is fair to all students\".\n\n\"At NTU, only a minority of our students are in accommodation operated by or on behalf of the university.\n\n\"We do not want a repeat of the situation in the summer term of 2020 where most of our students were reliant on the goodwill of private accommodation providers who did not always do the right thing,\" said the university in a statement.\n\nAt King's College London, campaign secretary \"Juno\" likewise reported hundreds of new pledges to withhold rent in the past few days, saying students felt they had been \"lured\" into their accommodation at the start of the academic year.\n\nA King's spokesperson promised that students would not be charged for accommodation they are unable to use during lockdown.\n\nAbout a quarter of students are in privately-run purpose built accommodation, and one of the biggest of these providers, Unite Students, is also facing demands.\n\nLiverpool John Moores student Suhail Accad, in Unite accommodation, says his rent strike post on Instagram has gained 3,000 followers and has had 8,000 shares in just a few days.\n\n\"It's expensive to stay here,\" says Suhail.\n\nUnite was unable to comment directly on the threat of rent strikes but maintains that it is doing all it can to help keep students and staff safe \"during this challenging period\".\n\nUniversities UK said universities were looking at the issue \"actively\" and considering what support they can offer students.\n\n\"Universities recognise the financial pressures the pandemic has placed on students and are providing increased financial and other support as a result.\n\n\"With government restrictions reducing the numbers of students returning in person to universities, now is the time for the government to seriously consider the financial implications for students and institutions and what support they will provide.\"", "Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts\n\nThe government is urging people in England to stay at home and \"act like you've got it\" as part of a new advertising campaign.\n\nThe \"stay at home, save lives\" campaign will run across TV, radio, out-of-home advertising and social media.\n\nThe campaign will include a new advert fronted by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, which will air for the first time on ITV at 19:15 GMT tonight.\n\nThe UK reported a record number of deaths and cases today, as hospitals come under growing pressure, with some in the South East at extreme capacity.\n\nAround one in three people with Covid-19 don’t have any symptoms and can pass it on without realising, the government said, \"which is why it’s essential everyone stays at home and remembers Hands, Face, Space\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\n\n“The vaccine has given us renewed hope in our fight against the virus but we must not be complacent.\n\n\"The NHS is under severe strain and we must take action to protect it, both so our doctors and nurses can continue to save lives and so they can vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as we can.\n\n“I know the last year has taken its toll – but your compliance is now more vital than ever. So once again, I must urge everyone to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's plan to replace web browser cookies with a system that shares less data with advertisers is being investigated in the UK.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google's plan could have a \"significant impact\" on news websites and the digital advertising market.\n\nIt had already raised concerns that publishers' profits could sink if they were unable to run personalised ads.\n\nBut Google said digital advertising practices had to \"evolve\".\n\nCookies are small files a web browser stores on a user's device when they visit a webpage.\n\nThey can be used to remember what items a person has added to their online basket and deliver personalised content.\n\nThey can also be used to track somebody's activity online and deliver targeted advertising.\n\nSome cookies known as cross-site or third-party cookies can let publishers track a person's web activity as they move from one website to another.\n\nBy default, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox browsers already block cross-site cookies.\n\nBut Google intends to go further by ending support for all cookies except first-party ones - those used by sites to track activity within their own pages.\n\nIt wants to replace them with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.\n\nAccording to one industry group opposing the move, Google's Chrome browser is installed on more than 70% of computers in the UK.\n\nSo even if other web browsers do not adopt the same approach the move would still be significant.\n\n\"Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market. But there are also privacy concerns to consider,\" said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA.\n\nA coalition of about a dozen small tech companies and publishers - Marketers for an Open Web (Mow) - claims some of its members' revenues could drop by as much as two-thirds.\n\nMoreover, it suggests the move would put too much power into Google's hands.\n\n\"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,\" it warned last month.\n\n\"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not.\n\n\"This will reduce the ability of independent players to compete with Google, strengthening its monopoly control of online commerce.\"\n\nThe group has also raised concerns about other related matters, including the tech firm's plan to end support for user-agent strings.\n\nThese are bits of text that browsers send to websites at the start of a user's visit to reveal details about the device and browser being used.\n\nPublishers use this information to optimise the way their sites appear.\n\nBut Google is phasing out support on the grounds that they are also used as an alternative to cookies to track users, and sometimes cause compatibility issues.\n\nThe CMA previously issued a report into the matter in July.\n\nAt that point it acknowledged that while there were benefits to consumers from the kinds of privacy measures Google was proposing, they might be outweighed by other concerns.\n\nIt added that \"many news publishers\" had expressed concern that their news sites would become \"unsustainable\".\n\nUntil recently, the European Commission was responsible for most large and complex competition cases involving the UK.\n\nOn 1 January, the CMA took over these responsibilities on a local level due to Brexit.\n\nLast November, the government announced it would create a new Digital Markets Unit within the CMA.\n\nThe organisation subsequently detailed how it would to govern the behaviour of Google, Facebook and other tech platforms \"that currently dominate\" online markets, and give consumers \"more control over how their data is used\".\n\nThe new unit becomes operational in April, but is dependent on legislation going through Parliament before it gets new powers, and that may not happen until 2022.\n\nSince that would be too late to block Google's Privacy Sandbox plans, the probe is being carried out under the existing regime.\n\nEven so, all those involved will be watching closely for signs of how willing the authority is to confront the US's largest tech companies.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC stunned viewers around the world.\n\nBut how did Americans feel seeing the seat of their government being ransacked?\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel for their views.\n\nSimon grew up in Uganda during its civil war and became a US citizen last year. A master's student and stay-at-home father, he warns that, while things may settle down, \"democracy is not guaranteed\".\n\nI'm disgusted but not surprised. I anticipated this would happen and it was a matter of when, not if.\n\nI didn't anticipate that it would happen in the capital. This is the president whose people - since the racial justice movement in the summer - said they were for \"law and order\". So the \"law and order\" people broke into the Capitol and changed the American flag with the Trump flag. History shows that has not happened in over 200 years, so it tells you how dangerous this man is.\n\nIn Uganda, in November, when the opposition was arrested, people took to the streets and got shot. Here, in the summer, the Capitol building was protected and they were breaking up peaceful protests.\n\nIt's clear that [Trump supporters] have been organising, we've seen this was going to happen, yet we subconsciously did not think that white people are a threat. That is the construct of this country and how law enforcement viewed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nTaylor is a staunch Trump supporter and recently travelled to Washington DC for a post-election pro-Trump rally. A photographer by trade, she was upset by the rioting but believes unsubstantiated claims that left-wing radicals were behind the violence.\n\nIt was just heart-breaking to watch what was going on and the behaviour of protesters is just not like the Trump people I've been around. If it did come from any conservatives, then I condemn it. There's no excuse for violence.\n\nIt doesn't change my support for Trump. The people that love Trump, that's not going to change no matter if he gets a second term or not. It just means we're going to hold out for 2024 and hope either he runs again or his kids do.\n\nOur country is going to go downhill over the next four years if Biden does take office. I'm actually moving today out of the city into the suburbs of a Republican county because I am afraid of how Democratic counties will end up under a Biden presidency.\n\nWe're going to catapult towards socialism and communism. I'm worried for the country's future, but regardless of who takes office, we have a lot of healing to do. I hope we can all find our common humanity and embrace each other when this is all over, which is hopefully soon.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who worked on Capitol Hill for the party for nearly two decades, but cast his first ever vote for a Democrat in the 2020 election. He was stunned by 6 January's events and expects it to become a bad footnote in the country's history.\n\nI find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this.\n\nI had actually thought about going down to the protests with a sign that said \"Republicans Against Trump\". My brother said, if I had done that, there would have been five deaths, not four, and he may have been right. I'm astounded by the stupidity of these people who show up without masks and who are being filmed. Quite a few of them are going to prison. It's a serious situation when you break past a police barricade and go into a building that's supposed to be secure.\n\nI have a lot of friends who say things couldn't get worse, but I have to remind them, as a student of history, that it has been worse. The Civil War was much worse. There was a lot of violence in the South during the Reconstruction period. This is something the country will get over. I was heartened by President-elect Biden's speech yesterday. Finally we've got someone who's sounding presidential. We haven't had it for the last four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA'Kayla is a college student who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. She says law enforcement \"coddled\" the rioters at the Capitol and thus made an argument for police reform because they were far more aggressive at protests she attended.\n\nIt's so irritating I can't put into words how frustrating it is. They stormed the Capitol and the police were gentle and lackadaisical with them. I expected the police to use force, but they were so kind and gentle. During the summer, when the Black Lives Matter protests were going on, so many people were injured, locked up and lost their lives.\n\nFrom my own experience, marching peacefully on the front lines in Charleston, we had tear gas thrown at us and had to pour milk in our eyes. It was excruciating. And for what? We're marching for a cause, because we had the murder of somebody by the police. What are they upset about? They're upset because we are living in a democracy and they didn't get their way.\n\nDuring one of the debates, when Trump said \"stand back and stand by\", is this what he was talking about? This is the calm before the storm. I think it's going to get way more ugly, but Kamala [Harris] and Joe [Biden] are a symbol of change and hope.\n\nWhether [Trump supporters] like it or not, America is moving towards a more progressive country and there's going to be a lot of changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A young woman has died after a rare suspected shark attack in New Zealand.\n\nPolice named the victim as 19-year-old Kaelah Marlow, from Hamilton.\n\nMarlow was taken out of the water still alive but died at the scene despite efforts to save her life. Police said it appeared she had been injured by a shark.\n\nThe attack happened at Waihi Beach on North Island not far from the country's biggest city Auckland.\n\n\"Police extend our deepest sympathies to Kaelah's family and loved ones at this very difficult time,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate her death was extremely traumatic for those who were at Waihi Beach yesterday and we are offering victim support services to anyone who requires it,\" the statement said.\n\nShark attacks are unusual in the country and this is thought to be the first fatality since 2013. Local media cited witnesses as saying the woman had been swimming right in front of the lifeguard flags on Thursday.\n\nWhen they heard screams, lifeguards went out by boat immediately and pulled her to shore.\n\nIt is not clear what kind of shark attacked Kaelah Marlow, but an eyewitness reportedly claimed it was a great white, a species which is protected in the waters around New Zealand.\n\n\"Sharks are reasonably common near all northern beaches of New Zealand, most are harmless and even species considered dangerous very rarely interact with swimmers,\" shark researcher Kina Scollay told the BBC.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with the victim's family and we need to remember that this is a real tragedy to real people. I worry that this gets lost sight of in the media scramble after such events.\"\n\nOne witness quoted by local media said he believed a great white shark attacked the woman\n\nMr Scolley said that while attacks were rare, there were ways to be careful about interactions that could go wrong. Among the risk factors are, for instance, fish feeding events or dead animals in the water.\n\n\"If a large shark approaches or is seen nearby people should stay calm, warn those nearby and calmly exit the water,\" he said.\n\nA seven-day rahui, a traditional Maori prohibition restricting access to an area, has been placed on the beach.\n\nThe last recorded shark attack was in 2018 when a man was injured - but survived - at Baylys Beach. Over the past 170 years, there have only been 13 fatal shark attacks documented in New Zealand, according to the country's department of conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "UK house prices rose by 6% last year, according to the Halifax, but the lender is predicting \"downward pressure\" on values in 2021.\n\nThe mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that prices \"soared\" in the second half of 2020.\n\nPent-up demand, a clamour for more space, and stamp duty holidays led to higher prices.\n\nBut the Halifax said the economic realities of 2021 meant activity would slow as the year progressed.\n\n\"With the pace of the UK's economic recovery expected to be constrained by the renewed national lockdown, and unemployment widely predicted to rise in the coming months, downward pressure on house prices remains likely as we move through 2021,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at the Halifax.\n\nHe said that last year was a market of two halves - starting with slow growth, and stalling when the market was closed during the first national lockdown, but then booming when it reopened.\n\nThis meant that overall, demand and price growth were relatively high.\n\nThe conclusion mirrors the findings of rival lender, the Nationwide, which said that UK house prices climbed 7.5% in 2020, the highest growth rate for six years.\n\nBoth mortgage lenders base their findings on their customer data.\n\nLucy Pendleton, from estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"The simple truth is that extra space has become non-negotiable for legions of homeowners with families, and the usual winter slowdown has met the immovable force that is hundreds of thousands of people all trying to jump to larger properties at the same time.\"\n\nThe Halifax said there were already signs of the market slowing, with prices rising by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month.\n\nThat was the slowest monthly rise of the last six months.\n\nThe lender said the average home was valued at £253,374.\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The switch has been welcomed by climate campaigners\n\nAlok Sharma is to leave his position as business secretary to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November.\n\nThe Glasgow event is expected to be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted.\n\nMr Sharma, who will remain in the cabinet, said he was \"delighted to have been asked by the PM to dedicate all my energies\" to the position.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng replaces him as business secretary while Anne-Marie Trevelyan becomes the new energy minister.\n\nThe government says a successful summit will be critical if the UK wants to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions.\n\nThe event had originally been scheduled for November 2020 but was delayed by a year due to Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said the decision to move Alok Sharma wasn't a surprise and would be seen as a recognition of the need to free him up to do more of the crucial diplomatic leg-work required.\n\nSome MPs had previously warned that Mr Sharma lacked the \"bandwidth\" to head the conference alongside his cabinet job, especially given the strains on business due to the pandemic.\n\nIn his new role, which is based in the Cabinet Office, Mr Sharma's will remain a member of Boris Johnson's top team but be focused solely on coordinating global action to tackle climate change\n\nBoris Johnson chose Mr Sharma to head the event after ex-minister Claire O'Neill was ousted from the position in the summer of 2019.\n\nShe later condemned what she called broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.\n\nFormer Conservative PM David Cameron turned down the chance to head the conference and ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions.\n\nMr Sharma's move will be welcomed by climate campaigners, who worried he was over-stretched running a frantically busy department while also orchestrating the most important climate meeting on Earth.\n\nMany of these summits - known as COPs - yielded little because the leadership was poor.\n\nThe French produced a triumphant agreement in the 2015 Paris COP after mustering the mighty force of French diplomacy.\n\nMr Sharma is reported to accept that he now needs to concentrate full time on the challenge.\n\nHe will need subtle diplomatic skills, a mastery of detail and the stamina of an ox as he attempts to corral world leaders into agreement on curbing emissions faster. He'll also need 100% support from the PM.\n\nThe greatest obstacle to action - Donald Trump - will soon disappear from the scene, and with China making bold promises, the COP has potential.\n\nBut politicians have been so slow to act that some key tipping points in the climate might already have been breached.\n\nReflecting on his new role, Mr Sharma said: \"The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.\n\n\"Through the UK's Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.\"\n\nRichard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"Allowing Alok Sharma to focus full-time on his COP26 role is a sensible decision, not least as it signals the government's commitment to ensuring that the summit is a success.\n\n\"With the election of Joe Biden as the next US President and China's recent carbon neutrality pledge, the diplomatic opportunities have opened up for more ambitious action on climate change. Mr Sharma's job will be to seize them.\"\n\nAnd ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd, who led the UK delegation at the Paris climate change conference, said the move showed the government \"recognises the importance and opportunity for a global agreement this year\".\n\nResponding to his new appointment, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"thrilled\" and pledged to help businesses through this period of \"extremely challenging circumstances\".\n\nThe Spelthorne MP, who entered Parliament in 2010, has been energy minister since July 2019.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Mr Kwarteng had \"a massive task\" in providing business with \"a plan to help them through this year, not the inadequate sticking plaster measures we have seen\".\n\nHe welcomed the decision to make Mr Sharma's COP role full time.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that the full political, diplomatic and strategic resources of government are now directed to the most ambitious outcome at Glasgow, which is a 1.5 degree deal.\"", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marks & Spencer says sales of sleepwear have soared as people spend more time at home because of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December, with many of them being bought as Christmas presents.\n\n\"The great British public are back in their pyjamas,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nDespite this, clothing sales as a whole fell nearly a quarter, although food sales showed modest growth.\n\nM&S said its trading was \"robust\" over the Christmas period, but UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nM&S also said that potential post-Brexit tariffs on part of its range exported to the EU, together with \"very complex\" administrative processes, would \"significantly impact\" its businesses in Ireland and the Czech Republic, as well as its franchise business in France.\n\nMr Rowe said the chain's popular Percy Pig sweets, made in Germany, were one product that could face tax rises.\n\nIt said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" those effects.\n\nMr Rowe thanked staff for \"a first-class execution of Christmas for our customers in near impossible conditions\".\n\nThe High Street stalwart said customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nLike-for-like food sales had risen 2.6% during the period, it said.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales fell by 24.1%, and UK sales overall were down 7.6% on a like-for-like basis.\n\nTrading was hit particularly badly in November by the national lockdown in England, with clothing and home sales slumping 40.5% in the month and food sales down 4.5%.\n\n\"Near-term trading remains very challenging, but we are continuing to accelerate change under our Never the Same Again programme to ensure the business emerges from the pandemic in very different shape,\" Mr Rowe said.\n\nOn the positive side, M&S said its tie-up with online firm Ocado had produced \"very strong\" results, while customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nRoss Hindle, retail sector analyst at Third Bridge, said: \"Despite the pressure faced by their clothing division, the M&S food division is expected to deliver solid results, propelled by both stockpiling and its Ocado partnership.\n\nHe pointed to reports that M&S was poised to acquire the Jaeger clothing brand as a possible way forward, saying it \"hints at the potential for a more aggressive shift into the multi-brand space\".\n\n\"M&S have numerous large stores which could be filled with non-M&S merchandise in order to drive their top-line. The risk here is whether such brands might cannibalise M&S branded products,\" he added.\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at GlobalData, said M&S was \"paying the cost for its inability to adapt fast enough to changing shopping habits\".\n\n\"M&S's recovery is slow versus other apparel players, as it continues to be hurt by an online platform unable to make up for lost store sales,\" she added.\n\nShe saw little point in a potential purchase of Jaeger, as it would be \"costly to turn around and do little to boost the retailer's fortunes\".\n\nHowever, she said M&S's focus on value in food had \"started to pay off, with decent sales growth, especially considering dampened footfall on High Streets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "The Liberia-flagged oil tanker Nave Andromeda docked at Southampton after the incident\n\nSeven men, including two who had already been charged, will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpecial forces stormed the Nave Andromeda on 25 October after the crew raised concerns about stowaways.\n\nMatthew Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, had been charged with conduct endangering ships.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped their case after evidence analysis \"cast doubt\" on whether the tanker was put in danger.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said initial reports had indicated there was a \"real and imminent threat\" to the vessel, but added mobile phone footage and witness accounts \"could not show that the ship or crew were threatened\" and there was no evidence the men had any intention to seize control of the vessel.\n\nThe CPS said the new evidence meant the \"legal test\" for the offence was \"no longer met\".\n\n\"Our case was that the actions of the men were responsible for the endangerment of the vessel, but further material was then supplied by a maritime expert which significantly undermined whether there was a threat of danger,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the CPS's decision and added it was working with prosecutors to \"urgently resolve the issues raised by this case\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is frustrating that there will be no prosecution in relation to this very serious incident and the British people will struggle to understand how this can be the case.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the five other men, who were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, also face no police action.\n\nThey will remain detained under immigration regulations.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight 20 days later, an emergency call came from the ship concerned about stowaways on board while the 22 crew members had locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area.\n\nThe men had been found on the ship earlier in the voyage and the vessel had made unsuccessful attempts to dock in other ports.\n\nIt was reported the men became hostile as the tanker approached the UK - but the CPS said it was thought this may have occurred while the ship was outside of UK waters.\n\nAt the time the Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised a special forces operation in response to a police request following a 10-hour stand-off.\n\nIn a nine-minute operation carried out under the cover of darkness, Special Boat Service commandos boarded the vessel and arrested the seven men, believed to be Nigerian nationals seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nThe Liberian-registered tanker later docked in Southampton.\n\nSpecial forces boarded the Nave Andromeda on the evening of 25 October\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump calls for an 'orderly transition of power' to the Biden administration on January 20th\n\nA US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for \"inciting\" the riot.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution to declare the president unfit for office.\n\nAlternatively, she vowed to initiate the process to impeach the president.\n\nWednesday's violence came hours after Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to fight against the election results as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November vote.\n\nFive people have died in relation to the riot, including Brian Sicknick, an officer at the US Capitol Police (USCP) who was \"injured while physically engaging with protesters\", the police said.\n\nMeanwhile, the top congressional Democrats - Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer - have urged Vice-President Pence and Mr Trump's cabinet to remove the president for \"his incitement of insurrection\".\n\n\"The President's dangerous and seditious acts necessitate his immediate removal from office,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nThe duo called for Mr Trump to be ousted using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice-president to step up if the president is unable to perform his duties owing to a mental or physical illness.\n\nBut it would require Mr Pence and at least eight cabinet members to break with Mr Trump and invoke the amendment, something they have so far seemed unlikely to do. Mr Trump is due to leave office on 20 January, when Mr Biden will be sworn in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Pelosi indicated that if the vice-president failed to act, she would convene the House to launch their second impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump.\n\nHowever, to succeed in convicting and removing the president, Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and there is no indication they would get those numbers. And it was not clear whether enough time remained to carry out the process.\n\nMrs Pelosi's deputy, Katherine Clark, told CNN the House could move on impeachment next week.\n\nMedia reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Mr Trump had suggested to aides he was considering granting a pardon to himself in the final days of his presidency. The legality of such a move is untested.\n\nIt wasn't until Thursday night, more than 24 hours after the US Capitol had been ransacked by his supporters, that Donald Trump released a recorded statement calling for \"healing and reconciliation\" in a wounded nation.\n\nThat was the very least that could be expected from a US president in a time of crises, and it probably will not be enough to silence calls for his removal, impeachment or resignation. Those demands have been coming from the political left, of course, but also from parts of the right - longtime critics, from former allies and, remarkably, even the conservative editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.\n\nEver since November's election, when Trump chose to attack the results rather than admit defeat, a reckoning was coming. The pressure, like a malfunctioning steam engine, was building toward a catastrophic ending.\n\nOn Thursday night, the president began trying to pick up the pieces.\n\nTeleprompter Trump had spoken. In past crises, unscripted Trump has quickly returned, with words and actions that reveal his earlier comments were insincere.\n\nWith 12 days left in his presidency, the question is whether, or more likely when, that Trump will return - and what happens when he does.\n\nPresident Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday following a 12-hour freeze of his account. His message was the closest he has come to a formal acceptance of his defeat after weeks of falsely insisting he actually won the election in a \"landslide\".\n\n\"Now Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,\" the Republican said in a video, without mentioning Mr Biden by name.\n\n\"My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nMr Trump said he had \"immediately deployed\" the National Guard to expel the intruders, though some US media reported he had hesitated to send in the troops, leaving his vice-president to give the order.\n\nHe also praised his \"wonderful supporters\" and promised \"our incredible journey is only just beginning\".\n\nLaw enforcement have been heavily criticised after they were overrun by the protesters. Mr Biden said: \"Nobody could tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the thugs that stormed the Capitol.\"\n\nImages captured inside the Capitol building showed protesters roaming through some of the corridors unimpeded.\n\nThe FBI is seeking to identify those involved in the rampage, and the Washington DC police have released pictures of \"persons of interest\" for their involvement in the riot. The Department of Justice says people could face charges of seditious conspiracy, as well as rioting and insurrection.\n\nWashington police say 68 people have so far been arrested. One of those detained at the Capitol had a \"military-style automatic weapon and 11 Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs)\", according to the federal attorney for Washington DC.\n\nThe official responsible for security in the House of Representatives, the sergeant at arms, has resigned. Mr Schumer has called for his counterpart in the Senate to be sacked. USCP chief Steven Sund is also resigning, effective 16 January, following calls from Mrs Pelosi.\n\nOn Thursday, crews began installing a non-scalable 7ft (2m) fence around the Capitol which will remain in place for at least 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"\n\nAshli Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, was named as the woman fatally shot by a police officer who has now been placed on leave. Law enforcement told US media the victim was unarmed.\n\nThree others died after suffering unspecified medical emergencies on Capitol grounds: Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia. Mr Greeson's family said he died of a heart attack.\n\nPolice said that 14 officers had been injured in the riot.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - one of the longest serving members of the president's administration - became the second cabinet member to quit following the Capitol riot.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms DeVos accused the president of fomenting Wednesday's disorder. \"There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stepped down, saying she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the rampage.\n\nOther aides to quit include special envoy Mick Mulvaney, a senior national security official, and the chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump. A state department adviser was also sacked after calling Mr Trump \"unfit for office\" in a tweet.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nPeople are being warned about breaking lockdown restrictions after the police got stuck in snow due to rule-breakers.\n\nA car driving on Moel Famau hill, Flintshire, despite roadblocks, skidded off the road on Thursday night, with officers deployed to help the passengers.\n\nHowever, they then became stuck and had to call mountain rescuers.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued by the Met Office for all of Wales, until midnight on Friday.\n\nPolice said: \"This is why we say to you do not come out.\"\n\nOn a video posted on Twitter, an officer for the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team warned people about the consequences of breaking the rules.\n\n\"It is now involving two agencies, two police vehicles, two mountain rescue vehicles and three police officers and the casualty.\"\n\nRob Taylor from North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said the person who was driving the car, which travelled 200m when it lost control was \"very, very lucky to be alive and escape uninjured\".\n\n\"We've been having problems with people lately flouting the law and going where they shouldn't be going,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been going through them for various reasons whether that's a walk or sledge and gathering in large groups. So we have been paying attention.\n\n\"This issue that was highlighted perfectly yesterday where someone's gone there thinking it's okay to flout the law. They get themselves in trouble and cause an emergency response from police and actually put those police officers' lives at risk.\n\n\"Their actions can really affect many people.\"\n\nSnow and ice warnings are in place for all of Wales\n\nThe snow warning for Friday said 5cm of snow could also fall on hills and mountains, with a widespread frost forecast for the morning.\n\nRoad agencies said driving conditions on the A55 in Flintshire were difficult, with snow on Rhuallt Hill.\n\nOne lane on the expressway has been closed eastbound between Pentre Halkyn and Northop following a crash.\n\nRoads have also been closed in Denbighshire following the heavy snow.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a risk of slips and falls with sleet and snow predicted to fall on to already-frozen ground, creating icy patches.\n\nForecasters said that while snow was likely to fall on hills and mountains, flurries could be seen elsewhere, but this was likely to \"be slight and temporary\".\n\nFurther ice warnings have also been issued until 11:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nResidents in parts of Wales have been waking to snow, including in Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has sparked confusion over a possible electric car tie-up with Apple.\n\nThe South Korean car company initially said it was in the \"early stage\" of talks with the iPhone maker about a possible electric car partnership.\n\nBut hours later it backtracked and said it was talking with a number of potential partners without naming Apple.\n\nHyundai's share price rose more than 20% when the tie-up was announced.\n\n\"Apple and Hyundai are in discussions but they are at an early stage and nothing has been decided,\" it said in a statement which was later revised. Hyundai's value shot up $9bn (£6.5bn) after the Apple announcement.\n\nWhile an updated statement said it was talking to a number of companies about a possible electric car tie-up including Apple, a later version omitted the US tech firm.\n\nApple is known for its secretiveness when it comes to new products and partnerships.\n\n\"I'm not surprised to see a big jump in the valuation of Hyundai. The stock market loves car companies who are tech firms as seen with Tesla rise,\" said Sarwant Singh, managing partner at consultants Frost & Sullivan. \"This partnership helps Hyundai be seen as a tech innovator.\"\n\nLast month, news emerged that Apple was moving forward with self-driving car technology with a 2024 launch date.\n\nThe electric vehicle (EV) market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies such as Tesla grabbing the headlines with its rapidly-increasing valuation. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, displacing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nExperts say an electric vehicle from Apple is still at least five years away.\n\nThey say pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.\n\nHyundai has already been pushing into new technologies such as electric, driverless and flying cars.\n\nLast month, it took a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that valued the mobile robot firm at $1.1bn.\n\nThe company is also setting up a $4bn autonomous-driving joint venture with auto parts supplier Aptiv.\n\nBoth partners will invest $2bn, while Ireland-based Aptiv will contribute about 700 engineers and transfer patents and intellectual property to the venture.\n\n\"Apple could certainly jumpstart that project and Hyundai brings the vehicle development and manufacturing expertise,\" said Jeff Schuster at automobile data firm LMC Automotive\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple's efforts to produce an electric car, known as Project Titan, have been on and off ever since plans were revealed in 2014.\n\nThere have been rumours over who would assemble an Apple-branded car as it may be difficult for the tech giant to manufacture them on its own.\n\nIts rival Alphabet's Waymo chose a factory in Detroit to mass produce its own self-driving cars.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "Gordy Philip took an icy bike ride on the Great Glen Way between Blackfold and Abriachan in the hills above Loch Ness. He said of his image: \"Could be the light at the end of the road on the first day of another lockdown.\"", "New data from EU satellites shows that 2020 is in a statistical dead heat with 2016 as the world's warmest year.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was around 1.25C above the long-term average.\n\nThe scientists say that unprecedented levels of heat in the Arctic and Siberia were key factors in driving up the overall temperature.\n\nThe past 12 months also saw a new record for Europe, around 0.4C warmer than 2019.\n\nLast December, the World Meteorological Organization predicted that 2020 would be one of the three warmest years on record.\n\nThis new, more complete report from Copernicus says that last year is right at the top of the list.\n\nHigh temperatures saw fires rage in spring and summer in many locations inside the Arctic circle\n\nThe Copernicus data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit, as well as measurements taken at ground level.\n\nTemperature data from the system shows that 2020 was 1.25C warmer than the average from 1850-1900, a time often described as the \"pre-industrial\" period.\n\nOne key factor driving up the temperatures was the heating experienced in the Arctic and Siberia.\n\nIn some locations there, temperatures for the year as a whole were 6C above the long-term average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis exceptional warming led to a very active wildfire season. Fires in the Arctic Circle released a record amount of CO2, according to the study, up over a third from 2019.\n\nThe Copernicus service concludes that while 2020 was very marginally cooler than 2016, the two years are statistically on a par as the differences between the figures for the two years are smaller than the typical differences found in other temperature databases for the same period.\n\nMore data on 2020's temperature will be released in the next week or so from other agencies, including Nasa and the UK Met Office.\n\nThe scientists say that the closeness between the years is all the more remarkable considering the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña weather cycle.\n\nPeople saw their homes burnt down in some parts of Siberia\n\nEurope also saw a new record level of warming for the year, 0.4C warmer than 2019. A major heat wave in July and August was an important factor driving up the mercury across the continent.\n\nGlobally, the 10-year period from 2011-2020 is the warmest decade, with the last six years being the six hottest on record.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty stands out for its exceptional warmth in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic,\" said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"It is no surprise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambitious emissions reductions to prevent adverse climate impacts in the future.\"\n\nWhile a strong La Niña may cool temperatures a little in 2021, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to remain high, contributing to ongoing warming.\n\nNew data from the UK's Met Office suggests that average concentrations of CO2 will reach levels that are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution.\n\nResearchers predict that annual average CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa recording station in Hawaii will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher in 2021 than in 2020.\n\nDespite the global slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists say this rise is being driven by emissions from the use of fossil fuels and from deforestation.\n\nEurope saw a prolonged heat wave in July and August that pushed the year to a new record\n\nWhile weather patterns linked to the La Niña event may boost growth in tropical forests and increase the amount of the gas that's absorbed, it won't be enough to slow the overall rise.\n\nThe Met Office says that CO2 will exceed 417ppm in the atmosphere for several weeks from April to June.\n\nThis is 50% higher than the level of 278ppm that pertained in the late 18th Century as widespread industrial activity was just beginning.\n\n\"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office.\n\n\"It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase.\"\n\n\"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.\"", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents and teachers are \"frustrated\" about plans to keep schools closed until the February half term and concerned about the impact on children.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio Wales phone-in, callers said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nKaarina Rutta from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, told the programme she was having to work at night when her four children had gone to bed after home schooling.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind I should also be working and doing other things,\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment.\n\n\"I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "David Bowie left his mark with songs like Space Oddity, Let's Dance and Under Pressure\n\nA series of streamed music events, shows and new releases are marking David Bowie's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death.\n\nThe musician would have turned 74 on Friday, while Sunday is five years since he died of cancer.\n\nA star-studded tribute concert and his 2015 stage musical Lazarus will both be streamed over the weekend.\n\nTwo previously unreleased Bowie tracks have also been released, while his music has now arrived on TikTok.\n\nThe tribute gig, titled A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, will feature Bowie's former bandmates alongside stars including Boy George, Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Adam Lambert, Gary Barlow and actor Gary Oldman.\n\nStarting at 18:00 PT on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), the show will be led by Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson and will be available for 24 hours.\n\nDuran Duran released a timely cover of Bowie's track Five Years ahead of the show. \"My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie,\" singer Simon Le Bon said.\n\n\"He is the reason why I started writing songs. Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be.\"\n\nOn Friday, Bowie's previously unreleased covers of Bob Dylan's Tryin' to Get to Heaven and John Lennon's Mother were also put out into the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by David Bowie - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Four is hosting a Bowie Night on Friday, while there will be special programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. They include Bowie: Dancing Out in Space, which will air simultaneously on the two stations on Sunday.\n\nIn it, producer Tony Visconti describes how Bowie and Lennon first met awkwardly in a New York hotel room ahead of their collaborations on the former's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe and his own 1975 song Fame.\n\n\"He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,\" says Visconti. \"About one in the morning I knocked on the door and for about the next two hours, John Lennon and David weren't speaking to each other.\n\n\"Instead, David was sitting on the floor with an art pad and a charcoal and he was sketching things and he was completely ignoring Lennon.\n\n\"So, after about two hours of that, he [John] finally said to David, 'Rip that pad in half and give me a few sheets. I want to draw you.' So David said, 'Oh, that's a good idea', and he finally opened up. So John started making caricatures of David, and David started doing the same of John and they kept swapping them and then they started laughing and that broke the ice.\"\n\nMeanwhile, next weekend will see the release of Stardust, a film biopic about Bowie's journey to becoming Ziggy Stardust, starring singer and actor Johnny Flynn.\n\nHowever, Bowie's family have not given it their blessing, meaning the film-makers were not allowed to use any of his music. Instead Flynn, as Bowie, is seen performing songs by Jacques Brel, The Yardbirds and one of Flynn's own compositions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heads are calling for limits to the number of pupils in school during lockdown in England, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nThe two head teachers' unions, NAHT and ASCL, say the high numbers attending could hamper the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils who can attend.\n\nIt is insisting that schools ensure all children who qualify can attend.\n\nThe widened categories not only include vulnerable pupils and children of workers in critical occupations but also those who cannot access remote learning either because they do not have devices or space to study.\n\nChildren of parents working on the Brexit arrangements are also included.\n\nTeachers have described streets around schools being packed with parents dropping off their children and almost all staff having to come in and work despite the lockdown.\n\nHeads say they fear schools could be overwhelmed by children who do not have access to lap tops to learn remotely.\n\nJessica Jane, a learning assistant at a school in Hampshire, told the BBC: \"I work in a primary school where we are having to bring in every single member of staff as the list of key-workers is vast in our area and over 50% of our children are attending.\n\n\"Our community school is not closed and streets are packed with parents morning and afternoon collecting their children from open schools.\"\n\nShe added: \"My colleagues and I are still being put at risk every single day as are our families.\"\n\nA teacher from the Midlands who did not wish to be named said the number had risen from 10 pupils a day in the first lockdown to about 90 a day this week.\n\n\"We're talking just under to just over a third of the usual amount of pupils for our school here.\n\n\"The vast majority are key worker children, not vulnerable.\n\n\"I also know that other primary schools in our area have similar amounts of children in school - one neighbouring school in particular, which is only slightly larger than us, is estimating/averaging 100 to 160 children in school every day.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the lack of limits \"bizarre... in a week when the prime minister has told the nation that it is necessary to move schools to remote education in order to suppress coronavirus transmission\".\n\n\"We are hearing reports that attendance in some primary schools is in excess of 50% because of demand from critical workers and families with children classed as vulnerable under criteria which has been significantly widened,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urgently seeking clarification about the maximum number who should be in school while protecting public health.\n\n\"This seems completely illogical given the fact that the government has taken the drastic action of a full national lockdown precisely in order to limit contacts.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, said schools could not \"meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the prime minister announced\".\n\n\"The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim.\n\n\"This could result in prolonging the amount of time pupils are away from the classroom, which we are all anxious to avoid.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Schools are open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required.\n\n\"If critical workers can work from home and look after their children at the same time then they should do so, but otherwise this provision is in place to enable them to provide vital services.\n\n\"The protective measures that schools have been following throughout the autumn term remain in place to help protect staff and students, while the national lockdown helps reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nBut Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association, reflected head teachers' concerns, saying between 40 and 60% of pupils were attending schools across England.\n\n\"The real problem is we have got two different national narratives going on,\" she said - with the prime minister saying \"stay at home\" but the DfE telling schools to take all eligible children who turn up.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government seemed unable to decide whether schools were safe or unsafe.\n\nCommenting on the latest Coronavirus Infection Survey from the Office for National Statistics, Dr Bousted, said: \"Let this data end their confusion. Schools are clearly driving infection amongst children, and then onto the wider community.\n\n\"This peaked on Christmas Day with one in every 27 secondary-age children and one in 40 primary-age children infected.\n\n\"In London this rises to one in 18 secondary pupils and one in 23 primary pupils. These figures are truly shocking and entirely the result of government negligence.\"\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Marion Ramsey will be remembered by fans for her notable role in the US comedy series Police Academy\n\nMarion Ramsey, best known for her acting in the American film series Police Academy, has died at the age of 73, her agent has announced.\n\nHer management at Roger Paul Inc told the BBC she died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.\n\nThe agency said Ramsey had recently fallen ill, but did not give a cause of death.\n\nRamsey was adored by fans for her portrayal of the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in Police Academy.\n\nShe also had an illustrious career on Broadway, starring in the 1978 production Eubie!, a biographical musical about celebrated jazz pianist Eubie Blake.\n\n\"Her passion for performing and sharing her heart with the world was immense,\" Roger Paul Inc said in a statement.\n\n\"Marion carried with her a kindness and permeating light that instantly filled a room upon her arrival.\n\n\"The dimming of her light is already felt by those who knew her well. We will miss her, and always love her.\"\n\nRamsey featured in six Police Academy films as Officer Laverne Hooks\n\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, Ramsey started her career in the theatre, appearing in both the original Broadway and subsequent touring productions of Hello, Dolly!.\n\nShe was prolific on Broadway, co-starring in many shows, including Harold Prince's Grind with Ben Vereen, and Eubie! with Gregory and Maurice Hines.\n\nHer agent said Ramsey was \"particularly proud\" about Broadway's Dreamgirls finally becoming a major motion picture in 2006, because she was one of the singers that the original Broadway show's producer, Tom Eyen, based the three main characters on.\n\nRamsey's career in TV and film career took off after she appeared as a guest on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons in 1976.\n\nFollowing that, she was a regular on Cos, Bill Cosby's sketch show.\n\nShe starred in six Police Academy films in total, making her a familiar face to fans of the franchise.\n\nRamsey's agent said she had an immense passion for performing\n\nAmerican actor Michael Winslow wrote in a tweet that he had \"no words to say or explain the pain\" of losing Ramsey.\n\n\"In the 80s the Police Academy films cast a long shadow over the comedy genre - they were everywhere & everyone watched them,\" British producer Jonathan Sothcott wrote. \"#MarionRamsey was hilarious as Hooks - a fine comedic actress.\"\n\nA message on the Twitter account for the movie When I Sing read: \"It is with great sadness that I share our loss of my friend, and one of the shining stars of When I Sing (her final role), the beautiful, kind, hilarious, #MarionRamsey. I will miss you, my silly sister.\"", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "Queensland in Australia has seen heavy rainfall as an ex-tropical cyclone crosses the state, bringing warnings of “life-threatening\" flash flooding.\n\nMeteorologists say cyclones are more likely in Australia this year because of La Nina weather conditions.", "Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country\n\nSingapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.\n\nOfficials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.\n\nBut parliament was told on Monday it could also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\".\n\nClose to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether programme, which is used to check in to locations.\n\nThe voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of work.\n\nThe TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.\n\nIf someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.\n\nTo encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the data would never be used for any other purpose, saying \"the data will never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team\".\n\nBut Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on Monday that it can in fact also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\", adding that \"otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the Covid situation\".\n\nHowever, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then updated on the same day to state that \"the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction\".\n\n\"Also, we want to be transparent with you,\" the statement reads. \"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected.\n\n\"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for criminal investigations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.\n\nHe said under the CPC, \"other forms of sensitive data like phone or banking records\" would also have their privacy regulations overruled in such cases.\n\nMr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder investigation.\n\nThe minister stressed though that \"once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme.\"\n\nMonday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media, with people calling out the government and some users posting that they had now deleted the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised,\" local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. \"This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.\n\n\"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right.\"\n\n\"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched,\" one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. \"We already have that through other means like CCTV.\n\n\"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat.\"\n\nAnother person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it.\n\n\"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy.\"\n\nAustralian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were \"extremely concerned\" about the news from Singapore.\n\n\"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic,\" Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. \"Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy.\"\n\nLike most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns.\n\nSingapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year.\n\nThe introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far.\n\nSingapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June", "Whitty: Priority to vaccinate those who would die from virus\n\nAndy Woodcock from the Independent asks about testing for people arriving into the UK from abroad and why it wasn't done sooner. The prime minister says the government will be bringing in measures to \"ensure that we test people coming into this country and preventing the virus from being readmitted\". Responding to a second question on schools and whether teachers and pupils should be vaccinated, Prof Chris Whitty says there is no evidence of hospitals filling up with children and it appears, that even with the new variant, \"children are relatively much less affected than other groups\". He says from a clinical point of view the real priority is to vaccinate the people that we know \"are by far the most likely to die and by far most likely to end up in hospital\". He adds there will have to be decisions made once the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated but we are not yet at that stage. The chief medical officer adds that neither vaccine currently in use in the UK has been licensed for children yet.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Enrique Tarrio says his far-right group will turn out in numbers on Wednesday\n\nThe leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been released after his arrest on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.\n\nEnrique Tarrio faces destruction of property charges. On Tuesday, a judge ordered him to stay out of Washington.\n\nHe has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.\n\nOn Tuesday, a judge released him on his own recognisance pending his trial.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory before he takes office on 20 January.\n\nMr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will \"turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th\", referring to his members as \"the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen\".\n\nThe National Guard has been deployed by Washington DC's mayor to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district.\n\nThe 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, a source told CBS News.\n\nThe destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the outgoing Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of systemic election fraud.\n\nThe mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised.\n\nMr Tarrio - who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump - told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Let's make this simple,\" he said. \"I did it.\"\n\nBut he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.\n\nMr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents.\n\nEarlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December's protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.\n\nCounter-demonstrators were mostly kept at a distance from Trump supporter last month by Washington DC police\n\nThe Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign.\n\nKristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: \"Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.\n\n\"Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.\"\n\nThe city's police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Shepherd is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise\n\nA Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say.\n\nSea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise.\n\nIt said its vessel was trying to leave when one of the boats smashed into it.\n\nThe man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed.\n\nHealth official Alonso Perez told AFP news agency on Monday that one fisherman died after sustaining serious injuries, while a second remained in a stable condition.\n\nSea Shepherd said its Farley Mowat vessel was removing an illegal net from a protected area on 31 December when a group of people on small fishing boats launched a \"violent attack\", including throwing Molotov cocktails.\n\n\"Following routine anti-piracy procedures, the Farley Mowat undertook defensive manoeuvring to avoid the attacks. As the vessel attempted to leave the scene, one of the [boats] aggressively swerved in front of the Farley Mowat, crashing directly into the hull\" and splitting in two, it said.\n\nThe group said it provided emergency first aid to the two men who had been on board the fishing boat.\n\nConservationists working for Sea Shepherd have been attacked several times while patrolling the vaquita refuge.\n\nThe group works with Mexican authorities to remove illegal gillnets used to catch totoaba fish, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine. The nets are designed to trap the heads of fish but not their bodies, but are blamed for trapping and killing the endangered porpoises as well.", "Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC he was \"committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses\".\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse.\n\nThe help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.\n\nFirms do not have to pay the grant money back.\n\nMr Sunak said he would consider whether or how to extend support packages in its Budget on 3 March.\n\n\"The Budget early in March is an excellent opportunity to take stock of the range of support we have put in place and set out the next stage of our economic response,\" he said.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business group, Tony Danker, earlier warned leaving additional support until the Budget could be too late for many firms, saying. \"the comprehensive restrictions required a new comprehensive response\".\n\nIt was a fear echoed by other business groups, the BCC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nBCC director general, Adam Marshall, warned many smaller firms would not qualify for help and \"will be left struggling to see how this new top-up grant will help them out of their cashflow problems.\"\n\nHe also called for the support to be extended to firms in other sectors \"who are also feeling the devastating impacts of these restrictions.\"\n\nFSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but \"do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing.\"\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a \"lifeline\", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, says he needs dates to plan around\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, told the BBC that fixed dates to aim for are crucial for his business.\n\n\"We need a date to work towards and we don't have that so, again, we're in limbo,\" he said. \"It takes three or four weeks\" to prepare, including retraining staff, he added.\n\nHis business has been closed since October because of restrictions in the Manchester area. It borrowed money under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\n\n\"We start repayment in June and there's good chance we won't be open, so they are going to have to extend that,\" he said.\n\nHe said much of the £9,000 grant will be taken up by the £6,000 a month his business owes in pension contributions and national insurance alone.\n\nMr Sunak said the new support would \"help businesses to get through the months ahead - and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen\".\n\nBusinesses such as cafes, restaurants, leisure centres and shops that do not sell essentials have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus lockdown measures as people are told to stay at home.\n\nAll non-essential shops, leisure and entertainment venues are now closed, with pubs and restaurants allowed to offer takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks only.\n\nThe new measures contained no additional support for self-employed people.\n\nMel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the finance department's work, warned the chancellor \"must not forget those who have fallen through the gaps around previous support packages.\"\n\nWhile this is welcome and essential support, it is now clear that the most optimistic timetable for economic lift-off from the pandemic is going to be put back.\n\nThis raises questions about the length of the furlough scheme, and government-guaranteed loans.\n\nBefore this, the best-case scenario was that mass vaccination, enabling a confident reopening of the economy, would allow furloughed workers to go straight back to their jobs in late spring.\n\nThis was never the government's central forecast, but looked possible amid optimism about the vaccine last month.\n\nEven if all vulnerable people can be vaccinated by March, the first three months of the year will see school lockdowns which will harm growth, and therefore a possible double dip recession.\n\nBusiness groups which welcomed this support say they now need a clear long-term plan. They want to know that current levels of support will stay in place until most of the population is vaccinated.\n\nHundreds of thousands of self-employed workers who fell through the gaps of support remain under huge pressure, particularly ahead of the self assessment tax deadline.\n\nA decision on extending the £20 a week increase to universal credit will also be required.\n\nEngland's lockdown rules are due to be reviewed on 15 February while Scotland's will be reviewed at the end of January.\n\nIn the UK, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.\n\nThe Office for Budgetary Responsibility, the government's independent forecaster, predicts the UK economy will have shrunk by 11.3% in 2020 - the biggest decline in 300 years. It expects unemployment to peak at 9.7%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM acted \"decisively\" in announcing a new lockdown in England \"in the face of new information\", Rishi Sunak says.\n\nPeople must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons and schools have closed to most pupils.\n\nThe chancellor said the action was \"regrettable\" but it was \"right we take these measures\", which will be reviewed on 15 February, to suppress the virus.\n\nIt came after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nBoris Johnson said vaccinating the top four priority groups by mid-February could allow restrictions to be eased, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove telling Sky News the measures may remain until March.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is due to hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 GMT with chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have also come into force across the Scottish mainland. Wales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nThe UK reported a record 58,784 cases on Monday, as well as a further 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast: \"The four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom met and discussed the situation yesterday and their recommendation was that the country had to move to level five, the highest level available of alert that meant there was an imminent danger to the NHS of being overwhelmed unless action was taken.\n\n\"And so in the circumstances we felt that the only thing we could do was to close those primary schools that were open.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove:\" With a heavy heart but with clear evidence we had to act.\"\n\nHe said the action was taken \"with the heaviest of hearts\" and \"we had to act\" following that advice.\n\n\"It is a very, very difficult time for the whole country, that's why it's so important we do everything we can in government to vaccinate people,\" he said.\n\nHe said a million people had been vaccinated so far \"up until the weekend\" and it was hoped that number would reach more than 13 million in February.\n\nWhen asked about the target of two million vaccines a week and concerns over logistics and the safety systems, Mr Gove said the vaccination process was a \"complicated exercise\" but the NHS \"has more than risen to the challenge\".\n\nThe government was \"looking at further options\" to restrict international travel, he said.\n\nMr Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, adding: \"I think it is right to say that as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all.\"\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove saying the lockdown may have to last to March may not come as much of a surprise to many.\n\nWhile the government has set a target of offering the most at-risk a jab by mid February, it will take several weeks longer for the full effect to be felt given it takes time for an immune response to kick in.\n\nThe bigger question is whether or not the government could have acted earlier.\n\nIt was clear before Christmas the new variant was pushing up infection rates - and that in turn would mean more hospital admissions.\n\nThe delay looks costly. Since Christmas Day, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has risen by 50% alone - enough to fill 18 hospitals.\n\nWhile the government did introduce tier four the weekend before Christmas in parts of the south east of England, which banned mixing over the festive period and led to the closure of non-essential shops and gyms, most of the country were allowed to meet up on Christmas Day.\n\nInfections from Christmas Day are now being felt - the numbers have been rising sharply ever since. Some of these are next week's hospital admissions - and is why the chief medical officers warned of the risk of hospitals becoming overwhelmed, which Mr Gove said persuaded them to act on Monday.\n\nIf lockdown had come earlier, it may well have been shorter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the lockdown measures \"will save tens of thousands of lives\".\n\nBut he said \"the virus is different\" and \"it may be that the lockdown measures that we have are not enough\"\n\n\"This lockdown period we need to do more than just stay at home, wait for the vaccine, we need to be actively bearing down on it,\" he said.\n\nAt Scotland's daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for people to hold on to the fact there was now \"a clear route out of this pandemic\".\n\nShe said there had been urgent discussions between the four home nations about whether border controls should be tightened - and she hoped there would be an announcement soon.\n\nAnnouncing England's lockdown on Monday, Mr Johnson said hospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\".\n\nHe ordered people to stay indoors other than for limited exceptions - such as essential medical needs, food shopping, exercise and work that cannot be done at home - and said schools and colleges should move to remote teaching for the majority of students until at least half term.\n\nPeople who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhile the rules become law in the early hours of Wednesday, people should follow them now, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMr Johnson said the new variant of coronavirus, which is up to 70% more transmissible, was spreading in a \"frustrating and alarming\" manner and warned that the number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals is 40% higher than the first peak.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on England's new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.\n\nIt follows a decision to close UK schools to most pupils to enforce new coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England told the BBC that \"broadband companies really need to step up\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added he thought the cost of data was \"a big problem\".\n\n\"We're asking people to endure very tough restrictions. And there has to be the other side of that contract,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Everybody needs to try and make this work. And that includes the companies that can take away the charging for data. It's a serious situation.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the topic at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are looking at... the potential costs to parents of online teaching, and we're going to do our best to support them in any way that we can and to work with the internet companies.\"\n\nThere is concern that some disadvantaged pupils are currently dependent on pay-as-you-go or monthly mobile phone subscriptions that only include a small data allowance because their families cannot afford or otherwise obtain a separate fixed broadband connection.\n\n\"There are 25 million pay-as-you go customers in the UK, and about seven million of those struggle with the cost of topping up their data,\" commented Chris Thorpe from the Centre For The Acceleration Of Social Technology charity.\n\nMany schools are using video-chat software including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet to live-stream classes, assemblies and other activities, which all benefit from a fast, stable connection and can consume a lot of data.\n\nIn addition, other tools including Google Classroom, Tapestry and Class Dojo are used by pupils to submit schoolwork and receive marks and other feedback.\n\nThe situation became more pressing after the prime minister announced last night that England's lockdown would mean schools and colleges would remain closed to most pupils until at least the February half-term.\n\nTech for UK - a coalition of technologists and other concerned business leaders - has suggested one way forward would be for internet providers to \"zero rate\" edtech apps and websites, so that their data use would be deducted from a mobile subscriber's monthly allowance.\n\nHowever, it acknowledges the challenge in doing so is to pick which platforms to support without giving some providers an unfair advantage over others.\n\nThe Department for Education already runs a scheme for disadvantaged children who do not have access to a home broadband connection to temporarily increase their mobile data allowance.\n\nIn some cases, this involves an extra 20 gigabytes a month. In others - such as Three - it provides an \"unlimited\" data upgrade.\n\nSchools, trusts and local authorities need to request the support on a pupil's behalf.\n\nThe networks involved in the initiative include:\n\nIn cases when this is not available, the government offers 4G wireless routers - which use mobile networks to offer a wi-fi connection - as an alternative.\n\nIn addition, Vodafone provided 350,000 \"free data\" Sim cards to thousands of primary and secondary schools and colleges in November.\n\n\"We are actively considering what to do now about this new situation,\" it said.\n\nO2 pledged in October to donate 10,000 devices and 12 months of free data to \"vulnerable individuals\".\n\nAnd Virgin Media noted it had launched a discounted home broadband service for families facing financial difficulties and receiving universal credit.\n\nBT says it has already removed all caps on its home broadband plans to help ensure children can stay connected to their schools.\n\nAnne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, said she was also concerned about the provision of devices.\n\n\"A lot of children still don't have laptops. They're surviving on broken phones,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nThe Department for Education said it had delivered more than 560,000 devices to schools and councils in England between the start of the pandemic and the end of last year.\n\nIn addition, it aims to have delivered a further 100,000 laptops and tablets to schools by the end of this week to help get closer to its overall target of one million devices.\n\nHowever, teaching groups have raised concerns about the rollout.\n\nSome children are being provided with tablets to keep them connected to their schools\n\n\"We must hear no more of rationing of equipment, as we did late last year,\" Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) told the BBC.\n\n\"If the stockpiles exist, as the Department for Education claim they do, then they must be distributed urgently. We have heard too many stories of requests from schools not being met, or not being fully met.\"\n\nSteven George of head teachers' union, NAHT added that a website used to order laptops had been inaccessible over the Christmas break, so some members had been unable to make requests.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders suggested the government had \"never really got to grips\" with the issue.\n\n\"It is certainly sending out lots of laptops for disadvantaged children to schools. But there's clearly still a gap, not just in terms of the number of devices that are required but also in terms of whether families have sufficient connectivity,\" said general secretary Geoff Barton.\n\n\"This has happened because it is a crisis situation, and there hasn't been a great deal of time in which to properly assess the level of need that exists, but it does expose the fact that pre-crisis, there hadn't been a properly joined-up national strategy on digital learning.\"\n\nOthers have noted that the device allocation scheme does not extend to printers - which are needed for worksheets and other materials sent by teachers - putting low-income families at a further disadvantage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Food banks have seen increased demand during the pandemic\n\nThe UK \"cannot duck\" tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and jobs post-Covid, a major review has warned.\n\nThe report's chairman, Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, says a lot of work to repair and rebuild the damage will be needed after the pandemic.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities warned the fabric of society was under threat.\n\nThe review says there is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed\".\n\n\"We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck.\"\n\nSir Angus said: \"As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think about policies that will be needed to repair the damage and that focus on those who have suffered the most.\n\n\"We need to build a country in which everyone feels that they belong.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had highlighted the disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups and deprived communities, it also showed that the UK's best-paid and most highly educated have been \"much better able to ride out the crisis\", the report said.\n\nYoung people have been among the worst hit economically\n\nChildren from poorer households found it harder to do schoolwork during lockdown and have been more likely to miss school since September, it noted.\n\nAnd while the biggest risk factor for coronavirus is age, younger people have been hit harder by the economic consequences of the crisis.\n\nThe cost of the pandemic is \"just colossal\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We've seen the biggest reduction in national income, essentially in history, over the last year, we've seen the biggest public deficit in history outside of the two world wars, so there's no getting around the fact that the pandemic and the response to it has had a bigger effect on the economy than anything essentially in the whole of history.\"\n\nThe report highlighted the effects of the pandemic on different groups, including on education, which is \"probably more worrying\" than the overall economic effect, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The first lockdown lockdown saw a dreadful impact on the education particularly of poorer children... they were getting less in the way of online lessons from their schools.\n\n\"There's a huge private school/state school divide in this, but also a big divide within state schools between those children who had support at home, had the facilities at home - laptops and internet and so on - but who also had the support from school - so there's a big impact on education but also a very unequal one,\" he added.\n\nThe review is calling for extra support for children who have fallen behind and help for school and university leavers to find jobs.\n\nIt says the welfare safety net must be adapted so it supports non-traditional forms of employment, including insecure and self-employed workers, and minority ethnic groups must be given greater economic opportunities.\n\nProgress in reducing poor mental and physical health could be \"one of the clearest indications of success of economic and social policy\", it adds.\n\nMark Franks, director of welfare at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the review, said: \"Individuals are subject to a wide range of potential vulnerabilities around dimensions including age, ethnicity, place of birth, education, income and the nature of their employment.\n\n\"Where these vulnerabilities intersect, they can amplify and reinforce one another and play a huge role in driving unequal outcomes.\"\n\nHowever, the government said it was already spending vast sums to support people and the economy through the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're doing everything we can to ensure our coronavirus support reaches those who need it the most, which is why we've invested more than £280bn to protect the incomes, livelihoods and health of millions of people across the UK.\"\n\nThis included an additional £9bn for the welfare system and £2bn for the Kickstart Scheme, tripling traineeships, incentives for firms hiring apprentices and doubling the number of work coaches \"so that nobody is left without hope or opportunity\", the spokesman said.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "South Wales Police piloted the use of facial recognition in Cardiff - it was later ruled unlawful\n\nPolice should be allowed more access to facial recognition technology, a firm developing it for use in the private sector has said.\n\nLast year, appeal court judges ruled a trial project to scan thousands of faces by South Wales Police was unlawful. The force did not appeal.\n\nWelsh company Credas said laws were not keeping up with the latest technology.\n\nThe Home Office said it wants police to use new crime-reducing technology while \"maintaining public trust\".\n\nCredas believes such facial recognition technology could be a vital tool in fighting crime.\n\n\"Ten years ago it would have felt space age, but now it's everywhere - just logging into my phone or laptop, we're all used to it now,\" said chief executive Rhys David.\n\n\"But the legislation will never keep up with the technological advancements.\"\n\nThe firm, based in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, works with firms to prevent crime in commercial settings, helping them confirm a client's identity.\n\nIt can include estate agents, the legal sector, accountancy or gambling operations - any businesses regulated to reduce fraud and money laundering.\n\n\"There's common stories of people buying houses with someone else's identity and manipulating the paperwork so that the funds get transferred into the wrong account and it's too late then - we can't recover that,\" said Mr David.\n\n\"It's a very difficult position to be in, but technologies like ours are closing the gap.\"\n\nApps can compare people's picture to that on their passport\n\nCredas's app uses facial recognition - people take a selfie and the app compares it to a photograph of their passport to verify they are who they claim to be.\n\nClaire Williams works for FBM estate agent in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which has been using the software for the past two years.\n\n\"Before we would take people's passports or driver's licence, they would either come into the office and we would photocopy it, or we would even accept a scanned, emailed copy.\n\n\"There would be no way of knowing whether these were legitimate passports and driver's licences.\n\n\"They might have been using fake IDs, trying to launder money through the property industry - putting money into the properties, then reselling them to launder the money.\"\n\nBut scanning faces to confirm details for a mortgage is a very different beast to automated facial recognition, which is what was being trialled by South Wales Police - scanning faces in a crowd, often without people's knowledge.\n\nThat was ruled unlawful after a challenge by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges from Cardiff.\n\n\"Real-time surveillance is considerably more complex than in the commercial space where it's a fairly static, controlled environment. But we should be adopting it and encouraging it to reduce a criminal footprint,\" added Mr David.\n\n\"I find it really sad that the police aren't encouraged to use technology like this to keep our country safe.\n\n\"Let's be honest, the police don't want to sell us trainers. They're not looking to capture our images or biometric footprints to sell us goods. It's to keep us safe, so the police can run very sophisticated facial matching programmes in real time to identify criminals.\"\n\nThe frustration was echoed by the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, who is the independent regulator appointed to oversee the use of camera systems in England and Wales.\n\nFollowing the appeal court ruling on South Wales Police in August, he said he had been \"fruitlessly and repeatedly\" calling for an updated code the police could follow.\n\nWhile campaigners Liberty felt the court's ruling left little room for the technology to be safely used, Mr Porter disagreed, adding: \"I believe adoption of new and advancing technologies is an important element of keeping citizens safe.\"\n\nHe has issued new guidance on the use of facial recognition in light of the case, but it remains just that - guidance, not law.\n\nIt has left police forces still trying to iron out the problems raised by the Court of Appeal - the potential for gender and ethnic biases and a robust code to cover when, how and where the technology can be used, and in search of whom.\n\nProf Martin Innes, from the Universities' Police Sciences Institute, evaluated the rollout of automatic facial recognition for South Wales Police in 2018, flagging ethical and regulatory challenges facing forces.\n\n\"If you look back at the history of new and innovative technologies in policing this is what always happens. You have to let the law catch up a little bit and find out what matters and where the key points of regulation are,\" he said.\n\nAt present, different standards between the private and public sectors \"could be very, very confusing,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a risk that these technologies get introduced almost by stealth and they start popping up everywhere.\"\n\nPembrokeshire estate agent Claire Williams now uses a facial recognition app to match faces to identity\n\nIn a way, some of that has already happened, from mobile phones that can detect your face to hi-tech doorbells\n\nStopping criminal harm \"seems to be an equally justifiable reason\" to use the technology, argued Prof Innes.\n\n\"But we need to think quite carefully about how far do we want this to go, and where is it appropriate for us to introduce these technologies in our lives.\n\n\"There are issues - but there are potentially opportunities and benefits to be gained if it can be done in the right way, as well.\"\n\nThe Home Office and the police say they will consider any ideas that could improve the way live facial recognition technology is used.\n\n\"We want police to use new technologies, like live facial recognition, in a way that reduces crime while maintaining public trust,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police to ensure national College of Policing guidance complies with the Court of Appeal's request to clarify how live facial recognition will be used.\n\n\"The government committed in the Home Office Biometrics Strategy to review the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice and it will be updated in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Holidays has become the latest travel firm to cancel holidays after new coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed.\n\nIt said schedules will be cancelled until mid-February, joining similar moves by Tui, Jet2 and Thomas Cook.\n\nThe companies said customers would be contacted about their future travel options during what Virgin described as \"these extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nThomas Cook said it will call customers to offer refunds or rebooking.\n\nTui said it was \"cancelling all holidays in line with international travel restrictions\". It added that said customers due to depart from England, Scotland and Wales would be contacted to discuss options.\n\nThe company said that customers due to travel from an English airport before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to 31 January, would not be able to do so.\n\nThose customers will be contacted \"in departure date order to discuss their options\", Tui said, which include rebooking \"with an incentive\", getting a credit note, or a full refund.\n\n\"Customers currently overseas can continue to enjoy their holidays as planned and we will update them directly if there are any changes to their holidays,\" Tui added.\n\nIn a statement, Virgin said: \"In line with the new national lockdown restrictions we have reviewed the upcoming holiday schedule and will be cancelling all holidays up to and including 14 February 2021.\n\n\"To simplify the options and to provide immediate peace of mind for customers whose holidays will no longer be going ahead, we're automatically providing a digital voucher for the value of their trip, redeemable up until 30 September 2021, which they can use to rebook a holiday, departing any time before 31 December 2022.\"\n\nVirgin added that customers \"may also request a refund\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jet2 said it was extending \"the suspension of flights and holidays up to and including 11 February 2021\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"For customers due to travel from 12th February onwards, we will provide another update closer to the time.\"\n\nThomas Cook, which became an online-only travel brand in September after its earlier collapse, said: \"Following the announcement of the latest lockdown, we are calling our customers to offer refunds or move their holidays to a later date.\".\n\nChief executive Alan French said: \"We've seen over the festive period that customers are looking ahead to the summer and beginning to book in earnest for those important summer weeks in the sun.\n\n\"I am sure that after many more weeks spent at home - and with the progress of the vaccine rollout - we will see an even bigger demand for people to escape to the beach this summer.\"\n\nLast month, a number of countries suspended routes to the UK due to the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus.\n\nThe blanket travel ban to the EU was then lifted, but with rules varying from country to country. The suspension of flights between the UK and China remains in place.\n\nLast year Tui was investigated by competition authorities after complaints that it had not given prompt refunds.\n\nBritish Airways Holidays, part of Britain's biggest airline, said it would be offering refunds if customers are no longer allowed travel.\n\nThe firm said in a statement: \"We are contacting all affected British Airways Holidays customers following the announcement of new national lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"Customers due to depart by 12 February 2021 will be offered a refund for their holiday. Our teams continue to monitor the situation and update our policy accordingly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust has cancelled all \"Priority 2\" operations - those doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days.\n\nCancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nAnd surgery has not been stopped on the same scale as during the first wave.\n\nRebecca Thomas, who has had her bowel cancer surgery at King's College Hospital \"cancelled indefinitely\", told the BBC she felt like she had been left \"in limbo\".\n\nUntil she has surgery her tumour cannot be studied to see how aggressive it is, and so she won't know until then how significant this wait will turn out to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trust, which mainly serves patients in south London, said: \"Due to the large increase in patients being admitted with Covid-19, including those requiring intensive care, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone all elective procedures, with the exception of cases where a delay would cause immediate harm.\n\n\"A small number of cancer patients due to be operated on this week have had their surgery postponed, with patients being kept under close review by senior doctors.\"\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said he had heard from members that \"hospitals across London are having to cancel cancer surgeries as a result of the huge number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalised.\"\n\nBut it hasn't yet emerged as an issue affecting hospitals outside London.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit last March, NHS England developed guidance on prioritising patients who needed operations, with emergency procedures that needed to be carried out within 24 hours coming first.\n\nThese life-saving operations have continued throughout the pandemic and there is no prospect of that stopping.\n\nHowever, patients in the \"priority 2\" category - who should have surgery within 28 days, to save their life or stop their disease progressing \"beyond operability\" - have found their operations being cancelled at King's.\n\nThe 28-day guideline is based on the patient's individual symptoms and the expected growth rate of their particular cancer.\n\n\"Delays further than that could have a negative impact on that person's chance of survival,\" according to Kruti Shrotri at Cancer Research UK.\n\nAnd delays in diagnosis and treatment in general can lead to worsening chances of recovery, she said.\n\nThis will vary dramatically by person and cancer type, but in some cases, a matter of a few weeks can make the difference between a cancer that can be survived or not.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, said research showed \"even a month's delay to cancer treatment can increase a person's risk of dying by up to 13% - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment is delayed\".\n\nWhile this was \"really concerning to hear,\" she said, \"it's not by and large something we've heard is happening widespread across the country\".\n\nThis is an improvement from the first wave of Covid-19 when the NHS had to put a near-blanket ban on non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut for those patients who are affected, this news will be \"incredibly hard,\" and Ms Shrotri stressed that patients with any symptoms that could be cancer should not put off going to see their GP.\n\n\"The NHS is open,\" she said.\n\nSurgery is most at risk because of the shortage of intensive care beds - but other forms of cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, should continue.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses in England, said trusts were doing all they could to \"prioritise on the basis of clinical need\".", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Supermarkets' online shopping operations have come under strain with customers rushing to book deliveries as the new coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nSainsbury's said on Tuesday that earlier it had restricted access to its online services to manage high demand.\n\nThe surge in demand echoes consumers' reaction at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"We temporarily limited access to our groceries online service last night so that we could manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders.\n\n\"We're continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said customers should now be able to use the Sainsbury's app and website \"as usual\".\n\nAfter the first lockdown in March, supermarkets reported panic buying and a rush to book online delivery slots despite grocers insisting there would be no shortages if consumers shopped sensibly.\n\nShoppers used social media to vent their frustration on Monday, with Twitter user Auld Bryan saying: \"Ocado have already introduced their virtual queue process on their app. It's March 2020 all over again.\"\n\nAnother tweet, by Karl Dyson, said of Ocado: \"You'd think ~10 months in to this, they'd have worked on scalable infrastructure for the website?\"\n\nThere were also reports of people having problems with the Tesco app and website, including when trying to check out and complete payment.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Britain's biggest supermarket said on Monday evening that there had been no reports from Tesco's technical department of any website problems.\n\nThe supermarket had increased the number of slots available for online delivery before the latest lockdown measures.\n\nAn email from Tesco UK boss Jason Tarry already sent to customers said: \"Since March, we have more than doubled home delivery and Click+Collect slots to 1.5 million a week, with over 760,000 vulnerable customers registered with us who are eligible for priority slots.\"\n\nUsers complained that the Sainsbury's app was down following the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nTwitter user Francesca Balgobind wrote: \"What's happening with the Sainsbury's shopping app tonight? Website is down too?\"\n\nAnother social media user, Matt, said some 40 minutes after Mr Johnson had finished speaking: \"Sainsbury's app and website down\".\n\nAsda saw more demand for online shopping after the lockdown announcement, but said it had increased the number of slots available since the first two national lockdowns.\n\nMorrisons also reported a jump in the number of shoppers using its website after the announcement.\n\nHowever, despite the longer waiting queues, the grocer said it continued to have \"good slot availability\" for home deliveries.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, supermarkets have urged people to shop normally.\n\nBefore Christmas, in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition period, some grocers reported temporary shortages of fresh goods due to congestion at UK shipping ports.", "By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable.\n\nBut it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful.\n\nWith tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away.\n\nThere is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy.\n\nThis time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business.\n\nBut there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits.\n\nBy now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions.\n\nBut there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation.\n\nVaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already.\n\nThe scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me: \"We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel.\"\n\nIt's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Celtic have questions to answer about their trip to Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon says possible breaches of social distancing rules while in the Middle East \"should be looked into\".\n\nHowever, Celtic insist the training camp was approved by the Scottish government, while the Scottish FA have no plans to investigate the trip.\n\n\"For me, the question for Celtic is what is the purpose of them being there,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"I've seen comments from the club that it's more for R&R than training.\n\n\"I have also seen some photographs - and I don't know the full circumstances - that would raise a question in my mind about whether all the rules elite players have to follow in their bubble around social distancing are being complied with.\"\n\nPictures have emerged of members of the Celtic party in the UAE not wearing face masks and potentially breaching the social distancing rules that those in Scottish football must adhere to.\n\nIt remains unclear if the Scottish FA will investigate that matter.\n\nCeltic travelled to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday just hours after their 1-0 defeat by Rangers.\n\nTravellers returning from the UAE are exempt from self-isolation protocols in Scotland, with elite athletes in Scotland permitted to travel abroad to compete.\n\n\"Elite sport has been in a privileged position and as long as that is the case it's really important they don't abuse it,\" said Ms Sturgeon at her daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I saw their [Celtic's] statement and have not spent a lot of time looking into it, but as I understand it the government gave advice to the Scottish FA about the rules around training camps in November.\n\n\"The world has changed quite a bit since then but it's not our role to sign off what a club does around these training camps.\n\n\"The rules may have to change, but they were that elite sportspeople and teams can go overseas if it is important in the context of training and competitions.\"\n\nMainland Scotland has been in Tier 4 - the highest level of restrictions - since 26 December, and Ms Sturgeon addressed the nation on Monday ordering people to stay at home where possible.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney has accused Celtic of not setting \"a particularly great example\".\n\n\"I don't think it's a good idea,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland on Monday.\n\n\"When we are asking members of the public to take on very, very significant restrictions on the way in which they live their lives, I think we have all got to demonstrate leadership on this particular question.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment on Monday, a Celtic spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The training camp was arranged a number of months ago and approved by all relevant footballing authorities and the Scottish government through the Joint Response Group on 12 November.\n\n\"The team travelled prior to any new lockdown being in place, to a location exempt from travel restrictions. The camp, the same one as we have undertaken for a number of years, has been fully risk assessed.\n\n\"If the club had not received Scottish government approval, then we would not have travelled.\"\n\nIn November, Celtic requested their fixture with Hibernian, originally scheduled for this weekend, be moved to Monday, 11 January to accommodate the trip.\n\nThe SPFL granted the change, despite objections from the Easter Road side.", "Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration after most of its stores were forced to close over the Christmas period.\n\nThe firm has filed a notice to appoint administrators, a move that will give it breathing space from its creditors while it works out a rescue plan.\n\nThe company has 127 stores and about 1,500 employees.\n\nThe second lockdown in November came at a crucial period for the firm, which makes a high proportion of sales then.\n\nJust under half its sales, 40%, come from trade in November and December.\n\nPaperchase said: \"The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two - at the start of the Christmas shopping period - and now the current restrictions have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.\"\n\nThe company went through an insolvency process, known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement or CVA, almost two years ago to cut costs.\n\nThe chain now has 10 working days to find a solution.\n\nPaperchase said its strong online trading had not made it \"immune\" from the impact of shop closures across the country.\n\n\"Out of lockdown we've traded well, but as the country faces further restrictions for some months to come, we have to find a sustainable future for Paperchase,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working hard to find that solution and this [notice of administration] is a necessary part of this work. This is not the situation we wanted to be in.\n\nThe chain is the latest of a string of high-profile retailers to hit trouble in the past year.\n\nThe sector was already battling with the shift to online sales, coupled with rising costs, including rents and higher minimum wages.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions which shut non-essential shops piled on the pressure.\n\nOthers that have run into trouble recently include Debenhams, which last month said it would cease trading putting 12,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has also gone into administration, putting a further 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Woollen Mills' brands Peacocks and Jaeger also fell into administration in November, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAnd earlier last year, Oasis and Warehouse fell into administration in mid-April after failing to find buyers, and online fashion group Boohoo said in June it was buying the brands but closing all stores.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "Adamo Canto had worked as a catering assistant at the palace's Royal Mews since 2015\n\nA Buckingham Palace catering assistant who stole medals and photographs from the Queen's residence has been jailed.\n\nAdamo Canto, 37, stole items including signed photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of US President Donald Trump's UK visit.\n\nPolice said some of the goods, worth between £10,000 and £100,000, had been listed for sale on eBay.\n\nCanto, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight months after he admitted stealing the items.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard police recovered a \"significant quantity\" of stolen items when they searched his quarters at the palace's Royal Mews, where he had worked as a catering assistant since 2015.\n\nCanto stole an album of photos from US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK\n\nA total of 37 items were offered for sale \"well under\" their true value, with Canto making £7,741.\n\nOne item was a photo album of US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK, worth £1,500.\n\nCanto also took official signed photographs of the Duke of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nSome 77 items were taken from the palace shop, while others were stolen from staff lockers, the Queen's Gallery shop and the Duke of York's storeroom.\n\nCanto also admitted stealing a Companion of Bath medal belonging to the Master of the Household, which was sold online for £350, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order medal from the locker of former British Army officer Maj Gen Richard Sykes.\n\nCanto pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by an employee at a hearing in November and was jailed on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park believed he was carrying out \"an act of religious jihad\", a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed to death James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAs part of his sentencing, a hearing will decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThe prosecution claim the stabbing spree was a terror attack.\n\nSaadallah has admitted three counts of murder and attempted murder, but denies he was motivated by an ideology.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court he \"executed\" his victims and intended to \"kill as many people as he could\" in the name of violent jihad.\n\nShe said: \"In less than a minute, shouting Allahu Akhbar the defendant carried out a lethal attack with a knife, killing all three men before they had a chance to respond and try to defend themselves.\n\n\"Within the same minute, the defendant went on to attack others nearby, stabbing three more people, Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, causing them significant injuries.\"\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah was captured on CCTV leaving his flat on the day of the attack\n\nStating the prosecution's case she said the attack was \"carefully planned and executed\" by the defendant with \"determination and precision\".\n\nShe added: \"The defendant believed that in carrying out this attack he was acting in pursuit of his extreme ideology, an ideology he appears to have held for some time.\n\n\"He believed that in killing as many people as possible that day he was performing an act of religious jihad.\"\n\nAfter the attack Sadallah fled but was chased down by police, and later admitted the attacks in his cell, the court heard.\n\nIn interviews with police he \"howled like a dog\" and claimed to have magic powers, which the prosecution said was a \"disingenuous\" attempt to suggest he had a mental disorder.\n\n\"After a careful period of assessment and treatment at Belmarsh prison, it is clear that he does not have a major mental illness\", a report by a psychiatrist read out in court said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the victims, Michael Main, said: \"They were always happy\"\n\nSaadallah arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2012, having fled the civil war in his home country of Libya in North Africa.\n\nThe court heard the defendant, who had been refused asylum, had been involved with militias as part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2020 he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences in the UK.\n\nWhile in HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah was observed to be keen to interact with radical preacher Omar Brooks - associated with banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun - who was also at the jail at the time, the court heard. He was released from the prison in June, days before the attack.\n\nSaadallah had been due to be deported, but was told by the government circumstances in Libya at the time were a \"legal barrier\".\n\nThe court was told he had also searched on the internet \"how to disappear with magic\" and accessed a website with the flag associated with Islamic State.\n\nA probation officer who had contact with Saadallah flagged his concerns about his mental health, but a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Sweeney is expected to conclude on January 11.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "The 90,000 sq ft store is a familiar sight for commuters coming out of Oxford Circus Tube station\n\nThe building that houses Topshop's Oxford Street store is up for sale.\n\nThe High Street chain's owner Arcadia went into administration in November, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nNews of the sale of the three-storey building has prompted an outpouring of emotion on social media, with shoppers recounting how important the flagship store is to them.\n\nThe store, which boasted a DJ booth, nail bar and food stalls, was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994.\n\nHuge crowds gathered at the store for the launch of Kate Moss's Topshop collection in 2014\n\nArcadia - which owns Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - entered administration on 30 November\n\nThe sale of 214 Oxford Street, managed by agents Savills and Eastdil, follows the failure of Sir Philip Green's retail empire to secure funding to pay its debts after sales slumped during the pandemic.\n\nThe Oxford Street building also houses Nike and Vans stores.\n\nArcadia said that although it was in administration, and so all its assets are to be sold, that did not mean the shops in the building would have to close.\n\nPeople have been sharing their feelings about the London landmark, which was often used as a meeting point for friends and was a must-visit for fashion-loving tourists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArcadia, which also owns Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Burton, had already closed other Topshop stores across the UK, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts brands were struggling before the pandemic, partly due to competition from online-only fashion retailers such as Asos, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nBeyonce launched her Ivy Park collection at Topshop in 2016\n\nThe flagship store is currently closed, in line with the rules about non-essential retailers\n\nThe Oxford Street store pictured during Pride in 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon: Vaccination programme needs to win the race\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have come into force across the Scottish mainland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the clampdown was necessary to contain the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.\n\nPeople are now required by law to stay in their homes and to work from home.\n\nOutdoor gatherings have been restricted to one-on-one meet-ups, and schools will close to most pupils until February at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Monday that Scotland faced an \"extremely serious\" situation, with the new, faster-spreading variant of coronavirus \"a massive blow\".\n\nSchools will remain closed to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nThe first minister has said she cannot guarantee when children will be allowed back in classrooms or when the latest lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nShe also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday that she hoped 2.7 million people in Scotland would have received one dose of the Covid vaccine by the middle of May.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be definitive right now about when we will lift these restrictions.\n\n\"I have described this as a race - we've got the vaccine in one lane and we are trying to accelerate that.\n\n\"We've got the virus which has learned to run faster in the other lane and we've got to slow it down.\n\n\"Lockdown is about pushing rates of the virus back, and if we manage to do that then hopefully we will be able to start lifting restrictions while the vaccination programme is ongoing.\"\n\nA government document revealed there were now more than 90 patients in intensive care units, with new modelling suggesting that figure could more than double by early February.\n\nThe modelling sets out different scenarios with the most pessimistic predicting hospitals admissions could soar to more than 8,000 with over 700 patients requiring intensive care.\n\nThe document also revealed that Inverclyde - which a few weeks ago had relatively low levels of Covid - now has the highest case rate, almost 550 per 100,000 - while Dumfries and Galloway has seen its rate increase to 475 per 100,000.\n\nDundee City, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and the Scottish Borders all now have case rates exceeding 300 per 100,000.\n\nOnly limited data was released by the government in recent days but a full update on deaths, hospital admissions and local infection rates has now been issued.\n\nCases of Covid have risen sharply in recent days\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight and are, in effect, an enhancement to the level four curbs already in place across the mainland and Skye.\n\nThey will run until at least the end of January and could yet be extended both in scope and duration.\n\nScotland's island communities, with the exception of Skye, are to remain in level three for now, although Ms Sturgeon warned this would also remain under review.\n\nNew regulations mean Scots are prohibited from leaving their homes for anything other than \"essential\" purposes - although the law provides a lengthy list of examples of \"reasonable excuses\".\n\nThese include shopping for food or medical supplies, providing or accessing childcare, exercise, and participation in extended households.\n\nAnyone who can do their job from home must do so, and people in the \"shielding\" category have been advised not to go out to work at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nNew restrictions have been placed on outdoor gatherings in level four areas, with only two people from separate households now permitted to meet up.\n\nThese restrictions do not include children under the age of 12, who are still allowed to gather to play, but everyone else must abide by them or face a fixed penalty notice.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place between local authority areas and in and out of Scotland, and people have been urged to stay as close to home as possible when going out for exercise.\n\nSchools will now operate on a remote-learning basis for the majority of pupils when the new term starts on 11 January, with only the children of key workers and vulnerable children to receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nThis is to run until at least 1 February, with a review on 18 January - with Ms Sturgeon saying her \"fundamental priority\" was still to get children back in school full time as quickly as possible.\n\nThe new measures are a bid to control the spread of the new variant of Covid, which is now thought to be responsible for nearly half of all new cases of the virus in Scotland.\n\nOfficials believe Scotland is roughly four weeks behind London - where health services are coming under increasing pressure - and warn that hospitals could hit capacity within the month without major new curbs.\n\nBetween 23 and 30 December, the average number of cases per 100,000 people in Scotland increased by 65%, from 136 to 225.", "\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation\"\n\nA fresh move is under way to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence in England and Wales, after the House of Lords debated the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans to change the law, arguing that non-fatal strangulation is already covered by existing legislation.\n\nHowever, campaigners say abusers who use non-fatal strangulation are telling their victims: \"I am controlling you and I can kill you\" - but too often are charged only with common assault.\n\nThis is what happened in Jenny's case. Her abusive partner used non-fatal strangulation as a means of control throughout the five years they were together.\n\n\"It was like his favourite thing to do,\" says Jenny, who asked the BBC not to use her real name.\n\n\"That sounds really awful and trivial but that is how it becomes as an abuse victim. You learn to accept that is part of your life. It was like something I had to manage.\"\n\n\"We would wake up in the morning and he would be in one of those moods, and I would see it in his eyes and I would think today's the day I'm going to get it.\n\n\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nEventually one night she did call the police during an attack.\n\n\"He chased me round the house and every time he caught me he would pin me to the floor and strangle me until I had marks.\n\n\"I had burst blood vessels. I was streaming with tears. I just kept thinking: 'This is how I am going to die.'\n\n\"The doors were locked. He'd smashed my phone. I managed to get to the window and shout and one of the neighbours called the police.\"\n\nHowever, she was dismayed by the police response. \"I thought it was quite lax. They didn't take the strangulation as seriously as they should have.\"\n\nHer partner was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\n\"Strangulation needs to be a specific offence. I think the weak police response contributed to keeping me in the relationship,\" she says.\n\nJenny believed her partner would eventually kill her.\n\n\"I just kept looking in the mirror and thinking: you need to leave and you're the only person who can do it.\n\n\"So one day while he was asleep, I picked up whatever I could carry and I ran and got on a train.\"\n\nBaroness Newlove is bringing forward an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords\n\nPoliticians and campaigners tried and failed to have a new offence of non-fatal strangulation introduced in the Domestic Abuse Bill when it was going through the House of Commons.\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate on the bill in the Lords, the Conservative peer and former victims' commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill when it reached the committee stage.\n\nShe said non-fatal strangulation was currently not being picked up adequately by the police, as it often left no physical marks on the victim.\n\nShe described it as a terrifying crime, with many victims testifying they felt as though their heads were going to explode and they were about to die.\n\nPeers from other parties also spoke in support of a new offence.\n\nNogah Offer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence, says: \"We believe this is a real opportunity to make a difference.\"\n\nCommon assault is a summary offence that can be charged by the police.\n\nBut when it involves domestic abuse, it should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, its guidance says.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"Non-fatal strangulation is a serious crime which is already covered by existing laws such as common assault and attempted murder.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the government would keep this area of the law under review, but said a specific offence of attempting to choke, strangle or suffocate a person is included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and, according to the 2015 Serious Crime Act, attempted strangulation can fall under the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine White: \"Ultimately it can lead to death\"\n\nDr Catherine White, clinical director of St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, says: \"Strangulation often ends up being treated the same as a slap or a punch.\n\n\"It's a very different crime. Often there is no external injury to the neck, which is why it's a very powerful tool for the perpetrator.\n\n\"It can cause confusion but ultimately it can lead to death.\"\n\nA research project led by Dr White describes non-fatal strangulation as a \"gendered crime, with nearly all the patients female and the alleged perpetrators male\".\n\nAnd figures from the Femicide Census, which looked at the cases of women killed by men in the UK, found that in 2018, 29% died through strangulation.\n\nCampaigners point to New Zealand and some parts of the United States and Australia, where non-fatal strangulation has become a specific offence.\n\nMeanwhile, after help from a women's centre and counselling, Jenny now feels stronger and happier.\n\nDespite the pandemic, she says, having finally escaped her abuser: \"2020 was one of the best years of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Body Coach says he will be running PE lessons online for children\n\nJoe Wicks is restarting his online PE lessons from next week, to help families keep fit during lockdown.\n\nThe personal trainer told the BBC he wanted to \"give children structure\" and help them feel \"more optimistic\".\n\nHe said live sessions would run on his YouTube channel at 09:00 GMT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\n\nSchools across the UK are reopening later than normal, amid tighter measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nConfirming the return of his \"PE with Joe\" sessions in an Instagram post, Wicks, known as the Body Coach, said: \"We all need this for our mental health more than ever and exercising can help.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had \"a really emotional moment last night\", after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown for England on Monday evening.\n\n\"I was thinking about all the children in the UK and all around the world that are at home in tiny little flats… and they feel like they miss their friends and they miss school,\" he said.\n\n\"And so PE with Joe three days a week is going to really help them get through those days and give them some structure and hopefully help them feel a little bit happier and a bit more optimistic.\"\n\nWicks first began his free online workouts during the national lockdown in March, with the sessions attracting millions of viewers.", "Boeing's 737 Max plane is safe to return to service in the UK and the European Union, regulators have said.\n\nIt ends a 22-month flight ban for the jet, which followed two crashes which caused 346 deaths.\n\nThe plane had already been cleared to resume flying in North America and Brazil.\n\nBut this week a senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle warned that recertification had happened too quickly.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), which regulates aviation in 31 mainly EU countries, said it now had \"every confidence\" in the plane following an independent review.\n\n\"But we will continue to monitor 737 Max operations closely as the aircraft resumes service,\" said executive director Patrick Ky.\n\n\"In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.\"\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which oversees UK aviation now Britain has left the EU, said the work to return the 737 Max to the skies had been \"the most extensive project of this kind\".\n\nIt said it was in close contact with Tui, currently the only UK operator of the aircraft, as it returned the plane to service.\n\n\"As part of this we will have full oversight of the airline's plans including its pilot training programmes and implementation of the required aircraft modifications.\"\n\nThe 737 Max's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.\n\nThe second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.\n\nBoth have been attributed to flawed flight control software, which became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.\n\nEasa said it had done a full investigation independent of Boeing or the US Federal Aviation Administration and \"without any economic or political pressure\".\n\nAs a result, it demanded software upgrades, electrical working rework, maintenance checks, operations manual updates and crew training.\n\n\"We asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements,\" Mr Ky said.\n\nThe CAA said it had based its decision on information from Easa, the US Federal Aviation Agency and Boeing, as well as \"extensive engagement\" with airline operators and pilots.\n\nIt comes days after a report by Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager, claimed that regulators and investigators had largely ignored factors that may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nMr Pierson said that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory in Seattle was badly needed.\n\nOn Wednesday Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband Mick died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said that the families of victims \"still do not have a full accounting of what happened and why\".\n\n\"Ultimately we are more determined than ever to find out exactly what Boeing knew about this dangerous aircraft, and hold them accountable for the deaths of our loved ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\nBoeing has already agreed to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) to settle US criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of the planes.\n\nThe US Justice Department said the firm chose \"profit over candour\", impeding oversight of the planes.\n\nAbout $500m of that will go to families of the people killed in the tragedies.\n\nHowever, attorneys for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have said the deal would not end their pending civil lawsuit against Boeing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boeing posted a record $12bn annual loss after it delayed its all-new 777X jet for the third time, incurring huge charges.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has caused demand for the industry's largest jetliners to fall, with airline customers shunning deliveries of planes due international travel restrictions.\n\nThe 737 Max has already been cleared to fly in North America and Brazil - now it has the go-ahead from European regulators as well.\n\nIt's a major step for Boeing - although with the current travel restrictions in place, it's likely to be a while before the decision has much practical effect.\n\nBut the controversy won't end there. Relatives of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident have made it clear they haven't heard enough to be sure the aircraft - modified in accordance with regulators' wishes - is truly safe.\n\nAnd this week, a former senior manager at the 737 factory told the BBC why he thought existing planes might still be carrying potentially dangerous manufacturing defects.\n\nThat may explain why Easa has also chosen to publish a report setting out the detailed reasoning behind its decision.\n\nUltimately, the 737 Max may we'll have decades of successful service ahead of it. But for the moment, winning back passenger confidence will be a formidable challenge.", "The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies.\n\nIt said insurance was \"not an alternative\" to doing everything possible to first minimise the risk.\n\nHowever, it added that firms could face financial ruin without the cover.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the UK needed to rethink its policies on ransomware.\n\nRansomware is a form of malware in which infected computers are remotely locked by cyber-criminals, who then demand a ransom, often in the form of Bitcoin, to unlock them and return the data they hold.\n\nThere are many examples of businesses and public bodies which have chosen to pay because they do not have the data backed up, or cannot afford - or do not have time - to rebuild their systems from scratch.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Prof Martin, now at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, said he believed insurers were \"funding organised crime\" by accepting ransomware claims, but he told the BBC the issue of how to tackle ransomware was far broader than just the insurance sector.\n\nWhile official advice is not to pay the demand, it is not illegal to do so in the UK, he said.\n\n\"I have some sympathy with insurers, because as long as it's legal, there are incentives to pay.\"\n\nWhile the ransom demand may be high, the alternative impact can also be devastating.\n\nWhen the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was attacked in 2019, it cost the firm around £45m, and its profits in the immediate aftermath plummeted by 82%, reported Reuters.\n\nNorsk Hydro refused to pay the demand, which would arguably have been cheaper - but it did have insurance.\n\nA spokesman for the ABI said insurers do require that \"reasonable precautions\" are taken to prevent cyber-attacks from succeeding in the first place, just as cars and houses require security measures in place to deter thieves.\n\n\"Some might argue that any insurance that covers against a criminal act could lull the policyholder into a false sense of security,\" he said.\n\nProf Martin said he did not think that banning ransomware insurance claims would necessarily solve the problem.\n\n\"But it's worth a serious piece of consultation because if we continue as we are, things will get worse,\" he said.", "Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus, a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe ONS findings are based on positive tests from a random sample of 6,000 people in England.\n\nLoss of taste and smell may be slightly less likely to affect those with the new form of the virus.\n\nHowever, it is still one of the three main symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe NHS website lists the symptoms as a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to sense of smell or taste.\n\nMost people infected with the virus develop at least one of these symptoms.\n\nThe new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown.\n\nThere is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels.\n\nThe ONS analysis looked at the symptoms reported by people up to a week before testing positive for the new variant of coronavirus, compared with those testing positive for the old variant.\n\nThey were tested over two months between mid-November and mid-January.\n\nTest results compatible with the new variant show up as being positive for two genes, rather than three for the other variant.\n\nIn a group of about 3,500 people with the new variant:\n\nIn a group of 2,500 people with the old variant:\n\nThe study found 16% of those with the new variant experienced losing their sense of taste while 15% lost their sense of smell.\n\nThis was slightly lower than reported by people with the old variant (18% for both).\n\nThere was no difference found in levels of headaches, shortness of breath or diarrhoea and vomiting in both groups.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus.\n\n\"Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection,\" he said.\n\nInfected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body \"perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness\", Prof Young added.\n\nThe analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the UK population, carried out jointly with Public Health England, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has suggested that Boris Johnson should not visit Scotland as it is not an \"essential\" journey.\n\nThe prime minister is widely expected to travel to Scotland on Thursday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not ecstatic\" about the plan, saying leaders should abide by the same rules as they ask of the general public.\n\nAsked about the trip, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said Mr Johnson would go \"wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic\".\n\nAnd Downing Street has insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman did not confirm details of the visit, but said: \"It remains the fact that it is a fundamental role of the PM to be the physical representative of the UK government\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is right that he is visible and accessible to businesses, communities and the public across all parts of the UK, especially during the pandemic.\"\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is due to visit Scotland on Thursday to thank staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, despite the \"stay at home\" lockdown in place across the country.\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon stressed that she was not saying Mr Johnson was unwelcome in Scotland, but added that she was \"not ecstatic\" about the idea of him travelling up from London.\n\nDowning Street says it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the UK during the pandemic\n\nShe said: \"We are living in a global pandemic and every day I stand and look down the camera and say 'don't travel unless it is essential, work from home if you possibly can' - that has to apply to all of us.\n\n\"People like me and Boris Johnson have to be in work for reasons people understand, but we don't have to travel across the UK. We have a duty to lead by example.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her team had suggested she visit a mass vaccination centre in Aberdeen in the coming weeks, but that she had questioned whether the journey was \"genuinely essential\".\n\nShe said: \"If I'm standing here every day saying to all of you watching, don't leave your house unless it is essential, I have a duty to subject myself to that same discipline and decision making.\n\n\"I would say me travelling from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to visit a vaccine centre is not essential - Boris Johnson travelling from London to wherever in Scotland to do the same is not essential.\n\n\"If we're asking other people to abide by that then I'm sorry, I think it's incumbent on us to do likewise.\"\n\nThere are currently cross-border travel restrictions in place for anything other than essential travel, as well as a stay at home order\n\nThe Scottish secretary was asked about the move at Westminster by SNP MP Neale Hanvey, who described the trip as a \"futile\" attempt to bolster the union following a trend of polls suggesting majority support for independence.\n\nMr Jack replied: \"That's ridiculous - the prime minister is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic, he will go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found.\n\nPhilippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment in August 2019.\n\nShe died after two months in a coma.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the way her claim was dealt with was the \"predominant factor\" in her overdose.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, coroner Gordon Clow said he could not determine whether she intended to die rather than put her life at risk.\n\nMiss Day, who had been diagnosed with unstable personality disorder, had been receiving disabled living allowance (DLA) payments as she had type 1 diabetes.\n\nThose payments stopped in January 2019 after she made an application for a personal independence payment (PIP), reducing her income from £228 a week to £60.\n\nThis, the inquest heard, was because a form she had sent went missing and her payments were not reinstated for months, despite her eligibility.\n\nThis led to her taking out short-term loans and ending up in debt.\n\nThe court heard in June, she called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to say she was \"starving\" and \"couldn't survive like this for much longer\".\n\nPhilippa Day (left) took a fatal overdose and died in October 2019\n\nShe was then asked to attend a face-to-face assessment despite it being \"distressing\" for her, Mr Clow said.\n\nThe coroner added Miss Day's mental health problems were \"exacerbated\" by the benefits process.\n\nHe accepted it had been \"the last straw\" for Miss Day who was already experiencing a range of stressors.\n\nHe said: \"Were it not for this problem, it is not likely that she would have [overdosed] on the 7th or 8th of August.\"\n\nCall handlers repeatedly failed to flag that the case required \"additional support\" due to her mental health problems, the coroner said.\n\nThe DWP did not tell her community psychiatric nurse that she had not returned the form before refusing her application, which could have resolved the issue.\n\nThe coroner said call handlers received little to no training on personality disorders like Miss Day's - all that was available was a factsheet.\n\nCapita was made aware of the risks to Miss Day's health from a face-to-face interview by her community psychiatric nurse, but did not act on it, he added.\n\nMr Clow said: \"Given the sheer number of problems in the handling of her claim, I am unable to conclude that each of these was attributable to individual human error.\"\n\nHe concluded the failure to administer her benefit claim in a way that avoided exacerbating her mental health problems was the \"predominant factor\" that caused Miss Day to overdose.\n\nMr Clow recommended changes at both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the authorities involved.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Clow said the DWP should consider timely mental health training for call handlers and address \"poor record keeping\".\n\nThe DWP and Capita were also directed to review the change of assessment process so that it does not \"create unnecessary distress\".\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"This is a deeply tragic case. Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day's family and we will carefully consider the coroner's findings.\"\n\nA Capita spokesman said the company also apologised for the mistakes made.\n\n\"We have strengthened our processes over the last 18 months and are committed to continuously working to deliver a high-quality, empathetic service for every claimant,\" he said.\n\n\"In partnership with the DWP, we will act upon the coroner's findings and make further improvements to our processes.\"\n\nThis conclusion amounts to a near dismantling of the process for applying for the main disability benefit for people with psychiatric problems.\n\nWhile around 40% of claimants for personal independence payments have mental health conditions, the inquest found that call handlers for the DWP didn't receive adequate mental health training.\n\nThe coroner found there was an \"institutional assumption\" in the DWP that problems with a claim were the claimants' fault.\n\nLast year a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the department had investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants since 2014-15.\n\nThere were more cases they could have looked into, said the NAO, but in any case the department couldn't demonstrate any improvements from their investigations had actually been implemented.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades\n\nUS actress Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.\n\n\"Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition,\" said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the ceremony's organiser.\n\n\"While her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained.\"\n\nFonda, 83, has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.\n\nThe HFPA said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThe actress - who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism - has been arrested several times during protests, and hopes her actions have raised awareness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Hobbs, from Cardiff, had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid\n\nThe family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.\n\nKaren Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.\n\nShe was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.\n\nKaren's sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.\n\n\"She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew she was really bad but I'd never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.\"\n\nOn 2 January, Karen was put into an induced coma.\n\n\"She was really terrified, she said 'I need to come out of this and see my children again'. She never came out of it,\" her sister added.\n\nKaren Hobbs' children are now 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\nThe family were told Karen's organs were beginning to fail and she was \"going downhill\" about a week before she died, and they were allowed to visit.\n\n\"She did look a little bit better, she had more colour, she was quite puffy - swelling and a bit of a rash on her. Her lungs were struggling, so we came home a little bit shocked.\n\n\"They started feeding her in a tube and were able to move her, I thought perhaps she's recovering a little bit and then I had the phone call to say that she'd gone.\n\n\"Her body just couldn't take it any more. I don't think it's sunk in. I think the children are still in a bit of shock as well, I thought she would come out of it but she just had it so severe. \"\n\nKaren's children made her a get well soon card while she was in hospital\n\nRachel said her sister, from Cardiff, was healthy with no underlying conditions.\n\n\"She didn't go anywhere - she did online shopping, she was in the house - so we don't even know where it could have come from, she was one of the ones who stayed safest.\n\n\"It's just shocking to think a young mum of five is no longer here. They've lost their mum and they lost their grandfather and nan a couple of years ago so they must feel 'who will be next'?\n\nRachel Hobbs says it still has not sunk in that she has lost her sister\n\nRachel said her sister was a fantastic mother to her five children, aged 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\n\"I don't think the youngest understands, I think she thinks mummy's still just in the hospital.\n\n\"She was a very hands-on mum, she spent a lot of time with the children. She'd sit and play with them for hours, sit and colour, she was always there for them.\"\n\nRachel says her youngest niece does not yet understand what has happened to her mother\n\nRachel added that Karen had no patience with people who broke lockdown rules: \"She used to get quite annoyed about people who broke the rules and she wasn't slow on coming forward, she'd say it as well.\n\n\"It just goes to show how bad this virus is. She would say 'make sure you follow the rules because nobody is safe, it is real this virus, stay at home and only go out when you need to'.\"\n\nIn the days since Karen's death a fundraising page has been set up by friends to support her children and their dad, and has raised more than £20,000.\n\nKaren spoke of how frightened she was in her final post on Facebook\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at how generous people have been and how kind people have been, the community has come together and I think she'd be proud too that it's raising awareness about the pandemic.\n\n\"That'll help the children going forward now. Out of a bad thing, it's been nice people getting in touch, kind words, messages, little things about what she was like.\"\n\nKaren loved colouring and playing with her children, her sister said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joined the production line at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow for the unpacking of Covid tests\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted that Scotland's independence debate is \"irrelevant\" to most people as he urged the country to unite against Covid.\n\nThe PM was speaking during a trip to Scotland to emphasise the strength of the UK working together during the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP said he was panicking as opinion polls show declining support for the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also questioned if his trip is essential.\n\nThe PM started his day-long visit by going to the Lighthouse Laboratory - which processes Covid tests - at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nHe later visited troops who are setting up a vaccination centre in the Castlemilk area of the city, and toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston.\n\nThe factory is expected to deliver 60 million doses to the UK by the end of the year if its vaccine is approved.\n\nMr Johnson used the visit to argue that the priority should be \"fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together\" rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nAnd he praised the \"amazing performance\" of Scottish people in the \"national effort\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people\".\n\nMr Johnson also criticised the SNP's record in government, and added: \"We don't actually know what the referendum would set out to achieve.\n\n\"We don't know what the point of it would be - what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office. Nobody will tell us what it's all meant to be about.\"\n\nHe told reporters that \"the very same people\" who wanted independence \"also said only a few years ago, in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\n\"I'm inclined to stick with what they said last time,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson met troops who are setting up a vaccination centre\n\nUnder the current Covid regulations, people are only able to travel between Scotland and England for essential reasons, with similar regulations also in place to stop travel across council boundaries within Scotland.\n\nAsked at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday how she felt about the prime minister's visit while the strict travel restrictions were in place, Ms Sturgeon replied she was \"not ecstatic\" about it.\n\nShe argued that leaders should abide by the same rules they impose on the general public, adding that she had herself rejected a suggested visit to a vaccine centre in Aberdeen for this reason.\n\nDowning Street has insisted it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the whole of the UK during the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's criticism, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"These are Covid-related visits. You've seen the prime minister do a number of them over the past few weeks.\n\n\"It is obviously important that he is continuing to meet and see those who are on the front line in terms of those who are providing tests, in terms of those who are working so hard to deliver the vaccination plan.\"\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Scotland is widely seen as being part of a \"charm offensive\" in response to polls indicating a rise in support for independence.\n\nHowever, polls have also suggested that the independence question is currently a lower priority for many people than other issues such as the pandemic, health and education.\n\nA series of opinion polls have suggested that support for independence is now ahead of support for remaining in the UK\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it was \"only right\" the prime minister visited people on the front line of the vaccine roll-out to make sure it is operating effectively.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast Mr Johnson has visited other crucial locations in the UK's pandemic response, such as the Wrexham plant making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adding: \"No one thinks that's illegitimate.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said he backed the visit. \"I'm with the prime minister on this one,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"He is the prime minister of the UK. It's important that he travels to see what is going on, on the ground.\"\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government sets out its budget, described as the \"most important in the history of devolution\" in the wake of huge spending increases to support people and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson had a clear purpose on his visit to Scotland - to talk up what he calls the power of cooperation across the UK.\n\nDressed in white lab coat and protective gear, he was happy to tell me how the UK government is supporting the fight against coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThat includes spending lots of money supporting jobs and businesses, building test centres, and procuring vaccine supplies from companies like the one he was visiting in Livingston.\n\nNo matter what the prime minister does, or that the UK and Scottish governments are following broadly similar Covid strategies - the public in Scotland perceives that Nicola Sturgeon and her team are handling the pandemic response better.\n\nThis visit was controversial because it happened during lockdown but it went ahead because the UK government recognises how much work it has to do to make the case for the union in Scotland, with Scottish elections due in May when the question of indyref2 will be to the fore.\n\nOn Sunday, the SNP revealed an 11-point \"roadmap to a referendum\" on Scottish independence, which sets out how the party intends to take forward its plan for another vote on the issue.\n\nIt says a \"legal referendum\" will be held after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nAnd it says it will \"vigorously oppose\" any legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's SNP has published a \"roadmap\" aimed at holding a legal referendum once the pandemic ends\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to a referendum, and has suggested that another one should not be held for 40 years.\n\nOpposition parties in Scotland have also accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of putting the push for independence ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the prime minister's trip was evidence that he is in a \"panic\" about the prospect of another referendum.", "Jonathan Mok posted a selfie and another photo of his injuries on Facebook\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told \"we don't want your coronavirus in our country\".\n\nJonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nThe teenager was convicted of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm following a trial at Highbury Corner Youth Court.\n\nThe chair of the bench gave the boy an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.\n\nHe was also ordered to wear an electronic tag, follow a curfew order between 20:00 and 07:00 for 10 weeks and must pay £600 compensation to Mr Mok.\n\nChair of the bench Mervyn Mandell warned that had he been an adult he \"would have gone to jail for a very long time\".\n\n\"This was an unprovoked attack for no reason other than his [Mr Mok's] appearance,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Mok had been walking home after having dinner in central London\n\nMr Mok, 23, suffered a complicated fracture to his nose and cheekbone which required surgery, screws and stitches.\n\nImages of his swollen eye were shared widely on social media following the attack.\n\nThe court heard previously how the UCL law student turned around after a friend of the attacker made a remark about coronavirus towards him.\n\nWitnesses described a \"commotion on the street\" where Mr Mok and his friend were \"confronted by a group of white males\".\n\nThey heard someone shout \"you are diseased don't come near me\".\n\nMr Mok was then punched in the face. The teenager joined the attack and continued to punch and kick Mr Mok.\n\nProsecutor Simon Maughan said the teenager was \"quick to get involved\" in the group attack.\n\nA victim impact statement read out on behalf of Mr Mok said the crime had \"taken a heavy toll\" on him and his family.\n\nHe added: \"My legal education had to be halted for a month due to surgery and follow up medical appointments.\n\n\"I have anxiety and have problems sleeping. I believe the defendant is a threat to Singaporeans and South East Asians. He has shown no remorse.\"\n\nThe teenager's defence barrister Gerard Pitt said the boy handed himself in following a police CCTV appeal last March.\n\nNo-one else has been charged in connection with the attack.\n\nMr Pitt said: \"He has always maintained he did not say anything about coronavirus and that was vindicated at the trial.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Mok could not be 100% sure the defendant was the boy who said anything about coronavirus.\n\nThe boy had no previous convictions, but had two youth cautions for common assaults, the court was told.\n\nBefore being sentenced the teenager said: \"When I saw the picture I felt disgusted.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic\n\nHealth workers in Northern Ireland are to get a \"special recognition\" payment for their work during the pandemic.\n\nIt is intended that all staff will receive a payment of £500, said Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nHowever, it will be subject to approval from the Department of Finance.\n\nThere had been calls from some political parties and health unions for staff to be recognised for their efforts.\n\nScotland has already announced a similar one-off payment and Mr Swann said it would reflect the \"principle of parity\".\n\n\"There are no words to properly convey what health workers have done for us, we will never be able to repay that debt,\" added the minister.\n\nThe development comes as Northern Ireland's Department of Health has recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its toll so far to 1,779.\n\nA further 527 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere are 775 people in Northern Ireland's hospitals who are being treated for the virus - 68 of them are in intensive care and the number of people requiring ventilators has risen to 56.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 54 more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Wednesday. It brings the Republic of Ireland's death toll to 3,120.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health also confirmed 1,335 more Covid-19 cases.\n\nSpeaking at the weekly health news conference on Wednesday, Mr Swann said the pandemic had caused \"destruction\" and left \"heartbreak in its wake\".\n\n\"Staying at home is making a difference. The R-number has been moving in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to sustain and build on that progress.\"\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 after Christmas relaxations.\n\nIt has been falling since lockdown restrictions were introduced on 26 December, and Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said NI's R-number for hospital admissions has now fallen back below one.\n\nBut he warned that the pressure on the system was still significant and would continue for several more weeks.\n\nHe added that there would need to be a \"sustained\" drop in the figures before relaxations of the lockdown could be considered by the executive.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the number of people in Northern Ireland who have received their first Covid-19 now stands at 168,140.\n\nMore than 50,000 people aged over 80 have been vaccinated.\n\nOn the payment to health workers, Mr Swann said it would \"not be without its challenges\" but that he valued all staff in the health service.\n\n\"For some people, especially some of our lower paid workers, it may in fact have an adverse impact on their social security payments or supports that recipients may be claiming,\" he added.\n\n\"I have written to the ministers of finance and communities asking them to urgently consider the issue and to engage with the tax and benefit authorities in Great Britain to request that these payments are excluded from consideration in this regard.\"\n\nThere will also be a one-off payment of £2,000 for all non-salaried students on clinical placements in the health service.\n\nMr Swann added that he intends to provide a one-off payment for carers as well, describing them as \"among the greatest unsung heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said: \"There is still more work to be done in this regard and it will be significantly more complex to administer than the staff payment.\"\n\nKevin McAdam, who is from Unite the union, said the \"recognition payments\" will be allocated with assurances that this will not affect pay negotiations with healthcare workers.\n\nMr McAdam welcomed that health care workers and non-salaried students on placements will be \"receiving something more tangible than applause\".\n\n\"The student payment is a recognition payment, it does not solve the problems around whether student placements should be paid, I think that is an argument for another day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Department of Finance official has warned there is \"a higher than usual risk\" of some £430m unspent by the NI Executive being returned to the Treasury.\n\nMinisters must submit further funding bids, or risk it being handed back at the end of the financial year.\n\nA department official, Jeff McGuinness, said the Treasury was being pressed to show flexibility in carrying unspent money over but added that it was \"imperative\" Stormont pressed ahead, rather then rely on agreement from Treasury.\n\nHe said the other devolved administrations were also asking the Treasury for similar levels of carry-forward of unspent fiscal allocations.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments on debit cards, credit cards, and cards connected to smartphones.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it will consult \"shortly\" on a change in the rules.\n\n\"It is important that payments regulation keeps pace with consumer and merchant expectations,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Recognising changing behaviour in how people pay, as part of a wider consultation, we will shortly be seeking views on amending our rules to allow for a possible increase in the contactless limit to £100.\"\n\nThe FCA can set the boundaries for payments, under its rules, but the card issuers would have the power to set the actual limits.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurant, and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, the latest data from UK Finance - which represents banks - shows.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\n\"The industry believes that a more flexible approach could be merited in future, which takes into account consumer demand, fraud prevention, security and convenience,\" said a spokesman for UK Finance.\n\n\"Contactless is one of a range of payment methods and the industry will also continue to work closely with the regulator to ensure that customers can pay in a way that suits them.\"\n\nHowever, there may be less enthusiasm from some shopkeepers concerned about higher-value theft as a result of the proposed changes.\n\nAndrew Cregan, payments policy advisor at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"We have concerns about raising the contactless limit, with losses from incomplete contactless payments at self-checkouts currently costing retailers millions in lost revenue.\n\n\"Card companies should take measures to reduce incomplete payments and we urge customers to make sure their own transactions always go through. However, the overwhelming priority at the moment must be for the government to address the rocketing card fees.\"", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute.\n\nPC Steve Lovering was deliberately hit by Callum Fellows in Oldbury, West Midlands, after recognising him as a car crime suspect, police said.\n\nFellows, 18, admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nFootage from 27 August shows Fellows reversing and knocking Mr Lovering off his bike \"sending him sprawling into the road\" before he sped off on the wrong side of the road and through red traffic lights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said he knew pupils and teachers wanted \"nothing more than to get back to the classroom\"\n\nSchools in England will not be able to reopen to all pupils after the February half-term, but could do so from 8 March, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said this was the earliest schools could reopen and \"depends on lots of things going right\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the aim is for all schools and year groups in England to return at the same time.\n\nTheir return would mark the first stage in lifting the lockdown, the PM said.\n\nHe told a Downing Street news conference: \"The date of 8 March is the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back and obviously we hope that all schools will go back.\"\n\n\"I'm hopeful, but that's the earliest that we can do it and it depends on lots of things going right, and... it also depends on us all now continuing to work together to drive down the incidence of the disease through the basic methods we've used throughout this pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThere was not enough data yet to decide when to end the lockdown, he said, but intended to set out a plan for how it could be eased - and the criteria involved - in the final week of February\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the 8 March date as \"very much a hope and certainly not a guarantee\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 1,725 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures. The UK's official coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the country remained in a \"perilous situation\" as he said UK nationals and residents arriving from 30 high-risk countries would soon be ordered to quarantine in hotels.\n\nHe revealed a plan for the \"gradual and phased\" lifting of the lockdown in England could come in the week beginning 22 February.\n\nOther restrictions on daily life could be eased after schools reopen, but he explained this would depend on hitting vaccination targets, the capacity of the NHS, and deaths falling.\n\nAn earlier plan for mass testing for pupils and staff remains in place, the BBC has been told.\n\nEngland's schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since the Christmas break.\n\nIn Scotland, it is hoped schools may begin a phased return in the middle of February.\n\nIn Wales, measures including school and college closures will be reviewed on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a review will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood frustration among pupils and teachers \"and for parents and for carers who spent so many months juggling their day jobs, not only with home schooling but meeting the myriad other demands of their children from breakfast until bedtime\".\n\nThe government initially planned to review England's lockdown measures - including school closures - on 15 February, which had raised hopes that pupils could return to classes after half term.\n\nAcknowledging the impact of continued school closures, Mr Johnson pledged to \"work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure that pupils have the chance to make up their learning\" before 2024.\n\nHe said £300m \"of new money to schools\" would fund a catch-up programme over the coming year, with financial incentives for providers to educate pupils who have missed lessons due to the pandemic.\n\nAfter complaints about confusion and drift about when schools in England are going back, Boris Johnson has sought to bring some certainty.\n\nThey won't be going back straight after half term - but the target date will be 8 March.\n\nSources say the aim is for all schools and year groups in England, in primary and secondary, to return back on that date - rather than it being the starting date of a phased or regional return.\n\nAlthough that could be subject to any changes in local Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen schools do go back it is expected there will be mass testing for pupils and staff, in the scheme initially planned for the start of term.\n\nIt still leaves parents home schooling for another five weeks - and means most of this term will have been without face-to-face lessons.\n\nThis will be a particular worry for pupils heading for whatever replaces GCSEs and A-levels this summer, after almost a full year of stop-start lessons.\n\nHead teachers say the delay is \"no surprise\" - and reopening must be done safely.\n\nAnd Labour says half term should be used to vaccinate teachers to help schools stay open.\n\nBut the prime minister will hope that parents would rather have some clarity about what's happening with schools, even if that means a longer delay.\n\nTeachers' and head teachers' unions said they supported reopening schools but added that it must be safe and not rushed.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that although the most vulnerable would be protected by March, most parents would not be.\n\n\"It fails completely to recognise the role schools have played in community transmission. The prime minister has already forgotten what he told the nation at the beginning of this lockdown, that schools are a 'vector for transmission',\" she said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government needs to work with head teachers to review safety measures and create a \"workable plan\" for schools to reopen fully.\n\n\"The government will also have to put effort into reassuring families that it is safe to send their children back to school - there is a confidence test the government must pass to make the return a success,\" he said.\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine Image caption: Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine\n\nTom Newton Dunn from Times Radio asks what we know so far about the rate at which people who have had the vaccine can transmit coronavirus.\n\nJonathan Van Tam says there is no clear data on how the vaccine impacts transmission of coronavirus but there are studies working on finding out and we will have that information in time.\n\nHe said the question is less \"will they\" and more \"to what extent\" do they stop transmission.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance says \"you don't have vaccines of this efficacy without there being some effect on transmission\".\n\nHe says it's an important question as \"it will also determine to what extent these vaccines can be used across wider society to reduce transmission overall\".\n\nNewton Dunn asks how the prime minister came to the date of 8 March to reopen schools and whether it would have been \"wiser to wait until you were sure\".\n\nThe prime minister says the date depends on the vaccines working in reducing mortality and serious disease.... and we need to make sure the infection rate is in the right place.\n\n\"We will keep it all under constant review,\" he says.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm's latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period.\n\nSales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) - up 21% from the prior year.\n\nThe gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for new technology.\n\nApple now counts more than 1.65 billion active devices globally, including more than 1 billion iPhones.\n\nApple's gains follow the release of its new iPhone 12 suite of phones, which executives said had convinced a record number of people to switch to the company or upgrade from older models.\n\nThe firm said growth in China - where the pandemic has already loosened its grip on the economy - was particularly strong, helped in part by demand for phones compatible with new 5G networks.\n\nSales in the firm's greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, jumped 57%. In Europe, sales roles 17%, and they rose 11% in the Americas.\n\n\"The products are doing very well all around the world,\" said Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer. \"As we look ahead into the March quarter, we're very optimistic.\"\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said he thought the firm was just at the beginning of a \"super-cycle\" as Apple devotees finally trade in old phones, coinciding with upgrades to telecommunications networks.\n\n\"With 5G now in the cards and roughly 40% of its 'golden jewel' iPhone installed base not upgrading their phones in the last 3.5 years, [Apple chief Tim] Cook & Co have the stage set for a renaissance of growth,\" he wrote.\n\nBig Tech is having an exceptionally lucrative pandemic.\n\nIt's hard not to be wowed by some of these figures.\n\nThat Apple recorded more than $100bn in sales in just three months is simply astonishing.\n\nFacebook figures are also well up on where they were last year.\n\nAs other companies have struggled to survive, Big Tech has flourished.\n\nThere are other reasons for some of these incredible figures. Certainly it seems iPhone enthusiasts were holding out for the new 5G enabled iPhone12.\n\nBut it's not just Apple and Facebook, all of the massive tech companies are having a bumper year.\n\nCovid-19 means people are spending more time indoors - buying things online, watching things online and chatting online.\n\nPerhaps then it's no surprise that these companies are posting record breaking figures.\n\nBut others point to these figures as yet more evidence that Big Tech has become too big to fail.\n\nThese figures are impressive. But they also attract the attention of politicians who are increasingly asking difficult questions - like are these tech mega companies operating in a market that is fair and with enough competition?\n\nApple said profits in the quarter reached nearly $28.8bn, up 29% compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nThe gains seen by technology firms like Apple contrast with losses hitting many other economic sectors, as the virus restricts activity and keeps shoppers at home.\n\nOther tech firms, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have also enjoyed strong growth.\n\nFacebook on Wednesday said increased online shopping during the pandemic helped lift ad revenue in the quarter by 30%.\n\nThe number of people active on its apps - which also include WhatsApp and Instagram - also rose to 2.6 billion daily, up 15% compared to 2019.\n\nIt said ad spending could slow as the Covid crisis relaxes and shopper appetite returns for services like travel rather than products.\n\nIt also warned that plans by Apple to change how it shares user data could weigh on growth.", "The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle\n\nHand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £600,000 was raised to buy them.\n\nThe 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588, were sold to an overseas buyer in July but an export ban was imposed.\n\nThe National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in Portsmouth raised the money in eight weeks.\n\nIt is now seeking further funds to put the maps on display for the first time.\n\nIt is believed the drawings, completed by an unknown draughtsman, possibly from the Netherlands, were based on a set of engravings from the same year by Elizabethan cartographer Robert Adams.\n\nIn the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades of hostility between Spain's Catholic King Philip II and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nIt is regarded as one of the most significant naval battles in history, when the English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada, twice its size, by sailing fire ships into its formation off Calais.\n\nThe English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel in 1588\n\nThe ink and watercolour maps were sold for £600,000, but culture minister Caroline Dinenage imposed an export ban until January and called for a museum or institution to raise funds to purchase them.\n\nNMRN director general Prof Dominic Tweddle said members of the public had \"dug deep in extremely difficult times\".\n\nThe target was reached with the help of £212,800 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £200,000 from the Art Fund.\n\nMs Dinenage said: \"The export bar system exists so we can keep nationally important works in the country and I am delighted that, thanks to the tireless work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Armada maps will now go on display to educate and inspire future generations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "The Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt's unit\n\nProduction of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has resumed at a plant after it was suspended when a suspicious package was received.\n\nThe Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.\n\nPolice said the package had been made safe and its contents would be \"taken away for analysis\".\n\nWockhardt said staff had been allowed to return and its production schedule had not been affected.\n\nBoth Downing Street and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford had been receiving updates on the incident since police were called at about 10:40 GMT.\n\nA police cordon was put in place near the plant and the public were asked to keep away. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\n\"There are no wider concerns for public safety, however, some roads on the industrial estate will remain closed whilst we continue our investigations,\" North Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nPolice have asked the public to keep away from the site in Wrexham\n\nForensic police officers were seen examining items on the road outside the plant, which remained closed after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nWockhardt UK said: \"We can confirm that the investigation on the suspicious package received today has been concluded.\n\n\"Given that staff safety is our main priority, manufacturing was temporarily paused whilst this took place safely.\n\n\"We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility.\n\n\"This temporary suspension of manufacturing has in no way affected our production schedule and we are grateful to the authorities and experts for their swift response and resolution of the incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier statement, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company confirmed it had \"partially evacuated\" its site to protect staff.\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Roberts, who runs CMS Wrexham Ltd, next door to the plant, said he heard a \"big bang\" at about 11:35 GMT - although he could not say where the noise came from.\n\n\"We're next door to Wockhardt. Three of us were talking then we heard a hell of an explosion or a bang,\" he said.\n\n\"I went outside, couldn't see anything. I looked the other side and two blokes were on the roof.\n\n\"The next thing the police had blocked off the road and were looking in the bushes.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene on Wrexham Industrial Estate for most of the day\n\nA police cordon had been put in place near the Wockhardt plant\n\nHis son Mark Roberts said: \"The police just closed the road off and we've heard there's a bomb disposal unit.\n\n\"They've been here about an hour or so - we're on tenterhooks.\n\n\"Boris Johnson toured the factory around December time, so I wonder if that's raised the profile, as it's where they make the Oxford vaccine.\"\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year\n\nDave Picken, 53, who lives near Wrexham Industrial Estate, said: \"We've seen lots of police cars and a fire engine.\n\n\"Bomb disposal are here with a robot. We were closer to the factory but police told us to move and cordoned off a bigger area.\n\n\"I did ask an officer how big the bomb is but he said he couldn't say it's a bomb.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson saw the production line for vaccines when he visited the factory\n\nVisiting the plant in November, Prime Minister Boris Johnson it could provide \"salvation for humanity\".\n\nWockhardt UK entered an agreement in August to help prepare the vaccine for distribution.\n\nWhen the company's contract was announced, Ravi Limaye, managing director, said: \"We are immensely proud to have been selected to partner with the UK government on this project.\n\n\"We have a sophisticated sterile manufacturing facility and a highly skilled workforce.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams had worked to ensure the vaccine was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there had been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Elliot Page and choreographer Emma Portner have decided to divorce after three years of marriage.\n\n\"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,\" the Canadian couple said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.\" They provided no further details.\n\nPage, the 33-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, came out as transgender in 2020.\n\nThat decision was widely praised by his many fans and fellow actors.\n\nPage said at the time that he could not \"begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self\".\n\nHe also used the occasion to address discrimination towards trans people.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno. Other major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPortner, 26, has said she has always supported Page's decision to come out.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nThe Chelsea Flower Show will take place in September for the first time in its history as a result of the pandemic.\n\nOrganisers had planned to hold a six-day show in May but announced it would be postponed as there was no guarantee what tier London would be in then.\n\nA virtual show will take place in May like in 2020, with the physical event taking place later at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it would be a \"moment in history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors had to display their gardens online last year\n\nThe world-famous show has been taking place for 108 years but has never happened in September.\n\nThis year's event will go ahead between 21-26 September, with the virtual event showing online from 18-23 May.\n\nIt is usually filled with spring and summer colours but the RHS said it hoped the delay will allow a celebration of autumn horticulture.\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nThe society, which runs the event, said it had a responsibility to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers and staff to delay the flower show, as more people would be vaccinated and levels of infection may have reduced substantially.\n\nDirector general Sue Biggs said: \"Whilst we are sad to have had to delay RHS Chelsea and are sorry for the disruption this will cause, we are excited that we are still planning to bring the world's best-loved gardening event to the nation at a time when more people are gardening more than ever.\n\n\"We know that the autumn dates may not be suitable for everyone, but with our fantastic industry partners we will do everything we can to support them and create a show that will be a moment in history,\" she added.\n\nThose who bought tickets for the event when it was due to happen in May will be contacted by the RHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "\"A legacy of poor decisions\" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.\n\nLabour also criticised \"monumental mistakes\" by the prime minister in delaying acting on scientific advice over lockdowns three times.\n\nAfter UK deaths passed 100,000, Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the actions taken.\n\nBut he said it was too soon to learn the lessons from the pandemic response.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, public health expert from the University of Edinburgh, said the UK's current position was \"a legacy of poor decisions that were taken when we eased restrictions\".\n\nShe told the BBC the lack of focus on test and trace and the \"absolute inability to recognise\" the need to address international travel had also led to a more deadly winter surge.\n\nProf Sir Michael Marmot, who carried out a review of inequalities in Covid-19 deaths, said the UK had entered the pandemic \"in a bad state\" with rising health inequality, a slowdown in life expectancy improvements and a lack of investment in the public sector.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth rejected Mr Johnson's claim that he had done \"everything we could\" to minimise the death toll, adding: \"I do not accept that.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had been given scientific advice to impose lockdowns and \"pushed that back\" - not only in March but again in September and December.\n\nThe government also failed to create a working contact-tracing system, did not introduce effective health controls at the borders and still did not offer \"proper sick pay\", he said.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we have taken to fight this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said there would be time to reflect on the decisions taken, but he did not think the right time was in the middle of the pandemic when \"37,000 people are struggling with Covid in our hospitals\".\n\nThe government needed to focus on keeping the virus under control and continuing the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said his message to grieving families was that he \"deeply, personally\" regretted the loss of life and that the best way to honour the memory of those who had died and honour those who were currently grieving was \"to work together to bring this virus down, to keep it under control in the way that we are\".\n\nAsked about the government's \"legacy of poor decisions\", Mr Johnson said ministers followed scientific advice and did everything they could to minimise suffering. He said there were \"no easy solutions\" but the UK could be proud of its efforts to distribute the vaccine.\n\nAfter leading a minute's silence in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes, as Scotland recorded a total of 5,888 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nShe said the government did everything it could, but added: \"I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nNext month, the prime minister hopes to publish a document giving details of the criteria he will use to start lifting the lockdown, a senior government source told the BBC.\n\nIt will include factors such as the number of hospitalisations and deaths, the progress of the vaccination programme, any changes to the virus and the impact easing restrictions might have on the epidemic - but will be dependent on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops the virus spreading.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA scientist advising the government has warned the UK could face as many as 50,000 more coronavirus deaths.\n\nProf Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"It would really not surprise me if we're looking at another 40-50,000 deaths before this burns out.\n\n\"The deaths on the way up are likely to be mirrored by the number of deaths on the way down in this wave. Each one again is a tragedy and each one represents probably four or five people who survive but are damaged by Covid.\"\n\nHe said the UK had experienced some \"bad luck\" with the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant but had also suffered from \"decades of underinvestment\" in the NHS and \"a public health authority that's been eroded\" .\n\nMeanwhile, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell asked people, regardless of whether they had faith, to reflect on the \"enormity\" of the pandemic and join in a \"prayer for the nation\" at 18:00 GMT every day from 1 February.\n\nThey said the death statistics were were not \"just an abstract figure\", saying: \"Each number is a person: someone we loved and someone who loved us.\"\n\nMuslim leaders backed the call for a daily prayer. Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said Muslims and wider black, Asian and minority ethnic communities had been disproportionately affected by the \"tsunami of pain, grief and devastation\" - with many unable to properly mourn due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 1,631 coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total number of people who had died within 28 days of a positive test to 100,162.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics, which are based on death certificates, show there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of people dying would come down \"relatively slowly\" over the next two weeks - and would probably \"remain flat for a while now\".\n\nElsewhere, bereavement support charities have written to the health secretary calling for more funding in the light of what they call \"the terrible toll of 100,000 deaths\".\n\nThe National Bereavement Alliance, representing a range of charities, said many families had been unable to be with loved ones as they died or to support one another.\n\nThey called for £500m allocated to mental health in England to be used to support the bereaved.\n\nMinister for bereavement Nadine Dorries said the government had given more than £10.2m to charities since March to ensure services were available to those who needed them.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.\n\nThe number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to over-fishing, according to a new study.\n\nThree-quarters of the species studied are now threated with extinction.\n\nAnd the researchers say immediate action is needed to secure a brighter future for these \"extraordinary, irreplaceable animals\".\n\nThey are calling on governments to implement science-based fishing limits.\n\nStudy researcher, Dr Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter, said the declines appear to be driven very much by fishing pressures.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"That's the driver for the 70% reduction in the last 50 years. For every 10 sharks you had in the open ocean in the 1970s, you would have three today, across these species, on average.\"\n\nSharks and rays are caught for their meat, fins and liver oil. They are also captured for recreational fishing and turn up by accident in the catch of fishing boats that are targeting other stocks.\n\nSharks are long-lived species that tend to produce few young\n\nOf the 31 species studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nProf Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, said oceanic sharks and rays are at exceptionally high risk of extinction, much more so than the average bird, mammal or frog, despite ranging far from land.\n\n\"Overfishing of oceanic sharks and rays jeopardises the health of entire ocean ecosystems as well as food security for some of the world's poorest countries,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers compiled global data on sharks and rays found in the open oceans (as opposed to reef sharks or those found close to shore).\n\nOf the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world, 31 are oceanic, travelling large distances across water.\n\n\"These are some of the big, important, open ocean predators that people will be familiar with,\" said Dr Sherley. \"The kind of sharks that people might describe as awe-inspiring or charismatic.\"\n\nHe said political will is needed to reverse the trends.\n\n\"The science is there, there needs to be the desire to do those stock assessments, to implement the measures that are needed to reduce the take of sharks and that political will has to come from pressure from citizens,\" Dr Sherley explained.\n\nDespite this \"gloomy\" picture, the scientists said a few shark conservation stories give cause for hope.\n\nSonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, a non-profit project of The Ocean Foundation, said a couple of species, including the great white, have started to recover through science-based fishing limits.\n\n\"Relatively simple safeguards can help to save sharks and rays, but time is running out,\" she said.\n\n\"We urgently need conservation action across the globe to prevent myriad negative consequences and secure a brighter future for these extraordinary, irreplaceable animals.\"\n\nPopulations can recover with appropriate conservation\n\nSharks are at the top of the food chain, and crucial to the health of the oceans. Their loss impacts other marine animals as well as human livelihoods.\n\n\"Oceanic sharks and rays are vital to the health of vast marine ecosystems, but because they are hidden beneath the ocean surface, it has been difficult to assess and monitor their status,\" said Nathan Pacoureau of Simon Fraser University.\n\n\"Our study represents the first global synthesis of the state of these essential species at a time when countries should be addressing insufficient progress towards global sustainability goals.\n\n\"While we initially intended it as a useful report card, we now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "Enforcement agents have removed protesters from the makeshift camp near Euston station\n\nBailiffs from HS2 have started to evict activists who dug a tunnel near Euston station in protest against the £106bn rail project.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed campaigners spent months digging the tunnel they claim is 100ft (30m) long.\n\nSince August, HS2 Rebellion members have been living in tree houses and tents at a camp nearby.\n\nA HS2 spokeswoman said the protesters were \"trespassing\" on land owned by the company.\n\nThe land being occupied is needed for continued building work around Euston, she added.\n\nEnforcement agents from the National Eviction Team have removed some protesters from the makeshift camp in the park.\n\nPolice have arrested five men and a woman at the site, although one male was later de-arrested.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - was dug as their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters have filmed themselves inside the tunnels\n\nProtesters said they were continuing to dig tunnels and have vowed to stay for as long as possible.\n\nAn 18-year-old, who gave his name as Al, said the tunnels can only be accessed through a section of the makeshift camp and were about 15ft (4.5m) deep.\n\n\"I will stay as long as I can,\" he said, but he added the activists \"have not got much food and water\".\n\nHS2 Rebellion told the BBC four people had \"locked themselves\" to fixing points inside the tunnels.\n\nOne activist, Blue Sandford, admitted the stunt was \"dangerous\" but felt it was \"worth it\".\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nEnforcement agents dismantle the make shift camp where HS2 Rebellion members have been living\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is currently on school strike for climate, said HS2 \"is a waste of money\".\n\n\"I'm in this tunnel because they [the government] are irresponsibly putting my life at risk from the climate and ecological emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"They are behaving in a way that is so reckless and unsafe that I don't feel they are giving us any option but to protest in this way to help save our own lives and the lives of all the people round the world.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to do this - I should be in school - the trouble is they are stealing that future and I have to stop them.\"\n\nEnforcement officers have used aerial platforms to try and coax protesters down from the trees\n\nA protester was brought down from the trees by officers\n\nMartin Andryjankczyk, who was carried out of the camp by enforcement agents earlier, predicted it would take \"at least a week or two\" to evict all the protesters.\n\nThe 20-year-old was taken to Holloway Police Station when he was led away but said he had been \"de-arrested\" and returned to the park.\n\n\"I have been living here for the last four months. They (the remaining demonstrators) aren't going to give up that easily,\" he said.\n\nOne activist used to a rope to tie himself between trees at the camp\n\nThe Met Police confirmed a number of officers were sent to the eviction site at Euston Square Gardens to assist High Court enforcement officers should there be any breach of the peace and to uphold Covid legislation.\n\nThe force said five people who were arrested at the site remain in custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"HS2 has taken legal temporary possession of Euston Square Gardens in order to progress with works necessary for the construction of the new Euston station.\n\n\"These protests are a danger to the safety of the protesters, our staff and the general public, and put unnecessary strain on the emergency services during a pandemic.\"\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThere is a ring of security surrounding the square outside Euston Station and a crowd of journalists reporting on today's event.\n\nEvery now and then there is a burst of singing through a loud hailer and motivational speeches echo from the trees.\n\nMost of the protesters we can see are among the branches, some have cut their safety lines, others are swinging in harnesses.\n\nEarlier, enforcement officers were lifted up in a cherry picker into one of the tree camps . They have spoken with the demonstrators and are now fixing ropes to the high level platforms.\n\nWe've been told at least four people are inside the tunnels HS2 Rebellion have dug under the site.\n\nPeople inside the fence have said they predict the eviction to \"take weeks\".\n\nThe atmosphere is calm but the police have begun to push back people watching, reminding them of Covid-19 regulations and asking to see press passes.\n\nA fence is being erected by officers around the site\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland is to initially follow UK travel rules, but could introduce stricter measures next week\n\nScotland could introduce tougher quarantine rules for international travellers than other parts of the UK, the first minister has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that UK arrivals from regions with new virus variants will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"concerned the proposal does not go far enough\".\n\nScotland will \"initially emulate\" the UK government measures, she said.\n\nBut further Scottish rules will be set out next week if the four nations do not reach an agreement on a UK-wide approach - which Ms Sturgeon said would be preferable.\n\nThe prime minister has said there are 22 countries with the risk of known new variants, including the South American nations, Portugal and South Africa.\n\nMr Johnson said anyone travelling from these countries who cannot be refused entry to the UK - such as British citizens - will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate \"without exception\".\n\nThey will be met at the airport and transferred to specific places, such as hotels.\n\nFurther details of the plan are expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Priti Patel later.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon - who was briefed on the UK government proposals in advance - told her daily coronavirus briefing that a \"comprehensive system of supervised quarantine\" was required in the next stage of the pandemic.\n\nAnd she said she was \"seeking urgently\" to persuade the UK government \"to go much further\" while providing additional support to the aviation industry.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Our best route back to greater domestic normality right now, as we continue with the vaccine programme, is firstly to suppress the virus here to as low as level as possible - as we did over the summer - then give ourselves a better chance of controlling it through test and protect, and next by doing much more than we did last year to protect our borders.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has also said the PM's proposals do not go far enough.\n\nWhen questioned by journalists, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"not give arbitrary dates\" on when the travel restrictions might come to an end.\n\nBut she said people \"might not be able to go on holiday overseas\" in order to \"get domestic normality\" back - including the reopening of schools and allowing people more interactions with loved ones.\n\n\"I'm not saying that's easy but maybe that might be a price we all need to be prepared to pay,\" she added.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told the BBC that he believed that countries with higher infection rates and strains with quicker transmission should be prioritised.\n\n\"We've got to look at dealing with this in stages,\" he said. \"This doesn't need to be dragged into a Scotland versus England issue or the rest of the UK issue.\n\n\"This is as big an issue within Scotland. We shouldn't be moving around local authority areas so whether it's north or south of the border or within our own communities we've got to reduce travel as much as possible.\"\n\nIt comes as the deaths of a further 92 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were recorded in Scotland - bringing the total to 5,888.\n\nThe total number of deaths across the UK by that measure passed the grim milestone of 100,00 on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes that had been made in the handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"She said the death toll should make all political leaders \"think very hard about what more we could have done and what lessons we must continue to learn\".\n\nShe added: \"I know that I, and everyone in my government, have tried every day to do everything we possibly can.\n\n\"But I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nA total of 1,330 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, representing 6.2% of people tested.\n\nMeanwhile 462,092 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Scotland - including 56% of the over 80s and 95% of people in care homes.", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "Leon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station in November 2013\n\nA man shouted \"help me\" and \"get off me\" as he was restrained face-down by police officers hours before he died, an inquest heard.\n\nLeon Briggs, 39, died in 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.\n\nA jury was told one witness described the father-of-two as \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers.\n\nAnother said he looked her in the eyes and said \"please help me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe jury has been shown CCTV of Mr Briggs skipping between shops and across roads, before two Bedfordshire Police officers handcuffed him and placed him in leg restraints on Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November 2013.\n\nMr Briggs was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT, but he became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest heard his primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\" with a secondary cause of coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nThe inquest heard Wendy Hamilton was shopping when she saw one officer restraining Mr Briggs on his lower legs, with another on his shoulders, and a third appeared to be looking through his wallet.\n\nMs Hamilton said she \"thought the amount of pressure being used was not needed\", adding she heard Mr Briggs shout \"get off me\" and \"why are you doing this to me?\".\n\n\"He lifted his head from the pavement, he looked me in the eyes and said 'please help me',\" she said.\n\nShe added when two paramedics arrived \"around 45 minutes\" after she first saw Mr Briggs, she was \"surprised\" they \"did not check Leon at all\".\n\nShe said he was later lifted into a police van \"front first\" and \"face down\", \"like he was a bag of potatoes\" or \"like they were picking up a dog\".\n\n\"They lifted him not in a rough way... but it was not very dignified,\" she said.\n\nFootage showed Mr Briggs walking out of a shop with officers before he was restrained\n\nAnother witness, Raja Khan, said: \"Mr Briggs was crying out... but not in an aggressive manner... in a similar way to a child crying out for a toy.\n\n\"I'm not going to forget what I saw in regard to the restraint... I do not agree with how Mr Briggs was treated... it would have been fair enough if he was being violent but from what I saw, he was not.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the College of Paramedics, Andrew Newton, said paramedics on Marsh Road were likely to have had \"inadequate knowledge\" of dealing with acute behavioural disorder patients like Mr Briggs in 2013, due to a lack of national guidance.\n\nBut Mr Newton added Mr Briggs \"received no meaningful medical care\" because they failed to properly check his vital signs, and this \"fell below the standards of care\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs should have been taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe inquest heard part of a statement from Sgt Loren Short, who said he told paramedics Mr Briggs had been detained under the Mental Health Act when they arrived.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer (PCSO) James Collings described Mr Briggs as \"aggressive\" and \"nonsensical\", and \"shouting 'no, no' and snarling\" while in the police van.\n\nPCSO Collings said when he questioned whether Mr Briggs was on drugs, one officer said: \"[He is] mental\", and Mr Briggs replied: \"Don't take the [expletive]\", to which the officer said: \"I'm not taking the [expletive], I just want to get you back and get you some help.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "Eva Gicain has been celebrating a belated Christmas with her daughter Elleana and husband Limuel Lina after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge\n\nA nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with Covid-19 has held her daughter for the first time.\n\nEva Gicain, 30, had the long-awaited reunion with her baby after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier this month.\n\nBaby Elleana had to be delivered about a month early by C-section, but Mrs Gicain has no memory of her birth.\n\n\"When I held Elleana for the first time I didn't want to let go,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: New mum thanks hospitals after recovery\n\nMrs Gicain was taken to her local hospital with a severe case of Covid-19 at the end of October when she was 34 weeks pregnant, and gave birth a week later.\n\nBut the NHS nurse, who was on maternity leave from her job in London, has no recollection of it or the traumatic weeks that followed.\n\nDays later she was transferred 50 miles (80km) away to Royal Papworth Hospital's critical care unit and became one of the youngest patients ever to be put on to its \"artificial lung\" for acute respiratory failure.\n\nThe extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine acted as Mrs Gicain's lungs so they could recover while she was treated for Covid-19.\n\n\"The first thing I remember is just a few days before Christmas and being told where I was, what I had been through and that Elleana was doing well,\" Mrs Gicain said.\n\nMrs Gicain was given a round of applause by hospital staff after spending the first few weeks of her baby's life in a hospital 50 miles away\n\nHer husband Limuel Lina, 30, who also had Covid-19, was unable to visit her and had to wait three weeks to see Elleana, who was in a special care baby unit.\n\n\"It was so horrible the three of us being in separate places at a time when we should all have been together,\" Mr Lina said.\n\nAlthough the couple knew they were having a girl and had discussed her name, Mr Lina, a healthcare assistant, said he did not know his wife's preferred spelling.\n\n\"[It] meant I couldn't yet get her registered,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily, I found some personalised pyjamas that Eva had bought as a Christmas present and so I managed to get the spelling from there!\"\n\nThe couple and their daughter celebrated a belated Christmas last week at their home in Basildon, Essex.\n\n\"Life is unpredictable and we are now just looking forward to being a little family and spending time together,\" added Mrs Gicain.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister has responded to calls that were getting louder for clarity about what might happen next and when.\n\nHe pencilled in a date for the country's diary. But 8 March is the hoped-for beginning of the end of lockdown - far from a guarantee.\n\nPolitical demands for more information from his backbench MPs and the opposition were part of the reason for his announcement. But there was also the relentless march of the clock.\n\nThe government had promised it would give schools in England two weeks' notice of whether they would be able to open after half-term.\n\nWith Boris Johnson not expected in Westminster on Thursday, Wednesday was the last viable moment to keep that vow.\n\nWith cases still so high, and hospitals still so full, in theory the announcement wasn't that much of a surprise.\n\nNorthern Ireland is already in lockdown until 5 March, but will confirm its position on schools on Thursday.\n\nWales and Scotland are reviewing whether to extend closures beyond the middle of February in the next couple of days. Without dramatic falls in case numbers, they seem likely to be in step soon too.\n\nIn practice, though, Mr Johnson's announcement still felt like a big admission: that we're heading for 12 months of limits - starting last March - on our lives in one way or another.\n\nFirms and families around the UK will have had to cope with moving in and out of lockdown for a whole year.\n\nLike Tuesday's terrible 100,000-deaths mark, it's a milestone that at the beginning of all of this simply wouldn't have been imagined.\n\nBut as time as worn on, the pattern has become familiar: push the dates back, confront the worst rather than hope for the best.\n\nThe prime minister altered, maybe, too. You could hear it in his tone when asked what the chances of sticking to his date were. \"That's the earliest,\" he warned, suggesting that a long list of things have to go right.\n\nOne cabinet minister described the government's position: \"The decision making has been more and more cautious as they've been caught out so many times.\"\n\nNo one perhaps would be more delighted than Mr Johnson if the pace of the disease slows dramatically and the promise of the vaccine comes good very soon.\n\nBut at this time, with a buffer of several weeks to keep looking at the information, that's not a commitment that ministers are willing to make.", "Victims lost an average of £45,242 last year after investing with fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms.\n\nMore than £78m was lost in total, according to fraud reporting centre Action Fraud.\n\nReports of clone firm investment scams rose by 29% in April - at the time of the first national lockdown - compared with the previous month.\n\nA UK financial watchdog warned people to be alert, particularly when their finances were stretched.\n\nScammers set up clone firms using the name, address and firm reference number (FRN) of real companies authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThey then send out sales materials linking to the websites of legitimate firms, to trick potential investors into thinking they are dealing with the real firm.\n\nThey use their own, similar contact details, so victims still think they are dealing with the genuine firm as they invest money.\n\nLosses can be high as fraudsters tend to encourage large or regular investments before disappearing with the money.\n\nThe ongoing financial impact of Covid-19 may make people more susceptible to clone scams, the FCA said.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"Fraudsters use literature and websites that mirror those of legitimate firms, as well as encouraging investors to check the firm reference number (FRN) on the FCA Register to sound as convincing as possible.\"\n\nHe said alerts were raised about 1,100 firms, including clones, last year - twice as many as the previous year.\n\nHe said the authorities were taking down clone sites when discovered.\n\n\"When it comes to clones, I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to double check every detail,\" Mr Steward said.\n\nOne victim, called Janet, said: \"After searching the internet for high-return bonds, I received a call the next day about investing in student accommodation.\n\n\"I found legitimate details of the company online - everything seemed genuine, so I invested.\n\n\"A few months later, after a couple more investments, I started to get a bit worried - I still hadn't received confirmation of the latest investment.\n\n\"I tried to call the contacts I had been speaking to, but the numbers were invalid. It was clear I had been scammed.\n\nThe ScamSmart campaign, run by the FCA, has tips to protect yourself from clone investment firms:", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror law\n\nA Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has told the BBC he was tortured to sign a blank confession.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror laws, accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.\n\nCourt documents allege he helped fund the crimes and claim he was a member of a \"terrorist gang\".\n\nMr Johal told the BBC via his lawyer he had been \"falsely implicated\".\n\nIn answers to BBC questions obtained by his lawyer during a virtual prison meeting, the 33-year-old says he was physically tortured into signing a blank confession and forced to record a video which was broadcast on Indian TV.\n\n\"They made me sign blank pieces of paper and asked me to say certain lines in front of a camera under fear of extreme torture,\" he said via his lawyer.\n\nMr Johal's legal team also shared a copy of what they say is a handwritten letter from shortly after his arrest in November 2017 in which he details allegations of how the torture took place.\n\n\"Multiple shocks were administered by placing (the) crocodile clips on my earlobes, nipples and private parts,\" the letter says. \"Multiple shocks were given each day.\n\n\"Two people would stretch my legs, another person would slap and strike me from behind, and the shocks were given by the seated officers.\"\n\n\"At some stages I was left unable to walk and had to be carried out of the interrogation room.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify these allegations of torture.\n\nThe Indian authorities strongly deny them, and have said \"there is no evidence of mistreatment or torture as alleged\".\n\nJagtar got married in India in 2017\n\nMr Johal travelled to India in October 2017 for his wedding.\n\nVideos of the occasion show the new groom jumping enthusiastically to Bhangra music as he celebrated.\n\nIn another he is seen holding his wife's hand, as they perform their first dance in front of friends and family.\n\n\"It was a cheerful day for us, it went exactly as planned,\" recalls his brother Gurpreet Singh Johal.\n\nBut a fortnight later, while on a shopping trip with his new bride in the North Indian state of Punjab, Mr Johal was taken away by police and has been in detention ever since.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet, who lives in Scotland, says Mr Johal was a peaceful activist and is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.\n\n\"I believe my brother is being targeted because he was outspoken,\" Gurpreet says. \"I believe he is innocent and will be proved innocent once the trial starts.\n\n\"Otherwise Indian officials should release him and return him back to his country.\"\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nCharge-sheets from the Indian authorities outline the case against Mr Johal and a group of men whom they believe were involved in a \"series of killings\" of right wing Hindu leaders.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Johal was a member of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), described in the documents as an international \"terrorist gang\".\n\nHe is accused of paying £3,000 to the former head of the KLF to help fund the crimes. The documents claim he \"actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy\".\n\n\"There are very serious charges against him including murder and abetment of terrorism,\" an Indian government official told the BBC.\n\n\"The seriousness of charges against him have been shared with the British authorities,\" they added.\n\nFootage which claims to show Mr Johal in custody was broadcast on Indian TV\n\nMr Johal's lawyer, Jaspal Singh Manjphur, who has represented him since he was first arrested, told the BBC he was concerned by the length of time it was taking for the case to go through the Indian legal system.\n\n\"He has been in custody for over three years,\" Mr Manjphur said. \"Normally, if the prosecution wants, they can complete the case in that much time.\"\n\nMr Manjphur said the authorities had yet to provide any him with any evidence linking his client to the crimes and feared he was being framed, a charge denied by officials.\n\nA few weeks ago, Mr Johal was accused of being involved in another crime. While in prison he has been arrested for helping to plot the murder of a man in October 2020.\n\n\"He is in a high security jail, he is under CCTV surveillance for 24 hours. How can he be in contact with anyone?\", Mr Manjphur said.\n\nMr Johal was last seen in public at court in Delhi earlier this month\n\nMr Johal is being held at Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail.\n\nHe claims he is often forced to stay in solitary confinement and is denied the same facilities as other prisoners, such as hot water.\n\n\"By making me stay in these conditions, they are ensuring that my mental condition remains disturbed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very tough to live here,\" he said.\n\nThe vast majority of inmates at the prison are, like Mr Johal, held before a conviction in what is known as an \"under-trial\" in India.\n\nAt the end of 2019, 82% of prisoners held in Tihar jail had yet to complete the trial process.\n\nIn India it can take many years before under-trial prisoners ever get to court, especially in terror cases where bail is hard to secure, a concern for Mr Johal's lawyer.\n\n\"He will languish in jail until the trial is completed, in such cases it could take anywhere between five to 10 years,\" Mr Manjphur said.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has raised the case with his Indian counterpart\n\nThe human rights charity Reprieve has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that he calls for Mr Johal's immediate release.\n\nReprieve is also worried that some of the charges Mr Johal is awaiting trial for carry the death penalty as the maximum punishment. But experts stress that executions in India are extremely rare.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development office told the BBC that Mr Raab did raise the case with his Indian counterpart during his trip to India in December.\n\n\"We have consistently raised concerns about his case with the Government of India, including allegations of torture and mistreatment and his right to a fair trial,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our staff continue to support Jagtar Singh Johal following his detention in India, and are in regular contact with his family and prison officials about his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHundreds of people protested outside the Foreign Office\n\nBut Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet said the family was still waiting for a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for either Jagtar to be charged and a fair trial to take place or to be returned back to his country so he can spend his life with his wife in the UK.\"\n\nIn August last year Gurpreet Singh Johal was joined by dozens who protested outside Downing Street.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal's case has sparked protests around the world, from Westminster to Washington, Geneva to Toronto.\n\nIn his statement to the BBC, Mr Johal had this message for officials back home: \"I plead to the UK government to support me, I'm a British citizen and the government should understand that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for teachers and support staff to be vaccinated during the February half term\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to \"use the window\" of the February half-term to vaccinate all teachers and support staff.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Ministers Questions, the Labour leader said reopening schools must be a national priority.\n\nLabour wants to bring forward the vaccination of key workers alongside others in high risk groups.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the proposal would \"delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe PM said teachers in the top nine priority groups would be vaccinated as a \"matter of priority\", adding: \"I know how deeply frustrating it is, the extra burden that we have placed on families by closing the schools.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he remained confident that the top four priority groups - taking in all over-70s, health and care staff and elderly care home residents - would receive a first jab by mid-February \"if we can get the supply\" of vaccines.\n\nBy the end of April those in the next five priority groups, including all over-50s and younger adults with underlying health conditions, should have been offered a jab, under the government's plans.\n\nLabour wants to see workers in critical professions - such as police officers, firefighters and transport workers, as well as teachers - vaccinated alongside these groups.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"The NHS rightly deserve congratulations for their impressive and speedy roll out of vaccinations.\n\n\"But now we need to go further and faster.\n\n\"Not only will vaccination acceleration save lives it will help us to carefully and responsibly reopen our economy and crucially ensure children are back in school as transmission reduces.\"\n\nBut asked about the proposal in the Commons, Mr Johnson said it would \"take vaccines away from the more vulnerable groups and... delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe government has said it will prioritise the reopening of schools as it begins the process of lifting lockdown restrictions, but in a Commons statement after PMQs, Mr Johnson indicated that schools would remain closed until early March.\n\n\"We hope it will... be safe to begin the reopening of schools from Monday, 8 March, with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as and when the data permits,\" he told MPs.", "The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of many much-loved events and traditions but the good people of New Orleans were not going to let it ruin their annual Mardi Gras.\n\nWhen the mayor of the Louisiana city announced that the raucous, crowd-filled street carnival parades would not be going ahead, residents decided to turn their houses into floats instead.\n\nThousands have been transformed for the two-week long carnival that runs until Ash Wednesday on 17 February. In the picture below, you can see The Queen's Jubilee House.\n\nA special project was set up encouraging home-owners to hire the many artists who would normally have months of work preparing for the event.\n\nRené Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats.\n\n\"My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like instant success. It was incredible,\" he told CNN.\n\nThere were a variety of themes such as this reference to the Bernie Sanders meme from last month's presidential inauguration.\n\nAnd this homage to influential women including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last year.\n\nThe idea for the house floats came from a carnival regular, Megan Joy Boudreaux, who had suggested it in a post on Twitter after the mayor's announcement in November.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if your budget is zero and you're recycling cardboard boxes, or whether your budget is tens of thousands of dollars and you've got a mansion on St Charles. We want everyone who wants to do this to participate,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nShe said she had expected a few friends and neighbours to join in, but by the beginning of January more than 9,000 people had signed up - some as far afield as the UK and Australia, the AP reports.\n\nSome homes were decorated in honour of musicians, like this house below that paid tribute to former New Orleans resident and jazz clarinet payer Pete Fountain.\n\nAnd this house which referenced country music star Dolly Parton.\n\nThere were also tributes to musician Dr John.\n\nAnd others evoked Zydeco music pioneers Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier and the 'Cajun Hank Williams', DL Menard.\n\nAn online map of the decorated houses is being made available for people to visit in their own time and, it is hoped, in a socially-distanced way.", "Starmer: Get a grip on getting laptops to children\n\nSir Keir says he is \"no wiser\" over where the PM stands on vaccinating teachers. But he moves on to the supplies of technology for children at home. \"The government has got a duty to make sure every single child can learn at home,\" says the Labour leader. But he says a third of families say they don't have enough laptops or home computers, and over 400,000 children are still not able to get online at home. He asks if the PM understands the anger of families that the government \"still haven't got to grips with this\". Johnson says he \"fully understands the frustration and impatience across the country.\" He says the government has provided 1.3 million laptops to children and a £1bn catch up fund, but he promises more details in his statement this afternoon on \"what more we propose to do on reopening of schools\".", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook is taking steps to rectify the error that saw posts referring to Plymouth Hoe taken down\n\nFacebook has apologised for removing posts that named part of a city it deemed to contain an offensive word.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is a historic part of the Devon city's seafront but the social media platform wrongly identified it as an offensive term.\n\nFacebook users have recently had posts taken down for breaching bullying rules after innocently using the place name.\n\nThe company said it \"will take steps to rectify the error\".\n\nDawn Lapthorn, who created the 'Don't Dump it, Plymouth and Surrounding areas' page said she was surprised to receive notifications from Facebook telling her \"community standards on harassment and bullying\" had been breached.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is famous as the place where Sir Francis Drake finished off a game of bowls before setting off to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588\n\nShe said: \"One woman on the group had been making hats, and she forgot to say where the collection point was so people asked her and she wrote Plymouth Hoe.\n\n\"Suddenly I started getting notifications asking me to remove the comments.\n\n\"And then her daughter contacted me asking why her mum had been banned from commenting on the group.\"\n\nOther people commenting on the group's posts have also received notifications and had posts taken down.\n\nMs Lapthorn said: \"I've heard that some Facebook groups have been closed down because of this, and with the work we do in the community and 26,000 members, I've worked too hard to have that put at risk.\"\n\nA Facebook company spokesperson said: \"These posts were removed in error and we apologise to those who were affected. We're looking into what happened and will take steps to rectify the error.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "The Royal Welsh Show - the biggest agricultural show in Europe - has been cancelled for the second year running because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe board met on Wednesday to discuss holding the show as scheduled in July, but after discussions with Welsh Government decided it wouldn't be feasible.\n\nSteve Hughson, chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said: “We continue to work alongside the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to create a road map for the safe re-opening of events.\n\n\"Our events are central to the rural economy and way of life and mean so much to members, exhibitors, traders and visitors.\n\n\"We fully understand the responsibility on all of us to ensure we deliver our events as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Hughson said the society had provided free facilities for a Covid testing centre and a mass vaccination centre at its showground in Llanelwedd, Powys.", "Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal.\n\n1MDB was an investment fund set up by the Malaysian government that lost billions due to fraudulent activity.\n\nThe global web of fraud and corruption led to a 12-year jail term for Malaysia's ex-prime minister Najib Razak which he is appealing.\n\nGoldman Sachs called its involvement in the scandal an \"institutional failure\".\n\nGoldman Sachs helped raise $6.5bn for 1MDB by selling bonds to investors, the proceeds of which were largely stolen.\n\nProsecutors alleged that senior Goldman executives ignored warning signs of fraud in their dealings with 1MDB and Jho Low, an adviser to the fund. Two Goldman bankers have been criminally charged in the scandal.\n\nMr Solomon's pay would have been $10m higher but for the actions its board of directors took in response to the 1MDB saga, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday.\n\nWhile disclosing his salary had dropped to $17.5m for 2020, the bank stressed that Mr Solomon was unaware of the corruption.\n\nHe was not \"involved in or aware of the firm's participation in any illicit activity at the time... the board views the 1MDB matter as an institutional failure, inconsistent with the high expectations it has for the firm\".\n\nMr Solomon's package consists of $2m in cash base pay, a $4.65m cash bonus, and $10.85m in stock-based compensation.\n\nIn October, Goldman agreed to pay nearly $3bn to government officials in four countries to end an investigation into work it performed for 1MDB. The bank collected $600m for arranging the bond sales in 2012 and 2013.\n\nIt has spent years being investigated by regulators across the globe including those in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.In total, Goldman's dealings with 1MDB cost the bank more than $5bn.\n\nDespite the costs and fines from the fallout from the 1MDB scandal, 2020 was a bumper year for Goldman's businesses with annual revenue of $44.6bn, its highest since 2009.\n\nThe US-based bank got a huge boost from the recovery in global stock markets from the depths of the coronavirus recession.\n\nIn 2018 Malaysian police raided the home of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as part of their investigation in his involvement with 1MDB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Handbags and money seized in raids on former Malaysian PM's home (video published in 2018)", "Josh Quigley crashed while cycling at 40mph downhill in Dubai\n\nA record-breaking Scottish cyclist is recovering from his second serious crash in little over a year.\n\nJosh Quigley fractured his spine, pelvis, shoulder, collarbone and elbow after falling off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai on Tuesday.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Livingston is in hospital awaiting surgery.\n\nLast September he broke the North Coast 500 cycling world record just months after suffering life-threatening injuries while riding across the USA.\n\nMr Quigley told BBC Scotland he was in a lot of pain and unable to walk after his latest crash.\n\nHe said: \"I think a gust of wind took my front wheel out.\"\n\n\"Not sure what the recovery process is looking like yet,\" he added on social media.\n\n\"Very grateful to Ben and Tobias who I was riding with for getting me an ambulance and making sure I got to hospital OK.\n\n\"There's a great cycling community here who have been great to me since I've been here and they're all doing a lot to make sure I am looked after and have what I need in here.\n\n\"Huge thanks also to a few people who stopped at the scene and all of the first responders and medical staff who have helped at the hospital so far.\"\n\nMr Quigley shaved six minutes off the existing North Coast 500 world record when he completed the 516-mile Highland route in 31hrs and 17 minutes last September.\n\nThe route is ranked as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges as it has 34,423ft (10,492m) of ascent - more than Mount Everest, which stands at 29,031ft (8,848m).\n\nHis feat came after he was hit by a vehicle in Texas during a round-the-world-trip in December 2019.\n\nHe had life-threatening injuries and operations on a broken heel and ankle as well as a stent fitted in an artery in his neck, which feeds blood to his brain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM has said he hopes a \"gradual and phased\" relaxation of Covid restrictions can begin in early March.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he intended to set out a plan for how the lockdown in England could be eased and the criteria involved in the final week of February.\n\nFactors will include death and hospitalisation numbers, progress of vaccinations and changes in the virus.\n\nHe has ruled out schools in England re-opening after the February half term, instead setting an 8 March target.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Mr Johnson said the scientific data was not sufficiently clear to make any decisions now but he hoped to publish a detailed roadmap in just under a month's time as the \"picture became clearer\".\n\nHe also announced plans for tighter border restrictions to combat new variants of Covid, confirming all those arriving from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in hotels and other accommodation for 10 days.\n\nThe PM, who is under pressure from Tory MPs to spell out how the current lockdown will end, said relaxing restrictions would depend on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops virus transmission.\n\nHe signalled any easing of restrictions would start with schools, setting a potential re-opening date of 8 March - when he said he hoped the 15 million or so people in the top four vulnerable groups earmarked for vaccinations by mid-February will have had their jabs and have full protection.\n\n\"Our aim will be to set out a gradual and phased approach to easing the restrictions in a sustainable way,\" he said, adding that the \"first sign of normality\" should be pupils returning to school.\n\nHe added: \"We hope it will be safe to begin the re-opening of schools from 8 March with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as the data permits.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said reopening schools should be a national priority and urged the government to vaccinate teachers and support staff during the February half term.\n\nLabour is also calling for the government to prioritise key workers in critical professions, seeing them added to the first phase of the vaccination programme, alongside those might likely to become seriously ill.\n\nCases are falling and the vaccination programme is going well. So why is the government waiting?\n\nFirstly, there are doubts about how fast infections are falling.\n\nWhile the daily figures show they have almost halved in just over a fortnight, the government's surveillance programmes which involve random testing suggest the drop may be slower.\n\nIt is unclear why there is this discrepancy, but understanding the true trajectory is crucial to knowing what will happen to pressures on hospitals.\n\nWhat impact the vaccination programme has will also be vital.\n\nEarly results from Israel, which is leading the world on vaccination, suggest cases in older age groups start falling three weeks after significant numbers are vaccinated. But ministers want to see that pattern repeated here.\n\nThey also want to know what effect vaccination has on transmission - it is possible vaccinated people can still transmit the infection even if they are protected from illness.\n\nThis will not be completely clear by March, but scientists should at least have a better idea.\n\nWhen a plan for exiting lockdown is set out, the government wants to be certain it can be kept to. But given the cost of lockdown the pressure to lift restrictions will grow if progress keeps being made.\n\nLast week, chair of the Covid Recovery Group Conservative MP Mark Harper said if the government meets its 15 February vaccination deadline, then ministers should begin easing lockdown by 8 March.\n\nHe welcomed the announcement from the prime minster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the current lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons such as food shopping and exercise.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's lockdown laws are due to end on 31 March. Mr Johnson has previously said this date is to allow for a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nUnder the tier system, different rules are applied to different parts of the country, depending on factors such as pressure on the NHS, number of cases and rates at which case numbers fall.\n\nPupils in England are not expected to return to school before the February half term. Mr Johnson has said schools will be reopened \"as soon as we can\" but did not guarantee that would happen before Easter.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said restrictions in Scotland will continue until mid-February at the earliest.\n\nIn Wales, the lockdown will be reviewed at the end of January, but the government has previously said it does not see \"much headroom for change\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "As a family of chemicals, neonicotinoids cause harm to pollinating insects such as bees\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU.\n\nIn 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees.\n\nBut following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.\n\nThe charity has told Environment Secretary George Eustice of their intention to challenge the decision.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Eustice, the Trusts says it will push for a judicial review unless the government can \"prove it has acted lawfully\".\n\nMultiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.\n\nThe government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the \"potential danger\" to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.\n\nThe virus can have a severe impact on sugar beet.\n\nIt stressed that use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was \"acceptable\" because sugar beet doesn't flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.\n\nNeonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU's ban was supported by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who said the weight of evidence was \"greater than previously understood\". Unless the evidence changed, he said, the restrictions would be maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe government says the change in policy is based on \"new evidence\". But, so far, they haven't made this science public.\n\nHowever, Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said there was no new evidence to justify the change in policy.\n\nHe said: \"The government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what's changed. Where's the new evidence that it's okay to use this extremely harmful pesticide?\n\n\"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkiller to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.\"\n\nIt was the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and British Sugar that applied for the authorisation. Victoria Prentis, a minister with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News that it \"wasn't ideal\". But she was \"convinced it was appropriate\" and that the government was \"committed to reducing pesticide use and integrated pest management\".\n\nSugar beet affected by the yellowing disease spread by aphids\n\nThe pesticide will be authorised for use if there is a large enough outbreak of the disease. And it can only be used for a period of up to 120 days. Around a dozen other EU countries, including France and Germany, have also agreed emergency permits.\n\nMs Prentis said the authorisation was very specific, and \"targeted at a non-flowering crop, which bees are not attracted to\".\n\nHowever research, shows that the highly toxic chemicals can persist in the wider ecosystem for some time, potentially to be absorbed by wildflowers that pollinators then visit.\n\nProf Glen Jeffery, from University College London (UCL), said he felt \"horror\" when he learned of the government's decision.\n\n\"We've slowly moved away from it and yet it's creeping back in,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very prevalent in other parts of the world, but then you find in other parts of the world vast numbers of pollinating insects have just vanished and they've just gone through heavy pesticide use. We reach the ridiculous situation where in parts of California thousands of beehives are trucked from Texas and from Florida into California to pollinate crops.\"\n\nThere has been one full sugar beet harvest since outdoor neonicotinoid use was banned. According to the NFU, the 2019-20 harvest was largely unaffected by beet yellows disease. This year's sugar beet harvest is currently underway, and yields are expected to be down by around 25% compared with the five-year average, with some farmers losing as much as 80% of their crop.\n\nAccording to the NFU, there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East.\n\nThe NFU has called the situation \"unprecedented\" and its sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: \"I am relieved that our application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for the 2021 sugar beet crop has been granted.\"\n\nNeurobiologist and environmental pharmacologist Dr Chris Connolly said that, since 2018, when neonicotinoids were banned in the EU, around 400 papers had been published looking into thiamethoxam, and none said they were less harmful.\n\nThe peach potato aphid is responsible for spreading the beet yellows virus\n\nHe said he could be in favour of using it: \"But rarely, and when it's really needed - when it's an emergency. It's not an emergency if you apply for it before an emergency.\n\nHe added: \"Is adding pesticides to pesticides the way to go towards better sustainability?\"\n\nWhen they were introduced in 2005, neonicotinoids were seen as a good alternative to traditional pesticides. They are systemic, which means they are absorbed by the plant, so are applied to seeds as a coating - instead of being sprayed. However, it has become clear they are highly toxic to invertebrates such as insects.\n\nThe government recently committed to spending £3bn of international climate finance to \"supporting nature and biodiversity\".\n\nSeveral hundred thousand people have now signed various online petitions against the move. Earlier this month, more than 30 wildlife and environmental organisations, including Pesticide Action Network and the RSPB, wrote a joint letter to Mr Eustice calling on the government to publish the new evidence that led to the derogation being approved.", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City defender Sol Bamba is being treated for cancer, the Championship club has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old Ivory Coast international has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.\n\n\"Sol has begun his battle in typically positive spirits and will continue to be an integral part of the Bluebirds family,\" said the Bluebirds.\n\nBamba joined Cardiff in October 2016 under former manager Neil Warnock.\n\nThe National Health Service Wales describes the illness as \"a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, a network of vessels and glands spread throughout your body.\n\n\"The lymphatic system is part of your immune system\".\n\nThe Bluebirds said Bamba is \"universally admired by team-mates, staff and supporters in the Welsh capital\".\n\nThe club's statement added: \"During treatment Sol will support his team mates at matches and younger players within the Academy, with whom he will continue his coaching development.\n\n\"While we request privacy for him and his family at this time, messages of support to be passed on to Sol may be sent to club@cardiffcityfc.co.uk.\"\n\n\"We are all with you Sol.\"\n\nBamba helped Cardiff win promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and has made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nThe former Paris St Germain player has been a hugely popular member of the squad, though this season he has been restricted to five Championship substitute appearances and one League Cup start.\n\nHe is a much travelled player who has had spells at Dunfermline, Hibernian, Leicester City, Trazbonspor and Italian club Palermo as well as Leeds United.\n\nFrance-born Bamba has played 46 times for the Ivory Coast, including World Cup appearances and was part of their African Cup of Nations squad when they were runners-up in 2012.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "In his letter to staff, circulated on social media, Chad Wolf said he had hoped to remain as acting secretary to homeland security until the end of the Trump administration.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by the recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary,\" he said, \"which serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power\".\n\nWolf's resignation comes after he last week called on Trump and all elected officials to \"strongly condemn\" the Capitol riot.\n\nHis exit throws the department into turmoil just as it is gearing up for inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January, which has been designated a national security special event.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, has elected a woman as leader for the first time.\n\nChristina McAnea won 47.7% of the vote and takes over as general secretary from Dave Prentis, who has been in the job since 2001.\n\nThe former assistant general secretary beat fellow officials Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre in the contest, which began in October.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"I become general secretary at the most challenging time in recent history - both for our country and our public services.\n\n\"Health, care, council, police, energy, school, college and university staff have worked throughout the pandemic, and it's their skill and dedication that will see us out the other side.\n\n\"Their union will continue to speak up for them and do all it can to protect them in the difficult months ahead.\"\n\nUnison is promising action against the government's pay freeze for 1.3 million public sector workers, which it has described as an \"attack\" on members' livelihoods.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"Despite the risks, the immense pressures and their sheer exhaustion, the dedication and commitment of our key workers knows no end. I will not let this government, nor any future one, forget that.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also demanded a U-turn on public sector pay, as he urges ministers to \"protect family incomes\" from the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions in his first speech of the year.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he cannot \"justify a significant, across-the-board\" salary increase while the economy and public finances are suffering in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs McAnea, an experienced negotiator and former NHS worker, is expected to be broadly supportive of Sir Keir, as Mr Prentis has been.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed her victory, saying: \"I know you will be a brilliant representative for Unison members.\n\n\"And it's a significant moment for the union to elect its first woman general secretary. I look forward to working with you.\"\n\nHer election comes at a strained time between Sir Keir and several other unions whose general secretaries have spoken out in support of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nMr Holmes came second in the Unison contest, with 33.8%, followed by Mr McKenzie, on 10.8%, and Mr Pierre, on 7.8%.\n\nMs McAnea grew up in Glasgow and worked as a housing officer before becoming a union employee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, is taking leave to have surgery on a lung tumour.\n\nThe Old Bexley and Sidcup MP resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in 2018 for surgery to remove a lesion on his right lung.\n\nOn Monday he confirmed that \"frustratingly\" there had been a recurrence of a tumour there.\n\nHe said he was in \"good hands\" with the \"fantastic NHS team\" looking after him.\n\n\"[I'm] keeping positive and blessed to have the love of Cathy and the kids to support me through this,\" the 53-year-old wrote on Twitter.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Brokenshire and his family.\n\n\"Wishing you all the best for your treatment and looking forward to welcoming you back on the team soon,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"saddened\" by the news, adding: \"All my thoughts and prayers are with James and his family during this time\".\n\n\"All colleagues across government send James our love and best wishes, and we look forward to having him back soon,\" she added.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was among government colleagues wishing him well, adding he was \"sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"Wishing you all the best for your treatment, James. Get well soon.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was first elected to Parliament in 2005 as MP for the former constituency of Hornchurch, has also previously served as housing secretary under former PM Theresa May.\n\nHe has called for efforts to \"break some of the stigma around lung cancer\" and raise awareness of the disease.\n• None Brokenshire: There were some pretty dark moments", "Medical director Steve Stanaway says numbers of Covid patients are rising at the hospital\n\nHospital staff in Wrexham are under immense pressure after a \"rapid increase\" in seriously ill coronavirus patients, a medical director has warned.\n\nWrexham now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Wales, with 851.7 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThis is more than double the Welsh average.\n\nSteve Stanaway, medical director at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, pleaded with people to abide by rules.\n\n\"The worry from a staff's point of view is how much more stretching can we take, how many more staff can we deploy?\" he said.\n\nThe hospital - which is part of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - was the latest to suspend routine surgery as it tries to deal with rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\n\"That's created more feelings of stress and anxiety, not least to the people who were hoping to get their surgery this week,\" Mr Stanaway said.\n\nThe health board has postponed the majority of surgeries planned for the next two weeks at Wrexham, although some patients will be offered appointments in Bangor instead.\n\nEmergency surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, endoscopy procedures and caesarean sections will continue at the Wrexham hospital.\n\nProf Arpan Guha, acting executive medical director, said: \"There are many patients expecting to undergo an operation in Wrexham over the coming weeks and we recognise how anxious and worried they will already be about having surgery during the current surge of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are sorry for any further distress or inconvenience this decision may cause and would like to reassure those affected that we are doing all we can to prioritise patients in the most urgent need of care.\"\n\nThe spike in cases in communities in north-east Wales has been blamed on the newer \"faster-spreading\" variant.\n\nWhile case rates in many communities have fallen slightly in recent weeks, in Wrexham numbers are continuing to rise.\n\nThe area now has the highest rate in Wales, followed by Flintshire with 754.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nBus services in the area have been affected after 28 drivers of Arriva Buses Wales tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd, has the lowest case rate in the whole of Wales, with 110.\n\nThe average case rate for Wales stands at 435.9, according to the most recent Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThere have been calls for mass testing - as seen in parts of the south Wales Valleys - in the area as case rates continue to rise, but Wrexham council has said it has no plans to offer this to the wider community.\n\nMr Stanaway said the critical care unit and respiratory unit at the Wrexham hospital was now under huge pressure with the number of new patients needing this level of care \"rapidly increasing\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"The numbers are really quite alarming\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday. \"It's a huge amount of disease burden within a community.\"\n\nMr Stanaway said there were 125 inpatients being treated with Covid on Sunday night, which he estimated was an increase of 117% since Christmas.\n\nHe said 14 of them where in critical care, with some on ventilators, while 16 where being treated in the hospital's high care respiratory unit - a 45% increase in just four days.\n\n\"There are now so many in that unit they've had to expand it to a completely different part of the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the graphs of the cases they are going up exponentially, they are terrifying to look at, and I think people are very aware that this is what is happening out in the community around them,\" he said.\n\nMr Stanaway said staff were working tirelessly and under huge amounts of pressure to keep caring for the sickest patients, but it was unclear how much more demand the hospital could take.\n\n\"Our current predictions for admissions coming through the door in January are currently sitting at about 350, if you compare that to April, the height of the pandemic, we had 286 people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more, we've already had 112 people in the first nine days of January. And the numbers are going up and up.\"\n\nHe pleaded with people to abide by the rules.\n\n\"This virus is hurting, and has hurt, a lot of people within Wrexham and Flintshire,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say it strongly enough... we will get through this, but you just have to play by the rules.\"\n\nLatest figures show 149 staff were isolating and, with high nursing vacancy rates, staff were under huge pressure and were working tirelessly.\n\n\"Of all the years I've worked in the NHS... the resilience, dedication and professionalism our staff are showing is absolutely unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"But you have to bear in mind that people are tired, people are stressed, and it does put a strain,\" he said.\n\n\"We absolutely want to see you if you are unwell, but if you can wait or seek care somewhere else... please do that to give us that little bit of headspace.\"", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "Marks & Spencer has announced that it has bought the Jaeger fashion brand, which fell into administration last November.\n\nM&S is taking on the brand, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.\n\nIt is now in the process of finalising a deal to buy its products and \"supporting marketing assets\".\n\nM&S announced in May 2020 that it planned to stock other complementary brands to boost sales.\n\nSince then, it has started to sell products online from the Early Learning Centre, as well as from two designers, Nobody's Child and Ghost London.\n\nRichard Price, managing director of M&S Clothing & Home, said: \"We have set out our plans to sell complementary third party brands as part of our Never the Same Again programme to accelerate our transformation and turbocharge online growth.\n\n\"In line with this, we have bought the Jaeger brand and are in the final stages of agreeing the purchase of product and supporting marketing assets from the administrators of Jaeger Retail Limited. We expect to fully complete later this month.\"\n\nIn a call with journalists last week, chief executive Steve Rowe said M&S wanted to partner with other brands, largely for its online business, but stressed: \"We have no intention of turning into a department store.\"\n\nJaeger had 244 staff and some 63 stores and concessions. In addition, 13 stores closed after administrators were appointed, with the loss of more than 120 posts across stores, head office and distribution.\n\nIt is unclear if any jobs will be saved. There has been no update from the administrators, FRP.\n\nJaeger was founded in 1884, the same year as Marks & Spencer, which started out as a stall in an open market in Leeds known as Marks' Penny Bazaar.\n\nLast week, M&S unveiled quarterly figures showing that its clothing division had seen sales fall nearly a quarter, although sales of sales of sleepwear had soared.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December. However, UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.\n\nEnergydots says they \"counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment\" to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.\n\nBut University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.\n\nThe Devon-based company told BBC News the stickers were programmed with \"scalar energy\", which the scientists' equipment would be unable to detect.\n\nEnergydots markets a range of stickers, including the SmartDot, the SleepDot and even the PetDot.\n\nBBC News bought five SmartDots - a special offer for £55 - and sent them to the university's 6th Generation Innovation Centre.\n\nResearchers tested 4G mobile phones and wi-fi access points with and without the stickers applied to them.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the lab said: \"We could not find any evidence that these products had any effect on frequency or power when used as instructed.\"\n\nAn Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News: \"We state clearly that our products harmonise the fields.\n\n\"And the way to test this is to assess via biological testing.\"\n\nLast November, the company published a press release saying it was extremely proud to announce a partnership with the NHS that would see \"brand-new patient engagement units\" installed in Torbay and Royal College of London hospitals.\n\nAt the time, an Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News adverts for its products would appear in the two hospitals, though she clarified the London hospital was in fact University College Hospital.\n\nBut a Torbay Hospital spokesman then told BBC News it knew nothing of this partnership.\n\nAnd within hours, the press release had disappeared from the company's website.\n\nEnergydots later said there had been a misunderstanding with the agency that had promised to organise the adverts.\n\nIts stickers are among a wide range of products on Amazon from companies offering electric-and-magnetic-field (EMF) protection.\n\nEnergydots also suggests placing its SmartDot stickers on wi-fi routers\n\nThese include protective clothing, canopies to be placed over beds and even devices that block radiation from wi-fi routers - making them effectively useless.\n\nCampaigners claiming radiation from mobile phones and other devices poses a health risk have stepped up protests as 5G networks are rolled out.\n\nBut most scientists say even the higher part of the electromagnetic spectrum that may be used by 5G should not harm humans.\n\nAnd within those limits, there are no known consequences for health, the World Health Organization says.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hospital's oxygen supply has \"reached a critical situation\" due to rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.\n\nA document shared with the BBC showed Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount it uses to treat patients.\n\nIt said the target range for oxygen levels that should be in patients' blood had been cut from 92% to a baseline of 88-92%.\n\nHospital managing director, Yvonne Blucher, said it was \"working to manage\" the situation.\n\n\"We are experiencing high demand for oxygen because of rising numbers of inpatients with Covid-19 and we are working to manage this,\" she said.\n\n\"The public can play their part by staying home and, where they cannot, following the 'hands, face, space' advice to cut the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIn the document, from the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has been shared with frontline NHS staff, the oxygen supply was said to have \"reached a critical situation\".\n\nIt said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\" and states patients who are being fed oxygen and have an oxygen saturation of above 92% \"should have their oxygen weaned within the target range\", which is now 88-92%. This means very gradually reducing the saturation level.\n\nIt added that \"maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result\".\n\nGPs in Essex have told the BBC that the threshold for sending a patient to hospital for supplemental oxygen is if their oxygen saturation is at 92%. A level of 96-100% is deemed normal.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure\" on hospital oxygen stocks because giving patients extra oxygen was a \"key part\" of coronavirus treatment.\n\nHe said there were a number of hospitals where this happened in the first phase of coronavirus and over the past few weeks \"similar things have happened\" elsewhere.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure on oxygen systems\"\n\n\"This is the kind of problem that chief executives and trust leadership teams are having to solve day in, day out,\" he said.\n\n\"If you [a hospital] push your oxygen to an absolutely critical level, then the thing that you can't do is have the oxygen system break down... so effectively you will have to dial it down, in which case you will probably have to transfer patients to the nearest neighbouring hospital for a short period of time.\n\n\"I cannot tell you how much work has been done over the summer and autumn to ensure that people [hospital trusts] have been prepared for this... they knew they would come under pressure if there were to be further waves, as has now proved to be the case.\"\n\nEssex has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the country, with seven of the 14 council areas in the county in the top 20 most infected areas of England.\n\nThe Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\"\n\nNews of oxygen issues is understandably worrying, but not unexpected. Tanks may be full, but flow is a problem.\n\nMany people who are sick with Covid will need extra oxygen to help them breathe. As Covid admissions increase, it can put huge demand on a hospital's piped oxygen supply system to provide this high flow.\n\nHospital bosses have been planning for such scenarios for months, learning from experiences during the first wave of Covid when some trusts ran into difficulties.\n\nMany wards have made improvements to their pipework in preparation for a very busy winter, but there is still a limit to what hospitals can provide.\n\nWhen stretched to the maximum, other steps are needed, such transferring patients elsewhere or limiting how much oxygen is pumped to each patient.\n\nSouthend Hospital has taken this latter measure.\n\nAlthough not ideal, it is not unsafe. Patients will be closely monitored and the trust hopes the situation will improve if new Covid admissions start to go down as people follow the stay at home lockdown rules.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'One in 18 have Covid-19' in parts of Essex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says exemption from quarantine travel requirements for elite sport are to be reviewed\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged football clubs not to \"abuse\" the privileges they are afforded while the rest of Scotland is in lockdown.\n\nPlayers and staff from Celtic FC are having to self-isolate after one tested positive for Covid-19 on return from a mid-season training camp in Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had doubts about whether the trip was really necessary.\n\nAnd she said \"everyone, including football, should be erring on the side of caution\" amid a rise in infections.\n\nScottish football below Championship level is to be suspended for three weeks in light of the current lockdown, with Scottish Cup and lower league ties to be rescheduled.\n\nTop flight football in Scotland is continuing while most Scots are subject to a \"stay at home\" order due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCeltic's home fixture against Hibernian went ahead on Monday evening, despite the club having lost 13 players and three staff to Covid-19 issues.\n\nDefender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the virus on return from the club's training camp in Dubai, with others including the club's manager Neil Lennon being forced to isolate as close contacts.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"disappointed and frustrated\" that her daily coronavirus briefing was again being \"dominated by football\".\n\nCeltic trained in Scotland on Saturday after returning from Dubai\n\nShe said she had doubts about whether Celtic's trip \"was really essential\" and whether rules were strictly adhered to, saying it was for the footballing authorities to decide if further action was necessary.\n\nThe first minister issued a warning to clubs that they must stick to the rules set out for them while the rest of the populace is subject to tight restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"Football and elite sport more generally enjoys a number of privileges right now that the rest of us don't have. These privileges include the right to go to overseas training camps and be exempt from quarantine on return.\n\n\"It is really vital, obviously for public health reasons but also I think out of respect for the rest of the population living under really heavy restrictions, that these privileges are not abused.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is an assistant referee in the game.\n\nHe said that at a time when people are staying at home football games were something many looked forward to.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club.\" He also called for financial support to be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues and Scottish Cup who had had their games suspended for three weeks.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon is among those who are self-isolating\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was currently in \"the most perilous and serious position since the start of the pandemic\", with a record number of people in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nShe said everyone should be doing their utmost not to add to pressure on the health services by following the rules.\n\nShe said: \"This whole episode should underline how serious the situation we are in now is. Everyone including football should be erring on the side of caution.\n\n\"I know fans of other clubs feel very strongly that the whole of football should not pay the price for the actions of any one club, and I agree with that.\n\n\"But of course a situation like this does make it essential for us to review the rules - including those around travel exemptions - and that's what we will be doing. As we do, I do hope that Celtic themselves will reflect seriously on all of this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon cited photographs which emerged of players socialising in Dubai, but Celtic's assistant manager John Kennedy said these created a \"false picture\" and that there had been \"minor slip-ups\" at worst.\n\nThe club had previously claimed the government had given permission for the trip to go ahead, but Ms Sturgeon said it had only provided guidance to the footballing authorities on the rules.\n\nShe said: \"It's not our role to give approval or not to what a football club is doing.\"\n\nA statement posted on the Celtic website said that \"the reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.\"", "As hospital mortuaries fill up in Surrey, England, some of the dead from the coronavirus pandemic are being brought to an emergency body storage facility.\n\nSurrey currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and some are concerned the facility may reach capacity.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton paid a visit to the site which has been set up in a Surrey woodland.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSeven centres begin operating this morning across England, a key part of efforts to vaccinate 15 million in the top four priority groups by mid-February. To begin with, more than 600,000 aged 80 or over are being sent letters inviting them to book an appointment at one of the hubs - but if the journey is too long, they're being told closer options will be available soon. The centres will be open 12 hours a day and more large-scale sites will follow. The health secretary will give more details later, while the Welsh government will publish its own vaccination plan. In Scotland, more clinics should start to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Here's how vaccines are approved for use, and some of the challenges a rollout on this scale faces.\n\nScientists have warned stricter measures might be needed to curb infections in England but, right now, the government is focusing on an \"all-out public information\" campaign to improve compliance with the existing rules. Chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty is appearing on TV and radio this morning urging the public to \"stay at home\" given what he called the \"appalling situation\" we are in. He told BBC One's Breakfast that getting case numbers down was \"everybody's problem\", and \"every unnecessary contact\" with someone from another household gave the virus an opportunity to be transmitted. \"We need to really double down\", he added, because \"this is the most dangerous time we've had in terms of numbers into the NHS.\" If you've seen videos online claiming some hospital wards and corridors are empty, BBC Reality Check explains what's really going on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says a record quarter of a million firms could close over the coming year. The organisation's chairman, Mike Cherry, said financial support provided to businesses during the pandemic had \"not kept pace with intensifying restrictions\". It also wants more help for many self-employed workers who are currently excluded from aid. There's another call for more government support this morning from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He wants teachers, the armed forces and care workers to be left out of a public sector pay freeze, and is urging ministers not to end the temporary £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe body representing prison staff says courts should cease hearing trials to help stop the spread of coronavirus in jails. Mark Fairhurst, from the Prison Officers' Union, said there had been a \"massive outbreak\" at Cardiff Prison, and the site was struggling to find space for newly-sentenced arrivals. However, others within the criminal justice sector argue courts must be kept open to prevent the case backlog growing further. The rate of spread in prisons is still well below the wider population, and a prison service spokesman said shielding, mass testing and limited regimes were in place at all facilities.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils, and the switch to virtual learning presents challenges for many families. The BBC is trying to help, and from today lessons and programmes will be broadcast on TV, on BBC Two and CBBC. They'll also be available on iPlayer, with additional content online. Find out all you need to know here. If you're looking for some inspiration for PE, Joe Wicks is also back today. For many families, he was one of the fixtures of the first lockdown, and live classes start at 09:00 GMT on his YouTube channel.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils across Scotland have been experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams as the majority move to home learning.\n\nA number of schools, pupils and parents have reported the technology running slowly or not at all.\n\nIt is one of the main platforms being used for remote learning with schools shut to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nMicrosoft Teams tweeted that the issue was being investigated.\n\nA Microsoft spokesperson said: \"Our engineers are working to resolve difficulties accessing Microsoft Teams that some customers are experiencing.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether demand as a result of home schooling was causing the issue, Microsoft declined to comment.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the problem during her daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"This is not an issue that is unique to Scotland or indeed unique to schools, but I understand Microsoft is currently working to address it,\" she said.\n\n\"More generally I don't underestimate how difficult this is both for young people learning away from friends… and for parents to juggle home schooling with working.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was also asked about problems which were being experienced by users of digital learning platform Glow.\n\nShe replied: \"It is not an issue with Glow. It is affecting Glow, but the core issue is not with Glow… the issue is with Microsoft Teams.\"\n\nTwo schools in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, said the problem was a \"national issue\" although Renfrew High School urged pupils experiencing difficulties not to panic.\n\nClyde Valley High School tweeted: \"Our online learning provision begins today for all of our pupils. Due to the very high demand for Microsoft Teams across Scotland, there may be issues initially getting logged on or accessing some files.\n\n\"This is a national issue on the site and may take a little time to rectify.\"\n\nColtness High School said: \"Unfortunately it appears Microsoft Teams is struggling to cope with the traffic this morning.\n\n\"This is across Scotland and not isolated to Coltness. Pupils and staff are having difficulty loading files. We have reported the issue and hopefully this will be resolved soon.\"\n\nEdinburgh City Council have texted all parents saying: \"There is a city-wide problem with Microsoft Teams this morning. Please be patient as the council is working to resolve it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RHS Digital Learning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by D&G Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Microsoft has confirmed that this issue is affecting users in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe. Education Scotland is working closely with the company to resolve the issues.\"\n\nAfter one teacher complained to Microsoft Teams on Twitter, a staff member said: \"We're currently investigating an issue where some users in the UK region are unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will provide further information as soon as this is available.\"\n\nAccording to an Ofcom report in December, about 34,000 (1.2%) premises in Scotland were without a decent broadband connection, while superfast broadband coverage had increased to 94% of homes.\n\nIt also said that fixed and mobile networks in Scotland had \"generally coped well\" with increased demands during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as plans for remote learning during the latest lockdown reveal big disparities between Scotland's 32 councils.\n\nNot all pupils will be offered live lessons - instead the decision on the best approach has been left to individual schools and teachers.\n\nGuidance on remote learning published by the Scottish government on Friday recommended a \"a balance of live learning and independent activity\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested £25m to address digital exclusion in schools with funding allocations for digital devices and connectivity solutions made to all 32 local authorities.\n\nMore than 50,000 devices such as laptops have been distributed to children and young people to help with remote learning and the programme in total is expected to deliver about 70,000 devices for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Luke Evans plays police officer Steve Wilkins who reopened and solved the two double murders\n\nHollywood actor Luke Evans says telling the true story of the murder of four people was a \"huge responsibility\".\n\nEvans, who was brought up in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, returned to Wales to star in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.\n\nHe plays Dyfed-Powys Police officer Steve Wilkins who in 2006 reopened two unsolved double murders from the 1980s.\n\n\"I just wanted to tell it right and show justice for the victims, which is the most important part,\" Evans said.\n\n\"This is a very serious, sad story where four people lost their lives and their families have struggled and suffered greatly because of it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So you do feel a huge sense of responsibility.\"\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders has been adapted from a book about the case written by Mr Wilkins and ITV journalist Jonathan Hill.\n\nIn 1985 brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas were shot at their remote mansion near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, before the property was set alight.\n\nThen in 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead at close range on the Pembrokeshire coastal path near Little Haven.\n\nThe drama also stars Newport actress Alexandria Riley as Det Insp Ella Richards\n\nBut it was only years later that microscopic DNA and fibres linked the murders to John Cooper, who was already in prison for a string of burglaries.\n\nIn 2011 he was jailed for life.\n\nThe Dracula Untold star said he had not been aware of the notorious case: \"I knew almost nothing about these murders, to the point where when I read what was a treatment two or three years ago… I couldn't believe what I was reading.\n\n\"So I did my own research into it and realised that the story was completely true - it hadn't been embellished, none of this was fiction and it sort of blew my mind.\"\n\nHe said being able to speak to Mr Wilkins while filming was invaluable: \"Me and Steve had a dialogue almost every week for a few hours.\n\n\"We had a lot of conversations before we started shooting where I would speak to him and ask him, not just about the case - obviously that that was very important - but about things like how was it standing in front of John Cooper, having to interview John Cooper, having to deal with his family.\n\n\"You see both sides of the effect of these terrible crimes, you see what the aftermath of what it does to people and how they suffer and you meet Cooper's family as well.\n\n\"Steve has his own family and that also is played into the storyline very powerfully.\"\n\nEvans said the only other time he has worked in Wales was when filming Visit Wales commercials: \"Being Welsh and not getting to work in Wales very often - that certainly was an attraction for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I've done them [the commercials] for a few years - one of them was about the coastal walks of Wales and our beautiful coastline... and then right in this beautiful place I was there back there, portraying a character and trying to find the killer of somebody who murdered people on this coastal path.\"\n\nBut he said he enjoyed playing a Welsh character: \"To go right back to my roots with my accent and that was a really, really exciting to do.\n\nThe series, made by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, finished filming just before Wales' first coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"When we started The Pembrokeshire Murders it was January so we didn't hear anything really, and then just before we finished there was rumblings of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We were very lucky in a way, we wrapped basically on the Friday then on the Monday everything closed.\n\n\"So it was a big sigh of relief when we got to the final wrap of that day and it was very special.\"\n\nThe three-part series also stars Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn.\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders in on ITV at 21:00 GMT on 11, 12 and 13 January", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nPremier League rivals Manchester United and Liverpool will meet at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup later this month.\n\nNon-league Chorley will host Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers after beating a depleted Derby County in the third round.\n\nLeague Two Cheltenham Town are set to welcome Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Whaddon Road.\n\nThe fourth-round ties will be played the weekend of 23-24 January.\n\nCrawley Town, who celebrated a famous 3-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday, will travel to Championship side Bournemouth in the next round.\n\nJose Mourinho's Tottenham will face Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park, while Fulham take on Burnley in an all-Premier League tie.\n\nChorley would face 14-time winners Arsenal in the fifth round - if the National League North side overcome Wolves and the Gunners beat Southampton.\n\nDavid Moyes could return to former club Manchester United in the last 16 if West Ham beat League One Doncaster Rovers and United seal victory over Liverpool in the fourth round.\n\nThe fifth-round ties will be played 9-11 February.\n• None Watch all the goals and highlights from the FA Cup third round\n• None Goals, highlights and knockouts. All the action from Sunday's third-round ties are", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "Caroline Rice couldn't afford the ink to print off her child's maths homework\n\nThere are few benefits from lockdown, but one often touted is that people are managing to save a little money: lower transport costs, fewer shop-bought office lunches, cheaper childcare costs and no foreign holidays.\n\nSingle mum Caroline Rice gives a wry smile when asked if she's managed to squirrel away extra cash over the past few months during pandemic restrictions.\n\n\"My spending is up,\" she says. \"The heating costs are higher because it's very cold. I'm having to shop locally because of lockdown, where the prices are slightly higher. The nearest Asda is 12 miles away.\"\n\nThe small savings on little luxuries that many people are making - fewer coffees or restaurant meals - were never an option for her in the first place.\n\nHer meagre finances meant the registered child minder, who lives in rural County Fermanagh, was already living week-to-week. Now it seems like day-to-day, she says.\n\n\"There's a mental stress, fatigue, in having to check the bank balance every day to see how much I'm down,\" she says. \"My child and I haven't bought any clothes in almost a year.\"\n\nShe's having to home-school her child. Many people wouldn't think twice about printing off their child's maths homework project. Caroline had to write it out by hand because they could not afford the ink.\n\nAnd she is not alone. A new report on the finances of low-income families during the pandemic says they are twice as likely to have increased their spending.\n\nIt says extra costs for food, energy and remote learning equipment have piled financial pressure on the poor.\n\nThe study - Pandemic Pressures - was a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation-funded Covid Realities research project at the University of York.\n\nDr Ruth Patrick, a social policy lecturer at the University of York, says talk of saving money during the pandemic is \"worlds away\" from the experiences of many low-income parents and carers.\n\n\"Parents have found their spending increases, as some of the usual strategies they use to get by on a low income - shopping around for the best deal, going to families and friends for a meal when the cupboards are empty - have become suddenly impossible,\" she said.\n\nFor Shirley Widdop, an increase in food costs has been one of the biggest issues. The disabled single parent, who lives in Keighley, now has to shield for health reasons. That means using online deliveries a lot.\n\nShe says: \"There's a minimum basket size [with online orders]. You often have to bulk buy in case there's a problem getting delivery slots.\"\n\nShirley Widdop has not saved on life's little luxuries - because she could not afford them in the first place\n\nWhen not shielding, Shirley would seek out food in her supermarket's reduced-price section. \"There used to be just a couple of people. Now there are crowds,\" she says. \"Not everyone has easy access to the internet. And not everyone has a functioning bus service.\"\n\nThe report notes that the pandemic has been marked by a huge reduction in overall spending, with entertainment and social activities restricted by lockdown.\n\nHigher-income households have been the main beneficiaries of this \"enforced saving\", as they spend 40% more of their income on recreation and leisure activities than the poorest fifth of households.\n\nThe report says that in contrast to this overall picture, the pandemic has in many cases made it more expensive to live on a low income with children.\n\nMore than one in three (36%) low-income households with children have increased their spending during the pandemic so far, compared with about one in six (18%) who have reduced their spending.\n\nAmong high-income households without children, 13% have increased their spending, compared with 40% who have reduced it.\n\nUse of food banks has increased significantly during the pandemic\n\nThe report highlights three main reasons for these extra pressures:\n\nIt should also be noted, the report says, that these extra spending pressures are squeezing living standards that had stagnated even before the pandemic.\n\nTo ease the burden, the report says the government should be seeking to maintain the £20-a-week rise in Universal Credit (UC) into next year. Otherwise, six million households face having their incomes cut by more than £1,000.\n\nMike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The pandemic has forced society as a whole to spend less and save more. But these broad spending patterns don't hold true for everyone.\n\n\"The extra cost of feeding, schooling and entertaining children 24/7 means that, for many families, lockdowns have made life more expensive to live on a low income.\"\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said measures had been put in place to \"ensure that nobody is left behind\", including extra welfare payments, job protection safeguards, the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme, and equipment for home-schooling.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSometimes the overall economic figures can not capture the actual on-the-ground financial reality.\n\nThe pandemic lockdowns have led to a \"K-shaped\" recovery. Across the entire economy, staying at home has meant less capacity to spend on going out and a surge in savings. But the economic picture is both up and down at the same time, depending on which household.\n\nThe average picture is composed of wealthier people saving a huge amount and poorer families more squeezed than ever. This report shows how children staying at home have increased food and energy bills. The cost of buying food has increased with fewer store promotions and a requirement to use more expensive local shops. The furlough scheme has kept people paid, but not necessarily on full pay.\n\nSo the chancellor hopes that the vaccine rollout could unleash pent up demand in the form of huge levels of savings from the already well-off. And yet at the same time, will continue to face pressure over extending support - for example, the £20-a-week increase to universal credit.", "A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.\n\nThe original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nBut only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.\n\nKim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.\n\nThe US network did not say why Cattrall wasn't cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That - a nod to one of the show's original catchphrases.\n\nHowever, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.\n\nThe new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.\n\nThe trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristin Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humour and the beloved city that has always defined them,\" Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement.\n\nThe original Sex and the City series, created by Darren Star, was based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. It premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004.\n\nThe show inspired two films, Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010. A prequel series titled The Carrie Diaries, starring Anna Sophia Robb, aired on The CW in 2013/14.\n\nStar also created Netflix show Emily in Paris, and many have drawn inevitable comparisons between that show and SATC.\n\nWhen it first burst on to our TV screens, Sex and the City was seen as revolutionary - four women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention the sex scenes themselves.\n\nThe first series of SATC began filming in 1998\n\nCosmopolitans and rabbit vibrators were trending before trending was a thing.\n\nWhile it was praised by many for its liberating female-led content, it also attracted criticism from some quarters who felt Carrie's ongoing pursuit of Mr Big (Christopher Noth) was not exactly an advert for female independence.\n\nIt was also accused of trivialising issues such as sexual harassment and for its lack of diversity, a criticism levelled at many older shows including Friends.\n\nFashion was a hugely influential part of the series - the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits, teamed with a fur coat and heels, was described as \"an ensemble rich in cultural resonance\".\n\nAnd Manolo Blahnik could never have dreamed of attracting so much publicity for his designer footwear.\n\nIt was a ratings smash, with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004 drawing an audience of 10.6 million viewers in the US.\n\nIn the UK, the final episode was watched by 4.1m on Channel 4.\n\nThe series was predictably most popular in the 18-34 age group.\n\nMany SATC fans will be disappointed that larger-than-life favourite Samantha Jones - played by Kim Cattrall - will not be returning for the sequel series.\n\nSamantha was Sex and the City's most outlandish character and arguably, the star of the show.\n\nWhile Miranda was juggling a career and motherhood, Charlotte was focused on marriage and motherhood and Carrie poured her neuroses into her New York Star column, Samantha was the character perhaps harder to relate to but someone we all wanted to be (at least a little).\n\nShe was fiercely independent and while caring for her friends, she always put her own needs before men.\n\nBut news Cattrall won't reprise the role in And Just Like That comes as no surprise after years of feud rumours which were later confirmed by the British-born Canadian actress.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nShe said there was a \"toxic relationship\" and ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, denying that her decision was down to pay or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nA different actress could play Samantha in the future, she suggested.\n\n\"I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,\" she said. \"Maybe they could make it an African-American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones, or bring in another character.\"\n\nShe later criticised Parker for being \"cruel\" after she sent condolences following the death of Cattrall's brother.\n\nIn an interview with People magazine shortly afterwards, SJP acknowledged Cattrall \"said things that were really hurtful about me\".\n\nParker said: \"So there was no fight; it was completely fabricated, because I actually never responded.\"\n\nOn Monday, Parker replied on Instagram to someone posting that SJP \"didn't tag Samantha Jones\" into her post announcing the new series.\n\n\"I don't dislike her. I've never said that. Never would. Samantha isn't part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. x.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Small business owner Jon Wilding is facing a dilemma: his livelihood is on hold because of Covid restrictions and he has a big tax bill to settle.\n\nIf his company supplying marquees to outdoor events goes bust, the taxman will get paid, but his reputation as a businessman will be ruined forever.\n\n\"If I shut the business down, I then become director of a business that's gone bankrupt, at which stage getting loans in the future becomes nigh-on impossible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I feel like I'm one of those people who's been left out. We don't need a lot to keep going,\" said Mr Wilding, of Cannock in the West Midlands.\n\n\"The government say their support system is the best in the world, we've done furlough, this that and whatever, but it's not getting to all the people that need it.\"\n\nApart from the Bounce Back Loan scheme, his two-person business has received no government assistance.\n\nHis colleague was furloughed in March last year, but because Mr Wilding is the director, he is not allowed to furlough himself.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is particularly concerned about people like Mr Wilding.\n\nIt says directors of small companies, who pay themselves in dividends rather than drawing a salary, are not receiving any help from the government.\n\nThe FSB says somewhere between 700,000 and 1.1 million people fall into this category.\n\nIt has put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hopes ministers will adopt.\n\nThe FSB's proposed Directors Income Support Scheme would pay them grants of up to £7,500 to cover three months of lost trading profits. It would be limited to those who earn less than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"Company directors, the newly self-employed, those in supply chains and those without commercial premises are still being left out in the cold,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nWithout further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, a record 250,000 small businesses could be lost in the next 12 months, the FSB said.\n\n\"The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions,\" Mr Cherry added.\n\n\"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year.\n\nIf those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.\n\nMr Cherry said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\" and called for help that went beyond the retail, leisure and hospitality businesses.\n\nThe FSB said it had submitted its support scheme proposals to the Treasury and was expecting a decision this month.\n\nThe Treasury said nothing was planned at present, but added: \"Our support schemes are designed to get help to those who need it most whilst protecting the taxpayer from fraud, but of course we keep everything under review and are always open to further ideas.\"", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Douglas Ross: 'All of Scottish football should not be affected by the actions of one club'\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross tells viewers he thinks politics should be put aside and the UK and Scottish governments should work together to get the vaccinations out as quickly as possible. He is reluctant, as an assistant referee, to comment on the Celtic Dubai situation, but he does say that people have to look at the message it sends out. He points out that for many people at home alone at the moment, football is something they look forward to and \"we don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club\". He adds that financial support should be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues & Scottish Cup who have had their games suspended for three weeks.", "Terry Irving, 83, from Dumfries, was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday\n\nEveryone aged 80 or over in Scotland will be given the Covid vaccine by February, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman also said care home staff and residents, as well as front-line health and social care staff would be vaccinated in the next few weeks.\n\nAs of Sunday, 163,377 Scots had been given a first dose of vaccine.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Scotland that just under 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of the month.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine will be available at more than 1,100 locations from Monday.\n\nScotland has been given an initial allocation of more than 500,000 doses to use in January.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We intend that by the end of this month, the very beginning of February, we will have vaccinated all residents in care homes and staff, all front-line health and social care workers and all those aged 80 or over.\n\n\"So that's just under 560,000. We've already vaccinated about 70% of people in care homes and about half of the health and social care workforce.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government was on course to match the UK government's commitment to offer a vaccine jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nThe health service will be able to vaccinate people as supplies of the jabs arrive, she said, with over-80s being contacted by their GPs.\n\nThe government has now started publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, with 163,377 Scots having been given a first dose as of Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health authorities in Scotland now had enough supplies to give jabs to all over-80s over the coming four weeks.\n\nShe said the aim was to get through the priority list as quickly as possible.\n\nThis had been expected to be complete by mid-May, but Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very hopeful we will be able to accelerate that to an earlier point\".\n\nA total of 1,664 people are in hospital being treated for Covid-19, the highest number since the pandemic began - with Ms Sturgeon saying the country was in a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health board areas but this week will see it being used at vaccination centres across the whole country.\n\nRecent figures suggest a slight fall in the average positivity rates for Covid in many parts of Scotland, but pressures on the NHS have intensified.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital in with Covid rose to new highs at the weekend, and Sunday saw a sharp increase in the number of patients requiring treatment in intensive care.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were few signs that the threat was \"abating\" and that a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's schools are closed until at least February with pupils now learning from home as the new term begins this week..\n\nOnly vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nLocal authorities said schools were better prepared to roll out digital learning than they were during the first lockdown.\n\nBut one parents' group has raised concerns about \"equal and fair access to home learning\".", "The Prince of Wales is urging firms to back a more sustainable future and do more to protect the planet, as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.\n\nPrince Charles wants companies to join what he is calling \"Terra Carta\" - or Earth charter.\n\nThe charter is being launched alongside a fund run by the Natural Capital Investment Alliance.\n\nIt aims to mobilise $10 billion towards natural capital by 2022.\n\nTerra Carta will harness the \"irreplaceable power of nature\", the prince said in his virtual address to the One Planet Summit on Monday.\n\nHe hopes the new charter will help \"reunite people and planet\".\n\nHe said: \"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilise the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy.\"\n\nIn his foreword to Terra Carta, the prince writes: \"If we consider the legacy of our generation, more than 800 years ago, Magna Carta inspired a belief in the fundamental rights and liberties of people.\n\n\"As we strive to imagine the next 800 years of human progress, the fundamental rights and value of nature must represent a step-change in our 'future of industry' and 'future of economy' approach.\"\n\nCharles has previously said that people thought he was \"completely dotty\" when he started talking about environmental issues in the 1970s.", "A number of positive cases have been identified among passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year\n\nDubai has been added to Scotland's travel quarantine list with anyone coming from the country told to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe rule, which came into effect at 04:00, will also apply retrospectively for passengers who have made the journey since 3 January.\n\nCeltic confirmed one of their players tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip to Dubai on Friday.\n\nIt is not known if he was on the trip.\n\nThe Scottish government said clinicians and the local NHS health protection team were in contact with Celtic providing advice. It also confirmed that quarantine rules did not apply to sports people who had attended \"elite training\" abroad.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week questioned the purpose of Celtic's trip and whether they were following social-distancing rules after seeing photos from their Dubai base.\n\nShe warned that professional sport's privileges could be lost if protocols were not followed by all participants.\n\nThe government said the change was due to a number of positive cases being identified in passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year.\n\nIt said the \"preventative action\" would help stem the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"It is evident, both in Scotland and in countries across the world, that the virus continues to pose real risks to health and to life and we need to interrupt the rise in cases.\"\n\nHe added: \"Imposing quarantine requirements on those arriving in the UK is our first defence in managing the risk of imported cases from communities with high risks of transmission. That is why we have made the decision to remove Dubai from the country exemptions list.\n\n\"Whether or not an overseas destination has been designated for quarantine restrictions, our message remains clear that people should not currently be undertaking non-essential foreign travel.\n\n\"People need to stay at home to help suppress the virus, protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJoanne Dooey, president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), said: \"Removing Dubai from the safe list is understandable. We believe that there has been a cluster of infections around Scots who travelled to Dubai over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"Whilst we're keen to see a return to increased international travel, protecting the health of the whole country remains our key concern and we are supportive of this move.\"", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.\n\nThirteen Celtic players missed the game as they self-isolate after being deemed close contacts of Jullien.\n\nThe hosts led through David Turnbull's free-kick, but are now 21 points behind Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers after Kevin Nisbet's late Hibs strike.\n\n\"There's regret that one person has caught the virus,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"But there's not a regret in terms of the permission we got to go and the protocols that we followed, which we have done the whole season.\"\n• None 'Celtic's lack of remorse over Dubai farce is risible'\n• None Trouble in paradise? Timeline of Dubai bid to Covid crisis\n\nStrachan, who managed the team against Hibs as Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy are also in enforced quarantine, defended the decision to take Jullien - who is out injured for up to four months - on last week's controversial training trip.\n\n\"It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can,\" Strachan added.\n\n\"Yeah, I can understand the frustration from everybody, because we end up playing with a weaker team, but that could have happened if we were training at home as well.\"\n\nCeltic, who still have three games in hand, fielded an unfamiliar line-up showing six changes, though one of those was enforced by Nir Bitton's suspension, and teenage American forward Cameron Harper was handed a debut.\n\nHibs' request for Celtic players to be retested pre-match was turned down and Jack Ross gave a first appearance to on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.\n\nAnd it was the visitors who tried to stamp their authority on the game early on with Nisbet heading over and later testing Conor Hazard with a shot after Joe Newell's strike had been pushed out by the Celtic keeper.\n\nHarper shot instead of passing from a promising position in Celtic's first incisive move and long-range efforts from Ismaila Soro and Diego Laxalt drew fine saves from Macey.\n\nTurnbull's superb chip found Callum McGregor in behind the Hibs defence but he could not make the right connection.\n\nLewis Stevenson made his 500th Hibernian appearance as a half-time replacement for Josh Doig and Harper limped off to be replaced by another Celtic debutant Armstrong Oko-Flex on the hour.\n\nChances were at a premium and Hazard was quick off his line to snuff out a chance for Melker Hallberg and Drey Wright's replacement Christian Doidge could not get a header on Jamie Murphy's teasing corner.\n\nMikey Johnston claimed unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down in the Hibs box following Ryan Porteous' challenge and soon made way for Karamoko Dembele.\n\nHibs also made a change with Stephen McGinn replacing Hallberg and the midfielder fouled Turnbull to give the Celtic midfielder the chance to put Celtic ahead, and he did. It was a fantastic strike by Turnbull and his fifth goal for Celtic.\n\nHibs went back on the attack and won a free-kick of their own after Laxalt's foul on Paul McGinn and the latter's header from Stevie Mallan's delivery was cleared on the line only for Nisbet to fire high into the net for parity. A point took Hibs to within two of Aberdeen in third.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Celtic took a while to settle into the match and lacked a focal point in the absence of Leigh Griffiths and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nFor long spells in the second half, the hosts did not look likely to win but took their chance when it came. Defensively, though, they were caught out badly at a set play.\n\nHibs may rue not throwing more caution to the wind at 0-0 but, after three league defeats, a point in Glasgow is a positive result.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nCeltic coach Gavin Strachan: \"The players put a lot into the game and we thought we did enough to nick it. The sucker punch at the end was frustrating. We were hoping we would have enough bodies back to see that out.\n\n\"There's a lot of football still to be played and you never know what's going to happen. Obviously it's a frustrating time just now but we need to get the win on Saturday, keep racking up the points and see what happens.\"\n\nHibernian head coach Jack Ross: \"We wanted to come and win the game. I certainly think we merited taking something from it. It's good for us to stop the bleeding. It hopefully just propels our side in the right direction again.\n\n\"Kevin Nisbet's goalscoring return has been excellent. The accuracy of the finish and the trust in his finishing ability with the goal has to be like that otherwise I don't think he scores it.\"\n\nCeltic will still be without their isolating players when they host Livingston on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Hibs are at home to Kilmarnock at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Nisbet.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 1. Kevin Nisbet (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul McGinn (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Mallan with a cross.\n• None Paul McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Murphy (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 0. David Turnbull (Celtic) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wales' health minister has acknowledged it was \"entirely understandable people are concerned\" about when they will receive their vaccine.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething also stressed that supplies will increase over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think a number of people are are anxious because this is a worrying time. And it's entirely understandable on a human level why people are concerned\", he said.\n\nMr Gething admitted that other UK nations had made a better start in rolling out the vaccine.\n\nBut he said that he believed Wales had still made a \"good start\" and \"that's evidenced by the figures\".\n\nWhen asked about the concerns made by some GP practices, Mr Gething said he understands why some of them \"will be frustrated\".\n\nHe added: \"But we're delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine in supplies that we have to keep it going.\n\n\"And as I said, the availability of that vaccine is the current rate limiting step and significantly increasing our delivery because we know there are a range of general practices and others who could deliver more if we had more supply.\n\n\"The supply they're being given is supplied for the week - it's not to stretch through for the whole population that they're covering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he hopes to make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence after a call by domestic abuse campaigners.\n\nToo many violent offenders' sentences are not tough enough, he said.\n\nAnd he added that strangulation can be a precursor to even more serious crimes against women.\n\nCampaigners argue that perpetrators are often only charged with common assault, which carries a maximum of six months in prison.\n\nBecause non-fatal strangulation may not leave any marks on the victim, prosecutors do not bring more serious charges, they say.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"There are too many violent offenders not getting sentences proportionate to the seriousness of their crimes because in many cases, prosecutors don't have adequate charging options where the victim has been strangled.\n\n\"The vast majority of these crimes are committed against women and they are often a precursor to even more serious violence.\"\n\nThe justice secretary hopes the new offence can be included in the Police and Sentencing Bill, although discussions are at an early stage.\n\nCampaigners had called for a new offence to be part of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Conservative peer Baroness Newlove was planning to table an amendment to this bill as it goes through the House of Lords. She won cross-party support during a debate in the Lords last week.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice believes that as non-fatal strangulation can be used in situations other than domestic abuse, the legislation should have a broader context.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said strangulation was often a precursor to even more serious attacks on women\n\nWelcoming the move, Nogah Ofer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence said: \"It is time that as a society we stopped normalising and ignoring strangulation.\n\n\"We look forward to police, prosecutors and medical professionals working together to address this with the seriousness it deserves, and hope that survivors of domestic abuse will have greater confidence to seek justice.\"\n\nCampaigner Rachel Williams, who suffered strangulation during an abusive relationship, tweeted that it was \"a great victory\". She was shot and severely injured by her violent partner in 2011, who then killed himself.\n\nLast week, the government said that non-fatal strangulation was already covered by existing legislation from common assault to attempted murder.\n\nIt is now looking at how a new offence was introduced in New Zealand. Parts of Australia and the US have also brought in similar measures.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, crossbench peer Lord Anderson of Ipswich, a QC and former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that \"hurried law can be bad law\".\n\nHe asked whether a more generic offence of aggravated assault or recklessly endangering life might cover these circumstances and questioned how strangulation and suffocation would be defined in the law.", "Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim's community said otherwise.\n\nThis story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January.\n\nFor Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.\n\nShe credits this moment for her \"fairly normal\" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.\n\nAt the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery.\n\nMontgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Stinnett bled to death.\n\nMattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine.\n\nThe girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery was left behind with her mother.\n\nLisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children\n\nIt would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death.\n\n\"One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal,\" says Mattingly. \"The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, she was broken.\"\n\nIn late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy.\n\nHowever, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted.\n\nLisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called \"Ratter Chatter\". Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett.\n\nBut it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies.\n\nWhen Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb.\n\nInvestigators quickly realised that \"Darlene Fischer\" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing.\n\nSince 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell.\n\nMontgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber.\n\nMontgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.\n\nHowever, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore.\n\n\"Bobbie deserves to be here today. Bobbie's family deserves her,\" says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. \"And Lisa deserves to pay.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nLisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness.\n\n\"The whole story is tragic,\" says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. \"But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.\"\n\nFor Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis.\n\nWhen Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly.\n\n\"Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. She enjoyed torturing the people around her,\" says Mattingly. \"She got joy out of it.\"\n\nAfter Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture.\n\nAccording to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house.\n\nAs a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.\n\nBut the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers.\n\nLawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing.\n\nWhen Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself.\n\n\"There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this,\" says Henry.\n\nMontgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with \"regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa\".\n\nWhen she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her.\n\n\"It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie,\" he said in a statement. \"I felt sick watching the video. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.\"\n\nFriends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into \"a world of her own\". Her children were disturbed by it. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.\n\nMontgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born.\n\nOne theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children.\n\n\"There was so much pressure on her at that point,\" says Henry. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. \"She was completely detached from reality.\"\n\nHer lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant.\n\nHenry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness.\n\nHer lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done.\n\nAfter five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. They recommended a sentence of death.\n\nDiane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference.\n\n\"I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'\" she says. \"I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. And to not fail her.\"\n\nThe tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could \"get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner\" - but those days are long gone. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved.\n\nThe population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She was quiet and kind, they say.\n\nAt the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child.\n\nAlthough the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett.\n\nThey hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. \"Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill,\" says Jena Baumli.\n\nThe murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents.\n\nFor one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here.\n\n\"I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten,\" says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000.\n\n\"She always wanted to be a mom,\" says Baumli. \"She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.\"\n\nBecause of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie,\" Morrow says.\n\nBut what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation.\n\nNodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way.\n\n\"The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room,\" he says. \"And then go, 'Look at this body'. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. This is the stuff of nightmares.\"\n\nMany of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer.\n\nShe had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner.\n\nDr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to.\n\n\"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way,\" she says. \"We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Lisa Montgomery is no different. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.\"\n\nThe baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery.\n\nBobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be.\n\n\"I cried,\" says Strong. \"The whole community over there's traumatised by this.\"\n\nSchool friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. She missed the funeral because of it.\n\n\"Let's say I didn't stay clean very long,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. And it's never about what my friend went through,\" she adds. \"I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.\"\n\nThree federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when.\n\nUntil July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years.\n\nProtest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020\n\nTwo other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff.\n\n\"They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to,\" says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.\"\n\nMontgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days.\n\nMattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house.\n\n\"If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?\" she says. \"There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.\"", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "There are concerns about the cost of education for families reliant on mobile connections\n\nCustomers using BT Mobile, EE, and Plusnet Mobile can use BBC Bitesize content from the end of January without eating into their data allowance.\n\nBitesize provides structured lessons in maths and English for all year groups, as well as offering other curriculum material.\n\nContent from other providers is likely to be made free in the coming days.\n\nMore mobile companies are expected to follow suit in making such content free to use.\n\nThe current UK lockdowns mean most children are now learning from home.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has mandated that schools must provide between three and five hours of online content per day.\n\nThis has led to concerns that children in families without access to broadband could fall behind.\n\nSchools remain open for children classed as vulnerable and those whose parents are key workers.\n\nAll contract and pay-as-you-go customers of BT Mobile, EE and Plusnet Mobile will be eligible and the free package will continue while schools remain closed. No registration is required - the free access will happen automatically.\n\nBT has also asked the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to each suggest one online resource for schoolchildren in its regions, which it will also zero-rate, as the curriculums differ from English schools.\n\nAccording to UK media watchdog Ofcom, some 880,000 families are reliant solely on mobile connections, and many of those will have data limitations.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"With the pandemic forcing schools to close again, we should not allow a lack of digital access to further impact children's education.\n\n\"The BBC will continue to do all we can to ensure every child, whatever their circumstances, can continue to access vital educational materials during this time.\"\n\nThe corporation is also running three hours of curriculum-based TV programmes alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources. Primary school programming will be on CBBC, with two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular TV channels, although viewers in Scotland did have some programming.\n\nBT said the move was part of its wider Lockdown Learning programme.\n\nBT consumer brands chief executive Marc Allera said: \"We want to ensure that no child is left behind in their education as a result of this pandemic and recognise that we all have a role we can play to help families and carers continue their children's education while schools are closed.\"", "Kay and Kenneth Hayward said they felt the journey was too unsafe\n\nPeople waiting to receive the Covid-19 vaccine say they are confused by NHS letters inviting them to travel to centres miles away from their homes.\n\nThe first 130,000 letters have been sent to people aged 80 or older who live about 30 to 45 minutes' drive away from one of seven new regional centres.\n\nBut patients, many of whom are shielding, questioned why they had to travel so far in a pandemic.\n\nLocal jabs are available to people if they wait, the NHS said.\n\nThe seven centres include Ashton Gate in Bristol, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, London's Nightingale hospital, Newcastle's Centre for Life, the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre, Robertson House in Stevenage and Birmingham's Millennium Point.\n\nPeople will not miss out on their vaccination if they do not use the letters to make an appointment at one of the centres, the NHS said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs tweeted about their concerns about the letters being delayed in getting out to people due to coronavirus affecting Royal Mail staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hancock: We are willing to tighten the rules\n\nThe health secretary stresses the importance of the public following the restrictions of the current lockdown. Asked by Emily Morgan of ITV whether it was time to make the rules stricter amid reports of people not sticking to them at the weekend, Matt Hancock says: \"We keep these things under review and we have demonstrated that we're willing to tighten the rules if they need to be tightened. \"But the thing that really matters right here, right now is that everybody follows the rules as they are today. \"And everybody can play their part in doing that.\" He adds he applauds the action supermarket Morrisons has taken in enforcing the wearing of masks by its customers unless they have a medical reason. \"I want to see all parts of society playing their part in this,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Whitty: \"We need to really double down – this is everybody’s problem\"\n\nThe UK will go through the \"most dangerous time\" of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others.\n\nThe next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS, he said.\n\nThousands more people are due to receive a vaccine this week after seven mass centres opened across England.\n\nNHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the government's vaccine delivery plan at a news conference later.\n\nHe said the proposals would be the \"keystone of our exit out of the pandemic\".\n\nOutlining the vaccine rollout in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that ministers aim to give all over-80s the first dose of the vaccine over the next four weeks.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans to offer a vaccine to all over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk by spring.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday about two million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nOver the weekend, the UK passed the milestone of 80,000 deaths with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.\n\nCurrently, around one in 50 people across the UK is infected and Prof Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There's a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily they will have Covid.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC One's Breakfast, he said: \"This is everybody's problem. Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person.\"\n\nHe said there were over 30,000 people [in English hospitals alone] with Covid-19 - compared to about 18,000 [in England] at the peak last April.\n\nHe added that \"anybody who is not shocked\" by the number of people in hospital \"has not understood this at all\".\n\n\"This is an appalling situation,\" he said.\n\nIn Essex, Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount of oxygen used to treat patients after supply \"reached a critical situation\", according to a document shared with the BBC.\n\nIn Surrey, a temporary mortuary has been opened as hospital mortuaries have reached capacity.\n\nAlmost 200 bodies are being stored at the emergency site, which is a former military hospital, and other local authorities have told the BBC they expect to open similar facilities soon.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England national medical director, said \"this is much bigger than the first wave back in April\".\n\n\"I don't think anyone in the NHS has known anything like this, this is a once-in-a-century pandemic,\" he said.\n\nProf Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor, told BBC Breakfast that in a \"normal\" winter it would be \"unlikely\" that more than three of four flu patients would need intensive care at any one time, but his unit is now running 130 intensive care beds because of the effects of Covid.\n\n\"To compare this to a normal winter flu epidemic is out of all proportion, it's orders of magnitude larger,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters held two meetings on Sunday to discuss how to enforce the current lockdown measures more strictly and whether even tighter restrictions may be needed.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said no decisions on further restrictions were taken as there was a desire within government to wait until reliable data on existing measures becomes available in 10 days.\n\nHowever, he added there had been a discussion on better enforcement of existing regulations, including at shops and workplaces.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said \"we need to see the evidence behind nurseries\" remaining open.\n\nAsked whether tighter restrictions were needed, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThere is a lot of debate about whether the lockdown restrictions need to be tightened.\n\nThere are certainly some anomalies. For example, we are told to only leave the home for essential purposes, but coffee shops remain open for takeaways and retail shops for click-and-collect in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, even if those elements are tightened up, there is a limit to what the government can do. It is why, in his round of media interviews on Monday, Prof Whitty repeatedly talked about individual decision-making.\n\nThe mixing of different households continues. Some of it is allowed under the support bubble exemptions, but undoubtedly some of it is taking place outside of this. It is, after all, virtually impossible to police what goes on in people's homes.\n\nIt is why messaging is so important - and so ministers and officials are stressing the pressure the NHS is under. A further tightening of the restrictions could also help make the point.\n\nBut there is also a recognition this is hard. People are fatigued. A further crackdown could also erode goodwill.\n\nThe vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history.\n\nThe seven mass testing sites, which NHS England said were chosen to give a geographical spread, are:\n\nThe new centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of vaccinations each week and will be followed by \"dozens more\" large-scale sites, NHS England said.\n\nThere will be about 1,200 vaccination sites when more GP-led and hospital services open later this week, along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites, it added.\n\nSome vulnerable people have questioned why they have been asked to travel to centres miles away from their homes during a pandemic, but the NHS has said people would not miss out on their vaccination if they wait for an appointment at a centre closer to home in the coming weeks.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said nobody should be asked to travel more than 10 miles to get a vaccine once more centres open.\n\nAsked on Today why the centres were not open 24 hours a day, he said it was \"more convenient\" for older people to attend during the day.\n\n\"If we need to go to 24-hour work we will absolutely go to 24 hours a day to make sure we vaccinate as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are limited by the amount of vaccine that is coming through the system.\"\n\nPharmaceutical firm Boots said its first vaccination site was due to open later this week to offer the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to the people most vulnerable.\n\nIt said sites in Huddersfield and Gloucester were planned to open in the coming weeks.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nAre you due to have a vaccination today? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.\n\nThe Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.\n\nThe new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.\n\nIn its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.\n\nHis team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.\n\nDonald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.\n\nMr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant \"the administration will have to start from zero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.\n\nIn that post it said: \"These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,\" without a reason why.\n\nBut it said that people who previously followed the official @POTUS and @VP (Vice-President) accounts, or the personal accounts of Mr Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris - would receive notifications giving them the option to follow the new official ones.\n\nMr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.\n\nAt the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.\n\nAll of Mr Obama's official tweets were archived for posterity on a separate account, @POTUS44 (where they can still be read today).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by President Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.\n\nTwitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.\n\nThat is despite a declaration by the White House in 2017 that tweets from that account are considered official statements by the President.\n\nHowever, the US National Archives has already announced - through a tweet - that it will archive all social media content from that account, despite Twitter's lack of a commitment to doing so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by US National Archives\n\nIt said that the White House has been using a special archiving tool to capture all content, including deleted tweets, because of the Presidential Records Act.\n\nThat is likely to result in a record system similar to The Obama White House Social Media Archive, built after the last transition.\n\nA key goal of the Obama transition was to preserve social media posts \"on the platforms where they were created\".\n\nBut Twitter has permanently suspended Mr Trump from its platform and it remains unclear if it will ever archive his account for posterity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThe hills are alive: This impressive shot of 11-year-old Hamish at sunrise up the Pentland Hills, with the snow starting to be blown off the peak, was captured by dad Andy Dryden.\n\nMinus coo degrees: \"Hardy Highlander at Abriachan\" is how Gordon Bain described his photo.\n\nRed sky thinking: \"I always walk the dog to catch the sunrise and to gather my thoughts before attempting to juggle home schooling of my two primary school kids with working from home and looking after a toddler\", says Mairi Brittan at Cammo Estate, Edinburgh.\n\nRobin red brrr-east: Graham Laird spotted a little feathered friend not looking entirely delighted while taking a breather in the cold in his garden in Wishaw.\n\nUp at the crack of dawn: \"The Beveridge Park pond in Kirkcaldy looking rather icy\", says John Pow.\n\nAn uphill struggle: It's all downhill from here - but in a fun way - for three-year-old Zachary in King's Park, Glasgow.\n\nFire and ice: \"Taken at Dunbar harbour, East Lothian, in the snowfall on the way to work\", says Rowan Davies.\n\nAbbey thoughts: \"Jedburgh Abbey on a crisp January morning\", says Alan Morrison. \"The sun was captured just as it shone through\".\n\nSon rise: Jeanette Taylor says her two boys loved the adventure of getting up early to see the sun come up at Aberdeen beach. \"A chilly visit but oh so worth it\", she says.\n\nLight on her feet: \"As keen figure skaters my daughter Ada (pictured) and I have had an amazing week skating outdoors on our local frozen pond near Glasgow\", says Helen Campbell. \"I was very careful to check it is safe to skate on first; the ice was absolutely solid\".\n\nFlagging up a beautiful sunrise: An Aberdeen morning, from Finlay Gray.\n\nWell-trained eye: \"My husband Kris took this picture of our 12-year-old son Finlay at our local running track in a Falkirk park with the Ochils in the background\", says Emma Horne. \"Finlay can’t play his beloved rugby at the moment due to Covid but is keeping as fit as he can in other ways\".\n\nA strange light in the sky: Joe Gillies captured this Glasgow scene, complete with reflected light shade, on his phone.\n\nSmiles more fun: First sledging experience for the happy pair of 16-month-old Annabel and 21-month-old Hugh in granny's garden, Isle of Skye, courtesy of Hermione Lamond.\n\nThe gloves are off: \"A walk up Culter Fell (near Biggar), in near-Arctic conditions\", says Chris Green.\n\nPark life: Mark McGuire captured Queen's Park in Glasgow looking like a winter wonderland.\n\nSpecial branch: \"I have seen the Kingfisher darting by on the River Carron over the last two years\", says Paul Ross. \"This is the first time I have managed to get a sharpish image\".\n\nTrees frame: Carole Brunton captured this calming, if cold, scene at home in East Neuk, Fife.\n\nCold feet: \"A coot on one of Dundee's frozen Stobsmuir ponds\", from Sandy Forbes.\n\nHaving the foggiest idea: \"An image of atmospheric fog as it envelops Paisley\", says Gary Chittick. \"Hardly a single recognisable part of Glasgow could be seen\".\n\nSniffer dog: \"Ollie, our 12-week-old cockapoo pup, experiences snow for the first time\" says Iain Clow. \"Lockdown garden fun in East Kilbride\".\n\n... and it seems they never learn! \"Zizou enjoying his sunny snowy morning walk at the river Spey in Knockando\", says Colin Coutts.\n\nI love Arran: \"My wife and I stopped at the top of Fairlie Moor Road, looked back, and this is what we saw\", explains Phil Cowling.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Look who we spotted on our walk\", says Ruth Moss. \"He was very bold - wish we’d had something to feed him\".\n\nWatercolour art: \"This is a photo of the Ythan in the centre of Ellon\", says Andy Leonard. \"The colour of the sky is reflected in the water - I used a slow shutter speed to emphasise the water movement.\"\n\nHatman and robin: \"After an overnight fall of snow, Frosty and his friendly robin return to a Glasgow garden\", says John McQueeney.\n\nSmall wonder: \"These mini snowmen on the Prince of Wales Bridge in Kelvingrove Park brightened up a dull and foggy day\", says Geoff Der.\n\nOne man and his dog: \"Snowy walk with my husband and rescue dog Nico\", says Laura Johnstone in Airdrie.\n\nSpot the ball: \"Haggs Castle golf course is closed - maybe!\", says Alan Crozier.\n\nSolar energy: Robert Young's sunset shot from Chapelton looking towards Whitelee wind farm features all sorts of power.\n\nTwo for the price of one: \"Duck!\" could have been the cry from this heron in flight over a fellow bird at the River Avon, Hamilton, as seen by Wilma Phillips.\n\nRoom with a view: A nicely-framed sunset from Audrey Philpott of Skene, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBonnie picture: Sharon Donald was walking Bonnie the collie when she took this shot near Spean Bridge.\n\nKeep it in the family: Derek Warrander making sure lockdown learning is music to the ears of Jessica, 11, and three-year-old Matthew in Aberdeenshire, courtesy of Caseydee Warrander.\n\nFeeling on top of the world: The Cobbler sunset, from Tomasz Zajac.\n\nIce to see you: \"A photo of my husband, Stephen, and Sophie, through a sheet of ice which they then had great fun smashing\", says Leigh Titterington in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire.\n\nSpace station: All quiet outside Glasgow Central, courtesy of Eva Brodie.\n\nSnow angel: \"Exploring a winter wonderland with my daughter Cora at Tyrebagger woods just outside Aberdeen\", says Katherine Blum.\n\nTaps aff: \"Hope this brings a smile to your face\", says Stewart Paul in Cruden Bay. It certainly did!\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Doctors fear the impact of the lockdown and school closures could worsen child obesity\n\nThe health board with the worst child obesity rates in Wales is setting up a unit to tackle the issue.\n\nData from the Child Measurement Programme showed 30.3% of four and five-year-olds in north Wales measured as overweight or obese.\n\nThe Welsh average is 26.4%, but doctors fear this could worsen in the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is recruiting a dietetic lead for a new children's healthy weight management service.\n\nThe service is not being launched directly because of the pandemic, but there are fears lockdowns and school closures could compound the problem.\n\nDr Naomi Simmons, consultant paediatrician at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"I do fear that the pandemic will contribute to an exacerbation of what's already a really, really significant problem.\n\n\"Whilst we're pleased that children are not suffering the acute effects of Covid in the same way as older patients are, on the whole, it's the long-term effects of the country being in this pandemic that we're worried about in terms of the long-term health of these children.\n\n\"It's that lack of routine, it's being out of school, and not being able to access their usual forms of physical activity.\"\n\nDaniel, from Denbighshire - not his real name - is the father of a six-year-old girl who was referred to Dr Simmons's clinic when a GP became concerned about her weight two years ago. She is still under the care of the clinic.\n\nHe said: \"We presumed we were feeding her correctly. She was getting fruit, veg, home-cooked meals. But I think our issue was, we kind of let her have treats, like chocolates and sweets.\n\n\"To be told the news [that she was obese], it was horrible. We were very upset. We were kind of angry about it - we didn't see a problem in her, we didn't believe she was overweight or obese. We were both asking what we had done wrong as parents - we gave her fruit, vegetables, home-cooked meals... we were asking ourselves, 'how have we failed as parents?'\"\n\nWith support from Dr Simmons, his daughter made \"great progress\" and lost weight, he said. Previous signs of health issues such as liver problems had improved. Then the pandemic struck and the country went into its first lockdown, followed by the firebreak, then the current lockdown.\n\nExperts said they feared the impact of children not being able to take part in their usual physical activity\n\nDespite making efforts to keep active and eat healthily, Daniel has seen the gradual effects on his daughter, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"It had a bad effect on her, and not just the weight - mental health-wise it's also affected her. She's six years old and is worried about being around other people in the street,\" he said.\n\n\"In years to come, Covid will be gone, we'll have control of it. But obesity, that's the issue that's going to be prolonged.\n\n\"The long-term mental health impact really scares me - not just for my daughter, but for so many other children.\"\n\nDr Simmons said increasing rates of childhood obesity in recent years meant experts were treating more children with conditions normally associated with adults.\n\n\"Even children as young as primary school age, I'm seeing those children with fatty liver changes for example, as a result of their obesity. We're seeing them with high blood pressure and we're seeing children and young people developing type 2 diabetes and many more with pre-diabetic states because of their obesity.\"\n\nDoctors said they were seeing primary school children with high blood pressure\n\nShe revealed her youngest patient was only a year old and encouraged families to get their children \"used to being fit and healthy and consuming a healthy diet\".\n\n\"It's lack of exercise, it's the sedentary lifestyle that we as a nation are sadly embracing these days,\" she added.\n\nIf children remain overweight and remain obese into adolescence, they have an 80% chance of being obese into adulthood, said Dr Simmons.\n\nShe said she hoped the new service would give \"the very best chance of turning things around\".\n\nSteven Grayston, Betsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant area director of therapy services, said the health board had been working for the past five years to develop its obesity services.\n\n\"This is a specialist weight management service for children who are already obese,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to stop them becoming obese, therefore we want to develop preventative services as well as treatment services.\n\n\"We're very concerned about the impact of Covid and the pandemic on children's activity levels, certainly in terms of team-based sports and access to leisure facilities - particularly things like swimming, which we know children enjoy.\n\n\"We're concerned that children just aren't getting out of the house and doing things, and the impact that'll have and the knock-on effect on obesity levels in the future, as children are just less active and less interested in doing those activities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will shortly be publishing a revised delivery plan for Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales for 2021-22, which will focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children and families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK meat exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs systems are \"not fit for purpose\", with goods delayed for hours, sometimes days, at the border.\n\nThe British Meat Processor Association said even experienced exporters were struggling with the system.\n\nIt said meat exports to the EU were 25% of normal levels for this time of year.\n\nOne large French meat importer told the BBC that he and his competitors were starting to look at alternative suppliers in Spain and Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"Fundamentally, this is not a system that was designed for a 24/7, just-in-time supply chain.\n\n\"The export health certification process was designed for moving containers of frozen meat around the world where you have a bit of leeway on time.\n\n\"No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age.\"\n\nHe added \"It's going to be a problem for quite a time until we move forward and hopefully get a better digital system in place and can make it work a bit better, but until then, we've got to put up with all this paperwork and lorries arriving in Ireland with box files full of paper.\"\n\nRizvan Khalid, a lamb exporter based in Shropshire, cannot afford to get the paperwork wrong.\n\nHis company, Euro Quality Lambs, exports 70% of its meat to the EU, including France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. He says what was once a once well-oiled machine now has a spanner in it.\n\n\"What used to take us 15 minutes is now taking us three or four hours on average before we can get the paperwork completed for one particular load,\" he says.\n\n\"It's taking them [on the French side] up to six hours to go through the health certificates, to open up the lorry and check the goods.\n\n\"All of that is adding time and costs. It's now an extra day before our product gets into the markets of Paris.\"\n\nMeanwhile, some buyers in the EU are losing patience and are beginning to consider other options.\n\nFrancis Ochoa's meat company, Fory Viandes, is based in one of the world's biggest fresh produce markets - the Rungis market, south of Paris.\n\n\"The delays and extra costs mean me and my competitors in the market are obliged to start looking for other solutions,\" he says.\n\n\"One of the solutions unfortunately is to try produce from other countries, Spain for instance. Some of our competitors are ordering lambs from Ireland instead of the UK, so the consequences for UK meat and UK lambs could be disastrous.\"\n\nDown at the international freight checkpoint in Ashford, near the entrance to the Eurotunnel, customs consultant Steve Cocks gave a downbeat assessment.\n\n\"The temporary border post lorry park is full, roads are being closed off and lorries are being sent back to the Covid testing site to hold them there,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week wasn't much to write home about as it was very quiet, but volumes are building and it's just going to get worse. Exports are grinding to a halt and that will affect imports, but if you are a haulier. you don't want to get a lorry stuck on this side of the Channel.\"\n\nAfter decades of friction-free trade, there are bound to be teething problems. Indeed, the government predicted that there would be \"significant additional disruption\" as traders, officials and customers became accustomed to new procedures.\n\nHowever, some things cannot \"bed in\" and will become permanent features. HMRC estimates the additional cost to UK business of bog-standard customs declarations alone at £7bn.\n\nWhen buyers and sellers want to trade, they will find a way, but significant additional cost and complexity is here to stay.", "Patients have been arriving in a steady flow at a community pharmacy in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, the first in Wales to offer coronavirus vaccines by appointment.\n\nRosie Bennett, who lives in the village Pwllheli, said: “I’m 82 and don’t have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n“Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They’ve been doing a great job during the pandemic and it’s reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\n\n“And it’s a huge relief to be vaccinated. The last few months haven’t been easy for any of us and hopefully today is another small step towards a better future.”\n\nSteffan John, pharmacist on duty, gave Rosie the vaccine and said: “as pharmacists, we give out flu vaccines regularly, so we’re used to organising clinics like this.\n\n“We’re really pleased to do our bit for our community.\n\n“We have had extra training for today, and we also have to make sure there are enough appointments on the list.\n\n\"The vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, so it’s important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any.”", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that his department is planning to dilute UK workers' rights.\n\nIt comes after the Financial Times said some protections brought in under EU law - such as the 48-hour limit on the working week - could be scrapped.\n\nNew rules on rest breaks and changes to how holiday pay is calculated from overtime could be proposed, it added.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng insisted he wanted to \"protect and enhance workers' rights going forward, not row back on them\".\n\nIn a social media post, he said that the UK \"has one of the best workers' rights records in the world - going further than the EU in many areas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour said the newspaper report suggested the government was out of step with public feeling on workplace rules.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"These proposals are not about cutting red tape for businesses but ripping up vital rights for workers. They should not even be up for discussion.\"\n\nThe FT said the proposals were being drawn up with the approval of Downing Street, but that they hadn't yet been approved by ministers or cabinet.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights.\n\n\"The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world, and it is well known that the UK goes further than the EU in many areas.\n\n\"Leaving the EU allows us to continue to be a standard setter and protect and enhance UK workers' rights.\"\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it retained many of its laws, but it is now able to change them.\n\nOne aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive.\n\nIt governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime.\n\nBut employees can choose to opt out of the 48-hour week, if they often work overtime in roles in the emergency services, for example.\n\nIn the 2019 Queen's Speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, changes in employment law were promised.\n\nA new Employment Bill is expected to be published in 2021. One issue it is thought it will address is over the distribution of tips.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady urged the prime minister to \"make good on his promises to his voters\" on Friday.\n\n\"The best way to do that is to bring forward the long-awaited Employment Bill, to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America entering the UK has come into force, amid fears over a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Brazil. The ban also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - off West Africa - because of their links to Brazil, along with Panama in southern Central America. British and Irish citizens, and foreign nationals with residence rights, are exempt but must isolate for 10 days on entering the UK. Find out which other countries are subject to a UK travel ban.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as lockdown restrictions reduced economic activity, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The closure of businesses such as pubs, hairdressers and many shops meant the services sector shrank by 3.4%. The setback came after sixth consecutive months of growth, with the ONS saying UK gross domestic product at the end of November was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nConcerns over child poverty have been raised throughout the pandemic, with a focus on school food vouchers, holiday meal provision and food parcels. Now campaigning Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been joined by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and actress Dame Emma Thompson, in backing charities' calls for a review to \"fix\" the free school meals policy. Downing Street insists \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the pandemic.\n\nFalse claims are likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject Covid vaccines, warns a doctor leading an NHS campaign. Dr Harpreet Sood says much of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccines. \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities,\" he says.\n\nA surprise delivery of pizza from sixth-formers who clubbed together left staff at a hospital critical care unit \"lost for words\". Nurse Tina Waltho says the gift came as a welcome boost to deflated staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. \"The nurse who had been in charge on the day shift was in tears,\" Mrs Waltho says. \"She had barely eaten all day and was a little emotional.\" While the act drew praise on social media, the identity and school of the pupils remains a mystery.\n\nIf you're wondering how concerned we should be about the new virus variants, our health editor Michelle Roberts examines what we know so far.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The guitarist also contributed songwriting and piano to the band's explosive debut album\n\nSylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69.\n\nOne of the group's founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped kick-start the punk and new wave movements.\n\n\"As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,\" his wife, Wanda O'Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.\"\n\nSylvain's death leaves only one surviving member of the New York Dolls' original line-up from their 1973 debut album, frontman David Johansen. The singer posted his own tribute on Instagram.\n\n\"My best friend for so many years, I can still remember the first time I saw him bop into the rehearsal space/bicycle shop with his carpetbag and guitar straight from the plane after having been deported from Amsterdam, I instantly loved him,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss you old pal. I'll keep the home fires burning.\"\n\nThe New York Dolls bridged the gap between glam rock and punk\n\nBorn Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine's Day 1951, the musician lived in France as a child before moving to New York with his family.\n\nAfter playing in several bands as a teenager, he co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971, taking the name from a doll repair shop called the New York Doll Hospital (Sylvain had worked across the street before becoming a musician).\n\nLike the punk movement they helped inspire, the band wanted to shake up the self-indulgent state of 70s rock.\n\n\"The reason why the Dolls got together was because of the boredom with the norm of the day, which was like the stadium-rock era,\" Sylvain told Brooklyn Vegan in 2006. \"The 20-minute drum solos, songs that were a big operetta. They were sort of boring, they'd lost their sex appeal.\"\n\nThe Dolls cut through with urgent, punchy songs about sex, drugs, alienation and dysfunction.\n\nThe band's provocative and vulgar live shows gained them a huge following in New York, but many record labels were reluctant to sign them. That situation not helped by their androgynous look - shocking at the time - with their wardrobe sourced from cheap women's clothing stores on New York's Lower East Side.\n\nLate in 1972, tragedy struck when, during a tour of England, Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died in a drug-related accident. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan, after which the Dolls finally secured a contract with Mercury Records.\n\nTheir debut album, simply called New York Dolls, stalled at number 113 in the US chart but is now regarded as a classic, full of sleazy, raucous anthems like Personality Crisis and Trash.\n\nRolling Stone magazine recently named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing: \"Glammed-out punkers the New York Dolls snatched riffs from Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and fattened them with loads of attitude and reverb.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.\"\n\nSylvain worked in fashion before becoming a musician\n\nHowever, the band's lack of commercial success saw them dropped after two albums and, despite hiring Sex Pistols guru Malcolm McLaren as a manager, eventually fell apart.\n\nOutside the Dolls, Sylvain toured and recorded with several bands and led various solo projects as his former band's reputation grew.\n\nArtists from the Sex Pistols to Guns N' Roses cited them as an influence, and Morrissey was famously president of their UK fan club before forming The Smiths. In 2004, the singer reunited his idols for a show at London's Meltdown Festival, adding an unexpected second act to their career.\n\nOver the subsequent decade, Sylvain and Johansen, the only remaining members, released three well-received albums.\n\nIn 2019, Sylvain announced his cancer diagnosis, and a GoFundMe was set up to pay his medical bills, raising $79,500 (£58,000).\n\nThe band are cited as an influence by hundreds of musicians\n\nGuitarist Lenny Kaye, best known for playing with Patti Smith, paid tribute to Sylvain's \"heart, belief, and the way you whacked that E chord\".\n\n\"His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.\n\n\"His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision.\n\n\"Though he tried valiantly to keep the band going, in the end the Dolls' moral fable overwhelmed them, not before seeding an influence that would engender many rock generations yet to come.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nLike variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.\n\nVirologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK.\n\nHowever, she said this was not \"the variant of concern\", which is thought to be more infectious.\n\nProf Barclay, head of G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, which is studying the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Brazilian variant of concern was not \"as far as we are aware\" already in the UK, adding that he did not believe there had been any flights from Brazil in the last week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nLatest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have received the first dose of a vaccine is now approaching three million.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nIt also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nBrazil has seen more than 200,000 deaths and there is concern about the impact the new mutation could have on its health system.\n\nHowever, the UK's travel ban was prompted by fears of how quickly the new variant could spread through the region - since Brazil borders 10 countries.\n\nMr Shapps has said the ban is \"precautionary\", adding he \"can't provide an end date\" to the new rules.\n\n\"We're so close now, we've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in the UK,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We want to make sure we don't fall at this last hurdle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause holidays are not currently allowed, Mr Shapps said he did not \"expect a large number of Brits to have jaunted off to South America\", and the government was \"not expecting to see a big repatriation issue as a result\".\n\nOne family, who live in Wolverhampton, told the BBC they feared being stuck out in Brazil.\n\n\"I don't know if the government will organise flights,\" said Jon Dent, 31. He and his wife Carla travelled to the Brazilian city of Goiania in October to introduce their baby daughter to Carla's family.\n\n\"I think it's a long shot,\" he said. \"I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months. We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"\n\nJon, pictured here with wife Carla and daughter Luiza, said his initial reaction to the news was worry\n\nMany countries imposed travel restrictions after new variants of Covid-19 were identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nSeveral Central and South American nations - including Brazil - had already restricted travel from the UK before the latest ban on arrivals.\n\nThere is currently no evidence to suggest that any of the variants cause more serious illness, and scientists are confident that vaccines should work against them.\n\nAccording to Felipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the Brazilian state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the new variant's origin was \"undoubtedly\" from the Amazon region.\n\nHe told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson the new variant showed some of the same mutations as the UK and South Africa variants - and \"some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern\".\n\nMr Shapps also announced Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were being removed from the UK's travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from those places will need to self-isolate for 10 days from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, France has cracked down on the type of tests that travellers can take to show they are negative.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers will need to show a negative PCR test. Antigen tests - which are the rapid lateral flow tests - will no longer be accepted.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said arrangements allowing hauliers to use rapid lateral flow tests before crossing the border from the UK into France remained in place at the moment.\n\nFrom Monday, everyone travelling to England and Scotland will also have to show proof of a negative test. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the travel ban? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un has been overseeing a huge military showcase broadcast by state media in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nSeveral of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.\n\nThe weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.\n\nThe show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.\n\nIt also follows a rare political meeting where Mr Kim decried the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\".\n\nImages released by North Korean state media showed at least four large black-and-white missiles being driven past flag-waving crowds.\n\nAnalysts noted it was a previously unseen weapon. \"New year, new Pukguksong,\" tweeted North Korea expert Ankit Panda, using the North Korean name for their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).\n\nClad in a leather coat and fur hat, Mr Kim is pictured smiling and waving as he watched the display in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, which also included infantry troops, artillery and tanks.\n\nThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting\n\n\"The world's most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,\" the official Korean Central News Agency said.\n\nThe event on Thursday did not showcase North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October. That colossal weapon is believed to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the US, and its size had surprised even seasoned analysts when it was put on show last year.\n\nThe country's latest display of its arsenal comes at the end of a five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party.\n\nIn his address to members last week, Mr Kim had pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons and military potential, outlining a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nHe also said that the US was Pyongyang's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change\".\n\nUnder Mr Kim's leadership North Korea has made rapid progress in its weapons programme, which it says is necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.\n\nThe unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North's growing military prowess, say experts.\n\n\"They'd like us to notice that they're getting more proficient with larger solid rocket boosters,\" Mr Panda tweeted, noting what appeared to be new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles on display too. These missiles can be launched more quickly than liquid-fuelled varieties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nOver the last four years, Pyongyang has had an erratic relationship with the US under President Donald Trump's administration. Mr Kim and Mr Trump engaged in mutual insults and threats of war before an unprecedented summit in Singapore in 2018 and declarations of love by the outgoing US leader.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme and a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 broke down after the US refused Pyongyang's demands for sanctions relief.\n\nKim Jong-un has had a busy week. In this rare party congress at the start of a new year he's earned a new title, pledged to build new nuclear weapons and now he's shown the world some new missiles.\n\nThe general secretary, the title posthumously awarded to his father by which he is now known, had been pretty quiet in 2020 and appeared very few times in state media.\n\nBut 2021 is looking rather different. The party congress has offered him a grand daily domestic platform - even if it is not getting the international attention it may have done due to events in the United States and a global pandemic.\n\nThe parading vehicles include a new submarine-launched ballistic missile and new short-range ballistic missiles. This is a show of strength - flexing the military muscle once more to show the people of North Korea that despite the current bleak economic outlook, this impoverished country is capable of designing and building new strategic weapons.\n\nIt also offers a direct challenge to the incoming US administration.\n\nNorth Korea appears willing to continue with its self-imposed isolation and being subject to strict economic sanctions, and the state has vowed to continue to build nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.\n\nDuring the transfer of power, President Obama told Donald Trump that North Korea should be his top national security concern.\n\nIn the last four years a combination of US and UN sanctions, so-called \"maximum pressure\" policies and three summits between Mr Trump and Mr Kim have done nothing to alleviate those concerns.\n\nKim Jong-un has shown the new US president this week that he faces the daunting prospect of coming up with new solutions for this decades-old problem.", "Craig Ross had been quoted making comments about food bank users on a podcast\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have dropped a Holyrood candidate over what they called \"unacceptable comments\".\n\nCraig Ross recorded a podcast last year in which he described food bank users as being more at risk of diabetes than starvation.\n\nHe also questioned the influence footballer Marcus Rashford has on UK government welfare policy.\n\nThe Conservatives suspended Mr Ross, then later announced he was \"no longer a candidate or a member of the party\".\n\nThe party had launched an investigation after the comments came to light, saying: \"These unacceptable comments do not reflect the views of the party.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf had called for Mr Ross to be thrown out the party and dropped as the Conservative candidate in Glasgow Pollok.\n\nThe Holyrood elections are due to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Ross, a former lecturer at Langside College, runs a podcast in which he delivers reaction to pieces in The Guardian newspaper \"from the centre-right\".\n\nIn one episode recorded in June 2020, Mr Ross talked about the percentage of body fat of \"ordinary people\".\n\nOriginally reported in the Daily Record, his comments were in response to a Channel 4 News piece featuring foodbanks.\n\nHe said: \"We have no real grasp of just how ridiculously overweight the population is.\n\n\"I'm not saying that every single person who claims to be really hungry and is reliant on charity is also very overweight.\n\n\"But what I am saying is if Channel 4 News is having a reasonable go at showing the reality of food bank usage, then we know the people that they filmed are far from starving. If anything their biggest risk is not starvation, it's diabetes.\"\n\nOn Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has called on Boris Johnson to review the UK government's free school meals policy, Mr Ross said: \"Has Marcus Rashford stood for election to anything? Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The government is assessing the impact of a \"technical issue\" that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.\n\nThe error, first reported in the Times, saw data including fingerprint, DNA and arrest histories wiped after being accidentally flagged for deletion.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut Labour said it presented \"huge dangers\" for public safety.\n\nThe data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.\n\nIt is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nA coding error resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nThe data loss could hinder future police investigations because the fingerprint or DNA evidence would not be able to be cross-checked against evidence from other crime scenes.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\" - with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\n\"While the loss relates to individuals who were arrested and then released with no further action, I have asked officials and the police to confirm their initial assessment that there is no threat to public safety,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated.\n\nThe loss of the data means that officers on the ground may get an incomplete search result when interrogating the system.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\n\"She must urgently make a statement about what has gone wrong, the extent of the issue, and what action is being taken to reassure the public. Answers must be given.\"\n\n\"This is an extraordinarily serious security breach that presents huge dangers for public safety.\"\n\nFormer Cumbria Police chief constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nHe said: \"In order to understand the scale, if you think that about between 6-700,000 people are arrested every year in the UK, that's a very large proportion of those people.\"\n\nIt comes after around 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the same database, the PNC, following Britain's post-Brexit deal with the EU.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's likely there are variants all over the world - Vallance\n\nITV's Libby Wiener asks if the move to put restrictions in at the borders is too late. The PM says the government is taking steps to protect against the new variants. \"We have a situation now where we have a very high rate of domestic infection in the UK combined with a vaccination programme,\" he says. \"There will come a point in the next weeks and months where the vaccination programme will take effect... and you will see a decline in the death rate. \"What you can't have is a situation where you have new variants with unknown qualities coming in from abroad and that's why we have set up the system to stop arrivals where new variants are a concern.\" Sir Patrick Vallance says the virus is changing all the time and he suspects there are variants \"all over the world of different types\". \"The countries which have detected them first have got good sequencing,\" he says.", "The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as England was placed in lockdown for a second time, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it meant gross domestic product was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nNovember's decline came after six consecutive months of growth.\n\nPubs and hairdressers were badly hit as the service sector suffered, the ONS said, but some manufacturing and construction activity improved.\n\nThe hit to the service sector - which accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy - meant it contracted by 3.4% in November, and is now 9.9% below the level of February 2020.\n\nSome economists said the November figure was better than expected, and it appeared many companies were better prepared for the second lockdown, with some sectors staying open for business and many firms having already put in place plans to expand online operations.\n\n\"Steps taken by businesses earlier in the year to Covid-proof their operations - combined with the time-limited nature of the restrictions, and schools remaining open - meant more companies were able to continue trading safely,\" said Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI employers' group.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed \"it's clear things will get harder before they get better and today's figures highlight the scale of the challenge we face\".\n\nBut he said the vaccine roll-out and economic support measures meant there were reasons to be hopeful. \"With this support, and the resilience and enterprise of the British people, we will get through this,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the figures showed the UK has an economic \"mountain to climb\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said it would be a \"serious mistake\" if Mr Sunak waited until the Budget in March before providing more support and confidence for business.\n\nONS director for economic statistics Darren Morgan said: \"The economy took a hit from restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic during November, with pubs and hairdressers seeing the biggest impact.\"\n\nHowever, he said many firms adjusted to the new pandemic working conditions, such as by expanding click and collect and other online operations.\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturing and construction generally continued to operate, while schools also stayed open, meaning the impact on the economy was significantly smaller in November than during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Car manufacturing, bolstered by demand from abroad, housebuilding and infrastructure grew and are now all above their pre-pandemic levels.\" Construction activity grew by 1.9% during the month.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) is the sum (measured in pounds) of the value of goods and services produced in the economy.\n\nBut the measurement most people focus on is the percentage change - the growth of the country's economy over a period of time, typically a quarter (three months) or a year.\n\nIf the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. That generally means more wealth and more new jobs.\n\nIf it is negative, the economy is shrinking.\n\nDespite the GDP figure being better than some analysts had forecast, there are still concerns that the UK could be heading back into recession.\n\nEconomists have warned the UK could see a double-dip recession if restrictions remain in place in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, \"despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first\".\n\nJames Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.\n\nBut, he said, the real \"story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure\".\n\n\"The chancellor must do everything he can to support that recovery once public health restrictions ease,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics also said there was cause for optimism, saying that the current third lockdown could have less impact than feared.\n\n\"The economy has built up a fair bit of immunity to lockdowns, as November's lockdown was much less painful for the economy than the first lockdown.\n\n\"As a result, the Covid-19 economic hole is smaller than we thought, the economy may get back to its pre-crisis crisis level a bit sooner and it makes us more confident that the Bank of England probably won't resort to negative interest rates.\"\n\nThe fall in the economy in November was still considerable, but the figures show businesses adapting to difficult conditions. The hit was a fraction of what occurred in the first lockdown last April, and was mainly confined to the service sector, with pubs and hairdressing for example in sharp decline.\n\nManufacturing and construction largely remained open, as did previously shut public services such as schools. By November car manufacturing and house building were back above the level of output before the pandemic.\n\nThe trade figures also showed a £7bn increase in EU imports in the three months to November as traders stockpiled car parts, medicines and other goods ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe renewed regional tiered restrictions in December, and more severe national lockdowns this month, still indicate a possible return to overall recession in this tough winter.\n\nBusiness groups continue to argue that extra support is required to support jobs and cash flow well before the Budget in March. But a more sustained lifting of restrictions as vaccines are rolled out should see growth return after the spring.", "Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures.\n\nWhen Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour.\n\nNow a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental health problems.\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nFake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was \"a big concern\" and officials were working \"to correct so much fake news\".\n\nHe said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information.\n\nA GP in the West Midlands told the BBC some of her South Asian patients had refused the vaccine when offered it.\n\nDr Sood, from NHS England, said officials were working with South Asian role models, influencers, community leaders and religious leaders to help debunk myths about the vaccine.\n\nMuch of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.\"\n\n\"We're trying to find role models and influencers and also thinking about ordinary citizens who need to be quick with this information so that they can all support one another because ultimately everyone is a role model to everyone\", he added.\n\n\"There's a big piece of work happening where we're translating information, we're making sure the look and feel of it reaches the populations that matter.\"\n\nSome of the disinformation seen by the BBC on social media and on WhatsApp is religiously targeted. Messages falsely claim the vaccines contain animal produce - eating pork goes against the religious beliefs of Muslims, as does eating beef for Hindus.\n\nDr Samara Afzal has been vaccinating people in Dudley, West Midlands. She said: \"We've been calling all patients and booking them in for vaccines but the admin staff say when they call a lot of the South Asian patients they decline and refuse to have the vaccination.\n\n\"Also talking to friends and family have found the same. I've had friends calling me telling me to convince their parents or their grandparents to have the vaccination because other family members have convinced them not to have it\".\n\nWe need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders\n\nReena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she's been bombarded with false information.\n\n\"Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,\" she said.\n\n\"For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow - and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us - it is disturbing.\"\n\nAbout 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They've said they'll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.\n\n\"There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,\" said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. \"It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.\"\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Asian Network that faith and community leaders had a big role to play in ensuring a high take-up of the vaccine. He said he had met with more than 150 leaders from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities who were taking the message out \"that it's the right thing to do\".\n\nHe added that the government was taking steps to tackle online disinformation around the vaccine, as well as making sure vaccine guidance was available in many different languages.\n\nA recent poll, commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health, suggested just over half of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt found 57% said they would take the vaccine - compared with 79% of white people.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government.\n\nBut the version discovered is not the \"variant of concern\", Prof Wendy Barclay clarified.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" from Brazil, detected in travellers to Japan, is thought to be more infectious.\n\nIt led to travellers from South America and Portugal being banned from entering the UK on Friday.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nProf Barclay, who also sits on Nervtag, a committee which advises government on new and emerging respiratory virus threats, said the variant was \"probably introduced some time ago\" and it \"will be being traced very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nThe body which collects and analyses the genomes of virus samples - Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) - said this variant seen in the UK contained one of the mutations found in the Brazilian \"variant of concern\".\n\nThe mutation, also found in the South African variant, has been linked to a reduced antibody response meaning our bodies might be less able to fight it off.\n\nCog-UK said this alone was not enough to qualify it as a \"variant of concern\", thought it acknowledged \"no internationally agreed definition of a variant of concern has yet been agreed\".\n\nIn other variants of concern, the mutation sits alongside a \"constellation\" of others which together amount to a high chance of making the virus more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nThe latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate for the reproduction (R) number in the UK - which represents the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - is between 1.2 and 1.3.\n\nLast week it was estimated at between 1 and 1.4 by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nWhen the figure is above 1, the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nDespite other variants entering the country since, the Kent variant remains dominant in the UK and is believed to be 30-50% more infectious than the previous form of the virus.\n\nViruses acquire random changes to their genes constantly as they replicate.\n\nMany are neutral or even hurt the virus's ability to spread, but those that give it an advantage will become more common.\n\nMutations are being detected now because enough time has passed for those random changes to take hold.\n\nEven though there is no evidence any of these mutations make the virus more deadly, a virus that infects more people is likely to have a higher death toll.\n\nWhen the virus gets better at sticking onto and breaking into human cells, in theory someone exposed to the same dose is more likely to become ill.\n\nThe use of masks and personal protective equipment, social distancing and hand washing remain the best defences against the virus's spread.\n\nDowning Street said current evidence did not suggest the concerning Brazilian variant affected vaccines or treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps described the travel ban, which came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday, as a \"precautionary\" measure.\n\nIt covers people who have travelled from or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nThe ban also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist who is part of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said the travel ban should minimise the risk from a \"more transmissible\" variant.\n\n\"We always have this issue with travel bans, of course, that we're always a little bit behind the curve,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My understanding is that there haven't really been any flights coming from Brazil for about the past week, so hopefully the immediate travel ban should really minimise the risk.\"\n\nDowning Street said it acted \"as quickly as possible\" to impose the travel ban because the concerning Brazilian variant \"could pose a significant risk to the UK\".\n\nHowever, Portugal's government has described the ban as \"absurd\" and illogical\".\n\nThe country's minister of foreign affairs Augusto Santos Silva said he had requested a conversation with his British counterpart after the \"sudden and unexpected\" suspension of flights.\n\nHe added Portugal was already restricting flights from Brazil and there was \"no evidence\" the new variant existed in his country.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pharmacy in Gwynedd is offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab\n\nA pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.\n\nFifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations \"in more than one way\".\n\nIt follows a letter from Community Pharmacy Wales to Wales' health minister which said there was an \"urgent need\" to use pharmacies in Wales to help roll out coronavirus vaccines.\n\nUK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.\n\nThat compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.\n\nHundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.\n\nRosie Bennett, one of the patients to receive a vaccination at Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy in Llanbedrog, said getting her vaccine was a \"small step to a better future\".\n\nThe 82-year-old said: \"I don't have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn't have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They've been doing a great job during the pandemic and it's reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\"\n\nSteffan John, the pharmacist who administered the vaccine to Rosie, said the staff are \"really pleased to do their bit for the community\".\n\nPharmacist Llyr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy, said \"vaccinating at scale\" was the \"only way out of the pandemic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes said he expected the rollout to happen \"very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales\".\n\n\"I don't forsee any big problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.\n\n\"We will tailor our work model to accommodate for this, as we did for the flu vaccine.\"\n\nMr Hughes said his pharmacy will have vaccinated in the region of more than 100 people by Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe added: \"If we can deliver locally we can provide easier access to older patients.\"\n\nHe explained local patients would be contacted about an appointment for the vaccine at the pharmacy.\n\nMr John said that the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses which means it's \"important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any\".\n\nLlyr Hughes who runs Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy said 50 patients will be vaccinated today\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government press briefing that not all pharmacy premises would be suitable to deliver the Covid vaccines.\n\nHe said some community pharmacists could be asked to administer vaccinations at mass vaccination centres instead, in cases where spaces for vaccinations are small at pharmacies with high volumes of people.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the rollout was still in the \"early stages\" of the \"largest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen\".\n\n\"People can be expected to be asked to attend either a mass or community centre, hospital, GP practice, pharmacy or mobile unit,\" he added.\n\nMr Gething said a mix of vaccination sites and centres were chosen so \"everyone across the country has equal access to a vaccination\".\n\nHe added that people will be notified for an appointment, and before that they should not call GPs or health services to request a vaccine and \"add undue pressure\" to their workloads.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales' vaccination programme was \"improving far, far too slowly\".\n\n\"As important as it is that we have one pharmacy doing it, what's happening in all the others?\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said it was clear Wales was \"lagging behind\" the rest of the UK on delivering the vaccinations.\n\n\"It's certainly not happening quickly enough, we need to see the Welsh Government stepping up to the plate,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said more pharmacists and other primary care services, such as dentists and opticians - are being invited to help with the rollout, subject to vaccine supply.", "The UK's epidemic is still officially estimated to be growing, according to the latest R number, but data suggests new cases are beginning to fall.\n\nThe R number - which takes into account cases, hospitalisations and deaths - is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3, compared with 1 and 1.4 last week.\n\nThis suggests the total number of people with the virus is still rising across the UK.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower.\n\nIn the capital, the estimate - based on data up until 11 January - is between 0.9 and 1.2, compared with 1.1 and 1.4 the previous week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - latest figures show the number at 3,234,946.\n\nAlthough the number of people sick with coronavirus is growing in the UK, data from various sources suggests new infections are declining.\n\nThis provides early signs that lockdown restrictions may be taking effect.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group Sage, which calculates the R number, said areas that have been under tougher restrictions for a longer period of time - including east of England, London, and the south east - are showing \"a slight decline in the number of people infected\".\n\nHowever, they warned that regions such as north-west and south-west England continue to see infections rise, where the spread of the new UK variant may be playing a role.\n\nThe R number is a way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread. In theory, it describes the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average.\n\nIn reality, though, the government's estimate of R gives a wider view of the epidemic's general trend since it also looks at what is happening in hospitals.\n\nCases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have been alarmingly high since the beginning of the year and the latest estimate of the R number indicates that the pandemic is continuing to grow.\n\nBut because of the way the data to estimate R is collected - it reflects the situation a week ago. More up to date indicators suggest that there's a slight decline in infections in the east of England, London, and the South East.\n\nThese areas have had the highest prevalence and therefore the toughest restrictions the longest but infections are continuing to rise in the North West and South West probably because of the spread of the new variant of the virus.\n\nDespite this there's some relief at these figures among the government's scientific advisors. They were not sure whether the current restrictions would be enough to prevent the more contagious variant getting out of control. Now they expect Covid-related deaths to level off in a week or so and then decline as the benefits of the vaccine programme begin to take effect.\n\nCases should also begin to decrease in the coming weeks. But all this depends on people continuing to observe the government's social distancing guidelines - and come into contact with others only if it is essential.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said coronavirus deaths were likely to peak in the next week to 10 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the lockdown measures were having an impact, with the peak in infections having passed \"a good few days ago\" which would lead to a reduction in the numbers dying from the disease.\n\n\"They are likely to level off in a week - 10 days maybe - at a peak which is probably going to be bigger than the first wave peak of 1,000-a-day, but then should decline due the reductions in cases that we are seeing and, of course, the vaccine programme.\"\n\nData from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app gives its own estimate of 0.9 for the virus's R or reproduction number. This is based on cases alone, rather than a wider number of data sources included in the official estimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nWhile this leaves out the fact that hospitals are still filling up, looking at cases on their own allows assessment of whether lockdown restrictions are working.\n\nBut the large number of infections recorded at the end of December and the beginning of January means, despite receding cases, hospitalisations and deaths will inevitably continue to rise for some time.\n\nMeanwhile, a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday as a result of a new, potentially more infectious strain linked to Brazil.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, a scientist at Imperial College London advising the government, said this \"variant of concern\" had not been detected in the UK but another variant from Brazil was already in circulation.\n\nIt is not clear whether this second strain is more contagious or not.", "Ambulances were lined up outside the Royal London Hospital on Thursday\n\nCovid patients have been transferred to hospitals in Newcastle from over-stretched London intensive care units.\n\nA small number, fewer than five, have been moved hundreds of miles from the south east, the BBC has been told.\n\nHospitals with the largest critical care capacity have been asked to take patients from other areas to ease pressures.\n\nHowever, NHS England has denied that patients have been transferred to Newcastle from London.\n\nThe patient transfers were first reported by The Guardian.\n\nIt is not uncommon for patients to be transferred from one busy hospital to another within the region, but moving the sick from out of their areas is unusual.\n\nThe North of England Critical Care Network, which co-ordinates provision in the North East, north Cumbria and North Yorkshire, confirmed patients had been moved from other parts of England.\n\nIn statement, director Lesley Durham said: \"During this pandemic and at these times of unprecedented pressures, we have ensured equity of patient access to critical care though mutual aid between units in the form of critical care patient transfers.\n\n\"We are also working with our colleagues and networks further afield.\n\n\"Whilst not ideal, it is correct to ensure that every person, regardless of location, has access to a critical care bed if they require one.\"\n\nOne medical expert described transferring people across the country as \"a challenge\"\n\nElsewhere, Northampton General Hospital - which is about 70 miles from London - has been receiving critical care patients from outside its area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some patients have been transferred to our critical care unit in recent weeks from other parts of the country, including London.\n\n\"We currently have one 'out-of-area' patient, but they are not from London.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement: \"The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure either from high Covid-19 infection rates and non-Covid winter demands and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to manage admissions.\"\n\nIt added that no patients had been transferred from London to Newcastle, Birmingham, Northampton or Sheffield.\n\nAcross England in the week to 12 January, there were 32,202 patients in hospital with Covid-19, a rise of 5,735 on the previous week.\n\nIn the week up to 10 January there were 330,616 new cases.\n\nHospitals across the North East are already seeing many more patients than the first wave of the pandemic, and the next few weeks are likely to be the toughest yet.\n\nBut right now some - like Newcastle - have room in intensive care and are being asked to take patients from critical care units in the south which have become overwhelmed and run out of room.\n\nNewcastle and Northumbria NHS trusts have already been taking in patients from across their own patch - most notably from Cumbria where there are not nearly enough intensive care beds for the soaring numbers of Covid patients.\n\nBut patient numbers are growing in the North East's hospitals too, and many are already struggling.\n\nThey expect next week will be the worst week they have experienced yet.\n\nTo prepare, elective work is being postponed, wards are being cleared to take in new patients, and intensive care units are being expanded.\n\nConcerns have been raised about seriously-ill patients travelling such long distances.\n\nDr Uwe Franke, intensive care lead at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, said: \"The critical care networks work regionally and nationally and are trying to spread the workload about the country without pushing other units to their limits or out of the durability of their capacity.\n\n\"But there is a difficulty in this; we know that Covid patients are incredibly ill, they are dependent on breathing machines, they are dependent on other machines that need organ support.\n\n\"To transfer these people across the country is quite a challenge.\"\n\nDr Franke added that while hospitals in the North were keen to support colleagues across the country, some - like his own - were already reaching their limit.\n\nHis hospital currently has in excess of 200 Covid patients, with 32 of those in intensive care.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by The Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who played Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US school-based sitcom, fell ill last week and was taken to hospital.\n\nHis representative, Roger Paul, said the actor is now waiting for further details.\n\n\"We will know the severity of it when the tests are done,\" Paul said, adding they expect an update next week.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and followed a group of high school friends and their principal.\n\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers pull a woman from the rubble after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 42 people, with more feared dead as rescuers search for survivors.\n\nThe 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, just hours after an earlier, smaller tremor.\n\nHundreds of people were injured and thousands displaced by the quake.\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake.\n\nEight people died when the five-storey Mitra Manakarra Hospital in Mamuju partially collapsed on Friday, officials said. About 60 people were safely evacuated from the hospital.\n\n\"It happened so quickly, around 10 seconds,\" Syamsu Ridwan, a local police spokesman, told the BBC. He said the power in the hospital cut out during the earthquake.\n\nOfficials fear the death toll will increase as rescue efforts continue. Rescuers were still searching for survivors late on Friday, but they have been hampered by power cuts and poor mobile phone service.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo offered condolences to the victims, urging people to stay calm and for the authorities to step up search efforts.\n\nThe epicentre of Friday's quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10km.\n\nVideo footage on social media showed collapsed houses and a girl pinned under rubble calling for help.\n\nThe situation was \"pretty bad\", Dr Gayatri Marliyani, of the geology department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, told the BBC. She said the governor's office was among the collapsed buildings and confirmed that several hospitals and one hotel had also been damaged.\n\nShe also warned that getting response teams to the area could be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTremors were felt at around 01:00 local time on Friday (17:00 Thursday GMT) for about seven seconds.\n\nNo tsunami warning was issued but thousands are reported to have left their homes, fleeing to safety.\n\nAuthorities have warned that strong aftershocks could follow the two main quakes and that they could still trigger a tsunami.\n\nIndonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the so-called Ring of Fire - a line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions on the Pacific rim.\n\nIn 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nChampionship side Derby County have appointed England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who had been in interim charge since Phillip Cocu was sacked on 14 November, has now also officially retired as a player.\n\nRooney has overseen nine games so far, winning three and drawing four.\n\n\"The opportunity to follow Brian Clough, Jim Smith, Frank Lampard and Phillip Cocu is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew instinctively Derby County was the place for me.\"\n\nLiam Rosenior takes up the role of assistant manager, with former England boss Steve McClaren continuing as technical director and advisor to the board of directors.\n\nShay Given will become first-team coach and Justin Walker will remain as first-team development coach.\n\nThe Rams are third from bottom in the Championship, level on points with fourth-from-bottom Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nA takeover for the club is expected to go through this week, with a deal between current owner Mel Morris and the Derventio Holdings Group having been agreed in November.\n\nRams chief executive Stephen Pearce said in an interview with BBC Radio Derby on Thursday that there were no problems with the takeover, despite the delays meaning players have not been paid their December wages.\n\n\"Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City,\" said Pearce.\n\n\"During that nine-game run we also dramatically improved their defensive record and registered five clean sheets in the process, while in the attacking third we became more effective and ruthless too.\n\n\"Those foundations have provided a platform for the club to build on in the second half of the season.\"\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was less successful in terms of team honours, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nAfter a second stint at Everton and a spell with American side DC United, Rooney joined Derby in January 2020 as a player-coach on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe retires as the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nWayne Rooney's presence at Derby County was felt on that hot August evening in 2019 when Phillip Cocu won his first match as manager at Huddersfield, a result overshadowed by the announcement of his signing.\n\nRooney's ambition to become a manager was there for all to see when chairman Mel Morris afforded him the opportunity to be a player-coach on arrival in January. He in fact arrived a few months before that but was unable to play, and stayed low key, observing from the sidelines.\n\nA year ago this month he made an instant impact to Derby's fortunes on the field. Players who were underachieving and perhaps found the grind of the Championship a little hard to handle, were taken up a notch by his presence.\n\nSome would say Rooney saved the Rams' season, but this term he struggled on the field and so did Derby.\n\nI am told it was written into his contract that he would have a chance to take control one day and he has already shown in his nine games in interim charge that he can get the squad playing in his image. Gone is the side-to-side, slow build-up possession game, it is a better product to watch.\n\nThe people around him have good pedigree in the game. Shay Given, Liam Rosenior, Justin Walker and Jason Pearcey have experience at all levels - but his relationship with Steve McClaren will be the most important of all.\n\nDerby fans have been calling out for a positive piece of news. Rooney's appointment is the first duck in a row with the takeover expected to be completed any time now and then Championship survival is the hope.\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A rejuvenated Northumberland Line will help connect local communities to Newcastle city centre, say supporters\n\nTwo railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government.\n\nEast West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge, will get £760m to open new parts of the line.\n\nThe Northumberland Line, which still carries freight, will get £34m for initial work aimed at reintroducing passenger services.\n\nReopening closed lines like these would help connect \"left-behind\" communities, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\n\"Restoring railways helps put communities back on the map and this investment forms part of our nationwide effort to build back vital connections and unlock access to jobs, education and housing,\" he said.\n\nThese investments would return these routes \"to their former glory\" and was part of the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, Mr Shapps added.\n\nDiesel engines will initially run on the lines, but Mr Shapps said he hoped more environmentally friendly trains, for example powered by hydrogen or new battery technology, would replace them in the future.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why the lines wouldn't be electrified, he said these lines might potentially bypass the overhead wire technology altogether.\n\n\"We're building it in such a way that we can use, probably, the very latest technology, potentially, in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing is the infrastructure,\" he said. \"It's about building the stations, things you need to do no matter what kind of train you're going to run on there, if it's going to take passengers.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Daniel Zeichner, who represents Cambridge, said: \"Every rail expert will tell you it will cost more later to electrify a line.\"\n\n\"In a time of climate emergency, we really shouldn't be building railway lines for diesel, it's got to be electric.\"\n\nThe line connecting Oxford and Cambridge would serve new housing developments, he said, and rail was \"the right way to get people in and out of a city like Cambridge\".\n\n\"It's very important for the UK economy, but it's got to be done in an environmentally sustainable way,\" he said. \"It seems crazy to be building new railways which aren't electrified in the first place, and I really hope the government will reconsider.\"\n\nThe East West Rail investment will rebuild a train line between Bicester and Bletchley which was closed in 1968.\n\nThe project is being delivered by a publicly-owned body called the East West Company.\n\nThe first phase of East West Rail, which was completed in 2016, connected Oxford and Bicester.\n\nBut at the moment, rail passengers wishing to go from Oxford to Bletchley have to take a detour via Coventry.\n\nThe aim is to get trains running between Oxford and Bletchley by 2025, with new stations at Winslow and Bletchley.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the works will create 1,500 jobs, and have a wider economic benefit for the area.\n\nThe eventual aim of the project, which the government expects to be completed by the end of the decade, is to connect Oxford and Cambridge by rail via Bedford, taking in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury on branches.\n\nThe Northumberland Line was closed to passengers in 1964 as part of a rationalisation of the railway network known as the Beeching cuts.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was \"a really critical piece of local infrastructure\" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.\n\nPassengers would be able to take the train between Ashington and Newcastle\n\n\"Having better connectivity will help attract businesses to that area, and it will help to deliver genuine levelling-up,\" he said.\n\nThe new £34m investment, which aims to reopen the line between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ashington, will include funds for preparatory works and land acquisition.\n\nThere are plans for new stations at at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Bebside, Newsham, Seaton Delaval, and Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside, as well as upgrades to the track and changes to level crossings where new bridges or underpasses were needed, the Department for Transport said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nSenior doctors have asked England's chief medical officer to halve the current 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine. The wait was originally three weeks but was then extended, a decision which Prof Chris Whitty said would double the number of people receiving jabs. But, in a letter seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association said the delay was \"difficult to justify\". It comes after the prime minister revealed the UK variant of Covid-19 may be more deadly.\n\nEfforts to distribute the jab in the European Union have faced another setback after UK drug-maker AstraZeneca warned of supply issues. Vaccinations have already been halted in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. Cases in many European countries are surging. Germany has reached 50,000 Covid deaths and Spain has seen record infections in recent weeks.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were engaged to be married when they were taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19. As his condition worsened, staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital rallied to arrange a wedding for them - and they were able to marry moments before he was sedated and put on a ventilator. Mrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes. Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. Its streets are bustling again. A year on, John Sudworth explores how it is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - else.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nMillions of us are less physically active than we were before Covid-19. For those working from home, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house. A survey of people working remotely, by Opinium for the charity Versus Arthritis, found 81% of respondents were experiencing some back, neck or shoulder pain. Here are some tips that could help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWondering when you might be able to get a vaccine? Health reporter Philippa Roxby takes you through what you need to know.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Questions should be asked if politicians who drank on Welsh Parliament premises during a pub alcohol ban can stand for re-election, an ex-standards official has said.\n\nSenedd Tory leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Labour's Alun Davies have apologised - they are not thought to have broken the rules, but the two Tories admitted it would not be seen as in their spirit.\n\nA fourth Senedd Member Nick Ramsay has denied being part of the gathering.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida. Image caption: In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida.\n\nRémy Julienne, one of the world's best-known stuntmen, has died in France with coronavirus, aged 90.\n\nOver a 50-year career, Julienne devised the crashes, crunches and collisions witnessed in more than 1,400 films.\n\nHe also starred in many of them, albeit anonymously.\n\nThe legendary cascadeur (stunt performer) appeared as a body double for a host of stars, including Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson and Jean-Paul Belmondo.\n\nIn wig and appropriate clothing, he also took on the form of Sophia Loren, Carole Bouquet and Gina Lollobrigida.\n\nAmong his most famous works are the chase scenes in 1969's The Italian Job, in which a fleet of Mini-Coopers in Turin cross a river, dive into the metro and jump from the roof of the Fiat factory.\n\nHe also worked on six Bond films, notably going behind the wheel of a battered yellow Citroën 2CV in For Your Eyes Only.\n\nA life-long lover of motorbikes and anything driven at speed, Julienne specialised in spectacular destruction. But he was committed to the maximum elimination of risk and calculated his stunts with extreme precision.\n\n\"What is beautiful about the job is that you can never be 100% certain,\" he said. \"If you could, then frankly it wouldn't be interesting.", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA second boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at a Birmingham address on Friday and is in custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nAnother 14-year-old, arrested earlier on Friday, also remains in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nThe latest arrest was \"another step forward and Keon's family have been fully updated with this latest development,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a challenging investigation given the number of offenders we believe were involved, but I have a dedicated team of officers working 24/7 to identify those involved and we are making swift progress.\"\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Police have seized the vehicle.\n\nCordons placed at the scene in Linwood Road and Wheeler Street, where the car was abandoned, have now been lifted, said the West Midlands force.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nDetectives say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nAnyone who could identify the attackers has been urged to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police released body-worn camera footage of people streaming from the premises\n\nTwo officers were injured as they broke up an \"incredibly selfish\" party, involving about 200 people, in one of London's most expensive neighbourhoods.\n\nOfficers investigated an address on Beauchamp Place, Kensington, at about 03.30 GMT on 17 January, following reports of a mass gathering.\n\nAttendees became hostile and pushed through to avoid being fined, injuring two officers, police said.\n\nThe owner has previously been issued with a £1,000 fine, police said.\n\nPolice discovered about 200 guests at a party on Beauchamp Place, Kensington\n\nSupt Michael Walsh said: \"Attending or organising such parties during this critical period is an incredibly selfish decision to make.\n\n\"While the majority of breaches have been resolved without incident, it deeply saddens me that some individuals have chosen to assault police who are simply doing their part in the collective battle against this deadly virus.\"\n\nPolice said the event was one of a string of late-night parties uncovered in Kensington over the last month.\n\nOn 20 December, police shut down an illegal gathering at a commercial property on Montpelier Street. The property has since been closed.\n\nAn owner of a venue on Harrow Road is facing a £10,000 fine after police found more than 30 socialising during a raid on 16 January.\n\nOn Thursday, police also broke up a wedding party in north London.\n\nThe Met Police originally claimed about 400 guests were at the gathering, but then on Friday said 150 people were present at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "Even while posted at the US Capitol, many troops have been seen sleeping on the floor\n\nUS President Joe Biden has apologised after some members of the National Guard stationed at the Capitol were pictured sleeping in a car park.\n\nMore than 25,000 troops were deployed to Washington DC for his inauguration after violence earlier this month.\n\nImages spread on Thursday showing them forced to rest in a nearby parking garage after lawmakers returned.\n\nThe conditions sparked anger among politicians, and some state governors recalled troops over the controversy.\n\nMr Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday to apologise and ask what could be done, according to US media reports.\n\nFirst Lady Jill Biden also visited some of the troops to thank them personally, bringing biscuits from the White House as a gift.\n\n\"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe,\" she said.\n\nThe photographs showing hundreds of troops in a parking garage went viral on Thursday and sparked outrage, including from members of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany voiced concerns about the conditions, with guardsmen exposed to car fumes and without proper access to facilities like toilets after having been on alert for days.\n\nImages of the cramped conditions also sparked fears about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA US official, speaking anonymously to Reuters news agency, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 of those deployed had tested positive for Covid-19. The figure - which would represent a small proportion of the more than 25,000 deployed, has not been publicly confirmed.\n\nChuck Schumer, a Democrat and the new Senate majority leader, said that the move was \"an outrage\" and pledged it \"will never happen again\".\n\nRon DeSantis, Florida's governor, was among those who said he had ordered guards from his state to return home following the controversy.\n\n\"This is a half-cocked mission at this point and the appropriate thing is to bring them home,\" he told Fox News on Friday.\n\nThe Senate Rules Committee is also investigating the issue, Senator Roy Blunt told Politico.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about why the troops were moved from the Capitol.\n\nA National Guard spokesman told US media they were moved on Thursday afternoon at the request of the Capitol Police because of \"increased foot traffic\" as Congress came back into session.\n\nThe acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, later said her agency \"did not instruct the National Guard to vacate the Capitol Building facilities\", while two officers contradicted her statement in comments to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe decision was reversed later on Thursday, when the troops were allowed to return to the Capitol.\n\nA joint statement from the US National Guard and US Capitol Police on Friday said they had worked together to make sure those in the Capitol Complex had \"appropriate spaces\" to take on-duty breaks.\n\nThey also said off-duty troops were being housed in hotel rooms or other accommodation and thanked members of Congress for their concern.\n\nSome 19,000 guardsmen will return to their home states in the coming days with about 7,000 expected to stay on in Washington, according to the New York Times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nRural GPs are to run new community vaccination centres after concerns over the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nFrom Saturday, three new vaccination hubs will open to give over-80s and those with mobility issues the jab.\n\nIt comes after some living in rural areas said they had been told to travel miles to get the jab or wait weeks to have their first dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would help immunise hundreds of over-80s this weekend.\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales, with some telling the BBC elderly and housebound relatives had been told there would be a wait if they could not get to their GP surgery.\n\nA total of 212,317 people have been given their first dose of vaccine in Wales, up to 21 January - just over 6.7% of the population.\n\nThe Welsh Government hopes to have 70% of over-80s immunised by the end of this weekend.\n\nBy 21 January, 30% of the over-80s and 60% of care home residents had been given the first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced doctors surgeries in rural areas would join forces to help administer the jab to the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first of the new community centres, run by clusters of GP practices, are to open on the Llyn Peninsula, in Buckley in Flintshire, and Bridgend.\n\nThey will be able to administer both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nUntil now, the Pfizer vaccine could only be administered at special mass-vaccination centres, due to the low temperatures it needs to be stored at.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped 3,000 people would get the vaccine administered at the centres this weekend.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Vaccination is our top priority so I want to thank all the GP practices right across Wales that are working in unison to set up these new community vaccination centres.\n\n\"This enables GPs to use both of the vaccines available to us and will help more people to be vaccinated somewhere that is much closer to home than the large vaccination centres.\n\n\"Every week, our vaccination programme speeds up as more centres are opened and more vaccines are available for the small army of healthcare professionals administering vaccines.\"\n\nIn north Wales, a group of GPs have formed a group to deliver about 1,000 vaccines to elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP at Ty Doctor Surgery, Gwynedd, said rural GPs had faced a \"real challenge\" to get the most vulnerable patients vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\nThe surgery is about 50 miles away from the nearest vaccination centre in north-west Wales.\n\nHe said bringing three GP practices together to vaccinate hundreds of patients in two days was a \"Herculean effort\".", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "Paul Davies had been preparing to lead his party's Senedd election campaign in the coming months\n\nPaul Davies has been something of an understated figure leading the Welsh Conservative group in Cardiff Bay since he won the race to succeed Andrew RT Davies in September 2018.\n\nThe Senedd member for Preseli Pembrokeshire tried to move the party group in the direction of being more sceptical of devolution.\n\nBut a row over drinking on Senedd premises ended his ambitions to be the first Conservative first minister of Wales.\n\nBorn in 1969, Paul Davies grew up in the village of Pontsian in Ceredigion.\n\nHe attended Llandysul Grammar School and Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School before working for a bank for 20 years.\n\nMr Davies entered Cardiff Bay politics in 2007 when he was elected to the then National Assembly for Wales. He was appointed deputy leader of the Welsh Conservative group in 2011 before becoming interim leader and then leader in 2018.\n\nPaul Davies backed Boris Johnson in the UK Conservative leadership campaign in 2019\n\nPresented as a safe pair of hands during his leadership campaign he has, at times, almost appeared to have been overshadowed by his predecessor Andrew RT Davies, who sometimes seems to enjoy media appearances more than his leader.\n\nFaced with the potential rise of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, Paul Davies attempted to steer the Welsh Tories towards a more devo-sceptic, if not anti-devolution, approach.\n\nHe pledged a future Conservative Welsh Government would not \"tread on Westminster's turf\", and \"respect what is not devolved\" by \"unpicking\" the Welsh Government's international relations department.\n\nThere were also promises to halve the current number of Welsh ministers to seven, freeze civil servant recruitment and not increase the budget of the body which runs the Senedd if he became first minister.\n\nWelsh political structures need a \"dose\" of Dominic Cummings, Paul Davies has said\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has, arguably, made it even harder for opposition party leaders in the Senedd to cut through to the wider electorate.\n\nThe crisis has given Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford a much bigger profile, on a Wales and UK stage, making it more difficult for other Welsh party leaders to get onto the news agenda.\n\nLast July, there were raised eyebrows when Paul Davies suggested \"a dose of Dom\" was needed in Wales to \"shake up\" its governance.\n\nThe reference to the prime minister's now departed chief advisor and brutal political operator Dominic Cummings was interesting, given the criticism heaped on Mr Cummings a couple of months earlier for driving his family 260 miles from his London home to Durham during lockdown, and a subsequent 25-mile trip to check his eyesight before a return trip.\n\nBacking Remain at the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Paul Davies aimed to steer a steady course during a fractious period for a Conservative Party dealing with the polarising issue of Brexit.\n\nHe has been loyal to the UK party leader of the day, and often stuck to the Westminster line rather than try to carve an independent stance.\n\nDespite this, Mr Davies had wanted the Tory Senedd group leader to be given the title Welsh Conservative leader.\n\nIt is something the party has never formally agreed to do despite a review of its Welsh structures.", "Up to 500 new prison cells are to be built in women's jails, the Ministry of Justice has announced.\n\nThese will be built in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions.\n\nThey will include in-cell showers, and some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children to prepare for life at home after release.\n\nIn future, older cells could also be shut if the prison population reduces.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has also pledged almost £2m in funding to 38 charities so their \"vital work in steering women away from crime can continue\".\n\nThis may include addressing mental health problems and drug use, both of which affect around half of women in prison.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"This funding boost will allow frontline services to continue the incredible work they do with some of the most vulnerable women in our society to prevent them being drawn into crime.\"\n\nAnnouncing the funding, the government reiterated its promise to cut the number of women in custody and provide effective support to deal with problems which could lead to crime in the first place or reoffending.\n\nBut it admitted there could be a temporary rise of inmates in the near future as the number of investigations and prosecutions is expected to increase amid the hiring of 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIt added that the number of women in custody has fallen by 10% since 2010 and stressed that government investment in community services should see this trend continue in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of women in prison falls longer term, the MoJ says the new modern facilities will allow the Prison Service to close old accommodation.\n\nCampaigners largely welcomed the announcement, but warned the efforts do not go far enough to tackle longstanding problems.\n\nKate Paradine, chief executive of charity Women in Prison, said: \"This pledge and funding are just the start, and a far cry from what is needed in order to provide stability for women who face the sharp end of our society.\"\n\nShe called on the government in its upcoming Budget to safeguard the future of women's centres, which she described as an \"anchor that stop women being swept up into crime\" but warned were \"facing a funding cliff edge in April\".\n\nEmily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by \"action on the ground to prove effective\", adding: \"Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"If the goal is to reduce the number of women entering the criminal justice system, then today's announcement shows that ministers are looking at the issue down the wrong end of a telescope\", claiming the funding promised was \"dwarfed\" by the cost of the extra prison places.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "A restaurant worker in Lisbon, where benefits to those with symptoms, and those without, are generous\n\nThe idea of a flat £500 payment to anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 has been dismissed by the UK government. Health officials had come up with the suggestion in the hope of encouraging people with the illness to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns the virus is continuing to spread because some people are ignoring the instruction to stay home when they show symptoms or test positive. Downing Street has said there is already a £500 sum for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate. But this must be applied for and there have been high rejection rates in England at least, A behaviour expert who advises the government, told the BBC just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nSo how do other countries handle the question of paying people to stay at home, or just trusting they will do the right thing? Here, BBC correspondents from Prague to New York, offer an insight.\n\nIn Portugal, even those who are just at-risk of contracting Covid - having been in direct contact with a confirmed case - are entitled to 100% of their basic salary, for 14 days, writes Alison Roberts, in Lisbon.\n\nFor those who show symptoms, or have tested positive, the same is available for up to 28 days. And the normal waiting times people are used to when claiming while ill have also been done away with - these Covid payments kick in on day one of isolation.\n\nThose not on permanent work contracts tend to be treated as self-employed and are eligible for benefits based on income declared. But there are a lot of people, including many immigrants, who lack the necessary paperwork, and are therefore not eligible to claim.\n\nNevertheless, it's perhaps not surprising that, because people are able to claim full basic pay, there hasn't been much, if any, debate about people obeying self-isolation. If there are reports of people not seeking tests, or not isolating, it seems to be more out of ignorance, which is certainly rather worrying.\n\nSlovenia has been offering compensation to people forced to self-isolate after exposure to coronavirus since it first introduced emergency measures in March, writes Guy De Launey in Ljubljana.\n\nDepending on the circumstances, this covers anything from 80% to the full amount of usual earnings. The payments may be made directly to people in quarantine, or as compensation to employers. A government official told the BBC that with its socialist past, it was normal for Slovenia to take care of people in quarantine by providing payments - and that without compensation, it would be impossible to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWhen the measures were first introduced, they enjoyed broad public support. But the second wave of the epidemic has seen case numbers skyrocket - Slovenia's per capita death-rate is now the third highest in the world - and public confidence overall has dipped.\n\nBy the end of 2020, market research company Valicon said that only 12% of Slovenians viewed the government's measures as \"appropriate\", adding that people were \"worried and dissatisfied with the social situation\", suggesting compensation is not a panacea.\n\nIn March last year, the US agreed to pay for some workers to stay at home - a big change for a country that had never paid sick leave requirement before, writes Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nThe measure guaranteed up to 14 days of pay for workers forced to isolate because they had symptoms, had received medical advice to self-quarantine, or were under government lockdown orders. It also said it would guarantee two-thirds of pay for people caring for someone with the virus for up to two weeks. One study suggested it helped prevent hundreds of news cases a day.\n\nBut the assistance - paid by employers which were then reimbursed by the government via tax credits - expired on 31 December. And even before that, analysts estimated that loopholes meant roughly half of the country's workforce, including many grocery workers and medical staff were potentially excluded.\n\nAs part of his $1.9tn stimulus plan, President Joe Biden is pushing to renew the law, and end the exemptions. But the proposal - which his team estimates would expand the benefit to as many as 106 million more Americans - faces stiff resistance from Republicans and key business lobbies.\n\nIn Germany financial support is generous for people ordered to self-isolate by the authorities because of infection risk, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nAs a result there hasn't been a debate in Germany about breaking self-isolation rules because of financial need. Fines can be huge - tens of thousands of euros - and are strictly enforced. Overall there's no great issue with compliance and Germany's financial package has widespread cross-party backing, and is supported by voters.\n\nEmployees who are unable to work at home receive full pay for up to six weeks. This is paid by the employer, who is then reimbursed by the state. After that, workers may be eligible for sick-pay.\n\nFreelancers and self-employed people are generally also entitled to full pay for six weeks. But they would apply directly to their regional government. The exact rules and level of efficiency for payments vary from region to region. For those in the gig economy - Germany has it, though less so than Britain - this should be covered by state aid, based on tax returns.\n\nThe level of state support was agreed by Germany's national parliament in Berlin. But payments are administered and funded by regional governments.\n\nThere's been some discussion here about paying people to stay home if they test positive for Covid, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe idea is advocated by at least one independent expert group. But it would be expensive, and the Czech state coffers are already stretched from keeping employees on furlough and paying compensation.\n\nInstead, salaried employees who receive a positive diagnosis are left with two choices: work from home - if they're up to it, if their job allows it and if their employer agrees, or go on sick leave for 10 days and receive 60% salary.\n\nFor the self-employed it's worse. Only those who have chosen to pay state sickness insurance will receive anything. Most opt out - the benefits are marginal. So most continue working from home - if their health and profession allows it.\n\nFor many workers, in other words, a positive Covid test can be a real blow to the wallet. It's an open secret that many people - especially freelancers in creative professions - beg friends and colleagues who test positive not to declare them as contacts, to avoid having to go into quarantine. For some the fear of losing work and money outweighs social responsibility.\n\nMoves to compensate people for taking time off work have largely been well received, writes Maddy Savage in Stockholm.\n\nTo encourage people to stay at home from the moment they develop coronavirus symptoms, the government changed the rules to allow Swedish employees and the self-employed to claim sick pay from the first day they are off, rather than the second. Employees receive about 80% of their salary while they isolate (capped at SEK 700 or £61.88 per day), and the self-employed are entitled to payments capped at 804 SEK or £71.05. The government has also introduced an allowance for people isolating because they live with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nWhile Sweden has largely kept primary schools open throughout the pandemic, parents have been able to make use of a pre-existing benefit which allows them to take state-funded time off work if their children are ill (with the virus or any other illness), and an additional benefit has been introduced for parents who are forced to take time off work to look after children affected by school closures as a result of a local outbreak.\n\nBut these measures have also stirred debates about welfare inequality. There are concerns that workers who are paid by the hour or on temporary contracts aren't entitled to the same level of sickness benefits as permanent staff - there are reports that this has encouraged some to keep working despite developing Covid-19 symptoms.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The Black Country Living Museum normally gives visitors a taste of ordinary life in the Victorian era\n\nA venue that has doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders is to operate as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.\n\nUsing Black Country Living Museum, a largely open-air site, to deliver jabs is said to be a \"game-changer\" for the local community.\n\nThe Dudley attraction, which is closed to tourists during lockdown, is expected to help administer thousands of injections a week.\n\nPeople are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.\n\nThe formal appointments will initially prioritise doses for people most at risk of complications from the virus.\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England showed 97,310 Covid jabs had been administered in Dudley and the surrounding area by Thursday - the second highest amount in the Midlands.\n\nBut rollout at the museum - which begins on Monday - will see it become Dudley's first vaccination centre.\n\nIt will complement existing GP-led vaccination services which are already up and running locally.\n\nCillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham-set drama filmed in part at the museum\n\nThe museum normally gives visitors a taste of life in the Black Country during bygone days and has been used as a location for Peaky Blinders, the BBC TV series set in nearby Birmingham in the early 20th Century.\n\nSaying the step was a game-changer, Nicholas Barlow, Dudley Council member for health, said: \"Having the Black Country Living Museum on board as a vaccination centre will greatly increase the amount of jabs we can deliver, and the speed at which we can administer them.\n\n\"It will make people safer from this deadly virus more quickly.\"\n\nSally Roberts, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group chief nurse, said: \"Our progress [in the area] to date has been incredible and I am delighted that our first vaccination centre, which will be capable of delivering thousands more vaccines each week, is going live.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Skewen in Neath Port Talbot has been badly hit by flooding over the past two days\n\nThere have been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out caused by recent flooding, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday as heavy rain caused issues across the country.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said none of its mass vaccination centres or GP surgeries had been affected by floods.\n\nIt added anyone struggling to get to a vaccination appointment because of the flooding would be able to rearrange.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board also said it was not aware of flooding in north Wales causing any issues for the vaccine roll-out.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said on Thursday that teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe latest figures released on Friday showed 212,317 people in Wales had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with a further 415 receiving a second dose.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nAbout 80 people in Skewen had to be evacuated from their homes after streets were left under water.\n\nFire crews returned to the scene on Friday to continue to pump floodwater away from houses.\n\nMeanwhile, a family in Rossett, Wrexham county, had to be rescued by helicopter after their home became surrounded by floodwater on Thursday night.\n\nNorth Wales has also been hit by floods\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that efforts to rehouse those affected by the floods were being done in \"as Covid-secure a way as possible\".\n\nDorothy Edwards, Covid-19 vaccination programme director for Swansea Bay health board, said: \"None of our mass vaccination centres have been impacted by flooding and we're not aware of any particular issues in primary care.\n\n\"Of course we will be sympathetic if there are people struggling to get to their appointment and if they are booked in at an mass vaccination centres they need to ring the booking line and the appointment will be rearranged.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"There have been no adverse effects on the vaccine roll-out due to flooding.\"", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "An exhibition now celebrates Wuhan's success in controlling the outbreak\n\nWuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.\n\nFrom the moment a new, pandemic coronavirus emerged in the same city as a laboratory dedicated to the study of new coronaviruses with pandemic potential, Prof Shi Zhengli has found herself the focus of one of the biggest scientific controversies of our time.\n\nFor much of the past year she has met the suggestion that Sars-Cov-2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial.\n\nNow though, she has offered her own thoughts on how the initial outbreak may have begun in the city.\n\nIn an article in this month's edition of Science Magazine she referred to a number of studies that, she said, suggest the virus existed outside of China before Wuhan's first known case in December 2019.\n\n\"Given the finding of Sars-Cov-2 on the surface of imported food packages, contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of Sars-Cov-2 transmission,\" she wrote.\n\nFrom one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses, even the discussion of such a possibility seems unusual.\n\nCould a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?\n\n\"The virus came from America,\" this fishmonger told the BBC\n\nBut with the virus vanquished, the idea that it is a foreign import is repeated with almost unanimity across this city of 11 million people.\n\n\"It came here from other countries,\" one woman running a hotpot stall in a busy street tells me. \"China is a victim.\"\n\n\"Where did it come from?\" the next-door fishmonger repeats my question aloud, and then answers: \"It came from America.\"\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes.\n\nThe tough lockdown coincided with the annual spring festival celebrations and came too late to prevent the global spread of the disease - five million people had already left the city ahead of the holiday.\n\nDoctors' warnings had gone unheeded and, in an outpouring of anger on the Chinese internet, the authorities stood accused of covering up the initial outbreak in the interests of political stability.\n\nOne year on, there's little sign of that anger in Wuhan today. In fact it's the humdrum normality that is striking - the traffic jams, the bustling markets and busy restaurants.\n\nIts success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe accompanying texts mention his \"all-out war\" against the pandemic, his \"resolute decision making\" and how he has been willing to share \"China's solutions\" with the world.\n\nThere can be no doubting the success of China's mass testing programmes, its tracing apps and the widespread mask wearing.\n\nBut its strict enforcement of lockdowns, with little hand-wringing over the impact on individual rights, may be far less easy for democratic countries to emulate.\n\n\"The strategic success achieved in this battle fully manifested the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant advantages of the socialist system of our country,\" the exhibition proclaims.\n\nDespite China's promise of international co-operation, the world is still no closer to an answer to the biggest question of them all - where did the virus come from?\n\nMany prominent scientists believe that - based on past outbreaks - the most likely source of the coronavirus is a natural one, a \"zoonotic\" leap from bats - known to harbour such viruses - to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.\n\nBut China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading.\n\nThose scientists who argue that the possibility of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology should also be included as part of any investigation are curious about this apparent silence.\n\n\"I find it very unlikely that such investigations would not have already occurred,\" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told me.\n\n\"It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from.\"\n\nWuhan's exhibition also has a display of hospital beds\n\nInstead of publishing its own evidence though, China appears to be taking an anywhere-but-Wuhan approach, with state media cheerleading the idea that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food imports or talking cryptically of \"multiple origins\".\n\nAt a recent daily press briefing, I asked China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, why such narratives were being promoted in the absence of real scientific evidence.\n\n\"Your question reveals your prejudice against China,\" she replied. \"Reports have emerged from Australia, Italy and many other countries that the coronavirus was found in multiple places in the autumn of 2019.\"\n\n\"Aren't these all facts?\" she asked.\n\nNot according to Alina Chan, who told me that such studies \"lack validation\" and some have been conducted without \"the most basic controls\".\n\n\"They do not present persuasive scientific evidence that the virus was circulating outside of China before the late 2019 outbreak in Wuhan,\" she said.\n\n\"The earliest detected cases and outbreak were in Wuhan. Early cases outside of China were found to have travelled from Wuhan. The most similar viruses have been found inside China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nInterestingly, scientists who have found themselves disagreeing strongly about the likelihood of the lab-leak theory, suddenly find themselves very much aligned on whether the virus came from abroad.\n\n\"I do not find the data linking Sars-Cov-2 to frozen foods to be credible,\" Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in the US, told me.\n\nAs someone who is a firm supporter of China's insistence that the virus could not have escaped from a lab, he gives its latest position much shorter shrift.\n\n\"All the available evidence points to an emergence of the virus somewhere in China in late 2019,\" he said.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli, seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nProf Shi Zhengli recently told the BBC in an exchange of emails that she'd welcome \"any form of visit\" by an inquiry team to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to rule out the possibility of a lab leak.\n\nBut to a follow-up email asking about the alignment of her discussion of possible foreign origins with the Chinese government's own narrative, she sent another reply.\n\n\"Your question is not friendly,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter months of delay and wrangling with China about access, a World Health Organization team has arrived in Wuhan to begin its inquiry into the origins of the virus.\n\nTheir terms of reference hint at the politics behind the scenes, with the document mentioning many of China's talking points, including foreign origins and food-chain transmission.\n\nLast year Wuhan endured one of the strictest lockdowns the world has seen\n\nDr Daniel Lucey, a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington, suggests the stage is being set for a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"In my view, if you line up side-by-side the WHO's terms of reference with the Shi Zhengli Science article,\" he told me, \"then it is clear that the overarching strategic narrative is that the origin of the virus is outside of China.\"\n\nThe crisis that began in Wuhan is now the world's crisis and, with so many lives and livelihoods lost, answers are desperately needed.\n\nIf the virus came naturally from bats, an understanding of that pathway is important to protect humanity from the risk of repeated \"spillover\" events from the same source.\n\nIf it leaked from a lab, an urgent review of safety protocols is needed - not just in China but globally.\n\nBoards in Wuhan say the virus broke out \"in multiple places around the world\"\n\nScientists are beginning to wonder if those answers will ever be forthcoming.\n\n\"It's undeniable now that politics have gotten in the way of science,\" Alina Chan said.\n\n\"I just hope that the WHO team will relay the details of their experience so that the public can understand what the limitations of their investigation are.\"\n\nIn Wuhan's giant exhibition hall, the city's place in history is again called into question by one of the concluding sign boards which says Covid-19 broke out \"in multiple places around the world\".\n\nFor China, this city's past is now propaganda and the truth, like the virus, is being brought under tight control.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said extending the maximum wait from three to 12 weeks was a \"public health decision\" to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said that was \"difficult to justify\" and should be changed to six weeks.\n\nIt comes as early evidence suggests the UK virus variant may be more deadly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing on Friday: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThe government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says unpublished data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is still effective with doses 12 weeks apart - but Pfizer has said it has tested its vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe World Health Organization has recommended a gap of four weeks between doses - to be extended only in exceptional circumstances to six weeks.\n\nGovernment minister Robert Jenrick said the current strategy ensured \"millions more people can get the first jab\" and the \"high level of protection\" which it offered.\n\nHe said the BMA's concerns would be taken into account but that the government was following the \"very clear advice\" of the medicines regulator and the UK's four chief medical officers who, he said, \"could not have been clearer that this is the right thing to do for this country\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: \"Our number one priority is to give protection against coronavirus to as many vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn the letter to Prof Whitty, seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it agreed that the vaccine should be rolled out \"as quickly as possible\" - but called for an urgent review and for the gap to be reduced.\n\nThe doctors' union said the UK's strategy \"has become increasingly isolated internationally\" and \"is proving evermore difficult to justify\".\n\n\"The absence of any international support for the UK's approach is a cause of deep concern and risks undermining public and the profession's trust in the vaccination programme,\" the letter said.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA, said there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"Obviously the protection will not vanish after six weeks, but what we do not know is what level of protection will be offered [after that point],\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We should not be extrapolating data when we don't have it.\"\n\nHe said while he understands the rationale behind the decision, \"no other nation has adopted the UK's approach\".\n\n\"We think the flexibility that the WHO offers of extending to 42 days is being stretched far too much to go from six weeks right through to 12 weeks,\" he added.\n\nThere has been understandable enthusiasm over a promising start to the hugely ambitious UK vaccination rollout.\n\nBut there has been some tension over the decision to lengthen the time between doses for the Pfizer vaccine to 12 weeks.\n\nProf Whitty and other health leaders and experts say this will allow many more people to get vaccinated quickly and the first dose gives most of the protection.\n\nBut critics argue this goes against Pfizer's recommendation of a three-week gap and there is no data to back up the long delay.\n\nThe intervention of the BMA is significant as it shows senior doctors now have widespread concerns, including worries about reliability of supplies if people have to wait longer for a second jab.\n\nThis is a private letter to Chris Whitty seen by the BBC and not a grandstanding press release. The BMA wants to have talks with the chief medical adviser about moving to six weeks.\n\nProf Whitty will no doubt restate his case, but it will be interesting to see whether the BMA argument gains traction in the wider medical world.\n\nThe BMA also suggested second doses might not be guaranteed after a 12-week delay \"given the unpredictability of supplies\".\n\nHowever, Public Health England's medical director said people would get their second dose.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she backed the current strategy, saying it was \"about bearing down on transmission\" to reduce deaths and reduce the chance of more dangerous variants of the virus emerging.\n\n\"The more people that are protected against this virus, the less opportunity it has to get the upper hand,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the letter include:\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have said the \"great majority\" of initial protection comes from the first jab, while the second dose is likely to help that protection last longer.\n\nIn total, the UK has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 40 million of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines are expected to work against the variant of Covid-19 that emerged in the UK.\n\nWhat has been your experience of receiving the vaccine? Are you waiting for your second dose? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurses are calling for all UK staff to be given a higher grade of face mask to protect them against new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing warns that inadequate PPE may be putting the lives of nursing staff at risk.\n\nIt has written to the workplace safety watchdog detailing its concerns, soon after a similar appeal from doctors.\n\nEngland's Department of Health says there is no reason to change current guidance.\n\nIt follows a comprehensive review of all the evidence around the new variants and the impact on PPE.\n\nAt present, most nurses working outside of intensive care wear standard surgical masks.\n\nBut the RCN says they may not protect them against the new variant of the virus, and very small airborne viral particles spread in hospitals.\n\nInstead, it wants all NHS staff to be given the kinds of high-grade face masks used in intensive care units, called FFP2 or FFP3 masks.\n\nThe UK guidance on infection prevention and control has recently been updated, but nurses say it allows individual trusts to decide what PPE to use.\n\nAs a result, some hospitals are offering staff high-grade PPE while many are not - and that is leading to unequal levels of protection depending on where nurses work.\n\nMany nurses wear standard surgical masks outside of intensive care\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: \"The government's silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff.\n\n\"It must stop dragging its feet on this issue. Nursing staff need to have full confidence that they are protected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff picking up this virus at work are angered at any suggestion they have stopped following the rules - this is down to the new variant and the dangerous shortage of adequate protection.\"\n\nNHS England data shows a 22% rise in the average number of healthcare staff off sick because of Covid-19 in the first week of January, compared with the last week in December.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care in England said the safety of NHS and social care staff was \"top priority\" but the current guidance did not need changing.\n\n\"In response to the new Covid-19 variants, the UK Infection Prevention Control Cell conducted a comprehensive review of all available evidence and concluded that current guidance and PPE recommendations remain the right ones.\n\n\"New and emerging evidence is continually scrutinised and evaluated by the government, in conjunction with our world-leading scientists,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is asking the governments of the UK to:\n\nIt is also calling for the Health and Safety Executive to review the guidance on appropriate use of PPE in all health and care settings.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "Morriston is seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people die in intensive care\n\nAn intensive care consultant said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nDr John Gorst said the number was \"unprecedented\" at his unit in Swansea's Morriston Hospital that would normally only see one person die.\n\nHe said the second wave of the pandemic was more challenging with patients more severely unwell.\n\nIn Wales, there has been an average of about 34 deaths a day during the pandemic up to 19 January.\n\nNew Year's Day saw the most Covid-related deaths in a single day in Wales - 55 - since the pandemic began.\n\n\"In some 12-hour periods we have lost up to five coronavirus patients,\" said Dr Gorst.\n\n\"Usually we expect to see, on average, one patient a day dying in the intensive care unit. To have five die on one day is unprecedented.\n\n\"That's been a real struggle for their families and for the staff dealing with it.\"\n\nFour additional medical wards have opened to cope with the impact of coronavirus at Morriston, with about 300 patients being treated.\n\nDr John Gorst and senior matron Carol Doggett say Covid patients are sicker and younger in the second wave\n\nDr Gorst said: \"If it wasn't for the treatment given on the wards, intensive care would have been completely overwhelmed.\n\n\"However, when patients have failed on these treatments, sadly the safety net of the intensive care unit [and] getting them on an invasive ventilator, largely doesn't work.\n\n\"Most patients who come to intensive care to go on an intensive ventilator, sadly, will not survive.\n\n\"These patients are mostly of working age. They don't have any significant medical conditions.\"\n\n\"This is alien to us as an intensive care unit. We expect far more patients to survive. Now they are not.\"\n\nMorriston's senior matron Carol Doggett agreed that the \"number of sicker patients has definitely increased\", and she said they were younger than had been experienced in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"That should be a stark warning to anyone not to take chances with this,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there was cause for concern over new variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the new highly contagious strain - sometimes called the Kent variant - is now widespread across Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government was closely monitoring three new variant variants: one from South Africa and two from Brazil.\n\nSix cases of the South African variant have been identified in Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record.\n\nAnd another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to everyone to \"take personal responsibility this New Year's Eve and stay at home\".\n\nHe said he knew how much had been sacrificed this year but, with the NHS under pressure, \"we cannot let up\".\n\nOn Thursday, just after midnight, 20 million more people in England were placed under the toughest restrictions and told to stay at home.\n\nThe new restrictions mean 44 million people, or 78% of the population of England, are now in tier four, where non-essential shops, gyms, cinemas and hairdressers have to stay shut.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said Christmas week had seen a worrying rise in cases - particularly among adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"We have all had to make huge sacrifices this year, but please ensure that you keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask,\" she said.\n\n\"A night in at new year will mean you are significantly reducing your social contacts and can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThe 981 deaths recorded on Wednesday was the highest daily figure since April.\n\nMuch of the rise in cases has been blamed on the spread of a new variant, which scientists believe is able to transmit more easily.\n\nIt was initially concentrated in the London, the South East and eastern England, but Mr Hancock has said it is now responsible for the \"majority\" of new cases across the UK.\n\nWith the number of Covid patients in hospitals increasing, some are being moved long distances for intensive care.\n\nDr Michael Marsh, NHS England medical director for the south-west region, said patients had come from Kent to Plymouth and Bristol, where services were \"less stretched\".\n\nThe latest NHS Test and Trace figures show 232,169 people tested positive for Covid in England at least once in the week to 23 December, up 33% on the previous week and the highest weekly rise on record.\n\nCovid case rates are continuing to rise in all regions of England - with London's rate at 735.5 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up from 711.9 the previous week, the latest Public Health England report showed.\n\nEastern England saw the second highest rate, 551.3 up from 510.8, followed by south-east England at 450.6, up from 427.4.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland recorded 2,622 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours - a record high for the third day in a row.\n\nPublic Health Wales reported a further 1,831 cases in Wales, with the highest case rates in Bridgend (825.6 for every 100,000 people) and Merthyr Tydfil (754.2).\n\nAnd Northern Ireland has seen another 1,929 cases in the last 24 hours, as hospitals come close to capacity with latest figures showing only six empty beds.\n\nSome hospital trusts in the south of England have also been reporting that they are under extreme pressure because of increasing numbers of Covid patients.\n\nOn Wednesday, Essex and Buckinghamshire declared major incidents, while an intensive care doctor at London's Whittington Hospital said they were facing a \"tsunami\" of Covid cases.\n\nProf Hugh Montgomery said people who did not follow social distancing rules or wear masks \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nThe NHS said London's Nightingale Hospital had been \"reactivated\" and was ready to admit patients, in anticipation of rising pressures from the spread of the new variant.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Father (left) and son have had divergent views on Brexit in the past\n\nThe father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.\n\nStanley Johnson told France's RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France.\n\nThe 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nHis son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.\n\nStanley Johnson explained his reasons for seeking French citizenship in an interview broadcast on Thursday, hours before the UK was due to leave EU trading rules.\n\n\"It's not about becoming French,\" he told RTL. \"It's about reclaiming what I already have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. \"I will always be European,\" he added.\n\nStanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.\n\nBrexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister's sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.\n\nTheir brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.", "Tampon tax activist Laura Coryton says scrapping the tampon tax is an important move ‘ending a symptom of sexism’\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.\n\nEU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the end to what they called a \"sexist tax\" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was \"about ending a symptom of sexism\".\n\nThe UK was able to get rid of the tax now because it is no longer subject to European Union rules on sanitary products.\n\nThe EU is itself in the process of abolishing the tampon tax. In 2018 the European Commission published proposals to change the VAT rules, which would give countries the right to stop taxing tampons and other period products, but the move has not yet been agreed by all members. The Republic of Ireland has zero VAT on sanitary products as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing the 5% minimum VAT rate on EU members.\n\nMs Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move \"challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women\".\n\nThe move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.\n\nFelicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: \"It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books.\"\n\nThe Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nIt's been a long road to getting the tampon tax abolished in the UK. Campaigning and debates in parliament by then-MP for Dewsbury Ann Taylor led to the Labour government moving sanitary products to a reduced rate of 5% from January 2001- the lowest rate possible under the EU's VAT rules.\n\nAnd following more campaigning in 2014 by Ms Coryton and lobbying in parliament by former Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff in 2016, the Conservative government announced that all VAT collected on sanitary products would henceforth be given to charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nAt the same time, the government enshrined in legislation that it would abolish the tampon tax.\n\n\"I'm just so happy and relieved and excited at the same time for this tax to finally be axed,\" said Ms Coryton.\n\n\"It will mean a reduction in prices for period products, and that reduction in cost will be important for the increasing number of people who are battling with poverty, especially due to the pandemic.\"\n\nGemma Abbott is a lawyer and campaigner with the Free Periods group, which successfully campaigned for the government to provide free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England in 2019. The scheme launched in January.\n\nGemma Abbott wants clarity from the government on why the free sanitary products for schools scheme is not mandatory\n\n\"I think it's great news and a real testament to the determined campaigning of many people, like Paula Sheriff and Laura Coryton,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we can agree that any tax that characterises period products as non-essential is absurd and it has no place in a society that is seeking genuine gender equality.\"\n\nFree Periods is now campaigning to ensure that schools and colleges know that the free sanitary products scheme exists and that they sign up for them.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"The latest statistics we have are from last term - at that point only 40% of schools had signed up for the scheme.\"\n\nMs Coryton has set up a social enterprise called Sex Ed Matters with her sister Julia, providing talks in schools and toolkits for teachers to help them deliver the mandatory new sex education curriculum for primary and secondary schools issued in early 2020.\n\nThey did an online survey of 150 teachers and students across the UK, and 100% of respondents said that there is still a stigma attached to periods.\n\n\"If there is a stigma attached to periods, then you're unlikely to speak up when you need period products, or to talk about the free sanitary products scheme that exists,\" stressed Ms Coryton.\n\nBut Free Periods' Ms Abbott is also concerned about the charities supporting women and girls, who will no longer benefit from the proceeds of the previous 5% tax on sanitary products.\n\n\"The tampon tax fund has provided much needed support and funding to a chronically underfunded area,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that the removal of the tampon tax will spell the end of the ring-fenced funding for charities to address really vital issues like domestic violence and rape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.\n\nThe band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.\n\nBut eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.\n\nFly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.\n\nIt comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.\n\nThe duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: \"The KLF have left the music business.\"\n\nDriving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, \"I died for ewe\".\n\nCauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.\n\nIn recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a \"people's pyramid\", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.\n\nBut fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several \"sound-alike\" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.\n\nThe band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.\n\nThe Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sistersofperpetualresistance This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.\n\nIt read: \"KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.\n\n\"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral.\"\n\nThe text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.\n\n\"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.\n\n\"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK celebrated the start of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRevellers were not able to gather to celebrate the London mayor's display in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nThe new year celebrations also featured a message of hope from David Attenborough.\n\nWatch the full display on the BBC iPlayer", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is one of five men who have been rebailed by police\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he will not fight for re-election in May due to an ongoing bribery and witness intimidation investigation.\n\nMr Anderson, 62, made the announcement after Merseyside Police said he had been rebailed until February following his arrest earlier this month.\n\nHe tweeted he was \"disappointed\" with the police decision as he had \"provided all of the information they asked for\".\n\nHe said it was in the Labour Party's best interests to pick a new candidate.\n\nMr Anderson was arrested on 4 December, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nThe year-long investigation, Operation Aloft, has focused on a number of building and development contracts in Liverpool.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Anderson said he was \"stepping away from decision-making\" and would take unpaid leave while the police investigation continued.\n\nThe Labour Party also suspended Mr Anderson pending its outcome.\n\nMr Anderson said he would \"continue to fight to demonstrate that I am innocent of any wrongdoing [and] also to protect my legacy as mayor of this city of which I am proud\".\n\nHe said the timing of the police investigation meant \"it would be in the best interests of the Labour Party to select a new candidate for the mayoral election\".\n\nMr Anderson also wrote: \"I have dedicated my life to this city with loyalty and passion and I am not prepared to throw that away.\"\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on Liverpool City Council, called on Mr Anderson to immediately resign from the local authority.\n\nMr Kemp said his Labour opponent was a \"lame duck mayor\" who was \"preventing the city from moving on\".\n\nMr Anderson said he hoped the police investigation would be completed \"long before\" the expiry of his term of office.\n\nHe said it would confirm he had \"done nothing wrong\" and his name and reputation \"will be exonerated\".\n\n\"I have never done anything that would harm this city,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Merseyside Police said five men had been rebailed until 19 February.\n\nThe Labour Party has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.\n\nAs a player, Glasgow-born Docherty made more than 300 appearances for Preston and won 25 caps for Scotland.\n\nHe went on to manage 12 clubs, leading Chelsea to League Cup success in 1965 and United to a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup final.\n\n\"Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy be respected at this time.\"\n• None Docherty - manager of many clubs, quicks and one-liners\n\nDocherty - affectionately known by his nickname 'The Doc' - died at home in the north west of England on 31 December.\n\nAfter spells managing Chelsea, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa and Porto, he took over as Scotland boss in September 1971 on a temporary basis before getting the job full-time two months later.\n\nBut he was best known for his five-year spell at Manchester United, who approached him to succeed Frank O'Farrell in December 1972 while Scotland were on course to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals.\n\nUnited were relegated in 1974 under Docherty but they kept the Scot and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking. Two years later, they won the FA Cup with victory over Bob Paisley's Liverpool, who had won the league and would go on to also win the European Cup that year.\n\nDocherty's time at Old Trafford also saw George Best fail to revive his United career, the retirement of Bobby Charlton, and the departure of Denis Law.\n\nIn 2014, he told the BBC he still regretted his decision to leave the Scotland job for United.\n\n\"I was stupid,\" he said. \"I should have stayed with Scotland. [It was] partly the money, I have to be honest about that.\"\n\nDocherty was sacked shortly after the Wembley triumph for having an affair with Mary Brown, the wife of United physiotherapist Laurie Brown.\n\nThe pair later married and they remained together until his death.\n\nDocherty returned to management with First Division side Derby in September 1977, then rejoined QPR two years later. A turbulent time at Loftus Road saw him sacked in May 1980, reinstated after just nine days, then sacked again the following October.\n\nSpells at Sydney Olympic, Preston, South Melbourne and Wolves followed, with Docherty's final managerial job coming at non-league Altrincham in 1987-88.\n\nPost-retirement, he worked as an after-dinner speaker and media pundit.\n\nDocherty was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2013.\n\n\"He was tenacious on the park and a great leader off it,\" Petrie added.\n\n\"Tommy was a regular in the Scotland side in the 1950s that qualified for two World Cups, and his record as Scotland manager was impressive, albeit cut short.\n\n\"Looking at the results and performances he inspired, it is hard not to wonder what might have been had he remained.\n\n\"His charisma and love for the game shone even after he stopped managing and it was entirely fitting Tommy should be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame for his lifelong service.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA £2,500 reward has been offered after a nativity scene was petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene in Raglan, Monmouthshire, had been installed in a bus shelter for families to enjoy over Christmas.\n\nThe fire destroyed statues of a shepherd, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus - with only the three wise men surviving as they stood outside the shelter.\n\nMiguel Santiago, of the Beaufort Hotel which funded the £10,000 scene, said the attack was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"I was in the hotel when I saw the fire and I went into panic mode,\" he said.\n\n\"It was about 21:45 on Christmas Eve when it all happened and I ended up using nine extinguishers to put it out.\"\n\nThe wooden nativity was funded by the hotel and put together by retired theatre design lecturer Liz Friendship.\n\nMs Friendship said the festive scene had also been targeted by thieves in the past.\n\n\"In 2018 Mary was taken, in 2019 two shepherds were stolen and never came back, and in 2020 it's burnt down.\n\n\"It's now just three kings staring at the bus stop. It's very sad.\"\n\nThe scene was in ruins following the petrol bomb attack\n\nVillagers are now appealing for help to catch the suspects responsible for the Christmas crime.\n\nMr Santiago added: \"It's a shame because so much effort went into putting it together this year.\n\n\"We added three kings which really made it a great sight, we made sure the figures couldn't be taken by fixing them down.\n\n\"It's really disappointing that this has happened but the locals have been great and we will be back next year with a bigger and better nativity.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: \"Officers are investigating a report of criminal damage to a nativity scene on the High Street, in Raglan on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It has been reported that fire damage was caused to the set at approximately 9.45pm on the evening of Thursday 24th December 2020.\n\n\"The scene that belonged to the Beaufort Hotel was totally damaged as a result.\"\n\nAnyone with information should contact police on 101, she said.", "The crowd at Edinburgh Castle dispersed after police arrived\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year despite police and government warnings to stay away.\n\nPeople sang and danced before dispersing when several police vans and cars drove on to the castle esplanade.\n\nMost Scots heeded warnings to hold Hogmanay celebrations at home with household members.\n\nThere were no midnight fireworks at the castle, but a display was held at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We were aware of gatherings at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill around midnight on Hogmanay.\n\n\"Officers safely engaged with those in attendance and explained the current government regulations resulting in the groups dispersing without incident.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that there should be \"no gatherings, no house parties and no first footing\" at Hogmanay.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and Skye are under level four restrictions, while the other islands are in level three.\n\nDetails have meanwhile emerged of another police enforcement action against a group who gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle during the festive period.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 32 people were charged with culpable and reckless conduct after officers were called out on 27 December.\n\nAccording to the Scottish Sun, the group had travelled from Glasgow but police were tipped off by locals who spotted vehicles parked outside the property.\n\nPeople in Scotland were urged to stay at home and celebrate the new year with their families\n\nAt Edinburgh Castle, one Hogmanay tradition endured as a lone piper played in the new year at midnight.\n\nWith the capital's traditional new year party cancelled, the organisers of its annual Hogmanay celebration instead released a series of \"drone swarm\" videos titled Fare Well.\n\nThe display featured a swarm of 150 illuminated drones forming symbols and animals in a \"beautiful ode to Scotland\".\n\nEach video was narrated by actor David Tennant and included verses written by Scotland's official poet, makar Jackie Kay.\n\nWhile they appear to be flying above landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, the drones were flown elsewhere before being edited into other footage.\n\nDrones write a message in the sky above the Forth Bridge\n\nThe streets of central Edinburgh were quiet, in contrast to last year's Hogmanay celebrations when about 100,000 visitors attended the street party with live performances from Idlewild and Mark Ronson in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nElsewhere in the UK this year a fireworks and light display, including tributes to NHS staff, was held over the River Thames in London, but people were also told to stay at home rather than go out and celebrate.\n• None UK sees in 2021 with fireworks and light show", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads Image caption: Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads\n\nEarlier we reported that a study by Imperial College had concluded the new coronavirus variant is \"hugely\" more transmissible. Now some experts are saying that means even tougher restrictions will soon be needed.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said: \"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread - more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person passes the virus onto. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nEarly data suggested that the virus was spreading more quickly among the under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children, but the latest results indicate that it is more infectious in all age groups.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, part of the research team, suggested that it may have appeared to spread more easily among school children simply because the early data was collected during the November lockdown, when adults' movements were restricted but schools remained open.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and teachers have criticised the closure decisions\n\nNine London boroughs have written to the education secretary asking him to reverse plans to reopen primary schools in some areas.\n\nAbout a million primary school pupils will not return to lessons next week in a bid to cut Covid transmission rates.\n\nHowever, schools in 10 London boroughs are due to remain open.\n\nIn the letter, the leaders said they were \"struggling to understand the rationale\" behind the idea as pupils and teachers moved between boroughs.\n\nThe government has said the measure would be reviewed fortnightly.\n\nAll primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January but under government plans those in 23 London boroughs will remain closed.\n\nHowever, schools in the City of London, Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Islington, Kingston, Lambeth and Lewisham will open.\n\nThe letter to Gavin Williamson has been signed by leaders of all of those boroughs apart from Kingston. It has also been signed by the City of London's policy chair.\n\nIt calls for primary school pupils across the capital to \"move to online learning until 18 January\", apart from vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\n\"The omission of 10 boroughs ignores the deep interconnectedness of our city, and the many thousands of teachers and students that study or teach in one borough and live in another,\" the letter states.\n\nThe councils also said they had received legal advice that omitting some councils from the list of areas told to take teaching online \"is unlawful on a number of grounds and can be challenged in court\".\n\nRichard Watts, leader of Islington Council, told the BBC there \"seems to be no reason at all to look at this on a borough by borough basis\".\n\n\"The entirety of the rest of the government's handling of the pandemic has rightly treated London as a single entity and this is the first time anyone... has tried to implement different public health measures in different boroughs,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement Dan Thorpe, leader of the Royal borough of Greenwich, accused the government of providing \"a lack of clarity and answers\", adding that the situation was \"causing uncertainty and concern among our schools, families, carers, and undoubtedly children and young people\".\n\nAlthough Kingston Council did not sign the letter, leader Caroline Kerr said reopening primary schools in the borough \"doesn't make any sense\" and that they were \"urgently seeking clarity on the reasoning for the decision\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called the plans \"nonsensical\" and has also written to the government calling for a \"delay to all London schools opening until mid-January\".\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the education secretary \"must listen to the leaders of the community, he must listen to school staff and he must listen to the general public who are all telling him that it is not safe to reopen schools on Monday\".\n\nThe Department for Education has previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician was known for his performances in which he always wore a mask\n\nHip-hop star MF Doom has died at the age of 49, his family confirmed on social media.\n\nThe London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.\n\nIn a post on the rapper's Instagram account on Thursday, his wife Jasmine confirmed that he died on 31 October.\n\nA number of artists have paid tribute to MF Doom including Run The Jewels and Tyler, The Creator.\n\nIn a note addressed to the rapper, his wife paid tribute to \"the greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for\".\n\nHis representatives confirmed his death to Rolling Stone magazine. No cause of death was disclosed.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mfdoom This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMF Doom was born in London but moved to New York as a child.\n\nAs a teenager he performed in hip-hop group KMD. Following the loss of his younger brother and bandmate DJ Subroc, he disappeared from music becoming, in his own words, \"damn near homeless\".\n\nBut in 1997, he remerged at open mic events in Manhattan, wearing tights over his face. He protected his anonymity for the rest of his career, adopting a mask based on the Marvel villain Doctor Doom for all his public appearances.\n\nHis debut as MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, was released in 1999, and he followed it up with an almost non-stop outpouring of music.\n\nAs well as six solo albums, he produced a wealth of bootlegs, compilations, collaborations, mixtapes and instrumental albums - including the influential, 10-part Special Herbs series.\n\nHe may be best known for 2004's Madvillainy, which was recorded with crate-digging producer Madlib under the moniker Madvillain, and gave the rapper his first entry on the US album chart.\n\nAnother of his high-profile collaborations was Danger Doom alongside DJ Danger Mouse, and he appeared with Damon Albarn's Gorillaz on their UK number one album Demon Days. Other collaborators included Ghostface Killah, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches and Radiohead.\n\nOne of hip-hop's most respected MCs, he made appearances on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1 in which he discussed his own music and projects with other artists.\n\nMany of them lined up to pay tribute after news of his death broke on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"RIP to another Giant, your favourite MC's MC... MF DOOM,\" wrote A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on Twitter. \"Crushing news.\"\n\n\"He was a writer's writer,\" added El-P of Run The Jewels. \"Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.\"\n\n\"All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,\" Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy. \"My soul is crushed.\"\n\nApple Music presenter Zane Lowe said: \"Rest In Peace to the great MF Doom. A true artist who gifted us with eternal innovation and creativity.\"\n\nWhile the Sleaford Mods said: \"RIP MF DOOM. Sleep well mate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe UK has seen off 2020 and celebrated the dawn of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff.\n\nRevellers were not able to ring in the New Year in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nPolice had to break up various parties and events across England overnight.\n\nForces have handed out hundreds of fines, with several issuing the maximum £10,000 to event organisers.\n\nMuch of the UK saw in the new year while under lockdown rules, with about 44 million people in England - or 78% of the population - in tier four, the top level of Covid restrictions.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are also under lockdown.\n\nAlthough people were warned not to attend any parties outside their own homes, there were many around the country who ignored the rules.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police attended 58 parties and unlicensed music events in breach of tier four rules across London overnight, the vast majority of which ended when police intervened, they added.\n\nFixed penalty fines were given to 217 people while five others could be fined £10,000 for organising large gatherings. The police force said four other people were arrested for breaching Covid regulations by gathering in central London.\n\nElsewhere, other forces also broke up parties and handed out hundreds of fines. They included Greater Manchester Police, which issued 105 fixed penalty notices at house parties and larger gatherings. And Leicestershire Police had to issue six on-the-spot £10,000 fines to party organisers.\n\nIn Essex, hundreds of people were dispersed from an illegal New Year's Eve party at a church, while Lancashire Police broke up a party in Hyndburn, near Blackburn, attended by 80.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland, Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled, with videos of a drone display released instead.\n\nThe series of videos showed a swarm of 150 lit-up drones over the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh were released, which organisers said it was the largest drone show ever produced in the UK.\n\nDespite the cancellation of Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay celebration - which normally attracts 100,000 people on the city's streets - there were some people who ignored the pleas to stay at home.\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year. They sang Auld Lang Syne and danced before eventually dispersing when several police vans and cars pulled on to the castle esplanade.\n\nAn anti-lockdown protest and New Year's Eve celebration was also held in London\n\nPeople cross Hungerford Bridge in London on New Year's Eve\n\nOn New Year's Eve, Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on people to take \"personal responsibility\" and stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nLondon's 10-minute display over the Thames aired on the BBC at midnight, and began with a poem which addressed the pandemic, that said: \"In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way; We knew what must be done and so to help we hid away.\"\n\nLight projections lit up the sky over the O2 Arena, including the NHS logo in a heart accompanied by a child's voice saying: \"Thank you NHS heroes\".\n\nThe show also recognised Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £33m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden and the Black Lives Matter movement. One 2020 phenomena - working from home - was represented with a mute logo backed by a voiceover saying \"You're on mute\".\n\nThe display ended with a call from Sir David Attenborough about the need for action on climate change.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the display had reflected the resolve of Londoners to endure\n\n300 drones were used in the display to create images in the sky\n\nIn a speech being broadcast on BBC One between Doctor Who and EastEnders this evening, Sir David will say that this \"could be a year for positive change - for ourselves, for our planet and for the wonderful creatures with which we share it\".\n\nDespite the \"challenging\" times we live in, \"the reactions to these extraordinary times has proved that when we work together there is no limit to what we can accomplish\", he will say, as he looks ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year.\n\nThe sounds of a video conference call starting up were played\n\nMuch of London was far quieter than usual\n\nEdinburgh's streets were largely empty, with Police Scotland warning against Hogmanay gatherings\n\nOfficial figures showed 10.75 million viewers watched the 2021 New Year celebrations on BBC One. It's down from the 11.18m who saw in the start of 2020 on the channel.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was proud of the show, which he said \"paid tribute to our NHS heroes and the way that Londoners continue to stand together\".\n\n\"We showed how our capital and the UK have made huge sacrifices to support one another through these difficult times, and how they will continue to do so as the vaccine is rolled out.\"\n\nUsually, around 100,000 people pack into the streets around Victoria Embankment to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his New Year's message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he saw \"reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead\" despite the \"tremendous pain and sadness\" brought by 2020.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas' hospital during the pandemic, saying: \"Sometimes the most important thing we do is just sit with people, letting them know they are not alone.\"\n\nIn his message, filmed at the London hospital and broadcast on BBC One on Friday afternoon, he said: \"This crisis has shown us how fragile we are. It has also shown us how to face this fragility.\n\n\"Here at the hospital, hope is there in every hand that's held, and every comforting word that's spoken.\n\n\"Up and down the country, it's there in every phone call. Every food parcel or thoughtful card. Every time we wear our masks.\"\n\nDid you make a special effort to celebrate this New Year? How did you mark it? Share your experiences and pictures of what you got up to by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "For months, the government has been urging businesses to get ready for a new era in trading with the EU. But it was only on Boxing Day that details of all the new rules were actually published.\n\nBusiness groups are relieved that the threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would have meant tariffs (or taxes) on goods crossing the border with the EU, has been removed. But companies that trade with the EU are still facing a lot of new bureaucracy.\n\nAnd the disruption in mid-December, caused by border closures related to the new variant of Covid-19, was a reminder of how dependent the UK economy is on trade across the English Channel.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, goods entering the EU from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) face large amounts of new paperwork and checks, including:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHauliers will also need to make sure they have the right transportation paperwork before they drive to the border.\n\nThere is particular focus on the \"short straits\" route between Dover and Calais, and the nearby Channel Tunnel, which taken together handle about four million lorries a year.\n\n\"This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,\" says William Bain from the British Retail Consortium.\n\nFull controls on British exports to the EU began on 1 January. The first day of the new regime appears to have gone relatively smoothly.\n\nBut it's feared that later in the year, the new controls could cause disruption, even though new border infrastructure has been built at ports such as Calais, to help process vehicles more efficiently.\n\nThere are some mitigating measures though.\n\nIn response to the Covid crisis, the government is delaying full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU for a further six months.\n\nThere will be checks from 1 January on controlled substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and traders deemed to be a risk will also be asked to fill in customs declarations.\n\nBut most checks on goods coming in from the EU will be delayed until 1 July, a deadline that could in theory be extended.\n\n\"I think we will want to monitor it,\" the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, told MPs in November. \"Hopefully we will not still be in a situation where Covid-19 is consuming as much of people's attention.\"\n\nOther measures to tackle potential disruption include diverting trade to other ports around the country and opening lorry parks in Kent, to avoid gridlock on the roads.\n\nSome of these contingencies were put into action early, to deal with the Covid border closures in December.\n\nOperation Brock, for example, involved changing the layout of a section of the M20, using a concrete barrier to allow lorries heading for mainland Europe to queue safely on the motorway.\n\nThousands of lorries were also diverted to temporary parking at a disused airport at Manston.\n\nFrom 1 January drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to acquire a Kent Access Permit before they enter the county. They will have to show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nBut that doesn't deal with the challenge of the thousands of vans that cross the Channel every week.\n\n\"What has been serially misunderstood by various parts of government is the scale of the complexity for people on the ground dealing with the paperwork,\" says Duncan Buchanan, the Policy Director of the Road Haulage Association.\n\nThat could mean that instead of queues on motorways, many traders won't be able to leave their depots.\n\n\"Either they won't be able to get vets to sign off on their meat exports, or they won't be able to get their permit because they don't have the right bits of paper,\" says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Storage Federation.\n\n\"We might see a quite significant holding off of trading - people just not moving stuff in the first few weeks.\"\n\nEighty-five per cent of the volume of trade between the EU and Great Britain is carried by EU hauliers, who are often paid not by the hour, but by the kilometre. If they think there will be too many delays, many may simply not come.\n\nThe government says the readiness of traders to deal with the new system remains its biggest concern.\n\nLorries parked on the M20 in Kent\n\n\"The sheer scale of the overall operation means there are literally many millions of moving parts,\" permanent secretary of the cabinet office Alex Chisholm told MPs. \"Inevitably there are going to be some difficulties for some individual people as they adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nThe government has also announced a new Border Operations Centre as part of plans \"for the UK to have the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about how changes at the border might affect food supply. The short answer is no-one can say for sure, but nearly 30% of all the food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU.\n\nThe good news is that there is a deal, which makes a big difference. But the challenge is particularly acute because the UK grows relatively small amounts of fruit and vegetables in January and February and is most dependent on supplies from southern Europe at this time of year.\n\nSo, if there are delays, they could cause some shortages on the shelves.\n\n\"Some gaps are possible but we're not going to run out of food - that's not going to happen\" says Ian Wright.\n\nWhen it comes to non-perishable items, there had been some stockpiling in preparation for either outcome, but extra supplies won't last forever.\n\n\"The crunch point is probably not going to be in the first few days or weeks of January,\" William Bain argues. \"Towards the end of the month, when new orders start being placed and delivered, we will start to see the processes in Kent and the other ports really tested.\"\n\nAnd it's not only about food.\n\nOther retailers, which are used to moving their stock freely around the EU customs union, have had to create separate supply chains for the UK. That is costing them more money, and their new systems have yet to be tested properly.\n\nIt's not just about trade across the English Channel.\n\nTrade across the Irish Sea between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be subject to the same pressures, while Northern Ireland will be a special case under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland will remain in the EU single market for goods, and unlike the rest of the UK it will continue to enjoy frictionless trade with the EU with no checks of any kind at the land border with the Republic.\n\nBut there is a price to pay for that - new bureaucracy within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU, for example, has strict rules on products of animal origin: meat, milk, fish and eggs.\n\nThese products must enter the single market (and, from 1 January, Northern Ireland) through a border control post where paperwork is checked, and a proportion of goods physically inspected.\n\nThere will be a grace period of three months for supermarkets and their suppliers, but some smaller traders may have to get used to the new rules straight away.\n\nAll shipments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will also need a safety and security declaration, and a customs declaration from a new IT system which none of the traders have used before.\n\nThe government has set up a Trader Support Service to help.\n\nThe details of the new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were announced separately in early December, and provided some clarity. They include an agreement which means the vast majority of goods being shipped from GB to NI will not be at risk of having tariffs imposed.\n\nBut there are plenty of unresolved issues.\n\nTraders are seeking answers about how to send parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and some online retailers have already suspended deliveries.\n\nThe trade from British to Northern Irish ports often involves multiple small shipments on a single lorry - all of which will need the right paperwork.\n\n\"We need clear rules for everyone in the supply chain,\" says Duncan Buchanan, \"and when you scratch the surface it is just not ready.\"\n\nIt is expected that many checks will be carried out on a 'light touch' basis to begin with.\n\nBut anyone trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is going to have to get used to a new way of working very quickly.", "Nearly half a century of the UK's membership of the European Union and its predecessor organisations ended in January of course.\n\nWhat has now ended is the UK's economic membership of the bloc. Forty-eight years in the European customs union, basically the Common Market, and 28 years in the single market.\n\nThe Single Market was a creation for which the UK has paternity rights. It was Margaret Thatcher's rallying call for European reform, her calling card to unleash a wave of Japanese investment in post-industrial Britain and shepherded into existence by her appointee as commissioner Arthur Cockfield.\n\nIts creation served the UK's economic interests, as it grew the home domestic market available for British exporters without tariff or non-tariff barriers, eventually to nearly half a billion Europeans. It was not without irony that the tortuous negotiations of the past four years were made tougher by the EU's insistence on defending what it calls the \"internal market\", itself created by the British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndeed the institutional underpinning of this huge marketplace became too much for Mrs Thatcher. Famously she became suspicious of Commission President Delors turning up to tell the TUC that through the European Union workers could reassert rights rolled back by the Conservative Government.\n\nAt her 1988 Bruges speech PM Thatcher replied: \"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.\"\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market\n\nPerhaps this was the beginning of the path to Brexit, carried along by the push to monetary union and resentment at the overreach of the European Court of Justice and the considerable impact of the \"direct effect\" of community and then union law.\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market. Mrs Thatcher's campaigning for EEC membership was quickly followed by a charm offensive that began as opposition leader to get Japanese investors to build high tech factories to sell cars tariff-free across Europe.\n\nFor the UK it would provide employment, technology, capital and competition for the languishing nationalised UK-owned auto sector.\n\nOngoing membership of the EEC, restrictions on union activity and investment tax breaks were part of the deal communicated in writing to the then chairman of Nissan.\n\nThe Datsun Bluebird was being developed in Sunderland and around the same time the Italians and the French threatened to slap tariffs on what they saw as a Japanese ruse to avoid tariffs and undercut their industry.\n\nThe UK government quickly communicated that it was willing to take this matter to the European Court of Justice. The attempt to kill the Nissan factory at birth was fended off.\n\nFrom this, the UK car industry and other advanced manufacturing prospered from being plugged into rapid continent-wide supply chains, delivering each part just in time and just in sequence.\n\nAll of that was enabled by conformity of regulations, standards, zero tariffs and the eradication of non-tariff barriers, for sale, but also within the manufacturing process.\n\nThe UK became the financial centre for the euro\n\nSimilar stories could be told about the pharmaceutical industry, chemicals, the food industry, aerospace, and financial services.\n\nWithin the EU, the UK even became the financial centre for a new currency, the euro, which it did not participate in.\n\nThe single market itself, with regulations set and enforced in Brussels, became a player on the world stage. And yet there was a balancing act. The UK could influence the direction of one of the biggest tankers in the sea but was restricted in acting more nimbly in new industries. In some sectors, the UK's trade dealings with the US or Asia were more important than with Europe.\n\nAnd so this tension led to breaking point. And for the Conservative Party in particular the single market's institutions it created and championed, became something akin to Frankenstein's monster.\n\nThe EU has agreed an investment deal with China\n\nSome Brexiteers had hoped that the edifice would collapse once the UK left. But it has proven more robust than that. Indeed, Brexit has proven a catalyst of the EU to sign trade and investment deals far more quickly, including even with China.\n\nSo now the UK finds itself outside of the machine it created as its strategic competitor. The trade negotiation wasn't primarily about trade. Great Britain has declared regulatory independence, or to be more specific, has declared as much regulatory independence as is compatible with a zero-tariff trade deal.\n\nThe EU retains levers and switches to turn off some of these tariff advantages should the UK use the deal to turn into an offshore tariff free assembly hub for US and Asian manufacturing to be traded into the single market. Unlike with Nissan four decades ago, the European Court of Justice will no longer be there.\n\nThe global pharmaceutical industry offers an opportunity for the UK\n\nThe PM wants regulatory competition but his own deal contains disincentives, if not actual restrictions, on competing \"unfairly\" or too much.\n\nSo the strategy matters. Britain is free, but to do what exactly? To level up? Well the regions that need levelling up are the ones that are actually most dependent on exports to Europe. Exports to Europe will be spared tariffs, thanks to the deal, but there will be literally millions of non-tariff barriers, that the economists calculate matter more, from health checks, customs formalities, origin paperwork, assessments of standards etc.\n\nEven to qualify for tariff-free treatment means, according to new government guidance on \"rules of origin\", analysis of how complicated is the process of grating cheese, of the shelling of nuts, and formalities on where the eyes of a doll come from. Most apply legally from tonight, having been absent for decades.\n\nThe sweet spot for UK will now be to deploy regulatory freedom in sectors that are truly global, where we are not already overly dependent on EU markets.\n\nCertain sub-sectors within technology, finance and pharmaceuticals, for example. In each of these sectors the UK is likely to have to offer more friendly regulation to the multinational private sector, than the EU.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean lower standards: It could be that UK medicines regulators, for example, build on the record of rapid approval for Covid vaccines in other medical areas.\n\nThe deployment of massive scientific networks within the National Health service, used for rapid clinical testing, could become the envy of the world.\n\nBrexit Britain is likely to become a laboratory for the global economy. Car companies will need to be attracted with more permissive rules on data and, say autonomous driving testing. Some tech companies are already porting their UK customers to be served under US data privacy laws rather than more restrictive EU ones.\n\nBut the government will also have to be very active and judicious. We are already \"picking winners\" again, at least in the satellite business. What about electric power, where the EU will fight aggressively, versus hydrogen power?\n\nThere are a number of structural economic problems, from poor training, declining productivity and low investment that were not caused by EU membership which, in terms of non-tariff barriers, are made immediately worse by this type of Brexit, for which the UK has no option but to deal with.\n\nNorthern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market\n\nThat process of looking outwards may not come quickly. Holyrood and Stormont rejected the Brexit trade deal. The UK has replaced a single market of 500 million Europeans free of non-tariff barriers with a single market smaller than the size of the UK.\n\nThere is a trade border in the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market. There are non-tariff barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a result of this deal.\n\nLastly there are some big unknowns and unknowables.\n\nThe inadvertent diplomatic consequences of changes in trade patterns can be profound. If, for example, the eminent historian RW Johnson is to be believed, the UK's accession to the EEC in the first place created the conditions for the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime which was \"hurt in several ways\".\n\nBritish trade was remodelled away from the Commonwealth to Europe, the EEC offered favourable trade with all of Africa except Pretoria. And then when Portugal followed its ally the UK into the EEC, its African colonies and white rule quickly lost to revolutions by black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique.\n\n\"Thus the seeds of the 1976 Soweto uprising were sown\" in part by the UK joining the EEC. Which is obviously not to suggest the reverse would be true. It is merely to say that events such as these can have very unpredictable knock on effects.\n\nThe Prime Minister has succeeded in taking the UK out of the Single Market created by his heroes. The UK now stands outside a system that it helped invent. For now its new single market is not the size of the country.\n\nThe test of all of this, is to make the UK's new single market the size of the globe.", "Some lorries have been turned away for not having the correct paperwork\n\nPlans are in place to minimise disruption at Welsh ports - especially Holyhead - as the UK enters a post-Brexit new year.\n\nThe EU Brexit transition period is over, and lorry drivers heading to and from the Republic of Ireland require additional paperwork to travel.\n\nOfficials at Holyhead said some lorries have already been turned away because they had the wrong documentation.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was doing what it could to \"protect\" the port.\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said it was \"imperative\" contingency plans were in place for the island, as it wakes up to the new customs regime.\n\nFerry operators in Wales will now require freight customers to link customs information to their booking as they head for the Irish Republic.\n\nWithout that paperwork, port access will be refused.\n\n\"We've had the first few rejects, which is not unexpected,\" said Stena Line's Head of UK Ports, Ian Davies.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales from Holyhead on New Year's Day, he said it showed the new system was working.\n\n\"We've had people that have been passed and allowed to be shipped, and we've had a few failures as well, so it will be a learning curve for these customers.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said a \"worst case scenario\" published by the UK suggested 40% to 70% of heavy goods vehicles arriving at ports after transition ended on New Year's Eve may not have the right documentation to travel.\n\nThe peak period for turning vehicles away is expected to be mid-January.\n\n\"We simply don't know whether things are going to work,\" said Rod McKenzie, who is managing director of policy for the body representing lorry drivers and operators, the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"There is no question there will be problems, even if all the IT works, things could go wrong, and given traders' unfamiliarity with it there is the potential for a lot of mistakes to be made.\"\n\nA contraflow will allow lorries to be \"stacked\" on parts of the A55 if traffic builds\n\nThe association said it was more worried about \"invisible delays\" in the supply chain, rather than queues at ferry ports.\n\n\"Lorries might not leave their factory gate or depot because the paperwork isn't done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's really, really important that people try to get their paperwork right. The consequences of any mistakes will be a disruption of the supply chain.\"\n\nHe said the sector would know in about a week \"how it's going\".\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had been working to ensure any vehicles turned away from Pembroke Dock and Fishguard were dealt with away from the ports.\n\nIt has arranged overflow locations at Goodwick and Pembroke Dock for its own version of Dover's \"Operation Stack\", where lorries queue along the M20.\n\n\"The importance of Pembrokeshire's ports to the county, Wales and UK as a whole cannot be overestimated,\" said council leader David Simpson.\n\nHolyhead is the UK's second busiest roll-on roll-off ferry port\n\nOn Anglesey, a temporary contraflow is in force on the A55 expressway, eastbound between junctions two and four, allowing any traffic turned away from the port to be redirected back.\n\nIt will be moved to parking locations at Parc Cybi on the outskirts of the town, and if necessary, lorries will be parked on the cordoned-off A55 sections.\n\n\"We will monitor the situation carefully and as soon as it's safe to do so we will remove the temporary contraflow,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"While the next few days are expected to be quiet, we know it will become busier as we approach mid-January.\n\n\"Our aim is to do what we can to protect the port, town of Holyhead and wider community from any possible disruption.\"\n\nOn Friday, port authorities on Anglesey said freight traffic has been quiet, as expected over the bank holiday period.\n\nIt follows an steep rise in lorry crossings in the run up to Christmas and the end of the transition period.\n\nFerry operator Stena Line is also responsible for running Holyhead Port.\n\n\"We can't get complacent over the next few days,\" said a Stena spokesman.\n\n\"It's when freight levels come back up that we'll know whether the systems are really working and whether the hauliers are ready. That will be the real test.\"", "More than 35,000 people have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales\n\nThe Covid vaccine programme is at the \"very beginning\" and vaccination rates are increasing, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething has insisted.\n\nIt follows concerns raised by some politicians over the speed of Welsh vaccine rollout.\n\nInitial figures on how many people have received the first Pfizer-BioNTech jab show Wales is slightly behind those vaccinated elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Gething said there were likely to be \"small differences between nations\".\n\n\"Comparisons are naturally being made on the number of vaccinations administered by the four nations of the UK,\" he said in a ministerial statement to Senedd members.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise the data indicates there are other nations ahead of us, the national data presented at this very early stage of the vaccination roll out should be considered provisional and a snapshot of ongoing activity.\"\n\nHe said there would be \"lags\" in data being entered, and local factors affecting vaccinations.\n\n\"For example the vaccination centre in Cardiff and the Vale was unable to operate for two days because of a virus outbreak linked to the site,\" he added.\n\nMore than 35,000 people have now received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales, including healthcare workers who work in Wales but live over the border in England.\n\nAlmost 13,000 of these vaccines were given in the past week.\n\nThe number of vaccinations in Wales up until 27 December account for 1.12% of the Welsh population.\n\nIn England, 1.4% have received a jab, while in Scotland it is 1.7%, and 1.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Welsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies flagged his concerns about the vaccine delivery programme on Thursday.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, the first Covid-19 vaccine was given in Wales, and since that time we have sadly seen confusion and hope drop away,\" he said.\n\n\"Many people over 80 in Wales were desperately waiting for their appointment to do their bit and have the vaccine but as we quickly learnt they would have to wait longer,\" he said.\n\nBut the health minister said daily vaccination rates were \"increasing across Wales\".\n\nThe focus is on delivering vaccines effectively and safely, says Vaughan Gething\n\n\"Looking ahead, all health boards are preparing for significant expansion in capacity from the beginning of January,\" added Mr Gething.\n\nHe said the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved earlier this week would be available from some GPs in Wales from Monday.\n\n\"This is only the very beginning of what will be a programme spanning many months,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the urgency and priority required is clear to all, we must also have some patience and allow the NHS to do what it does so well.\n\n\"My focus, and that of the NHS, is on delivering the vaccine programme quickly but also effectively, safely and equitably.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also confirmed it will be following the latest advice from medical advisers on introducing a 12-week gap between the two doses of vaccines needed, for both types of approved jabs.\n\nAll four chief medical officers in the UK have supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\n\"It will ensure that more at-risk people are able to get protection from a vaccine in the coming weeks and months, reducing deaths and starting to ease pressure on our NHS,\" said Mr Gething.\n\nVaccinations started earlier in December after regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine\n\nPlaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to ask the UK government to publish evidence to justify increasing the period for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Gething, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the \"sudden switch\" represented \"a very significant departure\" from previous guidelines.\n\nHe added there were \"very real concerns\" that a longer delay between doses \"could significantly decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province remained under lockdown.\n\nMr Ford on Thursday said Mr Phillips' departure showed his government \"takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard\".\n\nCanada's most populous province has discouraged all non-essential travel amid record-high new case counts.\n\nMr Phillips, who is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, had taken a personal trip to St Barts on 13 December and returned on Thursday morning.\n\nAhead of the holiday season, Ontario health officials had urged residents to stay at home when possible amid an ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPeople line up on Christmas Day at a Covid test site in Ontario\n\nMr Phillips told reporters when he arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport he hoped to keep his job, but would respect the premier's decision.\n\n\"Obviously, I made a significant error in judgment, and I will be accountable for that,\" Mr Phillips said. \"I do not make any excuses for the fact that I travelled when we shouldn't have travelled.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Ford said in a statement he had accepted Mr Phillips' resignation following a conversation with him. Mr Ford has asked Peter Bethlenfalvy, currently president of the treasury board, to step into the finance minister role.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ford had said he learned of Mr Phillips travel two weeks ago, but said the minister \"never told anyone\" he was going to St Barts, according to CBC.\n\nOntario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Wednesday had pushed for Mr Phillip's firing, saying it was unacceptable for him to \"ignore public health advice\" while the government \"demands sacrifice from everyday Ontarians\".\n\n\"It's not believable that a senior member of cabinet didn't tell the premier's office he was leaving the country for weeks during the height of a global emergency,\" she said in a statement. \"If he didn't, that in itself would be enough reason to demote him.\"", "The UK's chief medical officers have defended the Covid vaccination plan, after criticism from a doctors' union.\n\nThe UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThe British Medical Association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nBut the chief medical officers said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second jab.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two vaccines were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nBut the chief medical officers said the \"great majority\" of initial protection came from the first jab.\n\n\"The second vaccine dose is likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy,\" they said.\n\n\"In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest; the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the second dose has, understandably, caused concern.\n\nThere is some evidence regulators say - at least for the Oxford vaccine - that it will actually boost immunity.\n\nBut for those who are due to get a second dose soon it will undoubtedly be upsetting that they now have to wait.\n\nBut the move is about practicalities. The UK is in the middle of a public health crisis and despite the fact that millions of doses are pre-ordered, there is concern the supply of the vaccine will not be as smooth as everyone would ideally want.\n\nThere is a global demand for these vaccines and there are bound to be times when supply does not meet demand.\n\nSo the logic of the move is that by spreading this thin resource the most widely, it will have the greatest benefit - not only to the vulnerable but to everyone.\n\nLives have been put on hold and livelihoods lost.\n\nThis is the quickest way back to some degree of normality.\n\nEven if it does leave some of the vaccinated susceptible to infection, it should in theory at least protect them from serious illness.\n\nGiven where we are now, the argument is that that is a price worth paying.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday - the second approved for use in the UK - regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses.\n\nThis means more people will get the first jab sooner, even if they have to wait longer for their second jab.\n\nExperts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\nDefending the move, the UK's four chief medical officers - including England's Prof Chris Whitty - said in a statement released on New Year's Eve: \"In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable.\"\n\nThey said they recognised that rescheduling second appointments was \"operationally very difficult\" and would \"distress patients who were looking forward to being fully immunised\".\n\nHowever, they said that for every 1,000 patients booked in for a second dose, which will \"gain marginally on protection from severe disease\", that would mean 1,000 more people missing out on \"substantial initial protection\".\n\nThe chief medics said that, while one million people had already been vaccinated, approximately 30 million UK patients and health and social care workers eligible in the first phase \"remain totally unprotected and many are distressed or anxious about the wait for their turn\".\n\nThey added that the JCVI was \"confident\" 12 weeks was a reasonable interval between doses \"to achieve good longer-term protection\".\n\n\"We have to follow public health principles and act at speed if we are to beat this pandemic which is running rampant in our communities, and we believe the public will understand and thank us for this decisive action.\"\n\nEarlier, the BMA's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses.\n\nHe said the BMA would support practices who honour the existing appointments for the follow-up vaccination, calling for the government to do the same.", "The first lorries to transport freight under the new arrangements arrived in Belfast on Friday afternoon\n\nThe first goods have crossed the new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and means that most commercial goods entering NI from GB require a customs declaration.\n\nAbout a dozen lorries arrived on a ferry from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast at 14:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThey were met by officials, with some vehicles directed to new border control posts.\n\nMany food products from GB now have to enter NI through these border posts where they can be inspected by the Department of Agriculture.\n\nThese products also need health certificates, though some of the new certification processes will be phased in over the next three months.\n\nThe UK government also announced a three-month \"grace period\" for parcels, meaning those sent by online retailers will be exempt from customs declarations until at least April.\n\nIt said the grace period was necessary to avoid disruption to deliveries at a time when many shops are closed due to pandemic restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has continued to insist the new range of checks, controls and paperwork is not actually a sea border.\n\nBrandon Lewis tweeted: \"There is no 'Irish Sea Border'. As we have seen today, the important preparations the government and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTransport companies are not expecting significant volumes of freight over the next few days.\n\nThere has been significant stockpiling ahead of the changes and it may take one or two weeks before freight volumes are at normal seasonal levels.\n\nSome businesses, particularly haulage companies, are anxious about the new IT systems which are necessary for the border to function.\n\nThey have had less than two weeks to familiarise themselves with the new systems.\n\nPolice officers carried out random vehicle checks near Larne Port on New Year's Eve\n\nSeamus Leheny from Logistics UK said: \"With any reconfiguration of supply chains and new systems there will be teething problems and we expect that.\"\n\nThere will be no new processes or checks for the vast majority of goods leaving NI for GB.\n\nThe new arrangements flow from the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIts purpose is to prevent a hard land border in Ireland.\n\nThat is achieved by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nThis will allow goods to flow from NI to the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU as they do now, without customs checks or new paperwork.\n\nThe Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties who fear it will weaken Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nThe arrangement does not change Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nHowever, it does mean a significant new economic barrier within the UK.\n\nUnionist parties fear the sea border will weaken NI's position in the UK\n\nThe UK government has allocated more than £300m for a Trader Support Service to help businesses deal with the new customs arrangements.\n\nThe government is also covering the costs of the new certification requirements for food products.\n\nA Movement Assistance Scheme will pay vets up to £150 to complete the Export Health Certificates which will need to accompany all live animals and products of animal origin entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nTrucks pass through a customs post at Dublin Port on Friday morning\n\nThere are also new checks and controls on freight arriving at Dublin Port from GB.\n\nOn Friday morning, the first ferry to arrive in Dublin from Holyhead had about 12 lorries on board.\n\nWhile they all cleared customs checks for the first time without delays, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the change in trading arrangements with the UK would inevitably cause disruption.\n\n\"We have avoided the kind of dramatic disruption of a no trade deal Brexit, but that doesn't mean that things aren't changing very fundamentally, because they are,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now going to see the €80b (£71.2bn) worth of trade across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delay.\"\n\nOn Saturday new freight sailings will begin between Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland and Dunkirk in France, allowing cargo to bypass GB and go straight to mainland Europe.\n\nThe six-times weekly service will take 24 hours, which is longer than the \"landbridge\" route via GB.", "A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union.\n\nThe UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK had \"freedom in our hands\" and the ability to do things \"differently and better\" now the long Brexit process was over.\n\nBut opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, \"but there is regret still at Brexit itself\".\n\nThe first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.\n\nOn Friday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that border traffic had been \"low due to [the] bank holiday\" but there had been no disruption in Kent as \"hundreds\" of lorries crossed the Channel with a \"small\" number turned back.\n\nSix freight loads travelling from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland had to be turned away due to not having the correct paperwork, the Stena Line ferry and port group said on Friday morning.\n\nBut later on Friday, the group said freight traffic was flowing well through its ports and government customs systems were working well.\n\nIt added that the fall in freight traffic after the Christmas and Brexit stockpiling period meant \"it is too early to draw any conclusions\", but the company remained \"cautiously optimistic that, as freight volumes begin to rise again, we will be able to ensure the continued free movement of goods\".\n\nUK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.\n\nBut officials have insisted new border systems are \"ready to go\".\n\nAs the first customs checks were completed after midnight, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said: \"It all went fine, everything's running just as it was before 11pm.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has different arrangements from other parts of the UK, meaning there will be some customs checks on goods moving between Great Britain and the province.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the first ferry from Great Britain operating under the terms of Northern Ireland trading protocol docked in Belfast, on schedule at 13:45 GMT.\n\nSeamus Leheny, policy manager at Logistics UK, said six out of the 15 lorries that were on the first ship to arrive into Belfast were brought in for inspection, with one being kept at the port for more than three hours.\n\n\"Inevitably there are going to be teething problems because with such a new, complex system as this there are going to be issues in the first few days,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe first lorry loads on to the Eurotunnel shuttle after the UK left the single market and customs union\n\nMandy Ridyard, whose aerospace components company makes daily shipments to Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme she was \"filling in the same declaration to send goods to the Philippines that I am sending them within the UK\".\n\n\"And obviously that all adds a lot of cost to my business.\"\n\nThe UK officially left the 27-member political and economic bloc on 31 January, three and half years after the UK public voted to leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nBut it stuck to the EU's trading rules for 11 months while the two sides negotiated their future economic partnership.\n\nA treaty was finally agreed on Christmas Eve, and became law in the UK on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, UK manufacturers will have tariff-free access to the EU's internal market, meaning there will be no import taxes on goods crossing between Britain and the continent.\n\nBut it does mean more paperwork for businesses and people travelling to EU countries, while there is still uncertainty about what will happen to banking and services.\n\nThe UK and Spain have also reached an agreement meaning the border between Gibraltar and Spain will remain open.\n\nFabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said the deal still needed to be formalised, but by abolishing controls between Gibraltar and the EU's passport-free Schengen area, he said it would prevent queues at the border \"which make people's lives a misery and make business difficult\".\n\nIt is a moment that some will regard with huge optimism, others with deep regret.\n\nAnd while this historic move happens at a moment in time, the impact, in some areas, may be less instant or obvious than others - for example, it's expected there'll be relatively little traffic at Dover on the first day of 2021 as new border checks kick in.\n\nNevertheless, significant changes are here - whether on trade, travel, security or immigration - and those changes could well become more apparent in the months ahead.\n\nMr Johnson - who took the UK out of the EU in January six months after becoming prime minister - said it was an \"amazing moment\" for the UK in his New Year message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he added that the combination of the Brexit deal and rollout of the Oxford vaccine means \"we are creating the potential trampoline for the national bounceback\".\n\nLord Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, tweeted that Britain had become a \"fully independent country again\".\n\nAnd the deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs, David Jones, told the BBC: \"We can now say clearly Britain is a sovereign and independent state.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of Brexit say the country will be worse off than it was while it was a member of the EU.\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said it was \"not something to celebrate\" and the UK's relationship with Ireland will be different from now on, but \"we wish them well\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK remained a \"friend and ally\", but he added that the choice to leave the EU was \"the child of European malaise and many lies and false promises\".\n\nIn Brussels, there is a sense of relief the Brexit process is over, but there is regret still at Brexit itself.\n\nBasically, the European Union thinks that Brexit makes it - the EU - and the UK weaker.\n\nBut the EU view is this is less bye-bye Britain and more au revoir, because there are so many loose ends between the two sides.\n\nFor example, there are the ongoing practicalities surrounding Gibraltar, the UK is still waiting to find out what access Brussels is going to give its financial services to the single market, there is cooperation on climate change, and there is a reviewal mechanism written into the treaty for every five years.\n\nFor all of those reasons and more, this is not the end of the EU-UK conversation for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe culmination of the Brexit process means major changes in different areas. These include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nMillions around the world have been seeing out 2020 and marking the start of 2021, although the coronavirus pandemic has forced many celebrations to take place in muted form behind closed doors.\n\nWith lockdowns or other restrictions in place in many countries, would-be New Year partygoers were told to have a quiet night in.\n\nOthers have attended ceremonies or festivals wearing masks or taking other precautions.\n\nIn Tokyo, below, people visited the Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer prayers. The popular Shinto shrine reduced the number of visitors allowed, as Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, crowds gathered in the city with balloons and festive outfits to count down to midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nFireworks lit up the night sky in Taiwan to mark the beginning of 2021, witnessed by thousands of spectators who gathered in the centre of Taipei.\n\nLike this family in Seoul, South Korea, many globally have marked the celebration in a small way and often at home.\n\nIt was a chilly celebration in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as people gathered at the city hall, waving sparklers in the 1905 Square.\n\nWhile in the United Arab Emirates, one of the largest New Year fireworks displays saw spectacular colours light up the sky over the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah.\n\nPyrotechnics also illuminated the sky around the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, as the clock struck midnight in Dubai.\n\nThe New Year's Eve party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is usually one of Europe's biggest street parties. But this year revellers were told to stay at home and watch the fireworks and music performances on TV or online instead.\n\nThese worshippers in Abuja, Nigeria, marked the end of 2020 with a gospel service.\n\nMeanwhile, people in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast were able to watch the fireworks display outside with friends and family.\n\nBut in New York City, just a handful of people were allowed into Times Square to watch confetti rain down and the traditional crystal ball drop.\n\nBrazilian authorities closed Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, but that did not stop some people enjoying celebrations.\n\nA fireworks and light show was held across various locations in London. A number of drones filled the sky close to the O2 Arena in East London forming messages referencing the pandemic, including the NHS logo.", "The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 in May with \"a new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nBBC Radio 4 will mark 70 years of The Archers with a series of features across its output on Friday.\n\nAs well as broadcasting episode number 19,343 of the world's longest-running serial drama, stars from it will appear on the station's other programmes.\n\nThis will include inserts into Woman's Hour, Farming Today, and a quiz.\n\nThe Archers, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nThe show's editor, Jeremy Howe, said its achievements over the years, coming up to the modern day, are incomparable.\n\n\"Almost daily and in real time The Archers has tracked life in the village of Ambridge across years and more than 19,000 episodes,\" he said.\n\n\"No work of fiction or drama can truly compare to that. As I look back on this incredible legacy, I am looking forward to the next 70 years of The Archers.\"\n\nBack in May, The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, with a \"new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLarge cast recordings with interaction between multiple characters were scrapped in favour of monologues recorded at the actors' homes.\n\nThe storyline of Friday's anniversary episode remains a secret, but celebratory programming on Radio 4 on the day will also include a special edition of With Great Pleasure at Christmas, where cast members from the series share their favourite prose and poetry.\n\nHowe, meanwhile, will appear alongside actor Timothy Bentinck (David Archer) and agricultural story advisor Sarah Swadling in an Archers-flavoured edition of Farming Today.\n\nWoman's Hour will focus on the female characters and storylines that have shaped the show.\n\nFinally, on the day, listeners will be invited to head over to The Bull pub - not literally of course - for the The Archers Anniversary Quiz, hosted by landlords Jolene (Buffy Davis) and Kenton Archer (Richard Attlee).\n\nOn Saturday 2 January, historian David Kynaston will then delve into the history of the programme further documentary feature entitled A Social History of The Archers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain has reached a deal with the UK to maintain free movement to and from Gibraltar once the UK formally leaves the EU on Friday.\n\nTo avoid a hard border, Gibraltar will join the EU's Schengen zone and follow other EU rules, while remaining a British Overseas Territory.\n\nThe deal was announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, just hours before the UK exits the EU.\n\nThe Rock voted Remain in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish workers go there daily.\n\n\"With this [agreement], the fence is removed, Schengen is applied to Gibraltar... it allows for the lifting of controls between Gibraltar and Spain,\" said Ms González Laya.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal will mean the EU sending Frontex border guards to facilitate free movement to and from Gibraltar. Their role is planned to last four years.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. They elect their own representatives to the territory's parliament, while the British monarch appoints a governor.\n\nThe territory - home to a British military garrison and naval base - is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy.\n\nMs González Laya did not say whether Spanish border guards would eventually be posted at Gibraltar's airport and/or seaport which, under the deal, will be de facto part of the EU's external border.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal would also mean the territory complying with EU fair competition rules in areas such as financial policy, the environment and the labour market, Ms González Laya said.\n\nTwenty-two EU states are in the passport-free Schengen zone, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but the UK has never been in it.\n\nOnce Gibraltar joins it, EU citizens arriving from Spain or another Schengen country will avoid passport checks, while arrivals from the UK will have to go through passport control, as is already the case.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Thursday's deal a \"political framework\" to form the basis of a separate treaty with the EU regarding Gibraltar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Gibraltar is British - in 60 secs\n\nThe deal does not address the thorny issue of sovereignty. Spain has long disputed British sovereignty over the Rock which was ceded to Britain in 1713 and which is now home to about 34,000 people. The Remain vote there was an overwhelming 96% in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe plan is to have a six-month transition period and then formalise the new arrangements with a treaty.\n\nUnder the current tight Covid rules, there are restrictions on UK citizens arriving via Gibraltar's airport, the UK Foreign Office says.\n\nDominic Raab said \"all sides are committed to mitigating the effects of the end of the [Brexit] Transition Period on Gibraltar, and in particular ensure border fluidity, which is clearly in the best interests of the people living on both sides.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our support for Gibraltar, and its sovereignty is safeguarded.\"", "Omar Elabdellaoui is receiving treatment in hospital after an accident with a firework\n\nNorway and Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui has been injured by a firework during a New Year's Eve celebration.\n\nThe Norwegian vice-captain's club said he was taken to hospital after \"an unfortunate accident at his home\".\n\nHe suffered burns to his face and damage to his eyes, the club said, adding that further tests would assess the extent of his injuries.\n\nThe New Year's Eve incident was one of many involving fireworks in Europe.\n\nIn Elabdellaoui's case, Turkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of the 29-year-old defender.\n\nTurkish newspaper Hurriyet said the former Manchester City player may have lost vision, without giving further details.\n\nBut in a statement cited by the newspaper, Galatasaray said Elabdellaoui was conscious, in a stable condition and had not undergone surgery.\n\nGalatasaray's manager Fatih Terim and the team captain Arda Turan went to the hospital to visit Elabdellaoui, who joined the club in 2020 from the Greek side Olympiacos FC.\n\nTurkish clubs - including Galatasaray's Turkish Super Lig rivals Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Trabzonspor - took to social media to wish Elabdellaoui a speedy recovery.\n\nTurkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of 29-year-old Omar Elabdellaoui\n\nElsewhere in Europe, at least four people were killed by fireworks during events to mark the new year.\n\nPolice in Alsace in eastern France said a 25-year-old man died after being hit by a rocket in the village of Boofzheim.\n\nA statement said the device beheaded him and severely injured the face of another young man standing next to him.\n\nA similar incident cost the life of a 28-year-old man in Pulle, a village east of Antwerp in Belgium.\n\nFireworks exploded over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year\n\nMeanwhile in Italy's north-western province of Asti, a 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight of injuries to his abdomen caused by a firecracker.\n\nThere were fireworks casualties in Germany as well. In the state of Brandenburg, police said a 24-year-old man died after setting alight \"self-made pyrotechnics\" while a 63-year-old man lost his hand when handling a firecracker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nInjuries and deaths from fireworks are not unknown over the New Year period. But fewer public fireworks displays than usual were held on New Year's Eve 2020, as coronavirus restrictions placed limits on gatherings worldwide.\n\nSome European countries had moved to limit the use of fireworks ahead of 31 December, with Germany imposing a ban on the sale of pyrotechnics.", "Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown Image caption: Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown\n\nNew parents missing baby classes and playdates due to lockdown say their children's development has been hit by the impact of coronavirus.\n\nWhen Rachael Powell's one-year-old daughter Emmeline met her grandparents for the first time she \"absolutely screamed the place down\" as she \"didn't know who they were\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to coffee shops, meeting other mums and going to baby classes and then everything stopped,\" says the 39-year-old from Greater Manchester.\n\n\"I felt guilty that she didn't get any of that and have that interaction.\"\n\nEducation consultant and child psychologist Paul Kelly says Covid is having a \"massive impact\" on babies.\n\n\"We are social creatures, social beings - it is pre-programmed in our brains,\" he says. \"When children's brains are stimulated, they grow.\"\n\nDr Kelly says there is also an impact on parents, who are missing out on \"mutual support\".\n\nHe says people should \"grab what they can, when they can\" during these uncertain times and focus on \"how you can enhance [your baby's] development... rather than spending time thinking about how your child might be behind\".", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said US policy towards his country would \"never change\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the US is his country's \"biggest enemy\" and that he does not expect Washington to change its policy toward Pyongyang - whoever is president.\n\nAddressing a rare congress of his ruling Workers' Party, Mr Kim also pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal and military potential.\n\nHe said that plans for a nuclear submarine were almost complete.\n\nHis comments come as US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Kim's remarks are an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government, with Mr Biden set to be sworn in on 20 January.\n\nMr Kim enjoyed a warm rapport with outgoing US President Donald Trump, even if little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his latest address to the Workers' Party - only the eighth congress in its history - Mr Kim said Pyongyang did not intend to use its nuclear weapons unless \"hostile forces\" were planning to use them against North Korea first.\n\nHe said the US was his country's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,\" state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nHis speech outlined a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nNorth Korea has managed to significantly advance its arsenal despite being subject to strict economic sanctions.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Kim admitted that his five-year economic plan for the isolated country failed to meet its targets in \"almost every sector\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders last January to prevent Covid from entering the country.\n\nIts authorities say the country has not had a single Covid case since the pandemic began but experts say this is highly unlikely due to North Korea's cross-border trade with China.\n\nTrade with China has plummeted by about 80%. Typhoons and floods have devastated homes and crops in North Korea, which remains under strict international sanctions, including over its nuclear programme.\n\nThe speech is likely to be Mr Kim's way of setting the stage for talks with President-elect Joe Biden who will take office in less than two weeks' time.\n\nThe aim is perhaps to put pressure on Washington to show that Pyongyang has no intention of being cowed by sanctions and will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal.\n\nMr Kim had three summits with Donald Trump - but they failed to reach a deal. However, North Korea is in a difficult and bleak economic position caused by strict sanctions, border blockades to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and devastating floods.\n\nThis message may seem threatening, but some analysts believe that there is still room for diplomacy.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Stonely is not eligible for the UK government Covid support scheme\n\nA father who has lived on Universal Credit since the Covid-19 pandemic started has called on the UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its support.\n\nDriving instructor and dad-of-three Andy Stonely is not eligible for the government's Covid support scheme.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses Wales has also asked for changes ahead of the next round of grants.\n\nThe Treasury said its Self-Employment Income Support Scheme was \"one of the most generous in the world\".\n\nThis scheme requires claimants to show accounts for the 2018-19 year as well as 2019-20.\n\nHowever, Mr Stonely from Newport hasn't been self-employed for long enough to qualify - so the 35-year-old has had to rely on financial support from his parents.\n\n\"I count myself somewhat lucky because I have been able to claim for Universal Credit,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously it's minimal and luckily through the help of parents I've been able to keep afloat.\n\n\"It's been tough. It would have been ideal if the government was just slightly more flexible.\"\n\nMr Stonely, who hasn't been able to work for much of the past year due to lockdown restrictions, said Universal Credit was worth \"less than half\" of his normal earnings.\n\nDriving school firm owner Gareth Denny said almost a quarter of his drivers can't claim Covid help\n\nThe coronavirus crisis forced his wife to give up her job to look after their three children, aged three, six and 17, when Mr Stonely was able to work for a short period at the end of the initial lockdown period.\n\nAsked how much longer his family could sustain itself if the current restrictions continue, Mr Stonely told the BBC's Politics Wales show: \"Not too much longer… we're going to be in a very tough situation.\"\n\nMr Stonely is part of a local driving school franchise managed by Gareth Denny, who said 11 of his 43 instructors were in this position.\n\n\"If you imagine that somebody lives their life to their income and suddenly there's absolutely no income to pay their mortgage and their bills, Universal Credit simply doesn't pay most people's mortgage,\" Mr Denny said.\n\nRecent research commissioned by the Community and Prospect trade unions and the Federation of Small Businesses found 53% of self-employed people across the UK had lost more than 60% of their income since the pandemic began.\n\nIn addition, 64% of people said they were now either \"unsure\" or \"less likely\" to want to be self-employed or freelance in the future.\n\n\"These are normal people who have mortgages, families to support, who've just had to fund a Christmas for the families,\" said Ben Francis of Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\n\"All those bills are now mounting up the other side of Christmas, and after having an already extremely difficult 12 months, they've now got to see how they manage through the months ahead.\n\n\"We would ask UK government to be flexible in their approach to verifying the statuses of these newly self-employed businesses.\"\n\nThe Community union warns with small businesses \"struggling to get back on their feet\", more people will leave self-employment.\n\nAll non-essential businesses shut in Wales just before Christmas\n\n\"That will be a disaster for our economy, for local economies, for their livelihoods and their families,\" said Kate Dearden of Community.\n\n\"This section of the UK workforce plays a fundamental role and should be properly supported to continue to do so.\"\n\nThe Treasury has already committed to extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme until April 2021, although the eligibility criteria for the next round of grants is yet to be published.\n\nA spokesman said the scheme had \"helped more than 2.7 million people so far, claiming over £13.7bn\".\n\nHe added: \"Funding is designed to target those who need it most and protect the taxpayer against fraud and abuse.\n\n\"Those not eligible may still be able to access our loans schemes, tax deferrals, mortgage holidays and business support grants.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "People in England are being told to act like they have got Covid as part of a government advertising campaign aimed at tackling the rise in infections.\n\nBoris Johnson said the public should \"stay at home\" and not get complacent.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nGovernment sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\n\"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government is releasing its advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, says in the advert: \"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nSuch an incident is an emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nWhile the government seeks to reinforce its \"stay at home\" message, some police forces have faced criticism for their approaches to tackling potential breaches of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDerbyshire Police has said it will review fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown after two women were ordered to pay £200 each after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, said \"more support and enablement\" was needed for people to adhere to the regulations, for example support to help people self-isolate, rather than punishment.\n\nProf Michie, who sits on a subcommittee of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, also said the current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, she said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring the restrictions were less strict, with more people allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries open, meaning public transport is busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\n\"So even if we went back to that kind of last spring level of reduction in contacts we couldn't be confident that we would see the same effect that we saw last year because of this increased transmission,\" he said.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThere is considerable concern in government about the continued spread of the virus.\n\nNo 10 believes more needs to be done to emphasise how severe the current situation is - which is why we are getting some very stark warnings from the medical experts.\n\nMinisters continue to praise the public - but there is also more emphasis on people taking the rules seriously, as was the case last spring when the first lockdown was imposed.\n\nThe prime minister warns people against complacency, saying: \"Your compliance is now more vital than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital are struggling to cope with an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients\n\nLatest figures from Public Health England reveal the coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nLondon councils have urged places of worship to close and the bishop of London Sarah Mullally said churches should \"consider the seriousness of the situation\" before holding in person services this weekend.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast all London hospitals had \"effectively been working in major incident mode for the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"Most hospitals have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. Obviously we don't have three times the number of staff so our staff are being spread more thinly,\" he said.\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nIn Wales, senior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy said she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at Royal Glamorgan Hospital last Saturday, with no capacity at the unit.\n\nAnd Dr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they don't have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas \"so it is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Three people were found inside the gym in Stean Street in Hackney on Friday\n\nThe owners of a London gym have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules by remaining open during lockdown.\n\nPolice were called to the fitness centre in Stean Street, Hackney, on Friday to reports of a regulation breach.\n\nThree people were found inside the gym at 09:30 GMT. The owners were given a £1,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" its hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in London had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there are 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nNHS England figures published on Friday showed the number of Covid patients in London hospitals stands at 7,277, up 32% on the previous week.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"Whilst there are certain rules around people being allowed to exercise in public under this lockdown, nowhere in the legislation does it allow people to go to gyms to work out.\n\n\"Those found to be flouting the rules, as with this instance, should expect necessary enforcement action to be taken against them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police\n\nTwo women who criticised a police force for its \"intimidating\" approach to lockdown fines have welcomed a review.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at a reservoir five miles from their home when they were stopped by officers and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown but later said new guidance meant it would look again at the issue.\n\nBoth women said they were pleased the force had decided to think again.\n\nDerbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa said an \"urgent review\" was under way about how fines had been issued.\n\nLongstanding guidance from the College of Policing says officers should follow the \"Four Es\" and only give fixed penalty notices as a last resort.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived\n\nMs Allen said: \"We are happy to hear that Derbyshire Police have been told to not be so heavy handed with fines and return to the Four Es they were originally doing.\n\n\"We are yet to hear anything regarding our fine but if we have managed to save somebody the worry of going for a walk and fearing they would be fined then we have done what we set out to do.\"\n\nMs Allen and Ms Moore drove separately from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire the five miles to Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police, questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nInitially Derbyshire Police defended its actions, saying legislation said trips should be \"local\" and driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nDerbyshire police also fined visitors to other beauty spots like Calke Abbey\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit beauty spots at Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nBut later, the force said new guidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nMr Dhindsa said: \"It would appear that the force has been a little over-zealous in its interpretation of the guidance.\n\n\"While the police can enforce the regulations, guidance is just that which can make this a very challenging and complex situation to police.\"\n\nThe chief constable of neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Craig Guildford, said: \"We are not out and about telling people they have gone too far from home. We trust the public to take these regulations seriously.\n\n\"Derbyshire to be fair to them have some unique places that people may want to go to from a load of counties.\n\n\"But our approach is around reasonableness. If someone has gone 50 miles, we will take action, if someone has gone a couple of miles we are very sensible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nFootballers \"can get things wrong\" but must not be \"picked on\" despite several breaches of coronavirus guidelines, says West Ham manager David Moyes.\n\nHammers midfielder Manuel Lanzini was one of numerous Premier League players to attend a party over Christmas.\n\nMore than 60 games in England have been called off because of coronavirus outbreaks at clubs.\n\n\"We have to be careful that everybody isn't picking on football players,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We will all know people who have broken the rules in their own way.\n\n\"The players have followed the protocols. Every day at the training ground they have to go through rituals just to get into the building. They know what their job is. Like most human beings at times, they can get things wrong.\"\n\nArgentina international Lanzini was reminded of his responsibilities by the club and later apologised for his actions on Twitter.\n\nOn Friday, he announced he would be donating to a local foodbank as he wanted \"something good\" to come of his actions.\n\nMoyes praised Lanzini for his \"really good gesture\" but does not want to see players treated unfairly.\n\n\"If you are going to take tough measures on players, then you might as well take on the government people as well who have broken the rules because it's certainly not just football players who have done it,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got to be careful. A lot of people are throwing stones in glass houses at the moment regarding this. We all know what the protocols are, we all know we have to be ever-vigilant and make sure we're doing the right things.\"\n\nThe Premier League has implemented stronger coronavirus protocols in light of a recent surge in cases, including reminding players and managers to avoid handshakes and high fives.\n\nCompliance officers will also apply more robust policies to reporting breaches of protocols and will be tasked with checking hotel stays, travel plans and behaviour in dressing rooms.\n\nThe number of staff attending training grounds will also be reduced, social distancing will be enforced more strictly and the use of canteens will be further limited.\n\nStricter matchday protocols include avoiding unnecessary contact at all times, and substitutes wearing face masks.\n\nIn a note sent to clubs, the Premier League has warned it may take disciplinary action if they fail to to ensure people who breach the rules are \"appropriately investigated and sanctioned\".", "Kevin Hughes was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital before he died with coronavirus\n\nA man has died with Covid-19 less than a month after the funeral of his mother, who also died with the virus.\n\nFlintshire councillor Kevin Hughes, 63, was being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital but died on Friday morning, the authority said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of his sadness at missing his mother's funeral last month after he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCouncil colleague Chris Dolphin said he was a \"big man with a big heart\".\n\nThe independent councillor, also a former policeman and journalist, sat with the Liberal Democrat group.\n\nHe said missing the funeral of his mother, June Margaret Hughes, was one of the \"darkest days\" of his life.\n\nGroup leader, Mr Dolphin, called him a \"friend, fellow councillor, above all, a good man. Not one to stand on the side-lines - a doer. A man of enthusiasm, who was in life to be really involved.\"\n\nCouncil chief executive, Colin Everett, said: \"Kevin was a wonderful person with a big heart. Kevin was one of the most thoughtful and generous people I have worked with in my long career.\n\n\"I will miss him so much as both a councillor and as a friend.\"\n\nThe politician (left) will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January\n\nAuthority leader, Ian Roberts, called Mr Hughes a \"special person and friend who will be very sadly missed by all\".\n\nHe added: \"His contribution as a councillor has been considerable and he was highly respected by his community, members of the council and officers.\n\n\"He was an active local member and represented his community with integrity and in a positive and engaging way.\"\n\nMr Hughes will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January.\n\nThe authority's chairwoman, Marion Bateman, said: \"Our sincere condolences go to his wife Sally, along with his family and friends, at this very sad time.\"", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Google has suspended \"free speech\" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove \"egregious content\".\n\nParler styles itself as \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nBut Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.\n\nApple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.\n\nOn Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nHowever, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.\n\nIn a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying: \"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.\n\n\"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.\"\n\nApple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.\n\nIt said it had seen \"accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate\" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMr Matze said Parler had \"no way to organise anything\" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.\n\nBut Apple said: \"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service.\"\n\n\"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.\n\nThe ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.\n\nSteve Bannon served as President Trump's chief strategist for eight months in 2017\n\n\"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,\" Google said in a statement.\n\n\"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.\"\n\nThe action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.\n\nOne anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after \"months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence\".\n\n\"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform,\" said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "Fishing \"clears the mind of other worries\" says John Ellis from the Canal and Rivers Trust\n\nAnglers have hailed the mental health benefits of the sport after it was given the all-clear to continue, despite lockdown.\n\nThe government said it would be treated as a form of exercise, but subject to restrictions such as social distancing.\n\nRegulations mean people in England must stay at home except for specific purposes, including exercise, shopping for essentials and childcare.\n\nFigures show thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic.\n\nJohn Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager for the Canal and Rivers Trust, said rod licence sales increased by 17% over the last year, the equivalent of about 100,000 people - some new to the sport and others returning.\n\nHe said, despite the colder weather which usually causes a drop in fishing, there are more people out than in a typical January.\n\n\"It is certainly one of few things people can do legally, can do locally,\" he said.\n\nSpencer Moore said it was easy to maintain social distance while fishing\n\nUnder current restrictions in England, anglers must fish alone, or with members of their household, and must not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe government regulations permit people to meet for exercise, but not \"for recreational or leisure purposes\".\n\nThe Department for Culture Media and Sport told the BBC while angling could continue, overarching government guidance meant people should minimise time spent outside their homes.\n\nMr Ellis said he had received emails from parents pleased their children could go fishing at the weekend, adding that for some people it was linked to their mental wellbeing.\n\n\"When you are focussing on fishing, it is very hard to think about anything else, it clears the mind of other worries, at least temporarily,\" he said.\n\nHeadway said fishing was one of its most popular sporting activities for clients\n\nHeadway Birmingham & Solihull, a charity which helps people living with brain injuries, runs regular fishing sessions, which were very popular with its clients.\n\n\"It encourages them to be more active and get some fresh air out in the countryside,\" she said.\n\n\"It also helps their motivation and mental wellbeing, giving them something to look forward to each week, something to talk about and a chance to form friendships with others who enjoy fishing too.\"\n\nSpencer Moore, a bailiff for Blackfords Progressive Angling Society, based in South Staffordshire, said the sport was perfect for social distancing.\n\n\"There are people furloughed, sitting in their house or working from home, but at least they can fish and can get out and wind down,\" he said.\n\n\"Being a fisherman, you are on your own on your peg. Someone might be on another peg, but they can be 20 to 30ft away, so you are nowhere near anyone else.\"\n\nChris Wood advised people to speak to their local angling club before going fishing for the first time\n\nChris Wood, from Shrewsbury Anglers Club, said the group had seen a definite \"upsurge\" in interest during the pandemic.\n\nBut, he said, it had also seen an increase in illegal fishing by people who were not aware of the proper permits needed.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nA 10-year-old girl who needed to travel to the United States for treatment on an inoperable brain tumour has died.\n\nFamily of Eva Williams raised £250,000 needed for a new life-extending trial.\n\nBut the schoolgirl, from Marford, Wrexham, was unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nAt the start of 2020, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and died on Friday. Her father said in a tribute: \"We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known.\"\n\nPaul Slapa, said on social media that his daughter was surrounded by all of her family when she died.\n\nHe posted: \"Over the past week, Eva had lost the ability to speak, eat and swallow fluids, and she has suffered more than any child should ever have to suffer.\n\n\"Watching her still fight each day has been heart-breaking.\n\n\"Eva is an inspiration to many, certainly to me, and I cannot begin to imagine how we will go forward from here.\n\n\"How do we wake up each day and go on? How do we face the world without our baby girl with us? Why did this happen to the most caring and loving of little girls?\n\n\"Every single part of us is in pain and I can't see how that can change. We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known - and we will keep you with us every day for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nAfter Eva was diagnosed with a high-grade DIPG she had been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer father and mother Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions in July and Boris Johnson said he would look at what help can be offered to get her to the United States.\n\nEva also had radiotherapy as part of her treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nProf Robert West said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nProf Susan Michie also said the spread of the new more infectious variant meant the restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\nThe government said it had adapted its approach and taken \"swift action\" to try and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe warnings come after ministers launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter,\" he said\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore people are in schools, after the Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Michie, who is also a member of Sage, agreed the current lockdown was \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\nHe said that even if people reduced their contacts to levels seen last spring, it would not have the same effect on virus transmission.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast the \"unprecedented\" numbers of patients requiring intensive care treatment meant staff were spread \"more and more thinly\".\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they do not have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned that the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas and added: \"It is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority from the outset has been to protect the NHS to save lives and we have taken advice from scientific and medical experts throughout. As new evidence has emerged, we have adapted our approach and taken swift action to try and stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by coronavirus by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has narrowly seen off a rebellion by 33 Tory MPs, who want to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to be committing genocide.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 308 to remove an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have forced ministers to withdraw from deals with nations the UK High Court ruled guilty of mass killings.\n\nIt comes amid condemnation of China's treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe rebels believe they have enough support to secure another vote soon.\n\nAmong those to defy the government were ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers David Davis and Damian Green and Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.\n\nThe rebellion is one of the largest on an issue not related to the Covid-19 pandemic during Boris Johnson's time as prime minister.\n\nThe government has a Commons majority of 80 but this was whittled down to just 11 as prominent ex-ministers such as Tobias Ellwood, Caroline Nokes and Nusrat Ghani, as well as a number of MPs first elected last year, sided with the opposition.\n\nMPs have been debating proposals, tabled by cross-bench peer Lord Alton, to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide, a decision currently left to the jurisdiction of international courts.\n\nThe proposals, also backed by Labour, would mean that ministers would have to revoke post-Brexit trade deals with countries that were ruled to be carrying out systematic mass killings.\n\nThe issue is expected to resurface when the Trade Bill returns to the House of Lords.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Conservative rebels, led by former leader Iain Duncan Smith, were unable to force a vote on a separate amendment they had proposed.\n\nEvery speaker in today's debate - from the front and back benches - said genocide was abhorrent. The worst of crimes. There was united criticism of China's brutal treatment of the Uighurs too.\n\nBut the question Parliament has been wrestling with is whether the High Court should have the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. And if they did judge a country has been carrying out mass killings, should the High Court be able to compel the government to revoke any trade treaty it has with that country?\n\nMinisters insist it should be the job of elected governments, not judges, to determine trade policy. But opposition parties and a large cohort of Tory backbenchers argue it's essential the High Court can rule on genocide and ensure the UK's new trade-making freedom has an obligation to uphold human rights too.\n\nThis also is an argument about where power lies after Brexit and what role Parliament should have in shaping trade policy after decades in the EU.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said that by securing large, but not overwhelming, support for Lord Alton's amendment in the Commons, the rebels hope the government will accept Mr Duncan Smith's own amendment - which would give the Commons the right to debate whether trade deals can be halted if genocide is proven.\n\nThe debate came as the US government formally declared that China was committing genocide in its repression of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nThe UK government has been critical of China's treatment of the Uighurs and last week announced measures to cut UK business links with forced labour camps in the region.\n\nBut some MPs suspect the government is pulling its punches to avoid antagonising Beijing.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said the debate was \"all about simply shining a light of hope to all those out there who have failed to get their day in court and failed to be treated properly\".\n\n\"If this country doesn't stand up for that then I want to know what would it ever stand up for again?,\" he added.\n\nBut Trade Minister Greg Hands said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to give the courts powers to revoke trade deals agreed by elected governments.\n\nAnd he argued that no one would benefit from the proposal because the UK currently had no free trade deal with China.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "US tariffs have hit the Scotch whisky industry hard\n\nThe UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for \"mini-deal\" over trade in the last days of the Trump administration.\n\nThere were hopes the US would lift tariffs on imports of Scotch whisky and cashmere imposed last year as part of the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.\n\nBut those duties will now stay in place while President-elect Biden awaits confirmation of his trade team.\n\nThe talks were revealed in a BBC interview with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in December.\n\nAt the time he said he was hopeful that he and his UK counterpart, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, could \"get some kind of an agreement out\".\n\nBut the BBC understands that a broad offer from the US was rejected last week by the UK after concerns were expressed by the Business Department about the impact on Airbus' business in the UK.\n\nSince 2019, the EU and US have both imposed tariffs on each others' goods amid a long-running trade dispute between the planemakers Boeing and Airbus.\n\nThe tariffs centre on a long-running dispute between Boeing and Airbus\n\nEarlier last month the UK's Trade Department announced it would unilaterally break from the EU's position of levying tariffs on imports of Boeing aeroplanes, after the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nIt was, said Ms Truss, an attempt to create goodwill to solve the 16-year old dispute.\n\nBut the UK aerospace industry was furious with what it saw as the government reneging on promises made in early 2020 to support Airbus in the dispute, even after Brexit.\n\nThese concerns were the main block to a deal, but the chaos in Washington DC over the past week also played a part.\n\nThe US was also looking for tariffs on its exports of bourbon to the UK - part of a separate trade dispute over steel - to be settled.\n\nA government source said: \"Ultimately we came close to resolving an intractable 16-year dispute, but didn't quite get there. Any deal must be balanced and work for the whole UK and all of UK industry.\"\n\nThey added: \"No one has fought harder on this than Liz, and she's going to continue pushing it with the Biden administration. She absolutely understands the pain of affected businesses and is determined to get these tariffs lifted and support jobs.\"\n\nThe source said the government had pursued a \"clear de-escalation strategy\" with the Trump administration over the dispute which meant it had avoided being hit with further US tariffs, unlike the EU.\n\nMs Truss still hopes to settle the dispute quickly and has committed to meet Katherine Tai, the new US Trade Representative, in Washington DC as soon as she assumes office, the source added.\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, said her industry was \"very frustrated\" a deal was not reached.\n\n\"There is deep disappointment across the Scotch whisky industry that distillers are still paying the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do with us.\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky, now in place for 15 months, has caused us to lose over £450m in exports to the US, and our losses continue to mount.\"", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the 130-car pile-up on the Tohoku Expressway\n\nA huge snowstorm has struck a highway in Japan, causing a 130-vehicle pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.\n\nThe storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.\n\nJapan has been hit by severe snow storms in recent weeks with some parts of the country seeing double the average expected snowfall.\n\nImages from the expressway in the north of the country show the sheer scale of the pile-up.\n\nOne person died and at least 10 were injured after the vehicles collided\n\nAuthorities had already enforced a 50km/h (31mph) speed limit on the road due to visibility.\n\nThere was a maximum wind speed of about 100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.\n\nThose who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have been provided with blankets to keep warm, NHK News reports (in Japanese).\n\nThose stuck behind the vehicles have been given food, water and blankets\n\nThe snow has affected some of Japan's high-speed railway network, with a number of train services in the Tohoku region cancelled.\n\nAccording to local media, the region is expected to record up to 40cm (15 inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe country has been experiencing a large amount of snowfall this winter.\n\nLast month, heavy snow left more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on the Kanetsu expressway for two days.\n\nThe weather was so bad that an emergency meeting was called and the country's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on members of the public to be cautious.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nSchools in England may reopen region by region after half term, the government's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons education committee, Dr Harries suggested there would be different rates of infection across the country when lockdown ends.\n\nThis would mean a \"differential application\" of restrictive measures would be required, she said.\n\nSchools were closed at the start of January to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAlthough schools remain open to vulnerable children and those of keyworkers, all others are due to learn remotely from home until after the February half term holiday.\n\nBut the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested they may not return fully then.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the department was continuing to keep plans for the return to school under review and that it would inform schools, parents and pupils of the plans ahead of February half term.\n\nCommittee chairman Robert Halfon said he suspected schools would be closed for quite \"a few weeks yet\", but there has been no formal confirmation of this.\n\nMedical and science advisers were warning the government before Christmas that the NHS would not be able to manage the number of Covid-19 cases if schools remained open.\n\nThe new, more transmissible variant of the virus had been increasing exponentially in London and the south-east before Christmas.\n\nBut in some parts of the north and north-east saw rates of increase were reducing.\n\nDr Harries said: \"It is highly likely that when we come out of this national lockdown we will not have consistent patterns of infection in our communities across the country.\n\n\"And therefore, as we had prior to the national lockdown, it may well be possible that we need to have some differential application.\"\n\nBut Dr Harries said schools would be at the top of the priority to ensure that the balance of education and wellbeing were \"right at the forefront\" of consideration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries says schools in England might reopen ''region by region''\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Although the government intends that schools will fully reopen after the February half-term holiday, it is clearly in the balance when this happens and whether there will be any sort of regional approach.\n\n\"We expect that it will depend on coronavirus infection rates and the pressure on the NHS, and that the government will make a call on this issue nearer the time.\n\n\"What is important is that when schools fully reopen, everything possible is done to keep them open and to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for education staff to be prioritised for vaccinations as soon as possible, and for schools to be given more support in the use of rapid turnaround mass testing.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said if the government was planning to stagger opening of schools by region, it needed to \"provide clarity sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"This will give vital time to prepare for a smoother reopening of schools and business,\" he said.\n\nOn calls for vaccination of teachers, Dr Harries suggested the safe re-opening of schools did not depend on this.\n\nBut members of the committee suggested education would be less disrupted by teachers needing to go home and isolate when infected.\n\nThe vaccination programme had been worked out in order of vulnerability to the disease, she stressed.\n\nAnd Dr Harries added that although pupils could and did transmit the virus, she did not have evidence of them being \"a significant driver\" of \"large-scale community infections\".", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 155 out of more than 23,000 university professors in the UK are black, according to official figures.\n\nIt remains below 1%, the same as for the past five years, and is an increase of only 50 posts despite the number of professorships rising by more than 3,000 in that time.\n\nAt this senior academic level, women hold 28% of professorships, up from 23% five years ago.\n\n\"The pace of change is glacial,\" said lecturers' union leader Jo Grady.\n\n\"Universities must do more to ensure a more representative mix of staff at a senior level and stop this terrible waste of talent,\" said Dr Grady, general secretary of the UCU university union.\n\nThe figures on black professors were \"disappointing\" and \"inexplicable\", said Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank, \"given the symbolic importance of education as the foundation of our values.\"\n\n\"Around a quarter of British postgraduates are from ethnic minorities, there is clearly no shortage of qualified black and minority academics seeking elevation to senior teaching and research roles in our universities,\" said Dr Begum.\n\nShe called on vice chancellors to take action over a problem they can \"literally discern with their own eyes every single day they are on campus\".\n\nThe annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.\n\nAt the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from 105 to 155 between 2014-15 to 2019-20.\n\nBut new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3,200 staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0.5% to 0.7% over five years.\n\nThis compared to 7% of professors who are Asian and 89% white in the figures for 2019-20.\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being \"progressive dreamlands\", the \"make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities\".\n\n\"I have seen very few genuine attempts to address the issues of racism at any level across the sector,\" said Prof Andrews.\n\nAmong all academic staff, 2% are black, 10% are Asian, 75% are white, with the remainder under categories of \"mixed\", \"other or not known\".\n\nThere is still a significant gender gap in professorships, among a group that is also heavily skewed to older age groups, with most in their fifties, sixties and above.\n\nFive years ago, more than 4,500 professors were women, which has risen to 6,300 - from 23% to 28% of these senior posts.\n\nThis is despite women representing 46% of all academic staff.\n\nBaroness Amos, who was the UK's first black female university head, has previously warned of \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\" in the recruitment of senior staff in higher education.\n\nUniversities UK said \"the evidence is clear that black and minority ethnic staff continue to be under-represented\" at these senior academic levels.\n\n\"More needs to be done to address this inequality which exists within higher education, which mirrors inequalities evident in wider UK society and which will require an unequivocal commitment to change,\" said the universities' organisation.", "Many think the courts system needs to invest more in technology\n\nWhen Louise Westra and her partner decided to adopt a child in November 2018, they were aware of the long process that was ahead of them, but they were not to know that the coronavirus pandemic would hold them back from completing the adoption of their son.\n\nOn 27 March, their petition was due in court. As lockdown had taken effect, telephone conferencing would be used instead of going to court.\n\nHowever, after the phone call, Ms Westra received an email from her solicitor explaining that the papers had not been served to the biological parents of the child. This continued every month after lockdown, as it wasn't possible for the papers to be physically served.\n\n\"It's farcical because one of them is the biological father who lives with the biological mother who has had her petition but the biological father hasn't and they live in the same premises,\" Ms Westra says.\n\nServing papers has to be completed by post via Royal Mail or in some cases lawyers would instruct a process server to physically take the papers and hand them to the person.\n\n\"It sounds very archaic but if [the person] won't take them by hand, the processor can drop the papers near them and tell them what the document contains and that's technically counted as full service,\" says Rebecca Ranson, a solicitor for Maguire Family Law.\n\nUnless a judge approves it, emailing or any other forms of digital communication are not considered valid - even though the majority of people in the UK have access to email and the internet. It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.\n\nMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed. The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000. The Commons Justice Committee has announced an inquiry into how these delays could be addressed.\n\nThe reality, however, is that there was already a huge backlog back in December, and Covid-19 has just exacerbated an existing problem. Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.\n\n\"We've got people being held for longer than they otherwise would be, and for every person in custody waiting for trial or waiting on bail for trial, there are witnesses, and complainants and their families awaiting a resolution. Whether it's the lack of technology links in prison, using Skype and improvising or not having enough Nightingale courts - it all boils down to a lack of investment,\" says Joanna Hardy, a London-based barrister.\n\nIn 2016 HM Courts & Tribunals Service began a £1bn court reform programme. This included a video-conferencing tool called the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which allows for a dedicated private conference area, so criminal lawyers can speak to their clients without visiting prison.\n\nA programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to get CVP up and running in 10 weeks. This has since been extended to civil courts. But this implementation has been challenging, as there are only a restricted number of physical video links allowed.\n\n\"As we weren't ready for this huge technological revolution no-one had manned the tech rooms or built enough rooms on the other end in the prison. We can have as many laptops as we like, as much software as we like but if we can't put a prisoner into a room with a screen, the other end is pointless,\" Ms Hardy says.\n\nAccording to Ms Hardy, the waiting times to get these slots have been \"completely unacceptable\", and it has meant that sometimes hearings had to go ahead without the defendant present.\n\n\"It's like human beings failing where technology could have bridged the gap,\" she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that it had offered more than 400 CVP meeting rooms since the outbreak of coronavirus, but added that it is taking steps to increase the available capacity of video conferencing at some locations by extending operating hours. The spokesperson said that the MoJ is also undertaking urgent action to increase the physical number of video link outlets at critical sites.\n\nAt the moment, criminal trials are going ahead using social distancing - meaning sometimes a second courtroom is linked by technology, but this is creating further backlogs, as it means one case is occupying the same space as two.\n\nJustice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation, has trialled a virtual jury trial with a mock case, and suggested it should be considered as a possible option, but this hasn't been taken on by the courts.\n\nThe issue with virtual jury trials is whether or not they could affect the outcome of a trial. Some lawyers feel like juries should see a witness, feel an exhibit and dispense justice to a fellow human being in the confines of a court room.\n\nJodie Hill says it is more difficult to cross-examine people in video hearings\n\n\"You can lose the impact of cross examination. When you're challenging their evidence in person it's easier to get them to trip up if they're not being honest, whereas if they're on video it might be easier for them to cover it up,\" says Jodie Hill, solicitor and managing director of Thrive Law, an employment law specialist.\n\nFor smaller hearings, online alternatives could be here for the long term, as it means lawyers don't have to travel all over the UK unnecessarily. This doesn't mean that every hearing that can be done remotely, should be done remotely.\n\n\"We don't want overkill. We think some cases still need to be in the room, particularly if you're dealing with vulnerable people or sensitive cases. It has to be a balancing act of harnessing the benefits of technology and thinking about the specific case,\" says Ms Hardy.", "The UK is forging its post-Brexit path as a \"confident, independent nation - and an energetic force for good\", according to the government.\n\nIt's free to set trade on its own terms, pursue opportunities and higher living standards. But can it square profit with principle?\n\nIs turning a blind eye to human rights violations worth it to have a trade deal that knocks a couple of quid off the price of an imported shirt?\n\nThat New Year's resolution is already being tested, as China falls increasingly out of favour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has referred to conditions, under which over a million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and forced into work, as \"at the worst... torture and inhumane and degrading treatments\".\n\nHe warned that British companies will face fines, if they can't show that their supply chains are free from forced labour.\n\nIn December, a BBC investigation revealed thousands of Uighurs and other minorities have been compelled to toil in the cotton fields of Xinjiang. The region accounts for a fifth of the world's crop - it's not always easy to tell where your t-shirt hails from.\n\nThe UK and Canada have led the charge here, but one wonders how much further can it go.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that the UK should not be engaging in free trade negotiations with countries whose record was \"well below the level of genocide\".\n\nThere are several issues with this: first, working out who gets to decree human rights abuses.\n\nAmendments to the Trade Bill currently going through Parliament would oblige the government to assess the human rights records of potential partners.\n\nIn July, Dominic Raab accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population\n\nOne amendment proposes allowing the High Court to declare a genocide in other countries, and forcing the immediate cancellation of trade deals with said nations.\n\nMr Raab, however, says the decision to declare a genocide can't, and shouldn't be, delegated to the courts. Rather, it's for MPs to hold the government to account over trade deals.\n\nBut Labour MPs, who have written to their Conservative counterparts urging them to support the amendments, say they've already been denied powers of scrutiny.\n\nThey highlight trade deals rolled over with Egypt, Cameroon and Turkey, with whom the UK previously enjoyed similar deals the EU had struck.\n\nThese three countries, they argue, have questionable records on human rights.\n\nAnd then there's China. The UK is not planning a deal with Beijing and has indicated it won't do a deal with countries that don't share its democratic values.\n\nBut both nations have their eye on joining the wider Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.\n\nWith imports and exports worth almost £80bn in 2019, China already scores as one of the UK's largest trading partners, and it's not just about frocks and financial services crossing borders.\n\nSince Xi Jinping and David Cameron famously sipped a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub in 2015, Chinese investment in the UK has exploded, backing everything from football clubs to restaurant chains.\n\nNow China's appeal has soured, but it may not be easy to back away from encouraging investment, or a trade deal which touts lower import prices and greater opportunities for exporters, when the UK economy is already reeling.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Wanderers are owned by Chinese investors Fosun International\n\nTake textiles - a free trade deal would do away with a 12% tariff on clothes hailing from China. Ultimately, trade deals build on an existing - in this case very lucrative - relationship.\n\nCritics argue it's not enough to refrain from boosting ties with nations with chequered records - they should be lessened.\n\nBut it's even harder to snub countries that are already providing jobs for thousands, or items from the frivolous, such as smartphones, to the vital, like billions of PPE items.\n\nSome say the UK has its own issues elsewhere. It resumed the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia last year, after the government said the method for licensing had been reformulated to ensure they wouldn't be used in Yemen. Human rights groups are less sure.\n\nBalancing its quest to be a responsible citizen, together with exploring fresh fortunes, is just one dilemma the UK faces, as it shapes its new identity on the global stage.", "Boris Johnson will be glad Donald Trump has not been re-elected for a second term as US president, ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill has suggested.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken.\"\n\nHe said he \"would not have been to the benefit\" of British or European security, trade or environment issues.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson looked forward to working with Joe Biden.\n\nThis month he said Mr Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.\n\nAnd in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut after Mr Trump's victory in the US election in 2016, then Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and while running for the Conservative leadership in 2019, he said the President had \"many good qualities\".\n\nMr Trump later praised Mr Johnson, saying: \"they call him Britain Trump\".\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Mr Biden in a phone call after his US election win, saying he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Lord Sedwill's remarks would not be unhelpful to Downing Street as any perception in Washington that Mr Johnson was like Mr Trump becomes a liability with the arrival of President Biden.\n\nIn his Daily Mail article, Lord Sedwill, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he stood down in September, said there was \"relief in Western capitals\" that normal diplomatic relationships will be restored once Mr Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday.\n\nThe former Cabinet Secretary said: \"Those of us who regard ourselves as close American allies have badly missed US leadership over the past four years.\n\n\"Based on my time working for Boris Johnson in Downing Street, I believe those who have said he would have preferred a second Trump term are mistaken. That would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed.\"\n\nLord Sedwill added: \"With Brexit accomplished and the Biden administration ready to re-engage, this is the moment for Global Britain to step up.\"", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hancock said he would be working from home until Sunday, adding \"we all have a part to play in getting this virus under control\".\n\nHe contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and suffered \"mild symptoms\".\n\nMr Hancock said he learned from the app he had been \"in close contact with somebody who's tested positive\" and so self-isolating was \"how we break the chains of transmission\".\n\n\"So you must follow these rules like I'm going to,\" he said. \"I've got to work from home for the next six days, and together, by doing this, by following this, and all the other panoply of rules that we've had to put in place, we can get through this and beat this virus.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was alerted by the app on Monday night, having earlier led a Downing Street press conference alongside NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis and Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins.\n\nThe NHS app tells a person if they have been in close contact with someone who has later tested positive for coronavirus and tells them to isolate for 10 full days from their last contact.\n\nWhile it is not clear from Mr Hancock's statement if his isolation ends on Sunday or Monday, his period of quarantine suggests he was last in contact with the person who was infected on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street confirmed that Mr Hancock would not receive the vaccine early because he is leading the pandemic response.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The PM and the rest of the cabinet will take the vaccine when it's their turn to do so based on the priority lists that have been published.\n\n\"We don't think it's right that the PM or other members of cabinet take the vaccine in place of somebody who is at higher clinical risk.\"\n\nIn March, the health secretary revealed he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed he too had the virus.\n\nWhile the health secretary recovered fairly swiftly, and was able to work from home during his illness, Mr Johnson required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSelf-isolation, which means staying at home and not leaving, is a legal requirement for anybody who has Covid symptoms, has tested positive for the virus, lives with someone who has symptoms, has arrived from abroad or has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn December, the self-isolation period required was cut from 14 days to 10 days.\n\nUsing Bluetooth technology the NHS app makes contact between mobile phones when they are near each other, if an owner of a phone later tests positive for the virus and shares that with the app, alerts are sent to anyone who is deemed to have been a close contact.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's climate change leadership is being undercut by a government decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, MPs have warned.\n\nThe UK is hosting a UN climate summit in November, where it will urge other nations to phase out fossil fuels.\n\nThe MPs say the government's decision to allow a new colliery at home will make it harder to secure a deal.\n\nThe Woodhouse mine was approved by Cumbria County Council because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment.\n\nThe planning minister Robert Jenrick could have overruled it, but said the issue was best decided at a local level.\n\nThat verdict was derided by environmentalists, who pointed out that climate change from fossil fuel burning is a global problem.\n\nAlok Sharma, who is leading the COP26 climate summit and who co-ordinates UK policies on climate change, was asked by the Commons business select committee whether the mine approval was \"an embarrassment\". He replied: \"I take your point\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the committee there was a \"slight tension\" between approving the mine, near Whitehaven, and broader attempts to clean up the economy.\n\nBut he said ministers decided to allow the pit because it will produce coking coal for steel-making, which otherwise would have to be imported.\n\nHe said: \"There's a slight tension between the decision to open this mine and our avowed intention to take coal off the grid… there was a debate in the government about what we could do about this, but this was a local planning decision.\n\n\"If we don't have sources of coking coal in the UK we would be importing those anyway\".\n\nThis appears to run counter to advice from the Climate Change Committee which has said all coal - including coking coal - should be phased out by 2035. Doubts have been raised about investors in the mine being left with a \"stranded asset\" if the pit is forced to close on climate grounds.\n\nThe mine approval is even more poignant because the UK founded the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance\" - a global club to persuade nations to leave coal in the ground.\n\nA source close to the Alliance secretariat told BBC News that staff were enraged by the decision. They believed the decision had been made to help secure so-called \"Red Wall\" votes in areas which previously voted Labour .\n\nMohamed Adow, from a pressure group, Powershift Africa, told BBC News: \"It is quite bizarre that the UK government, in the year it hosts the biggest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has approved a new coal mine.\"\n\nThe young campaigner Greta Thunberg said the decision showed pledges to achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050 \"basically mean nothing\".\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the business committee, told BBC News it would be hard for the UK to persuade countries like Poland to abandon coal whilst building a mine.\n\nHe argued that the government should have found another way to bring jobs to Cumbria. He said: \"Carbon-intensive industries are looking to the government for leadership on the transition to a green future.\n\n\"Backing coal at home doesn't look in line with the recent Energy White Paper and certainly makes our efforts to secure international agreement on ambitious decarbonisation harder to achieve.\"\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne, told BBC News: \"If the UK is to achieve its ambition to be an environmental world leader, the government must offer clear guidance on how we can take every industry to net-zero, and offer a pipeline of investable projects.\n\n\"The steel sector needs to develop alternatives to importing coking coal. This could also support the next generation of green jobs - which are urgently needed.\"\n\nThe cross-bench peer Baroness Worthington told BBC News: \"This decision is real laziness of thinking from the government. Just think of signal it sends to all those countries who want to cling on to coal.\n\n\"The government doesn't yet have a cohesive strategy that makes sense. It's crazy. Absolute madness.\"", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home at least until then. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions, which have been in place since Boxing Day. It comes as England's deputy chief medical officer said schools may reopen region by region after February half term.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app. He urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app and said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\". Mr Hancock, who is MP for West Suffolk, suffered \"mild symptoms\" when he contracted coronavirus in March 2020.\n\nA group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises, days after a coronavirus rule banning pubs from serving drinks took effect. BBC Wales has been told Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were drinking together in early December, with Labour Senedd member Alun Davies also involved. Senedd authorities said they are investigating an \"incident\". Elsewhere, an internal investigation has began after railway workers allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nHeadlines about footballers and Covid have been hard to miss lately - with questions about dressing room distancing, off-pitch partying and all those post-goal hugs. But what's football in lockdown actually like for players and their families? BBC Newsbeat has found out by speaking to Wycombe Wanderers footballer Joe Jacobson and his wife Louise.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "The death happened in the alpine resort of Verbier, in Switzerland\n\nA British man has been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police have said.\n\nThe man was among 10 people swept away at the alpine resort of Verbier, to the east of Geneva, on Monday morning.\n\nPolice said the skier, who has not been named, lived in Verbier and died at the scene.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital with serious injuries, while eight others were uninjured, local police said.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"The avalanche occurred outside the piste between the Verbier ski area and 'Les Attelas'.\n\n\"At around 10:20, a skier was driving down a corridor below the 'Attelas' area.\n\n\"A snow drift came loose and carried the skier as well as another person who had been further down at the time.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was offering support to the British man's family and was in contact with the authorities in Switzerland.\n\nThe death comes after several days of heavy snowfall across Switzerland, which led to the death of another skier who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Gstaad.\n\nIt takes the total deaths due to avalanches in the country to seven since last weekend.\n\nMore than 200 British skiers left the popular Verbier resort in December after Switzerland imposed a coronavirus quarantine following the discovery of a new variant of the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Not all parents have found it easy to home school their children during coronavirus lockdowns\n\nLevels of stress, depression and anxiety among parents and carers have increased with the pressures of the lockdowns, suggests research from the University of Oxford.\n\nMany parents, especially those of secondary-age pupils, say they are worried about their children's futures.\n\nThe government has said it is aware how challenging it is for parents to support children with home learning.\n\nThe research, based on responses from 6,246 parents and carers between mid-March and the end of December 2020, found problems including:\n\nOn an established scale of depression, anxiety and stress, parents' depression scores increased from April through to June from an average of 9.03 to 9.71, says the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.\n\nWhile these average scores decreased over the summer, when Covid-19 restrictions were eased, to a low of 8.23 in September, they rose again over the course of the autumn term to a high of 10.1 points in December.\n\nParents' stress scores were at their lowest in August and September at 11.4 points, but increased to a high of 13.2 in December, following the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nThe researchers said higher levels of stress were detected particularly in low-income families, as well as single-parent households and those with children with special educational needs.\n\nWhile average anxiety scores were relatively stable throughout the whole period - ranging from a 4.71 points in April to 4.24 in July - they hit a high of 5 points in December.\n\nThe study also found just over a third (36%) of parents with young children (10 years or younger) said they were \"substantially worried\" about their children's behaviour, in contrast to just over a quarter (28%) of parents who had older children only (11 years or older).\n\nHowever, nearly half (45%) of those with secondary-age children were worried about their children's education and future, compared to 32% of those with young children.\n\nLeticea, a parent who took part in the study, said: \"I think that UK leaders should have access to this data to see what is going on with the mental health of families and how they are being affected by Covid-19 with increased levels of stress, depression and anxiety - we need something to look forward to.\n\n\"I am also worried that the next three months will show a sharper increase in anxiety and stress where parents are having to do more teaching at home.\n\n\"Children are more worried as their teachers are becoming ill - the 'new variant' sounds more scary, my daughter keeps commenting on an increasing worry of catching Covid-19 which she didn't do so much before.\"\n\nAnother parent, Madiha, said: ''Current times are hard enough as they are.\n\n\"As a working parent, the most important thing for me is to ensure my family's wellbeing, their safety, and their continued development.\n\n\"Prolonged screen time, disruption to daily routine, frequent arguments, lack of exercise, and stress of exams have all been contributing factors to our mental health and wellbeing.\n\nMadiha said she hoped the study would play a part in informing policy and developing interventions to help families.\n\nCathy Creswell, professor of clinical developmental psychology at Oxford University and co-leader of the study, said the findings showed parents were particularly vulnerable to distress during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our data highlight the particular strains felt by parents during lockdown when many feel that they have been spread too thin by the demands of meeting their children's needs during the pandemic, along with home-schooling and work commitments.\"\n\nSchools were first closed to most pupils in March\n\nJohn Jolly, head of the charity Parentkind, said the research highlighted \"the additional stress and pressure that partial school closures place on parents\".\n\n\"Given the disruption to family life, it is vital that policymakers consult and listen to the concerns of parents on issues that directly impact them and their children's futures.\n\n\"This includes the safety and reopening of schools, the fair allocation of grades in the absence of exams, and remote learning provision.\"\n\nThe Oxford researchers are tracking children's and parents' mental health throughout the current crisis, to help them identify what protects young people from deteriorating mental health and how this may vary according to child and family characteristics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert’s report finds eight-year-old Saffie \"could have been saved\" if treated properly for her injuries\n\nA man has described how he tried to help the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack as she lay badly injured after the explosion.\n\nPaul Reid, 46, was the first person to reach eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos after the bomb was detonated.\n\nHe said she asked for her mum and said he tried to keep her awake by talking about the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nIt comes after a new report found Saffie could have survived if she had received better medical help.\n\nTwenty-two people were murdered and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the arena foyer as fans left the concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Reid, who was selling posters at the concert, told the BBC he ran into the foyer seconds after the bomb went off.\n\n\"There was a big bang and I could see up on to the foyer, and there was smoke and you could hear things pinging off the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"I still had the posters in my hand. It was mad because it was like I wasn't there, like I was watching myself.\n\n\"People were just screaming and running in every direction you could think of.\"\n\nSaffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nMr Reid said he tried to help two other people before he noticed Saffie lying on the floor.\n\n\"She was still conscious. I asked her her name and I thought she said Sophie,\" he said.\n\n\"She just got a little bit upset. She asked me for her mum and I said not to worry, we're going to find her in a minute.\n\n\"And I sat there trying to keep her calm. I had to talk to her about the concert, and did she enjoy it.\n\n\"All the time I was sat there, I just thought hundreds of people are just going to come running in here and help us. And, well, hardly anybody came in.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack, which started in September, began to examine the emergency response to the atrocity on Monday.\n\nMr Reid said he began watching the inquiry but said some details given in the opening days did not marry up with his recollection of what happened, and he switched it off.\n\nHe told the BBC after a while another person came to help, but after cutting away some of Saffie's clothing they left and went to the aid of someone else.\n\n\"I gave her [Saffie] a sip of water, because in all this madness there's somebody handing water out,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine in the foyer now, all this is going on and there's a man walking about with water.\"\n\nPaul Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night\n\nMr Reid said a police officer suggested moving Saffie out of the foyer, but with no stretchers to lift her they had to use a piece of plastic hoarding.\n\n\"The policeman came and said 'she's got to go, I'll take her in my car',\" he added.\n\n\"There was a plastic sheet under somebody's leg who was injured, I started pulling the sheet from under his leg. We put her on it and I started to carry her out, but the board was slippy.\"\n\nHe said they could not get the makeshift stretcher into the officer's car, so they flagged down an ambulance.\n\nMr Reid said he then returned to the foyer, where he went back to the man who he had taken the hoarding from.\n\n\"He had a gash in his stomach, and a paramedic was sitting there holding something against his stomach,\" he said.\n\n\"I held his hand. He had a Liverpool accent so I talked to him about football to take his mind off things, and my mind off things.\"\n\nMr Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night.\n\n\"It's like yesterday. I can still smell the smoke in that foyer. Still hear the alarms when I go to sleep, when I close my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm first aid trained, but the most I'd done is put a plaster on.\n\n\"To step in that foyer, it was carnage. It was a war zone.\"\n\nSaffie's parents have said they would not have expected member of the public to have known how to treat her injuries.\n\nHer father Andrew Roussos told the BBC: \"There was a member of the public with her, I can't expect him to tourniquet her, splint her legs and so on.\n\n\"But the medically trained people that were with her, and were with her throughout and didn't apply basic first aid to give Saffie a chance.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard it is important to acknowledge the enormous pressure which those who responded that night came under.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the extended lockdown has not been welcomed by business leaders.\n\nLast month, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimated that each week of lockdown meant non-essential stores missing out on £135m of lost sales.\n\nSince then, garden centres and homeware shops have been compelled to close too, and the government has placed curbs on retailers’ click and collect services.\n\nThe SRC says today's extension is a further blow to non-food stores who have already borne a lot during the pandemic.\n\nIt said Scottish stores were set to miss out on almost £950m of lost revenues during the current lockdown period.\n\nQuote Message: The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable. from David Lonsdale Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable.", "On his final full day in office, outgoing president Donald Trump delivered a farewell speech from the White House.\n\nCurrently locked out of his personal social media accounts, Trump struck a concilatory yet defiant tone in the video released via the government's official social media accounts.\n\n\"We did what we came here to do - and so much more,\" he said. \"I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices – because that’s what you elected me to do.\"\n\nHe warned that \"the greatest danger\" now facing the country was \"a loss of confidence in our national greatness\".\n\nThe 45th president ran through actions taken by his administration - from \"stand[ing] up to China like never before\" to \"a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East\".\n\nHe added: \"I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.\"\n\nReferring to the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, he said: \"All Americans were horrified by the assault on the Capitol... It can never be tolerated.\"\n\nTrump acknowledged that a new administration would take office, but said: \"I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.\"", "It is not known when the artwork was taken as no one reported it missing\n\nA 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen.\n\nThe copy of Salvator Mundi, which is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a bedroom cupboard in Naples on Saturday.\n\nThis copy is thought to have been painted by one of da Vinci's students.\n\nThe 36-year-old owner of the flat was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, police said.\n\n\"The painting was found on Saturday thanks to a brilliant and diligent police operation,\" Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe artwork is usually part of the Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in the city.\n\nBut Mr Melillo said officials were not aware it had been stolen because \"the room where the painting is kept has not been open for three months\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not known when the artwork was taken as no one had reported it missing, but the museum said it was in its possession as recently as last January.\n\nSome experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have painted the artwork\n\nPolice are now investigating the circumstances of the theft, but there was no sign of a break-in at the museum.\n\n\"It is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organisation working in the international art trade,\" Mr Melillo said.\n\nIt is not known who painted the artwork, but some experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have done so in the early 1500s.\n\nIt shows Christ with one hand raised, with the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nAnd to add to the mystery - whether or not the original painting is an authentic Leonardo da Vinci is disputed. Leonardo died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The original painting was cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nThe original Salvator Mundi has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half. Efforts to restore it have also resulted in abrasions.\n\nThis did not detract buyers, however, and the painting became the most expensive ever sold when it was auctioned for a record $450m (£341m) in 2017.\n\nThe unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.", "A refusal to accept cash is \"creeping into the wider UK economy\", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society.\n\nConsumer group Which? said that 34% of people asked said they had been unable to pay with cash at least once since March when trying to buy something.\n\nGrocery stores, pubs and restaurants were most likely to refuse.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who wrote a report on the issue, called for ministers to act.\n\n\"The figures show that it's not simply the odd coffee shop going cashless, but this is creeping into the wider economy,\" said Ms Ceeney, who wrote the Access to Cash Review.\n\n\"We can't just blame individual businesses - many are going cashless because they can't easily bank cash takings because their local branch is closed or some distance away. The government needs to urgently legislate to protect the viability of cash - as it promised to do so last year. Time is running out.\"\n\nWhich? said the lack of cash access was a problem for those who relied on notes and coins - such as people with certain health conditions or without computer access.\n\nSome shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nJenny Ross, Which? Money editor, said: \"We have repeatedly warned about the consequences that coronavirus will have on what was an already fragile cash system, but nowhere near enough action has been taken by the government or the regulator to understand the scale of this issue.\"\n\nThe Treasury has proposed giving the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, control of overseeing future access to cash and has thrown its weight behind the idea of cashback in shops, without the requirement to buy anything.\n\nDavid Fagleman, director at financial consultancy Enryo, said: \"Our own research shows that despite a decline in use for day-to-day purchases, nearly three-quarters of people think the move to a cashless society is happening too fast and risks leaving some people, particularly the vulnerable, behind.\"", "Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a drama which follows Tommy Shelby and his family\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the hit BBC crime drama will conclude with a film following the show's final TV series.\n\nOn Monday, Knight said the upcoming sixth series would be the last but teased that \"the story will continue in another form\".\n\nHe has now confirmed to Deadline: \"My plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie.\n\n\"This is what is going to happen,\" he added.\n\nHe explained that \"Covid had changed our plans\" but did not elaborate.\n\nHelen McCrory, who plays Polly, is the Shelby family matriarch\n\nThe final BBC TV series has resumed filming after being hit by Covid-related production delays.\n\nOn Monday, Knight described the show as being \"back with a bang\" and warned fans that the mobsters would face \"extreme jeopardy\" in the sixth season.\n\nKnight had previously planned for a seven-season run of the drama, which is set in post-World War One Birmingham.\n\n\"My ambition is to make it a story of a family between two wars,\" he said in 2018 ahead of season five. \"I've wanted to end it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham in 1939. It'll take three more series to reach that point.\"\n\nIt now looks like the film might be replacing his plan for series seven.\n\nKnight, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, previously revealed he had been \"approached\" to take the Shelby crime family universe to the big-screen.\n\nSam Claflin as Tommy's political rival Oswald Mosley was a central figure in series five\n\nThe sixth series of the show, which follows Tommy Shelby and his family, will see Anthony Byrne return as director and Nick Goding produce.\n\nTommy Bulfin, executive producer for the BBC, said he was \"very excited\" filming had begun and promised a \"truly remarkable... fitting send-off that will delight fans\".\n\nHe added he was \"so grateful to everyone for all their hard work to make it happen\".\n\nThe production team have developed comprehensive safety protocols to ensure that the series will be produced responsibly and in accordance with government guidelines during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nExecutive producer Caryn Mandabach said the \"safety of our cast and crew is always our priority\" and that they had been \"working diligently\" to get safely back into production since filming was halted last March.\n\n\"Thank you to all the Peaky fans who have been so unwaveringly supportive and patient,\" she added.\n\nPeaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy, first aired on BBC Two eight years ago to widespread critical acclaim.\n\nRatings quickly grew from over two million for the first series to over four million by series four and it found further popularity on Netflix.\n\nIt made the transition to BBC One for the fifth series in 2019, achieving audiences of over five million.\n\nThroughout its run, a host of awards have followed, including NTAs, which are voted for by the public, and a Bafta for best drama series in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh experts have found a problem with MND patients' nerve cells which could be repaired by repurposing drugs approved for other diseases.\n\nThe study has been welcomed by charities including the foundation set up by Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir.\n\nMy Name'5 Doddie foundation described it as \"a very exciting breakthrough\".\n\nMore than 1,500 people are diagnosed with the degenerative condition in the UK every year.\n\nThere is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis.\n\nThe research found that the damage to nerve cells caused by MND could be repaired by improving the energy levels in mitochondria - the power supply to the motor neurons.\n\nThey discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells.\n\nAnd the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons, was impaired\n\nThe scientists showed that this was caused by a defective energy supply from the mitochondria and that by boosting the mitochondria, the axon reverted back to normal.\n\nDr Arpan Mehta, who led the study at Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research said: \"The importance of the axon in motor nerve cells cannot be overstated.\n\n\"Our data provides hope that by restoring the cell's energy source we can protect the axons and their connection to muscle from degeneration.\n\n\"Work is already under way to identify existing licensed drugs that can boost the mitochondria and repair the motor neurons. This will then pave the way to test them in clinical trials.\"\n\nThe research centre was established by Euan MacDonald, who was 29 years old when he was diagnosed with MND in 2003\n\nCraig Stockton, the chief executive of MND Scotland, said the \"exciting\" results of the research were another piece of the puzzle to finding an effective treatment for the degenerative condition.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing if these positive results can be replicated for patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Once researchers have identified a drug they believe could have the desired effect, this treatment could then be fast-tracked for human trials using the pioneering MND-SMART clinical trial platform - into which MND Scotland has invested £1.5m.\n\n\"Researchers, clinicians, charities and supporters are all working hard to take us closer to finding a cure and by joining together we'll get to that day even sooner.\"\n\nThe researchers used stem cells taken from people with the C9orf72 gene mutation that causes both MND and frontotemporal dementia.\n\nThey used the stem cells to generate motor neuron cells in the lab.\n\nThe study also used human post-mortem spinal cord tissue from people with MND.\n\nAlthough the research focused on the people with the commonest genetic cause of MND, the researchers said they were hopeful the results would also apply to other forms of the disease.\n\nThe results of the study are now being used to look for existing drugs that boost mitochondrial function.\n\nThe study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, UK Dementia Research Institute and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government is facing a rebellion over the Trade Bill, and opposition proposals to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nRebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries responsible for genocide.\n\nThe government says trade policy should not be set by the courts.\n\nBut some MPs think the proposal would be a good way of targeting China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nOn Tuesday, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, in his last day in the role, said the US had determined that China's persecution of the Muslim group and other minorities in Xinjiang province represented genocide and crimes against humanity under international law.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly condemned the actions of the Chinese authorities but stopped short of describing them as genocide - saying only international courts should determine this.\n\nAnd ministers also argue that trade deals are matters for governments, not the courts, to decide upon.\n\nThe MPs' amendment to the Trade Bill is a watered-down version of an earlier proposal from the House of Lords, which would force the government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country found guilty of genocide by the High Court of England and Wales.\n\nThe new proposal is signed by 10 Conservative MPs, one of whom described their amendment as \"tidier\" than the Lords version and designed to attract more support.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Sir Edward Leigh asked \"is there any way we can acknowledge that genocide is taking place in a discussion on a trade deal\".\n\nIn response, International Trade minister Greg Hands said ministers were prepared to have further discussions but not within the scope of the current legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the government was \"answerable to Parliament, not the courts\" and the Lords version would have led to an \"unacceptable erosion\" of its authority.\n\nThe UK, he added, had \"no plans\" to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with China due to concerns about its human rights record, particularly its persecution of the Muslim Uighur community.\n\nNusrat Ghani urged ministers to consider the \"compromise\" proposal, which she said recognised the \"separation of powers\" between the executive, Parliament and the courts.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister said the UK should \"never let economic concerns trump ethical ones by dealing with genocidal states\".\n\n\"Why would we want to use our newfound freedom to trade with states that commit and profit from genocide? Britain is better than that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Politics Live, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it is currently \"impossible\" for international courts to rule on whether there has been genocide, as other countries can block hearings in the UN.\n\nHe argued it is therefore important to allow British courts to make the judgement.\n\nThe MP insisted he is not \"anti-China\" but said the Chinese government need to be \"reasonable and behave in a way that is acceptable\" if it wanted to be part of global trading organisations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour would be supporting the new amendment arguing that the government \"does not consider human rights abuses enough before signing up to trade deals\".\n\nThis is an interesting story in its own right because of the issues involved but it's also a neat metaphor for Brexit.\n\nThe government has taken back control of trade policy from the EU but is already having to share it with the House of Lords, Tory MPs and potentially with the High Court.\n\nDuring the passage of the Trade Bill, the government also had to beef up the powers of the Trade and Agriculture Commission - an independent body of experts - in response to lobbying from farmers who were worried about the dilution of food standards.\n\nSoon trade disputes with other countries will partly be overseen by the new Trade Remedies Authority, another organisation that reports to ministers but is independent of them.\n\nAnd of course, everything has to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules, anyway.\n\nThe government has control of trade. It's just not total.", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "A team of Nepalese climbers has become the first ever to summit the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in winter.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, is notoriously challenging - with high winds and sub-zero temperatures.\n\nOne of the leading members of the team is a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier, Nirmal Purja. He spoke to BBC Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani.", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "How has the justice system responded to the pandemic? Stories from inside prisons and courts, where lawyers fear delays are creating miscarriages of justice. Helen Grady reports.\n\nAre court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? When the UK locked down, so did its court system, adding to a backlog that’s left defendants, witnesses and victims facing long waits for trials. Helen Grady speaks to people inside the justice system to find out how it’s coped with the pandemic - from delays in making courts covid-secure to a lack of PPE and overcrowding in prisons. We hear stories from prisons under lockdown and talk to lawyers who fear delays are leading to abuses of the criminal justice system.\n\nProducer: Rob Cave", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia pulled off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988, win the fourth Test by three wickets and take one of the all-time great series. Needing 328, a Brisbane record run-chase, the injury-hit tourists got home with three overs to spare. Shubman Gill made 91 and Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 89. They win the series 2-1, keeping the Border-Gavaskar they won in Australia two years ago. It is perhaps one of the finest Test series wins by any away side, especially given the list of players unavailable to India by the time the final match was played. That included captain and talisman Virat Kohli, who only played in the first Test before departing to be at the birth of his first child, a host of fast bowlers and first-choice spin pair Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In addition to the absent players, India somehow recovered from being bowled out for 36 - their lowest total in Test cricket - in losing the series opener by eight wickets. What followed were three Tests of the highest quality and drama, with India producing a stunning comeback to win the second Test by eight wickets, then defiantly batting through the final day to earn a draw in the third. But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters. The tourists were 4-0 overnight and, for them to even get to the point where victory might be possible, Cheteshwar Pujara had to come through a barrage of hostile bowling from the Australia quicks - he was hit 10 times in his 56. He added 114 for the second wicket with the free-scoring Gill, while stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has presided over India's fightback, signalled their intent with 24 off only 22 balls. Tireless Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was a threat throughout, removing Pujara, Rahane and Rohit Sharma. Fast bowler Pat Cummins took four wickets for Australia Still, even though India knew a draw would see them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they never lost sight of the chance of victory and promoted wicketkeeper Pant to number five. At the beginning of the final hour, India were 259-4, meaning they needed 69 runs and Australia six wickets from the final 15 overs. Though Cummins had Mayank Agarwal caught at cover for his fourth wicket, Pant attacked in the company of debutant Washington Sundar. Runs came with increasing freedom and, although Sundar was bowled trying to reverse-sweep Nathan Lyon and Shardul Thakur miscued Josh Hazlewood, Pant could not be stopped. The left-hander's drive down the ground off Hazlewood secured a famous win and sparked joyous India celebrations. 'One of the top three series of all time' - reaction India captain Rahane: \"I don't know how to describe this victory. I'm really proud of all the boys. We didn't talk about anything after Adelaide, we just wanted to show good character and express ourselves. It was all about a team effort.\" Australia captain Tim Paine: \"In the key moments we were found wanting and completely outplayed by India, who fully deserved their series win.\" Man of the match Pant: \"This is one of the biggest things in my life. It has been a dream series.\" Player of the series Cummins: \"The whole India side played fantastically and deserved to win. The game was there for to win, but we didn't take the wickets.\" Former Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark on ABC: \"What a victory that is by India. They have been absolutely outstanding. The man of the moment is Rishabh Pant. He played some of the most insane shots you will ever see. Australia bowled their hearts out, but it wasn't enough.\" Former Australia captain Ian Chappell: \"It had everything. It was an absolutely amazing day. This has been one of top three Test series of all time.\"\n• None Can this British team make an impact on the global scene?\n• None The show must go on in lockdown:", "Nicola Sturgeon is to announce later whether Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown is to continue past the end of January.\n\nThe first minister said Tuesday's statement at Holyrood would concern the \"duration\" of restrictions rather than whether any new ones would be imposed.\n\nMinsters will also decide at a cabinet meeting whether schools will be allowed to re-open in full from 1 February.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has suggested it would be a \"tall order\" for pupils to return to classrooms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Monday that she did not want to \"raise parents' expectations\", saying transmission of the virus \"is still higher than we would want it to be\".\n\nThe whole Scottish mainland and several islands have been in a strict lockdown since early January, with a \"stay at home\" message in force.\n\nThis was initially due to run until February, but this will be reviewed by ministers on Tuesday morning with a view to having the restrictions last longer.\n\nWhile Ms Sturgeon has warned that the government would consider further measures if necessary, she said \"it is the duration rather than the content of restrictions that we will be looking at\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe outcome of this review will then be announced to MSPs in a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will announce the result of the latest review in a Holyrood statement\n\nThe review will also cover the situation in schools, with the majority learning remotely from home and only some children of key workers and vulnerable pupils being allowed into school buildings.\n\nOn Monday, the first minister said she did not want to \"raise expectations\" about classes returning to normal, but added that she was \"not going to make any assumptions\" ahead of the cabinet meeting.\n\nShe said: \"I am not going to raise parents' expectations, you can see from the numbers we are seeing some positive signs in the numbers that lockdown is starting to stabilise things and tip them into decline, but transmission is still higher than we would want it to be.\n\n\"We want to get schools back as quickly as we possibly can, it is not in the interests of kids to be out of school for any longer than is absolutely necessary, but community transmission has always been a key factor in these decisions.\"\n\nThis echoed comments from Mr Swinney, who had previously said it would be \"a tall order\" for schools to fully re-open with \"the virus still at a very high level in general within society\".\n\nI am expecting continuity rather than change from today's announcement on coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe continuation of the current lockdown and presumably the extension of remote learning for most school pupils into the February break at least.\n\nBoth decisions are likely to be reviewed again next month. But it's not clear if the first minister will feel able to suggest a target date for restrictions to ease.\n\nCabinet will also be giving special attention to the serious Covid outbreak on Barra and considering if the level three restrictions that apply in the Western Isles remain appropriate.\n\nWhile there are signs the pace at which the current wave of coronavirus is spreading is starting to slow, evidence of much greater suppression will be required before the stay at home lockdown in place across mainland Scotland is lifted.\n\nThe review comes less than a week after restrictions in Scotland were tightened, with some click and collect services ordered to close and outdoor alcohol consumption banned.\n\nThe entire Scottish mainland has been in the top level of restrictions - level four - since Boxing Day, with level three measures in place in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and some islands in Argyll and Bute and the Highlands.\n\nScots are subject to a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes, such as shopping for essentials, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nThe number of new cases reported each day on average has begun to fall, but the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to rise and is now \"significantly\" above that seen in the first wave in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"position overall is very precarious, very concerning in terms of the level of transmission\", but said there were \"some early signs to be optimistic that measures are having an effect\".\n\nThe first minister will take questions from opposition leaders following her statement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have voiced concerns that Covid-19 vaccines are not being rolled out quickly enough, saying the Scottish government are \"trailing their own targets\".\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland has vaccinated 264,991 people so far - 6% of its adult population.\n\nThis is lower than the figure for England, where 8% of the adult population - 3,520,056 people - have been vaccinated, and Northern Ireland, which has the highest vaccination rate in the UK at 8.7%.\n\nWales has a similar figure to Scotland at 6%.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has insisted that all parts of the UK are \"working to the same targets\" to vaccinate priority groups, and said her government is \"on track\" to hit them subject to supplies arriving.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.\n\nBy that time the government aims to be vaccinating up to 400,000 people a week on average, with all priority groups getting a first jab by early May and the rest of the adult population in line thereafter.", "About one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December, roughly double the October figure, data has shown.\n\nEstimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest between 8% of people in Northern Ireland and 12% of people in England showed signs of past Covid infection.\n\nIn October, antibody positivity ranged from 2% to 7% around the UK.\n\nAnd 6,586 Covid deaths were registered in the UK in the week to 8 January.\n\nThat brings the total registered so far close to 96,000.\n\nNearly a quarter of deaths were people living in care homes - a disproportionate impact on a group of people which accounts for less than 1% of the population.\n\nBack in July, though, care home residents accounted for 40% of deaths.\n\nThe ONS regularly tests a representative sample of the population, both for current infection and for antibodies indicating a past infection.\n\nPeople taking part in the survey are tested whether or not they have had symptoms.\n\nThis is used to estimate how common both the virus and antibodies are in the population as a whole.\n\nAntibodies are proteins in the blood which fight off specific infections.\n\nThey are developed if somebody catches an infection and their body fights it off, or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nYorkshire and the Humber topped the chart with 17% of people having positive antibodies, followed by London.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said: \"This study shows that infection with the Sars-Cov-2 virus is much more widespread in the UK than previously realised, with around 1 in 10 people estimated to have been infected by December 2020.\n\n\"The implications are that infection rates increased significantly between November and December.\"\n\nBut Scotland had a considerably smaller growth in antibodies than the rest of the UK, rising from 7% to 9% of the population.\n\nThe fact that more people show signs of having at least some protection against Covid-19 is consistent with the dramatic rise in infections during that period.\n\nBut we know that antibodies from natural infection can fade.\n\nIn England, the ONS said, positive antibody tests equated to 5.4 million people aged over 16 having signs of past infection.\n\nThat does not tell you the total number of people infected, however, but acts as a snapshot in time.\n\nIn London, about 16% of people had antibodies in December, up from 11% in October. But at the last peak in May, an estimated 15% of the population had antibodies. This proportion fell, as detectable antibodies recede with time.\n\nExactly what this means for someone's likelihood to become infected again, however, is not fully known.\n\nIt also remains to be seen how long vaccines will protect people for, before they need a booster jab.\n\nBut Public Health England data suggests natural immunity provides at least five months' protection on average, and vaccines often give better protection than natural immunity.\n\nMore than 4 million people in the UK have been given their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nProf Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, urged caution among those who have already been vaccinated.\n\nAsked whether people who have received the jab can hug their children, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would certainly advise not to do that at the moment because, as you probably know, with the vaccines they take several weeks before they are maximally effective.\n\n\"It's really important that people stay on their guard even if they've had that first vaccination.\"", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's rising number of UK deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday’s numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays registering deaths over the weekend tend to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half that.\n\nBut there are two chinks of light in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 - for a third day in a row. At the turn of the year it was touching 60,000 new diagnoses.\n\nThat means, in the coming weeks, we should start to see fewer hospitalisations and, eventually, deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.\n\nThey say the way the self-employed income support scheme or SEISS is calculated- by averaging out profits between 2016 to 19 - is unfair to to around 75,000 women who’ve taken time off in that period for maternity leave. The government insists using a three-year average is the best way of reflecting a self-employed worker’s income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "An Instagram post said the alleged baby shower was a \"lovely surprise\"\n\nA rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nChiltern Railways workers told BBC News up to 20 colleagues, including some who were on shift, attended the gathering.\n\nThey claim some party-goers then had positive Covid tests, forcing most of the team to self-isolate.\n\nChiltern said \"appropriate action\" would be taken after its investigation.\n\nMembers of Chiltern Railways customer services staff based at the station told BBC News that about 30 people had been invited to the baby shower on the afternoon of 23 November - both via WhatsApp before the alleged gathering, and face to face on the day of the event.\n\nA national coronavirus lockdown was in place in England in November, so people were banned from meeting anyone indoors who was not part of their household.\n\nOne worker, David [not his real name], said he declined an invitation to the event but walked past the bakery later in his shift to see about 20 colleagues gathered inside.\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and alarmed\" to see people hugging each other, with most of them not wearing masks.\n\nPhotos of the alleged gathering, seen by the BBC, show a table inside a Patisserie Valerie outlet covered with dozens of cupcakes, mince pies, crisps and sandwiches, bunting saying \"it's a boy!\" and handmade flags reading \"happy baby shower\".\n\nOne photo appears to show a group of eight colleagues posing in front of the table of party food, without socially distancing from one another.\n\nSome images were shared on Instagram on 23 November with the caption: \"What a lovely surprise being thrown a baby shower at work today!\"\n\nA Patisserie Valerie spokesman said the company had not been informed of any such event and that none of its team members had access to the Marylebone station cafe, which has remained closed since March due to Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added it was normal for a member of station staff to have keys to the premises for \"security reasons\".\n\nDavid and another colleague claimed three people who allegedly attended the event tested positive over the following four days.\n\nThe positive tests meant 16 members of staff out of the team of about 26 people had to self-isolate for 14 days, David said.\n\nHe said colleagues who lived with, or cared for, vulnerable people were \"petrified\" to hear there had been a staff outbreak, with some \"scared to go home\" for fear of endangering loved ones.\n\nDavid added that he had been caring for his elderly grandmother so self-isolation was \"a real nightmare\" as he had to arrange alternative care for her.\n\nChiltern Railways confirmed a \"small number\" of workers tested positive for Covid or had to self-isolate in the 14-day period after 23 November, but a spokeswoman said \"none of the staff who were alleged to have attended [the baby shower] tested positive\".\n\nShe said Chiltern Railways was investigating and was \"making every effort\" to maintain a Covid-secure environment for staff and customers.\n\nChiltern Railways staff members congratulated their colleague using information boards at the station\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, which was sent to Chiltern Railways employees on 24 November, a manager said one team member had tested positive and added: \"It is disappointing that social distancing measures do not appear to have been followed and I will be investigating this further.\"\n\nDavid's colleague Peter (not his real name) said he was one of about 10 team members who had to work while the rest of the team was self-isolating.\n\nPeter said the outbreak left those at work feeling \"stretched\" and \"raised the anxiety levels of everyone\" as they worried they might have caught Covid as a result of having worked alongside the alleged party's attendees.\n\n\"A lot of us don't want to be at work during this time, for obvious reasons. We're doing a job where we do come into contact with a lot of people - it's stressful enough with your own family, who are a bit worried about you going in to work at a train station and asking if you're getting the proper protection,\" Peter said.\n\nHe added he felt \"demoralised\" to hear about the alleged party when he spends his shifts encouraging customers to wear masks and socially distance.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been made aware of the incident and had contacted Chiltern Railways for a \"full explanation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Office of Rail and Road - which protects the interests of rail and road users - said it had investigated \"an issue relating to Covid-19 concerns\" and had taken action, jointly with Westminster City Council, to \"ensure Chiltern Railways tightens its risk assessment for workers and to revise working arrangements\".", "When Amelia Strike, 21, was logged out of her Depop social shopping app account in October, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.\n\n\"I thought I had just forgotten my password when I couldn't get back in, but a couple of days passed and I realised something wasn't right,\" says the Birmingham-based law student.\n\nShe then received a message from a stranger on Instagram, alerting her to the fact that her account had been taken over by a scammer advertising Apple AirPod headphones for £50.\n\nShe immediately used her brother's Depop account to comment on the offending post and contact the app. It was removed by the firm in a few hours and her password was reset.\n\nBut when Ms Strike logged back in, she was shocked by what she found.\n\n\"I felt sick - I scrolled and scrolled through hundreds of messages people had sent the scammer,\" she says.\n\nThe fraudster had been instructing shoppers to pay them directly through PayPal's \"Friends and Family\" option, which sidesteps Depop's fees and doesn't offer any protection for buyers.\n\nThe scammer sent messages like this one to other Depop users from Amelia's account\n\nMs Strike counted at least three Depop users who made unauthorised payments of £50 to the scammer.\n\nIn Ms Strike's situation, to get users to trust scam listing, the hacker had also uploaded a photo of her name on a post-it note next to the headphones that were supposedly for sale.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by people selling second-hand items online, to prove that the photos were not stolen from another listing.\n\n\"I just felt so violated,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone - 14 other users have told BBC News that their Depop accounts have been hacked in recent months. In all cases, the fraudsters demanded to be paid directly, rather than through the app.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, a journalism student in Tewkesbury, was scared when her account was hacked and a fraudster posted a listing for a £350 jacket.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, told the BBC a fraudster hacked her Depop account and advertised a £350 Moncler jacket\n\nDepop took the listing down within 12 hours and reset her password, but Ms Goold says such incidents are becoming commonplace.\n\n\"You always know somebody who's had a Depop horror story. It's such a widespread problem now.\"\n\nScammers have continued to plague many online services through the pandemic.\n\nOne \"have a go\" method called \"credential stuffing\" involves using automated tools to repeatedly log into accounts, entering usernames and password information previously exposed from data breaches of other popular online services.\n\nIf a user doesn't use the same password on multiple services or has changed their passwords after being exposed in a data breach, this won't work.\n\nAccording to Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at cyber-security firm Blueliv, cyber criminals are now targeting Depop accounts on an \"industrial scale\" using this method, capitalising on the fact that people often use similar passwords.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under\n\nDepop told the BBC that the safety and security of its community is its \"number one priority\", and that the service has never had a data breach or had its infrastructure compromised.\n\nThe firm confirmed that credential stuffing is a big part of the problem.\n\n\"Weak passwords and the use of the same password across multiple accounts is the greatest source of account takeover, which is why we have initiated a campaign in the second half of 2020 to force some users to strengthen their passwords and to remind others of the importance of strong and unique passwords,\" says Depop's chief operating officer Dominic Rose.\n\nDepop has started resetting passwords for some 12 million users that have not changed them in over a year and told the BBC it had sent reminders to a similar number to make sure their log-in details are unique.\n\n\"We will continue to remind our community about the importance of account security and updating their passwords.\"\n\nThe firm, founded in 2011, told the BBC that although the number of its users increased nearly two-fold to 26 million last year, it had seen a 50% decrease in account \"takeovers\" since its campaign began.\n\nBut Blueliv found that login details for several thousand hacked Depop accounts are being advertised for as little as $1.05 (77p) each on the dark web - a part of the internet that is only accessible using specialised tools.\n\nWhile a Vice investigation first highlighted the problem in May, there is now evidence that account logins are being sold across multiple dark web \"marketplaces\".\n\nThe information for sale includes usernames and passwords, with extra charged for details such as follower count, the number of sales completed by a user and their ratings by other shoppers.\n\nOn the dark net marketplace White House Market, \"premium\" Depop accounts are being sold for $5\n\n\"The accounts are being compromised and that definitely is concerning,\" Ms Rowley says. \"While it's not a Depop-specific problem, I think [credential stuffing] is one we're going to see expand in the next five years.\"\n\nOne Depop user told the BBC they would feel \"much more comfortable\" if the app introduced two-factor authentication, where users enter a one-time code sent to them via email or text, for example, after attempting to sign in.\n\nDepop confirmed that it intends to implement multi-factor authentication in 2021.\n\nBut Aman Johal, director at law firm Your Lawyers, which specialises in consumer action claims, says the platform needs to act urgently, \"particularly given its relatively young user base, where the duty of care is greater\".\n\n\"The fact that this has been going on for months...is unacceptable. Given the volume of compromised accounts for sale, the horse has already bolted,\" he added.\n\nFor some users, trust in the company has been dented.\n\n\"I feel like their security measures need to be amped up because it's just not good enough,\" says Ms Strike, who has been a Depop user since 2015.\n\n\"I've used [Depop] for a long time but I'm reluctant to continue because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.\"", "HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking.\n\nThe company will have 511 branches across the country following the closure programme.\n\nManagers said they did not expect to make any redundancies, with staff moved to nearby branches instead.\n\nCoronavirus and changing customer habits have altered the way we bank, but there are concerns over closures.\n\nCampaigners say that local branches provide a lifeline for those who need access to cash and face-to-face services, and allow small businesses to bank without too much disruption to their own trade.\n\nHSBC said all but one of the branches earmarked for closure were within one mile of a Post Office, where these day-to-day transactions could be carried out.\n\nIt said - even stripping out the effects of the pandemic - the number of customers using branches had fallen by a third in the past five years, and 90% of all customer contact was over the phone, internet or smartphone, in addition to contacts on social media.\n\nJackie Uhi, HSBC UK's head of network, said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for the changes that we are making.\n\n\"It hasn't pushed us in a different direction but reinforces the things that we were focusing on before and has crystallised our thinking. This is a strategic direction that we need to take to have a branch network fit for the future.\"\n\nThis would include changing some branches to concentrate on cash access, as well as the use of \"pop-up\" branches in some areas by the end of the year. It means some remaining branches will offer fewer services.\n\nThe branches to close are:\n\nMay: Brighton, Ditchling Road; Hull, Merit House; Wednesbury; Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks; Hull, Holderness Road; Pontyclun, Talbot Green; London, Fleet Street; London, Fenchurch Street; London, Old Broad Street; London, Charing Cross; Sheffield, Darnall; Oxford, Summertown; Leeds, Chapel Allerton; Cardiff, Rumney; Torquay, Strand; Staines", "The Met Office warned heavy rain combined with melting snow on higher ground was likely to cause flooding\n\nAn amber rain warning has been issued for parts of northern and central England as Storm Christoph approaches.\n\nThe Met Office told people in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England to expect heavy rain and potential floods.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 70mm (2.75in) of rain is forecast to fall within 48 hours in the worst-hit areas from Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said the downpours, set to last throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, were likely to cause flooding when combined with melting snow on higher ground.\n\nIt said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and warned some communities there was a good chance they would be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nCouncils and emergency services have warned people to prepare for potential flooding.\n\nMayor of Doncaster Ros Jones declared a major incident in South Yorkshire ahead of possible flooding.\n\nIn a tweet, she said emergency protocols were instigated on Sunday, with sandbags handed out in flood-risk areas, and told people not to panic but to be prepared.\n\nCalderdale councillor Scott Patient urged residents and businesses to \"take all the steps they can to protect themselves and their property\".\n\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, Mr Patient said, the authority was preparing \"virtual community support hubs\" to help people if there was flooding.\n\n\"The virtual hubs work similarly to the physical ones, but everything will be done remotely to reduce the need for face-to-face contact and to protect staff, volunteers, those affected by flooding and vulnerable people in our communities,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has 14 flood warnings - meaning \"immediate action\" is required - in place across England, stretching from the south east to the north east.\n\nThe Met Office amber rain area initially covered parts of the north, but has since been expanded to include some central areas\n\nMet Office forecaster Jon Griffiths said about 40-70mm (1.57-2.75 in) of rain was expected in the north-west over three days, potentially rising to 100-120mm (3.93-4.72 in) in hilly areas.\n\nMr Griffiths said river systems in some areas were already close to capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.\n\nOn Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.\n\nSeven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.\n\nThe ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\".\n\nAt the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\"\n\nAt one point on Monday night, 15 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients outside New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\nA source told the BBC it was \"a very challenging day\" and in total, handovers had accounted for 759 hours of crews' time, equivalent to taking 63 ambulances off the road.\n\nWhile another said at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, ambulances were still responding to emergency calls from the night before.\n\nTraditionally, the first Monday after New Year is always busy. GP surgeries have been closed and people wait until after the festivities to get medical treatment.\n\nThis year, the number of calls was exacerbated by the service taking about 700 calls for the London ambulance service after its system struggled.\n\nThere was also the perfect storm of snow and ice coupled with coronavirus - made worse because many of our trusts, particularly University Hospitals Birmingham have been struggling with capacity for many months. Usually hospitals would put patients on corridors, they can't because of Covid risks.\n\nThey also have fewer beds due to wider spacing to prevent infection and fewer staff on duty. Hence patients left for hours on ambulances outside.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is the best performing in the country, but even with near to 500 ambulances a day on the road, it cannot keep up with demand.\n\nProf David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, warned its capacity would \"soon be compromised\".\n\n\"The numbers are ramping up enormously and I don't think we've seen the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day yet, that will take time to come through,\" Prof Loughton said.\n\nHe added a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worst before they get better.\n\n\"As I always say today's Covid rate is my order book for intensive care in two weeks' time.\"\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.\n\n\"We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.\"\n\nIn a statement London Ambulance Service NHS Trust said : \"As is standard practice during periods of high demand and high levels of staff sickness, ambulance services provide support for each other, which includes answering 999 calls.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s\n\nAuthor Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.\n\nThe US writer wrote 30 novels about breathless relationships and thrilling adventures involving young African American characters.\n\nThey included Friends & Lovers, Milk In My Coffee, Cheaters and Finding Gideon.\n\nHe also wrote a series of Marvel comics about a love story between Storm from the X-Men and the Black Panther.\n\n\"His work has become a cultural touchstone over the course of his multi-decade writing career, earning him millions of dedicated readers around the world,\" his publicist Becky Odell told USA Today in a statement.\n\nWriter Roxane Gay was among those paying tribute, describing him as \"a great storyteller\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by roxane gay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther authors to add their voices included Luvvie Ajayi, who described him as \"a literary legend\", and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, who said he was \"an amazing author and an even better friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wesley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey started out as a software developer in the aerospace industry. Being laid off from that job gave him a chance to take writing classes and see whether he could make it as an author.\n\nHe emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s, and his 1996 debut Sister, Sister - about the lives and loves of three siblings - was recently named one of the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years by Essence magazine.\n\nHe was particularly praised for his ability to write \"believable\" female characters, and many of his readers were women.\n\nWhen the New York Times profiled him in 2004, it billed him as the \"chick lit king\". Patrik Henry Bass, Essence's books editor, told the paper: \"He is singular in the way he is tapping into the African-American female psyche.\"\n\nAnd Calvin Reid, an editor at trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said: \"He captures black language and black middle-class characters with more depth than you often see in commercial fiction.\"\n\nBy that time, he was selling 500,000 books a year. He was nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction, winning in 2015 for A Wanted Woman.\n\nBy then, he had branched out into stories of crime, suspense, thrills and spills as well as the steamy and tangled relationships with which he made his name.\n\nHe had four daughters, but said he never based his plots on his own life. \"I avoid my life,\" he once said. \"It bores me. Trust me. A book about me would be a snoozefest.\"\n\nHis final novel, The Son of Mr Suleman, will be published in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp is set to be named the BBC's next chairman, the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan says.\n\nMr Sharp spent 23 years working for the banking giant and was reportedly Chancellor Rishi Sunak's boss there.\n\nHe has recently been acting as an unpaid economic adviser to Mr Sunak during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis new role will see him lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.\n\nThe licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost, currently £157.50, should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence.\n\nMr Sharp's career at Goldman Sachs culminated as chairman of its principal investment business in Europe before his departure in 2007. He was then on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee for six years until 2019.\n\nAs an advisor to the Treasury about its pandemic response, the 63-year-old reportedly played a key role in the £1.57bn arts rescue package, and the film and television production restart scheme.\n\nMr Sharp is a former donor to the Conservative party.\n\nHe was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012, and founded the charity London Music Masters.\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS Committee, said in a statement: \"It is disappointing to see this news about the next BBC chairman has leaked out ahead of a formal announcement from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Committee previously expressed some concerns over the appointments process, calling for it to be fair and transparent.\n\n\"The DCMS Committee looks forward to questioning the preferred candidate for the post in a pre-appointment hearing next week on their views at a critical time for the BBC about its role and the future of public service broadcasting more generally.\"\n\nHis views on the BBC itself are unknown. But like new director general Tim Davie, who he met a few weeks before Christmas, he has a commercial background. Just as the relationship between Lord Hall, Davie's predecessor, and Sir David was strong, so the bond between the new DG and chair will be critical.\n\nWhether Sharp supports the licence fee as the pillar of a future BBC settlement is unclear.\n\nThe last time the BBC's future was negotiated with a sceptical Conservative government, the relationship between the director general and the chancellor - then George Osborne - was critical, as Lord Hall explained to me in his exit interview.\n\nThis time, Davie will go into that negotiation with a very close ally of the current chancellor - though Sharp's first duty is to support Davie, and the BBC, and not his old mentee.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nIt was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 - a decline of 29%.\n\nIt was the lowest total since 1992.\n\nThe bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.\n\n\"We lost half a million units from March, April, May - and we never recovered them,\" said the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\nThe restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using 'click and collect' services.\n\nThat remains the case during the new lockdown, announced on Monday.\n\n\"We can still do click and collect, which is important, because that's the very minimum we need,\" said Mr Hawes. \"Not just to keep retail going, but also to keep manufacturing going.\"\n\nOverall, the SMMT said the Covid crisis has cost the car industry some £20bn - and cost the exchequer nearly £2bn in lost VAT.\n\nThere are also serious questions about the extent to which the car market can recover this year. Previous forecasts, which had suggested new registrations could rise to about 2 million in 2021, have been thrown into doubt by the latest restrictions.\n\nBut while the market as a whole has suffered over the past year, sales of electric cars have risen dramatically, increasing their share of the market from 1.5% to 6.5%. Sales of plug-in hybrids also rose sharply.\n\nCar showrooms re-opened from the first lockdown in June\n\n\"If we see this continued level of uptake in electric vehicles, then we anticipate that sales of new EVs and plug-in hybrids will overtake diesel cars in 2021,\" said Ian Plummer, commercial director of motoring website Auto Trader. \"Then, pure EVs will overtake those of their internal combustion engine counterparts in 2026.\"\n\nWith the pandemic continuing to inflict serious damage on the industry, Mr Hawes says the trade deal between the UK and the EU came as a \"massive relief\".\n\nIt confirmed that cars and car parts could continue to move between the two regions, without tariffs - or taxes - being imposed, provided certain conditions are met.\n\nThe SMMT had previously warned that failing to reach a deal could have cost the industry £55bn over five years - and add £2,000 to the cost of each vehicle\n\nBut manufacturers still face potentially significant additional costs due to so-called non-tariff barriers - including border formalities, and the need to obtain extra regulatory approvals for new designs.\n\n\"This is not a free deal\", said Mr Hawes.\n\nAnother consequence of the trade deal is that the UK will need to focus on battery production, if it is to maintain its car industry while phasing out petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThat's because in order to qualify for tariff-free access to the European market, the value of car components made outside the UK and the EU will have to be strictly limited.\n\nSpecific rules relating to batteries effectively mean that from 2027, they themselves will have to be made in the EU or the UK.\n\nThe SMMT believes that, based on current investment plans, UK battery factories will have a capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2024.\n\nThat is more than seven times the current level, and would be enough to produce 250,000 electric cars per year.\n\nBut the SMMT insists much more is needed: 60GWh in order to produce 1 million cars per year by 2030, and 120GWh to produce 2mby 2040.\n\nThat, says Mr Hawes, will require \"massive investment\".", "Greggs expects up to a £15m loss for the year, which would be its first annual loss since it listed its shares on the stock exchange in 1984.\n\nThe bakery chain said it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\n\nIt has been battling a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, but sales declines have been lessening.\n\nGreggs made 820 job cuts at the end of last year, after its sales were hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the impact of the Covid-19 crisis had been \"enormous\" and that a fresh lockdown meant \"significant uncertainties remain in the near term\".\n\nCoronavirus restrictions towards the end of last year led to \"variable trading conditions across the UK\", he said.\n\nSales in the final three months of the year fell by nearly a fifth, but this decline was less than its sales slump in the third quarter.\n\nIn September, Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, said it was in talks with staff to cut hours in an effort to minimise job losses.\n\nBut it still decided to cut 820 jobs because of \"lockdown levels of business\" as High Streets were hit by the crisis.\n\n\"Looking ahead, the significant uncertainty over the duration of social restrictions, along with the impact of higher unemployment levels, makes it difficult to predict performance,\" the firm said.\n\n\"However, we do not expect that profits will return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nGreggs said on Wednesday that total sales for the year were down nearly a third to £811m, but government support had helped to limit pre-tax losses.\n\nIt said it had developed its takeaway business and a delivery tie-up with Just Eat, and had also seen \"strong sales\" through its partnership with retailer Iceland.\n\n\"We have taken action to position Greggs to withstand further short-term shocks and are optimistic about our prospects for growth once social restrictions are lifted,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nGreggs wants to open about 100 new stores, on a net basis, over the year ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at insolvency consultants Begbies Traynor, said: \"The latest national lockdown will be unwelcome news for Greggs, which has operated shrewdly during the past year in spite of a lack of footfall, with non-essential stores forced to close and millions working from home.\n\n\"The bakery chain has had to adapt its business model and invest digitally to accommodate for the rapid change in shopping habits, offering click-and-collect purchases, as well as a nationwide delivery service through its partnership with Just Eat.\n\n\"This should provide a solid base for the business to expand when government restrictions are eased and the world returns to some normality.\"", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "The US is facing another huge election - one that could define how much new president Joe Biden can get done in his first term.\n\nMore than 100 people are gathered in the grey and damp cold in Stone Mountain.\n\nIt's a miserable start to the New Year but this city near Georgia's capital, Atlanta, feels anything but sleepy or hung over.\n\n\"The energy we get here in Georgia is something I've never seen before,\" says Mr Gardner, who was born and raised in local DeKalb County.\n\n\"We've had other Senate races and I'm just excited.\"\n\nHe is joined by fellow Democratic supporters who are singing and dancing outside a house-turned-campaign centre.\n\nIt's to rally support for the two men who are probably President-elect Joe Biden's most important friends right now: Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.\n\nThis traditionally Republican state was won by Mr Biden in November's election - but there were no clear winners for the state's two Senate seats. Now there is a run-off between the top candidates in each race.\n\nIf the two Democrats, Mr Ossoff and Rev Warnock, beat incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Mr Biden's party effectively controls the Senate.\n\nShirley Shepphard is handing out stickers, with a smile and confidence.\n\n\"The Democrats can win! Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!\" she says.\n\nThere's a huge cheer as Mr Ossoff's large blue bus makes its way down the road and pulls up opposite the house.\n\nHe is only 33 years old and, in case his youth wasn't clear enough, he makes a point of jogging on to the small stage.\n\nDuring a polished speech he exclaims: \"The place we demand better is at the ballot box.\"\n\nIf Mr Ossoff wins, he'd be the youngest member of the Senate - a title once held by Joe Biden himself.\n\nNo pressure, but I put to him that the fate of Mr Biden's presidency is in his hands.\n\nIf he loses, is Mr Biden a weakened president before he's even begun?\n\nWithout missing a beat, Mr Ossoff says: \"We will win.\"\n\nFellow Democrat and Senate candidate Mr Warnock could make history alongside him.\n\nHe could become Georgia's first black senator, in a state that has a higher proportion of black people than any other in the US.\n\nRallies have been held for all four candidates, including this one featuring the US vice-president\n\nGeorgia has also found itself becoming the final battleground for an aggrieved President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Republican Senate candidates here - Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler - are his last foot soldiers.\n\nBoth appeared at his rally the previous night, where he focused on repeating his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\n\"There's no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election,\" were the first words out of his mouth.\n\n\"We run all over the world telling people how to run their elections and we don't even know how to run ours.\"\n\nMr Trump has also gone after Georgia's Republican governor and begged another official here, in an astonishing phone call, to find votes to overturn Mr Biden's victory.\n\nThe president has also called the Georgia Senate races \"invalid and illegal\" without any evidence.\n\nThere are concerns from some Republicans he's putting people off voting on Tuesday.\n\nI asked supporters at Trump's rally why they would take part in an election process if they didn't believe it was fair. Some hesitated and suggested it was their civic duty.\n\nFor those who won't vote, it's an advantage that may work for the Democrats.\n\nWhen I ask two Ossoff and Warnock supporters about the claims of election fraud, both women throw their heads back, burst into a long laugh in perfect unison and shake their heads bemused: \"Yeah, that's a good one.\"\n\nThere's another factor in this runoff - teenagers.\n\nSince the 3 November presidential election, more than 23,000 people will have turned 18 in the state and can now vote in this Senate race.\n\nMany young voters have been holding live-streaming events in counties across Georgia.\n\nValerie Ponomarev just turned 18 and is very excited at getting to vote. She was upset she couldn't cast a ballot in the recent presidential election.\n\n\"I did the math in my head and was short by a month as I was born in December,\" she says.\n\n\"I was mad at my mum that I hadn't been born sooner!\"\n\nShe said at first, she didn't even realise the Senate runoff was so crucial in Georgia.\n\nShe's voting for the Democrats, Ms Ponomarev says, adding that a lot of younger people have shown support for Mr Ossoff.\n\n\"I think the youth finally want representation in government because we're so often underrepresented and now that we have Jon Ossoff who is closer to our age,\" she says.\n\nMichael Guisto found himself in the same situation as Ms Ponomarev - too young to cast a ballot in November - and says missing out on that vote was painful.\n\n\"It feels like a redemption,\" he says of this Senate race.\n\nThe polls are suggesting it's a very tight race. But this state knows that whatever it decides, it will have an impact on the country as a whole.\n\nMr Guisto says even though he missed out on the November election, this vote matters.\n\n\"I get to in some ways influence the country but this time it's a bit closer to home.\"", "The deaths of a further 68 people who tested positive for Covid have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt comes as official figures show 33,381 people received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the week to 27 December.\n\nThat takes the total number of people to get a vaccine in Scotland since 8 December to 92,188.\n\nPatients in hospital with coronavirus rose from 1,347 on Tuesday to 1,384.\n\nHospital admissions have been rising sharply but are still 136 short of the peak figure of 1,520 recorded on 20 April last year.\n\nThe latest statistics show 2,039 new cases of the virus, which is 10.5% of those recently tested, a slightly lower figure than in recent days.\n\nA total of 95 people are in intensive care - a slight increase but significantly lower than the April peak of 208.\n\nHealth officials have expressed concern about the situation in Inverclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders, in particular, which have seen sharp rises in positive tests.\n\nWeekly figures show Inverclyde recorded 538.5 cases per 100,000, Dumfries & Galloway 538.1 and the Scottish Borders 435.5.\n\nThere were a further 603 confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the past 24 hours, with an additional 296 in NHS Lanarkshire, 206 in NHS Grampian and 164 in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, there have been 141,066 cases in Scotland, with a total of 4,701 people dying within 28 days of first testing positive.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures were released after doctors in Scotland raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move, saying the first dose will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks.", "Doctors are calling for a significant ramping up of the vaccination programme following approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe first patients are expected to receive the jab - the second approved for use in the UK - on Monday.\n\nBut with just over 500,000 doses available to use next week, experts are worried there may be a bottleneck in the system.\n\nThere are more than 25m people in the nine priority groups identified so far.\n\nThis includes all those over 50 and younger adults with health conditions, as well as frontline health and care staff.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have questioned the wisdom of cancelling patients already booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first jab that was approved and has been used since early December.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford vaccine on Wednesday, regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses needed, to ensure faster rollout of vaccination.\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses. The original advice said they should be given three weeks apart.\n\nHe said it was \"grossly unfair\" and would waste staff time.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Stella Joseph, who is 82 and has a chronic lung condition.\n\n\"The thing I feel most is utterly helpless, that there's nobody to appeal to, that you can't get any assistance with this at all.\n\n\"I think it is so hard that those of us who were in this first wave were obviously people who are at high risk and we're the ones who have been left high and dry.\"\n\nThe move has also prompted some debate about how strong the evidence is for delaying the second dose.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, of Imperial College London, said there was \"pretty convincing\" data showing it would enhance the effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut he said because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had not been tested in the same way, there was no comparable evidence.\n\nSo far nearly 950,000 people have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe hope was that when the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, it would lead to a significant increase in the rate of vaccination.\n\nThe jab is easier to store and distribute as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech one that has to be kept in ultra-cold storage.\n\nThere are thought to be more than five million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the UK, but only just over 500,000 are ready for use.\n\nThat is because vaccines have to be put into vials and batched and certified.\n\nSources at the NHS expressed frustration at the situation. \"The NHS is ready to go, but we can only go as quickly as supply allows,\" one said.\n\nQueen Mary University epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani said there appeared to be a \"bottleneck\", and the government looked like it was still going to be under its target of two million doses a week.\n\n\"We really need to speed up rollout,\" she said.\n\nThere are currently more than 700 vaccination sites up and running, with several hundred more thought to be ready to go once vaccines are available.\n\nBut the limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be shipped in from Belgium, has meant some centres have not been able to vaccinate people every week.\n\nDame Clare Gerada, a former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We really now need a massive operational system. We need a 24/7 system with GPs, mass vaccination centres and hospitals - this needs to be scaled up.\n\n\"It's got to be football stadia, all these large venues that we've got currently lying dormant.\n\n\"If we can really get a mass operational system up and running, then I can't see why we can't be getting the whole population immunised by the spring.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, promised there would be a significant expansion of the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.\n\nShe predicted the majority of care home residents would be protected by the end of January, and frontline staff would start to get a vaccination in large numbers.\n\nShe also praised the progress made so far, thanking the \"tireless efforts of staff\".\n\nEngland Health Secretary Matt Hancock also praised staff, adding the numbers being vaccinated would \"rapidly increase in the months ahead\".", "The 19-year-old victim was attacked on Canonbury Road in Islington shortly before 19:00 GMT on 29 December\n\nA man was left partially blind after he was repeatedly hit in the face during a street robbery in north London.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been walking along Canonbury Road in Islington on 29 December when he was approached by two men, one of whom stole his bag and hit him with a \"baton-style weapon\".\n\nThe Met said he had suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in the \"vicious and unprovoked attack\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and the detectives have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe attacker has been described by police as black, aged in his late teens with spikey hair and of a skinny build.\n\nDet Con Faisal Issaouni said the 19-year-old victim had been \"left with injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"We're reviewing CCTV from the area and have spoken to a number of witnesses as we try to track down the man responsible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clap for Carers is to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said.\n\nThe weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first coronavirus lockdown last spring.\n\nFounder Annemarie Plas tweeted that it would return at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMs Plas said she hoped the initiative would \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annemarie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event later faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nLast May, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said the weekly applause should end after its 10th week and instead become an annual event.\n\nAt the time, she said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\n\"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised,\" she told the PA news agency ahead of the final clap in May.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"", "YouTuber JoJo Siwa has said she had \"no idea\" that \"gross\" and \"inappropriate\" questions were featured in a board game bearing her image.\n\nIt follows a parental backlash about the Nickelodeon-branded game, marketed to children aged six and over.\n\nThe \"Truth or Dare\" category contained questions like: \"Have you ever gone outside without underwear?\" and \"Have you ever been arrested?\".\n\nParents have expressed disapproval on social media in recent days.\n\nIn response to the online outcry, the 17-year-old internet star said she was \"really upset\" to discover the content of the game, which is called JoJo's Juice.\n\nShe added she was working with Nikelodeon to have removed it from the shops.\n\n\"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content,\" said Siwa, in an Instagram video message.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by itsjojosiwa This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me and so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards.\"\n\nShe added: \"Now when I first saw this, I was really really really upset at how gross these questions were. And so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately and since then, they have been working to get this game stopped being made, and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she would have \"never approved or agreed to be associated with this game,\" if she had seen the cards beforehand.\n\nOther questions featured in the board game included: \"Have you ever stolen from a store?\" and \"Have you ever walked in on someone naked?\"\n\nThe US teenager posts videos of her day-to-day life on her YouTube channel, Its JoJo Siwa.\n\nShe is also a singer and dancer, having appeared on the reality TV series Dance Moms, alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa.\n\nHer musical offerings so far include the singles Boomerang and Kid in a Candy Store.\n\nLast year, she was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Dr Dre, seen here in 2018, is one of hip-hop's most successful stars\n\nRapper and producer Dr Dre, one of hip-hop's most successful and influential stars, is being treated in hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.\n\nThe 55-year-old was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, TMZ reported.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he said: \"I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.\"\n\nHe is \"resting comfortably\" after the aneurysm, his lawyer told Billboard.\n\nIn his post, Dr Dre also wrote: \"I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by drdre This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends and fellow stars have sent their well wishes after the reports of his ill health emerged.\n\nIce Cube, his former bandmate in trailblazing 1980s hip-hop group NWA, tweeted: \"Send your love and prayers to the homie Dr. Dre.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, who was discovered by Dr Dre in the early 1990s, wrote on Instagram: \"GET WELL DR DRE WE NEED U CUZ.\"\n\nMissy Elliott wrote: \"Prayers up for Dr. Dre and his family for healing & Strength over his mind & body.\" And singer Ciara tweeted: \"Praying for you Dr. Dre. Praying for a full recovery.\"\n\nWith NWA and then as a solo artist, leading producer and record label mogul, Dr Dre shaped west coast rap and was instrumental in the careers of other stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nAn aneurysm is a bulge in a weakened blood vessel where the blood pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards.\n\nMost brain aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst, leading to bleeding on the brain, which can cause a very serious condition and can be fatal.", "(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park was suffering from psychosis \"right up to the day\" of the killings, a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, attacked James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nA hearing to decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause has been told he was \"no radical Islamist\".\n\nThe hearing at the Old Bailey is part of his sentencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, has pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders.\n\nAn examination of his mobile phone revealed extremist material, including an image of the Islamic State flag and the 9/11 Twin Towers attack, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution is seeking a whole-life prison order, meaning he would never be considered for release.\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, said the sentence should be one of life imprisonment with a starting point of 30 years, due to a lack of serious premeditation, the \"fleeting\" strength of his commitment to Islamist jihad, and his mental health issues.\n\nKhairi Saadallah previously admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nHe said while the attack in Reading was \"terrifying\" and \"senseless\", it did not justify the failed Libyan asylum seeker being jailed for more than 30 years.\n\nHe added that \"as brutal as these killings were\", the suggestion they were \"ruthlessly efficient\" had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nSaadallah took \"certain steps to facilitate the killings\", he said, but \"significant planning or premeditation simply does not exist\".\n\nHe told the hearing Saadallah had \"come to the attention of the authorities on hundreds of occasions\", and had a history of frequent interactions with the police, criminal justice system and mental health services.\n\nHe said Saadallah had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder and \"right up until the day of killing he was plainly suffering from episodes of psychosis\".\n\nMr Scamardella said there is no suggestion this caused his offending but insisted his \"culpability [for the attack] is reduced\".\n\nThe court heard earlier that a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah was visited and filmed by police during a welfare check the day before the attack\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah had described himself in interview as \"part Muslim and part Catholic\", said Mr Scamardella, adding: \"No radical Islamist would countenance adoption of another faith, it's inconceivable.\"\n\nHe said portraying Saadallah as a committed jihadist was a \"superficially attractive proposition\" based on \"pieces of evidence that exist that demonstrate or at least might demonstrate a fleeting interest\".\n\nThree others - Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Paul Trauberman from Rainbow Smiles said it was hard to give reassurance without knowing the facts about the new variant\n\nNursery staff say they are being \"treated like the bottom of the rung\" after schools in England were told to shut to reduce the virus transmission.\n\nPaul Trauberman, of Rainbow Smiles in Weston-super-Mare, said despite his staff being \"scared\" about the new Covid-19 variant they had come to work.\n\nThe government announced a strict lockdown across the country on Monday.\n\nIt was after the UK moved to Covid-19 threat level five, meaning there is a risk the NHS could be overwhelmed.\n\nMr Trauberman, who took over Rainbow Smiles nursery in 2016, said he felt conflicted.\n\n\"I've come in this morning and I've got staff crying and saying they are scared of this new variant.\"\n\n\"We don't have PPE, we can't social distance, on the other hand we still have a business that is operational and we are not going bankrupt.\"\n\nHe said prolonged closure also carried the risk of going out of business but it was difficult to reassure staff when \"you don't have any of the facts\".\n\n\"One minute it is fine and the schools are going back, and two days later they are sending everyone home.\n\n\"It makes the staff feel insecure and... they just feel like they are being treated like the bottom of the rung.\n\nSchools are expected to remain closed until after the February half-term\n\n\"With this new variant ... they are having to deal with very close contact with children, with a virus around, which they are saying is very, very bad, but with no more information than that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Early years settings remain low risk environments for children and staff and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children.\"\n\nIt said keeping nurseries open supported parents and delivered crucial education for children as Bristol mother-of-three Eleni Franklin has found.\n\nShe said she \"really valued\" Acorns Nursery in Henbury Hill, being open as she and her husband are both key workers - so their children, Allegra, five, Aria, two and Rafe nine-months-old, will attend school and nursery throughout the lockdown.\n\n\"I can see that nurseries are different to schools. There has been one case at Aria's nursery during this whole period, whereas in school there has been quite a few,\" she said.\n\nEleni Franklin said she could see why nurseries were being treated differently to schools\n\n\"The nursery have been pretty good and although I understand there is a risk to staff, they have put a lot of measures in place to keep people safe.\"\n\nOne of the biggest challenges for nurseries - with some staff now unable to work because of their own childcare responsibilities - is maintaining child-to-staff ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman said they worked on a basis of one-to-three for babies, one-to-four for under-three's and one-to-eight with under five-year-olds.\n\n\"We are trying to maintain these bubbles, but normally we would move staff around to accommodate highs and lows of staff and children, to balance it out, but we are unable to do that to enable these bubbles,\" he said.\n\nHis nursery is now identifying families that could potentially keep their children at home if they were unable to meet those ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman, who is a member of an online group for nursery owners, said some people were calling for nurseries to shut, but said if that happened they risked \"not having a business to come back to\".\n\n\"Small businesses are the backbone of the country and if a lot of those go under, the financial implications for the whole country are going to be catastrophic.\"\n\nMother-of-two Kara Willetts, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, said she felt it was important her daughter Isobel continued going to nursery as she noticed her behaviour had changed when she had to stop going during the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Isobel is a really sociable, outgoing child and she really suffered with not going in and seeing her friends during the first lockdown. Her mental health suffered and she displayed behaviour I had never seen from her before,\" she said.\n\nKara Willetts said her daughter Isobel's mental health suffered when nurseries closed during the first lockdown\n\nMrs Willetts said she had full confidence in the measures introduced at the nursery three-and-a-half-year-old Isobel attends in Cheltenham.\n\nShe said that with her husband working from home and a seven-month-old son also at home, the option of Isobel going to nursery was \"beneficial to the whole family\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult for my husband to concentrate on work with two kids at home. Transmission rates in young children are very low and if I had any safety concerns I wouldn't send Isobel there,\" she added.\n\nTom Shea, a former advisor to the Early Year's minister, said: \"The biggest issue is that as a society we regard childcare as something like babysitting, rather than the start of the early year's development of learning.\n\n\"Sadly it seems the main reason for keeping us open is for protecting employment rather than protecting children.\"\n\nMr Shea owns Child First Nursery in Worksop and said he thought there was a \"hierarchy\" among key workers in terms of vaccination priorities. He said \"sensibly\" the first priority was NHS staff, followed by social carers for the elderly. He said teachers ranked a \"reasonable\" third, but that Early Years workers did not feature at all.\n\n\"They are expected just to work, and I am not sure if the government thinks that we are invisible,\" he said.\n\nHe called for early vaccination of Early Years workers to allow them to stay open and be protected.\n\n\"The irony now is that we are being told to keep open even though we are private businesses, we are dictated to about the funding we can receive and how we receive it… and if parents are frightened of their children going into the childcare setting then suddenly we don't get paid for that, so you find nurseries half empty being forced to open and it is not economical to do that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are funding nurseries as usual and all children are able to attend their early years setting in all parts of England.\n\n\"Working parents on coronavirus support schemes will still remain eligible for childcare support even if their income levels fall below the minimum requirement.\"", "An investment firm has bought 50% of the rights to all Neil Young's songs.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Fund spent an estimated $150m (£110m) on 1,180 songs written by the Canadian folk rocker.\n\nThe fund, which lets people invest in hit songs, has previously splashed out about £1bn snapping up rights to songs from the likes of Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie.\n\nFounded by music industry veteran Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis turns music royalties into an income stream.\n\n\"This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"I bought my first Neil Young album aged seven. Harvest was my companion and I know every note, every word, every pause and silence intimately.\n\n\"Neil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend and constant ever since.\"\n\nHipgnosis has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since July 2018. When songs owned by the fund get played on the radio or placed in a film or TV show, it makes money.\n\nBefore setting up Hipgnosis, Mr Mercuriadis managed artists such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Guns 'N' Roses.\n\nIn his view, songs are \"as investible as gold or oil\".\n\nHe says hit songs are a stable investment because their revenue is unaffected by fluctuations in the economy.\n\nThe sale of song catalogues has become a booming business during the Covid-19 pandemic, with investors seeing music as a relatively stable asset in an otherwise turbulent market.\n\nEarlier this week, Hipgnosis bought 100% of the rights to Lindsey Buckingham's 161 songs for an undisclosed amount.\n\nThe songs include hits that Buckingham wrote or co-wrote for Fleetwood Mac, including Go Your Own Way and The Chain.\n\nThe group's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her publishing rights last year to Hipgnosis rival Primary Wave for about $80m.\n\nLast month, Universal Music Group announced it had bought 100% of Bob Dylan's 600 songs for between an estimated $200m and $450m (£150m-£340m).\n\nThe singer-songwriter was the latest of a number of artists to join up with the Los Angeles-based Universal, following other big names such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.\n\nNeil Young rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s and is one of the most influential songwriters of all time.\n\nHe is known not only for his work as a solo artist, but also with the bands Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.\n\nYoung has released almost 50 studio albums and more than 20 live albums, of which 18 have been certified gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum.\n\nSeven of his albums were included on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time chart: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Harvest, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Rust Never Sleeps.\n\n\"I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs.\n\n\"There will never be a 'Burger of Gold', but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil's terms.\"", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.\n\nThe apps include popular payments platform Alipay, as well as QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.\n\nThe order, which takes effect in 45 days, says that the apps are being banned because they are a threat to US national security.\n\nIt flags the possibility that the apps could be used to track and build dossiers on US federal employees.\n\nTencent QQ, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate and WPS Office are also included within the order, which only kicks in after Mr Trump has left office.\n\n\"The United States must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national security,\" the order said.\n\nPresident Trump's order says \"by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Chinese companies in its final months in office, including those it considers a national security risk.\n\nPresident Trump has signed executive orders against a range of Chinese firms arguing they could share data with the Chinese government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama: How safe is TikTok for young users?\n\nChinese social media app TikTok and telecoms giant Huawei have been among the casualties of Washington's crackdown.\n\nLast month, the Commerce Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and drone manufacturer DJI Technology, to a trade blacklist.\n\nThe administration also restricted a number of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties from buying sensitive US goods and technology.\n\nChina has consistently denied claims that these firms share their data with the Chinese government and has responded by imposing its own export laws restricting the export of military technology.\n\nIn August, the US ordered ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, to either shut down or sell off its US assets.\n\nDespite missing a deadline to complete the sale, the US is yet to shut down the app and negotiations continue over its future.\n\nThe latest ban comes as the White House quietly pushed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to consider a second U-turn on its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms giants.\n\nLast week the NYSE announced it would delist the China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in line with another executive order.\n\nOn Monday, however, the NYSE reversed that decision, announcing it had decided not to delist the three companies after further consultation with US regulators.\n\nThe NYSE made the decision based on ambiguity about whether the securities were actually covered by the order.\n\nHowever, the exchange has come under pressure over its decision.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham to tell her he disagrees with the decision, according to Reuters.\n\nRepublican Senator and China hardliner Marco Rubio has also spoken out, saying that the NYSE's refusal to delist the companies was an \"outrageous effort\" to undermine the President's executive order.\n\nThe NYSE is owned by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is run by billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher.\n\nHis wife Kelly Loeffler is one of two Republican senators facing run-off elections on Tuesday in Georgia.", "The new \"highly infectious\" variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Wales, the health minister has said.\n\nGiving the first coronavirus briefing of the year, Vaughan Gething said cases of the virus remained very high.\n\nHowever, the case rate across Wales has fallen from a high of 636 per 100,000 people on 17 December to 446 on Monday.\n\nBut cases are rising quickly in north Wales, which Mr Gething believed was due to the new variant.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe measures announced on Monday have now become law, but MPs will actually vote retrospectively to approve them later today. They're expected to pass with ease - Labour has pledged its support, but said ministers must deliver a round-the-clock vaccination programme. The regulations allow restrictions to potentially be in place until mid-March. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed lockdowns too, but will they be enough? An estimated one in 50 people in private households in England had coronavirus last week - one in 30 in London, while the number of daily confirmed cases topped 60,000 for the first time. Our health correspondent has more - as we've come to understand, the R number is everything. This graph shows how the R number could drop this time (in red), compared with how it fell during the first lockdown - the slower decline is down to the new, more transmissible variant.\n\nStudents have been anxiously waiting for news after the cancellation of A-Level and GCSE exams in England - not least because of the chaos that surrounded last year's results. Exams had already been cancelled elsewhere in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will reveal more in a statement to MPs later. He'll also give more details of support for pupils following the switch by schools and colleges to remote learning. There are fears a digital divide will mean some children are excluded. We've got some advice for parents on virtual learning, and BBC Bitesize will be broadcasting lessons on BBC Two, CBBC and online from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents spoke to the BBC after Monday's announcement about school closures in England\n\nPeople arriving in the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they've had a negative coronavirus test before setting off. The Department for Transport says it's one of several measures being considered to prevent new cases arriving from abroad. Full details are still to be agreed, but it's thought hauliers coming through ports would be exempt. Currently, arrivals from countries not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days. See more on the existing rules. Travel firms have been cancelling trips since the latest lockdowns were imposed.\n\n2020 was a dreadful year for the UK car industry and preliminary figures from the industry's trade body show just how bad it was. New car registrations dropped to levels not seen since 1992, and saw the biggest one-year fall since World War Two when factories were turned over to military production. Showrooms and even factories were forced to close in the spring, and the switch to working from home means fewer of us need a vehicle on a daily basis. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said firms were desperately trying to minimise redundancies.\n\nUnable to leave Taiwan due to the pandemic, Peter Lowe decided to get a boat to pass the time. A leisurely hobby soon turned into a quest to clear the country's waterways, river banks and mangrove forests of plastic. His efforts have inspired local volunteers to join in the clean-up, and even prompted the government to take notice. Peter has some advice for all of us feeling trapped right now: \"Do something positive, do something meaningful, particularly towards saving and protecting the earth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, when lockdown was imposed last Spring, some of life's most basic household tasks suddenly got a lot harder. What are they like now?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.\n\nTwo members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.\n\nHowever, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.\n\nThe long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.\n\nThe virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was \"very disappointed\" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals \"given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute\".\n\n\"I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment,\" he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, explaining that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to stress \"that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team\".\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the BBC \"there might be some misunderstanding\" and \"there's no need to read too much into it\".\n\n\"Chinese authorities are in close co-operation with WHO but there has been some minor outbreaks in multiple places around the world and many countries and regions are busy in their work preventing the virus and we are also working on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Still we are supporting international co-operation and advancing internal preparations. We are in communication with the WHO and as far as I know with dates and arrangements we are still in discussions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nThe WHO has been working to send a 10-person team of international experts to China for months with the aim of probing the animal origin of the pandemic and exactly how the virus first crossed over to humans.\n\nLast month it was announced that the investigation would begin in January 2021.\n\nThe two members of the international team that had already departed for China had set off early on Tuesday, said the WHO. According to Reuters news agency, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said one had turned back and one was in a third country.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central Hubei province in late 2019.\n\nIt was initially believed the virus originated in a market selling exotic animals for meat. It was suggested that this was where the virus made the leap from animals to humans.\n\nBut the origins of the virus remain deeply contested. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin, and that it was instead only amplified there.\n\nSome research has suggested that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. It is not known, however, what intermediate animal host transmitted the virus between bats and humans.", "US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.\n\nWith the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we've debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.\n\nSince the November election, the president has repeatedly made baseless allegations that Dominion voting machines have been manipulated to engineer electoral fraud.\n\nReferring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for \"over an hour\".\n\nThe official in charge of Georgia's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, said there has been an issue in one county due to \"a programming error on security keys\" but that it was resolved hours before the president made his comments.\n\nMr Sterling tweeted: \"The, votes of everyone will be protected and counted. Sorry you received old intel Mr President.\"\n\nGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also clarified in a statement that there had been some issues but they did not stop people from voting, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"At no point did voting stop as voters continued casting ballots on emergency ballots, in accordance with the procedures set out by Georgia law,\" said Mr Raffensperger.\n\nAn image that has been shared thousands of times on Twitter purported to show a pile of destroyed ballots in Georgia on election day.\n\n\"Our team is in Georgia. They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes,\" the tweet said.\n\nAlthough the post provided no detail as to where exactly the picture had been taken, we were able to geolocate it to the absentee ballot processing centre at the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.\n\nFulton County elections director Richard Barron told the BBC that the papers in the picture were \"definitely not ballots\", but waste from a letter-opening machine used to cut ballot envelopes.\n\nWe've reported on similar claims about alleged ballot shredding in Georgia before.\n\nIn November, an investigation into the shredding of papers in Cobb County concluded that it was part of a \"routine clean-up operation\" and the documents disposed of were not actual votes \"relevant to the election or the re-tally\".\n\nIn a tweet generating some 300,000 likes and retweets, President Trump claimed there was a \"voter dump\" planned against Republican candidates.\n\nBut there's no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nIt's not clear exactly what he means by a \"voter dump\", but he may be referring to the fact that large batches of votes are released at once.\n\nThis is standard practice and a valid part of the vote-counting process.\n\nIn Georgia, as in the presidential elections, larger districts, often including cities that may lean Democrat, take longer to report their results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has falsely claimed on multiple occasions that millions of genuine votes in November's presidential election that were counted after polls closed were \"fake\".\n\nIn Georgia, election official Gabriel Sterling noted after the polls closed that some 171,000 early, in-person ballots from DeKalb County, which is Democrat-leaning, were yet to be counted.\n\nAuthorities knew how many of these \"advanced\" votes were coming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Republican officials and activists, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA, claimed workers at the Chatham county count had suddenly stopped counting for the rest of the night and gone home, raising the prospect of foul play.\n\n\"They're doing this again. You can't make this up,\" Charlie Kirk tweeted.\n\nSimilar claims of fraud or suspicious activity were made during the presidential election count in the county, after it took a few days for all the absentee and mail-in ballots to be tabulated.\n\nBut Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems implementation manager, took to Twitter to say the count \"didn't just stop\".\n\nWorkers had finished counting all the ballots they had except absentee ballots received on election day, Mr Sterling, a Republican, added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe county's board of elections chairman, Tom Mahoney, confirmed later that about 3,000 to 4,000 election day absentee ballots were left to count.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Fraudsters are sending out bogus text messages about the coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to steal bank details.\n\nThe scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website, trading standards officers have warned.\n\nThat, in turn, asks for personal information and - crucially - bank details \"for verification\".\n\nThe warning comes the same day as MPs heard that Covid is leading some people into the net of pension fraudsters.\n\nThe fake NHS message is one of a range of scams which have sought to take advantage of the pandemic and the isolation and legitimate worries of potential victims, according to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.\n\nOthers have included people travelling door-to-door selling counterfeit or useless protection equipment, or fraudsters claiming to be from the official test and trace service and demanding payments.\n\nThe latest scam is preying on those elderly or vulnerable people who are fully expecting to receive legitimate information about their vaccine.\n\nHealth authorities have stressed they would never ask for an individual's banking details.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead office at the CTSI, said: \"I have been tracking and warning the public about Covid-related scams since the beginning of the pandemic, and at every stage of response, unscrupulous individuals have modified their campaigns to defraud the public.\n\n\"The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others. The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or PIN numbers and these should serve as instant red flags.\"\n\nShe urged people to report the scams to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\n\nPensions have been stolen or put into high-risk schemes\n\nThe warning came as MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee heard how fraudsters were seizing on victims' financial uncertainty during the pandemic to draw them into pension scams.\n\nRules allowing people to withdraw cash from their pension pot from the age of 55 have led some people to move money into investment schemes which look generous, but are simply vehicles to steal money.\n\n\"Household finances are stretched and so the temptations to use savings or to be tempted by offers of 'free pension reviews', for example, which we've warned about, are very real,\" Mark Steward, from the Financial Conduct Authority told the committee.\n\n\"Of course, a 'free pension review' is hardly free. It is the first step on a process that will lead someone to investing in something that is too good to be true.\"\n\nHe said that fraudsters had used social media advertising to \"industrialise\" this kind of fraud.\n\nWhereas previously, fraudsters had to produce sophisticated glossy brochures and office fronts, they could now operate in anonymity on social media, sending fake information to millions of people.\n\nMillions of pounds have been lost to pension scams in recent years, but it is a crime considered to be widely under-reported by victims and pension companies.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Economic Crime Centre, told the committee that fraudsters were continuing to use new avenues to reach potential victims.\n\n\"What we're looking to do next is to move on to fake comparison websites, which is this new gateway into investment frauds, to spot those and take them down at source,\" he said.", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "Albert Roux pictured in the kitchen of Le Gavroche in 1989\n\nChef and restaurateur Albert Roux, who brought great French cooking to the UK with his brother Michel, has died at the age of 85.\n\nThe pair made gastronomic history in 1982 when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars.\n\nAlbert's death comes almost a year after Michel died at the age of 78.\n\nGordon Ramsay, one of many leading chefs who earned their stripes in Le Gavroche's kitchen, led the tributes.\n\n\"So so sad the hear about the passing of this legend, the man who installed Gastronomy in Britain,\" Ramsay wrote on Instagram.\n\nMarco Pierre White, Marcus Wareing, Pierre Koffman and Monica Galetti are among the other chefs who rose through the ranks at Le Gavroche.\n\nIn his tribute, TV chef James Martin described Albert Roux as \"a true titan of the food scene in this country [who] inspired and trained some of the best and biggest names in the business\".\n\nA family statement said: \"The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021.\n\n\"Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London's culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.\"\n\nHis son Michel Roux Jr, who now runs Le Gavroche and is a former judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, said: \"He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.\"\n\nFood critic Jay Rayner described Albert Roux as \"an extraordinary man who left a massive mark on the food story of his adopted country\".\n\nHe added: \"The roll call of chefs who went through the kitchens of Le Gavroche alone, is a significant slab of a part of modern UK restaurant culture.\"\n\nChef Tom Kitchin wrote that \"one of the true culinary greats has left us\", and baker and food writer Dan Lepard said it was the \"end of an era\".\n\nAlbert and Michel Roux came from a family of butchers in eastern France, and trained to be patissiers before moving to the UK.\n\nAlbert arrived in the mid-1950s, and in 1967 put his £3,000 savings with money borrowed from friends to open the first Gavroche off Sloane Square in Chelsea.\n\nWith uncompromising standards, elaborate presentation and first-rate service, it raised the standards of haute cuisine in a then-limited English restaurant scene.\n\nIt moved to Mayfair in 1981, and soon became the first British-based establishment to carry the maximum three Michelin stars.\n\n\"An Olympic gold medal,\" Albert said at the time. \"I have had no other ambition.\"\n\nThe Roux dynasty (left-right): Alain Roux, Michel Roux Jnr, Michel Roux and Albert Roux in 2009\n\nIts kitchen would also become the training ground for a new, enlightened generation of British chefs.\n\n\"If cooking is an art form, Le Gavroche was the Royal College of Music, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Rada and the Courtauld and Warburg institutes all rolled up into one, poached, wrapped in a puff pastry shell with foie gras and served with truffle sauce,\" The Guardian wrote in 2010.\n\nThe brothers also launched the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition, in 1983, with many scholars having gone on to win Michelin stars themselves.\n\nAlbert and Michel opened a string of other restaurants, fronted a 13-part TV series on BBC Two in 1990, and published a series of best-selling books about French cookery.", "Shows like Tiger King kept people entertained during the first UK lockdown\n\nNetflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told.\n\nThe streaming service said the price rises reflected money spent on content.\n\nIts standard monthly package will go up from £8.99 to £9.99 and its premium one will rise from £11.99 to £13.99, but its basic plan remains at £5.99.\n\nHowever, comparison site Uswitch said the timing of the price rises was unfortunate with UK citizens living under new national lockdowns.\n\nThe streaming service's subscriber numbers have jumped during the pandemic, with almost 16 million new customers added worldwide in the first three months of 2020 alone.\n\nIn the UK, during the first national lockdown which started in March 2020, the amount of streaming content watched by consumers rose by a third compared with the previous year.\n\nBut Netflix faces tough competition from rivals, such as Disney+, which has also announced price rises of £2 per month up to £7.99 or £79.90 for a full year.\n\nNetflix said: \"This year we're spending over $1bn [£736m] in the UK on new, locally-made films, series and documentaries, helping to create thousands of jobs and showcasing British storytelling at its best - with everything from The Crown, to Sex Education and Top Boy, plus many, many more.\n\n\"Our price change reflects the significant investments we've made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product.\"\n\nA standard Netflix subscription gives users HD streaming on two devices at the same time with the ability to download to two phones or tablets. The premium service allows streaming on up to four screens at once, as well as offering 4K streaming and downloading to four phones or tablets.\n\nSubscribers who do not want to pay the extra can cancel their plan at any time without penalty or simply shift to the basic package, which allows users to watch movies and TV shows in standard definition on one device only and download to one mobile or tablet.\n\nNick Baker, streaming and TV expert at Uswitch.com, said: \"Netflix has been a lifeline for many people during lockdown, so this price rise is an unwanted extra expense for households feeling the financial pressure.\n\n\"It's unfortunate timing that this price hike coincides with another national lockdown, when all of us will be streaming more television and films than ever.\"", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"", "Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nAsda asked its customers to \"continue to shop considerately and not buy more than they normally would.\"\n\nThere was a surge in online grocery shopping after new lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday, but demand has since dropped back.\n\nStores said they have good availability and have increased delivery slots.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have doubled the number of delivery slots since March.\n\nWhen fresh lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday there was a rush online by supermarket shoppers to book delivery slots.\n\nThat surge has since calmed down, but big supermarkets were keen on Wednesday to reassure customers that there is no need to bulk-buy, as stores would like to avoid a repeat of the panic-buying that was triggered by the first lockdown.\n\nAsda said it \"currently has strong product availability across its stores and depots and its colleagues are working around the clock to keep the shelves stocked.\"\n\nSainsbury's said it had \"good availability and encourage customers to shop as normal. We aren't currently restricting products.\"\n\nTesco has had buying limits on various products since the first lockdown, and most recently limited items including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll after freight delays in December as ports got snarled up.\n\nTesco said on Wednesday that it had \"good availability in stores and online, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown supermarkets saw a huge spike in demand for online shopping as people tried to avoid mixing in shops.\n\nThe big chains have all increased their capacity to deliver food.\n\nTesco, the biggest UK supermarket chain, has more than doubled the number of online delivery slots available since the start of the crisis, and now has 1.5 million slots per week.\n\nNot all of these get used across the UK at present, so Tesco has no plans at the moment for further slots.\n\nSainsbury's, the second biggest, has also more than doubled the number of its online delivery slots since March, and can meet more than 800,000 orders per week.\n\nAsda, the third biggest chain, has upped the number of available weekly slots by 90% since March to 850,000, and by the start of April it's planning to offer 900,000 slots per week.\n\nMorrison's, the fourth largest UK supermarket chain, said it had increased its online operation fivefold since March.\n\nAsda said on Wednesday that it was also doubling the size of its partnership with Uber Eats. From February Asda will offer a 30-minute delivery service from 200 stores.\n\nAsda is also stepping-up Covid safety measures, including doubling safety marshal hours, more sanitation stations, increasing cleaning, and \"adding a protective antimicrobial coating to customer 'touch points' in stores such as fridge and freezer handles, checkout areas, plus all trolley and basket handles\".\n\nThe chain also has a virtual queueing app called \"Quidini\" whereby customers can sit in their car to wait for a slot in a store if it is busy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC team came across roadblocks as they tried to report on research into viruses that bats carry\n\nA Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to \"any kind of visit\" to rule it out.\n\nThe surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe remote district of Tongguan, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers and other officials in unmarked cars followed us for miles along the narrow, bumpy roads, stopping when we did, backtracking with us when we were forced to turn around.\n\nWe found obstacles in our way, including a \"broken-down\" lorry, which locals confirmed had been placed across the road a few minutes before we arrived.\n\nAnd we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out.\n\nAt first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.\n\nBut their tragedy, which would otherwise almost certainly have been largely forgotten, has been given new meaning by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThose three deaths are now at the centre of a major scientific controversy about the origins of the virus and the question of whether it came from nature, or from a laboratory.\n\nAnd the attempts of Chinese authorities to stop us reaching the site are a sign of how hard they're working to control the narrative.\n\nFor more than a decade, the rolling, jungle-covered hills in Yunnan - and the cave systems within - have been the focus of a giant scientific field study.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nIt has been led by Prof Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).\n\nProf Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the illness known as Sars, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came from a species of bat in a Yunnan cave.\n\nEver since, Prof Shi - often referred to as \"China's Batwoman\" - has been in the vanguard of a project to try to predict and prevent further such outbreaks.\n\nBy trapping bats, taking faecal samples from them, and then carrying those samples back to the lab in Wuhan, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, the team behind the project has identified hundreds of new bat coronaviruses.\n\nBut the fact that Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as the first city to be ravaged by a pandemic outbreak of a deadly new one, has fuelled suspicion that the two things are connected.\n\nI would personally welcome any form of visit, based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\n\nThe Chinese government, the WIV, and Prof Shi have all angrily dismissed the allegation of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab.\n\nBut with scientists appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to visit Wuhan in January for an inquiry into the origin of the pandemic, Prof Shi - who has given few interviews since the pandemic began - answered a number of BBC questions by email.\n\n\"I have communicated with the WHO experts twice,\" she wrote, when asked if an investigation might help rule out a lab leak and end the speculation. \"I have personally and clearly expressed that I would welcome them to visit the WIV,\" she said.\n\nTo a follow-up question about whether that would include a formal investigation with access to the WIV's experimental data and laboratory records, Prof Shi said: \"I would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\"\n\nThe BBC subsequently received a call from the WIV's press office, saying that Prof Shi was speaking in a personal capacity and her answers had not been approved by the WIV.\n\nThe BBC denied a request to send the press office a copy of this article in advance.\n\nDr Peter Daszak: \"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak\"\n\nMany scientists believe that by far the most likely scenario is that Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, jumped naturally from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. And despite Prof Shi's offer, for now there appears to be little chance of the WHO inquiry looking into the lab-leak theory.\n\nThe terms of reference for the WHO inquiry make no mention of the theory, and some members of the 10-person team have all but ruled it out.\n\nPeter Daszak, a British zoologist, has been chosen as part of the team because of his leading role in a multimillion dollar, international project to sample wild viruses.\n\nIt has involved close collaboration with Prof Shi Zhengli in her mass sampling of bats in China, and Dr Daszak previously called the lab-leak theory a \"conspiracy theory\" and \"pure baloney\".\n\n\"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak,\" he said. \"I have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south-east Asia.\"\n\nAsked about seeking access to the Wuhan lab to rule the lab-leak theory out, he said: \"That's not my job to do that.\n\n\"The WHO negotiated the terms of reference, and they say we're going to follow the evidence, and that's what we've got to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was linked to early cases of the new coronavirus\n\nOne focus of the inquiry will be a market in Wuhan which was known to be trading in wildlife and was linked to a number of early cases, though the Chinese authorities appear to have already discounted it as a source of the virus.\n\nDr Daszak said the WHO team would \"look at those clusters of cases, look at the contacts, look at where the animals in the market have come from and see where that takes us\".\n\nThe deaths of the three Tongguan workers following exposure to a mineshaft full of bats raised suspicions that they'd succumbed to a bat coronavirus.\n\nIt was exactly the kind of animal-to-human \"spillover\" that was driving the WIV to sample and test bats in Yunnan.\n\nIt is no surprise then that, following those deaths, the WIV scientists began sampling bats in the Tongguan mineshaft in earnest, making multiple visits over the next three years and detecting 293 coronaviruses.\n\nBut apart from one brief paper, very little was published about the viruses they collected on those trips.\n\nIn January this year, Prof Shi Zhengli became one of the first people in the world to sequence Sars-Cov-2, which was already spreading rapidly through the streets and homes of her city.\n\nShe then compared the long string of letters representing the virus's unique genetic code with the extensive library of other viruses collected and stored over the years.\n\nAnd she discovered that her database contained the closest known relative of Sars-Cov-2.\n\nRaTG13 is a virus whose name has been derived from the bat it was extracted from (Rhinolophus affinis, Ra), the place it was found (Tongguan, TG), and the year it was identified, 2013.\n\nSeven years after it was found in that mineshaft, RaTG13 was about to become one of the most hotly contested scientific subjects of our time.\n\nChina imposed tough restrictions on Wuhan to stop the spread of the virus\n\nThere have been many well-documented cases of viruses leaking from labs. The first Sars virus, for example, leaked twice from the National Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, long after the outbreak had been brought under control.\n\nThe practice of genetically manipulating viruses is also not new, allowing scientists to make them more infectious or more deadly, so they can assess the threat and, perhaps, develop treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd from the moment it was isolated and sequenced, scientists have been struck by the remarkable ability of Sars-Cov-2 to infect humans.\n\nThe possibility that it acquired that ability as a result of manipulation in a laboratory was taken seriously enough for an influential group of international scientists to address it head on.\n\nIn what has become the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak, RaTG13 has a starring role.\n\nPublished in March in the magazine Nature Medicine, it suggests that if there had been a leak, Prof Shi Zhengli would have found a much closer match in her database than RaTG13.\n\nWhile RaTG13 is the closest known relative - at 96.2% similarity - it is still too distant to have been manipulated and changed into Sars-Cov-2.\n\nSars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.\n\nMedics and scientists in Wuhan battled to control the early stages of the pandemic\n\nWhere though, some scientists are beginning to wonder, are those reservoirs of earlier natural infection?\n\nDr Daniel Lucey is a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington DC and a veteran of many pandemics - Sars in China, Ebola in Africa, Zika in Brazil.\n\nHe is certain that China has already conducted thorough searches for evidence of precursor viruses in stored human samples in hospitals and in animal populations.\n\n\"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans,\" he said.\n\nFinding the origin of an outbreak was vital, he said, not just for wider scientific understanding, but also to stop it emerging again.\n\n\"We should search until we find it. I think it's findable and I think it's quite possible it's already been found,\" he said. \"But then the question arises, why hasn't it been disclosed?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nDr Lucey still believes that Sars-Cov-2 is most likely to have a natural origin, but he does not want the alternatives to be so readily ruled out.\n\n\"So here we are, 12, 13 months out since the first recognised case of Covid-19 and we haven't found the animal source,\" he said. \"So, to me, it's all the more reason to investigate alternative explanations.\"\n\nMight a Chinese laboratory have had a virus they were working on that was genetically closer to Sars-Cov-2, and would they tell us now if they did? \"Not everything that's done is published,\" Dr Lucey said.\n\nIt's a point I put to Peter Daszak, the member of the WHO origins study team.\n\n\"You know, I've worked with the WIV for a good decade or more,\" he said. \"I know some of the people there pretty well and I have visited the labs frequently, I've met and had dinner with them over 15 years.\n\n\"I'm working in China with eyes wide open, and I'm racking my brain back in time for the slightest hint of something untoward. And I've never seen that.\"\n\nAsked if those friendships and funding relationships with the WIV presented a conflict of interest with his role on the inquiry, he said: \"We file our papers; it's all there for everyone to see.\"\n\nAnd his collaboration with the WIV, he said, \"makes me one of the people on the planet who knows the most about the origins of these bat coronaviruses in China\".\n\nThe conclusion [of the Kunming Hospital University thesis] is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it’s used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me\n\nChina may have provided only limited data about its hunt for the origin of Sars-Cov-2, but it has begun to promote a theory of its own.\n\nBased on a few inconclusive studies conducted by scientists in Europe that suggest Covid-19 may have been circulating earlier than previously thought, state propaganda is full of stories suggesting the virus didn't start in China at all.\n\nIn the absence of proper data, speculation is only likely to grow, much of it focused on RaTG13 and its origins in a Tongguan mineshaft. Old academic papers have been dug up online that appear to differ from the WIV's statements about the sick mine workers - among them a thesis by a student at the Kunming Hospital University.\n\n\"I've just downloaded the Kunming Hospital University student's masters thesis and read it,\" Prof Shi told the BBC.\n\n\"The narrative doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"The conclusion is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it's used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me. If you were me, what you would do?\"\n\nProf Shi has also faced questions about why the WIV's online public database of viruses was suddenly taken offline.\n\nShe told the BBC that the WIV's website and the staff's work emails and personal emails had been attacked, and the database taken offline for security reasons.\n\n\"All our research results are published in English journals in the form of papers,\" she said. \"Virus sequences are saved in the [US-run] GenBank database too. It's completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThere are important questions to be asked in the Yunnan countryside, not just by scientists, but by journalists too.\n\nAfter a decade of sampling and experimenting on viruses collected from bats, we now know that back in 2013 the closest known ancestor was discovered of a future threat that would claim well over a million lives and devastate the global economy.\n\nYet the WIV, according to the published information, did nothing with it, except sequence it and enter it into a database.\n\nOught that to call into question the very premise on which the expensive, and some would say risky, mass sampling of wild viruses is based?\n\n\"To say that we didn't do enough is absolutely correct,\" Peter Daszak told the BBC. \"To say that we failed is not fair at all. What we should have been doing is 10 times the amount of work on these viruses.\"\n\nBoth Dr Daszak and Prof Shi are adamant that pandemic prevention research is vital, urgent work.\n\n\"Our research is forward-looking, and it's difficult for non-professionals to understand,\" Prof Shi wrote by email. \"In the face of countless micro-organisms that exist in nature, we humans are very small.\"\n\nThe WHO is promising an \"open-minded\" inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but the Chinese government is not keen on questions, at least not from journalists.\n\nAfter leaving Tongguan, the BBC team tried to drive a few hours north to the cave where Prof Shi carried out her ground-breaking research on Sars almost a decade ago.\n\nStill being followed by several unmarked cars, we hit another roadblock, and were told there was no way through.\n\nA few hours later, we discovered that local traffic had been diverted onto a dirt track that skirted the obstruction, but as we attempted to use the same route, we met yet another \"broken down\" car in our path.\n\nWe were trapped in a field for over an hour, before finally being forced to head for the airport.", "The low temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch\n\nThe UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982.\n\nThe same temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coldest night of the winter so far has come amid days of freezing temperatures in Scotland, and more widely across the UK.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow \"be aware warnings\" for snow and ice for Scotland for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nForecasters said a band of sleet and snow was expected arrive across north west Scotland on Wednesday afternoon and move south east across most parts of Scotland overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 2cm, almost an inch, of snow was likely to settle at low levels \"quite widely\" with up to 6cm (2in) above 200m (656ft) and as much as 10cm (4in) above 300m (984ft).", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "A polar bear cub playing in a snow drift in the area of the proposed oil lease sales\n\nThe Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n\nThe giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.\n\nNow, after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.\n\nOpponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump's term ends.\n\nCovering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is often described as America's last great wilderness.\n\nIt is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.\n\nIn the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.\n\nAs temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.\n\nMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration\n\nThe coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.\n\nThe refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.\n\nIn the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.\n\nThe same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.\n\nThe push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.\n\nMany of Alaska's political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.\n\nPrudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.\n\nOil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state's permanent fund.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration's tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.\n\nThe US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernadette Demientieff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.\n\n\"The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich'in people who have relied on this land for millennia,\" said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.\n\n\"That's why we've taken them to court. We can't let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.\"\n\nReports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.\n\nThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land\n\nWhile estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.\n\nSeveral large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.\n\nThere is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.\n\nWith climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it's likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.\n\nThis could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet", "Stephen Stennett had a head on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy in Fife\n\nA driver who caused a crash in Fife that led to his passenger losing her baby has admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nStephen Stennett, 23, had a head-on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy on 3 October 2018.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard he had attempted a \"dangerous\" overtaking manoeuvre.\n\nJudge Lady Stacey deferred sentence until next month for background reports.\n\nPassenger, Shannon Myers, 18, who was 30 weeks pregnant, had to have an emergency caesarean section due to her injuries in the crash.\n\nHowever, her son Luke Myers died 32 minutes later.\n\nProsecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: \"The accused pulled out and drove into the path of an oncoming van.\n\n\"The accused's vehicle ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.\"\n\nMs Myers, who was in the front passenger seat, complained about pain in her abdomen and was taken to hospital.\n\nA scan showed the baby had a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute.\n\nMr McTaggart said this was regarded as low and gave cause for concern, prompting doctors to perform an emergency C-section.\n\nLuke's cause of death was recorded as \"complications of traumatic abruption due to road traffic collision\".\n\nPathologists said the baby had red marks on his face as well as fractures to his collarbone and four ribs.\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who was also a passenger in the car, sustained a fractured spine, collarbone and sternum.\n\nA fourth passenger, a boy also aged 15, suffered a fractured spine and eye bone as well as a minor head injury.\n\nVan driver Ian Baker, his wife Clara and their 10-year-old daughter had minor injuries.\n\nThe baby's mother paid tribute to Luke on Facebook shortly after his death.\n\nShe said: \"I love you so much my handsome little boy.\"\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said: \"You will understand you pleaded guilty to a serious crime which had tragic results.\n\n\"When a life is lost, the court will almost always impose a period of imprisonment.\"\n\nStennett said: \"I'm sorry\" before being bailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.\n\nDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would abscond.\n\nOn Monday, she ruled the Wikileaks founder cannot be extradited to the US because he might kill himself.\n\nThe US is now appealing that decision - and had opposed releasing the 49-year-old from a maximum security prison before the case is heard.\n\nMr Assange, who was wearing a dark suit and face mask, was not seen to react to the decision at Westminster Magistrates Court.\n\nHe's been held in prison since 2019, after hiding for seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition.\n\nUS prosecutors want to put him on trial for hacking and disclosing classified information - including the identities of informants who were helping intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\n\nIn her ruling, DJ Baraitser said Mr Assange still had the incentive to abscond.\n\n\"He is willing to flout the order of this court,\" she said. \"As a matter of fairness, the US must be allowed to challenge my decision and if Mr Assange absconds during this process they will lose the opportunity to do so.\"\n\nDuring the bail application, Mr Assange's barrister Ed Fitzgerald QC said his client had been offered a London home by a supporter, where he could be with his partner and their two young children - but also compelled to remain under the strictest bail conditions.\n\n\"Your decision [on Monday] changes everything and it certainly changes any motive to abscond,\" said Mr Fitzgerald.\n\n\"On any view... [Mr Assange] would be safer isolating with his family in the community, subject to severe restrictions, than if he were in Belmarsh which has, very recently, had a severe outbreak...(of coronavirus). He wishes to live a sheltered life with his family.\"\n\nBut Clair Dobbin, for the USA, told the court Mr Assange had the \"resources, abilities and the sheer wherewithal\" to secretly arrange a flight to another country.\n\n\"[Mr Assange] regards himself as above the law and no cost is too great, whether that cost be to himself or others,\" said the barrister.\n\nJulian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, was among a large group of his supporters who had gathered at court.\n\n\"This a huge disappointment,\" she said. \"Julian should not be in Belmarsh prison in the first place. I urge the [US] Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Baraitser blocked Julian Assange's extradition on Monday, ruling that that while he had a case to answer, he was so mentally unwell that the US authorities could not guarantee he would not kill himself once inside a maximum security prison in the country.\n\nThe USA's appeal against that ruling - which will go to more senior judges later this year - will challenge that finding.", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "There are warnings that replacement grades must avoid the problems that saw protests and U-turns last summer\n\nHead teachers have warned a replacement system for cancelled exams in England must avoid the \"shambles\" of last year's results.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is to make a statement on \"alternative arrangements\" for GCSE and A-level exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis could include using teachers' estimated grades.\n\nA replacement system must not \"inflict further disadvantage on students\", says the exams watchdog Ofqual.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said there were \"no easy answers\" in picking an approach - but it had to avoid repeating the \"disaster\" of last summer's cancelled exam season.\n\nHe said there was a \"real need for urgency\" to allow schools time to plan - and that any system for grading had to show \"fairness and consistency\".\n\nWritten papers for GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson will instruct the exams watchdog to come up with proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, which could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' grades, with some process of moderation, is likely to be a key option once again.\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them.\n\nBut if students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will be able to take them at a later date or otherwise still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they could consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nAlthough the process is only formally beginning, with a consultation likely on proposals, it is understood that contingency planning had already started to find a back-up if exams were cancelled.\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\n\"We are discussing alternative arrangements with the Department for Education. We know that many are seeking clarity as soon as possible,\" said Simon Lebus, Ofqual's interim chief regulator.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Helen Mort was told no action could be taken over the deepfake porn images\n\nA woman who has been the victim of deepfake pornography is calling for a change in the law.\n\nLast year, Helen Mort discovered that non-sexual images of her had been uploaded to a porn website.\n\nUsers of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Mobeen Azhar, Helen said she wanted to see the creation and distribution of these images made an offence.\n\n\"This is a crime which in many cases is going on invisibly,\" Helen said. \"Those images of me had been out there for years and I didn't know about them, and I'm still having nightmares about some of them now. It's an incredibly serious form of abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes are realistic computer-generated images or video, based on a real person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nHelen, a poet and writer from Sheffield, was alerted to the deepfake images by an acquaintance.\n\nThe original images were taken from her social media and included holiday pictures and photos from her pregnancy.\n\nShe said although some of the images were clearly manipulated, there were a few more \"chilling\" examples that were a \"lot more plausible'.\n\n\"You go through different phases with things like this,\" she said. \"There was one point where I was just trying to laugh about the almost ridiculous nature of some of it.\n\n\"But obviously, the underlying feeling was shock and actually I initially felt quite ashamed, as if I'd done something wrong. That was quite a difficult thing to overcome. And then for a while I got incredibly anxious about even leaving the house.\"\n\nShe alerted the police to the images but was told that no action could be taken.\n\nDr Aislinn O'Connell, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway University of London, explained that Helen's case fell outside the current law.\n\n\"In England and Wales, under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, it is an offence to non-consensually distribute a private sexual photograph or film with the intent to cause distress to the person depicted,\" she said.\n\n\"But this only applies where the original photo or video was private and sexual.\n\n\"In Helen's situation, where non-sexual photos were merged with sexual photos, this isn't covered by the criminal offence.\n\n\"Furthermore, as the photos were not shared with Helen directly, nor did the intention seem to be to cause distress to Helen, the second element is not fulfilled - even though it did, evidently, cause distress. The other potential criminal offence would be harassment, but given the perpetrator here did not direct it at Helen herself, this didn't apply either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deepfake videos: Can you really believe what you see?\n\nThe independent Law Commission is currently reviewing the law as it applies to taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent. The outcome of the consultation is due to be published later this year.\n\nHowever, Dr O'Connell said the process of changing the law would take years which she says is \"too long\".\n\nHelen hopes to use her experience to raise awareness around deepfake pornography and has launched a petition calling for a change in the law.\n\nIt has received more than 3,400 signatures.\n\nShe has also written a poem in response to the images.\n\n\"I'm a writer by trade,\" she said. \"And I thought the only thing that is going to allow me to reclaim any sense of agency here is to say something about it using my art form. That's the only power that I have.\n\n\"The intention of this person, as they said in their post, was to humiliate. They said they wanted to see this person humiliated, and I thought well actually I'm not humiliated, and I'm going to speak out about it because I shouldn't be the one who feels ashamed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking steps to tackle new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls, including intimate image abuse, \"whether this be cyber flashing, revenge porn or deep fake videos.\"\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the development of our new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and we encourage people to give their views,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This new strategy will ensure victims and survivors are supported, and that perpetrators are identified and brought to justice.\"", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Travellers to the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they have had a negative coronavirus test.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the measure is one of several being considered to \"prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the UK border\".\n\n\"Additional measures, including testing before departure, will help keep the importation of new cases to an absolute minimum,\" the department added.\n\nIt is thought that haulage drivers coming through ports would be exempt.\n\nHowever, the DfT said full details are still to be agreed and will be set out in \"due course\".\n\nAny such measure would be a devolved issue, so the the DfT would need to agree a path forward with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make it UK-wide.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"With a new strain of the virus on the loose in South Africa and a more infectious variant already widespread in the UK we need to do more.\"\n\nThe measures were being discussed as Boris Johnson imposed the third national lockdown in England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThe prime minister has faced some calls to strengthen border protections to prevent the arrival of new cases, particularly of new and concerning strains.\n\nHowever, there was no mention of tougher border controls during his address to the nation on Monday, or press conference on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove said announcements will come in the days ahead on \"how we will make sure that our ports and airports are safe\".\n\n\"It is already the case that there are significant restrictions on people coming into this country and of course we're stressing that nobody should be travelling abroad,\" he told ITV.\n\nCurrently, international arrivals from countries that are not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days.\n\nBut under the test and release scheme introduced in December, this can be shortened if they have a private test five days after their departure and it comes back negative.\n\nIt is possible lorry drivers could be exempt, but no final decision has been made\n\nDuring the first lockdown, the government argued against introducing border restrictions while the prevalence was so high in the UK, with experts arguing it would do little to bring down infection rates.\n\nA quarantine period, however, was introduced in June after the first peak, when cases were more under control.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused of leaving the \"nation's doors unlocked\" to new coronavirus variants coming to Britain from overseas.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Ms Patel calling for an \"urgent review and improvement plan\" as he raised concerns over checks on the arrival of people who are meant to go into quarantine.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is especially worrying given the concerns regarding mutation of the virus that emerged in South Africa, which the health secretary rightly said is 'incredibly worrying'.\n\n\"However, the lack of a robust quarantine system as a result of shortcomings from the government mean that it is virtually impossible to keep a grip on this spread or other variants that may come from overseas, leaving the UK defenceless, and completely exposed, with the nation's doors unlocked to further Covid mutations.\"\n\nThe Home Office defended its \"stringent measures\", and pointed to its move to stop direct flights from South Africa to the UK amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant in high prevalence there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "I'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators. This is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this.\n\nNormally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.", "Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.\n\nBy 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.\n\nBosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.\n\nThat meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.\n\nThe High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.\n\n\"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s,\" he said.\n\n\"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades.\"\n\nHe said the figures should raise concern about the governance of Britain's biggest companies. \"They should also prompt debate about the effects that high levels of inequality can have on social cohesion, crime, and public health and wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nMedian FTSE 100 chief executive pay was £3.61m in 2019, the last year for which a full set of data is available, the High Pay Centre said.\n\nThe centre said its analysis was based on chief executives' average working day being 12 hours.\n\nHowever, critics said such analysis just fuels the politics of envy without looking at why chief executives matter and the contribution they make.\n\nDaniel Pryor, head of programmes at the Adam Smith Institute, said: \"Good management is more important than ever in a globalised world and small differences in top talent make a big impact on a business' bottom line.\n\n\"That bottom line makes a big difference to workers across the UK, anyone with a private pension, and shareholders.\"\n\nHe pointed out that there is strong, if morbid, evidence about chief executive deaths that shows why the corporate and investment world believe leadership makes a huge difference to the fortunes of their companies.\n\n\"In the past 60 years, unexpected CEO deaths have consistently affected stock price, profitability, investment and sales growth - for better or worse,\" he said, adding: \"Which is why it makes sense for firms to open their wallets to attract the best talent.\"", "Doctors in Scotland have raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move.\n\nThey said that the first dose of either the Pfizer or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines - the only two so far approved for use in the UK - will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks of being administered.\n\nAnd they said that the second dose was \"likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy\".\n\nThe Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments and recommended the new strategy, said data showed that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine would be \"90% effective\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it would not recommend following the UK's decision to delay giving the second Pfizer dose, saying there was no evidence to support the decision.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was the first to be approved for use in the UK, with more than a million people having already been given the first dose.\n\nThe change to the vaccination strategy has meant health boards have had to change plans and cancel people booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThis includes medics who are among the priority groups for Covid vaccinations.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Council, raised concerns about the logistical impact of changing the vaccination strategy\n\nDr Morrison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some doctors had told him they would have waited for the AstraZeneca jab, which has been proven to work in the longer timetable, if they had known the second Pfizer dose was going to be delayed.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned because there's clearly disagreement about the effectiveness of the second dose of Pfizer after that period of time.\n\n\"Furthermore I think if you give more people the first dose when you don't know what vaccine supplies are going to be within that 12-week window, that's a worry that has been expressed to me by a lot of doctors.\n\n\"If we give more people the first dose, do we definitely know that the second one is coming?\n\n\"The announcement about this before a four-day NHS holiday weekend left many places with great difficulty in reorganising vaccinations, with a real risk that vaccination numbers might perversely drop because of the organisational issues.\"\n\nOpposition parties want the Scottish government to publish daily figures for how many people have been vaccinated\n\nIt comes as NHS staff were left queueing for hours outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary on Tuesday after an \"scheduling error\" meant vaccination staff did not turn up.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised to those affected and said it was rearranging the appointments.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it aims to have given at least one vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 50 and younger people with underlying health conditions by the start of May.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the timetable could be accelerated if there were sufficient supplies of the jab.\n\nThe Scottish government is being pressured to provide daily figures on the number of people being vaccinated, as the UK government has already pledged to do.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"There are now no excuses left for the SNP government to dodge publishing daily vaccination rates alongside the daily infection numbers as soon as possible.\n\n\"The SNP's evasion to try and avoid scrutiny is nothing new but on something so important, the Scottish public must have the same information as will be provided across the UK.\"\n\nHis call was echoed by Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who added: \"It is simply unacceptable that scores of NHS staff were left queueing outside in the cold for hours, and well into the evening.\n\n\"It's time for Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to get to grips with the vaccination programme, publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations available and administered, and ensure that our NHS staff do not pay the price of a bungled rollout.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says schools will be the first places to reopen\n\nThe end of England's lockdown will not happen with a \"big bang\" but will instead be a \"gradual unwrapping\", Boris Johnson has told MPs.\n\nThe prime minister made the comments in the Commons ahead of a retrospective vote later on the lockdown measures.\n\nHe said the legislation runs until 31 March to allow a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government's decisions \"have led us to the position we're now in\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there were now 30,074 patients with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.\n\nIt came as the UK reported a further 1,041 people have died with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll since April.\n\nIn a statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new variant had \"led to more cases than we've seen ever before\" and that this had left the government with \"no choice but to return to national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the legislation ran until the end of March \"not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence-led move down through the tiers on a regional basis\".\n\nHe said this would happen \"brick-by-brick... without risking the hard-won gains that protections have given us\".\n\nBut in response to MPs' questions, he said there was a \"cautious presumption\" that restrictions could start being eased from mid-February.\n\n\"And as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will be not a big bang but a gradual unwrapping,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need a plan\", Keir Starmer told MPs while declaring Labour would support new lockdown\n\nUnder the measures, which came into force legally on Wednesday, people in England will only be able to go out for essential reasons, for exercise outdoors only once a day, and outdoor sports venues must close.\n\nPolice have the powers to enforce the new restrictions with a £200 fine for each breach, doubling on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400 - and a £10,000 penalty for mass gatherings.\n\nOfficers in London arrested at least a dozen people in Parliament Square after a protest against the new measures on Wednesday.\n\nThe need to debate and vote on the restrictions means the Commons has been recalled from its Christmas break for the second time - the first being for the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nWith Sir Keir saying Labour will support the motion, the measures are expected to pass with ease.\n\nThe restrictions will be kept under \"continuous review\", Mr Johnson added, with a statutory requirement to reconsider them every two weeks.\n\nAddressing the closure of schools, the PM said \"we did everything in our power to keep them open as long as possible\" and that was why schools were the \"very last thing to close\".\n\nThey would be the \"very first thing to reopen\" after lockdown - that could be after the February half term - but \"we must be very cautious\" about the timetable, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that GCSEs, A-level and AS-level exams would be cancelled this year in England, replaced by a form of teacher-assessed grades.\n\n\"This year, we're going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,\" he said, referencing controversy over the way exam grades were awarded to some students last year.\n\nAll national curriculum tests for primary school children, often known as Sats, are now cancelled, Mr Williamson confirmed.\n\nHe said every school will be expected to provide between three and five hours of virtual teaching each day and that 750,000 laptop and tablet devices will have been distributed by the end of next week.\n\nThe prime minister wasted no time in emphasising the \"fundamental difference\" between this and previous lockdowns.\n\nTo keep opposition from his own MPs at bay he needs to demonstrate that the government's aim to vaccinate the most at-risk groups by mid-February is viable.\n\nHe is also under pressure to give a sense of how quickly restrictions might be lifted after that.\n\nThe course of the pandemic has changed swiftly at times, though, and may do so again, so it's unlikely we'll get any firm new timelines from Boris Johnson today.\n\nMost Conservative backbenchers seem resigned to the need for this new national lockdown and agree the prime minister had \"no choice\" but to act.\n\nBut MPs on all sides are impatient to hear how soon things may start returning to something like life as normal at last.\n\nMr Johnson said unlike in March last year, during the first lockdown, vaccines offered \"the means of our escape\".\n\nBut he said there was now a race to vaccinate vulnerable people quickly, with the government setting a target of immunising the four most vulnerable groups - some 13 million people - by mid-February.\n\n\"After the marathon of last year, we are indeed now in a sprint, a race to vaccinate the vulnerable faster than the virus can reach them,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Every needle in every arm makes a difference.\"\n\nEarlier, Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was \"confident\" the government would meet its \"ambitious\" target, adding that community pharmacies would be brought in to assist the vaccination programme.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new daily vaccination figures for the UK - which will be released for the first time on Monday - will show there has been a \"significant increase\" in the number of people who have received the jab.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson said 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nMr Zahawi also said nursery schools presented \"very little risk\", are Covid-safe and he defended the decision to keep them open during England's lockdown.\n\nResponding to the prime minister's statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party will support the new restrictions and urged people to comply with them.\n\n\"The virus is out of control, over a million people in England now have Covid, the number of hospital admissions is rising, tragically so are the numbers of people dying,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only the early days of January and the NHS is under huge strain. In those circumstances, tougher restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nBut he added \"this is not just bad luck, it's not inevitable, it follows a pattern\" of the government being slow to respond.\n\n\"These are the decisions that have led us to the position we're now in - and the vaccine is now the only way out and we must all support the national effort to get it rolled out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by Covid? What will lockdown mean for you? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police raided an illegal rave in a railway arch attended by 300 people.\n\nPolice have issued more than £15,000 in fines after 300 people attended an illegal rave in a railway arch.\n\nOfficers raided an unlicensed music event in Nursery Road, Hackney, at 01.30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMany people fled the scene, while organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop officers getting in, police said.\n\nNo arrests were reported, but 78 fines of up to £200 for breaching lockdown restrictions were issued.\n\nA dog unit and helicopter were deployed to the scene, with police saying they made numerous attempts to contact the organisers.\n\nOrganisers padlocked the door from the inside to prevent officers getting in, police said\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"This was a serious and blatant breach of the public health regulations and the law.\n\n\"Officers were forced, yet again, to put their own health at risk to deal with a large group of incredibly selfish people who were tightly packed together in a confined space - providing an ideal opportunity for this deadly virus to spread.\n\n\"Not just organisers, but all those present at such illegal parties can expect to be issued a fine.\"\n\nOfficers surrounded the property as dozens of guests scaled fences at the rear of the arch to escape\n\nThere is an England-wide lockdown in place which prevents any social mixing between households.\n\nUnder these restrictions people are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nThe Met Police has broken up several large gatherings in London over the last month including a 150-person wedding at a north London school.\n\nTwo officers were injured as police broke up a party involving about 200 people in Kensington on 17 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'It's right that I am properly scrutinised'\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"false conspiracy theories were being spun\" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.\n\nShe said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr asked Ms Sturgeon how she responded to Mr Salmond saying that parliament had been repeatedly misled, and that evidence she gave to the inquiry was \"simply\" and \"manifestly untrue\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she would \"refute that vigorously\".\n\nHer interview came after the inquiry announced it would use legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's interview, a spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\".\n\nA committee of MSPs is investigating the government's handling of two harassment claims against the former first minister, after he successfully challenged the complaints process in court.\n\nShe said it was right that she was scrutinised and that she had hoped to appear before the committee on Tuesday but that this had been delayed by \"a couple of weeks\".\n\nAsked if Alex Salmond was \"spinning false conspiracy theories\", Nicola Sturgeon said: \"There are false conspiracy theories being spun about this... by Alex Salmond, by people around him - you can draw your own conclusions around that.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I certainly reflect on is that at times I appear to be simultaneously accused of colluding with Mr Salmond to somehow cover up accusations of sexual harassment on the one hand.\n\n\"And then on the other hand, being part of some dastardly conspiracy to bring him down.\n\n\"Neither of those are true.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I didn't collude with Alex Salmond and I didn't conspire against him.\"\n\nThe first minister reiterated that Mr Salmond had told her about the allegations during a meeting at her home on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, Mr Salmond has insisted that she already knew about the allegations as she had been told about them four days earlier by one of his aides.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously acknowledge that she initially \"forgot\" about this meeting.\n\nIn evidence to the Holyrood inquiry which was published in October, she said: \"From what I recall, the discussion [with Mr Salmond's aide] covered the fact that Alex Salmond wanted to see me urgently about a serious matter, and I think it did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Andrew Marr Show, she added: \"I, at the time I became aware of all of this, just tried hard not to interfere with what was going on and not to do anything that would see these swept aside rather than properly investigated.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon conceded that the Scottish government had made mistakes in how it handled the allegations.\n\n\"What I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, and not simply swept under the carpet because of the seniority and powerful position of the person who was subject to them,\" she added.\n\nLast March, Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The two inquiries under way are into why Nicola Sturgeon's government acted unlawfully.\n\n\"Alex has submitted his evidence as requested and the parliamentary committee is now challenging the Crown Office to produce some of the text messages which they believe are being suppressed.\n\n\"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\"", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "27 of the 29 miners that died in tragedy\n\nThe Pike River mining disaster was a tragedy that shocked the world. Twenty-nine men who were in the New Zealand coal mine died when it collapsed in a series of explosions. The BBC's Phil Mercer covered the accident 10 years ago and has been talking to families of victims still coming to terms with their loss.\n\nThe day after his 17th birthday, Joseph Ray Dunbar began his first shift underground at the Pike River coal mine in New Zealand.\n\nHe was a \"strong-minded boy\" who wanted to carve his own path in life, but on that day in November 2010 he became the youngest victim of a mining disaster that killed 29 men.\n\nTheir bodies have never been recovered, and a decade later the teenager's father Dean is still looking for answers.\n\n\"In a modern society you don't wipe out 29 men and just walk away,\" he told the BBC. \"Joseph's legacy is righting the wrongs of the past whether it be by government agencies, police or politicians.\"\n\nJoseph Dunbar was the youngest among the victims\n\nIn 2012, a Royal Commission found the miners and contractors were exposed to \"unacceptable risk\" and that \"there were numerous warnings of a potential catastrophe at Pike River,\" but there have been no prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry concluded the men \"died immediately, or shortly afterwards\" from a methane gas blast or the \"toxic atmosphere\". Two workers did manage to escape the blast and survived.\n\nNews of an accident at the mine in the Paparoa Ranges began to emerge in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, 19 November, 2010.\n\nFamily members soon gathered, and in the hours and days that followed, there was hope that the men might still be alive, although the authorities said a rescue mission was too dangerous. A nation prayed for another mining miracle.\n\nOn the right, the tags of the 29 miners who never made it out\n\nA few months earlier, 33 miners in Chile's Atacama Desert had been pulled out alive after being trapped underground for 69 days.\n\n\"That was totally on my mind the whole time,\" explained Anna Osborne, whose husband, Milton, died at Pike River.\n\n\"I saw how successfully those Chilean miners were rescued and I thought if they can all come out alive, it can happen to us. But little did I know that that mine (in Chile) wasn't a gassy one.\"\n\nFor five long days the families waited. As a reporter sent to cover the story at the time, it was excruciating for me to watch their anguish and frustration grow.\n\nThere would be no rescue, and on 24 November another explosion ripped through the mine, and all hope was gone.\n\nFire at the entrance to the mine\n\nMs Osborne told the BBC that she is \"still fighting to get the truth and still wondering why our guys were allowed underground when the mine was so volatile (and) was a ticking time bomb.\"\n\nNot all of the families want the men's remains to be recovered, but she said it would be a great comfort to bring her husband home.\n\n\"He was working in the south (part of the mine), which was flooded. My husband couldn't swim, so he hated the water and I close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water that he hated so much and I just thought I can't have him down there. If we can, I would like as many men to be retrieved,\" she added.\n\nI close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water\n\nThe Pike River Recovery Agency is a government department that has re-entered the so-called drift, a 2.3km (1.4 miles) tunnel that connects the entrance of the mine to the working areas and coal seams.\n\nIt is looking for clues that might help explain the explosions and to \"help prevent future mining tragedies.\" Re-entering the mine was delayed by safety concerns.\n\nThe end of the drift is blocked by a huge mass of fallen rock. This roof collapse was caused by the ignition of methane, and there are no plans for the agency to move further into the mine where most, if not all, of the bodies remain.\n\nRecovery teams only made it into an initial tunnel but not the mine proper\n\n\"The Agency's mandate from the government did not include recovering beyond the drift access tunnel,\" said a PRRA spokesperson. \"It remains less likely that we will recover human remains.\"\n\n\"That rockfall is impenetrable,\" said Tony Kokshoorn, the former mayor of the local Grey District. \"The 29 miners are in the coal mine proper. At least they are all together and that is their final resting place.\"\n\n\"Many of the families want them to be together in there because it would have been pretty tough on a lot of families if some had come out and the others couldn't come out.\"\n\nThe police inquiry into the disaster is continuing, with a spokesperson saying they \"remain committed to a full and thorough investigation into events\" and will everything they can to \"provide answers\".\n\nThe grief was felt far beyond New Zealand's rugged West Coast by bereaved families in Australia, Scotland and South Africa.\n\nThe mine will almost certainly never reopen, but Bernie Monk, whose 23-year old son Michael died in the disaster, wants one, final push to bring the men out.\n\n\"The times that I went up to the mine portal with anniversaries, I swore and declared and I looked down that tunnel, and I said to them, 'we're coming to get you guys out'. It was an emotional day for me when I first went down into the mine,\" he said.\n\n\"We're are only 50 to 100 metres away from them. I think we've got a right to go and get those men,\" Mr Monk told the BBC.\n\nOut of tragedy comes pain, anger and calls for accountability and change. It is 10 years since Anna Osborne's husband, affectionately known as Milt, never came home, and she continues to agitate for stronger health and safety laws, and for employers to be prosecuted when things go wrong.\n\n\"We have had 700 people lose their lives in workplace accidents since Pike River. That is like a Pike River every five months in New Zealand,\" she said.\n\nBut above all else there is a sadness that may never fade.\n\n\"I love him so much. It still hurts. It is still very, very raw.\"", "National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy Philip Gannaway (left) on the SS Demosthenes in 1916, when it was being used as a troop ship\n\nAn appeal has been made to trace the family of a sailor from New Zealand buried more than a century ago on an island off Anglesey.\n\nLt Philip Gannaway had recently married his wife Muriel when he enlisted during World War One.\n\nHe joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving on motor launches on the Menai Strait.\n\nBut he died aged 32 during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and is buried on Church Island in the strait.\n\nLocal historian Bridget Geoghegan says she has already had responses following a story about Lt Gannaway on the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nHowever, she is still waiting to hear from his direct relatives.\n\n\"I have met family members of some people I have researched, and that is always a delight - a bonus,\" she said.\n\nThe grave notes Lt Gannaway's military service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\n\nLt Gannaway's funeral took place on 9 November 1918 with full naval honours, just two days before the armistice that brought fighting to an end.\n\nNewspaper reports found by Ms Geoghegan said more than 200 men and officers joined the procession, with shipyard work pausing as a mark of respect.\n\n\"I found he had married his sweetheart not long before volunteering and coming over to UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed like a bitter end to a love story.\"\n\nHe is buried at St Tysilio's on Church Island, which is linked to the rest of Anglesey by a short causeway.\n\nThe Australian and New Zealander are both remembered on the war memorial\n\nBut Lt Gannaway is not the only man on the island buried so far from home.\n\nRemembered alongside him on the war memorial is William Connington, a 23-year-old corporal in the Australian Flying Corps who died with flu in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Connington had family in the area - his father must have emigrated to Australia,\" Ms Geoghegan said.\n\n\"His aunt and cousin lived in Menai Bridge. I think it likely that he had been up to stay with the family and when he died his aunt brought him back to Menai Bridge from Aylesbury so that he would be buried amongst friends.\"\n\nSt Tysilio's sits on Church Island in the Menai Strait\n\nFor several years Ms Geoghegan has joined others in researching and commemorating the people named on local war memorials and graves.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown restrictions, she created a walk for Church Island with the stories behind the names.\n\n\"I devised a walk round St Tysilio to include the graves of those lost and the family commemorations for their loved-ones buried elsewhere or lost at sea - the pain is almost palpable,\" she said.\n\nThe inscription from Lt Gannaway's parents to their \"beloved son\" reads simply: \"In peace he lived, in peace he died\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.\n\nMore than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.\n\nWithout the government's furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.\n\nThe figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.\n\nEmployers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.\n\nLarge parts of the British economy were brought to a standstill for weeks on end during 2020 by the measures imposed to contain Covid-19, and many employers were forced to cut staff as a result.\n\nThe number of job cuts proposed through the year was well above the 530,000 seen the last time the UK was in recession, in 2010, and higher than any year in the records which go back to 2006.\n\nHowever, in recent months the pace of layoffs has slowed, even though the new Covid variant has seen surging case numbers and new lockdowns imposed across the UK.\n\nLast month employers notified government of plans to cut 23,100 job cuts, which is the lowest monthly figure for 2020, though still a third higher than December 2019.\n\nThe decision to extend the furlough scheme, where government pays most of a worker's wages if their employer can't, will have enabled more firms to keep their staff, believes Tony Wilson, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"The question now though is where redundancy figures go next,\" he says.\n\n\"If they start to stabilise around these levels, then [job cuts] would be at least one third higher than what we've seen over most of the last decade, and it's possible that a combination of this lockdown and then furlough unwinding from May could see numbers creeping up.\"\n\nDespite that, Mr Wilson sees the situation as \"pretty positive\".\n\nEmployers planning to cut 20 or more staff have to notify the Insolvency Service of their plans at the start of the process.\n\nThese notifications give an earlier indication of the state of the labour market than data published by the Office for National Statistics, which appear with a time lag of a few months.\n\nInsolvency Service figures showed record levels in redundancies in June and July, which was confirmed when the ONS published its own figures three months later.\n\nThe latest figures, for the period from August to October, saw a new record of 370,000 redundancies across the UK.\n\nAs redundancy processes covering fewer than 20 workers aren't included, the total number of job cuts planned will be higher than the Insolvency Service totals.\n\nBut individual firms often make fewer cuts than the number they first propose to government.\n\nEmployers in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "Simon Spurrell (C) from the Cheshire Cheese Company says he was advised to set up an EU hub\n\nUK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.\n\nFirms have been hit by extra charges, taxes and paperwork, leading some to stop exporting to the EU altogether.\n\nBut several say they have been told that setting up hubs in Europe would minimise the disruption, even if it means moving investment out of the UK.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was \"not government policy\".\n\n\"The Cabinet Office have issued clear guidance, available at www.gov.uk/transition, and we encourage all businesses to follow that guidance.\"\n\nThe Cheshire Cheese Company said it had been advised by an official to set up in the EU after it was forced to stop its exports to the bloc due to trade rules that came in on 1 January.\n\nThe firm, which sold £180,000 of cheese to the EU last year, found that every £25-30 gift box of cheese it sends to consumers on the Continent now needs a veterinary-approved health certificate costing £180.\n\n\"I spoke to someone at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for advice. They told me setting up a fulfilment centre in the EU where we could pack the boxes was my only solution,\" co-founder Simon Spurrell told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which had been optimistic about Brexit, is now looking at setting up a hub in France where it would \"test the water\".\n\nBut it has also scrapped plans to build a new £1m warehouse in Macclesfield employing 20-30 people.\n\n\"Instead we might end up employing French workers and paying tax to the EU,\" Mr Spurrell said.\n\n\"I left the EU as a UK citizen but now they are suggesting I rejoin my company to the EU, so what was Brexit for?\"\n\nThe issue, he said, was that the under the post-Brexit trade deal, a vet must approve every consignment of fresh food that his company ships to the EU.\n\nIt is a complex and costly process that has hit exporters of fresh meat and fish as well, and was partly why the government set up a £23m support fund for UK fishing companies.\n\nUK retailers who export to the EU have also complained about being hit with unsustainable costs when customers in the bloc return goods bought online. This is due to new customs clearance charges incurred by shipping firms.\n\nSome retailers have even warned they could burn clothes stuck at borders as it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards, who runs her sustainable fashion brand Vildnis from the UK, told the BBC last week she had stopped exporting to the EU, which was her fastest growing market, because of the new processes.\n\nShe also said that she had been advised - this time by a Department for International Trade (DIT) representative - that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub might help.\n\n\"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it,\" she said.\n\nAs early as last October, trade consultants Blick Rothenberg warned that thousands of UK businesses might need to set up an EU presence in order to keep exporting to European markets.\n\nHowever, experts say EU firms exporting to the UK - which currently enjoy a grace period over the imposition of some rules - will soon face the same issues.\n\nIndeed, some EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nThe DIT said it was not government policy to advise UK firms to set up EU hubs and that it was \"ensuring all officials are properly conveying\" the right information.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "The Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\"\n\nA police and crime commissioner (PCC) has written to the government to say smart motorways are \"inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire PCC Dr Alan Billings wrote his open letter to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport.\n\nHis comments come after a coroner found two men had been unlawfully killed on a \"smart\" section of the M1.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\".\n\nOn 19 January coroner David Urpeth called for a review of the road schemes.\n\nMr Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHe was speaking following the inquests for Jason Mercer, 44, from Rotherham and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, of Mansfield, who died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nNow Labour's Dr Billings has told Grant Shapps: \"I believe smart motorways of this kind - where what would be a hard shoulder is a live lane with occasional refuges - are inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned.\n\n\"The relevant test for us is whether someone who breaks down on this stretch of the motorway, where there is no hard shoulder, would have had a better chance of escaping death or injury had there still been a hard shoulder - and the coroner's verdict makes it clear that the answer to that question is - Yes.\"\n\nAlexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nJason Mercer's widow, Claire, had previously told Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5Live she considered a government review of the smart motorway system \"was just a paperwork exercise and a PR exercise.\"\n\nTalking to BBC Look North Yorkshire after publishing the letter on Sunday, Dr Billings said: \"The Department for Transport and Highways England have argued all along that these sorts of motorways are actually safe, they even go as far as to say they are safer than ordinary motorways, now I think that whatever formula they are using to come to that conclusion is wrong.\n\n\"The coroner in his verdict has made it pretty clear that these two particular lives in South Yorkshire would not have come to such a sad end if there had been a hard shoulder there, so I think this is new evidence they have to take into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"If they thought this type of motorway was even smarter, or safer, than a conventional motorway, then why not convert the entire system to smart motorways, making it safer? As soon as you say it, I think you realise it's absurd.\n\n\"I think they (smart motorways) were done originally not because it was a safer way of doing a motorway, I think it was done in order to expand the capacity, get the traffic flowing by having an extra lane, but to do it cheaply, and I think we're trading cost - cheapness - for other people's lives.\"\n\nIn response to Dr Billings' open letter, the Department for Transport said: \"The stocktake [of smart motorways] showed that in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary has tasked Highways England with delivering an 18-point action plan to ensure they are safer still, and he has called an urgent meeting with the company to discuss their progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.\n\nDespite a recent Public Health England report warning they are six times more likely to die from coronavirus, as a group, they have not been prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nLegal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff are scared to work at the UK vehicle licensing agency's contact centre in Swansea where 500 workers have contracted coronavirus since the pandemic began, a union says.\n\nThe PCS union has urged ministers to intervene and described the numbers as a \"scandal\".\n\nA DVLA spokesperson insisted safety was a priority and it followed guidance to \"help keep our offices Covid secure\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had been \"worried about the DVLA for a while\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he has repeatedly raised concerns over case numbers at the offices.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said the decision to introduce tougher Covid regulations for workplaces in Wales was made, in part, due to the situation at the DVLA.\n\nIn December, a coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre at Swansea Vale in Llansamlet after 352 cases of Covid-19 in the space of four months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DVLA has about 6,000 staff based in Swansea but said it was currently operating on a \"far reduced capacity\".\n\nA DVLA worker, who did not want to be identified, told BBC Wales News that close contacts of people testing positive are not always sent home to self-isolate, social-distancing is not being followed and homeworking is not always possible because of \"archaic\" systems.\n\n\"There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations,\" they said.\n\n\"It has been mentioned that you don't need your track and trace [contact tracing app] on. If someone's off with Covid, the people who haven't had their app on haven't been sent home.\n\n\"They'll say 'your app hasn't pinged, you're not going home'.\"\n\nThe worker said it was difficult for staff to adhere to the two-metre distancing rule because of the way the office was laid out and some staff had resigned.\n\n\"The atmosphere sucks, people are scared. I have heard of some people walking out,\" they said.\n\nOne worker said two-metres distancing was not always being observed\n\n\"I think they have been raising concerns. They probably didn't get the answer they wanted. It's not necessarily the manager's fault, the managers are struggling too.\"\n\nPCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA are not doing more to reduce numbers in the workplace when Covid infections are on the rise.\n\n\"Our members are telling us they are scared to enter the workplace for fear of catching Covid 19.\n\n\"Minsters must intervene and ensure DVLA are doing their utmost to enable staff to work from home and temporarily cease non-critical services.\"\n\nEluned Morgan told Radio Cymru the Welsh Government has been keeping an eye on the situation at the Swansea offices.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government has been concerned at the situation at the DVLA for \"some time\".\n\nThe wellbeing minister said: \"We've been worried about the DVLA for a while, now. We've been putting pressure on them.\n\n\"It comes up time and again from the people who represent Swansea, and we're worried the pressure on people working there hasn't helped.\n\n\"The situation is one of the reasons why we've introduced new rules, new legislation, to tighten the restrictions on people at work.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"We're concerned about anecdotal reports we've heard from the trade union side, individuals, that all of the requirements weren't being followed.\"\n\nHe said there would be questions for management to answer if there had been a breach of the rules.\n\nThe DVLA said some staff have been able to work from home \"in line with government advice\", though others were required to be in the office due to their roles\n\n\"In view of the essential nature of the public services we provide, some operational staff are required to be in the office where their role means they cannot work from home,\" said a spokesman.\n\nThe DVLA said it has worked closely with Public Health Wales, Swansea council's environmental health staff and union officials to try to make its buildings Covid safe, including opening an additional site in Swansea.\n\nHowever, there were currently four Covid cases across its estate, with none at its contact centre.\n\n\"Before Christmas, when transmission infection rates were extremely high in the local community where most of our staff live, we saw a rise in staff testing positive for Covid,\" he said.\n\nSwansea MP Carolyn Harris said, during the first lockdown, she was in \"constant contact\" with the DVLA due to concerns raised by workers.\n\n\"Since Christmas, I've not been able to get hold of anyone from the DVLA,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"Last night I spent a long time trying to hold of the chief executive.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that I am now reading, and some of the stuff I've had in over the last 24 hours, really worries me.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its inspector had been tackling \"a series of concerns\" since August and had spoken to the PCS, which it said was \"broadly supportive of DVLA's approach\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Most recently HSE joined Swansea Environmental Health Officers and Public Health Wales for some joint visits to premises, in our role to assist public health to assess the potential of work place transmission as part of their wider work to contain outbreaks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than five million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - thanks to an army of more than 80,000 volunteers and NHS workers who have been trained to give the jabs.\n\nMany of the vaccine volunteers have had no previous medical training and come from all walks of life. So why did they sign up? And how does it feel to stick a needle into a stranger's arm?\n\nYou could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house\n\nCallum Finnegan, 23, has been juggling his 40-hour week as a Tesco delivery driver with giving Covid jabs at Manchester's Etihad tennis centre. A St John Ambulance volunteer, he completed extensive online and face-to-face training, which included practising administering jabs on silicon arms before giving them to patients. He says he'd never given an injection before.\n\nThe biomedical science graduate wanted to get involved in the vaccination effort as soon as the call was put out and says he feels \"grateful and privileged\" to be helping the rollout - an effort he hopes will save as many lives as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCallum, who volunteered for four weeks at London's Nightingale hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, says his first shift giving jabs was \"one of the best days\" he's had since Covid hit.\n\n\"They were incredibly emotional,\" he says of the people he has given the jab to. \"You could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house, or seeing only one or two people. One of those could have been a Tesco delivery driver - there's a lot of people I deliver to who tell me that I'm the only person they're seeing face-to-face at the minute.\"\n\nIt just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people\n\nKate Donaghy, who runs an IT team for a travel company, was inspired to train as a vaccinator after seeing the impact of the disease first hand. A St John Ambulance volunteer for four years, Kate, 28, spent time at a London hospital last year helping to care for recovering Covid patients - before volunteering at an A&E department.\n\nAfter seeing just how desperate the situation was, she switched her focus to becoming a vaccinator. \"I just thought how can we stop this happening to people in the first place? If we can vaccinate people, that feels like a better way forward to solve the problem, and a great use of my time.\"\n\nShe says she overcame her initial nerves in giving the jabs thanks to some supportive colleagues and has already signed up for shifts at London's ExCel centre most weekends going forward.\n\nHer elderly patients were \"so happy it was the beginning of the end to their isolation\". \"It just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people.\"\n\nIt did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\n\nDr Andy Bates, a 57-year-old dentist from North Yorkshire, recently gave his first vaccinations at Long Lee surgery, in Keighley. He is used to giving injections - albeit in the mouth - but he says helping to protect people against this virus \"did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\".\n\nDr Bates is working as a paid vaccinator alongside a four-day week at his dental practice. He says both roles have served as a reminder that he could be the first person a patient has seen for months. And he says his day job - particularly calming people who are nervous about lying back in his dentist's chair - has helped him.\n\nHe says he managed to relax a \"very nervous\" lady in her 90s, who hadn't left the house since last March, by talking about their shared love of alpine cycling.\n\nAnd it's not just Dr Bates and his fellow vaccinators that have stepped up. He says after a \"huge dump\" of snow in the area, the community sprang into action to ensure elderly patients could safely come for their jabs - with a local farmer towing the van delivering the vaccines up the hill to the surgery, and volunteers clearing snow and ice from the car park.\n\nI just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus\n\nWhen theatres closed last year, Amanda Baldwin's career as a full-time chorus member at London's Royal Opera House came to a \"heartbreaking\" standstill.\n\nStuck at home in south-east London with nothing to do, Amanda and her husband Julian Johnson, 55 - a freelance theatre stage manager - decided to volunteer for the NHS through the GoodSam app, which later connected them with the vaccinator training run by St John Ambulance.\n\nAmanda applied shortly after her 84-year-old mother tested positive for the virus - just before she was due to have the vaccine. \"Luckily she came through it, and she wasn't hospitalised. But I just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus.\"\n\nAmanda recently passed her full SJA training in London and is now waiting for her first shift as a vaccinator. She thinks her performance background will help keep her nerves in check for when she administers her first jabs - joking that she hopes her patients \"don't wriggle about as much\" as her pet cat did when she had to give it injections for its diabetes.\n\nAfter feeling \"like a part of [her] soul was missing\" when theatres closed, she says training as vaccinator has given her a \"purpose\" again. \"I feel like I've now got [another] skill that can really help people.\"", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said people in NI need to \"come together to fight against Covid\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said a potential vote on a united Ireland would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nShe was speaking after a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in NI found 51% of people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister said \"we all know how divisive a border poll would be\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said there was an \"unstoppable conversation under way\" on the issue.\n\nThe deputy first minister called on the Irish government \"to step up preparations\" for a border poll.\n\nProvisions for a possible border poll on Irish reunification are included in the the Good Friday Agreement - the deal which led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence.\n\nIt states that the Northern Ireland Secretary must call a border poll if it at any time it appears \"likely\" to that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Foster said she thought it was \"very disappointing\" that some nationalist parties in the UK were focusing on \"constitutional politics\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We all know how divisive a border poll would be, and for us in Northern Ireland what we have to do is come together to fight against Covid, and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time,\" she said.\n\nShe added if there was a vote on Irish unity, the arguments for the union are \"rational, logical, and they will win through\".\n\nThe polling was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, with similar polling in England, Scotland and Wales to gauge attitudes towards the union.\n\nIt found that in Northern Ireland, 47% still want to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland and 11% undecided.\n\nHowever for those aged under 45, supporters of Irish reunification outnumber those who want to stay in the UK by 47% to 46%.\n\nRespondents also said they believed there would be a united Ireland within 10 years, by a margin of 48% to 44%.\n\nPolls like this come with the usual health warning - they are a snapshot in a moment in time.\n\nNonetheless there is some interesting reading here - not least the fact that it paints a picture of a disunited kingdom.\n\nWe shouldn't really be surprised about that because we have had very different approaches to the global Covid-19 pandemic with different outcomes.\n\nWe know that Brexit is starting to bite and there is a lot of frustration out there and uncertainty and that, I'm sure, has fed into these figures.\n\nThe big question for NI, unsurprisingly, is around constitutional change.\n\nIt shows that 51% of those polled would want to see a border poll within the next five years, compared to 44% who would not.\n\nHowever, if they flip that question around it's interesting to see that 42% would want to see a united Ireland, but 47% would want to remain, with 11% of don't knows.\n\nSo according to these figures there may be an appetite for a border poll - but if that question was posed the majority are saying they would stay in the UK.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the poll placed a \"solemn obligation\" on those seeking a united Ireland \"to engage with every community, sector and generation\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom may be coming to an end but we are all called to build a new future together. That's the work the SDLP is engaged in,\" said the Foyle MP.\n\nThe polling found 47% of people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland, and 11% undecided\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said \"all political energy should be focused on making Northern Ireland a better place to live and work rather than a divisive border poll\".\n\n\"We need to concentrate on the here and now, fostering better relationships and plotting a way through and out of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"As Northern Ireland enters its second century, we should be talking about recovery, renewal and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe polls also found across the UK, respondents believed Scotland would become independent within the next 10 years.\n\nIn Scotland, it found a large poll lead for the Scottish National Party, with them potentially being on course to win 70 of 129 seats in Holyrood.\n\nThe SNP is set to reveal its 'roadmap to a referendum' to its national assembly on Sunday.\n\nIt outlines plans to pursue a vote after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nThe research was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, Panelbase in Scotland, and YouGov in England and Wales.\n\nThe polling was carried out between 15 and 22 of January, with 2,392 people polled in Northern Ireland, 1,206 in Scotland, 1,416 in England, and 1,059 in Wales.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Keon Lincoln died from a gunshot and stab wounds police said\n\nThree more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA post mortem examination has revealed Keon died from a gunshot and stab wounds.\n\nDetectives have been granted extra time to question a 14-year-old boy arrested on Friday morning.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy arrested later on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nA boy, also aged 14, was arrested from his home in Birmingham on Saturday night, the force said.\n\nTwo other boys aged 15 and 16 were arrested from an address in Walsall in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading the murder inquiry, described the arrests as \"significant\".\n\n\"We are gathering a substantial amount of evidence which will take time to analyse, but we must be thorough to get justice for Keon's family.\n\n\"They have been fully updated with the latest developments.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew RT Davies has taken over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time\n\nAndrew RT Davies has been named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for a second time.\n\nMr Davies succeeds Paul Davies who resigned from his post on Saturday after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.\n\nIn a statement, Andrew RT Davies said it was \"a great honour and privilege\".\n\nHe has already announced his shadow cabinet, which includes four women.\n\nThere are no responsibilities for Paul Davies or Darren Millar, who also previously apologised for being part of the group who were drinking at the Senedd.\n\nMr Davies said his party \"will put forward a positive plan to get Wales moving again\" and \"unleash our country's potential\" at the Senedd election, scheduled for May.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have moved quickly this afternoon and announce my Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet which is built on the strong foundations of experience, talent and vision,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in a moment like no other, and the Covid-19 pandemic has sadly only served to shine a spotlight on the challenges in people's everyday lives.\n\n\"We shouldn't doubt our country's potential. Wales is full of ambitious people and communities that crave the opportunity to succeed.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' shadow cabinet reshuffle sees Angela Burns MS replace the new leader as shadow health minister and Mark Isherwood MS replace Darren Millar MS as chief whip.\n\nDavid Melding MS has been appointed shadow minister for mental health, wellbeing, culture and sport.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS remains as shadow minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, and Suzy Davies MS in education, skills and Welsh language.\n\nLaura Anne Jones MS stays as shadow minister for equalities, children and young people, but with extra responsibilities for housing and local government.\n\nRussell George MS remains in the shadow cabinet, responsible for the economy, transport and mid Wales.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Davies, the Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central, quit as leader of the Conservative group after seven years in charge.\n\nHe was given the unanimous backing of fellow Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd.\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart, MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted his congratulations to \"a formidable campaigner\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew RT Davies faced criticism earlier this month from former Tory politicians and Labour after comparing rioting in the US Congress to people who backed a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe deputy leader of the UK Labour Party said it was was a \"disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives\" had appointed \"this Donald Trump tribute act\" as leader.\n\nAngela Rayner MP said: \"Just weeks ago, Labour called on the Conservatives to suspend Andrew RT Davies and remove him as a candidate over his disgraceful and dangerous comments equating peaceful democratic debate in the UK with deadly violence at the US Capitol.\n\n\"The Conservative Party failed to act and he has refused to apologise.\n\n\"It is a disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives have just appointed him leader and their candidate for first minister of Wales.\n\n\"The people of Wales deserve so much better than this Donald Trump tribute act.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price MS said: \"After a car crash the backseat driver returns to put Wales in reverse.\n\n\"Once rejected by his own Senedd team, he will now embark on his pet project of stripping our Senedd of powers and setting Welsh democracy back decades.\"\n\nHis appointment comes just a day after Paul Davies stood down along with Tory MS Darren Millar, who was chief whip, in connection with the same incident.\n\nBoth have apologised for drinking alcohol with their meals on 8 and 9 December but both deny having broken the Covid-19 rules in place at the time.\n\nWelsh Conservatives chairman Glyn Davies said: \"They've both been friends of mine a long time but I could see the way the story was developing and I must say I think it was inevitable in the end.\n\n\"Obviously, I've been pretty disappointed with the position that we find ourselves in but this is politics and it's a challenge.\"\n\nAn investigation by the Senedd's authorities found five people, including four members of the Welsh Parliament, drank alcohol on its premises during the Wales-wide alcohol ban.\n\nA third member of the Senedd, Labour's Alun Davies, apologised earlier in the week and has been suspended by his party.\n\nBBC Wales has asked for clarification as to the identity of the fourth Senedd member investigators have referred to.\n\nPaul Smith, the Tory group chief of staff, was the fifth person involved.\n\nThe Senedd has referred the \"possible breach\" of Covid rules to Cardiff council and its own standards watchdog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nDustin Poirier (left) has had nine mixed martial arts fights since November 2016, while Conor McGregor has had just three Former two-weight world champion Conor McGregor was left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier claimed victory in their rematch at UFC 257. McGregor came out of retirement for a third time to face fellow 32-year-old Poirier at Abu Dhabi's Fight Island. And although the Irishman edged the first round, Poirier unleashed a flurry of punches to seal a technical knockout two minutes 32 seconds into round two. \"I'm gutted, it's a tough one to swallow,\" said McGregor. \"I felt stronger than him, but his leg kicks were good. I didn't adjust. My leg was badly compromised, I've never experienced those low calf kicks, and I wasn't as comfortable as I needed to be. \"I have no excuses. It was a phenomenal performance by Dustin. I have to dust it off and come back. I need activity, you don't get away with being inactive in this business.\"\n• None Trilogies, Pacquiao or YouTuber - what next for beaten McGregor?\n• None UFC 257 - All the action as it happened When the pair first met in a featherweight bout in September 2014, McGregor stopped the American inside 106 seconds, setting \"the Notorious\" on course for global stardom. He became the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight champion before facing Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest bouts in boxing history in 2017. Poirier, meanwhile, had to gradually work his way back into title contention and is now the number-two ranked lightweight contender, losing just two of his 13 fights since 2014. McGregor now has a 22-5 mixed martial arts record having lost three of his past six UFC fights McGregor has been relatively inactive though. Since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, he has had just 40 seconds in the octagon - beating Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in style last January. But McGregor seemed to start well in front of about 2,000 fans at the new 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena. He survived an early takedown and pinned Poirier against the fence for most of the first round, landing a few shoulder strikes like those that did so much damage against Cerrone. McGregor said before the fight that what motivates him now is building a \"highlights reel like a movie\", and he tagged Poirier with a couple of right-hand shots. But, unlike their first fight, Poirier was unmoved. Poirier admitted McGregor won the mind games before they met in 2014. This time round, instead of swapping verbal barbs before the fight, McGregor pledged to donate $500,000 (£367,000) to Poirier's charity and at the weigh-in Poirier presented McGregor with a bottle of his own brand of Louisiana hot sauce. And it was the American southpaw that brought the heat midway through the second round. Having replied to that early pressure with a series of leg kicks, he pounced to inflict the first TKO/KO defeat of McGregor's MMA career and take his own record to 27-6. \"It was a lot of things, but it wasn't payback. That wasn't the driving force,\" said Poirier. \"The first time I was a deer in the headlights. This time I was just fighting another man who bleeds like me. \"The goal was to be technical, pick my shots and not brawl at all. Then I had him hurt so I went a little crazy.\" What now for Poirier? Poirier's first world title shot - against Nurmagomedov - came 31 fights into his MMA career Since beating McGregor in 2018, lightweight champion Nurmagomedov won unification bouts against Poirier and Justin Gaethje to stay undefeated, announcing his retirement immediately after beating Gaethje in October. Nurmagomedov's title is yet to be vacated and UFC president Dana White said this week that the Russian may consider returning for a rematch with McGregor or Poirier if he \"saw something spectacular\". But speaking after UFC 257, White said: \"He said to me, 'be honest with yourself, I'm so many levels above these guys. I've beaten these guys'. \"I don't know, it doesn't sound very positive, but he won't hold the division up.\" In the co-main event, former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler marked his UFC debut with an impressive first-round knockout of sixth-ranked lightweight Dan Hooker, who Poirier beat last time out. Poirier said: \"It was a great win, but to come in and beat a guy I just beat and get a title shot? I've had more than 20 UFC fights, fighting the toughest of the toughest guys to get my hands on gold [a belt]. \"Let Chandler and Charles Oliveira go at it. That [Chandler] doesn't interest me at this point - or I'll go and sell hot sauce. A rematch with Conor interests me, and I've always wanted to beat Nate Diaz.\" \"Conor McGregor's not an old dog, he's definitely ready to keep going. \"Going around doing other things is not what Conor needs. He's young, fit and still ready to go. He'll 100% be back.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Watch: Vaccine plea to prioritise those with learning disabilities\n\nAs high risk groups continue to be immunised, there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out. \"Just because we've got a learning disability, doesn't mean we should sit in the corner and rot,\" says Amanda. \"We need help now.\" \"There are so many people that are going to die, and it's not fair.\" \"Even before Covid, more than four in 10 people with a learning disability died of a lung condition like pneumonia,\" says Professor Tuffney-Wijne, of Kingston University. \"As a group of people, they really are at risk.\" Legal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said it had made \"a clinical decision to prioritise those with profound and severe learning disabilities within our first six categories\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "A protester holds a poster that reads \"One for all and all for one\" in support of opposition leader Navalany\n\nTens of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Saturday in some of the largest demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nCrowds defied police to show support for opposition leader Alexei Navalny - who was arrested last weekend after returning to the country following a near-fatal nerve agent attack last year.\n\nMonitors say more than 3,000 were arrested for taking part in rallies in dozens of cities across the country.\n\nReuters estimated that some 40,000 gathered in Moscow alone, but authorities played down the figure and said only a tenth of that number showed up.\n\nRiot police were pictured dragging away and beating some protesters. The US and UK have condemned the heavy-handed response and called for the release of peaceful protesters.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, also expressed concern and said foreign ministers would discuss \"next steps\" on Monday.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said more than 1,200 had been detained in Moscow alone.\n\nDemonstrations, held from Russia's Far East to St Petersburg, were some of the biggest seen in years.\n\nIn Omsk protesters braced freezing temperatures of almost -30C (-22F) to protest against Mr Navalny's detention.\n\nAnd conditions were even colder, -52C (-62F), at another protest held in Yakutsk in Siberia.\n\nMr Navalny, a lawyer and blogger, has long been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin. He forged reputation as an anti-corruption campaigner and has become the most prominent face of the country's opposition.\n\nHe was arrested immediately on arrival into the country last Sunday after flying home from Germany, where he had been recovering from an attempted assassination attempt which he and investigative journalists have blamed on Russian authorities - a claim officials deny.\n\nPolice said Mr Navalny had violated parole conditions and have kept him in custody pending further hearings.\n\nMuch of the international community have condemned his arrest and called for his immediate release.\n\nMr Navalny called for street protests and his team further galvanised support this week after releasing an investigative documentary about an opulent Black Sea property allegedly owned by President Putin.\n\nThe investigation, now watched more than 70m times, alleges the property cost £1bn ($1.37bn) and was paid for \"with the largest bribe in history\" but the Kremlin denies it belongs to the president.\n\nRussian authorities had warned in advance of Saturday that any unauthorised demonstrations would be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nSome demonstrators were pictured with injuries, including wounds to the head, following the promised crackdown.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "Some of the party-goers have travelled from Newcastle and London, police said\n\nA student party that attracted people from up to 200 miles away has been broken up by police.\n\nSome of the guests were found hiding in cupboards when officers raided the gathering in Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, on Friday night.\n\nOne officer was assaulted as one guest made off but was not hurt, West Midlands Police said.\n\nParty-goers had travelled to the event from places such as Newcastle, Nottingham and London.\n\nThe flats are private accommodation but predominantly used by students from Aston University and University College Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.\n\nInsp Steve Barnes added: \"We understand that young people are frustrated at not being able to enjoy themselves and I do feel their pain, but we have to stick to the rules so that we can get back to some sort of normality sooner rather than later.\n\n\"People are dying and we have to prevent the spread of this virus.\"\n\nOfficers were also called to a party on Soho Road where shop owners had set up a sound system, and a 30th birthday party attended by about 20 people in Kingstanding.\n\nAcross 32 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules on Friday night, the force issued 58 fines of £200 and five of £1,000.\n\nThe West Midlands is under an England-wide lockdown with people not allowed to leave home to meet others socially.\n\nOn Thursday, the government said fines of £800 would be introduced in England this week for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nMatt Hancock said 75% of over-80s in the UK have now had a first virus jab.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr that around three quarters of care homes had also been vaccinated.\n\nProf Van-Tam said \"no vaccine has ever been\" 100% effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.\n\nIt is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said - and it is \"better\" to allow \"at least three weeks\" for an immune response to fully develop in older people.\n\n\"Even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give Covid-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\n\"If you change your behaviour you could still be spreading the virus, keeping the number of cases high and putting others at risk who also need their vaccine but are further down the queue.\"\n\nLast week, the person coordinating Israel's Covid response reportedly suggested a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine might not be as effective as reported.\n\nIsrael has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world against coronavirus, with scientists keenly watching data shared by the country for signs of how effective the vaccine is when given to the whole population.\n\nThe country's health minister Yuli Edelstein told the Andrew Marr Show that some people \"still get sick\" with coronavirus after getting the first dose of the vaccine, but said there were \"some encouraging signs of less severe diseases, less people hospitalised after the first dose\".\n\nSenior doctors have called on health officials in England to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe maximum wait was extended from three to 12 weeks in order to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said the policy was \"difficult to justify\" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.\n\nIts chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, told the BBC there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Prof Van-Tam said: \"What none of these (who ask reasonable questions) will tell me is: who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who's already had one dose (and therefore most of the protection) can get a second?\"\n\nA further 32 vaccine sites are set to open across England this week.\n\nMore than 5.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nNHS England said new vaccine sites were preparing to open across England from Monday.\n\nThey include Dudley's Black Country Living Museum, which doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders, Plymouth Argyle FC's stadium Home Park and an old Ikea store in Stratford, London.\n\nThe 32 sites will prioritise health and social care staff on Monday, and other priority patients from Tuesday.\n\nThey will bring the number of mass vaccination sites across England to 49 - as well as 70 pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP surgeries and 250 hospitals offering the jab.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that more than a third of over-80s had received their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nMore than half of over-80s in Northern Ireland have had the jab, though Health Minister Robin Swann said \"it will take time\" for the programme to have a \"major effect.\"\n\nIn Wales, four vaccination centres have been shut as officials brace for more snowy weather.\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed that the UK needs to \"bring the number of cases down as soon as we can whilst we vaccinate our most vulnerable\".\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections.\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators in the UK as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have been your experiences of vaccination, lockdown, work or travel? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers in China have freed the first of a group of miners who have been trapped 600m underground for two weeks, state media report.\n\nAn explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January.\n\nTV footage from China has shown the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home. He died this month.\n\nLast February, I took my last trip abroad before lockdown closed in on us. I bought a last-minute ticket and jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. Jim Haynes had entered his late 80s and his health was declining, yet I knew he would welcome a visit. Jim always welcomed visitors.\n\nThe essence of that trip now feels like the antithesis of Covid times. I was far from the only guest wandering into the warm glow of his atelier in the 14th arrondissement on a wet winter's night. Inside, people were squeezing, shoulder to shoulder, through the narrow kitchen. Strangers struck up conversations, bunched together in groups, balancing their dinners on paper plates and reaching over each other to press the plastic spout on a communal box of wine.\n\nJim had operated open-house policy at his home every Sunday evening for more than 40 years. Absolutely anyone was welcome to come for an informal dinner, all you had to do was phone or email and he would add your name to the list. No questions asked. Just put a donation in an envelope when you arrive.\n\nThere would be a buzz in the air, as people of various nationalities - locals, immigrants, travellers - milled around the small, open-plan space. A pot of hearty food bubbled on the hob and servings would be dished out on to a trestle table, so you could help yourself and continue to mingle. It was for good reason that Jim was nicknamed the \"godfather of social networking\". He led the way in connecting strangers, long before we outsourced it all to Silicon Valley.\n\nA ballet dancer staying with Jim in the late 1970s suggested cooking for him and friends to repay the hospitality; the dinners became weekly for 40-plus years\n\nI only knew Jim in his later years, but his entire life was extraordinary. Born in Louisiana in 1933, he had lived in Venezuela as a teenager; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and all before becoming a university lecturer in sexual politics in Paris, his home since 1969.\n\nAnd yet he was often seen as a son of Scotland, following an influential stint there in the late '50s and late '60s, when he established Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop, co-founded the Traverse Theatre and helped kickstart the Fringe festival.\n\nWhen Jim died, at 87, earlier this month, a Herald obituary called him \"the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland\".\n\nWhile a lot of highly regarded people tend to retreat into their own circles after finding success, Jim never stopped reaching out to new people. The first time I heard from him was an email out of the blue in 2008.\n\nI had written a newspaper article from Barcelona - not the one in Spain but the one on the coast of Venezuela - and it had brought back memories for him. His father worked in the oil business and had moved the family there when Jim was in his early teens.\n\nMy article was about meeting people through the Couchsurfing website, where locals opened their homes to strangers for free around the world. This was before AirBnB worked out how to monetise the idea, and the concept of non-commercial cultural exchange was right up Jim's street. \"When you are back in Europe, come to dinner,\" he wrote, promising to tell me about an old travel project of his own that he thought I might like.\n\nIntrigued, I headed to Paris soon after my return. I had imagined some sort of intimate dinner party with cultural elites, but what I found was more like a student house party - albeit with more mature attendees and only moderate alcohol consumption. (Jim was teetotal and proceedings ended strictly by 23:00.)\n\nJim never cooked himself, instead he invited guest cooks\n\nJim instantly greeted me like an old friend and, as we chatted, he reached up on to his living room shelves to offer me a book. People to People read the cover line. It was the project he had wanted to tell me about.\n\nHe explained that, in the late 1980s, he had founded a guidebook series for countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of the standard descriptions of sights and hotel listings, the format was like an address book, including the contact details for hundreds of in-country hosts. The idea was that if people could not easily see the Western world themselves, he would bring it to them via travellers. It was \"couchsurfing\", but offline.\n\nThe hand-sized copy he pressed into my palm centred on Poland. I loved it and decided to travel there to see if the participants were still up for receiving random visitors, even though so much had changed.\n\nJim created the People to People guidebooks for multiple Eastern European countries\n\nEach person was filed under the town where they lived, followed by two or three lines, including their address, date of birth, phone number and hobbies. Through a combination of Google and snail-mail, I managed to get hold of several of them. Most had all known Jim either personally or through friends of friends. All had fond memories of the project and all were still willing to act as local guides to show me around.\n\nIn Gdansk, I asked civil servant Krystyna Wróblewska why she had signed up originally. She told me she had been working as a media fixer, helping reporters cover the anti-communist shipyard strikes. \"They [the media] went looking for women with handkerchiefs on their heads and horses with carts, perpetuating the same old picture. I suppose I wanted to meet people to subvert stereotypes and show that not all the pictures you have in your head are real.\"\n\nKrystyna Wroblewska signed up in the late 1980s to show travellers around Gdansk\n\n\"It surprised me how easy it was,\" Jim insisted to me. He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Some of his contacts came from his personal, multi-volume address books, and he got new sign-ups after placing interviews in local papers and jazz magazines.\n\n\"Some of the older people in Russia were scared about being put on a Western list, because they thought it would be easier to be rounded up and carted away,\" he said. \"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on.\"\n\nOver the years, the authorities often wondered what was going on at Jim's place. Not least during the period when he started issuing fake passports. It was back in the 1970s, after he had caught wind of an American traveller, who, 20 years before, had renounced his American citizenship and created his own \"world passport\".\n\nFor Jim, non-national passports seemed to encapsulate his ideals of peace and global freedom. So he turned his home into an \"embassy\" and started producing world passports for anyone who wanted one. The documents were so convincing that some people used them to cross borders.\n\n\"Look, you can't do this any more. You have to stop making passports,\" exasperated French police would say when they came to his door. But Jim continued until he ended up in court. Though he was eventually acquitted of fraud and counterfeiting, he was found guilty of \"confusing the public\".\n\nJim always dismissed the idea that it was a naïve undertaking, but he was trusting to a fault, according to some of his friends, and this led to financial mistakes and legal troubles over the years. He wouldn't deal with problems, waiting until they blew up instead.\n\n\"I often had to stop him signing things. Sometimes he didn't even read them,\" says Jesper, his son, who was born during Jim's marriage to Viveka Reuterskiold in the 1960s.\n\nJesper grew up in Stockholm after they separated, but visited Paris every summer from the age of 10.\n\n\"There were mattresses on every spare bit of floor, people sleeping everywhere,\" he says, as he recalls his earlier visits. \"It was exciting and fun, but sometimes I felt jealous. Lots of people did. People were very possessive of him. People wanted to claim him, but he was unclaimable.\"\n\nJesper credits his father with opening the world to him. He used Jim's contacts books extensively as he travelled and he is currently living with his own family in Bangkok, where he briefly replicated the Sunday dinners. \"Just for six months... It was a lot of work.\"\n\nDuring the 1990s, the crowds started to dwindle at the Paris dinners, as the original hippy crowd aged. But then a new wave of younger visitors started to get in touch. The bloggers had discovered him.\n\n\"The internet both ruined and saved the dinners,\" says Seamas McSwiney, a close friend who helped on Sunday evenings for decades. \"It became less spontaneous as people tried to book six months ahead - which was anathema to how Jim travelled and also annoying as those people were more likely to do a no-show - but at the same time, these online articles re-energised the idea. There was a younger crowd and new momentum.\"\n\nAt the dinners' peak, Jim would welcome up to 120 guests, filling his atelier and spilling out into the cobbled back garden. An estimated 150,000 people have come over the years.\n\n\"The door was always open,\" says Amanda Morrow, an Australian journalist who stayed with Jim for a year-and-a-half. \"It was a revolving door of guests - some who wanted to stay over, and others who just wanted to say hello. Jim never said no to anyone.\"\n\nThe only thing that really got Jim down was people leaving,\" says Jesper. \"He struggled with that. He didn't like being on his own... Though fortunately there was usually a new person to distract him.\"\n\nIn the final years, Jim would sit quietly, as others gravitated into his orbit. On my last visit, he looked frail and pained by his various ailments, but he also had an air of contentment, clearly never tiring of being the conduit for human interactions.\n\n\"I was wondering when you'd come back,\" he said to me, in the rasping American accent he somehow had never lost.\n\nHere was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. And yet he made everyone feel special. Every connection mattered.\n\n\"It felt like politician's trick, but it was natural,\" says Seamas.\n\nIn very recent times, Covid restrictions reduced the dinners' clockwork schedule, but his friends say he was not depressed by the pandemic. He had figured the get-togethers would resume and, until then, had enjoyed a smaller stream of visiting carers and, whenever possible, friends.\n\nAmid the outpouring of online tributes since his death in his sleep on 6 January, these words from Jesper stand out: \"His goal from early on was to introduce the whole world to each other. He almost succeeded.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Rani has co-hosted BBC One's Countryfile since 2015\n\nCountryfile host Anita Rani is to join Emma Barnett as a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nShe will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the long-running programme, beginning on 15 January.\n\nRani, 43, said she had \"long been a fan\" of the programme and that she was \"really looking forward to getting to know the listeners and discussing issues that matter to them the most\".\n\nLong-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray left the show last year.\n\nBarnett, 35, who made her name on Radio 5 Live and Newsnight, made her Woman's Hour debut on 4 January. She hosts the show from Monday to Thursday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rani said it was \"an honour\" to be joining Radio 4's \"mothership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anita rani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRani joined the BBC's Asian Network in 2005 and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She is also known for her appearances on The One Show and Watchdog, and for competing on the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"Woman's Hour has always given a voice to people who may not be heard elsewhere and I want to continue that important tradition,\" she said.\n\nRadio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya said he wanted the station to \"better reflect and be relevant to the audience across the UK\". Rani will bring \"a wealth of broadcasting experience\" as well as a \"valuable\" perspective and insight, he added.\n\nComedian Shappi Khorsandi was among those to welcome her new role, saying she would be \"listening even more\".\n\nRani's appointment means the new Woman's Hour presenters are considerably younger than their predecessors. Dame Jenni was 70 when she left on 1 October, while Garvey was 56 when she signed off last month.\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour earlier this month\n\nBefore leaving, Garvey expressed a hope that whoever joined Barnett would be closer to her own age.\n\n\"Emma is in her 30s and that's great,\" she told the Daily Telegraph. \"It will give the programme a real energy, which I think is brilliant.\n\n\"So I think the person working alongside her should be somebody nearer my age to make sure we give the audience as broad a range of life experience and interests as possible. I would prefer it if the other presenter were in her 50s.\"\n\nBarnett had an eventful first week on the Radio 4 institution, opening her stint by reading out a message from The Queen.\n\nTwo days later, one of her guests dropped out of a discussion after objecting to remarks the presenter made about her off air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A twenty-year-old from Cambridgeshire who spent a week in intensive care with Covid-19 says he can't believe so many young people are in denial about the virus.\n\nJay Clack fell ill on December 27th and within five days, 80% of his lungs has stopped functioning.\n\nWhile in intensive care he had a goodbye phone call with his family.\n\nBut now, he's showing signs of recovery and spoke to the BBC's Jon Ironmonger.", "The police are stepping up enforcement because they believe many people breaking the Covid regulations are doing so because they are stubborn, not because they don’t understand what is allowed.\n\nThe public, police, and legal experts do struggle to keep up with the ever-changing rules.\n\nBut the organisers of a party on a boat in Hertfordshire, the passengers on a minibus heading for Wales, and the couple who travelled 120 miles to \"watch seals\" would have struggled to explain to the officers issuing them with fines that they were confused.\n\nThose were clear breaches. More complicated is the fine line between the law - which police officers can enforce - and the government guidance, which they can’t.\n\nNo law says exercise can only be conducted once a day, or for a specific duration. These are pieces of firm guidance, along with the request to \"stay local\", which resulted in criticism of the prime minister after his bike ride in east London.\n\nIt would be difficult to set a distance limit which would work for both people living in rural areas and inner cities. Impossible to prove that a 65-minute run was in breach of the law.\n\nWhich is why the success of the measures will rely on personal responsibility in the end.\n\nAnd why some experts are saying that different messages such as \"act like you’ve got it\" or \"thanks for doing the right thing\" might cut through better than a list of regulations to be obeyed.", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "John Lewis is suspending its click and collect services and tightening safety measures after a \"change in tone\" from the government over the virus.\n\nThe department store will also pause in-home services, unless they are \"essential to customers' wellbeing\".\n\nThe retailer said it felt the changes were right with the country at a \"critical point in the pandemic\".\n\nHowever customers will be able to collect John Lewis orders from Waitrose stores.\n\nWaitrose, which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, is also tightening rules over face coverings, following moves from the other supermarkets to make face masks mandatory for shoppers unless they have a medical exemption.\n\n\"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days,\" said Andrew Murphy, Executive Director, Operations.\n\n\"While we recognise that the detail of formal guidance has not changed, we feel it is right for us - and in the best interests of our Partners and customers - to take proactive steps to further enhance our Covid-security and related operational policies.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said click and collect from its department stores would be switched off for new orders from the end of Tuesday.\n\nExisting orders and bookings for services, such as installing washing machines, will still be carried out, if customers wish to proceed, but there will be no further bookings for non-essential services.\n\nMany other shops from coffee chains to craft suppliers are offering click and collect services. However, with the continued rise in coronavirus cases the government is examining ways to reduce social contact further.\n\nThe book chain Waterstones stopped offering click and collect services from its shops at the start of the current lockdown.\n\nMarks and Spencer said it was continuing to offer customers the opportunity to collect other items at its food halls, which are still open for grocery shopping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\"\n\nThe father of one of three men murdered in a park terror attack has called on the home secretary to \"tell us why\" the killer was deemed safe to be free.\n\nGary Furlong, whose son James, 36, was killed in Reading's Forbury Gardens attack in June, said it was \"beyond\" him why Khairi Saadallah was considered \"not a danger to the public\".\n\nSaadallah was jailed for the rest of his life over the murders.\n\nThe Home Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nAt the time of the attack Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We must learn the lessons from what has happened... to prevent anything like this from happening again.\"\n\nDuring his trial, London's Old Bailey heard Saadallah \"executed\" James Furlong, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, as an \"act of religious jihad\" on the afternoon of 20 June.\n\nHe was jailed on Monday having previously admitted the three murders and the attempted murders of three other men.\n\nKhairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three of attempted murder\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a Serious Further Offence (SFO) review had been completed into how Saadallah was managed by the National Probation Service.\n\nThe victims' families would be offered a meeting to discuss the findings of the review, it added.\n\nIt comes after the killer had been subject to licence conditions at the time of the attack.\n\nThe court previously heard on the 18 June, two days before the attack, Saadallah's probation officer had emailed his mental health team as he had been talking about \"magic\".\n\nSaadallah also contacted the mental health crisis team himself, but he did not not open the door when they visited on 19 June.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAnalysis of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material and the court heard while at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Gary Furlong, from Liverpool, said Ms Patel needed to \"tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him\".\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets,\" he added.\n\nSaadallah, 26, had been told just before his release from prison that the Home Office wanted to deport him, but it was not legally possible due to the situation in Libya.\n\nIn law, what are known as the Hardial Singh principles place certain limits on the government's power to detain people ahead of deportation.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman said the government \"always tries to remove foreign national offenders where possible\".\n\nHe was released from custody on 5 June, and proceeded to research the location for his attack online and carry out reconnaissance in the park.\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer on 19 June, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near to a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nSaadallah's brother, Aiman, said he had asked for police to detain him under the Mental Health Act, and added \"lives would have been saved\" if more had been done.\n\nThames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.\n\nReading Refugee Support Group's (RRSG) also said it had raised concerns about his potential for radicalisation over three years and the possibility of a \"London Bridge\" scenario.\n\nIn a statement, it said Saadallah had a \"known, significant mental health problem\".\n\n\"This in no way excuses what he did. He murdered three innocent people. But there must be accountability on the part of services that should have supported him,\" it said.\n\nBut passing sentence Mr Justice Sweeney said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nGary Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\n\n\"How was he ever allowed to stay in this country? How was he allowed in, in the first place?\"\n\nHistory teacher James Furlong and pharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett each died from a single stab wound to the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nGary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\" who was loved by family, friends and students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has published a list of areas where there have been delivery delays due to its workforce being affected by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe postal service said some areas will see a reduced service due to workers being off sick or self-isolating.\n\nRoyal Mail listed 28 areas where post might be late, with 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nProblems with deliveries over Christmas had prompted shoppers to complain about parcels not arriving on time.\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"Despite our best efforts and significant investment in extra resource, some customers may experience slightly longer delivery timescales than our usual service standards.\n\n\"This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe.\"\n\nMany of the affected areas are in or near London, while others include Chelmsford in Essex, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Margate in Kent, and Widnes in Cheshire.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, whose Ilford constituency is one of the areas affected, tweeted on Sunday that he was concerned about vaccination invitations getting caught up in Royal Mail delays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi replied that the government would work with Royal Mail to ensure that vaccine invitations were prioritised.\n\nCustomers have taken to Twitter to complain about delays to their postal service.\n\n\"Unfortunately I live in one of these areas.,\" wrote Matt S. \"N8 has been receiving an absolutely dreadful service since April 2020 - @RoyalMail what are you going to do to improve the situation?\"\n\nMark Harrison wrote: \"We could manage and expect a bit of disruption - but we've had only 2 deliveries in a month. Nothing for a fortnight. SE11 not even on the list of disrupted areas. Royal Mail need to get a grip.\"\n\nIn a service update on Tuesday, Royal Mail said: \"Due to resourcing issues, deliveries in the following areas are likely to be limited.\"", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vogue editor Anna Wintour said images of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were meant to celebrate her achievements\n\nUS Vogue editor Anna Wintour has defended the magazine following criticism of its front-cover portrait of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe image shows Ms Harris wearing an informal outfit including jeans and a pair of Converse trainers.\n\nSocial media users have criticised Vogue for the photo's \"washed out\" lighting and styling, saying it does not reflect Ms Harris's achievements.\n\nBut Ms Wintour said the photos were intended to highlight her success.\n\n\"We want nothing but to celebrate Vice-President-elect Harris's amazing victory and the important moment this is for America's history and particularly women of colour all over the world,\" Ms Wintour said in a statement to the New York Times' Kara Swisher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vogue Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also defended Vogue's decision to use the picture for the print cover of its February issue, rather than an alternative portrait of her in a more formal suit.\n\nA member of Ms Harris's team told AP news agency that Vogue staff, including Ms Wintour, agreed to feature the blue-suited image on cover. But Ms Wintour denied that any formal agreement had been made.\n\n\"All of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice-president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in,\" said Ms Wintour.\n\n\"We felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture... really reflected the hallmark of the Biden/Harris campaign and everything they were trying to - and I'm sure they will - achieve,\" the editor - herself an influential supporter of the Democratic Party - added.\n\nSources at Vogue told the New York Times that the second, more formal image may be used as a cover for a separate print edition.\n\nBoth pictures were taken by Tyler Mitchell who, in 2018, became the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover.\n\nThe magazine has been criticised in the past over issues relating to race.\n\nSeveral former employees previously shared experiences of alleged racism in the workplace with the New York Times.\n\nEarlier this year, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful spoke out after he was allegedly \"racially profiled\" by a security guard at the magazine's UK offices.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HBO's Insecure is making sure lighting people of colour is not an afterthought", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "As major social media platforms crack down on accounts promoting US election conspiracy theories, many conspiracy and far-right groups in the US are looking for a new home online.\n\nTwitter hasn’t just kicked the president off the platform. It’s also closed down some 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy, while Facebook said it is continuing efforts to shut down “Stop the Steal” groups which allege, with no evidence, that Donald Trump was cheated of the presidency.\n\nOne of the most popular alternatives had been the self-styled “free speech” social media outlet Parler, but then over the weekend that was banned too for posts inciting violence.\n\nThen there’s Gab, a Twitter-like platform popular with right-wing groups, which is awash with extreme content and welcomes QAnon followers with open arms. It claims to have added 600,000 new users since the riots.\n\nIt’s thought Gab’s user base is far smaller than that of the now-closed Parler, which had around 16m users.\n\nOthers seem to be moving to MeWe, which is similar to Facebook.\n\nThere are some parallels with online jihadists, who also found their voices silenced after the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.\n\nThe Islamic State group and al-Qaeda frequently have to re-establish their online presence after social media companies identify and close their accounts, leading to a nomadic online existence.\n\nThey have already adapted to life outside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and have exploited less well known platforms and apps to get their messages out.\n• 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "Sir David Attenborough has previously spoken of his support for the Covid-19 vaccines\n\nSir David Attenborough has become the latest well-known name to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe news about the 94-year-old natural historian comes a few days after it was revealed the Queen had been vaccinated.\n\nIt's not known which vaccine Sir David has been given or exactly when he had it.\n\nThe Perfect Planet host is one of several stars to receive the first of two doses of the vaccine.\n\nThey include The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith, actor Sir Ian McKellen, choreographer Lionel Blair, actor Brian Blessed and actress Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are currently three vaccines approved for administration in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, although supplies of the latter are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nSir David, who has been isolating at his London home, has previously talked about his support for the work in developing a means of protection from Covid-19.\n\nIn an interview with The Telegraph last month he said he would definitely accept an invitation to be vaccinated when his time came.\n\n\"At 94, I think I'm entitled!\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I'm sufficient of a scientist still, I hope, to realise this is the thing to do.\"\n\nHe added that the work that had gone into developing the vaccines showed the positive effects of international cooperation in combating global problems, such as the climate crisis.\n\n\"It (the virus) has drawn attention to the fact we aren't as omnipotent and all-controlling as we think we are,\" he told the paper.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: Are supermarkets following the rules?\n\nSupermarket workers are facing abuse for challenging shoppers not wearing masks during the pandemic, staff say.\n\nOne Mold supermarket worker said she was challenging people every day and seeing \"loads of people walking around\" the store without masks and in groups.\n\nThe Welsh Government has hinted rules will be tightened amid concerns Covid-19 rules are not being followed.\n\n\"This is not a social event, come in on your own, not as a family of five,\" the supermarket worker said.\n\nSupermarket workers spoke to BBC Radio Wales as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the \"onus\" was on supermarkets to make sure shoppers abided by the rules.\n\nThere has been an \"escalation of abuse\" towards supermarket staff in the last nine months, and the role of policing such rules must not fall on those on the shop floor, Nick Ireland Divisional Officer of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) said.\n\nHe said measures in stores had \"rolled back\", with many no longer enforcing systems, and people walking the wrong way down one-way systems, and \"whole families\" shopping with just one basket.\n\nMeanwhile Bally Auluk, an area organiser in Cardiff and Barry for Usdaw, said abuse towards shopworkers was happening on \"a daily and weekly basis\".\n\nHe said retailers and the Welsh Government should \"start protecting shop workers\" after dealing with members himself who were \"threatened with physical violence and spat on\".\n\n\"Customers now are treating it almost like it was last year, that it's not a problem, that is where the big issues arises,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's had pledged to challenge shoppers not wearing face coverings in store, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to follow the move and challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules, people must wear face coverings in order to enter shops across the UK, while supermarkets should have social distancing and strict hygiene measures in place.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been in talks with retailers on how to improve safety and return to the strict observance of social distancing from the first lockdown, although no new guidance has been issued.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets, such as limited numbers allowed in store, hand sanitiser and security on doors.\n\nThe Mold supermarket worker said staff had been told not to challenge people not wearing masks, and had seen people being yelled at.\n\nJane, who did not give her last name, told BBC Wales customers were offered a mask on the way in, but many did not want them.\n\n\"You do see a lot of customers walking around without a mask on,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course there are people with hidden disabilities who can't wear a mask but there can't be that many of them.\"\n\nJane said enforcement needed to be greater, but it should not be led by the shopfloor staff.\"We're told not to challenge people as we don't know someone's personal situation and we don't want to face any abuse if they don't want to wear it or don't agree with it,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment people will ask politely, but I have witnessed quite a few occasions where customers have been verbally abusive to the person greeting them on their way in.\n\n\"There needs to be someone enforcing this, it can't be left to retail staff: whether its a police officer or a security guard.\"\n\nSupermarket aisles carrying non-essential items are closed off again, as they were during the firebreak lockdown\n\nOne security guard at a supermarket in Aberdare said he had had more \"hassle\" working in the past 10 months at the store, than from drinkers while working as a nightclub doorman for more than 20 years.\n\n\"The attitude towards yourself... they don't appreciate that you're standing there for 12 hours a day, they don't understand how hard it is to try and keep people distancing,\" he told Dot Davies on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"When they go inside the shop it all goes out the window... we keep the two metres outside, but we've got people coming outside to tell us we should be in there sorting it out.\"\n\nOne supermarket manager said the lengths people were going to in order to shop together were \"ridiculous\", with families coming in with a number of trolleys or baskets in order not to be challenged.\n\n\"We've seen families turning up to go shopping for a basket shop, it's just not on,\" said Mr Ireland, who called on supermarket staff to be prioritised for vaccines.\n\nHe suggested those who do not observe the rules should be banned and fined.\n\nBut one mother said that she had no choice but to shop with her children, and she had been unable to get a click and collect or delivery slot.\n\n\"It's easy to get caught up in the fear of it, but some people are at the shops as they have no choice,\" she said.\n\nOthers have spoken of shop staff themselves not wearing masks.\n\nJames Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, said it was \"everyone's responsibility\" to abide by the rules, rather than for shop workers to enforce.\n\n\"Doing that [enforcement of rules] in a small store, where you don't have lots of colleagues around, has been a trigger for more abuse and even violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Lowman said making businesses Covid secure was down to the local authority, while individuals' behaviour was a matter for police, but \"in practicality\" it is everyone's responsibility.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the \"onus\" for getting shoppers to follow Covid-19 rules, such as wearing masks, social-distancing and cordoning off non-essential items, was on the supermarket managers.\n\n\"[It needs to be made] clear that you do need to wear a mask unless you can demonstrate that you have a particular exemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think there's any lack of understanding. We've been through this before and I do think a number of supermarkets are going to go and make clear there are a range of items that are off-limits for shoppers coming in.\n\n\"Supermarkets understand what they need to do.\"", "London's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital has been reopened and is admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread in the capital.\n\nMedical director Dr Vin Diwakar said the facility at London's ExCeL Centre also had a vaccination centre on site.\n\nIt was placed on standby in May after fewer than 20 patients were treated following a grand opening on 3 April.\n\nDr Diwakar said the Nightingale was being used to treat non-coronavirus patients.\n\nIn the Downing Street press conference, he explained it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"This means that hospitals have more beds to care for Covid-19 patients and for our very sickest patients. We cannot do this indefinitely.\n\n\"There comes a point where if the infection gets further out of control, more and more patients from London will need to be transferred elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nAt the start of November, he said, London had 1,000 Covid-19 patients.\n\nThis increased four-fold to 4,000 on Christmas Day and has doubled to just under 8,000 today, with more than 1,000 of those on critical care, he told the press conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Dr Diwakar said there was \"hope\", with one hall of the ExCel Centre having opened as London's first mass vaccination centre.\n\n\"I can tell you Covid-19 is a horrible, horrible disease that leaves so many, including young people, breathless and gasping for life,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the Mayor of London declared a \"major incident\" as he described the coronavirus spread in the capital as \"out of control\".\n\nMore than 120 firefighters and 75 Met Police officers have been drafted in to help the London Ambulance Service cope with demand.", "The data showed men were more likely to be admitted to intensive care units\n\nAround half of patients admitted to Welsh intensive care units during the second wave of the pandemic have died, a study has found.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) found men aged in their 60s were more likely to need intensive care.\n\nIt also found those from Asian backgrounds and deprived areas were disproportionately affected.\n\nBut a leading doctor said, overall, people were more likely to survive now.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said new treatments meant only the sickest patients were reaching intensive care, where outcomes were poorer.\n\nICNARC collected information on 431 Welsh patients who were critically ill with coronavirus from 1 September to 31 December 2020 as part of a UK-wide audit of intensive care patients.\n\nOf the patients who were admitted, 68% were men and 32% women. The average age of a patient was 59.5 years.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said, overall, patients were more likely to survive Covid now\n\nWhile the vast majority of patients were white (91.6%), the number of patients of Asian ethnicity was more than double the proportion of the Asian population, with 6.3% of patients recorded as being Asian, compared to an average of 2.4% in their local population.\n\nThe audit of patients found that, excluding those still being treated at the unit, half had died while half had been discharged.\n\nAlthough the numbers of patients surveyed is relatively low for statistical purposes, Dr Morgan said the survival rate reflected the situation in hospitals.\n\n\"We are putting fewer people, who are in the first stage of their illness, on to life support machines. And that is because we have treatments now that we know can help,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you are more likely now to survive Covid than ever before, and that is in every age group - sometimes by as much as 10% more.\n\n\"What we do know is that overall, out of every ten people who come to intensive care with Covid about six of them will survive and will leave the intensive care unit. Which means sadly four of them won't, four of them will die.\n\n\"That's similar overall to the first wave but that data is based on some patients who are still in the intensive care unit. So that may change and it's more likely to get worse rather than better.\"\n\n\"We also know patients who are on life support machines in the intensive care unit will do worse than those who come to the intensive care unit and are not on life support machines.\n\n\"For those people, it's probably five out of 10 people who will survive and five who will sadly die and that may be worse when we have the data on those who are still there.\n\n\"And there's a big effect of age. So for those over the age of 70 it may be as little as four people out of 10 who survive, maybe less. And for those over the age of 80 it may be as low as one or two people out of ten who survive.\n\nThe figures from ICNARC also highlight how people from poorer backgrounds were more likely to need treatment in intensive care.\n\nUsing a deprivation score from 1 to 5, more than half of patients scored 4 or 5, representing the most deprived postcodes in Wales.\n\nDr Morgan said: \"Sadly, disease is an illness of deprivation.\n\n\"And so that's why we feel it, particularly in Wales where the industrial scars of our past are still very much there - and our health is there.\"", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Retailers suffered their worst annual sales performance on record in 2020, driven by slump in demand for fashion and homeware products, figures show.\n\nWhile food sales growth rose 5.4% on 2019, non-food fell about 5%, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt meant an overall fall of 0.3% in a year dominated by the Covid-19 impact, the worst annual change since the BRC began collating the figures in 1995.\n\nChristmas offered little cheer, with much of the High Street still closed.\n\n\"Physical non-food stores, including all of non-essential retail, saw sales drop by a quarter compared with 2019,\" said Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive.\n\n\"Christmas offered little respite for these retailers, as many shops were forced to shut during the peak trading period,\" she said.\n\nThe 5.4% rise in food sales was fuelled by shoppers flocking to supermarkets and online grocers to ensure they were stocked up during the pandemic.\n\nIn December, total retail sales increased by 1.8% as shoppers spent more in the run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales for the month were up 4.8% as overall shop takings were still affected by restrictions and temporary closures.\n\nOnline non-food sales jumped by 44.8% in December, according to the new figures, as a higher proportion of shopping took place online.\n\nThe BRC's sales monitor is collated with the consultancy KPMG, whose UK head of retail, Paul Martin, said: \"In the most important month for the retail industry, there was some positive growth due to the ongoing shift of expenditure from other categories such as travel and leisure.\n\n\"Once again we saw big swings in the types of products being purchased and the channels used for shopping, with much of the growth taking place online, where nearly half of all non-food purchases were made.\"\n\nBut he warned that the new lockdown would worsen conditions for many non-essential shops and the High Street generally.\n\nLast week, a report from the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, the CRR said.", "The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.\n\nThere were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.\n\nThis represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.\n\nWhen the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.\n\nThis measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.\n\nThe data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008.\n\nThe data on deaths can be confusing.\n\nOn one hand, excess deaths are at their highest since World War Two, while on the other, death rates, once age and size of population are taken into account, are at their worst level for a little over a decade 'only'.\n\nHow should that be interpreted?\n\nExcess deaths are basically a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.\n\nClearly, 2020 saw a huge and unexpected rise in deaths because of the pandemic, just as World War Two led to a sudden jump.\n\nBut in determining how much those jumps affected the chances of dying, a measure known as age-standardised mortality, which takes into account the age and size of the population, is important.\n\nIt shows the pandemic has undone the progress made in the last decade or so. That is significant - especially given this has happened despite lockdowns and social-distancing measures to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBut it also helps put the death toll over the past 12 months in a wider context.\n\nKing's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.\n\n\"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US,\" he said.\n\n'It will take a public inquiry to determine exactly what went wrong, but mistakes have been made.\n\n\"In a pandemic, mistakes cost lives. Decisions to enter lockdown have consistently come late, with the government failing to learn from past mistakes or the experiences of other countries.\n\n\"The promised 'protective ring' around social care in the first wave was slow to materialise and often inadequate, a contributing factor to the excess deaths among care home residents last year.\n\n'Like many countries, the UK was poorly prepared for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nMatthew Reed, of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie said the focus on Covid should not hide the fact there has been a \"silent crisis\" of deaths at home.\n\nHe said people have died prematurely in 2020 from other causes - with a big jump in deaths at home.\n\n\"We are concerned many have not had the care they needed,\" he added.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. Kibue 🇰🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeter said the backlash revealed an unhealthy attitude in Kenya: \"At the end of the day, it's all about who will get the job done. This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice patrols were stepped up around the Scotland-England border around Christmas\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nSo many of us are spending more time staring at a screen right now and an eye health charity is recommending we learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect our sight. Fight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you're working at a screen, in order to reduce eye strain. The charity also commissioned a survey of 2,000 people which found more than a third believed their eyesight had worsened in the past year. It says the number of us getting regular eye tests is also down and is urging people not to miss their appointments.\n\nIt sadly comes as no surprise to learn that 2020 was the worst year on record for UK retailers, especially those focused on clothing and homeware. Food bucked the trend, particularly over Christmas, with the highest ever festive spending on groceries. But overall, retail sales declined by 0.3% across the year, and non-food by nearly a quarter, the biggest annual dip since the British Retail Consortium began collating the figures in 1995. The BRC says many retailers are struggling to survive and the government should extend the business rates holiday to save jobs.\n\nA father who'd campaigned for a change in the coronavirus rules to make life easier for non-resident parents to see their children has welcomed a government rethink. Previously, parents could visit children they don't live with during lockdown, but restrictions prevented them from staying overnight in a hotel. Ex-BBC journalist Tom De Castella said the ban \"had a massive bearing on seeing my daughter\", who lives a three-and-a-half hour drive away from his home. Now the rules have been rewritten, he's relieved. \"This is about building a bond with your child, it's crucial to their development,\" he added.\n\nTom De Castella said the rethink was \"great news\" for parents like him\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, three vaccines are now approved for use in the UK, but there are many differences between them. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lockdown rule-breakers are more likely to be fined as Covid laws will be enforced \"more quickly\", the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers have had to break up parties, despite hospitals struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nA minister confirmed her pledge that fines were \"increasingly likely\".\n\nKit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [are illustrating] to them that if they don't they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" Mr Malthouse, the policing minister, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"These current measures should in theory, if we all stick by them, be enough to drive the numbers down so that we can start to move through the gears of tiers from mid-February,\" he added.\n\nAsked if tighter restrictions for England were on the way - something the health secretary has refused to rule out - Mr Malthouse said ministers were \"on tenterhooks\" watching the daily figures for Covid deaths, new cases and hospital admissions, as rules continue to be kept under review.\n\nHe said the government's ramped-up efforts to give vulnerable people the coronavirus vaccine should help the UK to \"get back to some sort of normality later this year\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was currently no expectation that Westminster will impose more extensive restrictions.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she discussed possible tighter restrictions with members of her cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, will hold a coronavirus press conference at Downing Street later.\n\nThe latest figures on Monday showed a further 529 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, while another 46,169 cases were reported.\n\nThere are also more than 32,200 people in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some 75 police officers are joining 185 firefighters in being trained to drive ambulances in the capital, to help London Ambulance Service as the number of cases of the virus continues to rise.\n\nAnd writing in the Times, she said her officers had found people hosting raves, house parties and basement gambling events, despite clear laws that ban social gatherings.\n\n\"It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,\" she said, adding that people breaking Covid laws were \"increasingly likely to face fines\".\n\nPolice chiefs in other parts of England have also warned \"patience is running out\" with rule-breakers, with the public increasingly willing to report alleged rule breaches.\n\nSince March, some 32,000 penalties for breaching Covid laws have been issued in England and Wales - with a sharp rise in penalties during England's November lockdown.\n\nAlmost 6,500 penalty tickets were handed out in the weeks up to Christmas as police began moving more quickly from \"engage\", \"explain\" and \"encourage\" to the fourth \"e\" - \"enforcement\".\n\nExpect the rate of fines to continue upwards during January, given the scale of the emergency and the pressure from government on constabularies to enforce the law.\n\nBut there is also a tension here. Police chiefs have told their officers they will often have to use their own judgement because the list of \"reasonable excuses\" in the law for why someone can be outside is not fixed in stone.\n\nThere is a lot of wriggle room in the law to allow daily lives to continue.\n\nWhile ministers, scientists and health experts are all hammering home the message that people should stay at home as much as possible, the law is more liberal - for instance, there is no restriction on exercise in England.\n\nAnd that's why some police officers believe they are stuck between a rock and a hard place as people who don't want to be locked down find more and more creative ways to stretch the rules to breaking point.\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nDame Cressida told the Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nShe also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycle in east London at the weekend was \"not against the law\", but added the \"stay local\" guidance on exercise for England could be made more clear.\n\nUnder Scotland's lockdown restrictions, people must start and finish their exercise in the same place - and to do so, they may travel up to five miles from the boundary of their local authority area. People in Wales should start and finish exercising from their home, while those in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.\n\nAsked if she would like to see similar detail in England's guidance, Dame Cressida said: \"That is certainly something the government could consider.\n\n\"Anything that brings greater clarity, for officers and the public, in general, will be a good thing.\"\n\nDame Cressida also said she was delighted that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers for vaccines was being discussed\n\nPolice chiefs have been under increasing pressure to enforce the lockdown laws - with a number of news reports about breaches of Covid rules in recent days.\n\nIn one case, Derbyshire Police withdrew penalties for two women who had been fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk together - following widespread media attention.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has defended the way police have handled breaches, saying there is a need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nFour people were arrested in Edinburgh on Monday after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - which are in charge of making their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn her article, Dame Cressida said she was \"delighted to hear\" that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers to get vaccinated was being \"actively discussed\", as the rate of officers self-isolating has risen.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, as part of the government's plan to vaccinate tens of millions of people by the spring.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said members of the armed forces were working \"hand in hand with the NHS\" to help with the response to the UK's epidemic.\n\nSome 5,300 members of the armed forces are currently involved in the Covid response including personnel to help with vaccinations and community testing across the UK, he said.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS Louisa Jordan was built in two weeks in April response to concerns over hospital capacity\n\nA shortage of NHS staff could prevent the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan to Covid patients if capacity is exceeded elsewhere, a leading doctor has said.\n\nPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Prof Mike Griffin, said the increasing numbers off work was a \"major problem\".\n\nThe Scottish government says the NHS is not being \"overwhelmed\" and staffing plans are in place to deal with demand.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan is currently being used for outpatient services.\n\nThe temporary hospital at the SEC in Glasgow was set up in April in response to concerns over hospital capacity.\n\nIt was not used for Covid care during the first surge of the pandemic and has since been made available for outpatient services, such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery and dermatology.\n\nIt is also being used for Covid vaccinations.\n\nProf Mike Griffin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the pressure on the NHS workforce was particularly acute in the west of Scotland, where the number of cases was high.\n\n\"Particularly in Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there's been significant increases recently because of the new variant. Without any doubt, that new variant is increasing transmissibility, and therefore increasing infection rates and increasing hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just the admissions that's the problem. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses and everyone are really working extremely hard - but there is an increase in absenteeism because of illness and because of self-isolation amongst nursing staff.\"\n\nTwo of Scotland's health boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire - are currently over their capacity for Covid patients.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has reached 85% capacity and NHS Tayside is at 81% capacity, according to the latest Scottish government figures.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan has capacity for 1,000 Covid patients if it is needed, but Prof Griffin said that using it as a Covid facility could be dependent on retired or former staff returning to work for NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Opening the Louisa Jordan as a Covid institution without staff is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"It is equipped to be able to do it. And if the staffing is there, if we get returners and so on, then perhaps that might happen.\"\n\nThe number of Covid patients in hospital across Scotland is now higher than it was in April, although the numbers in intensive care are lower.\n\nNumbers initially appeared to be declining in November, but never reached low levels and began to climb sharply again at the end of the year.\n\nProf Griffin added that it was likely that better treatments for Covid patients were also reducing mortality and so keeping those patients in hospital for longer.\n\nNHS Scotland has an overall capacity for 13,000 beds, with 2,400 assigned to Covid patients.\n\nThis is down from a capacity of about 3,600 in the autumn because of additional seasonal pressures on the NHS, including weather-related issues and increased staff absence.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, accepted that having around 1,500 patients in hospital with Covid had forced the cancellation of procedures such as cataract operations and hip replacements.\n\nBut he said that ability to \"flex\" within the system meant that the NHS remained within capacity.\n\nProf Leitch also pointed to the situation in England where there have been reports of limits being put on the amount of oxygen that patients can receive and some intensive care patients having to be treated in non-ICU beds.\n\nSpeaking at the first minister's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"People shouldn't be scared that the health service is full or overwhelmed - it isn't.\n\n\"It is fragile, and you just have to look a few hundred miles south to see what happens when it is even more fragile.\n\n\"So we need to avoid that as much as we can in Scotland.\"", "The Northern Lights from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands\n\nDisplays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from north and north east Scotland overnight.\n\nAlso known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers photographed the \"lights\" from Shetland, the Highlands and Moray.\n\nBrae, Shetland, was among the vantage points for observing the aurora overnight on Monday into Tuesday\n\nA view of the aurora from Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast\n\nA colourful scene at Nairn on the Highlands' Moray Firth coast\n\nThe aurora from Glenelg in the west Highlands\n\nThis stunning image was captured at Durness by Andy Walker\n\nClear skies over Moray offered opportunities to see the lights, including from Elgin\n\nFreck Fraser's image of the aurora from a snowy Belladrum near Beauly\n\nThe green glow of the aurora from Portmahomack in the Highlands\n\nAnother image of the aurora from Brae in Shetland\n\nBright lights of the aurora from Uig in the Highlands", "Meddyg Care Dementia Home was due to receive vaccinations last week\n\nA care home manager is \"frightened\" for the residents after its delivery of Covid vaccinations failed to arrive.\n\nLorna Jones said Meddyg Care Dementia Home in Criccieth, Gwynedd, was due to have a delivery of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca jab a week ago.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived amid claims other people in the area have already had the jab.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted there had been \"logistical problems\" in north west Wales.\n\nThe health board insisted it is \"committed\" to vaccinating those most vulnerable.\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that all over-50s in Wales are to be offered jab by spring, after criticism the rollout of the vaccine in Wales has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nWith family visits suspended, the care home has not recorded a single Covid-19 case and a phone call on New Year's Eve to say it was to receive the vaccine was met with \"glee and happiness\".\n\nUnder the Welsh Government's vaccination rollout plan, care home residents and staff are first in line to get the immunisation - or priority one - ahead of elderly people within communities across Wales.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived while, the home claimed, local GP surgeries have been administering the vaccine to over 80s in the community.\n\nLorna Jones is demanding answers as to why the vaccine has not arrived\n\nMs Jones said: \"I can't understand why Betsi Cadwaladr have veered away from the priority list.\n\n\"It's very clear. If there are vaccines coming into the local community, which there are, why have our residents not been vaccinated?\n\n\"I know some care homes have had it in Caernarfon, so why haven't we. What's the difference?\"\n\nMs Jones said the delay is causing concern among staff, residents and families.\n\n\"I'm frightened for our residents. I'm getting a lot of contact from families and I just can't give them anything,\" she said.\n\nThe home's owner said he had now taken matters into his own hands.\n\nKevin Edwards, managing director of Meddyg Care, said he had spent hours ringing around GP surgeries \"begging\" for spare vaccines.\n\nHe said the residents would now be vaccinated on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're a specialist dementia home, you can't just turn up one day and give the vaccine to the residents, there needs to be an element of preparation,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said it was working to ensure those with the highest priority are vaccinated.\n\nTeresa Owen, the health board's executive director of public health, said: \"Last week we vaccinated nearly 10,000 people in north Wales.\n\n\"This week, staff from primary care practices will be going into the local nursing and residential homes to administer the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccination to residents.\n\n\"The initial supply of vaccinations to the west of BCUHB has caused some logistical problems with commencing this programme, but vaccines have now been allocated for all the nursing and residential homes in the locality.\"", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - is a keen cyclist\n\nDowning Street has defended Boris Johnson for riding his bicycle seven miles from home, saying he complied with Covid rules during his trip.\n\nLabour accused the prime minister of having double standards, after it was reported he had been spotted in the saddle at east London's Olympic Park.\n\nGovernment guidance says daily outdoor exercise is allowed but people should not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said any suggestion he had broken the rules was \"wrong\".\n\nBut he did not confirm whether Mr Johnson had been driven to the Olympic Park from Downing Street or cycled there.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been \"against the law - that's for sure\".\n\nPeople should go for exercise \"from your front door and come back to your front door\", she said, adding: \"That's my view of local.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said the Commissioner's words were \"wise\".\n\n\"The instruction is to stay local and for her a reasonable interpretation was to exercise from their front door but for some people it's more complicated. Everyone needs to exercise their own judgement\", she added.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that the prime minister had been seen in the Olympic Park, with his security detail, on Sunday.\n\nThere's nothing in English lockdown law that says Boris Johnson shouldn't have pedalled around London's Olympic park on Sunday, seven miles from Downing Street.\n\nBut this comes at a time when the government is desperately pleading with people to take Covid-19 seriously and follow the rules.\n\nIn England that means leaving home only for essential work, shopping and exercise. The guidance also says \"stay local\" without defining how far people can roam.\n\nTravel for exercise is allowed \"a short distance within your area\" to access an open space.\n\nNumber 10 will insist that's precisely what Mr Johnson did.\n\nBut his ride highlights the problem everyone faces trying to interpret rules, and relying on people using common sense.\n\nThe outing certainly doesn't help ministers straining to tell the public - in clear, consistent, easy-to-understand terms - to stay at home.\n\nAndy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, west London, criticised the prime minister for having a \"do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do\" attitude.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local.\n\n\"Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.\n\n\"If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added: \"We have always trusted the public to exercise good judgement. We did throughout the first lockdown and continue to do so.\"\n\nDame Cressida Dick said Boris Johnson had not broken the law\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after police in Derbyshire fined two women £200 after they drove five miles from home to take a walk - a penalty that was later dropped.\n\nGovernment advice for England says people can leave home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nThe government also states: \"The law is what you must do; the guidance might be a mixture of what you must do and what you should do.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is that exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nIn Wales, exercise also has to start from and finish at home. There no limits on distance travelled, although the advice is that \"the nearer you stay to your home, the better\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "England is currently under a third national lockdown, in an attempt to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.\n\nBut there has been speculation that ministers could be considering tightening restrictions, amid concerns the \"stay-at-home\" message isn't being followed by enough people.\n\nAt Monday evening's Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to follow the existing rules but added, \"we won't rule out taking further action if it's needed\". Other ministers have struck a similar tone.\n\nBut what is the case for more changes?\n\nIn March, nurseries closed to all but vulnerable children and those whose parents were key workers.\n\nBut so far this lockdown, early-years provision has remained open in England.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have chosen to keep nurseries closed to most children for now.\n\nBut England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said keeping them open \"would allow people who need to go to work, or need to do particular activities, to do so\".\n\nYounger children carry a lower risk of transmission than adolescents, scientists say.\n\nBut according to Public Health England, 10% of coronavirus outbreaks or clusters in educational settings since September have been in early-years provision.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations have called on the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early-years staff now there is a more transmissible variant of Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he too would like to hear more from scientists about the risks - and nurseries should \"probably\" close.\n\nGoing out to exercise once a day is one of the \"reasonable excuses\" for leaving home during lockdown.\n\nPeople can walk, run, cycle or swim with those they live - or are in a support bubble - with.\n\nIn addition, they can exercise, on their own, with one person, each time, from another household - as long as they stay 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, Mr Hancock said, \"we've been seeing large groups and that is not acceptable\" and warned that, \"if too many people keep breaking this rule, then we are going to have to look at it\".\n\nThe rules say exercise should be \"local\" - in the village, town, or part of the city where you live - but do not currently specify how far people can travel.\n\nDerbyshire Police recently fined two women £200 each for driving five miles to meet for a walk, saying driving for exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown. They were told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed, either, as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nThe penalties have now been withdrawn.\n\nProf Whitty, meanwhile, has urged people to \"double down\", avoid unnecessary contact and stick to the rules.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about coffee shops remaining open for takeaways, he advised against meeting up there.\n\n\"Really, please don't,\" he said.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in almost all public indoor settings - including shops - unless people are exempt.\n\nPremises \"should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law\", government guidance says.\n\nLast summer, when customer face coverings became law, many supermarkets said they would not make their staff responsible for enforcing the rules.\n\nHowever, Morrisons has now updated its policy to bar shoppers who refuse to cover their faces, unless they are medically exempt. Sainsbury's says security guards at its stores will challenge customers who do not comply.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose have followed suit and say they too will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they have an exemption.\n\nThere have been suggestions face coverings should be required in outdoor public places.\n\nHowever, Sage has previously suggested it would have a \"very low impact\" on community transmission\n\nProf Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the risk posed by joggers, for example, was \"very low\" - but there \"might be some logic\" to people wearing masks in a busy outdoor queue or crowded around a market stall.\n\nOne change the government has ruled out is to support bubbles - which allow people living alone and single, or new parents to mix with another household of any size, without having to socially distance.\n\nAt the government briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I can rule out removing the bubbles.\"\n\nThe official guidance says it's best if a support bubble is formed with a household who live locally.\n\nBut there is currently no limit to how far people can travel to visit their bubble, meaning they could go from areas with high infection rates to those with lower ones, potentially spreading the virus.\n\nWhen \"bubbling\" was first suggested, in May, Sage rejected it as too dangerous, because the reproduction (R) number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - was close to one.\n\nCurrently, the R number in England is between 1.1 and 1.4. Sage says stopping all indoor contact between different households could lower this by as much as 0.2.\n\n\"Active contract tracing should be a precondition of introducing bubbling\", Sage added.\n\nUnlike in March, places of worship are allowed to open in England, although they are closed in Scotland.\n\nThey provide spiritual leadership for many and bring communities together - but their \"communal nature\" also makes them \"vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus\", the government guidance for England says.\n\nWhen the latest lockdown was announced, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: \"The government hasn't suspended public worship - but some may feel it better not to attend in person and some parishes are expected to offer online services only for now.\"\n\nSage has previously suggested places of worship pose a high risk to vulnerable groups but closing them would have a low to moderate impact on overall coronavirus transmission.", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate from coronavirus in Wales - with another 34 hospital deaths in the latest week\n\nThere have now been more than 5,100 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 since the pandemic began.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 310 deaths in the week ending 1 January, which is 32 more than the week before.\n\nThis is nearly 42.6% of all deaths.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths in Wales, the most since the end of April at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 76 deaths in the area - including 66 in hospitals and six in care homes.\n\nLooking at council areas, Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales, with 34. The London borough of Newham had 35.\n\nThe ONS again urged caution when interpreting this week's figures, due to the Christmas and new year holidays, which will affect the number of registrations.\n\nThe total number of Covid deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 1 January, was 4,963.\n\nBut when deaths registered over the following few days are included, there was a total of 5,169.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan health board, with 68 deaths registered involving Covid, also had its highest number in a single week since the end of April.\n\nHywel Dda health board reported 37 deaths - its highest weekly figure since the pandemic began. Of these, 18 were patients in hospital from Carmarthenshire and 10 were hospital patients from Pembrokeshire.\n\nSwansea Bay health board had 61 deaths in this week. The Swansea council area itself had the seventh highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales.\n\nThere were 36 deaths in Cardiff and Vale, 25 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - 10 of which were hospital deaths in Wrexham - and seven in Powys.\n\nAll counties recorded at least one death involving Covid-19.\n\nThis map shows three valleys areas in south Wales among the highest for crude mortality rates involving Covid in the pandemic so far\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, with 685 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales up to the latest week, followed by Cardiff with 578.\n\nWhen looking at crude death rates - based on the number of deaths compared to local populations - Wales has three of the five worst across England and Wales.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has 283 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is second with 253.6 and Blaenau Gwent is ranked fourth.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell from 825 to 727 in the latest week, but this was still 209 deaths (40.3%) higher than the five-year average for that week. This is the second highest proportion after London.\n\nThe ONS figures report where doctors mention Covid-19 on death certificates, including confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nThey include deaths occurring in all places, not only hospitals and care homes but also people's own homes.\n\nIt has been estimated that Covid is the underlying cause in around 90% of these deaths and not just a contributory factor.", "An eye health charity is recommending people learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect their sight, as lockdown has increased people's time using screens.\n\nFight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you look at a screen.\n\nOut of 2,000 people, half used screens more since Covid struck and a third (38%) of those believed their eyesight had worsened, a survey suggested.\n\nOpticians remain open for those who need them, the charity said.\n\nThe representative survey of 2,000 adults suggested one in five were less likely to get an eye test now than before the pandemic, for fear of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nRespondents reported difficulty reading, as well as headaches and migraines and poorer night vision.\n\nThe research charity, which commissioned a survey from polling company YouGov, said it wanted to emphasise the importance of having regular eye tests and to remind people \"the majority of opticians are open for appointments throughout lockdown restrictions\".\n\nFight for Sight chief executive Sherine Krause said: \"More than half of all cases of sight loss are avoidable through early detection and prevention methods. Regular eye tests can often detect symptomless sight-threatening conditions.\"\n\nBut even simple screen breaks can help to prevent eye strain, the charity suggested.\n\nGovernment guidance states that under lockdown people can leave home for medical appointments and to \"avoid injury, illness or risk of harm\".\n\nThe College of Optometrists said its members should continue to provide eye care under lockdown for people who experience any eyesight changes or problems.\n\nOptometrists are the professionals who will carry out your eye test when you visit an optician's practice.\n\nRoutine appointments can also be provided \"if capacity permits, and if it is in the patients' best interests\", the guidance states.\n\nClinical adviser Paramdeep Bilkhu said the college's own research suggested just under a quarter of people noticed their vision deteriorate during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our research showed us that many people believe that spending more time in front of screens worsened their vision,\" he said.\n\n\"The good news is that this is unlikely to cause any permanent harm to your vision. However, it is very important that if you feel your vision has deteriorated or if you are experiencing any problems with your eyes, such as them becoming red or painful, you contact your local optometrist by telephone or online.\"\n\nUK health and safety legislation states employers must pay for eye tests for their employees if they have to use a screen for work for more than one hour a day.\n\nIn the summer, the UK Ophthalmology Alliance and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calculated that at least 10,000 people had missed out on essential eye care in Britain.\n\nIn the most extreme cases, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it feared some people were at risk of losing their sight because of a fear of attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA Royal College of Ophthalmologists spokesperson said: \"It is important that people who have found significant changes in their vision seek the advice of an optometrist who will examine, and determine if the changes require further investigation by an ophthalmologist - a medically-trained eye doctor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "New England Patriots's Bill Belichick is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history\n\nTop NFL coach Bill Belichick says he will not accept President Donald Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the US Capitol riot.\n\nBelichick, of the New England Patriots, said he was flattered when he was first offered the medal - the top award given to civilians in the US.\n\nBut he said he changed his mind after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress last week. Five people died.\n\nThe celebrated coach had previously spoken of his friendship with Mr Trump.\n\n\"Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honour represents and admiration for prior recipients,\" Belichick said in a statement.\n\n\"Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.\"\n\nBelichick, who has won a record six Super Bowl titles, is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history.\n\nThe Presidential Medal of Freedom recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to \"the security or national interests of America\".\n\nIn 2019 Mr Trump gave the award to golfer Tiger Woods, as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh and posthumously Elvis Presley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Super Bowl: How Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots dynasty\n\nDonald Trump may only have recently made a career of politics, but he's always loved sport.\n\nHe owns 17 golf courses and once bought and ran the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.\n\nJust last week, he awarded three presidential medals of freedom to professional golfers. This week he was planning to honour the most successful professional football coach in modern times, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.\n\nThe president seems to particularly enjoy the company of sport figures and revel in their achievements and prowess.\n\nSo for Belichick, a personal friend of the president's, to decline the award is a stinging rebuke.\n\nThe coach's decision reflects the depth of the political crisis president has created in the past week. It also highlights the troubled relationship Trump has had with the National Football League and its players, who he has disparaged for Black Lives Matter protests during the US national anthem.\n\nBelichick, a sometimes bristling, controversial figure with more than a few detractors, is used to public animosity. A coach can't win without the commitment of his players, however, and Belichick clearly believed his relationship with his team would be jeopardised by associating himself with Trump at this point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "The US has placed Cuba back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing the communist country's backing of Venezuela.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration made the announcement just days before he leaves the White House.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has previously said he wants to improve US-Cuban relations.\n\nMr Biden has said he is seeking closer ties between the long-term adversaries but Mr Trump's decision is likely to hinder a quick repair of relations.\n\nCuba's place on the list will require a formal review that could take months, analysts say.\n\nThe Caribbean island was removed from the list by President Barack Obama in 2015, but Mr Trump has taken a harder line towards the country.\n\nIn 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Cuba since 1928\n\nWhen explaining the decision, officials cited Cuba's support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro who the US refuses to recognise.\n\n\"With this action, we will once again hold Cuba's government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of US justice,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.\n\nIn response, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted: \"We condemn the cynical and hypocritical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States.\"\n\nIn advance of the announcement, House Democrat Gregory Meeks called it \"another stunt by President Trump and Pompeo, trying to tie the hands of the incoming Biden administration on their way out the door.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Obama began to normalise relations with Cuba in 2015. He called the decades-long US efforts to isolate the country \"a failure\".\n\nSince the Cold War era, the US had pursued various policies to undermine Cuba which it saw as a great threat.\n\nCuba now rejoins countries including Iran and North Korea on the list of sponsors of terrorism. The impact on the island country include severe limits on foreign investment.", "Mr Williamson says his department is doing all it can to support remote learning\n\nAn extra 300,000 laptops and tablets have been bought to help disadvantaged children in England learn at home, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson said the devices would be delivered to schools.\n\nHe also pledged to publish a remote education framework to support schools and colleges with delivering lessons during the latest national lockdown.\n\nIt comes as research says children from poorer families are likely to struggle more with remote learning.\n\nThe Department for Education said its data showed that over 700,000 devices had been delivered to schools in England so far during the pandemic - 100,000 of which were delivered last week.\n\nThe department says the additional 300,000 laptops and tablets lifts government investment by another £100m, meaning over £400m will have been invested in supporting disadvantaged children who need help with access to technology during the pandemic.\n\nBut the department has faced mounting criticism over huge percentages of pupils not having access to digital devices, nine months into the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson said the DfE was \"doing everything in our power to support schools with high-quality remote education\".\n\nHe said: \"These additional devices, on top of the 100,000 delivered last week, add to the significant support we are making available to help schools deliver high-quality online learning, as we know they have been doing.\"\n\nOn top of this, the remote education framework would support schools and colleges with delivering education for pupils who are learning from home, he said.\n\nThe frameworks, which are voluntary and should be adapted for schools' individual circumstances, will \"help them to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in the lessons and teaching they provide remotely\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"While we welcome the extra laptops and tablets announced, it is pretty poor that nearly a year after this crisis began we are only now inching up to the number of devices that are needed.\n\n\"The reality is that this extra provision is coming when we are already well into the new lockdown and after a heavily disrupted autumn term in which many children had to self-isolate in line with coronavirus protocols,\" he said.\n\n\"The government was slow off the mark to address the digital divide early in the crisis and is now trying to make up for lost time.\"\n\nMr Williamson's laptop announcement comes as research by the University of Sussex found that nearly one in five less advantaged parents said they struggled with home-learning during the first lockdown.\n\nThe research surveyed 3,409 parents in the UK between 5 May until 31 July last year and found families of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to report their home environment made it harder for pupils to complete schoolwork from home.\n\nThe study says secondary school pupils eligible for free school meals (39%) were more likely to report that a lack of technology - such as laptops and computers - made learning from home more difficult, compared to 19% of pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere are concerns poorer children will fall further behind\n\nPrimary school pupils from struggling households were found to be more likely to find home learning learning harder than their more comfortable off peers due to the environment - such as noise levels (59% to 50%), lack of space (45% to 22%), lack of technology (45% to 26%) and lack of internet (35% to 16%).\n\nThe researchers warned that educational inequalities were likely to increase due to further school closures this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Matthew Easterbrook said: \"These results show that school closures disproportionately disrupt the education of those who are most economically disadvantaged, suggesting that educational inequalities are likely to rise because of the pandemic.\n\n\"The results show that parents of pupils from disadvantaged families - those who are eligible for free school meals, who have lower levels of education, or who are financially struggling - are much more likely to report that learning from home is challenging.\"\n\nReport co-author Lewis Doyle, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, added: \"School closures, while clearly necessary during this public health crisis, risk entrenching inequality.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the government also published figures on how many pupils were physically in schools across England before the Christmas holidays.\n\nThe data shows 79% of pupils in state schools were in class on Wednesday16 December - down from 85% on Thursday 10 December.\n\nIn secondary schools, attendance fell from 80% to 72% on 16 December, while pupil attendance in primary schools fell from 89% to 86%, the figures show.\n\nBetween 9% and 11% of pupils - up to 872,000 children - did not attend school for Covid-19 related reasons on 16 December.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "The disease is still spreading. There are more people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK than at any other point in the pandemic.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, hit the airwaves on Monday morning to tell us it's \"everyone's problem\".\n\nAnd a possible further increase in the numbers from those get-togethers that did take place over Christmas is yet to filter through.\n\nIt is cheering, and crucial, to see the elderly and vulnerable attending vaccine super-centres in huge numbers for their injections.\n\nBut there is no getting away from it: at this moment, the coronavirus situation seems pretty dire. And there is real concern in government that the public, this time round, is just not paying attention to the rules as closely as they did back in the spring.\n\nWhat is the government's answer? It is not, at least not yet, despite calls from the opposition, another big clampdown.\n\nIt might not feel like it, but it is only seven days since Boris Johnson took what used to be the rare step of making a national address, live on primetime TV, telling us, across the UK, once more to \"stay at home\".\n\nThere is hardly any political appetite to go even further.\n\nAs one senior minister said today: \"We have gone as far as we possibly can in terms of shutting things down\".\n\nThe prime minister was reluctant to go this far, only moving back to a lockdown in England when the evidence put forward by the government's top medics got worse, and worse and worse.\n\nThere are in fact even more limits that ministers, not just in Westminster but in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast too, could introduce.\n\nSchools could be forcibly closed to all pupils. Nurseries could shut.\n\nGovernment sources say the nurseries policy isn't going to change. Number 10 firmly denies they would ever take such a drastic step on schools which have always been open to key workers' children and it is hard to imagine that ever happening.\n\nIn extremis though there are measures that could be taken - in theory the government does not want to do any of this, but in practice there are other potential steps.\n\nBuilding sites could be made to lock their gates. Factories where machines are still whirring because they are operating under Covid guidelines could be made to pause.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland could follow Wales and ban people from seeing anyone they don't live with even outdoors.\n\nPlaygrounds, launderettes and chiropractors, could, along with many others on the list of premises allowed to stay open, have to shut up shop after all.\n\nBut while ministers have talked about squeezing the advice for takeaways to try to prevent big queues gathering at popular places, encouraged the supermarkets to make sure they are doing as much as they can to be safe, and even discussed the prospect of asking for masks to be worn outdoors, there is no expectation, at least at the start of this week, that a more extensive clampdown is coming from Westminster.\n\nAlthough, it's worth noting that the Scottish cabinet will discuss restrictions again on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Matt Hancock ruled out getting rid of support bubbles.\n\nOne reason for the reluctance to go much further is that every step that affects a business affects jobs and livelihoods too.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs on Monday that 800,000 people have lost their jobs since February, admitting the economy will get worse before it gets better.\n\nSo trying to preserve activity that can be done safely matters to the government too.\n\nThere's also a question in government circles about whether cranking up different rules bit by bit is really what would help.\n\nChris Whitty this morning bluntly suggested there was limited value in \"tinkering\" with the rules, and what is required instead is for all of us to realise how grave the situation really is.\n\nInstead of worrying about whether we are allowed to sit on a park bench at all, (and yes, this has been a lively conversation in Westminster today) , perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we really need to be out at all.\n\nThe NHS has been under huge pressure dealing with a surge in Covid cases this winter.\n\nBut when what happens next will be in large part shaped by our behaviour as individuals, working out the dos and don'ts can get sticky fast.\n\nTwo women who hit the headlines for driving five miles to go for a snowy walk with a takeaway cuppa had their fines withdrawn today, just as the prime minister caused a stir when a newspaper revealed he'd gone seven miles to the other side of London for a cycle in the Olympic Park.\n\nYou might be a reader who feels, 'so what?'. In both cases they were exercising outside, within the law, so who cares?\n\nBut you might feel when the firm instruction is to stay at home, and stay local, that is pushing the rules.\n\nFor now though, with grimmer and grimmer medics' warnings ringing in our ears, and reminders about enforcement from the police coming too, ministers seem resolved to encourage the public to comply rather than crack down further.\n\nBut it is however, only a week since the lockdown the prime minister had so hoped to avoid returned. By now, it's not surprising, Boris Johnson would never quite rule anything out.\n\nP.S. In all the gloom, the cheerier news is that the vaccination programme across the UK is certainly getting going, with 2.3 million people having had their first jab.\n\nThe number of people getting vaccinated has been added to the list of statistics that the government publishes every day. The targets the government has set are tough, but the numbers so far, are growing fast.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across the East of England after RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched to intercept a plane that had lost communications.\n\nThe Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby and \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex, an RAF spokesman said.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported by people across social media.\n\n\"The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons,\" the RAF said.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London heard the boom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\n\"We have received numerous calls from the public with reports of a sonic boom... between Huntingdon and Cambridge,\" Cambridgeshire police said, in a Facebook post.\n\n\"Nobody has been injured. Some callers reported the incident had shaken properties but no major damage is thought to have occurred.\"\n\nAn image from a police officer's body-worn camera captured the RAF Typhoon aircraft flying over Cambridgeshire\n\nCommunications with the aircraft were re-established after the Typhoons were launched and it was intercepted before being escorted to Stansted.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said the \"private jet\" was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham.\n\nHe confirmed the plane had been brought into land at about 13:40.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.\n\nThe Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel received 285 serious incident notifications from April to September.\n\nThis is an increase of 27% from 225 in the same period the previous year.\n\nThe data also includes children who were in care and died, regardless of whether abuse or neglect was suspected.\n\nThe Children's Society described the figures as \"shocking\".\n\nThe serious incident notification system requires councils in England to report all incidents of death or serious harm involving children in their area to the Department for Education, which publishes the data.\n\nThey are also required to inform the education secretary and Ofsted if a looked-after child dies, regardless of whether they suspect abuse or neglect.\n\nChild deaths increased from 89 to 119 and those seriously harmed rose from 132 with 153 compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data.\n\nThe number of serious incidents involving children under one increased by 30% as did the harm suffered by those aged 16 and over.\n\nThe majority (54%) of incidents related to boys, and almost two thirds related to white children.\n\nIn two-thirds of the 285 cases reported, the harm occurred while children were living at home.\n\nThe number of serious incident notifications had fallen in 2019-20 compared with 2018-19 when there were 274 such notifications.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the increase in incidents last year happened at a time when Covid-19 was having a \"huge impact on the well-being of children and families and disrupted help available to those who needed it most\".\n\nEngland's first lockdown began at the end of March last year and ended on 4 July.\n\nMs Pona said: \"During the first lockdown many vulnerable children were stuck at home in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations, often isolated from friends and support networks.\n\n\"Sadly, children also continued to be targeted and groomed by people outside their families for sexual and criminal exploitation like county lines drug dealing operations, which can lead to serious violence or death.\n\n\"At the same time, they were often hidden from view of professionals like social workers and teachers who are best placed to spot the signs if they may be in danger.\"\n\nShe added that in the current lockdown it was \"vital\" that social care and schools work together closely to ensure all vulnerable children, including those in care, have regular contact with a trusted professional.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every single incident of this nature is a tragedy and we are working to understand the impact the pandemic may be having.\n\n\"Throughout the past months, we have prioritised the most vulnerable children and their families and put in place support to protect babies.\n\n\"We've maintained vital frontline services because we know it has been a challenge for many, especially for new parents, and we've invested thousands of pounds in charities working with vulnerable children and their families.\n\n\"Today we have launched a wholescale review of children's social care to reform the system and think afresh about how we support the most vulnerable. This data will provide important information to the care review to help address major challenges.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Irish hauliers have been bypassing ports in Wales because of Brexit, say industry leaders\n\nIrish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.\n\nGwynedd Shipping said it was operating at 65% normal volumes and the pressure of extra paperwork was challenging.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, the firm's managing director, said: \"It's an enormous strain on our staff in terms of processing bookings.\n\n\"We process around 400 or 500 bookings a week, the reality is we're operating at 65-70% of previous volumes.\n\n\"Whilst we see recovery in the number of clients and we're starting to get to a better pattern in terms of shipments I still think it's going to take several weeks for things to return to normal. Whether things return to pre-Christmas, pre-Brexit volumes remains to be seen.\"\n\nMr Kinsella thinks there will be long-term consequences for the ports.\n\nStena Line is among firms that have made changes to the routes its uses\n\n\"You can already see the shift in terms of the number of sailings,\" he said.\n\n\"I think you're seeing a shift away from Holyhead particularly in terms of weekend, off-peak traffic. I think longer term, the viability of all of these services will be something those ferry services will continue to scrutinise.\"\n\nThis week Stena Line moved its new ship to the route from Rosslare, in the Republic of Ireland, to Cherbourg, France.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, a new weekend sailing from Dublin to Cherbourg will also begin on 23 January, resulting in a temporary reduction in weekend capacity on the Dublin to Holyhead route.\n\nIt also intends to sail the Belfast-to-Liverpool route.\n\n\"Due to the current Brexit-related shift for direct routes and increasing customer demand, Stena Line has decided to temporarily deploy the Stena Embla on Rosslare-Cherbourg,\" Stena Line said.\n\nAt Rosslare Europort, business is booming, says general manager Glenn Carr.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand in the first two weeks of trading compared to last year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"On our European routes there's a 500% increase in freight volume going through the port compared to last year.\"\n\nHe added that 18 months ago they would have had three sailings a week directly to mainland Europe from Rosslare Europort: \"Today we have 15.\"\n\nMr Carr says his customers want to bypass the UK because of Brexit.\n\n\"I think that's testament to demand, particularly from our exporters and importers, on the island of Ireland and the need to unfortunately bypass the UK because of Brexit to trade directly with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe believes this change in operations will not be temporary.\n\nHe said decisions by ferry companies and businesses who trade with the EU to re-direct freight, have been made based on market analysis.\n\n\"The business case for the extra services out of Rosslare were not based on the first two weeks of this year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"They were based on analysis of the market and conversations with our exporters and importers who were switching.\n\n\"So there is a genuine switch and we foresee services being maintained out of Rosslare.\"\n\nUK government ministers have played down concerns about the long term viability of Welsh ports.\n\nGiving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee this week, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies MP, said former haulage industry colleagues referred to the issues as \"teething problems\".\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart MP, said: \"There is some evidence that things aren't looking necessarily, permanently bleak.\n\n\"It's one of those areas where we have to keep a very wary eye on it, but I think and hope that it is a temporary dip in the graph.\"\n\nBut transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, of the University of South Wales, thinks Brexit delays will be the incentive Irish companies needed to switch permanently to trading directly with the European mainland.\n\nProf Cole said the EU wanted to reduce congestion and pollution in parts of Europe.\n\nOne solution was to move freight by sea rather than road.\n\nThere have been problems with paperwork for drivers travelling to the European mainland\n\nUntil now there was no reason for Irish hauliers to move from using Welsh ports and Dover, Prof Cole said.\n\n\"The route worked perfectly, there was a predictable journey time and that's important for food and component parts going to factories,\" he said.\n\n\"That kind of change required a significant shift, and that's what's there now.\"\n\nBangor University economics lecturer, Dr Edward Thomas Jones, believes it is too soon to predict longer term changes.\n\n\"Because businesses stockpiled before Christmas in anticipation of Brexit, there is of course less use of the port [at Holyhead] since Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"On top of that, coronavirus means there are fewer tourists going on holiday to Ireland.\n\n\"We'll have a better idea of the future of the port in six months when these businesses who have stockpiled start buying again.\n\n\"Hopefully, by the second half of the year coronavirus will have been resolved and tourists will once again be able to travel back and forth.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru warned if traffic continued to be diverted away from the UK then Wales would suffer.\n\n\"I urge the UK government to work with the Welsh Government to provide substantial investment into Welsh ports to secure their viability into the future,\" said MP Hywel Williams, Plaid's Cabinet Office spokesman.\n\n\"If the trend of rerouting traffic through direct routes continues, I fear that our local economies both in the north west and south west of Wales will suffer enormously.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Douglas Jones was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he became a pilot\n\nThe aviation industry has been among those hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPilot Douglas Jones was working for Aegean Airlines, flying out of Athens, when it began.\n\nIt cost him his job and also prompted him to return to the small Scottish town where he grew up.\n\nNow he is now turning his hand to a very different line of work producing PPE, in a sector which is enjoying something of a boom.\n\nMr Jones saw much of Europe in his work with Easyjet and Aegean Airlines\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was born in Haywards Heath in Sussex but raised in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, was enjoying his dream job at the start of 2020.\n\nHaving gained a commercial pilot's licence, he was based in Berlin with Easyjet before landing a position in Greece.\n\n\"It is definitely what I have always wanted to do,\" he said.\n\n\"With Aegean I have flown a good way across all the major airports of Europe.\"\n\nHowever, life changed \"very quickly\" as coronavirus spread across the continent.\n\n\"I flew to Copenhagen and I flew back from Copenhagen and I was on unpaid leave when I landed back in Athens,\" he explained.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks he received confirmation that his job was gone.\n\nMr Jones returned to Moffat amid fears of being stranded in Greece\n\nMr Jones said it took some time for him to fully appreciate that he would not be returning to the skies any time soon.\n\n\"Half of my stuff is still in Greece because we came back to our home countries thinking this will only be three to six months and that will be that,\" he said.\n\n\"We had just no concept of how bad this was ever going to be.\"\n\nIt meant he was back home in a region where he admits there are \"not a huge amount of options career-wise in normal times\".\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just desperate to do something, to have work.\"\n\nAlpha Solway is producing millions of masks for NHS Scotland\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAfter interview, he was offered a job in June which proved to be something of a change of pace from day one.\n\n\"I came in and I sat and cut elastic for visors for most of the day - I think I cut like something like 3km worth of elastic because one of the machines had a fault,\" he said.\n\nSince then he has helped make filter units for masks, developed standard work procedures and become a \"jack of all trades\" for the business.\n\nMr Jones said of his abilities as a pilot were useful at the PPE factory\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are talking health and safety around large automated machinery you have to be aware of what things are doing and when and who is doing what.\n\n\"As a pilot - as you might like to think - we have quite a logical way of looking at things. The way we are trained to look at problems is very applicable to manufacturing.\"\n\nAn \"incredible\" summer helped ease the transition from Greece to Moffat\n\nSo how has the transition back to rural Scotland gone?\n\n\"We are so lucky that the summer we had here was quite incredible,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"To be out in Moffat, even during lockdown, you can access the hills, you don't have to drive outside a five-mile radius.\n\n\"You can just go out and walk and you will never see a soul.\"\n\nSome things, however, take more getting used to, like his more conventional nine to five day.\n\n\"I think that has probably been the biggest shock to my system, getting into that working routine,\" he said.\n\nAlpha Solway is taking in large numbers of new staff to cope with demand\n\nAlpha Solway secured a major contract to supply the NHS in Scotland earlier this year which has helped to keep Mr Jones \"extremely busy\".\n\nHowever, flying gets \"into your blood\" and he hopes to get back into a plane at some time in the future.\n\n\"My goal is when the jobs start to come - which they will - I will return to the sky in some capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will be a double-edged sword in that I have learned a huge amount here and I have met a lot of very good people.\n\n\"I'm working with a really good team of people here - there are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest charitable enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.\n\nThe company produces toiletries and beauty products under the Clarity, Beco and Soap Co brands.\n\nActress Joanna Lumley and Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP have spoken out strongly over the claims.\n\nNicholas Marks, who bought the company last year, says all currently employed staff have been paid.\n\nCommunity, the union which represents Clarity's workers, claims that a number of disabled employees at the firm have not been paid wages and furlough payments.\n\nStephen Steppens says he has received no money since September\n\nStephen Steppens, 60, has been blind since birth, and has worked at Clarity since 1985. He is officially on furlough until his redundancy is completed at the end of January.\n\nHe says he has received no money since September and has been relying on his savings to get by.\n\n\"I loved it,\" he says of working there. Losing the job, and the fight over the organisation's future, have taken a toll on his mental health, he says.\n\n\"I want to see justice done, not just for me, but also for my friends who are visiting food banks.\"\n\nA number of employees have brought successful employment tribunal claims for unauthorised deduction of wages against Clarity, including Mr Steppens. Clarity was ordered to pay him £706. A number of other employment tribunal claims are ongoing, according to Community.\n\nJoanna Lumley, who had been a supporter of Clarity, called it \"the best of the best\" and said she was \"shocked\" to learn of the allegations over treatment of workers. \"Justice must be done as soon as possible,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClarity was founded in 1854 by a wealthy blind woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, as the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, to provide opportunities for workers whom other employers overlooked because of their disabilities. Before the takeover, three-quarters of its staff were disabled people.\n\nA factory in London run by General Welfare of the Blind, about 1901\n\nIts supporters and patrons in the past have included Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria.\n\nClarity went into administration last year, as it was losing money and unable to fund the hole in its pension scheme, according to a spokesman for the administrators, FRP. In January, it was bought by Nicholas Marks.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, whose London constituency is home to Clarity's headquarters, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 12 January.\n\n\"Staff have failed to receive national insurance contributions, with many failing to receive their wages or support while undertaking childcare,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The total amount that these decent but very vulnerable people have failed to receive is now around £200,000. They cannot claim benefits because they are essentially employed.\"\n\nCommunity estimates that about 60 former employees of Clarity are still awaiting payment of their wages and furlough payments, most of them disabled workers.\n\nA spokesman for Nicholas Marks said that Sir Iain's remarks were \"highly inaccurate\" and the company \"does not recognise\" the £200,000 figure.\n\n\"The grievances echoed by Sir Iain Duncan Smith simply reflect disgruntled ex-employees. All employees currently working have been paid in full up-to-date and the company is dealing with redundancies and gross misconduct of former employees,\" he said.\n\nCommunity says it is not aware of any staff who have been dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Marks said that Mr Marks had \"saved this historic company from permanent failure\".\n\nHowever, other bids for Clarity were made, including one from the well-known social entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel, who runs the Change Please coffee business, which creates opportunities for homeless people.\n\nHe is still interested in buying the brands, he told BBC News.\n\nThough Mr Ezel's final bid was slightly higher, the administrators' report says they chose to sell to Mr Marks because he was in a better position to complete the deal by 31 January.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman said that he had to make \"some sensible commercial decisions to place it on to a proper business footing and regrettably some staff had to be let go\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Clarity's website was still running the Certified Social Enterprise mark, denoting an organisation devoted to \"creating positive social change\".\n\nThe spokesman said Clarity Products was not a social enterprise and was not \"purporting to clients\" that it was, though it retained the \"social enterprise ethos through the continued employment of fully paid disabled staff\".\n\nWrongly using the logo for nearly a year was \"simply an oversight\", and it is being removed. On Thursday morning, the website was unavailable - the company spokesman said he was not aware why.\n\nIn a response to Sir Iain's query, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman wrote that he had \"specifically asked HMRC to note the circumstances you describe, and to consider whether and how there may be a case for early intervention\".\n\nAnother company owned by Mr Marks, a Preston-based caravan maker called Lunar Automotive, was reported to HMRC by the local MP, Sir Mark Hendrick, for allegedly refusing to pay wages and pension contributions for its workers.\n\nThis company was also bought out of an administration run by FRP.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman was not able to comment in detail on the Lunar Automotive case, but said the company had not heard back from HMRC.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international community has missed previous deadlines on ensuring access to school\n\nBoris Johnson says it is his \"fervent belief\" that improving girls' education in developing countries is the best way to \"lift communities out of poverty\".\n\nThe prime minister has announced MP Helen Grant as a special envoy for efforts to support girls' education.\n\nIt is expected to be a key theme of the UK's presidency this year of the G7 group of major industrial countries.\n\n\"It can change the fortunes of not just individual women and girls, but communities and nations,\" says the PM.\n\nEven before the pandemic, millions of children in developing countries did not have any access to school - and girls from disadvantaged families are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education. whether through poverty or prejudice.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has created even more barriers to education, with a peak of 1.6 billion children around the world having faced school closures.\n\nBoris Johnson wants girls' education to be a focus of the UK's G7 presidency\n\nMr Johnson, as foreign secretary and prime minister, has previously highlighted girls' education as a key to improving the health, wealth and security of the poorest countries.\n\nHe once described it as the \"Swiss army knife\" of development, as getting girls to stay in education could avoid early marriage, improve their chances of getting a job and provide more income for children to be better fed.\n\nThe prime minister said the international target of ensuring all girls can have 12 years of good quality education would be the \"simplest and most transformative thing we can do\" to tackle poverty and to \"end the scourge of gender-based violence\".\n\n\"The benefits of educating girls are enormous - a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five and twice as likely to attend school themselves. With just one additional school year, a woman's earnings can increase by up to a fifth,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nHelen Grant, now the special envoy for girls' education, said: \"High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.\n\n\"I will be making it my mission to encourage a more ambitious approach to girls' education from the international community.\"\n\nThere has been a series of pledges from the international community over the past three decades to provide at least a primary school education for all children - all of which have been missed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said hosting the G7 should be a chance for the UK to act as a \"moral force for good in the world\", but accused the Conservatives of engaging in \"a decade of global retreat\".\n\n\"We need to seize this chance to lead again, just as Blair and Brown did over global poverty and the financial crisis.\"", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nThe first person I see early each morning when I arrive at the hospital is our cleaner, Karen Smith. During 10 months of uncertainty, Karen has been the one constant, apart from a few weeks in spring, when she was ill with Covid-19.\n\nUsually Karen cleans the offices of the hospital's Institute for Health Research, but in the first wave of the pandemic she was called to the Covid wards. It was a frightening time for everyone, but Karen volunteered for an extra shift on Good Friday as there was a staff shortage - and on that day she thinks she was infected.\n\nWe know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious \"red zone\" clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.\n\nThis heightened risk for hospital staff also applies to their household contacts.\n\nAs she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal's parents' garden, while his mother was ill with cancer - and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal's 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.\n\nStopping work, however, was not a luxury Karen could afford. And unlike some hospital staff who were housed in hotels to protect their families, she went back home every night.\n\nShe became ill towards the end of April, followed by Mal at the beginning of May. The weather was hot, she remembers, as they coughed and wheezed in the caravan.\n\n\"It was like being in a tin box,\" she says. \"I got Covid and couldn't get over it properly. And then Mal got it and his was on another level compared to mine - and then his dad got ill, and that was a different ball game altogether.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThe couple had to go inside the house to cook and to use the bathroom but did their best to keep away from the elderly Malcolm, who would go into a different room whenever they entered.\n\n\"We tried so, so hard not to give it to him - but then he got ill and he just went to his bed. Honestly, he was just like a little child, under the quilt looking all bewildered. He started with the shivers and we rang 111. They said to bring him to Accident and Emergency to get him tested, and we couldn't believe it when it came back positive,\" Karen says.\n\nLater, he was brought into hospital. I have fond memories of meeting Malcolm on the ward after he was admitted, acutely struggling with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath from his Covid infection. He was a kind and gentle man, stoical and patient.\n\nHe was adamant that he had been careful to keep his distance from Karen and Mal in the house, but admitted wandering over to show them articles in the Telegraph and Argus - Bradford's daily newspaper - whenever I was mentioned in it. I felt strangely culpable that I might have been the cause of the transmission.\n\nMalcolm made a good recovery and was eager to be discharged. But Covid is an unpredictable illness, and it can happen that improvements in a patient's condition are followed by a sharp deterioration. And this is what happened with Malcolm soon after he arrived home.\n\n\"He didn't want to go back into hospital - he said to get him some Tunes because they would help him breathe,\" says Karen. \"But nothing could help him, he was so, so ill. We had to say to him, 'No, you've got Covid and you need proper medical care.' He was such a lovely man, bless him.\"\n\nMalcolm was readmitted after two nights at home and died on 28 May.\n\nMalcolm as he turned 80, visiting his brother in Canada\n\nKaren returned to work. But like many people who have had this illness, she has been suffering the after-effects, both physically and mentally. She's now on an inhaler for breathlessness, can barely taste anything seven months later, and is constantly tired. She is also receiving medication for anxiety because of the fear that she will have to return to the Covid wards, where potentially she could get ill again.\n\nAnd in her case there is the added pain of having lost a loved one, mixed with feelings of guilt.\n\n\"When I start to think about him the tears come and sometimes I'll be crying almost all day - cleaning and crying. If I'm having a bad day, I won't be able to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"The guilt is always there, as I'll never know for sure where he picked it up. Mal's dad didn't set foot out of the door, and so in my head I feel such guilt, because we had to go into the house, we didn't have any choice. I go over it all but it's hard to escape from, because I got it, Mal got it and then his Dad got it. Deep down I think that's what's happened, and it will take time to come to terms with.\"\n\nKaren has been referred for counselling, but there is a long waiting list.\n\nBoth Karen and Mal also had to wait for the vaccine, though both had it on Wednesday. This was a huge relief for Karen, as anything that reduces her chance of reinfection also helps her cope with her anxiety. If NHS trusts are serious about following the science then arguably they should be vaccinating cleaners and porters first.\n\nThe fear of transmitting the virus to our loved ones at home is the ghost that haunts all front-line staff. Many went into isolation during the first wave, but this was never a sustainable approach, and with a virus that is so contagious and an environment in which it is so prevalent, transmission to family members is unfortunately common.\n\nKaren and Mal personify this occupational risk, and its potential deadly impact.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK were blanketed in snow on Saturday as forecasters warned of the potential for disruption.\n\nEast Anglia woke up to a thick layer that had settled overnight and there were warnings that rural communities could be \"cut off\", with up to 8cm (3in) of snow forecast.\n\nPeople in eastern England were warned to expect power cuts and travel delays.\n\nHowever, by midday snow had stopped falling across most parts of the UK, replaced by rain and sleet in places.\n\nSome further light snow is still expected in the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\nParts of Wales and Northern Ireland were mostly cloudy, with some bands of rain in the northern regions.\n\nThe Met Office had predicted between 4-8cm (1.5-3in) of snow could fall in the worst-affected regions, and warned drivers to accelerate their cars \"gently\" and leave a large gap between surrounding vehicles.\n\nBut the worst of the wintry weather has passed and earlier amber and yellow weather warnings have been cancelled.\n\nA man trekking through the snow at a golf course in Gleneagles\n\nGreg Dewhurst, a Met Office forecaster, said earlier that Saturday was expected to be the colder of the two days over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"Temperatures are unlikely to rise above 10C, with a lot of areas closer to freezing.\"\n\nThere were also 25 flood warnings across England on Saturday\n\nLuke Miall, meteorologist at the Met Office, said earlier patches of snow could reach parts of Greater London.\n\nHe said the snow had the potential to cause some \"fairly significant disruption\".\n\nThere were also 22 flood warnings across England on Saturday, stretching from the South East to the North East, meaning \"immediate action is required\", according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThis is expected to clear up in the evening, going into Sunday, when southern and eastern parts of the UK will see dry, sunny spells.\n\nNorth-western regions are expected to see showers, with a \"spell of more persistent rain\" later on in the day.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOn Friday, over-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could rebook rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Holiday firms say they are expecting more people to take holidays in the UK this year\n\nStaycations are expected to boom in 2021 after lockdown ends, UK holiday firms have said.\n\nBosses at the Caravan and Motorhome Club said the lifting of restrictions would be like \"a cork popping from a bottle\".\n\nDirector general Nick Lomas said although coronavirus had hit the industry hard, they were optimistic about the coming season.\n\nOther firms said they also expected more people to holiday in the UK.\n\nMr Lomas said: \"2020 was a very difficult year for the tourism and hospitality sector.\"\n\nThe West Sussex-based Caravan and Motorhome Club had suffered \"significant financial losses\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"When our campsites were allowed to be open last year we actually saw record levels of bookings, with new memberships up by 14%.\n\n\"Sadly, this surge does not make up for the losses we suffered during nearly six months of lockdown.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown popular resorts like Skegness were largely deserted\n\nBut, despite the current restrictions, Mr Lomas said he had every reason to believe this year could finish as one of \"the best and busiest yet\", due to the appetite for outdoor UK holidays.\n\n\"In fact, we think that 2021 is going to be like a cork popping from a bottle,\" he said.\n\nOperators say people are keen to experience the \"great outdoors\" once restrictions are lifted\n\nExperience Freedom, which operates glamping holidays in the UK, said bookings for 2021 were already up as people looked to spend more time in the \"great outdoors\".\n\nLincoln-based Anne's Vans said they were expecting a \"bumper year\"\n\nSmaller operators such as Anne's Vans, based in Lincoln, are also expecting to benefit.\n\nOwner Anne Davies said so far they had no bookings, saying \"uncertainty over when lockdown will end\" was putting people off at the moment.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Based on last year's experience we are expecting a bumper year in 2021... once this latest lockdown is over.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said it was inundated with visitors after restrictions were lifted last year\n\nThe chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, David Butterworth, said visitor numbers after the first lockdown ended were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend, and capture the hearts and minds of the people who have experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure they keep coming back,\" he added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nThe UK will face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company makes modifications to its plant in Belgium. But the government says it still plans on achieving its target of vaccinating all top four priority groups by 15 February. Six EU nations have called the situation \"unacceptable\" and warned it \"decreases the credibility of the vaccination process\". Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia urged the EU to apply pressure on Pfizer-BioNTech. Pfizer says the reduced deliveries are a temporary issue, and the changes being made to its plant will speed up production in the longer term. So will a vaccine give us our old lives back?\n\nNew tighter Covid restrictions have come into force in Scotland with changes for takeaway outlets and click and collect shopping. Among the six new rules announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, customers buying takeaway food and coffee are no longer allowed inside premises, and staff must serve from a hatch or doorway. Plus, only retailers selling essential items - clothing, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books - can now provide click and collect services. Customer collections can only be made outdoors, with staggered pick-up times to avoid queues.\n\nEveryone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19, but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill while doing her job, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nIt is almost a month since Christmas was \"downsized\" across the country. But in most parts of the UK, people did meet in Christmas \"bubbles\" if only for just one day. So what impact did this have? The overall picture shows a sharp increase in cases around this time. However, a closer look at the numbers suggests this trend was already happening and was probably caused by the new, more infectious variant of the virus rather than increased contact between people. Take a closer look at what happened over Christmas.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're wondering whether you can catch the virus outside, our science editor David Shukman considers the risks.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\" Image caption: Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\"\n\nAn RAF veteran has been among hundreds of people over 80 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, today.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin described receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as \"absolutely marvellous\".\n\nThe landmark cathedral is hosting a vaccination hub for five GP surgeries in the area, with the aim of vaccinating more than 1,000 elderly residents and staff.\n\nMr Godwin recalled having jabs in Egypt after the war \"which knocked me over for a week\".\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' - and I thought he hadn't started!\"\n\nThe veteran pilot, who has 12 great-grandchildren, said the pandemic could not be compared to the war.\n\n\"It was entirely different because this has divided people.\n\n\"The vaccine is nothing, you don't feel a thing... so anybody that needs one and can get one, I would say go ahead and do it quickly.\n\n\"It's the only way we're going to beat the virus.\"\n\nPatients queued for a short time around the cloisters on Saturday, before going into the cathedral where they were treated to a programme of music on the famous Father Willis organ.\n\n\"It is a bonus to be in such a iconic, wonderful place,\" said Dr Dan Henderson, co-clinical director for the Sarum South Primary Care Network.\n\n\"It's great to be getting the vaccine out there and getting them in people's arms and knowing that this is hopefully the start of some sort of normality again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nBowled out for 135 in the first innings, Sri Lanka showed great spirit to reach 156-2 - trailing by 130 - after England had posted 421.\n\nJoe Root progressed to a magnificent fourth Test double century before he was last man out for 228 as England lost their last six wickets for 49 runs.\n\nSam Curran and Jack Leach took a wicket apiece in Sri Lanka's second innings, but off-spinner Dom Bess rarely threatened on a pitch that has offered assistance to spin since day one.\n\nKusal Perera contributed 62 to an opening stand of 101 with the patient Thirimanne, who was dropped on 51 by Dom Sibley at gully as he compiled his highest Test score since 2013.\n\nThe left-hander will resume alongside nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya at 04:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Sri Lanka, spent time at the ground in the afternoon after finishing his quarantine period.\n\nFor the first time in two years, England failed to take a wicket in the first 30 overs - with seamers Curran, Stuart Broad and Mark Wood finding the going tough given the minimal swing or seam movement on offer.\n\nHowever, credit must be paid to the Sri Lanka openers. Thirimanne and Perera were criticised for their first-innings failures, but their century stand was the first time in six Tests that a Sri Lanka opening pair had survived longer than 10 overs.\n\nPerera showed restraint - he scored at a strike-rate of 57, compared to 74 over his Test career - but hit Leach over mid-wicket for six and swept and also drove well before slapping a Curran long hop to wide third man.\n\nThirimanne, who averaged 22 in 70 Test innings before this match, was happy to play second fiddle to Perera, although he did find the leg-side boundary with flicks and sweeps.\n\nHaving taken 5-30 in the first innings, Bess failed to maintain a consistent length and allowed Thirimanne and Perera to play off the back foot too often.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Leach, who bowled more accurately, failed with a review for lbw against Thirimanne on 61 before having Kusal Mendis caught behind off a beautiful delivery that turned and bounced in what proved to be the penultimate over of the day.\n\nResuming on 168, Root reached his fourth Test double century with the minimum of fuss.\n\nHe showed more intent than on day two - when he was happy for debutant Dan Lawrence to take more risks - hitting the third ball of the day to the cover boundary before driving down the ground for six.\n\nIt was almost fitting that Root reached 200 with a sweep for four - it was a productive shot throughout his innings, with 88 runs coming via sweeps and reverse sweeps.\n\nIn his 321-ball innings Root became the eighth Englishman to pass 8,000 Test runs - in 178 innings, two more than Kevin Pietersen, who holds the record.\n\nEngland passed 400 in the first innings for the sixth time in their past 12 Tests, having failed to do so in their previous 23.\n\nBut they lost their last six wickets in 13 overs as they chased quick runs, possibly with an eye on the rain forecast later in the game.\n\nSri Lanka were much more disciplined than on the previous two days, with pace bowler Asitha Fernando impressing, while off-spinner Dilruwan Perera mopped up the tail to finish with 4-109.\n• 372-6: Sam Curran is bowled first ball as Fernando gets one to nip back and crash into off stump.\n• 382-7: Dom Bess disagrees and is well short of his ground, a third wicket to fall in 12 balls.\n• 398-8: Jack Leach is trapped lbw for four by Dilruwan Perera.\n• 406-9: Mark Wood toe-ends a sweep straight up in the air to be caught by Niroshan Dickwella off Dilruwan Perera.\n• 421 all out: Joe Root holes out on the mid-wicket boundary.\n\n'Chasing anything will be tricky' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It feels good to be in the position we are.\n\n\"It would have been nice to get a couple more wickets tonight but that one late on is a real bonus for us.\n\n\"It gives us a great opportunity in morning to apply a lot of pressure and hammer home what is a strong advantage in this game.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Sam Curran: \"It is a strange looking wicket. It played a bit better than we thought this evening.\n\n\"It didn't offer much for the seamers and there was real slow turn for the spinners. The two openers played really well.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Sri Lanka came back really well - they have shown fight and discipline.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka bat the whole day tomorrow things will get interesting. Chasing anything on last day becomes tricky.\n\n\"I expect England will take eight wickets tomorrow and win the game.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"Sri Lanka really have fought back well. It is good to see.\n\n\"If weather plays a factor and there is some resistance from the lower order this could bubble into an exciting finish.\"\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "Mr Laschet is now in a good position to stand for German chancellor\n\nCentrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party's virtual conference.\n\nHe is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.\n\nBut he faces a changed political landscape following the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Laschet, 59, defeated conservative businessman Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote by 521 votes to 466. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the previous round.\n\nHe replaces as chair of the party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who failed to live up to her billing as Mrs Merkel's appointed successor after taking office more than two years ago.\n\nGermany goes to the polls in September, but the CDU leader is not guaranteed to become its candidate for chancellor.\n\nHealth Minister Jens Spahn, who has been elected as one of Mr Laschet's deputies, and Markus Söder, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, could also step into the ring, though neither has yet said that they want the job.\n\nA final decision will be made in the spring.\n\nMr Laschet is a loyal supporter of Mrs Merkel, and said during the campaign that a change of direction for the party would \"send exactly the wrong signal\".\n\nIn his victory speech, he said: \"I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.\"\n\nArmin Laschet is a short, cheerful chap. The popular premier of Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, he throws himself with gusto into traditional carnival celebrations.\n\nHe touts himself as a continuity candidate and, for a time at least, was thought to have been Angela Merkel's preferred candidate. He defended her stance during the 2015 refugee crisis and is known for his liberal politics, passion for the EU and ability to connect with immigrant communities.\n\nBut his call for an early relaxation of Covid restrictions last spring surprised many and reportedly infuriated Mrs Merkel. He has since retreated from that position but he's had to work to repair the damage to his political credibility.\n\nThe big question now is whether the CDU will put him up as their chancellor candidate in September's general election.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn - who supported Mr Laschet in his leadership bid - is thought to harbour ambitions to the chancellory. And recent opinion polls suggest that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder would be a popular choice too.", "The US is in a race to vaccinate its population amid a winter surge\n\nA highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US by March, health officials have said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of \"rapid growth\" of the variant in coming weeks.\n\nIt said such a spike could further threaten health systems already strained by a winter Covid surge.\n\nThe warning came on Friday as President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to ramp up vaccinations.\n\nTo meet his target of inoculating 100 million Americans within his first 100 days in office, Mr Biden said his administration would take a more active role in accelerating the distribution of vaccines.\n\nHe outlined a plan to set up new mass vaccination centres, hire extra health workers, and ensure the shot is available to everyone, including minority communities that have been hit hardest by the epidemic.\n\nOfficial data shows that, so far, 12.2 million vaccine doses of have been administered in the US - a figure Mr Biden has criticised as insufficient. More than 30 million doses have been distributed to states.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Biden told Americans that \"we remain in a very dark winter\", admitting that \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"This is going to be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country,\" Mr Biden, who takes office on 20 January, said of the vaccination drive.\n\nHis address came a day after he announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus package for the battered US economy that included a further $20bn for the vaccine roll-out. The plan will need to pass Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"I promise we will not forget you\"\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections - 23.5 million - of any country in the world. At about 391,000, the country's coronavirus deaths account for a fifth of the global total, which passed the two-million mark on Friday.\n\nThe crisis is particularly acute in the state of California, where deaths have surged by more than 1,000% since November.\n\nIn its report, the CDC said that the UK variant would spread quickly in the coming weeks.\n\nThe latest research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests the variant - now dominant in much of Britain - is between 30% and 50% more transmissible than previous strains. There is currently no evidence to suggest it causes any more serious illness.\n\nExperts have also played down the possibility that the current vaccines will not be as effective against it.\n\nSo far, 76 people from 10 US states have been confirmed to have been infected with the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.\n\nBut the CDC said: \"The modelled trajectory of this variant in the US exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.\"\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and one from Brazil - are also thought to be more contagious than the original one that started the pandemic. Studies are under way to assess the threat they pose.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a teenager who went missing during a holiday in Malaysia has left several questions unanswered, her family has said.\n\nNóra Quoirin, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nEarlier this month a coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, but her family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict.\n\nIn an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Nóra's mother Meabh said there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted.\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nNóra, who was born to Irish-French parents, lived with her family in London and was understood to be in Malaysia on an Irish passport.\n\nShe was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nSince her disappearance, her parents have believed that she was abducted. They have always maintained that wandering off was not something they could imagine their daughter doing.\n\nMeabh Quoirin told RTÉ: \"One of the most compelling things that we found out was that in a relatively small area, the plantation where Nóra was eventually found, there was vast numbers of specialist personnel deployed to find Nóra.\n\n\"Not only that, on four different occasions, trained personnel went to the plantation area and searched it and, in fact, some officers were even in the precise location Nóra's body was recovered.\n\n\"They had all reported that there were no signs of human life at any point. That for us is compelling evidence to say that she was not there by herself.\"\n\nNóra went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia in August 2019\n\nMrs Quoirin added that \"there was a lack of evidence around DNA and prints\".\n\nShe said that when the family went to the inquest, \"we had a lot of unanswered questions and while many of those questions cannot be answered, we actually found out a great deal about what went on during those 10 days when Nóra was missing\".\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra\n\n\"In fact we felt it really strengthened our case, our belief, that Nóra was abducted and we found some compelling evidence to support our view on that.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter \"was not physically or mentally capable\" of leaving the chalet via the window.\n\n\"Not only that - we also learned that none of her fingerprints could be found on the window and yet other unidentifiable prints were found on that window.\"", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year Image caption: Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year\n\nA nationwide lockdown in Israel is to be extended until the end of the month amid a spike in cases - despite an intense vaccination campaign, with more than two of the nine million population already having received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIt takes time for immunity to build up, so its expected to take several weeks for vaccines to have an impact on cases\n\nThe man coordinating Israel’s pandemic response, Nachman Ash, has warned that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the country has been “less effective than we thought”.\n\nAccording to Israeli Army Radio, Prof Ash told cabinet members on Tuesday the data on the protective effect of a first dose against the virus was “lower than Pfizer presented”. Pfizer said its vaccine was roughly 52% effective two weeks after the first dose and reaches maximum efficacy of 95% after the second.\n\nIt’s not clear what data he is referring to, but a not-yet published study from Israel’s largest healthcare provider suggested a 33% fall in infections by day 14, at which point, full immunity would not have been reached.\n\nInfections continued to fall in the following days but the numbers were too small to put a percentage on it.\n\nIsrael saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections Image caption: Israel saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections\n\nThe health ministry said on Tuesday more than 12,400 Israelis had tested positive for Covid-19 ten days after being vaccinated – 69 of these had already received a second dose.\n\nThis was 6.6% of the 189,000 people who took Covid tests after being vaccinated, roughly tallying with the reported efficacy.\n\nHealth experts say they are analysing the new Israeli data closely but warn it may be too early to draw any conclusions on the single dose efficacy of the vaccine based on the initial data gathered in Israel, which began vaccinating its population on 19 December.", "Drug treatment services in England are to receive an extra £80m as part of government's efforts to cut crime.\n\nThis will mean more places for people released from prison and criminals handed community sentences.\n\nIt comes after warnings last year over government cuts to help for addicts.\n\nA further £40m is being earmarked for law enforcement to target drug gangs including so-called county lines operations in which young and vulnerable people act as couriers.\n\nThe investment will also see another £28m put into a three-year pilot project called ADDER - Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery - which will combine policing with treatment and recovery services.\n\nThe funding will see police target dealers, and local councils and health services help people with addictions, in five areas with high rates of drug use - Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea Bay.\n\nAnnouncing the £148m package, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The government's work to tackle county lines drugs gangs has already resulted in thousands more people being arrested and hundreds more vulnerable people being safeguarded, but we must do more to tackle the underlying drivers behind serious violence.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock added: \"Addiction and crime are inextricably linked and to truly break the cycle we must make sure people can access the help they need to get their lives back on track for good.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to focus on rehabilitation and treatment for drug addicts as well as law enforcement, saying this was \"something we've not been doing enough of\".\n\n\"We have to do much more to support individuals whose lives have been blighted by years and years of drug abuse,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office-commissioned review into the drugs trade by Prof Dame Carol Black released last February put the total cost to society of illegal drugs at about £20bn a year in England and said treatment services have been curtailed by local government funding cuts.\n\nDame Carol welcomed the funding, saying: \"Drug treatment has a vital role to play in helping people to come off drugs and thereby reduce crime, from minor acquisitive crime right through to homicide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "That's where we'll end our coverage of this week's PMQs.\n\nAs events get underway in Washington DC ahead of the Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th President of the USA, our colleagues will bring you all the details of the inauguration here.\n\nOur coverage of this week's PMQs was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Justin Parkinson, and Sinead Wilson. The editor was Johanna Howitt.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoris Hobday and her twin sister Lilian Cox, known as the Tipton Twins, were admitted to hospital after testing positive earlier this month.\n\nHer family said Mrs Hobday had died on 5 January, adding they were \"totally heartbroken to lose Doris in this way\".\n\nMrs Cox has since been discharged from hospital and is continuing to recover, the family said. The siblings were among the UK's oldest living twins.\n\nDoris Hobday died in hospital on 5 January, her family has announced\n\n\"We are so grateful for all the special memories we have created and got to share with you all,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThe twins, from Tipton, West Midlands, became popular figures online with their positive outlook on life and sense of humour.\n\nTipton Twins Doris and Lilian both tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month\n\nThey appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Good Morning Britain and This Morning, charming presenters with jokes about wearing their drawers inside out and their love for actor Jason Statham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter���s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLilian and Doris said they did everything together. They lived in the same street after getting married, worked together at an ale-making factory in Birmingham and more recently lived next to one another at sheltered accommodation in Tipton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on their 95th birthday, Lilian revealed her sister's secret to a long life was \"no sex and plenty of Guinness\" - her own being simply \"lemonade\".\n\nDoris Hobday's family said she had passed away peacefully and they were grateful for all their memories with her\n\n\"Doris will be laid to rest with her husband who she lost 11 years ago after 65 years of happy marriage,\" her family said.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up in Mrs Hobday's memory, with funds raised being donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind, which supported her late husband Raymond for 20 years.\n\nDoris will be buried next to her husband Ray, who, along with half a Guinness, was \"her favourite thing\"\n\nThe family said Mrs Cox had only been told of her sister's death on Monday, \"once she was strong enough to take the news\".\n\n\"She is now being comforted by family and staying with her daughter Vivien while she fully regains her strength.\"\n\n\"Both were determined to live until 100, they had so much to look forward to,\" their family said. \"It's just so cruel that Covid has stopped Doris like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bannon was once considered among the most influential men in Mr Trump's administration\n\nPresident Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the \"glorification of violence\" amid the election aftermath.\n\nMr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them.\n\nIt comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation.\n\nFacebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results.\n\nMr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, he posted a video podcast to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said both Dr Anthony Fauci - the face of the country's fight against coronavirus - and FBI Director Christopher Wray, should be fired after Mr Trump's re-election, but also said they should be subjected to violence.\n\nPresident Trump has expressed frustration with both men, clashing with Dr Fauci over the pandemic, and with Mr Wray over what he sees as a failure to investigate his opponent, Joe Biden.\n\nFacebook and YouTube both removed the video, but Twitter issued an outright suspension of Mr Bannon's \"war room pandemic\" account, for violating its policy on the glorification of violence.\n\nThe account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited amount of time, Twitter said in a statement.\n\nPresident Trump, meanwhile, had another of his tweets hidden and labelled by Twitter after falsely claiming victory and alleging the existence of \"illegal votes\".\n\nThe President responded by tweeting: \"Twitter is out of control\".\n\nThe Stop the Steal Facebook group had about 350,000 members when the social media giant removed it, something the social network admitted was an \"exceptional\" measure. It did so because it was \"creating real-world events\" and \"we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group\", Facebook said.\n\nThe social network is now taking further measures to restrict the flow of \"inaccurate claims\" in order \"to keep this content from reaching more people\".\n\n\"These include demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict may be misinformation, including debunked claims about voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may relate to the election on Facebook,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Facebook Newsroom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs President Trump continues to allege, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud took place, Facebook also said it would alter its election banner notifications and spread news of the projected winner, once a majority of independent outlets projected the result.\n\nThe same notice will be put on posts from both candidates.\n\nSeparately, Bloomberg reports that Twitter will remove the \"special treatment\" it affords President Trump as a world leader, in the event of Joe Biden winning the presidency.\n\nTwitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means it will not ordinarily ban them for the same offences for which it would ban ordinary users. Twitter argues that such posts - even when violating its rules - are sufficiently newsworthy to stay up, with a handful of exceptions.\n\nInstead, Twitter can label the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting engagement - but leaving it viewable to anyone who clicks through a warning message about the content.\n\nIt has repeatedly done this to Mr Trump's tweets, leading to high-profile arguments with the president and his supporters.\n\nBut Mr Trump would return to the status of a regular user if he loses the election, Bloomberg reported - meaning that his tweets could be deleted outright or his account suspended, for policy violations.", "Liam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti have put their names to the letter\n\nSome of the UK's biggest music stars have written to the government demanding action to ensure visa-free touring in the European Union.\n\nSir Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Nicola Benedetti are among 110 artists who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt said they had been \"shamefully failed\" by the government over post-Brexit travel rules for UK musicians.\n\nThe government said the signatories should be asking the EU why they \"rejected the sensible UK proposal\".\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives on Wednesday to address their concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said the EU's \"very broad\" offer \"would not have been compatible with the government's manifesto commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nHowever, she said \"the door is open\" if the EU was willing to consider the UK's proposals to reach an agreement for musicians.\n\nIn the meantime, she confirmed, musicians and artists touring the continent \"will be required to check domestic immigration and visitor rules for each member state in which they intend to tour\".\n\nThat may require them to have multiple visas or work permits, which some industry experts say will be expensive and potentially prohibitive - especially for musicians at the start of their careers.\n\nOther names on the open letter include Ed Sheeran, Sir Simon Rattle, Sting, Radiohead, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Kim Wilde, Roger Daltrey, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, and Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music.\n\nThe letter was organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Liberal Democrats, and published in The Times.\n\n\"The reality is that British musicians, dancers, actors and their support staff have been shamefully failed by their government,\" it said.\n\n\"The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.\"\n\nThe extra costs will \"tip many performers over the edge\", it claimed.\n\n\"We call on the government to urgently do what it said it would do and negotiate paperwork-free travel in Europe for British artists and their equipment,\" it added.\n\n\"For the sake of British fans wanting to see European performers in the UK and British venues wishing to host them, the deal should be reciprocal.\"\n\nThe Who frontman Daltrey signed despite telling the BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme in 2018: \"It's nothing that can't be solved. I mean, we used to work in Europe before the EU was even thought about. We had the golden period of the 60s and the 70s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey gave his take on Brexit in 2018\n\nOn Wednesday, the veteran rocker said the two positions were compatible. \"I have not changed my opinion on the EU,\" he said in a statement to the PA news agency. \"I'm glad to be free of Brussels, not Europe.\n\n\"I would have preferred reform, which was asked for by us before the referendum and was turned down by the then president of the EU. I do think our government should have made the easing of restrictions for musicians and actors a higher priority.\n\n\"Every tour, individual actors and musicians should be treated as any other 'goods' at the point of entry to the EU with one set of paperwork. Switzerland has borders with five EU countries, and trade is electronically frictionless. Why not us?\"\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: \"World-renowned performers, emerging artists from every genre and the most respected figures from leading organisations within our sector are now sending a clear message.\n\n\"It is essential for the government to negotiate a new reciprocal agreement that allows performers to tour in Europe for up to 90 days, without the need for a work permit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, a UK government spokesperson said that musicians' concerns were being taken seriously.\n\n\"We absolutely agree that musicians should be able to work across Europe,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"The UK Government put forward a proposal, based on feedback from the music sector, that would have allowed musicians to tour - but the EU repeatedly rejected this.\n\n\"The EU's offer in the negotiations would not have worked for touring musicians: it did not deal with work permits at all, and would not have allowed support staff to tour with artists. The signatories of this letter should be asking the EU why they rejected the sensible UK proposal.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from the music industry, addressing their concerns, on Wednesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden has spent 50 years in politics working towards this moment, but he could never have expected such huge challenges would be facing him on his first day at the helm. What are his priorities?\n\nHe'll get started with a 10-day flurry of executive orders.\n\nThese are presidential directives that don't require congressional approval.\n\nTop of the list are rescinding a controversial travel ban, imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump against countries he viewed as a security threat, and rejoining the Paris climate deal.\n\nHere's what else we know about what will demand the new president's immediate attention.\n\nThe coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people in the US - and the pandemic and its wide-ranging impact will be the new administration's top priority.\n\nMr Biden has called it \"one of the most important battles our administration will face\" and has vowed to implement his Covid strategy straight away.\n\nOne of his first moves will be executive action requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on federal property nationwide and by federal employees and contractors.\n\nStill, there's no guarantee the state governors who've so far opposed mask mandates will suddenly change their minds - there appears to be no legal authority that grants a president the power to bring in a nationwide mask rule.\n\nMr Biden seems to have conceded that point, and says he'll personally try to persuade governors to come around.\n\nIf they're not receptive, he's vowed to make calls to mayors and municipal officials to recruit them to the cause. There's also no word yet on how a mandate will be enforced.\n\nMr Biden wants to speed up the vaccine rollout with the ultimate goal of vaccinating 100 million people with at least a first dose against Covid in his first 100 days in office.\n\nOne part of the acceleration plan is to release all available vaccine doses instead of holding some in reserve for the necessary second jab.\n\nHe is also expected to take executive action on efforts to develop and deploy rapid testing and to put in place a national supply chain for equipment, medications and personal protective equipment, or PPE.\n\nOn his agenda is a pledge to reverse the decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nMr Trump announced plans over the summer to pull the country out of the WHO, accusing it of mismanaging Covid after the virus emerged in China and saying it failed to make \"greatly needed reforms\".\n\nMr Biden's team has said he has immediate plans to extend a moratorium on evictions and on foreclosures on home mortgages - both of which were paused early in the pandemic - as well as the current pause on federal student loan payments and interest.\n\nMr Biden's transition team said he plans to direct Cabinet agencies this week to \"take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families\", though they did not offer more detail.\n\n$1.9tn for the US coronavirus economy\n\nLast week, Mr Biden announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy, saying that \"a crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste\".\n\nIf passed by Congress, it would include direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. He has also included funding to help schools safely reopen, which he wants to happen in the first 100 days.\n\nIt'll be in addition to a long-awaited $900bn stimulus package Congress passed in December, which Mr Biden had called a \"down payment\" on the larger proposed package.\n\nRepublicans lawmakers are likely to object to parts of the bill, which will add more debt to what the US has already spent dealing with the pandemic - and Mr Biden will need bipartisan support for the plan.\n\nDemocrats currently control both chambers of Congress, but only by narrow margins.\n\nCovid aid isn't the only priority on the incoming president's economic agenda. He has pledged to get rid of Mr Trump's signature tax cuts as soon as he takes office.\n\nMr Trump passed the cuts in 2017, early in his presidency, and the Biden team says they unfairly reward the wealthiest Americans and favour corporations over small businesses.\n\nMr Biden has also said he would swiftly double the taxes that US firms pay on foreign profits - part of his Made in America push - which would come in addition to a rise in corporate taxes.\n\nHis tax policy legislation will need to pass Congress.\n\nAnother move Mr Biden says he will make on his first day in office is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, a global accord that includes the goal to keep temperatures below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C.\n\nHis predecessor pulled the US out of the 2015 accord - it became official on 4 November - making it the first nation in the world to do so.\n\nThe US will officially be part of the agreement again within 30 days.\n\nMr Biden has also pledged to \"up the ante\" and aim for higher standards on climate mitigation measures, and to convene a climate world summit within the first 100 days in office.\n\nMr Biden has said he wants to work with Congress to enact legislation this year that will allow the US to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIn a move that has already sparked alarm with his northern neighbours, Mr Biden is reportedly planning to immediately rescind the cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a planned project from the oil sands of Canada's Alberta province, through Montana and South Dakota, to rejoin an existing pipeline to Texas.\n\nA further agenda item is a U-turn on much of Mr Trump's legacy of climate and energy deregulation, like the easing of vehicle emissions targets.\n\nMr Biden has said he will negotiate \"rigorous\" new emissions limits on cars and heavy-duty vehicles, to conserve 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, to ban new drilling on public lands, and to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.\n\nThe new administration says it plans also to bring in \"aggressive\" methane pollution limits for oil and gas operations and to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.\n\nThe travel ban, signed by Mr Trump just seven days after taking office in January 2017, will be among the first policies to be discarded.\n\nThe ban initially excluded people from seven majority-Muslim countries, but the list was modified following a series of court challenges.\n\nIt now restricts citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nIn another major immigration pledge, Mr Biden has said he'll swiftly send a bill to Congress laying out a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"And all of those so-called dreamers, those Daca [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme] kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship,\" he said in late October.\n\nLate in the election, the campaign announced Mr Biden would create a task force to reunite some 545 migrant children separated from their parents at the US southern border.\n\nIn December, the Biden team conceded it would need more time to roll back one of Mr Trump's policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols that force thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings.\n\nOnce a \"Day One\" pledge, officials now say it could take about six months to address.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to halt construction of a project synonymous with Mr Trump's presidency - the border wall between the US and Mexico. His campaign had called it \"a waste of money\" that \"diverts critical resources away from the real threats\".\n\nThe administration says it will instead divert the federal funds towards efforts like new border screening measures.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tours and signs a section of the US-Mexico border wall\n\nThe national reckoning with race is the fourth crisis - alongside Covid, the economy and climate - Mr Biden says he must tackle quickly.\n\nSome of those policies - like addressing racial disparities in housing and healthcare - overlap with his other plans.\n\nMr Biden will sign an executive order on racial equality and call on all US agencies to create a plan to tackle any unequal barriers to opportunity. It will also rescind Mr Trump's executive order limiting the ability of federal government agencies to implement diversity and inclusion training.\n\nMr Biden has promised to set up a national police oversight body to assist in reforming police departments in his first 100 days in office, though details of that plan are scarce.\n\nHe has said he wants swift passage by Congress of the \"Safe Justice Act\", which includes measures on reforming mandatory minimum sentences and increasing funding for community based policing.\n\nHe has made commitments to the LGBT community as well, like directing resources towards helping prevent violence against transgender people, ending the ban on transgender people serving in the military, and restoring guidance for transgender students in schools.\n\nOne other priority is passing the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws, though how fast he can pass that legislation remains unclear.\n\nThe incoming president says he plans to quickly reach out to US allies to smooth ruffled feathers and promise that \"America has your back\", saying the US must \"prove to the world that [it] is prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example\".\n\nHe has said on his first day in the Oval Office he would reach out to Nato allies with the message \"we're back and you can count on us again\".\n\nThough Mr Trump was not the first president to pressure other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to spend more on defence, he threatened at times to withdraw from the alliance that Mr Biden has called the \"bulwark of the liberal democratic ideal\".", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "The last vestiges of the Trump presidency will be swept away on Wednesday, as the Bidens move into the White House. Desks will have been cleared out, rooms scrubbed clean and the president's aides will be replaced by a new team of political appointees. It's part of the massive transformation that a new presidency brings to the heart of government.\n\nOne evening last week, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser and central figure in the Trump White House, was lounging in the West Wing.\n\nMiller, who has crafted speeches and policies for the president since his early days in office, is also one of the few members of the president's initial team still with him at the end.\n\nLeaning against a wall and chatting with colleagues about a meeting scheduled for later that day, he seemed in no hurry to leave.\n\nThe West Wing usually hums with activity but it seemed deserted. The phones were quiet. Desks in empty offices were cluttered with papers and unopened letters, as if people had left in a hurry and would not be coming back. Dozens of senior officials and aides quit in the wake of the Capitol riots on 6 January. A handful of loyalists, like Miller, remain.\n\nAs the conversation began to wind down, he broke away from his colleagues. When I asked him where he was headed next, he smiled. \"Back to my office,\" he said and sauntered down the hall.\n\nOn inauguration day, Miller's office will have been cleaned out, swept of signs that he and his colleagues had ever been there, ready for the Biden team to move in.\n\nThe cleaning out of West Wing offices, and the transition between presidents, is part of a tradition that dates back centuries. It's a process that has not always been imbued with warmth.\n\nAnother impeached president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, snubbed Republican Ulysses S Grant in 1869 and skipped the inauguration. Grant, who had backed Johnson's removal from office, was hardly surprised.\n\nStaff have started moving paperwork and pictures out of the White House\n\nThis year, however, the transition stands out for its acrimony. The process usually starts straight after the election, but it started weeks late after Trump refused to accept the result. And the president has said he will not attend the inauguration. Most likely, he will instead travel to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.\n\nStill, the handover is taking place, just as it has in the past. \"The system is holding,\" says Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University. \"It's very rocky, it's very bumpy, but nevertheless the transition is going to occur.\"\n\nEven in the best of times, the logistics of a transition are daunting, involving the transfer of knowledge and employees on a massive scale.\n\nStephen Miller is just one of 4,000 political appointees hired by the Trump administration who will lose their job and be replaced by individuals hired by Mr Biden.\n\nDuring an average transition, between 150,000-300,000 people apply for these jobs, according to the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan organisation based in Washington. About 1,100 of the positions also require Senate confirmation. Filling all of these positions takes months, even years.\n\nFour years of policy papers, briefing books and artefacts relating to the president's work will be carted off to the National Archives where they will be kept secret for 12 years, unless the president himself decides that portions may be released early.\n\nOn a weekday evening during Trump's last week in office, the door to the office of Kayleigh McEnany, the president's press secretary, was partly open.\n\nMcEnany has been one of the president's most high-profile defenders. Impeccably groomed, she is a precise speaker who maintains her composure amidst chaos.\n\nKayleigh McEnany has packed up her office in the White House\n\nHer office, too, was organised in a meticulous manner, even as she prepared to leave. A mirror stood on her desk, and several fireplace logs were wrapped in clear plastic and packed up.\n\nGenerally, the last few days are \"controlled chaos,\" says Kate Andersen Brower, who has written a book about the White House, The Residence.\n\nFurniture in the White House, such as the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, most of the artwork, china and other objects, belong to the government and will remain on the premises.\n\nBut other items, like photos of the president that hang in the hallway, will be taken down as the White House is transformed for its new occupants.\n\nStaffers are already moving some items out of the building. One White House staffer, a woman in sturdy heels, was lugging several images of First Lady Melania Trump out of the East Wing. The pictures are known as \"jumbos\" because of their extra-large size, she says, and they will be taken to the National Archives.\n\nThe Trumps' personal belongings, such as clothes, jewellery, and other items will be moved to their new residence, most likely at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.\n\nAnd this year, the place will be deep cleaned.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to make decorative changes to the Oval Office\n\nThe president, as well as Mr Miller and dozens of others at the White House, were infected with the coronavirus over the past several months, and the six-floor building, with its 132 rooms, will be thoroughly scrubbed down. Everything from handrails to elevator buttons to restroom fixtures will be wiped and sanitised, according to a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees the housekeeping effort.\n\nIncoming first families usually do some redecoration. Within days of arriving at the White House, Mr Trump had chosen a portrait of populist president Andrew Jackson for the Oval Office. He also replaced the drapes, couches and a rug in the office with ones that were gold-coloured.\n\nOn inauguration day, Vice-President Pence and his wife will also make way for Kamala Harris, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. They will be settling into their official residence, a 19th Century residence on the Naval Observatory grounds, a couple of miles from the White House.\n\nPolicy adviser Stephen Miller may have lingered in the West Wing, but others were ready to go. At the White House, people were lugging thick manila envelopes, framed photos and bags from a gift shop. \"It's my last day,\" says one man, smiling as he took a photo of his sons on the north lawn. A bulging backpack was slung over his shoulder.\n\nA group of National Security officials posed in front of the West Wing, asking me to take their picture. \"Make sure you get the marine guard,\" says one of the officials, referring to a marine who stands in front of the doorway when the president is in the Oval Office. The officials were in high spirits, joking and vamping for the camera.\n\nThe political appointees at the White House were in a good mood for a reason. For weeks, they had been caught in an in-between world. Their boss was denying the validity of the election, but they knew that their days were numbered. Now they could plan openly for their future, and they seemed almost giddy.\n\nOne political appointee, a man dressed in a dark suit, was already making plans. He ran into a colleague outside the Palm room, a reception area on the ground floor. \"See you on the flip side,\" he said, brightly. He was referring to the time after the inauguration, when they will both be out of their White House jobs. He mused about where they might meet again. \"Hopefully in the Greek isles or somewhere.\"\n\n\"Oh, yes. That is for sure,\" said his colleague, laughing. They smacked a high-five and then parted ways.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "The government does not know how many cases might be affected by hundreds of thousands of police records being accidentally wiped, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told the House of Commons the police were working \"round the clock\" to rectify the error.\n\nAround 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records were deleted from the police database.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was not yet known whether any of the data had been permanently lost.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"The Home Office is actively working to assess the damage and... they believe that they will be able to rectify the results of this complex incident and they hope very much that they'll be able to restore the data in question.\"\n\nAsked by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer how many convicted criminals had had their records wrongly deleted, Mr Johnson said: \"We don't know how many cases might be frustrated as a result of what has happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course it is outrageous that any data should have been lost.\"\n\nLast week it was revealed that the information was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nAn estimated 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 records on people were potentially incorrectly deleted as a result of a defective code.\n\nMs Patel, who has launched an internal investigation, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that criminals would not get away with serious crimes as a result of the error.\n\n\"It is not about serious criminals getting away with anything. Multiple records are held on the same individuals on the same crimes on other profiling systems as well.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that officials could be instructed to re-submit the entries manually.\n\n\"I'm also clear with Home Office engineers and technicians that if we have to do manual uploads from other systems, that is effectively what we will do and that will potentially take time, but that is another option for us right now.\n\n\"We will absolutely provide updates once we know what has happened in terms of retrieving data. This will take time because it is a coding error.\"\n\nThe Home Office previously said that the faulty script was introduced in November 2020, but it did not run until earlier this month when the error within it immediately became apparent.", "After vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States, Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th US president.\n\nThe new president's oath of office was administered by Chief Justice John G Roberts.\n\nRead more:Joe Biden becomes the 46th US president", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Sophie Davies, from Shropshire, recovering from cervical cancer, says delays to screening could be a matter of life and death\n\nSmear-test delays during lockdown have prompted calls for home-screening kits.\n\nCervical cancer screening has restarted across the UK - but some women say they will not attend their appointments for fear of catching Covid.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is urging \"faster action\" on home tests for HPV, which causes 99% of cervical cancers.\n\nAn NHS official said GP practices should continue screening throughout lockdown, and \"anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend\".\n\nCancer Research UK said it was not yet known how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nScreenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but, as the prime minister heard last week, some patients were experiencing cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests had failed to go ahead in the UK in April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nIn March, Sophie Davies was told she needed a hysterectomy \"within the month\" but had to wait until December for surgery\n\nA survey by gynaecological cancer charity the Eve Appeal indicates nearly one in three missed smear tests are the result of people being \"put off\" by coronavirus.\n\nAnd a Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust survey during the pandemic suggests the same proportion would prefer to take their own human-papillomavirus (HPV) test rather than go to a GP.\n\nActing chief executive Rebecca Shoosmith said coronavirus had added \"more barriers\" to going for a smear test.\n\n\"Sadly those who found it difficult before are likely to be no closer to getting tested,\" she said.\n\nBoth charities emphasise smear tests are for \"women and anyone with a cervix\" and transgender and non-binary people may have additional barriers to going.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust said DIY tests could also help people who had been sexually assaulted and those with disabilities or from backgrounds where smear tests were taboo.\n\nSamantha Renke felt anxious about catching coronavirus when she went for her smear test\n\nSamantha Renke had received an abnormal test result and needed to go for a follow-up test during the pandemic.\n\nThe broadcaster and campaigner, who has brittle bones and uses a wheelchair, said a home-testing kit would have made things easier.\n\n\"I am at very high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19,\" the 35-year-old, from Lancashire, said.\n\n\"So I was incredibly anxious sitting in the waiting room for my test.\n\n\"Women with a physical disability are so much more likely to find cervical screening difficult, to the point where it can sometimes be impossible just to get through the door.\n\n\"We shouldn't have to fight to get this life-saving test.\n\n\"Self-sampling would be so much easier for people like me.\n\n\"It would allow me to take my health into my own hands.\"\n\nIshita Ranjan said talk of smear tests was taboo in traditional South Asian families\n\nIshita Ranjan finally went for her smear test in August, having put it off for a \"really long time\".\n\n\"In most traditional South Asian families, women's sexual health is not something you talk about openly,\" the 31-year-old, from London, said.\n\n\"Young women are left to figure this stuff out.\n\n\"Until you get married, older female relatives find it problematic to share that kind of information.\"\n\nA fear of catching coronavirus could be also stopping people belonging to ethnic minorities attending appointments.\n\n\"We have seen high Covid infection and death rates and people are genuinely scared,\" Ms Ranjan said.\n\n\"And it's really important that you do still go and do it.\n\n\"I was in and out in five minutes, no sitting around waiting rooms.\"\n\nHelen Austin founded At your Cervix, a support network for people who find smear tests difficult\n\nAfter experiencing sexual violence, it took Helen Austin 10 years to work up the courage to go for her smear test.\n\n\"When my first invite arrived through the post, years ago, my body froze, and I then ripped it up,\" she said.\n\nSelf-sampling would have given her time and privacy, the 35-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said.\n\n\"If my appointment had been during the pandemic and I could not have brought someone I trust with me to help me, I would never have gone,\" she said.\n\n\"Other trauma survivors I speak to find wearing a mask triggering and are putting off attending their test partly for this reason too.\"\n\nSophie Davies, 32, saw in the new year alone in hospital, after having a hysterectomy\n\nAfter developing a rare form of cervical cancer, Sophie Davies had a trachelectomy to remove her cervix, in April 2018, allowing doctors to save her ovaries and two-thirds of her womb.\n\nBut in March 2020, she was told the risk of cancer coming back meant she needed a hysterectomy and the removal of both ovaries.\n\n\"I was advised the operation needed to be done 'the sooner the better' and 'within the month',\" the 32-year-old, from Shropshire, said.\n\nAnd she had an \"agonising\" wait, until 30 December, for her surgery.\n\n\"I'm still awaiting my results, more than three weeks on, and praying I have not been left for the best part of a year with cancer growing inside me,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"These months of delay could be the difference in saving fertility or losing fertility.\n\n\"It could be the difference in needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy or not needing it, or could be the difference of life or death.\"\n\nCancer Research UK early diagnosis head Dr Jodie Moffat said research was under way to understand how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nBut getting more people screened \"is not the only hurdle to overcome\".\n\n\"The NHS is under immense pressure and would need more staff and equipment to ensure patients receive their results and any follow-up treatment as quickly as possible,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS guidance that cervical screening should continue has not changed, which has been communicated to GP practices, which have adjusted the way they work to remain open and safe, while local NHS services across the country have put extra measures in place to protect people from coronavirus and so anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend.\"", "The government has unveiled details of a £23m fund to support fishing firms as it tries to quell industry anger over Brexit border delays.\n\nThe money will help firms whose exports to the EU have fallen sharply since rules changed on 1 January.\n\nFishing firms say extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to the EU before it goes off, hammering their businesses.\n\nOne trade group called the fund \"welcome\" but a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nOn Monday, fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson admitted many had experienced \"bureaucratic delays [and] difficulties getting their goods through\" to buyers on the other side of the channel.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nCovid has worsened the issue, with the industry also facing lower market prices and demand from restaurants due to the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the scheme would be targeted at small and medium-sized fishing businesses who will be able to claim a maximum of £100,000 to cover losses.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: \"This further £23m package of support will help our hardworking fishing sector navigate the challenges of the next few months.\n\n\"It is vital that no community nor region within our United Kingdom is left behind as we continue to support British jobs and build back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIn addition to funding, the government will provide further training to help fishing businesses adapt to the new export processes.\n\nSeparately, the prime minister committed to providing a further £100m to help modernise UK fishing fleets and the fish processing industry.\n\nDonna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, said: \"After almost three weeks of voicing their concerns and frustrations, we welcome the fact that the Scottish seafood sector has been heard and action is being taken.\n\n\"This [fund] will offer a ray of light to some small and medium-sized companies that have experienced crippling losses over the past few weeks.\"\n\nHowever, while the money was \"a much-needed sticking plaster\", she said it would not \"completely staunch the wound\".\n\n\"The sector still needs a period of grace during which the [new trade] systems must be overhauled so they are fit for purpose.\"", "Under current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nNine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty.\n\nPictures emerged online showing the officers, from the South East Basic Command Unit, eating at The Chef House Kitchen Cafe, Greenwich, on 9 January.\n\nAll nine officers have been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nCh Supt Rob Atkin, said: \"It is right that they will pay a financial penalty and that they will be asked to reflect on their choices.\n\n\"Police officers are tasked with enforcing the legislation that has been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and the public rightly expect that they will set an example through their own actions.\n\n\"It is disappointing that on this occasion, these officers have fallen short of that expectation.\"\n\nThe group were spotted by a member of the public in the Greenwich cafe while their patrol vehicles were parked outside.\n\nUnder current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "Father Lee Taylor said people have \"really missed communal singing\"\n\nOnline \"Pimm's and Hymns\" singalong sessions at a north Wales church have attracted people from as far away as South Africa, Brazil and Canada.\n\nFather Lee Taylor, from St Collen's Church, Llangollen, set up the Facebook Live shows when his pews fell silent due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former bartender said: \"People started to share it and the online audience just exploded.\"\n\nIt adds \"a real light in the darkness\" of lockdown and a \"few drinks\".\n\nThe sessions, which have been running since last March, are a homage to the summer garden party known as 'Pimm's and Hymns' Mr Taylor, 43, hosts each year.\n\n\"I get phone calls, emails and letters from people all over the world, saying, 'You've lifted my spirits', and asking me to pray for their loved ones who are sick with the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"I started the sessions as I was trying to think of ways to bring comfort reassurance and cheer to people at home.\n\n\"While I can't hear people joining in, I feel them there with me in the room.\"\n\nFather Lee Taylor hosted annual 'Pimm's and Hymns' garden parties before Covid restrictions came in last March\n\nBelting out everything from Abide With Me to Pack Up Your Troubles, the vicar, who lives with his partner of 14 years, Fabiano Duarte, is known for pouring a glass of wine or a cocktail before performing for his Facebook congregation.\n\n\"I like to keep a libation on the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"When we started, people tuning in could see a glass of wine one week and a gin and tonic the next, so began to join in and have a drink with me.\n\n\"Soon, this became a discussion in the Facebook comments and people would send in photos of themselves with a tipple, singing along.\n\n\"I've got a bit carried away on the piano after a few drinks and played all the wrong notes a couple of times - which is always quite funny. It's joyful, really.\"\n\nHe said \"losing the churches and restricting the number at funerals\" was painful and people were \"missing communal singing\".\n\n\"[So] I got some elderly people set up on the internet and sent out instructions via email, so they could watch the live stream singalongs,\" he said.\n\n\"People were soon chatting through the comments and it felt like we were all connected.\n\n\"I wanted to raise spirits through music and it's been a real light in the darkness.\"", "Louise worries about her prospects for the next 12 months\n\nFreelance TV and film sound editor Louise Burton is one of those who are unable to benefit from government pandemic support schemes, despite being out of work.\n\nLouise, 28, of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has not had a single penny of assistance since her last job ended eight months ago.\n\n\"With the last production that I was on, I was hired as a PAYE freelancer, which means that I essentially do exactly the same job as what I do as a freelancer, but I was paying tax at source,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What often happens with film is that production companies are made for the sole purpose of the film. So they create these companies and everything goes through the company - and then once the film is completed, they then shut the company.\"\n\nThat means Louise fell foul of tax rules relating to self-employed people. And she could not go on furlough, because the company that had employed her no longer existed.\n\n\"I always feel guilty saying that I am one of the people who is suffering, because actually, I still have a roof over my head and I can just about put food on my table, but it's not easy,\" she says, adding that she fears for her prospects in the next 12 months.\n\nAccording to MPs, whole groups of people like Louise are falling through the cracks of Covid-19 support schemes because of out-of-date tax systems.\n\nSome freelancers and self-employed people have been particularly excluded, despite lockdowns and restrictions meaning they cannot work, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nOthers, meanwhile, are able to abuse the system, it said.\n\nThe government said its \"top priority\" was helping those who are struggling.\n\nSince March, HM Revenue and Customs has provided more than £80bn in support to companies and individuals through government coronavirus support schemes, the committee said.\n\nThey are also supporting the incomes of many of the self-employed.\n\nBut despite this, a report from the MPs says \"quirks in the tax system\" have meant that groups of workers - including freelancers and self-employed people who recently moved onto company payrolls or work on a series of short-term employment contracts with gaps in between - have been ineligible for furlough payments.\n\n\"As public spending balloons to unprecedented levels in response to the pandemic, out-of-date tax systems are one of the barriers to getting help to a significant number of struggling taxpayers who should be entitled to support,\" said MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nBy contrast, she said some large companies that had used government support schemes had continued to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to executives.\n\nShe added that HMRC was in many cases failing \"to capture or deal with those wrongly claiming\" support.\n\nThe tax agency should explain to freelancers and other groups why they have been excluded from receiving support and set out steps to fix the problem within six weeks, the MPs said.\n\nThe PAC also said that a lack of certainty about government coronavirus support schemes had made it difficult for businesses to plan effectively.\n\nFor example, HMRC could not provide clarity on whether the Job Retention Bonus scheme had been delayed or scrapped, the committee said.\n\nThe scheme was meant to pay employers an incentive for every worker they brought back from furlough and kept in employment until January.\n\n\"Such lack of clarity may lead to unnecessary hardships for some businesses, who in good faith were relying on the payments from the scheme to meet some of their needs,\" the MPs said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had done \"all it can to help as many people as possible\".\n\n\"HMRC delivered Covid-19 support schemes at unprecedented speed, protecting the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the challenges faced by individuals and businesses during the pandemic, and our top priority is getting financial support to those struggling... while protecting the taxpayer against fraud.\n\n\"Those not eligible for support through these schemes can still benefit from the strengthened welfare safety net, accessing help like universal credit.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Louise Casey: \"The country has been torn to shreds by the pandemic\"\n\nThe government has been urged by its former homelessness adviser to extend benefit increases worth £20 a week beyond the end of March.\n\nDame Louise Casey said ending the universal credit top-up, introduced during the Covid pandemic, would be \"too punitive a policy right now\".\n\nShe said people would view the Tories as the \"nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nThe government said it was committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"No decisions have yet been made on a range of Covid support measures that run through until the end of March and April, and it is right to wait until we know more about where we are in the vaccination process before making any decisions.\"\n\nLabour and anti-poverty campaigners are pressing for the increase, worth £1,000 a year, to remain in place beyond its scheduled end date of 31 March.\n\nOn Monday they were joined by six Conservative MPs, who defied party orders to abstain and backed a symbolic motion calling for an extension.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Louise said the £20-a-week increase had proved a \"lifeline\" to poorer families.\n\n\"The Treasury need to step back and not feel this constant responsibility to close the books all the time, and fight and fight and fight,\" she said.\n\nOn the idea the top-up could end in March, she added: \"It's not the right thing to do.\"\n\nReferencing a phrase coined by Theresa May in 2002 about how the Conservatives were sometimes perceived, she added they would \"go back to being the nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nDame Louise added that the country had been \"torn to shreds\" by the pandemic, with an impact \"far deeper and greater than anything I've ever seen in my lifetime\".\n\n\"I think we will have to have a big plan to deal with the wounds inflicted by this pandemic once everybody's vaccinated,\" she added.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to turn its attention to that now, and not leave it until the summer.\"\n\nDame Louise, who was made a crossbench peer by the prime minister in July, also urged ministers to think about long-term reforms to the welfare system.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the NHS and vaccinations, that I think everything else we see is incredibly reactive,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the government to take inspiration from the World War Two-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state, and draw up a long-term strategy for recovery after the pandemic.\n\n\"We're all in this storm, everybody's experienced it, just some people are in decent boats and some people are in rafts that are sinking.\n\n\"And that gives the prime minister the moment to say 'I am going to step into the shoes of a Beveridge moment'.\n\n\"If there's any reason for government to decide to actually rebuild Britain, so the divide between the rich and the poor isn't as big as it is... it's this pandemic\".\n\nUniversal credit can be claimed by both people who are in and out of work\n\nUniversal credit is a working-age benefit claimed by around 6m people, replacing six benefits and merging them into a single payment.\n\nPoverty campaign charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty if the temporary £20 top-up is rolled back.\n\nHowever the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe top-up, estimated to cost around £6bn a year, was brought in at the start of the pandemic as a temporary response due to lockdown.\n\nA government spokesperson said that support was being targeted by raising the living wage, spending on the furlough scheme, boosting welfare spending and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe NHS's child gender-identity service has been rated \"inadequate\" after inspectors identified \"significant concerns\".\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in October.\n\nMore than 4,600 young people were on the waiting list and some had waited over two years for a first appointment.\n\nThe trust said it took the CQC report \"very seriously\".\n\nEngland and Wales' only children's gender-identity service was inspected after healthcare professionals and the children's commissioner for England raised concerns around \"clinical practice, safeguarding procedures, and assessments of capacity and consent to treatment\".\n\nThe children's commissioner had been provided evidence of staff concerns by BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe CQC's previous inspection, in 2016, had resulted in an overall \"good\" rating.\n\nBut in the latest inspection at clinics run by the trust in north London and Leeds, Gids was rated:\n\nOverall, the service is now rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nAnd the CQC has begun enforcement action, demanding monthly updates of the numbers on the waiting list and actions to reduce them.\n\nThe inspectors found Gids \"difficult to access\" and raised concerns over managing the risk to those on the waiting list, saying many of those waiting for or receiving a service were \"vulnerable and at risk of self-harm\".\n\n\"The size of the waiting list meant that staff were unable to proactively manage the risks to patients waiting for a first appointment,\" they added.\n\nRecord-keeping at Gids was also criticised, with the CQC noting that \"staff had not consistently recorded the competency, capacity and consent of patients referred for medical treatment before January 2020\".\n\nThis had changed since, but the CQC noted that in an audit of 10 records of young people referred for hormone blockers in March 2020, \"only three contained a completed consent form and checklist for referral\".\n\nA rating of inadequate is the lowest a healthcare provider can receive from the Care Quality Commission. It means that a service is \"performing badly\".\n\nGids had been rated good at its last inspection in 2016, but since then a number of concerns have been raised about the service.\n\nThe number of young people referred to Gids has increased significantly in recent years - leading to some of the delays in care highlighted by the inspection.\n\nBBC Newsnight has explored the standard of healthcare received by young people questioning their gender identity for the last 18 months.\n\nIn that time, NHS England has changed its guidance on the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, saying little is known about the long-term side effects, and an independent review of this area of health is under way.\n\nLast June we revealed how some Gids staff had raised serious concerns about safeguarding at the service, the speed of assessments, and whether patients' traumatic backgrounds and other difficulties were always adequately explored.\n\nThe comments were made as part of an official internal review into Gids, which also described how staff felt they had been \"shut down\". We also discovered that some of these concerns dated back to 2005.\n\nFurthermore, it was not possible to clearly understand why clinical decisions had been made.\n\nAfter reviewing 35 care records, the CQC found there was \"no clearly defined assessment process\" and \"many records did not demonstrate good practice\".\n\nThe records also appeared to be \"insufficient\" in considering the needs of young people with autism spectrum disorders.\n\nIn a sample of 22 records, the CQC found more than half mentioned autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but \"records did not demonstrate consideration of the relationship between autistic spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria\".\n\nSignificant variation in the clinical approach of different staff members was also noted. Assessments of young people ranged from \"two or three sessions\" in some cases to over 25, or even more than 50.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals Kevin Cleary said his team continued to monitor the trust \"extremely closely\" and inspected the service again because \"we were extremely clear that there were improvements needed in providing person-centred care, capacity and consent, safe care and treatment, and governance\".\n\n\"In addition, vulnerable young people were not having their needs met as they were waiting too long for treatment.\"\n\nThe leadership at the trust knew \"exactly what improvements are needed\", he added.\n\nThe trust said: \"We take the CQC's report very seriously and would like to say sorry to patients for the length of time they are waiting to be seen, which was a critical factor in arriving at this rating.\"\n\nAccepting there was a \"need for improvements in our assessments, systems and processes\", the trust said it agreed with the CQC that the \"growth in referrals has exceeded the capacity of the service\".\n\nIt added improvements were being made, saying: \"We are already finalising plans to bring in senior clinical and operational expertise from outside the service to help us implement the necessary changes and consider how we can improve on current processes and practice - including how we standardise our assessment process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "(From left to right) Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Deb Haaland\n\nPresident Joe Biden's first cabinet is being described as the most diverse ever. The latest historic first is an openly gay cabinet secretary.\n\nWhen George Washington convened the first cabinet meeting two centuries ago - though he didn't call it by that name - he enshrined the idea of promoting diverse perspectives at the heart of US government. Of course, back in 1791, all the voices in the room were white and male.\n\nYou won't find the cabinet mentioned in the lines of the Constitution, but the first president saw the value of advisers who could guide him on major issues while bringing different viewpoints to the table.\n\nIn 2021, America has seen its first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg - the latest Biden confirmation - as well as its first female treasury secretary, first black Pentagon chief and more.\n\nMr Biden has been under pressure from all sides to deliver on his promises of a cabinet that truly reflects the country rather than a line-up of familiar political faces.\n\nThe graphic above shows all of Mr Biden's nominees - those with black and white photos are white men, while those with colour photographs are in one or more of these categories: women; people belonging to ethnic minorities; member of the LGBT community.\n\n\"This cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other cabinet in history,\" Mr Biden told reporters in December.\n\nIf approved by the Senate, it will include Congresswoman Deb Haaland as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history and Miguel Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, as his education chief.\n\nMr Biden's first cabinet is even more diverse than that put together by Barack Obama, who came close to truly reflecting the country but fell short with seven women to 16 men, and just one black secretary.\n\nBut not everyone has been pleased with his choices. When Mr Biden chose General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon - the first black man to do so - other activists were upset that the position was yet again denied to a woman. And Mr Biden picked two white men to head the state and agriculture agencies - Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack - when progressive groups would rather have seen him nominate black women to the roles.\n\nProgressive liberals have also criticised Mr Biden's selections as too safe, too moderate, too establishment and too old. For many of the supporters who delivered Mr Biden the presidency, he's not there just yet.\n\nSince 1933, only 11 presidents have named women to cabinet-level positions. No cabinets have ever matched the gender or racial balance of the country.\n\nThe cabinet size can vary depending on administration, but they're roughly composed of around 15 executives. In the last 30 years, the trend has been towards greater representation - or at least it was, until the Trump administration.\n\nOn the day of President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote that the new Democratic leader had assembled \"the most diverse Cabinet in history: five women, four blacks and two Latinos\".\n\nMr Clinton's small business administrator Aida Alvarez was the first-ever Latina appointed to a cabinet-level position.\n\nPresident George W Bush's first cabinet was lauded by the New York Times as \"a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's\".\n\nMr Bush chose Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, to become the country's first black secretary of state. He also tapped Norman Mineta - a Democrat who became the first Asian American to hold a cabinet-level spot under Mr Clinton - to head his transportation department.\n\nLater on, the Bush administration made history again with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice: the first black woman to serve as secretary of state and then as national security adviser. Mr Bush also placed the first Pacific Islander and Asian American woman, Elaine Chao, in a cabinet role as labour secretary.\n\nPresident Barack Obama's history-making first cabinet was dubbed a \"majority-minority\". Mr Obama's inner circle had seven women, nine minorities and just eight white men.\n\nUnder Mr Obama, Susan Rice became the first black woman to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder became the first black US attorney general.\n\nIn a throwback to the Reagan era, President Donald Trump's inner circle was notably white, affluent and male - though he had more women in his White House than previous Republicans.\n\nAnd Mr Trump did appoint women to other roles in the administration. He named the first Indian-American, Nikki Haley, as UN ambassador.\n\nBut why has it taken this long for women and minorities to make it into the room where decisions happen?\n\n\"When we think about how you get to these roles, one way is to come through elected office,\" says Professor Kelly Dittmar of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.\n\n\"So if you have a dearth of women and women of colour in elective office, and that's where presidents are looking, in part, to identify cabinet officials, then you already start with an uneven pool.\"\n\nWe saw the first woman in US Congress in 1916, she explains, but it took nearly two more decades before President Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet role (that was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins).\n\nThe story for black and other ethnic minority Americans has taken even longer. The first black man took a seat in Congress in 1870, but we didn't see a black man in the cabinet until President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver in 1966. It took until 1968 for the first black woman to be elected to Congress. The first black woman in the cabinet followed in 1977 (Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing Secretary).\n\nThe US has no formal rules requiring equal representation for these groups in government, either.\n\nCountries with quotas in government or at the political party level have made strides towards equality at leadership levels. For example, Rwanda in 2018 saw 61% women in its lower chamber.\n\nIn three key posts, the Defence, Treasury, and Veteran's Affairs departments, there has never been a woman in the job - until now.\n\nOn 25 January, Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary, breaking that particular glass ceiling.\n\nOld time stereotypes have given way in this sector. Surveys show people nowadays are more likely to rate the genders equal when it comes to handling the economy.\n\nProf Dittmar says there are more persistent stereotypes about men versus women's expertise when it comes to defence and national security matters, and public opinion polls have shown this divide. Women weren't allowed in the military until 1948.\n\n\"Even though we have certainly seen greater diversification, these fields are among the most male dominant, especially at the highest levels,\" says Prof Dittmar. \"There's all sorts of biases going on within those structures to prevent women's advancement, I'm sure. That helps explain why those gaps have been there at least historically.\"\n\nOhio State University political science and gender studies Professor Wendy Smooth says these appointments are a way of signalling broader initiatives and values - inextricably tied to policy, but also indicators of identity.\n\n\"One of the early ways that a presidential administration expresses that willingness to be accountable is through cabinet picks,\" Prof Smooth says.\n\n\"These are the first acts that demonstrate the will of the administration, the spirit of the administration, the values of the administration. It's an identity moment. It's going to be the who we are as the Biden administration and who we are interested in connecting with in the American public.\"\n\nIt may be difficult to directly measure the importance of symbolism, but turning preconceived notions of leadership upside down can have very tangible implications.\n\n\"If you see a woman as secretary of defence for the first time, does that start to disrupt expectations that men are better and more expert in areas of defence? Yes, inevitably it does,\" Prof Dittmar says.\n\nShe says the same is true for Vice-President Kamala Harris and her history-making appointment.\n\n\"I hope that after her tenure as vice-president, the next time we have women running for president that these questions about electability or qualifications or capability will be at least fewer than they were.\"\n\nAnd research from an increasingly diverse Congress has shown that women bring priorities and issues to the table that may otherwise have been ignored. \"And that, ultimately, is better for making policy that better speaks to the experiences of the population that they serve,\" Prof Dittmar explains.\n\n\"Unless you can tell me that living your life as a woman or as a black woman or as a South Asian woman in the United States is the same as living your life as a white man, then I don't at all understand why we wouldn't expect that to make a difference in the lens through which they see policy.\"", "Joy Morgan was a second year midwifery student at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nA student murdered by a fellow church member may have been given drugs without her knowing, an inquest heard.\n\nThe body of Joy Morgan, 20, was found in Hertfordshire woodland in October 2019, two months after Shohfah-El Israel was convicted of her murder.\n\nTraces of MDMA were found in her body and the inquest was told there was no evidence that Ms Morgan would have taken the drug herself voluntarily.\n\nIsrael, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years for Ms Morgan's murder in August 2019, despite the fact her body had not been found.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Michael Soole said Israel's \"cruel and cowardly\" refusal to reveal her whereabouts caused \"continuing distress and suffering\" to her family.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court\n\nTwo months later, the remains of Ms Morgan were found in woodland off Chadwell Road, Norton Green, near Stevenage.\n\nPart of the police evidence showed the killer had been in the area of the woods shortly after Ms Morgan's disappearance in December 2018.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February 2019 after failing to return to her studies.\n\nBoth Israel and Ms Morgan, who was in her second year at the University of Hertfordshire studying midwifery, were worshippers at the Israel United in Christ Church in Ilford.\n\nAn inquest at Hatfield Coroner's Court heard her body was found badly decomposed, and wrapped in black plastic bin liners and gaffer tape.\n\nThe court heard toxicology tests showed MDMA in her body, and Det Insp Justine Jenkins said there was no evidence to indicate she would have voluntarily or knowingly taken illegal drugs.\n\n\"She was a church-goer, there is nothing to suggest [she took drugs] at all.\n\n\"We did, however, find MDMA in Israel's car, and it is likely that he was responsible for giving her these drugs.\"\n\nJoy Morgan's remains were found in woodland at Norton Green\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there were three possible minor bruises on Ms Morgan's limbs. She added there was no evidence that Ms Morgan had been stabbed or shot, or restrained or suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault.\n\nShe found evidence of a possible fracture to her hyoid bone, but there was nothing to suggest she had suffered compression of the neck.\n\nDr Randall said there was no evidence the student had suffered a head injury, but said she could have been rendered unconscious by a blow to the head that was \"non-fatal\".\n\nShe could not rule out suffocation as a cause of death, potentially following milder blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said: \"[The MDMA] is not something that she would have taken and one can't exclude that she was given that, and it in some way rendered her incapable or unconscious.\"\n\nHe said the cause of Ms Morgan's death could not be ascertained.\n\nAfter the inquest, her mother Carol Morgan described her daughter as \"an amazing person\".\n\n\"She's been cremated, I haven't decided where to put her ashes so at the moment she's still at home with me,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "In the end, the master provocateur ended up provoking the wrong person in the wrong way at the wrong time.\n\nUntil August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, he was among \"the best talent in politics\" - in Trump's words.\n\nThen he became \"Sloppy Steve\", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.\n\nOne example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a \"treasonous\" act in talking to Russians.\n\nBannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.\n\nAnd then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nProsecutors said he received more than $1m - and used some of it to pay off personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nEven in a White House where political careers have the life expectancy of a house fly, Bannon's sudden rise and fall over four years is remarkable. Here's how it came about.\n\nAs executive chairman of Breitbart - a combative conservative site with an anti-establishment agenda - Bannon was an early cheerleader for Trump and Trumpism.\n\nBut it was not until 15 months into the property tycoon's presidential race that Bannon joined his team.\n\nBy that point he was already, according to a profile on the Bloomberg website, \"the most dangerous political operative in America\", a man with Democrats and establishment Republicans in his crosshairs, and a knack for well-timed confrontation. A disruptive Trump presented Bannon with a golden opportunity.\n\nWithout Seinfeld, there is no Steve Bannon - it will become clear, don't worry\n\nBannon was born into a family of Irish Catholics - all Kennedy Democrats - in Virginia in November 1953.\n\nHe was not political, he said, until an eight-year stint with the Navy starting in 1977, when he became a Reagan Republican in response to President Carter's handling of the Iran conflict.\n\nA master of reinvention, he went on to work as an executive with the Goldman Sachs bank, before helping finance and produce Hollywood films and later emerging as a political Svengali.\n\nHis record in Hollywood can be described as patchy at best (\"The business runs on talent relationships,\" one former colleague told the New Yorker. \"He had this real will-to-power vibe that was so off-putting.\")\n\nBut Bannon did strike gold in one big way - by negotiating a share of the profits in a new television show, Seinfeld, in 1993. The show ran for nine seasons and was widely syndicated - in November 2016, Forbes estimated that Bannon, if he owned only a 1% share in the show's profits, would have earned $32.6m (£24m) by that point.\n\nAfter returning to the US from the Chinese city of Shanghai in 2008 feeling the Bush administration was a \"disaster\", Bannon was struck by what he described to the New Yorker as \"this phenomenon called Sarah Palin\". Bannon warmed to the brand of populism employed by the Alaskan governor picked as John McCain's Republican running mate in the 2008 presidential race.\n\nThat populist wave would come crashing to shore with Trump's participation in the 2016 election, a wave Bannon proudly rode the whole way. In Trump, he recognised a willing outlet for his idea that, according to Wolff, \"the new politics was not the art of compromise, but the art of conflict\".\n\nBannon had long talked up Trump's chances on Breitbart News Network, which he took over in 2012 after the death of its founder, Andrew Breitbart. Bannon considered Trump, according to Wolff's book, \"a big warm-hearted monkey\".\n\nLike many of the businessman's cheerleaders, Bannon was eventually invited into his inner circle, becoming the CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.\n\nDishevelled, regularly unshaven, and prone to wearing two shirts at the same time, he was an unlikely candidate to work closely with Trump, who places a high value on appearance. But somehow it worked.\n\nBannon's economic nationalist outlook and his eagerness for a \"deconstruction of the administrative state\" - a tearing apart of the system of taxes and regulations that he believed had hindered the US over years - chimed with Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" plea.\n\nTwo days after his arrival, Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as campaign chairman.\n\nBannon's counterpart in the Democratic camp, Robby Mook, responded furiously: \"Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, sometimes racist... sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe provocateur in Bannon will almost certainly have enjoyed the reaction to his appointment. Less than three months later, he'd have even more to celebrate.\n\nTrump and Bannon thought as one in the last weeks of the campaign, to the extent that the Republican candidate would often demand: \"Where's my Steve? Where's my Steve?\", according to one former Trump aide.\n\nIn interviews after the event, Bannon said he always believed Trump would win. But not everyone else did, according to Michael Wolff's book. Indeed, in the weeks after the billionaire won, \"he had come to credit Bannon with something like mystical powers\" for having predicted the victory.\n\nWhite House appointments aren't often met with wide protests - but then Steve Bannon's was no ordinary appointment\n\nDays after the election, Trump named his trusted lieutenant as \"chief strategist\" - a newly created role - in his cabinet.\n\nThere were wide protests against the decision, and 169 members of the House - all Democrats - sent a letter to the president-elect asking him to withdraw Bannon's nomination, saying \"bigotry, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should have no place in our society, and they certainly have no place in the White House\".\n\nBannon's vision was made clear in Trump's bleak inaugural address, which he wrote. Wolff says in his book it was \"a Bannon-driven message to the other side that the country was about to undergo profound change... his take-back-the-country, America-first, carnage-everywhere vision of the country\".\n\nThe \"American carnage\" speech painted a vision of a US with \"mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation\".\n\nThe full ramifications of Bannon's America First policy were made clear a week later, with Trump signing an executive order dreamt up by his chief strategist that banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US. It caught many White House staff unaware.\n\nBannon, Wolff writes, was \"satisfied\" at the move and the subsequent outrage. \"He could not have hoped to draw a more vivid line between the two Americas - Trump's and liberals',\" Wolff writes, adding that the timing of its release before a busy weekend was deliberate - so it could cause as much chaos as possible.\n\nOne word that regularly features in interviews with Bannon is \"war\". Trump HQ on election night was \"the war room\", the same name he gave to the Oval Office when Trump took over. When Bannon would go on to leave the White House, he said he was going to \"war\" on Trump's behalf.\n\nFor Bannon, disorder was the new order in the White House. He and Trump were creating conflict and confusion, and that suited Bannon just fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bannon's three goals for the Trump presidency\n\nA day after Trump's executive order on immigration was signed, there was another controversial announcement - the US president downgraded military chiefs of staff from his National Security Council and gave a regular seat to Bannon instead.\n\nOnly career diplomats and generals usually join the council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. By being invited to be a member, Bannon - in his first government job, aged 63 - was allowed to join high-level discussions about national security.\n\nThe reaction was, predictably, one of shock.\n\nDemocrat former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the move \"dangerous and unprecedented\", and Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice tweeted: \"This is stone-cold crazy. After a week of crazy.\"\n\nThe White House, of course, defended their man as being more than capable enough to be on the council, pointing out his Navy service.\n\nBut in retrospect, this promotion is about as good as it got for Bannon in the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the people who have resigned or been fired under President Trump\n\nIn the end, Bannon lasted a little over two months on the National Security Council, leaving in April.\n\nIt was not a demotion, White House officials said, but the reasons for the change were not clear. Perhaps, just by shaking up the old order, the appointment had done its job.\n\nBut this change in his responsibilities became an indication of what was to come.\n\nAfter a summer of reports that Bannon was less and less visible in a White House suffering infighting and leaks, he left his position last August.\n\nIt was sold as a strategic move - Bannon would head back to Breitbart, where he would fight for Trump's agenda. \"I've got my hands back on my weapons,\" he said. \"It's Bannon the Barbarian.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBreitbart welcomed back what it called its \"populist hero\", with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow saying Bannon had \"his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda\".\n\nBut his departure from the White House came at the end of a week in which Bannon had come under fire from a number of quarters, and amid reports of tension with key aides including National Security Adviser HR McMaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlottesville was the culmination of months of protests by white supremacists\n\nClashes had taken place the previous weekend between far-right and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after which Trump blamed \"both sides\" for the violence - Bannon had once said his Breitbart site was \"a platform for the alt-right\" who were responsible for the violence.\n\nTwo days before he left his job, an interview with Bannon in the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, reportedly infuriated the president. Bannon was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Trump.\n\nThen, a day later, a BuzzFeed report that said that Trump was unhappy with the credit his adviser was taking for the election victory.\n\n\"He undermined Trump's ego,\" Joshua Green, the author of a book on Bannon's relationship with Trump, Devil's Bargain, told the BBC.\n\n\"Trump can't abide the thesis of my book and Michael Wolff's book, which is that Bannon is the brains of the operation and Trump is an erratic charlatan. That's what Trump won't abide.\"\n\nBannon backed Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race - it didn't end well for them\n\nNow on the outside looking in, Bannon was more than happy to tell Trump where he thought he was going wrong. He attacked him through Breitbart for reversing course and sending more troops to Afghanistan, and called Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey the biggest mistake in \"modern political history\".\n\nBut Bannon was back in his natural habitat as he gunned for the Republican establishment, putting his weight behind ultra-conservative populist candidate Roy Moore in a senate race in Alabama.\n\nMoore comfortably won the primary against Luther Strange, the incumbent backed by Trump and the Republican machine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Moore went on to face allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, which he denied, and in December he lost the race to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years.\n\nBannon's man, one eventually backed by Trump and the Republican party, had suffered a humiliating loss in what was supposed to be Bannon's first big victory. A win would have given him momentum in his campaign to field populist candidates against Republican senators in the 2018 mid-terms. A loss made that much harder.\n\nBannon - humbled, surprised - credited Democrats for having worked hardest, but the defeat risked grounding his populist movement to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump harsher on Bannon than he is on his 'worst enemies'\n\nTrump may once have been Bannon's \"big warm-hearted monkey\". But even cuddly monkeys can bite.\n\nAs details of Michael Wolff's book emerged, one key line stood out - Bannon described a meeting Donald Trump Jr held in New York with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign as \"treasonous\".\n\n\"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,\" he told Wolff.\n\nThe reaction from the White House - reeling from a special-counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia - was swift. Bannon had \"lost his mind\" after losing his White House position, the president said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy benefactor of Bannon's, said she had ended her support for his political efforts.\n\nBannon, left with fewer and fewer allies, insisted his comments were not directed at Mr Trump's son but at another former aide, Paul Manafort, who was also present at the meeting in Trump Tower.\n\nBut there was only one way left to go. The goodbye from Breitbart was polite, and Bannon was out.\n\nSomewhere, somehow, Bannon the master string-puller will re-emerge - possibly in a different guise.\n\nCould he and Trump ever reconcile?\n\n\"Trump has fired people before and then let them back in,\" Joshua Green, the author of Devil's Bargain, said.\n\n\"But I've never seen Trump bury somebody as forcefully as he did Bannon, both in his statement and the parade of White House officials who have come out to heap scorn and derision on Bannon.\n\n\"It's awfully hard to imagine how Bannon could recover from that.\"\n\nAn unexpected twist unfolded ahead of the November 2020 election when Bannon and three other people were arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nYou'll remember that building this wall was a key pledge of Trump's 2016 campaign, which Bannon played a leading role in.\n\nBannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the \"We Build the Wall\" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.\n\nBannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said.\n\nEach of the two charges - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. He leaves office with two impeachments and the nation on edge. But his supporters say he kept his promises.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "The National Audit Office has had full access to the BBC's accounts since 2010\n\nThe BBC faces \"significant\" uncertainty over its financial future due to changes in viewing habits, a National Audit Office report has found.\n\n\"While the BBC remains the most used media brand in the UK, its share of younger audiences has been under pressure,\" the spending watchdog said.\n\n\"Falling audience share poses a financial risk as people are less likely to pay the licence fee.\"\n\nThe BBC said it had already set out plans for \"urgent\" reforms.\n\nAccording to the NAO report, the BBC has seen \"a notable drop\" in audience viewing while its income from the licence fee has also declined.\n\nThe BBC \"faces considerable uncertainty\" about its licence fee income and should produce \"a long-term financial plan... as soon as possible\", it states.\n\nSuch a plan, the report recommends, should \"set out the detail for the next stage of its savings, and how it will fund its new strategic priorities\".\n\nIn 2019-20, the BBC generated total income of £4.94bn, of which £3.52bn was public funding from the licence fee. That was £310m less than the corporation received from the licence fee between 2017-18.\n\nThe current cost of an annual television licence is £157.50\n\nThe report also highlighted a 30% decline in BBC TV viewing over the past decade. On average, the amount of time an adult spent watching broadcast BBC television fell from 80 minutes a day in 2010 to 56 minutes in 2019.\n\nAnd the NAO said the BBC's financial health had been \"unexpectedly weakened\" by the impact of the coronavirus response.\n\nLast November, the BBC began negotiations with the government about the future funding it will receive from the licence fee. The fee, which is currently £157.50 annually, is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nIn response, the BBC said it had made \"significant savings and increased efficiencies, while maintaining our spending on content, and continuing to be the UK's most-used media organisation\".\n\nIt added: \"We have set out plans for urgent reforms focused on providing great value for all audiences and we will set out further detail on this in the coming months.\n\n\"The report also stresses the importance of stable funding for the future, which we welcome as we begin negotiations with government over the licence fee.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists said the report's findings \"come as no surprise\" and that the BBC needs \"a financially secure long-term deal that will guarantee its future.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the finances of government departments and other public sector bodies. Last week Richard Sharp, the BBC's incoming chairman, said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the corporation, but it \"may be worth reassessing\" in future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?\n\nThere's a lot to consider, so we asked the experts to break it down for us.\n\nResponses have been edited for length and clarity.\n\nMatthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.\n\nDonald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government.\n\nWhen historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.\n\nThey will focus on Trump's tortured relationship with the alt-right, his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nIf Donald Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader.\n\nA president who, before the pandemic, presided over an economic boom, re-oriented America's opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist (conservative) majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorised Operation Warp Speed to produce a Covid-19 vaccine in record time.\n\nLaura Belmonte is a history professor and dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She is a foreign relations specialist and author of books on cultural diplomacy.\n\nHis attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.\n\nThe moment I found jaw-dropping was the press conference he had with Vladimir Putin in 2018 in Helsinki, where he took Putin's side over US intelligence in regard to Russian interference in the election.\n\nI can't think of another episode of a president siding full force with a non-democratic society adversary.\n\nIt's also very emblematic of a larger assault on any number of multilateral institutions and treaties and frameworks that Trump has unleashed, like the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear framework.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump's applauding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, really turning himself inside out to align the US with regimes that are the antithesis of values that the US says it wants to promote. That is something that I think was really quite distinctive.\n\nAnother aspect is extricating the US from any really assertive role in promoting human rights throughout the world, and changing the content of the annual human rights reports from the State Department and not including many topics, like LGBT equality, for instance.\n\nKathryn Brownell is a history professor at Purdue University, focusing on the relationships between media, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the American presidency.\n\nBroadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way. As a historian who studies the intersection of media and the presidency, it is truly striking the ways in which he has convinced millions of people that his fabricated version of events is true.\n\nWhat happened on 6 January at the US Capitol is a culmination of over four years during which President Trump actively advanced misinformation.\n\nJust as Watergate and the impeachment inquiry dominated historical interpretations of Richard Nixon's legacy for decades, I do think that this particular post-election moment will be at the forefront of historical assessments of his presidency.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nKellyanne Conway's first introduction of the notion of \"alternative facts\" just days into the Trump administration when disputing the size of the inaugural crowds between Trump and Barack Obama.\n\nPresidents across the 20th Century have increasingly used sophisticated measures to spin interpretation of policies and events in favourable ways and to control the media narrative of their administrations. But the assertion that the administration had a right to its own alternative facts went far beyond spin, ultimately foreshadowing the ways in which the Trump administration would govern by misinformation.\n\nTrump harnessed the power of social media and blurred the lines between entertainment and politics in ways that allowed him to bypass critics and connect directly to his supporters in an unfiltered way.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan also used new media and a celebrity style to connect directly to the people in this unfiltered way, ultimately transforming expectations and operations of the presidency that paved the path for Trump.\n\nMary Frances Berry is a professor of American history and social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on legal history and social policy. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights.\n\nIn what he did with judges, Trump has made a long lasting change over the next 20 years, 30 years in how policies will stand up to legal tests and how they're able to be implemented - no matter what any particular president or administration proposes.\n\nThe courts are controlled by the Republican appointees. Sometimes judges surprise us, but for the most part, the historical evidence is that they pretty much do what their politics and their backgrounds say they will do.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nWhen he supported that package of measures that helped particular people in the black community, like First Step, pardoning people at the same time that he supported an amendment in the appropriations bill that gave a whole bunch of money to historically black colleges and universities for the first time.\n\nHe put all of these things together, as well as having the first stimulus programme making sure that black businessman and entrepreneurs get some of those loans they've had trouble getting before.\n\nThe effect of all of that, which we will see over time, was in the midterms, a lot more young black men voted for Trump than before. And if that's a trend, it may help the Republican party.\n\nTrump also made egregious comments about black people and other people of colour, tried to have protests against police abuse disrupted and in other ways appealed to his white supremacist base.\n\nHis lasting impact on race relations depends on what the Biden administration does on policy, and on healing and how long the pandemic and economic downturn lasts.\n\nMargaret O'Mara is history professor at the University of Washington, focusing on the political, economic, and metropolitan history of the modern US.\n\nContesting a very constitutionally and numerically clear election victory by Joe Biden.\n\nWe've had plenty of really unpleasant transitions. Herbert Hoover was incredibly unpleasant about his loss, but he still rode in that car down Pennsylvania Avenue at inauguration. He didn't talk to Franklin Roosevelt the whole time, but there still was a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTrump is a manifestation of political forces that have been in motion for a half century or more. A culmination of what was not only going on in the Republican party, but also the Democratic party and more broadly in American politics - a kind of disillusionment with government and institutions and expertise.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump is exceptional in many ways, but one of the things that really makes him stand out is that he is one of the rare presidents who was elected without having held any elected office before.\n\nTrump may go away, but there is this great frustration with the establishment, broadly defined. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.\n\nA presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.\n\nOver time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.\n\nSaikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers.\n\nThe last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again.\n\nHe forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations. Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really.\n\nIt's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.\n\nIt's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nThe president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or \"make them fairer\".\n\nThe president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view. No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're \"soft\" on Canada, right?\n\nI think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China.\n\nDomestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas.", "Testing of close contacts of identified cases was due to start in secondary schools and colleges in England\n\nThe government has paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing of close contacts, in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges.\n\nTesting close contacts of a positive case as an alternative to isolation showed some benefits in trials.\n\nBut the emergence of a new variant means the risk of missing infections has risen, health officials say.\n\nRegular testing of staff will now increase to twice a week.\n\nMore research is needed on how daily contact testing would work given the new, more transmissible, coronavirus variant, Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace say.\n\nIn the meantime, routine testing to pick up asymptomatic cases in staff and pupils remains a key part of the government's plans.\n\nMass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January.\n\nHowever, under new lockdown restrictions, schools have had to switch to providing online teaching until February - although children of key workers are still allowed to attend - and plans were postponed.\n\nHow testing of pupils will be organised once schools reopen is still not clear.\n\nThe original plan for rapid Covid testing in all secondary schools and colleges included:\n\nThe aim was to keep as many children in schools as possible by avoiding a whole bubble, class or year having to be sent home, and to reduce disruption from staff having to isolate.\n\nBut some scientists have consistently expressed concerns about the accuracy of the rapid tests, which do not need to be sent to a lab for the results.\n\nThey say the high number of false negatives means close contacts may wrongly think they are not infectious and go on to mix with more vulnerable people.\n\nAnd now PHE and NHS Test and Trace say the new variant, which \"increases the risk of transmission everywhere, including in school settings\", has made this a risk no longer worth taking.\n\n\"The balance between the risks (transmission of virus in schools and onward to households and the wider community) and benefits (education in a face-to-face and safe setting) for daily contact testing is unclear,\" their statement adds.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England have reviewed their advice and concluded that, in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of the new variant, further evaluation work is required to make sure it is achieving its aim of breaking chains of transmission and reducing cases of the virus in the community.\n\n\"There is no change to the main rollout of regular testing using rapid lateral flow tests in schools and colleges, which is already proving beneficial in finding teachers and students with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You wouldn’t want to give this to anybody'\n\nI was last here at University Hospital Monklands on 1 May when those dealing with the first wave of an unknown disease were already tired.\n\nAt that time, the deaths of 29,059 people had been registered in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nI returned 259 days later with the number of deaths at 89,230 to find that the staff are exhausted.\n\n\"We're all physically, mentally and emotionally drained now,\" says Fiona Bauld, an intensive care unit (ICU) staff nurse.\n\nIn the first wave, the Lanarkshire hospital was almost empty except for patients being treated for Covid or other critical and emergency needs.\n\nThis time there are just a handful of spare beds in the entire building. Staff who had helped out with critical care last year are back in their own departments, and the ICU specialists are alone once more.\n\n\"There's not really enough extra nurses to account for the extra patients so the amount of work everyone is doing is much more,\" says intensive care consultant Daniel Silcock.\n\nThe patients are changing too.\n\nIn the first wave, most patients were old and often ill before they contracted the virus, says ICU ward manager Margaret Harkins.\n\n\"This time the patients are a much younger age group and some have no underlying health conditions,\" she adds.\n\n\"We are getting people in in their 20s, 30s and 40s,\" Ms Bauld says. \"Younger people are catching this virus and becoming really critically ill with it.\"\n\nMae Mamaril (right) and her parents Jaramias and Sonia tested positive\n\nMae Mamaril is one of them. She is 26 and has no underlying health conditions.\n\nMae and her parents Jaramias and Sonia, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, tested positive for Covid within days of being vaccinated for their jobs.\n\nAll three ended up in Monklands but Mae was the sickest and the only member of her family admitted to intensive care.\n\nShe had to wear an oxygen mask and lie face down on a bed for three days, a treatment called proning which medics say can improve lung function in many patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mae Mamaril, 26, was moved to intensive care at the start of the year\n\n\"I couldn't breathe,\" she says. \"It was really bad because they moved so quickly to give me oxygen and told me to lie on my stomach.\n\n\"All I could think about was wanting to come home, but then at the same time, I knew that if I didn't have enough oxygen, even if I went home, I would never survive.\"\n\nNot only is the hospital busy with younger people in this wave but senior doctors say a third of all patients here now have the virus.\n\nThere is another big difference outside the building.\n\nIn May, when I drove from Glasgow to the hospital in Airdrie the roads were empty, the streets silent.\n\nThat is no longer the case. Heading east to Monklands again, the M8 is the busiest I have seen it since the pandemic began.\n\nDoctors and nurses have noticed the increase in traffic too - and they are worried.\n\n\"Without a lockdown, I think it would just be a disaster,\" Dr Silcock says.\n\n\"We've had twice as many admissions this time as we did in the first wave.\"\n\nDr Sanjiv Chohan, who runs the intensive care department, says he too is worried.\n\nBut what about the many harmful side effects of lockdown - on other medical conditions, especially mental health, as well as the impact on education and the economy?\n\n\"I sympathise completely,\" says Dr Chohan, pointing out that the ICU staff are also affected by these issues.\n\n\"It's a really difficult balancing act. It's choosing the least harmful options,\" he says, adding: \"We have to preserve some ability to have functioning hospitals.\"\n\nAt times, Monklands has not been able to function normally.\n\nSince the autumn, around a third of all intensive care patients here have had to be transferred out of the hospital to other facilities — primarily to Wishaw and Hairmyres but sometimes out of Lanarkshire entirely.\n\nChief nurse Karen Goudie says she is worried about the coming weeks\n\nThe chief nurse at Monklands, Karen Goudie, says that was necessary to reduce pressure and create capacity for incoming patients.\n\nThere has not yet been a point when all Scotland's hospitals have been overwhelmed at the same time.\n\n\"No, not yet but we're worried about the coming weeks,\" says Ms Goudie. \"The projections look - scary, I guess, is the right word to use. \"\n\nStaff here believe a current increase in cases is attributable to families mixing at Christmas and to people not sticking to the current lockdown rules.\n\nStill, they have coped. Patients are now less likely than in the first wave to need the dangerous intervention of a ventilator as knowledge of how to treat the disease develops.\n\nFor many though, a Covid diagnosis can remain frightening and perilous.\n\nJim McShane, 56, works for a gas company in Motherwell. I leave intensive care to meet him on the Covid ward where he is being treated.\n\n\"You just don't know what's ahead,\" he tells me. \"It just destroys you sometimes. Brings you right down.\"\n\n\"I would tell people to stay out the road of one another,\" he says.\n\nAfter I leave, Jim is transferred to intensive care. He is now on a ventilator.\n\nThere may be some signs that Scotland's latest surge in hospital admissions may be easing.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The driver sat on his overturned van until rescuers arrived\n\nA supermarket delivery driver had to be rescued from his overturned van after he careered off the road and ended up in a fast-flowing ford, police said.\n\nFirefighters and police were called to the River Wear, Westgate, in Weardale, after reports that a Morrisons van was stuck at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the van had \"careered\" off the road and the man sat on top of the vehicle before being rescued.\n\nCounty Durham Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was \"challenging.\"\n\nWater specialists from the fire service braved the river in a raft attached to a nearby footbridge and gave the man a life jacket.\n\nPolice said the driver was not injured but was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe fire service tweeted a video of the scene, and said they were \"so proud\" of the water rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScott Bisset, who lives nearby, went to see if he could help after he was called by people who heard the driver shouting for help.\n\nMr Bisset, a member of the local mountain rescue team, said he thought the driver may have ended up there after being directed by his sat-nav.\n\nHe said: \"There's not a vehicle in the world that could have got through.\n\n\"The river was in flood - the snow here has melted and there was rain, so there was a lot of water in the river.\n\n\"The van was washed off and turned over on its side, luckily the front was pointing upstream, so it acted like a boat.\n\n\"If the water had been hitting the side of the van or the back, the driver would unfortunately have drowned.\n\n\"When I got there the driver was extremely distressed.\"\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water\n\nHe also said that rescuers had put their lives at risk.\n\n\"I know they practice for this but in those conditions, with that freezing water travelling at great speed, in the dark and the pouring rain, it was very dangerous and they were very brave,\" he said.\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "When Joe Biden becomes US president on 20 January plenty of change is expected under his new administration.\n\nFor those who want to put Donald Trump in the rear view mirror, there's a lot to look forward to.\n\nOthers are not sure if he can bring unity to a divided country and enact lasting change.\n\nHere's what members of our BBC voter panel told us.\n\nPeyton Forte is a recent college graduate who now works as a reporter. She was not the big supporter of Biden and Kamala Harris, but says getting rid of Donald Trump is an urgent and necessary first step towards change.\n\nWhat are you hopeful the Biden administration can accomplish?\n\nFor starters, easing the pandemic and ensuring more collaboration between federal and state governments on vaccine distribution. I'm looking forward to his stimulus packages to kickstart the economy and make sure people are actually alive to reap the benefits of it. We can also look forward to a president whose main mode of communication is not Twitter. The biggest thing is undoing the damage of the prior administration, from immigration laws to our relationships with foreign allies.\n\nWhat are your fears for the Biden presidency?\n\nTo be honest, I haven't really gotten to that point because I'm so ready for the Trump administration to be gone. So ask me that question again in a few weeks. I'm really encouraged by Biden's financial and economic cabinet picks because I think he is trying to stunt the racial wealth gap. There will be a time and place to nitpick his choices, but not yet. As somebody who is black, I know he rejected calls to defund the police. The phrase is inflammatory, but that money is redirected into our communities, so I'd like for him to take another look at it and maybe he'll reconsider.\n\nWith so much talk of the need for unity and healing, where does the country go from here?\n\n'Unity and healing' is the new 'thoughts and prayers'. I know it has been kind of a calling card for Biden to contrast himself with Trump, but I'm going to have to see it to believe it. Are you just faking it or are you doing the work to actually unify people? Time will tell if people actually want unity or if some are just mad that their candidate lost.\n\nJim is a property manager and conservative Republican who no longer supports President Trump since his refusal to accept the results of the election. He wants the incoming administration to find common ground rather than be too left wing.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm hopeful for some stability and less drama. America's standing in the world, particularly in the last couple of weeks, has really diminished and I would hope they would be able to return us to our traditional position in the world. I would like to see the bill he puts forward on Covid relief. If we're going to put money into people's hands, we need to make sure it actually makes a difference. Six hundred dollars is a slap in the face when you look at how we're giving away billions of dollars to other countries.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI am worried they're going to overreach and placate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and create deeper polarisation. I worry they will try to pack the Supreme Court. I am concerned about immigration policy. I would hope they have the courage to be more moderate in tone, action and policy, at least for the first few years. That way, things can level off and then we can have reasonable debate about issues on a case-by-case basis. One side is really having a hard time accepting the reality of [Trump's] loss; that's too many people to just ignore and it seems like there's a real mood for retaliation.\n\nCompromises will need to happen and both sides on the extreme right and left will not be happy with it. In the immediate moment, we need to have a good tone from the top that is conciliatory and respectful. I'm looking for Biden to reassure Americans their vote was secure and legitimate, restore a sense of public confidence and competence to the US government and spend serious time on rebuilding unity.\n\nLesley is a small business owner and an immigrant from Canada. Joe Biden was not her first choice for president by a long shot, but she now says he is \"the best person\" for this moment in the country's history and she hopes he can follow through.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm looking forward to real leadership and an administration that actually cares about getting things done. We need to get the virus under control. They have an actual plan; I hate that it's going to cost another $2tn, but it wouldn't have cost that if we had taken the time to do the hard work early. From climate change and fire management to infrastructure and renewable energy, they'll get us back on track. From a civil rights perspective, we have the greatest opportunity. The administration is diverse and he's trying to give everyone a seat at the table.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nNothing comes to mind. I feel like this administration is going to reset, refocus and prioritise things that should be prioritised. There's so much that needs to be addressed at once, but like the rest of the world, they have to learn to multitask and do their jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?\n\nWe need our elected officials, when doing their jobs, to not just represent one segment of the population. They can see what has happened by turning a blind eye and not listening. For the Democrats, they need to find a way to communicate so the concerns they've raised are taken seriously but without turning off the other side. For the Republicans, they need to pay attention not just to the loudest people - just being loud doesn't mean they're right. Moving forward, everybody has to do their part to prioritise what is best for the country. We're never going to get rid of the element that attacked the Capitol, but it's like herd immunity. The only people who were surprised by what happened last week were the ones who were not paying attention.\n\nJazmin is a writer and youth voting rights activist who says the past four years have damaged the psyche of young people. She wants the new administration to rebuild trust and show people like her that government can be a force for good in their lives.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI hope that the Biden administration is bold on climate, an equitable Covid economic recovery and racial justice. Personally though, I think we fundamentally need to look at our broken system. Restoring voting rights, stronger ethics and anti-corruption measures, as well as campaign finance reform can restore balance and transparency within our government, so we can trust in our elections and elected officials.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI've been thinking a lot about the pace of change. There's so much that needs to be done but we're also looking at departments that have been gutted. The damage of the past three years has been so deep and the rolling back of it will take a lot of time, so we have to practise patience and we have to be realistic.\n\nOur government only works when people decide not to disengage and be cynical, but instead step up and figure out how to get involved. The events of the Capitol work were horrific and traumatising for so many people, but the day before it was a Georgia election with incredibly high youth voter turnout. There is a lot of vitriol and hate, but the majority of folks believe in working to ensure our country is serving the best interests of everyone.\n\nGabriel is a writer and the activism chair for the New York Young Republicans. He wishes the Biden administration good luck, but is concerned it will sow more division in a vulnerable moment for the country.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nAs an American, I am hopeful that things go well under this administration. I don't wish for Joe Biden to fail because the president is like the pilot of a plane: if he goes down, so do we. I hope he can answer the renewable energy debate, create more nuclear power plants and allow the United States to remain the number one exporter of energy. Hopefully, we'll see some sort of voter ID laws enforced, for greater election integrity. I hope he doesn't fuel more divisions.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nMy fear is that he will listen to people like AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders, who are trying to push him to accept more far left policies that will do more harm than good to the US in an economic sense. He may continue the harsh lockdowns and ignore censorship of conservatives. Under the Trump administration, we decreased our presence in the Middle East and were stopping the forever wars, so I really hope we don't return there.\n\nAfter what happened at the Capitol, Biden came out and started very well, then devolved into race-baiting rhetoric - that's not something our country needs right now. There are millions of people who feel as though they were cheated and did not get a fair election, and some of them might not even recognise Biden as president, so it's very important that he treads lightly and focuses on unity. Don't lump them together as insurgents or other labels because you're going to further alienate people. Speak to every American and say that it is time to come together.", "As Donald Trump comes towards the end of his presidency, we've put together a selection of striking moments from his four years in office.\n\nCrowds are seen gathered at Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony on 20 January 2017.\n\nJust days later, the new president accused the media of lying about the attendance. He was said to be angry that images appeared to show the crowds were lower than for Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media it had been \"the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period\".\n\nFar-right supporters and white nationalists took part in a torch-lit rally through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.\n\nThe following day a woman was killed and 19 were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of counter-protesters in the city.\n\nIn response, President Trump condemned violence by \"many sides\", prompting a wave of criticism. Some 48 hours later, he denounced far-right extremists calling \"KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists repugnant to everything we hold dear\".\n\nJoe Biden has said it was the president's response to the tragedy that prompted his own decision to run against him.\n\nMr Trump's attendance at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 did not get off to a good start, when prior to the event, the president announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada.\n\nOther images from the meeting showed more friendly relations between the leaders - but this photo was considered by many to reflect the underlying tensions of the gathering.\n\nMr Trump left the summit before other leaders and claimed that America was \"like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing\".\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump is pictured wearing a jacket in June 2018 which reads \"I really don't care, do you?\" on the back, during a trip to a migrant child detention centre.\n\nThere was speculation over what message Mrs Trump intended to send by wearing the jacket on that trip, which came as the president was under fire for his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.\n\nThe First Lady later admitted it had been a message \"for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them I don't care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what I feel is right\".\n\nMr Trump called for compromise in politics during his State of the Union address in February 2019 but Nancy Pelosi was pictured giving what many saw as a sarcastic clap.\n\nHe broke protocol by not waiting for the customary introduction from the House Speaker before beginning his speech.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\" quickly went viral and appeared to show the political rivalry between the two.\n\nMr Trump walks into the northern side of the military demarcation line that divides North and South Korea in June 2019. In doing so, he became the first US sitting president to cross the line.\n\nHis decision to meet Kim Jong-un without pre-conditions stunned the world.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nKim Kardashian West speaks at a White House event about prison reform in June 2019.\n\nIn 2018, the celebrity activist lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of a grandmother jailed for life. Alice Johnson was later granted clemency in a high-profile decision by Mr Trump.\n\nPresident Trump has already given pardons to 94 people and there is speculation he may pardon 100 others before he leaves office.\n\nMr Trump holds a bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House in June 2020.\n\nPeaceful anti-racism demonstrators had been cleared from nearby Lafayette Square with pepper spray and flash-bang grenades so that the president and his entourage could walk to the church.\n\nHis actions prompted shock and anger from many religious leaders, who accused him of using religion for political purposes.\n\nThe Trump family watch as Donald Trump debates with Joe Biden at their first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September 2020.\n\nThey broke debate rules that all spectators wear masks - sparking the same criticism often aimed at their father for taking a cavalier attitude to the virus.\n\nA few days after the debate, the president tested positive himself.\n\nHe spent three nights in a hospital receiving treatment before returning to the White House and declaring he felt \"really good\" and urging others not to be afraid of the virus.\n\nCrowds of Trump supporters climb on the US Capitol in DC earlier this month following a \"Stop the Steal\" rally.\n\nIt followed a 70-minute address by the president in which he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians were meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The mob ransacked the Capitol building and attempted to enter the chambers where lawmakers were hiding.\n\nMr Trump has since been impeached, becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice. But he denies charges that he incited the mob to attack the Capitol.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state before departing for Washington on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "More than 60 flood warnings remain in place in northern, central and eastern England\n\nResidents have been evacuated, roads closed and rail services were suspended as Storm Christoph batters England.\n\nHouseboat residents were moved from Northwich, Cheshire, for their safety as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold an emergency meeting later.\n\nNorthern, central and eastern England are braced for flooding which will be discussed at the Cobra meeting.\n\nMore than 60 flood warnings remain in place and three police forces have declared major incidents.\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nPeople living in houseboats in Cheshire have been moved to hotels for their safety, say police\n\nCheshire Police has declared a major incident - along with forces in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire - and moved 33 people from Hayhurst Marina for their safety as water levels rise.\n\nIn Greater Manchester up to 3,000 properties could be affected by flooding near the River Mersey where a peak is expected at 23:00 GMT.\n\nDowning Street said Covid-secure evacuation centres would be made available to those forced to leave their homes as a result of flooding.\n\n\"Preparations to create Covid-secure rest centres have been made by relevant agencies as a precautionary measure,\" the Prime Minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"The important message for the public now is to continue to monitor the information the Environment Agency are providing and sign-up for flood alerts if they haven't already.\"\n\nThe River Eden has flooded Rickerby Park in Carlisle\n\nMore than 120mm (nearly 5in) of rain has already fallen in some parts of England, with 123.4mm at Honister Pass in Cumbria in the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNearby Seathwaite saw the second highest total, with 107.2mm (4.2in), and some isolated spots could see up to 200mm (7.8in), the Met Office said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 60 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 180 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA road in Lancashire was shut by police after six vehicles got stuck in surface water\n\nIn North Yorkshire, York is currently predicting the River Ouse could rise above 4m (13.1ft) but that is a level the defences can cope with.\n\nHowever, if people are forced out of their homes due to flooding they can stay with friends or family without the risk of a Covid fine during Storm Christoff, North Yorkshire Police has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force declared it a major incident on Tuesday to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\nHe believes up to 3,000 properties in the region could be affected by flooding in Didsbury, Northenden and Sale near the River Mersey.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden, Todmorden on Tuesday\n\n\"This is a significant incident in terms of disruption to people and those people have been advised with regard to action to take,\" he said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman added: \"The Environment Agency is on the ground now working with local partners and stand ready to respond to any flooding.\n\n\"They have already ensured there are 40km (25 miles) of temporary barriers, which they are ready to deliver anywhere in the country and that is alongside high-powered pumps and trained staff who are ready to assist and provide information to local communities.\"\n\nWhen asked if local authorities would be given further financial support to deal with flooding, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: \"We have a number of flood recovery schemes that can be made available to those who are affected by flooding.\"\n\nFlood warden Keith Crabtree from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, said he was hoping improved flood defences had \"done the trick\" after checking river levels in Mytholmroyd.\n\n\"There appears to be plenty of rain about but it does not seem to be having and serious impact on the river levels,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see over the years to come how it performs in reducing the flood risk for the village. Things can change very quickly in the Calder Valley and we are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the floods? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fluttering flight patterns of butterflies have long inspired poets but baffled scientists.\n\nResearchers have struggled to understand how these delicate creatures can fly with their large but inefficient wings.\n\nNow, a new study shows that butterflies evolved an effective way of cupping and clapping their wings to generate thrust.\n\nThe scientists say that this ability helps them avoid dangerous predators.\n\nFlying species have evolved various methods of evading death. Some have developed powerful and efficient wings to speed them to safety.\n\nOthers survive by tasting awful when eaten.\n\nBut what about the slow-moving, meandering butterfly?\n\nThe problem for these creatures is that they have unusually large wings relative to their body size, which are aerodynamically inefficient for flight.\n\nBack in the 1970s, researchers developed a theory that their big wings allowed the butterfly to clap them together on the upstroke to power their take off.\n\nBut no one has shown how this works in natural flying conditions.\n\nNow, Swedish scientists, using a wind tunnel and high-speed cameras, have captured the butterfly's unique flying skill.\n\n\"The wings are behaving in quite an interesting way,\" co-author Dr Per Henningsson, from Lund University, in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"The leading and the trailing edge are meeting before the central part, forming this pocket shape.\n\n\"We think that sort of behaviour is going to improve the clap because it forms an air pocket between the wings which, when the wings collapse, that makes the jet even stronger and more efficient.\"\n\nA butterfly in the wind tunnel for the experiment\n\nAs well as recording slow-motion video of the butterflies in flight, the researchers constructed two simple pairs of mechanical clappers to test their ideas. One was rigid, the other flexible and more akin to the butterfly wings observed in the wind tunnel tests.\n\nThe team found that the flexible wings dramatically increased the force created by the clap.\n\nIt also improved the efficiency by 28%, which the authors describe as a huge amount for a flying animal.\n\nThis leads them to conclude that the large wings and cupped, clapping action were an evolutionary advantage for butterflies when faced with predators.\n\n\"If you are a butterfly that is able to take off quicker than the others, that gives you an obvious advantage,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's a strong selective pressure then, because it's a matter of life and death.\"\n\nA silver washed fritillary , one of the creatures used to show the mechanics of butterfly flight\n\n\"I don't really know if they use it in free flight, but I think they typically don't flap their wings together.\n\n\"But in the take-off phase, they definitely do it a lot.\"\n\nThe authors believe that their research might prove useful in other spheres.\n\nSome drone devices and underwater vehicles already use propulsion systems based on wing clapping motion, but with limitations.\n\nThe incorporation of the approach used by butterflies might bring major improvements, the scientists say.\n\n\"We're suggesting that the people that are working on these designs, they should look into this cup-shape behaviour, since there are lots of efficiency and effectiveness to be gained from it,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's certainly something that would be worthwhile looking into.\"\n\nThe report has been published in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRelegation-threatened Fulham lost some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but showed battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.\n\nOf the three sides currently adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, the Cottagers seem the most capable of clawing their way to safety, as illustrated by their impressive win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nBut they failed to repeat that bright and incisive display at Turf Moor against a typically hard-working and competitive Clarets side, who married their industry with the game's main moments of attacking ingenuity.\n\nIt was the visitors, though, who took the lead, as much through fortune as design, with Ola Aina's chested effort from a corner finding the net despite an attempted clearance from Robbie Brady on the line.\n\nCrucially, the visitors were denied the time to draw confidence from the opener, with Burnley hitting back three minutes later through a well-taken Ashley Barnes finish, following a superb low ball from Jay Rodriguez.\n\nThe same two strikers had both narrowly failed to get a goal-bound touch on a superb low cross from James Tarkowski in the first half, while Rodriguez saw a low drive kicked away by Alphonse Areola shortly after his side had levelled the score.\n\nThe draw represents an opportunity missed for Burnley to put further ground between themselves and the London side, with the gap between the two a sizeable but not yet entirely comfortable eight points.\n\nScott Parker's side remain six points shy of safety, with Newcastle the 17th-placed side most in danger of being reeled in.\n• None Follow live text commentary of Burnley v Fulham in the Premier League\n\nA point gained, or two lost for Fulham?\n\nEarning a result at Burnley against a side built to expose the mental and physical weaknesses in an opponent, especially a newly promoted one, is not an easy task.\n\nIn doing so, Fulham have further demonstrated their growth into a top-flight side, after claiming a number of creditable draws earlier in the campaign and then dispatching an aspiring big-hitter in Everton last weekend.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cottagers' development could have come too late.\n\nOnly wins will really eat into the gap between themselves and safety and they cannot afford to let one slip from their grasp when it is there to be had.\n\nIt is why Parker and his side will be so disappointed at the speed and manner with which they conceded the equaliser at Turf Moor, throwing away the lead and momentum they had seized by allowing Barnes a free run in on goal to finish.\n\nThey had been on the back foot for large periods before that and were indebted to a bit of fortune for their goal, but aesthetics come a distant second to actual points right now.\n\nThe biggest positive for Burnley will be that their advantage over the Cottagers remains the same as it was before kick-off.\n\nWith the likes of Newcastle and Palace in far worse form than they are, and Brighton a point worse off, they will feel relatively calm about their situation.\n\nWhat will worry manager Dyche is further injuries to his already depleted squad, with Johan Berg Gudmundsson having to depart, and his replacement Robbie Brady also needing to be replaced.\n\nThere is no respite for either side, with both facing further important fixtures at the weekend.\n\nBurnley host West Brom, the side a place below Fulham in the table, while Parker's men welcome bottom club Sheffield United to Craven Cottage.\n\n'When we get ahead we need to weather something'\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche talking to Sky Sports: \"Another point on the board, we are stripped to the bare bones. A committed performance.\n\n\"The reaction to their goal was excellent and I thought we defended well. It's remarkably unfortunate how many injuries we have had.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker talking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough place to come, the ball is in play not a lot, it is scrappy. We got our noses in front and disappointed with the goal we have conceded.\n\n\"We take the point though. That is four points so far this week. When we get ahead we need to weather something. There were a couple of mistakes for their goal.\n\n\"I thought we were solid, dealt with the threat of balls coming in but were not able to get our identity on it.\n\n\"We regroup, it has been a busy week. Every game is big for us. Six points. This team has honest belief and confidence.\"\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in their past 31 home meetings with Fulham in all competitions (W25 D6), extending their longest ever unbeaten run against an opponent at Turf Moor in their history. Their last such defeat was back in April 1951 (2-0).\n• None Fulham's 31-game winless streak away from home against Burnley in all competitions is their longest run without a victory on the road against an opponent in their history.\n• None There have been just 24 Premier League goals scored at Turf Moor this season (Burnley scoring 10 and conceding 14) - the joint-lowest total at a top-flight ground in 2020-21 (level with Craven Cottage).\n• None Fulham have gone six consecutive away games without defeat in the Premier League (W1 D5), their joint longest such run in the competition (also in August 2004 under Chris Coleman).\n• None Burnley have conceded the first goal of the game in eight of their 12 Premier League matches at Turf Moor this season, including each of the past five - only Sheffield United (10) have done so more often on home soil in the competition this campaign.\n• None There were just 224 seconds between Ola Aina's opener for Fulham and Ashley Barnes' equaliser for Burnley.\n• None Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career, with this his 196th appearance in the competition.\n• None Burnley's Robbie Brady is the only player to have been substituted on and off in two separate Premier League games this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from very close range misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Maja.\n• None James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Maja (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Tottenham and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed head coach of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe Argentine, 48, who succeeded Thomas Tuchel, has signed a deal until 30 June 2022, with the option of an extra year.\n\nPochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, has been out of work since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.\n\nPSG are third in Ligue 1 and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League in February and March.\n\nGerman Tuchel was sacked on 29 December after two and a half years in charge.\n• None Pochettino is back - but why has he chosen PSG? Read Guillem Ballague's column\n\nPochettino will take his first training session on Sunday following the French league's winter break.\n\nHe said he was \"happy and honoured\" to take on the role and that the club \"has always held a special place in my heart\".\n\n\"I return to the club today with a lot of ambition and humility, and am eager to work with some of the world's most talented players,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"This team has fantastic potential and my staff and I will do everything we can to get the best for Paris St-Germain in all competitions. We will also do our utmost to give our team the combative and attacking playing identity that Parisian fans have always loved.\"\n\nPSG chairman and chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Pochettino's return \"fits perfectly with our ambitions\", adding: \"It will be another exciting chapter for the club and one I am positive the fans will enjoy.\"\n\nPochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol and spent 18 months at Southampton before joining Tottenham in May 2014.\n\nHe guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season, while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2016-17.\n\nA former Argentina defender, Pochettino led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nHe was sacked five months later, with the club 14th in the Premier League, and replaced by Jose Mourinho.\n\nTuchel's final game in charge of PSG was a 4-0 win over Strasbourg on 23 December, which moved the reigning champions to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon and second-placed Lille before a two-week winter break.\n\nPSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham's Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.\n\nWe all wanted to see him back and we all thought he was waiting for the Manchester United job. PSG is a massive job. There's a massive expectation there.\n\nWith the squad he can pick from and the players he can attract, it's a match made in heaven.\n\nPochettino has got the best out of Dele Alli in the past and it would probably be a clever move all round to get him out there with with the Euros looming.\n\nYou have to have success [at PSG]. They have moved Thomas Tuchel on because PSG are actually in a title race rather than winning at a canter. It's a great opportunity for Pochettino.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Arwel Morris said national park staff and police had been engaging with visitors\n\nBeauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy over the last few days\" despite restrictions meaning all but essential travel should be avoided.\n\nSnowdonia park warden Arwel Morris reiterated the message that people should not be driving to visit places.\n\nOn Saturday, police stopped people from Milton Keynes attempting to walk up Snowdon in breach of Covid rules.\n\nMr Morris blamed a \"perfect storm\" of good weather and people being off work for the number of visitors in the area.\n\n\"We try and enforce the fact that exercise should begin and end at home, meaning people should not try and drive to a location where they plan to exercise,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"And this has been really difficult over the last few days.\n\n\"We have dealt with people from London, Birmingham… numerous people from north Wales travelling to beauty spots.\"\n\nMr Morris, a warden for Snowdonia National Park, said police had been doing their \"absolute best\" dealing with visitors despite other pressures, as wardens could not enforce breaches in lockdown rules.\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nOn New Year's Day, the force tweeted to say people had been reported for breaching travel restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a nationwide level four lockdown since 20 December.\n\nWales is in a tier four lockdown\n\nTravelling is only allowed for essential purposes, such as for work and for caring responsibilities. International travel is also not allowed.\n\nPeople are still allowed out of their homes to exercise for unlimited periods each day, but must maintain social distancing and not exercise with anyone outside their household.\n\nMore than three quarters of England is also under the strictest tier four coronavirus measures, putting restrictions on people's daily lives.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "Owen Thomas says metal detecting has been his escape from the stresses of the pandemic.\n\nThe writer from Tongwynlais, Cardiff started metal detecting after bumping into his long-time friend Bob Wiseman - an avid detectorist - during lockdown.\n\nAside from his first outing, when he followed his metal toe cap boots thinking he had found treasure, he has discovered artefacts dating back to the 13th Century.\n\nOwen says he has fallen in love with his new-found hobby and it is \"the link with a life that's gone” that appeals to him so much.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for execution in January 2021\n\nA US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.\n\nLisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.\n\nIf the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.\n\nMontgomery's execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.\n\nIt was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery's lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.\n\nA court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.\n\nBut on Friday, a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law, allowing the execution to take place.\n\nMontgomery's legal team said they will file a petition for the judges to reconsider their ruling.\n\nThe last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nFederal executions had been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume earlier last year.\n\nIf the remaining executions go ahead, Mr Trump will have overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century.\n\nMontgomery's execution date is just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.\n\nMr Biden, who for decades was a fierce supporter of the death penalty as a Delaware senator, has now said he will seek to end federal executions once he takes office.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.\n\n\"Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett - who was eight months pregnant - until the victim lost consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMontgomery cut into Stinnett's body to remove the baby, which she took with her in an attempt to pass it off as her own.\n\nIn 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.\n\nBut Montgomery's lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.\n\nUnder the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.\n\nCertain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.\n\nThe death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.\n\nA 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.\n\nAccording to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's in store for US President-elect Biden in 2021? Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks ahead\n\nThe latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.\n\nA Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.\n\nLawyers for Mr Pence had asked for the case to be thrown out on Thursday.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on 20 January. Mr Trump is yet to concede.\n\nMr Gohmert, a Republican congressman, told Newsmax TV that he planned to appeal against the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's friends and colleagues in the Republican party have presented dozens of legal challenges to the November outcome which delivered a decisive win to Mr Biden.\n\nHis victory was announced after days of vote-counting that took longer than in recent years because of the huge number of postal ballots cast due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Trump has made numerous unsubstantiated claims that Mr Biden's win, which saw the president-elect gain 306 electoral college votes to his rival's 232, was fraudulent.\n\nThe electoral college is a system whereby each US state has an allocated number of points that is granted to the overall winner in each state. The candidate who gains the majority wins the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nCongressman Gohmert's case sought to allow Vice-President Mike Pence to reject some electoral college votes when they are ratified by Congress on 6 January.\n\nThe vice-president presides over the vote certification in Congress in a ceremonial role that involves opening and tallying the envelopes containing electoral college votes before announcing the result.\n\nMr Gohmert's case aimed to expand that role to allow Mr Pence to cast judgement on the validity of the votes and potentially replace votes for Mr Biden with ones for Mr Trump.\n\nBut Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed to the Texas court in 2018 by Mr Trump, rejected the case, saying it was based on speculative events.\n\nOn Thursday a lawyer from the US Justice Department representing Mr Pence urged Mr Gohmert to drop the case, suggesting that it was not the vice-president's office that should be scrutinising the outcome.\n\nAlthough most Republicans in Congress are expected to vote in favour of certifying the results, a small number including Senator Josh Hawley, say they plan to object. But their vote is not expected to change the outcome.\n\nMr Biden is due to be sworn in as president on 20 January at a scaled-back ceremony with just 1,000 tickets available due to Covid-19 precautions.", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,500 people take part in an illegal rave in northern France, despite the nationwide curfew\n\nAn illegal warehouse rave that began on New Year's Eve in France in defiance of coronavirus precautions has been shut down by police after arrests and clashes.\n\nSome of the 2,500 ravers in Lieuron near Rennes in Brittany had planned to party until Tuesday.\n\nPolice issued fines to revellers found leaving and the organisers were being identified as the party ended.\n\nA number of party-goers were from the UK and Spain, police said.\n\nAttendees clashed with police, setting fire to a car and throwing objects at officers attempting to shut the event down. At least three officers were injured.\n\nPolice broke up the three-day party that defied a nationwide curfew\n\nA driver was apprehended with turntables, speakers and a generator in the boot of the vehicle, according to French TV station BFM TV.\n\nPolice trying to stop the event faced \"fierce hostility from many partygoers\", a statement from local authorities said.\n\nBut at 05:30 local time on Saturday the ravers began to accept the party was over and started to leave the two disused warehouse hangars, the local prefecture said.\n\nSome revellers said they were hoping to stay until Tuesday\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that trucks, sound equipment and generators were seized at the scene and an investigation has been opened.\n\nMore than 1,200 fines were issued for non-compliance with the curfew, not wearing a mask and attending an illegal gathering, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gérald DARMANIN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday authorities said they had opened a sanitary cordon around the party and anyone leaving the event was urged to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nOne of the party-goers, who gave his name as Jo, told the AFP news agency that \"very few had respected social distancing\" at the event.\n\nA number of people slept in their cars before returning to dance, Le Monde newspaper reports.\n\nOne reveller told Le Monde that the rave was \"very well organised\" with food stalls inside.\n\nAnother, who came with four friends from Finisterre in north-west France, told the newspaper that she had wanted to \"escape\" for a few hours.\n\nOn Friday an interior ministry crisis meeting was held and all vehicle exits from the rave were blocked as police sought to shut down the party.\n\nFrance introduced strict rules ahead of the New Year including a curfew from 20:00 until 06:00.\n\nMore than 100,000 police officers were deployed across the country to break up parties and enforce the curfew.\n\nOfficers were instructed to break up underground parties as soon as they were reported, fine participants and identify the organisers.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases and 64,892 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nOfficers elsewhere in Europe have also had to break up events in recent days.\n\nPolice dispersed a mass gathering near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Saturday where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.\n\nThree footballers from London-based football team Tottenham Hotspur were photographed at a Christmas party last week in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd in Essex, an illegal New Year's Eve party damaged All Saints Church near Brentwood. Church authorities have since received hundreds of pounds to pay for repairs.\n\nOfficers in Spain broke up the rave near Barcelona, which had been going on for more than 40 hours", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to pay for repairs to a 500-year-old church that was \"trashed\" during an illegal New Year's Eve party.\n\nHundreds of revellers attended the party at All Saints Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, after the building was broken into.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nVolunteer group Friends of All Saints said it was \"completely overwhelmed\" by peoples' \"support and generosity\".\n\nChurch volunteer Astrid Gillespie said the damage was \"devastating\"\n\nThe fundraising page was set up on Friday and aimed to raise £2,000, but in less than 24 hours it had raised more than £8,700.\n\nIt said a \"massive clean-up\" was needed at the \"much-loved\" church after \"hundreds of revellers trashed the place\".\n\nEquipment was seized by police at the illegal party\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up. They had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church. To find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nReferring to the money that was raised, she said: \"Faith in humanity restored\".\n\nThe church, which is owned and maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust, has not been used for religious services since 1970, but regularly houses community events.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Amanda Quinn, who has early onset dementia, is cared for by her 23-year-old daughter Bethany\n\n\"It feels like you're being punished for something you didn't do.\"\n\nAmanda Quinn describes living through lockdown with early onset dementia as \"scary\" and \"feeling lost\".\n\nTwo years ago, she was diagnosed with the condition aged 49, and said the disease was a \"ticking time bomb\" for her husband and four children.\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support worker Lorraine Davies said lockdown had brought a \"great sense of loss\" to many families.\n\nSince her diagnosis, Amanda says she has lost her sense of what day it is, her concentration, and she struggles with speech occasionally and suffers more with incontinence.\n\nWhen Wales went into a UK national lockdown on 23 March, Amanda said she did not leave her home in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for weeks.\n\nShe said her children have noticed a \"big change\" in her.\n\n\"I used to have a wicked sense of humour - I still have one, but it's not how I used to be,\" she said.\n\nBut for Amanda one of the worst parts of her condition is \"losing so many friends\" whom she said \"would rather cross the road\" than talk to her.\n\n\"They don't know how to interact with me anymore,\" she said.\n\nAmanda says her children have noticed a \"big change\" since she was diagnosed aged 49\n\nHer 23-year-old daughter Bethany Kingsley, who cares for her, said the pandemic has caused caring work to increase ten-fold.\n\n\"I have to keep an eye on mum a lot more now, because she doesn't know what to do with herself.\n\n\"But I have also got to look after my mental health side of it as well. There are days where I'm struggling,\" she said.\n\nNow Amanda does activities at home such as adult colouring books, baking with Bethany, and watches movies.\n\n\"It is like being a child,\" Amanda explained.\n\n\"My daughter says it's like we've switched roles and she has become the adult as she holds my hand when we cross the road.\n\n\"Although I can see a car, it doesn't register to me that it is not safe to walk out, all I can think is that I need to be on the other side of the road.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, she attended dementia support groups in person, such as Memoria, a theatrical group of people with dementia and carers, whereas now she does this virtually.\n\nBethany says Covid has had a big impact on caring for her mother\n\nLast year, before the pandemic, Bethany put off moving away to study midwifery at university in Bristol.\n\nAlthough she said it was a \"difficult\" decision as she had wanted to do it for years, she said she was glad she was home to care for her mother during the pandemic.\n\nInstead she chose to study for an Open University course in health and social care from home.\n\n\"I thought my mother is the only person I've got at the end of the day and I would rather make sure she is safe and happy, rather than go off and leave her,\" she said.\n\nBut Amanda said she was concerned about how her condition will progress and affect her family more.\n\nThe 51-year-old said it was \"not fair\" that her daughter had to stay home because of her condition.\n\n\"It worries me how it will affect my children. I'm fortunate, I suppose, that I'm not going to know.\n\n\"I say I don't want to go into a care home but that wouldn't be fair on them - they have still got their whole lives to lead\".\n\nAmanda was still in her 40s when she was diagnosed\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support adviser for younger people Lorraine Davies said there was a stigma attached to younger people with the disease and a \"lack of public awareness\".\n\n\"Some have mortgages, some have young families, and often they also care for older adults - so it has a different impact on them, and their social network of people.\n\n\"A lot of people living with dementia don't always feel they will have next year, so 2020 has been a great sense of loss to them because of the lockdown and restrictions,\" she said.\n\nThe charity estimates that there are between 2,000 to 3,000 people with young onset dementia in Wales, according to 2018 figures from the first Welsh Government national dementia action plan.\n\nHowever Lorraine said the figure was likely to be higher as getting a dementia diagnosis can be harder for younger people, and can take more than a year to have it confirmed.\n\n\"It is also more common for younger people to have rarer forms of dementia, so rather than being a typical Alzheimer's disease, associated with memory loss, a patient might have behavioural changes, but you might just think they are upset, stressed, or put it down to mood swings.\n\n\"Some people have been accused of being drunk, because they have slurred speech, but actually that is a symptom.\"\n\nShe said the Alzheimer's Society has organised virtual support groups for people with the condition and their carers during lockdown.\n\n\"Often younger people want to meet people like them, because it helps them not to feel so alone in this. Knowing that brings people comfort.\"\n\nSimon Hatch, the director of Carers Trust Wales, said the pandemic had highlighted the \"crucial role unpaid carers play both in providing exceptional, expert care to family and friends\".\n\nMr Hatch said the trust found that 44% of young adult carers it spoke to felt overwhelmed by the pressures they were facing.\n\nHe said although there was support available to carers they would need \"sustainable\" forms of this in the future.\n\nThere are about 45,000 people with dementia in Wales, according to the Alzheimer's Society.\n\nThe disease is considered \"early onset\" when it affects people under 65, according to Young Dementia UK.\n\nLorraine said the age distinction was made to mark the difference in financial support, as 65 was state pension age at the time.\n\nDementia itself refers to a set of symptoms caused by many diseases of the brain. The most common symptom is memory loss and difficulty concentrating.\n\nOther symptoms can include struggling to remember recent events, changes to behaviour, mood, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nSpecific symptoms will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.\n\nA picture on social media showed Argentina forward Erik Lamela, Spain defender Sergio Reguilon and Argentina midfielder Giovani lo Celso at a party.\n\n\"We are not happy - it was a negative surprise for us,\" said Mourinho.\n\nIn a statement, Tottenham said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and \"the matter would be dealt with internally\".\n\nWest Ham reminded Argentina forward Manuel Lanzini, who also attended the party, of his responsibilities.\n\nLanzini apologised in a tweet on Saturday, saying he made a \"bad mistake\".\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions,\" he said. \"I know people have made difficult sacrifices to stay safe and I should be setting a better example.\"\n\nLamela and Lo Celso were not involved in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at home to Leeds, while Reguilon, who joined from Real Madrid in September, was on the bench.\n\n\"I gave an amazing gift to Reguilon - Portuguese piglet,\" Mourinho said. \"Amazing for Portuguese and Spanish. I was told he would spend Christmas on his own. He was not alone as you could see.\n\n\"We, the club, feel disappointed because we gave the players all the education and conditions. We know what we are internally. We don't need to open the door to you and let you know what is going on internally.\n\n\"What are going to be the consequences and how deeply we approach that negative surprise? I feel disappointed.\"\n\nThe Spurs statement added: \"We strongly condemned the image showing some of our players with family and friends together at Christmas, particularly as we know the sacrifices everybody around the country made to stay safe over the festive period.\n\n\"The rules are clear, there are no exceptions, and we regularly remind all our players and staff about the latest protocols and their responsibilities to adhere and set an example.\"\n\nLamela has made two league starts and Lo Celso four this season.\n\nLanzini has featured in nine of West Ham's 17 league games, coming on as a substitute in Friday's 1-0 win at Everton.\n\nA West Ham spokesperson said: \"The club has set the highest possible standards with its protocols and measures relating to Covid-19 so we are disappointed to learn of Manuel Lanzini's actions.\n\n\"The matter has been dealt with internally and Manuel has been strongly reminded of his responsibilities.\"\n\nTottenham's home league game with Fulham, scheduled to take place on 30 December, was called off three hours before kick-off after a number of Fulham players tested positive for coronavirus or showed symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, Fulham told BBC Sport they are looking into claims Aleksandar Mitrovic broke coronavirus rules by attending a New Year's party with Crystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic.\n\nImages on social media, reported in the Sun , allegedly show the Serbia team-mates celebrating in London with at least seven other adults.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned in London under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\n'Mourinho must be so angry'\n\nMourinho has been so critical and vocal of how the Premier League handled their situation [the Fulham postponement], which I totally disagree with him.\n\nYou have to accept we're in strange and difficult times - if it has to be called off at whatever time then it has to be called off.\n\nTo then see some of his players breaking the rules and laws, particularly when millions of people are sacrificing so much not only in this country but around the world, Mourinho must be so angry.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bitcoin's value has soared over the past year\n\nBitcoin's value surged above $34,000 (£24,850) for the first time on Sunday as the leading cryptocurrency continued to soar.\n\nIt put the gain this year at almost $5,000, although by 17:00 GMT the price had drifted lower to about $33,000, according to the Coindesk website.\n\nThe rise was put down to interest from big investors seeking quick profits.\n\nIt comes after Bitcoin soared 300% last year, with the price of many other digital currencies also rising sharply.\n\nEthereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, gained 465% in 2020\n\nSome analysts think Bitcoin's value could rise even further as the US dollar drops further.\n\nWhile the value of the US currency rose in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as investors sought safety amid the uncertainty, it has since dropped due to major stimulus from the US Federal Reserve. The currency ended last year with its biggest annual loss since 2017.\n\nBitcoin is traded in much the same way as real currencies like the US dollar and pound sterling.\n\nRecently it has won growing support as a form of payment online, with PayPal among the most recent adopters of digital currencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has also proved to be a volatile investment.\n\nThe soaring price has raised concerns that Bitcoin is due for a dramatic correction, as happened three years ago when the value collapsed after a bull run.\n\nDuring the rally in 2017 Bitcoin came close to breaking through the $20,000 level, only to hit extreme lows and fall below $3,300.\n\nIt passed $19,000 in November last year before dropping sharply again.\n\nIn October, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments pointing out that investors should realise its price is extremely volatile.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced 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that may spread infection, study finds.", "Arsenal's David Luiz is sent off in a performance riddled with mistakes as Manchester City secure a comfortable victory behind closed doors.", "James Bowen wrote six books about his pet Bob who he chanced upon while battling drug addiction.", "Unpaid carers looking after their parents and relatives are turning to food banks, say researchers.", "Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden says people must not gather together as the Premier League restarts.", "The boy, who cannot be named, is accused of involvement in the preparation of a terrorist act.", "The prince discusses his experience with Covid-19 as the royals return to public engagements.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "Matt James will be the first African American male lead on ABC's The Bachelor in 24 seasons.", "Few businesses are unscathed by the lockdown, but these firms can see light at the end of tunnel.", "MPs say the airline's planned job cuts are a 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In its wake, a football club was born.", "The singer, who was the first Welshman to have a solo UK Number One single, had been in ill health.", "BA, Ryanair and EasyJet are challenging plans to force inbound travellers to self isolate for 14 days.", "The film is a brutally honest, first-person account of what can happen to a family when tragedy strikes.", "Red pandas in Nepal are being monitored in their last stronghold in the mountainous forests of Nepal.", "The comedian's criticism comes after an episode was temporarily pulled by UKTV due to \"racial slurs\".", "The moment Rita Kenyon sees her three grandchildren for the first time in weeks is caught on camera.", "The Sun says its article, and headline \"I slapped JK and I'm not sorry\", weren't meant to glorify abuse.", "Shintaro Tsuj steps down after six decades at the helm of the company that created the character.", "A look back at the deaths of black Americans since the emergence of Black Lives Matter.", "A celebration was held at Windsor after the Trooping the Colour parade was cancelled due to coronavirus.", "Neglect of the past and belief in progress has left many unaware of the scope of US racial tensions.", "Airline boss spells out the crisis caused by coronavirus in a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of BA\".", "There are warnings BAME prisoners are being disproportionately affected by the use of the synthetic spray.", "The war-time leader's granddaughter says the statue may be safer in a museum if protests continue.", "Racism and social inequality may exacerbate Covid-19 risk to UK minorities, a leaked report says.", "The former chancellor worked as the editor of the London newspaper for more than three years.", "Hundreds of people stage peaceful protests two towns in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.", "The leaked report by Public Health England says factors such as racism may contribute to increased risks.", "The episode will now carry a warning about \"potentially offensive content and language\".", "British Airways is a firm in crisis, struggling with Covid-19 and in conflict with its employees.", "Many people will reunite with loved ones on Saturday, as lockdown rules ease for those who live alone.", "Large demonstrations take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh despite authorities urging people to stay away.", "On the show this week, Matt Hancock, Lisa Nandy, Sen Rick Scott, David Olusoga and Sam Mendes.", "Hospital bosses in England felt \"in the dark\" over changes to policies on face masks and visitors.", "Protests following the death of George Floyd have brought some important phrases into the spotlight.", "The singing legend, who is celebrating his 80th birthday, shares memories of his life and career.", "The BBC's Ed Thomas visits one street in north-west England that's reeling from three Covid-19 deaths.", "Thousands of people gather at a number of demonstrations, despite ministers urging people to avoid mass gatherings.", "Protesters march in support of George Floyd and indigenous Australians despite coronavirus warnings.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Government advice to reopen for individual prayer would \"cause more challenges\", says Imam Qari Asim", "World Bank President David Malpass says billions of people will have their livelihoods affected.", "Should you be comparing Covid-19 statistics between countries?", "The bodies of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were discovered on Sunday.", "Coronavirus disrupted Harry Billinge's D-Day plans. But he got to meet a face from his past instead.", "Sparked by the death of George Floyd in the US, thousands gather globally to say black lives matter.", "The former Commons speaker tells the BBC he \"made a lot of enemies\" but denies bullying allegations.", "Scientists are gathering data on how new diseases emerge in the hope of identifying future pandemics.", "Some 80% of Welsh Government staff are working on Covid-19, says Wales' top civil servant.", "But Health Secretary Jeane Freeman urges caution and warns further deaths are \"still likely\".", "The text calling for the military to be used to quell unrest in the US caused revolt in the newsroom.", "Kameko inflicts a first defeat on Pinatubo to win the 2,000 Guineas, the first British Classic of the season, in a record time.", "The group that owns Crieff Hydro gives notice that a quarter of its employees face losing their jobs.", "Prof John Edmunds - who advises the government - says he wishes the UK had entered lockdown sooner.", "The airline threatened to dismiss all its pilots and rehire them under new contracts, Balpa says.", "A further 77 UK deaths are recorded but none in Scotland or Northern Ireland.", "Conor McGregor says he has retired from fighting - for the third time in four years.", "Mark Drakeford asks protesters not to put themselves and others \"at risk\" during the pandemic.", "An oil worker who was in quarantine wore a disguise so he could watch his children from a distance.", "Churches, mosques and synagogues have been closed in England since lockdown restrictions began.", "The weapon, which is being forensically examined, was found along with a fully-primed bomb.", "A further 77 UK coronavirus deaths are reported in the UK - the lowest daily total since 23 March.", "Thousands of protesters line the streets from the US embassy in Vauxhall to Parliament Square.", "Protests in London have been largely peaceful but were marred by scuffles outside Downing Street.", "Coronavirus has changed the face of weddings - what's it like getting married with the new rules?", "Bristol anti-racism protesters dump a statue to Edward Colston into the city's harbour.", "Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal all hold friendly matches at their home stadiums to prepare for the season restart.", "England forward Raheem Sterling backs protests taking place across the UK, saying \"the only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting\".", "Researchers say aerial photographs taken during a heatwave identify Roman forts and roads in Wales.", "Archaeologists say the structure is more than 4,500 years old and its size is unprecedented.", "Lower-income households \"twice as likely than richer ones\" to have increased debts during the crisis.", "Sajid Javid calls for lower taxes on businesses to aid the UK's economic recovery.", "Joel Schumacher made St Elmo's Fire, Flatliners, The Lost Boys, Falling Down and two Batman films.", "The corporation has announced it will allocate greater funding to reflect more diverse audiences.", "One of the UK's top experts on diplomacy pours scorn on claims suspect in Harry Dunn death had immunity.", "\"Hundreds of people\" gathered at a courtyard in Moss Side, Manchester, prior to the shooting.", "Images from the aftermath of a multiple fatal stabbing at Forbury Gardens in the centre of Reading.", "The first minister says it could happen if advisers to the Welsh Government say it is safe.", "The prince, who turns 38 on Sunday, posed for photographs at home with his three young children.", "As Scotland's lockdown eases with dentists and places of worship opening a new rule on face coverings comes into force.", "Tributes have been paid to the the victims of an attack in Reading on Saturday.", "Two friends who died have been named, as police question a suspect arrested under the Terrorism Act.", "The lead author of a review into the events says her recommendations need to be implemented.", "BBC One's Panorama reveals covert recordings of teenagers being groomed by a neo-Nazi militant group.", "Bailiffs are still banned from knocking on doors to collect unpaid parking fines or council tax.", "Mixer will close in a month's time, with partners being offered similar deals on Facebook Gaming.", "Burnley are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by a banner reading 'White Lives Matter Burnley' that was towed by an aircraft over Etihad Stadium during Monday's match against Manchester City.", "The duchess made the pledge to Stuart and Carla Delf, whose son Fraser died of a rare syndrome.", "The UK prime minister says that if there are lessons to learn after the terror attack the government will learn them.", "Tracking wildlife before, during and after lockdown will aim to analyse the slowdown in human activity.", "A ban on weddings and civil partnerships in Wales will end, but with no big celebrations allowed.", "The event celebrates MP Jo Cox in a slightly different way this year amid lockdown, her sister says.", "Friends pay tribute to the three people who died after a stabbing attack in Reading on Saturday.", "The firm will now custom-design the chips that power its future desktop and laptop computers.", "Official figures also show a further 15 people have died after testing positive for the virus.", "Tributes are paid to three men who died, as police question a suspect arrested under the Terrorism Act.", "The latest reaction following the terror attack in central Reading.", "There are a lot of talented female politicians in the running - and they each have a special power.", "Joshua Flynn, his son, his daughter and the family dog were all killed while walking on Father's Day.", "The move follows clashes with residents who tried to break through a police cordon.", "Just 1.5% of top bosses at UK companies are black, compared to 3% of the population.", "Images are released of 15 people police want to speak to about criminal damage.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Five-year-old Tony Hudgell set a target of raising £500 for the hospital which saved his life.", "Boris Johnson is also expected to announce a relaxation of the 2m distancing rule in England.", "Next year's exam season in England could be delayed to allow more teaching time, MPs are told.", "The Republic's health authority presses ahead with Apple-Google tech, despite the UK being unready.", "A 47-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and dangerous driving.", "From 6 July those most vulnerable to the virus in England will have more freedom to see other people.", "Sandwich chain to address its \"job situation\" as weekly sales fall about 85% during lockdown.", "The day's main developments as non-essential shops are allowed to reopen in Wales.", "Phil Foden and Riyad Mahrez both score twice as Manchester City thrash Burnley to ensure Liverpool have to wait a little longer to wrap up the title.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "The driver of the van is seriously injured in the crash, but no-one on the train is hurt.", "More than 100 students gathered at the gates to hold a silence at the school where James Furlong taught.", "People were relaxing in a park when an attacker \"darted round\" stabbing people, one witness said.", "More than 400 staff have now been tested following the outbreak at the chicken factory on Thursday.", "Khairi Saadallah held over three deaths came to the attention of security services in 2019, sources say.", "James Furlong, one of three people to die, was described as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".", "But Public Health Wales says there is no evidence of \"widespread community transmission\".", "Matt Hancock says he \"very much hopes\" to lower the social distancing measure in England.", "Paul and Elaine Gait say they are \"delighted to be vindicated\" after a long fight for justice.", "Neuroscientists call for urgent attention to the well-being of young people isolated from friends.", "The Met Police said officers had arrested a man on suspicion of outraging public decency.", "Police, teachers and community leaders have put forward their hopes for change in Bristol.", "Rescuers say the fin whale may not survive after so many hours out of the water from beaching twice.", "A Portuguese police source rejects criticism over their investigation into the missing three-year-old.", "The victim, in his 50s, one of three hurt in the gun attack after a party in Harlow, Essex.", "The hoard, worth around £152,000, was found left behind on a train in Switzerland last October.", "The UK-built Solar Orbiter will track by our star on Monday at a distance of just over 77 million km.", "Labour's David Lammy urged the government to \"do something\" to protect ethnic minorities from Covid-19.", "New emergency plans are announced in Delhi to cope with a surge in Covid-19 cases.", "Groups from around the country, including right-wing activists, said they were protecting statues.", "Three years ago, 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell fire. In its wake, a football club was born.", "Survivors of the fire speak out on the third anniversary of the fire, which killed 72 people.", "What compromises might the UK government make on its Brexit pledges in order to reach a trade deal?", "Patrick Hutchinson was pictured carrying a man to safety following a clash between demonstrators.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "The whale dies after getting stranded on the Dee estuary again, the Coastguard confirms.", "The moment Rita Kenyon sees her three grandchildren for the first time in weeks is caught on camera.", "Chief scout Bear Grylls says \"if he were here today we would disagree with him on many things\".", "Hundreds of people attend more protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.", "There have been concerns the hospitality sector will struggle to be viable with the rule in place.", "Two illegal raves attracted about 6,000 people and led to \"tragic consequences\".", "Non-essential shops in England can reopen on Monday and many staff can't wait to get back to business.", "The stars of sketch show Little Britain say they \"regret that we played characters of other races\".", "Education Secretary John Swinney says it is a \"working assumption\" they will go ahead in 2021.", "It is suggested the coronavirus crisis has shown up private care homes but they say they need better funding.", "The pandemic will affect jobs and livelihoods, Chancellor Rishi Sunak admits.", "A celebration was held at Windsor after the Trooping the Colour parade was cancelled due to coronavirus.", "Andrew Banks, of Stansted, Essex has been charged with outraging public decency.", "The war-time leader's granddaughter says the statue may be safer in a museum if protests continue.", "The leaked report by Public Health England says factors such as racism may contribute to increased risks.", "Hundreds of people stage peaceful protests two towns in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.", "Colombian national Alex Nain Saab is wanted in the US on charges of corruption and money laundering.", "Some teachers and students across England are heading back to school this week, so how are they feeling?", "Leading psychologists warn the education secretary that children's mental health is at risk.", "The episode will now carry a warning about \"potentially offensive content and language\".", "New data shows people living alone are at greater risk of loneliness during lockdown.", "From violence caught on video to coronavirus inequalities, what is making protesters react so strongly?", "The film and television actor was found dead in his apartment in the city of Mumbai, police said.", "The money is needed to help worst-hit towns, say the Welsh Conservatives.", "Many people will reunite with loved ones on Saturday, as lockdown rules ease for those who live alone.", "Statistics from England show more people from BAME backgrounds are dying than those from white ethnic groups.", "The PM says people living alone in England can form a \"bubble\" with one other household from Saturday.", "These areas propelled the outsider to victory in 2016 - what do they think of the protests?", "Graduates of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama speak about their experiences.", "Exams have been cancelled because of the lockdown, with grades now being estimated by teachers.", "Tourism minister Fergus Ewing tells Holyrood that the tourism and leisure sector should prepare to open from the middle of next month.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Some families say they are \"completely cut off\" by visiting restrictions during the pandemic.", "The backlog for care is putting people's lives at risk, says the British Heart Foundation.", "The owners of Frankie and Benny's, Monsoon Accessorize and Quiz are restructuring their businesses.", "There was no one 'patient zero' that started the UK epidemic, research shows.", "Health experts say passengers should wear face masks and board planes one row at a time.", "There would usually be lifeguard patrols on 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands.", "Neville Staple was \"astounded\" when his profile vanished after being wrongly associated with racism.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel brands footage of a surrounded officer on the ground \"disgraceful\".", "Sir Keir Starmer launches a stinging attack on government plans for schooling during the pandemic.", "The presenting duo say they would not make the sketches today and \"realise that this was wrong\".", "China removes pangolins from its official list of traditional Chinese medicine treatments, reports say.", "The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are shown at Windsor Castle, where they are staying during lockdown.", "The UK's most senior black and minority ethnic officer says forces \"need to listen to communities\".", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had gathered in Fryent Country Park to celebrate a birthday.", "More information is needed from the public to take the new suspect to court, German prosecutors say.", "Labour press minister over approval for £1bn scheme after it emerges developer donated money to Tories.", "Editors of the dictionary made the decision after receiving an email from a young black woman.", "People are being encouraged to join a \"countrywide thank you\" to key workers on 5 July.", "The government's adviser on extremism is investigating if it's possible to ban behaviour that leads people to hate each other.", "Boris Johnson says the move will be subject to distancing measures being in place.", "A total of 4,000 deaths in Scotland have now been linked to Covid-19, according to the latest figures.", "There is a risk that tonnes of diesel oil could drift from the lake to the Arctic Ocean.", "Boris Johnson eases lockdown rules in England further in an effort to combat loneliness.", "The brother of George Floyd, Philonise, urged lawmakers \"to make sure his death isn’t in vain\".", "A look back at the deaths of black Americans since the emergence of Black Lives Matter.", "Boris Johnson vows action to mitigate higher coronavirus risks for black and minority ethnic people.", "The corporation says \"times have changed\" since the sketch show first aired.", "An Indian family became its own cluster when 11 out of 17 members tested positive for Covid-19.", "Global economic growth will turn \"sharply negative\" this year due to the pandemic, the IMF warns.", "The service says the 1939 film will return alongside a \"discussion of its historical context\".", "A senior officer says coronavirus has also had an impact on the ability to police terror threats.", "The video call app allowed some patients to see recordings of others' sessions with medics.", "More than 23,000 cancers could have gone undiagnosed during lockdown, Cancer Research UK says.", "The author becomes the first black British writer to top the overall UK book chart.", "Former government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson was giving evidence to a committee of MPs.", "Boris Johnson hints that further measures to ease the lockdown in England will be announced later.", "Residents, who acted before the council could remove it, vowed to return the head \"at a later date\".", "The coronavirus crisis could destroy any gains made, the government watchdog says.", "A University of Liverpool building was named after William Gladstone who benefited from slavery.", "The OECD says the UK economy is likely to shrink 11.5% this year - the most among developed countries.", "Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary talks to two colleagues who haven't been home since the pandemic began.", "Health leaders warn the coronavirus crisis will impact the number of people waiting for treatment.", "The police watchdog used its powers to instruct the Met Police to refer the case.", "The Canal and River Trust says the Robert Milligan statue's removal \"recognises community wishes\" .", "US Navy veteran Michael White is released by Iran, where he had been detained since 2018.", "The 43-year-old German was seen driving a camper van in the resort where she disappeared, police say.", "Space on services will be \"vastly reduced\" for safety during the pandemic, Wales' economy minister says.", "It comes as UK police chiefs say they stand alongside all those \"appalled and horrified\" by the death.", "Parents Kate and Gerry McCann have spent 16 years searching for answers over their missing daughter.", "Meghan urges young people to rebuild society after the African-American man died in police custody.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is considering making face coverings compulsory in enclosed places like shops and on public transport.", "Social network posts an article flagging two disputed statements in one of the president's tweets.", "Police say many people officers spoke to were from England and thought lockdown rules were the same.", "The business secretary is tested for coronavirus as MPs row over the physical return to Parliament.", "Messages that appear on stolen phones suggest the authorities are also being alerted.", "A German man, 43, is being investigated on suspicion of murder over the British girl’s disappearance.", "The travel industry warns the mandatory two-week self-isolation will put tourists off UK visits.", "At the UK-hosted summit, Boris Johnson said up to eight millions lives will be saved by the funding.", "Officials advise Covid-19 tests for those protesting against George Floyd's killing in virus-hit cities.", "Developments as the chief medical officer says opening schools in June is his \"second-best\" option.", "The Lookers dealership cuts 1,500 staff and Aston Martin sheds 500, as latest figures show plunge in sales.", "Keith Ellison warns that convicting the four ex-officers charged in the case \"will be hard\".", "The child and three adults are in hospital following the attack in north London on Wednesday night.", "The backlog for care is putting people's lives at risk, says the British Heart Foundation.", "The firm, which makes its luxury cars in Crewe, says up to 1,000 jobs will go.", "The demonstration was one of many held globally in the wake of the 46-year-old's death.", "The business secretary has been self-isolating at home since he became unwell on Wednesday.", "The business secretary is self-isolating at home and is waiting for a coronavirus test result.", "Kemi Badenoch urges MPs not to use evidence of higher ethnic minority death rates to stoke racial tension.", "More than half the population has struggled with sleep during the lockdown, especially younger people.", "George Floyd's story \"has been the story of black folks\", Rev Sharpton told the Minneapolis service.", "A timeline of events leading up to George Floyd's death has been revealed by authorities.", "In total 166 migrants attempt to cross the English Channel in 24 hours - with 64 people on one boat.", "The prince says he was \"lucky\" to have mild symptoms as other endure \"unbelievably testing\" times.", "More than £11m has been spent on the Metropolitan Police inquiry since it began in 2011.", "After 13 years, the hunt for the missing three year old may be a step closer to a conclusion.", "Rough sleepers given emergency accommodation could be evicted within weeks, a charity says.", "The airline has declined to meet Priti Patel amid strong criticism of the UK's quarantine policy.", "Watch as land continues to collapse during the rescue effort.", "The chain will reopen three shops in Northern Ireland on Monday, followed by 50 in England a week later.", "Campaigners demand the government prioritises the environment in any post-Covid-19 stimulus package.", "The latest statistics show that for the fifth week running Covid-19 linked deaths were down, with the majority aged 75 and over.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The venue's first concert since lockdown will take place on 13 June, conducted by Antonio Pappano.", "The press secretary compares the president to the British wartime leader inspecting bomb damage.", "Photographs of some of the key moments since the three-year-old went missing in Portugal in 2007.", "The US is battling a resurgence of the coronavirus, with several states seeing record new cases.", "Prof Neil Ferguson tells the BBC he expects to see a targeted approach to tackling local outbreaks.", "A government plan for the performing arts is met with calls for financial support and a timetable.", "The band are the latest to change their name in light of the anti-racism movement.", "Peter Kraus posted pictures of monkeys next to images of Black Lives Matter protesters.", "Jonty Bravery threw a six-year-old boy from a 10th floor viewing platform at London's Tate Modern.", "The 33.3C reached at Heathrow Airport on Thursday surpassed Wednesday's high of 32.6C.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and heavy rain remains in place.", "BBC Sport looks at 10 games which have shaped Jurgen Klopp's reign at Liverpool as they celebrate winning the Premier League title.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Supermarkets impose one or two-pack limits on toilet roll as Covid-19 cases in Victoria spike.", "Intu, the owner of the Trafford, Braehead and Lakeside centres, fails to reach a deal with lenders.", "BBC Sport takes a look at the statistics behind Liverpool's 30-year wait to win their 19th top-flight league title.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "Inspectors find serious failings at a Kettering home closed after deaths during the Covid-19 outbreak.", "Shopping centres including Trafford and Lakeside will continue to trade under administrators KPMG.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 19 June and 26 June.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The Royal Pharmaceutical Society says the findings of its survey are \"shocking\".", "Ministers fear over-reliance on US-based GPS in the event of an attack or technical failure.", "It was one of several \"challenges\" identified in an audit of federal pandemic relief programmes.", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says \"everything is possible\" for his side if they stay \"humble\" after completing the club's first title win in 30 years.", "Jurgen Klopp describes guiding Liverpool to their first league title in 30 years as \"more than I ever thought possible\".", "Six people, including a police officer, are being treated in hospital for their injuries after the attack.", "NHS and public service volunteers are being recruited across England for an antibody test study.", "A man is shot dead by police after a major incident in Glasgow in which at least six people were stabbed.", "Liverpool's 30-year wait for a top-flight title is over after Manchester City lose 2-1 at Chelsea to confirm the Reds as Premier League champions.", "Researchers at the University of Oxford identified the pattern in hospital case data for England.", "The unnamed officers were arrested by the Independent Office for Police Conduct on 22 June.", "Post-mortem tests reveal the three men were fatally wounded by a single blow in the knife attack.", "Police issue a dispersal order after crowds gather for a second night despite coronavirus fears.", "The mother of two sisters murdered in a London park says the images \"dehumanised\" her children.", "The US president launches a new legal challenge to his predecessor's signature law.", "Hundreds of cans and bottles are left dumped after the hottest day of the year.", "The supermarket says that in the three months to May, the number of trips fell by nearly a third.", "The National Audit Office is concerned about missing elements such as aircraft and support ships.", "Tourist spots have seen bookings boom after the government gave holidays the go ahead from 4 July.", "If left unchecked the resurgences will \"push health systems to the brink once again\", the WHO warns.", "PC David Whyte was seriously injured dealing with a multiple stabbing before a suspect was killed.", "Two anonymous Twitter accounts made sexual assault allegations against the singer last week.", "Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick condemns the \"utterly unacceptable\" behaviour.", "A major incident is declared in Bournemouth as thousands hit the coast in soaring heat.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says his \"first priority\" is tackling anti-Semitism after firing shadow minister.", "Thousands of supporters gather at the club's ground, with some setting off flares and fireworks.", "The Labour leader fired his shadow education minister after vowing to get tough on anti-Semitism.", "Jurgen Klopp is the man behind Liverpool's transformation into Premier League title winners. This is the inside story of how he did it.", "The UK's chief medical adviser says coronavirus cases will rise if people ignore social distancing.", "Two unnamed officers were suspended after non-official images of the scene were shared.", "Stores with access from the street will open; face coverings will be mandatory on public transport but outdoor hospitality, such as pub gardens, will not open.", "Bank of England announces huge stimulus to aid recovery from the \"unprecedented\" coronavirus downturn.", "Greene King and Lloyd's of London pledge to make donations to black, Asian and minority ethnic groups.", "Labour has a \"mountain to climb\" to regain power, a major review of its 2019 election defeat says.", "Lord Bethell says the coronavirus-tracing app is \"not a priority\" and has no firm launch date.", "The first minister criticises disorder in Glasgow's George Square as six men are arrested.", "Downing Street says there are no reports of any injuries following the incident.", "Matthew Wain filmed himself telling hospital staff in Birmingham he hoped they \"die of coronavirus\".", "Plans for a national tutoring service in England to help pupils hit by school closures are expected.", "The health secretary slaps a colleague on the back in the House of Commons, despite the two-metre rule.", "Mary Trump is due to release a book that describes her uncle as the world's most dangerous man.", "The boy, who cannot be named, is accused of involvement in the preparation of a terrorist act.", "Matt Hancock says there is no scheduled release date after switch to Apple and Google's technology.", "It is thought to be a \"retaliation attack\" for the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol.", "She was the Forces' Sweetheart, whose songs did so much to boost morale during World War Two.", "Boris Johnson says he does not think Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the Rugby Football Union announced it would review the song's use.", "The boy, who cannot be named, is accused of involvement in the preparation of a terrorist act.", "Grace Millane's cousin says it was \"truly horrendous\" to have to listen to her killer lie in court.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Government now intends to launch an app in the autumn but it may still lack contact-tracing tech.", "Oriel College's governors vote to take down the statue of the Victorian colonialist Cecil Rhodes.", "After City institutions apologise for slavery ties, historian Sir Hilary Beckles says firms must go further.", "The UK's biggest building society is lowering its ceiling on mortgage lending to new customers.", "Germany, Japan and Ireland press ahead with contact-tracing apps, but NHS Covid-19's future is unclear.", "The baby's death is announced as Sheffield Children's Hospital confirms a child died there on Monday.", "The weekly report on Covid-19 linked deaths show that there has been a total of 4.070 fatalities.", "The tax office has had thousands of complaints, some from staff who have been made to work while on furlough.", "The leaders mark 80 years since a BBC broadcast in which France was urged to keep fighting Hitler.", "The Queen and Sir Paul pay their respects to the Forces' Sweetheart, who has died aged 103.", "Leaders of coronavirus-hit social services warn of \"catastrophic consequences\" without investment.", "The education minister also indicates that the target date for pupils' return is now 24 August.", "The song was one of the first to feature a synth, was accused of being too \"slushy\" for the troops.", "People who get news from social media are also more likely to break lockdown rules, a study suggests.", "1,700 pages of \"factual reports\" have been released, which show new details of helicopter crash.", "George Carey's permission to officiate is revoked amid an inquiry in abuse committed by a barrister.", "Video lectures and no freshers' week make for tough decisions", "The Xenon 1T experiment may have found signs of a previously undetected dark matter particle.", "The field hospitals were set up at the cost of £166m to help ease the burden on the NHS during the pandemic.", "Oxford's Oriel College voted to take down the colonialist's statue but removal will not be immediate.", "Residents in the Rhondda Valley town of Pentre say they have been hit by flooding again.", "The latest developments on the pandemic in Wales.", "Leo Vardkar says the vote recognises Ireland's \"work on the world stage over many decades\"", "The boss of Oakman Inns says that if pubs don't reopen \"they'll continue to bleed cash\".", "The singer of We’ll Meet Again, who entertained British troops in World War Two, has died.", "Look back at the beloved singer's life, from childhood to World War Two and later success.", "Powerful statements, an eerie atmosphere and unexpected controversy - BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty reflects on a surreal return to action at Villa Park.", "Raheem Sterling says it was a \"massive step\" that Premier League players took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.", "Arsenal's David Luiz is sent off in a performance riddled with mistakes as Manchester City secure a comfortable victory behind closed doors.", "British Empire Medal recipient Neomi Bennett overturned her conviction for obstructing police.", "But advice to stay within five miles of your home is likely to remain in place.", "Google's ex-chief raises security concerns but says West should not disengage from Chinese tech.", "Bonnie Pointer was an original member of the group, best known for the hit Jump (For My Love).", "The researchers say the death toll would have been \"huge\" without a lockdown.", "Sweden's relaxed lockdown has attracted growing numbers of British and European tourists.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "Jacob Roberts broke his leg falling into a 4m-deep well while running away from a dog.", "Large demonstrations take place in Glasgow and Edinburgh despite authorities urging people to stay away.", "All the latest news, travel and coronavirus updates from the West of England", "A further 55 people have died - the lowest daily rise since before lockdown on 23 March.", "Despite the sombre outlook, WHO chief reports \"positive signs\" in several countries fighting Covid-19.", "Simeon Francis was found unresponsive in a cell in Torquay 17 hours after his arrest in Exeter.", "Chinese firm buys online and newspaper ads as officials reconsider if it poses a security risk.", "Should Edward Colston's name be stripped from the streets of Bristol?", "Instructors say learners \"have no clear guidance\" on when they will be able to take their tests.", "Government advice to reopen for individual prayer would \"cause more challenges\", says Imam Qari Asim", "The travel industry warns the mandatory two-week self-isolation will put tourists off UK visits.", "Prince Andrew has been heavily criticised for his friendship with the disgraced US financier.", "Economists say America's economic expansion ended in February, but markets remain on the upswing.", "The bodies of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were discovered on Sunday.", "But Mark Drakeford says he cannot make any promises about reopening pubs and restaurants.", "Republic Records, one of the most powerful labels in the US, says the term is outdated.", "Homeless people given a bed in the pandemic will not be returned to Welsh streets, a minister says.", "Dental health faces \"impending disaster\" as surgeries remain closed in Wales, a letter to ministers warns.", "The first minister was speaking as no new coronavirus deaths were registered in Scotland for the second day running.", "The text calling for the military to be used to quell unrest in the US caused revolt in the newsroom.", "PM Jacinda Ardern says she \"did a little dance\" as it was confirmed NZ had no active virus cases.", "Eddie Hunn turned 100 on Sunday but could not see family or friends nearby because of social distancing.", "Postmasters were accused of theft despite evidence of computer system issues, BBC Panorama reveals.", "Lewis Hamilton has urged countries around the world to remove \"racist symbols\" following the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in Bristol.", "A further 77 UK deaths are recorded but none in Scotland or Northern Ireland.", "Large retailers and shops in retail parks in Northern Ireland opened from today.", "The airline threatened to dismiss all its pilots and rehire them under new contracts, Balpa says.", "A report suggests activity improved last month but Scotland still saw the smallest recovery of any UK area.", "Reality Check examines the weekly deaths figures for nations and regions across the UK.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "Prince Andrew's lawyers have clashed with US prosecutors over the duke's co-operation with the inquiry.", "Two young carers describe how their lives have changed under the coronavirus pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says if progress continues she is \"optimistic\" that on 18 June Phase 2 of lifting more restrictions can begin.", "Battery-maker Catl says it is ready to make a product that could power a car over 1.2 million miles.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Tensions in Minneapolis did not start with the death of George Floyd. They've been years in the making.", "The weapon, which is being forensically examined, was found along with a fully-primed bomb.", "US attorney claims Prince Andrew has \"repeatedly declined\" requests to schedule an interview.", "Thousands of protesters line the streets from the US embassy in Vauxhall to Parliament Square.", "The airline has declined to meet Priti Patel amid strong criticism of the UK's quarantine policy.", "The \"Rhodes Must Fall\" campaign says Oxford University has \"failed to address institutional racism\".", "Bristol anti-racism protesters dump a statue to Edward Colston into the city's harbour.", "The oil giant plans to slash around 15% of its workforce in response coronavirus crisis.", "England forward Raheem Sterling backs protests taking place across the UK, saying \"the only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting\".", "Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal all hold friendly matches at their home stadiums to prepare for the season restart.", "The Archbishop of Cardiff says the priest had to deal with a \"very difficult pastoral situation\".", "A man is charged with grievous bodily harm after Debbie Kaore posts video footage of an assault.", "Couples in England and Wales will not have to prove one party is at fault to start proceedings.", "Actress Rachel Adedeji said she has witnessed racism while working on the Channel 4 soap.", "Hydroxychloroquine has become controversial but it is not a treatment for Covid, say Oxford researchers.", "Parents Kate and Gerry McCann have spent 16 years searching for answers over their missing daughter.", "Police say many people officers spoke to were from England and thought lockdown rules were the same.", "Alexis Ohanian says the move was inspired by protests over the death of George Floyd.", "Police ask for the CPS to look into Belly Mujinga's death in light of \"wider public interest\".", "Deaths due to dementia rose in the first two months of the pandemic, official figures show.", "The backlog for care is putting people's lives at risk, says the British Heart Foundation.", "New images of the British Normandy Memorial, currently under construction, are released to mark date.", "The star's sixth album, Chromatica, outsold the rest of the Top 10 combined to debut at number one.", "News and updates on the response to the pandemic in Wales on Friday 5 June.", "After 13 years, the hunt for the missing three year old may be a step closer to a conclusion.", "Tory Bob Seely says he did not know other people would be present when he visited a journalist.", "Stores around the world have been forced to shut their doors due to the virus pandemic.", "Scientists are concerned the test-and-trace system is not effective enough to prevent this.", "The ex-English Defence League leader is bailed after saying he acted in self-defence.", "Photographs of some of the key moments since the three-year-old went missing in Portugal in 2007.", "A 2018 MERS outbreak exercise in Scotland revealed concerns over protective gear, the BBC learns.", "The firm, which makes its luxury cars in Crewe, says up to 1,000 jobs will go.", "Footage shows raves have been taking place in London, but organisers claim the parties are simply a community of people exercising to house music.", "The business secretary has been self-isolating at home since he became unwell on Wednesday.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The World Health Organization changes its policy on the use of face masks by healthy people.", "Neglect of the past and belief in progress has left many unaware of the scope of US racial tensions.", "A top climate scientist has called for more investment in climate computing.", "Watch as land continues to collapse during the rescue effort.", "The health secretary says UK has 'reasonable' demands after both sides report little progress in talks.", "A BBC investigation uncovers a company organising secret raves in breach of lockdown rules.", "The venue's first concert since lockdown will take place on 13 June, conducted by Antonio Pappano.", "China is hitting back at the US for supporting Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations last year.", "He was an athlete, friend and father whose life and struggles were emblematic of any American.", "Brazil has seen high numbers of coronavirus deaths and ordinary people are trying to help cities cope.", "The BBC's Ed Thomas visits one street in north-west England that's reeling from three Covid-19 deaths.", "The vouchers have cost more than £129m in England and are worth £15 per week for each eligible child.", "The government says it's open to \"innovative\" ideas, after a union urges it to ease social distancing.", "Though medical staff are in the Covid-19 firing line, there has been a surge of interest in healthcare as a career.", "At the UK-hosted summit, Boris Johnson said up to eight millions lives will be saved by the funding.", "AstraZeneca says it could provide two billion doses of a potential vaccine, helped by backing from Bill Gates.", "The glam rock star scored hits with Ballroom Blitz and Blockbuster in the 1970s.", "Wendell Baker was deemed suitable for release but his 66-year-old victim's family were not consulted.", "TV presenter Kate Garraway's partner has been in a coma for nearly 10 weeks, after catching Covid-19.", "Fee rises of more than £100 a week add \"insult to injury\" after the wave of infections, says Age UK.", "Scientists want people to send them recordings of their wildlife experiences under the lockdown.", "The estimate is based on swab tests of people living in 9,000 households in England.", "Crowds of people paid their respects to George Floyd at the spot where he was killed in Minneapolis.", "The companies promise big tax savings, but some NHS staff could end up severely out of pocket.", "The airline has declined to meet Priti Patel amid strong criticism of the UK's quarantine policy.", "Airline owner IAG is meeting lawyers to decide whether to challenge government over quarantine plans.", "The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland.", "More than £16bn has been handed out to some household names including BA, Tottenham Hotspur and M&S.", "A German man, 43, is being investigated on suspicion of murder over the British girl’s disappearance.", "The man was investigated over the disappearance of a five-year-old girl in 2015, German media reports.", "The demonstration was one of many held globally in the wake of the 46-year-old's death.", "The Equalities and Human Rights Commission says the virus has \"laid bare\" racial disparities.", "The app will \"be running as soon as we think it is robust\", a government minister says.", "The retail giant writes to the Welsh Government asking for a review of the rates it pays on shops.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The lingerie retailer had already furloughed 785 of its employees in the UK amid the pandemic.", "Florence Eshalomi says the frequency she is confused with black female MPs is \"worrying\".", "No-one will be evicted from their home this summer, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says.", "Tens of thousands of people have flocked to the Dorset coast since lockdown restrictions were eased.", "Prof Neil Ferguson tells the BBC he expects to see a targeted approach to tackling local outbreaks.", "The Stretford and Urmston MP replaces Rebecca Long-Bailey, who was sacked from the role this week.", "As cases soar in India's capital, its chief minister warns of health care shortages and more deaths.", "Who is left and what are the big questions as the FA Cup resumes this weekend.", "It comes as police officers broke up another illegal street party held in London.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and heavy rain remains in place.", "Original members of the Gay Liberation Front gathered to mark the anniversary of its formation.", "The Red Arrows leave a smoke trail of red, white and blue over North Yorkshire.", "Police say Badreddin Abadlla Adam, from Sudan, was killed in the attack at a Glasgow hotel on Friday.", "Supermarkets impose one or two-pack limits on toilet roll as Covid-19 cases in Victoria spike.", "Some states delay plans to reopen after more than 40,000 new cases were recorded on Friday.", "Jonathan Edwards describes it as the \"biggest regret\" of his life, while his wife accepts his apology.", "Milton Glaser also created a famous poster of Bob Dylan and co-founded New York magazine.", "\"Anarchists\" who damage US monuments should face up to a decade in prison, the president says.", "Harry Maguire scores deep into extra-time as Manchester United overcome valiant 10-man Norwich to reach the FA Cup semi-finals.", "Police do not believe there was any foul play in the disappearance of 14-year-old Noah Donohoe.", "The Corkman will lead a three-party coalition of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party.", "Police issue a dispersal order after crowds gather for a second night despite coronavirus fears.", "The mother of two sisters murdered in a London park says the images \"dehumanised\" her children.", "PC David Whyte was seriously injured dealing with a multiple stabbing before a suspect was killed.", "Three people are in a serious condition in hospital after fans gathered despite restrictions.", "The decision by the US comedy show follows years of criticism over a white actor playing an Indian.", "More than a million people signed a petition about the case of 12-year-old Shukri Yahye-Abdi.", "Two anonymous Twitter accounts made sexual assault allegations against the singer last week.", "The company condemns racism and seeks more accountability from Facebook and other platforms.", "Khairi Saadallah, 25, is accused of killing three men in a public park in Reading last Saturday.", "The mother of two sisters stabbed to death in a Wembley park spoke to the BBC's Martin Bashir.", "The Scottish government says a UK announcement on travel has been made without talks taking place first.", "Maternity units in England are being asked to provide more checks and support during the pandemic.", "The move comes after IBM ended its facial recognition activities amid concerns over racial bias.", "The PM says people living alone in England can form a \"bubble\" with one other household from Saturday.", "The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh remain on BBC iPlayer despite being taken off Netflix.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "The tie-up comes as demand for food deliveries has surged amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "British world heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have agreed to a two-fight deal, says promoter Eddie Hearn.", "The latest data on the re-infection rate shows that on June 5 it was between 0.6 and 0.8.", "The app, first tested on the Isle of Wight, had been expected to be rolled out at the end of May.", "An MoJ document shows offenders in England and Wales may not have been closely monitored in lockdown.", "US stock markets have seen steep falls, while several states report rising Covid-19 cases.", "Latest developments on the response to the pandemic in Wales.", "The BBC newsreader says the disease has spread from his bowel to his lungs.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel brands footage of a surrounded officer on the ground \"disgraceful\".", "A symbolic monument to Brazil's coronavirus victims is mocked by Bolsonaro supporters, organisers say.", "The presenting duo say they would not make the sketches today and \"realise that this was wrong\".", "Sir Keir Starmer launches a stinging attack on government plans for schooling during the pandemic.", "No savings and less chance to cut spending means an income fall hits the young hardest, the ONS says.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had gathered in Fryent Country Park to celebrate a birthday.", "Labour press minister over approval for £1bn scheme after it emerges developer donated money to Tories.", "Editors of the dictionary made the decision after receiving an email from a young black woman.", "Most cuts will fall in the UK as the firm seeks to \"arrest the decline\" of it's business.", "UK firms will not be able to withstand a no-deal Brexit after Covid-19, the outgoing CBI boss warns.", "Prince Joachim, who contracted coronavirus days after arrived in Spain, has been fined €10,400.", "A switch to the Google-Apple model is being considered, but developers believe it would be a mistake.", "An anonymous tracer told the BBC they've made one call and don't feel they've had much training.", "Lady Antebellum become Lady A, and say they are \"deeply sorry for the hurt\" their old name caused.", "Ben Ashman drove a 4x4 at guests in a rampage outside his brother's wedding party, a court hears.", "A drug charity says it has seen a \"significant reduction\" in addict numbers making contact.", "Campaigners accuse Robert Baden-Powell of racism, homophobia and support for Adolf Hitler.", "An Indian family became its own cluster when 11 out of 17 members tested positive for Covid-19.", "A senior officer says coronavirus has also had an impact on the ability to police terror threats.", "Conservative backbenchers say easing the restriction in England is essential for economic recovery.", "The government says minister Robert Jenrick acted properly over a decision to approve a £1bn project.", "Black Lives Matter demonstrators tore down the statue of the slave trader at an anti-racism protest.", "People in England and Wales have been fined for house parties, meeting in big groups and camping.", "Almost a third of students think their courses were poor value in a year of campus strikes and Covid.", "See the potential in everyone and do not allow intolerance, the UK's most senior military officer says.", "A group of Welsh tourism leaders warns of \"economic disaster\" without the prospect of reopening.", "A grim Fed outlook and uptick in virus cases in some US states fans concerns about economic recovery.", "Former government adviser Prof Neil Ferguson was giving evidence to a committee of MPs.", "Dozens of games were teased including a return to the Spider-Man, Horizon and Gran Turismo franchises.", "Care chiefs said homes suffered from a lack of testing and of personal protective equipment.", "The PM will review post-Brexit trade talks with EU figures, ahead of a deadline for extending the negotiations.", "The PM's spokesman promises an extended scheme to help pupils get back on track in England.", "The Brexit Party leader steps down from his talk show with \"immediate effect\".", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Oxford's vice chancellor warns against \"hiding history\" as protesters want to remove colonial statue.", "Statues connected to slavery and colonialism are targeted as George Floyd protests continue.", "Milford Haven Waterway will host a marine power test site, generating up to 1,800 jobs over 15 years.", "Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary talks to two colleagues who haven't been home since the pandemic began.", "But the boss of the Welsh NHS says the restoration of full services will be slow.", "An investment company pulls out of a £100m waterfront development in Pembrokeshire.", "Dental health faces \"impending disaster\" as surgeries remain closed in Wales, a letter to ministers warns.", "There is growing hope among ministers that the rule will be relaxed.", "The couple were on their Ipswich driveway when they filmed the officers who had approached them.", "The police watchdog used its powers to instruct the Met Police to refer the case.", "Port applies for detailed planning permission for multi-million pound redevelopment.", "The housing secretary defends the approval of a Conservative donor's application amid Labour calls for inquiry.", "Five men have been arrested in connection with the shooting but no one has been charged.", "Andrew Banks had drunk 16 pints and was in central London to \"protect statues\", a court hears.", "The ceremony was due to take place in February but has been pushed back due to Covid-19.", "Paul and Elaine Gait say they are \"delighted to be vindicated\" after a long fight for justice.", "The Duke of Cambridge spoke with Leanne and her five-year-old-son, who has cystic fibrosis.", "The Body Coach is moving to a reduced timetable, saying he needs \"a little bit of a break\".", "Report tells ministers to plug gaps in aid schemes to fulfil a promise to \"do whatever it takes\".", "Nicola Sturgeon says she wants pupils to be back in classrooms full-time \"as quickly as is safe and feasible\".", "A Portuguese police source rejects criticism over their investigation into the missing three-year-old.", "The victim, in his 50s, one of three hurt in the gun attack after a party in Harlow, Essex.", "It is \"unfair\" that low paid workers are facing charges of thousands of pounds to remain in the UK, MPs say.", "The UK-built Solar Orbiter will track by our star on Monday at a distance of just over 77 million km.", "The hoard, worth around £152,000, was found left behind on a train in Switzerland last October.", "As stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors, we asked people in Milton Keynes what they bought.", "Non-essential shops reopened in England, as France reopened cafes, restaurants, and borders.", "President Trump defends promoting hydroxychloroquine as the FDA says there is no evidence it works.", "There are huge queues outside some shops across England as non-essential retailers reopen.", "What compromises might the UK government make on its Brexit pledges in order to reach a trade deal?", "Patrick Hutchinson was pictured carrying a man to safety following a clash between demonstrators.", "Non-essential retailers open their doors with strict safety measures.", "Pictures on social media appear to show big crowds at the popular designer outlet in Oxfordshire.", "The RSC says it is \"appalled\" at a Sunday Times TV listing which it said \"devalued\" the actors.", "A report said there were a \"series of problems\" with the design and build of a Glasgow hospital campus.", "From violence caught on video to coronavirus inequalities, what is making protesters react so strongly?", "The furniture giant is looking to repay governments, but not in the UK where it did not take state aid.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford says retailers will be \"well-prepared\" if shops are given the go-ahead.", "Manchester United and England's Marcus Rashford writes an open letter calling on the government to reverse a decision not to provide free school meal vouchers during the summer.", "Two illegal raves attracted about 6,000 people and led to \"tragic consequences\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Andrew Banks, of Stansted, Essex has been charged with outraging public decency.", "Thousands of extra staff are deployed as passengers are told to cover their faces or risk being fined.", "News and updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "Marcus Rashford says he will fight on after the government confirms it will not provide free school meal vouchers during the summer.", "Council planning for the new academic year will \"maximise the time young people spend in a school environment\", says Nicola Sturgeon.", "The Greater Manchester Police chief said the behaviour of some of the 6,000 ravers was \"appalling\".", "The F-15C Eagle, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath crashed shortly after 09:30 BST.", "No 10 declines to say if it will be done by the time hospitality venues in England are due to reopen.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this evening.", "The leaked report by Public Health England says factors such as racism may contribute to increased risks.", "Luce Douady was seen as a future star of the climbing world after wowing in senior competition.", "Paul Whelan is sentenced to 16 years in prison after being arrested with a flash drive.", "The East Dunbartonshire MP has undergone neurosurgery after collapsing at her home.", "Sushant Singh Rajput was found dead in his Mumbai home, in what police believe to be a case of suicide.", "As shops re-open in England it is clear Covid-19 will have a lasting impact on the retail sector.", "The PM says the talks need \"a bit of oomph\" and sees no reason why a deal cannot be \"done in July\".", "The comments come as the airline begins offering a limited numbers of flights on mainly domestic routes.", "Police have released CCTV images after the vandalism at a black family's home.", "The tensions between the desire to move on and judgements about what's best to protect life remain clear.", "Foreign tech workers, non-agricultural seasonal helpers, au pairs and executives will be affected.", "Sajid Javid calls for lower taxes on businesses to aid the UK's economic recovery.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she wants pupils to be back in classrooms full-time \"as quickly as is safe and feasible\".", "Shops are due to pay their quarterly rent bill on Wednesday as landlords expect a shortfall.", "Mixer will close in a month's time, with partners being offered similar deals on Facebook Gaming.", "Burnley are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by a banner reading 'White Lives Matter Burnley' that was towed by an aircraft over Etihad Stadium during Monday's match against Manchester City.", "Intu, owner of the Trafford, Braehead and Lakeside shopping centres, puts administrators on standby.", "The Brazilian leader has belittled the risk posed by coronavirus and attended anti-lockdown rallies.", "The apprenticeship system is failing disadvantaged youngsters in England, says Social Mobility Commission.", "Tributes are paid to three men who died, as police question a suspect arrested under the Terrorism Act.", "Experts are investigating whether coronavirus could have been passed through the mother's placenta.", "Hairdressers can reopen from 4 July - and customers are clearly desperate for a cut.", "Hospitality businesses are ramping up for reopening, but their businesses are set to be different.", "Despite two attempts to fix it, the copy of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo painting has been left unrecognisable.", "Tributes are paid to three men who died, as police question a suspect arrested under the Terrorism Act.", "Laser labs that detect ripples in space-time may have witnessed a new class of cosmic object.", "Tina Fey and co-creator Robert Carlock have asked for four episodes to be removed.", "Eight areas of Wales saw no deaths involving coronavirus for the week, latest figures show.", "Measuring people's oxygen levels is key to tackling a second wave, a top doctor says.", "The Downing Street briefings began in March, when the UK's coronavirus death toll stood at 55.", "The duchess made the pledge to Stuart and Carla Delf, whose son Fraser died of a rare syndrome.", "Schools are due to reopen on 29 June but not all councils will be making provisions, a union warns.", "The move follows a BBC investigation into items looted in Syria and Iraq being sold on Facebook.", "Even under one metre distancing rules, many pubs say they would still lose money.", "Holiday lets and hotels, which can reopen on 4 July, say they are expecting a surge of pent-up demand.", "Current social distancing will remain in Scotland but will be reduced in England and a plan is being worked on to see schools open fully in August.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Joel Schumacher made St Elmo's Fire, Flatliners, The Lost Boys, Falling Down and two Batman films.", "The home secretary says the Windrush generation suffered \"unspeakable injustices\" and promises to act.", "Mumbai's densely-packed Dharavi has tamed Covid-19 without social distancing.", "The industry's trade body says it needs help to restart production and prevent more redundancies.", "Tributes have been paid to the the victims of an attack in Reading on Saturday.", "Pubs can also open up following a review of the 2m distancing rule, Boris Johnson is expected to say.", "World number one Novak Djokovic becomes the latest tennis player to test positive for Covid-19.", "A jury hears PC Andrew Harper died after being dragged for a mile by a car on a country road.", "Boris Johnson announces pubs and restaurants can reopen as long as safety guidelines are followed.", "The man has not been seen since he entered a stretch of the River Thames in Cookham, police say.", "Margaret Payne has climbed the equivalent of the Highlands' Suilven to raise almost £350,000.", "Boris Johnson is also expected to announce a relaxation of the 2m distancing rule in England.", "Tens of thousands of people will need to be checked to see if they have permanent damage, doctors say.", "The 67-year-old, who is one of the biggest names in pornography, could face up to 90 years in jail.", "The centre of the earthquake was in the coastal state of Oaxaca but shock waves were felt as far away as Mexico city.", "Allowing pubs to open and relaxing distancing is \"reasonable\" but not without risks, say top advisers.", "Blackpool Airport suspends banner flights from its base after the message 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was towed over Etihad Stadium.", "Updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales on Tuesday 23 June.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Nicola Sturgeon says there will be no decision on whether to follow England until at least next week.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland's five-mile advisory limit on travelling for leisure and recreation remains in place.", "Tracking wildlife before, during and after lockdown will aim to analyse the slowdown in human activity.", "The firm will now custom-design the chips that power its future desktop and laptop computers.", "Tottenham pick up their first victory in eight games to leave West Ham with a battle to stay in the Premier League.", "Nissan and Renault deny their vehicles are equipped with devices designed to cheat emissions tests", "The site said the filter was \"not serving any purpose\".", "From 4 July the two metre rule is to be relaxed to \"one metre plus\" where 2m is not possible.", "Actress Elizabeth Hurley remembers the good times with Steve Bing after his death at the age of 55.", "A coroner says the Wales international's death may have been linked to an \"industrial disease\".", "The monarch is pictured riding outside Windsor Castle, where she is isolating with Prince Philip.", "Nasa's Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken complete their 19-hour flight to the orbiting laboratory.", "Venezuela's fuel crisis is so acute that even funeral homes are struggling to transport bodies to the cemetery.", "Police say people have been seen jumping again from Durdle Door despite three people getting badly hurt.", "The health secretary says the system is successful but gives no data on the number of people contacted.", "A doctor gives his guide to dealing with death at the time of coronavirus.", "Protests in major cities, including New York and Washington, continue for an eighth night.", "Many children have returned to their classrooms in England for the first time since lockdown began.", "More than 23,000 cancers could have gone undiagnosed during lockdown, Cancer Research UK says.", "The ex-home secretary is leading a \"no holds barred\" investigation into the issue in the UK.", "The Bulgarian-born artist, known for his monumental projects, dies at his home in New York.", "People chant \"black lives matter\" after the killing of a black man by police in the US.", "Coronavirus guidelines could be enforced by new laws if \"even a minority\" continue to flout them, the first minister says.", "Riot police clash with demonstrators in the US capital as crowds gather near the White House.", "Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick says he is \"reasonably confident\" the steps will be \"manageable\".", "Parts of Yorkshire have been left an \"eyesore\" by an influx of visitors", "Coastal areas have been overrun by tourists since travel limits were lifted, the government is told.", "Updates on the pandemic in Wales from Monday 1 June.", "The LGBT app says it has a \"zero-tolerance policy for racism\" and will remove the filter.", "The fashion chain says it has built up almost £2bn-worth of stock, but there will be no discounts.", "The pandemic has highlighted the \"stark nature of inequalities\" in the UK, according to the first minister.", "A letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel follows calls last week from MPs to reconsider the rules.", "Prince Joachim, who contracted coronavirus after attending a party in Spain, \"regrets\" his actions.", "African-American man whose death sparked protests died due to police officers' actions, examiners say.", "The man, 82, was out walking with his wife when he was attacked, police have said.", "Outdoor markets and car showrooms in England are allowed to reopen from Monday amid the pandemic.", "Zodiakos creates history with victory at Newcastle racecourse and Judd Trump wins at the snooker as elite sport returns to England after coronavirus.", "Paddleboarder Mike Wiley hauled the man to the surface after finding him unconscious on the seabed.", "A head teacher explains how she is piecing school life back together before children return.", "A timeline of events leading up to George Floyd's death has been revealed by authorities.", "Thousands have queued to get into the furniture giant's stores amid strict social distancing measures.", "Liverpool players displayed a message of support by taking a knee around the centre circle at Anfield after the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis.", "After the death of George Floyd, young African-Americans in Minneapolis say they are scared for their safety.", "Protests after the death of George Floyd have led to a surge in misleading videos and unfounded theories.", "Pupils return to find their desks in rows facing forward, the windows wide open and lots of hand-sanitizer.", "A car and garage slide down a cliff face in Kent as a further landfall leaves homes at risk.", "The displays, at secret locations across Japan, were designed to lift spirits amid the pandemic.", "There were more than 3,000 war crimes allegations made against British troops relating to the conflict.", "A UN agency has endorsed coronavirus flight safety recommendations for governments around the world.", "The first minister says she will not hesitate to use the law to enforce group sizes and travel distances after increased traffic and a five-fold rise in police dispersal orders.", "Images show how unrest spread in Minnesota after the death of George Floyd in police custody.", "The UK should be leading the response to China's treatment of Hong Kong, seven former foreign secretaries say.", "Simon Waddup, from Coventry, wins £1m in the Euromillions draw.", "The charity says it will begin reopening its network of charity shops in England from 15 June.", "Meteorologists say the switch from an extremely wet winter to an extremely dry spring is not \"British\".", "More than 100 incidents are being investigated by press groups, including apparently deliberate targeting.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England as schools begin to reopen.", "Spain's tourism minister says UK Covid-19 figures \"have to improve\" before tourists can come back.", "Shetland was one of the UK areas worst hit by Covid-19 - now there have been no new cases for six weeks. How did they do it?", "Bonnie Pointer was an original member of the group, best known for the hit Jump (For My Love).", "The researchers say the death toll would have been \"huge\" without a lockdown.", "A teaching union says schools in Wales are facing \"mind-boggling\" challenges.", "The video call app allowed some patients to see recordings of others' sessions with medics.", "A further 55 people have died - the lowest daily rise since before lockdown on 23 March.", "People with sight loss are verbally abused and struggling to access services during the pandemic.", "The education secretary says he would like school with capacity to bring back more children before the holidays.", "These areas propelled the outsider to victory in 2016 - what do they think of the protests?", "The WHO's head of emerging diseases said evidence from 'two or three' studies suggested people with symptoms should be the main focus.", "People in New Zealand, Canada, London and Germany are protesting in support of Black Lives Matter.", "Actress Rachel Adedeji said she has witnessed racism while working on the Channel 4 soap.", "One in five say their income has dropped, the Office for National Statistics finds.", "More information is needed from the public to take the new suspect to court, German prosecutors say.", "The League One and League Two seasons are both ended early after a formal vote by clubs on Tuesday.", "Simeon Francis was found unresponsive in a cell in Torquay 17 hours after his arrest in Exeter.", "A senior official had earlier said it was \"very rare\" for asymptomatic people to pass the disease on.", "Car-maker says cyber-attack has affected production, sales and development worldwide.", "The government's adviser on extremism is investigating if it's possible to ban behaviour that leads people to hate each other.", "The transgender model was dropped by the brand in 2017 after she posted comments about racism.", "UK Border Force workers in France will get hurt as a result of a government order, a union says.", "Economists say America's economic expansion ended in February, but markets remain on the upswing.", "Less than a fifth of UK deaths in the last week of May were linked to coronavirus, Office for National Statistics figures show.", "Boris Johnson says the move will be subject to distancing measures being in place.", "Couples in England and Wales will not have to prove one party is at fault to start proceedings.", "Jasmine Paget is asking customers to check their deliveries to see if her ring can be found.", "Nicola Sturgeon confirms seven registered virus fatalities over the last 24 hours, but she adds that the trend is continuing downwards.", "Aiming to have all pupils back piles uncertainty and pressure on school communities, say governors.", "A Help for Heroes field guide is now available to health workers on the coronavirus front line.", "There is a risk that tonnes of diesel oil could drift from the lake to the Arctic Ocean.", "North Korea announces it will cut all official communication channels with South Korea from Tuesday.", "A hate crime investigation is underway after a Virginia man allegedly drove his car into protesters.", "A look back at the deaths of black Americans since the emergence of Black Lives Matter.", "Lewis Hamilton has urged countries around the world to remove \"racist symbols\" following the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in Bristol.", "If class sizes in England are going to be 15 to a room, how can a whole school go back together?", "The intensive care unit is now gearing up for a second wave of coronavirus infections.", "She cannot claim legal aid because there is equity in the home she owns with her ex-partner.", "There would usually be lifeguard patrols on 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The corporation says \"times have changed\" since the sketch show first aired.", "On Wednesday, Britain will mark two months without burning any coal to generate power.", "While some parents are keen for schools to reopen, others are concerned about safety.", "The scheme to pay wages of workers on leave because of coronavirus has now cost £19.6bn.", "Two young carers describe how their lives have changed under the coronavirus pandemic.", "Subscribers had problems making and receiving calls but could still text and use mobile data.", "US attorney claims Prince Andrew has \"repeatedly declined\" requests to schedule an interview.", "A \"Miss Hitler\" beauty pageant entrant and three others are jailed for being National Action members.", "The Canal and River Trust says the Robert Milligan statue's removal \"recognises community wishes\" .", "Marta Kauffman says she would now make \"very different decisions\" about the hit sitcom.", "Regulators got a \"significant proportion\" of complaints about the firm behind Hoseasons and Cottages.com.", "The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are shown at Windsor Castle, where they are staying during lockdown.", "Residents, who acted before the council could remove it, vowed to return the head \"at a later date\".", "Labour has a \"mountain to climb\" to regain power, a major review of its 2019 election defeat says.", "The virus is now \"in general circulation\" with a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\" possible.", "Theodora Dickinson is being investigated after tweeting Labour's Naz Shah should \"go back to Pakistan\".", "Head teachers welcome the move but want more details as some children face six months out of school.", "The campaigner survived a shot to the head by Taliban soldiers for her views on girls and education.", "The reopening of DIY shops and garden centres lifted sales, but they still remain far below normal levels.", "A tutoring service has been announced but how many pupils will benefit?", "Lee Waters says Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has abandoned a \"science-led\" approach.", "Leaked transcripts show staff say they were discouraged from raising concerns at NHS child gender clinic.", "An adviser to Wales' chief medical officer says \"the purpose of the journey should be considered\".", "Nina Ambrose says she feels \"so, so lucky\" to be able to spend this time with her dad.", "Boris Johnson says he does not think Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the Rugby Football Union announced it would review the song's use.", "The boss of Wales' largest pub chain says the rule must be relaxed or thousands of jobs will be lost.", "The veteran actor, who played Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, dies peacefully in hospital.", "Government now intends to launch an app in the autumn but it may still lack contact-tracing tech.", "All staff at the chicken factory are self-isolating after 61 workers tested positive for Covid-19.", "After City institutions apologise for slavery ties, historian Sir Hilary Beckles says firms must go further.", "May's record borrowing as income drops and spending balloons sees country's debt outstrips its economy.", "The World Health Organization says there were 150,000 new cases on Thursday - half from the Americas.", "Zoo owners praise fundraisers, but say the government has failed to recognise their dire plight.", "The baby's death is announced as Sheffield Children's Hospital confirms a child died there on Monday.", "The leaders mark 80 years since a BBC broadcast in which France was urged to keep fighting Hitler.", "Patients are younger than white counterparts and far more likely to have diabetes, analysis shows.", "Apple says the UK government has not spoken to it about plans to develop a new \"hybrid\" tracing app.", "The Queen and Sir Paul pay their respects to the Forces' Sweetheart, who has died aged 103.", "The Royal College of Nursing wants more done to look after staff on the front line or coronavirus care.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Updates from across Scotland as the UK's coronavirus alert level is downgraded from four to three.", "Scientists say samples from Milan and Turin showed virus traces long before cases were confirmed.", "Twitter says that, unlike a previous ban, Ms Hopkins has been removed from the platform for good.", "The police chief accused the officer of \"blindly\" firing into Breonna Taylor's apartment.", "Pupils in every year group will return full-time next term, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says.", "As a legal challenge to the president's event is dismissed, Tulsa braces for protests.", "While some parents are keen for schools to reopen, others are concerned about safety.", "Education Minister Peter Weir publishes new guidance setting out how schools should reopen in August.", "The boss of Oakman Inns says that if pubs don't reopen \"they'll continue to bleed cash\".", "Scotland's most senior judge says legislation is needed, as measures so far have just been \"tinkering at the edges\".", "Karen Mannering warned others to take Covid-19 seriously in a video appeal from her hospital bed.", "Bruno Fernandes scores a late penalty as Manchester United hold Tottenham to a 1-1 draw on their return to Premier League action.", "After months of work the UK has ditched the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works. So what went wrong?", "How countries have had to change focus to fight the new threat of Covid-19.", "A cross-party letter urges Equalities Minister Liz Truss to \"do the right thing\" over gender identity.", "British Empire Medal recipient Neomi Bennett overturned her conviction for obstructing police.", "Hospital bosses in England felt \"in the dark\" over changes to policies on face masks and visitors.", "The BBC's Ed Thomas visits one street in north-west England that's reeling from three Covid-19 deaths.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "The government says it's open to \"innovative\" ideas, after a union urges it to ease social distancing.", "Protesters march in support of George Floyd and indigenous Australians despite coronavirus warnings.", "A Public Health Wales doctor says they could have an effect on transmission if used by more people.", "Protesters are urged to follow social distancing while tourist sites reopen with new restrictions.", "Businesses offering outdoor activities may \"disappear off the map\" without more support, an MP says.", "Scots are urged to stick to the rules as the country begins its second weekend since the easing of restrictions", "Alexis Ohanian says the move was inspired by protests over the death of George Floyd.", "The former Commons speaker tells the BBC he \"made a lot of enemies\" but denies bullying allegations.", "Coronavirus disrupted Harry Billinge's D-Day plans. But he got to meet a face from his past instead.", "Sparked by the death of George Floyd in the US, thousands gather globally to say black lives matter.", "Scientists are gathering data on how new diseases emerge in the hope of identifying future pandemics.", "New images of the British Normandy Memorial, currently under construction, are released to mark date.", "The singer has a \"newly glued forehead\" but has not broken any bones, she tells fans on Instagram.", "Kameko inflicts a first defeat on Pinatubo to win the 2,000 Guineas, the first British Classic of the season, in a record time.", "Fee rises of more than £100 a week add \"insult to injury\" after the wave of infections, says Age UK.", "Protesters gather despite warnings after concerns that coronavirus is spreading again.", "Joe Biden passes the 1,991 delegate threshold and will take on Donald Trump for the presidency.", "Churches, mosques and synagogues have been closed in England since lockdown restrictions began.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The companies promise big tax savings, but some NHS staff could end up severely out of pocket.", "Scientists are concerned the test-and-trace system is not effective enough to prevent this.", "Oliver, 15, and Luke, 13, are living in a \"history lesson\" while their parents \"hold the Roman fort\".", "Tributes are paid to Rose Paterson, the chairman of Aintree Racecourse, who has been found dead near her Shropshire home.", "Labour say documents show \"discrepancies\" in housing secretary's account of controversial scheme.", "Shops are due to pay their quarterly rent bill on Wednesday as landlords expect a shortfall.", "The self-balancing vehicle was launched 19 years ago with the aim of revolutionising personal transport.", "The apprenticeship system is failing disadvantaged youngsters in England, says Social Mobility Commission.", "The Stop Hate For Profit campaign is calling on the tech giant to take tougher action against racist content.", "Hairdressers can reopen from 4 July - and customers are clearly desperate for a cut.", "A graduate who moved to Bristol says it is harder for black and Asian people to get work in Wales.", "\"Sweeping reforms\" aimed at protecting domestic abuse victims follow a BBC investigation.", "Scotland's plan out of lockdown will see the hospitality sector, hairdressers and shopping centres fully open by mid-July.", "Amnesty International calls on NI's police force to stop using the guards during the pandemic.", "Labour says Robert Jenrick must clear up \"discrepancies\" in his account of controversial planning decision.", "Laser labs that detect ripples in space-time may have witnessed a new class of cosmic object.", "A high of 32.6C is recorded at Heathrow, with temperatures likely to rise as the week continues.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Kathy is one of about 300 people who will be immunised to help find a vaccine for Covid-19.", "The Downing Street briefings began in March, when the UK's coronavirus death toll stood at 55.", "A woman and two children have been seriously injured after the blast.", "New York, New Jersey and Connecticut ask people coming from virus hotspots to self-isolate.", "The women say they want to \"challenge the persistent failure\" of the Child Maintenance Service.", "For the eighth consecutive week, the death total from coronavirus in Scotland falls.", "The US police comedy will \"start over\" and reflect the anti-racist movement, one of its stars says.", "Car taxes should be raised to help fund the battle against climate change, the government is urged.", "Holiday lets and hotels, which can reopen on 4 July, say they are expecting a surge of pent-up demand.", "Boris Johnson faces questions about virus test and trace programme", "The US Defense Department has compiled a list of 20 firms it says are backed by Chinese military.", "The lightning set fire to the roof in what a neighbour calls a \"one in a million\" chance.", "Jordan Walker-Brown tells the BBC he posed no threat to officers during the incident in May.", "England's nurseries and pre-schools warn of huge losses and mass closures without government intervention.", "Sir Mick Jagger pays tribute to the filmmaker and philanthropist, who died this week aged 55.", "World number one Novak Djokovic becomes the latest tennis player to test positive for Covid-19.", "The BBC says adjustments will be made \"to ensure the high standards audiences know and love\".", "Signed by more than 1,000 parliamentarians, it calls for Israel to face \"commensurate consequences\".", "The first crewless boat is now ready for a trial alongside a Royal Navy warship later this year.", "The man has not been seen since he entered a stretch of the River Thames in Cookham, police say.", "More than 4,500 jobs could be lost at the ground handling firm due to coronavirus effects on air travel.", "An estimated 14,500 people had been helped under a scheme to take rough sleepers off the streets.", "The family of Cheriff Tall, who was shot dead at the event in Moss Side, say they are \"broken\".", "How the biggest trial in the world found life-saving coronavirus drug dexamethasone in record time.", "The body of a man in his 30s is found after \"extensive searches\" of a stretch of river in Berkshire.", "Abayomi Ajose was looking after a friend when he was shot dead in Manchester, his family say.", "The warning comes as the prime minister announced sweeping relaxations to lockdown rules in England.", "Revellers have hosted events at properties booked on Airbnb and Booking.com, an industry body claims.", "James Antell used his shirt to try to stop the bleeding of three men stabbed to death in Reading.", "Owner Greg Glassman stepped down as chief executive earlier this month.", "Pubs and hairdressers are among the places which will be allowed to reopen in England from 4 July.", "The 67-year-old, who is one of the biggest names in pornography, could face up to 90 years in jail.", "The centre of the earthquake was in the coastal state of Oaxaca but shock waves were felt as far away as Mexico city.", "Blackpool Airport suspends banner flights from its base after the message 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was towed over Etihad Stadium.", "Eyewitnesses say a garage door was sent flying across the street in the blast.", "Nicola Sturgeon says there will be no decision on whether to follow England until at least next week.", "Highlights of previous boardroom highs and lows will be broadcast later this year instead.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Liverpool move within two points of their first league title in 30 years with a thrashing over Crystal Palace at Anfield.", "Mark Drakeford said the original social distancing advice is staying in place in Wales.", "The travel firms blame service cuts on falling demand and difficulties implementing protection measures.", "The Pitsmoor Hotel in Sheffield was raided by police during the coronavirus lockdown on 24 April.", "Coronavirus will leave a digital legacy as UK finds solace online, says Ofcom.", "NHS staff will be prioritised for the blood tests, which check if someone has already had the coronavirus.", "Naked Wines and Mr Kipling-maker Premier Foods see revenues jump amid stockpiling and home cooking demand.", "Actress Elizabeth Hurley remembers the good times with Steve Bing after his death at the age of 55.", "The suspect is accused of feeding his victims with a substance \"twice as strong\" as pepper spray.", "Academy leaders call for an \"honest discussion\" about how schools will really go back in the autumn.", "Nicola Sturgeon warns that figures next week are likely to show big increase in Scottish unemployment.", "MPs say the airline's planned job cuts are a \"calculated attempt to take advantage\" of the virus crisis.", "The US president comes out against neck restraints after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.", "Charles and Camilla will be the first Royal Family members to hold a major event during lockdown.", "Neuroscientists call for urgent attention to the well-being of young people isolated from friends.", "Mark Drakeford says he will not change strategy on easing the lockdown \"however loud the demands\".", "Full PPE, 'red zones' and cleaning the room between patients are now part of everyday practice.", "Few businesses are unscathed by the lockdown, but these firms can see light at the end of tunnel.", "The National Audit Office identified shortcomings in PPE provision for health and care staff.", "The four-year-old had only been able to wave to his dad who was on the vessel 100m away from their garden in Oban.", "People in England and Wales have been fined for house parties, meeting in big groups and camping.", "Alister Jack says the current 2m social distance rule should be cut as soon as it is safe to do so.", "Bringing you the latest news from across England about the coronavirus pandemic.", "Warning comes after Michael Gove tells firms to prepare for post-Brexit border checks from January.", "Shoppers faced a year's worth of grocery price rises in one month as promotions were withdrawn, researchers say.", "Statues of Winston Churchill and the Cenotaph were targeted during last week's anti-racism protest.", "Face coverings will be compulsory on public transport and in hospitals in England from Monday.", "A grim Fed outlook and uptick in virus cases in some US states fans concerns about economic recovery.", "Hospitals in the country are struggling to cope with the number of patients they’re getting.", "The singer, who was the first Welshman to have a solo UK Number One single, had been in ill health.", "BA, Ryanair and EasyJet are challenging plans to force inbound travellers to self isolate for 14 days.", "Holly King-Mand has gained more than 50,000 followers but says she now needs a rest.", "The signs on the street immortalised in a Beatles song in 1967 were attacked overnight.", "The comedian's criticism comes after an episode was temporarily pulled by UKTV due to \"racial slurs\".", "The government should step in if building owners do not remove dangerous cladding, they say.", "The Sun says its article, and headline \"I slapped JK and I'm not sorry\", weren't meant to glorify abuse.", "Dozens of games were teased including a return to the Spider-Man, Horizon and Gran Turismo franchises.", "Dr Cathy Gardner is taking legal action after her father died of probable Covid-19 in April.", "An anonymous tracer told the BBC they've made one call and don't feel they've had much training.", "Shintaro Tsuj steps down after six decades at the helm of the company that created the character.", "A statue honouring the Jamaican poet, actor and playwright Alfred Fagon is damaged in Bristol.", "Care chiefs said homes suffered from a lack of testing and of personal protective equipment.", "Lady Antebellum become Lady A, and say they are \"deeply sorry for the hurt\" their old name caused.", "A symbolic monument to Brazil's coronavirus victims is mocked by Bolsonaro supporters, organisers say.", "The PM will review post-Brexit trade talks with EU figures, ahead of a deadline for extending the negotiations.", "A start-up company says it will produce its electric car batteries in either St Athan or Coventry.", "The couple were on their Ipswich driveway when they filmed the officers who had approached them.", "New government data reveals which parts of the country have the most workers on the support scheme.", "One in 1,700 people are thought to be infected, based on 20,000 tests in households.", "Wales' health minister says it is an \"issue\" having a prime minister who used \"offensive language\".", "The PM's spokesman promises an extended scheme to help pupils get back on track in England.", "Drivers in London will have to verify they are following the rules with a photograph.", "London was overwhelmingly the hardest-hit area in the country, says the Office for National Statistics.", "The former chancellor worked as the editor of the London newspaper for more than three years.", "Customs staff at UK ports could include EU representatives, the BBC has learned.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were found stabbed to death in a Wembley park nearly a week ago.", "The health secretary says UK has 'reasonable' demands after both sides report little progress in talks.", "An immediate public inquiry could help save lives, say relatives of 450 virus victims.", "Premier League players' names will be replaced on the back of their shirts with 'Black Lives Matter' for the first 12 matches of the restarted season.", "A statue of the war-time prime minister has been boxed up ahead of Black Lives Matter protests.", "Ministers say it will give firms \"time to adjust\" as UK formally rules out extending transition period.", "The housing secretary defends the approval of a Conservative donor's application amid Labour calls for inquiry.", "Eyewitnesses filmed a twister near Brecon and then another 40 miles away in Ceredigion.", "The ceremony was due to take place in February but has been pushed back due to Covid-19.", "More and more survivors of coronavirus are discovering its impact on their health is long-term.", "The challenges of life in the Navajo Nation have made containing Covid-19 even more difficult.", "Superstar Sir Elton John has said he was \"blown away\" by a music video made by a group of students.", "Like many other transplant patients, Ana-Rose's hope for a new liver was put on hold due to Covid.", "As stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors, we asked people in Milton Keynes what they bought.", "Wales' economy minister says over-16s will be offered help finding work, education or training.", "Tourism businesses, national park officials and conservationists look ahead to Snowdonia reopening.", "Pictures on social media appear to show big crowds at the popular designer outlet in Oxfordshire.", "Remdesivir shortens recovery time by about four days, research suggests.", "The Public Health England report says racism may be a factor in increased risks for ethnic minorities.", "A woman who survived Covid-19 credits a drug trial with saving her life.", "A group promoting alternatives to the car said one garden village could be seven miles from a shop.", "Only 4% of an annual target of 2,000 hectares was planted in Wales last year.", "The F-15C Eagle, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath crashed shortly after 09:30 BST.", "The unemployment rate for people aged over 16 rose to 4.6%, a 1.1% increase on the previous quarter.", "Some 12 million gamers got into the much-anticipated event, but many more had to watch on Twitch.", "Queens \"quack\" when ready to hatch - but if two are free at the same time, they fight to the death.", "Vouchers are offered to help 10,000 families in England keep their children learning online.", "The Duke of Cambridge spoke with Leanne and her five-year-old-son, who has cystic fibrosis.", "The Body Coach is moving to a reduced timetable, saying he needs \"a little bit of a break\".", "Families say they rely on food vouchers and back Marcus Rashford's plea to keep them over the summer.", "President Trump defends promoting hydroxychloroquine as the FDA says there is no evidence it works.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this morning.", "Tributes are paid to the politician, who had represented South Wales East for more than 13 years.", "Dexamethasone cuts by a third the risk of dying for those on ventilators, researchers find.", "A cabinet minister is criticised for her response to the footballer's fresh calls to extend the scheme.", "Patients should be given the cheap drug without delay, after \"fantastic\" trial results, experts say.", "The government will help feed children over the summer holidays after a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford.", "Flushing the toilet with the lid up creates a cloud of spray that may spread infection, study finds.", "James Bowen wrote six books about his pet Bob who he chanced upon while battling drug addiction.", "Kim Leadbeater urges people to \"pull together with compassion\" four years on from the killing.", "The main developments in the response to the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.", "The Manchester United player spoke to BBC Breakfast about his phone call with Boris Johnson.", "Fourteen men and 12 women, mainly from Walsall, are charged with historical child sex offences.", "Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death.", "The author becomes the first black British writer to top the overall UK book chart.", "The PM says the talks need \"a bit of oomph\" and sees no reason why a deal cannot be \"done in July\".", "A report finds Instagram doubled its news audience last year - and could overtake Twitter by 2021.", "One engaged couple start a petition to relax coronavirus restrictions on wedding ceremonies in Wales.", "The RSC says it is \"appalled\" at a Sunday Times TV listing which it said \"devalued\" the actors.", "Firm is investigated for limiting app sales to its own store and imposing other rules on developers.", "Officers followed the vehicle through Swindon and the man was shot as they intercepted it.", "The town of Newquay, which depends on tourism and hospitality, has been hit hard by the lockdown.", "Campaigners welcome commitment to prevent lawyers using justification for violence.", "Nicola Sturgeon says coronavirus is causing an \"economic crisis\" but warns against easing restrictions \"too quickly\".", "Teachers say pupils are not doing as much work as normal for this time of year, as lockdown goes on.", "No Queen, no spectators but plenty of action as Royal Ascot begins behind closed doors for the first time on Tuesday.", "The move has prompted criticism from opposition parties, charities and former PM David Cameron.", "Leading psychologists warn the education secretary that children's mental health is at risk.", "The prince discusses his experience with Covid-19 as the royals return to public engagements.", "AstraZeneca agrees deals to deliver at least 400 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, providing it works.", "After scrapping the plan for all primary years to return, what happens next for those out of school?", "Daunted by many more weeks of home-schooling? 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So what went wrong?", "A coroner says the Wales international's death may have been linked to an \"industrial disease\".", "The government has relaxed the lockdown, despite advisers warning against reducing the Covid-19 alert level.", "Wales is the latest part of the UK to launch a tracing system, but how do they work?", "Many people have have seen family members for the first time since lockdown was enforced in the UK.", "Being black or from an ethnic minority is a \"major risk factor\" in coronavirus, Matt Hancock says.", "Protests in major cities, including New York and Washington, continue for an eighth night.", "The theatre company makes the \"difficult decision\" due to continuing social distancing rules.", "MPs end remote voting but those who can't come to Parliament say they have been disenfranchised.", "Deaths of people with learning disabilities in England rise by 134%, Care Quality Commission says.", "One volunteer says people shouted at her \"when I asked them nicely to 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administration due to coronavirus after almost 120 years in business.\n\nLee Longlands was established in 1902 and opened its flagship store in Birmingham 30 years later.\n\nThe family-run business said it had been forced into administration as a result of the \"the devastating impact of the coronavirus lockdown\".\n\nThe firm has a number of showrooms across the Midlands and was described as \"a household name\" in the region.\n\nThe company's shops have not been able to trade for three months because of lockdown\n\nIts shops in Birmingham, Leamington Spa, Kidderminster, Abingdon, Derby and Cheltenham were closed for three months and have only just re-opened as lockdown restrictions eased.\n\nRobert Lee is the fourth generation to run the business, which was established by Robert Lee and George Longland.\n\n\"For almost 120 years our family business and our employees have put our customers at the heart of everything we do,\" he said, adding that the company would be working to fulfil orders \"to restore our short term finances\".\n\nThe company's founders were pioneers - in 1907 they became the first store outside of London to install window display lighting after closing time.\n\nIts flagship store in Birmingham was used to store food rations during the Second World War, and the company also contributed to the war effort by producing \"blackout fabric\" to cover windows, making it harder for enemy bombers to identify targets.\n\n\"Lee Longlands is a household name across the Midlands,\" Matt Ingram, from administrator Duff and Phelps said.\n\n\"The fact that the appointment of administrators has been necessary, demonstrates the devastating financial impact that this pandemic will leave in its wake.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he is \"appalled and sickened\" by Reading stabbing attacks\n\nThe prime minister says he is \"appalled and sickened\" by the stabbing attack in Reading that left three people dead.\n\nPolice arrested a 25-year-old man from Reading at the scene and say they are not looking for anyone else over the \"terrorist incident\".\n\nBoris Johnson has paid tribute to unarmed officers who detained the suspect, after he had also injured three other people.\n\nAnd the PM promised action \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I'm appalled and sickened that people should lose their lives in this way and our thoughts are very much with the families and friends of the victims today.\"\n\nHe said he had spoken to the chief constable of Thames Valley Police and praised the bravery of his officers, during the attack at Forbury Gardens, a park in Reading town centre.\n\n\"If there are lessons that we need to learn about how we handle such cases, how we handle the events leading up to such cases then we will learn those lessons and we will not hesitate to take action when necessary,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said that included changes to the law, as they had done over the automatic early release of terrorist offenders.\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, said: \"This was an atrocity.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Neil Basu: \"Officers have found nothing to suggest anyone else was involved in this attack\"\n\nHe said police have found \"nothing to suggest anyone else was involved\" in the incident at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nSecurity sources told the BBC the man arrested, who lives in Reading, is thought to be Libyan.\n\nMr Basu said police were working with the coroner to formally identify those who had died and he praised the actions of Thames Valley Police officers - \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" - who detained the suspect.\n\nHe also praised members of the public who provided emergency first aid at the scene and said 41 witnesses had so far come forward.\n\nHe said \"the motivation for this horrific act is far from certain\" but added it was clear that it was not associated with an earlier peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration at Forbury Gardens, the site of the attack.\n\nMr Basu said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\n\"Let me be clear, there is no specific intelligence to suggest anyone attending crowded places is at risk, but I would ask the public: please continue with your daily lives, but be alert, not alarmed, when you are out in public,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Lawrence Wort on Reading stabbing attack: 'I saw a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches minimum'\n\nAn eyewitness to the attack at Forbury Gardens, a park near the centre of Reading, said he saw a man moving between groups of people in the park, trying to stab them.\n\nThree people died in the attack, and another three were seriously injured. Two of the injured people have been discharged and one remains in hospital, although the injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nThe arrested man had previously been in prison in the UK for a relatively minor conviction, not a terrorism offence, sources told the BBC.\n\nA large cordon remains in place following the incident\n\nReading appears desolate and in mourning this morning. Large areas outside the gardens are taped up and there are not many people here, mainly journalists and their TV cameras.\n\nA strong wind is rattling litter in grey, deserted streets, most of which are being patrolled by armed police. Commuters are struggling to get to work as so many roads have been cordoned off with police tape.\n\nThe few people arriving from Reading station expressed \"shock\". Marie Castro from Slough works at a Costa coffee shop in Reading and said: \"I was scared to be here but I have to be here for work.\"\n\nThe attack \"doesn't seem right for Reading\", she added.\n\n\"It's multicultural and really friendly. I was really shocked when I heard the news\".\n\nA block of flats on Basingstoke Road in Reading was raided by more than a dozen armed police officers carrying shields at about 23:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nAbout an hour and a half after they entered, a loud bang was heard at the scene, after which several of the armed officers left.\n\nCraig O'Leary, chairman of the Thames Valley Police Federation, said the \"swift action\" of officers at the scene prevented \"potentially more lives from being lost\".\n\nA man places flowers near the entrance to the park where three people were killed\n\n\"There are barely words to describe their bravery - officers who ran towards danger with the sole thought of protecting the public we serve,\" he said.\n\nOne officer \"rugby tackled\" the suspect to the ground, according to a report in the Sunday Mirror.\n\nFloral tributes to the victims have been left at the scene. One read: \"\"There are no words that anyone can say to express how horrible and senseless this was.\n\n\"Our prayers are with all the victims and their families and friends.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There can be no post-pandemic economic recovery without a strong and healthy steel industry, according to Labour MP Stephen Kinnock.\n\nOpposition MPs are calling on the UK government to provide loans to steel firms experiencing a sudden drop in demand due to coronavirus.\n\nIt said it was \"committed to supporting the sector's economic recovery\".\n\nAberavon MP Mr Kinnock told BBC Politics Wales support was needed in \"days not weeks\" to help the industry.\n\nIn May, 10 Welsh MPs wrote to the chancellor asking for extra support for the sector during the pandemic.\n\nAs shops start reopening, and pressure builds on the government to outline its plans for the UK's economic recovery, big questions still remain about the part steel will play in the country's economic bounce back.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Newport East Labour MP Jessica Morden told Boris Johnson: \"Plants like Tata's Llanwern and the Orb steel works - the only electrical steel plant in the UK - can play a key part in that recovery, but three months into this crisis and steel companies are still waiting for government liquidity support which is critical.\n\n\"Will the prime minister commit to address this now?\"\n\nMr Johnson said ministers would do \"everything they can\" to maintain UK steel production, but no bailout has been promised yet.\n\nMr Kinnock said steel was the \"backbone of our manufacturing sector\".\n\n\"Nothing, really, can work in this country in terms of the manufacturing sector without steel,\" he said.\n\n\"Steel is in the offices we work in, the cars that we drive, the trains that we ride, even the cutlery that we eat our food with.\"\n\nStephen Kinnock: \"Nothing, really, can work in this country in terms of the manufacturing sector without steel\"\n\nDemand for steel has dropped massively during the coronavirus crisis, especially with industries like car manufacturing grinding to a halt.\n\nBefore the pandemic, Tata Steel had suffered £371m in pre-tax losses last year and there was continuing uncertainty for the wider industry because of Brexit.\n\nThere have been reports the UK government may consider so-called \"last resort\" loans for viable companies, if their failure would disproportionately harm the economy.\n\nBut ministers will want some certainty any loans will be paid back to \"protect\" the taxpayer.\n\nMr Kinnock said he believed loans to steel firms would be returned and he has urged the government to consider the costs to the taxpayer of not stepping in to support them.\n\n\"We are urging the government to support the industry now and also think about the cost of doing nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"There are 4,000 relatively well paid men and women working in the Port Talbot steel works, thousands more relatively well paid jobs in the steel industry across the country.\n\n\"Imagine the cost of losing those jobs.\n\n\"Imagine the cost of decommissioning a steelworks with blast furnaces and the vast cost that would cause the government.\n\n\"So we are saying to the government - give the temporary loan.\n\n\"It is a loan that will be paid back in order to avoid the massive cost of doing nothing.\"\n\nSteel industry analyst Dr Kathryn Ringwald-Wildman said the pandemic has hit firms at an already tough time.\n\n\"We've got uncertainty building on uncertainty,\" she said.\n\n\"The position of the steel industries is quite desperate at the moment and they will need government support to survive.\n\n\"They would've needed government support without the pandemic.\n\n\"If they are to weather this particular storm they will need support.\n\n\"The question is: this is taxpayer's money. Is this a bridge over the pandemic crisis or is it a bridge over the pandemic crisis only to find the economic situation post-pandemic is much more serious globally than we might imagine?\"\n\nBeyond questions around the cost of recovery, with Tata Steel reportedly needing at least £500m through the pandemic, government decisions to support steel or not are inherently political - with the effect on areas like Port Talbot hanging in the mix.\n\n\"You take the steel industry out of Port Talbot you have got nothing. You haven't got anything to take its place,\" said Dr Ringwald-Wildman.\n\n\"The decision that's made now will resonate for many years.\n\n\"It may be that the politicians will decide to defer the decision to end steel manufacturing in the UK - let the companies sink or swim.\n\n\"They might choose to defer that because of the consequences down the line.\n\n\"It would take a very brave government to say we don't need a steel industry in the UK.\n\n\"The emphasis has been, in conversations around the edge of the Brexit decision, we will make our own steel, use our own steel, buy our own steel.\n\n\"We will, of course, be trading on the international market.\n\n\"But the notion that our domestic steel industry would be one of our major suppliers to our manufacturing industry was fundamental.\"\n\nA spokesperson for Tata Steel, which has furloughed about 2,400 staff across UK sites, said: \"The ultimate impact of coronavirus has been the sudden drop in demand for steel.\n\n\"But it is a storm that we are weathering, and we're looking to come out of the other side.\n\n\"We are in negotiations with both UK and Welsh governments to seek all available support that we can.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said it has \"engaged with businesses across the economy, and has already increased the scope and scale of many of our support schemes, including loans to steel companies with a turnover of over £45m\".\n\n\"We recognise that economic conditions continue to be challenging and we are committed to supporting the sector's economic recovery.\"", "The attack happened in a residential courtyard in Moss Side\n\nTwo men have died in a shooting after a lockdown party of \"hundreds of people\".\n\nPolice were called to reports that gun shots had been heard in Caythorpe Street in Moss Side, Manchester, at about 01:00 BST.\n\nThe two victims, aged in their 20s and 30s, \"self-presented\" in hospital and died a short time later.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the shooting happened at \"an unplanned event\" near to the location of an \"earlier community event\".\n\nNo arrests have been made yet.\n\nA local resident said the shooting followed a lockdown party with a DJ and \"hundreds of people\".\n\nFootage on social media showed crowds dancing to loud music in a courtyard.\n\nA cordon was placed around a courtyard between Caythorpe Street, Broadfield Road and Bowes Street.\n\nA teacher, who lives nearby, said he heard music from about 22:00 BST into the early hours on Sunday.\n\nThe man, who did not wish to be named, said: \"It's a really normal neighbourhood with an occasional spike in violence.\n\n\"I had a walk out to see what was happening and I would say there were hundreds of people around but I did see police patrols. Later, we heard a helicopter overhead.\"\n\nOfficers gather evidence at a courtyard where \"hundreds\" of people attended a party\n\nHe said people who rang police were told that officers were unable to break up the party because it was too large.\n\nDet Insp Andrew Butterworth said: \"We are aware that, a number of hours before this incident, there was a community event in Moss Side.\n\n\"This event was attended by Greater Manchester Police along with local people and partner agencies - it was not an illegal rave and it had concluded prior to this incident.\n\n\"It does appear that the incident took place at what we believe was an unplanned event near to the location of the earlier community event.\"\n\nOn Sunday, a forensic tent was seen partially covering a car, with alcohol bottles and canisters of laughing gas surrounding the area.\n\nSince the 1980s, Moss Side has been associated with problems due to drugs and violence, although in recent years, there have been fewer shootings and money has been spent on redeveloping the area.\n\nThousands attended raves last weekend in Greater Manchester (above), despite gatherings of more than six people being illegal due to coronavirus\n\nEarlier this week, Greater Manchester Police said it would take \"serious action\" to deter more illegal gatherings after raves in Trafford and Oldham last weekend, when a 20-year-old man died of a suspected drug overdose and an 18-year-old woman was raped.\n\nMore than 6,000 people attended the events, where three men were stabbed.\n\nAsst Ch Con Nick Bailey said prevention was the key to controlling illegal parties but conceded that senior officers could decide it was more dangerous to close an event because of its scale, and factors such as terrain and darkness.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A large police investigation is underway in Reading, Berkshire, following a stabbing incident at Forbury Gardens.\n\nThames Valley Police have confirmed three people have died and another three are in a serious condition in hospital.\n\nA man was arrested at the scene and is now in custody.", "New pictures showing the Duke of Cambridge playing with his children have been released to mark both Father's Day and the duke's birthday.\n\nOne image shows Prince William, who turned 38 on Sunday, being jumped on by Prince George, aged six, Princess Charlotte, five, and Prince Louis, two.\n\nAnother shows the children posing with their father on a swing at Anmer Hall on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nBoth scenes were captured earlier this month by the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nA third photograph taken by Catherine, showing a beaming William with his arm around his father Prince Charles, was released by Clarence House to wish the duke a happy birthday.\n\nWilliam's birthday is the latest in what has been a busy birthday season for the royals, since the UK went into lockdown due to coronavirus.\n\nPictures, also taken by keen photographer Catherine, have been released to mark Charlotte and Louis' birthdays recently.\n\nLast month, new photographs showed the young princess delivering homemade care packages to those in need.\n\nPrince Louis was also pictured in April making a colourful rainbow poster - a symbol of hope during the lockdown.\n\nThe pair were also joined by their eldest brother George to join with the first Clap for Carers event in March, to applaud NHS staff and care workers.\n\nWilliam spoke about fatherhood during a BBC documentary on mental health last month.\n\nIn the interview, he said having children was the \"biggest life-changing moment\" and described fatherhood as a \"very different phase of life\" to his younger days.\n\nAsked about becoming a father, he added: \"I think when you've been through something traumatic in life - and that is like you say your dad not being around, my mother dying when I was younger - your emotions come back in leaps and bounds because it's a very different phase of life.\n\n\"And there's no one there to, kind of, help you, and I definitely found it very, at times, overwhelming.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William on being a parent: \"It's one of the most amazing moments of life, but also one of the scariest\" (Video from May 2020)\n\nPrince Charles, has also marked Father's Day, writing on Twitter: \"Whether you are a Father, a Dad, a Daddy or a Pa, wishing you a Happy Father's Day!\"\n\nThe post featured an archive photograph of Charles with his own sons - William and the Duke of Sussex - in matching polo shirts.\n\nA second picture showed a young Charles being held by his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, in the 1950s.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince Philip and the Queen, who are both currently shielding at Windsor Castle, have also celebrated birthdays recently.\n\nThe Queen made her first official public appearance since the lockdown began to mark her official birthday last week.\n\nAnd the Duke of Edinburgh posed with the Queen in an official photograph released two weeks ago as he turned 99.", "The black is where we still need modern measurements at a reasonable resolution\n\nWe've just become a little less ignorant about Planet Earth.\n\nThe initiative that seeks to galvanise the creation of a full map of the ocean floor says one-fifth of this task has now been completed.\n\nWhen the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project was launched in 2017, only 6% of the global ocean bottom had been surveyed to what might be called modern standards.\n\nThat number now stands at 19%, up from 15% in just the last year.\n\nSome 14.5 million sq km of new bathymetric (depth) data was included in the GEBCO grid in 2019 - an area equivalent to almost twice that of Australia.\n\nIt does, however, still leave a great swathe of the planet in need of mapping to an acceptable degree.\n\n\"Today we stand at the 19% level. That means we've got another 81% of the oceans still to survey, still to map. That's an area about twice the size of Mars that we have to capture in the next decade,\" project director Jamie McMichael-Phillips told BBC News.\n\nThe map at the top of this page illustrates the challenge faced by GEBCO in the coming years.\n\nBlack represents those areas where we have yet to get direct echosounding measurements of the shape of the ocean floor. Blues correspond to water depth (deeper is purple, shallower is lighter blue).\n\nIt's not true to say we have no idea of what's in the black zones; satellites have actually taught us a great deal. Certain spacecraft carry altimeter instruments that can infer seafloor topography from the way its gravity sculpts the water surface above - but this only gives a best resolution at over a kilometre, and Seabed 2030 has a desire for a resolution of at least 100m everywhere.\n\nSatellites: The shape of the sea surface traces at coarse resolution the shape of the seafloor\n\nBetter seafloor maps are needed for a host of reasons.\n\nThey are essential for navigation, of course, and for laying underwater cables and pipelines.\n\nThey are also important for fisheries management and conservation, because it is around the underwater mountains that wildlife tends to congregate. Each seamount is a biodiversity hotspot.\n\nIn addition, the rugged seafloor influences the behaviour of ocean currents and the vertical mixing of water.\n\nThis is information required to improve the models that forecast future climate change - because it is the oceans that play a critical role in moving heat around the planet. And if you want to understand precisely how sea-levels will rise in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must.\n\nMuch of the data that's been imported into the GEBCO grid recently has been in existence for some time but was \"sitting on a shelf\" out of the public domain. The companies, institutions and governments that were holding this information have now handed it over - and there is probably a lot more of this hidden resource still to be released.\n\nThe Mariana Trench in the Pacific is the deepest ocean location on Earth - but very well mapped\n\nBut new acquisitions will also be required. Some of these will come from a great crowdsourcing effort - from ships, big and small, routinely operating their echo-sounding equipment as they transit the globe. Even small vessels - fishing boats and yachts - can play their part by attaching data-loggers to their sonar and navigation equipment.\n\nOne very effective strategy is evidenced by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), which operates in the more remote parts of the globe - and that is simply to mix up the routes taken by ships.\n\n\"Very early on we adopted the ethos that data should be collected on passage - on the way to where we were going, not just at the site of interest,\" explained BAS scientist Dr Rob Larter.\n\n\"A beautiful example of this is the recent bathymetric map of the Drake Passage area (between South America and Antarctica). A lot of that was acquired by different research projects as they fanned out and moved back and forth to the places they were going.\"\n\nArtwork: Robot vessels can help close the gaps\n\nNew technology will be absolutely central to the GEBCO quest.\n\nOcean Infinity, a prominent UK-US company that conducts seafloor surveys, is currently building a fleet of robotic surface vessels through a subsidiary it calls Armada. This start-up's MD, Dan Hook, says low-cost, uncrewed vehicles may be the only way to close some of the gaps in the more out-of-the-way locations in the 2030 grid.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"When you look at the the mapping of the seabed in areas closer to shore, you see the business case very quickly. Whether it's for wind farms or cable-laying - there are lots of people that want to know what's down there. But when it's those very remote areas of the planet, the case then is really only a scientific one.\"\n\nJamie McMichael-Phillips is confident his project's target can be met if everyone pulls together.\n\n\"I am confident, but to do it we will need partnerships. We need governments, we need industry, we need academics, we need philanthropists, and we need citizen scientists. We need all these individuals to come together if we're to deliver an ocean map that is absolutely fundamental and essential to humankind.\"\n\nGEBCO stands for General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans. It is the only intergovernmental organisation with a mandate to map the entire ocean floor. The latest status of its Seabed 2030 project was announced to coincide with World Hydrography Day.\n\nDrake Passage is the stretch of water between South America and Antarctica\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Three people have died and three others were seriously injured in a multiple stabbing at a public park in Reading.\n\nEmergency services were called to Forbury Gardens in the town at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed landing at another park nearby to ferry the injured to hospital.\n\nArmed police officers raided a block of flats in the town hours after the attack and large parts of the town remain cordoned off.\n\nA 25-year-old man from the town, arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has been now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.\n\nHere are some images of the developments.\n\nBlue tents have been erected in the park after the incident on Saturday evening\n\nAnd forensics police were seen in Forbury Gardens on Sunday\n\nFloral tributes have been placed at the park railings\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nThames Valley Police's chief constable John Campbell delivered a statement to the media at the entrance to Forbury Gardens on Sunday afternoon\n\nThames Valley Police launched its response after receiving calls at about 19:00 BST on Saturday\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed at King's Meadow in Reading, a short distance from Forbury Gardens\n\nParts of Reading town centre were condoned off by Thames Valley Police\n\nArmed police officers were later seen at a block of flats off Basingstoke Road in Reading\n\nPolice officers were stationed at all entrances to the park on Saturday night\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.\n• None Three people dead after multiple stabbings in park", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya: \"British visitors can arrive freely and without the need for quarantine\"\n\nUK tourists will be able to visit Spain without having to quarantine on arrival from Sunday, Spanish officials say.\n\nSpain's foreign affairs minister has told the BBC that British citizens will be allowed to enter the country freely, without the need to self-isolate.\n\nShe said the decision had been made \"out of respect\" for the 400,000 Britons who have second homes in Spain.\n\nBut current rules state that anyone returning to - or entering - the UK still has to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nIt is understood the UK's quarantine restrictions will be reviewed on 29 June.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office is still warning against all but essential international travel.\n\nSpain's foreign affairs minister Arancha González Laya said UK visitors will go through a \"triple check\" upon arrival to Spain.\n\nThey will be asked for their country of origin and to register \"so we know we have a contact point to trace them\", she said. They will also undergo a temperature check.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we welcome visitors, but we want to do this in safety and security for them, as well as for the Spaniards,\" she said.\n\nMs González Laya said discussions were continuing with the government about exempting Spanish visitors from the UK's current quarantine travel rules.\n\n\"We do hope that [the British authorities] will be sensitive to the 250,000 Spaniards that are also living in the UK and would very much like to enter the UK without quarantine,\" she said.\n\nBut she added: \"We also respect that countries look at entry or exit restrictions on the basis of their own data.\"\n\nSpanish officials are also identifying locations in each of the country's regions where travellers \"will be isolated and treated\" should they require hospital treatment, according to Ms González Laya.\n\nMany Britons have homes in Spain - and it is also popular with tourists\n\nSince 8 June, people arriving in the UK have been required to self-isolate for 14 days to help slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe government is now planning to relax its travel quarantine rules for some countries in early July.\n\nUK officials are talking to their counterparts in Portugal, France, Italy, Greece and Spain, and ministers are hoping to make an announcement on 29 June that the government has secured a number of \"travel corridors\".\n\nThe government had previously said that the quarantine would be reviewed every three weeks and 29 June marks the end of the first three-week period.\n\nHowever, one leading British scientist has called on ministers to drop the policy \"as soon as possible\".\n\nProf Peter Piot, who is renowned for his work on Ebola and HIV, said the policy \"only would have made sense\" at the start of the outbreak when there were fewer cases.\n\n\"Today that is not going to contribute much and the damage it causes to the country, to the economy, is going to be enormous,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"Let's hope that rule is dropped as soon as possible and let's concentrate on what works.\"\n\nHis comments follow earlier criticism of the move by UK airlines. British Airways, Ryanair and EasyJet have filed a formal legal challenge to the government's policy.\n\nSpain's latest announcement follows confusion earlier in the week over the country's plans for allowing UK travellers to visit.\n\nSpanish officials had said on Monday that travellers from the UK would not have to quarantine on arrival from Sunday.\n\nBut Spain's foreign affairs minister then suggested the country would impose a two-week quarantine on Britons, if the UK maintained its current travel rules.\n\nThe mixed messages began after Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez announced last weekend that Spain's borders would reopen to travellers from all EU countries on Sunday 21 June - with the exception of Portugal.\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said the UK's quarantine system was \"informed by science, backed by the public and designed to help prevent a devastating second wave of this disease\".\n\n\"We are supporting tourism businesses through one of the most generous economic packages in the world, and continue to look at options to increase international travel, when it is safe to do so,\" she added.", "The author of a report into the Windrush scandal is warning there is a \"grave risk\" of similar failures happening again if the government does not implement its recommendations.\n\nWendy Williams told BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour the Home Office still needed to \"make good on its commitment to learn the lessons\".\n\nPeople from the Commonwealth were told wrongly they were illegally in the UK.\n\nThe Home Office said the home secretary intends to \"right those wrongs\".\n\nMs Williams' warning comes as the country pays tribute to the outstanding and ongoing contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants.\n\nNational Windrush Day, on Monday, commemorates the day, 72 years ago, when the ship HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, carrying migrants to help fill jobs in the UK.\n\nIn a video message, the Prince of Wales has spoken of the \"debt of gratitude\" the nation owes the Windrush generation.\n\n\"Today offers an opportunity to express the debt of gratitude we owe to that first Windrush generation for accepting the invitation to come to Britain and, above all, to recognise the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to so many aspects of our public life,\" said Prince Charles.\n\n\"I dearly hope that we can continue to listen to each other's stories and to learn from one another.\"\n\n\"The diversity of our society is its greatest strength and gives us so much to celebrate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amanda Kirton: \"It's all of our history\"\n\nIn honour of Windrush Day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is meeting Bishop Derek Webley, co-chair of the Windrush Working Group, and representatives of the British Caribbean community.\n\nThe newly-launched working group, co-chaired by Home Secretary Priti Patel and Bishop Webley, will bring together stakeholders and community leaders with government officials to address the challenges faced by the Windrush generation and their descendants.\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK who arrived between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been called the Windrush generation.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971 but thousands were children travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nChanges to immigration law in 2012 meant those without documents were asked for evidence to continue working, access services or even to remain in the UK.\n\nMs William's review, published in March, was critical of the \"hostile environment\" policy operated by successive governments to tackle illegal immigration.\n\nShe told The Westminster Hour the Home Office and ministers \"should have realised the impact\" of the legislation on different groups of people.\n\nThe report concluded the Home Office had shown \"ignorance and thoughtlessness\" on the issue of race when some people were incorrectly told they did not have the right to be in Britain.\n\nMs Williams, an inspector of constabulary, previously called on the government in March to provide an \"unqualified apology\" to those affected and the wider black African-Caribbean community.\n\nSpeaking earlier this year, Home Secretary Priti Patel said in House of Commons there was \"nothing I can say to undo the pain\" but added \"on behalf of this and successive governments I am truly sorry for the actions that span decades\".\n\nWendy Williams warns there is a risk that a similar scandal could happen again\n\nMs Williams said the risks posed by the controversial policy were flagged to the Home Office by \"other groups and stakeholders\" but because ministers ignored the warnings, the outcome of the Windrush scandal was \"both foreseeable and avoidable\".\n\nShe said: \"The Home Office has a very stark choice. It can decide not to implement my recommendations and, if that happens, then I think there is a very grave risk of something similar happening again.\"\n\nThe Home Office said in a statement the home secretary has been clear that the mistreatment of the Windrush generation by successive governments was \"completely unacceptable and she will right those wrongs\".\n\nMs Williams also said the compensation scheme for victims of the scandal is not demonstrating the benefits it should and applications need to be processed quickly and sensitively, with interim payments made where possible.\n\nHowever, the Home Office pointed out that the scheme made the first payment within four months of opening and has offered claimants over £640,000 in the first year.\n\nIt said that Ms Patel will give an update on her intended response to the review before the summer recess and will then provide a detailed formal response in September.\n\nIt added the Commonwealth Citizens Taskforce has granted over 12,000 people a form of documentation that confirms their right to remain in the UK and guarantee their access to public services.", "Singer Alexandra Burke has spoken out about her experiences of racism in the music industry, revealing she was asked to bleach her skin \"to look whiter\".\n\nAfter winning X Factor, Burke said she was told she would \"have to work 10 times harder than a white artist, because of the colour of your skin\".\n\nIn a 15-minute Instagram video, she recalls being told: \"You can't have braids, you can't have an afro.\n\n\"You have to have hair... that appeals to white people.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old star, who won the TV talent show in 2008 at the age of 19, described the experiences as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nBurke, who refused to bleach her skin, said she was inspired to tell her story by fellow X Factor contestant Misha B, who recently spoke out about \"being devalued\" at the hands of the music industry.\n\nMisha B claimed the X Factor projected \"this angry black girl narrative\", using words such as \"feisty\" and \"bully\" to describe her after one live performance on the show. The 2011 contestant said it left her feeling suicidal.\n\n\"I could have spoken up much earlier, but was too scared to,\" said Burke, whose Instagram post has attracted a lot of attention, and sympathy, on social media.\n\nThe music star revealed the micro-aggressions she experienced at the hands of record labels, being told regularly that she \"comes across aggressive\".\n\nShe said she was told: \"You can't release this kind of music, because white people don't understand that\", and added: \"I am so upset with myself that I allowed that.\"\n\nBurke, whose hit singles Hallelujah, Bad Boys and All Night Long were all nominated for Brit Awards, also played the lead in the critically acclaimed West End musical The Bodyguard.\n\nThe singer said was told: \"Because you're a black girl, you won't make it that far in the industry... if you were white, you would be bigger than what you are now, you could sell more records, you'd be a Brit Award-winner\".\n\nBurke went on to become a runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017\n\nShe was raised in north London by her mother, Soul II Soul singer Melissa Bell, who died in August 2017 - just before Burke was due to take part in Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nShe recalled how one journalist accused her of \"being a diva\" when she asked not to do any publicity on the show's red carpet, which happened to be taking place on the same day as her mother died.\n\n\"That was the image they had of me, because of the papers.\" she said. \"I was so scared on that show. So many trolls, telling me all kinds of stuff.\n\n\"I have no idea how I got through it. I don't even like thinking about that experience. It's simply because of me being a black, strong woman.\n\n\"I can speak up for myself because that's how I've been taught. But I would never do it in a way that offends people or hurts anyone.\"\n\nShe said the Black Lives Matter movement had persuaded her to share her experiences because \"the truth is all we've got\".\n\n\"I just feel like people need to not see colour,\" said Burke. \"My mum always raised me to never see colour. I will continue that way because that's what makes me happy.\n\n\"People are people. We are all human, we all have feelings. So be kind.\"", "Members of \"The Base\" posed for photos that were used as propaganda\n\nSecret efforts to groom and recruit teenagers by a neo-Nazi militant group have been exposed by covert recordings.\n\nThey capture senior members of The Base interviewing young applicants and discussing how to radicalise them.\n\nThe FBI has described the group as seeking to unite white supremacists around the world and incite a race war.\n\nThe recordings were passed to US civil rights organisation, the Southern Poverty Law Center, before some were shared with BBC One's Panorama.\n\nRinaldo Nazzaro, founder of The Base, is a 47-year-old American. Earlier this year the BBC revealed he was directing the organisation from his upmarket flat in St. Petersburg, Russia.\n\nThe interviews, which took place via conference call on an encrypted app, followed a pattern - prospective members were asked by Nazzaro about their personal history, ethnicity, radicalisation journey and experience with weapons, before a panel of senior members posed their own questions.\n\nRinaldo Nazzaro is now living in Russia\n\nThe would-be recruits were quizzed on what books they had read, including Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, and were encouraged to familiarise themselves with the group's white supremacist ideology, which predicts and seeks to accelerate racial warfare, requiring followers to prepare for conflict and social breakdown.\n\nDuring the calls, Nazzaro can be heard welcoming members of other extremist groups.\n\nThe young applicants, who hide behind aliases and display varying degrees of ideological awareness, describe their radicalisation by online videos and propaganda.\n\nWhen interviewees left the calls, senior members discussed their potential before arranging to vet them in person at a later date.\n\nThe recordings make clear that The Base sought to recruit soldiers from western militaries to draw on their training with tactics and firearms.\n\nNazzaro, who the BBC investigation has been told used to work as an analyst for the FBI and as a contractor for the Pentagon, informed one British teenager that the idea of societal collapse was a \"guiding philosophy\".\n\nA European teenager was told that such a collapse would be desirable, even at a local level, if it offered a \"power vacuum that we can take advantage of\".\n\nOne boy was told \"we have a goal of initially creating two to three man cells in as many areas as possible\" and that the \"UK is a place that we think there is a lot of potential\".\n\nDuring a post-interview discussion about a 17-year-old from Europe, one older man spoke of \"shaping\" his belief system, with Nazzaro saying he needed a \"little work ideologically\" but was \"definitely headed in the right direction\".\n\nCommenting on one British teenager, Nazzaro suggested he probably needed to \"mature ideologically\".\n\nDr Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, describes the recordings as a \"highly unusual glimpse\" into this extreme world, showing there was \"no singular pathway to radicalization\".\n\nShe says those applying to The Base came from a variety of backgrounds.\n\n\"I think the fact that a lot of these people are so utterly normal is in itself significant.\n\n\"They didn't possess some traits that predispose them to want to become a terrorist or to become attracted to extremist ideology.\n\n\"I think it's really best to think of them as a reflection of a society that is so deeply politically polarized\".\n\nFrom left: Jacob Kaderli, Michael Helterbrand and Luke Austin Lane, face charges in Georgia\n\nIn the American State of Georgia, three members of The Base are currently facing conspiracy charges for allegedly plotting to murder an anti-fascist couple.\n\nThe Base is the latest underground organisation to emerge from an international neo-Nazi network originally generated by a now-defunct web forum called Iron March.\n\nOther organisations include the banned British groups National Action and the Sonnenkrieg Division, as well as the Atomwaffen Division in the USA, which has been dismantled by a nationwide FBI investigation.\n\nThe BBC investigation reveals the real identity of a man who is both a senior member of The Base and the creator of a successor online forum linked to several UK terrorism prosecutions involving teenagers.\n\nMatthew Baccari, an unemployed 25-year-old from Southern California, used the alias 'Mathias' to run a notorious website called Fascist Forge, where terrorism and sexual violence were openly encouraged.\n\nHe was a vocal presence on The Base interview calls and promoted the group on his website, which he took offline earlier this year following significant attention by law enforcement.\n\nMatthew Baccari (r), posing for a propaganda image, is an unemployed 25-year-old from California\n\nThe forum was central to the case of a boy from Durham, who last year - aged 16 - became the youngest person convicted of planning a terror attack in the UK.\n\nTwo other young British members of Fascist Forge, one aged 15, are separately making their way through the youth court system charged with a combined 25 terrorism offences.\n\nBaccari refused to leave his bedroom when a BBC team went to his house to ask questions.\n\nBaccari and Nazzaro did not respond to letters setting out the evidence against them.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Panorama: Hunting the Neo-Nazis, Monday 22 June at 7.30pm on BBC One, and by listening to File on 4, Tuesday 23 June at 8.00pm on BBC Radio Four\n\nIf you have information or experiences to share, please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Chris Lewis, when he was still on the island with his dog Jet Image caption: Chris Lewis, when he was still on the island with his dog Jet\n\nA former British paratrooper has left the previously uninhabited island where he had been isolating after lockdown measures were introduced during a fundraising challenge.\n\nChris Lewis, from Swansea, had walked 12,000 miles (19,300km) of the UK coastline after setting off from Wales in August 2017.\n\nHe was given special permission to live in the only house on Hildasay, Shetland, with his dog Jet .\n\n\"I feel I left a part of me behind,\" he said.\n\nThe 39-year-old was originally sleeping in a tent on mainland Shetland when lockdown restrictions were imposed on 23 March.\n\nThis is the only house on the island Image caption: This is the only house on the island\n\nHe was offered the keys to a former shepherd's hut on Hildasay when its owners heard he was camping. The hut had no running water, heating or electricity.\n\nA regular boat brought him fresh water and coal. He collected driftwood, foraged and fished for food, and always made sure he had a three-week supply of dog food for Jet.\n\nHe said he had been \"the happiest I've ever been\" while living on the island.", "Ceremonies can go ahead from 22 June, but must remain socially distanced\n\nA lockdown ban on weddings and civil partnerships in Wales will be lifted from Monday - but there will be no big celebrations allowed.\n\nThe announcement was added to new rules published by the Welsh Government.\n\nHowever, the ban on social gatherings remain, as do social distancing rules.\n\nInvited wedding guests can now also travel any distance to be at a ceremony - but services must be small enough to stay safe.\n\nIt comes as easing other restrictions in Wales mean non-essential shops will also reopen on Monday.\n\nThe new wedding measures follow calls from couples to marry, even if it means a ceremony with just witnesses and a registrar.\n\nIt prompted 22-year-old Elizabeth Facer and her fiancé Ian Choi, 22, from Cardiff to launch a petition after being forced to abandon their plans for a wedding with 300 guests.\n\n\"I think sometimes in society it's seen as a bit of a party, and that's one of the things that's difficult to communicate,\" explained Ms Facer.\n\n\"We're not asking for a party, we're asking to be able to get married.\"\n\nThe changes include a provision for travel outside of a local area to a venue to \"attend a solemnization of a marriage or formation of a civil partnership\".\n\nWeddings and civil partnership ceremonies can go ahead, but only in places of worship and register offices, and if they choose to open.\n\nThis means that other venues, such as hotels, cannot be used for these ceremonies.\n\nWhen it updated its coronavirus regulations last week, the Welsh government said all weddings and civil partnerships could now proceed, subject to social distancing.\n\nBut it has now clarified that this only applies to places of worship, such as churches and register offices.\n\nIt brings it into line with the rules on attending funerals, where the number of mourners has been severely restricted by venue sizes.\n\nThe change of heart on marriage and partnership ceremonies follows moves to relax other restrictions, including changes to allow private prayer in places of worship.\n\nIt will also mean sports such as tennis can be played for the first time since the covid restrictions were introduced in March.\n\nHowever, First Minister Mark Drakeford has asked the Welsh public to adhere to the stay local message for another two weeks.\n\nHe used the Welsh Government's daily briefing on Friday to state the movement rule would be lifted on 6 July, as long as cases of coronavirus continued to fall.", "Boris Johnson has said his thoughts are with the families of the three people killed in a stabbing attack in Reading.\n\nThe prime minister said that if there were lessons to be learnt after the attack the government would not hesitate to take action.", "The events were opened in Batley with a cake bake\n\nA weekend of nationwide events to honour murdered MP Jo Cox is under way.\n\nThe Great Get Together began in 2017 using the Batley and Spen MP's Commons speech that said we \"have far more in common than that which divides us\".\n\nThe fourth event has to be celebrated in a \"slightly different way\" because of the coronavirus social distancing rules, her sister Kim Leadbeater said.\n\nOlympic medalist, Tom Daley said: \"It's a perfect way to illustrate the power of community.\"\n\nMrs Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in Birstall on 16 June 2016. Thomas Mair was convicted of her murder later that year.\n\nMonday would have been Jo Cox's 46th birthday.\n\nThe event was set up to honour the message in Jo Cox's maiden speech\n\nThis weekend sees neighbours, friends, and community members gathering to celebrate what they have in common while complying with social distancing.\n\nThe events started with a bake off at Upper Batley High School in Ms Cox's former constituency.\n\nHer parents, Gordon and Jean Ledbeater, and Kim, took part in the judging.\n\nMr Daley features in a nine-hour community radio get-together on Sunday, at what is traditionally the biggest Great Get Together in Bankside, South London.\n\nKim Leadbeater pictured with Tom Daley before social distancing rules came into force, said those rule meant this year's events would be done differently\n\nThis year everybody can also take part in the Run for Jo on Sunday, wherever they live, to run or walk along your own chosen route, while observing social distancing.\n\nDue to coronavirus restrictions on visits in person the Muslim Council of Britain will instead bring the mosque to everybody with a series of virtual tours across the weekend.\n\nA virtual service with people of many faiths and beliefs took place on Saturday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None Great Get Together 'doing Jo proud'\n• None The Great Get Together – Jo Cox Foundation The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bobby Storey was previously chairman of Sinn Féin and a close friend of Gerry Adams\n\nSenior republican figure Bobby Storey has died following a period of illness.\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald expressed \"deep sadness\" at his death, describing him as \"a great republican\".\n\nThe north Belfast man was considered the head of intelligence of the IRA for a period from the mid-1990s and was named as such under parliamentary privilege.\n\nSecurity sources linked him to several major incidents, including the £26m Northern Bank robbery in 2004.\n\nThe north Belfast man was considered the IRA head of intelligence in the mid-1990s\n\nMore recently, he was chairman of Sinn Féin.\n\nMr Storey, who was 64, spent more than 20 years in jail, beginning with internment without trial when he was 17, a year after he joined the IRA in 1972.\n\nIn 1981, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for possession of a rifle following an attack on the Army.\n\nHe was a close and lifelong ally of former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams.\n\nWhen he was released from jail in 1994, Mr Storey was seen as a key individual in selling the peace process to republican hardliners.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Michelle O’Neill This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe was arrested twice in recent years.\n\nIn 2014, he was questioned about the disappearance of Jean McConville.\n\nA year later, he was detained over the murder of Belfast republican Kevin McGuigan - at the time, Mr Storey was the chairman of Sinn Féin.\n\nFollowing his release without charge, he famously likened the IRA to a butterfly that had flown away.\n\nBobby Storey was a lifelong ally of former Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams\n\nIn a statement following news of his death, Mary Lou McDonald said: \"Bobby was extremely committed to the pursuit of a united Ireland with equality and social justice for all.\n\n\"He will be greatly missed. Today we have lost a great republican.\"\n\nTributes have also been paid by Sinn Féin vice-president and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, who said he \"played a vital role in developing the peace and political process over the past two decades\".\n\nMs O'Neill said: \"He was a committed, selfless comrade, whose contribution to the struggle for national liberation earned him the full respect of his generation.\n\n\"He was an enduring tower of strength and will be deeply missed by us all.\"", "Fiona Gibson and her younger brothers Philip (left) and Alexander (right) died at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nThree children have died and their mother is critically ill after a fire at their flat in Paisley.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 21:00 on Friday after the blaze broke out in the upper cottage flat in Renfrew Road.\n\nFiona Gibson, 12, and her brothers Alexander, eight, and Philip, five, died at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.\n\nThe children's 39-year-old mother was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley in a critical condition.\n\nAlex Gibson, their father, wrote on Facebook: \"may u rest in peace little angels\".\n\nHe later added: \"how I miss them already, now I know what it feels like when ur world comes crashing down\".\n\nA police spokesman said: \"An investigation is under way to establish the exact circumstances of this incident.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said six fire crews were met with a \"well developed\" blaze.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact officers.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"No words are enough. It's just heartbreaking. My thoughts are with all who loved these poor children. Fiona, Alexander and Philip - may you rest in peace.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bidding for the iconic instrument started at $1m\n\nA guitar played by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in a rare acoustic concert has sold for a record $6m (£4.9m).\n\nCobain played the retro acoustic-electric 1959 Martin D-18E during a legendary MTV Unplugged performance in 1993, just five months before he died.\n\nAt $6.01m after fees, the guitar is the most expensive ever sold at auction, Julien's Auctions said.\n\nBidding in Los Angeles opened at $1m and was won by Rode Microphones founder Peter Freedman.\n\nNirvana's acoustic performance for the MTV Unplugged series on 18 November 1993 is now considered one of history's greatest live performances.\n\nCobain died just five months after the performance\n\nMr Freedman said he planned to take the guitar on a worldwide tour, with proceeds to go to supporting the performing arts.\n\nHe described buying the guitar as \"a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity\", according to the auction house.\n\nThe guitar came with its case, which Cobain had decorated with a poster from the band Poison Idea's 1990 album Feel the Darkness.\n\nBefore this, the most expensive guitar sold in history was a Fender Stratocaster used by Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. It fetched almost $4m at a charity sale in June 2019.", "Arthur Labinjo-Hughes died from a head injury in the early hours of Wednesday\n\nA man has been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child after his six-year-old son died from head injuries.\n\nArthur Labinjo-Hughes was found unresponsive at a house on Cranmore Road, Shirley, in Solihull, on Tuesday and later died in hospital.\n\nThomas Hughes, 27, and his partner Emma Tustin, 31, who both lived at the address, face the same charge.\n\nEmergency services were called to Cranmore Road in Shirley at about 15:00 BST on Tuesday\n\nThey are due to appear before Birmingham Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\n\"Arthur's death is deeply distressing,\" Det Insp Laura Harrison, from West Midlands Police, said.\n\n\"We have specialist officers with his family as they grieve his loss.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police seized equipment including a generator and speakers during the arrests\n\nThirteen people have been arrested in a police crackdown on lockdown raves.\n\nStaffordshire Police detained the 11 men and two women in connection with illegal raves planned in Cannock over the weekend.\n\nThe force also seized a generator, speakers and an amplifier.\n\nIt comes after police warned against planned raves across the county border in the Black Country on Saturday, and gatherings in Greater Manchester, where one man died and three were hurt.\n\nPolice warned the raves \"are not safe\" after a man died and three were stabbed in Greater Manchester\n\nSupt Carl Ratcliffe, from Staffordshire Police, said: \"These gatherings are both illegal and irresponsible and put people at risk with the current global pandemic still not over.\n\n\"We will do all we can to stop these illegal raves from taking place.\"\n\nFive of the arrested men were detained on suspicion of conspiring to commit a public nuisance and have since been granted conditional bail.\n\nThe remaining suspects were arrested for drug offences and remain in police custody.\n\nThe force also put a dispersal order in place in the Chasewater area, covering Norton Canes, Brownhills and Heath Hayes, for Saturday night to deter gatherings.\n\nOfficers worked with colleagues from West Midlands Police after intelligence suggested a rave was being planned in \"a remote location\" in the Black Country.\n\nBrookhay Woods was left strewn with litter after an illegal rave in Lichfield on 13 June\n\nIt followed a gathering, of more than 1,000 people in Lichfield, on 13 June which had to be dispersed by police.\n\nThe same night, police were called to raves in Carrington and Daisy Nook Country Park in Greater Manchester where one man died, three were stabbed and a woman was also raped.\n\n\"We are in an unprecedented time and we won't accept anyone putting our communities at risk by holding these illegal raves,\" Supt Ratcliffe said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three people have died after they were stabbed in a park in Reading in southern England. Three more were injured.\n\nEyewitness Lawrence Wort told the BBC he saw a man stab several people in Forbury Gardens in the town.", "Maids have been dumped outside a Beirut embassy, amid an ongoing economic crisis in Lebanon, heightened by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLebanon’s economy is collapsing with the country’s currency losing 70% of its value in the past six months.\n\nNow many of the country’s middle class claim they can no longer afford to pay their domestic maids.\n\nMore than 100 Ethiopian migrant workers have been dumped outside their embassy in the capital in recent days.\n\nThe BBC's Martin Patience reports from the Ethiopian embassy in Lebanon.", "During the final Democratic primary debate in March, Joe Biden pledged that if he were to win the party's presidential nomination, he would choose a woman as his running mate.\n\nA lot has happened since then, not the least of which is Biden securing the required Democratic Convention delegates to become his party's presumptive nominee. Even before that point, however, speculation swirled around a dozen or so contenders to be Biden's running mate.\n\nBuzz around the various candidates has risen and fallen as the nation has been buffeted by a viral pandemic, economic disruption and mass protests and racial tension.\n\nIf the former vice-president follows through with his pledge, it would mark only the third time a major party has selected a woman for the number two spot - four years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be a presidential nominee.\n\nThe move would suggest the Democrats are looking to secure the advantage they have among female voters according to polls, and perhaps insulate Biden from allegations that he engaged in unwanted physical contact with women.\n\nBiden has said he will announce his choice in early August. In the meantime, here are the current top contenders - and how they stack up.\n\nKamala Harris is widely considered the front-runner. She has a resume that includes time in the US Senate and as California's attorney general, as well as San Francisco's district attorney. She has a diverse background, with a mother from India and father from Jamaica. She's at least been somewhat vetted by the national media, given that she ran for president last year and was considered, for a time, as a top-tier candidate.\n\nShe did have a dust-up with Biden in the first primary debate last June, where she suggested his past views against desegregating schools through mandatory busing was hurtful, but that was a lifetime ago in modern US politics.\n\nHarris brings access to California money (she raised $2m for Biden in a recent virtual event), she's quick on her feet, and she would satisfy those who are calling for Biden to add a black woman to the ticket. She has won praise from a wide range of Democrats for being an outspoken advocate for police reform during the recent mass demonstrations. Biden-Harris felt like the obvious ticket a year ago - and it still does.\n\nSusan Rice is a bit of a surprise entry on this list, given that she has no experience holding elected office or campaigning in general, and is a relative unknown for most Americans. The diplomat is well-known to Biden, however, as she served in the Obama White House with him as national security adviser after a stint as the US representative to the United Nations.\n\nIf Rice is the pick, she could play a key role in a Biden foreign policy team, suggesting that international relations will be a focus for his administration.\n\nRice was a lightning rod for criticism during her Obama years, however. Republicans accused her of deceiving the American public about the reasons behind the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the death of the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.\n\nRice has recently emerged as one of the front-runners for the spot, along with Kamala Harris. If she ends up as Biden's pick, it could indicate that he's more interested in having a loyal and knowledgeable second-in-command than in anointing a political heir.\n\nJust a few months ago, there wasn't a lot of buzz around Gretchen Whitmer, a former state legislator in her second year as Michigan's governor. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and she became the face of her state's response, which included occasional criticism of what she viewed as the federal government's lacklustre handling of the outbreak. That made her a target for Donald Trump's vitriol - and elevated her national profile.\n\nHer decision to enact sweeping social distancing and business-shutdown measures as Michigan became one of the top US hotspots of the coronavirus outbreak also led to several angry conservative-organised protests in her state, boosting her standing among Democrats.\n\nIn 2016 Hillary Clinton narrowly lost Michigan to Donald Trump - one of the upsets that helped decide the election. If Biden hopes to avoid a similar outcome, he might decide to put a Michigan native on the ticket.\n\nTammy Duckworth, the junior senator from Illinois, has a CV that jumps off the page. She lost both her legs when the Army helicopter she was piloting was shot down by insurgents in Iraq. She stayed in the military and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel, before becoming an assistant secretary in President Barack Obama's Department of Veteran Affairs.\n\nDuckworth served in the House of Representatives and then won her Senate seat in 2016. She is the first Thai-American woman elected to Congress, as well as the first double-amputee woman. In 2018 she became the first woman to give birth while serving in the Senate.\n\nIllinois is a safe Democratic state, but its proximity to key Midwest battlegrounds - as well as her middle-of-the-road politics - could make her an attractive pick for Biden.\n\nElizabeth Warren's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is a story of what might have been. Her \"I have a plan for that\" mantra seemed to strike a chord with Democrats, and she led the polls for months in mid-2019, drawing enthusiastic crowds and cruising through the early debates with seeming ease. Then her support faded, as many progressives drifted back to Bernie Sanders, while moderates opted for younger candidates like Pete Buttigieg.\n\nMany progressives expected her to endorse Sanders when she dropped out of the race in early March, so her decision to hold back may have earned her some appreciation from the Biden team.\n\nNow they have the opportunity to return the favour by offering Warren the running-mate spot. While there was some friction between the Sanders and Warren camps, Warren would still be a significant signal that Biden wants to reach out to his party's left wing - and govern as more of a progressive than he let on during the campaign.\n\nWith the nation facing a serious economic crisis, Warren could lend some liberal policy heft to the Democratic ticket.\n\nKaren Bass was a late addition to Biden's vice-presidential contender list. With numerous senators and governors under consideration, a soft-spoken five-term congresswoman from California was not an obvious choice for the position. The death of George Floyd and the subsequent national protest movement, however, has elevated concerns about institutional racism and policing - and increased pressure on Biden to pick an African-American woman for the number-two spot.\n\nThat's when talk of Bass, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus and former speaker of California's state assembly, began to circulate - and, unlike some little-known contenders whose prospects have peaked and then subsided, she's stayed in the mix as a safe, broadly acceptable choice. Perhaps the biggest cause for concern among some Democrats is prior positive comments Bass made about the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, which could hurt Biden's chances with the anti-communist Cuban vote in swing-state Florida.\n\nIf Biden wants to bring diversity to his ticket without having a flashy running mate who upstages him on the campaign trail or is angling for the presidency (i.e., not Kamala Harris), 66-year-old Bass might be the answer.\n\nFour years ago, Hillary Clinton was lambasted for never campaigning in Wisconsin during the general election, then losing the pivotal state to Donald Trump as her Midwest Democratic \"blue wall\" crumbled. Democrats have pledged not to repeat that mistake, going so far as to pick Milwaukee as the site of their (now entirely virtual) national convention.\n\nIf Biden wants to lean into the whole \"don't ignore Wisconsin\" theme, he couldn't do much better than to pick an actual Wisconsinite as his running mate. Tammy Baldwin is in her second term as one of the state's senators, having served in the House of Representatives for 14 years prior to that.\n\nHer selection would also be historic, as she would become the first openly gay person to serve on a major party's ticket - just as she became the first openly gay member of the Senate. In a season where Pete Buttigieg, who is also gay, proved to be a potent electoral force in Democratic politics, there may be particular appeal for such a move.\n\nThere's a line of thought among Democrats that this election's Wisconsin is not, in fact, Wisconsin, it's Arizona. The desert state, they say, will be the \"tipping point\" that delivers the election to Biden, freeing him from worrying about fickle Wisconsin voters. Polls suggest Biden's brand of political moderation, combined with Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric on immigration, have the state leaning toward the Democrats. One strategy for securing that lead would be to put an Arizonan on the ticket.\n\nIn 2018, Kyrsten Sinema became the first Democrat to win an Arizona Senate seat in 30 years. She's young, telegenic and politically centrist - perhaps too centrist, according to the party's left-wing activists.\n\nShe is a bit quirky - turning heads recently when she wore a purple wig on the floor of the Senate. It could present a beneficial contrast with the often staid Biden.\n\nIf Biden picks her as his running mate, she would make history as the first openly bisexual person on a presidential ticket.\n\nLast year, Val Demings was a little-known Democratic back-bencher in Congress. Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her a high-visibility role as one of the impeachment managers - the congressional equivalent of prosecutors - during Donald Trump's January Senate trial.\n\nEven before the mass protests over the death of George Floyd made racial justice a top issue among voters, the black former chief-of-police from Orlando, Florida, was on the Biden team's radar as a possible vice-presidential pick. Now she's getting more than just a passing mention.\n\nCutting against her is her relative lack of political experience and low name recognition. But if Biden feels she can hold up under the intense scrutiny of being on a national ticket, she could be the woman for this particular national moment - and a signal that Biden is serious about making tackling racism and police reform his top issues.\n\nDuring the primaries, Hispanics were consistently one of Biden's weakest voting blocs. In states like California, Texas and Nevada, liberal champion Bernie Sanders outpaced Biden among a demographic that is well represented in numerous states that will be battlegrounds in the November general election.\n\nIf Biden decides he needs to shore up his support among one of the fastest-growing segments of the US electorate, New Mexico's first-term governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is the most obvious choice for a running mate now that Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has said she's not interested.\n\nUnlike Masto's Nevada, New Mexico is a reliable Democratic state in presidential races, with few electoral votes. Lujan was comfortably elected governor after Republicans held the office for two terms, however. The 60-year-old Lujan previously served in Congress and as her state's health secretary - a helpful CV entry in the pandemic age.\n\nStacey Abrams doesn't have much of a traditional political CV for a vice-presidential pick. She spent 10 years as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. She ran and narrowly lost the 2018 race to be the state's governor - a defeat she attributed, in part, to what she alleges was voter suppression by her Republican opponent.\n\nWhat Abrams has, however, is a voice that has resonated powerfully with much of the Democratic base. Her activism on voting rights has helped boost it as an issue for the party. She gave the Democratic response to Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address, making her the first black woman chosen for the task.\n\nUnlike her rivals, Abrams has actively campaigned to be Biden's vice-presidential pick - a move that has elicited cringes from some, while others see it as refreshing honesty. Abrams is a rising star within the party, the face of a demographic segment of the Democratic Party that has traditionally been underrepresented in leadership positions. Even if she doesn't become the pick, the early buzz around her has helped advance the prospects of all the black women under Biden's consideration.\n\nThe nationwide protests over George Floyd's death while in the custody of Minneapolis police gave a handful of big-city mayors a national platform, as they dealt with difficult issues of racism, law enforcement and civil unrest in their jurisdictions. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, in particular, proved particularly adept at balancing official responsibilities while expressing her personal experiences as a black woman raising four children in these turbulent times.\n\nA heartfelt Vice interview, in which she explained the challenge of having to tell her 12-year-old son not to play with toy guns lest he provoke an incident with police, was praised as both raw and powerful.\n\nA first-term mayor would be an unconventional pick for Biden, but Bottoms is from Georgia - a traditionally conservative state that is trending toward being an electoral battleground. She's also won praise from Democrats for waging political battles with the state's Republican governor over when and how to ease business closures and shelter-in-place orders during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn early July, Bottoms announced that she and her family had tested positive for Covid-19, although they had minimal symptoms. They have since fully recovered.\n\nThe traditional first rule for selecting a vice-president is to do no harm. Given that the choice doesn't offer much of a boost to the ticket, the theory goes, it is better to pick someone safe, who minimises the risk of embarrassment and won't overshadow the presidential nominee.\n\nMost of the other candidates on this list fall somewhere on the \"very safe\" to \"mostly safe\" spectrum. Former US First Lady Michelle Obama is in a category by herself.\n\nShe's beloved by a large swathe of the American public and is a near universally recognisable figure. Yes, she might steal the stage from Biden, but what better way for Biden to cast himself as the continuation of Obama's presidential legacy than to put his wife on the ticket?\n\nA Biden-Obama ticket would electrify the Democratic base - particularly black voters who turned out in record numbers for Obama-Biden in 2008 and 2012.\n\nThe only kink in such a bold plan is that Michelle Obama has shown less than zero interest in entering politics. In her autobiography she frequently complained about the toll her husband's political career took on her life and marriage - and she seems very happy to have those travails in the rear-view mirror.", "The family are next heading for the Everest Base Camp\n\nA family from Aberdeen have been told they can continue their round-the-world trip after having to spend three months in lockdown in a remote town in Nepal.\n\nKris and Julie Smith and their two children - nine-year-old Erihn and four-year-old Jacob - can now resume their journey to Everest Base Camp.\n\nThey left Aberdeen in almost exactly a year ago to fulfil a \"big crazy dream\" of travelling around the globe.\n\nHowever, coronavirus lockdown measures came into force in March.\n\nSince then, they have been in a hotel next to an airport runway in Lukla - a small town in the Solukhumbu region - thousands of miles from home.\n\nOn Facebook the family wrote: \"After much running about by our friend Kevin Sherpa to achieve many signatures from many authorities we have been given the green light to start walking.\n\n\"After leaving Kathmandu on the 18th March we only managed a 7 day trek before lockdown arrived. A little break in between of 3 months and off we go again\n\n\"Cannot express how excited and grateful we all are that we can continue our walk and our dream to walk onto Sagarmatha National Park and witness the worlds tallest mountain with our own eyes.\"\n\nBefore reaching Nepal, they had been to 18 countries including India, Jordan, Albania, Serbia and Hungary.\n\nMr Smith, 41, had told BBC Scotland this month that conditions in Lukla were \"quite basic\" and they only had a stove in the living-room to keep warm at night.\n\nVietnam and Sri Lanka are among locations the family still hope to reach, added Mrs Smith, 46.", "Fiona Gibson and her younger brothers Philip (left) and Alexander (right) died at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow\n\nThe father of three children who died after a flat fire in Paisley has paid tribute to his \"little angels\".\n\nFiona Gibson, 12, and her brothers Alexander, eight, and Philip, five, died following the blaze, which broke out at about 21:00 on Friday.\n\nTheir 39-year-old mother remains critically ill in the town's Royal Alexandra Hospital.\n\nThe children's father, Alex Gibson, wrote on Facebook: \"may u rest in peace little angels\".\n\nHe later added: \"how I miss them already, now I know what it feels like when ur world comes crashing down\".\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the incident are ongoing.\n\n\"The 39-year-old woman remains in a critical condition within the RAH.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said six fire crews were met with a \"well developed\" blaze in the upper cottage flat on Renfrew Road.\n\nThe siblings were taken to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow but died a short time later.\n\nA JustGiving page was also posted on Mr Gibson's Facebook page, set up by a family friend,\n\nThe fundraiser hit its £10,000 target within hours, and raised more than £16,000 by Sunday evening.\n\nFlowers and cuddly toys were left at the scene throughout the weekend.\n\nBishop John Keenan, of the Archdiocese of Paisley, said the \"three lovely children\" all attended nearby St Catherine's Primary School.\n\nBishop John Keenan said the local community was \"absolutely devastated\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland at the scene, Bishop Keenan said: \"We are all absolutely devastated.\n\n\"Paisley is a small, close-knit town but this a tragedy on a national scale.\n\n\"You can feel the sadness right across the whole of the town.\"\n\nOne passer-by said local people were left \"shocked\" by what happened, and simply added: \"God bless those weans.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"No words are enough. It's just heartbreaking. My thoughts are with all who loved these poor children. Fiona, Alexander and Philip - may you rest in peace.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPaisley and Renfrewshire South MP Mhairi Black posted: \"Just devastating. All over Renfrewshire we are mourning for you Fiona, Alexander and Phillip.\"\n\nAmong the flowers left at the scene were some from Gavin Newlands, MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, who wrote on a card: \"We are all so sorry for your heartbreaking loss. \"Our thoughts and prayers are with you all.\"\n• None Three children die and mother critical after fire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We're going to get our lives back to normal slowly, and it will be a new normal\"\n\nMinisters will announce in the coming week whether the 2m social distancing rule in England will be relaxed, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe government has been reviewing the advice, amid warnings many businesses will not survive under current rules.\n\nMr Sunak said the outcome of the review will \"make an enormous difference\" to businesses \"keen to see a change\".\n\nThe government has said it hopes to reopen pubs, restaurants and hotels from the beginning of July, if safe.\n\nIt has yet to give a definitive date for the hospitality sector, but ministers are preparing to ease more coronavirus lockdown restrictions on 4 July.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to shops in North Yorkshire, the chancellor said although the review was yet to be completed, it was \"something that will make an enormous difference, I think, to many businesses who are keen to see a change\".\n\nThe government has faced pressure from leaders of the hospitality sector and its own MPs to lessen the 2m rule, with widespread concerns around the impact it would have on the UK economy.\n\nMr Sunak said he was \"very understanding of the calls for action on that, particularly for our hospitality industry, for our pubs, for our restaurants\".\n\nHis comments came after a raft of measures reported in the Times revealed how parts of the hospitality sector could look significantly different compared to pre-lockdown.\n\nPubs could be patrolled and people could be encouraged to use apps to order drinks, according to the newspaper.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department for Health and Social Care announced a further 128 people had died after testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the UK total to 42,589.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak toured several shops in North Yorkshire on Saturday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson commissioned the review on 14 June, saying there was \"margin for manoeuvre\" in the 2m social distancing rule as the number of coronavirus cases falls.\n\nThe other nations of the UK have not announced any plans to change the 2m distance.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is looking at the evidence, and Northern Ireland's Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA coronavirus adviser to the Welsh government said the risk in reducing the distance \"isn't very big\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nEarlier, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that the government's review of the 2m rule will be \"concluding shortly, within the coming days\".\n\nOther new measures for the hospitality sector reported in the Times include:\n\nKate Nicholls, CEO of UK Hospitality, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the guidelines seen by the industry involve businesses carrying out their own risk assessments, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach for \"everything from a burger van in a park to the Fat Duck in Bray\".\n\nMs Nicholls said a third of pubs and restaurants could not reopen with the 2m rule in place, although all hotels could. But reducing it to 1m meant rather than generating 30% of normal revenue and losing money, businesses could break even at 70% of normal revenue.\n\n\"Every day we have delay and uncertainty about that opening date, the industry is haemorrhaging cash and jobs and livelihoods are at risk,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe UK government currently advises people to stay 2m (6ft 6in) apart from others to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A pub near Milton Keynes has been testing a possible post-lockdown system\n\nProf Calum Semple at the University of Liverpool, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group, said he had changed his personal view on the need for social distancing because there were now \"low levels, and sustained low levels, of transmission throughout the country\".\n\nHe said 2m was still safer than 1m, but it was \"now a reasonable political decision to relax these rules\" and to open businesses where the 2m rule is harder to maintain, as long as there are other precautions in place.\n\nIf the UK faces a second wave of infections, Prof Semple said it might consider imposing social distancing rules on a regional basis, with different requirements for London compared to Carlisle, for example.\n\nSome bars, restaurants and pubs say they will be unable to make a profit if the 2m guidance is still in place when they reopen.\n\nTourism firms have also warned of tens of thousands of job losses unless the distance is shortened.\n\nThe coronavirus alert level was downgraded from four to three on Friday. Under level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\" - whereas in level four transmission was considered to be \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nOn the day, the government announced that all pupils in all year groups in England will go back to school full-time in September, alongside a £1bn fund to help England's pupils catch up with learning.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nMore workers have tested positive for coronavirus after an outbreak at a chicken factory on Anglesey.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters meat processing plant in Llangefni are self-isolating after a number of workers were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday.\n\nOn Saturday the number had risen to 75, Public Health Wales confirmed.\n\nHealth officials said the number of cases was expected to rise and samples have been taken from about 350 staff.\n\nTesting sites were set up at Llangefni and Holyhead, and at an existing facility in Bangor, following the outbreak.\n\nAll staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and are being contacted for testing.\n\nPHW, who are responding to the outbreak, said the process of taking samples from all workers was \"nearly concluded\" and \"testing was underway\".\n\n\"What's clear is that the system is working as it should - we are actively screening employees at the facility and this is helping us to identify contacts of individuals who have tested positive for Covid-19,\" said Dr Christopher Johnson from Public Health Wales.\n\n\"The advice for these contacts is to self-isolate to prevent further spread. The aim of the testing is to identify more cases and we're likely to see an increase in overall cases in the coming days.\"\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and processes about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day from its sites across Britain.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\nAnglesey council has also confirmed schools will not reopen as planned on 29 June following the outbreak.\n\n2 Sisters had said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"", "The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said \"people are united in their grief\" following the terror attack in Reading.\n\n\"This was a horrific incident, our thoughts and our hearts go out to all those affected, particularly the family and friends of those who tragically died,\" he said.\n\n\"I think across Reading, across the country, people are united in their grief at this incident.”\n\n\"It’s very important that the investigation runs its course, but I will want to work with the government in response to this, to look at whether there’s lessons that can be learned, whether there need to be changes to the law.\n\n\"This is not a time for party politics.\"", "Efforts to increase the number of black managers at British companies have stalled, according to a business group.\n\nJust 1.5% of top bosses at UK companies are black.\n\nThat compares to 3% of the population of England and Wales.\n\nWhile the ratio is an improvement on the 1.4% of 2014, there is much ground still to cover, said Sandra Kerr, race director at Business in the Community, which has campaigned for workplace racial equality for 25 years.\n\n\"It is clear that black people continue to be under-represented at a senior level,\" she said.\n\n\"Black livelihoods matter and employers need to take urgent action to ensure that their organisation is inclusive and a place where people of any ethnic background can thrive and succeed.\"\n\nThe new figures coincide with the 72nd anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush, which brought workers from the Caribbean to the UK.\n\nEmployers should make their companies welcoming to black workers, said Sandra Kerr, race director at Business in the Community\n\nThey also come amid global protests over racial inequality and as some older British companies come to terms with their historical links with the slave trade.\n\nPub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London apologised for those ties last week.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean.\n\nMeanwhile, maritime insurance - which was focused on Lloyd's - thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.\n\nLloyd's has said it will donate to charities representing black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups.\n\nGreene King said it would make a \"substantial investment to benefit the BAME community\".\n\nIn March, a report from the Carnegie Trust, University College London's Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Operation Black Vote said young BAME members are 47% more likely to to be on a zero-hours contract.\n\nThe researchers compared the experiences of 25-year-olds in England.\n\nThey looked at people who are white, as well mixed-race, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black African and Caribbean, and other minority ethnicities, sometimes collectively known as BAME workers.\n\nThat report followed research from February that about a third of FTSE 100 firms have no ethnic minority board members.", "One of the many shop fronts vandalised in central Stuttgart\n\nGroups of people have smashed shop windows, looted, and attacked police vehicles in central Stuttgart during hours of night-time disturbances.\n\nGerman police say more than a dozen police officers were hurt during the violence, in south-west Germany.\n\nVideo clips on Twitter show people vandalising shops in the city centre and hurling big stones and other objects at police vehicles.\n\nStuttgart police say the violence began after police checked a drugs incident.\n\nThe situation escalated after a 17-year-old was questioned for an alleged drug offence, the city's police vice-president Thomas Berger told reporters.\n\nA group of between 100 and 200 people responded by throwing stones and bottles at the police on the central Schlossplatz, a large square.\n\nThis then grew, he said, to between 400 and 500 people attacking police. Many of the rioters were said to be hooded and masked.\n\nPolice president Frank Lutz suggested the situation had become more tense over the past three to four weeks.\n\nWhat he described as people from the \"party and event scene\" in Stuttgart had been getting drunk in public and adopted an aggressive and insulting tone towards police on social media.\n\nBroken glass and other debris littered the city centre on Sunday morning\n\nLocal politicians and ordinary citizens expressed shock, saying the scale of the rampage was unprecedented for Stuttgart in recent years.\n\nA mobile phone shop and a jewellery store were among the businesses attacked and looted. Some fast food outlets were also vandalised, public broadcaster SWR reports.\n\nIn total, 40 shops were damaged, and nine looted.\n\nSome rioters threw chunks of paving stone and other missiles at passing police cars. At one point, the police said, the situation was \"out of control\".\n\nPolice guarding one of the damaged vehicles\n\nMore than 200 extra police were rushed into the city centre, where shops had been attacked apparently at random.\n\nThe situation was calmer after dawn and firefighters and civil protection volunteers (THW) began repairing the many damaged shop fronts.\n\nTwenty-four people were arrested - 12 Germans and 12 described as non-German. Police have appealed for witness evidence including mobile phone footage.\n\nCity mayor Fritz Kuhn said: \"I was very shocked this morning when I learned about what happened overnight. Stuttgart has never witnessed a night like this, with such attacks on the police.\"\n\nHe said such behaviour was unacceptable, regardless of the cause, be it alcohol or incitement via social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson will announce his plans in Parliament on Tuesday\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce on Tuesday if the hospitality sector can reopen on 4 July, and that the 2m distancing rule in England will be relaxed, with some conditions.\n\nNon-essential shops have reopened in England already, with retail resuming in Wales from today.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said England is \"clearly on track\" to further ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a virus surge.\n\nThe PM discussed England's approach to the changes with the Covid-19 Strategy Committee on Monday, ahead of an announcement in Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson is also expected to announce a reduction in the 2m social distancing rule to 1m, with some mitigating measures.\n\nThe change to the rule, which follows a government review, is expected to come into effect on 4 July.\n\nMinisters are also expected to bring forward legislation this week aiming to help businesses cope with social distancing requirements.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the Business and Planning Bill would help firms \"adjust to new ways of working, and help them capitalise on the summer months\".\n\nLabour MPs have called for ministers to be transparent on the findings of the 2m rule review.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has said the party's support would depend on mitigations being introduced on face-shielding, and testing and tracing.\n\nEarlier Security Minister James Brokenshire said the 2m rule review would be informed by scientific evidence but also \"experience around the world as well\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was also important to recognise the importance of other factors on safety, such as whether people are indoors or outside, or whether they are wearing face coverings.\n\nHe added that the review would also take into account the latest understanding of how the virus is transmitted, which \"has evolved over the last number of weeks\".\n\nMr Hancock has suggested that customers may have to register when entering pubs and bars so they can easily be traced if they come into contact with a coronavirus case.\n\nAsked on Sunday about plans for registration and ordering drinks through smartphone apps, he said: \"I wouldn't rule it out. It isn't a decision we've taken yet, but there are other countries in the world that take that approach.\"\n\nHe added that he \"very much hoped\" the 2m rule can be lowered, with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nThe government has come under pressure from the hospitality sector to lower the rule, with many saying it would be impossible to trade under the current restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nSome Tory MPs and members of the hospitality sector have been appealing to the government to lower the 2m rule to 1m, as many venues say they would be unable to open otherwise.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that distance carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked scientific advisors to review the circumstances in which it might be reduced alongside \"additional mitigations\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes are set to reopen from 3 July, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA change has also not been ruled out in Wales - where First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would support a reduction if Welsh advisers said it was safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to its roadmap\n\nIn his speech on Tuesday, the PM is expected to warn the public they must continue to follow social distancing guidelines to \"keep the coronavirus under control\".\n\nHe will also reiterate pledges to use the NHS Test and Trace system to detect and control local outbreaks through \"targeted lockdowns\".\n\nA No 10 spokesman said: \"The reason we are able to move forward this week is because the vast majority of people have taken steps to contain the virus.\n\n\"The more we open up, the more important it is that everyone follows the social distancing rules.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to put the handbrake on to stop the virus running out of control.\"", "In Room 3324 of Moscow's Metropol hotel, Paul Whelan was getting dressed for a friend's wedding when Russian intelligence officers burst in.\n\nThe American disappeared without trace for three days until his twin stumbled across a news report announcing that his brother had been charged with espionage.\n\nThat was New Year's Eve 2018 and the start of a case that would embroil four western governments and pile pressure on relations with Russia that had already sunk to a post-Cold War low.\n\nAlmost 18 months later, Whelan has been convicted of spying - receiving Russian state secrets - after a short trial conducted entirely behind closed doors.\n\nThe former US Marine - who also has British, Irish and Canadian citizenship - has always insisted on his innocence, and in court this week he described himself the victim of \"greasy, slimy Russian politics\".\n\nAs his family step-up their appeals to bring him home, officials in Moscow are already hinting at a possible prisoner swap adding to suspicions that the man from Michigan is a pawn in a political game that has yet to play out.\n\nOn 15 June, it took the chief judge just 1 minute 20 seconds to reach the key words in his verdict.\n\n\"Moscow City Court…finds Paul Nicholas Whelan guilty,\" he read from the typed sheet, adding that the 16-year sentence would be served in a high-security facility for the most dangerous offenders.\n\nThe judge then turned to address the defendant, who was standing in a glass cage guarded by two FSB security officers in black balaclavas. Watching from the wooden courtroom benches, socially distanced and in medical facemasks, were the ambassadors of the US, UK and Canada.\n\n\"Whelan, do you understand the sentence?\" he asked.\n\nThe American, whose glasses, side parting and blue sweater that he wore to each court appearance gave him the look of a neat, middle-aged librarian, looked back at the judge blankly.\n\nHis Russian wasn't up to this.\n\n\"Nothing's translated, Your Honour,\" the 50-year-old protested, sending an interpreter scurrying over to explain his fate. The three judges swept off the podium and out of court.\n\nIt was a flat, abrupt end to a spy trial that had taken just a handful of closed hearings. Moscow's Covid-19 lockdown had cloaked proceedings in an even thicker layer of secrecy, with both press and public barred from the building right up until the final verdict.\n\nThe first time I saw Whelan in court, well over a year ago, he arrived with a weak smile and a brown cardboard box hugged to his chest containing a packed prison lunch. He was flanked by FSB guards, faces covered so they couldn't be identified.\n\nState TV crews, hovering for their shots in the hallway, were already referring to the accused man as \"the American spy\".\n\nPaul Whelan would be brought for multiple custody hearings and appeals over the months and we squeezed in almost every time. Although we were only allowed to attend for the opening remarks, we managed to snatch several conversations with him.\n\nThat first day, though - in a cage, with a dozen cameras trained on him - he looked tense and spoke little.\n\nAlmost two months had passed since his arrest, and he said he was coping \"fine\". But when I asked for his side of the story, his eyes flicked towards the guards. \"If I do that, I'll be in a bad way,\" Whelan told me, warily. \"They don't want me to speak with you.\"\n\nA member of his defence team has since revealed that he was coming under intense pressure from the FSB to confess, interrogated several times without his lawyers present.\n\n\"[They'd say] things like, 'There's no hope for you, tell us the truth. You're a spy, you'll be convicted,'\" Olga Karlova told me last summer.\n\nThe American refused and as his time in custody was extended repeatedly, he gradually grew bolder in court.\n\nPaul Whelan arrives handcuffed and holds a personal statement up in court\n\nWhelan, who at the time of his arrest was the head of global security for a US-based car parts firm, began to denounce the charge of espionage as \"ridiculous\", and declare that he was being tried by a \"kangaroo court\". He'd prepare a speech for each session, writing it out on a sheet of paper vetted and stamped by the prison censors.\n\n\"Russia says it caught James Bond on a spy mission,\" Whelan announced one day, as we waited for the judge. \"In reality, they abducted Mr Bean on holiday.\"\n\nBy then, we'd learned that the American had visited Russia multiple times. On his latest trip, in December 2018, he was in Moscow for the wedding of a fellow ex-Marine to a Russian woman. But Whelan never made it to the ceremony. He was arrested in his room, just hours after showing some of the other wedding guests around the grounds of the Kremlin.\n\nSo, at a court hearing late last year, I raised my voice over a wall of bailiffs to ask him once again what had happened.\n\nHe paused a little, before calling back.\n\n\"I'm not allowed to give you details, but I can tell you I was set-up. I did not commit a crime,\" Whelan said, telling me that a friend had turned-up at his hotel that evening unannounced.\n\nWhen Whelan was arrested, the FSB found a USB drive in his pocket containing the classified information it alleges he had requested. He now told me his friend had planted the device in his pocket, without him realising.\n\n\"That person was an FSB officer. He's someone I've known for ten years,\" he revealed for the first time.\n\n\"There's absolutely no reason he should have been in my room and no reason he should have given me any sort of device.\"\n\nWhen the judge returned to court, to extend his stay in prison once again, Whelan's frustration erupted.\n\n\"I can talk louder than you, Your Honour,\" he shouted from the cage. \"As my cousins in England would say, this is complete bollocks.\"\n\nAt that, the judge ordered the TV cameras to be removed from court. Filming was barred at all future hearings to stop the press capturing any more protests.\n\nJust two weeks after his arrest, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that the American had been caught \"red-handed\" conducting a \"concrete, illegal act\".\n\nThe case was immediately big news that grew further when it emerged that Whelan was a citizen of four countries.\n\nBorn in Canada to British parents of Irish heritage, he later moved to the US entitling him to multiple passports as a result.\n\nPaul Whelan was a US police officer when he was younger\n\nIn early 2019, the drama of his now multi-national arrest was developing against a hostile political backdrop, with mutual sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and East-West tension not felt since Soviet times.\n\nNine months earlier, the UK had accused Russia of poisoning Sergei Skripal, a former double-agent, on the streets of Salisbury. At the same time, Washington was still accusing Moscow of meddling in its elections.\n\nSo when Whelan's plight became public, there was speculation that he could be the human collateral.\n\nThe FSB was already dripping details of the case it would make in court.\n\nThe Russian Rosbalt news agency quoted a source claiming that Whelan was working directly for US intelligence, tasked with obtaining a list of personnel at \"one of Russia's secret institutions\". It said that information was the object of \"intense interest\" to the Americans, and that Whelan had been cultivating potential contacts, online, for over a decade.\n\nSpy trials in Russia are not only heard in secret, the defence lawyers have to sign non-disclosure agreements covering the entire case. So no evidence - the wire taps or surveillance footage the case is reportedly based on - has been made public.\n\nIn Whelan's case, there's the added nuance that his defence team were appointed and paid for by the Russian state. His family decided not to change them, reasoning that a bill of over $150,000 (£121,000) was \"an awful lot of resources for what would have been zero impact\".\n\n\"Secrecy, provocation and falsification, that's the arsenal of our opponents,\" says Ivan Pavlov, a human rights lawyer who has gone up against the FSB in many espionage cases.\n\nHe mostly represents Russians accused of selling secrets to the West and says the number of such cases has grown significantly since the political climate turned cold again in 2014.\n\nThe lawyer warns that the FSB is the \"mightiest secret service, not only in Russia,\" and uses its own experts to examine any evidence for the court.\n\n\"If you've got mixed up in something like this, then you're in the most complicated story of your life,\" Ivan Pavlov says. \"It will be very difficult to mount a defence.\"\n\nPaul Whelan's travels in Russia began more than a decade ago.\n\n\"This is 'Lubyanka' where the KGB has our spies locked in the basement!!\", he joked in 2007 on a personal website.\n\nThe image was of the headquarters of Russia's notorious security services, now known as the FSB.\n\nEleven years later, its officers would drive him there for interrogation.\n\nThe photograph dates from Whelan's first trip to Moscow, made while he was serving with the US military in Iraq. That year he told a Marines news site that he'd taken advantage of a programme that funded a two-week break abroad for those on long deployments.\n\nWhelan had plumped to visit Russia, explaining that, for a \"single man like me\" the scheme was \"an opportunity to travel throughout the world…and experience the diversity of culture\".\n\nSince his arrest, the Marine Corps has disclosed that he was discharged in 2008 for bad conduct, a revelation that \"absolutely stunned\" his twin brother David.\n\n\"He was always absolutely positive about the [Marines] experience. There's a Marines' flag flying right below the American flag on my parents' property the whole time,\" David told the BBC from Canada.\n\nPaul Whelan as a US marine and the front gate at his parents' property\n\nAnd yet, unknown to those closest to him, Paul had been court-martialled for trying to steal more than $10,000 from the US government.\n\nIt was with this scandal breaking behind the scenes, that he first headed for Moscow.\n\n\"Having grown up during the Cold War, it was a dream of mine to visit Russia and meet some of the sneaky Russians who had kept the western world at bay for so long!!\" Whelan joked back then on his website, which has since been archived.\n\nIts pages document the trip with shots of tourist spots and captions laden with exclamation marks.\n\nA decade later, he would message home regularly from trips to Russia displaying similar almost child-like wonder at new discoveries.\n\nThe website content does support later descriptions of Paul Whelan by contacts, colleagues and family as an enthusiastic world traveller who \"made friends pretty much everywhere\" and had an interest in Russian culture.\n\n\"I remember making small talk once and I said, 'You travel a lot for work, where do you travel for fun?',\" a former colleague, Skotti Fietsam, told the BBC. \"He said Russia!\"\n\nShe recalled her surprise at his reply.\n\n\"He said it's beautiful and he liked the cold and he had quite a few friends there.\"\n\nAn entire section of his old website is dedicated to the cute cartoon character Cheburashka, describing the big-eared, wide-eyed creature as \"one good thing to come from the Soviet era\". Another link leads to a homemade guide to the Cyrillic alphabet and some basic first words in Russian.\n\nThe pages also reveal his first friends in the Russian military.\n\nRussia would later insinuate, via anonymous sources quoted in the press, that the CIA had selected candidates for Paul Whelan to cultivate for intelligence. It was noticeable, one such report said, that he chose only to befriend men and not \"pretty Russian girls\".\n\nWhelan was friends with young servicemen in the US, though, too. His website describes his \"respect and admiration\" for three Naval Academy graduates who'd just joined the Marines.\n\nAnd he didn't hide his interests and encounters.\n\nIn 2009, he took his own parents to visit Russia, where they've told me they met several of his young friends in military uniform.\n\nPaul Whelan with his parents in Moscow\n\nMeanwhile, the front page of his website invited visitors to click on the image of a young Russian soldier to learn more about his \"hobbies and military service\". The link led to Maxim, who explained that his new friend, Paul Whelan, was helping with his English which he planned to study at university.\n\nThe Russian described the two spending several days \"touring Moscow\" together, eating sushi and caviar-filled pancakes.\n\nWhelan went on to seek out more Russian friends, using the country's social networking service VK among others.\n\nA scroll through their profiles, soon after his arrest, revealed almost all to be men - most considerably younger than him. Some do have clear military connections - including photographs in uniform - though not all, and no-one who replied to my messages had seen any reason to doubt Whelan's motives.\n\nOne replied to tell me he'd been a student and supermarket night-guard when the American first made contact. The two met in person for a few hours in 2008 when Whelan was touring Russia, visiting multiple friends in various cities.\n\n\"I don't believe that Paul is a spy,\" the man wrote to me. \"I… don't know anything what [sic] might be interesting to foreign spy.\"\n\nAnother man gave his friend a sightseeing tour of his own town that same year. He has no apparent link to the military himself and joked to me via VK that the American \"didn't request to see anything suspicious :))\"\n\nA Moscow hairdresser, meanwhile, was contacted by Whelan on Instagram around five years back. They talked about foreign travel and never met.\n\nOne VK friend still in the military told me the American first messaged when he was a cadet and the two have chatted online two or three times a week ever since.\n\n\"He seemed nice and was fascinated by our country, its history and our traditions and people!\" the man replied to my enquiries, adding that his own interest was in the ex-Marine's time in Iraq.\n\nHe had no idea his friend had been arrested. \"No way? He's the kindest soul! If he's a spy, then I'm Michael Jackson!!!!\" he wrote.\n\nThe man Whelan accuses of framing him was one of his oldest friends in Russia. He is also a serving intelligence officer.\n\nDefence lawyers disclosed some details of the men's relationship early on in the case, including how the American had visited his friend's house in Sergiev Posad outside Moscow for \"saunas and kebabs\" the winter before his arrest.\n\nThey also said he owed Whelan around 80,000 roubles ($1,147; £930) which the FSB claimed was advance payment for intelligence. The defence team said the Russian had requested a loan to buy a gift for his wife, as part of his trap.\n\nThe town of Sergiev Posad is home to the spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church - the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius\n\nThe Whelan family eventually found a name and even a photograph.\n\nAs he still works for the FSB, I can't identify him so I'll call him \"Dmitry\". But Whelan chatted openly to relatives on email about his friend, including which \"FSB school\" he'd attended.\n\n'''Dmitry' says hello!\", Whelan breezily told his parents after one Facetime chat with the Russian. It seems unusual behaviour if he was trying to recruit the man for US intelligence.\n\nIt's possible he even introduced his parents to \"Dmitry\" on their 2009 trip to Russia, they can't be sure.\n\nIn messages home from Moscow in January 2018 - a free holiday to use up his air miles - the American described visiting restaurants with his agent-friend, as well as the museums of the Kremlin and even a British pub.\n\nA year later, just days before his arrest, Mr Whelan took \"Dmitry\" and another man for Christmas dinner at a restaurant opposite his hotel. He snapped a picture of his guests, \"Dmitry\" smiling with a glass of wine and his fork raised over a juicy steak.\n\nLabelling it \"Dinner with Tovarishi\", or comrades, he messaged the image to a third Russian friend - even as he was supposedly discussing how to transfer classified intelligence.\n\n\"It all sounds incredibly naïve now,\" his brother concedes of the relationship, after finally obtaining the passwords for Paul's computers and trawling through his files.\n\nHe says his brother's VK messages were deleted after his arrest.\n\n\"He has friends in other countries with a military background, I think it was a social thing,\" David Whelan argues. \"The FSB thing wasn't a big deal, until he was entrapped.\"\n\nPaul Whelan's lawyers have now confirmed that he was being watched for some time and his communications monitored.\n\nA recent newspaper report claimed that the American had come to FSB attention over a decade ago when, as Kommersant's source says, he \"actively\" began contacting Russian servicemen.\n\nBut the espionage case was based entirely on Whelan's ties to one officer, with all the evidence gathered in 2018 shortly before his arrest.\n\n\"Had this been an independent court, they would have reached only one decision - not guilty,\" his lawyer, Vladimir Zherebyonkov said after the verdict. He said the evidence was only ever examined by \"incompetent and interested parties\".\n\nIvan Pavlov believes Whelan's claim he was framed is \"always possible\" with FSB intelligence officers.\n\n\"The temptation is high: to rise in rank; for promotion; for more stars on your epaulettes,\" the lawyer says. \"This is how FSB careers are made; people rise on the back of such cases, like mushrooms after the rain.\"\n\nOfficers typically bide their time, he explains, calling it \"calf-rearing\", before a target is culled.\n\nIf so, it appears that Paul Whelan was blind to the threat.\n\nIn one email exchange during his early 2018 trip to Moscow, a relative joked: \"Don't get into any trouble we can't get you out of, haha!\"\n\n\"I will be with guys from the FSB, so should be okay!\", the American wrote back.\n\nThe surge in East-West tensions has made espionage both more complex - and more urgent - in recent years.\n\nAfter the Salisbury poisoning in early 2018, more than 100 Russian diplomats identified as intelligence agents were expelled from embassies around the world in a co-ordinated act of protest. Russia responded with a mirror mass expulsion of Western diplomats.\n\nAt the time, one ambassador told me the move had hit Moscow's spying capacity hard. But the same is presumably true in reverse.\n\nThere were signs of problems even earlier.\n\nAlmost exactly a year before Paul Whelan's arrest, a Norwegian staying at the same central Moscow hotel was arrested and charged with espionage. A retired border guard, Frode Berg admitted to delivering envelopes of cash and spy instructions on behalf of Norwegian military intelligence agency.\n\nHis arrest and 14-year prison sentence caused a scandal back home when it emerged that civilians with no diplomatic cover were being used for high-risk espionage. There were even allegations that Norway was under pressure to obtain the information from its partners in Nato.\n\nFormer CIA officers have dismissed any suggestion that Whelan could be involved in something similar, operating without diplomatic immunity: the idea, floated by one retired Russian officer, that his arrest was a \"great failure\" of US intelligence.\n\nThe US Embassy and government have been very vocal about Whelan's detention. \"Paul Whelan is innocent,\" Ambassador John Sullivan told me emphatically last week, calling the trial a \"mockery of justice\".\n\nUS Ambassador John Sullivan outside court after Paul Whelan's sentencing\n\nAnd while Paul Whelan's dishonourable discharge from the Marines shows there are parts of his life of which even his family have no idea, his supporters point to the theft charge as a positive.\n\n\"The intelligence community would never use someone with that past, especially in a situation like this when you'd be sent into a very, very difficult environment,\" argues Ryan Fayhee, the family's lawyer in the US who cites intelligence contacts from his days prosecuting cases of counter-espionage.\n\n\"It just wouldn't happen,\" Fayhee believes. \"Trust is the most important thing when you are out there, living on the edge.\"\n\nPerhaps Whelan enjoyed the element of danger that came from flirting with the FSB, hanging out with intelligence officers.\n\nOne friend who didn't want to be named told me he was \"a little quirky\", and liked to \"push the line a bit\". He wondered whether some comment, or joke might have been disastrously misconstrued. Whelan's own defence lawyer once hinted at that possibility.\n\nSkotti Fietsam, his former colleague, found Whelan serious and supportive, but also laughed at how he would insist on using heavily armed guards when he visited the factory she managed in Mexico, even posting them outside restaurants while they ate.\n\n\"I don't know if it was machismo; to show off,\" Fietsam said. \"But it was very unusual.\"\n\nOn Whelan's old website, alongside Harry Potter books and War and Peace, his recommended reading includes a long list of Cold War thrillers by Tom Clancy.\n\nBut there's nothing glamorous about prison life in Lefortovo.\n\nThe high wall and barbed wire of Lefortovo jail\n\n\"The porridge, some days it goes direct to the toilet,\" Frode Berg wrote to me from northern Norway of life in the FSB prison. He's now back home after a prisoner-swap.\n\nHis own cellmate in Lefortovo used to joke that the inmates were fed dog food in the mornings.\n\n\"We never see or meet other prisoners. When we go to a meeting, prisoners were hidden from each other,\" Berg describes the lonely routine of life inside the K-shape jail, whose tall outer walls now butt-up against Soviet apartment blocks.\n\nPaul Whelan is being held in the renovated wing, where the Norwegian says there is hot water in the cells now as well as a fridge, TV and toilet. But the space measures 9.5 square metres between two prisoners and exercise is one hour a day on the roof.\n\nCellmates get to shower once a week, together, in the basement. One light remains on in the cell 24/7.\n\nWhelan and his family say letters have been held back for months by investigators and parcels returned. He wasn't allowed a phone call home for 16 months. And adding to his discomfort was chronic pain from a hernia that eventually strangulated, resulting in emergency surgery.\n\nSentenced to a high-security prison, Paul Whelan won't be leaving Lefortovo just yet.\n\nHis lawyers do plan to appeal against the verdict but other, bigger forces are already at play. The minute the American was convicted, the focus shifted to a possible prisoner swap.\n\n\"They want Yaroshenko and Bout, that's who they want back,\" Paul Whelan claimed, naming two high-profile Russian prisoners in America as the court bailiffs ushered me and my microphone out of the room. \"That's the only reason they've done this,\" he alleged.\n\nLawyer Vladimir Zherebyonkov was soon saying the same, now claiming the FSB had been planning a swap all along.\n\n\"No-one's hiding that, everyone talks about it, all the officials,\" he told the press.\n\nSo the prisoner who has always called himself a political hostage is now looking to the politicians to do a deal for his release.\n\nAll the signs so far suggest Moscow is opening with a high bid - Viktor Bout, a weapons dealer serving 25 years in America and Konstantin Yaroshenko, sentenced to 20 years for drugs smuggling.\n\nUndated photo of Konstantin Yaroshenko (left) and Viktor Bout in 2010\n\nOn Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman called on Washington to show \"humanity\" and release Yaroshenko \"and other unjustly convicted\" Russians.\n\nThe US has said repeatedly the two men were convicted in open and fair trials.\n\n\"We are not looking for an exchange, we are looking for justice for Paul,\" US Ambassador John Sullivan insisted, emerging from the verdict at Moscow City Court to a wall of microphones and cameras.\n\nWhelan's family are already pushing for action after a sentence that his brother, David, called \"a gut punch'.\n\nBut he knows it took months of complex, confidential diplomacy to arrange a suitable swap for Frode Berg that eventually involved Russian agents in prison in Lithuania. Norway wasn't holding any convicted spies to trade and neither is America.\n\n\"I'm trying to focus on immediate goals, so I don't get distracted by how awful it is that he could spend 16 years behind bars,\" David Whelan told me, imagining how his twin would have felt, convicted of spying and heading back to his prison cell.\n\n\"I think Paul will be taking it very hard. It is an extraordinarily long time.\"\n• None US 'outraged' as Russia jails American for spying", "Three people have died following a road crash in Cumbria.\n\nThe crash, which involved a single car and pedestrians, happened in Abbey Road, Dalton-in-Furness, at about 14:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe victims, all pedestrians, are believed to be from the same family.\n\nPolice said the driver of a Peugeot, a 47-year-old local man, has been arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving and three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nA spokesman for Cumbria Police said: \"The family are currently being supported by our family liaison officers.\n\n\"Officers are urging anyone who might have witnessed the incident or the vehicle in the area to contact the serious collision investigation unit or call 101.\n\n\"Officers are also keen to hear from anyone who may have dashcam footage which may have captured the collision or the moments immediately before or after.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The statue was unveiled next to a poster that reads: 'Don't give anti-communism a chance'\n\nA far-left party in Germany has erected a controversial statue of communist leader Vladimir Lenin.\n\nThe tiny Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD) installed the statue in front of its headquarters in the western city of Gelsenkirchen.\n\nCity authorities had attempted to stop the statue being installed and launched an online hashtag saying there was \"no place for Lenin\".\n\nBut courts blocked their appeals and the unveiling went ahead on Saturday.\n\nLenin was a leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and led the country until his death in 1924, when he was succeeded by Josef Stalin. However, he has remained a symbol of communism rule across the world, both among supporters and those who remember the human rights abuses that took place under the USSR.\n\nGermany itself was divided for decades between the West and the communist East, until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.\n\nIn the debate surrounding the Gelsenkirchen statue, which was made in Czechoslovakia, as it was then known, in 1957, both sides drew parallels to the tearing down of monuments linked to slavery which has taken place in anti-racism protests across the world in recent weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters across America toppled statues associated with slavery\n\n\"We live in a time in which many countries of the world are reflecting on memorials,\" said mayor Frank Baranowski in one of a series of YouTube videos posted by the city council against the statue.\n\n\"It's hard to put up with the fact that a dictator from the 21st Century is being placed on a pedestal and a memorial is being made out of it. Unfortunately the courts have decided otherwise, we must accept that, but not without comment.\"\n\nHowever, MLPD's chair, Gabi Fechtner, described the communist leader as \"an ahead-of-his-time thinker of world-historical importance, an early fighter for freedom and democracy\", according to the AFP news agency.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp praised \"world class\" goalkeeper Alisson after his late save secured a point against Everton in the Merseyside derby.\n\nDominic Calvert-Lewin's close-range flick was kept out by the Brazilian before Tom Davies' shot from the loose ball struck the post.\n\nThat was the closest either side came to scoring in a low-key Goodison Park encounter, which ended goalless.\n\n\"We should not take him [Alisson] for granted,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"Absolutely outstanding. That's what a world-class goalkeeper is - nothing to do for pretty much 90 minutes then he's there.\"\n\nLiverpool now need five points to be sure of the Premier League title and can still clinch their first top-flight trophy in 30 years against Crystal Palace at Anfield on Wednesday - but only if Manchester City fail to beat Burnley at Etihad Stadium on Monday.\n\nAlisson also saved well from Brazilian compatriot Richarlison as a largely tame game, with the surreal atmosphere of a derby played behind closed doors, sprang to life.\n\nEverton keeper Jordan Pickford saved well from Fabinho's free-kick in the closing moments but it was a game that highlighted two understandably rusty sides - although Liverpool's coronation will come soon.\n\nLiverpool would have hoped to set up a potential title win at Anfield on Wednesday with victory here at Goodison Park - but after 106 days out of action, it was perhaps understandable that a side that have overpowered so many were short of their best.\n\nForward Mohamed Salah was only fit enough for the bench while left-back Andy Robertson was injured. Both were missed as Liverpool saw plenty of the ball but struggled to seriously test Pickford.\n\nNaby Keita looked energetic until he came off but boss Jurgen Klopp now has further concerns over James Milner, who sustained a hamstring injury, and Joel Matip who also limped off - although Joe Gomez is an ideal replacement there.\n\nLiverpool's star of the show was keeper Alisson, who was in superb form when called upon in those crucial late moments.\n\nThis point - and Liverpool certainly did not deserve more - means the celebratory champagne may be on ice a little longer but it is only a matter of time, even days, before they are back at the peak of the domestic game by clinching that long-awaited title.\n\n\"The point is one we deserve,\" added Klopp.\n\n\"Everton were well organised so we had to run a lot but we looked fit and ready.\n\n\"Now we've got three days. Crystal Palace looked good on Saturday and we have to make sure we are ready for Wednesday.\"\n\nAncelotti can be pleased with Everton\n\nEverton manager Carlo Ancelotti's predecessor Marco Silva was sacked after a 5-2 derby capitulation at Anfield in December - and the difference the decorated Italian has made since was in evidence here.\n\nAncelotti had already made a good start to his Goodison career before the season was halted, but he has now had more of a chance to impart his methods and can be well pleased with what he saw here. In fact, he may feel disappointed his side did not win.\n\nEverton conceded possession for long periods but were superbly organised defensively, and Alisson was much the busier goalkeeper.\n\nCaptain Seamus Coleman was simply outstanding for Everton, while the budding leadership qualities of young defender Mason Holgate could be heard as his instructions echoed around Goodison Park.\n\nAncelotti also has two dangerous forwards in Calvert-Lewin and Richarlison while talented teenager Anthony Gordon, who struggled to make an impact, will be better for the experience.\n\nAncelotti will know he needs more strength and physical presence in central midfield but this is a different Everton side to the one that capitulated so miserably in December, before also losing to a youthful Liverpool side in the FA Cup third round under the new manager.\n\nEverton will be better when Ancelotti has more of his own signings in the team, but the signs are still promising.\n\n\"Honestly we were really close to winning but it was a tough game, difficult game,\" Ancelotti said.\n\n\"We performed really well. We were focused, we sacrificed. We had opportunities to score at the end.\n\n\"Liverpool played a good game, they had more possession but defensively we were really good.\"\n• None Seven of the last eight Premier League Merseyside derbies at Goodison Park have ended level. Indeed, Everton-Liverpool has finished goalless on more occasions than any other Premier League fixture (11, includes Anfield meetings).\n• None Liverpool have gone 22 games without defeat against Everton in all competitions, since a 0-2 loss at Goodison in October 2010 (W11 D11) - the Reds' joint-longest unbeaten run against a single opponent in their history (also a run of 22 games without defeat against Aston Villa from 1981-92).\n• None Everton remain winless in their last 22 matches against Liverpool in all competitions (D11 L11) - only against Chelsea (24 games from 2001-09) have the Toffees gone longer without a victory against a single opponent.\n• None Everton are the only Premier League side to remain unbeaten at home in 2020 in all competitions (P5 W2 D3).\n• None Liverpool have failed to win two of their last three Premier League games (W1 D1 L1) - as many as in their previous 38 (W36 D2).\n• None Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has managed more games against Everton in all competitions without defeat than against any other opponent in his managerial career (P11 W7 D4).\n• None The average age of Everton's starting XI here was 24 years 356 days - the Toffees' youngest starting line-up for a league match against Liverpool since February 1986 (24 years 250 days), when they won 2-0 at Anfield.\n• None Liverpool's James Milner made his 535th Premier League appearance in this game, the joint-fifth highest total in the competition's history, alongside Gary Speed.\n\nEverton travel to Norwich on Wednesday, 24 June (18:00 BST) while Liverpool will hope to cement the Premier League title (if Manchester City fail to win on Monday) when they host Crystal Palace on the same night (20:15).\n• None Attempt saved. Fabinho (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Dejan Lovren (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold with a cross.\n• None Divock Origi (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Richarlison (Everton) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Lucas Digne. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The man held on suspicion of killing three people at a park in Reading was known to MI5, security sources say.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 25, from the town, was arrested on Saturday and police say they are not looking for anyone else over the terror incident.\n\nSources told the BBC he is originally from Libya and came to the attention of MI5 in 2019.\n\nOne victim has been named as teacher James Furlong - described by his family as \"a wonderful man\".\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Furlong, 36, head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham, his parents Gary and Janet said: \"He was beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun.\"\n\nPM Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled and sickened\" by the attack in Forbury Gardens on Saturday evening.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing South East (CTSPE) said a 25-year-old man from Reading, who was arrested initially on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nSecurity sources said the suspect came to the attention of the security services after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism, according to the BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nWhen the information was further investigated, as the first stage of looking into a potential lead, no genuine threat or immediate risk was identified.\n\nNo case file was opened which would have made him a target for further investigation.\n\nTeacher James Furlong was described as a \"cherished\" colleague by The Holt School\n\nThe Holt School said Mr Furlong was a \"kind and gentle man\" with a \"real sense of duty\".\n\nIn a statement, Anne Kennedy and Katie Pearce - co-head teachers of the secondary school for girls - said Mr Furlong \"truly inspired everyone he taught through his passion for his subject and his dedication\".\n\n\"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice,\" they said.\n\nMr Johnson has promised action following the incident \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, described it as an \"atrocity\" and said his \"deepest sympathies go to the families who will be mourning loved ones after this horrific act\".\n\nMr Basu said investigators are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nSaturday's horrifying killings may be another example of what security chiefs call a \"lone actor\" attack where a single individual turns extremist beliefs into murderous actions.\n\nIn November last year, the UK's official threat level from terrorism was reduced from \"severe\" to \"substantial\" - meaning it remained likely - but there was no intelligence of an immediate risk to life.\n\nSince then, there have already been three major incidents in which two people have died. Two of those attacks were carried out by lone individuals.\n\nToday, detectives will be interviewing their suspect - and a huge operation will have swung into operation.\n\nElectronic analysts will delve into any social media accounts linked to the suspect; they'll trawl every call and text message going back years, looking for contacts with extremists.\n\nIntelligence officers at MI5 will review both their open and closed case files on so-called \"subjects of interest\".\n\nA picture will emerge of the suspect's movements. What led to the attack may be very difficult to identify.\n\nDetective Chief Superintendent Kath Barnes, Head of CTPSE, said the investigation \"continues to move at a fast pace\".\n\nThe suspect was arrested within five minutes of the first emergency call made to police, and a number of officers were quickly on the scene, she confirmed.\n\nA friend of the suspect told the BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford that Saadallah seemed to be a \"normal, genuine guy\", and had been someone with whom to smoke cannabis.\n\nKieran Vernon said: \"He seemed like me or you. Whenever we used to meet up we used to talk about drinking whisky and how different ganja affects the different thinking of mind.\n\n\"And that's pretty much all we'd chat about.\"\n\nMr Sandford was also told by neighbours of the suspect that he once threw a television out of a top floor window and was regularly visited by a mental health key worker.\n\nA witness told the BBC he saw a man moving between groups of people in the park in Reading town centre, trying to stab them.\n\nThree other people were injured in the attack, which took place at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo of the injured people have been discharged and one remains in hospital, although the injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said that \"people are united in their grief\" following the attack, and that he wants to speak to the prime minister to discuss how to \"learn from this.\"\n\n\"This is not a time for party politics,\" he said.\n\n\"It's incumbent on all of us to pull together in response to this on a cross party basis.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said on Sunday morning the attack was now being treated as terrorism and that Counter Terrorism Policing South East would be taking over the investigation.\n\nSpeaking to reporters later, the force's chief constable, John Campbell, said lives had been \"devastated\", but added that there was not believed to be a wider risk to the public and there was nothing to suggest anyone else was involved.\n\nHe added: \"I am sure we would all want to recognise the bravery of those police officers responding, but also that a number of members of the public were helping my officers and the victims at what was a very distressing scene.\"\n\nA man places flowers near the entrance to the park where three people were killed\n\nOfficers in forensic suits were seen walking near to the scene on Sunday\n\nThe prime minister has held a meeting with security officials, police and senior ministers over the incident.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"If there are lessons that we need to learn about how we handle such cases, how we handle the events leading up to such cases then we will learn those lessons and we will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHe said that included changes to the law, as they had done over the automatic early release of terrorist offenders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Lawrence Wort on Reading stabbing attack: 'I saw a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches minimum'\n\nOf the three injured people, one was seen at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where they were discharged without being admitted to hospital.\n\nTwo were admitted to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. One has been discharged, while another remains in a stable condition under observation.\n\nMr Basu said police were working with the coroner to formally identify those who had died and he praised the actions of Thames Valley Police officers - \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" - who detained the suspect.\n\nHe also said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\nA police cordon remains in place around Forbury Gardens - which is a short walk from the train station - and blue and white tents have been erected next to the walls of the park.\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level of \"substantial\" is the third of five ratings at which the threat level can stand.", "Teacher James Furlong was described as a \"cherished\" colleague by The Holt School\n\nThe parents of a teacher who was killed in the Reading stabbing attack have paid tribute to their \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\" son.\n\nJames Furlong, 36, head of history and government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham, was described by his family as a \"wonderful man\".\n\nHis school colleagues said he was \"talented and inspirational\".\n\nMr Furlong was one of three people who died in Saturday's attack that police are treating as a terror incident.\n\nTwo other people who were injured have subsequently been discharged, while a third remains in a stable condition under observation.\n\nMr Furlong was in Reading's Forbury Gardens, a park near the centre of town, when witnesses say a lone attacker with a knife targeted a group of people at about 19:00 BST.\n\nAn eyewitness described how an individual in the park \"suddenly shouted some unintelligible words and went round a large group trying to stab them\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah, a 25-year-old man who lived locally, was arrested on Saturday and remains in custody.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing South East said a 25-year-old man from Reading, who was arrested initially on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nPolice have been carrying out investigations in Forbury Gardens\n\nIn a statement, his parents Gary and Janet described their son as a \"wonderful man\".\n\nThey said: \"He was the best son, brother, uncle and partner you could wish for. We are thankful for the memories he gave us all.\"\n\n\"We will never forget him and he will live in our hearts forever.\"\n\nIn their statement, The Holt School's co-heads Anne Kennedy and Katie Pearce described Mr Furlong as a \"kind and gentle man\" who had a \"real sense of duty\".\n\n\"As a Holt community, we all now need to absorb this sad news,\" they said. \"He truly inspired everyone he taught.\"\n\nAs head of history and government and politics at the school, Mr Furlong's \"passion for his subject\" and \"his dedication\" was praised.\n\n\"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice,\" the head teachers said.\n\nThey said lessons would be cancelled on Monday, with counsellors available at school for staff and students.\n\n\"Words cannot describe our shock and sadness at this time. Our thoughts are with his mum, dad, brother and family, and his friends and colleagues.\n\n\"He was a cherished colleague and he will be sadly missed.\"\n\nJade Simon, a former pupil at The Holt School, remembered Mr Furlong as \"an incredible teacher\".\n\n\"He was funny and kind and always made history fun and entertaining,\" she told the Press Association.\n\nHer thoughts were echoed by Keith Power, whose daughter currently attends the school.\n\n\"He was a wonderful man. He was so helpful and supportive of my daughter.\"\n\n\"It's so senseless,\" he added. \"So much hatred in the world right now. I fear for my kid's futures.\"\n\nSt Francis Xavier's College in Liverpool, where Mr Furlong is reported to have grown up, paid tribute to their former pupil.\n\n\"Our prayers are with him and his family,\" said a statement posted by the secondary school on Instagram.\n\nPupils of Mr Furlong have posted tributes on Instagram.\n\nSophie McEwan said Mr Furlong \"really was an inspirational teacher, he genuinely cared for all of us students\".\n\nAnd Emily Mugnier wrote: \"Thank you for being an incredible, enthusiastic teacher and lover of life.\"\n\nWokingham Labour tweeted: \"His loss is a devastating blow to his family, colleagues, students, the wider Holt family and our whole community. Our thoughts are with them all.\"\n\nThe names of the two other victims in the attack have yet to be made public.\n\nThe suspect was detained within five minutes of the first call made to the emergency services, with the Sunday Mirror reporting that a police officer \"rugby tackled\" the perpetrator to the ground.\n\nIt later emerged Mr Saadallah had previously come to the attention of MI5 after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism, according to the BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nA friend of the suspect told the BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford that Mr Saadallah seemed to be a \"normal, genuine guy\", and had been someone with whom to smoke cannabis.\n\nKieran Vernon said: \"He seemed like me or you. Whenever we used to meet up we used to talk about drinking whiskey and how different ganja affects the different thinking of mind.\n\n\"And that's pretty much all we'd chat about.\"\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled and sickened\" by the attack and promised action \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, described the attack as an \"atrocity\" and thanked the \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" officers who attended the scene.\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said \"multiple ambulance resources\" were sent to the scene, including five ambulance crews and a helicopter.\n\nMr Basu said the \"motivation for this horrific act is far from certain\" but said investigators were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nHe said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\nMore than 40 witnesses came forward within 24 hours of the incident, which took place on a sunny afternoon in a popular area of town.\n\nOne eyewitness described a man carrying \"a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches, minimum\".\n\n\"The park was pretty full, a lot of people sat around drinking with friends when one lone person walked through, suddenly shouted some unintelligible words and went round a large group trying to stab them,\" Laurence Wort, 20, told the BBC.\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock said the town was \"an incredibly strong community\" where \"people will come together and they won't allow themselves to be divided\".\n\nHave you been personally affected by the attack in Reading? If you feel able to do so get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Groups had been relaxing in Forbury Gardens in the centre of Reading when the attack happened\n\nReading's Forbury Gardens were dotted with groups of friends relaxing in the early evening sunshine when the peace was shattered by a commotion and frantic shouts of \"run\". Three people had been stabbed to death in an attack that has left the town reeling.\n\n\"Everyone was just having fun and then suddenly a man shouted,\" said Lawrence Wort, who had been sitting nearby.\n\nThe 20-year-old said he could not make out the words or in what language they were spoken.\n\nWhat he could see was a man with a \"massive knife\".\n\n\"He stabbed the first person - they were sat in a circle in a big group of about eight to ten people - and he darted round anti-clockwise, got one, went to another, stabbed the next one, went to another and stabbed them.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 25, was arrested at the scene by unarmed officers who have been praised for their \"incredible bravery\".\n\nHe remains in police custody on suspicion of murder.\n\nAs well as those killed in the attack, three more people were injured.\n\nGreg Wilton, who tried to help the victims, said he had been left \"very shocked and shaken\".\n\nHe was having a picnic with his wife and three friends, after listening to speeches at a Black Lives Matter protest held in the park earlier in the day.\n\n\"We stayed in the park as the weather was nice and had some drinks,\" he said.\n\n\"At one point without much noise we noticed a commotion on the other side of the park.\n\n\"We ran over and without seeing an attacker we found three men lying on the floor bleeding profusely from what we thought was their heads, necks or body.\n\n\"Another member of the public took off his t shirt and tried to stop the bleeding alongside someone we assume to be his girlfriend.\n\n\"Me and my friend, Tom, put a second victim in the recovery position and tried to stem his bleeding from his ear with my canvas shopping bag.\"\n\nHe said Reading as normally a \"relatively peaceful\" town.\n\nAlice Penney said she felt like she had \"cheated death\"\n\nOn Sunday, an atmosphere of shock and mourning was palpable in the town centre - where bloodied roads were cordoned off by police.\n\nLarge areas outside the gardens are taped up, and the streets are largely deserted but for police officers, journalists and TV crews.\n\nLocals who had ventured into the town said they were frightened.\n\n\"I was scared to be here but I have to be here for work,\" said Marie Castro, from Slough, who works at a coffee shop in the town.\n\nThe attack \"doesn't seem right for Reading\", she said.\n\n\"It's multicultural and really friendly. I was really shocked when I heard the news\".\n\nAlice Penney, who moved to Reading from Kent a year ago, said she left the town and went to a friend's house after hearing about the stabbings.\n\n\"I was absolutely mortified. I had been at the protest a few hours earlier when I heard the news. It was something I couldn't process.\n\n\"I feel like we cheated death. It's a safe place, normally. It's very confusing.\"\n\nJournalists have descended on the town centre's streets\n\nCordons and police tape are now a common sight on the deserted streets\n\nJames Hill is among those who have laid flowers at the scene to remember the victims\n\nAs helicopters patrol the town from above, on the ground floral tributes have been laid.\n\nJames Hill, from Reading, said: \"I've come here today because I've lived in Reading all my life.\n\n\"This park is very close to my heart - I know it very well - and I feel obliged when something as bad as this happens, that I play my part and make a tribute.\"\n\nOne card left near the scene reads: \"There are no words that anyone can say to express how horrible and senseless this was.\"", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nThe number of workers testing positive for coronavirus at an Anglesey chicken factory has risen to 158.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters meat processing plant in Llangefni are self-isolating after a number of workers were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday.\n\nA Welsh Government minister has not ruled out local lockdown measures to contain the outbreak.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the number of cases was expected to rise.\n\nDr Christopher Johnson from PHW said 400 staff had been tested since the outbreak was confirmed on Thursday.\n\n\"As of 15:00 BST on Sunday 21 June we have recorded an increase of 83 confirmed positive cases identified over the past 24 hours,\" he said.\n\n\"Testing of employees continues, and it is likely that some additional cases will be identified in the coming days.\n\n\"The increase in cases is as we anticipated when a focused track and trace programme is implemented, and does not mean that the spread of infection is increasing.\"\n\nEconomy minister Ken Skates has said the fallout from the outbreak must be contained\n\nTravel restrictions in Wales are due to be lifted from 6 July, allowing people to \"travel as far as they like for all purposes\", as long as covid cases continue to fall.\n\nBut speaking on BBC Wales Politics Show, the Economy Minister Ken Skates said it was essential to make sure the Anglesey outbreak was \"kept as local as possible\".\n\nMr Skates did not rule out restrictions remaining in place in Anglesey, and said the council, PHW and Betsi Cadwaladr health board were \"right to contain the fallout from the 2 Sisters plant\" and \"making sure that spike is kept as local as possible\",\n\nHe said: \"That will help contain the virus, and that, in turn, help Anglesey open up its economy sooner, and that is something I think the island will welcome and I think the entire population of Wales will welcome.\"\n\nAnglesey council has already confirmed schools will not reopen as planned on 29 June following incidents at the plant.\n\nTesting sites were set up at Llangefni and Holyhead, and at an existing facility in Bangor, following the outbreak.\n\nAll staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and are being contacted for testing.\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and processes about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day from its sites across Britain.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\n2 Sisters had said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Isle of Anglesey CC #KeepWalesSafe\n\nPHW, who are responding to the outbreak, thanked the workforce and wider community for their \"swift co-operation\" with the test and trace process.\n\n\"This rapid response is providing vital information to help minimise the further spread of Covid-19 locally,\" said Dr Johnson.\n\n\"We must remember that Covid-19 has not gone away.\n\n\"Incidents like this show the potential for pockets of asymptomatic undiagnosed infection in the community, highlighting the importance of the adherence to social distancing and hygiene measures.\"\n\nDr Johnson said rapid test and trace facilities had \"helped identify this situation\" and said health teams would keep measures in place to \"bring the outbreak to a rapid conclusion\".\n\nHe added: \"It therefore remains essential that all members of the public, including employees of 2 Sisters Food Group and their close contacts, continue to recognise the vital role they have in preventing the spread of coronavirus, to help keep Wales safe.\"\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said health and safety was the top priority\n\nResponding to the increase in confirmed cases, Anglesey council leader Llinos Medi said the outbreak was \"causing concern on Anglesey\".\n\nShe said the authority's thoughts were \"with 2 Sisters' employees and their families at this uncertain time\" and urged all workers to get tested and to make sure they self-isolated.\n\n\"This is imperative to stop the spread and further positive cases in our communities,\" she said.\"The county council is working with partners across the Island to ensure those who are self-isolating, who have no support networks, are helped during this challenging period.\"\n\nThe council leader said the authority would be holding discussions with the Welsh Government on Monday to see \"what local lockdown looks like\".\n\n\"How do we enforce local lockdown, and also how do we support those businesses that would not be able to operate during a local lockdown, as well,\" she added.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said there was no reason food would not be safe\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said it was \"very unlikely you can catch coronavirus from food\" as the virus is a respiratory illness.\n\nIt said the virus was \"not known to be transmitted by exposure to food or food packaging\".\n\nDo you work in a meat processing facility? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The government will introduce new measures on Monday to protect businesses critical to public health from foreign takeovers.\n\nChanges to legislation would give ministers extra powers to protect those needed to help in future pandemics, who might be struggling now.\n\nThe new powers will cover firms such as pharmaceutical companies.\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said: \"The UK is open for investment, but not for exploitation.\"\n\nThe government already has the power to scrutinise takeovers for several reasons, including national security or financial stability. It may block a takeover or seek assurances from a buyer about their plans for a company.\n\nBut changes to the 2002 Enterprise Act will mean that the government can intervene if a business that is involved in a pandemic response - a personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturer, for example - is the target of a takeover by a foreign firm.\n\nThey will also expand the government's ability to scrutinise takeovers involving companies who work in artificial intelligence or encryption technology.\n\n\"I think it is a significant development,\" Peter Harper, partner in the competition, EU and trade team at law firm Eversheds Sutherland, told the BBC. \"It gives them a greater power to intervene.\"\n\n\"The government's track record of intervention has basically increased over time,\" he said.\n\nSo far, the government hasn't stopped a deal based on national security grounds, he said, but they have imposed conditions on buyers.\n\nIt brings the government into line with countries like France, Germany, Italy and Spain, he said, where the EU has been keeping a stricter eye on potential purchases.\n\nThe economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic \"may mean that some businesses with critical capabilities are more susceptible to takeovers\", the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said in a statement.\n\n\"These powers will send an important signal to those seeking to take advantage of those struggling as a results of the pandemic that the UK government is prepared to act where necessary to protect our national security,\" Mr Sharma said.\n\nIt follows the April announcement of European Union (EU) plans to help block foreign takeovers of European firms struggling with the virus downturn. It wants to allow governments to invest in \"weak\" companies, which could include some form of ownership.\n\nWhile it called them \"measures of last resort\", the European Commission said it was consulting member states.\n\nIn March, the European Commission issued guidelines to ensure a strong EU-wide approach to foreign investment screening \"in a time of public health crisis and related economic vulnerability\".\n\nThe UK formally left the EU on 31 January, but is currently in a transition period until the end of the year. During this period, the UK will continue to follow all of the EU's rules and its trading relationship will remain the same.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We're about to see another step in the plan\"\n\nThe government will \"bring forward proposals\" on how to safely reduce the 2m social distancing rule in England this week, says Matt Hancock.\n\nThe health secretary said the distance could be lowered with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nLabour said it would support a change to 1m \"under certain circumstances\".\n\nMr Hancock confirmed new easing of lockdown measures would be announced in the coming days, including whether pubs and restaurants can re-open on 4 July.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to the roadmap it announced in May - when it said the venues could re-open on 4 July \"at the earliest\".\n\nHe added: \"We are going step-by-step, making things easier for people, helping people to see more of each other, allowing more social contact, more social interaction, and we will be setting all that out.\n\n\"But it's very important that we don't lose our vice like grip on the disease. We have got to keep it on the floor where we have got it and so we have got to keep making those trade-offs.\"\n\nA further 43 people who had tested positive for coronavirus have died in the UK, it was announced on Sunday.\n\nThere was one death in Wales, but no deaths were recorded in Scotland or Northern Ireland over the previous 24 hours.\n\nMr Johnson announced a review into the 2m rule last week, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirming on Saturday its conclusion would be published this week.\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Hancock appeared to go further, saying: \"The proposals we'll bring forward are how you can safely reduce the 2m with the sort of mitigations we've been talking about.\"\n\nHe said there were \"all sorts\" of measures that could be introduced, referring to the use of face masks on public transport, Perspex screens in shops, and studies on the reduction of transmission risk when people sit side-by-side or back-to-back.\n\nBut while the health secretary said he \"very much hopes\" to reduce the distance, the government would be \"guided by the science\", and would only make changes \"in a way that is safe and doesn't lead to resurgence of virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"On social distancing... watch this space, you won't have very much more to wait now\"\n\nThe government has faced pressure from leaders of the hospitality sector and its own MPs to lessen the 2m rule, with widespread concerns around the impact it would have on the UK economy.\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is looking at the evidence, and Northern Ireland's Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA coronavirus adviser to the Welsh government said the risk in reducing the distance \"isn't very big\".\n\nOfficially, the review is still under way. But it now seems inevitable the result will be a move from a 2m social distancing rule in England to 1m.\n\nThe government is set to announce this in the week ahead - probably alongside a confirmed date in early July for pubs and restaurants to reopen, under certain conditions.\n\nScientists seem relaxed about this change - the chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance having indicated that, ultimately, this is a political decision, with no continuing body of evidence to stand in the way of the move.\n\nA member of Sage, Professor Calum Semple, says he has changed his mind and it is now reasonable to \"relax these rules\".\n\nIt's understood there will need to be \"mitigation\" - requirements to stop overcrowding in bars, taking contact details of people booking restaurant tables and a more widespread use of face coverings, for example.\n\nBut as the eminent microbiologist Prof Peter Piot reminded us today, the virus won't just fade away. He said it will be with us for some time and a second spike of some sort was highly likely.\n\nThe pubs and bars may reopen in England and Northern Ireland within weeks (Scotland and Wales are keeping the issue under review).\n\nBut no health or scientific official or adviser will be celebrating any time soon.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said his party were \"prepared to look at [the proposals] carefully\", adding that if a change was \"backed by the science, then that'll be an understandable move\".\n\nBut he said countries who have lower social distance rules also have a \"broader combination of measures\", such as face shields and tracing apps, and his support would depend on other mitigations being introduced.\n\nMr Hancock also said pubs and restaurants would find out this week whether they can re-open on 4 July.\n\nHe said the potential date was \"part of the plan that we've been working through\" since it was announced last month as a possible next step.\n\nThe health secretary added: \"The plan is clearly working because the number of new infections is coming down, the number of people on ventilated beds in hospital is coming down and, thankfully, the number of people who are dying is coming down.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he \"wouldn't rule out\" following in the footsteps of countries like New Zealand - where customers need to register their details before going to the venues - as it could be \"an additional way that you can do contact tracing so that you can find people who might be at risk\".\n\nBut he said there were \"lots of ideas out there\" and the government would confirm its plans this week.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: 'We are now more vulnerable to infections being brought in from abroad'\n\nPlans to force almost all arrivals to the UK to isolate for 14 days have been confirmed by the home secretary.\n\nPriti Patel told the Commons that Border Force will check that travellers fill out a form with their contact details and location for isolation.\n\nLeaving isolation prematurely in England could result in a fine of up to £1,000 or prosecution, she said.\n\n\"We will not allow a reckless minority to put our domestic recovery at risk,\" she said.\n\nMs Patel told MPs that scientific advisers had said quarantine would not have been effective earlier in the coronavirus pandemic when infection rates in the UK were higher.\n\nBut now, imported cases of the virus posed a more significant threat, she said, so it was now important to \"protect our hard-won progress as we move in the right direction\".\n\nIt comes as the latest Department of Health figures show another 359 people have died after contracting coronavirus, bringing the UK total to 39,728. An additional 1,871 people tested positive in the last 24-hour period.\n\nAsked at the Downing Street briefing whether he would recommend people in the UK book foreign holidays, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the public to follow Foreign Office guidance against non-essential travel. \"We've got to knock this virus on the head,\" he said.\n\nAnd while he urged EU workers who had left the UK because their jobs had disappeared during lockdown to return, he ruled out any alternatives to quarantine for them, such as a medical certificate.\n\n\"Come back to London, or the UK - but you've got to quarantine. Everybody has been in lockdown for a long time, I know it's an imposition, but we really have got to beat this virus,\" he said.\n\nMs Patel said in the Commons that the \"proportionate and time-limited measures\" would come into force on Monday, with \"limited exemptions\" intended to ensure supplies of essential items such as food and protective equipment were not disrupted.\n\nThe regulations apply to England, and Ms Patel said devolved administrations would set out their own rules for enforcing the quarantine.\n\nMs Patel said the measures would be reviewed after three weeks and the government would aim to ensure greater freedom in the long term, including establishing \"international travel corridors\" with countries deemed to be safe.\n\nMany MPs - including Conservatives - were in the Commons raising concerns about the government's approach to quarantine.\n\nFirstly, they argue this policy is being brought in too late. They believe it should have been introduced when the virus was spreading in Europe - and before it took hold here.\n\nMany now have concerns the government is overreacting as it tries to prevent a second spike.\n\nThey told the home secretary they are worried a blanket quarantine will have a devastating impact on airlines, airports and the wider tourism industry. Very few MPs showed support for the government's approach.\n\nThey want the government to take a more targeted approach - finding ways of allowing travel from certain countries where transmission levels are lower.\n\nRyanair said the proposals were \"utterly ineffective\", with arrivals travelling from the airport before they isolate, potentially spreading infection, while the government would phone \"less than 1%\" of them to check they were complying.\n\n\"This 14-day UK quarantine is ineffective, completely useless, and will have no effect on British passengers who will largely ignore it,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry said it needed more detail on how the policy would be reviewed, who would be exempt and how the international travel corridors with key trading partners could be created.\n\n\"Businesses and government urgently need to draw up an internationally coordinated plan to get people safely moving across borders as soon as possible,\" said CBI president John Allen.\n\nSources at the French and Italian foreign ministries told the BBC there had been no bilateral talks yet about lifting the quarantine plans and establishing travel corridors or \"air bridges\" with the UK.\n\n\"If the UK imposes a quarantine period, we will apply it too,\" a French official said.\n\nThe plan has sparked concern among several Tory MPs, with former cabinet minister Theresa Villiers calling for it to be suspended while travel corridors are set up, to \"save jobs in aviation and let families go on their summer breaks in the sun\".\n\nSpeaking at an earlier debate about the aviation industry, former prime minister Theresa May said quarantine would \"close Britain off from the rest of the world\".\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said people needed reassurance that this was not \"a three-week fudge to try to spare the government embarrassment for failing to grip this issue at the right time\".\n\nHe said only 273 people had been quarantined in the early stages of the pandemic as 18 million visitors arrived in the UK, with the government's own advisers saying many cases came not from China but from places in Europe.\n\nUnder the new rules, most arrivals to the UK will have to fill out a \"contact locator form\" with details of where they will isolate for two weeks and how they can be contacted.\n\nAnyone failing to remain in isolation will face a £1,000 fixed penalty in England, with prosecution and an unlimited fine potentially to follow, the Home Office said.\n\nFailure to fill in the form can also be punished with a £100 fine.\n\nBorder Force can refuse entry to non-residents who do not comply, and the Home Office also said that deportation would be considered \"as a last resort\" for foreign nationals who fail to isolate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This special report looks at the timeline of the crisis in care and asks what could have been different\n\nLarge numbers of staff could have been unknowingly spreading coronavirus through care homes, according to the UK's largest charitable care home provider.\n\nData from MHA shows 42% of its staff members who recently tested positive were not displaying symptoms.\n\nNearly 45% of residents who had a positive test were also asymptomatic.\n\nMHA operates in England, Scotland and Wales and has fully tested staff and residents in 86 of its 90 homes so far.\n\nA Department for Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"Our priority is to ensure care workers and those receiving care are protected, and the latest statistics show over 60% of care homes have had no outbreak at all.\n\n\"We've set out a comprehensive support package for residents and staff, including a £600m infection control fund, testing regardless of whether you have symptoms, and a named clinical lead to support every care home.\n\n\"We recognise more must continue to be done, and have made £3.2bn available to local authorities to address additional pressures from coronavirus.\"\n\nIn total, 7% of MHA staff and 13% of residents received a positive test result.\n\nRoutine testing is not yet under way.\n\nMHA CEO Sam Monaghan told BBC Newsnight: \"It is not difficult to imagine that a lot of people may not have ended up dying if we'd had earlier testing and we'd been therefore better able to manage infection control in our homes.\"\n\nIn May, Professor John Newton from Public Health England said it would be \"premature\" to introduce weekly testing of care home staff and residents.\n\nInstead, the government promised one universal test for everyone in care homes in England by early June.\n\nMany social care providers have complained that hasn't happened.\n\nMr Monaghan continued: \"I think it's very difficult not to see that the only real way that this can have come into our homes is through staff picking it up, just through the community contacts they would have had.\n\n\"I think that is what is so hard for all our staff, because they care. But if they don't know they've contracted the virus, how can you manage this?\n\n\"We lobbied right from the outset that routine testing was going to be absolutely vital in terms of us managing and doing effective infection control in our homes. The government still isn't offering that.\n\n\"What does it say to the valuable people who work and live in care settings that it's 'premature' to test them weekly when Premiership footballers are being offered a test, not once, but twice a week?\"\n\nThe government promised one universal test for everyone in care homes in England by early June\n\nONS figures show more than a quarter of all coronavirus deaths in England and Wales have happened in care homes.\n\nMHA has shared with Newsnight its log of suspected and confirmed cases.\n\nIt says 398 people have died in its care homes since the crisis began. Three MHA staff have also succumbed to the virus.\n\nSo far 930 people have recovered from suspected or confirmed Covid-19.\n\nThis data also shows less than half of the residents who died ever got a test.\n\nHeather Grange care home in Burnley lost 10 residents. Only four were tested for coronavirus.\n\nManager Mark Quarmby said: \"Once the virus took hold of some of our residents, it was relentless. We'd see cases where people literally showed some symptoms on a Friday and by Tuesday they'd passed away.\n\n\"There was no testing. I actually had a conversation with Public Health England and asked for tests. I was categorically told there was no testing for care homes in the North West. We were on our own.\n\n\"The early warning, that testing, could have changed outcomes. People could have lived the next two, three, four, five years. It makes me very sad.\"\n\nPublic Health England said it \"worked with Heather Grange care home and local partners to provide appropriate guidance and support to minimise the spread of Covid-19. Testing was arranged in line with policy at that time\".\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Beeb, the BBC's voice assistant, has been released to early adopters for testing on Windows computers.\n\nThe voice assistant, which uses Microsoft technology, is in the beta phase - a period when not all features are present or working properly.\n\nIts synthesised digital voice is based on that of a UK voice actor with a northern England accent.\n\nAnd the team behind Beeb have been \"working hard\" to ensure it can understand other regional accents.\n\nWhen a user downloads the beta version, they will be asked what accent they have - so their voice can be used to train the assistant too.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Press Office This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut, the BBC says, no recordings will be kept - only anonymised transcripts of the few seconds after a user says the wake command, \"OK Beeb\".\n\nThe beta version can access BBC radio, music, podcasts, news and weather and respond to some queries with unique answers based on BBC programmes.\n\nNew features would be added in \"coming weeks and months\", the BBC said.\n\nIt had an \"ambitious vision\" for Beeb.\n\nBut there remained \"a long way to go\".\n\nAnd common features in other voice assistants, such as timers, for example, are not included in this first version.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is the voice assistant on your phone sexist?\n\nUK members of Microsoft's Windows Insider programme using the May 2020 Windows 10 operating system update can install it from the Windows Store if they already use a BBC account for iPlayer and Sounds, the BBC's streaming services.\n\nThe wake command can be followed by others such as:\n\n\"Ultimately we envision that Beeb will be available across a wide range of devices, including smart speakers, mobiles, televisions and many others,\" a representative said.\n\n\"This is still a very early version, which means that not everything will be working perfectly from day one, and the future Beeb assistant will be able to do a lot more.\"", "Amid the chaotic scenes convulsing the nation, there have been glimmers of hope, unifying gestures and stirring displays of solidarity.", "Digital Minister Cedric O said the app had got off to a \"very good start\"\n\nFrance's digital minister has said its coronavirus contact-tracing app has been downloaded 600,000 times since it became available on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nStopCovid France is designed to prevent a second wave of infections by using smartphone logs to warn users if they have been near someone who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBut a last-minute launch delay led some citizens to download the wrong product.\n\nEngland has yet to confirm when its own app will roll out nationwide.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had originally said it would be by 1 June, and then later suggested it would be around the middle of next week.\n\nBut the BBC has learned that it is now unlikely to be before 15 June and could be as late as the start of July.\n\nThat is in part because of delays in releasing a second version of the software to the Isle of Wight, where it is being trialled.\n\nThe update will add symptoms including the loss of taste and smell to a self-diagnosis questionnaire next week, or soon after.\n\nIt will also start giving at-risk users a code to enter into a separate website when they book a medical test. This will allow the result, saying whether they tested positive or negative, to be delivered back to them via the app.\n\nBoth the UK and France have created apps of their own based on a \"centralised\" design.\n\nBy contrast, Latvia, Italy and Switzerland have released apps based on a \"decentralised\" technology developed by Apple and Google.\n\nAdvocates of the centralised approach says it gives epidemiologists more data to analyse, helping them better target the contagion alerts. They are also not limited by rules imposed by the two tech companies, such as a ban on being able to gather location data.\n\nSupporters of the decentralised model say it better protects users' anonymity and privacy.\n\nHundreds of academics signed a letter in April raising concerns that gathered data could be repurposed for mass surveillance purposes.\n\nThere was then a row over the government's refusal to give MPs a vote on the matter, which was only resolved after ministers gave the Senate and National Assembly non-binding votes.\n\nThey both ultimately gave the app the green light. And the country's data privacy watchdog also approved the rollout after carrying out its own review, although it did ask for some changes to the app's wording.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nBut questions remain about how many people will voluntarily install it - the more that do so, the better it should work.\n\nDigital Minister Cedric O indicated that he was pleased with the initial uptake.\n\n\"As of this morning, 600,000 people managed to download the app, so it's a very very good start,\" he told the TV channel France 2.\n\n\"We are very happy with his start, but obviously several million French people need to have it.\"\n\nHe declined to give an exact target. But he had previously said a publicity campaign would initially focus on city-dwellers - particularly those using public transport, restaurants and supermarkets at peak times - as they were among those most likely to spread Covid-19.\n\nThe French government had said the app would be released at midday on Tuesday.\n\nBut StopCovid France did not appear on Google Play until late on Tuesday afternoon, and then a few hours later on Apple's App Store.\n\nOne consequence of this was that a Catalan health information app with a similar name - Stop Covid19 CAT - was mistakenly downloaded by many in the interim, causing it to briefly top France's download charts.\n\nA Catalan Covid-19 app was mistakenly downloaded by many after a last-minute delay\n\nThe only explanation given for the delay was that last-minute \"technical adjustments\" had to be made.\n\nContact tracing apps are supposed to complement work done by humans quizzing those diagnosed with the disease. It remains unclear whether the limitations of relying on Bluetooth can be overcome to avoid capturing too many false flags.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding, who heads up the government's Test and Trace programme, said little new about the app when she appeared before the House of Commons' Health and Social Care Committee, beyond saying it was a \"high priority\" to link it to medical test results.\n\nBut Prof Christophe Fraser, who advises the NHS on the project, told MPs there was a \"need for speed\". An app, he explained, could still be used to serve users amber warnings - perhaps advising them not to visit an elderly relative or a friend in a vulnerable group - while their contact awaited a result.\n\n\"The app provides the best early warning system by enabling us to record close physical contact with people we know, but also those we don't know or can't remember,\" the Oxford Big Data Institute academic told the BBC.\n\n\"Our latest analyses suggest that even at low levels of uptake, the app will have a protective effect across a localised network of contacts - if you, your friends, colleagues and family download the app, you're creating a local alert network within your community.\"\n\nBut it is still not clear whether other parts of the UK will adopt it.\n\nEarlier, Northern Ireland's chief scientific advisor told the Stormont Health Committee that he planned to focus on manual contact tracing, saying he thought the app's usefulness had been overstated.\n\n\"At best, it is an adjunct,\" Prof Ian Young said.\n\nThe Health Minister Robin Swann added that he had concerns that the app would be unattractive to users because of concerns about it draining battery life, and that people at the end of a phone were already proving effective.", "Water companies are urging people to use water more carefully during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThey are asking people to avoid hoses and sprinklers, and not to fill paddling pools.\n\nHowever, so far a full hosepipe ban has not been imposed.\n\nCompanies are responding to a double water whammy from the record dry spring and a surge in demand as people spend more time at home during the lockdown.\n\nFebruary this year was the wettest on record and you might have thought the UK had enough H2O - following a drenching winter, rivers and reservoirs were full.\n\nBut then it barely rained for three subsequent months – another record.\n\nThen came coronavirus and lockdown meant people stayed home in the sunshine.\n\nChristine McGourty, chief executive of Water UK, which represents water companies, told BBC News: “We’re seeing truly incredible surges of demand.\n\n“People's patterns of using water have changed with the weather - and more people at home because of Covid.\n\n“It's things like paddling pools and sprinklers that are the biggest challenge. So we’re just asking people to save a little bit of water and that’ll make a huge difference.”\n\nIn some places water demand is said to be 25% higher than normal. Reservoirs are still in a healthy state, but some firms can’t get enough water to the taps and pressure is dropping.\n\nMeanwhile the long-term weather forecast suggests more dry summer months to come.\n\nFarmers are fearing potential drought. In fact, experts say, consumers, industries, water firms and the farmers themselves need to find ways of living with less water as the climate changes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Becky\" - a contract tracer in England - speaks to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire\n\nA contact tracer working on the NHS Test and Trace coronavirus scheme says she has not been asked to speak to anyone since beginning work last week.\n\nThe clinician told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire she had worked 38 hours but had yet to make a single phone call and spent the time watching Netflix.\n\n\"It's frustrating to know that I'm sat idle when there's people that need contacting,\" they said.\n\nThe government said this does not reflect the amount of work under way.\n\n\"Becky\" spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, and said she has watched nearly three series of comedy The Good Place, despite being available to help isolate people.\n\n\"I'm yet to make a single phone call or be assigned a case,\" the nurse said.\n\n\"I've had no contact from anyone. I've had no contact from supervisors. I've literally been on the system, refreshed the system, and entertained myself during that watching Netflix.\n\n\"I've just watched it alongside going back to the system, refreshing it, occasionally having to log back in because it's timed out. I have yet to have contact with anybody regarding contact tracing.\"\n\nIt came as Channel 4 News reported data showing 4,456 confirmed Covid-19 cases were reported to the Test and Trace scheme between 28 May, when it launched, and 31 May.\n\nThe data - described by the government as \"outdated\" - showed those confirmed cases passed on 4,634 contacts, but Channel 4 reported just 1,749 of these have been contacted by tracers.\n\nLatest daily figures showed 1,613 people tested positive for coronavirus up to 09:00 BST on Tuesday.\n\n\"Becky\" told Victoria Derbyshire there seemed to be a lack of work for contact tracers\n\nAnthony Costello is a professor of global health at University College London who formerly worked at the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nHe told Victoria Derbyshire the Test and Trace system was unlikely to be picking up more than 30% of coronavirus cases and may be missing at least two-thirds of contacts.\n\n\"That's why your nurse has not had any calls. It is not fit for purpose yet. The worrying thing is can it ever be fit for purpose? Why was it set up like this? You need speed and you need trust,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the system should instead revolve around local GPs and that the current system risked giving people a false sense of security.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Boris Johnson pledged a new 24-hour target for test results, except for tests delivered by post.\n\nThe pledge followed comments by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt who said the quick turnaround of test results was crucial for the Test and Trace scheme to be effective.\n\nThe NHS Test and Trace scheme in England is intended to map a person's networks and close contacts once they have received a positive coronavirus diagnosis.\n\nIt is being run in part by the private outsourcing company Serco and is led by the chair of NHS Improvement and former TalkTalk chief executive Baroness Dido Harding.\n\nOne NHS job advert for a clinical contact tracer stated the role paid up to £27.15 per hour and described suitable applicants as nurses, dentists or vets, among others.\n\nOther non-clinical and administrative roles on the scheme are reportedly paid less than £10 per hour.\n\nBecky - who said nursing was a vocation - described her experience with Test and Trace as \"frustrating\".\n\n\"I think it's appalling, I think it's dishonest,\" she said.\n\n\"We're trying to build a very large system that's trying to keep people in England safe and try and prevent a second spike.\n\n\"I understand it's complex and I understand there's going to be challenges.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\n\"It's not ready yet. Hold fire. The released aspects of lockdown - which without track and trace - are not safe to do so,\" Becky added.\n\n\"Not having a system up and running is obviously frustrating but it's about people's lives.\"\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The new NHS Test and Trace service is up and running and will help save lives. These claims do not reflect the huge amount of work already under way.\n\n\"Anyone in this country can book a test and we have over 25,000 contact tracers in place to undertake this vital work.\n\n\"All staff have been trained and are fully supported in their work following procedures designed by public health experts.\"\n\nHave you been hired as a contact tracer? Are you among those who have been traced? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Nikoleta Zdun, 18, and Aneta Zdun, 40, died at a home in Wessex Road on Monday\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering his wife and daughter.\n\nAneta Zdun, 40, and Nikoleta Zdun, 18, died at a house in Wessex Road, Salisbury, on Monday afternoon.\n\nMarcin Zdun, 39, of Wessex Road, is due to appear before Winchester Crown Court on 5 June, following the hearing at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court.\n\nAneta worked for Wessex Care, which described her as a \"warm, kind individual\" and a \"well-loved and well-known\" member of its team.\n\nPolice were called to the house at 14:45 BST on Monday, by neighbours who described hearing loud screams and helped detain a man near the scene.\n\nOfficers went to the property and found the body of one of the women.\n\nThe other woman was found seriously injured and died a short time later at the scene.\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene\n\nSalisbury-based Wessex Care, which provides community and residential care, said in a statement that it was with \"great sadness and shock that we have lost a member of the Wessex Care family and also her beloved eldest daughter\".\n\n\"Those of you who knew Aneta personally and professionally will know what a warm, kind and caring individual she was.\n\n\"She cared immensely for many vulnerable people throughout her career as a physiotherapist and healthcare assistant. She will be greatly missed and mourned by all who knew her.\n\n\"You'll be forever in our thoughts Aneta and thank you for the care and dedication you provided.\"\n\nNeighbours said the house was lived in by a supermarket worker and his family.\n\nDet Ch Insp Darren Hannant from Wiltshire Police said there was likely to be \"a significant police presence\" in the area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of people dying each week linked to coronavirus has dropped to its lowest levels in the UK since March, figures show.\n\nThe review of death certificates by national statisticians showed 2,872 cases where the virus was mentioned in the week ending 22 May.\n\nOverall there were 13,800 deaths in that week - 2,500 more than normal at this time of the year.\n\nAt the peak of the pandemic double the number were dying than expected.\n\nOverall, there have been 190,000 deaths during the pandemic - nearly 62,000 above what would be expected.\n\nThis is known as the excess death rate and is said to be the best guide to the impact of the virus as it takes into account deaths linked to infections and indirect deaths that maybe related to the lockdown from factors such as lack of access to care for other conditions and mental health problems.\n\nSome 48,000 of the deaths have been attributed to coronavirus.\n\nLatest government figures report that 39,369 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, with an increase of 324 deaths on Monday's figures. There were 1,613 new positive cases recorded in the past day.\n\nNick Stripe, of the Office for National Statistics, which compiles the data for England and Wales, said despite the number of overall deaths falling, we were effectively seeing the same number of deaths we would expect to see in winter.\n\nHe also said there were considerable regional variations with the north east currently seeing the highest rates of excess deaths.\n\nDr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive at the Health Foundation think tank, said the reduction in deaths was positive, but the figures were still a \"sobering reminder\" of the impact the virus has had.\n\n\"The UK is now among the worst hit countries in terms of excess mortality and we will need to be forensic in searching for the reasons we have been so badly affected.\n\n\"This data underlines just how dangerous a threat the virus remains unless it is fully contained and further outbreaks can be stopped. Having a fully functioning test and trace system will be critical, as will the willingness and ability of the public to maintain recommended levels of social distancing.\n\n\"Without these, there are real risks of more avoidable deaths.\"", "Videos on social media show hundreds of people drinking and dancing on Gifford Road\n\nA street party involving 500 revellers breaking lockdown rules in north-west London was broken up police in the early hours.\n\nVideos on social media show hundreds of people gathering in Harlesden, despite Covid-19 social distancing rules.\n\nThe Met Police said five people had been arrested at the event involving 500 people on the Church Road Estate, which began on Tuesday night.\n\nResidents said the party continued into the early hours.\n\nClive McBride, who lives nearby, said the last police van left the area at about 04:00 BST.\n\nThe last police van left the area at 04:00 on Wednesday\n\n\"People are dying of Covid-19, millions are in lockdown, the NHS risking their lives everyday, and what do Harlesden youth do? Throw block party after block party,\" he added.\n\nMr McBride said many people were dancing and drinking in close proximity to one another and at one point, fireworks were set off at the party.\n\nThe Met said 11 of its officers were assaulted and received minor injuries when a small minority of party-goers refused to leave.\n\n\"Five arrests were made - three for assault on police, one for affray and one for attempted grievous bodily harm and dangerous driving. All remain in custody,\" police said.\n\nPeople took to Twitter to complain about the rule breaking.\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"Brent has the most coronavirus cases in London. Here's Harlesden having a huge block party.\"\n\nUser Taelaa Anne added: \"If you don't care about yourself good for you but at least think about your parents.\"\n\nFive people were arrested after the lockdown breach\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"To the very small minority who chose to break the law last night and who were not from the local area, I am clear; you do not reflect the communities of Brent and we will take appropriate action.\n\n\"Local residents should be reassured we will be increasing our patrols in the area following the incident.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer clash on the government's steps to ease the lockdown\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused Boris Johnson of ignoring an offer to help build public support for getting children back to school.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said he wrote to the PM privately two weeks ago but had not received a reply.\n\nMr Johnson said he \"took the trouble to ring\" the Labour leader to brief him on lockdown easing measures.\n\nHe said Sir Keir's \"endless attacks\" on the government were undermining \"public trust and confidence\".\n\nDowning Street said the two men had spoken on 28 May in a conference call with other opposition leaders.\n\nLabour sources said the call was for the PM to brief opposition leaders on what the government intended to do - and Sir Keir had not had a one-to-one conversation with Mr Johnson since the end of April.\n\nSir Keir used PMQs to highlight what he said was a big fall in public confidence in the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, at a time when that support was needed most to ease the country out of lockdown.\n\nFrom Monday, more than two million primary pupils in England were invited back to school, but heads reported \"highly variable\" levels of attendance, ranging from 40% to 70%.\n\nThe Labour leader told the PM: \"I have supported the government openly and I've taken criticism for it, but, boy, he makes it difficult to support this government over the last two weeks.\"\n\nMr Johnson accused Sir Keir of going back on his promise to work constructively with the government.\n\nBut Sir Keir said he had offered to help build consensus for the reopening of schools, in a letter, dated Monday 18 May, which the Labour Party has now published.\n\nBoris Johnson said he was surprised at the Labour leader's 'tone'\n\nIn it, Sir Keir tells the PM he supported the government's \"gradual easing\" of lockdown but remained concerned about elements \"including transparency, pace and having an effective test, track and trace system\" and \"the wholly unjustified attacks that have been made on teachers\".\n\nThe Labour leader tells the PM he supports the opening of schools \"as soon as is feasibly possible\".\n\nBut he adds: \"I am sure as prime minister you will share my concern that without a stronger consensus of professionals and parents behind the wider opening of schools, some parents will choose not to comply and the issue will become even more socially divisive.\"\n\nSir Keir offered to meet Mr Johnson, along with Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and shadow education secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey to discuss how a \"consensus can be achieved in the shortest possible timeframe\" to get children back to school.\n\nAt PMQs, he said he had not received a reply to the letter.\n\nThe prime minister said he was surprised Sir Keir \"should take that tone\", because he had spoken to him by phone - and the Labour leader had \"endorsed\" the steps the government was taking.\n\n\"I think that he's on firmer ground when he stands with the overwhelming majority of the British people who understand the very, very difficult circumstances that we are in,\" he told Sir Keir.\n\nSir Keir called for an exit strategy from the government at a time when some of his own MPs - and certainly grassroots members - wanted to see him clash with No 10 more robustly on issues of the day.\n\nHe now feels vindicated as he believes the lack of a strategy - \"an exit without a strategy\", as he puts it - is becoming apparent.\n\nThe Labour leader is determined to stay one step ahead of the government.\n\nSo, by raising questions now over the easing of lockdown while doubts remain about the alert level and the efficacy of the track and trace system, he is positioning the party to distance itself further from the government's approach if the R number goes up.\n\nBut it is true that his tone towards Boris Johnson himself is hardening.\n\nThe Labour leader also asked at PMQs about the \"promise\" Mr Johnson made about having a \"world beating\" test, track and trace operation to be in place by 1 June, saying it was weeks away from being fully up and running.\n\nMr Johnson accused the Labour leader of \"casting aspersions on the efforts of tens of thousands of people who set it up from a standing start\".\n\nThe Labour leader also criticised what he said was the government's lack of transparency over the decision to ease the lockdown in England, asking the prime minister what the current Covid-19 alert level and R infection level was.\n\nMr Johnson slapped the despatch box as he replied: \"He knows perfectly well that the alert level does allow it and he didn't raise that issue with me when we had a conversation on the telephone.\"\n\nHe said the alert level remained at four - but the government's five tests for easing the lockdown had been fulfilled.\n\n\"The question for him is whether he actually supports the progress we're making, because at the weekend he was backing it and now he is doing a U-turn, now he seems to be against the steps this country is taking,\" added the PM.\n\nSir Keir also criticised Mr Johnson's use of statistics, after the UK Statistics Authority said it had fallen \"well short of expectations\"., saying it was undermining trust.\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I really do not see the purpose in his endless attacks on public trust and confidence.\"", "Dr Read describes previous research justifying the use of ECT as 'the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career'\n\nThe use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat depression should be immediately suspended, a study says.\n\nECT involves passing electric currents through a patient's brain to cause seizures or fits.\n\nDr John Read, of the University of East London said there was \"no place\" for ECT in evidence-based medicine due to risks of brain damage.\n\nBut the Royal College of Psychiatrists said ECT offers \"life-saving treatment\" and should continue in severe cases.\n\nAt least 1,600 patients were given ECT in the UK and Ireland in 2017, according to psychiatrists.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) currently recommends the use of ECT for some cases of moderate or severe depression as well as catatonia and mania.\n\nHowever, peer-reviewed research published in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry concludes \"the high risk of permanent memory loss and the small mortality risk means that its use should be immediately suspended\".\n\nNICE says their guidance for ECT was last reviewed in 2014 but it would look at it again if new evidence was likely to affect their recommendations.\n\nThe study's lead author, Dr Read, a professor of clinical psychology, describes previous research justifying the use of ECT in the UK and around the world as \"the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career\".\n\nThe paper concedes that \"the severity and significance of the brain damage and memory loss (following ECT) is rarely studied\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A mum of two talks about having electric shock therapy while pregnant\n\nHowever, the researchers go on to say \"it is not hard to find hundreds of personal accounts of debilitating levels of disruption to people's lives\".\n\nIn 2018, a class action case was settled in the US after a federal court ruled that a reasonable jury could find against manufacturers of ECT equipment if they failed to warn of the dangers of brain damage.\n\nOne manufacturer, Somatics, immediately added \"permanent brain damage\" to the list of risks from the treatment.\n\nThe research criticises a British review of the evidence conducted in 2003 for ignoring the lack of data.\n\nCoronation Street actor Beverley Callard has spoken of how she underwent electroconvulsive therapy to treat her clinical depression\n\nThe UK ECT Review Group \"fails to acknowledge any of these major problems and unquestioningly included the strong finding in favour of ECT\", it says.\n\nThe article argues the quality of previous studies into ECT is so poor, they \"were wrong to conclude anything about efficacy, either during or beyond the treatment period\".\n\n\"There is no evidence that ECT is effective for its target demographic—older women, or its target diagnostic group—severely depressed people, or for suicidal people, people who have unsuccessfully tried other treatments first, involuntary patients, or children and adolescent\", it says.\n\nThe paper suggests the placebo effect may explain why some patients say they find ECT helpful.\n\nThe study's joint author, Prof Irving Kirsch, an expert on placebo effects based at Harvard Medical School, says \"the failure to find any meaningful benefits in long-term benefits compared to placebo groups are particularly distressing.\n\n\"On the basis of the clinical trial data, ECT should not be used for depressed individuals.\"\n\nIn response to the study, the Royal College of Psychiatrists said ECT should not be suspended for \"some forms of severe mental illness\".\n\nDr Rupert McShane, chair of the college's Committee on ECT and Related Treatments, said there was evidence showing \"most people who receive ECT see an improvement in their condition\".\n\n\"For many, it can be a life-saving treatment,\" he said.\n\n\"As with all treatments for serious medical conditions - from cancer to heart disease - there can be side-effects of differing severity, including memory loss.\"", "Boris Johnson's \"mismanagement\" of the easing of virus restrictions risks a second wave of infections, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has warned.\n\nIn a Guardian interview, he urged the PM to \"get a grip\" and restore public confidence in ministers' handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut No 10 said it was proceeding with caution to secure a safe recovery.\n\nIt comes as the government is to outline further details of its quarantine plans later.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel is to tell MPs that the proposals - which have been met with criticism from many Conservative MPs - are necessary to avoid the risk of another wave of coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, the majority of those arriving in the UK will be told to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nBut Portugal's foreign minister has told the BBC that his government is talking to Home Office officials about a so-called \"air bridge\" agreement so that tourists returning from his country can avoid the restrictions.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said he hopes people will be able to go on holiday this year but cautioned \"I'm not going to say a particular date on when that might happen\".\n\n\"We will have to be guided by how the disease behaves, controlling any risk of a second wave and controlling the disease,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nIn the Guardian, the Labour leader also said there was a growing concern that Mr Johnson was now \"winging it\" over moves to reopen schools and relax shielding advice.\n\nEchoing Sir Keir's criticism of the government, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We have seen an exit from the lockdown with no strategy to make it work.\"\n\nThe Labour MP said the easing of lockdown restrictions was \"the time of maximum danger\" and that the party was calling for an \"effective\" test, trace and isolate strategy, \"fast access to testing\" and \"clear\" public messaging.\n\nIn one of his first acts as Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer announced he would not indulge in opposition for opposition's sake.\n\nThis was seen as a decisive break from his own party's recent past.\n\nBut now he wants to create more distance between the government and the opposition.\n\nSome say they have noted a more hostile, less consensual tone towards Boris Johnson from Sir Keir.\n\nBut, in truth, Sir Keir's stated policy of \"constructive criticism\" has already tended to emphasise the latter of those two words at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nAnd his approach today has much in common with his approach before - to put down a marker in case things go wrong.\n\nThe Labour leader is determined to stay one step ahead of the government.\n\nSo, by raising questions now over the easing of lockdown while doubts remain about the alert level and the efficacy of the track and trace system, he is positioning the party to distance itself further from the government's approach if the R number goes up.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt has stressed the importance of a \"functioning\" test and trace system, which he suggested could be used in place of quarantine measures.\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Mr Hunt highlighted comments by Professor John Newton, the national testing co-ordinator, who said contact tracing for travellers arriving in the UK could be used instead of quarantine rules.\n\n\"If you know that you are going to track down anyone that comes from abroad and isolate them really quickly, then you don't need to have a blanket quarantine measure that stops people going on holiday or doing business trips,\" Mr Hunt, the chairman of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee, said.\n\nUnder the quarantine rules, passengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days\n\nHe added that turning around coronavirus test results within 24 hours was \"absolutely essential\" for an effective test and trace system.\n\nHe express concerned over the time it is taking for tests results to come back, following Sage - the group of scientists advising government - documents that said keeping the R number below one would require 80% of contacts to be found within 48 hours.\n\n\"If the test results themselves take 48 hours to come back, that is going to be impossible,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said while Labour wanted to see society re-open and businesses begin to get back on their feet, he had deep misgivings about the approach in England, compared with that in Wales and Scotland.\n\nHe said children had returned to schools before the system for identifying new cases and tracing their contacts was fully up and running.\n\nHe also complained that public health officials had been given no notice of the changes to shielding advice for the most vulnerable - which was announced a month before a review had been due to take place.\n\n\"After a week or more of mismanagement, I'm deeply concerned the government has made a difficult situation 10 times worse,\" he said. \"We've called for an exit strategy. What we appear to have got is an exit without a strategy.\"\n\nHe warned that trust in the government had been \"burnt\" at a crucial time by the controversy surrounding the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings and whether he broke the lockdown rules.\n\n\"Like many people across the country, there is a growing concern the government is now winging it,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"At precisely the time when there should have been maximum trust in the government, confidence has collapsed.\n\n\"I am putting the prime minister on notice that he has got to get a grip and restore public confidence in the government's handling of the epidemic.\n\n\"If we see a sharp rise in the R rate, the infection rate, or a swathe of local lockdowns, responsibility for that falls squarely at the door of No 10.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said its focus was on \"helping the country recover safely from coronavirus and restoring the livelihoods of millions of people across the country\".\n\n\"Now is the time to look to the future and not the past, as we continue to fight this virus while taking cautious steps to ease restrictions. The PM looks forward to hearing any concrete proposals Labour has to offer.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the PM has established two new cabinet committees to support the next phase of the Covid response - one overseeing the strategy for the recovery and the other the delivery of policy.", "The document plans for a massive expansion in offshore wind\n\nGreenpeace has joined a growing list of organisations demanding that the UK government puts protecting the environment at the heart of any post-Covid-19 economic stimulus package.\n\nThe campaign group has produced a detailed \"manifesto\" with measures to boost clean transport and smart power.\n\nThe document follows a comparable call from some of Britain's most powerful business leaders earlier this week.\n\nLast week, the prime minister also expressed a similar ambition.\n\nBoris Johnson said he wanted to see a \"fairer, greener and more resilient global economy\" after Covid-19 and that \"we owe it to future generations to build back better\".\n\nThe manifesto also contains measures to support the protection of nature, green buildings and the creation of an economy in which virtually everything is reused.\n\nGreenpeace says the crisis has given Britain a \"once in a lifetime\" opportunity to transform life, travel and work.\n\nIt added that the plan would create hundreds of thousands of secure jobs.\n\nOn Monday, more than 200 chief executives of some of the UK's top firms - including HSBC, National Grid, and Heathrow airport - signed a letter to the prime minister asking him to use the Covid-19 lockdown as a springboard to \"deliver a clean, just recovery\".\n\nMany people may be surprised how similar the recommendations of these two very different interest groups are.\n\nGreenpeace's manifesto is, however, considerably more detailed.\n\nIt is a 62-page document with specific policy, spending and tax measures covering most of the British economy.\n\nIt calls on the government to deliver its 2050 net zero emissions goal before 2045.\n\nThe manifesto contains measures to encourage clean transport\n\nMany voters say they support tackling climate change when polled.\n\nHowever, lots of the policies Greenpeace proposes would prove very controversial.\n\nFor example, motorists say they are ready to change their behaviour to improve air quality, according to a recent AA survey.\n\nBut many drivers may balk at Greenpeace's proposals to radically redesign the road network to favour walking and cycling, at the suggestion that petrol and diesel cars are banned by 2030 or that fuel duty is steadily increased.\n\nMany homeowners might be reluctant to spend money to upgrade their properties to meet tough energy efficiency standards.\n\nAt the same time, many local communities are likely to resist the plan for a big increase in onshore wind and solar power to complement a proposed massive expansion of offshore wind farms - few things unite local communities like a proposal to put in an array of wind turbines.\n\nThe manifesto proposes the creation of an economy in which virtually everything is reused\n\nBut, says Greenpeace, tough policies like these are essential if the government is going to take meaningful action to tackle climate change.\n\n\"The choices our government makes now will define… whether or not we succeed in the fight against the climate emergency\", says John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace.\n\n\"If we fail to get this right, we may never get another chance. Now is the time for a green recovery, and for that we need action not words.\"\n\nIt says there would be huge dividends in terms of job creation, should its programme be adopted.\n\nGreenpeace calculates that its plans would create hundreds of thousands of new high-skilled jobs as well as helping to level up inequalities between communities in the UK.\n\nThe UK government has already indicated that protecting the environment will feature heavily in any stimulus package.\n\nBack in April, Boris Johnson said a post-Covid-19 recovery plans should include efforts to \"turn the tide on climate change\".\n\nMeanwhile, the European Union has unveiled what it called the biggest \"green\" stimulus in history.\n\nLast week, it said it planned to commit a whopping €750bn (£667bn; $841bn) to its recovery package.\n\nAdd in spending from future budgets and the total financial firepower the European Commission says it will be wielding is almost €2tn (£1.8tn; $2.2tn).\n\nFighting climate change is at the heart of the bloc's recovery from the pandemic.\n\nThere will be tens of billions of euros to make homes more energy efficient, to de-carbonise electricity and phase out petrol and diesel vehicles.\n\nThe idea is to turbo-charge the European effort to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\n\"If we do not do it, we will be taking much more risk,\" Teresa Ribera, deputy prime minister of Spain, told the BBC.\n\n\"The recovery should be green or it will not be a recovery, it will just be a shortcut into the kind of problems we are facing right now.\"", "The White House press secretary has likened President Donald Trump's \"resilience and determination\" during the #GeorgeFloyd protests to Winston Churchill inspecting bomb damage during World War Two.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people have joined a protest in London over the death of African-American George Floyd in US police custody nine days ago.\n\nIt comes as UK chief constables said they stand alongside all those \"appalled and horrified\" by his death.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said the right to lawful protest was a \"key part of any democracy\".\n\nBut they stressed coronavirus restrictions, including not gathering in groups of more than six, remained.\n\nProtests began in the US after a video showed Mr Floyd, 46, being arrested on 25 May in Minneapolis and a white police officer continuing to kneel on his neck even after he pleaded that he could not breathe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Boyega gives emotional protest speech: \"Black men, it starts with you\"\n\nThe officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second-degree murder, according to court documents.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that Mr Floyd's death had been \"appalling\" and \"inexcusable\", but was criticised for failing to comment on the killing before now.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the UK government had \"shuttered itself in the hope no-one would notice\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on the PM to convey to US President Donald Trump the UK's \"abhorrence about his response to the events\".\n\nSpeaking later when asked about it at Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson said: \"My message to President Trump, to everybody in the United States from the UK is that… racism, racist violence has no place in our society.\"\n\nHe said people had the right to protest but \"I would urge people to protest peacefully, and in accordance with the rules on social distancing\".\n\nProtesters in Hyde Park chanted \"black lives matter\" and \"we will not be silent\"\n\nThousands of people marched through Westminster in central London\n\nDemonstrators gathered in London's Hyde Park for the protest organised by campaign group Black Lives Matter, before marching south through the city.\n\nIt followed days of protests in US cities including Washington DC, Los Angeles, Houston and Seattle, after the Floyd case reignited deep-seated anger over police killings of black Americans and racism.\n\nTens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets there - not only to express their outrage at the treatment of Mr Floyd - but to condemn police brutality against black Americans more widely.\n\nIn the UK protesters marched to Victoria Station, where they hung a sign reading \"Justice for Belly Mujinga\" - referring to a railway worker who died with Covid-19. Initially it was thought this may have been because she was spat at by a man claiming to have coronavirus. However, police concluded that her death was not linked to the attack.\n\nThe protestors then continued towards Westminster, where they blocked the roads outside Parliament.\n\nA number of videos shared on social media showed protesters and police clashing outside Downing Street.\n\nFootage showed objects, including signs and a traffic cone, being thrown at police, while one protester was wrestled to the ground and restrained by officers.\n\nSome protesters clashed with police outside Downing Street\n\nThere was anger in the crowd, as they sat, as they listened to speeches, as they took the knee.\n\nThis is yet another generation who have painted placards and taken to the streets to march against racism.\n\nAs they started to fill Hyde Park, organisers shouted at them to spread out their arms to maintain the two-metre social distancing rule. But so many gathered, it became impossible.\n\nFriends and families together, different ages, different races.\n\nAt the start, organisers told me they were expecting about 1,000 people. But the protesters came out in their thousands.\n\nThey chanted \"Black Lives Matter\", they shouted \"say his name\". They said the \"UK is not different\" when it comes to racism. They want change.\n\nEarlier, Star Wars actor John Boyega made an emotional speech to fellow protesters in which he said the crowds were \"a physical representation of our support\" for Mr Floyd along with two other black Americans who controversially died in the US, and Stephen Lawrence who was killed in a racist attack in London in 1993.\n\nHe said he was speaking from his heart and did not know whether he would still have a career after speaking out.\n\n\"Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process - we don't know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don't know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we're going to make sure that won't be an alien thought to our young ones,\" he said.\n\n\"I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing.\"\n\nThe crowds marched from Hyde Park towards Victoria station\n\nProtesters in Whitehall took the knee to show solidarity with George Floyd\n\nFirefighters in uniform knelt in Windrush Square, Brixton, in south London\n\nPolice clashes with protestors on Downing St carried on into the evening\n\nOne activist attending the protest, Brogan Baptiste, told the BBC: \"It's imperative that all of us, whether you're black, white, that you're involved in this because we need change and we need it now.\"\n\nFilippa, a 20-year-old student who also joined the protest, said: \"I know that I'm healthy. So this felt more important than to stay inside when I have the opportunity.\"\n\nProtests also took place in other UK cities, including Belfast and Northampton.\n\nIn their joint statement, the National Police Chiefs Council said: \"We stand alongside all those across the globe who are appalled and horrified by the way George Floyd lost his life. Justice and accountability should follow.\"\n\nThey said officers in the UK were \"trained to use force proportionately, lawfully and only when absolutely necessary\".\n\nHowever, they added: \"We strive to continuously learn and improve. We will tackle bias, racism or discrimination wherever we find it.\"\n\nThousands of protesters gathered in London's Hyde Park on Wednesday\n\nThey said UK police \"uphold and facilitate\" the right to lawful protest and \"we know people want to make their voices heard\".\n\nBut amid the coronavirus pandemic they stressed restrictions on gatherings were still in place and urged people to \"continue to work with officers at this challenging time.\"\n\nThis latest protest follows another on Sunday, which saw thousands gather in Trafalgar Square, in central London.\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.", "Here's what the situation on the ground looked like across some major US cities on Tuesday:\n\nThousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd Image caption: Thousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd\n\nIn Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen Image caption: In Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen\n\nOne man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena Image caption: One man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena\n\nAnd in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House Image caption: And in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe Labour leader has accused Boris Johnson of \"winging it\" over steps to ease lockdown in England. Speaking to the Guardian, Sir Keir Starmer urged the PM to \"get a grip\" and restore public trust. No 10 insists it is proceeding with caution to secure a safe recovery. The two men will face each other at Prime Minister's Questions later. Although daily deaths in the UK have decreased, the downwards trend appears to have stalled in recent days. Here we look closely at the risks around lifting lockdown.\n\nWe'll get more details from the home secretary on plans to introduce 14-day quarantine for most arrivals into the UK. The policy is deeply unpopular in some quarters, but ministers are insisting it's necessary. Portugal's foreign minister, meanwhile, has told the BBC anyone from the UK thinking of going to his country this summer would be \"most welcome\". Read more on the quarantine rules.\n\nPortugal's Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva is optimistic about the prospect of an \"air bridge\" with the UK\n\nUniversity leaders have been setting out ways their institutions could operate when the new academic year begins in the autumn. They suggest students might have to live and study in the same small group - the sort of \"bubbles\" being used in schools - and enjoy, if that's the right word, a virtual freshers' week.\n\nLectures might have to shift from lecture halls to online lessons\n\nA team of scientists from London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospital and King's College have begun a study to see if the everyday anti-inflammatory and painkiller ibuprofen could provide a low-cost treatment for coronavirus. The hope is that it can keep patients off ventilators. Read more on work being done all over the world to find new drugs to fight the virus.\n\nRather than lamenting the loss of a packed calendar, some people have found that the quieter, slower life imposed by the coronavirus lockdown offered a much-needed break. Others, like four-year-old Zachary - who has Down's syndrome - appear to be thriving.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How one four-year-old has thrived in coronavirus lockdown\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest in our live page.\n\nPlus, after Public Health England says people from ethnic minorities are more likely to die after contracting coronavirus, the BBC's Ashitha Nagesh takes a closer look at the issue.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Officers were called to Energen Close in Harlesden\n\nA two-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after being hurt in a shooting in Harlesden, north west London, police have said.\n\nThe lone gunman is thought to have fled on a motorbike after firing at two men, a mother and her child in Energen Close just before 21:45 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe three adults are in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rick Sewart said the child had been the victim of \"wanton indiscriminate violence\".\n\nHe added: \"As result of this terrible crime an innocent two-year-old boy is now seriously ill in hospital.\n\n\"I know that people will be shocked and horrified that a little boy should be the victim of a gunman and I need the community to show their support for him and his family, by telling police what they know.\"\n\nPolice said specialist gang officers were helping with the investigation\n\nPolice believe the suspect was holding a hand gun and he approached the victims in the street.\n\nThe child suffered his gunshot injury while sitting in a car.\n\nThe three adults, aged in their late teens and late 20s, are said to have known one another.\n\nAn witness, who did not want to be named, said she was watching TV when she heard screaming from outside before \"everyone came out of their houses\".\n\nThe neighbour, who has lived in Energen Close for 10 years, said the mother was screaming after her son was shot.\n\nSpecialist detectives are continuing to investigate and the Met said no arrests have been made.\n\nForensic officers are continuing to examine the scene\n\nThe Met's North West Borough Cmdr Roy Smith said extra patrols of armed police officers will be carried out to reassure the public.\n\nHe said: \"I know that residents will be worried about their safety and the safety of their families.\n\n\"This is my primary concern and local officers will be conducting additional patrols to provide support and a visible reassurance.\"\n\nOvernight a Section 60 order was in place for the borough of Brent until 07:00, and a dispersal zone has been authorised for the Harlesden area, the force added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of the Test and Trace programme has been challenged over the risks of false negative coronavirus results by a committee of MPs.\n\nDido Harding was asked at the health select committee why people are not repeatedly tested to ensure they do not have coronavirus.\n\nMPs heard 20% of positive cases may be missed by the test.\n\nEarlier Boris Johnson told the Commons tests would be processed within 24 hours by the end of June.\n\nQuestioned by Mr Hunt, the PM said the 24-hour target would need to take into account \"insuperable problems\" such as postal delays.\n\nHe said \"I can undertake to him now to get all tests turned around in 24 hours by the end of June, except for difficulties with postal tests or insuperable problems like that.\"\n\nThe tests involve a nose and throat swab which is then used to look for the virus's genetic material. It detects active coronavirus infection, so cannot say if someone has recovered from Covid-19.\n\nTesting positive should allow contacts to be traced, and determine whether NHS staff can go back to work.\n\nBut the swab tests carried out can deliver false negative results - suggesting someone does not have coronavirus when they are actually positive.\n\nThat could be because of the quality of the swab, the timing of the test or issues in the lab.\n\nDuring the select committee hearing Mr Hunt cited evidence from the University of Bristol as suggesting 20% of positive cases could falsely appear as negative, wrongly telling someone they are not infected.\n\nBaroness Harding said she understood estimates of the proportion of false negative results ranged between \"two and 20-odd per cent\".\n\nShe added that the issue of why those with a negative result were not re-tested was \"a medical\" question for the scientists, and it was her job \"to take Sage and chief medical officers' guidance\".\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The test is reliable and effective. Like any diagnostic test however, there is always the small possibility of a false negative or a false positive result.\"\n\nThe Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association (HCSA), which represents hospital doctors, had earlier called for NHS staff to be tested more than once.\n\nDr Claudia Paoloni, the union's president, said relying on a single negative result risked \"infecting patients and staff\".\n\nProf Nicola Stonehouse, a virologist at the University of Leeds, said people needed to be aware that one test wasn't \"good enough\".\n\nIt's necessary to have multiple tests, she said, and they needed to be separated by 72 hours.\n\nCurrently, a negative test clears people to return to work provided they don't have symptoms, and means contact tracing isn't triggered.\n\nGP, and diagnostic tests researcher, Dr Jessica Watson told BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme the \"best guess\" was about 70 in every 100 people who have coronavirus would be picked up by the testing programme.\n\nTesting and tracing is clearly going to be crucial in allowing the UK to get back to some level of normality.\n\nFor it to work successfully, two basic things are needed above all else.\n\nPeople need to trust it and it needs to work effectively. The two are, of course, interlinked.\n\nAnd, unfortunately, on both counts the jury is out.\n\nThe service - as Baroness Harding points out - is only six days old.\n\nIt deserves to be given a little time to bed in.\n\nBut pretty quickly the public will need to be given information about how it is working and whether people are complying with the requests to isolate.\n\nThis is something officials are reluctant to do at the moment until they have properly validated the numbers - understandable given the UK Statistics Authority has already criticised the way testing numbers have been presented.\n\nIt also needs people to come forward for testing. Surveys suggest there are around 8,000 new infections a day in the community, but the testing system is picking up less than 2,000 of them - and that includes those diagnosed in care homes and hospitals.\n\nIf enough people are not coming forward for a test in the first place, tracing contacts and containing future outbreaks is bound to fail.\n\nFactors affecting the outcome include at what point in their illness someone is tested, how good a sample is taken, along with any problems with processing tests, she said.\n\nPublic Health England is expected to publish an evaluation of its tests, used for hospital patients and some staff, this week.", "\"He might not make it tonight. Things are suddenly looking very bad,\" Dr Saswati Sinha told a patient's wife on the phone as she drove back to her hospital through the deserted streets of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).\n\nIt was the night of 11 April. India was in the throes of a harsh lockdown to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.\n\nThe patient, Nitaidas Mukherjee, had been battling Covid-19 for nearly two weeks at the city's AMRI Hospital, where Dr Sinha worked as a critical care consultant.\n\nRavaged by the virus, the 52-year-old social worker, who ran a non-profit rescuing the homeless and destitute, was hooked to a ventilator and battling for his life in critical care.\n\nOn the evening of 30 March, he had arrived at the hospital, running a high fever and gasping for breath.\n\nHis X-rays looked \"terrible\" - bone white lungs swamped by inflamed cells. The air sacs were filled with fluid, impeding the flow of oxygen to the organs. (Fluid looks white on x-rays.)\n\nThat night, doctors used a high-flow mask to boost his oxygen levels, gave him his diabetes medicine, and took a throat swab for a Covid-19 test.\n\nBy next evening, Mr Mukherjee had reported positive.\n\nNow, he was so short of breath that going off oxygen for even a sip of water had become difficult. Normal oxygen saturation for most people is between 94% and 100%, but his had dipped to 83%. Ten to 20 breaths per minute is normal, but Mr Mukherjee was breathing more than 50 times a minute.\n\nThat was when he was sedated and put on a ventilator. It would be more than three weeks before he woke next, and even longer before he would finally be unhooked from the machine saving his life.\n\nNot many critically ill Covid-19 patients have been as fortunate as Mr Mukherjee. About a quarter of patients who needed ventilators to help them breathe in New York died within the first few weeks of treatment, a study showed. A British study found two-thirds of Covid-19 patients put on ventilators ended up dying.\n\nThere have also been reports of ventilators not working very well on Covid-19 patients.\n\n\"In some cases they have found terrible results with mechanical ventilation. There may be lung damage if the ventilation is suboptimal - especially when people were thinking that respiratory failure is always linked to ARDS or acute respiratory distress syndrome,\" Jean-Louis Vincent, professor of intensive care medicine at Belgium's Erasme Univ Hospital, told me.\n\nWhile Mr Mukherjee was on the ventilator, he was also on muscle relaxants - drugs that paralyse the muscles so that the patient doesn't try to breathe on his own.\n\nOn a sticky April night, things had taken a turn for the worse.\n\nHis fever spiked, heart rate dipped and blood pressure plummeted. All this pointed to a nasty, new infection.\n\nThere was no time to lose: on the way back to the hospital, Dr Sinha barked out instructions on the phone to her team in critical care.\n\nWhen she arrived, the battle to save Mr Mukherjee again was already on.\n\nDr Saswati Sinha says the battle to save Mr Mukherjee was a gruelling experience\n\nDr Sinha and her team infused potent \"last resort\" antibiotics to kill the infection directly into his blood vessels, along with additional muscle relaxants and medicines to stabilise the blood pressure.\n\nIt took three hours for the storm to pass.\n\n\"This was the most draining experience of my life,\" Dr Sinha, who has spent 16 of her 21 years as a physician as an intensive care consultant, told me.\n\n\"We needed to work fast and put the lines in. That takes a lot of precision. We were sweating profusely in our protective gear [zipped gowns, double gloves, foot protection, goggles, face shield] and our vision was clouding over. Four of us worked nonstop for three hours that night,\" she said.\n\n\"We were looking at the monitors every minute and checking whether he was making progress. I was telling myself, we want this man to survive. He's not terminally ill. He was the only Covid-19 patient in intensive care then.\"\n\nWhen Mr Mukherjee stabilised, it was 02:00 local time. Dr Sinha checked her phone.\n\nThere were 15 missed calls from Mr Mukherjee's wife and sister-in-law, a respiratory diseases researcher who lived in New Jersey.\n\n\"It was the most terrifying night of my life. I thought I had lost my husband,\" Aparajita Mukherjee, a human resources manager, told me.\n\nShe was at home, locked down and quarantined, along with her bed-ridden mother-in-law, 80. and a partially disabled aunt, none of whom tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nA potentially cataclysmic crash had been averted, but Mr Mukherjee's condition remained unstable and serious.\n\nMs Sinha's phone is full of pictures of her exhausted staff who treated Mr Mukherjee\n\nMr Mukherjee is heavy, and heavier patients are more difficult and tricky to turn, or prone, in order to relieve their breathing. Doctors gave him hydroxychloroquine, a drug normally used to treat malaria, along with vitamins, antibiotics and sedatives. The fever remained high and stubborn.\n\nThere would be alarms going off in the ICU every other night at Mr Mukherjee's bed. Sometimes the oxygen saturation would dip. X-rays on a portable machine showed the \"whiteout\" in the lungs remained.\n\n\"There was very little progress and whenever there was some, it was slow,\" says Dr Sinha.\n\nFinally, a month after his admission, Dr Mukherjee showed signs of beating the infection.\n\nHe was woken up from his medically induced coma. It was a Sunday. When his wife and his sister-in-law made video calls to him, he just gazed at the glowing phone screen.\n\n\"I had no idea what was going on. It was a blur. I saw a woman in a blue apron standing in front of me, whom I later found out was my doctor,\" Mr Mukherjee told me.\n\n\"You know, I was fast asleep for more than three weeks. I had no idea why I lying in a hospital. It was a memory wipe out.\n\n\"But I remember something. I think I hallucinated when I was in the coma. I was confined to a place, tied by ropes, and people were telling me I was not well, and they were taking money from my family, and I was not being let free. And I was desperately trying to contact people to help me.\"\n\nIn late April, doctors took him off the ventilator for half-an-hour and Mr Mukherjee breathed on his own for the first time in nearly a month. Weaning him was tricky: doctors say Mr Mukherjee would often have \"panic attacks\" and press the emergency bedside bell, thinking he would not be able to breathe without the machine.\n\nBy 3 May, they switched off the ventilator, and five days later, sent him home.\n\n\"It was a really long haul. He had severe ARDS. He had four weeks of high fever. He couldn't breathe on his own. The virus was wreaking havoc,\" says Dr Sinha.\n\nNow at home, Mr Mukherjee is beginning a new life.\n\nHe is starting to walk again without help. Even some of his memories are returning.\n\nHe had been coughing for a few days before being taken to hospital, and had visited a doctor who had diagnosed it as a throat infection. He was still going to work, wearing a face mask, taking the poor and destitute off the streets. He had been visiting hospitals, police stations and shelter homes on work. He was skipping his diabetes medicines, which explained his steep blood glucose levels at the time of admission. He was taking antibiotics and inhaling nebulisers, as he would do when he had bouts of coughing every year when the seasons changed.\n\n\"But I felt something was amiss when he complained of dehydration and and began sleeping for hours at stretch. He was abnormally tired. And then he began to experience breathing difficulties and we put him in a wheel chair and took him to the hospital,\" says Mrs Mukherjee.\n\nLast week, Dr Sinha took a day off after 82 days in the intensive care, where the beds now are full of Covid-19 patients.\n\nMr Mukherjee went home on 8 May after more than a month in intensive care\n\nMore than 100 mobile phone pictures taken by her staff remind her and her team of their battle to save Mr Mukherjee: exhausted nurses in their claustrophobic protective gear slumped over the nursing station; the constant vigil near Mr Mukherjee's bed; the jubilation and relief on the day when the patient, smiling weakly, was taken off the ventilator and a picture of him leaving the hospital. \"We, as a team, were all doing our jobs, in the end,\" she says.\n\nMr Mukherjee is just grateful he's breathing on his own again.\n\n\"I know I fought the disease, but the doctors and nurses who fought the disease saved my life. Survivors need to tell their stories. The virulent virus can be defeated.\"", "Three front-line workers from London will star on the cover of British Vogue next month.\n\nA London Overground train driver, an east London midwife and a King's Cross supermarket worker will all feature on July's front page.\n\nPhotographer Jamie Hawkesworth captured the trio of women for a 20-page portfolio for the fashion magazine.\n\n\"They represent the millions of people in the UK who, at the height of the pandemic, put on their uniforms and went to help,\" Vogue's editor-in-chief Edward Enninful said.\n\n\"This moment in history required something extra special, a moment of thanks to the new front line.\"\n\nRachel Millar, 24, has worked as a community midwife at Homerton Hospital, in east London, for almost three years.\n\nShe was on shift on one of the delivery suites at the hospital when a team from Vogue came in to take portraits of numerous staff for what she believed was to be a feature on NHS staff.\n\nTalking to the BBC, Rachel, who lives in Leyton, described being on the cover of British Vogue as \"surreal\".\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed - but in a good way. I had no idea it would be what I now know it is,\" she said.\n\n\"I've had so many lovely comments about it and I think people have enjoyed seeing someone from the NHS on the cover.\n\n\"I feel it has given the NHS a lot of recognition and a lot of love to jobs that were perhaps previously overlooked.\"\n\nNarguis Horsford, who has worked for Transport for London for 10 years and driven London Overground trains for the past five, said her manager called her to ask if she would like to do an interview for the magazine.\n\n\"At first I thought he was winding me up,\" she said. \"But it later turned out to be very real.\"\n\nNarguis, who lives Bounds Green, north London, said: \"I feel amazing to be representing the female front-line key workers.\n\n\"It's very important to highlight the hard work and contributions that we do to keep London moving and to provide services that everyone needs.\n\n\"NHS workers are obviously very important, but it's also good to highlight other workers in other sectors.\"\n\nNargius said she initially felt anxious going to work during the coronavirus outbreak but has since gone on to feel an immense sense of pride.\n\n\"I am proud to be a key worker and proud to be a train driver, taking those important workers to work.\"\n\nAlso featuring on the cover is Anisa Omar, who works as supermarket assistant at the London King's Cross branch of Waitrose.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who lives in Islington with her parents, said the pandemic has given her a new sense of pride in her work.\n\n\"My job was not something that was that big of a deal before,\" she said.\n\n\"But now it's like we're important. We have to be here, regardless of what's happening in the world. It's more than just a job now.\"\n\nThe full feature will be available in the July issue of British Vogue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Portugal's foreign minister has said anyone in the UK thinking of going to Portugal this summer will be \"most welcome\" amid coronavirus.\n\nAugusto Santos Silva said he hoped an air bridge between the UK and Portugal could be secured by the end of June.\n\nThe UK is set to give more details of its plan to force arrivals into quarantine for 14 days later.\n\nUK Home Secretary Priti Patel will say air bridges to countries with low virus infection rates are possible in future.\n\nThis would mean that people arriving from certain places will not have to self-isolate.\n\nHowever, that will only apply to countries with low Covid-19 infection rates, she is expected to tell MPs. She will also say that the planned quarantine for arrivals is necessary \"to prevent a second wave of the virus\".\n\nMeanwhile, Heathrow boss John Holland-Kaye has told BBC Breakfast that travellers will have to fill out details of where they will be staying to quarantine, when they book their flight.\n\nHe said there will then be \"spot checks\" within the immigration area, where the Border Force officers will check if people have filled out their form.\n\n\"All of the form-filling will take place before you get on a plane, and will be done online. The government will be able to check information before people get onto a plane,\" he said.\n\nSome countries have already started to ease travel restrictions. The German foreign minister Heiko Maas said the country would lift a travel ban for EU countries, as well as the UK and a handful of others - as long as they do not have large-scale lockdowns in place.\n\nHowever, Germany will advise against travel to Britain for as long as the UK government demands a 14-day quarantine for new arrivals.\n\nPortugal's Mr Santos Silva told the BBC that an agreement between the UK and Portugal could be in place by the end of June, meaning that holidaymakers returning to the UK from Portugal would escape the quarantine rules.\n\nHe said any travel quarantine \"was an enemy of tourism\", but that he respected the UK government's decision to enforce one on almost all arrivals to the UK from next Monday.\n\nMr Santos Silva said \"rules\" would ensure that people would be able to holiday safely.\n\nThe minister suggested that nightlife in Portuguese resorts this summer would be very limited and people would not be allowed to congregate in groups at night.\n\nHe said hotels and apartments which comply with standards set by the tourism board would be labelled as \"clean and safe\".\n\nPortugal's foreign minister confirmed talks on the matter were continuing with the UK.\n\nBut he insisted that Portugal would not impose any type of quarantine for people arriving in his country.\n\nInstead, he said Portugal would rely on temperature checks at airports and that Portugal was, in coordination with other EU countries, considering carrying out \"random testing\" on passengers.\n\nMr Santos Silva said tourists would be warned how full beaches are, so that they could avoid crowded spots.\n\nUK aviation bosses hope that a large number of air bridge agreements will be in place by 29 June, when the travel quarantine is set to be reviewed.\n\nMore tourists from the UK head to the Algarve each summer than from any other country.\n\nBut Spain, another country whose tourism sector relies heavily on British holidaymakers, is taking a different approach.\n\nThe Spanish government has said it will only allow UK tourists in this summer if the infection rate in the UK falls more significantly.\n\nThe UK travel quarantine will apply to people arriving from any country, apart from the Republic of Ireland, and will also apply to UK nationals.\n\nPeople will be required to self-isolate in a private residence for two weeks.\n\nThe government says people \"could be contacted regularly during this period to ensure compliance\".\n\nPeople who break the rules could be fined £1,000.\n\nUK travel companies say the travel quarantine already means people are not booking holidays. They warn that more businesses in the sector now face financial ruin.\n\nThe measure will be reviewed every three weeks.\n\nWhen deciding whether to keep the quarantine in place, the government will consider several factors. They include:\n\nA growing list of Conservative MPs have spoken out against the blanket travel quarantine.\n\nHowever, a YouGov poll of 1,565 adults in Great Britain suggests that there is public support.\n\n63% of those surveyed thought people should be quarantined as per the government's plan.\n\nAbout one quarter thought that the quarantine should only apply to people arriving from countries with a \"high number of coronavirus cases\". Only 4% thought that there should be no quarantine at all.\n\nLabour has questioned why a travel quarantine was not introduced some weeks ago.\n\nNew figures show that between the beginning of January and the end of April, 14,225 flights arrived into UK airports.", "Some schools have remained open for the families of key workers\n\nSchools would need about three weeks to prepare for a phased return, according to First Minister Mark Drakeford.\n\nIn an interview on The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Drakeford mentioned June as an example of when some children could go back to school.\n\nBut this has caused confusion, according to a teaching union.\n\nNAHT Cymru said: \"At no point has June been mentioned in talks between Welsh Government and trade unions.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government also clarified that no decision had been made on when schools would partially reopen.\n\nSome schools have been closed for six weeks, although others have been open for the children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nOn Tuesday, Education Minister Kirsty Williams said there would be \"a phased approach in allowing more pupils to return to school\".\n\nSpeaking on the Marr programme, the first minister gave more detail, saying: \"We are thinking about ways in which we can bring young people with special educational needs back in to education.\n\n\"We're thinking about particular year groups, Year 6 children in primary schools, children going up to secondary school this September.\"\n\n\"We have a bilingual education system here in Wales.\n\n\"Children who are learning through the medium of Welsh and who may not have Welsh spoken at home, do we need to get those children back in to education sooner?\n\n\"Those are the sort of things we are working on at the moment,\" he added.\n\nOn the issue of when schools in Wales might partially reopen, Mr Drakeford said: \"Our advice from the trades unions and from the local education authorities is that we will need three weeks as a minimum from the point that we decide to do that to when schools can reopen, so we are talking about the beginning of June there.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales after the programme, Mr Drakeford said he was using June as an example: \"If we make the decision to return next week then the return to school will be in June.\"\n\nBut he stressed that no decision had been made.\n\nIn an interview on the BBC's Politics Wales programme, Counsel General Jeremy Miles said: \"We're not saying it's the start of June.\n\n\"We're saying there needs to be a lead in time so that schools and local education authorities can adjust to that.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTeaching union NAHT Cymru tweeted that \"at no point has June been mentioned in talks\" between Welsh Government and unions.\n\n\"Speculation on dates is unhelpful,\" it said.\n\nIt went on to say that the \"profession must be at the heart of reopening decisions - the health and wellbeing of staff and pupils is paramount\".\n\nEithne Hughes, director of the Association of School and College Leaders Cymru, said: \"We would caution against fixing a date in stone at this stage, and to make sure the conditions are right first of all.\n\n\"We are happy to plan towards a proposed date, but we would urge that it is clearly stated from the outset that it is moveable if more time is needed.\n\n\"We welcome the thought and care that the Welsh Government is putting into the reopening of schools.\n\n\"And we agree that the only realistic approach to doing this while sustaining social distancing is through a phased approach, in which certain groups of children are brought in first,\" she added.", "The Prince of Wales has said he \"got away with it quite lightly\" when he contracted coronavirus at the beginning of the UK's epidemic in March.\n\nPrince Charles, 71, self-isolated after testing positive for the virus and only experienced mild symptoms.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, he said: \"I was lucky in my case... but I've had it, and I can so understand what other people have gone through.\"\n\nHe expressed sympathy with those who had lost family or friends.\n\n\"I feel particularly for those who have lost their loved ones and have been unable to be with them at the time. That, to me, is the most ghastly thing,\" the prince said.\n\n\"But in order to prevent this happening to so many more people, I'm so determined to find a way out of this.\"\n\nPrince Charles, who is the heir to the throne, recovered from coronavirus after spending his seven days of quarantine at his Birkhall home on the royal Balmoral estate. The Duchess of Cornwall, 72, was tested and did not have the virus.\n\nHe said: \"I can't tell you how much I sympathise with the way that everyone has had to endure with this unbelievably testing and challenging time.\"\n\nThe prince said the experience made him more determined to \"push and shout and prod\" as he called for nature to return to the \"centre of our economy\".\n\n\"Before this, nature has just been pushed to the peripheries, we've exploited and dug up and cut down everything as if there was no tomorrow, as if it doesn't matter.\"\n\nWithout learning from the pandemic, he said we may face a similar threat in future: \"The more we erode the natural world, the more we destroy biodiversity, the more we expose ourselves to this kind of danger.\n\n\"We've had these other disasters with Sars and Ebola and goodness knows what else, all of these things are related to the loss of biodiversity. So we have to find a way this time to put nature back at the centre.\"\n\nHe calls it - perhaps rather hopefully - \"the Great Reset\": a great opportunity to seize something good from this crisis.\n\nPrince Charles is not the only environmental voice out there; from those marvelling at the sound of birdsong these past few months, to those urging a shift to sustainable transport, there is a green wave that the prince is surfing.\n\nThe prince is no mere follower of fashion; he has (as he once put it in a broadcast chat with his son Prince Harry) been \"banging on\" about the environment for more than four decades now.\n\nIt means his words on the subject are often dismissed as same-old, same-old.\n\nBut there is new urgency in this interview, and a bluntness; catastrophes, he says, concentrate the mind. The current generation and those that have come before have, he says, acted as if there is no tomorrow.\n\nAnd there is controversy. Not everyone sees the planet as a sick patient in need of care.\n\nOthers, charged with the herculean task of restoring shattered economies, will have to grapple with trade-offs around environmental protection and quickly getting people back into jobs.\n\nPrince Charles has mellowed with age; no longer does he toss policy hand grenades into the public sphere.\n\nBut on the future of the earth his passion still burns bright. And it is clear that he believes a moment has arrived when change is possible; he is determined to try and drive that change.", "HR professional Angela Russell and her partner Steve have decided that despite coronavirus, they will be flying to Montenegro on 5 July.\n\nThey're only going for a week's holiday, but the prospect of having to spend two weeks in quarantine on their return doesn't bother them.\n\n\"I have become totally fed up with all the bad news and how the government is dealing with issues,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm prepared to put up with quarantine just to get away from here for a bit.\"\n\nThe couple will be holidaying with a friend of Angela's who has terminal cancer, accompanied by her husband. \"She had planned to do a lot of travelling this year and until now, all her plans have been kiboshed.\"\n\nThe four have booked to fly with Jet2, which plans to resume its flight programme on 1 July.\n\nA number of other airlines and tour operators have announced similar plans.\n\nRyanair and Tui are also due to restart services from the beginning of July, while EasyJet is taking to the skies again from 15 June.\n\nBritish Airways has said it will launch \"a meaningful return to service\" in July, while Virgin Atlantic has said flights will not resume until August.\n\nHowever, at the moment, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is still advising against all non-essential foreign travel, with no indication of when the policy might change.\n\nA spokesperson for Jet2 said the firm always followed FCO guidelines and was \"reviewing the situation on a daily basis\".\n\nJet2 declined to give any details of the level of bookings over the next few months, describing it as \"commercially sensitive information\". The BBC has approached other airlines and holiday firms for comment.\n\nOne airline that does seem to be confident about the future is budget carrier Wizz Air, which said on Wednesday that it was still planning to take delivery of new aircraft.\n\n\"Whatever we can fly, we're going to be flying, because we've seen that there is actually demand out there,\" said the airline's chief executive, Jozsef Varadi.\n\nAngela, who lives in Wales, is semi-retired and now works just one day a week, which she can easily do from home if forced to self-isolate. She points out that Montenegro is \"pretty much coronavirus-free\" .\n\n\"I've spent my life assessing risk, either in work or in my daily life,\" she says. \"The only risk is that we might pick it up at the airport.\"\n\nShe adds: \"My fear is that Montenegro will say, 'We don't want to let people in from the UK, because you don't seem to manage it very well.'\n\n\"But I feel it's imperative now that we support the travel industry. We have to take a pragmatic approach to how we do things.\"\n\nAnother hopeful holidaymaker is Robert Jenkins, of Bedwas in south Wales, who usually goes abroad four or five times a year with his wife Barbara. \"We're retired and travelling is very important to us,\" he told the BBC.\n\nRobert Jenkins hopes to fly to Greece later this year\n\nRobert and Barbara are hedging their bets, with not one, but two trips booked between now and the end of the year.\n\nThe couple are due to fly with EasyJet to Malaga in Spain on 1 July and to the Greek island of Kos on 12 September.\n\nBut Robert says he is poised to cancel the Spanish trip, because \"the FCO still hasn't given the go-ahead and I don't know if I'll be insured\".\n\nHe is also worried by the Spanish tourism minister's remarks this week that British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before Spain can receive tourists from the UK.\n\n\"I'm really hoping Greece will go ahead. We've gone to the same resort for 20 years and we are on first-name terms with the people in the village we stay at,\" he says.\n\n\"But it's all up in the air. Things are changing day by day.\"\n\nAnyone considering booking an overseas holiday needs to find their balance on a financial tightrope.\n\nAs always, if you book on a flight which is subsequently cancelled, you should be refunded, although millions of people have already found that can be a slow, and still unresolved process.\n\nBooking a package holiday also offers financial protection if it is later cancelled owing to a second wave of the virus or current restrictions being extended.\n\nInsurance is more complex. Travelling against Foreign Office advice, which is still that anything but essential travel should be avoided, would invalidate existing insurance. That has implications for claiming the cost of accommodation, car hire and so on, but also medical care.\n\nWe still do not know when that advice will be lifted. It is under review.\n\nThose buying a new insurance policy - irrespective of the travel advice - will often find that it will not cover you for coronavirus-related issues, such as having to cancel a break because you have been told to self-isolate.", "Protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis have spread across the US and to other countries. They've been documented in videos, images and posts on social media.\n\nBut some of these aren't what they claim to be. The BBC's anti-disinformation team has been tracking misleading videos and conspiracy theories about the protests, which have been circulating online.\n\nSo, here's what to look out for - and avoid - on your social media feeds.\n\nRumours that the protests have been set up with potential projectiles handed out to agitators have gained traction, with thousands of posts referencing \"bricks\" on social media.\n\nSeveral videos that show piles of bricks along with claims that they were planted by police or the government have been watched by millions of people.\n\nOther posts pin the blame on Antifa - the left-wing group President Trump has accused of promoting the disturbances.\n\nHowever, there's no evidence so far to suggest foul play, nor that the protests have been somehow pre-planned.\n\nMost of the videos and images we've seen don't look particularly suspicious - it's not uncommon to see piles of bricks near building sites.\n\nResponding to a video suggesting bricks had been deliberately placed to escalate protests, San Francisco police said on Twitter \"pallets are affiliated with a construction site and (we) have contacted the contractor to have them removed.\"\n\nOne police department in Boston hit back at misleading claims about a viral video of its officers unloading bricks from a van.\n\nSuggestions had been made on social media that the officers were unloading bricks from a vehicle \"to use them as an excuse\" against protesters.\n\nHowever, Boston's Northeastern University Police Department has tweeted that the officers had collected them \"from a damaged brick sidewalk\" and taken them back to the station as they were posing a safety hazard to pedestrians.\n\nAnother viral video from Fayetteville, North Carolina that has racked up over a million views shows a pile of bricks in the vicinity of protests as a man says there is \"no construction\" site in the area.\n\nWe've been able to geolocate the video and found images from 24 May with the same pile of bricks in the same place, long before any protests took place.\n\nIn other cases, old images of piles of bricks have been re-shared of previous demonstrations elsewhere, such as from the protests in Hong Kong last year.\n\nWe've seen lots of examples of old video surfacing in recent days.\n\nAmong many genuine videos of brutal arrests, one that went viral yesterday was not what it seemed. The dramatic video shows a man being arrested then released by police once they'd checked his ID.\n\nA post claiming the man in the video is an \"FBI agent\" has been viewed over 4 million times on Twitter. This claim was repeated on Facebook and Instagram by others sharing the video, where it racked up millions more views.\n\nIn response, Rochester Minnesota Police Department put out a statement clarifying that the man is not a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent. The incident took place in June last year, when he was mistaken for a wanted man.\n\nThe original post of the video on Instagram includes a caption which stated the video was from the year before, and contains no mention of the FBI.\n\nA video of a teenager being violently arrested by a US police officer has generated almost 10 million views in the last few days.\n\nBut the incident happened back in April - in Rancho Cordova, a city in Northern California. This wasn't made clear in the latest post that has been retweeted more than 100,000 times. It also wrongly identifies the teenager as female.\n\nThe clip attracted widespread criticism at the time.\n\nMeanwhile, there is footage from the current protests which has led to allegations of police brutality.\n\nVideo from the US shows police using batons and tear gas on protesters and journalists seemingly unprovoked.\n\nThis video claims to show a US police building on fire and was posted on 28 May.\n\nIt's not only old - it's from 2015 - it was filmed in another country. It shows an explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin.\n\nSo, why are people sharing old videos?\n\n\"The videos may be compounding the anger they are feeling and could be driven by attempts to sow division or get clicks,\" says Marianna Spring, BBC Specialist Disinformation and Social Media reporter.\n\nSpeculation about who's behind the protests have been circulating online.\n\nSome claims are unsubstantiated, others totally false.\n\nFirst up, posts that have gone viral about George Soros.\n\nSome influential right-wing figures have made unfounded claims that the Hungarian-American billionaire is \"funding\" the demonstrations.\n\nSupporters of QAnon - a conspiracy theory about a \"deep state\" secret coup against Donald Trump - have shared similar claims.\n\nMore than a million posts and memes online have repeated allegations about Mr Soros paying agitators.\n\nMr Soros, whose Open Society Foundations provide financial support to a number of civil society groups and progressive projects around the world, has been a bogeyman of some on the right for a long time.\n\nHis organisation has responded to the latest posts, tweeting that \"Mr. Soros and the Open Society Foundations oppose all violence and do not pay people to protest\".\n\nClaims have circulated online about Russia's involvement in the protests.\n\nViral tweets with thousands of shares suggest that Russia was involved in George Floyd's death - as part of a military operation or an elaborate plot. There is no evidence to support these claims.\n\nThis isn't to rule out the idea that Russia or other countries - either through state media outlets or networks of fake accounts - could be involved in stoking tensions online.\n\nInvestigations into Russian interference during the 2016 US Presidential election revealed that Russia was involved in a misinformation campaign, infiltrating groups and pages run by US activists - and that included Black Lives Matter groups.", "A classroom ready in England for when pupils start returning on Monday\n\nAn idea to bring forward school summer holidays was a \"non-starter\", a teaching union said.\n\nThe Welsh Government mooted the option as it considers how to reopen schools.\n\nThe National Education Union (NEU), said it would have meant a 20-week autumn term but opposition parties believe it should still be looked at.\n\nA government source said it was \"a sensible and workable option\" but \"recognised and respected\" unions were not in favour.\n\nThe proposal would have seen the six-week summer holiday begin near the end of June, with the new school year beginning early August.\n\nBBC Wales has been told the rationale included:\n\nPlaid Cymru said the idea should be \"explored further.\"\n\nThe Brexit Party said \"union diktat\" was stopping pupils returning to school.\n\nOn BBC Radio Wales, NEU Cymru secretary, David Evans, said: \"It would mean there would be a 20-week term in the autumn with just a one-week break in the middle for the teachers.\"\n\nHe said it would mean breaking summer arrangements and there would be \"contractual issues\".\n\n\"By the time you put all that together the complicating factors just mean it's a non-starter,\"Mr Evans said.\n\nIn England, some pupils will return on Monday.\n\nIn Scotland, where the summer holiday is earlier, pupils will return on 11 August.\n\nPlaid Cymru education spokeswoman, Sian Gwenllian, said the idea should be explored\n\nSuzy Davies MS, Conservative education spokeswoman, said the two main considerations were teachers not losing their summer break and that pupils' time away from school was not \"a second longer than necessary\".\n\n\"I'm disappointed that the door appears to have closed so firmly on bringing a full summer holiday period forward by even a week,\" she said. \"I am speaking to the unions this week anyway and look forward to hearing their reasoning.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian MS, said bringing the holidays forward should continue to be examined.\n\n\"A phased and gradual re-opening of schools could then start in August, if it is safe to do so,\" she said.\n\nBrexit Party Senedd leader, Mark Reckless, said: \"The desire of parents and pupils to get back to school is ignored due to union diktat.\n\n\"Starting the autumn term in early August would minimise disruption to kids' learning.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was working with unions, councils, scientists and head teachers.\n\n\"The minister intends to update further next week,\" a spokesman said.", "Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the UK and Sweden remain on the country's \"banned list\" of destinations for visitors from the Netherlands, because of the risk of contracting coronavirus.\n\nRutte told reporters: \"The message is, we do not want British people and Swedes here at the moment. If they do come, they will have to go into quarantine for two weeks.\"\n\nFrom June 15, people from the Netherlands can visit 12 countries, including Germany, Belgium, Italy, Croatia and the Dutch ABC islands in the Caribbean.\n\nThe decision was determined by the level of containment and infection that exists in each country.\n\n\"The health risks have to be the same as they are here,\" he said.\n\nOther European nations, such as Spain and France, will be added to the list of countries if they formally lift restrictions on tourists from the Netherlands.\n\nA colour code has been put in place to identify which nations are allowed. Countries that have imposed quarantine on people from the Netherlands – such as Denmark – will also remain on the orange list where travel should be avoided, but their residents will be allowed to enter the Netherlands.\n\nBeyond the EU, the travel guidance advises only essential journeys and everyone who takes such trips will have to go into quarantine for two weeks on their return. The public health institute will monitor and possibly modify the recommendations every week.\n\nThe Dutch have been asked to avoid travel during peak season where possible.", "Up to 3,000 jobs are at risk after one of the country's biggest restaurant operators decided as many as 120 outlets will not reopen after lockdown, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie & Benny's and Garfunkels, has about 600 outlets across the UK, with about 22,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIt is understood that Frankie & Benny's will bear the brunt of the closures.\n\nThe company, which declined to comment, was due to inform staff on Wednesday,\n\nIn an email to managers seen by the BBC on Tuesday, the company said: \"Many sites are no longer viable to trade and will remain closed permanently.\n\n\"The Covid-19 crisis has significantly impacted our ability to trade profitably, so we've taken the tough decision to close these restaurants now.\"\n\nThe group appears to be speeding up previous plans to shut restaurants as trade suffers due to the pandemic.\n\nThe email was sent to managers in the group's Leisure Division, which includes more than 200 Frankie & Benny's outlets.\n\nIt is not clear which outlets will be shut, or exactly how many, but BBC was told on Wednesday that up to 120 are at risk.\n\nThe group also owns the Wagamama chain and some pub units. Wagamama is not part of the division which received the email and the vast majority of its restaurants are expected to reopen.\n\nThe Restaurant Group said in March that 61 out of 80 branches of its Tex-Mex dining chain Chiquito's would remain closed permanently as it fell into administration.\n\nIt cited the Covid-19 outbreak as having had \"an immediate and significant impact on trading\".\n\nHowever, the group had already announced in February, prior to the introduction of lockdown measures, that it would speed up existing plans to close restaurants.\n\nInitially it had planned to make 150 closures - which were first signalled in 2019 - over a six-year period. It then said it would close 90 restaurants by the end of 2021.\n\n\"I feel completely overwhelmed and upset,\" says Georgia. She has been working as a part-time waitress at one Frankie & Benny's outlet since last April.\n\n\"I'm angry, as they feel as though staff are disposable,\" she says, adding that the lack of certainty around work amid lockdown has created mental stress.\n\n\"I just can't believe that they would send that kind of message to managers without any warning,\" she adds.\n\nThe group had already seen sales falling across many outlets. That came despite stronger revenues across the wider group in its Wagamamas and pub units.\n\nIt said in February that like-for-like sales - which strip out new restaurant openings - in the division that includes Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito, fell by 2.8% in 2019.\n\nMany casual dining chains had already been struggling in the face of rising overheads and falling consumer spending.\n\nBut those in the hospitality sector have seen their problems worsen due to the coronavirus pandemic, as customers have been forced to stay at home amid lockdown.\n\nCarluccio's, for example, was bought out of administration by the owner of Giraffe restaurants.\n\nDespite its rescue, more than 1,000 jobs will be lost at the Italian restaurant chain, more than half of its total workforce. The administrators said the lockdown meant difficult decisions had to be taken.\n\nRestrictions aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 forced most cafes and restaurants to close in March, but some have since reopened as takeaways only.\n\nWhen lockdown was initially announced in March, trade association UK Hospitality said it was \"catastrophic for businesses and jobs\".\n\nIts chief executive Kate Nicholls warned at the time that the measures could \"lead to thousands of businesses closing their doors for good, and hundreds of thousands of job losses\".\n\nPubs, restaurants, hairdressers, hotels, cinemas and places of worship will be allowed to open from 4 July at the earliest in England, if they can meet social distancing measures.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said the advice was \"the same as to everybody but with more emphasis\"\n\nPeople from ethnic minorities are at a higher risk of dying from coronavirus, a report by Public Health England says.\n\nIt shows age remains the biggest risk factor, while being male is another.\n\nThe impact of Covid-19 is also \"disproportionate\" for other Asian, Caribbean and black ethnicities. But it remains unclear why.\n\nA trade union for doctors said the report was a \"missed opportunity\" for \"action\" to be taken to protect health workers who are from ethnic minorities.\n\nThe health secretary said the \"troubling\" report was \"timely\" because \"right across the world people are angry about racial injustice\".\n\nOn Monday night, the Department of Health and Social Care denied reports the delay was down to official concerns of potential civil unrest linked to global anger over the death of African-American George Floyd.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the public was \"understandably angry about injustices\" and that he felt a \"deep responsibility because this pandemic has exposed huge disparities in the health of our nation\".\n\n\"Black lives matter, as do those of the poorest areas of our country which have worse health outcomes and we need to make sure all of these considerations are taken into account, and action is taken to level-up the health outcomes of people across this country,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, Mr Hancock said \"much more work\" needed to be done to understand \"what's driving these disparities\".\n\n\"We are absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this and find ways of closing this gap,\" he said, adding that he has asked equalities minister Kemi Badenoch to continue working on the issue alongside Public Health England (PHE).\n\nThe BBC's Rianna Croxford pressed Mr Hancock on whether there were any specific recommendations for people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nHe said everyone in \"the different high risk categories\" highlighted in the report should follow social distancing guidelines \"very stringently\".\n\nProf John Newton said although the virus was having a worse impact on black and minority ethnic people, \"that is not necessarily because of their ethnicity\" and could instead be related to their job, for example.\n\nHe said the report's findings needed to be \"widely discussed before deciding exactly what needs to be done\".\n\n\"The report if nothing else emphasises the complexity of what we're seeing, so really we're urging people not to jump to conclusions and institute measures which are not really justified by the data,\" he added.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said \"lives depend on\" finding out why the virus disproportionately impacts black and minority ethnic people, and what actions the government was taking to stop it.\n\nDavida Wilkins, a 38-year-old district nurse in the West Midlands, told the BBC she felt \"even more anxious\" about doing her job following the report's publication.\n\nShe said she felt \"obligated\" to continue her front-line role but added she cannot minimise the risks posed to her by the virus because \"it's the colour that I am and I can't change it\".\n\nA large proportion of NHS doctors are from an ethnic minority background\n\nThe rapid review was launched when it became clear that some people were getting more sick with coronavirus than others.\n\nPHE reviewed thousands of existing health records and other virus data to look at disparities by:\n\nIt is not possible to combine all of these factors together to judge an individual's risk because of the way the source data is recorded, but the data does reveal clear inequalities.\n\nThe analysis on ethnicity and risk did not consider a person's occupation or obesity, even though both are known risk factors for getting seriously ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe government had been under pressure to publish the findings of this inquiry. It was due to be released by the end of May.\n\nNow it's here, it's not clear why there was a delay. The main findings reinforce what we already know - that belonging to an ethnic minority group is a major risk factor.\n\nIt doesn't move us forward in answering why, though.\n\nThe report acknowledges an important flaw in the analysis - it couldn't factor in important risks, such as a person's job and underlying health conditions, that increase the chance of dying with coronavirus. Where you live and how much you earn are important considerations too.\n\nDeath rates for people living in the most deprived areas of England were more than double the least deprived areas.\n\nThe report says coronavirus has replicated and in some cases increased existing health inequalities. It doesn't mention how to address those to save more lives.\n\nIt acknowledges that more work is needed to understand and advise people about the risks.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the report for not providing recommendations for at-risk groups, adding that the virus \"thrives on inequality\" and \"inequality thrives on inaction\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP for Battersea Marsha de Cordova said the report was \"notably silent\" on how risks amplified by \"racial and health inequalities\" could be reduced.\n\nShe said the government \"must act immediately\" to mitigate the risks \"so that no more lives are lost\".\n\nWhile Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy said families \"are living in fear\" and the government \"must take urgent action to protect at-risk groups\".\n\nGill Walton, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, said while the report's conclusions were \"helpful... it does nothing to protect people\". She said \"clear guidance and support\" from the government should be given to help the NHS tackle the risk to workers.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing pointed out that health care staff from black and ethnic minority groups faced an increased risk from the virus and that \"swift and comprehensive action\" was needed to protect workers.\n\nWhile the council chair of the BMA, the doctors' trade union, said the report was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\n\"The BMA and the wider community were hoping for a clear action plan to tackle the issues, not a re-iteration of what we already know. We need practical guidance,\" Dr Chaand Nagpaul said.\n\nThe equality watchdog says the government should produce a \"comprehensive race equality strategy\" in response to the report.\n\nRebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: \"People are more than statistics, and we cannot afford to ignore the broader context of entrenched race inequality across all areas of life. Only a comprehensive race equality strategy will address these issues.\"\n\nLatest government figures show 39,369 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, with an increase of 324 deaths on Monday's figures. There were 1,613 new positive cases recorded in the past day.\n• None Why are more BAME people dying from coronavirus?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma is self-isolating at home after becoming unwell in Parliament.\n\nMr Sharma looked uncomfortable while taking part in a debate on Wednesday, mopping his brow several times with his handkerchief while speaking.\n\nA spokesman said the MP for Reading West had been tested for coronavirus and had returned home.\n\nWhile it is unknown if Mr Sharma has the virus, it has added to the row over virtual proceedings in Parliament.\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament - with additional motions due later to allow members who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy.\n\nBut critics have said the motions do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nLabour's shadow leader of the House, Valerie Vaz, said Parliament had been brought into \"disrepute\" and stopping the so-called hybrid proceedings was \"putting people's lives at risk\" - calling for virtual measures to be in place until the R number had gone down and the government's alert level had fallen.\n\nBut Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\".\n\nHe added: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael is expected to apply for an emergency debate later on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic.\n\nMr Sharma was pictured in Downing Street on Tuesday, and took part in votes in the Commons later that day.\n\nOn Wednesday, he was in the Commons chamber for nearly an hour while leading for the government on the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.\n\nA spokesman for the business secretary said on Wednesday: \"Alok Sharma began feeling unwell when in the Chamber delivering the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.\n\n\"In line with guidance he has been tested for coronavirus and is returning home to self isolate.\"\n\nIt's important to highlight that we don't know for sure whether the business secretary has coronavirus.\n\nHowever, a potential case is causing real anger at Westminster.\n\nSenior opposition figures say it shows the government was wrong to scrap a hybrid model which allowed MPs to contribute and vote remotely.\n\nThere are concerns some MPs didn't maintain social distancing rules in lengthy voting queues. Others fear they could become super spreaders, taking the virus back to their constituencies if there is an outbreak.\n\nIf Mr Sharma did test positive, anyone he had spent more than 15 minutes within two metres of would have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nMr Miliband subsequently sent his best wishes to Mr Sharma for a quick recovery.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" had taken place, following the debate.\n\nAnd the BBC's chief political correspondent Vicki Young said the MP who had sat nearest to Mr Sharma during his statement insisted that social distancing protocols had been observed throughout.\n\nAlthough it is not yet known if Mr Sharma has contracted coronavirus, if his test comes back positive, the government advice is for his \"close contacts\" to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThose who count as close contacts are either:\n\nMr Sharma was one of hundreds of MPs who queued around the building on Tuesday at two metre intervals as the Commons introduced new temporary voting procedures.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Nick Watt said talks were at an \"advanced stage\" to change the temporary system, instead allowing MPs to vote by swiping their parliamentary passes in the normal voting lobbies.\n\nBut while it would be quicker than the system used this week - which saw votes take up to 46 minutes - it would not be as fast as the usual system, which sees votes completed in around 15 minutes.\n\nMPs are supposed to be queuing two metres apart - but some are wondering whether the rules were properly observed\n\nWhile the number of MPs permitted to sit in the chamber is still limited, many MPs are unhappy about being forced to return to Westminster, saying it poses a risk to them and their constituents.\n\nOthers are concerned MPs will be forced to expose the personal situations of them and their families in order to fit the criteria to be allowed to participate virtually.\n\nThe SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsty Blackman, said she sent her best wishes to Mr Sharma, but added: \"It demonstrates just how ridiculous and irresponsible the Tory government's decision to end virtual participation in Parliament was.\n\n\"They must now rectify this serious mistake and reintroduce hybrid proceedings without delay.\"\n\nBut Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"premature\" to use Mr Sharma as the case to support keeping virtual proceedings, as his results have not even come back yet.\n\nLabour MP Karl Turner said he had asked the Health and Safety Executive to conduct an urgent risk assessment of working conditions in Parliament.\n\nHe said MPs having to \"huddle together\" on escalators on the parliamentary estate while lining up to vote were among a number of \"unsafe practices\".\n\nThe HSE said it was aware of the letter and would \"respond in due course\", adding: \"While we have no jurisdiction at the Palace of Westminster, all places of work are expected to adhere to the government's working safely guidelines.\"\n\nThere have also been issues in committee rooms, with members not being able to sit around the tables and still keep to social distancing rule.\n\nAt the start of the Domestic Abuse Bill Committee, it's chair, Tory MP Peter Bone, said some members were having to sit in the public gallery away from the microphones, meaning they could not be recorded so could not contribute.\n\nThe Westminster leader of Plaid Cymru, Liz Saville Roberts - who sits on the committee - called it a \"shambles\", adding: \"Westminster isn't working.\"", "Google has been sued in the US over claims it illegally invades the privacy of users by tracking people even when they are browsing in \"private mode\".\n\nThe class action wants at least $5bn (£4bn) from Google and owner Alphabet.\n\nMany internet users assume their search history isn't being tracked when they view in private mode, but Google says this isn't the case.\n\nThe search engine denies this is illegal and says it is upfront about the data it collects in this mode.\n\nThe proposed class action likely includes \"millions\" of Google users who since 1 June 2016 browsed the internet in private mode according to law firm Boies Schiller Flexner who filed the claim on Tuesday in federal court in San Jose, California.\n\nIncognito mode within Google's Chrome browser gives users the choice to search the internet without their activity being saved to the browser or device. But the websites visited can use tools such as Google Analytics to track usage.\n\nThe complaint says that Google \"cannot continue to engage in the covert and unauthorized data collection from virtually every American with a computer or phone\".\n\nVigorously denying the claims Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said: \"As we clearly state each time you open a new incognito tab, websites might be able to collect information about your browsing activity\".\n\nThe search engine says the collection of search history, even in private viewing mode, helps site owners \"better evaluate the performance of their content, products, marketing and more.\"\n\nWhile private browsing has been available from Google for some time, Boies Schiller Flexner said it recently decided to represent three plaintiffs based in the US.\n\n\"People everywhere are becoming more aware (and concerned) that their personal communications are being intercepted, collected, recorded, or exploited for gain by technology companies they have come to depend on,\" it said in the filing.\n\nOne option is for visitors to install Google Analytics browser opt-out extension to disable measurement by Google Analytics, it says.", "There have been more than 279,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK and almost 40,000 people have lost their lives, government figures show.\n\nHowever, these numbers only include people who have been tested, and the total number of deaths relating to coronavirus is likely to be higher.\n\nThe UK has the highest official death toll in Europe and the second highest in the world. However, the government and many experts say it is too soon to make international comparisons.\n\nAlthough daily deaths have decreased, the downwards trend appears to have stalled in recent days.\n\nThe majority of the UK's deaths have been in England, with more than 35,000 so far - about 90% of the total for the UK.\n\nYou can get more details and statistics by clicking here.", "AG Ellison: US has under-prosecuted police killings in the past\n\nAttorney General Ellison ends the press conference by promising to \"hold everyone accountable for behaviour we can prove in court\". \"As the people who are legal professionals, professional prosecutors – we are taking our duty seriously, and we are working with the people who gather the facts, and we have done the work that we begin is possible, ethical and right.\" When asked about the lack of trust between the public and the authorities, he says: \"Our country has under-prosecuted these matters, in Minnesota and throughout the country.\" This, he says, is \"the origin of the trust problem\" - as \"people who have public guardians\" have not been held accountable in similar situations in the past. \"We can’t control the past – all we can do is take the case we have in front of us right now, and do our best to bring justice to the situation.\"", "Swedes have been told to maintain social distancing but there has been no lockdown\n\nSweden's controversial decision not to impose a strict lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic led to too many deaths, the man behind the policy, Anders Tegnell, has acknowledged.\n\nSweden has seen a far higher mortality rate than its nearest neighbours and its nationals are being barred from crossing their borders.\n\nDr Tegnell told Swedish radio more should have been done early on.\n\n\"There is quite obviously a potential for improvement in what we have done.\"\n\nSweden has counted 4,542 deaths and 40,803 infections in a population of 10 million, while Denmark, Norway and Finland have imposed lockdowns and seen far lower rates.\n\nDenmark has seen 580 deaths, Norway has had 237 deaths and Finland 321. Sweden reported a further 74 deaths on Wednesday.\n\nDr Tegnell, who is Sweden's state epidemiologist and in charge of the country's response to Covid-19, told BBC News in April that the high death toll was mainly because homes for the elderly had been unable to keep the disease out, although he emphasised that \"does not disqualify our strategy as a whole\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell argued in April that Sweden’s strategy is largely working\n\nNow he has told Swedish public radio: \"If we were to encounter the same disease again, knowing exactly what we know about it today, I think we would settle on doing something in between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world has done.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How Sweden is keeping its pubs and bars open\n\nWhen asked if too many people had died too soon, Dr Tegnell said, \"Yes, absolutely.\"\n\nHowever, he was unclear what Sweden should have done differently and at a press conference later on Wednesday later he underlined that \"we basically still think that is the right strategy for Sweden\".\n\nTrying to guide the response was rather like steering an ocean liner, as every measure took three or four weeks to work its way through.\n\nWhile Sweden's approach had been to increase its response step by step, other countries had imposed immediate lockdowns and gradually reopened, he said.\n\nHe warned it was too early to say whether the lockdowns had worked or not. \"We know from history during the last three or four months that this disease has a very high capacity to start spreading again.\"\n\nAlthough there was no lockdown, Sweden relied on voluntary social distancing, banning gatherings of more than 50 people and halting visits to elderly care homes.\n\nNon-essential travel is still not recommended under national guidelines, but journeys of up to two hours are allowed to see relatives or close friends as long as they do not involve visits to local shops and mixing with other residents.\n\nDenmark's lockdown restrictions were among the first in Europe to be lifted\n\nAs Denmark and Norway have begun opening up again, there has been growing criticism of Sweden's response, both inside the country and among its neighbours.\n\nNorway's public health chief Frode Forland said Sweden had focused too much on historical models of viruses, while its neighbours preferred lockdown measures.\n\nSweden's former state epidemiologist Annika Linde believes Sweden got its response wrong and should have focused on three things:\n\nAccording to Swedish media, Dr Tegnell and his family were subjected to threats by email last month.", "The US president announces he is deploying the military to quell unrest in Washington, DC.", "Iwan Steffan, Sara James, and Mared Parry all use cosmetic beauty treatments - but Mared has welcomed the break lockdown has brought\n\n\"Not being able to have treatments has really affected my mental health negatively.\"\n\nIwan Steffan relies on cosmetic treatments such as Botox injections and facial fillers to look and feel good.\n\nThe 30-year-old is also one of those who has been unable to get cosmetic treatments during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nBut those missing out are being warned they risk fines - and their health - if they access treatments illegally.\n\n\"For me, looking good and feeling good is essential,\" said Iwan, who hails from Bangor, Gwynedd, but lives in Liverpool.\n\n\"I haven't cut my hair for weeks, I haven't had fillers since March, I haven't had anything and I feel horrible.\n\n\"I can't go to the shop with my friends, if I go to the shop I wear sunglasses and a hat over my head.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Life is \"horrible\" without his fillers and Botox, Iwan Steffan says\n\nSara James from Cardiff also gets beauty treatments regularly.\n\n\"At 27 years old I had my first child, so the body starts to go then with the lack of sleep. So then I started getting Botox.\n\n\"When you're used to looking one way, it's really hard to look in the mirror and see that you don't look like that.\n\n\"I'm quite lucky I got my Botox around mid-March, but when that definitely runs out. Oh my gosh, I'm sure I'll really start to hate myself then.\"\n\nThe anxiety experienced by individuals, and its impact on their sense of self, is understandable under the circumstances, sociologist Dr Sara Louise Wheeler, from Glyndwr University in Wrexham said.\n\n\"I can't imagine how I would feel, if you have these treatments regularly, but then suddenly you can't have them. I have a lot of sympathy for that,\" said Dr Wheeler.\n\n\"As the sociologist Michael Bury says in his work on the concept of Biographical Disruption, we see our lives as a novel, with a narrative, and the future that we envision. And then if something happens that changes that, and we can't do what we think we need to do to continue as normal, it stops us, and that's hard.\n\nSociologist Dr Sara Louise Wheeler says anxiety over missing cosmetic treatments is natural\n\nSwansea East MP Carolyn Harris co-chairs the all-party group on beauty, aesthetics and wellbeing at Westminster, and had been vocal on the matter.\n\n\"The beauty industry plays a vital role in many people's lives - it's not just about looking good - being able to get our beauty or hair treatments done plays a big part in supporting our mental and social wellbeing,\" she said.\n\nThe Labour politician also warned: \"While we all look forward to a day that the industry can reopen, it is vital that members of the public do not take unnecessary risks by having procedures carried out unsafely or by buying kits online to try at home.\"\n\nWelsh Government officials said beauty salons, hairdressers and tattoo parlours all remained closed to help \"reduce the spread of coronavirus and save lives\".\n\n\"If the regulations are being breached, those offering such services illegally, and those receiving them, could be fined,\" a spokesman added.\n\nMared Parry is happy to be taking a break\n\nFor some, the lockdown has become a welcome break.\n\nMared Parry, 23, from Blaenau Ffestiniog, has had treatments for her lips, jaw-line, chin and eyes, as well as Botox for her forehead in the past three years.\n\n\"To be honest it's nice to have a break,\" she said.\n\n\"It doesn't really make a difference to me, it's still my skin. It's not as if it reaches a year and it all disappears. It's just slowly, the effect starts to wear off.\n\nThere is another bonus, she added: \"It's nice for my bank account to have a break.\"", "More than 160 migrants travelled across the Channel in small boats in 24 hours - a record for a single day.\n\nThe Border Force intercepted seven boats on Wednesday, while 11 men were detained on a beach at Samphire Hoe in Kent.\n\nThere were 166 migrants in total, including one boat which had 48 males and 16 females who presented themselves as Iranian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Afghani.\n\nThe Home Office said they have all been taken to Dover to be assessed.\n\nPreviously the most migrants attempting to cross the Channel in a day was 145, on 8 May.\n\nAs well as the boat with 64 people on board, a second vessel earlier was carrying a group of 14 males, and a third had a group of 17 males and females.\n\nTwo more boats were carrying 16 males each, with one group presenting themselves as Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Iranian and Syrian.\n\nA sixth boat was carrying a group of 13 males who presented themselves as Iranian and Iraqi nationals, and a seventh was carrying a group of 15 males who presented themselves as Iranian, Iraqi, Yemeni, Syrian, and Chinese.\n\nIn the eighth incident, a group of 11 males, who presented themselves as Yemeni and Sudanese nationals, were arrested on the beach by Kent Police.\n\nThe Home Office said the migrants would be interviewed, with transferrals to detention \"where appropriate\".\n\nImmigration minister Chris Philp said: \"We are determined to stop migrants putting their lives at risk, and we are working tirelessly alongside the French government to do so\".\n\nHe added: \"We will continue to pursue the criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes and prosecuting them for their criminal activity.\n\n\"Last year, immigration enforcement made 418 arrests, leading to 203 convictions for a total of 437 years.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The partial closure of schools in England could continue into the autumn and into November, the Commons education committee has been told.\n\nPrimary schools opened more widely to several year groups in some areas this week, 10 weeks after they were closed as part of Covid-19 lockdown measures.\n\nSecondaries remain shut and around eight million pupils are out of school.\n\nDavid Laws, chair of education charity EPI, said assumptions all pupils will return in September may be wrong.\n\nThe committee was hearing evidence on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on education and children's services.\n\nMr Laws, also a former education minister, said: \"There's a temptation to think we are in a kind of home learning now and hopefully all back in September. Sadly we may end up with considerable disruption to school in September, October and November.\"\n\nHe urged ministers to make plans and give guidance to schools for \"a situation where there may be some home learning for a lot of pupils for a very long time\".\n\nAnne Longfield, the Children's Commissioner for England, highlighted that eight million pupils were currently out of school, despite limited opening of primary schools this week.\n\nShe said the sheer scale of children not reaching their potential because of this lockdown would be immense.\n\n\"That could be eight million children all of whom could well be out of school for six months.\"\n\nAnd she warned as more of society and many parents go back to work, there would be a fall-off in the numbers of those engaging in learning from home.\n\n\"As things become more interesting, the shops will be open soon and many kids could spend two and half months browsing in Primark and not going to school.\"\n\nShe added that head teachers had told her they were kept awake at night by fears about some children never returning to school.\n\nThe leap that children who had had a negative experience of school would have to make, in order to return to school, would be \"vast\", she said.\n\nThe committee was told the Department for Education needed to publish its guidance on how schools would look in September very soon.\n\nAnd plans for catch-up summer schools, which were backed by witnesses, needed to be set out by ministers soon, if they were to happen.\n\nThe hearing comes as a report suggested school closures could wipe out 10 years of progress in closing the achievement gap between poor and rich pupils.\n\nModest estimates in the government-commissioned report suggest the shutdowns could cause the gap to widen by around a third of what it is now.\n\nThis could mean poorest primary pupils, who are already nine months behind, slipping back a further three months.\n\nThe Education Endowment Foundation study said catch-up tuition would help.\n\nThe charity's research also warned of a risk of high levels of absence after schools formally reopen and that this posed a particular risk for disadvantaged pupils.\n\nThe rapid evidence assessment drew together evidence on 11 studies from a number of countries on the impact of school closures, focussing on those which looked at learning loss over the summer holiday period.\n\nIt found the estimated impact on the gap between the poorest group of pupils, and their wealthier peers ranged widely from 75% to 11%.\n\nChemistry experiments are difficult to replicate at home\n\nThe median estimate was 36%, although the researchers said there was high level uncertainty about this average.\n\nThe report is published days after a small proportion of the school population returned to lessons.\n\nAlthough effective remote learning would limit the extent to which the gap widens, the report said there would still need to be sustained support for disadvantaged pupils to catch up.\n\nOver the past decade, the Department for Education has focused attention and resources on closing the disadvantage gap.\n\nIt has narrowed from 11.5 months in 2009, at the end of primary school to 9.2 months in 2019.\n\nSir Peter Lampl, chairman of the EEF, said: \"School closures are likely to have a devastating impact on the poorest children and young people. The attainment gap widens when children are not in school.\n\n\"There is strong evidence that high quality tuition is a cost-effective way to enable pupils to catch up.\"\n\nHis organisation has teamed up with a number of other organisations to run a trial in which 1,600 disadvantaged pupils around England are offered one-to-one and small group tuition.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said being in school was vital for children's wellbeing.\n\nHe added: \"This innovative online tuition pilot is an important part of our plans to put support in place to ensure young people don't fall behind as a result of coronavirus, particularly those facing disadvantages.\"\n\nRussell Hobby, head of teacher training charity Teach First, described the potential loss as \"tragic\".\n\nThis should start with intensive catch-up provision when possible, he said, adding more resources need to be targeted towards those pupils who have suffered the most.", "Snapchat says it has stopped promoting President Donald Trump's account.\n\nAs a result, it will no longer feature in the app's Discover section. The firm said it would \"not amplify voices who incite racial violence and injustice\".\n\nThe decision follows Mr Trump saying that \"vicious dogs\" and \"ominous weapons\" would have been used on protesters if they had breached the White House fence.\n\nIt follows Twitter's decision to hide some of the president's posts.\n\nSnapchat's parent company Snap said: \"Racial violence and injustice have no place in our society and we stand together with all who seek peace, love, equality, and justice in America.\"\n\nThe move is likely to feed into tensions between the White House and social media, which escalated when Twitter added fact-checking tags to some of the President's tweets last week.\n\nThe president subsequently signed an executive order seeking to curb legal protections offered to the industry.\n\nTwitter later hid one of the president's tweets for breaking its rules on \"glorifying violence\".\n\nSnapchat's action will also put further pressure on Facebook.\n\nIts chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has resisted internal and external calls to intervene in regard to posts on its platform. Mr Zuckerberg has said the firm's free speech principles mean the president's posts should be left up unaltered.\n\nPresident Trump has more than one million followers on Snapchat, according to the Bloomberg news agency. It said the app is seen as being a \"key battleground\" by Mr Trump's re-election campaign because it offers a way to reach first-time voters.\n\nThe president's account will not be suspended or deleted.\n\nHowever, the fact it will not feature in Discover means that his posts will only be seen by people who subscribe to or search for his account directly.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSnapchat based its decision on remarks Mr Trump had posted to Twitter rather than its own platform.\n\nOn Monday, Snap's chief executive Evan Speigel had sent a memo to staff in which he detailed his views on the civil unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd.\n\n\"Every minute we are silent in the face of evil and wrongdoing we are acting in support of evildoers,\" Mr Speigel wrote.\n\n\"As for Snapchat, we simply cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform.\"\n\n\"Our Discover content platform is a curated platform, where we decide what we promote,\" he added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spike Lee on George Floyd's death and his new film Da 5 Bloods\n\nFilm-maker Spike Lee has said people in the US are angry because they \"live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win\".\n\nThe Oscar-winner said the reasons for the current unrest included the deaths of black people like George Floyd but also wider injustices and inequalities.\n\n\"It's not like you're just born angry,\" he told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz.\n\nLee also said President Trump's response showed that \"he's a gangster, he's trying to be a dictator\".\n\nMr Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest across the US.\n\nOn Monday, the president walked from the White House to a nearby fire-damaged church to pose with a Bible, after demonstrators were cleared from his path.\n\nPresident Trump held up a Bible outside the boarded up St John's Church\n\nLee, whose new Netflix film Da 5 Bloods follows a group of African-American war veterans, said: \"I was watching this last night with my family and we were all screaming in disbelief that this thing was staged.\n\n\"This show of force - gassing, beating innocent, peaceful bystanders so you could clear the street so you could take a walk to the church. It was ridiculous.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Bible did not look comfortable in his hand, and he didn't look comfortable holding the Bible either. I have never seen something like that before in my life, particularly with a world leader.\"\n\nIn his speech before walking to the church, Mr Trump said: \"I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters.\"\n\nMany US cities have seen demonstrations and unrest since the death of 46-year-old Mr Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May, when a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nOn Sunday, Lee released a short film combining footage of Mr Floyd and Eric Garner, who was killed while being arrested in 2014, with a scene from his 1989 film Do the Right Thing in which the character Radio Raheem is murdered.\n\nA state grand jury declined to press criminal charges against the officer involved in Mr Garner's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I'm tired of being afraid': Why Americans are protesting\n\n\"Why are people angry?\" Lee said on Tuesday. \"People are angry because black people are being killed left and right, cops walked away free.\n\n\"Black and brown people are angry at the disparity between the haves and have-nots - education, drinking dirty water, racism.\n\n\"People are angry for a reason. It's not like you're just born angry. You're angry because you live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win.\n\n\"The life expectancy… There are just so many things that one could make a list of [them] forever - that's where the anger's from.\n\n\"It's a stupid analogy, but if you leave the pot on the stove, the water boils.\"\n\nSocial inequalities have been particularly evident during the coronavirus pandemic, he said, with people from minorities more likely to die after contracting the disease.\n\n\"It's the black and brown people who had to go to work, front-liners of all aspects, they kept this [country] going,\" he said.\n\nAnd racism is far from being unique to the US, he added.\n\n\"Racism is all over the world. This was a global pandemic before corona.\n\n\"I'm a very spiritual person and I don't think that's a coincidence that these two things are happening at the same time.\"\n\nHe traced the inequalities in the US back to the country's foundation.\n\n\"The land was stolen from native people, genocide was committed against the native people, and ancestors were stolen from Africa and brought here to work,\" he said.\n\n\"So the foundation of the United States of America is genocide, stealing land and slavery.\n\n\"Any architect will tell you that if you don't have a strong foundation, the building's going to be shaky, and shaky from day one... This original sin has not been dealt with since the birth of this country.\"\n\nDa 5 Bloods is on Netflix from 12 June.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said at PMQs: “the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 every day is only a fraction of those actually infected every day”.\n\nSo, what do the figures show?\n\n1,613 people tested positive for coronavirus in the UK in the 24 hours up to 9am on 2 June, according to the latest figures from the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nHowever, the government’s testing programme is not the only way of assessing the infection rate.\n\nAn Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection survey carried out between 11 May to 24 May estimated that there are around 54,000 new coronavirus infections per week in England, or around 8,000 a day.\n\nThis survey, which reports weekly, is based on antibody tests (which establish whether people have had the virus) of nearly 19,000 people living in 9,000 households in England.\n\nRead more about the ONS findings here.", "Zoom has become the app many are using to stay in touch with friends, family and work colleagues\n\nWhen it comes to its growth rate, video conference company Zoom has lived up to its name.\n\nUse of the firm's software jumped 30-fold in April, as the coronavirus pandemic forced millions to work, learn and socialise remotely.\n\nAt its peak, the firm counted more than 300 million daily participants in virtual meetings, while paying customers have more than tripled.\n\nThe dramatic uptake has the potential to change the firm's path.\n\nZoom said it expects sales as high as $1.8bn (£1.4bn) this year - roughly double what it forecast in March.\n\nMr Yuan didn't intend to create Zoom for the masses.\n\nZoom has made Eric Yuan, whose visa application to the US was denied eight times, a billionaire\n\nA Chinese-born software engineer, Mr Yuan started the company in 2011, after years rising through the ranks at WebEx, one of the first US video conference companies, which was purchased by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2bn.\n\nAt the time, he faced doubts from many investors, who did not see the need for another option in a market already dominated by big players such as Microsoft and Cisco.\n\nBut Mr Yuan - who has credited his interest in video conferencing to the long distances he had to travel to meet up with his now-wife in their youth - was frustrated at Cisco and believed there was demand in the business world for software that would work on mobile phones and be easier to use.\n\nWhen the firm sold its first shares to the public last year, it was valued at $15.9bn. That shot to more than $58bn on Tuesday.\n\n\"What Zoom has done is kind of democratised video conferencing for all kinds of businesses and made it very simple for everyone from yoga instructors through to board room executives to deploy video,\" says Alex Smith, senior director at Canalys.\n\nWhen the lockdowns started, Zoom lifted the limits for the free version of its software in China and for educators in many countries, including the UK, helping to drive its popularity.\n\nBut the firm's bread and butter customers are corporate clients, who pay for subscriptions and enhanced features.\n\nZoom said on Tuesday that sales jumped 169% year-on-year in the three months to 30 April to $328.2m, as it added more than 180,000 customers with more than 10 employees since January - far more than it had expected.\n\nIt also turned a profit of $27m in the quarter - more than it made in all of the prior financial year.\n\nThe massive uptake has also strained the firm, forcing it to invest to expand capacity to meet the needs of new users, many of whom are not paying customers.\n\nIts reputation also took a hit, as the new attention prompted hackers to hijack meetings and exposed a host of security flaws, revealing that the firm had sent user data to Facebook, had wrongly claimed the app had end-to-end encryption, and was allowing meeting hosts to track attendees.\n\nIt has also faced political scrutiny for its ties to China - where it has more than 700 staff, including most of its product development team - which have prompted warnings that it is not fit for government use.\n\nIn April, Mr Yuan, who is a US citizen, apologised for the security lapses and the firm started rolling out a number of changes intended to fix the problems. Zoom has also announced a number of new appointments familiar with Washington politics, including H R McMaster, a retired Army general and former national security adviser to Donald Trump.\n\n\"Navigating this process has been a humbling learning experience,\" Mr Yuan said on an investor call on Tuesday.\n\nAnalysts said they expected the company would overcome these reputational blows.\n\n\"It's had that mishap and the fact that its name is still very much used as verbatim with video technology still gives it a lot of momentum and opportunity to continue,\" Mr Smith said.\n\nAnalysts say they expect Zoom to maintain its focus on business customers, since that's how it makes money.\n\nBut the pandemic is likely to create more challenges for Zoom in that market, as increased demand for remote work prompts competitors such as Microsoft and Cisco to pour resources into the field.\n\n\"The stakes are higher and the competition's getting tougher, so we'll see,\" says Ryan Koontz, managing director at Rosenblatt Securities.\n\n\"They were on a very strong trajectory before... and happened to be in the right place at the right time as the whole world decided we needed to communicate well on video,\" he says. \"They have this amazing brand... now they have to leverage that brand and figure out which markets they're going to go after.\"", "Young people have already lost months of education and a global recession is being widely predicted in the wake of the current crisis.\n\n\"The reality is that 76% of Covid-19 deaths in the UK have been aged over 75 with most of those entirely avoidable - and that's a tragedy,\" says Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh.\n\n\"But the risk for young people is minimal and I think we need to recognise that.\n\n\"Social distancing is something we all need to try and maintain because we don't want more preventable cases rising in the future.\n\n\"But we have to balance the need to restart society - to not seriously disadvantage the young in the longer term. I'd like to see a gradual, phased approach, but try to get education and the economy up and running as quickly and as competently as we can.\"", "President Donald Trump has sparked controversy with his photo shoot\n\nLast night he held a Bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House. Today, he'll visit the Shrine to St John Paul II, also in Washington DC.\n\nBut US President Donald Trump's signalling of religious affiliation has not been welcomed by a range of clerics as the nation struggles to manage the twin challenges of a pandemic and widespread political protest.\n\nThe Episcopal Bishop of Washington, the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, said: \"The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.\"\n\nJames Martin, a Jesuit priest and consultant to the Vatican's communications department, tweeted: \"Let me be clear. This is revolting. The Bible is not a prop. A church is not a photo op. Religion is not a political tool. God is not your plaything.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRabbi Jack Moline, President of the Interfaith Alliance, said: \"Seeing President Trump standing in front of St John's Episcopal Church while holding a Bible in response to calls for racial justice - right after using military force to clear peaceful protesters - is one of the most flagrant misuses of religion that I have ever seen.\"\n\nPresident Trump does not belong to a particular congregation, only occasionally attends a service and has said many times that he does not like to ask God for forgiveness.\n\nBut while he may not consider church essential to his personal life, it may yet hold the keys to his political future.\n\nIn 2016, Mr Trump won 81% of white evangelical votes and exit polls found that white Catholics supported him over Hillary Clinton by 60% to 37%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump declares himself the \"law and order president\"\n\nMr Trump's status, as the champion of evangelical and conservative voters, can seem peculiar given his use of divisive rhetoric, his three marriages, accusations of sexual assault by dozens of women, the hush-money paid to a pornographic film actress, and the record of false statements made during his presidency - more than 18,000 according to the Poynter Institute's Politifact website.\n\nBut he has sealed a powerful bond with religious voters by embracing their political priorities and appointing two Supreme Court justices - Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch - and federal judges with their support.\n\nThis may explain why - though an irregular congregant himself - the president has repeatedly demanded the reopening of churches, saying, on 22 May, \"If they don't do it, I will override the governors.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is pain right here' - Washington DC protests turn violent\n\nReligious conservatives appear to be the most solid core of Mr Trump's voter base, despite political unrest and the vast number of deaths from Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the latest Pew Research Poll, 75% of white evangelical Protestants say he's doing a good job in handling the pandemic - down 6 percentage points from six weeks before.\n\nBut while one voting bloc remains faithful, the country at large is deeply divided. According to analysis by the website FiveThirtyEight, which collates all polling data, 43% of Americans agree with the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, while 53.4% disapprove.\n\nSeveral religious leaders are hoping that Trump's visit to the shrine may encourage him to reflect on the words of then Pope John Paul II, delivered to the United Nations in 1995.\n\n\"The answer to the fear which darkens human existence at the end of the 20th Century,\" he said, \"is the common effort to build the civilization of love.\"", "Dominic Cummings drove 260 miles to Durham with his wife and child\n\nA council is investigating complaints that the property Dominic Cummings used during his lockdown trip did not have the correct planning permission.\n\nThe PM's adviser stayed with his family in what he said was a \"cottage\" on his parents' farm in Durham, in April.\n\nThe only planning applications listed on the council's website for the farm are for a roof over a swimming pool in 2001, and the removal of various trees.\n\nDurham County Council and a local MP have received a number of complaints.\n\nIt is believed Mr Cummings stayed in the building with the long green roof\n\nThe Cummings' family property, North Lodge, is on the outskirts of Durham.\n\nThe City of Durham Labour MP Mary Foy, whose constituency includes the home, said she had also raised questions with Durham County Council.\n\nShe said she had received a number of complaints from constituents, and had asked the council whether the property Mr Cummings stayed in had proper planning permission, and whether it was registered for council tax.\n\nShe has yet to receive a reply.\n\nThe council investigation was first reported by The Northern Echo.\n\nMr Cummings' trip to Durham with his wife and child caused a political fallout with The Scottish National Party's Westminster leader Ian Blackford saying Mr Cummings should resign or be dismissed by Boris Johnson for making the journey. Mr Cummings said he acted reasonably and legally.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson's positive test for coronavirus was announced on 27 March, and Downing Street said at the time Mr Cummings did not have symptoms.\n\nLater that day the adviser drove to the north-east of England.\n\nOn 30 March, it was confirmed Mr Cummings had developed symptoms of the virus and was self-isolating at home.\n\nDurham Police later said he might have broken lockdown rules with a subsequent trip to nearby Barnard Castle, but added that if he had broken the rules it would have been a \"minor breach\".", "It is hoped the treatment will help the severe respiratory symptoms linked to coronavirus\n\nScientists are running a trial to see if ibuprofen can help hospital patients who are sick with coronavirus.\n\nThe team from London's Guy's and St Thomas' hospital and King's College believe the drug, which is an anti-inflammatory as well as a painkiller, could treat breathing difficulties.\n\nThey hope the low-cost treatment can keep patients off ventilators.\n\nIn the trial, called Liberate, half of the patients will receive ibuprofen in addition to usual care.\n\nThe trial will use a special formulation of ibuprofen rather than the regular tablets that people might usually buy. Some people already take this lipid capsule form of the drug for conditions like arthritis.\n\nStudies in animals suggest it might treat acute respiratory distress syndrome - one of the complications of severe coronavirus.\n\nProf Mitul Mehta, one of the team at King's College London, said: \"We need to do a trial to show that the evidence actually matches what we expect to happen.\"\n\nEarly in the pandemic there were some concerns that ibuprofen might be bad for people to take, should they have the virus with mild symptoms.\n\nThese were heightened when France's health minister Oliver Veran said that taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, could aggravate the infection and advised patients to take paracetamol instead.\n\nA review by the Commission on Human Medicines quickly concluded that, like paracetamol, it was safe to take for coronavirus symptoms. Both can bring a temperature down and help with flu-like symptoms.\n\nFor mild coronavirus symptoms, the NHS advises people try paracetamol first, as it has fewer side-effects than ibuprofen and is the safer choice for most people. You should not take ibuprofen if you have a stomach ulcer, for example.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Spain's tourism minister has cast doubt on the prospect of an early return by UK holidaymakers to Spanish beaches.\n\nMaría Reyes Maroto said British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before Spain could receive tourists from the UK.\n\nLast week, the Spanish government said foreign visitors would no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July.\n\nBut Ms Reyes Maroto said tourist activity would be resumed \"gradually\".\n\n\"For Spain, it is very important that the first tourists are tourists who are in the same epidemiological situation as us, and that they are able to fly safely,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Regarding the United Kingdom, there have been talks with tour operators but British data still have to improve, because it's important to ensure that the person comes well and then returns well.\"\n\nThe tourism minister said that as soon as conditions improved in the UK, Spain would be ready to receive British citizens \"with the same hospitality as ever\".\n\nSpain normally attracts 80 million tourists a year, with the sector providing more than 12% of the country's GDP.\n\nOpening up the holiday market again before the summer season is over is seen as crucial to the Spanish economy.\n\nHowever, just as Spain prepares to end its quarantine policy, the UK is set to impose a 14-day quarantine of its own for arrivals from 8 June, including returning holidaymakers.\n\nThat would mean that any tourists coming home after taking holidays in most foreign destinations would have to spend two weeks in self-isolation.\n\nOther tourist destinations are also beginning to open up, with Greece announcing that flights to Athens and Thessaloniki airports will resume on 15 June - but only from those parts of Europe that have escaped the worst of the pandemic.\n\nOther Greek airports are due to reopen on 1 July.\n\nAt the same time, tourism authorities in the Algarve region of Portugal have said its beaches will be open for tourists on 6 June, with flights resuming to the region's international airport, Faro, from the UK and Ireland.\n\nHowever, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against all non-essential foreign travel.\n\nHave you planned to travel to Spain this year? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Police have been searching for Madeleine McCann for over 13 years\n\nA 43-year-old German man who travelled around Portugal in a camper van is now the focus of Scotland Yard's investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 13 years ago.\n\nPolice believe the man, now in jail for a sex crime, was in the area where the girl, then aged three, was last seen.\n\nMadeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann thanked the police, adding: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information about two vehicles owned by the man.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished, the suspect transferred a Jaguar car to someone else's name.\n\nMadeleine went missing from an apartment on a Portuguese holiday resort on the evening of 3 May 2007, while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.\n\n\"Someone out there knows a lot more than they're letting on,\" said Det Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is leading the Met inquiry.\n\nThe force said it remained a \"missing persons\" investigation because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nHowever, German investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry.\n\nThe London police force said the German authorities had taken the lead at this stage of the case because the German suspect was in custody in their country.\n\nGerman police told the country's ZDF TV channel the suspect, who is not being named, is a sex offender currently in prison for a sex crime.\n\nThe man has two previous convictions for \"sexual contact with girls\", according to Christian Hoppe from Germany's federal criminal police office.\n\nAn appeal on German television was broadcast this evening at 19:15 BST.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said the prisoner, then aged 30, frequented the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, staying for \"days upon end\" in his camper van and living a \"transient lifestyle\".\n\nHe was in the Praia de Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 7.32pm, which ended at 8.02pm.\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number and the number which dialled him, saying any information about them could be \"critical\" to the inquiry.\n\nThe suspect is believed to have been using a Portuguese mobile phone, with the number +351 912 730 680 on the day Madeleine went missing.\n\nThe phone received a call in the area of Praia da Luz from a second mobile number, +351 916 510 683, from someone not in the area. They want the person who made this call to come forward.\n\n\"They're a key witness and we urge them to get in touch,\" said Det Ch Insp Cranwell.\n\n\"Some people will know the man we're describing today... you may be aware of some of the things he's done,\" he said.\n\n\"He may have confided in you about the disappearance of Madeleine.\n\n\"More than 13 years have passed and your loyalties may have changed,\" he added.\n\n\"Now is the time to come forward.\"\n\nIs this the breakthrough? Is this German prisoner the man who can unlock the mystery?\n\nIt certainly has the feel of a significant development - police have used those very words.\n\nEvidence, according to detectives, places the man near the scene; the re-registering of his car the next day is undoubtedly suspicious.\n\nAnd his criminal record, disclosed by the German police, is a disturbing guide as to what his motivations might have been.\n\nBut... there have been so many false trails in the case before - clues, sightings and suspects that led nowhere.\n\nThree years ago, during the last major police appeal, Scotland Yard said it was working on one final \"critical\" line of inquiry.\n\nNow, we're told there's another one. That may explain why Met detectives - who've been involved in the case for nine years - are being rather more cautious than their German counterparts.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann, pictured in 2017, said they would never give up hope\n\nIn a statement, the McCanns welcomed the appeal: \"We would like to thank the police forces involved for their continued efforts in the search for Madeleine.\n\n\"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nPolice said the suspect was one of 600 people that detectives on the inquiry, known as Operation Grange, originally looked at, though he had not been a suspect.\n\nAfter an appeal in 2017, \"significant\" fresh information about him was provided.\n\nSince then, Met detectives have carried out \"extensive inquiries\" in Portugal and Germany in order to gather more details about him.\n\nThe force said it was trying to \"prove or disprove\" his involvement in the case and retained an \"open mind\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell: \"He could have looked somewhere between 25 and 32\"\n\nThose with information can contact the Operation Grange incident room on 020 7321 9251.", "A man has been arrested on suspicion of committing driving offences\n\nTwo men have been taken to hospital after being hit by a car in London's Sloane Square, police say.\n\nGovernment minister Greg Hands tweeted a vehicle had \"mounted the pavement and struck pedestrians\" before being abandoned nearby.\n\nCordons have been put around the area while the vehicle is searched by officers. The Met said the incident was not terror-related.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of committing driving offences.\n\nTwo men were hit by the car in Sloane Square\n\nLondon Ambulance Service said it was called out at just after 12:00 BST to reports of a collision \"involving pedestrians\".\n\n\"We dispatched two ambulance crews and a medic in a car, with the first of our crews arriving in under four minutes,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We treated two men at the scene and took them both to hospital.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greg Hands This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan's Sunderland plant is \"unsustainable\" without a Brexit trade deal, said Ashwani Gupta.\n\nThe UK's largest car manufacturing plant is \"unsustainable\" if the UK leaves the European Union without a trade deal, owner Nissan says.\n\nThe Japanese company's global chief operating head told the BBC people had to understand the EU was the Sunderland factory's biggest customer.\n\nAshwani Gupta said that Nissan's commitment could not be maintained if there was not tariff-free EU access.\n\nNissan has invested billions of pounds in the plant, which has 7,000 workers.\n\nHis comments come despite the Sunderland site surviving this week's announcement on the Japanese giant's global restructuring programme.\n\nMr Gupta said: \"You know we are the number one carmaker in the UK and we want to continue. We are committed. Having said that, if we are not getting the current tariffs, it's not our intention but the business will not be sustainable. That's what everybody has to understand.\"\n\nHe also said that any plans for its strategic partner and 43%-shareholder Renault to take up spare capacity at Sunderland would be a matter for the French carmaker. The French government has a 15% stake in Renault.\n\nThis is not the first time that Nissan has pleaded with UK and EU negotiators to ensure that the 70% of cars manufactured at Sunderland which are sold in the EU can avoid tariffs of 10% under World Trade Organisation rules - the legal default position if a deal is not struck.\n\nThose talks resumed this week, with the differences between the UK and EU being described on all sides as deep and wide.\n\nLast week, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said the EU would consider a two-year Brexit delay, which was rebuffed by his UK counterpart David Frost, who told MPs the government's policy remains not to extend the transition period beyond the end of the year.\n\nUnder an agreement signed last year, the UK has until the end of this month to decide whether it wants to request such an extension so the coming weeks are crucial.\n\nThe comments by Nissan may dampen hopes raised just last week when the company said that while it was closing plants in Spain and Indonesia, it remained committed to Sunderland.\n\nAn announcement by Nissan that Renault might take the European lead in the companies' global manufacturing alliance (which also includes Mitsubishi) by taking up an estimated 20% spare capacity at Sunderland were quashed for the foreseeable future by Renault last week, when it said it had no current plans to move in to the UK.\n\nMr Gupta confirmed that any decision by its partners would be a matter for them, and that no such deal had been agreed. \"When it comes to the allocation of manufacturing, each company will take the decision based on the competitiveness of the plants.\"\n\nNissan is a huge fan of the Sunderland plant and paid tribute to the efficiency and hard work of the operation. But it reiterated that was not enough to secure its long-term future if tariffs were imposed in a market which it described last week as \"non-core\". It only has a 3% market share of the vehicle market in Europe.\n\nOn a more encouraging note, Mr Gupta said recent sales figures from China showed the world's biggest car market was recovering fast and the company was winning market share. But vehicles for that market are not produced in the UK.\n\nIt is still possible that Renault could decide to move production of certain vehicles to Sunderland. But it is hard to see how a company which is 15%-owned by the French taxpayer could find a way to make that work where Nissan, which has been in Sunderland for 40 years, says it cannot.\n\nNissan's comments are a timely reminder that for many key industries, the Brexit issue - which has not been silenced by coronavirus news - has in many ways been amplified by it.", "Authorities in India's financial capital Mumbai are bracing for a severe storm which could hit its coast early on Wednesday.\n\nCyclone Nisarga is set to make landfall on India's west coast, near the city in Maharashtra state. Neighbouring Gujarat state is also likely to be impacted.\n\nThe National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF) has deployed to both states.\n\nThe storm comes barely two weeks after Cyclone Amphan hit India's east coast.\n\nMore than 85 people were killed by Amphan in both eastern India and Bangladesh.\n\nMumbai is already experiencing heavy rains, strong winds and heavy tides. Although the exact path of the storm will take some hours to become clear, weather officials say that there is a chance it could hit the city directly.\n\nIf that were to happen, it would make it the first cyclone to impact Mumbai in centuries.\n\nAuthorities have begun evacuating people from low-lying areas in and around the city, the state Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said.\n\nFishermen have also been called back in from the sea and told not to venture out. The area has been put on \"red alert\" until Thursday, with storm surges expected.\n\nNDRF officials told local media that they were working on a \"zero casualties\" approach, which means they are hoping that there will be no deaths.\n\n\"Since the cyclone is in the severe category, the damage it can cause is considerable. We are working for the best but preparing for the worst,\" Director General SM Pradhan said.\n\nBoats are being moved ahead of the storm hitting\n\nHowever, the onset of the storm is likely to worry officials in Mumbai. With more than 50,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19, the city is already India's worst-impacted in terms of infections.\n\nIts healthcare system is at breaking point, with videos from state emergency wards showing patients being forced to share beds and even oxygen cylinders. With more than 20 million people, it is also the country's most populous city.\n\nThe onset of rains in coming months is expected to bring about other illness like malaria, typhoid, gastric infection and leptospirosis.", "More than half the UK population has struggled with sleep during the lockdown, a survey suggests.\n\nKing's College London researchers said sleep problems were more common in people facing financial hardship, while two in five reported having more vivid dreams than usual.\n\nSome people slept for longer than usual, but without feeling rested.\n\nThe findings are based on online interviews in late May with 2,254 UK residents in the 16-75 age bracket.\n\nThe study was carried out by market research company Ipsos MORI and King's College London.\n\nThe researchers said lack of sleep may itself have had knock-on effects on people's capacity to be resilient during the pandemic, and there are signs of a disproportionate impact on particular groups: women, younger people and those facing financial difficulties.\n\n\"As with so much about Covid-19, the crisis is affecting people very differently depending on their circumstances, and that includes the most fundamental aspects of life, such as sleep,\" said Prof Bobby Duffy of King's College London.\n\nHe said nearly two-thirds of the public reported some negative impact on their sleep, showing just how unsettling the pandemic and lockdown measures have been.\n\nDisturbed sleep is often caused by stress, and can itself increase stress levels, creating a cycle that is difficult to break, added Dr Ivana Rosenzweig, of Kings College.\n\nHowever, a quarter of participants reported they were sleeping more and feeling better for it, she said, highlighting that, \"as a society, we simply do not get the chance to sleep as much as we need, and that this pandemic is allowing some of us to rediscover the importance of sleep\".\n\nPrevious research has shown that for many people lockdown has led to disturbed sleep, insomnia and vivid dreams.\n\nExperts have suggested keeping to a routine, not taking naps and trying to get some exercise outside.\n• None Five tips to help you sleep better", "George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nThe US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.\n\nGeorge Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\nFootage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.\n\nTranscripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.\n\nThe key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.\n\nIt began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.\n\nA report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.\n\nBelieving the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.\n\nMr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.\n\nBut Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.\n\nIn a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but \"he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that\", according to a transcript released by authorities.\n\nThe employee said the man appeared \"drunk\" and \"not in control of himself\", the transcript says.\n\nShortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.\n\nAfter approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.\n\nMr Lane, prosecutors said, \"put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car\". Then Mr Floyd \"actively resisted being handcuffed\".\n\nOnce handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for \"passing counterfeit currency\".\n\nCourt transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.\n\nMr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.\n\nIt was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'\n\nAt about 20:14, Mr Floyd \"stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic\", according to the report.\n\nMr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.\n\nDuring this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.\n\nHe lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.\n\nThat's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.\n\nMr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.\n\nFor more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.\n\nThe transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging \"please, please, please\".\n\nAt one point, Mr Floyd gasps: \"You're going to kill me, man.\"\n\nDerek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder\n\nOfficer Chauvin replies: \"Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\"\n\nMr Floyd says: \"Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead.\"\n\nA female bystander told the police: \"His nose is bleeding, come on now.\"\n\nAbout six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.\n\nOfficer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but \"couldn't find one\". Yet the other officers did not move.\n\nAt 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.\n\nHe was pronounced dead about an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death\n\nOn the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.\n\nForgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.\n\n\"The way he died was senseless,\" Harris said. \"He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.\n• None Why is a US city in flames?", "Mark Sutherland was previously jailed for sending explicit pictures and messages to a 12-year-old\n\nPolice and prosecutors give \"tacit encouragement\" to so-called \"paedophile hunter\" groups, the UK's highest court has heard.\n\nThe Supreme Court was told \"huge numbers\" of cases were prosecuted based on information from such organisations.\n\nThe judges are being asked to consider whether prosecutions based on these operations breach human rights.\n\nThe case has been brought by Mark Sutherland who was caught by a group called Groom Resisters Scotland.\n\nIn 2018, Sutherland, 37, matched up on Grindr with someone who, when he communicated with them, claimed to be a 13-year-old boy.\n\nHe sent sexual messages and images to the person and they later arranged to meet at Partick Bus Station in Glasgow.\n\nIn reality, the person Sutherland was communicating with was not a child, but a \"decoy\" - a member of Groom Resisters Scotland.\n\nThe group confronted Sutherland at the arranged meeting, broadcasted the encounter on social media and handed the evidence to the police.\n\nHe was convicted in August 2018 of attempting to communicate indecently with an older child, and related offences, and jailed for two years.\n\nHe had previously been jailed for sending explicit pictures to a 12-year-old boy.\n\nSutherland went to meet someone he thought was a young boy at Partick Station\n\nSutherland argues that his right to a private life, enshrined in Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, had been breached.\n\nAt Wednesday's hearing, his lawyer Gordon Jackson QC, said: \"The police are aware that there a number of hunter organisations operating in Scotland and the UK and evidence submitted from these organisations has led to a number of criminal investigations and convictions.\"\n\nThere is \"disquiet\" about the work of such groups, he said.\n\nMr Jackson argued that \"a huge number\" of cases were prosecuted on the basis of information from these organisations.\n\n\"What we have is tacit encouragement of these groups,\" he said.\n\nAlison di Rollo QC, Solicitor General for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Scotland's prosecution service, which is opposing the appeal, argued that the criminal prosecution of sexual conduct between an adult and a child \"does not engage\" someone's rights to privacy.\n\n\"There is no right to respect for such behaviour in a democratic society,\" she said.\n\nMs di Rollo said it was clear the \"overriding duty\" of the police was \"to respond to any report of any identified person who may pose a sexual risk to children\".\n\nShe said there was guidance which set out \"the risks, the activities, the undesirability of the activities of these groups\" but regardless of the source of evidence, the usual high standards of investigation were required.\n\nShe also said members of paedophile hunter groups were themselves liable to criminal prosecution if they broke the law.\n\nThe Supreme Court judges are expected to deliver their ruling at a later date.\n\nThe case before the Supreme Court justices is very important as the law surrounding the activities of \"paedophile hunters\" is currently unclear.\n\nYet according to HM Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) almost half of online grooming cases result from the activities of vigilante groups.\n\nThe inspectorate said these groups are unregulated and untrained, and in its report in February 2020 said: \"A more robust proactive capability on the part of Police Scotland would reduce the opportunities for these groups to operate.\"\n\nAlthough Mark Sutherland was convicted by a jury at Glasgow Sheriff Court, a later case in Dundee was thrown out because evidence gained by a vigilante group was ruled \"inadmissible.\"\n\nIn that case the sheriff said the means used to induce the accused, known only as PHP, into engaging in an exchange of messages amounted to \"fraud\".\n\nPHP's lawyers said the vigilantes' activities interfered with his rights under ECHR Article 8 and using their evidence in any trial would mean the court was acting \"incompatibly\" with those rights.\n\nThey also argued the use of information gathered covertly was unlawful under legislation designed to ensure the surveillance of a person was properly regulated.\n\nThose arguments were rejected by the sheriff, but he said by pretending falsely to be young children, the vigilantes had acted unlawfully.\n\nThe case at the Supreme Court is being watched carefully by England's Director of Public Prosecutions who has been granted \"intervener\" status.\n\nThe judgement, which will be issued later, will provide a definitive answer to the question of whether undercover vigilante activity is legal, and compatible with human rights, even of those who seek to abuse children.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BBC Radio 1 host Clara Amfo has been praised for making a candid, emotional speech on air about George Floyd's death and her own mental health.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Amfo said she had been so affected by Mr Floyd's death that she had missed her show on Monday.\n\n\"I didn't have the mental strength to face you guys yesterday,\" said the DJ, her voice breaking with emotion.\n\n\"I was sat on my sofa crying, angry, confused... stuck at the news of yet another brutalised black body.\"\n\nMr Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died last week after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nMinneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin has been sacked and charged with third-degree murder.\n\nAmfo was speaking on \"Blackout Tuesday\", an initiative demanding racial justice and structural change in the wake of the killing.\n\nOriginally organised by the music industry, it has involved stars like Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Drake observing a day of silence, and record labels suspending normal business for 24 hours.\n\nThe movement has now spread across social media, with many users posting a simple black square, alongside messages of solidarity and links to anti-racism resources.\n\nRadio 1 and its sister station 1Xtra have been reflecting the movement by hosting discussions about the issues surrounding Mr Floyd's death, and playing songs that address black empowerment and identity.\n\nSpeaking on her mid-morning show, Amfo said the events in Minneapolis had reinforced a feeling among black people \"that people want our culture, but they do not want us\".\n\nShe added: \"In other words, you want my talent, but you don't want me.\n\n\"There is a false idea that racism - and in this case anti-blackness - is just name-calling and physical violence, when it is so much more insidious than that.\n\n\"One of my favourite thinkers is a woman called Amanda Seales, and she says this and I feel it deeply when she says, 'You cannot enjoy the rhythm and ignore the blues'. And I say that with my chest.\"\n\nFellow broadcasters praised Amfo for her candour and bravery.\n\nThe presenter ended her speech by playing Kendrick Lamar's Alright, which became associated with the Black Lives Matter movement after its release.\n\nThe song opens with the line: \"All my life I had to fight,\" and references police officers who \"wanna kill us dead in the street, for sure\".\n\n\"I want to say to our black listeners, I hope you feel seen and heard today,\" Amfo concluded.\n\n\"And to those of you that already let me know that you are doing the work, to be committed to doing better, I see you, so let's do this. Let's all be anti-racist.\"\n\nMusicians including Rihanna and Beyoncé have called for justice for George Floyd, while Ariana Grande joined protests in LA\n\nAmfo's speech was widely praised by listeners and fellow broadcasters, with many saying they had been moved to tears.\n\nFellow Radio 1 DJ Arielle Free said: \"Clara Amfo is an incredible human being who showed the world today a superhuman strength and bravery whilst broadcasting on the radio.\n\n\"The most powerful broadcast I have ever heard and I am in complete awe and adoration of her in every way shape and form. So much love.\"\n\n\"Thank you, Clara Amfo, thank you,\" said ITV news presenter Charlene White.\n\n\"So many people still confused as to why George Floyd's death has hit so many of us hard. Clara sums it up so well. Hear her anger, hear her pain. I feel it too.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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Skip twitter post 4 by Abbie Bourne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Clara Amfo is just one of our finest and smartest broadcasters,\" wrote Pointless host Richard Osman. \"She speaks to the Radio 1 audience, with great honesty, power and truth, about the murder of George Floyd.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Journalists from across the US have reported being targeted by police at protests this weekend\n\nDozens of journalists covering anti-racism protests that have rocked the US have reported being targeted by security forces using tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray.\n\nIn many cases, they said it was despite showing clear press credentials.\n\nSuch attacks \"are an unacceptable attempt to intimidate [reporters]\", said the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based group.\n\nAttacks on journalists carried out by protesters have also been reported.\n\nThe arrest of a CNN news crew live on air on Friday in Minneapolis, where unarmed black man George Floyd died at the hands of police, first drew global attention to how law enforcement authorities in the city were treating reporters covering protests that have descended into riots.\n\nOn Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked his embassy in Washington to investigate the use of force by police against an Australian news crew as officers dispersed protesters there the previous day.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Thuman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after dozens of attacks on journalists and media crews across the country over the weekend were reported on social media. In total the US Press Freedom Tracker, a non-profit project, says it is investigating more than 100 \"press freedom violations\" at protests. About 90 cases involve attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday night, two members of a TV crew from Reuters news agency were shot at with rubber bullets while police dispersed protesters in Minneapolis defying an 20:00 curfew.\n\n\"A police officer that I'm filming turns around points his rubber-bullet rifle straight at me,\" cameraman Julio-Cesar Chavez said. Reuters said the Minneapolis Police Department had not commented despite being provided with video footage.\n\nReuters said police appeared to fire directly at their cameraman as he filmed them\n\nIn Washington DC, near the White House, a riot police officer charged his shield at a BBC cameraman on Sunday evening.\n\nThe cameraman was \"clearly identifiable as a member of the media\", said the BBC's Americas bureau chief Paul Danahar. \"The team had been following all directions from the police as they covered the protests in front of the White House. The assault took place even before the curfew had been imposed and happened without warning or provocation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC cameraman was charged by a police officer at a Washington DC protest\n\nOn the same day, on the other side of the country in Long Beach, California, radio reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez said he had been shot in the throat with a rubber bullet by a police officer. The city's police chief told reporters on Monday that he wanted to investigate what happened, adding: \"I do not want anyone from the media to get hurt.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOvernight on Friday, a Fox News crew were chased and hit by a mob of masked protesters near the White House. \"It's the most scared I've been since being caught in a mob that turned on us in Tahrir Square [in the Egyptian capital Cairo],\" veteran Fox correspondent Leland Vittert said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker\n\nOn Saturday, Vice News journalist Michael Anthony Adams said he was pepper-sprayed in the face at a petrol station by Minneapolis police despite holding his press card in the air and yelling \"Press!\"\n\nVideo posted by another Vice journalist supports his account of what happened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Roberto Daza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday night, Linda Tirado, a freelance photojournalist and activist, was struck in her left eye by a projectile that appeared to come from the direction of police in Minneapolis. She has been permanently blinded in that eye.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linda Tirado told BBC World News that she wouldn't let the injury stop her from telling people's stories\n\nThat same night a reporter from local news station Wave 3 in Louisville, Kentucky was hit by pepper balls fired by a police officer aiming directly at her as she reported live on television. \"I'm getting shot! I'm getting shot!\" she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Louisville police said on Saturday that they were trying to identify which officer was involved. \"Targeting the media is not our intention,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nA reporter from Germany's international news broadcaster Deutsche Welle was also shot with projectiles by police in Minneapolis this weekend while preparing to go live on air. He was wearing a vest emblazoned with the word \"PRESS\" and was also threatened with arrest, a video showed.\n\n\"Those policemen are under a lot of stress doing their job but of course they should have let us work and do our job,\" Stefan Simons, the reporter, said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by DW News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, Minnesota's governor apologised to those who had been detained in his state.\n\n\"I want to once again extend my deepest apologies, to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation who were inadvertently, but nevertheless, detained - to them personally and to the news organisations and to journalists everywhere,\" Tim Walz said.\n\nThe incidents come as President Donald Trump continues to attack the media. On Sunday he tweeted: \"The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy.\" He said journalists were \"truly bad people with a sick agenda\".\n\nSeveral press freedom organisation have condemned the attacks.\n\n\"The numerous, targeted attacks that journalists reporting on protests across the country have faced from law enforcement over the last two nights are both reprehensible and clear violations of the First Amendment,\" the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said.\n\nCourtney Radsch, advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists, told the BBC that the group was calling on authorities to \"instruct police to cease targeting journalists and ensure that they are able to do their jobs safely and without fear of injury\".", "The plane used by Boris Johnson and members of the royal family for international travel is being repainted in the colours of the Union flag to \"better represent\" the UK abroad.\n\nThe red, white and blue \"rebranding\" will cost about £900,000, No 10 said.\n\nDowning Street said it represented \"value for money\" and that all of the work was being done in the UK.\n\nBut opposition parties were critical, saying the money would be better spent on helping the victims of coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the aircraft was currently in Cambridgeshire for pre-planned repainting in \"national branding\".\n\nAsked about the plane at the daily coronavirus press briefing, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said \"we have always spent money on promoting the UK round the world\" and added that the work on RAF Voyager was part of that effort.\n\nThe RAF Voyager is used by the prime minister, other ministers and senior members of the Royal Family for official engagements.\n\nIt said the makeover would mean the plane \"can better represent the UK around the world, while also maintaining its military air to air refuelling capacity\".\n\nDowning Street said all of the work was benefiting UK suppliers.\n\nMarshall Aerospace and Defence Group told the BBC they are carrying out work on the aircraft, which is much bigger than ones they would usually work on.\n\nBoris Johnson speaking to journalists onboard the Voyager in 2019\n\nBut acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said the money would have been better spent on supporting treatments for coronavirus patients.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ed Davey MP 🔶🇪🇺 #StayHomeSaveLives #ProtectNHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the SNP hit out at the timing of the move, which follows Tuesday's u-turn by the government over providing school meal vouchers for low-income families over the summer holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 2 by The SNP\n\nLabour questioned why the government was spending nearly a million pounds \"redecorating a plane which in all likelihood has been grounded for months because of the coronavirus\".\n\n\"When families across the country are worried about their jobs, health and the education of their children, they will rightly question the government's priorities,\" said shadow Northern Ireland secretary Louise Haigh.\n\nAnd Labour MP Chris Bryant told the BBC it was \"just a vanity project for the prime minister\".\n\n\"People who are on furlough in my constituency and are terrified they are going to lose their jobs will be wondering why on earth this is a priority,\" he said.\n\nThe RAF Voyager, an Airbus A330 jet, was re-purposed for use by the UK government in 2015, at a cost of £10m.\n\nIt was first used to take David Cameron and other ministers to the Nato summit in Poland in July 2016.\n\nAt the time, the government defended the expenditure, saying it was cheaper than chartering flights and would save about £775,000 a year.", "Drugs giant AstraZeneca has announced it is ready to provide a potential new coronavirus vaccine from September.\n\nThe firm said it had concluded deals to deliver at least 400 million doses of the vaccine, which it is developing with Oxford University.\n\nAstraZeneca said it was capable of producing one billion doses of the AZD1222 vaccine this year and next.\n\nInitial trials are under way and AstraZeneca said it recognised that the vaccine might not work.\n\nBut the company said it was committed to advancing the clinical programme.\n\nScientists have warned that a coronavirus vaccine, if developed, might not confer full immunity, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a vaccine might never be found.\n\nDespite these reservations, intensive research continues, with about 80 groups around the world working on possible vaccines.\n\nAstraZeneca indicated that production would take place in more than one country. It thanked the UK and US governments for \"substantial support to accelerate the development and production of the vaccine\".\n\nIt also said it was in discussions with the Serum Institute of India and other potential partners to increase production and distribution.\n\nSpecifically, it said it had received support of more than $1bn from the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for the development, production and delivery of the vaccine,\n\nAstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot described the coronavirus pandemic as \"a global tragedy\" and \"a challenge for all of humanity\".\n\n\"We need to defeat the virus together or it will continue to inflict huge personal suffering and leave long-lasting economic and social scars in every country around the world,\" he said.\n\n\"We are so proud to be collaborating with Oxford University to turn their ground-breaking work into a medicine that can be produced on a global scale.\"", "Della Morgan spotted this twister just north of Brecon in Powys\n\nTornadoes have been spotted across two counties - as parts of Wales were hit by thunderstorms.\n\nEyewitnesses glimpsed the first just five miles north of Brecon in Powys on late Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThen 40 miles away at Bont Goch, east of Talybont in Ceredigion, another twister was caught on camera.\n\nRebecca Charnock said she stopped her car to grab a quick shot, before the swirling clouds \"fizzled away\".\n\nRebecca Charnock was stopped in her tracks by this twister in Ceredigion\n\n\"I did start to wonder what it was - and then thought 'crikey - I need a picture',\" said Ms Charnock.\n\n\"It was coming towards me, and I thought 'I wonder where it is going to go?\n\n\"But then it just fizzled out and it was gone.\"\n\nMoving away - the Brecon tornado on the horizon\n\nThe Brecon sightings were captured by Della Morgan and her husband.\n\n\"I said quick, quick, come outside,\" said Mrs Morgan\n\n\"We watched it descend, it moved around and then dissipated.\"\n\nThe tornado can be clearly seen making its way across the ridge above farmland.\n\nThe weather events were captured following a day of warnings for thunderstorms across much of Wales.\n\nFurther alerts have also been issued for Wednesday between 12:00 and 21:00 BST for more storms.\n\nThe yellow warning from the Met Office covers all but far western tips of Wales, with a small risk of flooding and lighting strikes.", "A government minister has said the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app is \"not a priority\" and he was not sure it would be out by winter.\n\nThe app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight, was initially expected to launch nationally weeks ago.\n\nThe BBC can also reveal that the project's two lead managers - NHSX's Matthew Gould and Geraint Lewis - are stepping back.\n\nAnd Simon Thompson - a former Apple executive - is joining to manage it.\n\nMr Thompson is currently chief product officer at the online grocer Ocado. He has been appointed to Baroness Dido Harding's Test and Trace team, where he will have other duties in addition to the app.\n\nMr Gould and Mr Lewis had always expected to move back to their other duties this month, however they had intended for the app to have had its national rollout by now.\n\nLord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, said he was unable to give a date for its launch.\n\nBut he insisted that the trial \"has gone very well indeed\".\n\nHe was responding to questions at the Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday afternoon.\n\n\"We are seeking to get something going for the winter, but it isn't the priority for us at the moment,\" Lord Bethell said in answer to a question about the app.\n\nHe admitted that was \"an expectation of management answer, saying I can't give you a date\".\n\nLord Bethell said it was still the government's intention to launch it at some point.\n\nLord Bethell has just poured a bucket of icy water over the project that was supposed to be at the heart of the government's test-and-trace strategy.\n\nAt the beginning of May, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people had a duty to download the app, which was expected to be rolled out nationally by the end of the month.\n\nPlenty of people warned at an early stage that telling people via an app notification to go into quarantine might not work.\n\nNow it seems the Isle of Wight trial has confirmed that most prefer the more human touch of a phone call.\n\nThe team behind the app have an updated version ready to go which they feel addresses many of the concerns. But it looks as though ministers and the Test-and-Trace supremo Baroness Harding have decided to put the whole idea in the deep freeze. Don't bet on it coming back in the winter.\n\nHe also added that the trial on the Isle of Wight had shown that some people preferred humans to do the contact tracing.\n\n\"There is a danger of it being too technological and relying too much on text and emails, and alienating or freaking out people - because you're peddling quite alarming news through quite casual communication,\" he said.\n\nSince the launch of the trial phase six weeks ago, there have been few official updates about any expected timeline, and reports that ministers are considering switching systems.\n\nLord Bethell said that because the disease's prevalence was currently relatively low, \"we're not feeling under great time pressure, and therefore we're focusing on getting the right app\".\n\nHe added: \"I won't hide from you that there are technical challenges with getting the app right, and we are really keen to make sure that we get all aspects of it correct.\"\n\nHe also acknowledged that the public were highly concerned about the app, which he said was one reason an app had not been \"rushed\" out.\n\n\"If we didn't quite get it right the first time round, we might poison the pool and close down a really important option for the future.\"", "Mary was a nurse at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital in Bedfordshire. She was diagnosed with coronavirus in early April and died a week later.\n\nDoctors were able to save her baby by an emergency C- section but her husband, Ernest, argues she shouldn't have been working at the hospital at the start of the pandemic as she was heavily pregnant.\n\nHe has spoken exclusively to the BBC's Sima Kotecha.\n\nThe Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust said: \"We were extremely saddened to lose Mary. She worked here for five years and was a highly valued and loved member of our team, a fantastic nurse and a great example of what we stand for in this Trust.\n\n\"We have carried out a full internal review into the circumstances surrounding her death and we are confident that she received the best possible care and support from the Trust.\n\n\"We have sent our deepest condolences to Mr Boateng, and are currently working through a number of issues he has raised.\"", "A life-saving treatment for seriously-ill hospital patients with Covid-19 is being used across the UK from today, following breakthrough results in a UK trial.\n\nDexamethasone - a cheap, widely-available steroid - was shown to reduce deaths among patients on ventilators and on oxygen.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers say it should be used \"with immediate effect\".\n\nAnd there are no issues with supplies of the medicine in the UK.\n\nIn an urgent letter from the UK's four chief medical officers to clinicians in the NHS, they said dexamethasone had \"a clear place in the management of hospitalised patients with Covid-19\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the Commons that 240,000 doses of the drug are \"in stock and on order\".\n\n\"It is not by any means a cure but it is the best news we have had,\" he added.\n\nIt comes as the UK government announced a further 184 people have died with coronavirus across all settings in the UK, taking the total to 42,153.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory drug was tested as part of the world's biggest trial of existing treatments to see if they could also work against coronavirus.\n\nIn the trial, led by a team from Oxford University, about 2,000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and compared with more than 4,000 who were not.\n\nFor patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%. For patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.\n\nThe researchers said this was equivalent to one life being saved for every eight patients on a ventilator and one life being saved for every 20-25 being treated with oxygen.\n\nMarium Zumeer was given the drug as part of the trial\n\nMarium Zumeer, an 18-year-old from Bradford who was given the drug as part of the trial, said it had been \"life-saving\".\n\nShe was admitted to hospital after 10 days of being extremely unwell, and after beginning a course of the drug she was told she would hopefully be home in a week.\n\n\"And a week later I did come home,\" Ms Zumeer said.\n\nOn Monday 15 June, 385 people with Covid-19 were on mechanical ventilation in hospitals in the UK with hundreds more likely to be on oxygen support.\n\nThey could all be candidates for receiving dexamethasone.\n\nThe drug works by dampening down the reaction of the body's immune system to on Covid-19, which can often be more harmful than the virus itself.\n\nChief investigator Prof Peter Horby said it was \"the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality - and it reduces it significantly\".\n\nHowever, it should not be used to treat anyone with coronavirus who is not in hospital. Its use is still being studied in children.\n\nAlready used to reduce inflammation in a range of other conditions, including arthritis, asthma and some skin conditions, the cost of the drug would be as little as £5 per patient.\n\nThe drug is also widely available around the world.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The clashes involving demonstrators and police took place on Wednesday teatime\n\nNicola Sturgeon has condemned \"racist thugs\" as she described disorder in Glasgow city centre as \"disgraceful\".\n\nSix men have been arrested by police after two separate protest groups gathered in George Square.\n\nNational Defence League supporters went to the square saying they wanted to \"make and stand\" and \"protect the Cenotaph\".\n\nShortly afterwards activists from No Evictions Glasgow arrived for their planned demonstration.\n\nThey chanted \"refugees are welcome here\" before leaving the square.\n\nImages on social media showed some protestors clashing with police.\n\nBoth the first minister and Humza Yousaf, the Scottish justice secretary, used social media to condemn the scenes.\n\nThe first minister tweeted: \"Disgraceful scenes in Glasgow tonight. Racist thugs shame Scotland.\n\n\"If they break the law, they should face the full force of it. And all of us should unite to say that welcoming refugees and asylum seekers is part of who we are.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said on Twitter that he had been briefed on the incident by Police Scotland.\n\n\"Let's not mince our words, this has nothing to do with statues and everything to do with racist thuggery,\" he said.\n\n\"Police have made a number of arrests already and will continue to take all necessary action against those responsible.\"\n\nAhead of the protests, Ch Supt Mark Hargreaves urged people not to attend the events but follow government coronavirus lockdown guidelines.\n\nAfterwards, he said Police Scotland had an \"appropriate\" presence to ensure public safety.\n\n\"So far, six men have been arrested for minor public order offences and reports will be submitted to the procurator fiscal,\" he added.\n\n\"The majority of protesters have now left George Square and officers remain in the area for public reassurance.\n\n\"A review will be undertaken and should any further criminality be identified appropriate action will be taken.\"\n\nFour of the protestors who were arrested said they were in the square to protect the statues, while the other two men said they were attending the protest calling for better housing for asylum seekers.\n\nMeanwhile, No Evictions Glasgow accused \"far-right groups\" of trying to \"hi-jack\" their peaceful protest.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, they said their protest was about conditions facing people in the asylum system in Glasgow - not the cenotaph.\n\nThe group from Glasgow No Evictions were guided away from George Square by police", "The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to prevent former National Security Adviser John Bolton from publishing a new book about his time at the White House.\n\nAccording to the complaint, the book contains \"classified information\".\n\nThe move comes a day after President Donald Trump said Mr Bolton could face \"criminal problems\" over the release.\n\nThe book, entitled The Room Where It Happened, is due to be released on 23 June.\n\n\"I will consider every conversation with me as president highly classified,\" Mr Trump told reporters on Monday. \"So that would mean that if he wrote a book and if the book gets out, he's broken the law and I would think he would have criminal problems.\"\n\nHowever, the non-profit American Civil Liberties Union said that \"any Trump administration efforts to stop John Bolton's book from being published are doomed to fail\".\n\nMr Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, said they were looking through the lawsuit and \"will respond in due course\".\n\nIn January, the White House said the book contained that must be removed, although Mr Bolton rejected this.\n\nHowever, claims reportedly contained in the manuscript - including that Mr Trump withheld military aid to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to start a corruption investigation into Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his son Hunter - formed a central part of the president's impeachment trial earlier this year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe president denied the reports and Mr Trump was acquitted after a two-week trial in the Republican-controlled Senate, which did not include any witnesses.\n\nMr Bolton joined the White House in April 2018 and left in September the following year, saying he had decided to quit as national security adviser. President Trump, however, said he had fired Mr Bolton because he disagreed \"strongly\" with him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A car driving the PM away from Prime Minister's Questions has been involved in a bump on leaving Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson's convoy was involved in a minor collision outside Parliament when a protester ran towards the cars.\n\nThis forced the lead car in the convoy to brake suddenly causing the escorting vehicle to collide with the saloon car carrying Mr Johnson.\n\nA large dent was seen in the prime minister's Jaguar as the convoy drove off towards Downing Street.\n\nNo 10 confirmed Mr Johnson was in the car and said there are no reports of any injuries.\n\nAsked later about the incident, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said Mr Johnson was \"wholly unscathed\".\n\nThe car carrying the prime minister left Parliament Square with a large dent\n\nThe demonstrator had been protesting about Turkey's action against Kurdish rebels.\n\nThe police said a man was later arrested at the scene for offences under the Public Order Act and for obstructing the highway.\n\nThe prime minister was in Parliament on Wednesday, for the weekly Prime Minister's Question session.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man Utd's Rashford speaks about his mother's sacrifices in bid to end food poverty\n\nFootballer Marcus Rashford has been hailed a \"real hero\" by people in the area of Manchester where he grew up.\n\nThe Manchester United and England forward, 22, persuaded the government to extend the free school meal vouchers scheme in England throughout the summer after he penned an open letter to MPs.\n\nThe government had previously insisted it would not award vouchers outside term time.\n\nIn his #maketheUturn campaign, Rashford recalled relying on free school meals and food banks as a boy in Wythenshawe.\n\nSo what do people there make of his success?\n\nChristian Latimer and daughter Mia says the Manchester United star \"stood up for those who need it\"\n\nChristian Latimer's six-year-old daughter Mia has benefited from free schools meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe 27-year-old shop worker praised Rashford for his \"amazing\" campaign.\n\nHe said: \"He showed great fight and he has achieved so much in helping families who struggle to feed their children.\n\n\"Mia had them [free meals] at school and it is a great support and boost for families.\n\n\"Marcus has stood up for those who need it,.\n\n\"As a United fan I thought he was great before but now he has shown the whole country what sort of a person he is off the pitch.\n\n\"I know he visits his old school and gives presents out to the kids.\n\nFormer neighbour Anson James says Marcus Rashford \"always had a ball\"\n\nRashford's former neighbours recall him playing football as a boy in front of his house in the Northern Moor area.\n\n\"He played out the front all the time with his brother,\" Anson James, 45, said.\n\n\"He always had a ball with him.\n\n\"People living round here don't have a lot of money so his family would have struggled.\n\n\"He is a great credit to the area with everything he has done.\"\n\nMike Graham, 51, said Rashford was also given free chicken patties from his favourite Caribbean takeaway J S Rhythm.\n\n\"He was so polite that the people who ran it would give him free food now and again as he did not have the money to buy it,\" Mr Graham said.\n\nHR worker Kate Jenner, 31, lives in Rashford's old house which she rents from his family.\n\nThe footballer lived in the semi-detached home from 2006.\n\nShe said: \"Marcus has been back to the area and the house a few times. What he has done is amazing to stand up for those in poverty and taking on the government.\n\n\"He is a credit to the country.\"\n\nNeighbours recall the England international playing football outside his house\n\nThe Bideford Community Centre in Wythenshawe has turned into a food hub during lockdown and said volunteers \"leapt up and down\" when they heard the free meals scheme was being extended through the holidays.\n\n\"We're over the moon and so proud of Marcus,\" said Kirsty Taylor from the centre.\n\n\"This will make such a difference because we really are at crisis point.\n\n\"There is a lot of poverty in this area and we have been so worried - it is heartbreaking to see children hungry.\"\n\nShe added: \"We have been making 1,000-1,200 meals a week since the lockdown.\"\n\nKerry James, 31, who has used local foodbanks to help feed her two daughters, aged six and nine, said: \"It can be such a struggle to give them food and clothes.\n\n\"I've gone hungry so they can eat and it's heartbreaking sometimes when I can't get them all they need.\"\n\nShe added: \"Marcus is a hero that he is fighting for poor families and made the government change [its] mind.\"\n\nRashford's former head teacher Emma Roberts at Button Lane Primary School said the footballer was \"a real hero to our children\" and staff were \"really proud\".\n\nThe school has twice the national average number of pupils eligible for the free school meals.\n\nShe said some families faced further financial strains with unemployment or reduction in working hours as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nRashford's old football club Fletcher Moss FC also praised their former player.\n\nIt tweeted his actions show \"how footballers can help their own and other communities\" adding it was \"very proud of him\".\n\nMike Kane, MP for Wythenshawe and Sale, tweeted the footballer had \"made a real difference to children's lives\".\n\nHe said Wythenshawe was \"so very proud of you\", adding he was an \"outstanding role model\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales had the lowest number of pupils accessing four or more online lessons per day in lockdown\n\nChildren in Wales are being \"left behind\" by a lack of online schoolwork during the coronavirus lockdown, Plaid Cymru has said.\n\nA survey by University College London (UCL) found only 1.9% of Welsh pupils had four or more daily online lessons.\n\nFrancis Green, the report's author, said the lack of teaching would \"exacerbate existing inequalities\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said its online platform was playing a \"crucial role\" in helping education.\n\nOnline lessons were categorised as live meetings between teachers and pupils over the internet, which were less common than offline lessons, which consist of worksheets and assignments.\n\nThe report found 1.9% of students in Wales received four or more online lessons per day, compared with the UK average of 7%.\n\nJust over a quarter of students received two to three hours of online learning, while 72.5% accessed an hour or less.\n\nThe survey of 4,559 children in the UK, including 234 from Wales, also found Wales was only ahead of the north east of England for the percentage of pupils accessing four or more pieces of offline learning.\n\nSchools in Wales are set to reopen on 29 June\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's shadow education minister, said the results of the survey were \"incredibly disappointing\".\n\nShe said: \"Thousands of children are being left behind and the attainment gap between those from the most advantaged backgrounds and those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds has only widened.\n\n\"The priorities of the Welsh Government's connectivity program should be looked at urgently to ensure digital connectivity is not a barrier for disadvantaged children and their education.\n\n\"We urgently need more data, more research and more transparency.\n\n\"It beggars belief that the Welsh Government isn't already collecting data and setting targets. We need to know how many pupils don't have a personal laptop or proper internet access. We need to know how many pupils are logging on to their education - and how many have no contact at all.\"\n\nMeanwhile Prof Green, professor of work and education economics at UCL, said Wales was behind the rest of the UK in some areas of online education.\n\n\"The greatest fear is the education of a whole generation will be significantly held back,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"Even if children are deprived for weeks, let alone months, then there are significant effects on their educational development.\n\n\"The effects are going to be exacerbating existing inequalities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"Schools in Wales are deploying a wide range of approaches to ensure continuity of learning for pupils with the support of our 'stay safe, stay learning' plan during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our leading online learning platform Hwb continues to play a crucial role in supporting the delivery of education during this incredibly challenging period, with an average of 2.5 million logins per month over the last three months - a 134% increase on the previous year.\n\n\"There have also been over 9.5 million page views per month over the same period - a 157% increase on the previous year. More than 99% of schools are actively engaged in using the platform.\n\n\"It is our intention to use the last weeks of the summer term to make sure pupils, staff and parents are prepared - mentally, emotionally and practically - for the new normal in September.\"\n\nThere's growing concern about big variations in pupils' experience of home learning, especially when the Welsh Government says it will be a big part of education for the \"foreseeable future\".\n\nEven with schools reopening at the end of this month, pupils will only get a very limited amount of face-to-face teaching and the message is that \"blended\" learning will continue.\n\nAt the same time many private schools are providing a full timetable of live lessons, and there are fears about widening gaps in children's education.\n\nLast week, the Children's Commissioner called for a \"step-up\" in what's being provided and minimum expectations of what schools should deliver.\n\nSome teaching unions will be wary of placing extra demands on teachers.\n\nBut there's pressure too on the government to give the issue more attention, alongside the limited return to school buildings.", "Children should speak to their friends in Welsh while playing on games consoles to keep up their use of the language, according to the Welsh language minister.\n\nEluned Morgan acknowledged that non-Welsh speaking parents of children who go to Welsh-medium schools were “anxious” to ensure they have opportunities to use the language while schools are closed.\n\nShe said the government had provided online resources to help.\n\n“There's also opportunities for people to use their language, we've seen the Urdd for example undertake a significant digital event, the Eisteddfod T, with thousands of children from Welsh speaking homes and non-Welsh speaking homes were able to use the language.\n\n“And also I think it's worth just making the point that they have friends, they can speak to their friends in Welsh.\n\n“So I'd encourage them if they are going to be playing on their Xboxes or their PS4s, then there's no reason why they couldn't be chatting to their friends through the medium of Welsh.\"", "Online fashion retailer Boohoo has agreed to buy the online businesses of Oasis and Warehouse for £5.25m.\n\nBoohoo made the announcement as it said online sales rose by 45% in the three months to May, partly boosted by demand for athleisure items during lockdown.\n\nManchester-based Boohoo also owns PLT and Nasty Gal. Earlier this year, it bought struggling brands MissPap, Karen Millen and Coast.\n\nIn April, Oasis and Warehouse went into administration losing 1,800 jobs.\n\nThe brands were forced to shut their 90 UK stores in March because of the coronavirus lockdown, which also closed its 437 concessions in department stores including Debenhams and Selfridges.\n\nOnline shoppers had also been unable to place orders with the fashion chains for a number of weeks.\n\nOasis and Warehouse customers have not been able to place orders online for a number of weeks\n\nThe previous owner had been in talks to sell the businesses before the crisis, but no buyer could be found for the High Street stores as the coronavirus pandemic accelerated the shift of shoppers to online.\n\nThe brand and stock were bought by Hilco Capital, which has now sold them on to Boohoo.\n\nBoohoo said on Wednesday that the sales of loungewear and \"athleisure\" had done well during lockdown as customers adapted to a \"stay-at-home lifestyle\".\n\nWorldwide sales were £368m in the quarter to May. In the UK, which accounts for half of its total revenue, sales were up 30% to £183m.\n\nThat came despite an initial slowdown in towards the end of March and early April as the initial impact of the pandemic hit.\n\nBoohoo says that its social media strategy and \"flexible supply chain\", largely based in the UK, are what drives its growth, allowing the quick turnaround and promotion of what some have criticised as \"fast fashion\" items.\n\nBoohoo competitor Asos has said it had seen a downturn in demand since the Covid-19 outbreak\n\nOnline retailer, and Boohoo competitor, Asos previously said it had seen a downturn in demand since the Covid-19 outbreak. It has revamped its social media strategy and announced a share sale in April in a bid to turn around its fortunes.\n\nOn the High Street retailers in the UK were facing a tough environment before the crisis, due to rising costs and changes in people's shopping habits.\n\nBut the temporary closure of many shops, which have since reopened in England and Northern Ireland, heaped more pressure on retailers.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said Boohoo's own latest purchases would need refreshing: \"It's up to Boohoo to rejuvenate [Oasis and Warehouse] and hope they resonate well with its traditionally younger, more fashion forward customer base.\n\n\"It's a similar move to the Karen Millen and Coast acquisitions, but while we've heard trading's going well with these additions, we haven't had any numbers to crunch, so it's hard to say what the big picture looks like.\"\n\nBoohoo, founded in 2006, sells fashion, beauty and products and shoes aimed at 16 to 24-year-olds.\n\nThe brand is popular with young women in particular, who it targets with marketing campaigns using Instagram influencers and Love Island contestants.\n\nBoohoo bought its Nasty Gal's brand's assets in 2017 for $20m (£15m). It was founded by US businesswoman Sophia Amoruso who is widely credited with popularising the term \"girl boss\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by maurahiggins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to research by polling firm YouGov in May, 11% of 18 to 24-year-olds had purchased something from Boohoo for themselves in the previous three months.\n\nSeparately, Boohoo predicted \"another year of strong profitable growth\" which would outdo analysts' expectations.\n\nJohn Moore, senior investment manager at Brewin Dolphin, said there could also be more acquisitions to come: \"Boohoo continues to deliver strong results, regardless of the challenges placed in front of it, which highlights the company's flexibility and entrepreneurial drive.\n\n\"With excess cash on its balance sheet, you wouldn't rule out further additions in the months ahead as less resilient names struggle in the current retail climate.\"\n\nInvestors were delighted with the company's announcement and sent the shares up 9% at the start of trading.", "Hay-on-Wye, home of a major book festival, is one area that will hold a trial\n\nEight locations across the UK, including an army barracks, have been chosen for trials to help solve problems with access to cash.\n\nOrganisers hope they will inform debate over the future of cash in the UK, particularly for those who rely on it.\n\nThe Community Access to Cash Pilot will test new subsidised ATMs and local cash deposit centres for retailers.\n\nIt comes as a new forecast suggests cash use will fall faster in the UK than in much of Europe.\n\nThe plan for trials was drawn up in light of a major report warning that the country is \"sleepwalking\" into becoming a cashless society.\n\nIt concluded that eight million people in the UK rely on notes and coins, ranging from those without a bank account to people who are not comfortable with digital payments.\n\nThat work was led by Natalie Ceeney, who is also in charge of the pilot projects.\n\n\"Over the past decade we've seen a massive shift from cash to digital payments, and Covid-19 has accelerated that trend further. But we know that digital payments don't yet work for everyone, and for many individuals and communities, cash remains essential,\" she said.\n\n\"But the world is changing - we can't just magic back our old bank branch and ATM infrastructure. Instead, we need to use innovation to develop new solutions as well as harness tried and tested approaches to meet people's needs.\"\n\nCash is vital to avoid overspending, says 20-year-old civil engineering apprentice Brandon Wilson\n\nNot long ago there were two banks with branches in Ampthill. Then there was one. Now there is none. Currently just one cash machine is left to serve a population of more than 8,000.\n\nBrandon Wilson, 20, is currently on furlough from a civil engineering apprenticeship at Luton Airport.\n\nHe said using cash helps him stick more rigidly to his spending plans to ensure he does not spend beyond his means.\n\n\"In general I try and budget my daily routine and having the physical money there means it is harder to spend than just placing a piece of card on to a machine,\" he says.\n\nSome of the places selected for the project are remote communities, such as the village of Botton, North Yorkshire, and Lulworth Camp, a military barracks in Dorset miles away from the nearest cash machine.\n\nSmall towns with thousands of residents which have seen bank branches or cash dispensers disappear are also included, such as Ampthill, along with Rochford, in Essex, Denny near Falkirk, and Cambuslang, in Lanarkshire.\n\nBurslem, in Staffordshire, is also on the list, as is Hay-on-Wye, which has a large number of bookshops and other small businesses with no bank branch to deposit notes and coins.\n\nBanks have been persuaded to pay for the pilots, trying out ideas like shared branches, more cashback in shops, as well as better bus services to allow people to visit surviving branches.\n\nStephen Jones, chief executive of UK Finance, which represents the banks, said the sector was \"committed to ensuring that access to cash remains free and widely accessible to those who need it\".\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak has accelerated the decline of cash use for many people. A recent survey by Link, which oversees the UK's cash machine network, suggested that 75% of people had used less cash during lockdown.\n\nOne new forecast by consultants Accenture claimed that cash usage in the UK would drop by 40% this year, compared with 2019 - a faster drop than a 30% predicted fall in the major economies of Europe.\n\nSulabh Agarwal, from Accenture, said: \"One of the key issues facing [retailers] will be how to take payment. While the decline of cash in the UK isn't new, there's little doubt that lockdown and social distancing measures have pushed consumers who typically rely on cash into digital payments.\"\n\nGareth Shaw, from consumer organisation Which?, said: \"With the existing cash system being pushed closer to the edge of collapse by the coronavirus outbreak, it is clear that new solutions are desperately needed to secure people's access and ability to pay with cash, which millions of people still rely on as their main form of payment.\"\n\nThe results of the pilots will be published in early 2021.", "Dr Meirion Evans has worked as a consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales\n\nThe five-mile travel guidance in Wales should be \"reviewed\" according to a Welsh Government coronavirus adviser.\n\nDr Meirion Evans, who advises Wales' chief medical officer, said that \"the purpose of the journey rather than the distance\" should be considered.\n\nHe told the BBC that journeys such as visiting family members are \"important for society\".\n\nA minister suggested a further decision on the issue may be made on Friday.\n\nBut a Welsh Government spokesperson said changes would only be made \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nOpposition politicians say that people need to travel greater distances than five miles in rural areas.\n\nMore than 14,000 people have signed a petition calling on ministers to relax the guidance, introduced at the end of May.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said that the limit is a \"general rule\" rather than law - with Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford suggesting last week that there were \"no immediate plans to lift the stay-local message in Wales.\"\n\nIn England, unlimited travel is allowed, although scientific advisors to the Conservative UK government have expressed concern at the speed lockdown is being eased in England.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Newyddion programme, on S4C, Dr Evans said: \"I'd like to see the rule on how far you can travel being reviewed.\n\n\"I think it's more important that we consider the purpose of the journey rather than the distance… That it is essential.\n\n\"For example going to see family is important for society.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic governments across the UK have recommended businesses and individuals maintain a 'social distance' of two metres.\n\nThe two-metre rule is currently being reviewed for England. In Wales, it has been part of lockdown legislation since the beginning.\n\nDr Evans also said that the risk in reducing the two-metre distancing rule to one metre \"isn't very big\".\n\n\"The difference in risk between being within a metre, or more than two metres away, isn't very big,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a matter of deciding whether there's more risk in being closer to someone else, that it's worth taking that risk in order to be able to do far more in terms of opening shops, schools and so on.\"\n\nLockdown has been in force since March\n\nThe International Relations Minister, Eluned Morgan told a press conference there is a \"degree of flexibility\" around the five-mile guidance for people living in rural areas.\n\nShe said: \"We absolutely understand that local in a rural area means something very different from local in an urban area, and that's why we have provided that degree of flexibility.\"\n\nMs Morgan said that the Welsh Government would be making some further decisions on the matter on Friday, when the outcome of the next lockdown review is expected to be announced.\n\nThe minister said the Welsh Government is closely monitoring the impact of lifting coronavirus lockdown measures on mainland Europe.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth called for the Welsh Government to \"move forward as quickly as possible as long as they can show that it is safe\".\n\n\"We need real clarity about what the government's vision is, what it plans as the roadmap ahead, because that lack of certainty is causing real problems for businesses and huge frustration for the population at large.\"\n\nHe said people are finding the five-mile restriction difficult, \"though staying local makes sense still\".\n\nAdvisors of the Welsh Government have said that releasing lockdown measures in many European countries has not resulted in a rapid rise in the Covid reproduction rate - the R rate.\n\nMs Morgan said in most countries the R rate had stayed below one, \"but there are some strong hints from France, which suggest as more measures are eased, R may be rising\".\n\n\"The experience from Europe would tell us a cautious approach to further unlocking measures - that's what would be prudent\".\n\nThe R rate is the average number of people a sick person could pass the virus on to.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said in response to Dr Evans: \"The coronavirus lockdown measures in Wales are in place to help limit the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Ministers review all the restrictions in place at each review period - and then decide what, if anything, can be changed.\n\n\"Changes will only be made when it is safe to do so. Our focus is on helping to save lives.\"\n\nThe first minister is due to announce the outcome of the latest lockdown review in Wales on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock could be seen slapping a colleague on the back\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has been spotted slapping a colleague on the back in the House of Commons, despite social distancing measures in place to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMr Hancock's moment of apparent forgetfulness happened as he arrived to Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHe and other ministers have repeatedly urged the importance of people keeping two metres away from one another.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"so sorry for a human mistake on my part\".\n\n\"Like all of us, I instinctively wanted to reach out to a friend I'd just seen - in this case, for the first time in many weeks. I realised my mistake and corrected myself,\" the health secretary said.\n\nHe said it shows how hard social distancing can be, but added it is \"so important that we all keep trying to do our bit\".\n\nIn a clip which quickly garnered thousands of views after it was posted on Twitter, the health secretary can be seen putting his arm across a colleague's shoulder as he enters the Commons.\n\nA third MP then comes and stands beside both of them, before the man in the middle steps back.\n\nMr Hancock then steps across to fill the gap to speak to the third MP, before moving back again.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Hortop This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hancock announced he had tested positive for coronavirus in March - shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed his own positive test.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson had to spend several days in intensive care, Mr Hancock had mild symptoms.\n\nScientists have said it is likely that people who have already had the virus will have some immunity to it, but that everyone must still stick to social distancing rules.\n\nThe World Health Organization said in May that there was \"currently no evidence\" that people who have recovered from the virus are protected from a second infection.\n\nMr Hancock's back-slapped colleague stepped away when a third MP joined them\n\nSpeaking in the Commons after the slip-up, Mr Hancock defended why the government has not yet reduced social distancing from two metres to one metre - something many businesses have said will be crucial to their recovery as they reopen.\n\n\"It's the sort of thing of course we want to lift and we need to do that in a way that is careful and safe,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"The scientists are reviewing it, along with the economists, and we will take forward the further measures on this when it's possible and safe to do so.\"\n\nThe health secretary stepped over yellow-and-black tape - in place to help people to maintain social distancing - to greet another colleague\n\nA review into the two-metre rule will be completed \"in the coming weeks\", No 10 said on Monday.\n\nWorld Health Organization (WHO) guidelines suggest a one-metre distance sufficiently reduces the spread of the virus.\n\nBut the government's scientific advisers say that being one metre away from others carries up to 10 times the risk of being two metres apart.", "Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says users will be able to turn off political adverts on the social network in the run-up to the 2020 US election.\n\nIn a piece written for USA Today newspaper, he also says he hopes to help four million Americans sign up as new voters.\n\nFacebook has faced heavy criticism for allowing adverts from politicians that contain false information.\n\n“For those of you who’ve already made up your minds and just want the election to be over, we hear you -- so we’re also introducing the ability to turn off seeing political ads,” Mr Zuckerberg wrote.\n\nFacebook and its subsidiary Instagram will give users the option to turn off political adverts when they appear or they can block them using the settings features.\n\nUsers that have blocked political adverts will also be able to report them if they continue to appear.\n\nThe feature, which will start rolling out on Wednesday, allows users to turn off political, electoral and social issue adverts from candidates and other organisations that have the \"Paid for\" political disclaimer.\n\nThe company said it plans to make the feature available to all US users over the next few weeks and will offer it in other countries this autumn.\n\nMr Zuckerberg went on to encourage people who aren't signed up as voters to register in time for the US election in November.\n\n“Voting is voice. It’s the single most powerful expression of democracy, the best way to hold our leaders accountable, and how we address many of the issues our country is grappling with.\"\n\n“I believe Facebook has a responsibility not just to prevent voter suppression -- which disproportionately targets people of colour -- but to actively support well-informed voter engagement, registration, and turnout.”\n\nAs part of the initiative a new information hub, called The Voting Information Center, will be put at the top of American users’ Facebook and Instagram feeds from the beginning of July.\n\nInformation on offer will include how to register to vote and details about mail-in ballots.\n\nThe firm also said it will share reliable information from state and local election authorities.\n\nFacebook estimates that the hub will reach 160 million Americans by the 3 November election.\n\nFacing criticism from inside and outside the company over the way it regulates political speech, Facebook has unveiled what look like fairly minor tweaks to policies in the run-up to the US elections.\n\nYes, it will become more evident to users what is and is not a political advert, and they will be able to opt out of seeing them.\n\nBut that was never the main concern of critics, such as the web's creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee.\n\nLast November Sir Tim told the BBC that Mark Zuckerberg needed to \"turn off \" targeted political advertising altogether.\n\n\"It's not fair to risk democracy by allowing all these very subtle manipulations with targeted ads which promote completely false ideas,\" he explained.\n\nI'm told his views have not changed.\n\nFacebook's communications supremo Sir Nick Clegg made it clear on BBC Radio 4's Today that the social media giant will also not bow to pressure to fact check political content.\n\nThe UK's former deputy prime minister was hired by Facebook to be its global affairs chief in 2018\n\nChallenged over Facebook's failure to follow Twitter in at least putting a warning on a post from President Trump saying \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\", Sir Nick trod a delicate path. He described the comment as \"abhorrent\" but backed a collective decision not to take action.\n\nPresident Trump is unlikely to be impressed by that \"abhorrent\" comment. Nor will he be enthused by Facebook's promise to help to register four million voters, which may well do more to boost votes for Democratic candidates than Republican ones.\n\nMeanwhile Joe Biden is still calling on Facebook to tackle misinformation by fact-checking all political ads over the fortnight before the US Presidential election.\n\nBoth contenders feel that Facebook could be crucial to the outcome of that vote, so the next months will see unrelenting pressure on Mark Zuckerberg and his team to prove they can play a positive rather than a destructive role in the democratic process.\n\nSocial media companies are at the centre of a political storm in the run-up to the US election.\n\nLast month Mr Zuckerberg faced criticism for leaving up a series of posts by President Donald Trump, including one that Twitter labelled as containing misleading information about mail-in ballots.\n\nIt was the first time that Twitter had flagged the US president's tweets.\n\nAlso in May, Mr Trump signed an executive order aimed at removing some of the legal protections given to social media platforms.\n\nIt came as Mr Trump continued to accuse companies such as Twitter and Facebook of stifling conservative voices.", "About 1.3 million children will be eligible for free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nThe Manchester United player spoke to Boris Johnson over the phone on Tuesday morning.\n\nMarcus told BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent about his call with the prime minister.\n\nYou can watch the full interview on BBC Breakfast on BBC One on 17 June.", "Most of us change our minds all the time.\n\nMaybe this morning you had planned to go for a run, then actually when push came to shove another ten minutes in bed seemed a better idea.\n\nMaybe when you grew up you wanted to be an astronaut but then discovered that you weren't that good at physics and, developed vertigo as an adult in any case. Maybe you spent years doing one job but decided over time that it wasn't for you.\n\nThis is normal life, and perfectly rational behaviour. One of the most well-known 20th Century economists, John Maynard Keynes, summed up \"when the facts change, I change my mind\".\n\nAlthough for the pedants among you (welcome along!), as with so many of the most quoted statements, it may actually have originally been said by someone else - a different august economist, Paul Samuelson - and might have been the slightly different phrase, \"when my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do sir?\"\n\nWhy then do politicians try to avoid a change of heart?\n\nIt's not just to try to escape occasional headlines about a \"screaming U-turn\", although that is part of the equation.\n\nIt's about judgement and authority too.\n\nOn an individual issue, doing the right thing because of a change of heart is better than pursuing a policy that will cause harm.\n\nBeyond the subjective nature of the \"right thing\" there are also moments when the political momentum is pulling so strongly in one direction, it becomes inevitable.\n\nAlthough ministers have for many days defended the decision not to pay for free school meals in England over the summer, highlighting other chunks of money given to councils to help; the involvement of a young, well-liked, articulate and high-profile figure Marcus Rashford made that defence less sustainable by the hour.\n\nTory MPs started telling their party handlers, the whips, in the last 24 hours they wouldn't vote for it.\n\nAnd some senior figures in the party had started to question what the merits were of continuing a fight that would take a relatively small government cheque to fix, where the downside of sticking to the plan had terrible optics. Not giving in made it look, one MP feared, like the Tories have a \"blind spot on poverty\".\n\nAnother former minister said it was causing \"widespread concern that Number 10 has bad political antennae\".\n\nSo not that long after he sat down to chat to my excellent colleague Sally Nugent for BBC Breakfast, it was Marcus Rashford 1, Boris Johnson 0, and the government had rolled over.\n\nEvery now and then it can be important for governments to show they are listening.\n\nAnd it's pretty clear that the political froth over \"U-turns\" causes much less fuss among the public. But the reality too is that frequent changes of heart can be damaging over time.\n\nEach time there is a reversal, you can hear a little piece of a government's credibility being chipped away.\n\nEvery time something else is unpicked, that loyal backbencher, or loyal minister, loses a little of their own willingness to provide defence for the boss. And frequent concessions can give an impression to the wider public of a government that simply keeps getting things wrong.\n\nWhen you put a cross in the box in the voting booth you are putting your faith in your favourite, or least worst option.\n\nPoliticians have to demonstrate to the public and their parties on a perpetual basis that they are heading in the right direction and broadly taking the correct path.\n\nToo many U-turns and governments can end up going round and round in circles instead.", "A school cover of I'm Still Standing by Elton John found its way to the singer, who sent pupils a personal message to say it had \"really cheered me up\".\n\nThe video of the students' performance has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook.\n\nIn the video message, Sir Elton said: \"I watched it three times in a row because I couldn't believe how good you sang and played it.\n\n\"You did something brilliant and made a brilliant version of I'm Still Standing.\"\n\nHe also promises the students from Telford Priory School, in Shropshire, will be guests at a future show in the UK.", "That's all for our live coverage today.\n\nMany thanks for joining us throughout the day and keeping up to date.\n\nYou can read the latest stories from your part of the country right here plus we'll be back with more live updates from Thursday morning.\n\nUntil then - stay safe and take care.", "Campaigners have called on the government to make pet theft a specific offence after instances of the crime \"went through the roof\" in lockdown.\n\nBeverley Cuddy, editor of Dogs Today magazine, told MPs that during lockdown dog prices \"went up and up\" and cases of theft increased with it.\n\nShe joined others to tell MPs tougher penalties were needed to deter thieves.\n\nThe government has said it is already an offence under the Theft Act 1968, with a maximum penalty of seven years.\n\nBut campaigners say those who steal animals can currently be punished in the same way as someone who steals a mobile phone or a laptop, as pets are classed as \"property\" under the act.\n\nThey also say the government relying on guidance from the Sentencing Council for England and Wales on the level of harm a theft causes is not enough to take into account the emotional distress.\n\nIt comes after more than 250,000 signatures were collected on three petitions calling for pet law reform.\n\nIn a meeting led by Petition Committee member Tom Hunt, magazine editor Ms Cuddy told MPs: \"Lots of other crimes totally disappeared during lockdown - unfortunately dog theft went through the roof.\n\n\"We had some enormous, horrific organised crime. Twenty-two dogs were stolen in a heist like you get in a jewellers.\"\n\nShe said in that example one of the thieves dropped one of the puppies and ran over it.\n\n\"Each one of those puppies was going to be someone's lockdown puppy because unfortunately in lockdown everyone wanted a dog,\" she said.\n\n\"And the prices went up and up and the criminals looked at those figures and looked at all those people who wanted dogs and put two and two together.\"\n\nShe said a tougher deterrent was needed, saying: \"They have taken a member of the family hostage and by not having anything in place which makes this a serious crime we are enabling the most emotionally draining thing to happen to people.\"\n\nFreya Woodhall's family dog, Willow, was stolen from her garden nearly two years ago and since then she has been \"living in limbo\".\n\n\"Having her taken from us has left us heartbroken, it's affected us all mentally,\" the mum-of-four told the meeting.\n\n\"There doesn't seem to be a big enough deterrent to stop people from stealing animals.\"\n\nDr Daniel Allen, an animal geographer at Keele University who has created three petitions calling for pet theft reform, said reasons thieves stole pets include selling them on or breeding them.\n\nAccording to data compiled by the insurance company Direct Line, 1,931 dog thefts were reported in 2018 - a \"record high\" - and only 17% of these dogs were returned to their owners.\n\nJohn Cooper QC told the meeting that the law as it stands means pets \"are effectively treated like a typewriter, a mobile phone, a laptop for instance\".\n\nHe suggested that the Theft Act 1968 should be amended to classify the theft of a pet as a specific example and include it as a category within the act.\n\nHe said another option for reform would be for Parliament to approach the Sentencing Council, \"which lays down directives as to how a court should sentence individuals\".\n\nThe Commons' Petitions Committee has written to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland calling on the government to \"ensure the value of pets is fully recognised in the law, as a real deterrent for those who may commit a crime that can have a devastating impact on pet owners and families\".\n\n\"By creating a specific offence of pet theft these cases could be both punished and deterred more effectively,\" the letter said.\n\n\"At the very least, the government should require the police and courts to specifically record the number of reported crimes, arrests and convictions for the theft of pets so the true scale of this problem is made clear.\"\n\nThe government rejected calls to change the law in 2018, saying the Theft Act provided \"sufficient sanctions\".\n\nAnd in response to one of the petitions earlier this year, the government reiterated that the theft of a pet was already a criminal offence under the act, under which the maximum penalty is seven years.\n\n\"The sentencing guidelines now take account of the emotional distress and harm that theft of personal items such as a pet can have on the victim and recommends higher penalties for such offences,\" it added.", "The government has not had an up-to-date estimate of the number of immigrants in the UK illegally in 15 years, according to a report.\n\nThe last official estimate in 2005 found about 430,000 people were in the country with no legal right to remain.\n\nBut independent research since then has put the figure at over a million, the National Audit Office said.\n\nThe Home Office said it worked \"tirelessly\" with other departments and partners to tackle illegal migration.\n\nMeg Hillier, from Parliament's financial watchdog, said it appeared the Home Office had \"no idea\" how many people were in the UK illegally.\n\nThe Labour MP, who chairs the public accounts committee, added the department \"doesn't seem interested in finding out\".\n\nThe report found that the Home Office put demand for its immigration enforcement services at between 240,000 and 320,000 cases per year.\n\nBut the NAO said this figure excluded those who had no contact with government in the previous two years, and \"does not yet provide a baseline\" to measure the effectiveness of the department's enforcement action.\n\n\"Due to data quality issues, Immigration Enforcement cannot say whether the number of people 'genuinely putting a demand' on its activities is increasing or decreasing,\" it found.\n\nIt suggested the Home Office should look at how other parts of government come up with estimates of \"hidden activity\" such as serious and organised crime, which it said could help to \"improve its understanding of the full scale of the illegal population in the UK\".\n\nThe highest estimate of the illegal population in the UK is 1.2m, given by the Pew Research Centre last year - although the NAO said it had not attempted to verify the number.\n\nThe NAO suggested the Home Office could learn from other parts of government.\n\nThe NAO also found that voluntary and enforced returns of people living the UK illegally had \"fallen dramatically\" since 2015.\n\nVoluntary returns had reduced from an average of 1,200 a month in 2015 to approximately 460 a month in 2019, the watchdog said - although the number of foreign criminals departed had \"remained more stable\".\n\nIn their 2019 election manifesto, the Conservative Party pledged to \"keep track of who is coming in and out of our country\".\n\nGarth Davies, the head of the NAO, said: \"While the Home Office has introduced significant changes to its enforcement activity, it cannot demonstrate that overall performance is improving.\n\n\"The department needs a better understanding of the impact of its immigration enforcement activity on its overarching vision to reduce the size of the illegal population and the harm it causes.\"\n\nA spokesman from the Home Office said it was working \"tirelessly... to tackle illegal migration, close down routes for people smuggling and return those with no right to remain the UK wherever possible\".\n\nHe added: \"We have taken back control of our immigration system and for the first time in a generation, we will have full control over who comes and stays here.\"\n• None Migrants try to cross Channel in fog", "Protesters have been calling for an Oxford college's statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed\n\nOriel College in Oxford has announced that it wants to take down the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes.\n\nThe governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday to remove the statue of the colonialist.\n\nCampaigners have called for the statue to be taken down - saying it was a symbol of imperialism and racism.\n\nThe removal is not expected to be immediate - as the college says there will need to be consultations over planning regulations.\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaigners said the announcement was \"hopeful\", but warned they would remain cautious until the college had actually carried out the removal.\n\nIn a statement, campaigners said that until the \"Rhodes statue ceases to adorn the facade of Oriel College on Oxford's High Street\" there would still be protests over \"imperial and colonial iconography\" in university buildings.\n\nOriel College's governors said the decision had been reached \"after a thoughtful period of debate and reflection\" - and in \"full awareness of the impact these decisions are likely to have in Britain and around the world\".\n\nThe college is to launch an \"independent commission of inquiry\" into the legacy of Cecil Rhodes, which also includes scholarships at the university.\n\nProtesters in Oxford said the statue was no longer acceptable\n\nThe commission, to be headed by Carole Souter, will also consider wider issues, such as support for black and ethnic minority students and a commitment to \"diversity\" - and will consult with groups including students, local people, councillors and the Rhodes Must Fall campaigners.\n\nSusan Brown, leader of Oxford City Council, backed the decision to take down the statue - and said the college's inquiry would be a chance to decide where the statue will \"best be curated in future\".\n\nThe fate of the statue has divided opinion.\n\nLabour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy called it the \"right decision\" on Twitter, adding that it was \"time to take figures like Rhodes down off their pedestals\".\n\nAlan Rusbridger, principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, also welcomed the decision, tweeting: \"I hope they can find a good home for him where we can discuss him rather than (appear to) venerate him.\"\n\nHowever, former Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan tweeted that \"Rhodes's generosity allowed thousands of young people to enjoy an education they could not otherwise have had\".\n\n\"Why would anyone give to an institution that treats its benefactors this way?\" he asked.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday the universities minister had spoken against calls to remove the statue.\n\nMichelle Donelan said it would be \"short sighted\" to try to \"rewrite our history\" - and rejected attempts to \"censor or edit\" the past.\n\n\"I want to be really clear that racism is abhorrent and shouldn't be tolerated anywhere in our society, and that includes universities,\" she told a Higher Education Policy Institute event.\n\nMs Donelan said she was opposed to the renaming of buildings named after the 19th Century statesman, William Gladstone, or the removal of the Rhodes statue.\n\nProtesters on the streets of Oxford have called for the statue to be taken down, saying that it represented imperialist values that were no longer acceptable.\n\nBut last week the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, gave little support for removing the statue - and warned against \"hiding\" the past.\n\n\"My own view on this is that hiding our history is not the route to enlightenment,\" Prof Richardson told the BBC.\n\n\"We need to understand this history and understand the context in which it was made and why it was that people believed then as they did,\" she said.\n\n\"This university has been around for 900 years. For 800 of those years the people who ran the university didn't think women were worthy of an education. Should we denounce those people?\n\n\"Personally, no - I think they were wrong, but they have to be judged by the context of their time,\" said Prof Richardson.", "Les Miserables had been running at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in London\n\nHamilton, Les Miserables, Mary Poppins and The Phantom of the Opera will not return to London's West End until 2021, their producer has announced.\n\nSir Cameron Mackintosh said \"drastic steps\", including redundancies, were required if the shows are to reopen \"as early as practical\" next year.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he would ask leading performers to help draw up a plan for theatres to reopen.\n\nBut he acknowledged venues face \"very specific and practical obstacles\".\n\nSpeaking at the government's daily press briefing, Mr Dowden said he would bring together \"our leading performers in theatres, choirs and orchestras with medical experts and advisers\".\n\nHe continued: \"The idea is that they will work together in detail to develop that roadmap which is so badly needed to performing safely - with a particular focus on piloting innovative ideas that may permit live performances.\"\n\nCulture secretary Oliver Dowden said on Wednesday: \"Culture is our calling card\"\n\nMr Dowden said Sir Cameron was one of \"dozens of people\" he had consulted about the challenges facing the creative industries.\n\nBut he admitted it would be \"exceptionally difficult\" for venues to reopen from 4 July, which is the current scheduled date for stage three of the government's reopening plan.\n\nIn an earlier statement, Sir Cameron earlier said the government had yet to offer \"tangible practical support\" to the theatre industry or say when social distancing would be lifted.\n\nThis, he said, made it \"impossible for us to properly plan for whatever the new future is\".\n\nIt is not known how many jobs are at risk from the closure of his four productions. \"This decision is heartbreaking for me, as I am sure it is for my employees,\" he said.\n\n\"The commercial theatre provides billions of pounds of revenue to the economy,\" Sir Cameron continued.\n\n\"It is time this is recognised and the government takes action to ensure this priceless resource... is helped to survive.\"\n\nHis four musicals were among many West End shows forced to close at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThree months on, it remains unclear when and how London's Theatreland can resume operations safely and profitably.\n\nSir Cameron's statement follows news that Nimax Theatres is to begin making some of its staff redundant. Around 130 jobs are believed to be at risk, according to the Broadway World website.\n\nAround 60 members of staff at the Birmingham Hippodrome may lose their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJobs are also at risk at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, which could remain closed until April next year.\n\nResearch commissioned by the Creative Industries Federation suggests more than 400,000 jobs in the sector could be lost.\n\n\"Without additional government support we are heading for a cultural catastrophe,\" its chief executive Caroline Norbury said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Thrill seekers will no longer be allowed on rollercoasters without a facemask\n\nTheme parks, museums and leisure centres are working out how they could reopen safely, as lockdown restrictions ease in the UK.\n\nEven riding on a rollercoaster is going to require a face mask and social distancing when attractions open up again. Blackpool's Pleasure Beach has decided that, on a ride on which people scream, visitors will be more comfortable if they are made to mask up.\n\nIt is also going to be a less sociable experience - the seats on its Icon ride are only a metre apart so there will be empty rows to allow social distancing.\n\nAfter the opening of shops, England's leisure and cultural attractions are preparing for a government announcement that they too will be allowed to reopen.\n\nHowever, it will be months before many venues will be in a position to allow the public in again. A report from the Creative Industries Federation says 400,000 jobs are at risk and the cultural and creative economy is losing more than £1bn a week in revenue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Sillito experienced a socially-distanced ride on a rollercoaster in Blackpool\n\nIt's this dire situation that is driving planning to ensure institutions will be able to reopen quickly once the government gives the green light.\n\nMuseums will be some of the first spaces to reopen their doors but it will be a different experience.\n\nThe Design Museum in London is removing its ticket desks and is moving to an online ticketing system to avoid the need for physical tickets and queues. There will also be a strict 90-minute time limit to reduce crowding and everyone will be directed along a one-way route.\n\nToilets will be one in, one out.\n\nIt will be a similar experience at hundreds of other venues. James Adebayo from property consultants Tunji Adebayo & Co has been advising on how to make socially distanced spaces. There are, he says, a series of measures that will become commonplace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Sillito and consultant James Adebayo take us on a virtual tour inside a 'Covid-safe' gallery\n\nVenues will increasingly have designated viewing points with limits on how long you can linger. And there will in many places be strict one-way systems to stop dawdling and bumping in to fellow visitors.\n\nEvery one of them will do things slightly differently but here is a list of things you could well experience on a day out.\n\nOf course, this will only affect venues and attractions which can control the public. Some, such as live music venues, which rely on crowds standing together face a much longer wait and a huge hole in their revenue.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk\n• None How Europe's art world is unlocking its doors", "PM emerges from No 10 earlier as he left for PMQs Image caption: PM emerges from No 10 earlier as he left for PMQs\n\nThanks for following along with us today.\n\nYou can scroll back on this feed to catch up on all the questions put to the prime minister at this week's PMQs.\n\nWe'll be back on the BBC's Coronavirus Live Page from 17:00 BST for our rolling coverage of the government's daily briefing at Downing Street.\n\nDo join us there... and we hope you'll be back here with us again next week.", "The UK's biggest building society has tripled the minimum deposit it will ask for from first-time buyers.\n\nThe Nationwide will lower its ceiling for mortgage lending to new customers in response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said the change, from Thursday, was due to \"these unprecedented times and an uncertain mortgage market\".\n\nFirst-time buyers are likely to be the most significantly affected because they often have smaller amounts saved to get on the property ladder.\n\nNationwide has reduced the proportion of a home's value that is willing to lend from 95% to 85%.\n\nSo for example, if a property costs £100,000, a new buyer would now need a £15,000 deposit rather than a £5,000 deposit.\n\nNationwide made the move in case house prices fall and buyers go into negative equity - that is when the debt is greater than the value of the property.\n\nBut it was also to cut the risk of customers not being able to make repayments if they lose their jobs.\n\n\"Our priority at this time must be to help members keep their homes. As such, we need to ensure our members can afford their repayments, while doing what we can to protect them from falling into negative equity,\" said Henry Jordan, Nationwide director of mortgages.\n\nAfter the elation over the re-opening of the housing market, Nationwide's move to limit how much we can borrow will bring everyone down to earth.\n\nIf there is a downward lurch in house prices, recent buyers with big loans will be in serious danger of slipping into negative equity.\n\nAnyone who has been there in previous recessions will tell you it is stressful experience, and not just because of the usual worry about meeting the monthly payments.\n\nYou can feel trapped, because if you sell you make a loss. Plus, there is virtually no prospect of getting another loan to move up the ladder.\n\nOf course, people who are priced out the market will welcome cheaper property, if that is what happens.\n\nBut Nationwide is saying that it is time to \"protect\" us from risking too much to get a dream home.\n\nDavid Hollingworth, associate director of communications at L&C Mortgages, said that Nationwide was following many other major UK mortgage lenders.\n\n\"The market has been changing quickly,\" he said. When the lockdown started, many institutions dramatically dropped the percentage of a property's price they were willing to lend: this is known as the loan-to-value ratio.\n\nAs the housing market has reopened, those maximum loan-to-value ceilings have been rising again, but not up to Nationwide's previous level of 95%.\n\nIn a sense, Nationwide is now \"running with the rest of the pack\", Mr Hollingworth said.\n\nSome lenders, such as HSBC, still have mortgages with a 90% loan-to-value ratio.\n\nHowever, there is more demand for that type of mortgage than many banks have the capacity to deal with at the moment, he said.\n\nEmma Harvey, mortgages director at MoneySuperMarket, said: \"It's getting harder to borrow money to buy a house, as providers look to limit risk in these uncertain times, and Nationwide is the latest example of this.\n\n\"In addition, there are also fewer mortgage products out there to choose from. For example, whilst 90% [loan-to-value] mortgages were commonplace at the start of 2020, only a handful of lenders are still offering these, and even then only with restrictions.\"\n\nMs Harvey said that it has always been a good idea to have as large a deposit as you can save.\n\n\"If you're looking to get on the housing market, you should review your finances, look for areas of savings and be realistic about when you will be in a position to purchase a property.\n\n\"But with the Bank of England base rate so low, there are some great deals out there at the moment for people with a healthy deposit,\" she added.", "A statue of Sir Winston Churchill targeted during anti-racism protests has been uncovered for a visit by the French president this week.\n\nThe statue in Parliament Square, Westminster, was covered for protection following the protests earlier in June.\n\nNearby statues to Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi will stay hidden behind protective screens.\n\nEmmanuel Macron will visit London on 18 June to mark the 80th anniversary of a famous speech by Charles de Gaulle.\n\nA spokesperson for the Mayor of London said the uncovering will \"remain under review\" by the Greater London Authority in consultation with the Met police.\n\nChurchill's statue was defaced during a protest on 8 June, while in Bristol an effigy of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down.\n\nThe statue of Churchill had been fully encased to protect it form protesters\n\nWhile Churchill is credited with helping lead the Allies to victory in World War Two, some critics accuse him of racism because of comments he made about Indians.\n\nThe Grade-II listed bronze tribute to the former home secretary and prime minister was installed in 1973 at the north-east corner of Parliament Square, opposite the Carriage Gates entrance to the Palace of Westminster.\n\nVideo shared online also appeared to show a protester climb the Cenotaph, the memorial to Britain's war dead on Whitehall, and attempt to set a union jack flag alight.\n\nBoards were taken down around the cenotaph on Monday\n\nThe French premier's visit marks the 80th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French population to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n\nHis rallying call was broadcast on the BBC in June 1940, when he said: \"I call upon all Frenchmen who want to remain free to listen to my voice and follow me.\"\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill in London was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will welcome President Macron at Clarence House as part of his visit.\n\nThe RAF's Red Arrows have organised a flypast alongside their French counterparts, La Patrouille de France.", "Teenage siblings in Australia have filmed the moment they encountered a shark while snorkelling at Bulli Beach, south of Sydney.\n\nThe footage shows the shark circling the pair about 150m offshore as they scream and rush to swim away.", "Experts warn remdesivir shouldn't be seen as a \"magic bullet\"\n\nA drug treatment called remdesivir that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began.\n\nRemdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola.\n\nUK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected Covid-19 hospital patients.\n\nFor the time being and due to limited supplies, it will go to those most likely to benefit.\n\nThe US and Japan have already made similar urgent arrangements to provide early access to the medicine before they have a marketing agreement.\n\nThe drug is currently undergoing clinical trials around the world, including in the UK.\n\nEarly data suggests it can cut recovery time by about four days, but there is no evidence yet that it will save more lives.\n\nIt is not clear how much stock pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has available to treat UK patients.\n\nAllocation of the intravenous drug will be based on the advice of doctors.\n\nMinister for Innovation Lord Bethell said: \"This shows fantastic progress. As we navigate this unprecedented period, we must be on the front foot of the latest medical advancements, while always ensuring patient safety remains a top priority.\n\n\"The latest, expert scientific advice is at the heart of every decision we make, and we will continue to monitor remdesivir's success in clinical trials across the country to ensure the best results for UK patients.\"\n\nDr Stephen Griffin from the University of Leeds Medical School, said it was perhaps the most promising anti-viral for coronavirus so far.\n\nHe said patients with the most severe disease would be likely to receive it first. \"Whilst this is clearly the most ethically sound approach, it also means that we ought not to expect the drug to immediately act as a magic bullet.\n\n\"We can instead hope for improved recovery rates and a reduction in patient mortality, which we hope will benefit as many patients as possible.\"\n\nOther drugs being investigated for coronavirus include those for malaria and HIV.\n\nTesting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been halted in some trials because of safety fears.\n\nThe World Health Organization says the temporary suspension is a precaution, after a recent medical study found the drug might increase the risk of death and heart rhythm complications.\n\nIn the UK, the Recovery trial looking at using this drug in patients remains open, but another one, using it in frontline NHS staff to prevent rather than treat infections, has paused recruiting more volunteers.", "Five years before air travel is back to normal says minister\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson has predicted air travel to and from Scotland will take at least five years to return to pre-coronavirus levels. A limited number of flights have continued during lockdown and he said the Scottish Government expects \"a slow recovery of some air services\" over the summer. This will start with domestic services and be followed by international routes, he said. In a written answer to Scottish Conservative MSP Dean Lockhart about the speed routes can be re-established, Mr Matheson said: \"Realistically, it will take at least five years for services to recover to pre-Covid-19 levels.\"", "Former snooker star and BBC commentator Willie Thorne has died at the age of 66, says World Snooker.\n\nThorne was diagnosed with leukaemia in March and was taken to hospital in Spain last week with dangerously low blood pressure.\n\nHe retired from professional snooker in 2001 and for many years was a respected BBC commentator.\n\nThorne reached two World Championship quarter-finals during his career and won the 1985 Mercantile Credit Classic.\n\nWithout him and the work he and his family put in, we just wouldn't be here\n\nHe twice reached a world ranking of seven and spent 20 years among the top 32, before moving into a commentary career spanning more than 30 years with BBC, ITV and Sky.\n\nWith snooker's popularity soaring during the mid 1980s, Thorne featured in a group of leading players who joined Chas and Dave to perform their song Snooker Loopy, which reached number six in the UK charts in 1986.\n• None From Mr Maximum to Snooker Loopy - remembering one of the game's great characters\n\nA GoFundMe page set up to help pay for his treatment had passed £17,000 by Tuesday afternoon, when it was disclosed he had been placed into an induced coma.\n\nHis carer, Julie O'Neill, wrote on the page on Wednesday: \"It is with a very heavy and broken heart that I have to officially announce that at 1.55am this morning Willie Thorne lost his battle and passed away.\n\n\"Willie went into septic shock and was not responding to any treatment so the decision was made by the hospital to turn off the machines.\n\n\"I was with him all the way to his end and reading out messages to him from people. He passed away very peacefully and without pain, listening to his children saying they love him. That gives me some comfort in this difficult time.\"\n\nKnown as Mr Maximum, Thorne was the third player to reach the landmark of 100 centuries and made a 147 in the 1987 UK Championship.\n\nBorn in Leicester, Thorne was a long-term friend of ex-footballer Gary Lineker and the former England and Leicester City striker said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the news.\n\nWriting on social media, the Match of the Day presenter added: \"One of life's great characters. A marvellous snooker player and a lovely man, who's potted his final black much too soon. RIP Willie.\"\n\nFive-time Crucible winner Ronnie O'Sullivan wrote: \"Just want to say what a beautiful man, big heart, great company. Had a week in Ireland with him I'll never forget. Will be missed by a lot of people in the Snooker world. RIP WT.\"\n\nFormer world champion Dennis Taylor, a long-standing colleague of Thorne in the commentary box, said they had \"laughed our way around the world for 45 years\", adding: \"RIP Great One. That was my name for him. The Great WT. Lots of love to his family.\"\n\nShaun Murphy, who won the world title in 2005, was a junior player when he first got to know Thorne. He described him as \"a beautiful, beautiful man\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Someone said to me your reputation is built on what people say about you when you're not in the room.\n\n\"While Willie Thorne did have these issues which have been talked about for a long time, the tributes that are pouring in are not talking about those things. They're talking about what a great guy he was, what great charity work he did, how many great players he and his family helped through the Willie Thorne Snooker Centre in Leicester.\n\n\"There's me, [three-time world champion] Mark Selby, a lot of the players who people know today - we all came through that club. Without him and the work he and his family put in, we just wouldn't be here.\"\n\nWorld Snooker chairman Barry Hearn said: \"I had the pleasure of managing the Great WT as part of the Matchroom team in the 1980s. He was a larger than life personality and he was a major part of the rebirth of snooker at that time. It's so sad to hear he has passed away and our thoughts are with his family.\"\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis, part of Hearn's Matchroom stable, said: \"I hope you had a lovely time on the planet, Willie, and any regrets were overshadowed by the fun and games you had and the smiles you put on other people's faces.\"\n\nStephen Hendry, a seven-time world title winner, wrote: \"Very sad news today, Willie was one of my favourite people in snooker. I know he had faults and weaknesses (we all do) but he was one of the game's greatest ever characters, I'll miss him.\"\n\nIn 2016, Thorne was declared bankrupt after admitting borrowing £1m to fund his gambling addiction.", "A record fall in fuel prices, including petrol, pushed the UK's inflation rate down to 0.5% in May, the second full month of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nFuel prices declined by 16.7% during the month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, dragging the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) to the lowest level since June 2016.\n\nSupermarkets were among the few shops allowed to open in May and food prices rose, the ONS said.\n\nMay's inflation rate was down from 0.8% in April, the first full month of the pandemic lockdown.\n\nInflation is the rate at which the prices for goods and services increase.\n\nIt's one of the key measures of financial wellbeing because it affects what consumers can buy for their money. If there is inflation, money doesn't go as far.\n\nIt's expressed as a percentage increase or decrease in prices over time. For example, if the inflation rate for the cost of a litre of petrol is 2% a year, motorists need to spend 2% more at the pump than 12 months earlier.\n\nAnd if wages don't keep up with inflation, purchasing power and the standard of living falls.\n\n\"The growth in consumer prices again slowed to the lowest annual rate in four years,\" said ONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow.\n\n\"The cost of games and toys fell back from last month's rises, while there was a continued drop in prices at the pump in May, following the huge crude price falls seen in recent months.\n\n\"Outside these areas, we are seeing few significant changes to the prices in the shops.\"\n\nThe ONS admitted that it had difficulty compiling inflation statistics for May, since many areas of the economy were completely shut down.\n\nFor instance, inflation figures for holidays had had to be \"imputed\", it said.\n\nSeparate figures issued by the ONS on Tuesday showed that in the three months to April, workers' regular pay, excluding bonuses, grew at an annual rate of 1.7%, the weakest since January 2015.\n\nHowever, when measured against the comparable three-monthly inflation rate, that means pay growth is continuing to outstrip inflation.\n\nCPI remains below the Bank of England's 2% target for inflation.\n\nInflation is one of the main factors that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) considers when setting the \"base rate\". That influences what interest rates banks can charge people to borrow money, or what they pay on their savings.\n\nInterest rates are currently at 0.1%, the lowest level in the Bank's 325-year history.\n\n\"May's further fall in inflation is probably only the beginnings of a prolonged period of very soft price pressure,\" said Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics.\n\nHe added that MPC members were expected to opt for more stimulus measures to boost the economy at their policy meeting on Thursday.\n\nRising prices are certainly not something Cristina Bruzzolo needs to worry about the moment.\n\nShe owns Colibri Boutique, a high-end women's clothes shop in north London. Monthly sales would normally be about £40,000, but have fallen to about £10,000, she says. \"We were hurt, but we are managing to cover our costs.\"\n\nMs Bruzzolo has been discounting by a hefty 20%-30%. She's had to be inventive in order to make sales, including using Zoom video calls to show customers clothes and then take items to their homes so they can try before they buy.\n\n\"The stock for this season has already been paid for,\" she said. \"I need to generate cash flow to pay for next summer's stock.\"\n\nBut Ms Bruzzolo is expecting another big sales hit in the autumn when the furlough scheme ends and, she fears, many people are made redundant.\n\nNevertheless, while Ms Bruzzolo is pessimistic about the near term, she's optimistic about the long-term future.\n\n\"It's going to be a very tough year, probably even two years,\" she says. But she's survived previous downturns and believes that, with good cost-control and some good luck, she'll survive this one. \"I'm keeping my fingers crossed,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron viewed documents and artefacts relating to General Charles de Gaulle\n\nBoris Johnson has met French President Emmanuel Macron in Downing Street to mark the 80th anniversary of a famous wartime broadcast.\n\nIn 1940, French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle used the BBC to send a radio message to Nazi-occupied France, urging people not to give up the struggle against Hitler.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"courage and sacrifice\" of those who fought on.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall welcomed Mr Macron to the UK.\n\nAnd the Red Arrows and their French counterparts, La Patrouille, performed a flypast above London to mark the occasion.\n\nDuring their meeting, Mr Johnson and Mr Macron discussed post-Brexit trade arrangements between the UK and EU, with No 10 saying the prime minister \"welcomed the agreement to intensify talks in July\".\n\nThe air display flew directly over Westminster and the recently-uncovered Winston Churchill statue\n\nA spokesperson added that he had restated that the UK \"does not believe it makes sense for there to be prolonged negotiations into the autumn\". The \"transition period\" - during which the UK remains in the EU single market and customs union - is due to finish at the end of the year.\n\nThe two leaders also talked about easing the 14-day coronavirus quarantine measures in place for visitors to - and UK citizens returning to - the UK.\n\nMr Macron was exempt from the requirements, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nThe Red Arrows and La Patrouille flew over Buckingham Palace\n\nIt was earlier announced that four surviving French Resistance fighters are to be appointed honorary MBEs.\n\nEdgard Tupet-Thome, 100, Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier, 99, Hubert Germain, 99, and Pierre Simonet, 98, are already members of the Order of Liberation, an honour given by France to those who played an outstanding role in freeing the country from its four-year wartime occupation.\n\nMr Macron's visit also comes after it was announced that Dame Vera Lynn, the singer dubbed the \"forces' sweetheart\" for her morale-boosting performances during World War Two, has died aged 103.\n\nSocial distancing was maintained during the French president's visit to London\n\nThe two leaders viewed artefacts and letters from General de Gaulle's time in London and from his partnership with the UK's wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nMr Johnson presented Mr Macron with a framed montage of a telegram sent from General de Gaulle to Sir Winston on VE Day, in 1945, and Sir Winston's reply.\n\nHe also gave him a model of Sir Winston's open-top Land Rover and a photograph of General de Gaulle in Paris, shortly after the city's liberation from German forces in 1944.\n\nIt was 80 years ago that General Charles de Gaulle broadcast a historic message from London to his fellow countrymen imploring them not to give up the fight against Hitler.\n\nFrance was on its knees at the time, German troops having entered Paris four days earlier, and on the verge of agreeing an armistice confirming its formal military surrender.\n\nIn the message, broadcast in French, De Gaulle said: \"Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.\"\n\nTransmitted on the BBC's French Service, the broadcast was not recorded and relatively few people in France heard it.\n\nBut a similar broadcast four days later on the same network reached a wider audience and went a long way to establishing de Gaulle as his country's leader in-exile.\n\nThe 18th June 1940 remains one of the most important dates in UK-French history and still has enormous resonance on both sides of the channel.\n\nAfter the fall of France, General de Gaulle made a speech from London 18 June 1940. Known as the \"Appel\", or appeal, it rallied the country in support of the Resistance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When she was 21, Olivia Jordan found herself driving French resistance leader Charles de Gaulle around London\n\nMr Macron, speaking next to General de Gaulle's statue in Carlton Gardens, in central London, said: \"This is where de Gaulle was able to call on the French people to join the Resistance, the soldiers of the shadows.\n\n\"Because 80 years ago today, on June 18 1940, the United Kingdom gave Free France its first weapon, a BBC microphone.\"\n\nEmmanuel Macron laid a wreath at the statue of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother\n\nMr Johnson said General de Gaulle had arrived in 1940 knowing that Britain and France's shared values of \"freedom, tolerance and democracy\" were under threat and pledging to defend them.\n\n\"The struggles we face today are different to those we confronted together 80 years ago. But I have no doubt that - working side by side - the UK and France will continue to rise to every new challenge and seize every opportunity that lies ahead,\" he said.", "Augustine Tanner-Ihm is from Chicago and wants to work for the Church of England\n\nA black trainee vicar was rejected for a job by church bosses who said his potential parishioners were \"monochrome white working class\".\n\nIn an email sent in response to his application, Augustine Tanner-Ihm was told he \"might feel uncomfortable\" in the curacy role at the parish.\n\nThe email said despite his \"obvious gifts\", it was \"not worth pursuing a conversation\" about the vacancy in southern England.\n\nThe Church of England has apologised.\n\nMr Tanner-Ihm, who is from Chicago and is a Reverend Seminarian in the United States, applied for a role as a curate at a church in the south of England.\n\nIn response, he got an email saying: \"We are not confident there is a sufficient 'match' between you and the particular requirements of that post.\n\n\"The demographic of the parish is monochrome white working class, where you might feel uncomfortable.\"\n\nHe was sent this email in response to his application\n\nMr Tanner-Ihm, 30, who is studying at Durham University, said his reaction to the letter in February \"was pain, deep pain\".\n\n\"As an African-American man from Chicago, with parents and grandparents who lived during the civil rights movement, I was under the understanding that my race has nothing to do with my ability to minister,\" he said.\n\n\"I think the church has institutional issues with [racism].\"\n\nAugustine Tanner-Ihm has two theology degrees from St John's College in Durham\n\nThe Rt Revd Chris Goldsmith, the Church of England's director of ministry, said: \"We take very seriously any allegation that a curacy post, or any other position, may have been denied to someone on the grounds of their ethnic heritage.\"\n\nHe said a member of his team had \"reached out\" to Mr Tanner-Ihm to learn about his experiences, adding: \"We have also established that the diocese concerned has recognised its failure in this and sent a written apology to [him].\n\n\"We fully recognise that the Church of England has a lot more work to do to become a place where our leadership is representative of the rich heritages of all the people of England.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teachers' unions have denied suggestions by Conservative MPs they have been \"actively obstructive\" over the reopening of schools in England.\n\nUnion leaders said it was important for children to return to school \"as quickly as possible\" and when \"safe to do so\".\n\nBut MPs accused them of running a political campaign to keep schools closed.\n\nUnions appeared before the Education Select Committee on Wednesday morning.\n\nTory MP and committee member Jonathan Gullis, who is a former teacher and a former NASUWT union representative, said he was \"absolutely outraged at the sheer damage the unions have done to the teaching profession\".\n\nHe accused the National Education Union (NEU) of running a \"political campaign... to basically make sure schools did not open\".\n\nMr Gullis, MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, said five conditions set out by unions for schools to reopen safely had been \"effectively five tests\".\n\nBut Patrick Roach, the general secretary of the NASUWT, rejected this, saying they were conditions the government needed to demonstrate for the safe reopening of schools.\n\nDr Roach said schools \"should be open as soon as possible\" and that \"some already are to a large degree\".\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the NEU said: \"We'll support a full school reopening when it is safe.\"\n\nMr Gullis asked: \"Why is it that every time I see a union rep on TV they're saying schools aren't safe to open?\n\n\"A campaign has been run, whether you like it or not, to breathe fear into parents about the idea of sending their kids back to school... it has come across to parents that schools are death traps.\"\n\nTom Hunt, Tory MP for Ipswich, added: \"The perception that many people have in this country, whether rightly or wrongly, and it is a reality, sadly, that many people feel as though some of the teaching unions have actively obstructed the reopening of schools ahead of September.\"\n\nRobert Halfon, Tory MP for Harlow and chairman of the committee, asked the unions: \"Why is it that children and parents can have access to Primark over the next few months, but many of them won't have access to schools according to your risk assessments?\"\n\nUnion leaders told MPs they wanted children back in school as soon as possible, but they raised concerns about schools leaders' ability to do so in the autumn term under the current social distancing rules.\n\nDr Bousted said: \"The problem we have in England in particular is that we have some of the highest pupil-teacher ratios.\n\n\"We've got more pupils in classes and the footprint on the classes is smaller so if you're going to continue with social distancing, it puts the pressure on the school site to be very great.\"\n\nWhen asked whether schools will be able to open fully in September under current restrictions, Dr Bousted told MPs: \"If the government retains its social distancing rules then they can't.\n\n\"So that's why we then need to look at an education recovery plan, which is focused on more than school buildings.\"\n\nDr Roach told the cross-party committee of MPs that the issue of reopening schools had to be looked at \"in the context of a public health crisis\".\n\n\"We have a public health crisis which led the government to close schools in the first place and any decisions around the reopening of schools have got to be set in that context.\"\n\nDr Bousted said the science surrounding Covid 19 was not negotiable and that it must \"lead the process in relation to reopening\" of schools.\n\nShe said the advice from government had been \"woeful\", but said the risk assessments the union had produced were based on guidance from the Department for Education.\n\nIf committee members had a problem with it, she added, they should \"take it up\" with the department.", "People most at risk from coronavirus will \"very soon\" be told when they can stop isolating, the government says.\n\nSome 2.2 million people in England - who have been told to stay home since the beginning of lockdown in March - will get a letter detailing the change, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said.\n\nCharities say the government must explain why it will be safe to change the shielding programme.\n\nScotland has extended its advice to shield until at least the end of July.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, about 80,000 people who were told in March to shield for at least 12 weeks are now receiving letters asking them to continue to do so until the end of June - although they can now spend some time outdoors.\n\nIn Wales, since 1 June some 130,000 people shielding have been allowed to do unlimited outdoor exercise - but still should not go to work or do their own shopping.\n\nAt the start of June, people shielding in England were told they could go out once a day - to meet one person from another household - while maintaining social distancing. This advice is in place until the end of the month.\n\nAsked about how the advice might change, Health Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Breakfast: \"If you are in the shielded category we will announce very soon what the plans are and we will write to you personally through the NHS so that you can get the direct clinical advice.\"\n\nIt comes after the Health Service Journal (HSJ) reported that England's shielding programme will end at the end of July.\n\nThe HSJ, which publishes news, analysis and advice for healthcare workers, reported that the announcement would mean food packages and medicine deliveries for people on the shielding list would also stop.\n\nBut the government said \"no final decision has yet been made\" about when to end the shielding programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Primary school teacher Lynne Loomes says shielding has become more challenging as lockdown measures ease\n\n\"We've always said we will be looking at making life easier for those having to shield, when it is safe to do so,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are considering the next steps for the shielding programme beyond the end of June, based on the latest medical and scientific advice.\"\n\nAs the UK went into lockdown, people in England considered to be most at risk from Covid-19 were contacted telling them not to leave home and to avoid contact with others.\n\nAmong the list of people who should be shielding are solid organ transplant recipients, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, pregnant women with heart disease and people with severe respiratory conditions such as cystic fibrosis and severe asthma.\n\nSeveral charities have urged the government to explain the rationale behind ending the programme, if and when the decision is made.\n\nSteven McIntosh, policy director at Macmillan Cancer Support, said the communication that the shielded have received \"hasn't been good enough up 'til now\" - and any announcement must make clear why it is safe for people to stop isolating.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that cancer patients Macmillan nurses have spoken to are \"mentally and physically struggling with isolation\" and are facing \"increasing pressure from their employers to return to work, even though it isn't yet safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that people need to know what will happen if the infection rate begins to go back up.\n\nAge UK director Caroline Abrahams said the government must \"do all it can\" to support older people who are worried their employers may be unwilling or unable to let them return to work, \"for fear of being unable to keep them safe\".\n\nGemma Peters, chief executive of Blood Cancer UK, added: \"There is a real danger that people will face a choice between financial security and their health, and this would be unacceptable... we're concerned the government is taking a one-size-fits-all approach to lifting shielding.\"\n\nNick Moberly, chief executive of the MS Society, said \"a blanket lifting of the guidance now\" would leave people who have been shielding \"feeling even more frightened and anxious\".\n\nHe added that vulnerable people need reassurance that they will continue to receive food deliveries, and other support such as mental health care, when shielding ends.", "Stephen Fry, Fern Britton and Sir Lenny Henry are among those to have signed the letter\n\nDozens of broadcasters from Stephen Fry to Sir Lenny Henry have signed a letter asking the BBC not to cut its English regional current affairs programmes.\n\nThe BBC has cancelled the autumn series of Inside Out and merged its weekly regional political programmes.\n\nThe BBC is now \"seriously under-serving regional audiences\", the letter sent by the National Union of Journalists said.\n\nIn response, the corporation said the coronavirus pandemic had \"forced us to prioritise our resources\".\n\nThe letter is addressed to outgoing director general Lord Hall, who has said the BBC must find £125m savings this year, and his successor Tim Davie.\n\nThe signatories also include presenter Fern Britton, actor Dominic West, naturalist Chris Packham, writer and actress Daisy May Cooper, poet Benjamin Zephaniah, director Ken Loach and broadcaster Gloria Hunniford.\n\nIt says: \"Never has in-depth investigative journalism, holding people to account and reflecting the regional diversity of England been more important.\"\n\nInside Out is broadcast in 11 regions, covering a wide array of stories and issues affecting life in those areas. Meanwhile, the regional Sunday morning political programmes have been replaced during the pandemic by a single show.\n\nThe BBC's outgoing director-general Lord Hall has said the BBC must find £125m in savings this year\n\nThe letter continues: \"If these cuts were to become permanent they risk damaging English democracy by the failure to provide an important platform for those voices in our communities who need and want to be heard.\n\n\"Even when faced with financial pressures we urge the BBC to not reduce regional programming and to defend a vital element of public service broadcasting not available anywhere else.\"\n\nA BBC spokesman said: \"Local and regional broadcasting is in the BBC's DNA and we're especially proud of how our services have performed during recent months.\n\n\"The pandemic has forced us to prioritise our resources so we've cancelled the autumn series of Inside Out and are continuing with the single political programme for England through to the summer.\n\n\"The BBC does face very real financial challenges so naturally we are looking at what savings might be possible across the BBC.\"\n\nIn January, Lord Hall unveiled a plan to have at least two thirds of the corporation's staff based outside London by 2027.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "People with possible cancer symptoms are being urged not to put off getting them checked out as part of a new campaign by the Welsh Government.\n\nOne health board said cancer referrals were down by two-thirds, which it attributed to people's fears of visiting hospitals or GPs.\n\nCharities have also warned of a future cancer \"timebomb\" due to a disruption to services caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had a strategy to \"meet pressures\".\n\nVelindre Cancer Centre has remained \"open for business\" over the last three months\n\nClinical oncologist Dr Sarah Gwynne from Swansea Bay health board said: \"It's a difficult time at the moment. People are very scared about possibly coming into hospital or going to see their GP.\n\n\"We can see that the number of people who would normally be referred with symptoms that are suggestive of cancer have reduced dramatically - we are only seeing a third of what we would expect.\n\n\"That makes us think there are patients out there who may possibly have cancer but are not contacting their GP.\"\n\nNew research by Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) suggests a shortage of cancer doctors could hamper efforts to deal with an expected surge in new cases.\n\nThe government's campaign highlights the fact that tests and treatment for cancer are still available even though services have been adapted as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, with some appointments being done remotely.\n\nThere are also worries that patients with potential symptoms are hesitant to get help due to fears of catching Covid-19.\n\nCancer charity Macmillan has warned Wales, like the rest of the UK, is facing a potential cancer timebomb due to the disruption to diagnosis, treatment and care caused by coronavirus.\n\nThe charity pointed to a reduction in GP referrals, the suspension of national screening programmes and delays in cancer surgery as examples of this.\n\nThe Welsh Government acknowledged services had been hit due to pandemic but it said that the number of referrals was improving.\n\nSiobhan O'Flynn and her nine-year-old son Dylan, who was coming to the end of cancer treatment when lockdown was called\n\nSiobhan O'Flynn's nine-year-old son Dylan Williams was coming to the end of cancer treatment when lockdown was called, although follow-up appointments had to be cancelled.\n\n\"People have stopped going in for treatment because they have been so fearful of catching coronavirus,\" said Siobhan, from Cardiff.\n\n\"The message has to be positive in that if professional people are saying it's OK to come back or to keep going, or that you must go to see your GP.\"\n\nDylan was diagnosed with a very rare cancer, which first showed signs when he developed a swollen cheek, not long after he first started school.\n\n\"I know if we'd been in the situation as Dylan was diagnosed, in this current climate, it could have been a different story.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Public Health Wales announced plans to resume cancer screening programmes, beginning with cervical screening in July.\n\nIt will also be sending invitations and reminders to people eligible for breast and bowel cancer screening away from the main hospitals.\n\nMeanwhile, private hospitals have been working with health boards to help continue cancer surgery.\n\nMore than 1,000 patients - the majority cancer patients - have had treatment at the Spire hospital in Cardiff since the start of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, some patients continue to face delays in surgery even though cancer staff across the NHS have been praised by health bosses for going \"over and above\" keeping as many services as possible going.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Tests and treatment for cancer are available and I want those who need to seek care and treatment to continue to do so.\n\n\"We have worked hard with the NHS to ensure cancer services can continue but the pandemic has had an impact on services.\n\n\"That doesn't mean the NHS isn't there for you but it does mean care and treatment has had to adapt to being delivered in a world with covid.\"\n\nVaughan Gething admitted the pandemic has had an impact on cancer services\n\nSteve Ham, boss of Velindre University NHS Trust that includes Velindre Cancer Centre in Whitchurch, Cardiff, said it had been \"open for business\" over the past three months.\n\n\"We have embraced new technology as a means of maintaining patient-doctor relationships and upped our online engagement to signpost services and reassure an understandably anxious public,\" he said.\n\nRichard Pugh, head of partnerships for Macmillan Cancer Support in Wales and chair of the Wales Cancer Alliance, said it was a \"very anxious time for people living with cancer and those awaiting diagnosis or treatment\".\n\n\"We welcome the clear message by Welsh Government that no-one should hesitate to come forward with symptoms of cancer and at Macmillan we urge people to respond to this by getting any cancer signs or symptoms checked straight away,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) is warning that a shortage of specialist cancer consultants could hamper efforts to deal with the growing backlog of cases.\n\nIt fears the shortage of oncologists compounded by a predicted surge in new patients, and restricted capacity as a result of infection control measures, means patients may have less chance of successful treatment.\n\nAnd it warns Wales could be particularly hard hit by shortages in the future years.\n\nIts latest oncology census shows the UK's provision of clinical oncology consultants - the doctors who treat cancer with non-surgical means such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy.\n\nThe findings show that although in Wales the consultant workforce went up by three full-time cancer consultants between 2018-19, Wales' three cancer centres were still understaffed by 21%.\n\nThe report also makes a projection about the state of the workforce within five years' time, considering factors such as the age of the current workforce.\n\nIt predicts if nothing is done to increase the number of clinical oncology experts, by 2024 Wales will have one less full-time consultant than it does now and its consultant shortfall will hit 33%, the highest predicted shortage in the UK.\n\nThe survey's staffing figures were compiled in December, before coronavirus hit.\n\nHowever, the RCR argues cancer services are under even more pressure due to the knock-on impact and capacity constraints caused by the virus.\n\nIt argues although non-surgical cancer treatment has continued throughout the pandemic, patient turnaround has slowed as cancer centres have had to manage staff sickness and reduced capacity due to social distancing and cleaning requirements.\n\nThe wider cancer community is also anticipating seeing a surge of new patients whose diagnosis and treatment has been delayed because of the virus, likely to hit in the autumn.\n\nDeaths with coronavirus in Wales have reached their lowest for 10 weeks, new figures show\n\nDr Tom Roques, the RCR's clinical oncology workforce lead, said: \"NHS cancer teams were working flat out before coronavirus hit and have continued to provide services during the pandemic.\n\n\"We just do not have the capacity to provide the same level of care as before, when we are faced with a new peak of cancer referrals and given the added pressures of coronavirus.\n\n\"Delayed access to diagnosis, compounded with clinical oncologist shortages, will inevitably mean patients waiting longer to see a cancer expert, with worse outcomes and less chance of curing their cancer.\n\n\"The UK workforce needs at least another 200 more clinical oncologists to keep up with demand, but the stark reality is last year it only had an overall gain of five consultants.\"\n\nCardiff-based clinical oncologist Dr Seema Arif, chair of the RCR's Standing Welsh Committee, said: \"With Welsh shortages set to become the worst in the UK because of increasing retirements and not enough trainee consultant posts, the Welsh Government desperately needs to fund more training places and we must do more to incentivise consultants to come and work here.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"We recognise the growing demand on cancer services in Wales and have been working with the NHS to improve capacity.\n\n\"Our workforce strategy will support NHS services to meet pressures as a result of Covid 19, including the expected rise in cancer demand during and beyond the pandemic.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the Welsh Government was \"aware from health board feedback that cancer referrals immediately fell by about 70% at the end of March\".\n\n\"Since then it is reassuring to note that health boards are reporting that referrals are now improving but they remain considerably below the level they normally are.\"", "An investigation has been launched after a collision between two planes on the tarmac at Aberdeen International Airport.\n\nThe nose of one of the aircraft ended up wedged under the engine of the other on Tuesday evening, lifting it off the ground.\n\nNo passengers were on board the Loganair jet, which was struck by the former Flybe plane.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) has been informed.\n\nNo-one was injured in the incident.\n\nLoganair said in a statement: \"A Loganair Embraer 145 regional jet, parked with no passengers or crew members aboard, was hit by a former Flybe Bombardier Q400 aircraft, which we understand was being prepared for departure after being stored at Aberdeen Airport.\n\n\"The nose of the Q400 impacted the rear starboard side of the Embraer, becoming lodged underneath and lifting the right main gear off the ground.\n\n\"The most important thing is that no-one was injured in the incident, with the crew working on the ex-Flybe aircraft being safe and well, yet understandably shaken.\"\n\nAberdeen International Airport confirmed that the incident happened at about 18:00 on Tuesday.\n\nThe airport said in a statement: \"The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is now carrying out an investigation.\"\n\nThe AAIB added: \"Following an incident at Aberdeen Airport the AAIB is making initial enquiries, and at this stage there is no further comment.\"", "A man was shot in the leg by police after a lorry was stolen at gunpoint\n\nA man has been shot by police after a lorry was stolen in an armed robbery.\n\nOfficers were called to the Rivermead Industrial Estate in Westlea, Swindon, at 17:00 BST after the vehicle was stolen by a man with a gun.\n\nPolice intercepted the lorry in Ridge Green and a man in his 50s was shot in the leg. He has been airlifted to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nWiltshire Police referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nSupt Phil Staynings said: \"I want to reassure the community that this incident was dealt with swiftly. Nobody else was injured and the incident is now contained.\n\n\"However, people living in the area will have seen a heavy police presence, which will continue throughout the evening.\n\n\"Due to the fact that a police firearm was discharged, we have automatically referred the incident to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\"\n\nIn video circulating on social media officers can be repeatedly heard shouting \"put the gun down\".\n\nResidents living nearby told the BBC they heard \"at least one gunshot\".\n\nA spokesman for the IOPC, which has launched an independent investigation into the shooting, said: \"We understand, at this time, that officers from Wiltshire Police were called to a disturbance shortly after 5pm today following reports of an armed robbery in Rivermead Industrial Estate, Westlea.\n\n\"We have sent investigators to the scene and to the post-incident procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman who survived Covid-19 after taking part in a drug trial feels \"eternally grateful\" and believes she would have died without it.\n\nKatherine Millbank was given dexamethasone, a cheap and widely available steroid treatment which UK experts believe is a major breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nMrs Millbank, from Buckinghamshire, left hospital on her 55th birthday and is now able to go for short walks and cycle rides with her husband Paul Millbank.", "The final closing time: General manager Jackie Cunliffe stacks chairs in the Beresford Hotel dining room\n\nThree months after lockdown shut down large parts of the UK economy, job losses are beginning to bite - nowhere more so than in the Cornish town of Newquay where more than half of those employed work in the badly affected sectors such as tourism and hospitality.\n\nStanding in the dining room, amid a sea of upturned chair legs, piled on once bustling tables, Jackie Cunliffe reflects on the 30 years she spent working in Newquay's Beresford Hotel.\n\n\"It belonged to Shearings holidays, but actually it didn't. It belonged to us.\n\n\"We managed it, we owned it, we cared for it.\"\n\nThe 63-year-old general manager is widely respected and held in great affection by the 50 staff who lost their jobs when the hotel closed in May, after Shearings' parent company went into administration.\n\n\"We should have 200 people in here, having their breakfast, going out on tours all around Cornwall.\n\n\"We have diaries full of people asking for tables-for-two, specific rooms. All of it has just gone.\"\n\nSome of the staff had gathered in the hotel ballroom to join a conference call on 22 May, when the chief executive of Shearings' parent company, Specialist Leisure Group (SLG), told nearly 2,500 employees across the UK that efforts to save the group had failed.\n\nJust three years after reporting record sales and profits, the group - owned by American private equity firm Lone Star Funds - called in administrators, bringing to an end a company whose origins can be traced back 117 years.\n\nRemembering happier times - Caroline Tansley was a key member of the Beresford team\n\nAmong those in tears at the news was Caroline Tansley, who worked at The Beresford for 20 years - primarily as a receptionist, though she often pitched in with the entertainment: singing, dancing, bingo, comedy, and as 'Mother Christmas', handing out presents to guests.\n\nAs well as losing her job, Caroline is losing her accommodation and is obliged to move out by 3 July.\n\n\"Normally at this time of year, with the lovely weather we've been having, it would be heaving.\n\n\"To the see the hotel standing empty is just heart-breaking,\" she says.\n\nHer partner, Darren Philips, is in the same boat.\n\nA part-time assistant manager at the hotel, he says the company were brilliant when he lost the sight in his left eye 10 years ago, and even developed a role specially for him.\n\nThe hotel's part-time assistant manger, Darren Philips, fears he will not work again\n\nThe sight in his right eye isn't great either, and he fears he may not work again.\n\n\"I can't use computers. Anything that needs me to see really, I struggle with.\n\n\"I've worked here for so long, I know the building like the back of my hand. I'd struggle if I went to a different building, with steps. I'd end up falling down.\"\n\nThe 107-room Beresford Hotel is one of two hotels in Newquay that have been forced to close due to SLG's demise.\n\nA few yards along the same road, the 52 rooms of the Marina Hotel are empty too, the front doors directing any questions to the administrators in Wigan.\n\nTwo other hotels owned by the group in Cornwall have also shut - some 150 jobs are estimated to have been lost.\n\nNewquay has seen at least two hotels close this year\n\nWhile Covid-19 has been less of a health crisis in the south west of England than many had feared, the pandemic is predicted to hammer the local economy.\n\nCornwall Council will consider a report on Wednesday that indicates as many as 72,800 jobs - 27% of all jobs in the county - are at risk due to the ongoing lockdown.\n\nIt calculates that the all-important tourism sector will lose £630m by the end of June.\n\nData released last month showed a 61% increase in applications for Universal Credit across Cornwall; the rise in applications between March and April in Bodmin, Bude, Penzance and Newquay was over 1000%.\n\nAnd a report in April from think tank, the Centre for Towns predicts Newquay will suffer the greatest economic hit of any town in England and Wales.\n\nNo surprise then, that hopes of finding a new job quickly are not high among the Beresford's former employees.\n\nSome are being told they are competing with up to 500 people for jobs in local supermarkets - an intimidating prospect for the many staff who have not faced a job interview in decades.\n\nHead chef Phillip Milne says he is losing his pride\n\nHead chef Phillip Milne, who spent 18 years at the hotel and took great pride in teaching culinary skills to the many international staff who passed through, says the past few weeks have been demoralising.\n\n\"To have no security, and no jobs in the area, is very hard to swallow.\n\n\"You feel as though your pride's been taken away a bit.\n\n\"You're up at 6 o'clock in the morning because your pattern is still the same, and you're on the internet going through every single website looking for work.\"\n\nPhillip led a kitchen team that could serve 190 covers in around 90 minutes on a busy day.\n\nThe hotel mainly catered for older visitors, who often returned year after year for the comfort and familiarity which The Beresford offered.\n\nAt the height of the summer, Shearings could bring 1,000 people to Cornwall every week.\n\nFormer head housekeeper Katie Korvisia has been offered work cleaning holiday homes\n\nThere is hope, if the lockdown is further eased next month and tourists begin to return, that some jobs will open up.\n\nKatie Kovisia, the hotel's former head housekeeper, has been offered a cleaning job at a holiday park for the summer, or she could clean holiday cottages on a self-employed basis.\n\nNeither prospect is particularly appealing for the 15-year veteran of the Beresford, but she realises she may not have many options: \"Here I was part of a family. It's been my life. It's very sad.\"", "Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has had his permission to officiate revoked\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, has had his permission to officiate as a priest revoked.\n\nThe Church of England said new evidence linking Lord Carey, 84, to a review into allegations of abuse against the late John Smyth, had emerged.\n\nThere are no claims of abuse against him, and in a statement he said he was \"dismayed\" by the revocation.\n\nMr Smyth was accused of attacking boys whom he had met at a Dorset Christian camp in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe independent inquiry was launched into the Church's handling of allegations against Mr Smyth, a barrister who died aged 77 last year.\n\nPermission to Officiate (PTO) is required for any Church of England priest to preach or minister.\n\nIn a statement Lord Carey said: \"I am bewildered and dismayed to receive the news a short time ago that due to 'concerns' being raised during the review of John Smyth QC I have had my PTO revoked.\n\n\"I have been given no information on the nature of these 'concerns' and have no memory of meeting Mr Smyth.\"\n\nIn 2017 a damning independent report found he had \"colluded [with the convicted abuser Peter Ball] rather than seeking to help those harmed\".\n\nHe resigned from his post as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford and as a result his PTO was automatically revoked.\n\nBall was jailed for sex offences against teenagers and young men between the 1970s and 1990s\n\nHe was later granted a PTO by the diocese in 2018, allowing him to preach at the church where he worships, conditional on no further concerns coming to light.\n\nA spokesman for the diocese said: \"A planned independent review into the Church of England's handling of allegations against the late John Smyth QC is currently under way.\n\n\"In the course of that review, new information has come to light regarding Lord Carey, which has been passed to the National Safeguarding Team for immediate attention as per the agreed terms of reference set for the review.\"\n\nLord Carey's PTO has been withdrawn while the matter is being investigated and he is unauthorised to \"undertake any form of ministry in the Diocese until further notice.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"However, for the avoidance of doubt, we wish to make clear that the new information received relates only to the review currently underway, and that there has not been an allegation of abuse made against Lord Carey.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Premier League returns on Wednesday... but not exactly as we know it.\n\nAfter a 100-day absence because of the coronavirus pandemic, Aston Villa v Sheffield United will kick off the English top-flight's resumption.\n\nIt is the first of 92 league games that will be packed into a frantic 40 days before the season concludes on 26 July.\n\nFixtures will be played behind closed doors as one of a host of measures to prevent any further cases of the virus.\n\nA minute's silence to remember those who have died with coronavirus will be held before the first matches, while heart-shaped badges in tribute to frontline NHS staff will also be worn on kits.\n\nFor the first 12 matches of the restarted campaign, all player names on the back of shirts will be replaced by \"Black Lives Matter\".\n\nThis follows the death of George Floyd in the United States, which has sparked protests worldwide.\n\nOver eight rounds of twice-weekly coronavirus screenings of Premier League players and staff, there have been 16 positive results from 8,687 tests.\n\nAll remaining 92 games will be broadcast live, with four matches to be shown on the BBC - the first to be made free-to-air on terrestrial television since the Premier League's inception in 1992.\n\nLiverpool sit 25 points clear at the top of the table while Bournemouth, Aston Villa and Norwich City are in the relegation places.\n\nThe Reds, chasing a first league title in 30 years, could clinch it with victory in their first game back should second-placed Manchester City lose to Arsenal on Wednesday.\n• None Things we expect when the Premier League comes back\n• None 'Life hasn't been the same without football' - Phil McNulty on Premier League's return\n• None Quiz: what can you remember of the 2019-20 season so far?\n\nWhy is the Premier League returning now?\n\nWith the number of new infections falling and lockdown restrictions in England being gradually eased, the Premier League agreed it was safe to resume with the correct safety measures in place.\n\nThis was followed by the UK government giving the go-ahead for elite competitive sport to resume behind closed doors from 1 June.\n\nClubs unanimously voted to resume contact training in the final week of May, having started non-contact training the previous week as part of Project Restart.\n\nPremier League players and staff will continue to be tested twice a week, with any players or staff who test positive self-isolating for a period of seven days.\n\nThe delaying of Euro 2020 by a year provided the Premier League with greater flexibility in which to fit in fixtures.\n\nBut there remains a time pressure imposed by issues with players' contracts, many of which run out on 30 June, and the scheduled start of the 2020-21 season in August.\n\nThere is also a financial incentive to resume playing, with the threat of an increased or restructured rebate to TV companies if fixtures are not completed.\n\nWhen are the games?\n\nThe fixture list, including kick-off times, for the first 32 matches after the restart was announced on 5 June.\n\nAston Villa will face Sheffield United in the opening match at 18:00 BST on Wednesday, before Manchester City host Arsenal later the same evening.\n\nThe first full round of fixtures will then be played over the weekend.\n\nFor the full list of Premier League fixtures, click here.\n\nWhere can you follow the games?\n\nAll remaining 92 Premier League games will be broadcast live on Sky Sports, BT Sport, BBC Sport or Amazon Prime.\n\nThe BBC will show Bournemouth v Crystal Palace on 20 June at 19:45 BST, followed by Norwich v Everton on 24 June at 18:00, and then two matches yet to be confirmed.\n\nAs well as the four live games, there will be additional Match of the Day highlights programmes.\n\nSky Sports will make 25 of the remaining top-flight matches free to air, including the Merseyside derby at 19:00 on 21 June. Amazon Prime's four matches will also be broadcast for free.\n\nFor the full list of free to air games, click here.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live and Talksport will also provide live radio commentaries for all the remaining matches, while BT Sport will show the first Saturday 15:00 Premier League match to be broadcast live in the UK when Brighton take on Arsenal on 20 June.\n\nWhat new measures have been put in place?\n• None All matches behind closed doors, with number of key people allowed inside the stadium limited to 300.\n• None Stadiums divided into three zones - red (includes pitch and technical areas), amber (stands) and green (stand concourses) - with restrictions on who is allowed to enter each.\n• None able to make five substitutions, rather than three, in each match and able to name nine substitutes instead of the usual seven.\n• None Staggered entry on to pitch for players and staff and no handshakes before kick-off. Deep cleaning of corner flags, goalposts, substitution boards and match balls before and after each fixture.\n• None Extra disinfection, such as of the substitution board after it is used, likely during matches and at half-time.\n• None Medical protocols stipulate how squads and coaching staff must travel to and from games, observing social distancing.\n• None Post-match broadcast interviews will take place pitchside with press conferences conducted virtually.\n• None VAR will continue to be in operation.\n\nHow did we leave things?\n\nBefore the suspension of play in the Premier League, Liverpool were hurtling towards their first top-flight title in 30 years.\n\nThe league will restart with the Reds 25 points clear at the top and potentially one win away from confirming their triumph.\n\nIf Manchester City lose their game in hand - against Arsenal on Wednesday - Jurgen Klopp's side will seal the title with victory in the Merseyside derby at Everton on Sunday.\n\nThe race for a top-four spot is less of a formality.\n\nCity's two-year ban from European competition (appeal pending) means fifth place will be enough for a Champions League spot.\n\nLiverpool, Leicester, Chelsea and Manchester United are currently occupying the qualification places, but the likes of Wolves, Sheffield United, Tottenham and Arsenal will all begin again with a place in Europe's top competition as their aim.\n\nDown at the bottom, six clubs are seemingly battling it out to avoid the drop.\n\nBottom club Norwich are six points adrift on 21 points. Aston Villa and Bournemouth are the two clubs above them but are part of a group of five clubs, along with Watford, West Ham and Brighton, separated by just four points.", "The Xenon1T detector was installed at Italy's Gran Sasso lab from 2016 to 2018\n\nAn experiment searching for signs of elusive dark matter has detected an unexplained signal.\n\nScientists working on the Xenon1T experiment have detected more activity within their detector than they would otherwise expect.\n\nThis \"excess of events\" could point to the existence of hypothesised particles called axions, some of which are candidates for dark matter.\n\nDark matter comprises 85% of matter in the cosmos, but its nature is unknown.\n\nWhatever it is, it does not reflect or emit detectable light, hence the name.\n\nThere are three potential explanations for the new signal from the Xenon1T experiment. Two require new physics to explain, while one of them is consistent with the existence of solar axion particles.\n\nThe findings, which have not been peer reviewed, were published on the Arxiv pre-print server.\n\nSo far, scientists have only observed indirect evidence of dark matter. A definitive, direct detection of dark matter particles has yet to be made.\n\nThere are several theories to account for what that particle might be like. The most favoured one has been the WIMP, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particle.\n\nPhysicists working on the Xenon series of experiments have spent more than a decade hunting for signs of these WIMPs. But the search has been fruitless.\n\nBut Xenon1T, the most recent iteration was also sensitive to other candidate particles.\n\nThe experiment was operated deep underground at the Gran Sasso facility in Italy, from 2016 to 2018.\n\nIts detector was filled with 3.2 tonnes of ultra-pure liquefied xenon, two tonnes of which served as a \"target\" for interactions between the xenon atoms and other particles that were passing through.\n\nWhen a particle crosses the target, it can generate tiny flashes of light and free electrons from a xenon atom.\n\nMost of these interactions - also known as events - are with particles we already know about, such as muons, cosmic rays and neutrinos. This constitutes what scientists refer to as the background signal.\n\nIndirect evidence for dark matter: the titanic collision of two galaxy clusters separates dark matter (blue) from ordinary matter (pink)\n\nA potential signal from an undiscovered particle needs to be strong enough to rise above this background noise.\n\nScientists carefully estimated the number of background events in Xenon1T. They expected to see roughly 232, but the experiment instead saw 285 - an excess of 53 events.\n\nOne explanation could be a new, previously unconsidered source of background contamination, caused by the presence of tiny amounts of tritium in the Xenon1T detector.\n\nIt could also be due to neutrinos, trillions of which pass through your body, unhindered, every second. One explanation could be that the magnetic moment (a property of all particles) of neutrinos is larger than its value in the Standard Model, which categorises the elementary particles in physics.\n\nThis would be a strong hint that some other new physics is needed to explain it.\n\nHowever, the excess is most consistent with a signal from axions, a very light as-yet undetected class of particle. In fact, the excess of events has an energy spectrum similar to that expected from axions produced in the Sun.\n\nWhile these solar axions are not dark matter candidates, axions produced in the early Universe could be a source of dark matter.\n\nIn statistical terms, the solar axion hypothesis has a significance of 3.5 sigma.\n\nWhile this significance is fairly high, it is not large enough to conclude that axions exist. Five sigma is generally the accepted threshold for a discovery.\n\nThe significance of both the tritium and neutrino magnetic moment hypotheses corresponds to 3.2 sigma, meaning that they are also consistent with the data.\n\nScientists working on the Xenon collaboration are currently upgrading to a different iteration called Xenon-nT. With better data from this future version, they are confident they will soon find out whether the excess is a statistical fluke, a background contaminant, or something far more exciting.", "A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.\n\nThe drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.\n\nIt cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.\n\nHad the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was put on the drug trial\n\nAnd it could be of huge benefit in poorer countries with high numbers of Covid-19 patients.\n\nThe UK government has 200,000 courses of the drug in its stockpile and says the NHS will make dexamethasone available to patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there was a genuine case to celebrate \"a remarkable British scientific achievement\", adding: \"We have taken steps to ensure we have enough supplies, even in the event of a second peak.\"\n\nChief Medical Officer for England Prof Chris Whitty said it would save lives around the world.\n\nAbout 19 out of 20 patients with coronavirus recover without being admitted to hospital.\n\nOf those who are admitted, most also recover but some may need oxygen or mechanical ventilation.\n\nAnd these are the high-risk patients dexamethasone appears to help.\n\nThe drug is already used to reduce inflammation in a range of other conditions, including arthritis, asthma and some skin conditions.\n\nAnd it appears to help stop some of the damage that can happen when the body's immune system goes into overdrive as it tries to fight off coronavirus.\n\nThis over-reaction, a cytokine storm, can be deadly.\n\nIn the trial, led by a team from Oxford University, about 2,000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and compared with more than 4,000 who were not.\n\nFor patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%.\n\nFor patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.\n\nChief investigator Prof Peter Horby said: \"This is the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality - and it reduces it significantly. It's a major breakthrough.\"\n\nLead researcher Prof Martin Landray said the findings suggested one life could be saved for:\n\n\"There is a clear, clear benefit,\" he said.\n\n\"The treatment is up to 10 days of dexamethasone and it costs about £5 per patient.\n\n\"So essentially it costs £35 to save a life.\n\n\"This is a drug that is globally available.\"\n\nWhen appropriate, hospital patients should now be given it without delay, Prof Landray said.\n\nBut people should not go out and buy it to take at home.\n\nDexamethasone does not appear to help people with milder symptoms of coronavirus who do not need help with their breathing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Professor Chris Whitty This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Recovery Trial, running since March, also looked at the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has subsequently been ditched amid concerns it increases fatalities and heart problems.\n\nThe antiviral drug remdesivir, meanwhile, which appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus, is already being made available on the NHS.\n\nThe first drug proven to cut deaths from Covid-19 is not some new, expensive medicine but an old, cheap-as-chips steroid.\n\nThat is something to celebrate because it means patients across the world could benefit immediately.\n\nAnd that is why the top-line results of this trial have been rushed out - because the implications are so huge globally.\n\nDexamethasone has been used since the early 1960s to treat a wide range of conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and asthma.\n\nHalf of all Covid patients who require a ventilator do not survive, so cutting that risk by a third would have a huge impact.\n\nThe drug is given intravenously in intensive care and in tablet form for less seriously ill patients.\n\nSo far, the only other drug proven to benefit Covid patients is remdesivir, which has been used for Ebola.\n\nThat has been shown to reduce the duration of coronavirus symptoms from 15 days to 11.\n\nBut the evidence was not strong enough to show whether it reduced mortality.\n\nUnlike dexamethasone, remdesivir is a new drug with limited supplies and a price has yet to be announced.\n• None Effect of Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19- Preliminary Report - medRxiv The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Apple's chief executive will address app-makers at its online WWDC conference next week\n\nApple is facing mounting calls to reconsider its App Store rules, from the creators of the apps themselves.\n\nDozens have used the term \"hostile\" to describe how they perceive it treats its third-party developer community.\n\nThe backlash has been sparked by a row between the tech giant and the makers of a new email app over a demand that Apple be given the means to take a cut of the services's subscription fee.\n\nThe clash threatens to overshadow one of Apple's biggest annual events.\n\nThe iPhone-maker hosts its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday. The five-day event is used to showcase new technologies and encourage software-makers to adopt them.\n\nRegulators and politicians have also questioned whether Apple is behaving illegally.\n\nOn Tuesday, the European Union launched a formal probe into the firm's App store rules saying it believed they might be \"distorting competition\" in the digital goods market.\n\nAnd in the US, Congress is waiting to hear whether chief executive Tim Cook will testify to a House committee investigating whether Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon are exploiting their size to obtain unfair advantages over smaller companies.\n\nMr Cook has previously said that he thought it was fair for Apple to come under scrutiny, but the firm was not a monopoly in any of the markets it operated in.\n\nThe dispute - with the Chicago-based software firm Basecamp - began on Monday when Apple rejected an update to its Hey app.\n\nHey puts messages from familiar contacts into an Imbox - for important emails - while placing newsletters and promotional messages elsewhere\n\nHey screens emails and separates them into different places, so that users can focus on the most important ones.\n\nIt offers an alternative to Apple's own Mail app as well as other services such as Gmail and Outlook.\n\nIt costs $99 (£87) a year. This fee must be paid for via Hey's own site, but the app does not contain links or other prompts to do so.\n\nEven so, Apple told Basecamp it must also offer an in-app payment option, from which the App Store owner would deduct a 30% cut.\n\nApple added that the original version of the app should not have been approved in the first place.\n\nBasecamp's chief technology officer has tweeted his dismay, accusing Apple of a \"shakedown\" and being \"perversely abusive and unfair\".\n\n\"I will burn this house down myself, before I let gangsters like that spin it for spoils,\" David Heinemeier Hansson added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by DHH This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe executive testified to Congress earlier this year when he complained about Apple's commission charges, at which time he was also critical of Google's business practices.\n\nHowever, he has noted in this latest dispute that Google's Play Store is not trying to impose a similar revenue share.\n\nHis tweets have struck a nerve with other developers, some of whom have used the opportunity to express their own concerns.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Ben Thompson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral major players have also been critical.\n\nVideo game Fortnite's chief Tim Sweeney, Tinder's owner Match Group, and Spotify's chief legal officer all issued statements to the Washington Post, pressing Apple for a rethink.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor its part, Apple notes that policies in place since 2010 made clear that paid services must offer users the option to make the purchase within the app.\n\nThe firm does make an exception for what it terms Reader apps - including magazines, books, newspapers, video-streamers and cloud storage - so long as they do not directly tell users to pay elsewhere.\n\nThis is why Amazon's Kindle app, for example, lets iPhone-owners read books bought off the retailer's site, but does not direct them to buy other titles from there.\n\nApple has given some organisations further special dispensation - for example BBC's iPlayer app tells users they must pay the licence fee, but does not provide the US firm with a way of taking a cut.\n\nBut otherwise, Apple says developers must follow its \"strict guidelines\".\n\nMr Hansson, however, claims that Apple recently tightened the application of its rules, which would explain why some other apps appear to have escaped the in-app fee requirement. But Apple has said there has been no change of practice.\n\nApple's model offers users convenience, but one company-watcher said it could also place them at a disadvantage, as they cannot be told it might be cheaper to sign up outside the app.\n\niOS apps cannot inform users that it may be cheaper to buy digital content from an external website\n\n\"It's increasingly difficult for customers to understand all the different options open to them when subscribing to content, particularly through Apple's App Store, because developers aren't able to display all the deals available to them,\" explained Ben Wood from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"And there is little question that this debate has now exploded into the public domain.\n\n\"Therefore it's going to be interesting to see whether it's something that Apple addresses at WWDC.\"", "Flushing the toilet with the lid up creates a cloud of spray that can be breathed in and may spread infection, such as coronavirus, say researchers.\n\nChinese scientists calculate that flushing can propel a plume of spray up and out of the toilet bowl, reaching head height and beyond.\n\nDroplets can travel up to 3ft - or 91cm - from ground level, according to the computer model used by the scientists from Yangzhou University.\n\nShutting the lid would avoid this.\n\nThe work is published in the journal Physics of Fluids.\n\nCoronavirus is spread through airborne droplets from coughs and sneezes, or objects that are contaminated with them.\n\nPeople who are infected can also have traces of the virus in their faeces, although it is not yet clear whether this might be another way to pass the disease on to others.\n\nScientists around the world are testing sewage and wastewater to determine how some people might have become infected with coronavirus.\n\nOther viruses can be spread by poor toilet hygiene, known as faecal-oral transmission.\n\nAs water pours into the toilet bowl during a flush, it strikes the side, creating turbulence and droplets. The droplets are so small they typically float in the air for more than a minute, according to study author Ji-Xiang Wang and colleagues from Yangzhou University, China.\n\nDr Bryan Bzdek, from the Bristol Aerosol Research Centre at the University of Bristol, said although there was no clear evidence that coronavirus might spread in this way, it made sense to take precautions.\n\n\"The study authors suggest that, whenever possible, we should keep the toilet seat down when we flush, clean the toilet seat and any other contact areas frequently, and wash our hands after using the toilet.\n\n\"While this study is unable to demonstrate that these measures will reduce transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many other viruses are transmitted though the faecal-oral route, so these are good hygiene practices to have anyway.\"\n• None How can I tell if I've got Covid?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's David Luiz was sent off in a performance riddled with mistakes as Manchester City secured a comfortable victory behind closed doors on the first night of the Premier League's return.\n\nLuiz, who came on as a first-half substitute, failed to clear the ball just before half-time and Raheem Sterling fired in City's opener.\n\nThe defender was then sent off after pulling back Riyad Mahrez in the second half to give away a penalty, which Kevin de Bruyne coolly slotted in for City's second.\n\nSubstitute Phil Foden netted a third for the defending champions, capitalising on a rebound from Sergio Aguero's strike.\n\nThere was concern for City late on as Eric Garcia needed several minutes of treatment on the pitch after a nasty collision with goalkeeper Ederson, and was carried off on a stretcher.\n\nArsenal were second best throughout as manager Mikel Arteta left Alexandre Lacazette on the bench and Mesut Ozil was kept out of the extended 20-man squad.\n\nThere were bursts of energy from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Eddie Nketiah going forward in the first half but it was City who were more dangerous.\n\nDe Bruyne, Sterling and David Silva were all denied by Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno, who produced an impressive display, but it seemed inevitable City would move ahead when Luiz's mistake gifted Sterling a chance from close range.\n\nVictory for Pep Guardiola's side means league leaders Liverpool remain six points away from winning the title - writing off any potential celebrations in Sunday's Merseyside derby.\n\nOn an evening in which thousands tuned in to watch a new-look Premier League on their TV screens, players from both clubs used their platform to support the Black Lives Matter movement for racial equality.\n\nAll players and staff took a knee immediately before kick-off, mirroring the actions of those at Villa Park in the earlier match, and the words 'Black Lives Matter' replaced players' names on the back of their shirts.\n• None Football Daily: The Premier League takes a knee, and the 'ghost goal'\n• None 'It's my fault' - Luiz on Arsenal defeat\n\nAfter being left out of the starting line-up by Arteta, Luiz was handed his chance when he was brought on in the 23rd minute as Arsenal suffered their second injury of the match.\n\nPablo Mari, making just his second Premier League start for the club, followed Granit Xhaka, who was taken off on a stretcher early on.\n\nBut Luiz, prone to questionable decision-making, only confirmed his manager's decision to leave him out initially had been for the best.\n\nFailure to clear the ball properly led to Sterling's opener - the ball bouncing off Luiz's knee from De Bruyne's pass, landing straight into the path of the City forward.\n\nAnd Luiz completed a dreadful night four minutes into the second half when he tugged Mahrez's shirt with no intention to play the ball, giving away a penalty and receiving a red card.\n\nDe Bruyne reminds us of his quality\n\nSome things were different on the league's return.\n\nFans were absent, players wore face masks in the dugout, there was enhanced crowd noise for television viewers and managers did post-match press conferences via Zoom.\n\nBut some things remained the same. De Bruyne was the best player on the pitch.\n\nThe Manchester City midfielder, widely regarded as one of the best in the business, reminded those watching at home of his quality with several intricate passes in the first half.\n\nHe forced the first save of the match from Leno with a curling free-kick in the first three minutes and two of his defence-splitting passes again tested the keeper's reactions half an hour later.\n\nIt was ironic one of his poorer passes would lead to Sterling's opener - helped by Luiz's poor control - but De Bruyne stamped his mark on the game even further by scoring City's second from the spot.\n\nHe needed only 69 minutes to whet the appetite of those who feared football would not be the same on its return.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We are really concerned [about Eric Garcia]. He responded quite well but we have to wait. He is conscious which is a good sign. We will make another test.\n\n\"In the beginning it was a lot of energy. Everybody wanted the ball. It was not quiet. We had chances. It was important to score before half time. I am happy with the performance of the team.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta, speaking to Sky Sports: \"Everything went wrong from the first minute. Every possible accident that could have happened hopefully happened today.\n\n\"[David Luiz] is someone that is very honest and straight forward. My opinion on David Luiz hasn't changed. It won't change because he had a difficult performance tonight.\n\nOn leaving Mesut Ozil out of the squad: \"It was a tactical reason.\"\n\nSterling hits 50 - the best of the stats\n• None Manchester City have won their past seven matches against Arsenal in all competitions, extending their best ever winning run against the Gunners.\n• None Arsenal have lost by three or more goals both home and away in a league season versus an opponent (Man City in 2019-20) for the first time since 1969-70, against Chelsea.\n• None Arsenal are winless in their past 26 Premier League away games against fellow 'big six' opposition (D10 L16), with their last such victory coming at Etihad Stadium in January 2015 (2-0).\n• None Kevin de Bruyne has been directly involved in more Premier League goals than any other player this season (25 - nine goals and 16 assists) - it's also his best goal involvement tally in a single top-flight campaign in England.\n• None Raheem Sterling became the first player to score a goal in the month of June in the English top-flight since Walter Rickett, for Sheffield United against Stoke on 14 June, 1947.\n• None Sterling also scored in his 50th home club game in all competitions - he's never been on the losing side in those fixtures for Liverpool and Manchester City (W47 D3).\n• None David Luiz became the first player to be sent off, concede a penalty and commit an error leading to an opposition goal in a Premier League match since Carl Jenkinson for West Ham against Bournemouth in August 2015.\n• None He has conceded four penalties in the Premier League this season - the joint-most in a single campaign in the competition's history (also Jose Fonte 2016-17, Gary Caldwell 2011-12, Ibrahima Sonko 2007-08, Claus Lundekvam 1999-00, Ken Monkou 1993-94 and Luc Nijholt 1993-94).\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 3, Arsenal 0. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Eric García went off injured after Manchester City had used all subs.\n• None Rodrigo (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "There have been six books about James Bowen and his companion Bob to date\n\nA pet that inspired the book A Street Cat Named Bob has died aged 14.\n\nJames Bowen met Bob in 2007 during his battle with drug addiction when he found the cat abandoned and injured and decided to look after him.\n\nHe began taking the ginger cat with him when busking or selling The Big Issue in London.\n\nBowen eventually wrote a book about their relationship which became a smash hit and was made into a film, featuring Bob, in 2016.\n\nA Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life was published in 2012, and there have since been five further books released in more than forty different languages.\n\nA second film, A Gift from Bob, which also features the eponymous feline, is due to be released later this year.\n\nBob accompanied his owner on the red carpet for the premiere of his film\n\nBowen credits his scarf-wearing companion with aiding his own recovery.\n\nIn a statement on the official Facebook page for his books, the author said Bob had saved his life.\n\n\"It's as simple as that. He gave me so much more than companionship. With him at my side, I found a direction and purpose that I'd been missing.\"\n\n\"He's met thousands of people, touched millions of lives. \"There's never been a cat like him. And never will again.\n\n\"I feel like the light has gone out in my life. I will never forget him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Christie has stayed at home through the lockdown to keep her mother safe\n\nChristie Michael is so worried about protecting her elderly mother that she has not gone outside her front door since the lockdown began in March.\n\nShe says it is \"lonely and isolating\" - but the mother and daughter in Essex have also found themselves hungry.\n\nResearch from Sheffield and Birmingham universities suggests more than 100,000 unpaid carers in the UK have had to rely on food banks during the pandemic.\n\nHelen Walker of Carers UK says unpaid carers are at \"breaking point\".\n\nThe study looked at the experiences of people caring for parents and disabled relatives during the lockdown - and found 229,000 unpaid carers were in households where people had \"gone hungry\".\n\nChristie, now in her thirties, lives with her mother in Waltham Abbey and has been caring for her since childhood - watching over her mother as she suffered from seizures and other health problems.\n\nBut during the lockdown they faced a different kind of problem: \"We were actually hungry.\"\n\nChristie did not want to risk going to the shops while she was shielding her 76-year-old mother.\n\nSince she was a child, Christie has been a carer for her mother\n\nAnd even if they could have got an online delivery, they didn't have enough money - so much so that they depended on deliveries brought by food banks.\n\n\"People don't understand the importance of food banks,\" she says, or how widely they are now being used.\n\nWhen they had emptied their cupboards, using up the baked beans and cereals, she said they were \"not eating\".\n\n\"I don't know what we would have done without the food bank.\"\n\nWhen government food parcels did arrive, she didn't like to complain that much of it contained dairy products, when her mother was lactose intolerant.\n\nAs a full-time carer she is entitled to a carer's allowance of about £67 per week - and the Carers UK charity is pushing for an increase.\n\nBut even with other benefits on top, Christie says her current reality is \"spending every penny on food, rent and bills\".\n\nEvery other cost that comes along, \"like something breaking down\", means borrowing and that creates another second wave of financial problems.\n\nWhat makes it tougher, says Christie, is the lack of recognition for such carers, protecting the people they love, but spending their waking hours looking after someone and being trapped without any money.\n\nDuring the lockdown, she says the sense of being invisible and forgotten has been even more intense.\n\nShe has remained behind her door - and doesn't expect to be outside until the end of July, so as not to \"put mum in jeopardy\".\n\nIn the past, she says there were some respite hours available to people caring for relatives - but that has gone. And she calls for a more consistent approach for support available for carers.\n\nThe study from academics at Birmingham and Sheffield universities suggests that unpaid carers are twice as likely to have used food banks during the pandemic, compared to the general population.\n\nProfessor Sue Yeandle of Sheffield University says this should \"shock the nation\".\n\n\"It cannot be right that carers are hidden from view, with declining mental wellbeing or face hunger or food poverty,\" she says.\n\nThe chief executive of Carers UK, Helen Walker, says: \"Surely when the majority of carers are providing even more care for relatives during this pandemic, and spending more to do so, they deserve some help?\"\n\nA spokeswoman from the Department for Health and Social Care said: \"The government is hugely grateful for the crucial role that carers play, especially during this unprecedented period and we recently announced an extra £63m to support people struggling to afford food and other essentials due to coronavirus.\n\n\"The rate of carer's allowance was recently increased and we are working closely with carers organisations to further support carers during this outbreak, including funding to extend Carers UK's helpline opening times so unpaid carers are able to access trusted information and advice.\"", "The Eiffel Tower is visited by around seven million people each year Image caption: The Eiffel Tower is visited by around seven million people each year\n\nThe Eiffel Tower in Paris, one of France’s most visited landmarks, will reopen to visitors next week.\n\nTourism officials plan to start by limiting the number of visitors to the tower, following its longest closure since World War Two.\n\nOnly the first and second floors will be accessible to visitors, and lifts will remain closed in the first stage of reopening.\n\nAll surfaces in well-travelled areas will be cleaned every two hours, and all visitors over the age of 11 will be required to wear masks. A full reopening is expected by 25 June.\n\nThe tower normally receives around seven million visitors per year, but France's tourism industry has been hit hard after a lockdown was imposed in March.\n\nLifts will be closed at first, forcing visitors to hike up the stairs Image caption: Lifts will be closed at first, forcing visitors to hike up the stairs", "The boy is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been charged with plotting an \"Islamist\" terror attack, police have said.\n\nThe teenager, from Eastleigh, who cannot be named, faces one count of preparation of terrorist acts.\n\nHampshire Police, which arrested the boy on 12 June, said it believed the investigation was \"isolated\". The boy was later re-arrested by counter-terror police.\n\nHe is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Charles has still not fully regained his sense of smell and taste after having coronavirus in March, he revealed on a visit to NHS staff.\n\nThe prince discussed his personal experience with the virus as he met workers at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital - at a 2m distance.\n\nHe was accompanied by his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, who said the staff had showed \"Britain at its best\".\n\nIt was the couple's first face-to-face public engagement since lockdown began.\n\nThey met front-line staff and key workers from several NHS trusts, including consultants, nurses and cleaners, at the hospital near Prince Charles's Highgrove estate.\n\nSocial distancing rules were observed, with those waiting to meet them standing on yellow dots to ensure they were 2m apart.\n\nPrince Charles greeted some of those he met with a \"namaste\" - clasping his hands together - instead of a handshake.\n\nJeff Mills, 47, a healthcare assistant from Cheltenham General Hospital, said: \"He did speak of his personal experience, so first-hand experience for him.\n\n\"He also spoke about his loss of smell and taste and, sort of, still felt he's still got it now.\"\n\nThey're never the most natural of meetings. Even at the best of times, royal visits can be a touch artificial. It's all that protocol: what do you call them; must one bow/curtsey; what does one talk about?\n\nAnd now it's become ever so slightly more complicated thanks to the requirements of social distancing.\n\nWhen Charles and Camilla turned up at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital they were greeted by staff who looked as though they were taking part in a military parade… they were formed up in impeccably well-presented ranks, each person 2m from each other.\n\nEveryone understood and the royal guests joked about taking a salute or telling everyone to \"fall out\".\n\nBut the important thing was that it didn't interfere with the essential message of the occasion.\n\nPrince William too had resumed face to face royal visits, meeting first responders at an ambulance station in Norfolk.\n\nConversations may not be at their most relaxed when the speakers are standing apart but no amount of protocol or \"distancing\" can dilute the underlying message of gratitude to all those who've been in the coronavirus front line.\n\nThe 71-year-old prince was diagnosed with Covid-19 near the start of the outbreak, after suffering mild symptoms. A loss of smell is thought to be one of the key symptoms.\n\nHe later said he had \"got away with it quite lightly\".\n\nAsked if the country's appreciation of the NHS had changed for good, the duchess said: \"I think it has, you can tell by all the people coming out every week to clap - they've done the most remarkable things.\n\n\"The way they've looked after people, the way they've sort of kept control of the whole thing... it's a question of not panicking and getting on with it and I think they are Britain at its best.\"\n\nShe also revealed the couple had their first socially-distanced reunion with their grandchildren last weekend, saying it had been a \"great treat\", even though they were not able to hug them.\n\nWith lockdown restrictions being eased, the Royal Family have chosen to take a step towards a return to normality - with a series of face-to-face public engagements.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge visited King's Lynn Ambulance Station in Norfolk - the first time he had met members of the public in person since coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nPrince William's visit to the King's Lynn Ambulance Station was also socially distanced\n\nPrince William joked about how he was looking forward to having a pint in the pub, as he praised staff for \"all your hard work\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone appreciates the NHS, we have an amazing system, it's a great health service and many countries around the world envy what we have.\n\n\"It's not until you have a big crisis, a pandemic, and everyone realises we have to really make sure we value and we show our appreciation.\"\n\nHe also joked: \"I'm worried about the waistline of the nation as well, with all the chocolate and cakes. I've done a lot of baking at home.\"\n\nThe prince recently revealed he had been volunteering for crisis helpline Shout 85258 during the lockdown.", "Scotland's national clinical director is \"more hopeful\" but \"still cautious\" about the prospect of a 1 August return for the Scottish Premiership.\n\nClubs are allowed to train with restrictions in place as they work towards starting the new season.\n\nProf Jason Leitch believes a drop in the number of cases and the rate of infection make the scheduled start more likely.\n\n\"I am more hopeful this Saturday than I was last Saturday, but I'm still cautious,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland. \"Gradually, things seem to be going in the right direction.\n\n\"Things are beginning to fall into place that would allow us to put another layer of pencil over that date, but it's still early days.\"", "For the first time in its history, The Bachelor, ABC's hugely popular reality series, will feature a black lead.\n\nMatt James, a 28-year-old real estate broker, will star in the next season, ABC announced on Friday, after mounting criticism over a lack of diversity.\n\nThe show's nearly two decade history has seen overwhelmingly white casts, with just one black star in its sister spinoff, The Bachelorette, in 2017.\n\nMr James called his casting \"a step in the right direction\".\n\n\"I don't think it's ever the wrong time to do the right thing,\" Mr James said in an interview with Good Morning America on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Bachelor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Bachelor\n\nPressure for the hit dating show to cast a black lead intensified in recent days amid the ongoing racial reckoning in the US, incited by the killing of George Floyd last month.\n\nAn online petition signed by more than 86,000 people called for the television network to \"reflect and honour the racial diversity of our country\" and cast a Black bachelor for its upcoming season, in addition to casting black, indigenous and people of colour in at least 35% of the contestant roles.\n\nThe first and only black star of the Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay, who is now married to the winning contestant of her season, told Good Morning America that she had hoped to be a \"trailblazer\" for the franchise, and has been disappointed by the lack of progress since.\n\n\"In the last three years there haven't really been changes made,\" she said.\n\nSince it began in 2002, the franchise has aired 40 seasons - 24 of the Bachelor, 15 of The Bachelorette - cultivating a devoted fan following and equally dedicated viewership.\n\nIts most recent season finale, season 24 of the Bachelor, which aired in March, had around 8.5 million viewers.\n\nMr James was originally cast as a contestant on the forthcoming season of The Bachelorette starring Clare Crawley, which was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"When filming couldn't move forward as planned, we were given the benefit of time to get to know Matt and all agreed he would make a perfect Bachelor,\" Karey Burke, president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement.\n\n\"We know we have a responsibility to make sure the love stories we're seeing onscreen are representative of the world we live in,\" Ms Burke said.\n\nIn 2012, two would-be contestants brought a class action lawsuit against the show for racial discrimination, arguing its lack of diversity was a conscious effort \"to minimise the risk of alienating their majority-white viewership\". The suit was ultimately dismissed by a judge, who said the show had a right to cast who it wished under the First Amendment of the US Constitution, which covers freedom of speech.", "Vivien Wong, who runs Little Moons, said lockdown didn't come as a great surprise\n\nThe scale of the UK's economic troubles have been laid bare by the latest GDP figures.\n\nWill the recovery be V-shaped, L-shaped, U-shaped, or is it far too early to tell?\n\nDespite the uncertainties, however, some British companies are nothing if not positive.\n\nHere, the owners of three firms that went into lockdown in March tell the BBC why they can see light at the end of the tunnel.\n\nThe lockdown hit just as Little Moons was enjoying its best month of trading.\n\nThe business, which makes the Japanese ice cream confection mochi for restaurants and supermarkets, shut down overnight.\n\nCo-founder Vivien Wong said lockdown didn't come as a great surprise. \"We'd followed what was happening in China and Hong Kong,\" she said.\n\nMore than 50% of revenues came from restaurants, money that dried up immediately. \"We were weren't sure what was going to happen with supermarkets, but we knew immediately we had to go into cash preservation mode.\"\n\nLuckily, Little Moons struck a deal with its landlord, which eased cash flow. \"We cancelled marketing and all unnecessary spending. Basically, we just hunkered down,\" Ms Wong said.\n\nThe London-based company trades throughout Europe, which has helped Little Moons to get back to business.\n\nMs Wong said: \"Europe opened up a little earlier, so from about mid-May we started getting orders from supermarkets.\n\n\"We started un-furloughing a few members of our team, and have just started cranking up production again.\"\n\nBut a return to the record trading Little Moons saw in March could be a long way off. Ms Wong said: \"We have halved the number of people on the production floor and changed shift patterns.\n\n\"It means we are not as efficient as before. That's really affected us financially.\" Little Moons is employing more cleaners, and the cost of face masks and other food hygiene equipment has soared.\n\nThe firm's future is tied up with the restaurant sector, which she worries may never fully recover. That said, supermarket orders are rising, which Ms Wong puts down to people wanting comfort food.\n\n\"It was pretty catastrophic\" is how Adam Redhouse describes the first few days of lockdown. Sales and lettings at his London estate agents firm disappeared virtually overnight.\n\n\"We furloughed sales staff immediately, and closed all the offices,\" he said. \"We lost over 50% of the sales pipeline over the first few days as people cancelled.\"\n\nAnd yet, over the following weeks the business continued to get what Mr Redhouse said were \"a fair few inquiries. That was a massive surprise. But if you can't do viewings, you can't sell properties.\"\n\nStill, even though Squire Estates did very few transactions, the continuing customer interest at least gave him hope that business would pick up once the lockdown eased.\n\nIt was only in mid-May that estate agents began re-opening for business, but Mr Redhouse has been amazed at the pace of recovery. \"It sounds crazy, given how much business we lost,\" he said.\n\n\"It was on a Tuesday night that the government said we could re-open, and on the Wednesday morning we un-furloughed all the sales staff. There was a lot of pent up demand for transactions and viewings,\" he said.\n\nIt helped, Mr Redhouse believes, that he and his partner made a special effort to keep in touch with clients and potential clients during the lockdown.\n\nBusiness continues to pick up, but will it get back to normal? \"I like to think so. The amount of demand that we are seeing shows that people want to move. I feel positive,\" he said.\n\nSophie Lawler's 17 health clubs remain closed to their 100,000 members in the north of England and Wales. And like the rest of the fitness sector, she has no idea when she might get the green light to re-open.\n\n\"The whole sector has struggled financially, and may do so for years to come,\" she said. \"The industry is shouldering quite some rental burden, costs we still incur even while we're closed.\"\n\nFurloughing has been vital. \"It's given us a great deal of oxygen to keep the business going,\" she said.\n\nStaff wages are the biggest fixed costs after property rents and rates.\n\nAs soon as Total Fitness is given the go-ahead to re-open Ms Lawler plans to bring all the staff back from furlough. \"We will need all our people, maybe even more.\"\n\nShe'd like to see the government do more to help, perhaps with some VAT exemptions and support for landlords to let them ease the burden on leaseholders.\n\nDespite the uncertainties, however, she says the fitness industry \"has an exceptionally bright future if we can weather this storm\".\n\nMs Lawler said the sector has proved particularly resilient to recessions in the past, and will do so again. She expects to see a uptick in customers who recognise the importance of fitness and exercise in the fight to stay healthy against viruses.\n\n\"It terms of demand, we will do pretty well when we get through to the other side of this,\" she said.\n\nThe trouble is, she has no idea when that might be. \"Our single biggest challenge is that there is just no guidance on re-opening.\"", "Most BA aircraft have been grounded since the lockdown\n\nBritish Airways' treatment of staff during the coronavirus crisis \"is a national disgrace\", MPs have claimed.\n\nA Transport Select Committee report accuses the airline of a \"calculated attempt to take advantage\" of the pandemic by cutting thousands of jobs and downgrading terms and conditions.\n\nBA said it was doing all it could to keep \"the maximum number of jobs\".\n\nBut the MPs said the airline's actions fell \"well below the standards we would expect from any employer\".\n\nThe aviation industry has been one of the hardest-hit since the pandemic forced a lockdown. Airlines including EasyJet, Ryanair, and Virgin Atlantic, and suppliers Rolls-Royce and Airbus, have announced thousands of job cuts.\n\nBA plans a major restructuring, which could mean up to 12,000 redundancies and changes to the terms and conditions of remaining staff.\n\nThe airline warned unions that if it could not reach an agreement over the proposals it would push through the issue by giving staff notice and offering them new contracts.\n\nUnite and the GMB are not engaging in talks with BA. Pilots' union Balpa has had discussions with the airline over the possibility of voluntary redundancies but said consultations were \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nThe MPs acknowledged that job losses in the sector \"may sadly be inevitable\" due to the collapse in air travel. But it urged UK-based employers not to \"proceed hastily\" by making large numbers of people redundant while the government's furlough scheme was in place.\n\nUnions told the committee that BA had threatened a \"fire and rehire\" approach by giving redundancy notices to most of its 42,000 workers with the intention of offering jobs to a proportion of them under diminished terms and conditions.\n\nThe Transport Committee found that BA had received nearly £35m from the government as of 14 May by furloughing 22,000 staff. The MPs also noted that at the end of 2019, the airline recorded profits after tax of £1.1bn and had cash reserves of £2.6bn.\n\nThe committee's report said: \"The behaviour of British Airways and its parent company towards its employees is a national disgrace. It falls well below the standards we would expect from any employer, especially in [the] light of the scale of taxpayer subsidy, at this time of national crisis.\"\n\nBA insists it will do all it can to protect jobs but says the airline industry is in a \"new reality\".\n\nThere have been calls from MPs and unions for BA to be stripped of some of its lucrative take-off and landing slots at Heathrow Airport as punishment for the treatment of its staff.\n\nTory MP Huw Merriman, who chairs the committee, said: \"We will continue to bring pressure where we can, including the airport slot allocation process. This wanton destruction of a loyal workforce cannot appear to go without sanction by government, parliamentarians or paying passengers, who may choose differently in future. We view it as a national disgrace.\"\n\nBalpa said the committee was \"absolutely right\" about BA. Brian Strutton, the union's general secretary, said: \"Any company using the cover of Covid to slash jobs and terms and conditions like they have needs to be called out.\n\n\"I have described consultation talks between Balpa and BA as hanging by a thread due to BA's decision to issue a 'fire and rehire' threat. That remains the case.\"\n\nThe airline said in a statement: \"We find ourselves in the deepest crisis ever faced by the airline industry - a crisis not of our making but one which we must address.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to ensure that British Airways can survive and sustain the maximum number of jobs consistent with the new reality of a changed airline industry in a severely weakened global economy.\"\n\nBA is already embroiled in a bitter fight with its unions and a row with the government. Now MPs have weighed in against the company as well.\n\nIt's a remarkable situation for BA. It was once seen as a flag carrier for British values, a national champion, with the closest of links to the government - and a place where staff were delighted to work.\n\nSo what's gone wrong? The Covid-19 crisis has scythed through the airline industry, leaving previously strong companies teetering. Carriers around the world are shedding jobs, as they prepare for a bleak few years.\n\nBA is far from unique in wanting to make deep cuts. But there's more to it than that. BA has spent the past decade trying to streamline its business, in order to compete with low-cost upstarts like Ryanair and EasyJet.\n\nThat has sometimes caused conflict with its employees - and seemingly created a legacy of mistrust and resentment, in particular among cabin crew.\n\nNow, during a crisis, those feelings are bubbling up. At times, the company looks as though it is under siege.\n\nThe MPs' report also urged the government to abandon its 14-day quarantine rule at the end of June.\n\nIt called for a \"more targeted and nuanced border control policy\", allowing people travelling from countries where the infection rate of Covid-19 is relatively low to enter the UK on a less restrictive basis.\n\nOn Friday, BA, EasyJet and Ryanair launched legal action against the \"flawed\" quarantine policy. The airlines are asking for a judicial review to be heard \"as soon as possible\", claiming the measures introduced this week will have a \"devastating effect on British tourism and the wider economy\".\n\nThey said they have seen no evidence of when proposed \"air bridges\" between the UK and other countries will be implemented. Instead, they want the government to re-adopt the policy it introduced on 10 March, which required passengers from countries deemed at high risk of coronavirus infection to self-isolate on arrival in the UK.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel has insisted that the policy can \"help stop a devastating second wave\" of the disease.\n\nAre you a BA staff member who has been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Mr Trump has come under fire for his handling of the protests in the US\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said the controversial chokehold method for restraining some suspects should \"generally speaking\" be ended.\n\nSome US police forces have moved to ban chokeholds since the outbreak of anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, an African American.\n\nMr Floyd died after a white officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.\n\nMr Trump said it would be a \"very good thing\" to ban chokeholds but they may still be needed in some situations.\n\nThe president's comments come with Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress trying to hammer out the details of a police reform bill - the proposed Justice in Policing Act of 2020.\n\nMr Trump told Fox News that chokeholds sounded \"so innocent, so perfect\" but that if you get two-on-one, \"it's a different story\".\n\nBut he continued: \"If a police officer is in a bad scuffle and he's got somebody... you have to be careful.\n\n\"With that being said, it would be, I think, a very good thing that generally speaking it should be ended,\" he said, adding that he might make \"very strong recommendations\" to local authorities.\n\nThe police officer who knelt on Mr Floyd's neck has been sacked and charged with second-degree murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of police violence in the US\n\nMr Trump - who has faced criticism for his responses to the outbreak of the protests against racism and police brutality - said he wanted to \"see really compassionate but strong law enforcement\", adding \"toughness is sometimes the most compassionate\".\n\nChallenged by interviewer Harris Faulkner to explain his tweet last month that \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\", which was censored by Twitter for glorifying violence, the president said: \"When the looting starts, it oftentimes means there's going to be... sure, there's going to be death, there's going to be killing. And, it's a bad thing.\"\n\nThe Justice in Policing Act was proposed by the opposition Democrats who control the House of Representatives but in order to pass it must win the support of Mr Trump's Republicans who control the Senate.\n\nThere is potential for the two parties to reach agreement on banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants, like the one in the Breonna Taylor shooting.\n\nMeanwhile, the city council in Minneapolis, where Mr Floyd died, passed a resolution on Friday to replace its police department with a community-led public safety system.\n\nIt comes days after the council voted to disband the police department.\n\nAccording to the resolution, the city council will begin a year-long process of engaging \"with every willing community member in Minneapolis\" to come up with a new public safety model.\n\nIn New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered police departments to undertake major reforms, in response to the demonstrations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Cuomo said he would stop financing local authorities that failed to adopt reforms addressing excess use of force and bias in their police departments by next April.\n\nHe said he would sign an executive order for municipalities to \"reinvent and modernize\" their police departments to battle racism. Police disciplinary records would be publicly released and chokeholds would become a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.\n\n\"That should be done in every police agency in this country,\" Mr Cuomo was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\nSitting alongside the governor at the news conference were Gwen Carr and Valerie Bell, the mothers of Eric Garner and Sean Bell, two unarmed black men who died in incidents with police.\n\nMr Garner died when a white police officer used a chokehold on him while making an arrest in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going", "Young people's brains continue to develop and change during adolescence\n\nReduced face-to-face contact among teenagers and their friends during the pandemic could have damaging long-term consequences, neuroscientists say.\n\nAt a sensitive time in life, their brain development, behaviour and mental health could suffer.\n\nUsing social media might make up for some negative effects of social distancing, they write in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.\n\nBut they call for schools to reopen for young people as a priority when safe.\n\nAdolescence - defined by the scientists as between 10 and 24 - is a vulnerable stage, when young people want to spend more time with their friends than their family, as they prepare for adult life.\n\nCombined with major hormonal and biological changes, it's a key time for the development of the brain.\n\nIt's also the period in life when mental-health problems are mostly likely to develop.\n\nBut the arrival of coronavirus has disrupted all that, says Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, from the department of psychology at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the opinion piece.\n\n\"Owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many young people around the world currently have substantially fewer opportunities to interact face-to-face with peers in their social network at a time in their lives when this is crucial for their development,\" she says.\n\n\"Even if physical distancing measures are temporary, several months represents a large proportion of a young person's life.\n\n\"We would urge policymakers to give urgent consideration to the well-being of young people at this time.\"\n\nMore than two-thirds of young British adolescents, aged 12-15, have a social-media profile\n\nThe Viewpoint article, written with Amy Orben, research fellow at Cambridge, and Livia Tomova, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calls for more research to be carried out to understand the effects of \"social deprivation\" on adolescents.\n\nAt present, research on animals is all they have to go on - and it suggests that non-human primates and rodents experience a rise in anxious behaviour and a decrease in brain functions related to learning and memory when social contact is taken away.\n\nThis is likely to be due to the lack of experiences for social learning, they say.\n\nBut with 69% of younger adolescents in the UK, aged 12-15, having a social-media profile, social connection is still possible - via anything from Instagram to online gaming.\n\nThe question is how much and what kinds of digital communication help to lessen the effects of physical distancing, says Dr Orben.\n\n\"Some studies have shown that active social-media use, such as messaging or posting directly on another person's profile, increases well-being and helps maintain personal relationships.\n\n\"However, it has been suggested that passive uses of social media, such as scrolling through newsfeeds, negatively influence wellbeing.\"\n\nLockdown rules brought in to stop the spread of the virus have meant schools in the UK have been closed to most children since 20 March.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be the first Royal Family members to hold a major event during the coronavirus lockdown when they welcome the French president to the UK.\n\nCharles and Camilla will meet Emmanuel Macron at their London home on 18 June.\n\nThey will mark the 80th anniversary of a famous speech by Charles de Gaulle.\n\nMr Macron will be exempt from a 14-day quarantine imposed on most people who travel to the UK, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nA Clarence House spokeswoman said government guidelines on social distancing would be followed.\n\nThe royal couple will travel from Birkhall in Aberdeenshire, where they have been staying for almost three months, to Clarence House in London to attend the meeting.\n\nBoth had to self-isolate in March after Charles, 71, contracted coronavirus.\n\nThey have been carrying out royal engagements remotely - via video calls or recorded messages - and are said to be \"pleased\" to be welcoming Mr Macron to the country.\n\nDuring the height of lockdown, to curb the spread of coronavirus in France, residents there had to to provide a travel permit to justify any outdoor trips.\n\nRestrictions began to ease on 11 May, and phase two of the easing began on 2 June. Nearly all of France is now in a so-called \"green zone\" where, for example, bars and restaurants can reopen.\n\nAsked if the French president would be subject to quarantine rules for UK arrivals, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"No, he won't.\"\n\n\"As we set out in the guidelines when they were published, the French delegation will fall within the exempted category of representatives of a foreign country or territory travelling to undertake business in the UK.\"\n\nFrance's coronavirus death toll rose to 29,374 on Friday, while the UK's rose to 41,481.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClarence House said the royal couple would formally receive Mr Macron, with a guard of honour, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of World War Two resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle's \"Appel\" to the French population.\n\nOn 18 June 1940, de Gaulle used a BBC broadcast to urge people to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n\n\"I call upon all Frenchmen who want to remain free to listen to my voice and follow me,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nCovid-19 has transformed how GPs work - from having to wear full PPE instead of ordinary clothes, to seeing a huge decline in the number of patients they are seeing. Here's how one practice in Liverpool has adapted.\n\nDr Debbie Noland is living with a new reality.\n\nA few months ago, the Liverpool GP would have dressed relatively casually for a day seeing patients at the Ropewalks Practice in the city centre.\n\nNow she is in medical scrubs and full protective clothing - face mask, visor, gloves and apron.\n\n\"Now we are completely clinical, I look like I did when I was a medical student working in the hospital in surgery,\" says Dr Noland.\n\n\"It's definitely far more challenging - and the job is challenging enough without the extra stress.\n\n\"Having to go home and put your scrubs into a 60-degree wash, so you don't pass it on to your family. It's a completely different world than pre-Covid, that's for sure.\"\n\nEven when she is seeing patients with no Covid symptoms, Dr Noland needs to balance the risk of infection while, simultaneously, being able to check out potentially dangerous conditions.\n\n\"If you need to listen to somebody's chest or you need to listen to somebody's heart - you need to do that.\n\n\"I feel like I am as covered and protected as I possibly can be. I would much prefer to make sure that I am doing things properly than miss something.\"\n\nPatients are assessed in advance over the phone, including questions on whether or not they have coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut since chest pain is exactly the type of thing that might indicate the development of another serious condition, some patients have to attend the surgery for an examination.\n\nIn between each appointment, Dr Noland must clean the room and change her personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"When the patient has left, I'll clean down the room before anyone else comes in and change all my(PPE) so it is as safe as it possible can be. It may not be as approachable, but we are doing our best to make sure everyone can feel safe coming into a GP surgery.\"\n\nAll this means a much slower trickle of patients.\n\nThis time last year the surgery was seeing around 130 patients a day for GP appointments, blood tests or just to pick up a prescription.\n\nBut on the day we visited, just 24 patients attended the surgery, all by appointment only.\n\nThe surgery had previously introduced an online booking and assessment system last September, so most patients were accustomed to a more remote way of working.\n\nBut still, the change is stark: a normally busy waiting room now has just one patient at a time.\n\nDr Noland has to wipe down the consultation room between patients\n\nSome patients are happy to come to the surgery. But Dr Noland says there are growing fears over those who are too worried about the risk of infection to come in.\n\n\"The amount of people I have spoken to on the phone with anxiety and depression... They were probably keeping it together, but it's the last straw that broke the camel's back.\n\n\"They can't cope now. It has been a massive impact.\n\n\"People are still having heart attacks, they are still having strokes, they are still having cancer, unfortunately.\n\n\"And there are a lot of other people that are dying of other things that seem to have been forgotten a little bit.\n\n\"It's a massive hidden cost of lockdown and that is really worrying for all of us - because we think there is an epidemic [of non-Covid illnesses] and we are just waiting for it to come.\".\"\n\nThe surgery is divided into two zones, with Dr Noland seeing her Covid-free patients in the 'green zone' on the first floor of the building.\n\nDownstairs is the 'red zone, for those patients who are displaying Covid-19 symptoms, with a separate entrance to the rest of the surgery.\n\nThe receptionist, as well as the GP, wears full PPE.\n\nTina Atkins, the practice management partner, says the whole idea is to minimise exposure to infected patients.\n\n\"We don't have anything other than an examination couch and a chair - we don't use any of the IT equipment.\n\n\"We also say to patients if they arrive early: 'please stay in your car outside' because the slots are timed, so we don't cross-contaminate patients.\"\n\nRopewalks is a \"hub\" for nine practices in Liverpool. Each one directs coronavirus patients to the Ropewalks General Practice so the surrounding practices can maintain a Covid-free environment.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, the surgery saw around 5-8 cases a day, but on the day we visited, no-one needed to be seen.\n\nPhone consultations are part of the new norm, especially when checking up on those who are shielding.\n\nPractice nurse Moira Cain says: \"With not going out at all, you're worried about people's mental health and their wellbeing. So the fact they're getting a phone call from someone who cares must be some reassurance.\n\n\"It's reassuring for us to know that they are eating, they are having food taken into them, they are sleeping ok - they haven't got any other symptoms.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"What we have found is the footfall to primary care, as well as A&E, is really reduced.\n\n\"Are people sitting at home with chest pain? With shortness of breath? Have they got swollen ankles? Because if they have, they should really come in.\"\n\nSocial distancing, PPE, the fear of infection - all are making an already tough job more challenging.\n\nBut GPs want their patients to know that, despite appearances - the empty waiting rooms, the 'red zone', they are still very much open for business.", "It is feared the 30ft (10m) fin whale might not survive\n\nA beached whale which became stranded in the same estuary twice in as many days has a \"high chance\" of dying, rescuers have warned.\n\nIt was hoped the 30ft (10m) sea mammal had returned to open waters when it was seen swimming out to sea on Friday.\n\nBut it was again found stranded on Saturday morning on the same stretch of Flintshire coastline.\n\nThe fin whale - the second largest whale breed in the world - is thought to be only six or seven months old.\n\nAn expert from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is assessing the 14-tonne creature.\n\nWriting on its Facebook page on Saturday evening, the group said its team had withdrawn to safety after the tide came in.\n\n\"The whale is still alive and it will be monitored from the boat and the shore,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers are keeping their fingers crossed after seeing the whale swim towards open waters\n\nA spokesman said whales cannot support their own weight on land, so are in danger of causing \"significant internal damage to themselves\" when stranded.\n\nAfter so many hours out of the water, there are fears the whale may not survive.\n\n\"Although we want to be optimistic, we have to be absolutely realistic about the animal's chances of survival at this point,\" BDMLR added.\n\n\"It has spent several hours out of the water gradually being crushed under its own weight over the last couple of days and the degree of internal damage this may have caused could be very significant by now.\n\n\"Even if it does swim off again this evening there is a high chance that it will re-strand and, or pass away as a result.\"", "Immigrants 'could become homeless' without support\n\nCouncils are calling for the government to allow people with a temporary immigration status to receive public funds amid fears they will be forced into homelessness during the pandemic. Increasing numbers of people who are not eligible to support from UK taxpayers are approaching local authorities for support during the coronavirus pandemic, the Local Government Association (LGA) said. People with a temporary immigration status are given the condition called \"no recourse to public funds\" by the Home Office, meaning they cannot access welfare benefits. But the LGA fears that, without this support and as people lose their jobs, they could become homeless. Councillor David Renard, the LGA's housing spokesman, said: \"As the economy recovers, local outbreaks may mean there still may be a need to be able to access safe and suitable accommodation and financial support to allow for self-isolation, particularly for single adults without care needs who are not usually eligible for social services' support.\" A government spokeswoman said: \"Families with leave under family and human rights routes can apply, free of charge, to have no recourse to public funds conditions lifted and we encourage anyone eligible to submit an application.\"", "Joseph John was about to get into bed in the early hours of 14 June 2017. He heard noise coming from outside the second-floor apartment he shared with his partner and 14-month-old son in the Grenfell Tower.\n\nHe looked through his curtains and saw a fire engine. He then caught a bright red reflection in the window of a parked car.\n\n\"I saw the building was on fire,\" Joseph, 29, recalls.\n\nHe woke his partner and rushed out of the flat to seek help. Joseph's partner is disabled and he needed help in evacuating his family from the 24-storey tower. A firefighter told him to go back inside the flat and someone would assist them in getting out.\n\nBut after an hour, as flames engulfed the tower's upper floors, he and his partner realised they couldn't risk waiting any longer. Joseph passed their baby over a large gate to a stranger downstairs before carrying his partner through the window and over the gate himself.\n\nThey managed to get out just in time. Seventy-two people did not. Joseph is still struggling to process the trauma he experienced. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety.\n\nA few months after the fire, Joseph heard about a new local football team that had started up. A keen player, he eventually decided to check out a training session.\n\nFinally, he could take his mind off what had happened that night.\n\n\"I tried cooking, I tried working, I tried everything,\" he says. \"Nothing seemed to work for me, other than football.\"\n\nJoseph wasn't the only one. This is the story of a very special Sunday league team, Grenfell Athletic.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington, west London, was one of the worst disasters in British modern history. It began on the fourth floor of the tower just before 01:00 BST on 14 June. By 04:30 more than 100 flats were on fire. The blaze did not burn itself out for 24 hours.\n\nRupert Taylor was born and raised on the streets surrounding Grenfell and used to play on football pitches beneath the tower. He started volunteering as a youth worker in 2005 and at the time of the fire was manager of the local youth centre. Nine children from the youth centre died in the tower.\n\nRupert was on holiday in Gibraltar when he received a phone call in the early hours of 14 June.\n\n\"I turned on the news. My heart sunk, it was horrific,\" he recalls. \"We didn't know who was alive.\"\n\nHe got the first plane back to London and got straight to work in helping people affected by the fire. \"When I got back I drove in… the smell of burning was real,\" he says. \"I was trying to get support for the residents who were wandering the streets trying to find out about their loved ones.\"\n\nA few days later, Rupert noticed a young man wandering outside the youth centre looking lost. He asked the man if he was OK and if he wanted to come in and get some supplies. He politely declined but they exchanged phone numbers. The man later came into the centre and they started to talk. He told Rupert he was a resident of the tower.\n\n\"He seemed like a very lonely chap,\" Rupert says. \"He told me that he'd lost both his parents a few years ago. A couple of weeks in, we were building a relationship and I noticed he was really struggling. I asked what helped him get through the time when he lost his parents and the first thing that came out of his mouth was 'football'.\n\n\"I said: 'Right, we're going to create a team.'\"\n\nGrenfell Athletic was born barely a month after the fire. Rupert started to put word around the local community and training sessions were set up.\n\nBecause it was so soon after the fire, he wanted it to be as open as possible. Many were still recovering mentally and physically, and he wanted residents to feel able to pop in for training sessions without fully committing to the team.\n\nGrenfell Athletic joined the Middlesex County Football League for the 2017-18 season. The early days were turbulent.\n\n\"It was the strain of the shadow of what we were all walking out for,\" Rupert says. \"The 72 lives that were lost. Every time we went out to the pitch, we did a minute's silence. It starts to wear you down and it's quite heavy on the soul.\n\n\"Children lost their lives. You're seeing their faces when you get out on the pitch and you say you're doing this for them. You're trying to build something greater than your bog-standard Sunday league team.\"\n\nGrenfell Athletic soon started to gel and finished fifth out of 12 teams in their first season - a solid start for a new team founded under such tough circumstances.\n\nAt the end of the season, the team went on a tour of Italy where they played semi-professional Lanciano from the Italian fifth tier. The trip was an important part of the healing process for a lot of the players, many of whom hadn't properly left the area since the fire. It was, Rupert says, \"a time for them to be away from the shadow of this area and the tower\".\n\nBonded after their Italian tour, the team fully found their stride in the second season. They lost just one game and won both the league - gaining promotion - and League Cup.\n\nAfter the fire, Joseph and his family had to spend the first few days living in a local church, before eventually being given a room in a hotel - where they stayed for a year. They have been in temporary housing since.\n\nAs time went on, Joseph struggled to come to terms with the night of the fire. He knew people who lost their lives. He recalls a family he would chat to and help out in the tower's lift. They didn't make it out.\n\n\"For me, it was super difficult, even now. Every day I feel like I am living back in 2017,\" he says.\n\nJoseph, who moved to the UK four years ago, is from a family of footballers and grew up playing in his native Trinidad and Tobago - even representing his country at under-17 level.\n\nThe team soon helped him escape the trauma in ways he hadn't been able to before. He also started opening up to some of his team-mates about the fire.\n\n\"It helped me grow bonds with them, it helped me be open. I can discuss anything with some of my team-mates,\" he says. \"We can chat one to one - man to man - it makes me feel comfortable.\n\n\"I don't like being around people, I don't like meeting people, I don't like being in people's space - I like to be around myself. But in football you can't have that.\n\n\"You have to be respectful, you have to be considerate to your team-mates, you have to be uplifting. It's different rules - being part of the team.\"\n\nBy mid-March of this year, Grenfell Athletic were joint second in the table, and then coronavirus hit.\n\n\"Right now my mental health is going down badly with no football and just staying at home,\" he said in April. \"I can't go to my physio, I can't go to my therapist. It's hard.\"\n\nMany of the team did not live in Grenfell, but the tower had been a constant in their lives.\n\nBoxer Dan-Dan Keenan, 23, grew up in the area and started training at the Dale Youth Boxing Club inside Grenfell Tower aged 10.\n\nDan-Dan was outside the tower on the night of the fire, speaking to his best friend's father, Tony, on the phone. Tony was trapped on the 23rd floor and never made it out.\n\n\"I rang him when I first got there to tell him there was a fire and he said 'thanks for making me aware but I already know,'\" Dan-Dan recalls. \"We were watching it, so it's pretty bad.\"\n\nDan-Dan soon heard about Grenfell Athletic from local friends he grew up with playing football.\n\n\"I wanted to get involved in remembrance of Grenfell and especially in remembrance of Tony. But also, besides that, I just wanted to play football,\" he says.\n\n\"It means that everyone is still talking about Grenfell, which is always a good thing. Obviously we want to remember them and not just let it get swept under the carpet.\"\n\nWhile the club is still in its infancy, everyone you speak to from Grenfell Athletic is dreaming big.\n\nRupert is eyeing up a plot of land in Greenford, west London, that could one day be the team's official home (they currently play around six miles away in Chiswick).\n\nDan-Dan says that a home ground of their own would help build the team's profile.\n\n\"I see a lot of Sunday league clubs - YouTube teams, for example - and they've got hundreds and hundreds of people watching and supporting them,\" he says.\n\n\"If we can get a home pitch which is local to Grenfell I'm sure people - whether they like football or not - will come and support us just because we are representing Grenfell.\"\n\nJoseph agrees that a real home and top-quality coaching is needed for the team to take the next step up and bag more silverware.\n\nBut the importance of Grenfell Athletic goes far beyond titles and trophies for Joseph.\n\n\"I have no family here, I'm here on my own with my kids and my partner. Football is my family, football is my community,\" he says.\n\n\"They're like my brothers. Well, they are my brothers.\"", "Ricky Valance's single Tell Laura I Love Her sold more than a million copies in 1960\n\nWelsh singer Ricky Valance has died at the age of 84, his agent has confirmed.\n\nValance, who was born David Spencer, became the first Welshman to have a solo UK Number One hit with the song Tell Laura I Love Her in 1960.\n\nThe singer was born in Ynysddu, now in Caerphilly county, and joined the RAF aged 17 before going into the music business.\n\nHis agent said he had been diagnosed with dementia and had been in hospital since before the start of lockdown.\n\nValance was lead soprano in his local church choir as a child, before joining the air force, where he saw active service in north Africa before returning three years later.\n\nIt was then he started performing in clubs in the north of England, before being signed and recording Tell Laura I Love Her.\n\nThe song tells the tragic story of a boy called Tommy and his love for a girl called Laura.\n\nIt was controversial at the time and reportedly banned from airplay by the BBC, but went on to be a number one single, selling more than a million copies.\n\nIt spent 16 weeks in the chart, three of those at number one, but was to prove his only big hit in the UK.\n\nNevertheless, fans have taken to social media to express their sadness at his death.\n\nHyder Ali Pirwany tweeted: \"Ricky Valance, RIP. Great singer from Wales. His \"Tell Laura I love her\" song was tear jerking.\"\n\nWhile another fan wrote: \"Another one gone. RIP. Hope Laura is waiting for you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hyder Ali Pirwany This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2015, Valance was given an award at a St David's Day concert at the Wales Millennium Centre for being the first Welshman to have a UK Number One hit.\n\nIn 2017, he released a final single, called Welcome Home, to raise money for the Royal Air Force Museum and RAF Association.\n\nValance and his wife Evelyn were living in Skegness, Lincolnshire, at the time of his death.\n• None Final song for first Welsh number one", "Airlines across the world have grounded aircraft amid the pandemic\n\nBritish Airways, Ryanair and EasyJet have filed a formal legal challenge to the government's quarantine policy.\n\nThe airlines say the policy will have \"a devastating effect on British tourism and the wider economy\" and destroy thousands of jobs.\n\nThey have applied for a judicial review at the High Court.\n\nThe challenge claims that the quarantine rules for travellers are more stringent than those applied to people who actually have Covid-19.\n\nThe new rules came into force this week. They require most inbound travellers to self isolate for 14 days, although there are more than 40 categories of incomers, largely pertaining to certain workers, who are exempt. Rules for those actually infected with the virus require self isolation for seven days.\n\nThe airlines state that there was no consultation and no scientific evidence provided to support the policy; that weekly commuters from France or Germany can be exempted; and that the government is preventing people from travelling to and from countries with lower infection rates than the UK.\n\nHowever, the government has said the quarantine period is a \"proportionate and time-limited approach\" to protect public health.\n\nIn a statement, the three airlines said they had not seen any evidence on how and when so-called \"air bridges\", allowing quarantine-free travel between the UK and other countries with low infection rates, could be implemented.\n\nThey have called on the government instead to re-adopt a previous policy, where quarantine was limited to travellers from high risk countries.\n\nThe air industry has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus outbreak, which has all but stopped their activities. Mass job cuts are under way:\n\nFriday's legal move marks another sign of a breakdown in relations between airlines and the UK government.\n\nWillie Walsh, the boss of IAG, which owns BA, Iberia and Aer Lingus, has called the quarantine policy \"irrational\", while Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said the policy was a \"stunt\" and would not be enforceable.\n\nIndustry body Airlines UK has said quarantine \"would effectively kill off air travel\".\n\nThe BBC has approached the Home Office for a comment.", "On the face of it The King of Staten Island tells a tale so familiar it's a cliché. A young man is struggling to come to terms with adult life. He smokes a lot of weed, hangs out with a crew of equally lost souls, and starts making some ill-advised life decisions. He's not an inherently bad lad: he loves his mum, he's nice to kids (mostly), and routinely disarms with his self-deprecating charms.\n\nYou know this story, you know this person.\n\nIf you're like me, it was you. Or, is you. Or, your brother. Or, one of your friends, or one of your children, or one of your friend's children, or one of your children's friends.\n\nHe is the Everyman in the male coming-of-age saga: a troubled, confused, angry, depressed, fragile dude looking for some direction and purpose - not that he'd ever admit it. There's a journey to be taken and that's the basis of the movie/book/play/song etc.\n\nAnd so it is with The King of Staten Island, a 135-minute easy-paced film directed by Judd Apatow, now available on-demand. It is not genre-busting, or genre-defining, or genre-bending - it is a middle-of-the-road genre staple. Except for one thing…\n\nPete Davidson goes on a deeply personal journey in the film\n\nHe isn't middle-of-the-road. He's speeding along the charisma super-highway, turning heads with what looks like an old banger act but is in fact a finely-tuned, custom-made performance that not only brings the film alive, but gives it a heart and a soul. Whatever way you look at it, The King of Staten Island is his film.\n\nOr put another way, Pete Davidson is The King of Staten Island.\n\nThe comedian and Saturday Night Live regular plays the lead role, he gives the stand-out performance, he co-wrote the script, and he has an executive producer credit. He was even born in Staten Island and still lives there, for goodness sake.\n\nDavidson plays Scott Carlin, a drifting 24-year old wannabe tattoo artist who has yet to come to terms with the death of his firefighter father, killed in the line of duty when our pot-head protagonist was a boy. Scott's mental health is poor. He smokes too many joints, he lives with his mum, and he has chronic gut issues.\n\nIt is a biography that reads very close to Davidson's own life story (his firefighter father, also called Scott, died trying to save others as a 9/11 first responder).\n\nScott Davidson (Pete's father), was a firefighter who died while responding to the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, and is described by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation as \"a brave and fearless man who was very proud of his children\"\n\nNot exactly a stretch for Davidson the actor, then. I imagine there weren't a lot of \"Hey, Judd, what's my motivation?\" type conversations between lead actor and director. But, maybe, playing a fictional role largely based on your own back story is far harder than taking on the role of a totally different character altogether.\n\nPete Davidson is not Scott Carlin in the way that Larry David is a heightened version of himself in Curb Your Enthusiasm.\n\nAnd yet, anybody who knows Davidson's stand-up work will see similar traits: the low-status schtick, the poking fun but not being mean - or being mean and then apologising afterwards. The dry delivery, the ill-fitting clothes, the off-beat persona. These characteristics are all evident in Scott Carlin, too, but somehow Davidson manages to shape him in such a way that the fictional character becomes so vivid it obscures the identity of the man playing him. That's not an easy trick to pull off.\n\nDavidson does it with plenty of help from his friends. Fellow stand-up comic Bill Burr plays Ray Bishop, a straight-talking, shirt-tucked-in kinda guy, who provides a nicely weighted counter-point to Scott and his haphazard lifestyle. Ray has eyes for Margie (the excellent Marisa Tomei), the long-suffering mother of Scott and his preppy younger sister Claire (Maude Apatow). That's one love story.\n\nScott Carlin (Davidson) and his mum Margie (Marisa Tomei) have an emotional rollercoaster of a relationship\n\nScott doesn't have the easiest of times adjusting to his mother's boyfriend Ray Bishop (Bill Burr)\n\nThe other is between Scott and his girlfriend Kelsey, a young woman hell-bent on putting Staten Island on the hipster map. She is played by the British actress Bel Powley, who was one of the few good things about Apple TV's The Morning Show (buckle up, there's a second season on the way). She doesn't have many scenes, but those she is in are some of the best in the movie - there'll be an Oscar on her shelf one of these days.\n\nThere is also a very welcome cameo-plus from Steve Buscemi as Papa the fire chief, and a short but memorable appearance by Machine Gun Kelly in the guise of a tattoo shop owner.\n\nSteve Buscemi plays Papa, the firefighter, who knew Scott's father, and in real life was a firefighter before becoming an actor, and then returned to volunteer after 9/11\n\nBel Powley gives an impressive performance as Scott's childhood friend and secret lover, Kelsey\n\nJudd Apatow does a good job keeping all the moving parts in order, although the pace could be a bit slow for some. It wasn't a problem for me, it's not as if there's a whole load to do right now. What's more, you sense a looseness that allowed the actors room to explore and improvise, which gives the film an edge it might otherwise lack.\n\nIt also affords the viewer a chance to reflect while watching. And when you do, it becomes apparent The King of Staten Island is more than a run-of-the-mill genre movie. It is a brutally honest, first-person account of what can happen to a family when tragedy strikes. It's not hyperbolic or overly-dramatic. It's just sad and downbeat at times. It is not a new story, but it is well told.\n\nAnd Pete Davidson is always worth watching.\n• None 'There's comedy in the most difficult situations'", "Red pandas spend much of their time in the trees\n\nConservationists are satellite tracking red pandas in the mountains of Nepal to find out more about the factors that are driving them towards extinction.\n\nThe mammals are endangered, with numbers down to a few thousand in the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.\n\nTen red pandas have been fitted with GPS collars to monitor their range in the forests near Mount Kangchenjunga.\n\nThe GPS collars are said to be working well and yielding \"exciting data\".\n\nThe six females and four males are being tracked and photographed using camera traps in a conservation effort involving scientists, vets, government officials in Nepal and conservation group Red Panda Network.\n\nPaaru, being fitted with the collar\n\n\"This is a great milestone in red panda conservation\", said Man Bahadur Khadka, director general of Nepal's department of forests and soil conservation.\n\nThe 10 pandas have been named by local people as Paaru, Dolma, Chintapu, Mechhachha, Bhumo, Senehang, Ngima, Brian, Ninamma and Praladdevi.\n\nThe red panda (Ailurus fulgens) was initially considered a relative of the raccoon because of its ringed tail, and was later thought to be related to bears.\n\nThe species is now known to be in a family of its own and one of the most evolutionary distinct and globally endangered mammals in the world.\n\nThe loss of the forests that provide shelter and a supply of bamboo for food is a big problem for the red panda.\n\nConservationists in Nepal hope the study over the course of a year will give valuable data about how to better protect one of the last remaining populations.\n• None Red pandas are two species, not one", "John Cleese, who plays Basil Fawlty, has said the move is \"stupid\"\n\nJohn Cleese has laid into the \"cowardly and gutless\" BBC after an episode of Fawlty Towers was temporarily removed from a BBC-owned streaming platform.\n\nA 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off UKTV's streaming service because it contains \"racial slurs\".\n\nIn it, the Major uses highly offensive language, and Cleese's Basil Fawlty declares \"don't mention the war\".\n\nUKTV said it expected to reinstate the show with \"extra guidance\" in \"the coming days\".\n\nCleese wrote on Twitter: \"The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.\n\n\"One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Cleese This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe went on to compare the situation with that of Alf Garnett, the racist character in sitcoms Till Death Us Do Part and In Sickness and in Health.\n\n\"We laughed at Alf's reactionary views. Thus we discredited them, by laughing at him,\" Cleese wrote.\n\n\"Of course, there were people - very stupid people - who said 'Thank God someone is saying these things at last'. We laughed at these people too. Now they're taking decisions about BBC comedy.\"\n\nHe continued: \"But it's not just stupidity. The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats. It used to have a large sprinkling of people who'd actually made programmes. Not any more.\n\n\"So BBC decisions are made by persons whose main concern is not losing their jobs... That's why they're so cowardly and gutless and contemptible. I rest my case.\"\n\nUKTV also operates channels including Gold, and many of its channels and its digital player were taken over by the BBC's commercial arm BBC Studios last year. A BBC spokesman declined to comment.\n\nA UKTV statement said it would update the episode with guidance and contextual information in line with similar warnings on other classic comedy titles.\n\n\"We will reinstate Fawlty Towers once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days,\" it added.\n\n\"We will continue to look at what content is on offer as we always have done.\"\n\nThe Germans is still available to view on Britbox, which is part-owned by the BBC, with a message saying it \"contains some offensive racial language of the time and upsetting scenes\". It is also on Netflix, carrying a warning about \"language, [and] discrimination\".\n\nJournalist and broadcaster Carl Anka described the removal as \"a waste of time\", noting many people would prefer it if UKTV and other companies simply \"committed to hiring black creatives\" instead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2013, it was reported that Cleese agreed for the offending lines to be edited out when it was repeated on TV.\n\n\"We are very proud of Fawlty Towers and its contribution to British television comedy,\" a BBC spokesman told the Daily Mail at the time.\n\n\"But public attitudes have changed significantly since it was made and it was decided to make some minor changes, with the consent of John Cleese's management, to allow the episode to transmit to a family audience at 7.30pm on BBC Two.\"\n\nThis week, many channels and comedy figures have been making moves to reassess what is acceptable in today's society, following mass Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nHBO Max temporarily removed Gone With The Wind because of its \"racial depictions\", and Little Britain was removed from the BBC iPlayer and Britbox because \"times have changed\".\n\nNetflix has also removed Little Britain plus David Walliams and Matt Lucas's Come Fly With Me, and The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh.\n\nMeanwhile, Ant and Dec apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway, and requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having dressed as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Delight as family reunites after weeks apart\n\nThere were squeals of delight as a family had their first hugs after weeks of social distancing.\n\nLike many, Hayley Matthews, 36, from Telford, Shropshire, was separated from her mother Rita Kenyon during lockdown.\n\nBut on Saturday they were reunited, after the government allowed single adults living alone to link with another household.\n\nThe family said news they were able to reunite was like \"being let out of jail\".\n\nMrs Matthews and her husband Rob both work, so she said her mum was her \"main source of childcare\" for nine-year-old Maddison, seven-year-old Jude and Rowan, five.\n\nThe Matthews family and Rita Kenyon always go on holiday together, as seen in this pre-lockdown snap\n\n\"We have really missed her, especially my youngest,\" she said.\n\n\"Rowan spends lot of time with Nanny, so it has been really difficult, the other two understand a bit more.\n\n\"At the first part of lockdown, I wouldn't go to see her because I couldn't deal with it.\n\n\"My husband went and dropped the shopping off, because we have done all her shopping throughout lockdown.\"\n\nHayley Matthews said her mother was her \"rock\" (pic taken before lockdown)\n\nIt was very emotional when they realised they would be able to get back together, she said.\n\n\"I rang her because she didn't watch the news, and she was crying down the phone, it is like being let out of jail were mum's words,\" Mrs Matthews said.\n\n\"Rowan couldn't get his head around it, when we are out for walks he knows you have to socially distance and he gives Nanny a virtual hug.\n\n\"He has been counting down the days.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "The Sun said it had not intended to \"glorify\" domestic violence in its interview with JK Rowling's former husband Jorge Arantes\n\nThe Sun newspaper has faced a backlash from domestic abuse charities for an article in which JK Rowling's ex said \"I'm not sorry\" for slapping her.\n\nAs part of a blog addressing criticism of her comments on transgender people, the Harry Potter author said her first marriage had been \"violent\".\n\nJorge Arantes told the Sun he slapped Rowling when she left him - but added \"there was not sustained abuse\".\n\nThe newspaper said it had not intended to \"enable or glorify\" domestic abuse.\n\nCritics have accused the author of being transphobic for her response to an article about \"people who menstruate\".\n\nRowling said her personal experience of domestic abuse and sexual assault, and her concerns about protecting safe spaces for women, were some reasons why she spoke out about transgender issues.\n\nThe Sun's front page headline on Friday was: \"I slapped JK and I'm not sorry\".\n\nMr Arantes, who shares a daughter with Rowling from their marriage, told the paper: \"Yes. It is true I slapped her. But I didn't abuse her.\" When asked about his response to her claims - which included that the relationship was violent - he said: \"If she says that, that's up to her. It's not true I hit her.\"\n\nNicole Jacobs, England's domestic abuse commissioner, wrote to the newspaper to say she was \"deeply concerned\" about the story.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that the Sun has chosen to repeat and magnify the voice of someone who openly admits to violence against a partner,\" she said.\n\nThe charity Women's Aid said the newspaper's front page had a \"negative impact\", and added it was in conversation with the Sun about reflecting the voices of survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nSome 20 anti-domestic abuse campaigners - including the chief executive of Women's Aid - wrote an open letter calling on the paper to apologise.\n\n\"Responding to a woman disclosing her experiences of domestic abuse and sexual assault by giving a platform to her perpetrator to trivialise the abuse he subjected her to is irresponsible and dangerous,\" the letter said.\n\nPress regulator Ipso said it had received more than 500 complaints about the Sun article.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Sun said: \"It was certainly not our intention to 'enable' or 'glorify' domestic abuse, our intention was to expose a perpetrator's total lack of remorse. Our sympathies are always with the victims.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added that the tabloid had a \"long history of standing up for abused women\", and \"over the we have empowered countless victims to come forward and seek help\".\n\nPoliticians have also criticised the Sun's coverage. The Liberal Democrats called on the Sun to donate the revenue made from Friday's newspaper to Refuge - while Labour's shadow minister for domestic abuse and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, said \"doubt and disbelief\" benefited perpetrators of abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Phillips MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Gillian Martin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe row about Rowling's comments on transgender issues began last weekend, after she responded to a headline on an online article discussing \"people who menstruate\" by writing in a tweet: \"I'm sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?\"\n\nHarry Potter actor Rupert Grint is the latest star to voice his support for the trans community, following Rowling's comments.\n\nHis co-stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, are among others who have already spoken out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn her blog defending her comments, Rowling said: \"I've been in the public eye now for over 20 years and have never talked publicly about being a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who've been slurred as bigots for having concerns around single-sex spaces.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by domestic abuse or violence, the following organisations may be able to help. If you have been affected by gender identity issues, a list of organisations offering support and information can be found here.", "Shintaro Tsuji has been at the helm of Sanrio for more than six decades\n\nThe founder of the Japanese company that created Hello Kitty has announced he is stepping down as CEO aged 92.\n\nShintaro Tsuji said he would hand over control of Sanrio to his 31-year-old grandson, Tomokuni Tsuji.\n\nIt marks the first change in leadership in the company's six-decade history.\n\nHello Kitty, a mouthless cartoon adorned with a trademark hair bow, has generated billions of dollars since its inception almost 50 years ago.\n\nThe simple line-drawn image has appeared on merchandise including clothing, toys and stationery. It is targeted mostly at young children, but in recent years it has also proved popular with adults.\n\nMr Tsuji will formally leave his role on 1 July.\n\nShintaro Tsuji started a gift company in the 1960s and quickly realised that the products featuring \"cute\" designs were his bestsellers.\n\nThat led to the creation of Hello Kitty, who has since become an iconic Japanese character.\n\nBut Kitty has competition: sales have been dropping inside Japan for years and Sanrio now depends on its increasingly fragile global business.\n\nSo, Mr Tsuji's decision to step aside comes at a turning point for the company.\n\nIn Japanese tradition, CEO founders strive to pass on their positions to family members. Mr Tsuji's son died of a heart attack in 2013, and so this is why his grandson is taking over.\n\nTomokuni Tsuji has already pledged to transform the company and to drop outdated ideas. Let's hope he's not referring to Hello Kitty, who is older than the company's new leader.\n\nTomokuni Tsuji, who is currently a senior managing director at Sanrio, will become the youngest CEO of a company listed on the Topix share index.\n\nHe coincidentally shares a birthday with Hello Kitty on 1 November, according to the AFP news agency. But he is 14 years younger than the character itself.\n\n\"I want to transform the company to better respond to today's rapidly changing business environment,\" he told a press conference on Friday.\n\nHello Kitty-branded products are sold around the world and its image has even featured on a bullet train\n\nThere is even a Hello Kitty theme park in China\n\nSanrio, whose business has been declining for several years, has been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnnual net profits fell by 95% in the 2019/2020 fiscal year, according to figures published on Friday. Sales were also down 6.5 % on the previous year.\n\nHello Kitty-branded products are sold in 130 countries worldwide, with the range extending from prosecco to plimsolls.\n\nIt is also licensed for amusement parks and cafés, while last year a Japanese railway firm splashed the image on its bullet train, painted in pink and white.\n\nAlthough the brand typifies the Japanese trend for \"kawaii\" or cuteness, the character itself is identified as British because when she was created in the 1970s British culture was fashionable in Japan.", "A mural dedicated to George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York.\n\nHere's a timeline of major incidents since 2014 involving police officers which resulted in the deaths of black Americans.\n\nA protest over the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York police\n\nEric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes.\n\nWhile in a choke hold, Mr Garner uttered the words \"I can't breathe\" 11 times.\n\nThe incident - filmed by a bystander - led to protests across the country. The police officer involved was later fired, but was never prosecuted.\n\nIt came a year after the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response to the acquittal of the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.\n\nThe killing of Michael Brown led to violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri\n\nMichael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was responding to reports that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.\n\nThe officer, Darren Wilson, stopped his car in front of Brown.\n\nBrown reached into the car and punched Wilson, and in the struggle that followed, he tried to grab the police officer's gun, according to a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which was based on forensic evidence and interviews with dozens of witnesses.\n\nOne shot was fired and Brown ran off, pursued by Wilson. When he turned back and moved towards Wilson, the fatal shots were fired, according to witnesses.\n\nAlthough the police officer was cleared of wrongdoing, the DOJ report was scathing about systemic problems in the Ferguson police and racial disparities in the justice system.\n\nThe incident led to multiple waves of protests and civil unrest in Ferguson, boosting the Black Lives Matter movement further.\n\nA solitary toy is left as a memorial near where Tamir Rice died\n\nTamir Rice, a boy of 12, was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a male who was \"probably a juvenile\" pointing a gun that was \"probably fake\" at passers by.\n\nPolice claimed that they told Rice to drop the weapon - but instead of dropping it he pointed it at police.\n\nThe police confirmed that the gun was a toy after Rice had been shot dead.\n\nThe police officer who fired the fatal shots was sacked three years later for lying on his job application form.\n\nIn December 2020, the Justice Department said it was closing its investigation into the case as there was not enough evidence to bring federal criminal charges.\n\nWalter Scott was shot in the back five times by a white police officer, who was later fired and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\nMr Scott had been pulled over for having a defective light on his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and ran away from the police officer after a brief scuffle.\n\nThe killing sparked protests in North Charleston, with chants of \"No justice, no peace\".\n\nAlton Sterling's death led to days of protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr Sterling was killed after police responded to reports of a disturbance outside a shop.\n\nThe incident was caught on mobile phone footage and spread online.\n\nThe two officers involved did not face criminal charges, but one was dismissed and the other suspended from the police.\n\nPhilando Castile was killed while out driving with his girlfriend in St Paul, Minnesota.\n\nHe was pulled over by the police during a routine check, and told them he was licensed to carry a weapon, and had one in his possession.\n\nHe was shot as he was reaching for his licence, according to his girlfriend.\n\nShe live-streamed the encounter on Facebook. The officer involved was cleared of murder charges.\n\nStephon Clark died after being shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California, by police who were investigating a nearby break-in.\n\nOnly a mobile phone was found at the scene, and Mr Clark was unarmed.\n\nThe release of a police video of the incident sparked major protests in the city.\n\nIn March 2019, the authorities announced that the two officers involved would not face criminal prosecution as the officers had feared for their lives, believing Mr Clark had a gun.\n\nBreonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times when officers raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\nLouisville police said they returned fire after one officer was shot at and wounded.\n\nBreonna Taylor's family filed a lawsuit, and in September 2020 reached a settlement of $12m (£9.4m) with the city authorities.\n\nThe lawsuit stated that Ms Taylor's partner - who was with her at the time - had fired in self-defence because the police did not identify themselves, and he thought the apartment was being burgled.\n\nA grand jury charged one police officer not with Ms Taylor's death, but with \"wanton endangerment\" for firing into a neighbouring apartment.\n\nThree officers involved in the raid have now been dismissed from the police force.\n\nProtests and demonstrations in Minneapolis as the trial of Derek Chauvin gets underway\n\nGeorge Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and held down by police officers, one of whom had his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.\n\nHe pleaded that he couldn't breathe, and after his death, protests broke out across the US, and there were demonstrations in other parts of the world.\n\nFormer police officer Derek Chauvin - who had knelt on Mr Floyd - was convicted on charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter after a three-week trial.\n\nThree other officers who were involved in the incident will be tried later this year accused of aiding and abetting Mr Chauvin.\n\nClashes erupted following Daunte Wright's killing, which occurred during the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin\n\nDaunte Wright was shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, just north of Minneapolis.\n\nAfter being pulled over for a traffic violation, the police told Mr Wright he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.\n\nHe broke free and tried to re-enter his car, at which point an officer is heard shouting \"Taser\" several times before firing a shot.\n\nLocal police said the killing appeared to be accidental, and the officer, Kim Potter, had meant to use her Taser and not her handgun.\n\nThe family has rejected that explanation, and protests over the shooting have continued.\n\nMrs Potter has resigned from the police, and been charged with second-degree manslaughter.", "It is the first time the Queen has celebrated her official birthday at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen's official birthday has been marked with a unique ceremony performed by the Welsh Guard at Windsor Castle.\n\nIt comes after the traditional Trooping the Colour parade was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is only the second time in her 68-year reign that the parade in London has not gone ahead.\n\nThe Queen, flanked by officials, sat alone on a dais for the ceremony. It was her first official public appearance since lockdown began.\n\nThe Queen celebrated her 94th birthday in April, but it is officially - and publicly - celebrated on the second Saturday of June every year.\n\nIt is typically accompanied by the annual announcement of the Queen's Birthday Honours' List. However, this year she has \"graciously agreed\" to postpone publication of the list to the autumn.\n\nIn a statement last month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the delay \"will allow us to ensure that the list, agreed before this public health emergency developed, reflects the Covid-19 effort, and comes at a time when we can properly celebrate the achievements of all those included\".\n\nGuardsmen kept their distance as they stood in formation in the central quadrangle of Windsor Castle\n\nAll the troops had learnt new marching techniques for the occasion, to conform with social distancing measures\n\nThe ceremonial tribute, dubbed a mini-Trooping, was performed by a small number of Welsh Guardsmen and the band of the Household Division.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell described it as \"a birthday parade for changed times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen received a royal salute. It was followed by a display of precision marching - with the military maintaining strict social distancing measures, in keeping with government guidelines.\n\nWith fewer people on parade because of social distancing rules, \"there is no hiding place\" said Garrison Sgt Maj Warrant Officer Class 1 Andrew Stokes, who created the display.\n\n\"But more spacing between individuals means that there is also no room for errors and so the soldier has to really concentrate on their own personal drill, reaction to orders, dressing and social distancing,\" he said.\n\nNormally, Guardsmen stand shoulder-to-shoulder during their drills or when formed up on the parade ground, but on Saturday they stood 2.2m apart.\n\nGuardsman Lance Corporal Chusa Siwale, 29, originally from Zambia, had a central role in the ceremony, performing the Drummer's Call.\n\n\"Only four weeks ago I was involved with testing key workers for Covid-19, as part of the Welsh Guards' contribution to the battle against the virus. Now I am on parade performing in front of Her Majesty.\n\n\"This is a very proud day for me.\"\n\nThe Queen appeared to enjoy the more intimate occasion\n\nNo other members of the Royal family attended the ceremony on Saturday\n\nIt was the first time the Queen has celebrated her official birthday at Windsor Castle. An event for a sovereign's birthday has not been staged there since 1895, during the reign of Queen Victoria.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have spent the lockdown in isolation at Windsor Castle, and were photographed there earlier this month to mark Prince Philip's 99th birthday.\n\nA new photo of the Queen and Prince Philip was released to mark his 99th birthday\n\nLast year's parade: The Queen and other royals gather to witness the Red Arrows perform a flypast\n\nThe Trooping the Colour parade in Whitehall is usually watched by thousands of spectators and senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe last time the event was cancelled was in 1955, two years after the Queen's coronation, due to a national rail strike.\n\nMaj Gen Christopher Ghika, who commands the Household Division, said the circumstances surrounding the decision to host the tribute in Windsor were \"clouded in tragedy\".\n\n\"The effects of Covid-19 have been devastating in terms of loss of life and the threatening of livelihoods of so many across the country,\" he said.\n\n\"People have had to endure separation from loved ones, great uncertainty and the suspension of so much of what is special about our national life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Royal Opera Chorus reunites online for the Queen's official birthday\n\nGen Ghika added: \"The Welsh Guards and many of those on parade have recently been deployed within the United Kingdom as part of the nation's response to the virus and so the context of the ceremony is particularly poignant.\"\n\nThe Welsh Guards, along with the rest of the Household Division, have been among the soldiers helping with the coronavirus response, for example at test centres.", "Following the death of George Floyd while under arrest, protests have consumed America and onlookers have wondered how one of the most powerful countries in the world could descend into such chaos.\n\nDespite being defined by race, American society does not spend much time analysing the history of our racial divisions, and America prefers to believe in the inevitable progression towards racial equality.\n\nThe election of Barack Obama in 2008 fed into this narrative of progress, but Donald Trump's presidential victory in 2016 was seen as a step backwards, coming after a campaign with a slogan that championed America's divisive past as a form of progress.\n\nFloyd's death now appears to be the tipping point for an exhausted, racially divided nation still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic cost that followed.\n\nFloyd's cries of \"I can't breathe\" echoed the cries of Eric Garner, who was choked by police on a New York City sidewalk in 2014.\n\nFloyd's words reminded Americans of the oppressive past we work to forget regardless of whether it is six years ago, 60 years ago, the 1860s, or 1619 when some of the first slaves arrived in America.\n\nTo a large extent, America's neglect of the past and belief in progress have left many Americans unaware of the severity and scope of our racial tensions, and as a result many Americans lack the words to articulate our current turmoil. Recently, I have used the word ethnocide meaning \"the destruction of culture while keeping the people\" to describe America's past and present racial tensions, and this language also helps articulate the uniqueness of America's race problem.\n\nIn 1941, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew and distinguished lawyer, immigrated to the United States as he fled the Nazis. While in America he implored the American government to stop the Nazis from killing his people, and as his words fell on deaf ears, he realized he needed to create a new word to describe the unique horror befalling his people. In 1944, Lemkin coined the words genocide and ethnocide.\n\nLemkin intended for the words to be interchangeable but over time they diverged. Genocide became the destruction of a people and their culture, and this word radically changed the world for the better. Ethnocide became the destruction of culture while keeping the people, and has been ignored for decades. Recently, ethnocide has been used to describe the plight of indigenous people against colonisation, but regarding America, ethnocide also pertains to the transatlantic slave trade and the founding of the nation.\n\nFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, European colonisers destroyed the culture of African people, but kept their bodies in order to create the chattel slavery system that became the economic and social foundation of the United States. Colonisers prevented Africans from speaking their languages and practising their religions. Tribal and familial bonds were broken, and African people could no longer identify as Igbo, Yoruba, and Malian. Instead de-cultured names such as nigger, negro, coloured, and black were stamped upon African people.\n\nAdditionally, Europeans identified themselves as white, and in the United States the one-drop rule was created to sustain that division. One drop of black or African blood meant that a person could not be white. In America, whiteness became a zero-sum identity that was maintained by systemic racial division. Interracial marriage was still illegal in much of America until the Loving vs Virginia decision in 1967.\n\nFrom colonisation to the formation of the United States, America has created countless laws and policies to sustain the racial division between blacks and whites forged by ethnocide. These American norms, extending to housing, education, employment, healthcare, law enforcement and environmental protections including clean drinking water, have disproportionately harmed African Americans and other communities of colour in order to sustain racial division and white dominance.\n\nGeorge Floyd's murder represents a continuation of the systemic criminalisation and oppression of black life in America that has always been the American norm dating back to Jim Crow, segregation (which means apartheid), and slavery.\n\nWhen the Confederacy, the collection of American slave-holding states in the South, seceded from the United States, they launched the Civil War to defend the immoral institution of slavery. After losing the Civil War, these states were readmitted back into the United States. To this day, many Americans, and especially America hate groups, still celebrate Confederate soldiers and politicians as heroes, and there are monuments and memorials dedicated to them across America.\n\nDespite the American South losing the Civil War in 1865, American President Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederate soldiers, and soon thereafter Confederate politicians won elected office in the newly-reunited America. The influence of former slave owners and Confederates contributed to erasing the rights that African Americans won in the 1860s including citizenship and the right to vote.\n\nThe political campaign to remove African American rights was called the Redeemers movement, and it was led by former slave-owners and Confederates, who wanted to redeem the South by returning it to the norms of chattel slavery. The Redeemers and \"Make America Great Again\" derive from America's oppressive, ethnocidal school of thought.\n\nThe Redeemers were also assisted by American terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) that were made up of former Confederate soldiers. The KKK, and many other white supremacist groups, terrorised and lynched black Americans, and they also prevented them from voting to help ensure that Redeemer candidates won elected office. The terrorists became the government.\n\nProtesters attacked by police dogs during demonstrations against segregation in Alabama in 1963\n\nBy the start of the 20th Century, the Redeemers had succeeded in undoing the racial equality progress of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, and now Jim Crow segregation became the norm of the American South. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy vs Ferguson made \"separate but equal\" the new law of the land, and America again became a legal apartheid state.\n\nAccording to the Equal Justice Initiative's 2017 report Lynching in America, over 4,400 lynchings of African Americans occurred from 1877-1950. That is more than a lynching a week for 74 years.\n\nDuring Jim Crow, America could not legally deny black people their humanity, but they could deny them the services that are afforded to human beings. Black people were denied education, housing, employment, and were expected to \"know their place\" as a perpetually subjugated people. Large prisons were erected on former plantations; black people were arrested for minor crimes and given long prison sentences doing manual labour on the same land their ancestors were forced to work as enslaved people.\n\nAs a result of Jim Crow, millions of African Americans fled the neo-slavery and terror of the South during the Great Migration, and racial tensions spread as other American cities did not welcome these domestic refugees. This is the same journey as the Underground Railroad, where prior to the Civil War enslaved African Americans escaped the South and sought refuge in Canada and the Northern parts of America.\n\nThe civil rights movement of the 1960s effectively ended Jim Crow, and African Americans began reclaiming the rights, specifically voting rights and freedom of movement, they had previously won in the 1860s, but it is a long road to dismantle systemic and legalised racism and segregation.\n\nObama's election in 2008 was a monumental event in American society, but it did not magically erase the systemic racism woven into America's social fabric and the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement to national attention.\n\nTrayvon was shot and killed by George Zimmerman as he walked home in his own neighbourhood because Zimmerman thought he looked suspicious. Martin was unarmed. Zimmerman pled self-defence and a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter. Trayvon was one of countless African Americans killed by America's ethnocidal society that sanctions terror from both the government and civilians.\n\nThe unjust killing of black people by the police and racist vigilantes remained the norm during Obama's presidency, but now the black community could record and document these crimes on video, and had a president who would defend them. Obama famously said: \"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.\"\n\nThe emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and other protests under Obama occurred because black Americans were confident that the White House would listen to their cries of \"I can't breathe\" and make American society finally equitable and just. Under Trump those cries have fallen on deaf ears and tensions have escalated.\n\nAmerica has much work to do to fix our racial tensions because our divisions and inequality are forged in our ethnocidal roots. We need to reform the policing of a nation nearly the size of a continent with over 300 million people, but we also need to make our education, healthcare, and housing systems, and every facet of our democracy more equitable.\n\nAdditionally, truth and reconciliation commissions, a national apology, reparations, holding evildoers accountable, and other processes nations have used to heal after a genocide, the linguistic sibling of ethnocide, will help America change course and forge equality and justice.\n\nAlso, America has rarely criminalised white supremacist hate and terror and instead has spent centuries normalising white terrorist groups, celebrating them as heroes, and letting them decide if their actions are evil or not. This is why the Confederacy is still celebrated today. Europe did not allow fascists and Nazis to determine if their actions were good or not, but America has always given this luxury to racist slave-owners and their generational apologists and offspring. This must change.\n\nRwanda, Germany, and South Africa have reckoned with their troubled past to make a better future, but America has long preferred to ignore the past, and proclaim the inevitability of progress.\n\nAmerica today must define and confront the Original Sin of slavery, ethnocide, and the cultural destruction it has inflicted upon all Americans, past and present. Otherwise we will fail to make a better future, and will continue our regression.\n\nBarrett is a writer, journalist and filmmaker focusing on race, culture and politics", "British Airways is among many airlines that have seen passenger numbers shrink and bookings collapse\n\nBritish Airways is to ground flights 'like never before' and lay off staff in response to the coronavirus.\n\nIn a memo to staff titled \"The Survival of British Airways\", boss Alex Cruz warned that job cuts could be \"short term, perhaps long term\".\n\nThe airline industry was facing a \"crisis of global proportions\" that was worse than that caused by the SARS virus or 9/11.\n\nMeanwhile, Ryanair told staff they may be forced to take leave from Monday.\n\nAn internal memo to Ryanair staff, seen by the BBC, said crew may be allocated to take unpaid leave due to cancelled flights and schedule changes.\n\nBA boss Mr Cruz said: \"We can no longer sustain our current level of employment and jobs would be lost - perhaps for a short term, perhaps longer term.\"\n\nThe airline is in talks with unions but gave no further details about the scale of the likely job losses in the video message transcript seen by the BBC.\n\nThe airline boss said that British Airways, which is owned by FTSE 100 company IAG, was suspending routes and parking planes in a way they had \"never had to do before\".\n\nBritish Airways would \"continue to do our best for customers and offer them as much flexibility as we can\", Mr Cruz said in the video.\n\nAlthough Mr Cruz said the British flag carrier airline had a strong balance sheet and was financially resilient, he told staff \"not to underestimate the seriousness of this for our company\".\n\nBA and other carriers' revenues have been hit by the coronavirus response as governments close borders, companies ban lucrative business travel, conferences and events are cancelled and demand for leisure travel slumps.\n\nBritish Airways boss Alex Cruz said the effect of the coronavirus on the aviation industry will be worse than 9/11\n\nIAG shares bounced on Friday after the global share market rout on Thursday. They closed up 4.8% to 350p per share, but were trading higher before news of the mass groundings broke.\n\nThe International Air Transport Association warned on Friday that global airline revenue losses would be \"probably above\" the figure of $113bn (£90bn) that it estimated a week ago, before the Trump administration's announcement of US travel curbs on passengers from much of continental Europe.\n\nEarlier this month, IAG said flight suspensions to China and cancellations on Italian routes would affect how many passengers it carried this year.\n\nMajor US airlines are in talks with the government there over economic relief, as traveller demand plummets.\n\n\"The speed of the demand fall-off is unlike anything we've seen,\" Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said on Friday in a note to staff, which also said the firm would cut flights by 40% over the next few months, ground 300 aircraft and reduce spending by $2bn.\n\nOn Thursday, Norwegian Air said it was set to cancel 4,000 flights and temporarily lay off about half of its staff because of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe increase in flight cancellations comes after the European Union said it would suspend until the end of June a \"use it or lose it\" law that requires airlines to use their allocated runway slots or risk losing the lucrative asset.\n\nThe law had led to so-called \"ghost flights\" where airlines were flying near-empty planes in order to keep their slots at airports.\n\nThe pilot's union Balpa on Friday called for greater government support for the aviation industry and complained that this week's Budget had not included a cut to Air Passenger Duty (APD) as the industry had lobbied for.\n\nBALPA general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"Removing APD is just one step that could help airlines make it through their financial woes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"The reality is, with such a loss in forward bookings for the summer - the time when airlines make all their profit - the airlines have had to look at ways to save money to keep the companies afloat\".\n\nDo you work for British Airways? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA synthetic pepper spray is being deployed in 81 men's prisons despite warnings it will be used more against ethnic minority inmates.\n\nDocuments seen by BBC News show prison officials authorised its rollout a month after saying it would be stopped.\n\nCampaigners want the government to halt the programme, claiming the spray may aid the spread of the coronavirus because it causes people to cough.\n\nThe Prison Service said it would be used only as a \"last resort\".\n\nThe Prison Officers' Association has been calling for the PAVA spray to be made available to help defuse outbreaks of violence and protect staff, amid record numbers of assaults in jails.\n\nIn 2017 and 2018, the chemical incapacitant was trialled in four prisons - Hull, Preston, Risley in Warrington and Wealstun, North Yorkshire.\n\nBut its wider introduction was delayed by concerns - which led to a legal challenge - that the spray would be used inappropriately.\n\nAn \"equality analysis\", conducted by the Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), which is part of the Ministry of Justice, examined 182 cases in the pilot where the canisters had been drawn from an officer's belt or the spray squirted.\n\nThe study found that although PAVA was used more against white prisoners, who make up about three quarters of the jail population, black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) inmates were disproportionately affected.\n\n\"PAVA has been drawn or used more against BAME prisoners,\" the report said.\n\n\"The evidence from wider use of force would suggest that this trend will continue as rollout progresses,\" it added.\n\nIn April, Andy Rogers, deputy director of the safety and rehabilitation directorate at HMPPS, said work on rolling out PAVA would be paused \"initially for three months\" due to the impact of the coronavirus, which meant prisons had to implement emergency lockdown measures.\n\nBut in May, Mr Rogers reversed the decision, setting out his reasons in a letter to stakeholders - which the MoJ didn't make public.\n\n\"Due to the unprecedented challenges we are facing at this time I have taken the operational decision to extend the provision of PAVA to all adult male closed prisons,\" Mr Rogers wrote.\n\nThe Prison Service confirmed trained staff were carrying the spray in 81 of the 90 adult male \"closed\" prisons in England and Wales.\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust said the move broke commitments the MoJ had made to put safeguards in place before the rollout.\n\nPeter Dawson, PRT director, said the spray caused people to cough and could be dangerous for people with breathing problems.\n\n\"It is not clear that the particular risks associated with PAVA use in prison during the pandemic have been considered or subject to expert medical advice,\" he said in a letter to Lucy Frazer, prisons and probation minister.\n\nMr Dawson wrote he was \"alarmed\" by reports from New York that a prisoner with asthma had died after being sprayed.\n\nDame Anne Owers, National Chair of the Independent Monitoring Boards, which carry out checks in prisons, said the roll out of PAVA was \"highly regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand that this was based on a fear that there would be widespread indiscipline,\" she said.\n\n\"Clearly this has not happened and violence has in fact decreased.\"\n\nThe Prison Service said the roll out of PAVA was an \"exceptional operational decision\".\n\nIt said officials would monitor whether it was being used disproportionately on BAME prisoners, adding that it should not be used on inmates in \"respiratory distress\", including those suspected of having Covid-19.\n\nA Prison Service spokesperson said: \"PAVA is only used as a last resort by specially trained prison officers. We monitor its use carefully, including for any disparities in the way it's deployed.\"", "A statue of Churchill in Parliament Square was boarded up ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest on Friday\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill may have to be put in a museum to protect it if demonstrations continue, his granddaughter has said.\n\nEmma Soames told the BBC the war-time prime minister was a \"complex man\" but he was considered a hero by millions.\n\nShe said she was \"shocked\" to see the monument in London's Parliament Square boarded up, although she said she understood why this was necessary.\n\nIt came after protesters daubed \"was a racist\" on the statue last weekend.\n\nMs Soames said it was \"extraordinarily sad that my grandfather, who was such a unifying figure in this country, appears to have become a sort of icon through being controversial.\"\n\n\"We've come to this place where history is viewed only entirely through the prism of the present,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMs Soames acknowledged her grandfather had often held views which \"particularly now are regarded as unacceptable but weren't necessarily then\".\n\nHowever she added: \"He was a powerful, complex man, with infinitely more good than bad in the ledger of his life.\"\n\nShe said if people were \"so infuriated\" by seeing the statue it may be \"safer\" in a museum.\n\n\"But I think Parliament Square would be a poorer place without him,\" she added.\n\nChurchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames said he was \"deeply upset\" after the statue was vandalised and then boarded up.\n\n\"I find it extraordinary that millions and millions of people all over the world who look up to Britain will be astonished that a statue of Churchill and the Cenotaph, our national war memorial, could have been defaced in this disgusting way,\" he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nLast weekend the statue of Winston Churchill was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nHowever, author Shrabani Basu, who has written books about the British Empire, said there were \"two sides of Churchill\" and \"we need to know his darkest hour as well as his finest hour\".\n\nShe argued that in India, Churchill is not seen as a hero, citing his role in the 1943 Bengal famine, during which at least three million people are believed to have died.\n\nWhile Ms Basu said she did not want to see the statue removed from Parliament Square, she said people should be taught \"the whole story\" about the war-time figure.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activist Imarn Ayton said statues of slave traders and people who had spoken negatively towards black people were \"extremely offensive\" and should be moved to museums.\n\n\"I think it's a win-win to everyone so we no longer offend the black nation and we also get to keep our history,\" she told the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson branded the boarding up of the statue to protect it from potential vandalism as \"absurd and shameful\".\n\nMr Johnson said the former prime minister had expressed opinions which were \"unacceptable to us today\" but remained a hero for saving the country from \"fascist and racist tyranny\".\n\n\"We cannot try to edit or censor our past,\" he wrote of moves to remove tributes to historical figures. \"We cannot pretend to have a different history.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain’s wartime leader divided opinion in his own lifetime, and remains a divisive figure today\n\nWinston Churchill, who lived between 30 November 1874 and 24 January 1965, is often named among Britain's greatest-ever people but for some he remains an intensely controversial figure.\n\nDespite his leading the country through the darkest hours of World War Two and being prime minister twice, critics point to his comments on race and some of his actions during both world wars.\n\nChurchill told the Palestine Royal Commission that he did not admit wrong had been done to Native Americans or aboriginal Australians as \"a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place\".\n\nHis supporters argue that he was by no means the only person to hold these sorts of views during the period.\n\nHe also advocated the use of chemical weapons, \"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes,\" he wrote in a memo.\n\nAnother criticism is for his part in the Bengal famine in India in 1943, during which at least three million people are believed to have died after Allied forces halted the movement of food in the region - including through British-run India - following the Japanese occupation of Burma.\n\nThe statue in London's Parliament Square was boxed up ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest in Westminster on Friday evening.\n\nA demonstration planned for Saturday was brought forward by a day because of fears there could be violent clashes with far-right groups.\n\nThe Met Police have placed restrictions on several groups intending to protest on Saturday, including requiring demonstrations to end at 17:00 BST.\n\nThousands of people gathered in Central London on Saturday, including around the Cenotaph war memorial in Whitehall and the nearby Churchill statue.\n\nThe protesters, largely groups of white men who were right-wing activists, sang the national anthem and chanted \"England\", amid a tense atmosphere and heavy police presence.\n\nAmong the demonstrators was Paul Golding, leader of far-right group Britain First, who said they had turned out to \"guard our monuments\".\n\nOther monuments have been removed ahead of separate protests planned over the weekend, while the Cenotaph has also been covered.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said other \"key statues\", including one of Nelson Mandela, would be protected, saying there was a risk statues could become a \"flashpoint for violence\".\n\nIt comes after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was thrown into the harbour in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday.\n\nDemonstrations have been taking place across the world following the death in police custody of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.", "We have more information from a leaked report into the impact of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority communities. It finds racism and social inequality may have contributed to increased coronavirus risks for people in these communities.\n\nThe Public Health England draft report found \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant individuals in BAME groups were less likely to seek care when needed or to speak up when they had concerns about personal protective equipment or risk.\n\nOther possible factors include risks linked to discrimination and occupation, and inequalities in conditions such as diabetes.\n\nImages of just some of the NHS workers who lost their life during the coronavirus pandemic Image caption: Images of just some of the NHS workers who lost their life during the coronavirus pandemic\n\n“The unequal impact of COVID-19 on BAME communities may be explained by a number of factors ranging from social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, occupational risk, inequalities in the prevalence of conditions that increase the severity of disease including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma,\" it said.\n\nIt also said there was a \"lack of trust\" of NHS services for many BAME communities.\n\nThe report said stakeholders expressed \"deep dismay, anger, loss and fear in their communities\" as data emerged suggesting Covid-19 was \"exacerbating existing inequalities\".\n\nIt also said there was \"deep concern and anxiety\" that \"if lessons are not learnt from this initial phase of the epidemic, future waves of the disease could again have severe and disproportionate impacts\".", "Former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne is to stand down from his role as editor of London's Evening Standard newspaper.\n\nOsborne took on the job in March 2017, after having held the nation's purse-strings from 2010-2016.\n\nHis replacement is Emily Sheffield, a columnist on the newspaper, BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan confirmed.\n\nOsborne is moving to the more managerial role of the newspaper's editor-in-chief.\n\nEmily Sheffield [L] is the sister of Samantha Cameron, the wife of ex-prime minister David\n\nRajan said the print title will continue for now but is in \"desperate financial trouble\".\n\nIn response, the incoming editor tweeted that the newspaper \"remains a core element to this outstanding legacy news organisation.\n\n\"It has survived this crisis and it will survive many more,\" added Sheffield.\n\nThe newspaper's owner, Evgeny Lebedev, said he was \"delighted\" Sheffield was taking the helm at the newspaper and was \"very pleased\" Osborne would be editor-in-chief.\n\nOsborne thanked his colleagues at the newspaper and said of his replacement: \"She will bring creativity, commitment and experience to the job - and take the Standard, online and in print, through the next exciting chapter in its long history.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amol Rajan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOsborne is also chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and holds a £650,000-a-year post advising the investment fund BlackRock.\n\nLast year he was made chairman of a panel of advisers to Exor, which owns the Italian football club Juventus and has major stakes in Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler cars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Emily Sheffield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOsborne left government in 2016 after the Brexit referendum and he stood down as MP for Tatton in Cheshire in 2017.\n\nAccording to The Guardian, prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, the Evening Standard's circulation was about 800,000 daily copies in the capital, but it was struggling due to an industry-wide decline in advertising revenues.\n\nDue to its reliance on readers using public transport, the Evening Standard was reported to have distributed just over 423,000 copies a day in April, after the nation went into lockdown.\n\nOsborne's replacement, Sheffield, will remain director of a female news brand she launched called This Much I Know, and will be \"tasked with making it a digital first operation\" added Rajan.\n\n\"That's a extremely difficult challenge for a title so heavily dependent on print for its income,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"As an ad-funded title reliant on footfall, the Standard has been devastated by the pandemic.\"\n\nLast month the industry's auditor said newspapers will no longer have their sales figures automatically published.\n\nThe Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), which records and audits sales, usually publishes figures every month.\n\nBut ABC said publishers were growing concerned about a \"negative narrative of decline\" in newspaper sales.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protests were sparked following the death of George Floyd in the United States\n\nHundreds of people have marched through two towns in a peaceful protest in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nMore than 350 people gathered outside the town hall in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nAnother protest in Chepstow saw about 200 people march from Dell Park, past Chepstow Castle to the riverfront, where they listened to speakers.\n\nProtesters were asked by organisers to wear a face mask and respect social distancing.\n\nProtests were sparked following the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe 46-year-old died in Minneapolis in May as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe final moments were filmed on phones and four police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nIn Chepstow, some people \"took the knee\", while in Barry those who experienced racism were asked to form a line.\n\nOrganisers of the Barry protest, Stand Up to Racism Cardiff, said they were protesting in support of the Justice for George Floyd campaign.\n\nSpeakers included lawyer and activist Hilary Brown and Suresh Grover from the Stephen Lawrence Campaign.\n\nAt regular intervals Ms Brown led the crowd in chants of \"no justice, no peace\" and \"whose lives matter? Black lives matter\".\n\nEarlier, Luis Williamson, 29, told the crowd how he had been subjected to racial abuse last week while he was jogging with his top off near Barry Island.\n\nSomeone in a passing car wound down their window and shouted racist insults at him, he said.\n\nHe told the crowd that not being racist is \"not enough\" and said people must be \"vocally and visibly\" anti-racist.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Not My Britain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post by Not My Britain\n\nAnother speaker, Jamie Baker, told BBC Wales: \"This is Barry and it never has events, it never has demonstrations, it never does this kind of thing.\n\n\"So to see young people - and the majority of our audience or young people - actually angry and annoyed and seeking change, that puts all of their parents, their grandparents, and everybody on notice.\"\n\nCalling for schools and the local authority to better reflect the area's black history, he added: \"And hopefully it'll put some schools on notice that what they're teaching is inaccurate.\"\n\nProtesters gathered on King Square, Barry, to listen to speakers in support of Black Lives Matter\n\nThe two peaceful demonstrations have followed a number of similar events in towns and villages around Wales including Bridgend, Cardiff and Machynlleth.\n\nOn Thursday, about 1,000 people gathered in Newport in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nMany carried placards bearing political slogans while others knelt on one knee - a protest against racism that stems from the US.\n\nThe demonstrators marched from the civic centre toward the University of South Wales building on the banks of the River Usk.", "Certain groups are at higher risk of serious illness\n\nFactors such as racism and social inequality may have contributed to increased risks of black, Asian and minority communities catching and dying from Covid-19, a leaked report says.\n\nHistoric racism may mean that people are less likely to seek care or to demand better personal protective equipment, it says.\n\nThe Public Health England draft, seen by the BBC, contains recommendations.\n\nOther possible factors include risks linked to occupation, it said.\n\nAnd inequalities in conditions such as diabetes may increase disease severity.\n\nThe report, the second by PHE on the subject, pointed to racism and discrimination as a root cause affecting health and the risk of both exposure to the virus and becoming seriously ill.\n\nIt said stakeholders expressed \"deep dismay, anger, loss and fear in their communities\" as data emerged suggesting Covid-19 was \"exacerbating existing inequalities\".\n\nAnd it found \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant individuals in BAME groups were less likely to seek care when needed or to speak up when they had concerns about personal protective equipment or risk.\n\nThe report concluded: \"The unequal impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities may be explained by a number of factors ranging from social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, occupational risk, inequalities in the prevalence of conditions that increase the severity of disease including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma.\"\n\nThe draft report from Public Health England says questions remain on the role of diet and vitamin D and makes clear no work has been done to review this evidence yet.\n\nA recent review confirmed the risk of death from Covid-19 higher for ethnic minorities. PHE found that people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white Britons, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.\n\nFor weeks and weeks people from ethnic minority communities have been wanting to know how they can better protect themselves from coronavirus.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic there had been growing evidence that they were being hit harder by the disease - and this was confirmed by the government's review into Covid-19 risk factors released last week.\n\nYet it was only after being approached by the BBC that the existence of this second report - previously unseen and still unpublished - was formally acknowledged by the government.\n\nThe draft document is clearly a work in progress and some of the issues raised, such as concerns about deep-rooted racism and discrimination in society, cannot be tackled overnight.\n\nBut against the backdrop of thousands of people protesting in the streets over what they see as social injustice, many will be wondering why it took so long for this report to come to light.\n\nAnd as the threat of coronavirus continues, people from these communities will be hoping swift action is taken soon.\n\nOn Thursday, a senior academic told the BBC that advice for the government on how to protect BAME communities from coronavirus had yet to be published.\n\nProf Raj Bhopal, a scientist who had been asked to peer-review the unpublished recommendations report, including contributions from 4,000 stakeholders, said Parliament had \"not been told the full truth\".\n\nEarlier on Saturday, the British Medical Association sent a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, asking why pages with recommendations to safeguard BAME communities had been \"omitted\" from the first report.\n\nIn a letter, the head of the doctors' union, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, CBE, called for the recommendations to be published immediately, to tackle \"the disturbing reality that the virus is causing disproportionate serious illness and deaths in the BAME community\".\n\nIn a letter to Matt Hancock, he wrote: \"A clear response is needed as to why these pages and important recommendations were omitted from publication, especially when it is so critical that action is taken to save lives now and reduce race inequalities.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dr Nagpaul said large numbers of BAME doctors feel let down. \"What is critical is that we must avoid further deaths and further ill-health amongst our medical workforce,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health England has said the recommendations will be published next week at the same time that the work is submitted to ministers.\n\nMeanwhile, ethnic minority doctors in the NHS have said they feel \"let down\" by delays in work to ensure they are protected from coronavirus.\n\nThe BMA said many had not received promised risk assessments and redeployment opportunities.\n\nHospital trusts and other health service bodies have been asked to prioritise risk assessments for BAME staff and other vulnerable groups. But BBC research has found that hundreds of doctors still have not had a risk assessment.", "John Cleese, who plays Basil Fawlty, said removing the episode was \"stupid\"\n\nA classic episode of the comedy Fawlty Towers will be reinstated to streaming service UKTV with a warning about \"offensive content and language\".\n\nA 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off the BBC Studios-owned platform because of \"racial slurs\".\n\nIn it, the Major character uses highly offensive language, and John Cleese's hotel owner Basil Fawlty declares \"don't mention the war\".\n\nUKTV had temporarily removed the episode while it carried out a review.\n\nThe move had been criticised by Cleese who wrote on Twitter: \"I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.\n\n\"One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Cleese This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile the episode is best remembered for Fawlty's goose-stepping it also contains scenes showing the Major Gowen character using offensive language about the West Indies cricket team.\n\nAccording to reports, the Major's scenes had already started to be edited out by some broadcasters.\n\nAs the Black Lives Matter movement has returned to prominence following the death of George Floyd, broadcasters and streaming services have reevaluated their content.\n\nUKTV also operates channels including Gold, and many of its channels and its digital player were taken over by the BBC's commercial arm BBC Studios last year.\n\nA UKTV statement said: \"We already offer guidance to viewers across some of our classic comedy titles, but we recognise that more contextual information can be required on our archive comedy, so we will be adding extra guidance and warnings to the front of programmes to highlight potentially offensive content and language.\n\n\"We will reinstate Fawlty Towers once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days.\n\n\"We will continue to look at what content is on offer as we always have done.\"\n\nThe Germans is still available to view on Britbox, which is part-owned by the BBC, with a message saying it \"contains some offensive racial language of the time and upsetting scenes\". It is also on Netflix, carrying a warning about \"language, [and] discrimination\".\n\nIn 2013, it was reported that Cleese agreed for the offending lines to be edited out when it was repeated on TV.\n\nThis week, many channels and comedy figures have been making moves to reassess what is acceptable in today's society, following mass Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nHBO Max temporarily removed Gone With The Wind because of its \"racial depictions\", and Little Britain was removed from the BBC iPlayer and Britbox because \"times have changed\".\n\nNetflix has also removed Little Britain plus David Walliams and Matt Lucas's Come Fly With Me, and The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh.\n\nMeanwhile, Ant and Dec apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway, and requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having dressed as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "British Airways was once seen as a national champion, a potent symbol of the country's commercial prowess and - as the airline itself puts it - of \"timeless British values and modern Britain's strengths\".\n\nNow, however, it is a company in crisis - struggling to cope with the huge financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic, its relationship with the government apparently fractured, and in conflict with its own employees.\n\nThere's no question that BA, like other airlines, has been dramatically affected by the lockdowns and closure of borders associated with the pandemic. For weeks, it has been operating just a handful of flights a day, while the bulk of its fleet has been parked up.\n\nBut it is BA's response to the crisis which has created an atmosphere within the company that staff have described as toxic, and prompted a political backlash.\n\nIAG chief executive Willie Walsh: IAG wants to start a major restructuring programme at BA\n\nIn late April, its parent company International Airlines Group announced plans to implement a major restructuring programme at BA, which could lead to up to 12,000 redundancies. It said it would begin formal consultations with its unions, Unite, GMB and Balpa.\n\nLaunching that process, BA said it wanted to reach agreement over the proposals - which would also include significant changes to the terms and conditions of remaining staff. But it warned that if an agreement could not be reached, it would force the issue - by giving them notice, and offering them new contracts.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister on 27 May, the chief executive of parent company IAG, Willie Walsh, wrote: \"We are open to any ideas on how to limit and mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on our business and our employees.\n\n\"Regrettably, Unite and GMB have decided not to represent their members, preferring to engage in what Unite calls 'crisis leverage' in an effort to intimidate BA and delay any consultation taking place at this critical time. This has not and most definitely, will not work. Time is not on our side so we will not pause or defer our consultations.\"\n\nBut the apparent ultimatum from BA has triggered a deep rift with the unions. Unite and GMB are currently refusing to take part in formal consultations. Balpa has been engaging with the company, but now says the negotiations are \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nFor cabin crew, there is not only the threat of redundancy, but also the possibility of big pay cuts for long-serving staff - in some cases of more than 50%. Many of those affected believe the company is using the current crisis to force through changes it has wanted to make for years.\n\nOne BA union, Unite, says BA is using the Covid-19 crisis to make \"permanent, drastic cuts to jobs\"\n\nLonger-serving crew at BA have contracts which are, by modern standards, relatively generous. They date back to an era when the airline industry was less ferociously competitive, before the emergence of budget carriers such as Ryanair and Easyjet forced older airlines to cut costs and change their business models.\n\nIn 2010, BA engaged in a bitter dispute with Unite over plans to overhaul cabin crew contracts. The row lasted two years and involved 22 days of strikes. Ultimately a settlement was reached, under which existing staff retained most of their privileges - but new joiners were put on inferior contracts, with lower pay.\n\nNow, Unite says BA is using the Covid-19 crisis as cover to make \"permanent, drastic cuts to jobs, wages and conditions\", at a time when industrial action is not an option. The union is waging a high-profile campaign against what it calls the company's \"betrayal\" of its staff.\n\nBritish Airways says it is \"facing the deepest structural change in its history\"\n\nThe campaign has garnered some high-profile political support. One of BA's fiercest critics is the Conservative MP and chair of the transport select committee, Huw Merriman.\n\nHe says the way in which staff at the company have been treated is \"appalling\". \"It's the equivalent of holding a gun to someone's head,\" he says. \"It's really sad to see an iconic brand being dragged into the gutter by its management\".\n\nWhen the redundancy plans were first announced, Balpa came to the negotiating table. Initially, the company did not threaten to \"fire and rehire\" pilots if they failed to accept new terms. But at the end of last week, that changed - and pilots were given the same ultimatum other employees were already facing.\n\nAccording to Brian Strutton, general secretary of Balpa, that move \"felt like a kick in the teeth to those people who had been carrying out negotiations in good faith\". The union is still talking to BA - but he says the negotiations are \"hanging by a thread\" and could break down at any time.\n\nFew within the air travel industry expect a quick recovery\n\nMeanwhile many pilots have responded furiously. One BA captain told the BBC, \"I wouldn't say there was a lot of trust beforehand. There's even less now\". Another described the mood within the company as \"terrible\".\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at the huge outpouring of anger among our members\", says Mr Strutton. \"There's outrage and despair at the way management are running the company they once loved working for\".\n\nA number of pilots have also voiced concerns that the row could have an impact on safety - with worries about their jobs and mortgages providing an unwelcome distraction for pilots on the flight deck, and potentially affecting their mental health.\n\nAll of this has left BA looking like a company under siege. A great deal of anger also seems to be aimed at Willie Walsh, widely seen as the architect of the planned cuts.\n\nQuarantine rules will \"torpedo\" the chances of flights resuming in July, says Mr Walsh\n\nThe airline itself insists that the industry is \"facing the deepest structural change in its history\". It says it is acting now to protect as many jobs as possible - and that it wants to work with the trade unions to mitigate the impact of any changes. Although BA does have substantial cash reserves, it is currently burning through £20m every day - and with the majority of its fleet grounded, there is very little money coming in.\n\nIt is also feuding with the government over the introduction of a 14-day quarantine period for travellers coming into the UK - which Mr Walsh says has \"torpedoed\" the possibility of resuming flights in July.\n\nFew within the industry expect a quick recovery. According to the International Air Transport Association, air traffic is unlikely to return to the levels seen last year until 2023. Around the world, carriers are cutting back - and BA's direct rivals such as Easyjet, Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic are all planning thousands of redundancies.\n\nBut what marks BA out is the response to its actions - and the palpable resentment now directed at a brand that once invoked national pride.", "From Saturday, some children in England may be able to see grandparents again\n\nPeople who live alone in England and Northern Ireland will be able to form a support bubble with another household from Saturday, in a further easing of coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nAdults who live alone will be allowed to visit someone else's home and are even allowed to stay overnight.\n\nIn England, the rule also applies to single parents with children under 18.\n\nIt comes as charities warned about isolation, with the latest changes aimed at helping those who are lonely.\n\nThe new measures open up the possibility for grandparents who live alone to visit and hug their grandchildren for the first time since lockdown began.\n\nCouples who live apart will also be able to be close to each other again.\n\nIt comes as the UK death toll rose by a further 181.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, released on Saturday, 41,662 people who tested positive for coronavirus - across all settings - have now died.\n\nThe latest relaxation of the lockdown rules in England was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this week.\n\nA person's bubble can be with one other household of any size and close physical contact is allowed, meaning people in the bubble do not have to stay 2m apart.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said support bubbles must be exclusive, meaning someone can only form a bubble with one other household and they cannot swap.\n\nIf anyone in the bubble develops symptoms of coronavirus, then everyone in the bubble must self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New measure is \"to support those who are particularly lonely as result of lockdown measures\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has introduced a similar scheme, allowing people who live alone indoor visits with one other household.\n\nNeither the bubble measures in England or NI apply to people who are shielding.\n\nIn Scotland, the government is considering the idea, while the Welsh government is reviewing the next steps out of lockdown.\n\nSarah Griffiths Hughes will hold her daughter and grandchildren after months of no physical contact\n\nAmong those who are looking forward to Saturday's changes are 70-year-old Sarah Griffiths Hughes, from Dorset, who said she is looking forward to hugging her daughter for the first time in months.\n\n\"It's the loneliness,\" she said. \"I don't think people realise how lonely and frightened we all are.\"\n\nKeith Grinsted, from Sudbury in Suffolk, said he was \"welling up just thinking about\" hugging his daughters, who live with his ex-partner.\n\nBut as he has type-2 diabetes, making him vulnerable to coronavirus, and he still has concerns about his safety.\n\nHe said: \"Even now it is still quite worrying, for example, because one of my daughters works for a fashion retailer and they are opening on Monday and she has her first shift on Thursday next week, now we are discussing, okay we can have a hug on Saturday but once she starts working does that still mean it is safe to hug?\"\n\nAlso from Saturday in NI, the maximum number of people who can gather outside together has also been increased to 10. In England, that number is six, while it is eight in Scotland and unlimited in Wales.\n\nThe latest papers published by the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), revealed that last month some experts urged \"strong caution\" that allowing bubbles could cause \"significant unwanted effects\" - especially if it was accompanied by lifting other restrictions.\n\nIt also warned there was \"significant potential risk\" if larger households are allowed to bubble together - although the government's new rules only apply to single-person or single-parent households.\n\nIt comes ahead of the next stage of easing lockdown in England, as non-essential shops prepare to reopen on Monday.\n\nShoppers queued to get into some clothing shops in Belfast on Friday\n\nShops in NI began opening on Friday, with customers encountering queuing systems, screens at tills and shop workers wearing masks.\n\nNo dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt comes after figures showed the UK economy shrank by 20.4% in April - the largest monthly contraction on record.\n\nMeanwhile, there are growing calls for the government to drop the 2m social distancing rule in England, with Tory MPs saying it is essential for the economy.\n\nThe government has said it is constantly reviewing its coronavirus lockdown guidance.\n\nHave you planned to visit the home of a loved one today for the first time since lockdown? After your reunion, tell us what it was like by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of protesters have turned out to anti-racism demonstrations in Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nDespite pleas from the first minister, police and MSPs to find safer ways to express their support, large numbers gathered on Glasgow Green and Holyrood Park.\n\nHowever, most were wearing face coverings and all attendees were asked to observe social distancing.\n\nMarches and rallies were planned following the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe 46-year-old black man died in Minneapolis, Minnesota after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nHis death has sparked days of demonstrations and unrest in the US and around the world.\n\nThousands gathered on Glasgow Green to hear speakers and show their support\n\nEvents were planned in Scotland despite ongoing lockdown restrictions and a ban on mass gatherings.\n\nThe first minister said that in different circumstances she might have joined the demonstrations but that the coronavirus outbreak meant it was \"simply not safe\" and would \"pose a risk to life\".\n\nThere were no new reported deaths among people who have tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland on Sunday, although the figures at a weekend are often low because of delayed reporting.\n\nDespite the progress made in containing the virus, mass gatherings remain banned under the lockdown.\n\nPeople appeared to try to stay in household groups and observe social distancing in Edinburgh\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said during the Scottish government's daily briefing that the large numbers taking part were worrying and that he had spoken to Chief Constable Iain Livingston a short time before.\n\nHe said: \"He tells me that good social distancing has been put in place. But even with that in place, even with people wearing face coverings, mass outdoor gatherings like this could present risk to public health.\n\n\"And we do know there is a lot of evidence of the disproportionate impact that Covid-19 can have on the minority ethnic community.\n\n\"So the very people whose lives we say matter are the very lives that those people could be putting at risk. So yes, it does give me a great deal of concern.\"\n\nThe Black Lives Matter protest started at Glasgow Green at midday after it was moved from George Square to allow easier physical distancing.\n\nAn hour later, supporters started arriving at Edinburgh's Holyrood Park where organisers asked those attending to wear PPE and to observe social distancing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Philip This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA socially-distanced poster protest has been taking place across Aberdeen throughout the day. Protesters booked limited \"slots\" to display signs, posters, artwork, notes and poems demanding justice for the victims of police brutality.\n\nPeople in Inverness tied messages and artwork to Ness Bridge in the city centre in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nA protest had been planned, but organisers cancelled it because of concerns social distancing could not be safely maintained due to the numbers of people intending to take part.\n\nPeople in the Highlands have been leaving messages of support on Ness Bridge in Inverness\n\nFourteen police officers were injured during protests in London on Saturday\n\nProtests went ahead south of the border on Saturday despite officials advising against mass gatherings due to the pandemic.\n\nOn Saturday, 14 Met Police officers were hurt during anti-racism protests in London.\n\nThousands of people gathered in cities including London, Manchester, Cardiff, Leicester, and Sheffield which were largely peaceful. However, there were disturbances near Downing Street later in the day.\n\nThe first minister urged people to join digital protests, including one organised by the STUC on Sunday evening.\n\nThe event will host speakers including Kadijartu Johnson - a nurse and the sister of Sheku Bayoh, who died after being restrained by police in Kirkcaldy in 2015. A public inquiry is due to be held into the circumstances of his death\n\nMs Johnson agreed to speak at the virtual anti-racism protest which falls on the fifth anniversary of Mr Bayoh's burial, after making a joint statement discouraging the physical demonstrations.\n\nAlongside Mr Yousaf and other politicians and anti-racism campaigners, she urged people not to attend the rallies, and to find alternative and safe ways of protesting.\n\nMost people at the Glasgow Green event were wearing face coverings\n\nThe joint statement warned that progress on easing lockdown in Scotland is \"fragile\" and said: \"Like so many we want to stand in unity with millions across our planet to show solidarity with those protesting against racial injustice in the USA but also to support those challenging racial injustice and discrimination in Scotland.\n\n\"The rules in place are there to protect people's health and ultimately people's lives.\n\n\"Therefore, as long-term anti-racist campaigners we are still urging people to protest but to use the many other methods available at this time, including digital protests.\"", "On the show this week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock, Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy, Republican US Senator Rick Scott, historian David Olusoga and film director Sam Mendes.\n\nThis livestream has now ended.", "NHS trusts were not consulted before the government announced changes to the use of face coverings and visitor policy in English hospitals, the chief executive of NHS Providers has said.\n\nChris Hopson said trust leaders felt \"completely in the dark\" about the \"significant and complex\" changes.\n\nFrom 15 June, hospital visitors and outpatients must wear face coverings and staff must use surgical masks.\n\nThe Department of Health says masks can be provided by the hospital if needed.\n\nA spokeswoman said that, while the public were \"strongly urged\" to wear a face covering while inside hospitals, no-one would be denied care.\n\nSeparately, NHS England has lifted the national suspension on hospital visiting with new guidance for NHS trusts.\n\nThe guidance, which states visiting will be subject to the discretion of individual trusts and other NHS bodies, advises measures to support visiting, such as:\n\nThe Department of Health said trusts had all of next week to implement the changes and that it had made NHS England aware of the announcement before it was made public.\n\nBut Mr Hopson said the announcement by Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Friday was \"rushed out\" with \"absolutely no notice or consultation\" of NHS trust leaders.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's the latest in a long line of announcements that have had a major impact on the way the NHS operates, in which frontline organisations feel they've been left completely in the dark, and they're then expected to make significant and complex operational changes either immediately or with very little notice.\"\n\nHe said trust leaders were worried there was not enough strategy or planning and that it felt like \"last minute decisions are being made on the hoof that seem overly influenced by politics and that need to fill the space of the Downing Street press conferences\".\n\nThe announcement had left many unanswered questions, such as when it was appropriate for staff to wear face masks, the numbers of masks needed and how they would be distributed, he added.\n\nMr Hopson called for a \"proper, sensible forward plan and forward strategy of what we are trying to do, where trusts are given the time and space they need to do complex and difficult things\".\n\nMeanwhile, 40,465 people have now died with the virus, an increase of 204, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA further 10 people have died of coronavirus in Wales, while there were six deaths registered in Scotland and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier, NHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery said trusts were also nervous about the imminent lifting of some patient visiting restrictions.\n\nShe said they needed time to \"put in place processes and guidance to ensure that patients can receive visitors safely and while adhering to social distancing and infection control measures\".\n\nMr Hopson's criticism was echoed by the British Medical Association (BMA), which warned there was \"little detail\" on how the policy would be implemented, where the masks would come from or how outpatients and visitors would be given them.\n\nConsultants committee chairman Dr Rob Harwood said: \"Given the lack of PPE supplies throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, it is absolutely crucial that the government ensures there are enough supplies of face masks for staff, and adequate provision of face coverings for outpatients and the public by the 15 June.\"\n\nIt comes as the UK's death toll passed 40,000 on Friday according to government figures.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US with 108,000 deaths - to pass the milestone.\n\nAlso at the Downing Street briefing, Mr Hancock appealed to people not to attend large demonstrations with more than six people, saying he was \"appalled\" by the killing of George Floyd in the US but \"coronavirus remains a real threat\".\n\nThousands ignored his plea to take part in the protests across the UK, with the majority of those at the London gathering wearing face coverings.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice on face masks, saying they should be worn by the general public in situations where social distancing is difficult, eg on public transport, in shops - particularly for over 60s and those with underlying health conditions", "These are just a few of the words and phrases you may have seen or heard in discussions about racial inequality after the death of George Floyd.\n\nMany of these terms about race and activism are controversial - and people often have different ideas about what certain phrases mean. Their life experiences will also affect how they define them. So Radio 1 Newsbeat's been chatting with a couple of people for their interpretations and perspectives.\n\nKehinde Andrews is professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the Organisation of Black Unity, and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.\n\nJT Flowers is a 26-year-old American rapper, student and activist living in the UK, and Natasha March is an academic and activist from Manchester.\n\nThat's how Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel have referred to people involved in violence that occurred at recent Black Lives Matter protests in the UK.\n\nDonald Trump used the word in a tweet, flagged for inciting violence, that included the phrase, \"When the looting starts, the shooting starts\".\n\nIts dictionary definition is \"a violent person, especially a criminal,\" but it has become a loaded term when referring to black people.\n\nA journalist who had traced the history of the word, told the BBC in 2015 that \"thug\" was brought to Western society from India in 1897, later used by politicians and in the media, even reclaimed by hip-hop artists such as Tupac and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony.\n\nIt was used widely to describe black people involved the Baltimore riots in 2015, and the use of the word still hurts today.\n\n\"They may as well just have the balls, have the bottle to say the N-word,\" says Natasha March.\n\n\"Racism hasn't changed, it's just become more discreet, clever, manipulated, gaslighted, and thrown back at us.\"\n\nProtests in the UK have continued for several weeks\n\nShe believes people like Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, both from a wealthy, educated background, should have known what the implications of the word thug are.\n\n\"When you call an oppressed group thugs, what it does is it incites fear,\" she adds. \"Fear of the other, fear of the immigrants, fear of the unknown.\"\n\n\"When you have fear you shut down your senses, you don't listen, you don't see, you don't intellectualise. You're on survival mode.\n\n\"And that is wonderful way to anesthetise a society, so they don't listen to the oppressed group. It's very clever.\"\n\nNatasha says the use of the word thug is an attempt to steal the voices of Black Lives Matter protesters.\n\nWhite privilege - a term some find upsetting and offensive - refers to the concept that people have basic rights and benefits simply because they are white. It doesn't mean they haven't suffered hardship or that they don't have a tough life - just that their colour hasn't made it harder.\n\nJT feels some people get defensive about this term because it's misunderstood.\n\n\"You might be a white person and still be poor with a lack of access to education or face a language barrier in the workplace. It doesn't mean you can't be disadvantaged in other ways,\" he tells Newsbeat. \"It just means with respect to that one particular thing - your race and skin colour - you do have the luxury of not being able to think about it.\n\n\"It means having the luxury of being able to step outside without fearing that you're going to be discriminated against or oppressed in any way because of the colour of your skin,\" he says.\n\nThe most recent statistics from the Home Office and Ministry of Justice show:\n\nKehinde believes the benefits of whiteness can be \"psychological\" and that \"there is a benefit to being white because you're not treated in the same way.\"\n\n\"There are different dimensions to it, some people have more privilege.\"\n\nKehinde tells us the phrase \"white privilege\" was first written by the famous black civil rights activist William Du Bois in the 1930s to explain the way white workers in America benefited from segregation and the colour of their skin.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany argue black people have to deal with an extra burden of worrying about how they will be treated because of how people perceive them. Speaking in a special show on BBC Radio 1Xtra, DJ Ace said as a \"huge black man with a beard\" people find him \"frightening\".\n\n\"I have to live with this all day, every day and in every scenario.\n\n\"I'm aware my aesthetic is scary to some white people. Sometimes I might 'tone it down' and that embarrasses me\".\n\n\"If I see a white woman coming down the street I might cross so she feels more comfortable.\"\n\nSlogans like these were seen at protests, but more have been seen online\n\nWhite saviour is usually used to describe somebody who appears to think certain communities '\"need saving\".\n\n\"It is a concept that's rooted in this idea that marginalised communities, particularly the black community, isn't empowered enough to liberate themselves,\" says JT.\n\nHe says in online spaces and activism it's usually used to point out when someone \"takes it upon themselves to speak on behalf of black people or marginalised people,\" sometimes without understanding the circumstances.\n\nJT says ideally people should \"create space for black people to speak for themselves\".\n\nLast year, Stacey Dooley was criticised for making a film in Uganda for Comic Relief, and posting a picture on Instagram of her with a black child.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by sjdooley This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the time, MP David Lammy said: \"The world does not need any more white saviours\". Stacey Dooley insisted there was \"nothing sinister\" about what she did - and has since said she wouldn't change what she did.\n\nFollowing the row, Comic Relief's co-founder, the writer and director Richard Curtis, said the charity would use fewer celebrities in their films and be \"very careful to give voices to people\" who live in the areas being highlighted.\n\nAt first glance, this seems a contradiction to \"white saviour\".\n\nJT describes an ally as \"a person who's willing to stick their neck out and stand up for what's right when they see something going wrong\".\n\nOften, this is someone who is outside of the community they are trying to help - so in this case, it might be white people who want to support the black community.\n\n\"It's what can white people do?\" says Kehinde.\n\nJT believes an ally needs to do more than act like a \"white saviour\" and \"take on some risk and bear the cost of actually standing up for justice\".\n\n\"What we're trying to do in the States is push the dialogue to a place where people begin to consider what it would look like to be an accomplice.\n\nHe believes the best way to be an accomplice is to \"create space for black people to speak for themselves.\"\n\nJT says it's not enough to be an ally, people need to be an \"accomplice\"\n\nThis is often used as a response to the phrase \"black lives matter' - the feeling from some people that all lives should be included in the conversation around race.\n\nJT believes people who say it may not understand what the \"black lives matter\" phrase means.\n\n\"Imagine your house is on fire and somebody comes up to you and says, 'Hey all houses matter.'\n\n\"Your response would be along the lines of, 'Yes but your house isn't on fire so if all houses matter and your house is fine, then why is it so much to ask you to care when my house is burning down?'\"\n\nJT believes we live in a society where - at present, \"black lives aren't valued in the same way that white lives are.\"\n\nThousands of people turned out to protest against racism in London, Manchester and Cardiff\n\nAgain a controversial phrase which basically means the best way to address an issue is to speak about it - and staying quiet means you agree with what's going on.\n\n\"It's effectively just the idea that the status quo, our everyday reality at present, is a violent one for black people,\" claims JT.\n\n\"Refusing or failing to speak out on that is to be ok with things as they are.\n\n\"You don't have to post something on social media in order to act and live your life in an anti-racist way. If you see something going wrong on a street, you can speak up and do something.\"\n\nJT realises many people can feel uncomfortable on speaking out or may feel it's not their place.\n\n\"If you notice that you feel unequipped to have conversations with people about race, you can take the time to educate yourself.\n\nAnd speaking out doesn't have to mean posting on social media it can simply be about starting to talk honestly about race with those closest to you.\n\n\"You can have conversations with your friends and family members.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Sir Tom said \"the memories are tremendous and I don't want to stop\"\n\nAs he celebrates his 80th birthday, Sir Tom Jones has said he will keep singing \"as long as there's breath in my body\".\n\nThe Welsh legend, who was born on 7 June 1940, said he did not mind growing old because \"the memories are tremendous\".\n\nAnd he said lockdown reminded him of his own two-year isolation with tuberculosis from the age of 12.\n\n\"I sympathise with young people that can't go and play,\" he said.\n\nSir Tom, who grew up in Pontypridd, enjoyed huge commercial success with hits including It's Not Unusual, What's New Pussycat? and Kiss.\n\nHe became one of the world's biggest stars, with his live Las Vegas performances earning the admiration of Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.\n\nSir Tom has enjoyed success with hits like It's Not Unusual\n\nThroughout his career he has constantly reinvented himself, moving from pop, rock and country to gospel, soul and blues and then on to electronic and dance music.\n\nSpeaking to friend and fellow-singer Cerys Matthews for BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Wales, he said: \"The memories are tremendous and I don't want to stop.\n\n\"To reach 80 and to have such wonderful memories and to be still doing it and still making a point, or trying to - thank you to everybody that has been with me, the audience.\n\n\"You can't express yourself properly unless there's people there to listen to you.\n\n\"God has been good to me and my voice is still there. So as long as it's there I wanna get up... singing live to people is the thing.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook video by BBC Cymru Wales This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nThe current lockdown means his birthday celebrations might be limited, but Sir Tom has experienced self-isolation before, having been kept at home in a single room for two years after his TB diagnosis as a child.\n\n\"With this lockdown now, I'm thinking 'my God, how are those kids coping?' because I remember it,\" he said.\n\n\"It taught me not to take health for granted.\"\n\nYou can listen to Sir Tom's Musical Years with Cerys Matthews on BBC Sounds and watch Tom Jones at 80 on the BBC iPlayer.", "Throughout the coronavirus crisis, we've seen the poorest communities hit the hardest.\n\nThe death rates in the most deprived areas of England are more than double those in the most affluent.\n\nNow, Public Health England says the pandemic has, in some areas, deepened existing health inequalities.\n\nOur special correspondent, Ed Thomas, has been hearing from families on Merseyside.", "Three airlines have written to the UK government to protest against its \"wholly unjustified and disproportionate\" quarantine rules due to come into force from Monday.\n\nAlmost all arrivals in the UK will be required to self-isolate for 14 days and give details of their accommodation, measures that airlines fear will stop people wanting to come to the UK.\n\nScotland's justice secretary, Humza Yousaf, today announced penalties for non compliance north of the border.\n\nThe message from British Airways, Ryanair and easyJet is described as a \"pre-action protocol letter,\" meaning it could be followed by legal action.\n\nThe airlines say the measures are harsher than those imposed on people confirmed to have coronavirus who are asked to isolate and do not face criminal sanctions for failing to do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters in Australia are also highlighting the mistreatment of Aboriginal people\n\nTens of thousands of people have protested across Australia in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRallies were held despite warnings from officials over the coronavirus.\n\nA ban in Sydney was lifted only at the last minute and some organisers have been fined for breaking health rules.\n\nThe marches were inspired by the death of African American George Floyd in police custody but also highlighted the mistreatment and marginalisation of Australia's Aboriginal people.\n\nRallies were organised in Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and elsewhere.\n\nThey were held in high spirits with no reports of major unrest.\n\nThere were a few tense scenes later in the evening at Sydney's Central Station, with police using pepper spray, but there were only three arrests in the city overall, among a total of 20,000 protesters, police said.\n\nAlthough the rallies were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, many in Australia were also protesting against the treatment of its indigenous population by police.\n\nBanners reading \"I can't breathe\" remembered the words of Floyd before his death, while another said: \"Same story, different soil.\"\n\nThousands protest in Sydney. Organisers urged attendees to try to observe social distancing\n\nThere were massive crowds too in Brisbane\n\nThe Sydney protest had been ruled unlawful on Friday by the New South Wales Supreme Court under coronavirus social distancing rules.\n\nNSW Police Minister David Elliott had said: \"Freedom of speech isn't as free as we would like it to be at the moment. Rules at the moment are clear.\"\n\nBut organisers took the case to the state court of appeal and it overturned the ban on Saturday afternoon, just 15 minutes before the scheduled start.\n\nThe protest was authorised for 5,000 people. Health ministry directions would normally prohibit public gatherings of more than 10 people.\n\nI've covered so many protests in my home city in the past decade. Outside of climate change rallies at the start of the year, I can't recall a larger turnout, particularly for a rally about race.\n\nThey turned up even when it was initially illegal and despite the health fears. They were angry, they were passionate, they knew there were risks but they donned masks and carried signs anyway.\n\nThis is a resounding success for indigenous Australia.\n\nBack in January people were struggling to breathe due to smoke from the bushfires. Today they were chanting \"I can't breathe\" - the choked words of George Floyd, but also David Dungay- an Aboriginal man who was fatally pinned down by five police officers in 2015.\n\nFor many Australians, the US protests have ignited fierce introspection of their country's own record of black deaths in custody. Aboriginal people remain the most incarcerated in the world by percentage of population - they make up just 3% of the nation's people but almost 30% of those in jail.\n\nThis has been the rate for decades - in fact it's become worse - but only now does there appear to be a large demand in the mainstream for change.\n\nOrganisers across Australia encouraged those attending rallies to use hand sanitisers and observe social distancing.\n\nImages showed that although the majority of demonstrators have been wearing face coverings, many of the protesters have been close together.\n\nThe chief health official in the state of Victoria said it was \"not the time to be having large gatherings\".\n\nVictoria police said on Saturday they would be fining organisers A$1,652 ($1,150; £900) each for breaking health rules. It was unclear if Melbourne's attending protesters would be fined.\n\nProtesters chanted: \"Always was, always will be Aboriginal land\" and \"Too many coppers not enough justice\".\n\nLeon Saunders, 77, demonstrating in Sydney, said: \"The raw deal Aborigines have been getting in this country for my lifetime and many lifetimes before that is just not right.\n\n\"We can look at America and say what terrible things are happening over there but, right here on our home soil, there are just as bad things happening and they need to be improved.\"\n\nA 1991 inquiry reported on 99 deaths of Aboriginal people in police custody, but a Guardian study found that at least 432 had died in custody since then.\n\nAnother protester in Sydney, Sarah Keating, said: \"I thought Australians were resting on their laurels - just because we're not as bad as America doesn't mean we're good enough... 432 Aboriginal deaths in custody is atrocious. That number should never have gotten that high. It should just be zero.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNo police officer has ever been held criminally responsible for an Aboriginal death in custody.\n\nMany of the demonstrators in Brisbane were wrapped in indigenous flags.", "That's all for our live page coverage on this Sunday.\n\nMany thanks for being with us to keep up to date with all the latest coronavirus developments.\n\nYou can read more here about the stories making the news in your region.\n\nThe BBC England team will be back with more live coverage from Monday morning. Until then - stay safe and enjoy the rest of your weekend.", "Muslim leaders have called for mosques to remain closed until congregational prayers can be held\n\nA senior Imam has advised mosques not to open until they can hold congregational prayers, despite government plans for places of worship.\n\nThe government is expected to announce that churches, mosques and synagogues in England can open their doors for private prayer from 15 June.\n\nBut as mosques are primarily for congregational prayers Muslim leaders have warned the plans lack clarity.\n\nImam Qari Asim said opening them would \"cause more challenges\".\n\nFull services and weddings will still be banned under the measures, which the prime minister is expected to outline to his cabinet on Tuesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland already allows private worship but Scotland and Wales have not yet done so.\n\nDowning Street says any changes are contingent on the government's five tests for easing lockdown continuing to be met.\n\nImam Asim, chairman of the Mosques & Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), has called on mosques not to reopen until it is safe to do so and they are able to hold congregational prayers.\n\nHe said: \"The fundamental difference between mosques and some other places of worship is that mosques are first and foremost used for congregational prayers.\n\n\"Individual prayers can be performed anywhere, primarily at homes. Accordingly, opening the mosques on 15 June will cause more challenges for mosques and imams as the expectation from the community will be to resume collective worship.\"\n\nHarun Khan, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said communities needed \"unambiguous guidance\" so they could ensure the safety of everyone.\n\nHe said: \"Mosques are provisioned primarily for congregational worship, so there is currently significant uncertainty and concern from mosque leaders on how the new regulations can actually be implemented.\"\n\nMr Khan added that the MCB, an umbrella group of Muslim associations, had been consulting with communities across the country and it was clear proactive planning about reopening mosques had been taking place.\n\nMINAB has also called on the government to allow small groups to meet for the five daily prayers in mosques, so long as social-distancing and other measures are respected.\n\nThe group has prepared guidelines for mosques to start putting in place ahead of their eventual reopening, with particular concern about the impact of coronavirus on BAME communities.\n\nGroup worship will still be banned by lockdown regulations over fears that the virus could spread\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the most senior Roman Catholic in England and Wales, thanked the government and said the move was the first, measured step in restoring church services.\n\nHe said it was important that \"every care is taken to ensure that the guidance given for this limited opening is fully observed, not least by those entering our churches\".\n\nBut he added that not every Catholic church would be open on 15 June.\n\n\"Local decisions and provision have to lead this process,\" he said.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson recognised the importance of people being able to have space to \"reflect and pray, to connect with their faith, and to be able to mourn for their loved ones\".\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said ensuring places of worship could reopen was a priority as their \"contribution to the common good of our country is clear\" and said faith communities had shown \"enormous patience and forbearance\" since the lockdown came into effect.\n\nPlaces of worship have been closed for almost two months, and in some cases even longer, after closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Jenrick has warned that large gatherings will be difficult to manage for some time, particularly with the demographics in some religions meaning many could be vulnerable to the virus and because practices such as singing could enable the virus to spread more freely\n\nWhile the burden of the lockdown has fallen evenly across the population, religious groups have been forced to sacrifice major festivals that punctuate their practice over the year.\n\nChristians were unable to attend Holy Week services, Muslims have experienced Ramadan without communal Iftar meals each day.\n\nThe Jewish community experienced Passover without extended Sedars and Sikhs were unable to mark the festival of Vaisakhi.\n\nAlthough places of worship will reopen solely for private prayer, it seems the government was persuaded that if the public was ready to re-engage in retail therapy, then people of faith ought to be allowed to enter places of worship.\n\nAll the major religious groups are preparing new hygiene protocols, doors are likely to be opened only for limited periods, numbers attending will be carefully controlled and there will be no communal worship.\n\nBut at a time of widespread grief and anxiety about the future, this will be a welcome opportunity to seek comfort and consolation in sacred spaces around the country.", "The coronavirus pandemic is a \"devastating blow\" for the world economy, according to World Bank President David Malpass.\n\nMr Malpass warned that billions of people would have their livelihoods affected by the pandemic.\n\nHe said that the economic fallout could last for a decade.\n\nIn May, Mr Malpass warned that 60 million people could be pushed into \"extreme poverty\" by the effects of coronavirus.\n\nThe World Bank defines \"extreme poverty\" as living on less than $1.90 (£1.55) per person per day.\n\nHowever, in an exclusive interview on Friday Mr Malpass said that more than 60 million people could find themselves with less than £1 per day to live on.\n\nMr Malpass told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend: \"It [coronavirus] has been a devastating blow for the economy.\n\n\"The combination of the pandemic itself, and the shutdowns, has meant billions of people whose livelihoods have been disrupted. That's concerning.\n\n\"Both the direct consequences, meaning lost income, but also then the health consequences, the social consequences, are really harsh.\"\n\nDavid Malpass has described coronavirus as a \"devastating blow for the world economy\"\n\nMr Malpass warned it's been those who can least afford it who've suffered the most.\n\n\"We can see that with the stock market in the US being relatively high, and yet people in the poor countries being not only unemployed, but unable to get any work even in the informal sector. And that's going to have consequences for a decade.\"\n\nThe World Bank, along with its counterparts, has been providing support to the worst affected countries, but says much more is needed.\n\nIt is calling on commercial lenders such as banks and pension funds to offer debt relief to poor countries.\n\nHe would also like them to make the terms of their loans clearer, so other investors are more confident about putting money into those economies.\n\nTargeted government support and measures to shore up the private sector are also vital to rebuild economies, the World Bank argues.\n\nInvestment and support would create jobs in areas like manufacturing, to replace those in the worst affected sectors, such as tourism, which may have been permanently lost.\n\nMr Malpass admits the damage to global trade, and inclinations to bring supply chains closer to home or erect trade barriers, are a challenge.\n\n\"When trade is reduced, that creates its own set of tensions and inequality... I'm sure [the global economy] will be interconnected in the future, maybe less than it was pre-COVID.\"\n\nBut ultimately, Mr Malpass said the \"catastrophe\" could be overcome, and that people were \"flexible, they're resilient\" .\n\n\"I think it's possible to find paths, it's hard work for countries and governments to do that.\n\n\"But we can encourage that effort... I'm an optimist, over the long run, that human nature is strong, and innovation is real. The world is moving fast and connectivity... has never been higher. And so that gives hope for the future.\"\n\nHowever, he admits the challenge is getting the right plans in place at the right time - and in the meantime, the pain could be considerable.\n\nListen to the interview on a special edition of Radio 4's The World this Weekend.", "Everyone wants to know how well their country is tackling the coronavirus pandemic, compared with others.\n\nBut there are all sorts of challenges in comparing countries, such as how widely they test for Covid-19 and whether they count deaths from the virus in the same way.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter from Cambridge University has said trying to rank different countries to decide which is the worst in Europe is a \"completely fatuous exercise\".\n\nBut he's also referred to \"the bad countries in Europe: UK, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy\" and said \"clearly it's important to note that group is way above, in terms of their mortality, a group like Germany, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, who have low fatality rates.\"\n\nSo, when it comes to comparing countries, what factors do you need to take into account?\n\nFirst of all, there are differences in how countries record Covid-19 deaths.\n\nFrance and Germany, for example, have been including deaths in care homes in the headline numbers they produce every day.\n\nBut the daily figures for England referred only to deaths in hospitals until 29 April, when they started factoring in deaths in care homes as well.\n\nA further complication is that there is no accepted international standard for how you measure deaths, or their causes.\n\nDoes somebody need to have been tested for coronavirus to count towards the statistics, or are the suspicions of a doctor enough?\n\nGermany counts deaths in care homes only if people have tested positive for the virus. Belgium, on the other hand, includes any death in which a doctor suspects coronavirus was involved.\n\nThe UK's daily figures only count deaths when somebody has tested positive for the virus, but its weekly figures include suspected cases.\n\nAlso, does the virus need to be the main cause of death, or does any mention on a death certificate count?\n\nAgain, different countries do things differently. So, are you really comparing like with like?\n\nThere is a lot of focus on death rates, but there are different ways of measuring them too.\n\nOne is the ratio of deaths to confirmed cases - of all the people who test positive for coronavirus, how many go on to die?\n\nBut different countries are testing in different ways. Early in the outbreak, the UK mainly tested people who were ill enough to be admitted to hospital. That can make the death rate appear much higher than in a country with a wider testing programme.\n\nThe more testing a country carries out, the more it will find people who have coronavirus with only mild symptoms, or perhaps no symptoms at all.\n\nIn other words, the death rate in confirmed cases is not the same as the overall death rate.\n\nAnother measurement is how many deaths have occurred compared with the size of a country's population - the numbers of deaths per million people, for example.\n\nBut that is determined partly by what stage of the outbreak an individual country has reached. If a country's first case was early in the global outbreak, then it has had longer for its death toll to grow.\n\nOne way to take account of that is to look at how a country has done since reaching a particular point in the pandemic - the day it recorded its 50th death for example.\n\nBut even that poses some problems. A country that reaches 50 deaths later should have had more time to prepare for the virus and to reduce the eventual death toll.\n\nIt is also worth emphasising, when studying these comparisons, that most people who get infected with coronavirus will recover.\n\nThere are other factors to take into account beyond the numbers themselves.\n\nIt is more difficult to have confidence in data that comes from countries with tightly controlled political systems.\n\nIs the number of deaths recorded so far in countries like China or Iran accurate? We don't really know.\n\nCalculated as a number of deaths per million of its population, China's figures are extraordinarily low, even after it revised upwards the death toll in Wuhan by 50%.\n\nSo, can we really trust the data?\n\nThere are real differences in the populations in different countries. Demographics are particularly important - that's things like average age, or where people live.\n\nComparisons have been made between the UK and the Republic of Ireland, but they are problematic. Ireland has a much lower population density, and a much larger percentage of people live in rural areas.\n\nIt makes more sense to compare Dublin City and County with an urban area in the UK of about the same size (like Merseyside) than to try to compare the two countries as a whole.\n\nSimilarly, a better though still imperfect comparison for London, Europe's major global city, may be with New York, the biggest global hub in the United States.\n\nYou also need to make sure you are comparing like with like in terms of age structure.\n\nA comparison of death rates between countries in Europe and Africa wouldn't necessarily work, because countries in Africa tend to have much younger populations.\n\nWe know that older people are much more likely to die of Covid-19.\n\nOn the other hand, most European countries have health systems that are better funded than those in most African countries.\n\nAnd that will also have an effect on how badly hit a country is by coronavirus, as will factors such as how easily different cultures adjust to social distancing.\n\nHealth systems obviously play a crucial role in trying to control a pandemic, but they are not all the same.\n\n\"Do people actively seek treatment, how easy is it to get to hospitals, do you have to pay to be treated well? All of these things vary from place to place,\" says Prof Andy Tatem, of the University of Southampton.\n\nAnother big factor is the level of comorbidity - this means the number of other conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure - which people may already have when they get infected.\n\nCountries that did a lot of testing early in the pandemic, and followed it up by tracing the contacts of anyone who was infected, seem to have been most successful in slowing the spread of the disease so far.\n\nBoth Germany and South Korea have had far fewer deaths than the worst affected countries.\n\nThe number of tests per head of population may be a useful statistic to predict lower fatality rates.\n\nBut not all testing data is the same - some countries record the number of people tested, while others record the total number of tests carried out (many people need to be tested more than once to get an accurate result).\n\nThe timing of testing, and whether tests took place mostly in hospitals or in the community, also need to be taken into account.\n\nGermany and South Korea tested aggressively very early on, and learned a lot more about how the virus was spreading.\n\nBut Italy, which has also done a lot of tests, has suffered a relatively high numbers of deaths. Italy only substantially increased its capacity for testing after the pandemic had already taken hold. The UK has done the same thing.\n\nSo, is anything useful likely to emerge from all these comparisons?\n\n\"What you want to know is why one country might be doing better than another, and what you can learn from that,\" says Prof Jason Oke from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"And testing seems to be the most obvious example so far.\"\n\nBut until this outbreak is over it won't be possible to know for sure which countries have dealt with the virus better.\n\n\"That's when we can really learn the lessons for next time,\" says Prof Oke.\n• None Who can still get free Covid tests?", "The women were celebrating Bibaa Henry's (right) birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters have been found dead in a London park where they had earlier celebrated a birthday, sparking a murder investigation.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27 and Bibaa Henry, 46, were discovered at 13:00 BST on Sunday in Fryent Country Park, Brent.\n\nThe women had been celebrating Bibaa's birthday with a group of about 10 people on Friday evening, police said.\n\nTheir deaths are being treated as suspicious, the Met Police said.\n\nPolice said the group of partygoers had gradually dispersed until only the pair remained.\n\nThe sisters were both reported as missing to police late on Saturday when they did not return home, before they were discovered on Sunday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding, of the Metropolitan Police, said: \"We are in the very early stages of the investigation and are working hard to find out what led to these two women losing their lives.\n\n\"I need to hear from anyone who was in Fryent Country Park on the evening of Friday, 5 June, or early into Saturday, 6 June.\n\n\"The area the group were in would be a well-known spot to sit and look over London. If you were in that area of the park and noticed the group, or saw anything else suspicious, please contact us immediately.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harry Billinge had planned to be in Normandy for the 76th anniversary of D-Day, visiting a new British memorial with other veterans.\n\nThe 94-year-old raised tens of thousands of pounds for the memorial - and he was even made an MBE for his efforts.\n\nBut the trip was cancelled due to coronavirus. So BBC Breakfast surprised with a face from the past.\n\nRead more: Memorial 'brought to veterans' for D-Day", "The death of unarmed black man George Floyd in police custody in the US has sparked some of the largest protests against racism, inequality and police brutality since the 1960s.\n\nRallies were organised globally to express solidarity with US protesters.\n\nThousands marched in the UK, France and Australia chanting \"no justice, no peace\" and \"black lives matter\".\n\nMany protests have evolved as people express anger at killings and systemic injustice in their own countries.\n\nConcerns about the spread of coronavirus prompted many to wear face masks, and government officials in some cities asked residents not to attend large gatherings.\n\nThe police chief in Washington DC said he expected Saturday's demonstrations to be the largest ever in the capital.\n\nPeople took to the streets for the 12th day running in Washington DC\n\nAround 20,000 members of the US National Guard have been posted to police protests in Washington DC, where Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested their removal, saying their presence is \"unnecessary\"\n\nPeople marched on the newly-named Black Lives Matter plaza in the US capital\n\nIn New York City, healthcare workers joined protests, holding placards reading \"do no harm\" and \"racism is a public health crisis\"\n\nIn Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians\n\nIn France, protests have re-ignited a campaign for justice for Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who died in police custody in 2016\n\nIn London, protesters walked in the cold and rain and, outside the US embassy, they dropped to one knee and raised their fists in the air chanting \"colour is not a crime\". Police in riot gear clashed briefly with crowds\n\nSome drew attention to the death of black train station worker Belly Mujinga with Covid-19 in April. A man who claimed he had coronavirus reportedly spat at her before she fell ill\n\nA silent vigil was held for George Floyd in Berlin's Alexanderplatz square. Also in Germany, Bundesliga footballers warmed up wearing shirts reading \"Red card to racism #BlackLivesMatter\" and took a knee prior to kick-off\n\nIn the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, hundreds of people gathered, and some held banners calling for justice for Claudia Simões, a woman who was assaulted by police", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Commons Speaker John Bercow has told the BBC he is \"sorry\" that he has not been granted a peerage.\n\nPrevious outgoing Speakers have been given a seat in the House of Lords, but the government has not put forward Mr Bercow's name for consideration.\n\nThe ex-Conservative MP has been accused of bullying by his former colleagues but denies the claims.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions he had \"made a lot of enemies\" during his 10-year stint in the Commons.\n\nMr Bercow accepted he was \"periodically irascible\" and \"wouldn't take no for an answer\", but insisted: \"I don't think I bullied anyone, anywhere, in any way, at any time.\"\n\nHe stepped down as Speaker in October after a decade in the post, during which time he faced accusations of bias over Brexit, as well as questions over his own behaviour towards colleagues.\n\nThe Speaker is in charge of what goes on within the House of Commons.\n\nBy tradition, the Speaker is above politics and is supposed to represent only the rules and conventions of Parliament. Once elected to the post, the Speaker no longer represents any political party.\n\nMr Bercow told BBC political correspondent Chris Mason that serving as Speaker had been \"my enormous privilege\".\n\n\"I did my best - I had some successes, I had some failures. I endured controversies. I made friends, I incurred enemies as well,\" he added.\n\nHe said, despite \"a long-standing convention\" of giving peerages to former Speakers, the matter was \"best decided by other people\".\n\n\"I am not going to sit awake at night worrying about it.\n\n\"There are people who have got grievances and agendas of their own who think I just don't fit.\"\n\nHe would not comment on reports that he was under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over allegations of bullying, saying only \"in due course people will know what the truth is\".\n\nMr Bercow has been proposed for a peerage by the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, amid suggestions by the opposition that the ex-Speaker is being denied a seat for his hostility to the UK leaving the EU.\n\nDuring his time in the role, Mr Bercow gave unprecedented powers to backbenchers to hold ministers to account and made controversial and far-reaching procedural decisions at key stages of the Brexit process.\n\nIn February, he told the BBC there was a \"conspiracy\" to keep him out of the House of Lords.\n\nHe named no names, but said it was \"blindingly obvious\" that there was a \"concerted campaign\" to prevent him from being given a peerage.\n\nCabinet minister Robert Jenrick said there was \"no obligation\" on the prime minister to give Mr Bercow a peerage and the allegations against him need to be investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow is asked in the Commons about bullying allegations against him\n\nMr Bercow is facing at least one formal complaint regarding his behaviour in the Speaker's chair.\n\nHe has dismissed claims there was a pattern of bullying towards his subordinates, and maintains that the \"vast majority\" of his relationships with colleagues both inside and outside Parliament were constructive.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4 he was upset not to have been given the opportunity to take a seat in the House of Lords.\n\n\"I am not going to pretend it doesn't matter,\" he said, adding that he would like \"to make a contribution\".\n\nMr Bercow added: \"I am just going to go on doing what I think is right, standing up for good causes [and] celebrating important principles.\"", "Scientists are warning that we have created \"a perfect storm\" for diseases from wildlife to spill over into humans and spread quickly around the world.\n\nAs part of a global effort to study how and where new diseases emerge, scientists at the University of Liverpool have led the development of a pattern-recognition system to predict which wildlife diseases pose the most risk to humans.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do you run Welsh Government when social distancing?\n\nResponding to the coronavirus crisis has been a \"colossal challenge\", according to Wales' top civil servant.\n\nPermanent secretary Shan Morgan said around 80% of the Welsh Government's staff were currently working on an aspect of Covid-19.\n\nShe added that the organisation had adapted \"fantastically quickly\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the pandemic was \"not like anything we've had to face\".\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to the government's Cathays Park headquarters to see how the crisis has affected day-to day operations, and how the response to the pandemic is being managed.\n\nThe building, which would normally have about 2,500 staff, is largely empty and social-distancing measures have been introduced throughout.\n\nThe normally busy headquarters at Cathays Park is close to empty\n\n\"We reckon that now about 95% of our staff are working really well from home. We're getting stuff done,\" Ms Morgan said.\n\nShe added that \"for the foreseeable future remote working is going to be the default\".\n\nAsked how much of a challenge the pandemic had been for the civil service, Ms Morgan said: \"This is a huge challenge.\n\n\"Getting things right to make sure that we are looking after the people of Wales, that we are not overwhelming NHS capacity… that's a colossal challenge because it's a life and death challenge.\n\n\"I'm very proud of the way that everybody in the Welsh Government, working with all of our stakeholders, has responded to that formidable challenge.\"\n\nThe first minister said the crisis had changed the way the government operated with very few ministers going into the office regularly, and daily meetings taking place over Zoom.\n\nThe first minister says virtual meetings cannot fully replace face-to-face conversations\n\n\"In some ways, we are more agile in working this way,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\nBut he added that, for those ministers who are not going into the office, \"there's quite a big loss that comes with no face-to-face contact\".\n\n\"Zoom calls are very good in many ways and they focus on the business, but those soft things that go on around a meeting.\n\n\"That couple of minutes you have just to speak to somebody, test something - none of that happens in the way we're working now, and that's a loss and can make the business of government a bit more challenging.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said he could not think of anything else like it in 20 years of devolution.\n\n\"We've had a number of big challenges over the years: foot and mouth was an enormous challenge in parts of Wales, ebola didn't become an issue here in Wales, but the threat of it was real and that was a public health emergency in its time.\n\n\"But this is a public health emergency that has actually arrived and has made our lives, every one of us, completely different and it's not like anything else we've had to face.\"\n\nPolitics Wales is on BBC One Wales at 10:00 BST on Sunday and on the BBC iPlayer.", "No new deaths to coronavirus have been registered in Scotland in the past 24 hours for the first time since the early days of the pandemic.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman cautioned that fewer deaths were recorded at weekends, and warned further deaths were \"still likely\".\n\nThis was an increase of 18 from Saturday.\n\nBecause no additional people who tested positive have died, the total number of deaths in Scotland by this measure has remained at 2,415.\n\nThere has been no change in the numbers of people in hospital with a confirmed case - 646, with 16 being treated in intensive care. A further nine people were in intensive care with suspected Covid-19.\n\nSince 5 March, 3,801 people have been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment for the virus.\n\nSpeaking at the government's coronavirus briefing, Ms Freeman said zero deaths in 24 hours was \"one piece of positive news\", but urged people not to read too much into the figure and to continue to abide by lockdown restrictions.\n\nShe said Scotland had made progress, but that the progress was \"fragile\".\n\nMs Freeman said: \"We are not in the business of rushing out announcements on the back of albeit a piece of positive news, but a one-off piece of positive news in the context of the weekend when we know the number of registered deaths are lower than in a week day.\n\n\"I want to be here on many more days where either I or the first minister are giving those kinds of numbers, but for us to get there we need to stick with the measures that are in place.\"\n\nMs Freeman said the numbers she read out were not \"simply statistics\".\n\nShe said: \"Every one of those 2,415 people who have died was an individual whose loss is a source of grief and sorrow to very many.\n\n\"So I want to send my deepest condolences to everyone who has lost a loved one.\"", "The publication of a controversial opinion piece sparked anger inside the newsroom\n\nThe New York Times' opinion editor has resigned amid outrage over a piece by a Republican senator calling for military forces to be sent to cities where anti-racism protests had turned violent.\n\nJames Bennet stepped down after Senator Tom Cotton's article \"Send in the Troops\" caused revolt in the newsroom.\n\nIt backed Donald Trump's threat to use troops to quell unrest.\n\nThe newspaper had initially stood by the publication but then said the article \"did not meet\" its standards.\n\nThe change in position came after an outcry from both the public and staff over the piece, published on the newspaper's website last Wednesday. Some journalists did not come into work on Thursday in protest.\n\nMr Bennet, who has been the opinion editor since 2016, later admitted that he had not read the piece before its publication. The Arkansas senator's article called for \"an overwhelming show of force\" against groups he described as \"rioters\".\n\nIts publication happened as hundreds of thousands of people have been marching across the US in recent weeks against racism and police brutality. There have been violent incidents in some cities.\n\nThe demonstrations were sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody last month. Video showed him pinned to the floor, with a white police officer kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nMore than 800 employees signed a letter denouncing the article's publication, saying it contained misinformation.\n\n\"As a black woman, as a journalist, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this,\" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote on Twitter.\n\nIn a note to staff on Sunday, New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger said: \"Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we've experienced in recent years.\"\n\nThe note said Mr Bennet had resigned after he agreed that \"it would take a new team to lead the department through a time of considerable change\". There was no mention of Mr Cotton's piece.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nThe New York Times initially defended the article, saying the editorial page needed to reflect diverse viewpoints. But in a lengthy editor's note added to the text on Friday, it said the piece \"fell short of our standards and should not have been published\".\n\nIt said \"the editing process was rushed and flawed\", adding: \"The published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of 'cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa'; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned.\"\n\nThe newspaper also said the senator's statement that police officers \"bore the brunt\" of the violence seen in some cities was an \"overstatement that should have been challenged\". The headline, which had not been written by Mr Cotton, \"was incendiary and should not have been used,\" the note added.\n\nMr Sulzberger's email announced that Jim Dao, who oversees op-eds as a deputy in the opinion section, will be moved to another role, while Katie Kingsbury will become acting opinion editorial page editor.\n\nOn Saturday, Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, resigned after publishing a headline that equated property damage to the deaths of black people, which prompted public condemnation from many of the newspaper's staff.\n\nMr Wischnowski apologised for what he described as a \"horribly wrong\" decision to use the headline \"Buildings Matter Too\" on an article about civil unrest in the US.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nAndrew Balding's Kameko stunned unbeaten favourite Pinatubo to win the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, the first British Classic of the year.\n\nOisin Murphy guided the 10-1 shot through the centre on good to firm ground for a famous victory by a neck.\n\nKameko's win set a new track record at 1min 34.72 secs, beating Mister Baileys's time in 1994.\n\nThe Aidan O'Brien-trained Wichita (15-2), ridden by Frankie Dettori, took second.\n\nPinatubo (5-6) was on the inside rail but finished third in a field of 15, one and a quarter lengths back.\n\nKameko, beaten by a neck over the same course and distance last September, won by three and a quarter lengths last time out in November.\n\nPinatubo beat Arizona by two lengths on soft ground over seven furlongs in the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket last time out in October, when Wichita was third.\n\nBut on a blustery, showery day behind closed doors at the Suffolk track, the favourite was unable to find an extra gear in his seventh race.\n\nCelebrating his first British Classic, Murphy said: \"It means the absolute world to me. It's the stuff of dreams.\n\n\"Around four furlongs he got a little bit lost but he came home really well.\n\n\"It was a gutsy performance. He hardly blew a candle out afterwards - he must have a tremendous amount of ability.\"\n\nHaving given Balding a first Guineas triumph, Kameko is now favourite for the Derby at Epsom on 4 July.\n\nBalding, who won the Oaks with Casual Look in 2003, said: \"To me it looks the obvious choice. There would be a stamina doubt but there's only one way to find out.\"\n\nPinatubo's trainer Charlie Appleby, who won the Group One Coronation Cup with Ghaiyyath on Friday, said: \"Pinatubo travelled well into the race when he had Frankie's horse as his target, but when he made his move he got up to their girths and just didn't go any further forward.\"", "Crieff Hydro is the flagship hotel in the group\n\nA chain of Scottish hotels has given notice that 241 staff face redundancy at the start of August.\n\nCrieff Hydro group is family owned and includes seven mainly rural hotels, including Crieff Hydro, Peebles Hydro and Ballachulish Hotel.\n\nIt is planning to shed more than quarter of its workers across the portfolio.\n\nStephen Leckie, the proprietor, says he expects bookings to be down by 30-50% this year.\n\nThe number of job losses could be reduced or increased, depending on the pace at which lockdown regulations on the hospitality industry are eased.\n\nThe group announced that as of Sunday, it had entered a consultation period with its staff due to a significant downturn in business as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt said it hoped that through consultation the number of compulsory redundancies, if needed, could be halved.\n\nStaff will be lost across the Crieff Hydro Family of Hotels portfolio\n\nMr Leckie said: 'When we closed our doors at the end of March, it was one of the darkest days in our 150-year history and this is another.\n\nThe impact coronavirus has had on our industry and business has been immediate and drastic. As a family-run business built on the strength of our people, discussing potential redundancies is the toughest step we've ever had to consider.\n\n\"I am personally devastated for every one of our team who could lose their job.\"\n\nHe said that despite all the measures taken so far to reduce costs, lost revenue while the hotels were closed would amount to at least £17m in the current financial year.\n\nHe added: \"For every month we've been closed with zero income, we've had to pay £500,000 just to keep our buildings safe and insured. This would have a profound effect on any business. \"\n\nThe company has used the UK government's Job Retention Scheme as well as securing an additional £5m in bank loans.\n\nPeebles Hydro is one of the group's largest resorts\n\nTourism has been one of the hardest-hit industries during the nationwide lockdown. Industry bodies fear there will be many casualties as the sector struggles to be in a position to return.\n\nMarc Crothall of the Scottish Tourism Alliance said: \"This is a harsh reality of the impact of Covid19.\n\n\"Crieff Hydro is a really good, well-run and managed group of hotels who have always invested in their employees and I know it will be hurting the family in having to take this action.\n\n\"But without any income coming in for many months and coupled with high levels of monthly fixed costs and with no sign of any long-term grant support being made available to help bridge the gap in the months ahead, businesses like this are now faced with little or no choice but to cut employee costs.\n\n\"I suspect we will be hearing similar stories from many more tourism and hospitality businesses in coming days.\"\n\nTourism Secretary Fergus Ewing said it was a \"very sad day\" for both the business owners and their employees.\n\nHe said: \"I am aware the owners have worked very hard and continue working hard to find a means of enabling the hotel group to survive the Covid crisis where, like all other tourism businesses they have no revenue, but substantial overheads to meet.\n\n\"Scottish Enterprise has contacted Crieff Hydro Family of Hotels to offer support and assistance and we will do everything in our power to help those affected through our initiative for responding to redundancy situations, Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (Pace).\n\n\"We have put in place a huge package of support of over £2.3 billion to try and ensure as many businesses survive as possible.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the industry on recovery and with partners across the public and private sector, to ensure a strong return of Scotland's tourism and hospitality sector.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor John Edmunds: \"I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier.\"\n\nA scientist who advises the government on coronavirus says he wishes the UK had gone into lockdown sooner as the delay \"cost a lot of lives\".\n\nBut Prof John Edmunds said data available in March was \"really quite poor\", making it \"very hard\" to do so.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock says the government \"took the right decisions at the right time\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded the deaths of another 77 people who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nIt marks the lowest daily increase in the number of deaths since 24 March.\n\nScotland recorded no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since lockdown began, while Northern Ireland reported no new deaths for a second time.\n\nThe number of coronavirus deaths recorded over weekends has tended to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said the government had reached its target this weekend of delivering tests to all staff and residents of care homes.\n\nThe government said it had offered coronavirus test kits to every care home in England and had delivered tests to 9,000 eligible care homes.\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for social care, Liz Kendall, said the original pledge had been for tests to have been carried out, not just delivered to care homes, and accused the government of being \"too slow to act\".\n\nThe pledge was made on 15 May, when Mr Hancock said all residents and members of staff in care homes in England would have been tested for coronavirus by early June.\n\nAsked on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show whether he had any regrets about his advice during the epidemic, Prof Edmunds said: \"Yes, we should have gone into lockdown earlier.\n\n\"I think it would have been hard to do it, I think the data that we were dealing with in the early part of March and our situational awareness was really quite poor.\n\n\"So I think it would've been very hard to pull the trigger at that point, but I wish we had.\n\n\"I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. I think that has cost a lot of lives unfortunately.\"\n\nAsked about the epidemiologist's comments, the health secretary defended the government's announcement of the lockdown on 23 March, saying: \"I think we took the right decisions at the right time.\"\n\nMr Hancock said there was a \"broad range… of scientific opinion\" on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) and Prof Edmunds was one among more than 100 members.\n\n\"We were guided by the science - which means guided by the balance of that opinion - as expressed to ministers through the chief medical officer and the chief scientific adviser,\" he added.\n\n\"That's the right way for it to have been done.\"\n\nLooking back now, it is clear the virus was much more widespread than was realised in February and March.\n\nIt is estimated that by the time lockdown was announced on 23 March, there were 100,000 new cases a day.\n\nAt the time, testing and surveillance was picking up only a small fraction of them. When the scale of the outbreak was realised, scientists advising the government pushed for lockdown - and ministers subsequently agreed.\n\nIt is easy to criticise both the failures of science and the decisions of ministers in hindsight.\n\nOther countries had already moved to lockdown ahead of the UK, but still we held out for a few weeks.\n\nThe key question is, should we have known more at the time and should we have been better prepared?\n\nThis is all likely to be pored over in a public inquiry at some point and that will no doubt show mistakes were made - the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, has admitted as much himself.\n\nMr Hancock told the BBC's Andrew Marr the government would take a \"very cautious and safety first\" approach to further relaxation of the rules.\n\nThe lockdown has already been eased slightly, with changes made across the UK to meeting others outdoors and English schools reopening for some pupils.\n\nFurther easing is due from 15 June in England, with non-essential retailers allowed to re-open and places of worship allowed to open for private prayer.\n\nLabour's shadow foreign secretary, Lisa Nandy, said her party supported easing the lockdown but called for improvements in the government's test and trace system.\n\nDowning Street said any alterations to lockdown measures in the coming weeks would depend on the government's five tests continuing to be met, in order to prevent a second spike in the virus and stop the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThese include ensuring the R number - the number of people an infected person passes the virus onto on average - stays below one.\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, Prof Edmunds warned R was \"creeping up\" in some places - with some reports suggesting it had gone above one in north-west England.\n\nBut Mr Hancock said the estimated R was \"below one in each region\", and the government would \"take local action in the first instance to crack down on any local outbreak\" - including reintroducing lockdown measures.\n\nThe Labour mayors for Greater Manchester and Liverpool, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotherham, said talk of local lockdowns were \"not helpful\" and said it was \"unacceptable\" to not include them in the planning process.\n\nThey said if the government was \"determined to proceed\" with the measure, \"significant support needs to be put in place\" for English regions, including a local furlough scheme and funding for councils.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is set to announce more easing of lockdown measures for 15 June, with Boris Johnson expected to tell cabinet about the additional changes on Tuesday.\n\nIt has also been revealed the PM plans to give a speech in the summer, setting out his vision for how the UK can recover from the coronavirus crisis.", "The pilots' union Balpa has accused British Airways of undermining talks over proposed job losses by threatening to dismiss and re-hire its members under new contracts.\n\nThe airline proposes to make 12,000 staff redundant, as it struggles with the impact of the pandemic, with more than 1,000 pilot roles at risk.\n\nBritish Airways said it was acting now to protect as many jobs possible.\n\nIt insisted no final decision had been made.\n\nBalpa has been meeting with the company, unlike some unions, including Unite and GMB, which BA says have refused to enter talks.\n\nBut Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton said on Saturday night that those talks now hung \"by a thread\".\n\n\"Balpa reps have been in consultation with BA over its proposed 1,130 pilot job losses and we've been doing that constructively and in good faith,\" Mr Strutton said in a statement.\n\n\"Then, on Wednesday evening, a letter from BA added another 125 job losses and also for the first time threatened all 4,300 BA pilots with dismissal and reengagement if we did not reach agreement on changes to terms and conditions.\n\n\"I'm appalled at the cavalier attitude shown by BA towards the Balpa reps and to its pilots.\n\n\"This has seriously undermined our talks which now hang by a thread.\"\n\nWillie Walsh, the chief executive of BA's parent company IAG, emphasized this week in a letter to Parliament that no decision had been made in relation to actual redundancies.\n\n\"There are some who believe the company is exaggerating the scale of the challenge,\" Mr Walsh said in the letter. \"Nothing could be further from the truth. The situation is unprecedented.\"\n\nBritish Airways said it was acting now to protect as many jobs possible, as the airline industry faced the deepest structural change in its history. It called on Unite and the GMB to consult with it on its proposals as Balpa was doing.\n\nSeparately, BA, Easyjet and Ryanair have made inroads towards a legal challenge to the government's plan to impose two weeks' quarantine on travellers entering, or returning to, the UK.\n\nThe three have written a letter to Procurator General Sir Jonathan Jones, the government's most senior legal official.\n\nIn it, they argue the rules for incoming travellers will be more stringent than those for people who are actually diagnosed as having coronavirus - and point out that the rules are governed by different legislation for residents of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nThe proposals have been roundly criticised across the travel industry. The Home Office has said it believes the measures will help stop the spread of the virus.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"As we get the virus under control here, we must manage the risk of cases being imported from abroad.\n\n\"These measures are informed by science, backed by the public and will keep us all safe.\n\n\"We recognise it is a difficult time for the travel industry, and the government continues to work with industry partners to ensure these measures remain effective and necessary.\"\n\nThe boss of Getlink - formerly Groupe Eurotunnel - has also written to the government, criticising the plan for its burden of paperwork, for instance the efforts that would be needed to keep track of workers who cross the channel frequently.\n\n\"The exemption to quarantine for staff who cross the Channel many times a day, within the concession, turns out to be an administrative burden for each crossing that will require much time to set up and deliver,\" wrote Getlink's chief executive Jacques Gounon.\n\nHe also complained to Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the speed of the new rules.\n\n\"Limited consultation by the Home Office and departmental intransigence have led to a situation that puts a serious risk on the efficiency of operations at the Channel Tunnel, a vital link in the Great British supply chain,\" he wrote.", "A further 77 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus - the lowest daily increase since the lockdown began.\n\nNo new coronavirus deaths were recorded in Scotland or Northern Ireland.\n\nExperts say the number of deaths recorded over weekends tends to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nAnd earlier, a scientist advising the government said there was still \"an awful long way to go\" before the pandemic would end in the UK.\n\nProfessor John Edmunds said there was a risk the disease will \"come back very fast\" if the UK \"relaxed its guard\".\n\nAnd he said he wished the UK had gone into lockdown sooner as the delay \"cost a lot of lives\".\n\nA total of 40,542 people have now died after testing positive for the virus the UK.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US - to reach 40,000 deaths.\n\nThe last time Scotland recorded no new deaths was on 20 March - three days before the lockdown was announced.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman gave a \"note of caution\" about reading too much into Sunday's figures.\n\nShe said: \"It is still very likely that further Covid-19 deaths will be reported in the days ahead.\"\n\nNHS England announced another 72 deaths and Wales announced five.\n\nThe daily figure only includes those who have tested positive for the virus, and other figures show the death toll could be higher.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which counts death certificates mentioning the virus, suggests deaths had reached more than 48,000 by 22 May.\n\nIt has been just over three months since the UK recorded its first coronavirus death on 2 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor John Edmunds: \"I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. I think that has cost a lot of lives\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock rejected the comments by Prof Edmunds, who sits on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nHe insisted: \"I think we took the right decisions at the right time.\"\n\nMr Hancock added that there were more than 100 members of Sage, and said the government had been guided by the balance of scientific opinion from the group.\n\nMeanwhile, the government says it has now reached its target this weekend of delivering tests to all staff and residents of care homes.\n\nMr Hancock said coronavirus test kits have been offered to every care home in England and have delivered tests to 9,000 eligible care homes.\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for social care, Liz Kendall, said the original pledge had been for tests to have been carried out, not just delivered to care homes, and accused the government of being \"too slow to act\".\n\nThe pledge was made on 15 May, when Mr Hancock said all residents and members of staff in care homes in England would have been tested for coronavirus by early June.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nConor McGregor says he has retired from fighting - for the third time in four years.\n\nIreland's former two-weight UFC champion, 31, has a record of 22 wins and four defeats.\n\nHis last fight, in January 2020, saw him beat American fan favourite Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in just 40 seconds in Las Vegas.\n\nHe has previously announced his retirement in 2016 and 2019 before twice returning to the octagon.\n\nMcGregor also tried boxing, losing to former five-weight world champion Floyd Mayweather in August 2017.\n\n\"Hey guys I've decided to retire from fighting,\" he said on Twitter on Sunday.\n\n\"Thank you all for the amazing memories! What a ride it's been!\"\n• None Nunes dominates Spencer to win on points at UFC 250\n\nHe later told ESPN he was \"bored of the game\".\n\nMcGregor added: \"The game just does not excite me, and that's that. All this waiting around. There's nothing happening.\n\n\"I'm going through opponent options, and there's nothing really there at the minute. There's nothing that's exciting me.\"\n\nSpeaking after UFC 250 in Las Vegas on Saturday, the organisation's president Dana White said he had not been given advance warning of McGregor's announcement.\n\n\"One of my people grabbed me and showed it to me on social media - that's Conor, that's how Conor works and does things,\" said White.\n\n\"Conor McGregor's not going to need some money any time soon. He loves the fight, he's passionate about it and he has an incredible fighter IQ. But whatever his reason is, when you say you want to retire, don't worry about it. Do your thing, man.\"\n\nWhite added: \"We're in a pandemic, the world is a crazy place right now. If these guys want to sit out and retire right now, or if anybody feels uncomfortable in any shape or form about what's going on, you don't have to fight - it's all good. So if that's what's Conor's feeling right now, Jon Jones, Jorge Masvidal, I feel you.\"\n\nUFC events are taking place without fans because of the coronavirus pandemic and last month McGregor suggested he would like to compete in a behind-closed-doors event.\n\nMcGregor signed for the UFC in 2013 as a two-division Cage Warriors champion, and went on to capture the UFC titles at featherweight and lightweight, becoming the first man to simultaneously hold UFC titles in two weight classes.\n\nThose titles were subsequently stripped by the UFC after he failed to defend his belts.\n\nAfter his first 'retirement' in 2016, he returned in October 2018 to unsuccessfully challenge for the UFC lightweight title against Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229.\n\nEarlier this year, he displayed one of the most spectacular performances of his career to defeat Cerrone - his first win inside the octagon since taking his second world title in 2016.\n\nIn May, McGregor declared himself as the second greatest mixed martial arts fighter of all time behind Anderson Silva, adding he would \"easily\" surpass the Brazilian before retiring.\n\nHowever, McGregor's time in mixed martial arts has also been marred by controversy.\n\nIn 2018, he was ordered to have anger management training and perform five days of community service by a court in return for criminal charges being dropped after he had attacked a bus containing rival UFC fighters.\n\nVideo footage appeared to show McGregor throwing a railing at a bus carrying Nurmagomedov and a number of other UFC fighters.\n\nIn March 2019, McGregor was arrested in Miami for allegedly smashing a fan's phone as they tried to take pictures of him. The charges were later dropped, although McGregor settled a civil lawsuit with the victim out of court.", "Hundreds of people attended a protest in Merthyr Tydfil on Sunday\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the Black Lives Matter campaign is \"fundamentally important\" but he wished people had found other ways to protest rather than public demonstrations during the pandemic.\n\n\"There are other ways that don't pose a public health risk,\" he said.\n\nFurther protests have been held in Wales on Sunday.\n\n\"I absolutely understand the strength of feeling that brings people to the sort of scenes we saw yesterday,\" Mr Drakeford told BBC Politics Wales.\n\n\"I'd wish they'd done it in a different way because I think there are other ways that don't pose a public health risk.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But I do have to say to them again today, we are in the middle of a public health emergency.\"\n\nMany protesters in Wales wore face coverings and others wore gloves.\n\n\"We're here to make a stand. We're here to show everyone's equal and, of course, black lives matter,\" one protester in Cardiff said.\n\nThe majority of Saturday's protests in the UK were peaceful but in the evening there were disturbances outside Downing Street.\n\nAround a thousand people joined the protest in Cardiff\n\nMr Drakeford added: \"There were online protests going on yesterday, there are petitions running, there are organisations to join and campaign with.\n\n\"And I still say to people in Wales, please don't put yourself in a position where the strength of feeling, the absolute strength of feeling that I share on the Black Lives Matter issue leads you to do things that put yourself and other people at risk.\"\n\nAfter seeing the large crowds in Cardiff, Andrew RT Davies, the former Conservative leader in the Senedd, said \"lockdown and social distancing appears to be over in Wales\".", "Eddie Flett wore a disguise so his children would not recognise him while he watched them in the park\n\nAn oil worker has told how he wore a disguise so he could watch his young children without them recognising him while he was in quarantine.\n\nEddie Flett, from Edinburgh, spent 14 days living in a flat in his street when he returned to Scotland after being stuck in Kazakhstan for 10 weeks.\n\nHe wore a mask and hood so his two-year-old twins would not recognise him and come too close.\n\nHis wife Erica Clinefelter said the enforced separation was \"a nightmare\".\n\nShe said: \"I'd held it together for months until those last few days when I reached breaking point.\n\n\"Having him so close but not home was very hard.\"\n\nErica would take her children to play in the street outside her husband's quarantine flat so he could see them from afar\n\nEddie, 51, told BBC Scotland: \"The hardest part was being down the road.\n\n\"The proximity was painful. I would stand at the fence and watch them play outside.\"\n\nHe then started going to the park so he could watch his children Isobel and Campbell from a distance.\n\nErica, a former project manager, said: \"We would arrange a time when we would be in the park and come to watch.\n\n\"He would wear a mask and a jumper with the hood up and he would sit on the bench.\"\n\nThe family would videocall at breakfast daily when Eddie was having lunch\n\nEddie said it was \"absolutely fantastic\" when he was finally able to be reunited with his family.\n\nEddie, a logistics consultant subcontracted to work on Chevron's giant Tengiz oil field in Western Kazakhstan, flew out for a four-week run of shifts on 4 March.\n\nBut he was then unable to return home to his partner Erica, their twin toddlers and 20-year-son Alex.\n\nErica said: \"This particular separation felt more painful than usual. It was beyond our control, full of worry and anxiety, and I had a fair amount of anger at being so vulnerable.\"\n\nShe said the ability to go outside for walks had been a \"lifeline\" while dealing with the isolation and the demands of two young children.\n\nThe family would videocall at breakfast daily when Eddie was having lunch in Kazakhstan, where he was stranded along with thousands of other oil workers from all over the world.\n\nThere were 300 positive cases of Covid-19 in the camp where they were staying by early May, but no deaths.\n\n\"We were busy, we didn't stop work,\" he said.\n\n\"The company was concerned about the virus, we were more concerned about the oil price.\"\n\nEddie Flett has now been reunited with with his twins Isobel and Campbell\n\nEddie said the decision was eventually taken to shut down drilling completely and, after a couple of false starts, he set off for home on 13 May.\n\nHe was one of 20 men flown back to the UK. The long journey home involved road blocks, security checks, and coach, plane and minibus journeys - as well as a plague of mosquitos at Atyrau Airport.\n\nWhen he arrived back home in Edinburgh, Eddie spent two weeks living away from his family as a precautionary measure.\n\nHe was able to live at the end of his street after neighbours lent him their vacant Airbnb flat for free.\n\nEddie does not know when, or if, he will be able to return to work on the oilfields again.", "Group worship will still be banned by lockdown regulations over fears that the virus could spread\n\nPlaces of worship will be allowed to open for private individual prayer under government plans to be announced next week.\n\nThese are not expected to include weddings of any size, or full services - which will come at a later date.\n\nThe prime minister is set to outline measures which will come into effect in England on 15 June.\n\nNorthern Ireland has already allowed private worship but Scotland and Wales have not yet done so.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to update his cabinet on the plans on Tuesday.\n\nMinisters have been working with faith leaders on guidance for how places of worship can re-open safely with social distancing measures in place.\n\nIndividual churches, mosques, synagogues and temples will have to manage the number worshippers attending.\n\nDowning Street says any changes are contingent on the government's five tests for easing lockdown continuing to be met.\n\nFaith leaders have called for churches, mosques, synagogues and temples to be allowed to reopen as other lockdown measures have been lifted.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the most senior Roman Catholic in England and Wales, thanked the government and said the move was the \"first, measured step in restoring\" church services.\n\nHe said it was important that \"every care is taken to ensure that the guidance given for this limited opening is fully observed, not least by those entering our churches\".\n\nBut he added that \"not every Catholic church will be open on 15 June\".\n\n\"Local decisions and provision have to lead this process,\" he said.\n\nWhile the burden of the lockdown has fallen evenly across the population, religious groups have been forced to sacrifice major festivals that punctuate their practice over the year.\n\nChristians were unable to attend Holy Week services, Muslims have experienced Ramadan without communal Iftar meals each day.\n\nThe Jewish community experienced Passover without extended Seders and Sikhs were unable to mark the festival of Vaisakhi.\n\nAlthough places of worship will reopen solely for private prayer, it seems the government was persuaded that if the public is ready to re-engage in retail therapy then people of faith ought to be allowed to enter places of worship.\n\nAll the major religious groups are preparing new hygiene protocols, doors are likely to be opened only for limited periods, numbers attending will be carefully controlled and there will be no communal worship.\n\nBut at a time of widespread grief and anxiety about the future, this will be a welcome opportunity to seek comfort and consolation in sacred spaces around the country.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson recognised the importance of people being able to have space to \"reflect and pray, to connect with their faith, and to be able to mourn for their loved ones\" during the unprecedented time.\n\n\"We plan to open up places of worship for individual prayer in a safe, Covid-secure way that does not risk further transmission.\"\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said ensuring places of worship could reopen was a priority as their \"contribution to the common good of our country is clear\".\n\nHe said: \"People of all faiths have shown enormous patience and forbearance, unable to mark Easter, Passover, Ramadan or Vaisakhi with friends and family in the traditional way.\n\n\"As we control the virus, we are now able to move forwards with a limited but important return to houses of worship.\"\n\nPlaces of worship have been closed for almost two months, and in some cases even longer, after closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Jenrick has warned that large gatherings will be difficult to manage for some time, particularly with the demographics in some religions and rituals such as singing which may lead to the virus. spreading more freely", "Lyra McKee was shot dead as she observed rioting in Londonderry\n\nA gun found by police during searches in Londonderry is believed to be similar to the one used in the New IRA murder of Lyra McKee.\n\nThe weapon is being forensically examined to establish if it was the gun used.\n\nPolice have said a bomb also discovered during the searches was fully primed for an imminent attack.\n\nMs McKee, a 29-year-old journalist, was shot during trouble in the city's Creggan area in April 2019.\n\nThe gun, along with the bomb, was found during planned police searches in Derry on Friday and Saturday in the Ballymagroarty area of the city.\n\nSearch operations took place over two days, and covered 38 acres.\n\nDerry City and Strabane district commander Ch Supt Emma Bond said the gun was the same type and calibre used to murder Ms McKee and that extensive forensic examinations would be taking place in the coming days and weeks.\n\nShe said:\"Whilst we regard this as an encouraging line of enquiry, I will repeat that we cannot definitively say at this time whether or not this is the murder weapon,\" she said.\n\n\"That determination will be guided by the forensics.\"\n\nCh Supt Bond added: \"We were able to locate and safely remove a command-wire initiated bomb, a handgun and a quantity of ammunition.\n\n\"A strong line of enquiry is that these munitions belong to the New IRA.\n\n\"They have now been seized and will be subject to rigorous forensic examination in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"The fact that these items were left close to a populated area, and particularly on land where children are known to play, yet again underlines the total lack of regard these violent terrorist criminals have for their own communities,\" she said.\n\n\"These people are so singularly focused on murdering police officers that they do not care if others - men, women, children, families - are caught up in their evil plots.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne described the find as a \"major breakthrough,\" adding it was a \"reminder that a small number of people with no community support or mandate are still determined to wreak havoc, destroy lives and devastate families\".\n\nA children's den was located near to where the weaponry was found\n\nEarlier in the year Paul McIntyre, 52, from Kinnego Park in Derry was charged with Ms McKee's murder, which he denies.\n\nSpeaking on the first anniversary of her death, Det Supt Jason Murphy said there were up to 17 suspects in the investigation.", "Will there be a post-Covid baby boom?\n\nWith people stuck at home with not much to do under lockdown, it was predicted that scores of new babies could make their appearance in a few months' time. This was based on previous baby booms after, for example, World War Two. Not so says French newspaper Le Parisien, which has been speaking to couples about their baby plans . Generally speaking, people like to feel secure before embarking on the biggest adventure of their lives, it says. But with mounting job uncertainty and financial insecurity, this is looking less likely for many. “During the 2007-2008 financial crisis, fertility declined in most European countries,” says Gilles Pison, a demographer. “When we look at past crises, we see above all a postponement of birth plans, but not an abandonment. These births generally recover once the crisis has passed. So I don't expect a baby boom in the short term.\" People may not be intentionally having more babies. However, there were warnings early on in the crisis that lockdowns would restrict women’s access to contraception and family planning services, which could lead to millions of unplanned pregnancies.", "Thousands have lined the streets of London, from the US embassy in Vauxhall to Parliament Square, in an anti-racism protest following the death of George Floyd.\n\nProtesters appeared to be ignoring warnings from both the police commissioner and Health Secretary Matt Hancock not to congregate and risk spreading coronavirus.\n\nFree masks, gloves and hand gel were being handed out by some volunteers.\n\nThis video shows six minutes and 30 seconds of footage condensed into 75 seconds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of protesters gathered in UK cities on Saturday - in London, missiles were thrown and a police horse bolted\n\nA total of 27 police officers were hurt during anti-racism protests in London, the Met Police has revealed.\n\nDame Cressida Dick, Met Police Commissioner, said the attacks were \"shocking and completely unacceptable\".\n\nProtests on Saturday - sparked by the death of George Floyd - were largely peaceful, but were marred later by disturbances outside Downing Street.\n\nOne demonstrator, who was not at Downing Street, saw officers \"acting very aggressively\" elsewhere.\n\nFurther demonstrations are taking place across the UK including in Bristol, where the statue of a prominent slave trader has been pulled down.\n\nIn a statement Dame Cressida, the UK's most senior officer, thanked officers at Saturday's protests in London for their \"extreme patience and professionalism\".\n\nA police officer knocked from her horse was among 14 injured during clashes with protesters on Saturday\n\n\"I am deeply saddened and depressed that a minority of protesters became violent towards officers in central London yesterday evening,\" she said.\n\n\"This led to 14 officers being injured, in addition to 13 hurt in earlier protests this week.\n\n\"We have made a number of arrests and justice will follow. I know many who were seeking to make their voices heard will be as appalled as I am by those scenes.\n\n\"I would urge protesters to please find another way to make your views heard which does not involve coming out on the streets of London, risking yourself, your families and officers as we continue to face [the deadly coronavirus].\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said 14 arrests were made in London\n\nThe majority of Saturday's protests were peaceful but in the evening there were disturbances outside Downing Street.\n\nBBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the protest was largely over when missiles and fireworks were thrown at a police line.\n\nTwo officers were seriously injured, including a Mounted Branch officer who was knocked from her horse when it hit a set of traffic lights whilst appearing to bolt.\n\nShe suffered a broken collarbone, a broken rib, and punctured lung, according to the Metropolitan Police Federation\n\nThe officer had struggled to stay in control as she was riding down the street surrounded by protesters.\n\nShe remains in hospital in a stable condition after undergoing surgery.\n\nBut Asia Ahmed, an activist who attended several of the protests, said \"these situations don't come from nowhere\".\n\nShe told the BBC she had seen the police \"acting very aggressively\" towards protesters.\n\nMs Ahmed, who was not at Downing Street during the disturbance, said a \"lot of people\" she spoke to \"feared for their lives when they saw police horses\".\n\n\"I don't think that was the best tactic to use if you're trying to create a peaceful environment,\" she said.\n\nActivists say police have \"acted very aggressively\" towards protesters during demonstrations across London\n\nPolice arrested 29 protesters for variety of offences, including violent disorder, public order offences and assault on emergency service workers.\n\nThe Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the pockets of violence were \"simply not acceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I stand with you and share your anger and pain. George Floyd's brutal killing must lead to immediate and lasting change in countries, cities, police services and institutions everywhere.\n\n\"But this vital cause was badly let down by a tiny minority who turned violent and threw glass bottles and lit flares, endangering other protestors and injuring police officers.\"\n\nA rally is currently being staged outside the US Embassy in Battersea, south-west London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "From Monday, outdoor weddings can take place in Northern Ireland with up to 10 people present.\n\nThe devolved government has decided to allow them as part of its strategy to ease lockdown.\n\nFor weeks, couples who wanted to get married this summer haven’t been sure if they would be able to.\n\nBut now they - and people working in the wedding industry - are making plans, as Chris Page reports.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters in Bristol pull down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston\n\nThe name Edward Colston looms large over Bristol, with streets and buildings named after the 17th Century merchant and slave trader.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters at an anti-racism demonstration in the city toppled a statue of Colston and dumped it in Bristol Harbour. The BBC's Jack Grey witnessed the statue's fall.\n\nThousands of people attended the demonstration in Bristol, one of many in the UK sparked by the death of George Floyd while he was under arrest in Minneapolis in the United States last month.\n\nA group of protesters surrounded the statue on Colston Avenue, erected in honour of a man whose ships sent about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas between 1672 and 1689.\n\nColston's memory has divided the city for years, with some thinking history can't be changed and others campaigning successfully for his name to be erased from streets, schools and venues.\n\nThe statue in Colston Avenue was erected in 1895\n\nThere was clear frustration in Sunday's crowd, partly because the statue still stood in 2020, but also because it had simply been covered for the protest.\n\nThe canvas covering, which had already been targeted by egg-throwers, was torn off with some people saying they wanted to look the man in the eyes. Soon ropes had been tied round the bronze monument and the process of removing it began.\n\nOnce the covering was removed, three protestors climbed atop the statue to fasten two ropes around the head.\n\nThirty seconds later Colston was on the floor. Many jumped on the fallen statue, others holding a Black Lives Matter banner climbed the plinth where it had stood.\n\nThere was not so much joy when the statue hit the ground as anger, but the crowd had not finished with the monument.\n\nIt was dragged the short distance to Bristol Harbour and dumped over the quayside.\n\nThe statue was taken from Colston Avenue and dumped into Bristol Harbour\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPlaying in empty stadiums is going to become the new norm for footballers, so it's probably best they start to get used to it.\n\nThat may have been the reasoning behind several Premier League teams holding training sessions at their grounds this week, with some even playing full friendlies to give their players a taste of what is to come.\n\nThe Premier League is set to resume behind closed doors from 17 June after being suspended since 13 March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt Old Trafford, Harry Maguire captained a 'home' Manchester United team against an 'away' side led by Bruno Fernandes.\n\nIt marked the first time Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men had played on home soil since their 2-0 win over derby rivals Manchester City on 8 March - their final match before lockdown.\n\nIt had been even longer since Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba had done so, last featuring for United on 26 December and 15 January respectively before long injury lay-offs.\n\nThey both donned the red home kit as Juan Mata, Anthony Martial and Aaron Wan-Bissaka joined Fernandes in the away team for the match refereed by fitness coach Charlie Owen.\n\nUnited - currently fifth in the Premier League - will restart their season away at Tottenham on 19 June before welcoming Sheffield United to Old Trafford on 24 June.\n\nRather than an inter-squad match, Arsenal went one step further and welcomed Championship strugglers Charlton to Emirates Stadium.\n\nMikel Arteta's Gunners ran out 6-0 winners over the Addicks, with Eddie Nketiah scoring a second-half hat-trick in addition to strikes from Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Joe Willock.\n\nNinth-place Arsenal travel to Manchester City on 17 June to kick off their return to action.\n\nFrank Lampard took his Chelsea players to Stamford Bridge for a change from their Cobham training base, holding an in-house game on Saturday.\n\nLampard and his coaching staff officiated the match, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek scoring for the Blues in blue.\n\nChelsea are three points above United in fourth and resume their campaign at Aston Villa.\n\nTalking of Villa, they reportedly held a behind-closed-doors friendly against West Brom, who are second in the Championship, at Villa Park.\n\nJack Grealish and Keinan Davis scored for the hosts as they twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with the Baggies, for whom Kamil Grosicki and Filip Krovinovic found the back of the net.\n\nNewcastle also took a trip home to St James' Park for an inter-squad friendly which finished in a 1-1 draw.\n\nJoelinton gave his side - wearing the Magpies' orange strip - the lead before Nabil Bentaleb equalised for those wearing the black and white kit with a stunning strike from outside the box.\n\nEarlier in the week, Premier League leaders Liverpool held a series of short 11v11 matches at Anfield, while Norwich and West Ham also returned to Carrow Road and London Stadium respectively.", "England and Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling has backed protests taking place across the UK, saying \"the only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting\".\n\nThousands of people have taken part in Black Lives Matter marches in the UK, despite government warnings to avoid mass gatherings because of the threat of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is the most important thing at this moment in time because this is something that is happening for years and years,\" Sterling, 25, said.\n\nLarge protests have been held in London, Bristol, Manchester, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh following the death of American George Floyd.\n\nFloyd, 46, died while being arrested on 25 May in Minneapolis. The four officers involved have since been charged over the death, which sparked days of protests in the US and demonstrations across the world.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newsnight programme, Sterling said: \"Just like the pandemic, we want to find a solution to stop it.\n\n\"At the same time, this is what all these protesters are doing. They are trying to find a solution and a way to stop the injustice they are seeing and they are fighting for their cause.\n\n\"As long as they are doing it peacefully and safely and not hurting anybody and not breaking into any stores, they continue to protest in this peaceful way.\"\n• None Watch the full Sterling interview on Newsnight on BBC Two on Monday at 22:45 BST\n\nMany sports people have spoken out in protest over Floyd's death, with Sterling's England team-mate Jadon Sancho making on-pitch statements in Germany's Bundesliga.\n\nSterling, whose City side return to Premier League action on 17 June, has previously spoken of racist abuse he has suffered and the media's portrayal of black players.\n\nAsked whether speaking out makes his job as a footballer harder, he said: \"First and foremost, I don't really think about my job when things like this happen. I think about what is right.\n\n\"And at this moment in time, there's only so much people can take. There's only so much communities and other backgrounds can take - especially black people.\n\n\"It's been going on for hundreds of years and people are tired and people are ready for change.\n\n\"I keep saying this word. I see a lot of people on social [media] supporting the cause. But this is something that needs more than just talking.\n\n\"We need to actually implement change and highlight the places that do need changes.\n\n\"But this is something that I myself will continue to do, and spark these debates and get people in my industry looking at themselves and thinking what they can do to give people an equal chance in this country.\n\n\"Hopefully other industries can do that, and everyday society and the system as well.\"\n\nSpeak out if you feel the need - Archer\n\nEngland pace bowler Jofra Archer says the events of the past week show \"so many people around the world are behind equality\".\n\nThe 25-year-old was subjected to racist abuse by a spectator during the final day of the first-Test defeat by New Zealand in 2019.\n\n\"No longer will people just sit around quietly and let unjust things happen,\" Archer wrote in his Daily Mail column.\n\n\"As an individual, I've always been one for speaking out, especially if something bothers you. My personal view is that you should never keep things bottled up, because racism is not OK.\n\n\"If you feel the need to speak out, you should do so. I accept that others might choose not to make it public and deal with things in their own way, but it is why I acted when I was verbally abused in New Zealand last year.\"\n\nThe spectator responsible - a man from Auckland - was banned from attending international and domestic matches in the country for two years after admitting the abuse.", "The heatwave of 2018 uncovered hundreds of new sites - many Roman - including new details of this fort at Trawscoed, Ceredigion\n\nRoman forts, roads, military camps and villas have been identified by a new analysis of aerial photographs taken in the 2018 heatwave across Wales.\n\nScorched crop marks uncovered about 200 ancient sites during the drought.\n\nExperts say the Roman finds are key pieces in the jigsaw to understand how Wales was conquered and dominated 2,000 years ago.\n\nResearcher Toby Driver said the discoveries \"turn everything we know about the Romans on its head\".\n\nThe aerial investigator for the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales said the new research published in the journal Britannia showed the \"Roman military machine coming to rural Wales\".\n\nIn Monmouthshire, the researchers have identified a new \"marching camp\" at a site near Caerwent.\n\n\"The marching camps are really, really interesting. They are the temporary overnight stops that the Romans build on manoeuvres in hostile territory.\"\n\nCarrow Hill fort is the first Roman fort found in the Vale of Gwent - with probable links to the Caerleon legionary fortress\n\nThe site would have provided defensive positions, camping and kitchens for bread ovens.\n\n\"This is when Wales is still a very dangerous place to be for the troops, they are still under attack,\" added Dr Driver.\n\nThe entire area heading into south-east Wales through Usk to Caerleon would have been peppered with similar sites, believe the experts, as the Roman armies fought a 20-year battle to crush resistance amongst Celtic tribes, notably the Silures in southern Wales.\n\nBut these sites were \"ploughed away pretty quickly\" when the fighting was over.\n\n\"This is only the third marching camp in south-east Wales that we have discovered. We know there should be more of these around to show how the army was moving in Wales - it shows the big routes they are pushing through to control different parts of Wales,\" added Dr Driver.\n\nWith conquest came reinforcements, and that meant forts.\n\nThe aerial photographs confirmed the locations of at least three new fort sites, including the first found in the Vale of Gwent at Carrow Hill, west of the Roman town of Caerwent and the Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon.\n\nThe crop images show it had inner and outer defensive structure and a \"killing zone\" in between, perfectly ranged for a javelin throw.\n\nThe photographs found a long suspected fort site at Aberllynfi near Hay-on-Wye is indeed Roman, even though part of it has long since been built over by housing.\n\nWhile further investigations at Pen y Gaer in Powys, near Tretower and Crickhowell, have revealed new detailed structures previously undiscovered - despite digs and surveys on the ground.\n\nWyncliff villa north of Chepstow was originally thought to be a temple - but this new image confirms it was a Roman villa\n\nThe researchers, who included Roman experts Jeffrey Davies and Barry Burnham, have also been able to identify details of new villas - including at St Arvans, north of Chepstow in Monmouthshire.\n\nThe location had previously been considered a temple site, after part of a bronze statue of Mars was unearthed.\n\nBut the heatwave images make it clear this was a Roman villa of some note, with its room structure clearly visible.\n\nPerhaps the most startling discoveries have been pieces of unknown Roman road.\n\nThis section of Roman road runs south from Carmarthen to Kidwelly, and was unknown until this image was captured\n\nOne shows how the Roman armies pushed their way south from Carmarthen to Kidwelly, reinforcing speculation the town was home to a Roman fort - even if it may now be covered by Kidwelly Castle.\n\n\"It's the scale of the control of Wales which is exciting to see,\" said Dr Driver.\n\n\"These big Roman roads striking through the landscape - straight as arrows through the landscape.\"\n\nAnother section of Roman road uncovered in Lampeter, Ceredigion - hinting of further discoveries to be made\n\nAfter the driest May on record, Dr Driver hopes he will be able to get back in the air as soon as coronavirus lockdown measures allow, to see if he and his teams can find more pieces of the Roman puzzle in Wales.\n\n\"There are still huge gaps. We're still missing a Roman fort at Bangor, we've got the roads, we've got the milestones - but no Roman fort. We're still missing a Roman fort near St Asaph, and near Lampeter in west Wales we should have one as well,\" he said.\n\n\"Although we had loads come out in 2018, we've got this big gaps in Roman Wales that we know should have military installations - but you've got to get out in dry weather to find them.\"\n• None Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Archaeologists believe the find marks \"a new chapter\" in Stonehenge's story\n\nA ring of large shafts discovered near Stonehenge form the largest prehistoric monument ever discovered in Britain, archaeologists believe.\n\nTests carried out on the pits suggest they were excavated by Neolithic people more than 4,500 years ago.\n\nExperts believe the 20 or more shafts may have served as a boundary to a sacred area connected to the henge.\n\n\"The size of the shafts and circuit is without precedent in the UK,\" said Prof Vince Gaffney, a lead researcher.\n\nThe 1.2 mile-wide (2km) circle of large shafts measuring more than 10m (30ft) in diameter and 5m (15ft) in depth are significantly larger than any comparable prehistoric monument in Britain.\n\nA team of academics from the universities of St Andrews, Birmingham, Warwick, Bradford, Glasgow and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David worked on the project.\n\nThe pits surround the ancient settlement of Durrington Walls, two miles (3km) from Stonehenge, and were discovered using remote sensing technology and sampling.\n\nYellow dots mark the location of the finds, with Durrington Walls marked as the large brown circle and Stonehenge top left\n\nProf Gaffney, of the University of Bradford, said the discovery demonstrated \"the capacity and desire of Neolithic communities to record their cosmological belief systems in ways, and at a scale, that we had never previously anticipated\".\n\n\"The area around Stonehenge is amongst the most studied archaeological landscapes on earth,\" he added.\n\n\"It is remarkable that the application of new technology can still lead to the discovery of such a massive prehistoric structure.\n\n\"When these pits were first noted, it was thought they might be natural features. Only through geophysical surveys, could we join the dots and see there was a pattern on a massive scale.\"\n\nProf Gaffney said a \"proper excavation\" was required to determine the exact nature of the pits but that the team believed they acted as a boundary, perhaps marking out Durrington Walls as a special place, or emphasising the difference between the Durrington and Stonehenge areas.\n\nThe shafts surround the known location of Durrington Walls\n\nHe said it was difficult to speculate how long they would have taken to create, but using manual stone tools, there would have been \"considerable organisation of labour to produce pits on this scale\".\n\n\"The pits are massive by any estimate. As far as we can tell they are nearly vertical sided; that is we can't see any narrowing that might imply some sort of shaft. Some of the silts suggest relatively slow filling of the pits. In other words they were cut and left open,\" added Prof Gaffney.\n\nDr Richard Bates, from St Andrews' School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, said it had given an insight to \"an even more complex society than we could ever imagine\".\n\nHis colleague Tim Kinnaird said sediments from the shafts had allowed archaeologists to \"write detailed narratives of the Stonehenge landscape for the last 4,000 years\".\n\nDr Nick Snashall, National Trust archaeologist for the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, hailed the discovery as \"astonishing\".\n\nShe said: \"As the place where the builders of Stonehenge lived and feasted, Durrington Walls is key to unlocking the story of the wider Stonehenge landscape, and this astonishing discovery offers us new insights into the lives and beliefs of our Neolithic ancestors.\n\n\"The Hidden Landscapes team have combined cutting-edge, archaeological fieldwork with good old-fashioned detective work to reveal this extraordinary discovery and write a whole new chapter in the story of the Stonehenge landscape.\"", "Lower-income households are using savings and borrowing more during the coronavirus lockdown, while richer families are saving more as eating out and trips abroad are banned.\n\nThat's according to research from the Resolution Foundation, a think tank.\n\nLower-income households are twice as likely as richer ones to have increased their debts during the crisis, it said.\n\nWorkers in shut down parts of the economy have average savings of £1,900, it found.\n\nThat compares to the £4,700 buffer of someone who has been able to work from home during the lockdown.\n\n\"Pre-coronavirus Britain was marked by soaring wealth and damaging wealth gaps between households,\" said George Bangham, economist at the Resolution Foundation.\n\n\"These wealth divides have been exposed by the crisis. While higher-income households have built up their savings, many lower-income households have run theirs down and had to turn to high-interest credit.\"\n\nAccording to the research, which was funded by the Standard Life Foundation charity, wealth gaps across the country have also grown.\n\nThe study found that London and the South East accounted for 38% of all wealth between 2016 to 2018, up from 32% a decade earlier.\n\nWealth inequality remains almost twice as high as income inequality, it adds.\n\nLast month, the think tank found that young people are most likely to have lost work or seen their income drop because of Covid-19.\n\nMore than one in three 18 to 24-year-olds is earning less than before the outbreak, it found.\n\nIt said younger workers risk their pay being affected for years, while older staff may end up involuntarily retired.\n\nLast year, a different think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, found widening inequalities in pay, health and opportunities in the UK are undermining trust in democracy.\n\nIt warned of runaway incomes for high earners but rises in \"deaths of despair\", such as from addiction and suicide, among the poorest.", "Former chancellor Sajid Javid has warned against a return to austerity as the UK economy struggles with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn a report by the Centre for Policy Studies, he also called for low taxes on business to aid the UK's recovery.\n\nThe conservative think tank, which was co-founded by Margaret Thatcher, said this should be based on \"a dynamic private sector and low taxes\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said there will be no return to \"austerity\".\n\nHowever, Labour has said the government should have offered more generous support during the crisis.\n\nThe report by the Centre for Policy Studies said that a quick economic bounce back from the coronavirus crisis is is unlikely.\n\nBut it said coronavirus emergency spending measures should be stopped, if possible, by April 2021.\n\nIt said that polls suggest the UK is \"not ready\" to return to austerity measures introduced by former chancellor George Osborne, \"necessary though they were\".\n\nInstead, the report calls for tax to shift away from profits and incomes and towards reformed property tax and tightening tax reliefs \"which unduly favour the wealthy\".\n\nNational insurance should be given a \"significant temporary\" reduction to make it cheaper for employers to take on staff.\n\nMr Javid, who resigned from the Treasury in February, said \"early hopes of a V-shaped recovery\" had \"proved optimistic\".\n\nHe predicted that \"some long-term damage to the economy\" had become \"unavoidable\", with as many as 2.5 million people out of work due to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nBut to speed up the rate of people re-entering employment, Mr Javid argued in the After The Virus report, published on Tuesday, that ministers must make it easier for businesses to hire workers.\n\n\"If we want to support and stimulate employment, then axiomatically the best option is to cut the payroll tax - employer's National Insurance,\" Mr Javid said.\n\n\"Tax employment less, and all other things being equal you will end up with more of it.\"\n\nOther recommendations made in the report include temporarily cutting VAT and bringing forward \"shovel ready\" infrastructure projects, with Mr Javid arguing that the \"only way out of this crisis is growth\".\n\nHe joins fellow former chancellor Alistair Darling in calling for an emergency VAT cut to boost consumer spending, a move undertaken by the Labour peer after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nMr Javid said: \"If we want to secure the strongest possible recovery, it's essential that no stone is left unturned.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, in a report in March on the economic effects of coronavirus, criticised the government for acting too slowly and said it should underwrite a bigger proportion of wages for those who lose their jobs.", "Stars including Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Carrey and Sharon Stone have paid tribute to the \"wonderfully creative and heroic\" St Elmo's Fire, Flatliners and Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher.\n\nSutherland, who starred in several of Schumacher's films, said his \"joy, spirit and talent will live on\".\n\nCarrey, who appeared in Batman Forever, also remembered Schumacher fondly following his death at the age of 80.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jim Carrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Falling Down filmmaker had been ill with cancer for more than a year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Kiefer Sutherland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMinnie Driver, who appeared in Schumacher's film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera in 2004, remembered the director as \"the funniest, chicest, most hilarious director I ever worked with\".\n\nShe recalled: \"Once, on set, an actress was complaining about me within earshot; how I was dreadfully over the top (I was) Joel barely looked up from his NYT + said 'Oh Honey, no one ever paid to see under the top.'\"\n\nMatthew McConaughey, who was given his big break by Schumacher in 1996's A Time to Kill, told Variety: \"Joel not only took a chance on me, he fought for me... I don't see how my career could have gone to the wonderful places it has if it wasn't for Joel Schumacher believing in me back then.\"\n\nCorey Feldman, who appeared in The Lost Boys, said the director was \"a beautiful soul\" who had \"sent me supportive messages tight til the end of his life\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sharon Stone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress and presenter Padma Lakshmi described him as \"sharp, whip smart, witty and wise\", adding: \"He was kind and always had the best advice.\"\n\nFellow director Kevin Smith tweeted: \"He couldn't have been nicer or more hospitable.\"\n\nStar Trek writer and producer Bryan Fuller wrote: \"I distinctly remember feeling hopeful when I learned he was gay and out and that there may be a place for me yet.\"\n\nVariety wrote that the director \"brought his fashion background\" to directing and captured the feel of an era with his \"stylish films\".\n\nThe New York native first entered the film industry as a costume designer in the 1970s, working alongside luminaries such as Woody Allen.\n\nHe went on to write the 1976 low-budget comedy Car Wash, as well as the screenplay for a film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz.\n\nBut his big break came in 1985, with his third feature film St Elmo's Fire, which he co-wrote and directed.\n\nAlongside The Breakfast Club, which came out in the same year, it became one of the seminal films of the Brat Pack era and launched Demi Moore's film career.\n\nHis follow-up, The Lost Boys - about a group of young vampires in small-town California - became a cult favourite, and his 1990 hit Flatliners saw him again team up with Kiefer Sutherland.\n\nSchumacher worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and Michael Douglas. He directed Douglas in 1993's Falling Down, which was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme D'Or.\n\nHe took over the reins of the Batman franchise from Tim Burton in 1995, casting Val Kilmer as the Caped Crusader and Jim Carrey as the Riddler. The film grossed more than $300m worldwide.\n\nHowever, his second outing - Batman and Robin - starring George Clooney in the lead and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze was critically panned and nearly finished off Clooney's burgeoning film career.\n\nSchumacher was noted for his ability to pick out new talent and he was fundamental in establishing the careers of A-list stars such as Sutherland, Rob Lowe and Colin Farrell. He directed Farrell in 2000's Tigerland, the actor's first leading role, and later in Phone Booth.\n\nSchumacher's style came to the fore in two memorable music videos, Seal's Kiss From a Rose and INXS's Devil Inside.\n\nHis film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera, which received three Oscar nominations despite lukewarm reviews, was among his last films.\n\nSchumacher was reportedly the composer's first choice as director, with Lord Lloyd Webber having admired his work with music on The Lost Boys.\n\nMost recently, in 2013, he took the helm on a couple of episodes of the first season of Netflix series House of Cards, before more or less retiring from working life.\n\nHe once said: \"If you love a movie, there are hundreds of people who made it lovable for you. If you don't like it, blame the director. That's what our name's there for.\"", "Michaela Coel stars in, wrote and co-directed I May Destroy You\n\nThe BBC is to increase diversity by investing £100m of its TV budget over a three year period to produce \"diverse and inclusive content\".\n\nDirector general Tony Hall has described the move, which will apply from April 2021, as \"a big leap\".\n\nThe BBC has set itself a mandatory target - 20% of off-screen talent must come from under-represented groups.\n\nThat includes those with a disability or from a BAME or disadvantaged socio-economic background.\n\nThere will also be three \"tests\" for diversity in the BBC's TV output, with programmes needing to meet two of them to qualify - diverse stories and portrayal on-screen, diverse production teams and talent and diverse-led production companies.\n\nThe announcement follows widespread Black Lives Matter protests, after the death of George Floyd while in police custody in the US.\n\nJune Sarpong was appointed the BBC's first director of creative diversity in October 2019\n\n\"The senseless killing of George Floyd - and what it tells us about the stain of systemic racism - has had a profound impact on all of us,\" said Lord Hall.\n\n\"It's made us question ourselves about what more we can do to help tackle racism - and drive inclusion within our organisation and in society as a whole.\n\n\"This is our response - it's going to drive change in what we make and who makes it. It's a big leap forward - and we'll have more to announce in the coming weeks.\"\n\nRecent BBC productions from ethnic minority creatives and featuring actors from BAME backgrounds include Michaela Coel's 12-part drama, I May Destroy You.\n\nIt charts the fallout from a sexual assault and received rave reviews.\n\nElsewhere, the story of Anthony Bryan and the Windrush scandal was brought to our screens in the feature-length drama, Sitting In Limbo.\n\nIn fact, the diversity announcement arrives on the 72nd anniversary of the day the Empire Windrush arrived at the port of Tilbury symbolising the beginning of the migration of thousands of people from the Caribbean to the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC reporter Shamaan Freeman-Powell speaks to members of her family about the impact of moving to the UK\n\nIn October last year, TV presenter and campaigner June Sarpong was appointed as the BBC's director of creative diversity, as it pledged to ensure 50% of on-air roles will go to women by 2020, with targets of 15% for black, Asian and minority ethnic groups [BAME], 8% for disabled people and 8% for LGBT staff.\n\nOff air, the BBC promised at the time to increase the proportion of leadership roles filled by women from 44% to 50% by next year, and raise the share of such senior roles held by BAME staff from 11.5% to 15%.\n\nReacting to Monday's latest package, Sarpong said: \"I came to the BBC as an outsider. Before joining I had an idea of this being an organisation that did not want to change. What I found was something different: an organisation that had ambitious goals for diversity and inclusion but didn't know how to reach them.\"\n\nShe believes the commitment \"will help to drive real change that will be felt by all audiences\".\n\n\"I'm pleased that we're announcing this fund as the first of a series of bold steps that will help make the BBC an instrument of real change.\"\n\n\"As a black woman,\" she added, \"I feel and share in the pain that so many are feeling worldwide.\n\n\"It makes it all the more important that we show up now not just with words but with meaningful action.\"\n\nThe cash injection will support diversity and inclusion across all genres of TV, including Children's, Education and Current Affairs.\n\nThe BBC is calling it \"the biggest financial investment to on-air inclusion in the industry\", declaring that \"the media industry is not changing fast enough\".\n\n\"The measures announced today are designed to accelerate the pace of change in increasing diversity and inclusion both on and off air,\" the statement read.\n\nDirector Steve McQueen dedicated his two 2020 Cannes films, from his Small Axe series, to the late Mr Floyd\n\nSpeaking to The Observer on Sunday, director Steve McQueen led the attack on racism in the British film and TV industry and the lack of diversity.\n\n\"It's just not healthy,\" said Sir Steve. \"It's wrong. And yet, many people in the industry go along with it as if it is normal. It's not normal. It is anything but normal. It's blindingly, obviously wrong. It's blatant racism. Fact. I grew up with it.\"\n\nThe BBC's director of content, Charlotte Moore, said McQueen challenged her and the organisation to \"set meaningful targets and take proper action\" last year during the making of his upcoming anthology series, Small Axe.\n\n\"He was right,\" said Moore. \"Today's announcement represents a truly transformational commitment to both on and off screen representation.\n\n\"Concrete, tangible action is the only way we can bring about real sustainable change.\"\n\nMeanwhile, actors including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michaela Coel and Noel Clarke, as well as David Oyelowo and Meera Syal, have signed an open letter demanding that the UK film and TV industry will now \"put its money and practices where its mouth is\".\n\nThe document, revealed on Monday, has more than 4,000 signatures, including those of presenter Anita Rani and directors Asif Kapadia, Gurinder Chadha and Rapman.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Harry Dunn, 19, died in hospital after his motorbike was in a crash near RAF Croughton\n\nDid Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US intelligence officer in Britain, have diplomatic immunity when she allegedly killed Harry Dunn in a road accident in Northamptonshire last August?\n\nHarry's parents insist that she didn't, and that she can be tried for causing his death.\n\nThe Foreign Office and the US embassy in London argue that she did.\n\nNow one of Britain's top experts on diplomacy has poured scorn on the British and American argument.\n\nThe Dunns' lawyers, headed by Geoffrey Robertson QC, asked Sir Ivor Roberts, a former British ambassador in Serbia, Ireland and Italy, for his opinion. After retiring from the diplomatic service Sir Ivor was head of Trinity College, Oxford.\n\nHis report on the arguments produced by the British and US governments, which I have read, is remarkably strongly worded.\n\nAnne Sacoolas, pictured on her wedding day in 2003, cited diplomatic immunity after the crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMrs Sacoolas's husband was an American intelligence officer based at RAF Croughton. That gave him a certain level of diplomatic immunity. The British and US governments maintain that this meant that, as his wife, Mrs Sacoolas had immunity too.\n\nSir Ivor says this is \"a palpable absurdity\".\n\nHe quotes a letter of agreement between the Foreign Office and the US ambassador to Britain in August 1995 about the American personnel at RAF Croughton. This says explicitly that diplomatic immunity for people like Mr Sacoolas would not apply for \"acts performed outside the course of their duties\".\n\nIf Mr Sacoolas wasn't covered for acts outside his duties, Sir Ivor says, it would be absurd for Mrs Sacoolas, who had no official position, to be immune from prosecution when her husband wasn't.\n\nHe doesn't mince his words. \"It was clearly not anticipated that this agreement might be dishonourably challenged by the US government through their embassy in London,\" he says.\n\nTim Dunn and Charlotte Charles are going through \"torture\", says their son Niall\n\nIn Sir Ivor's view both the British and US sides knew that back in 1995 they had agreed that \"both agents and their dependants\" were subject to British criminal law in their non-work activities at RAF Croughton.\n\nFor the Americans to argue the opposite would, he said, be regarded by professional diplomats as a breach of good faith.\n\nWords and expressions like \"palpable absurdity\", \"dishonourably\" and \"breach of good faith\" are rare from a top expert on diplomacy.\n\nAlthough the judges at the High Court agreed that Sir Ivor was a leading figure in the study of diplomacy, they did not accept his report on the technical grounds that he was not a practising lawyer.\n\nThey rejected an application by the Dunns to force the Foreign Office to disclose evidence relating to a \"secret agreement\" between the US and British governments.\n\nBut this was a preliminary hearing, and it seems reasonable to assume that Sir Ivor's scathing opinion of the case presented by the Foreign Office and the US embassy will have an influence on the case as it continues.\n\nIn a statement, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: \"Anne Sacoolas held diplomatic immunity on arrival in the UK on 24 July until her departure from the UK.\n\n\"Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, any waiver of immunity must be express.\n\n\"The historic arrangements covering Croughton contained no such waiver for family members.\n\n\"We are committed to revising this anomaly in the arrangements at Croughton so they cannot be used in this way again.\"", "The attack happened in a residential courtyard in Moss Side\n\nTwo men have died in a shooting after a lockdown party of \"hundreds of people\".\n\nPolice were called to reports that gun shots had been heard in Caythorpe Street in Moss Side, Manchester, at about 01:00 BST.\n\nThe two victims, aged in their 20s and 30s, \"self-presented\" in hospital and died a short time later.\n\nGreater Manchester Police said the shooting happened at \"an unplanned event\" near to the location of an \"earlier community event\".\n\nNo arrests have been made yet.\n\nA local resident said the shooting followed a lockdown party with a DJ and \"hundreds of people\".\n\nFootage on social media showed crowds dancing to loud music in a courtyard.\n\nA cordon was placed around a courtyard between Caythorpe Street, Broadfield Road and Bowes Street.\n\nA teacher, who lives nearby, said he heard music from about 22:00 BST into the early hours on Sunday.\n\nThe man, who did not wish to be named, said: \"It's a really normal neighbourhood with an occasional spike in violence.\n\n\"I had a walk out to see what was happening and I would say there were hundreds of people around but I did see police patrols. Later, we heard a helicopter overhead.\"\n\nOfficers gather evidence at a courtyard where \"hundreds\" of people attended a party\n\nHe said people who rang police were told that officers were unable to break up the party because it was too large.\n\nDet Insp Andrew Butterworth said: \"We are aware that, a number of hours before this incident, there was a community event in Moss Side.\n\n\"This event was attended by Greater Manchester Police along with local people and partner agencies - it was not an illegal rave and it had concluded prior to this incident.\n\n\"It does appear that the incident took place at what we believe was an unplanned event near to the location of the earlier community event.\"\n\nOn Sunday, a forensic tent was seen partially covering a car, with alcohol bottles and canisters of laughing gas surrounding the area.\n\nSince the 1980s, Moss Side has been associated with problems due to drugs and violence, although in recent years, there have been fewer shootings and money has been spent on redeveloping the area.\n\nThousands attended raves last weekend in Greater Manchester (above), despite gatherings of more than six people being illegal due to coronavirus\n\nEarlier this week, Greater Manchester Police said it would take \"serious action\" to deter more illegal gatherings after raves in Trafford and Oldham last weekend, when a 20-year-old man died of a suspected drug overdose and an 18-year-old woman was raped.\n\nMore than 6,000 people attended the events, where three men were stabbed.\n\nAsst Ch Con Nick Bailey said prevention was the key to controlling illegal parties but conceded that senior officers could decide it was more dangerous to close an event because of its scale, and factors such as terrain and darkness.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three people have died and three others were seriously injured in a multiple stabbing at a public park in Reading.\n\nEmergency services were called to Forbury Gardens in the town at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed landing at another park nearby to ferry the injured to hospital.\n\nArmed police officers raided a block of flats in the town hours after the attack and large parts of the town remain cordoned off.\n\nA 25-year-old man from the town, arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has been now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.\n\nHere are some images of the developments.\n\nBlue tents have been erected in the park after the incident on Saturday evening\n\nAnd forensics police were seen in Forbury Gardens on Sunday\n\nFloral tributes have been placed at the park railings\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nThames Valley Police's chief constable John Campbell delivered a statement to the media at the entrance to Forbury Gardens on Sunday afternoon\n\nThames Valley Police launched its response after receiving calls at about 19:00 BST on Saturday\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed at King's Meadow in Reading, a short distance from Forbury Gardens\n\nParts of Reading town centre were condoned off by Thames Valley Police\n\nArmed police officers were later seen at a block of flats off Basingstoke Road in Reading\n\nPolice officers were stationed at all entrances to the park on Saturday night\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.\n• None Three people dead after multiple stabbings in park", "The Welsh Government has used the two-metre social distancing recommendation in line with the rest of the UK\n\nThe first minister of Wales has not ruled out reducing the two-metre social-distancing rule to one metre.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to relax the two-metre rule in England, with some conditions.\n\nMark Drakeford told the Welsh Government's daily briefing he would do the same if Welsh advisers said it was safe to do so.\n\nThe pub industry has been calling for the rule to be eased, saying they would struggle otherwise.\n\n\"We put the health of the public first,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"Of course, we will follow the advice that the prime minister will be relying upon for any announcement that he makes.\n\n\"If the advice we get through our scientific networks and through our chief medical officer is that it is possible to amend the advice we give and things can open safely - of course, that is what we would want to do, but we will assess that for ourselves.\n\n\"We will make decisions in a way that are right for Wales\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nThe change to the rule in England, which follows a UK government review, is expected to come into effect on 4 July.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that distance carries up to 10 times the risk of being two metres apart.\n\nThe Welsh Government has put the two-metre rule into legislation.\n\nPubs have been closed in Wales since March\n\nFirms operating in Wales must do all they can to ensure two-metre separation at work, risking fines otherwise.\n\nShops opening in Wales on Monday have been expected to use social distancing measures.\n\nWhile 4 July has been given as a potential date for reopening pubs in England, the Welsh Government has not set a date.\n\nThe Welsh Government has however promised discussions with the sector for a phased reopening. The next review is due around 9 July.\n\nNick Newman, chairman of Cardiff Licensees Forum and general manager of the Philharmonic, said bars were hoping to open on 3 August but added he was \"in the dark\" on the matter.\n\n\"We were really hoping to have heard something positive last Friday,\" he told Gareth Lewis on BBC Radio Wales.\n\nMr Newman said easing the social-distancing rule would make a \"huge difference\" to the industry.\n\n\"Some of the experts way above my paygrade have calculated that we need to be at 70% capacity just to break even,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile the average number of people infected by each person who gets the virus is now 0.9 in Wales.\n\nThe R-number is up from 0.7.\n\nBut Welsh Government advisers suggested that as numbers of cases fall, the transmission rate (R) is less of a useful tool for looking at the progress of the virus.\n\nThe latest analysis from experts at the Technical Advisory Cell (Tac) said as the number of new cases drops to low levels, the R number \"becomes very sensitive\" to daily changes in cases found through testing and tracing, causing it to fluctuate weekly and that it \"tends towards\" 1.\n\nIf infections continue to fall, it says the number of new cases and GP reports will become \"more important\" than using the R number as a primary indicator.\n\nWelsh Government advisers said there was no evidence it was \"significantly different\" in Wales and other UK nations but there was \"greater uncertainty in the estimates\" due to the smaller numbers of cases and deaths.", "New pictures showing the Duke of Cambridge playing with his children have been released to mark both Father's Day and the duke's birthday.\n\nOne image shows Prince William, who turned 38 on Sunday, being jumped on by Prince George, aged six, Princess Charlotte, five, and Prince Louis, two.\n\nAnother shows the children posing with their father on a swing at Anmer Hall on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk.\n\nBoth scenes were captured earlier this month by the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nA third photograph taken by Catherine, showing a beaming William with his arm around his father Prince Charles, was released by Clarence House to wish the duke a happy birthday.\n\nWilliam's birthday is the latest in what has been a busy birthday season for the royals, since the UK went into lockdown due to coronavirus.\n\nPictures, also taken by keen photographer Catherine, have been released to mark Charlotte and Louis' birthdays recently.\n\nLast month, new photographs showed the young princess delivering homemade care packages to those in need.\n\nPrince Louis was also pictured in April making a colourful rainbow poster - a symbol of hope during the lockdown.\n\nThe pair were also joined by their eldest brother George to join with the first Clap for Carers event in March, to applaud NHS staff and care workers.\n\nWilliam spoke about fatherhood during a BBC documentary on mental health last month.\n\nIn the interview, he said having children was the \"biggest life-changing moment\" and described fatherhood as a \"very different phase of life\" to his younger days.\n\nAsked about becoming a father, he added: \"I think when you've been through something traumatic in life - and that is like you say your dad not being around, my mother dying when I was younger - your emotions come back in leaps and bounds because it's a very different phase of life.\n\n\"And there's no one there to, kind of, help you, and I definitely found it very, at times, overwhelming.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William on being a parent: \"It's one of the most amazing moments of life, but also one of the scariest\" (Video from May 2020)\n\nPrince Charles, has also marked Father's Day, writing on Twitter: \"Whether you are a Father, a Dad, a Daddy or a Pa, wishing you a Happy Father's Day!\"\n\nThe post featured an archive photograph of Charles with his own sons - William and the Duke of Sussex - in matching polo shirts.\n\nA second picture showed a young Charles being held by his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, in the 1950s.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrince Philip and the Queen, who are both currently shielding at Windsor Castle, have also celebrated birthdays recently.\n\nThe Queen made her first official public appearance since the lockdown began to mark her official birthday last week.\n\nAnd the Duke of Edinburgh posed with the Queen in an official photograph released two weeks ago as he turned 99.", "St Cuthbert's church in Edinburgh is reopening for small numbers of worshippers to pray Image caption: St Cuthbert's church in Edinburgh is reopening for small numbers of worshippers to pray\n\nA memorial chapel at a church in Edinburgh is to open for private prayers as lockdown restrictions have been further eased.\n\nSt Cuthbert's Church will allow three people to be praying at once with standalone chairs set up two metres apart to assist social distancing amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Church of Scotland building is to open on certain days for two hours as the country has progressed to phase two of the lockdown exit strategy.\n\nQuote Message: St Cuthbert's has been a house of prayer for 1,400 years and the memorial chapel has always been a place of private prayer and reflection which we use at this time of year for visitors. The congregation is really pleased that other people will be able to drop in and experience the peacefulness of the beautiful chapel imminently. from Rev Peter Sutton St Cuthbert's minister St Cuthbert's has been a house of prayer for 1,400 years and the memorial chapel has always been a place of private prayer and reflection which we use at this time of year for visitors. The congregation is really pleased that other people will be able to drop in and experience the peacefulness of the beautiful chapel imminently.", "Tributes have been paid to the the victims of an attack in Reading on Saturday.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker has been speaking about her friend Joe Ritchie-Bennett.", "Joe Ritchie-Bennett has been named as the second victim of the stabbings\n\nAn American man is the second victim of the Reading stabbings to be named.\n\nJoe Ritchie-Bennett had lived in the UK for 15 years, his father confirmed to US TV network CBS. His friend James Furlong and one other person also died.\n\nMeanwhile, police continue to question the suspect in Saturday's attack, Khairi Saadallah, who has been arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nSources told the BBC he was originally from Libya and came to the attention of MI5 in 2019.\n\nA two-minute silence was held at 10:00 BST for the three victims.\n\nRobert Ritchie told CBS the family was \"heartbroken\" and described his 39-year-old son, who was originally from Philadelphia, as \"brilliant and loving\".\n\nUS ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson confirmed that an American citizen was killed and condemned the attack.\n\nHe said: \"I offer my deepest condolences to the families of those killed. To our great sorrow, this includes an American citizen. Our thoughts are with all those affected.\"\n\nPolice officers carry flowers left at the scene of multiple stabbings in Reading\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock said the town was \"an incredibly strong community\" where \"people will come together and they won't allow themselves to be divided\".\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was a teacher and head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHis parents Gary and Janet described their son as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".\n\n\"He was the best son, brother, uncle and partner you could wish for. We are thankful for the memories he gave us all,\" they said in a statement. \"We will never forget him and he will live in our hearts forever.\"\n\nJames Furlong was described as an \"inspirational\" teacher\n\nMore than 100 students, some holding hands, gathered at the gates as a bell rang out to mark the start of the silence at the school where Mr Furlong taught, while a flag in the courtyard was lowered to half-mast.\n\nOne former pupil, Molly Collins, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was a \"passionate and enthusiastic\" teacher who dedicated extra time to helping students progress.\n\n\"I wouldn't have gone to university, I don't think, had I not spoken about it with him. He just really took the time to support me and make me more confident,\" she said.\n\nIn an open letter, former pupils and parents have asked for the school's humanities block to be renamed in Mr Furlong's memory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils and staff at The Holt School, Wokingham paid tribute to James Furlong\n\nKatya Beaver, 24, who was taught by Mr Furlong in his hometown of Liverpool, described him as a friend as well as a teacher. \"He let us call him Jimmy,\" she said.\n\nCurrent pupils have also expressed their sadness at the news.\n\nSophie McEwan wrote on Instagram that Mr Furlong was \"an inspirational teacher, [who] genuinely cared for all of us students\".\n\nWhile Ella Banbury, 17, said: \"He was just a really kind teacher. You would always see him smile - there wouldn't be a time where you wouldn't see him smiling.\n\n\"He wasn't just there to teach the subject, he wanted to make sure everyone was OK.\"\n\nStaff and pupils laid flowers and held a two-minute silence at the school Mr Furlong taught at in Wokingham\n\nCo-head teachers at Mr Furlong's school said he \"truly inspired everyone he taught\".\n\nAnne Kennedy and Katie Pearce said in a statement: \"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice.\"\n\nMartin Cooper said he had known Joe Richie-Bennett for four years and Mr Furlong for at least two, having met them at the Blagrave Arms in Reading - a pub where they were regulars.\n\nMr Cooper, who is chief executive of LGBT+ charity Reading Pride, added that Mr Richie-Bennett and Mr Furlong were \"great supporters\" and members of the community.\n\n\"Their loss is a tragedy to so many people,\" the 36-year-old from Reading said, adding that they were \"fun, engaging and a pleasure to be around\".\n\nMr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett were two of three people who died in Saturday's attack at Reading's Forbury Gardens, to which police were called at about 19:00 BST.\n\nWitnesses say a lone attacker with a knife shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nSecurity guard Sydney McDonald, 65, said he saw the suspect being \"rugby-tackled\" to the ground by police and arrested shortly after the incident.\n\n\"There was a guy and I saw him pointing to a man and saying 'There he is, there he is'. If he hadn't, they would have missed him. He was running really fast, properly fast.\"\n\nMr McDonald said the suspect was \"all quiet\" once he was in the police van and \"wasn't putting up a fight\".\n\nThree other people suffered serious injuries in the attack, but only one remains in hospital, where his condition is described as stable.\n\nMr Saadallah, 25, is from Reading and was arrested initially on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nPolice said they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told MPs the threat posed by lone attackers \"is growing\".\n\nShe said the UK has \"one of the most comprehensive approaches to countering terrorism in the world\" and described the threat as \"complex, diverse and rapidly changing\".\n\nShe thanked those who responded to the incident, including student police officers - noting that a \"young, unarmed\" officer \"took down the suspect without hesitation\" while another performed first aid.\n\n\"These officers are heroes. They showed courage, bravery and selflessness way beyond their years,\" she said.\n\nSources told BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani that Mr Saadallah came to the attention of the security services after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism-related reasons.\n\nHowever, when the information was further investigated no genuine threat or immediate risk was identified, our correspondent said.\n\nIt meant that no case file was opened which would have made him a target for further investigation.\n\nPolice tents and equipment at Forbury Gardens in Reading\n\nSir Mark Rowley, a former national lead for counter-terrorism policing, told the BBC that MI5 has 3,000 people under investigation, but there are 40,000 who have \"touched the system\" at some point.\n\nHe said there were many volatile people who become interested in extremist ideology, but the security services faced a problem in identifying which of those would turn into an attacker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel: We must \"learn lessons\" from the Reading attack\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said that with the Ministry of Justice's budget having been cut by 40% over ten years, the government needed to re-examine the resources available for de-radicalisation programmes in prisons, as well as monitoring, supervision and risk assessment of released prisoners.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has held a meeting with security officials, police and senior ministers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said that \"people are united in their grief\" following the attack, and that he wants to speak to the prime minister to discuss how to \"learn from this\".", "The author of a report into the Windrush scandal is warning there is a \"grave risk\" of similar failures happening again if the government does not implement its recommendations.\n\nWendy Williams told BBC Radio 4's The Westminster Hour the Home Office still needed to \"make good on its commitment to learn the lessons\".\n\nPeople from the Commonwealth were told wrongly they were illegally in the UK.\n\nThe Home Office said the home secretary intends to \"right those wrongs\".\n\nMs Williams' warning comes as the country pays tribute to the outstanding and ongoing contribution of the Windrush Generation and their descendants.\n\nNational Windrush Day, on Monday, commemorates the day, 72 years ago, when the ship HMT Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks, Essex, carrying migrants to help fill jobs in the UK.\n\nIn a video message, the Prince of Wales has spoken of the \"debt of gratitude\" the nation owes the Windrush generation.\n\n\"Today offers an opportunity to express the debt of gratitude we owe to that first Windrush generation for accepting the invitation to come to Britain and, above all, to recognise the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to so many aspects of our public life,\" said Prince Charles.\n\n\"I dearly hope that we can continue to listen to each other's stories and to learn from one another.\"\n\n\"The diversity of our society is its greatest strength and gives us so much to celebrate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amanda Kirton: \"It's all of our history\"\n\nIn honour of Windrush Day, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is meeting Bishop Derek Webley, co-chair of the Windrush Working Group, and representatives of the British Caribbean community.\n\nThe newly-launched working group, co-chaired by Home Secretary Priti Patel and Bishop Webley, will bring together stakeholders and community leaders with government officials to address the challenges faced by the Windrush generation and their descendants.\n\nAn estimated 500,000 people now living in the UK who arrived between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries have been called the Windrush generation.\n\nThey were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971 but thousands were children travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nChanges to immigration law in 2012 meant those without documents were asked for evidence to continue working, access services or even to remain in the UK.\n\nMs William's review, published in March, was critical of the \"hostile environment\" policy operated by successive governments to tackle illegal immigration.\n\nShe told The Westminster Hour the Home Office and ministers \"should have realised the impact\" of the legislation on different groups of people.\n\nThe report concluded the Home Office had shown \"ignorance and thoughtlessness\" on the issue of race when some people were incorrectly told they did not have the right to be in Britain.\n\nMs Williams, an inspector of constabulary, previously called on the government in March to provide an \"unqualified apology\" to those affected and the wider black African-Caribbean community.\n\nSpeaking earlier this year, Home Secretary Priti Patel said in House of Commons there was \"nothing I can say to undo the pain\" but added \"on behalf of this and successive governments I am truly sorry for the actions that span decades\".\n\nWendy Williams warns there is a risk that a similar scandal could happen again\n\nMs Williams said the risks posed by the controversial policy were flagged to the Home Office by \"other groups and stakeholders\" but because ministers ignored the warnings, the outcome of the Windrush scandal was \"both foreseeable and avoidable\".\n\nShe said: \"The Home Office has a very stark choice. It can decide not to implement my recommendations and, if that happens, then I think there is a very grave risk of something similar happening again.\"\n\nThe Home Office said in a statement the home secretary has been clear that the mistreatment of the Windrush generation by successive governments was \"completely unacceptable and she will right those wrongs\".\n\nMs Williams also said the compensation scheme for victims of the scandal is not demonstrating the benefits it should and applications need to be processed quickly and sensitively, with interim payments made where possible.\n\nHowever, the Home Office pointed out that the scheme made the first payment within four months of opening and has offered claimants over £640,000 in the first year.\n\nIt said that Ms Patel will give an update on her intended response to the review before the summer recess and will then provide a detailed formal response in September.\n\nIt added the Commonwealth Citizens Taskforce has granted over 12,000 people a form of documentation that confirms their right to remain in the UK and guarantee their access to public services.", "Members of \"The Base\" posed for photos that were used as propaganda\n\nSecret efforts to groom and recruit teenagers by a neo-Nazi militant group have been exposed by covert recordings.\n\nThey capture senior members of The Base interviewing young applicants and discussing how to radicalise them.\n\nThe FBI has described the group as seeking to unite white supremacists around the world and incite a race war.\n\nThe recordings were passed to US civil rights organisation, the Southern Poverty Law Center, before some were shared with BBC One's Panorama.\n\nRinaldo Nazzaro, founder of The Base, is a 47-year-old American. Earlier this year the BBC revealed he was directing the organisation from his upmarket flat in St. Petersburg, Russia.\n\nThe interviews, which took place via conference call on an encrypted app, followed a pattern - prospective members were asked by Nazzaro about their personal history, ethnicity, radicalisation journey and experience with weapons, before a panel of senior members posed their own questions.\n\nRinaldo Nazzaro is now living in Russia\n\nThe would-be recruits were quizzed on what books they had read, including Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, and were encouraged to familiarise themselves with the group's white supremacist ideology, which predicts and seeks to accelerate racial warfare, requiring followers to prepare for conflict and social breakdown.\n\nDuring the calls, Nazzaro can be heard welcoming members of other extremist groups.\n\nThe young applicants, who hide behind aliases and display varying degrees of ideological awareness, describe their radicalisation by online videos and propaganda.\n\nWhen interviewees left the calls, senior members discussed their potential before arranging to vet them in person at a later date.\n\nThe recordings make clear that The Base sought to recruit soldiers from western militaries to draw on their training with tactics and firearms.\n\nNazzaro, who the BBC investigation has been told used to work as an analyst for the FBI and as a contractor for the Pentagon, informed one British teenager that the idea of societal collapse was a \"guiding philosophy\".\n\nA European teenager was told that such a collapse would be desirable, even at a local level, if it offered a \"power vacuum that we can take advantage of\".\n\nOne boy was told \"we have a goal of initially creating two to three man cells in as many areas as possible\" and that the \"UK is a place that we think there is a lot of potential\".\n\nDuring a post-interview discussion about a 17-year-old from Europe, one older man spoke of \"shaping\" his belief system, with Nazzaro saying he needed a \"little work ideologically\" but was \"definitely headed in the right direction\".\n\nCommenting on one British teenager, Nazzaro suggested he probably needed to \"mature ideologically\".\n\nDr Cassie Miller, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, describes the recordings as a \"highly unusual glimpse\" into this extreme world, showing there was \"no singular pathway to radicalization\".\n\nShe says those applying to The Base came from a variety of backgrounds.\n\n\"I think the fact that a lot of these people are so utterly normal is in itself significant.\n\n\"They didn't possess some traits that predispose them to want to become a terrorist or to become attracted to extremist ideology.\n\n\"I think it's really best to think of them as a reflection of a society that is so deeply politically polarized\".\n\nFrom left: Jacob Kaderli, Michael Helterbrand and Luke Austin Lane, face charges in Georgia\n\nIn the American State of Georgia, three members of The Base are currently facing conspiracy charges for allegedly plotting to murder an anti-fascist couple.\n\nThe Base is the latest underground organisation to emerge from an international neo-Nazi network originally generated by a now-defunct web forum called Iron March.\n\nOther organisations include the banned British groups National Action and the Sonnenkrieg Division, as well as the Atomwaffen Division in the USA, which has been dismantled by a nationwide FBI investigation.\n\nThe BBC investigation reveals the real identity of a man who is both a senior member of The Base and the creator of a successor online forum linked to several UK terrorism prosecutions involving teenagers.\n\nMatthew Baccari, an unemployed 25-year-old from Southern California, used the alias 'Mathias' to run a notorious website called Fascist Forge, where terrorism and sexual violence were openly encouraged.\n\nHe was a vocal presence on The Base interview calls and promoted the group on his website, which he took offline earlier this year following significant attention by law enforcement.\n\nMatthew Baccari (r), posing for a propaganda image, is an unemployed 25-year-old from California\n\nThe forum was central to the case of a boy from Durham, who last year - aged 16 - became the youngest person convicted of planning a terror attack in the UK.\n\nTwo other young British members of Fascist Forge, one aged 15, are separately making their way through the youth court system charged with a combined 25 terrorism offences.\n\nBaccari refused to leave his bedroom when a BBC team went to his house to ask questions.\n\nBaccari and Nazzaro did not respond to letters setting out the evidence against them.\n\nYou can see more on this story on Panorama: Hunting the Neo-Nazis, Monday 22 June at 7.30pm on BBC One, and by listening to File on 4, Tuesday 23 June at 8.00pm on BBC Radio Four\n\nIf you have information or experiences to share, please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Energy companies have been given the go-ahead to chase unpaid energy bills again - although they have been warned not to be aggressive in their pursuit.\n\nRegulator Ofgem has told suppliers it is not in anyone's interests for an open-ended debt collection delay.\n\nMany households are benefitting from coronavirus-related payment holidays.\n\nBut bailiffs have been banned from knocking on doors for another two months to collect other unpaid debts, such as parking fines or council tax.\n\nThe government has said that the current restrictions on civil enforcement officers would continue until 24 August.\n\nHouseholds struggling with their finances during the coronavirus outbreak have been able to negotiate help on their regular bills, such as mortgages, credit card repayments, and energy bills.\n\nAlongside this, energy companies paused their pursuit of any outstanding unpaid bills, but now the British energy regulator has said this could begin again assuming collection by companies or their agents is \"fair\".\n\n\"We recognise that suppliers cannot extend unlimited credit to customers - nor is this in customers' interests overall - and we anticipate suppliers will begin to restart debt management activities that may have been paused during the immediate crisis,\" Ofgem chief executive Jonathan Brearley said in a letter to suppliers.\n\nHe added that suppliers must take into account customers' ability to pay.\n\n\"We will not tolerate sharp practice or aggressive debt collection and suppliers could face enforcement action where this is the case,\" he said.\n\nParking restrictions were eased while all but key workers stayed at home\n\nWider debt collection still faces various restrictions, primarily through curbs on bailiffs.\n\nCouncils, some of which suspended parking enforcement during lockdown, have returned to enforcing parking restrictions across much of the UK. Northern Ireland has traffic wardens back on the streets and fines will be issued again from 29 June.\n\nMeanwhile, a significant proportion of people making payments for unpaid taxes have continued to do so during lockdown.\n\nHowever, bailiffs - who are usually permitted to seize property or clamp vehicles to collect unpaid debts to local authorities - will see visits to people's homes restricted for another two months.\n\nThe Civil Enforcement Association, which represents bailiffs, said it would comply with government regulations and ensure public health was not put at risk.\n\nHowever, it said a code of conduct for agents which had been drawn up in the expectation of an earlier return to work would probably need updating assuming further easing of restrictions such as social distancing.", "Microsoft has decided to close its Mixer livestreaming service and is partnering with Facebook Gaming instead.\n\nMixer made headlines last year when it signed a reportedly multi-million dollar exclusivity deal with Ninja, a big star on rival platform Twitch.\n\nBut despite the investment, Microsoft says the platform will close in one month's time.\n\nNinja and other major gamers will no longer be tied to exclusivity deals.\n\nNinja had been signed to Mixer for less than a year.\n\nFrom 22 July, Mixer's website and app will redirect users to Facebook Gaming.\n\nAs part of the deal, Microsoft will work to bring its xCloud games-streaming service to Facebook.\n\n\"This seems quite ruthless, but Microsoft's strategy to reach more gamers is underpinned by its cloud business, not Mixer,\" said Piers Harding-Rolls from the consultancy Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"Clearly Facebook has significant reach globally, to expose users to xCloud.\"\n\nAll games-streamers in Mixer's partner programme will be granted partner status on Facebook Gaming if they wish to move to the platform.\n\n\"Ultimately, the success of partners and streamers on Mixer is dependent on our ability to scale the platform for them as quickly and broadly as possible,\" Mixer said in a statement.\n\n\"It became clear that the time needed to grow our own livestreaming community to scale was out of measure with the vision and experiences that Microsoft and Xbox want to deliver for gamers now, so we've decided to close the operations side of Mixer and help the community transition to a new platform.\"\n\nIn a separate blog post, Xbox chief Phil Spencer said the transition deal was part of a wider agreement between Xbox and Facebook, with Xbox aiming to introduce gaming features that work on Facebook and Instagram in the future.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThose partnered streamers who do choose to move to Facebook Gaming can begin the process by filling out a form, Mixer said that Facebook \"will honour and match all existing Partner agreements as closely as possible\".\n\nFacebook said it was \"proud to invite everyone in the Mixer community to Facebook Gaming\".\n\nThe company promised streamers: \"We'll do everything we can to make the transition as easy as possible for those who decide to make the switch.\"i", "Last updated on .From the section Burnley\n\nBurnley are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by a banner reading \"White Lives Matter Burnley\" that was towed by an aeroplane over Etihad Stadium during Monday's match against Manchester City.\n\nThe aircraft circled over the stadium just after kick-off in City's 5-0 win.\n\nBurnley and City players and staff had taken a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement moments earlier.\n\n\"Fans like that don't deserve to be around football,\" Clarets skipper Ben Mee told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It's a minority of our supporters - I know I speak for a massive part of our support who distance ourselves from anything like that.\n\n\"It definitely had a massive impact on us to see that in the sky.\n\n\"We are embarrassed that our name was in it, that they tried to attach it to our club - it doesn't belong anywhere near our club.\"\n\nIn a statement, Burnley said that the banner \"in no way represents\" what the club stands for and that they will \"work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and take appropriate action\".\n\n\"Burnley strongly condemns the actions of those responsible for the aircraft and offensive banner,\" the statement added.\n\n\"We wish to make it clear that those responsible are not welcome at Turf Moor.\n\n\"We apologise unreservedly to the Premier League, to Manchester City and to all those helping to promote Black Lives Matter.\n\n\"The club has a proud record of working with all genders, religions and faiths through its award-winning community scheme, and stands against racism of any kind.\n\n\"We are fully behind the Premier League's Black Lives Matter initiative and, in line with all other Premier League games undertaken since Project Restart, our players and football staff willingly took the knee at kick-off at Manchester City.\"\n\nBoth Burnley and City were wearing shirts with the players' names replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\nThe stunt was carried out by Air Ads, which operates out of Blackpool Airport and makes and flies banners. It has flown banners over football stadiums in the past, including a \"Moyes Out\" one at Old Trafford.\n\nWhen BBC Sport contacted the company, a man who answered refused to give his name but said he was packing away the banner.\n\nHe said as long as banners were legal and did not use coarse language, the company did not \"take sides\" and had previously done a Black Lives Matter banner. He claimed police had been informed of the banner in advance.\n\nSanjay Bhandari, chair of Kick It Out, English football's anti-racism charity: \"The point of Black Lives Matter is not to diminish the importance of other people's lives. It is to highlight that black people are being denied certain human rights simply by virtue of the colour of their skin.\n\n\"It is about equality. We shall continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for greater equality for all in football.\"\n\nPFA equalities director Iffy Onuora: \"You get that moment of deflation but then there's the positive reaction since. I thought Ben Mee was absolutely fantastic.\n\n\"You feel inspired again. These are uncomfortable conversations but in order to progress, you have to have them.\n\n\"In itself, the words themselves aren't offensive, it's the context. It's the rejection of conversations we are having at the moment and that's what it represents.\"\n\nPiara Powar, executive director of anti-discrimination body Fare: \"Set against the BLM message of equal rights, 'White Lives Matter' can only be motivated by racism and a denial of equal rights. It shows exactly why the fight for equality is so important and why the majority of people have supported it.\n\n\"The movement, the issues that are being discussed and the change that will arise is unstoppable. History will judge that this was a moment that led to change.\"\n\nSince the Premier League resumed on 17 June after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic, players and officials have been showing their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Micah Richards said seeing the banner was \"disheartening\".\n\n\"After how far we've come in these last couple of weeks, it really does hurt me,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\n\"I agree everyone should have free speech but when it looked like everything was on the up there's a small fraction who want to ruin it.\"\n\nCity and England forward Raheem Sterling said it was a \"massive step\" that players took a knee in support of Black Lives Matter on the opening night of the top-flight's return.\n\nAsked about the banner, City boss Pep Guardiola said society could not overturn 400 years of racial injustice in one week but added \"we are going to change the situation\".\n\n\"We need time, the racism is still there. We have to fight every day and condemn the bad things,\" he said.", "The duchesses were impressed by Stuie Delf's fundraising prowess\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has pledged to plant a sunflower in memory of a boy who was cared for by a hospice.\n\nCatherine spoke to Stuart and Carla Delf, from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, about their nine-year-old son Fraser, who died in January.\n\nShe congratulated Fraser's 13-year-old brother Stuie, who ran a sponsored 5k every day last month to raise money for the Each hospice in Milton, Cambridge.\n\nThe duchess said the fundraising was \"amazing\".\n\nShe was joined by the Duchess of Cornwall in the video call last week to mark Children's Hospice Week.\n\nStuie Delf said his brother was his best friend\n\nFraser Delf was cared for by Each in Milton\n\nThe Delfs spent seven weeks living in the hospice with Fraser before he died as a result of Coats plus syndrome, a rare condition that affects multiple organs and causes brain abnormalities.\n\nStuie told the duchesses he had been inspired by 100-year-old NHS fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nCamilla said: \"Captain Tom has done a lot for this country, hasn't he? He's inspired so many people. You must be very fit, Stuie.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is patron of the East Anglia Children's Hospices\n\nFraser Delf died as a result of Coats plus syndrome\n\nThe duchesses heard that the hospice where Fraser spent his final weeks had experienced a dramatic drop in fundraising because of coronavirus.\n\nStuie set out to raise £500 to fill the gap but ended up with £18,500 in total.\n\n\"Fraser wasn't just my brother, he was my best friend,\" he said.\n\nAfter the video call, Mr Delf, 42, said: \"[Catherine] said she was going to plant a sunflower in memory of Fraser.\"\n\nThe sunflower has been adopted as the emblem of hospice care.", "Boris Johnson has said his thoughts are with the families of the three people killed in a stabbing attack in Reading.\n\nThe prime minister said that if there were lessons to be learnt after the attack the government would not hesitate to take action.", "Bio-logging devices are trackers fitted to animals, like this Alpine ibex, that record their movements\n\nResearchers have launched an initiative to track wildlife before, during and after the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe UK-led team's aim is to study what they have called the \"anthropause\" - the global-scale, temporary slowdown in human activity, which is likely to have a profound impact on other species.\n\nMeasuring that impact, they say, will reveal ways in which we can \"share our increasingly crowded planet\".\n\nThey outline the mission in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.\n\nAll over the world, some animals have been tracked throughout lockdown\n\nThey outline \"urgent steps\" to allow scientists to learn as much as possible from the sudden absence of humans in many landscapes - including ensuring that researchers have access and permission to carry out their work, and can gain access to information about human movement, as well as animal-tracking data.\n\nProf Christian Rutz from the University of St Andrews is president of the International Bio-logging Society.\n\nHe pointed out that bio-loggers - small tracking devices fitted to animals in order to record their movements and other behaviour - have been collecting information in habitats all over the world throughout the pandemic.\n\nTracking whales could also reveal the impact that the \"anthropause\" has had on ocean wildlife\n\n\"There is a really valuable research opportunity here, one that's been brought about by the most tragic circumstances, but it's one we think we can't afford to miss,\" he told BBC News.\n\nUsually, studies which try to examine the impact of human presence and activity on wild animals are limited to comparing protected habitats to unprotected areas, or studying landscapes in the wake of a natural disaster.\n\nDisasters like the one in Chernobyl can become tragic \"natural experiments\"\n\n\"But during lockdown we have this replicated around the globe - in different localities and for habitats where some species have been fitted with tracking devices the whole time,\" said Prof Rutz.\n\nThere have been many accounts on social media of wildlife apparently making the most of our absence - moving freely through surprisingly urban settings. In some places though, the lack of human activity appears to have been detrimental - increases in poaching driven by poverty, and the absence of ecotourism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"No one's saying that humans should stay in lockdown permanently,\" added Prof Rutz.\n\n\"But what if we see major impacts of our changes in road use, for example? We could use that to make small changes to our transport network that could have major benefits.\"\n\nProf Jim Smith from the University of Portsmouth has been part of what might be considered the first anthropause study - a long-term investigation into the changes in the abandoned landscape around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant.\n\nChernobyl's wolves returned in the wake of the abandonment of the Exclusion Zone\n\n\"Just a few years after the evacuation of the Exclusion Zone, Belarussian and Ukrainian researchers found species associated with humans - like pigeons and rats - were disappearing, but wild animals - wild boar, deer and wolf - were multiplying,\" he said.\n\n\"Still abandoned more than 30 years later, the zone has become an iconic example of accidental rewilding.\"\n\n\"At great economic and human cost, Covid and Chernobyl forced us to push the pause button on our environmental damage,\" Prof Smith continued.\n\n\"Stopping some of those impacts altogether will be hard, but will be helped by what we can learn from these extreme events.\"\n\nProf Rutz and his team pointed out in their paper: \"Scientific knowledge gained during this devastating crisis will allow us to develop innovative strategies for sharing space on this increasingly crowded planet, with benefits for both wildlife and humans.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown", "Ceremonies can go ahead from 22 June, but must remain socially distanced\n\nA lockdown ban on weddings and civil partnerships in Wales will be lifted from Monday - but there will be no big celebrations allowed.\n\nThe announcement was added to new rules published by the Welsh Government.\n\nHowever, the ban on social gatherings remain, as do social distancing rules.\n\nInvited wedding guests can now also travel any distance to be at a ceremony - but services must be small enough to stay safe.\n\nIt comes as easing other restrictions in Wales mean non-essential shops will also reopen on Monday.\n\nThe new wedding measures follow calls from couples to marry, even if it means a ceremony with just witnesses and a registrar.\n\nIt prompted 22-year-old Elizabeth Facer and her fiancé Ian Choi, 22, from Cardiff to launch a petition after being forced to abandon their plans for a wedding with 300 guests.\n\n\"I think sometimes in society it's seen as a bit of a party, and that's one of the things that's difficult to communicate,\" explained Ms Facer.\n\n\"We're not asking for a party, we're asking to be able to get married.\"\n\nThe changes include a provision for travel outside of a local area to a venue to \"attend a solemnization of a marriage or formation of a civil partnership\".\n\nWeddings and civil partnership ceremonies can go ahead, but only in places of worship and register offices, and if they choose to open.\n\nThis means that other venues, such as hotels, cannot be used for these ceremonies.\n\nWhen it updated its coronavirus regulations last week, the Welsh government said all weddings and civil partnerships could now proceed, subject to social distancing.\n\nBut it has now clarified that this only applies to places of worship, such as churches and register offices.\n\nIt brings it into line with the rules on attending funerals, where the number of mourners has been severely restricted by venue sizes.\n\nThe change of heart on marriage and partnership ceremonies follows moves to relax other restrictions, including changes to allow private prayer in places of worship.\n\nIt will also mean sports such as tennis can be played for the first time since the covid restrictions were introduced in March.\n\nHowever, First Minister Mark Drakeford has asked the Welsh public to adhere to the stay local message for another two weeks.\n\nHe used the Welsh Government's daily briefing on Friday to state the movement rule would be lifted on 6 July, as long as cases of coronavirus continued to fall.", "The events were opened in Batley with a cake bake\n\nA weekend of nationwide events to honour murdered MP Jo Cox is under way.\n\nThe Great Get Together began in 2017 using the Batley and Spen MP's Commons speech that said we \"have far more in common than that which divides us\".\n\nThe fourth event has to be celebrated in a \"slightly different way\" because of the coronavirus social distancing rules, her sister Kim Leadbeater said.\n\nOlympic medalist, Tom Daley said: \"It's a perfect way to illustrate the power of community.\"\n\nMrs Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in Birstall on 16 June 2016. Thomas Mair was convicted of her murder later that year.\n\nMonday would have been Jo Cox's 46th birthday.\n\nThe event was set up to honour the message in Jo Cox's maiden speech\n\nThis weekend sees neighbours, friends, and community members gathering to celebrate what they have in common while complying with social distancing.\n\nThe events started with a bake off at Upper Batley High School in Ms Cox's former constituency.\n\nHer parents, Gordon and Jean Ledbeater, and Kim, took part in the judging.\n\nMr Daley features in a nine-hour community radio get-together on Sunday, at what is traditionally the biggest Great Get Together in Bankside, South London.\n\nKim Leadbeater pictured with Tom Daley before social distancing rules came into force, said those rule meant this year's events would be done differently\n\nThis year everybody can also take part in the Run for Jo on Sunday, wherever they live, to run or walk along your own chosen route, while observing social distancing.\n\nDue to coronavirus restrictions on visits in person the Muslim Council of Britain will instead bring the mosque to everybody with a series of virtual tours across the weekend.\n\nA virtual service with people of many faiths and beliefs took place on Saturday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n• None Great Get Together 'doing Jo proud'\n• None The Great Get Together – Jo Cox Foundation The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Friends have paid an emotional tribute to Joe Ritchie-Bennett, James Furlong and David Wails who died after a stabbing attack in Reading on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, police continue to question the suspect, Khairi Saadallah, who was arrested shortly after the incident under the Terrorism Act.", "Tim Cook said it was a \"historic day for the Mac\"\n\nApple has confirmed it will transition its Mac laptop and desktop computers to its own ARM-based processors.\n\nThe move means that Macs will run on the same type of chips as the firm's iPhones and iPads, rather than Intel's.\n\nIntel had faced problems manufacturing its own designs, leading it to issue a public apology to computer-makers.\n\nApple's challenge will be to carry off the transition smoothly and convince third-party developers to update their apps accordingly.\n\n\"We expect to ship our first Mac with Apple silicon by the end of the year,\" said chief executive Tim Cook, adding that it would likely be two years before its full product line had made the jump.\n\nThe firm said the move would allow it to offer new features and improved performance as well as making it easier for developers to \"write and optimise software for the entire Apple ecosystem\".\n\nThe announcement was made at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).\n\n\"Apple's motivations for doing this include reducing its dependence on Intel, maximizing its silicon investment, boosting performance and giving itself more flexibility and agility when it comes to future products,\" commented Geoff Blaber from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"Embracing ARM and making its hardware more consistent across the iPhone, iPad and Mac ranges is a strategic necessity, but there will be inevitable bumps along the road.\"\n\nMacOS was shown running on the current iPad Pro chip, but the new computers will have processors of their own\n\nApple said it had already developed native versions of several of its own apps, including Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro. iPhone and iPad apps will also be able to be run on the computers.\n\nApple said that Microsoft was working on an optimised version of Office, and Adobe was developing a version of Photoshop.\n\nOther developers should be able to recompile their apps to get a version running \"in just a matter of days,\" said the company's software chief Craig Federighi. He added that old apps would automatically be translated at point of installation to run, although they would not work as well.\n\nTo mark the significance of the move, MacOS will move to version 11. Since 2001, it had only moved from 10.0 to 10.15.\n\nApple successfully made the switch from IBM-Motorola's PowerPC processors to Intel's x86 family in 2006.\n\nHowever, some software was never updated and cannot easily be run on today's Mac computers. Apple dropped support for running older software under emulation in the 2011 release of its Mac operating system.\n\nMicrosoft already allows Windows 10 to be run on both Intel and ARM-based processors and looks set to continue supporting both chip architectures.\n\nApple has not stated how long it will do the same.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian Fogg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs a result, some people considering buying one of its laptop or desktop computers may decide to postpone a purchase until its first ARM-based computers go on sale.\n\nThis could hit sales both at Apple and the development studios that make software for the platform.\n\nARM-based chips are based on the designs of the UK-based company, which is headquartered in Cambridge. Other companies then adapt these to add capabilities of their own.\n\nSamsung, Qualcomm and Huawei are among the many other companies to do so.\n\nApple is the fourth-largest PC vendor, according to market research firm Gartner, coming behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell.\n\nThe company has said that it has more than 100 million active Mac users. Back in June 2005, when it first announced the move to Intel chips, the figure was about 12.5 million.\n\n\"Apple is approximately 4.5% of the laptop market and 2.6% of the desktop market, so the financial impact to Intel will not be significant,\" commented Gartner's Jon Erensen.\n\n\"However, this transition... could give momentum to Microsoft's current efforts to run Windows on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors.\"\n\nThe new version of MacOS, \"Big Sur\", was shown off with design tweaks\n\nExisting Mac owners will see changes to the next MacOS operating system - called Big Sur - which Apple said marked its biggest redesign to date.\n\nThe best way to describe a processor is the brain of the computer.\n\nHardly surprising then that the processor in your computer is kind of important. Changing it is no small thing - and Apple hasn't decided this lightly.\n\nThe big question though - and the one that if you're reading this you're probably more interested in - is what will this do for Macs in general?\n\nThe prevailing view in Silicon Valley is moving to Apple silicon will make for more powerful Macs.\n\nBringing it in-house could create cheaper processors - so in theory you could have cheaper Macs (that's if Apple wanted to pass on savings to the consumer).\n\nThe first is that Apple still has Intel-based Macs yet to come out. Will people simply wait for Apple's new processor to go live before choosing to buy a new computer?\n\nAnd - considering how well Mac products sell there will be a nervousness about changing a formula that has worked very well for Apple for the last 15 years.\n\nOther announcements at WWDC included the ability to use an iPhone as a substitute for a car key by transmitting an NFC (near-field communication) signal to unlock doors and start the engine.\n\nThis will initially be limited to some new BMWs, but the firm said it intended to expand to other models in time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the biggest changes to the iPhone's iOS14 operating system will be a shake-up of the home screen.\n\nApps can now be automatically organised into folders containing:\n\nIn addition, the firm is updating its \"widgets\" - blocks that display a stripped-down, small app window - so that they can be placed among the icons for other programs. Examples included weather forecasts, news briefings, and calendar meetings. Android already has something similar.\n\nAnother Android-like new feature is the introduction of App Clips, which allow part of a program to be downloaded quickly. These must be less than 10 megabytes in size and will be able to be triggered via an NFC-transmission or by scanning a QR code.\n\nSuggested uses included the ability to order a drink in a cafe or to pay for a car-parking space.\n\n\"App Clips\" are lightweight apps that can be launched easily, without installing, for immediate functionality\n\nApple is also releasing a new app called Translate that carries out language translations offline, offering an alternative to Google Translate.\n\nIt will support 11 languages to begin with including English, Mandarin, French, German, and Arabic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wayne Lam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the first time, users will be able to set third-party email and web browser apps as the default in iOS, rather than Apple's own software.\n\nThe UK and Ireland will be among countries given access to an overhauled version of its Maps app, which provides more detailed views of roads and paths than before - as well as new cycling directions and routes for electric cars that pass charging stations.\n\nAnd its MeMoji cartoon-like characters now feature new styling options, including the addition of protective face masks.\n\nApple's tablet operating system iPadOS will also benefit from several enhancements to its Pencil stylus.\n\nThe next version of WatchOS adds sleep-tracking functionality to the firm's smartwatch - which will be based on a user's movements in bed.\n\nIt also adds the ability to determine when the owner is washing their hands, in order to confirm whether they have done so for long enough to help protect against Covid-19.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition, the wearable will allow third-party \"curated\" watch faces to be shared and installed. The Activity app - which is now renamed Fitness - will track calories used for various dance styles.\n\nApple Watch receives new customisation options - and the ability to share customised watch faces\n\nApple's AirPod Pro earphones will gain spatial audio to recreate a cinema-style surround sound experience. They will also automatically switch between a user's Apple devices as the owner moves from one to another.\n\nAnd the firm's Apple TV set-top box will soon allow compatible third-party video doorbells to live-stream footage of visitors to television screens, while iOS 14 will make it possible to use facial recognition to identify them.\n\nThe company said Homekit-compatible security cameras will now offer facial recognition when viewed on an Apple TV\n\nThis will only work with members of the owner's family and friends, who need to be tagged in advance.\n\nIt has also emerged that Apple TV's YouTube app will play clips in 4K for the first time, ending a stand-off with Google over the video-encoding technology involved.", "The UK has recorded its lowest number of daily confirmed coronavirus cases - 958 - since the lockdown began.\n\nThe number of daily virus deaths also fell to 15, the lowest figure since 15 March, the day before the government began its daily televised briefings.\n\nHowever, the number of deaths announced are often lower on Mondays due to reporting lags over the weekend.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to confirm further easing of lockdown rules in England on Tuesday.\n\nThe new government figures on Monday show that for the first time both the number of deaths and the number of positive tests are back at pre-lockdown levels.\n\nOn 23 March, when the UK went into lockdown, 967 cases were recorded. And that was before testing was massively ramped up - with tests now available to anyone with symptoms.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock also revealed a third piece of positive news - that the number of people currently being treated in hospital for coronavirus has dropped below 5,000. At its peak, on 12 April, the number of patients in hospital was 20,699.\n\nMr Hancock said the figures were \"pointing in the right direction\", adding: \"The plan is working.\"\n\n\"Infections are falling, the NHS is restoring and the virus is in retreat,\" he said.\n\n\"A month ago around one in 400 people had the virus, now it's about one in 1,700 - and this means that tomorrow the prime minister will be able to set out the next steps in our plan to ease the national lockdown.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers downgraded the coronavirus alert level from four to three last Friday - days after non-essential shops in England were allowed to reopen.\n\nUnder level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nFace coverings on public transport became compulsory in Scotland on Monday, a week after the rule was introduced in England\n\nOn Tuesday, Boris Johnson is expected to announce if the hospitality sector can reopen on 4 July.\n\nIt is also expected that the 2m distancing rule in England will be relaxed - to 1m - with some mitigating measures.\n\nBut No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a surge in cases.\n\nNon-essential stores re-opened in Wales on Monday, and in Scotland, dental practices and places of worship have been allowed to operate again.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the executive has said groups of up to six people can meet indoors from Tuesday.\n\nAcross the nations in the past 24 hours, there were no deaths from coronavirus in Scotland or Northern Ireland, and only one in Wales.\n\nThe official total number of deaths in the UK from coronavirus, among those who tested positive, stands at 42,647, across all settings.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friend Michael Main said the victims \"were always happy\"\n\nTributes have been paid to three \"true gentlemen\" stabbed to death in a park in Reading.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were regular customers at a pub near Forbury Gardens, where Saturday's attack took place.\n\nLocal residents held silences and laid flowers around the town for the trio.\n\nPolice continue to question suspect Khairi Saadallah, 25, who came to the UK from Libya in 2012. He was arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nMr Saadallah originally claimed asylum and was given leave to remain in 2018, the BBC's Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said.\n\nHe came to the attention of MI5 last year as someone who might travel overseas, possibly for terrorism purposes, but they assessed that he was not a genuine threat or an immediate risk.\n\nA close member of his family told the BBC that he left Libya to escape the violence there, and that he had suffered from post-traumatic stress from the civil war. However, he had been thinking of trying to return.\n\nThey said his long-standing mental health problems had been exacerbated by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nNeighbours said Mr Saadallah threw a TV from his top-floor flat this year and had a mental health key worker.\n\nIn a statement, his brother, Aiman Saadallah, said: \"We are all shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless attack.\n\n\"I want to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery for all those injured.\"\n\nSpeaking in the Commons shortly after a minute's silence was held in Parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to the three victims, describing the attack as an \"act of cowardice\".\n\nOn Monday, mourners gathered for a one-minute silence outside the Blagrave Arms pub in Reading town centre, where Somewhere Over The Rainbow was played. A tribute on the door said management and staff were \"devastated\".\n\n\"Our friends were the kindest, most genuine, and most loveliest people in our community that we had the the pleasure of knowing,\" the note said.\n\nFlowers and tributes were laid outside the Blagrave Arms, near Forbury Gardens\n\nJamie Wake, a friend of the victims, called the pub a \"safe space\" for members of the LGBT+ community.\n\n\"We become so used to seeing incidents like this on the television,\" he said.\n\n\"This time, we cannot change the channel. This time, it's on our doorstep.\"\n\nPolice were called to Reading's Forbury Gardens at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWitnesses say a lone attacker with a knife shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nThree other people who were injured in the attack have since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nMartin Cooper, a friend of the three men who were killed and the chief executive of LGBT+ charity Reading Pride, described them as \"true gentlemen\".\n\n\"They were a support network for individuals, and I know they will be sorely missed by many,\" he said.\n\nMr Wails, a 49-year-old scientist, was the last victim to be named.\n\nHis parents said he was a \"kind and much loved son, brother and uncle who never hurt anyone in his life\".\n\n\"We are broken-hearted at losing him and in such a terrible way,\" they said.\n\nFriend Michael Main said he \"always made people smile\".\n\n\"We'd have a lot of banter... it's sad to know he's gone so early,\" he added.\n\nMr Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was originally from Philadelphia but had lived in the UK for 15 years, his father confirmed to US TV network CBS.\n\nRobert Ritchie said in a statement: \"I was absolutely blessed and proud to be Joe's father for 39 years and we are heartbroken by what has happened.\"\n\nHis brother-in-law, Stephen Bennett, and sister-in-law, Katy Bennett, said he was \"the most kind, caring and loving person that you could meet\" and they were \"absolutely devastated\" by his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker said Mr Ritchie-Bennett had been married to her close friend, Ian, who died from cancer nearly six years ago.\n\nShe described him as a \"fantastic human being\" who was \"outrageously funny\".\n\n\"He was one of those unique people who on one hand could make you properly belly laugh, but, at the same time, he could show you such extraordinary kindness,\" she said.\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was a teacher and head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHis parents Gary and Janet described their son as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".\n\nJames Furlong was described as an \"inspirational\" teacher\n\nOne of Mr Furlong's former pupils, Molly Collins, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was a \"passionate and enthusiastic\" teacher who dedicated extra time to helping students progress.\n\nMore than 100 students, some holding hands, gathered at the gates of The Holt School for a two-minute silence on Monday morning, while a flag in the courtyard was lowered to half-mast.\n\nIn an open letter, former pupils and parents have asked for the school's humanities block to be renamed in Mr Furlong's memory.\n\nJackie James, a former landlady of another pub in Reading and a friend of Mr Ritchie-Bennett and Mr Furlong, said they were \"shining examples of all that is good in this world\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils and staff at The Holt School, Wokingham paid tribute to James Furlong\n\nThe suspect, Mr Saadallah, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nCounter terror police, who are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident, have said they are \"keeping an open mind as to the motive for this attack\".\n\nThey are continuing to appeal for information - and asked any drivers with relevant dashcam footage to come forward.\n\nAfter visiting Reading to lay flowers on Monday morning, Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs the threat posed by lone attackers was \"growing\".\n\nShe thanked those who responded to the incident, including student police officers - noting that a \"young, unarmed\" officer \"took down the suspect without hesitation\" while another carried out first aid.\n\n\"They showed courage, bravery and selflessness way beyond their years,\" she said.\n\nThe head of counter terrorism policing, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, said he was proud of those who assisted the victims of Saturday's attack, describing them as \"heroes\" who have inspired others to \"step forward and play our part\".\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"heartbreaking that we are having this conversation again so soon\" after attacks at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge in November and in Streatham in February - adding that the public \"will want answers\".\n\nHe previously said that with the Ministry of Justice's budget having been cut by 40% over 10 years, the government needed to reconsider the resources available for de-radicalisation programmes in prisons, as well as monitoring, supervision and risk assessment of released prisoners.", "‘Communities defeat terrorism. We must come together as one’\n\nAn increased police presence will be seen across Reading over the next few days, the town’s local policing area commander has said. Supt Nicholas John said residents should not be alarmed if cordons remain in place, though many have already come down. He said the town’s response and community spirit had been “very moving” since the attack. Supt John said: “It is now more important than ever that everyone plays their part in tackling terrorism. “Communities defeat terrorism. In times of adversity we must come together as one community as the co-operation between each other is our most powerful defence. “I am proud to be part of the diverse Reading community and we will together stand up against those who aim to divide us.” Cordons remain in place near Forbury Gardens, including Town Hall Square, Blagrave Street, Forbury Road and The Forbury.", "During the final Democratic primary debate in March, Joe Biden pledged that if he were to win the party's presidential nomination, he would choose a woman as his running mate.\n\nA lot has happened since then, not the least of which is Biden securing the required Democratic Convention delegates to become his party's presumptive nominee. Even before that point, however, speculation swirled around a dozen or so contenders to be Biden's running mate.\n\nBuzz around the various candidates has risen and fallen as the nation has been buffeted by a viral pandemic, economic disruption and mass protests and racial tension.\n\nIf the former vice-president follows through with his pledge, it would mark only the third time a major party has selected a woman for the number two spot - four years after Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be a presidential nominee.\n\nThe move would suggest the Democrats are looking to secure the advantage they have among female voters according to polls, and perhaps insulate Biden from allegations that he engaged in unwanted physical contact with women.\n\nBiden has said he will announce his choice in early August. In the meantime, here are the current top contenders - and how they stack up.\n\nKamala Harris is widely considered the front-runner. She has a resume that includes time in the US Senate and as California's attorney general, as well as San Francisco's district attorney. She has a diverse background, with a mother from India and father from Jamaica. She's at least been somewhat vetted by the national media, given that she ran for president last year and was considered, for a time, as a top-tier candidate.\n\nShe did have a dust-up with Biden in the first primary debate last June, where she suggested his past views against desegregating schools through mandatory busing was hurtful, but that was a lifetime ago in modern US politics.\n\nHarris brings access to California money (she raised $2m for Biden in a recent virtual event), she's quick on her feet, and she would satisfy those who are calling for Biden to add a black woman to the ticket. She has won praise from a wide range of Democrats for being an outspoken advocate for police reform during the recent mass demonstrations. Biden-Harris felt like the obvious ticket a year ago - and it still does.\n\nSusan Rice is a bit of a surprise entry on this list, given that she has no experience holding elected office or campaigning in general, and is a relative unknown for most Americans. The diplomat is well-known to Biden, however, as she served in the Obama White House with him as national security adviser after a stint as the US representative to the United Nations.\n\nIf Rice is the pick, she could play a key role in a Biden foreign policy team, suggesting that international relations will be a focus for his administration.\n\nRice was a lightning rod for criticism during her Obama years, however. Republicans accused her of deceiving the American public about the reasons behind the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the death of the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.\n\nRice has recently emerged as one of the front-runners for the spot, along with Kamala Harris. If she ends up as Biden's pick, it could indicate that he's more interested in having a loyal and knowledgeable second-in-command than in anointing a political heir.\n\nJust a few months ago, there wasn't a lot of buzz around Gretchen Whitmer, a former state legislator in her second year as Michigan's governor. Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and she became the face of her state's response, which included occasional criticism of what she viewed as the federal government's lacklustre handling of the outbreak. That made her a target for Donald Trump's vitriol - and elevated her national profile.\n\nHer decision to enact sweeping social distancing and business-shutdown measures as Michigan became one of the top US hotspots of the coronavirus outbreak also led to several angry conservative-organised protests in her state, boosting her standing among Democrats.\n\nIn 2016 Hillary Clinton narrowly lost Michigan to Donald Trump - one of the upsets that helped decide the election. If Biden hopes to avoid a similar outcome, he might decide to put a Michigan native on the ticket.\n\nTammy Duckworth, the junior senator from Illinois, has a CV that jumps off the page. She lost both her legs when the Army helicopter she was piloting was shot down by insurgents in Iraq. She stayed in the military and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel, before becoming an assistant secretary in President Barack Obama's Department of Veteran Affairs.\n\nDuckworth served in the House of Representatives and then won her Senate seat in 2016. She is the first Thai-American woman elected to Congress, as well as the first double-amputee woman. In 2018 she became the first woman to give birth while serving in the Senate.\n\nIllinois is a safe Democratic state, but its proximity to key Midwest battlegrounds - as well as her middle-of-the-road politics - could make her an attractive pick for Biden.\n\nElizabeth Warren's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is a story of what might have been. Her \"I have a plan for that\" mantra seemed to strike a chord with Democrats, and she led the polls for months in mid-2019, drawing enthusiastic crowds and cruising through the early debates with seeming ease. Then her support faded, as many progressives drifted back to Bernie Sanders, while moderates opted for younger candidates like Pete Buttigieg.\n\nMany progressives expected her to endorse Sanders when she dropped out of the race in early March, so her decision to hold back may have earned her some appreciation from the Biden team.\n\nNow they have the opportunity to return the favour by offering Warren the running-mate spot. While there was some friction between the Sanders and Warren camps, Warren would still be a significant signal that Biden wants to reach out to his party's left wing - and govern as more of a progressive than he let on during the campaign.\n\nWith the nation facing a serious economic crisis, Warren could lend some liberal policy heft to the Democratic ticket.\n\nKaren Bass was a late addition to Biden's vice-presidential contender list. With numerous senators and governors under consideration, a soft-spoken five-term congresswoman from California was not an obvious choice for the position. The death of George Floyd and the subsequent national protest movement, however, has elevated concerns about institutional racism and policing - and increased pressure on Biden to pick an African-American woman for the number-two spot.\n\nThat's when talk of Bass, the head of the Congressional Black Caucus and former speaker of California's state assembly, began to circulate - and, unlike some little-known contenders whose prospects have peaked and then subsided, she's stayed in the mix as a safe, broadly acceptable choice. Perhaps the biggest cause for concern among some Democrats is prior positive comments Bass made about the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, which could hurt Biden's chances with the anti-communist Cuban vote in swing-state Florida.\n\nIf Biden wants to bring diversity to his ticket without having a flashy running mate who upstages him on the campaign trail or is angling for the presidency (i.e., not Kamala Harris), 66-year-old Bass might be the answer.\n\nFour years ago, Hillary Clinton was lambasted for never campaigning in Wisconsin during the general election, then losing the pivotal state to Donald Trump as her Midwest Democratic \"blue wall\" crumbled. Democrats have pledged not to repeat that mistake, going so far as to pick Milwaukee as the site of their (now entirely virtual) national convention.\n\nIf Biden wants to lean into the whole \"don't ignore Wisconsin\" theme, he couldn't do much better than to pick an actual Wisconsinite as his running mate. Tammy Baldwin is in her second term as one of the state's senators, having served in the House of Representatives for 14 years prior to that.\n\nHer selection would also be historic, as she would become the first openly gay person to serve on a major party's ticket - just as she became the first openly gay member of the Senate. In a season where Pete Buttigieg, who is also gay, proved to be a potent electoral force in Democratic politics, there may be particular appeal for such a move.\n\nThere's a line of thought among Democrats that this election's Wisconsin is not, in fact, Wisconsin, it's Arizona. The desert state, they say, will be the \"tipping point\" that delivers the election to Biden, freeing him from worrying about fickle Wisconsin voters. Polls suggest Biden's brand of political moderation, combined with Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric on immigration, have the state leaning toward the Democrats. One strategy for securing that lead would be to put an Arizonan on the ticket.\n\nIn 2018, Kyrsten Sinema became the first Democrat to win an Arizona Senate seat in 30 years. She's young, telegenic and politically centrist - perhaps too centrist, according to the party's left-wing activists.\n\nShe is a bit quirky - turning heads recently when she wore a purple wig on the floor of the Senate. It could present a beneficial contrast with the often staid Biden.\n\nIf Biden picks her as his running mate, she would make history as the first openly bisexual person on a presidential ticket.\n\nLast year, Val Demings was a little-known Democratic back-bencher in Congress. Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her a high-visibility role as one of the impeachment managers - the congressional equivalent of prosecutors - during Donald Trump's January Senate trial.\n\nEven before the mass protests over the death of George Floyd made racial justice a top issue among voters, the black former chief-of-police from Orlando, Florida, was on the Biden team's radar as a possible vice-presidential pick. Now she's getting more than just a passing mention.\n\nCutting against her is her relative lack of political experience and low name recognition. But if Biden feels she can hold up under the intense scrutiny of being on a national ticket, she could be the woman for this particular national moment - and a signal that Biden is serious about making tackling racism and police reform his top issues.\n\nDuring the primaries, Hispanics were consistently one of Biden's weakest voting blocs. In states like California, Texas and Nevada, liberal champion Bernie Sanders outpaced Biden among a demographic that is well represented in numerous states that will be battlegrounds in the November general election.\n\nIf Biden decides he needs to shore up his support among one of the fastest-growing segments of the US electorate, New Mexico's first-term governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is the most obvious choice for a running mate now that Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has said she's not interested.\n\nUnlike Masto's Nevada, New Mexico is a reliable Democratic state in presidential races, with few electoral votes. Lujan was comfortably elected governor after Republicans held the office for two terms, however. The 60-year-old Lujan previously served in Congress and as her state's health secretary - a helpful CV entry in the pandemic age.\n\nStacey Abrams doesn't have much of a traditional political CV for a vice-presidential pick. She spent 10 years as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. She ran and narrowly lost the 2018 race to be the state's governor - a defeat she attributed, in part, to what she alleges was voter suppression by her Republican opponent.\n\nWhat Abrams has, however, is a voice that has resonated powerfully with much of the Democratic base. Her activism on voting rights has helped boost it as an issue for the party. She gave the Democratic response to Donald Trump's 2019 State of the Union Address, making her the first black woman chosen for the task.\n\nUnlike her rivals, Abrams has actively campaigned to be Biden's vice-presidential pick - a move that has elicited cringes from some, while others see it as refreshing honesty. Abrams is a rising star within the party, the face of a demographic segment of the Democratic Party that has traditionally been underrepresented in leadership positions. Even if she doesn't become the pick, the early buzz around her has helped advance the prospects of all the black women under Biden's consideration.\n\nThe nationwide protests over George Floyd's death while in the custody of Minneapolis police gave a handful of big-city mayors a national platform, as they dealt with difficult issues of racism, law enforcement and civil unrest in their jurisdictions. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, in particular, proved particularly adept at balancing official responsibilities while expressing her personal experiences as a black woman raising four children in these turbulent times.\n\nA heartfelt Vice interview, in which she explained the challenge of having to tell her 12-year-old son not to play with toy guns lest he provoke an incident with police, was praised as both raw and powerful.\n\nA first-term mayor would be an unconventional pick for Biden, but Bottoms is from Georgia - a traditionally conservative state that is trending toward being an electoral battleground. She's also won praise from Democrats for waging political battles with the state's Republican governor over when and how to ease business closures and shelter-in-place orders during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIn early July, Bottoms announced that she and her family had tested positive for Covid-19, although they had minimal symptoms. They have since fully recovered.\n\nThe traditional first rule for selecting a vice-president is to do no harm. Given that the choice doesn't offer much of a boost to the ticket, the theory goes, it is better to pick someone safe, who minimises the risk of embarrassment and won't overshadow the presidential nominee.\n\nMost of the other candidates on this list fall somewhere on the \"very safe\" to \"mostly safe\" spectrum. Former US First Lady Michelle Obama is in a category by herself.\n\nShe's beloved by a large swathe of the American public and is a near universally recognisable figure. Yes, she might steal the stage from Biden, but what better way for Biden to cast himself as the continuation of Obama's presidential legacy than to put his wife on the ticket?\n\nA Biden-Obama ticket would electrify the Democratic base - particularly black voters who turned out in record numbers for Obama-Biden in 2008 and 2012.\n\nThe only kink in such a bold plan is that Michelle Obama has shown less than zero interest in entering politics. In her autobiography she frequently complained about the toll her husband's political career took on her life and marriage - and she seems very happy to have those travails in the rear-view mirror.", "Joshua Flynn, 37, and his son Coby-Jay, 15, and daughter Skylar, 12, died when they were struck by a car\n\nA father and his two children who were killed in a crash while out walking their dog have been named.\n\nJoshua Flynn, 37, son Coby-Jay, 15, and daughter Skylar, 12, were struck by a car on Abbey Road in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, on Sunday.\n\nOne local resident described it as a \"terrible, terrible thing\".\n\nA 47-year-old local man has been arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving and three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nThe family's dog Troy was also killed in the crash, which happened at about 14:30 BST.\n\nFloral tributes have been left near the scene\n\nOne woman, who lives nearby, said: \"There's an intense sadness.\n\n\"It's horrific and it just feels heavy. We're in disbelief.\n\n\"Whenever something like that happened it would be awful, but I think the fact it was Father's Day just multiplied everything.\"\n\nThe vicar of nearby St Mary's Church said it would be open for private prayer.\n\n\"Everybody obviously will be in real shock and there'll be a lot of sadness and a lot of questions of why this has happened,\" the Rev Ruth Crossley said.\n\nA spokesman for Cumbria Police urged witnesses, or anyone who saw the car - a Peugeot - in the area to contact the force.\n\nThe three were pronounced dead at the scene\n• None Driver held after three pedestrians die in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police reinforcements have been sent to maintain a coronavirus quarantine on a tower block in the German city of Göttingen after violence on Saturday.\n\nSeven-hundred people were placed in quarantine, but about 200 who attempted to get out clashed with police.\n\nResidents - now fenced off - attacked police with fireworks, bottles and metal bars, officials said.\n\nThe quarantine was imposed on Thursday, after two residents tested positive, then more tests showed 102 infections.\n\nAt that point the infection rate there had risen to a critical level of 44.8 per 100,000 inhabitants across seven days - the national threshold for containment of the virus is 50 new infections per 100,000.\n\nLocal authorities in Germany have flexibility to impose rules for their area, which differ regionally.\n\nBy Friday, 120 people were found to be infected. Most residents have been complying with the quarantine.\n\nEight police officers were injured in Saturday's violence and a suspect was detained, but released after questioning.\n\nThe Göttingen tower block where all residents are in quarantine\n\nAnyone within the block who tests negative has to have a further test. If that is also negative, they will be allowed to leave the block, but under certain conditions, such as wearing a mask.\n\nLocal officials cited communication problems, with many of the residents not understanding the need for a second test.\n\nTranslators have been used and information in German and Romanian is now being texted to those who need it, German media report.\n\nGöttingen officials say there is overcrowding among the block's poor residents: the flats are only 19 to 39 sq m (205 to 420 sq ft) in size and some families have four children.\n\nIn another development, Germany's reproduction (R) number has risen to 2.88 - the number of people who someone with Covid-19 could infect. A number below one is seen as necessary to contain the spread of the disease.\n\nThe Robert Koch Institute issued the data based on a four-day average. The seven-day average came up with a lower figure of 2.03.\n\nThe institute cited isolated outbreaks, such as the Tönnies meat processing plant in Gütersloh district, North Rhine-Westphalia, for the rise.\n\nSo far there is no sign that Germany is seeing a second wave of Covid-19, the BBC's Damien McGuinness reports from Berlin. As Germany's overall infection rate is low, these sudden local outbreaks have a big impact on the national R number.\n\nIn the past week, 140 local authorities have seen no new cases at all.\n\nGermany is generally considered to have done a good job containing the virus, thanks to widespread testing. The latest confirmed figures show 189,949 people testing positive, and 8,889 deaths - significantly lower than similar sized European neighbours.\n\nThe localised outbreaks - such as the Göttingen apartments and Tönnies - have been contained so far and have been attributed to poor living and working conditions.\n\nBecause of the Tönnies case the Gütersloh area has risen above 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over seven days - over the limit set by the German authorities to contain the virus.\n\nWork has been suspended at the Tönnies plant\n\nCovid-19 cases have continued to rise at the Tönnies slaughterhouse.\n\nThe number of positive tests linked to the plant in western Germany has risen to 1,331 - more than 20% of the workforce. The Gütersloh authorities told the 6,500 employees and their families to go into quarantine last week.\n\nThe prime minister of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, warned of \"an enormous risk of pandemic\", while conceding that the outbreak was currently confined to Tönnies and could still be dealt with through a targeted lockdown.\n\nGerman slaughterhouses employ many foreign workers, and the local authorities are trying to arrange Polish, Bulgarian and Romanian translators to explain the need for restrictions.\n\nThe outbreak there has fuelled calls in Germany for improving working conditions at slaughterhouses, as Covid-19 infections have also occurred at other meat plants.", "Efforts to increase the number of black managers at British companies have stalled, according to a business group.\n\nJust 1.5% of top bosses at UK companies are black.\n\nThat compares to 3% of the population of England and Wales.\n\nWhile the ratio is an improvement on the 1.4% of 2014, there is much ground still to cover, said Sandra Kerr, race director at Business in the Community, which has campaigned for workplace racial equality for 25 years.\n\n\"It is clear that black people continue to be under-represented at a senior level,\" she said.\n\n\"Black livelihoods matter and employers need to take urgent action to ensure that their organisation is inclusive and a place where people of any ethnic background can thrive and succeed.\"\n\nThe new figures coincide with the 72nd anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush, which brought workers from the Caribbean to the UK.\n\nEmployers should make their companies welcoming to black workers, said Sandra Kerr, race director at Business in the Community\n\nThey also come amid global protests over racial inequality and as some older British companies come to terms with their historical links with the slave trade.\n\nPub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London apologised for those ties last week.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean.\n\nMeanwhile, maritime insurance - which was focused on Lloyd's - thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.\n\nLloyd's has said it will donate to charities representing black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups.\n\nGreene King said it would make a \"substantial investment to benefit the BAME community\".\n\nIn March, a report from the Carnegie Trust, University College London's Centre for Longitudinal Studies and Operation Black Vote said young BAME members are 47% more likely to to be on a zero-hours contract.\n\nThe researchers compared the experiences of 25-year-olds in England.\n\nThey looked at people who are white, as well mixed-race, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Black African and Caribbean, and other minority ethnicities, sometimes collectively known as BAME workers.\n\nThat report followed research from February that about a third of FTSE 100 firms have no ethnic minority board members.", "Avon and Somerset Police said it wanted the public to help identify several people\n\nPolice have released images of people they want to speak to as part of an investigation into criminal damage to the Edward Colston statue in Bristol.\n\nThe slave trader's effigy was torn down and thrown into the harbour during an anti-racism protest earlier this month.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it wanted the public to help identify 15 people.\n\nDet Supt Liz Hughes said \"in the eyes of the law\" a crime had been committed and the force was \"duty-bound to investigate without fear or favour\".\n\nShe added the incident attracted worldwide attention and there was \"no denying it has polarised public opinion\".\n\nPolice said a \"large amount\" of footage and photographs of the incident has been examined\n\n\"I'd like to reassure people we're carrying out a thorough, fair and proportionate investigation and have sought early investigative advice from the Crown Prosecution Service.\"\n\nShe added a \"large amount\" of footage and photographs of the incident, and CCTV footage from the area, had been examined, and 18 people had been isolated.\n\n\"We've carried out a number of enquiries to try and establish who these people are, in the hope we wouldn't need to release their images into the public domain and have managed to identify a small number who we're making arrangements with to get their account of events.\n\n\"However, despite every effort being made to identify the remaining people we'd like to talk to, we still don't know who they are which is why we're now releasing images of them in the hope the public can help.\"\n\nDet Supt Liz Hughes said police were \"confident someone will know them and be able to provide us with their name\"\n\nShe said some of the images were \"not as clear as we'd like\" and the fact some of the people were wearing masks further hindered their inquiry.\n\n\"But we're confident someone will know them and be able to provide us with their name.\"\n\nThe statue was pulled from its plinth in the city centre and rolled into the harbour at about 14:30 BST on 7 June during a Black Lives Matter demonstration.\n\nIt was later recovered from the water and is expected to be given a new home in a city museum.\n\nThe statue was pulled from its plinth on 7 June\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Following the announced changes to the coronavirus shielding programme, a charity boss has called on the government to ensure people are not forced to choose between protecting their health and making ends meet.\n\nLynda Thomas, Chief Executive at Macmillan Cancer Support said the easing was \"welcome news\" for some, but others may be left \"incredibly anxious about what's to come\".\n\n\"It’s positive that the government have clarified how people can continue to access essential food, medicines, healthcare and financial support, however people need to be reassured that these systems will work,\" Ms Thomas said.\n\nShe called on the government to make sure there were \"no gaps in the support available\" for the vulnerable group, and officials should also ensure employers \"met their legal obligations\" to support former shielding employees had a safe return to work.\n\nMs Thomas continued: \"Those who are unable to work safely should be able to continue to access support from the Government’s Job Retention Scheme, whether they have been furloughed before or not.\"", "Tony Hudgell was inspired to take on the 10km challenge after watching Captain Tom Moore\n\nA five-year-old boy who had to have both legs amputated has raised over £1m for the hospital that saved his life.\n\nTony Hudgell, from Kings Hill in Kent, needed the surgery because of abuse by his birth parents when he was a baby.\n\nHe set out to raise £500 by walking every day in June, but now has raised £1,014,348 including offline donations and gift aid, the Evelina London Children's Hospital has confirmed.\n\nShe said: \"I'm speechless. It doesn't feel real.\"\n\n\"He overcomes every obstacle\", Tony's mum Paula says\n\nInspired by Captain Tom Moore, Tony set a target of walking 10km in a month.\n\n\"We're up to 8.3km and may go over if there are days when he wants to do extra walking,\" Mrs Hudgell said.\n\n\"He knows it's a huge amount of money and he's going to be extremely proud and chuffed.\"\n\nMrs Hudgell said Tony had walked more than 800m on Saturday, having set a daily target of 300m\n\nCaroline Gormley, associate director of fundraising at Evelina London, said: \"We are completely blown away by the generosity of those giving money to support Tony's incredible fundraising challenge.\n\n\"It has been truly inspiring following Tony's journey and seeing his confidence grow as the month has gone on.\n\n\"He is an absolute star and it's wonderful to know that the money he has raised will help children like Tony and their families.\"\n\nMrs Hudgell added: \"This was set up to improve his walking, which would give us an idea if prosthetics were a solution, which we've seen they are.\n\n\"His walking has improved immeasurably during the challenge.\n\n\"Yesterday he even went running.\"\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson will announce his plans in Parliament on Tuesday\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce on Tuesday if the hospitality sector can reopen on 4 July, and that the 2m distancing rule in England will be relaxed, with some conditions.\n\nNon-essential shops have reopened in England already, with retail resuming in Wales from today.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said England is \"clearly on track\" to further ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a virus surge.\n\nThe PM discussed England's approach to the changes with the Covid-19 Strategy Committee on Monday, ahead of an announcement in Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson is also expected to announce a reduction in the 2m social distancing rule to 1m, with some mitigating measures.\n\nThe change to the rule, which follows a government review, is expected to come into effect on 4 July.\n\nMinisters are also expected to bring forward legislation this week aiming to help businesses cope with social distancing requirements.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the Business and Planning Bill would help firms \"adjust to new ways of working, and help them capitalise on the summer months\".\n\nLabour MPs have called for ministers to be transparent on the findings of the 2m rule review.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has said the party's support would depend on mitigations being introduced on face-shielding, and testing and tracing.\n\nEarlier Security Minister James Brokenshire said the 2m rule review would be informed by scientific evidence but also \"experience around the world as well\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was also important to recognise the importance of other factors on safety, such as whether people are indoors or outside, or whether they are wearing face coverings.\n\nHe added that the review would also take into account the latest understanding of how the virus is transmitted, which \"has evolved over the last number of weeks\".\n\nMr Hancock has suggested that customers may have to register when entering pubs and bars so they can easily be traced if they come into contact with a coronavirus case.\n\nAsked on Sunday about plans for registration and ordering drinks through smartphone apps, he said: \"I wouldn't rule it out. It isn't a decision we've taken yet, but there are other countries in the world that take that approach.\"\n\nHe added that he \"very much hoped\" the 2m rule can be lowered, with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nThe government has come under pressure from the hospitality sector to lower the rule, with many saying it would be impossible to trade under the current restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nSome Tory MPs and members of the hospitality sector have been appealing to the government to lower the 2m rule to 1m, as many venues say they would be unable to open otherwise.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that distance carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked scientific advisors to review the circumstances in which it might be reduced alongside \"additional mitigations\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes are set to reopen from 3 July, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA change has also not been ruled out in Wales - where First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would support a reduction if Welsh advisers said it was safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to its roadmap\n\nIn his speech on Tuesday, the PM is expected to warn the public they must continue to follow social distancing guidelines to \"keep the coronavirus under control\".\n\nHe will also reiterate pledges to use the NHS Test and Trace system to detect and control local outbreaks through \"targeted lockdowns\".\n\nA No 10 spokesman said: \"The reason we are able to move forward this week is because the vast majority of people have taken steps to contain the virus.\n\n\"The more we open up, the more important it is that everyone follows the social distancing rules.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to put the handbrake on to stop the virus running out of control.\"", "Next year's A-levels and GCSEs in England could be pushed back later into the summer to allow more teaching time, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nThis would allow schools to catch up some of the time lost since the lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson told MPs he would be consulting the exam regulator Ofqual about extra time to deliver courses.\n\nIt follows a similar proposal announced for exams in Scotland.\n\nEngland's education secretary, speaking in the House of Commons, said he wanted to find a way to \"add more teaching time\".\n\n\"And that is why we'll be consulting with Ofqual about how we can move those exams back, giving children extra time in order to be able to learn and really flourish,\" Mr Williamson told MPs.\n\nThis year's GCSEs and A-levels were cancelled because of the pandemic - but most of them had been scheduled to run between the week beginning 11 May and the week beginning 15 June.\n\nSo this could see next summer's exam season having a later start date and then going into July.\n\nAlthough some pupils in next year's exam groups have begun to return to school, many weeks will have been lost - and there were concerns about how teachers could catch up and deliver the full exam courses.\n\nIn Scotland, Education Secretary John Swinney suggested last week that the exam season could be run later next year, so that courses could be completed.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Mr Williamson said that plans would be presented next week for a \"full return\" to school in the autumn.\n\nHead teachers have warned that the extra space needed for social distancing could make it impossible to bring back all pupils at the same time.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said the confusion over pupils going back back to school had been caused by ministers not involving teachers' leaders in decision making.\n\n\"All of this uncertainty could have been avoided if the secretary chose to listen to the sector,\" said Ms Long-Bailey.", "Police officers in Ireland trialled the app ahead of its planned national rollout\n\nIreland's health authority plans to press ahead with the launch of a coronavirus contact-tracing app based on Apple and Google's technology.\n\nThe Health Service Executive told the BBC that it would submit a memo to government this week, and \"subject to approval\" would launch its Covid Tracker app shortly after.\n\nThe move comes despite concerns raised about the tech's accuracy in its current state.\n\nThe UK is worried about false alerts.\n\nAnd researchers advising the Irish effort have also questioned whether the software should be rolled out in its current state.\n\nIreland would follow Germany in deploying such an app nationwide.\n\nTwo tests were carried out in Ireland ahead of the launch of its app.\n\nMembers of the An Garda Siochana police force volunteered to take part in field trials at the start of the month to see how it would perform in everyday situations.\n\n\"The Gardai are one of the few groups of people that are moving around and interacting with each other as they carry out their duties,\" explained a spokeswoman for the country's government.\n\nThe results have given health chiefs confidence to roll it out to the public.\n\nAnd they note that because it has been designed to support UK mobile numbers, visitors crossing the border from Northern Ireland or travelling across from Great Britain can also make use if it.\n\nThe second experiment involved a team at Trinity College, Dublin testing an app based on the Google-Apple API [application programming interface] on a commuter bus.\n\nIt found that metal in the vehicle's structure and fittings caused problems.\n\nThe Google-API allows the threshold for what triggers a contact match to be adjusted based on the strength of the Bluetooth signal and duration of the exposure.\n\nWhen using the settings already in use by Switzerland's contact-tracing app, the researchers found that no contact logs were logged despite 60 pairs of handsets being placed within 2m of each other.\n\nAnd they only managed to raise this to an 8% detection rate when they shortened the exposure time and adjusted the Bluetooth strength to a level that they said would be likely to cause false alerts in other environments.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nIn addition, the researchers said signal strength was sometimes higher for phones that were far apart than those close together, which they said made reliable proximity-detection \"hard or perhaps even impossible\" to achieve.\n\n\"As to whether it is sensible to deploy these apps, I'd say the jury is still out on that,\" Prof Doug Leith told the BBC.\n\n\"But the likely effectiveness of apps based on the Apple-Google API in real-world situations -ie outside the lab - is certainly far from clear.\"\n\nLast week, the UK ditched its own contact-tracing technology to switch to the Apple-Google model.\n\nBut while the government now intends to launch a Covid-19 app of some sort in England by the Autumn, it has said it may still not include contact-tracing functionality.\n\n\"I was only prepared to recommend to people that they download an app when I'm really confident in it,\" Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.\n\nApple and Google are under pressure to become less restrictive about the data they share to let apps become more accurate.\n\n\"The API does not expose Bluetooth received signal strength (RSS) measurements directly, rather it abstracts this,\" explained Dr Brendan Jennings, who is also involved in developing Ireland's app.\n\n\"There certainly are some changes in the API that we believe would be helpful - and we do believe that Google/Apple will be willing to take on board suggested changes in future revisions.\"\n\nBut in the meantime, others have already decided to launch apps based on the two US tech firms' software tool, including:\n\nOne of the developers of Germany's app said it was currently 80% accurate at logging matches across a range of scenarios, and it had been felt that this was good enough to go with.\n\nBayern Munich football players promoted the German app during a Bundesliga match at the weekend\n\n\"There can be false alerts,\" added SAP's Thomas Leonhardi.\n\n\"But that can also happen via manual contact tracing. It's the best we have and of course we're still working on it.\"\n\nThe Robert Koch Institute, which published the Corona-Warn App on behalf of the German government, said on Friday morning that it had already been downloaded 9.6 million times. The country's population is about 83 million.\n\nOnce Ireland has got an app based on the Apple/Google toolkit up and running then Northern Ireland and indeed the rest of the UK should be able to use it - job done, right?\n\nWell, no, say insiders on the NHS team. First, an app is more than just the code - you would need to integrate it with the public health advice, the testing infrastructure and the manual contact-tracing systems for each of the four home nations.\n\nBut the key issue is the question of whether the Apple/Google system is actually working well at measuring the distance between two phones using Bluetooth - last Thursday Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Test and Trace supremo Baroness Dido Harding made it clear they thought it wasn't.\n\nIncidentally, Baroness Harding may have overstated the failings of the centralised app in the Isle of Wight during Thursday's briefings when she said it could only detect 4% of iPhone contacts.\n\nSomeone on the island who was briefed about what went wrong tells me that this disastrous 4% only referred to cases where the app was asleep in the background after a long period when two iPhones had not been in use for a while - which apparently accounts for just a small percentage of overall iPhone contacts.\n\nWhat's frustrated both the app team and Apple is that in the days before the U-turn, the two sides had apparently begun working closely on ways to make Bluetooth work better with the app in the background.\n\nThursday's announcement came as a surprise to the developers and to the tech giant - which was then dismayed to hear Mr Hancock accusing it of a failure to co-operate.", "Three people have died following a road crash in Cumbria.\n\nThe crash, which involved a single car and pedestrians, happened in Abbey Road, Dalton-in-Furness, at about 14:30 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe victims, all pedestrians, are believed to be from the same family.\n\nPolice said the driver of a Peugeot, a 47-year-old local man, has been arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving and three counts of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nA spokesman for Cumbria Police said: \"The family are currently being supported by our family liaison officers.\n\n\"Officers are urging anyone who might have witnessed the incident or the vehicle in the area to contact the serious collision investigation unit or call 101.\n\n\"Officers are also keen to hear from anyone who may have dashcam footage which may have captured the collision or the moments immediately before or after.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pausing of shielding in England from 1 August will affect more than two million people.\n\nAnd it was interesting that, if shielding needs to be resumed, Dr Jenny Harries felt it was likely to be imposed in a more targeted form – with very few children asked to shield in future.\n\n\"Only\" 36 children had been admitted to an intensive care unit with Covid-19.\n\nBut while the topic of today’s press conference was health-related, this was also about the economy and getting people back in to employment.\n\nFrom 1 August those who are shielding and can’t work from home will be able to return to work if their business is \"covid secure\".\n\nBut for those who are anxious about returning, then it’s likely they will no longer be eligible for the statutory sick pay they have been given since April.\n\nGiving people the confidence to return to work is still a challenge for the government.\n\nAs is getting parents to send children back to school.\n\nThe health secretary also underlined that to get the economy moving, infrastructure projects will be \"accelerated\".\n\nAnd at this time of year, minds turn to holidays and not just work.\n\nSo Matt Hancock sought to reassure us that the government was \"working very intensively\" on \"travel corridors\" - though the quarantine policy as a whole was unlikely to be withdrawn.", "A leaked video revealing how sales have plunged at Pret a Manger during the coronavirus crisis has raised fears about job cuts at the sandwich chain.\n\nBoss Pano Christou told staff in a recent online meeting that an announcement about the \"job situation\" would be made on 8 July.\n\nHe said Pret's global weekly takings had fallen to £3m, just 15% of what they would normally be.\n\nA Pret spokeswoman said staff would be the \"first to hear about any changes\".\n\nPret stores in the UK, the US and France have been hit hard by lockdowns as office workers stayed in their homes.\n\nIn May, Pret called in consultants to help renegotiate its rents as it attempted to avoid store closures, and said it was putting a \"clear plan\" in place to deal with reduced footfall.\n\nIn a recent video call to staff, which was leaked and shared on Twitter, Mr Christou discussed the \"job situation\":\n\n\"What will be the case is, on 8 July, we'll be doing a broader communication to the teams, just talking through the initial work that's been done on this, so things will start to become clearer from 8 July,\" he said.\n\nA Pret spokeswoman said: \"As we have already confirmed, at the end of May we appointed advisers to help Pret develop a comprehensive transformation plan to adapt to the new retail environment.\"\n\n\"Transparency is very important in our business and we will make sure that Pret's team members are the first to hear about any changes. We will update our team members in early July once the plan has been finalised.\"\n\nRestaurants and food chains have been hit hard by coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nLast week bosses at restaurant and food chains including Wagamama and Pizza Hut warned Prime Minister Boris Johnson that the sector faces mass job cuts without more help.\n\nAlthough Pret has re-opened more than 300 stores in the UK, they are only offering takeaway or delivery services. The firm is trialling a click-and-collect service so customers can avoid queuing when demand returns.\n\nThe video call indicated that sales were substantially down compared with normal figures, although improving as lockdown restrictions lift.\n\nWhen asked what sales Pret needed to make for the company to stop losing money, he said: \"I think globally we'll need our sales to get to about 60% [of pre-crisis levels] to break even.\"\n\n\"We're trying to aim to the month of September to get to that 60% but clearly there is a lot of work going into that from the team, but at the same time we're so dependent on footfall coming back into the cities to drive our sales up.\"\n\nMr Christou said the chain's US stores took close to $100,000 in sales in one week recently, a 98% drop from pre-crisis levels.\n\nIn the same video, Pret's UK managing director, Clare Clough, said UK sales were down almost 90%. \"We're creeping up point by point, but we're still sitting around -86% in the UK,\" she said.\n\nIn the meeting, Ms Clough said the company is engaging in \"quite intense negotiations\" with more than 300 individual landlords to deal with property costs.\n\nShe encouraged staff to drive up sales, saying: \"We want to make sure that we are the winners as people come back onto the High Street.\"\n\nIndustry body UK Hospitality has urged the government to find a solution to the rental problems facing many businesses in the struggling hospitality sector.", "'More to do' to tackle discrimination, says first minister\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford says there \"certainly is more to do\" in addressing tackling discrimination and disadvantage for black, Asian or minority ethnic (BAME) people in Wales. He pointed to the \"need for us to do more\" to ensure decision-makers in Wales \"reflect the society in which we live\". Mr Drakeford added that \"we have had a proud cross-party commitment in Wales throughout the devolution era\" to addressing discrimination people from different backgrounds face in Wales, but said \"there is more to do.\" The first minister was responding to a question about the Welsh Government advisory group report into the impact of Covid-19 on Wales' BAME communities, which highlighted a \"lack of action on race equality\". Mr Drakeford added: \"Before the coronavirus crisis hit, we had commissioned and concluded a radical review of the way in which public appointments are made here in Wales. \"[The review is to] make sure the people who are appointed to those important positions reflect the diversity of Wales. \"We are going to implement that report and we're going to begin its implementation as soon as we are able to resume making public appointments in Wales.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPhil Foden and Riyad Mahrez both scored twice as Manchester City thrashed Burnley to ensure Liverpool will have to wait a little longer to wrap up the Premier League title.\n\nThree first-half goals saw City on their way to the most comfortable of wins at Etihad Stadium, with Foden's superb long-range strike breaking the deadlock before Mahrez's double just before the break.\n\nThe Algerian's fine solo effort made it 2-0 before he added another from the spot after Ben Mee fouled Sergio Aguero, with the penalty being awarded by the video assistant referee.\n\nIt was all too easy for City against a Burnley side that did not name their full complement of substitutes for their first game since the Premier League restarted behind closed doors amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFoden played a starring role in the rout, starting the move that saw Bernardo Silva tee up David Silva to make it 4-0 soon after the break, and then adding a fifth himself after Gabriel Jesus helped on a David Silva cross.\n\nBy then the evening was a stroll for Pep Guardiola's side, who are now 20 points behind the leaders with eight league games remaining.\n\nIf the defending champions had dropped points against the Clarets, a win for Liverpool against Crystal Palace at Anfield on Wednesday would have seen them officially take City's crown.\n\nInstead Jurgen Klopp's side must beat the Eagles and then rely on City dropping points against Chelsea on Thursday if they are to clinch the title before they visit Etihad Stadium on 2 July.\n\nBurnley issued a statement during the game condemning the actions of those responsible after a plane carrying a banner reading 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was flown over the ground shortly after kick-off.\n\nBoth sets of players had taken a knee before the game started in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n• None Burnley 'ashamed and embarrassed' by banner flown above Etihad Stadium during Man City game\n\nFoden was given only limited game-time earlier in the season but he is threatening to end it as one of City's main men.\n\nThe 20-year-old enjoyed the wide open spaces that Burnley increasingly gave him as the game progressed, and made the most of them with his build-up play, as well as his finishing.\n\n\"Foden stood out as the best player on the pitch,\" said BBC Radio 5 live summariser Pat Nevin. \"He had everything about his game - good energy and runs with the ball, but also the eye of a pass which all City players have.\n\n\"As an outsider, I would build my team around him, not just City but England too. If it was Spain, they would make him the core of the team early on. I watch Chelsea who have a lot of good young players, but Foden is extraordinary and has the vision that others don't.\"\n\nFrom City's point of view, this was the perfect way for them to ease more of their players back into action with Pep Guardiola making eight changes from the side that beat Arsenal last week.\n\nThe only blip was the injury sustained by Aguero as he won City's penalty, with the Argentine striker forced off and Guardiola saying afterwards that it \"does not look good\".\n\nGuardiola added: \"He felt something in his knee. He struggled in the last month with some pain in his knee. We will see on Tuesday.\"\n\nCity were able to give Leroy Sane his first competitive outing of the season before the end, when the German winger replaced Foden.\n\nGuardiola confirmed on Friday that Sane, who had been out of action since injuring his knee ligaments in the Community Shield in August, will be leaving the club either in the next transfer window or when his contract ends in the summer of 2021.\n\nHe was given an 11-minute cameo against the Clarets, which suggests he will play a part in Guardiola's plans during the remainder of this campaign as City, who have already collected the Carabao Cup, look to defend the FA Cup and try to win the Champions League for the first time.\n\nBurnley have now lost 5-0 on their past three visits to Manchester City in all competitions, but this defeat could have been even worse.\n\nThe Clarets did not manage an effort at goal until Dwight McNeil lashed a free-kick into the empty stand behind Ederson's goal after 63 minutes, and that was the only time they came close to threatening a reply.\n\nThere were mitigating circumstances for Burnley boss Sean Dyche, however.\n\nA trip to this part of Manchester is hard enough without the contract issues and injuries which meant he could not fill his bench in his side's first game after their enforced three-month break.\n\nFirst-choice strikers Ashley Barnes and Chris Wood were absent through injury, while Jeff Hendrick, Aaron Lennon, Phil Bardsley and former England goalkeeper Joe Hart are all free agents from the end of June and were not considered for selection.\n\nIt meant that, while City had players of the calibre of Kevin de Bruyne and Raheem Sterling among their substitutes, the Clarets named two untried youngsters in Max Thompson and Bobby Thomas, and two keepers - Lukas Jensen and Bailey Peacock-Farrell - among their potential replacements.\n\nBefore their season was stopped, Burnley were on a seven-game unbeaten run that had taken them to the fringes of the race for Europe. Dyche's mission now is to try to regain some of that momentum in the next few weeks.\n\nBurnley host Watford on Thursday (18:00 BST) while Manchester City play Chelsea at Stamford Bridge later the same evening (20:15).\n• None Attempt missed. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Gabriel Jesus.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Leroy Sané (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Rodrigo (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by David Silva.\n• None Attempt missed. Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Oleksandr Zinchenko.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Liverpool move one step closer to the title", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss the next steps in relaxing England's lockdown with senior scientific advisers and ministers today. He'll set them out for the public on Tuesday. The expectation is that the prime minister will confirms pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers can start reopening on 4 July. It looks likely, too, that the two-metre social distancing rule will be reduced - we've looked at the science behind that decision.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFace coverings are now compulsory on public transport in Scotland. The rule applies to buses, trains, trams, taxis and more, with only a few exemptions. Other changes coming into effect from today include the partial reopening of dentists and places of worship. Professional sport can also get going again behind closed doors. See the latest figures on coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe pandemic is widening existing inequalities of wealth, according to think tank the Resolution Foundation. It says lower income households are turning to borrowing, most commonly credit cards, to cope, while many higher income households, by contrast, have boosted their savings. Meanwhile, a charity is warning that already disadvantaged children are developing serious mental health conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder, during this time.\n\nA new \"no swab\" saliva coronavirus test that lets people collect their own sample at home is being trialled in Southampton. The hope is that it could provide an alternative to taking swabs from the nose and throat which can be uncomfortable and hard to do without help. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the study is \"highly promising\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Reality Check looks at why testing matters\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest from around the world via our live page.\n\nEven countries currently controlling the virus fear \"the second wave\". Is that inevitable? And how bad could it be?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A black Mercedes van was struck by a train near Welshpool\n\nOne person has been seriously injured after a train hit a van on a level crossing in mid Wales.\n\nThe driver of a black Mercedes was airlifted to hospital after their vehicle was struck by a train heading from Shrewsbury to Welshpool.\n\nThey were flown by air ambulance to Royal Stoke University Hospital.\n\nNo train passengers were hurt in the crash where the single-track railway crosses a side-road near Trewern, north of Welshpool, just after 13:45 BST.\n\nNational Rail said disruption to services was expected until the end of Monday.\n\nThe incident happened on the singe-track Cambrian Line crossing\n\nThe ambulance service also sent three emergency ambulances and a rapid response vehicle to the collision between the van and what is thought to be the 13:27 service from Shrewsbury to Aberystwyth.\n\nBritish Transport Police said: \"The driver of the vehicle suffered serious injuries and has been taken to hospital.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service confirmed no train passengers were hurt.\n\nAll trains on the single-track Cambrian Line - between Shrewsbury and Aberystwyth in Ceredigion and Pwllheli in Gwynedd - have been affected as the line is blocked.\n\nThe van was hit on a side road off the main A458 Welshpool to Shrewsbury road\n\nNetwork Rail said rail replacement bus services were in operation and would serve all stations in both directions between Aberystwyth and Shrewsbury.\n\nThe incident happened at an unmanned level crossing - monitored by Network Rail CCTV - where the Cambrian Line crosses on a side-road going to a dog training centre.\n\nThat track leads onto the main Welshpool to Shrewsbury road - the A458 - which has now reopened after it was initially shut between Buttington and Trewern.\n\nNetwork Rail said: \"We were made aware of an incident between Sutton Bridge Junction and Welshpool just before 14:00 today.\"\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch confirmed it had been notified of the incident and had sent an inspector to the scene to conduct a preliminary examination and gather evidence. ​", "More than 100 students gathered at the gates to hold a silence at the school where James Furlong taught.\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHe was one of three people who died after a stabbing in Reading.", "Groups had been relaxing in Forbury Gardens in the centre of Reading when the attack happened\n\nReading's Forbury Gardens were dotted with groups of friends relaxing in the early evening sunshine when the peace was shattered by a commotion and frantic shouts of \"run\". Three people had been stabbed to death in an attack that has left the town reeling.\n\n\"Everyone was just having fun and then suddenly a man shouted,\" said Lawrence Wort, who had been sitting nearby.\n\nThe 20-year-old said he could not make out the words or in what language they were spoken.\n\nWhat he could see was a man with a \"massive knife\".\n\n\"He stabbed the first person - they were sat in a circle in a big group of about eight to ten people - and he darted round anti-clockwise, got one, went to another, stabbed the next one, went to another and stabbed them.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid at the scene\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 25, was arrested at the scene by unarmed officers who have been praised for their \"incredible bravery\".\n\nHe remains in police custody on suspicion of murder.\n\nAs well as those killed in the attack, three more people were injured.\n\nGreg Wilton, who tried to help the victims, said he had been left \"very shocked and shaken\".\n\nHe was having a picnic with his wife and three friends, after listening to speeches at a Black Lives Matter protest held in the park earlier in the day.\n\n\"We stayed in the park as the weather was nice and had some drinks,\" he said.\n\n\"At one point without much noise we noticed a commotion on the other side of the park.\n\n\"We ran over and without seeing an attacker we found three men lying on the floor bleeding profusely from what we thought was their heads, necks or body.\n\n\"Another member of the public took off his t shirt and tried to stop the bleeding alongside someone we assume to be his girlfriend.\n\n\"Me and my friend, Tom, put a second victim in the recovery position and tried to stem his bleeding from his ear with my canvas shopping bag.\"\n\nHe said Reading as normally a \"relatively peaceful\" town.\n\nAlice Penney said she felt like she had \"cheated death\"\n\nOn Sunday, an atmosphere of shock and mourning was palpable in the town centre - where bloodied roads were cordoned off by police.\n\nLarge areas outside the gardens are taped up, and the streets are largely deserted but for police officers, journalists and TV crews.\n\nLocals who had ventured into the town said they were frightened.\n\n\"I was scared to be here but I have to be here for work,\" said Marie Castro, from Slough, who works at a coffee shop in the town.\n\nThe attack \"doesn't seem right for Reading\", she said.\n\n\"It's multicultural and really friendly. I was really shocked when I heard the news\".\n\nAlice Penney, who moved to Reading from Kent a year ago, said she left the town and went to a friend's house after hearing about the stabbings.\n\n\"I was absolutely mortified. I had been at the protest a few hours earlier when I heard the news. It was something I couldn't process.\n\n\"I feel like we cheated death. It's a safe place, normally. It's very confusing.\"\n\nJournalists have descended on the town centre's streets\n\nCordons and police tape are now a common sight on the deserted streets\n\nJames Hill is among those who have laid flowers at the scene to remember the victims\n\nAs helicopters patrol the town from above, on the ground floral tributes have been laid.\n\nJames Hill, from Reading, said: \"I've come here today because I've lived in Reading all my life.\n\n\"This park is very close to my heart - I know it very well - and I feel obliged when something as bad as this happens, that I play my part and make a tribute.\"\n\nOne card left near the scene reads: \"There are no words that anyone can say to express how horrible and senseless this was.\"", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nThe number of workers testing positive for coronavirus at an Anglesey chicken factory has risen to 158.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters meat processing plant in Llangefni are self-isolating after a number of workers were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday.\n\nA Welsh Government minister has not ruled out local lockdown measures to contain the outbreak.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the number of cases was expected to rise.\n\nDr Christopher Johnson from PHW said 400 staff had been tested since the outbreak was confirmed on Thursday.\n\n\"As of 15:00 BST on Sunday 21 June we have recorded an increase of 83 confirmed positive cases identified over the past 24 hours,\" he said.\n\n\"Testing of employees continues, and it is likely that some additional cases will be identified in the coming days.\n\n\"The increase in cases is as we anticipated when a focused track and trace programme is implemented, and does not mean that the spread of infection is increasing.\"\n\nEconomy minister Ken Skates has said the fallout from the outbreak must be contained\n\nTravel restrictions in Wales are due to be lifted from 6 July, allowing people to \"travel as far as they like for all purposes\", as long as covid cases continue to fall.\n\nBut speaking on BBC Wales Politics Show, the Economy Minister Ken Skates said it was essential to make sure the Anglesey outbreak was \"kept as local as possible\".\n\nMr Skates did not rule out restrictions remaining in place in Anglesey, and said the council, PHW and Betsi Cadwaladr health board were \"right to contain the fallout from the 2 Sisters plant\" and \"making sure that spike is kept as local as possible\",\n\nHe said: \"That will help contain the virus, and that, in turn, help Anglesey open up its economy sooner, and that is something I think the island will welcome and I think the entire population of Wales will welcome.\"\n\nAnglesey council has already confirmed schools will not reopen as planned on 29 June following incidents at the plant.\n\nTesting sites were set up at Llangefni and Holyhead, and at an existing facility in Bangor, following the outbreak.\n\nAll staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and are being contacted for testing.\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and processes about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day from its sites across Britain.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\n2 Sisters had said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Isle of Anglesey CC #KeepWalesSafe\n\nPHW, who are responding to the outbreak, thanked the workforce and wider community for their \"swift co-operation\" with the test and trace process.\n\n\"This rapid response is providing vital information to help minimise the further spread of Covid-19 locally,\" said Dr Johnson.\n\n\"We must remember that Covid-19 has not gone away.\n\n\"Incidents like this show the potential for pockets of asymptomatic undiagnosed infection in the community, highlighting the importance of the adherence to social distancing and hygiene measures.\"\n\nDr Johnson said rapid test and trace facilities had \"helped identify this situation\" and said health teams would keep measures in place to \"bring the outbreak to a rapid conclusion\".\n\nHe added: \"It therefore remains essential that all members of the public, including employees of 2 Sisters Food Group and their close contacts, continue to recognise the vital role they have in preventing the spread of coronavirus, to help keep Wales safe.\"\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said health and safety was the top priority\n\nResponding to the increase in confirmed cases, Anglesey council leader Llinos Medi said the outbreak was \"causing concern on Anglesey\".\n\nShe said the authority's thoughts were \"with 2 Sisters' employees and their families at this uncertain time\" and urged all workers to get tested and to make sure they self-isolated.\n\n\"This is imperative to stop the spread and further positive cases in our communities,\" she said.\"The county council is working with partners across the Island to ensure those who are self-isolating, who have no support networks, are helped during this challenging period.\"\n\nThe council leader said the authority would be holding discussions with the Welsh Government on Monday to see \"what local lockdown looks like\".\n\n\"How do we enforce local lockdown, and also how do we support those businesses that would not be able to operate during a local lockdown, as well,\" she added.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said there was no reason food would not be safe\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said it was \"very unlikely you can catch coronavirus from food\" as the virus is a respiratory illness.\n\nIt said the virus was \"not known to be transmitted by exposure to food or food packaging\".\n\nDo you work in a meat processing facility? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The man held on suspicion of killing three people at a park in Reading was known to MI5, security sources say.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 25, from the town, was arrested on Saturday and police say they are not looking for anyone else over the terror incident.\n\nSources told the BBC he is originally from Libya and came to the attention of MI5 in 2019.\n\nOne victim has been named as teacher James Furlong - described by his family as \"a wonderful man\".\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Furlong, 36, head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham, his parents Gary and Janet said: \"He was beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun.\"\n\nPM Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled and sickened\" by the attack in Forbury Gardens on Saturday evening.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing South East (CTSPE) said a 25-year-old man from Reading, who was arrested initially on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nSecurity sources said the suspect came to the attention of the security services after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism, according to the BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nWhen the information was further investigated, as the first stage of looking into a potential lead, no genuine threat or immediate risk was identified.\n\nNo case file was opened which would have made him a target for further investigation.\n\nTeacher James Furlong was described as a \"cherished\" colleague by The Holt School\n\nThe Holt School said Mr Furlong was a \"kind and gentle man\" with a \"real sense of duty\".\n\nIn a statement, Anne Kennedy and Katie Pearce - co-head teachers of the secondary school for girls - said Mr Furlong \"truly inspired everyone he taught through his passion for his subject and his dedication\".\n\n\"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice,\" they said.\n\nMr Johnson has promised action following the incident \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, described it as an \"atrocity\" and said his \"deepest sympathies go to the families who will be mourning loved ones after this horrific act\".\n\nMr Basu said investigators are not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nSaturday's horrifying killings may be another example of what security chiefs call a \"lone actor\" attack where a single individual turns extremist beliefs into murderous actions.\n\nIn November last year, the UK's official threat level from terrorism was reduced from \"severe\" to \"substantial\" - meaning it remained likely - but there was no intelligence of an immediate risk to life.\n\nSince then, there have already been three major incidents in which two people have died. Two of those attacks were carried out by lone individuals.\n\nToday, detectives will be interviewing their suspect - and a huge operation will have swung into operation.\n\nElectronic analysts will delve into any social media accounts linked to the suspect; they'll trawl every call and text message going back years, looking for contacts with extremists.\n\nIntelligence officers at MI5 will review both their open and closed case files on so-called \"subjects of interest\".\n\nA picture will emerge of the suspect's movements. What led to the attack may be very difficult to identify.\n\nDetective Chief Superintendent Kath Barnes, Head of CTPSE, said the investigation \"continues to move at a fast pace\".\n\nThe suspect was arrested within five minutes of the first emergency call made to police, and a number of officers were quickly on the scene, she confirmed.\n\nA friend of the suspect told the BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford that Saadallah seemed to be a \"normal, genuine guy\", and had been someone with whom to smoke cannabis.\n\nKieran Vernon said: \"He seemed like me or you. Whenever we used to meet up we used to talk about drinking whisky and how different ganja affects the different thinking of mind.\n\n\"And that's pretty much all we'd chat about.\"\n\nMr Sandford was also told by neighbours of the suspect that he once threw a television out of a top floor window and was regularly visited by a mental health key worker.\n\nA witness told the BBC he saw a man moving between groups of people in the park in Reading town centre, trying to stab them.\n\nThree other people were injured in the attack, which took place at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo of the injured people have been discharged and one remains in hospital, although the injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said that \"people are united in their grief\" following the attack, and that he wants to speak to the prime minister to discuss how to \"learn from this.\"\n\n\"This is not a time for party politics,\" he said.\n\n\"It's incumbent on all of us to pull together in response to this on a cross party basis.\"\n\nThames Valley Police said on Sunday morning the attack was now being treated as terrorism and that Counter Terrorism Policing South East would be taking over the investigation.\n\nSpeaking to reporters later, the force's chief constable, John Campbell, said lives had been \"devastated\", but added that there was not believed to be a wider risk to the public and there was nothing to suggest anyone else was involved.\n\nHe added: \"I am sure we would all want to recognise the bravery of those police officers responding, but also that a number of members of the public were helping my officers and the victims at what was a very distressing scene.\"\n\nA man places flowers near the entrance to the park where three people were killed\n\nOfficers in forensic suits were seen walking near to the scene on Sunday\n\nThe prime minister has held a meeting with security officials, police and senior ministers over the incident.\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"If there are lessons that we need to learn about how we handle such cases, how we handle the events leading up to such cases then we will learn those lessons and we will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHe said that included changes to the law, as they had done over the automatic early release of terrorist offenders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitness Lawrence Wort on Reading stabbing attack: 'I saw a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches minimum'\n\nOf the three injured people, one was seen at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, where they were discharged without being admitted to hospital.\n\nTwo were admitted to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. One has been discharged, while another remains in a stable condition under observation.\n\nMr Basu said police were working with the coroner to formally identify those who had died and he praised the actions of Thames Valley Police officers - \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" - who detained the suspect.\n\nHe also said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\nA police cordon remains in place around Forbury Gardens - which is a short walk from the train station - and blue and white tents have been erected next to the walls of the park.\n\nThe UK's terrorism threat level of \"substantial\" is the third of five ratings at which the threat level can stand.", "Teacher James Furlong was described as a \"cherished\" colleague by The Holt School\n\nThe parents of a teacher who was killed in the Reading stabbing attack have paid tribute to their \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\" son.\n\nJames Furlong, 36, head of history and government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham, was described by his family as a \"wonderful man\".\n\nHis school colleagues said he was \"talented and inspirational\".\n\nMr Furlong was one of three people who died in Saturday's attack that police are treating as a terror incident.\n\nTwo other people who were injured have subsequently been discharged, while a third remains in a stable condition under observation.\n\nMr Furlong was in Reading's Forbury Gardens, a park near the centre of town, when witnesses say a lone attacker with a knife targeted a group of people at about 19:00 BST.\n\nAn eyewitness described how an individual in the park \"suddenly shouted some unintelligible words and went round a large group trying to stab them\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah, a 25-year-old man who lived locally, was arrested on Saturday and remains in custody.\n\nCounter Terrorism Policing South East said a 25-year-old man from Reading, who was arrested initially on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nPolice have been carrying out investigations in Forbury Gardens\n\nIn a statement, his parents Gary and Janet described their son as a \"wonderful man\".\n\nThey said: \"He was the best son, brother, uncle and partner you could wish for. We are thankful for the memories he gave us all.\"\n\n\"We will never forget him and he will live in our hearts forever.\"\n\nIn their statement, The Holt School's co-heads Anne Kennedy and Katie Pearce described Mr Furlong as a \"kind and gentle man\" who had a \"real sense of duty\".\n\n\"As a Holt community, we all now need to absorb this sad news,\" they said. \"He truly inspired everyone he taught.\"\n\nAs head of history and government and politics at the school, Mr Furlong's \"passion for his subject\" and \"his dedication\" was praised.\n\n\"He was determined that our students would develop a critical awareness of global issues and in doing so, become active citizens and have a voice,\" the head teachers said.\n\nThey said lessons would be cancelled on Monday, with counsellors available at school for staff and students.\n\n\"Words cannot describe our shock and sadness at this time. Our thoughts are with his mum, dad, brother and family, and his friends and colleagues.\n\n\"He was a cherished colleague and he will be sadly missed.\"\n\nJade Simon, a former pupil at The Holt School, remembered Mr Furlong as \"an incredible teacher\".\n\n\"He was funny and kind and always made history fun and entertaining,\" she told the Press Association.\n\nHer thoughts were echoed by Keith Power, whose daughter currently attends the school.\n\n\"He was a wonderful man. He was so helpful and supportive of my daughter.\"\n\n\"It's so senseless,\" he added. \"So much hatred in the world right now. I fear for my kid's futures.\"\n\nSt Francis Xavier's College in Liverpool, where Mr Furlong is reported to have grown up, paid tribute to their former pupil.\n\n\"Our prayers are with him and his family,\" said a statement posted by the secondary school on Instagram.\n\nPupils of Mr Furlong have posted tributes on Instagram.\n\nSophie McEwan said Mr Furlong \"really was an inspirational teacher, he genuinely cared for all of us students\".\n\nAnd Emily Mugnier wrote: \"Thank you for being an incredible, enthusiastic teacher and lover of life.\"\n\nWokingham Labour tweeted: \"His loss is a devastating blow to his family, colleagues, students, the wider Holt family and our whole community. Our thoughts are with them all.\"\n\nThe names of the two other victims in the attack have yet to be made public.\n\nThe suspect was detained within five minutes of the first call made to the emergency services, with the Sunday Mirror reporting that a police officer \"rugby tackled\" the perpetrator to the ground.\n\nIt later emerged Mr Saadallah had previously come to the attention of MI5 after they received information he had aspirations to travel abroad - potentially for terrorism, according to the BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani.\n\nA friend of the suspect told the BBC's home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford that Mr Saadallah seemed to be a \"normal, genuine guy\", and had been someone with whom to smoke cannabis.\n\nKieran Vernon said: \"He seemed like me or you. Whenever we used to meet up we used to talk about drinking whiskey and how different ganja affects the different thinking of mind.\n\n\"And that's pretty much all we'd chat about.\"\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"appalled and sickened\" by the attack and promised action \"if there are lessons that we need to learn\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, head of counter-terrorism policing, described the attack as an \"atrocity\" and thanked the \"unarmed and incredibly brave\" officers who attended the scene.\n\nSouth Central Ambulance Service said \"multiple ambulance resources\" were sent to the scene, including five ambulance crews and a helicopter.\n\nMr Basu said the \"motivation for this horrific act is far from certain\" but said investigators were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nHe said the public should not be alarmed about visiting busy places as a result of this attack.\n\nMore than 40 witnesses came forward within 24 hours of the incident, which took place on a sunny afternoon in a popular area of town.\n\nOne eyewitness described a man carrying \"a massive knife in his hand... at least five inches, minimum\".\n\n\"The park was pretty full, a lot of people sat around drinking with friends when one lone person walked through, suddenly shouted some unintelligible words and went round a large group trying to stab them,\" Laurence Wort, 20, told the BBC.\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock said the town was \"an incredibly strong community\" where \"people will come together and they won't allow themselves to be divided\".\n\nHave you been personally affected by the attack in Reading? If you feel able to do so get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford says any decision for stricter lockdown rules for Anglesey \"would not be taken lightly\"\n\nA local lockdown could be enforced to get the coronavirus outbreak at a food factory on Anglesey under control, Public Health Wales (PHW) has said.\n\nDr Christopher Johnson said control measures were in place to bring the outbreak to a \"rapid conclusion\".\n\nOn Monday, he confirmed the number of workers tested positive at 2 Sisters in Llangefni had increased by 17 to 175.\n\nAll staff are self-isolating and the factory has closed as workers continue to be tested.\n\nDr Johnson, a consultant in health protection at PHW, said: \"Since we commenced targeted testing last Thursday, over 400 members of staff have provided samples...\n\n\"Incidents like this are a reminder that coronavirus is still circulating, sometimes invisibly, and that we all need to be vigilant.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said if there was a need to impose a lockdown on Anglesey he would do so, but his approach would be \"proportionate\" and based on evidence.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters plant in Llangefni have been sent home on full pay\n\nEarlier, Dr Giri Shankar, PHW incident director for the novel coronavirus, told BBC Radio Wales local lockdowns could be something \"we need to consider\".\n\n\"At the moment the outbreak is localised to members of staff working in that particular factory,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no evidence of widespread community transmission, but therefore I think at this point of time we need to weigh all the options carefully before going into a blanket lockdown.\n\n\"It is a possibility, providing there is enough evidence to support such an action.\n\n\"We need to see how the outbreak progresses.\"\n\n\"As we begin to ease lockdown in society, such clusters of outbreaks will occur and we do expect these,\" Dr Shankar added.\n\n\"And these will uncover a pocket of asymptomatic infection that existed.\n\n\"So we shouldn't be surprised, but we should be concerned and take swift action.\"\n\nThe Food Standards Agency has said there was no reason food would not be safe\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus news briefing, Mr Drakeford said he was meeting local health officials from Anglesey on Monday afternoon to review what was happening and to see whether further measures needed to be put in place.\n\nThe first minister added that the outbreak had been in a closed setting and the contact tracing system meant the Welsh Government was able to keep on top of whether the virus had spread any further from the factory into the wider community.\n\nCommenting on whether there was a need for a localised lockdown he said: \"Our approach will be proportionate, it will draw on the evidence, it will draw on local intelligence and information.\n\n\"And then we will take the action that is required in a way that responds directly to the outbreak, but doesn't do so in a way that unfairly places restrictions on people where there would be no public health advantage to doing so\".\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for workers forced to self-isolate because of localised coronavirus outbreaks to get similar support from the UK government to those on furlough.\n\nThe party says statutory sick pay of £95.85 a week is not enough for many households across the UK.\n\nWorkers at 2 Sisters are receiving full pay, but the party fears employers elsewhere may not be so generous in future.\n\nBen Lake, MP for Ceredigion, said: \"Workers in the food processing industry are particularly vulnerable, with a Low Pay Commission (LPC) report last year finding that around 6,700 workers - 11.8% of low-paid employees in food processing jobs - were paid lower than the national living wage.\n\n\"I fear that the inadequacy of the Statutory Sick Pay scheme is asking individuals to choose between being able to put food on the table for their family, or risk transmitting the virus to others in the community.\"\n\nThe UK government was asked for comment.\n\n2 Sisters has said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most\".\n\nIt said it would not tolerate unnecessary risks to its workforce at the plant.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: \"We're about to see another step in the plan\"\n\nThe government will \"bring forward proposals\" on how to safely reduce the 2m social distancing rule in England this week, says Matt Hancock.\n\nThe health secretary said the distance could be lowered with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nLabour said it would support a change to 1m \"under certain circumstances\".\n\nMr Hancock confirmed new easing of lockdown measures would be announced in the coming days, including whether pubs and restaurants can re-open on 4 July.\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to the roadmap it announced in May - when it said the venues could re-open on 4 July \"at the earliest\".\n\nHe added: \"We are going step-by-step, making things easier for people, helping people to see more of each other, allowing more social contact, more social interaction, and we will be setting all that out.\n\n\"But it's very important that we don't lose our vice like grip on the disease. We have got to keep it on the floor where we have got it and so we have got to keep making those trade-offs.\"\n\nA further 43 people who had tested positive for coronavirus have died in the UK, it was announced on Sunday.\n\nThere was one death in Wales, but no deaths were recorded in Scotland or Northern Ireland over the previous 24 hours.\n\nMr Johnson announced a review into the 2m rule last week, with Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirming on Saturday its conclusion would be published this week.\n\nBut speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Hancock appeared to go further, saying: \"The proposals we'll bring forward are how you can safely reduce the 2m with the sort of mitigations we've been talking about.\"\n\nHe said there were \"all sorts\" of measures that could be introduced, referring to the use of face masks on public transport, Perspex screens in shops, and studies on the reduction of transmission risk when people sit side-by-side or back-to-back.\n\nBut while the health secretary said he \"very much hopes\" to reduce the distance, the government would be \"guided by the science\", and would only make changes \"in a way that is safe and doesn't lead to resurgence of virus\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"On social distancing... watch this space, you won't have very much more to wait now\"\n\nThe government has faced pressure from leaders of the hospitality sector and its own MPs to lessen the 2m rule, with widespread concerns around the impact it would have on the UK economy.\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is looking at the evidence, and Northern Ireland's Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA coronavirus adviser to the Welsh government said the risk in reducing the distance \"isn't very big\".\n\nOfficially, the review is still under way. But it now seems inevitable the result will be a move from a 2m social distancing rule in England to 1m.\n\nThe government is set to announce this in the week ahead - probably alongside a confirmed date in early July for pubs and restaurants to reopen, under certain conditions.\n\nScientists seem relaxed about this change - the chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance having indicated that, ultimately, this is a political decision, with no continuing body of evidence to stand in the way of the move.\n\nA member of Sage, Professor Calum Semple, says he has changed his mind and it is now reasonable to \"relax these rules\".\n\nIt's understood there will need to be \"mitigation\" - requirements to stop overcrowding in bars, taking contact details of people booking restaurant tables and a more widespread use of face coverings, for example.\n\nBut as the eminent microbiologist Prof Peter Piot reminded us today, the virus won't just fade away. He said it will be with us for some time and a second spike of some sort was highly likely.\n\nThe pubs and bars may reopen in England and Northern Ireland within weeks (Scotland and Wales are keeping the issue under review).\n\nBut no health or scientific official or adviser will be celebrating any time soon.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said his party were \"prepared to look at [the proposals] carefully\", adding that if a change was \"backed by the science, then that'll be an understandable move\".\n\nBut he said countries who have lower social distance rules also have a \"broader combination of measures\", such as face shields and tracing apps, and his support would depend on other mitigations being introduced.\n\nMr Hancock also said pubs and restaurants would find out this week whether they can re-open on 4 July.\n\nHe said the potential date was \"part of the plan that we've been working through\" since it was announced last month as a possible next step.\n\nThe health secretary added: \"The plan is clearly working because the number of new infections is coming down, the number of people on ventilated beds in hospital is coming down and, thankfully, the number of people who are dying is coming down.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he \"wouldn't rule out\" following in the footsteps of countries like New Zealand - where customers need to register their details before going to the venues - as it could be \"an additional way that you can do contact tracing so that you can find people who might be at risk\".\n\nBut he said there were \"lots of ideas out there\" and the government would confirm its plans this week.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Paul and Elaine Gait said at the time they felt \"violated\" by Sussex Police\n\nA police force has paid out £200,000 over the arrest of a couple falsely accused of causing chaos at Gatwick Airport with a drone.\n\nArmed officers stormed the home of Paul and Elaine Gait in December 2018, and held them for 36 hours after drones caused the airport to close repeatedly.\n\nThe couple were released without charge, and sued Sussex Police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.\n\nThe Gait's legal team said the force had agreed an out-of-court settlement.\n\nAirport chiefs said 120,000 people due to arrive or fly had not been able to travel\n\nSussex Police confirmed it has paid the couple the £55,000 owed in damages, and law firm Howard Kennedy said it has billed the force an additional £145,000 in legal costs.\n\nFlights were cancelled in droves over a three-day period, as police investigated multiple reported drone sightings.\n\nNo-one has ever been charged, and police have said that some reported drone sightings may have been Sussex Police's own craft.\n\nTwelve armed officers swooped on Mr and Mrs Gait's home, even though they did not possess any drones and had been at work during the reported sightings.\n\nIn a statement released by their legal team on Sunday, the couple said: \"We are delighted to have finally received vindication, it has been a very long fight for justice.\n\n\"It has taken lengthy legal proceedings to obtain resolution from the police and to finally have closure on this distressing time.\"\n\nAnti-drone equipment was used at Gatwick Airport after the drone stopped flights intermittently for days\n\nIn a letter to the couple, Sussex Police Assistant Chief Constable David Miller said he was \"deeply sorry\" for the \"unpleasantness\" the couple experienced, and acknowledged it would have been \"traumatic\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, when the police carry out their functions on behalf of the public, sometimes innocent people are arrested as part of necessary police investigations in the public interest.\n\n\"However, we recognise that things could have been done differently and, as a result, Sussex Police have agreed to pay you compensation and legal costs.\"\n\nThe force commissioned a \"thorough independent review\" of the drone incident last year.\n\nIt revealed 96 people \"of interest\" were identified, researched and ruled out during the investigation and the cost of the operation and subsequent investigation was £790,000.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Young people's brains continue to develop and change during adolescence\n\nReduced face-to-face contact among teenagers and their friends during the pandemic could have damaging long-term consequences, neuroscientists say.\n\nAt a sensitive time in life, their brain development, behaviour and mental health could suffer.\n\nUsing social media might make up for some negative effects of social distancing, they write in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.\n\nBut they call for schools to reopen for young people as a priority when safe.\n\nAdolescence - defined by the scientists as between 10 and 24 - is a vulnerable stage, when young people want to spend more time with their friends than their family, as they prepare for adult life.\n\nCombined with major hormonal and biological changes, it's a key time for the development of the brain.\n\nIt's also the period in life when mental-health problems are mostly likely to develop.\n\nBut the arrival of coronavirus has disrupted all that, says Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, from the department of psychology at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the opinion piece.\n\n\"Owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many young people around the world currently have substantially fewer opportunities to interact face-to-face with peers in their social network at a time in their lives when this is crucial for their development,\" she says.\n\n\"Even if physical distancing measures are temporary, several months represents a large proportion of a young person's life.\n\n\"We would urge policymakers to give urgent consideration to the well-being of young people at this time.\"\n\nMore than two-thirds of young British adolescents, aged 12-15, have a social-media profile\n\nThe Viewpoint article, written with Amy Orben, research fellow at Cambridge, and Livia Tomova, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calls for more research to be carried out to understand the effects of \"social deprivation\" on adolescents.\n\nAt present, research on animals is all they have to go on - and it suggests that non-human primates and rodents experience a rise in anxious behaviour and a decrease in brain functions related to learning and memory when social contact is taken away.\n\nThis is likely to be due to the lack of experiences for social learning, they say.\n\nBut with 69% of younger adolescents in the UK, aged 12-15, having a social-media profile, social connection is still possible - via anything from Instagram to online gaming.\n\nThe question is how much and what kinds of digital communication help to lessen the effects of physical distancing, says Dr Orben.\n\n\"Some studies have shown that active social-media use, such as messaging or posting directly on another person's profile, increases well-being and helps maintain personal relationships.\n\n\"However, it has been suggested that passive uses of social media, such as scrolling through newsfeeds, negatively influence wellbeing.\"\n\nLockdown rules brought in to stop the spread of the virus have meant schools in the UK have been closed to most children since 20 March.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.", "The memorial for PC Keith Palmer was unveiled outside Parliament in 2018\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of urinating at the Westminster memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer.\n\nThe incident is believed to have taken place on Saturday afternoon.\n\nPC Palmer, 48, was stabbed while on duty during the Westminster terror attack on 22 March 2017. He was one of five people murdered by Khalid Masood.\n\nThe Met Police said officers had arrested a man on suspicion of outraging public decency.\n\nHe is currently in custody in Essex after presenting himself at a police station.\n\nPC Keith Palmer was unarmed as he was attacked by Khalid Masood\n\nSpeaking on Saturday in response to a photo posted on social media, Commander Bas Javid said: \"We are aware of a disgusting and abhorrent image circulating on social media of a man appearing to urinate on a memorial to PC Palmer.\n\n\"We have immediately launched an investigation, and will gather all the evidence available to us and take appropriate action.\"\n\nMP Tobias Ellwood, who gave first aid to PC Palmer as he lay dying after being stabbed in the grounds of Parliament, said the image of the urinating man was \"abhorrent\".\n\nThe remembrance stone was placed at the Carriage Gates at the Palace of Westminster, where PC Palmer was attacked.\n\nThe Police Memorial Trust said the stone was a reminder of PC Palmer's sacrifice and heroism.\n• None Memorial for murdered PC by end of year\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The statue of Edward Colston was pushed into the harbour after being toppled by protesters\n\nPledges have been made by police, the council and community leaders aimed at bringing about long-term change in Bristol following the Black Lives Matter protest that saw a statue of Edward Colston toppled.\n\nProtesters tore down the statue of the 17th Century slave trader and pushed it into the city's harbour, in one of the most symbolic moments of a series of demonstrations around the country.\n\nAn estimated 10,000 people had gathered in Bristol to demonstrate last weekend and many said the events felt empowering but they hoped for real change in the city.\n\nBristol Mayor Marvin Rees has commissioned research into the city's history in a pledge to better understand its story, while other pledges made include updating the school curriculum and efforts to improve BAME representation within the police force.\n\nThe statue was recovered on Thursday morning from Bristol's harbour and is set to become a museum exhibit, alongside protestors' placards from the demonstration.\n\nMarvin Rees said a commission of historians would be set up to research the city's \"true history\"\n\nMr Rees, Bristol's mayor since 2016, said: \"The events over the last few days have really highlighted as a city we all have very different understandings of our past.\n\n\"The only way we can work together on our future is by learning the truth of our beginnings, embracing the facts, and sharing those stories with others.\n\n\"Bristol's journey to become the modern city it is today includes a history of huge disparities of class, race and gender and the struggles for equality.\"\n\nFollowing many calls for schools' curriculums to better reflect the culture, literature and history of black communities, Joanne Jefferson, head of English and associate head teacher at St Katherine's School in Pill, Bristol, said the school would be leading on cultural awareness and inclusion in September.\n\nJoanne Jefferson will be helping lead her school with its cultural awareness programme\n\nShe said the protests had inspired the school to \"evaluate everything\" about its teaching.\n\n\"White privilege and what it means is one of the first things that we are educating our young people on, because there are elements of mainstream media and people in society that think it's a made up thing. It's not - it exists,\" Mrs Jefferson said.\n\n\"One of the things we are trying to do as a school is to encourage our young people to put themselves in somebody else's shoes.\"\n\nMrs Jefferson and two of her black colleagues recorded a video conversation about the issues to show pupils \"it's OK to talk about race\".\n\nThe school has launched a reading challenge to \"promote black fiction, political fiction and anti-racist fiction\" and encourage teachers \"to educate themselves\" on race.\n\nLiza Bilal was a part of the Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol\n\nLiza Bilal, 21, one of the organisers of the city's protest, has pledged to lobby the government into reviewing positive discrimination under the Equality Act.\n\nShe said: \"It is so companies are actively hiring, and filling their boards with, black and brown people.\n\n\"Martin Luther King said 'protests and riots are the expression of the unheard', so if change doesn't occur and we don't see it soon there will be more protests.\"\n\nDesmond Brown said this was a defining moment for the city\n\nDesmond Brown, chair of the local group of the Lammy Review, investigating racial bias in the criminal justice system, said he had collected data on how decisions were made at each point of a person's journey through the system, to understand where any bias was and then challenge it..\n\nHe pledge to create a framework, working with people in independent advisory and community groups, that would see information flow between the community and police so pressing issues could be raised.\n\nAnd Mr Brown said he would offer workshops to help young black people \"survive encounters with the criminal justice system\", access help and not become criminalised.\n\n\"This is a defining moment and if we don't see change here, I don't think we are going to go back to quiet times,\" said Mr Brown. \"I think the rage in young people across the board, black and white male and female is - enough is enough now.\"\n\nThe Avon and Somerset Police Outreach team says its diversity champions will support people interested in joining the force\n\nA spokeswoman for Avon and Somerset Police's outreach team described an ambitious vision \"to be the UK's most inclusive police force\".\n\nShe said: \"We currently don't represent the communities we serve and so this needs to change.\n\n\"Our continuing work with the Black Police Association ensures those of a black and minority ethnic background within the service are treated fairly.\"\n\nThe force has been certified by the National Equality Standard and achieved accreditation for best practice in equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.\n\nIt has diversity champions who support people from under represented backgrounds who are interested in joining the police.\n\nProtesters knelt on the neck of the bronze statue of Colston, which is destined to be a museum exhibit\n\nThe University of Bristol has committed to reviewing the names of its buildings and logo.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The Black Lives Matter campaign has served to amplify existing concerns about the university's history and whether we should rename the Wills Memorial Building, and other buildings named after families with links to the slave trade.\"", "It is feared the 30ft (10m) fin whale might not survive\n\nA beached whale which became stranded in the same estuary twice in as many days has a \"high chance\" of dying, rescuers have warned.\n\nIt was hoped the 30ft (10m) sea mammal had returned to open waters when it was seen swimming out to sea on Friday.\n\nBut it was again found stranded on Saturday morning on the same stretch of Flintshire coastline.\n\nThe fin whale - the second largest whale breed in the world - is thought to be only six or seven months old.\n\nAn expert from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) is assessing the 14-tonne creature.\n\nWriting on its Facebook page on Saturday evening, the group said its team had withdrawn to safety after the tide came in.\n\n\"The whale is still alive and it will be monitored from the boat and the shore,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers are keeping their fingers crossed after seeing the whale swim towards open waters\n\nA spokesman said whales cannot support their own weight on land, so are in danger of causing \"significant internal damage to themselves\" when stranded.\n\nAfter so many hours out of the water, there are fears the whale may not survive.\n\n\"Although we want to be optimistic, we have to be absolutely realistic about the animal's chances of survival at this point,\" BDMLR added.\n\n\"It has spent several hours out of the water gradually being crushed under its own weight over the last couple of days and the degree of internal damage this may have caused could be very significant by now.\n\n\"Even if it does swim off again this evening there is a high chance that it will re-strand and, or pass away as a result.\"", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, a German man who is the new suspect\n\nPortuguese police say the German evidence against the new suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is \"significant\".\n\nA senior police source also told the BBC they were keen to cooperate in the investigation into the disappearance of the British girl in Portugal in 2007.\n\nThe new suspect is a 43-year-old German man, named in reports as Christian B, who is in prison in Germany.\n\nHe was revealed as the main suspect earlier this month, as German and UK police made a fresh appeal for help.\n\nThe convicted paedophile is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Portugal.\n\nA senior Portuguese police source, who has seen the German evidence against Christian B, has told the BBC it is \"very important\" and \"significant\".\n\nThe source also rejected criticism that their procedures were slow, amid reports that the German authorities have privately been critical of their Portuguese counterparts.\n\nAnother source close to the investigation said Portuguese police accepted that Christian B was now a suspect.\n\nAsked whether they had access to his previous convictions for child sexual offences at the time of Madeleine's disappearance, he said it was important not to judge the past with the benefit of hindsight, and that police systems since then had changed.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nSome of those who knew the German suspect during his time in Portugal have criticised the investigation as \"very slow\", telling the BBC that they were only approached by police - either British or Portuguese - in the past year or two.\n\nSeveral people remembered Christian B as angry and untrustworthy, with one neighbour saying he squatted in a nearby house without paying rent, and left it \"ransacked\" in a terrible state when he departed, two years before Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nWhen German police - newcomers to the Madeleine McCann investigation - announced they had evidence that indicated the toddler was dead, it seemed to get a cautious response from their Portuguese and British counterparts.\n\nBritish police stuck to their line that it was a \"missing person inquiry\", and the impression from Portuguese media was that their own tight-lipped authorities were staying open-minded.\n\nThis first-hand confirmation from a senior Portuguese police source that the German evidence is \"very important\" and \"significant\" is a sign of how seriously this new development is being taken there.\n\nThere's been plenty of mutual recrimination between the British and Portuguese forces in the 13 years since Madeleine McCann vanished from her family's holiday apartment.\n\nNow a third country has entered the quest for answers.\n\nAwkward? Maybe. But the German evidence, it seems, is convincing enough for the Portuguese police to signal their support.\n\nAfter living for so long under the pressure of unanswered questions, they won't want to be left out of a development that might promise some answers.\n\nGerman prosecutors have previously said they have evidence that leads them to believe Christian B killed Madeleine, but it wasn't strong enough to take him to court.\n\nPolice say the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve in Portugal between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe suspect is currently serving a jail term in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, for drug-dealing, having been extradited from Portugal in July 2017.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the Praia da Luz area in May 2007, when Madeleine went missing while on a family holiday with her parents and siblings.\n\nIn December 2019, the man was sentenced to seven years for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, have said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because there was no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine was alive or not.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Met Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "Police have closed Water Lane in Roydon while investigations continue\n\nA man injured in a \"drive-by\" shooting after a party has died.\n\nThe victim, who was shot multiple times outside a property in Roydon, Essex, was one of three people hurt in the gun attack on Saturday.\n\nHe has since died in hospital, Essex Police said. Two women in their 20s who sustained single gunshot wounds were not seriously injured.\n\nDetectives have appealed for any information which could assist their murder investigation to come forward.\n\nAfter the shooting at about 05:00 BST, the suspects fled and drove off in the direction of Harlow, the force said.\n\nDet Insp Greg Wood said the investigation was \"progressing well\" and officers were \"beginning to build up a picture of what happened\".\n\nEssex Police said the car drove off in the direction of Harlow after the shooting\n• None Three injured in 'drive-by' shooting after party\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner has five years to stake their claim\n\nWhile many of us have left something on a train - a phone, a wallet, headphones - it's highly unlikely you've wandered onto the platform leaving a bagful of gold behind.\n\nWell, one person in Switzerland has. And the authorities would quite like to find them.\n\nEfforts are being made to track down the owner of more than 3kg of gold that was left in a carriage last October.\n\nThe hoard, worth around £152,000 ($191,000), was found on a train between St Gallen and Lucerne.\n\nThe owner has five years to stake their claim at the prosecutor's office in Lucerne, an official statement said.\n\nThe discovery is only being made public now after efforts to track down the owner were unsuccessful.\n\nIt's unclear how authorities will verify the claims of anyone who comes forward to say the gold is theirs.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is Solar Orbiter and what's it going to do?\n\nEurope's Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe makes its first close pass of the Sun on Monday, tracking by at a distance of just over 77 million km.\n\nSolO was launched in February and is on a mission to understand what drives our star's dynamic behaviour.\n\nThe close pass, known as a perihelion, puts the probe between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.\n\nIn the coming years, SolO will go nearer still, closing to within 43 million km of the Sun on occasions.\n\nAs it stands today, only five other missions have dived deeper into the inner Solar System: Mariner 10, Helios 1 & 2, Messenger, and Parker Solar Probe.\n\nEarth orbits 149 million km (93 million miles) on average from the Sun.\n\nSolO is a European Space Agency (Esa) craft that was assembled in the UK by the aerospace company Airbus.\n\nIt has spent the four months since launch undergoing a checkout phase. Engineers have been running the rule over all the probe's systems and commissioning its 10 scientific instruments.\n\nRoutine operations for the full suite of onboard experiments are still a year away, but SolO's magnetometer is up and running and will remain so.\n\nSitting at the end of a long boom at the back of the spacecraft, the MAG senses the magnetic fields embedded in the solar wind - the stream of charged particles billowing away from the Sun.\n\nAlready, the instrument is catching the disturbances that result from big explosions on the star called coronal mass ejections - in addition to the everyday waves and turbulence that trace the wind's structure.\n\n\"We switched on, on 24 February - we've already got over 2 billion magnetic field vectors on the ground. We've got a happy, busy science team working away at the data,\" said Prof Tim Horbury, the MAG principal investigator at Imperial College London.\n\nOne of the reasons the British group's instrument got turned on very early was so it could start to characterise the confounding magnetic fields generated by the electronics in the rest of the spacecraft. This signal is small but needs to be subtracted from the Sun measurements to finesse the detail in the data properly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Lucie Green: \"You get explosions and eruptions in the atmosphere of our star\"\n\nThe early start also gave the London team the chance to do some tandem study with the magnetometer instrument on Esa's BepiColombo mission. As chance would have it, this probe was making a return visit to Earth in April on its way to Mercury. The two missions were therefore able to do some multi-point sensing of the solar wind in relatively close proximity to each other.\n\nThe same has been true with the American Parker Solar Probe - but at a much greater separation. This US mission is in the process of making some very deep dives past the Sun (on 7 June it passed just 19 million km from the star).\n\n\"We're now just one of a constellation of spacecraft flying around the Sun,\" Prof Horbury told BBC News.\n\nThe next major event for SolO is a flyby of Venus. This occurs at the end of December and will see the probe track about 500,000 km above the planet's surface.\n\nThe full science phase of the mission is due to start in 2021 when all 10 of SolO's instruments, including its imagers, will begin regular observations.\n\n\"I was so nervous when we launched,\" said Prof Horbury. \"I guess the more you know about a project, the more you know about the things that can go wrong. But Solar Orbiter is out there, it's working and it's going to be a fantastic success.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is a \"scandal\" that the recommendations of a report on the impact of coronavirus on people in black, Asian and minority communities have been \"buried\", an MP has said.\n\nA leaked Public Health England draft cited racism as a possible factor in why people of such backgrounds are at increased risk of dying of the virus.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said it was \"horrifying\".\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the report would be published next week.\n\nThe review, the second by PHE on the subject, pointed to discrimination as a root cause affecting health and the risk of both exposure to the virus and becoming seriously ill as a result of it.\n\nIt found that historic racism may mean people were less likely to seek care or demand better personal protective equipment, while other potential factors included risks linked to occupation and inequalities in conditions such as diabetes.\n\nMr Lammy, the Labour MP for Tottenham, told The Andrew Marr Show it was hard for black and Asian people not to know someone who had died from the virus, adding that his uncle and a classmate had lost their lives.\n\n\"But the point is it is a scandal if one week Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock say black lives matter and then we find out today that they have buried part of the review that had the recommendations in it to do something about it,\" he said.\n\n\"It is no wonder why people are upset, this is a very, very serious business, the statistics are grim, again, you are in government do something about it - save lives.\"\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak refused to comment on the leaked report but said he believed it was due to be formally published next week.\n\nMr Lammy also told Andrew Marr that the prime minister's tweets about Winston Churchill's statue, and the risk to it from anti-racism protesters, were a deflection from the issues at hand.\n\nHe said: \"He's never tweeted eight times in a day on coronavirus, he's never tweeted eight times in a day on the Windrush review or what he's going to do about it, or on the review that David Cameron asked me to do on disproportionality in the criminal justice system and what he's going to do about it.\n\n\"This feels to me like a bit of a deflection. Let's get to the action, let's have some substance, let's do something about these historic injustices that still exist in our country.\"\n\nA recent review confirmed that the risk of death from Covid-19 is higher for ethnic minorities. PHE found that people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white Britons, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.\n\nHospital trusts and other health service bodies have been asked to prioritise risk assessments for BAME staff and other vulnerable groups. But BBC research has found that hundreds of doctors still have not had a risk assessment.\n\nHave you been affected by any of the issues raised here? You can tell us about your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "India is to convert another 500 railway carriages to create 8,000 more beds for coronavirus patients in Delhi, amid a surge in infections.\n\nHome Minister Amit Shah announced a package of new emergency measures for the capital, including a rapid increase in testing for Covid-19. Nursing homes will also be requisitioned.\n\nHe met Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to address the crisis.\n\nIndia's daily number of confirmed new cases has reached almost 12,000.\n\nThe total number of 320,922 officially confirmed cases puts India fourth in the world - after the US, Brazil and Russia - in the pandemic.\n\nThe death toll in India stands at 9,195, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University from official sources.\n\nThe Hindustan Times reports that Delhi is the third worst-hit state in India after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.\n\nIt reports that Delhi's bed capacity across private and government hospitals for Covid-19 patients stands at 9,698, of which 4,248 beds are vacant.\n\nMr Kejriwal's government plans to use 40 hotels and 77 banquet halls as makeshift hospitals.\n\nIndia began converting railway carriages into quarantine or isolation wards in April, when large parts of the railway network were suspended owing to the pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: Death and despair for migrants on Indian roads\n\nLast month the national government announced plans to end a national lockdown that began on 25 March.\n\nRoad and plane traffic increased as restrictions started to ease, and many businesses and workplaces reopened. Markets are crowded again.\n\nThe lockdown has imposed huge economic costs on India, throwing millions of people out of work, especially migrant workers in precarious, meagrely-paid jobs. Food supply chains were also put at risk.", "Aerial footage shows protesters gathering in central London, despite police warnings to avoid demonstrations.\n\nVarious groups from around the country, including right-wing activists, said they had come to London to protect symbols of British history.\n\nA Black Lives Matter demonstration planned for Saturday was brought forward by a day over fears there could be clashes with far-right groups.\n\nOrganisers urged people not to join any anti-racism rallies planned for the weekend.", "Joseph John was about to get into bed in the early hours of 14 June 2017. He heard noise coming from outside the second-floor apartment he shared with his partner and 14-month-old son in the Grenfell Tower.\n\nHe looked through his curtains and saw a fire engine. He then caught a bright red reflection in the window of a parked car.\n\n\"I saw the building was on fire,\" Joseph, 29, recalls.\n\nHe woke his partner and rushed out of the flat to seek help. Joseph's partner is disabled and he needed help in evacuating his family from the 24-storey tower. A firefighter told him to go back inside the flat and someone would assist them in getting out.\n\nBut after an hour, as flames engulfed the tower's upper floors, he and his partner realised they couldn't risk waiting any longer. Joseph passed their baby over a large gate to a stranger downstairs before carrying his partner through the window and over the gate himself.\n\nThey managed to get out just in time. Seventy-two people did not. Joseph is still struggling to process the trauma he experienced. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety.\n\nA few months after the fire, Joseph heard about a new local football team that had started up. A keen player, he eventually decided to check out a training session.\n\nFinally, he could take his mind off what had happened that night.\n\n\"I tried cooking, I tried working, I tried everything,\" he says. \"Nothing seemed to work for me, other than football.\"\n\nJoseph wasn't the only one. This is the story of a very special Sunday league team, Grenfell Athletic.\n\nThe Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington, west London, was one of the worst disasters in British modern history. It began on the fourth floor of the tower just before 01:00 BST on 14 June. By 04:30 more than 100 flats were on fire. The blaze did not burn itself out for 24 hours.\n\nRupert Taylor was born and raised on the streets surrounding Grenfell and used to play on football pitches beneath the tower. He started volunteering as a youth worker in 2005 and at the time of the fire was manager of the local youth centre. Nine children from the youth centre died in the tower.\n\nRupert was on holiday in Gibraltar when he received a phone call in the early hours of 14 June.\n\n\"I turned on the news. My heart sunk, it was horrific,\" he recalls. \"We didn't know who was alive.\"\n\nHe got the first plane back to London and got straight to work in helping people affected by the fire. \"When I got back I drove in… the smell of burning was real,\" he says. \"I was trying to get support for the residents who were wandering the streets trying to find out about their loved ones.\"\n\nA few days later, Rupert noticed a young man wandering outside the youth centre looking lost. He asked the man if he was OK and if he wanted to come in and get some supplies. He politely declined but they exchanged phone numbers. The man later came into the centre and they started to talk. He told Rupert he was a resident of the tower.\n\n\"He seemed like a very lonely chap,\" Rupert says. \"He told me that he'd lost both his parents a few years ago. A couple of weeks in, we were building a relationship and I noticed he was really struggling. I asked what helped him get through the time when he lost his parents and the first thing that came out of his mouth was 'football'.\n\n\"I said: 'Right, we're going to create a team.'\"\n\nGrenfell Athletic was born barely a month after the fire. Rupert started to put word around the local community and training sessions were set up.\n\nBecause it was so soon after the fire, he wanted it to be as open as possible. Many were still recovering mentally and physically, and he wanted residents to feel able to pop in for training sessions without fully committing to the team.\n\nGrenfell Athletic joined the Middlesex County Football League for the 2017-18 season. The early days were turbulent.\n\n\"It was the strain of the shadow of what we were all walking out for,\" Rupert says. \"The 72 lives that were lost. Every time we went out to the pitch, we did a minute's silence. It starts to wear you down and it's quite heavy on the soul.\n\n\"Children lost their lives. You're seeing their faces when you get out on the pitch and you say you're doing this for them. You're trying to build something greater than your bog-standard Sunday league team.\"\n\nGrenfell Athletic soon started to gel and finished fifth out of 12 teams in their first season - a solid start for a new team founded under such tough circumstances.\n\nAt the end of the season, the team went on a tour of Italy where they played semi-professional Lanciano from the Italian fifth tier. The trip was an important part of the healing process for a lot of the players, many of whom hadn't properly left the area since the fire. It was, Rupert says, \"a time for them to be away from the shadow of this area and the tower\".\n\nBonded after their Italian tour, the team fully found their stride in the second season. They lost just one game and won both the league - gaining promotion - and League Cup.\n\nAfter the fire, Joseph and his family had to spend the first few days living in a local church, before eventually being given a room in a hotel - where they stayed for a year. They have been in temporary housing since.\n\nAs time went on, Joseph struggled to come to terms with the night of the fire. He knew people who lost their lives. He recalls a family he would chat to and help out in the tower's lift. They didn't make it out.\n\n\"For me, it was super difficult, even now. Every day I feel like I am living back in 2017,\" he says.\n\nJoseph, who moved to the UK four years ago, is from a family of footballers and grew up playing in his native Trinidad and Tobago - even representing his country at under-17 level.\n\nThe team soon helped him escape the trauma in ways he hadn't been able to before. He also started opening up to some of his team-mates about the fire.\n\n\"It helped me grow bonds with them, it helped me be open. I can discuss anything with some of my team-mates,\" he says. \"We can chat one to one - man to man - it makes me feel comfortable.\n\n\"I don't like being around people, I don't like meeting people, I don't like being in people's space - I like to be around myself. But in football you can't have that.\n\n\"You have to be respectful, you have to be considerate to your team-mates, you have to be uplifting. It's different rules - being part of the team.\"\n\nBy mid-March of this year, Grenfell Athletic were joint second in the table, and then coronavirus hit.\n\n\"Right now my mental health is going down badly with no football and just staying at home,\" he said in April. \"I can't go to my physio, I can't go to my therapist. It's hard.\"\n\nMany of the team did not live in Grenfell, but the tower had been a constant in their lives.\n\nBoxer Dan-Dan Keenan, 23, grew up in the area and started training at the Dale Youth Boxing Club inside Grenfell Tower aged 10.\n\nDan-Dan was outside the tower on the night of the fire, speaking to his best friend's father, Tony, on the phone. Tony was trapped on the 23rd floor and never made it out.\n\n\"I rang him when I first got there to tell him there was a fire and he said 'thanks for making me aware but I already know,'\" Dan-Dan recalls. \"We were watching it, so it's pretty bad.\"\n\nDan-Dan soon heard about Grenfell Athletic from local friends he grew up with playing football.\n\n\"I wanted to get involved in remembrance of Grenfell and especially in remembrance of Tony. But also, besides that, I just wanted to play football,\" he says.\n\n\"It means that everyone is still talking about Grenfell, which is always a good thing. Obviously we want to remember them and not just let it get swept under the carpet.\"\n\nWhile the club is still in its infancy, everyone you speak to from Grenfell Athletic is dreaming big.\n\nRupert is eyeing up a plot of land in Greenford, west London, that could one day be the team's official home (they currently play around six miles away in Chiswick).\n\nDan-Dan says that a home ground of their own would help build the team's profile.\n\n\"I see a lot of Sunday league clubs - YouTube teams, for example - and they've got hundreds and hundreds of people watching and supporting them,\" he says.\n\n\"If we can get a home pitch which is local to Grenfell I'm sure people - whether they like football or not - will come and support us just because we are representing Grenfell.\"\n\nJoseph agrees that a real home and top-quality coaching is needed for the team to take the next step up and bag more silverware.\n\nBut the importance of Grenfell Athletic goes far beyond titles and trophies for Joseph.\n\n\"I have no family here, I'm here on my own with my kids and my partner. Football is my family, football is my community,\" he says.\n\n\"They're like my brothers. Well, they are my brothers.\"", "People have been paying their respects to the victims of the fire on its third anniversary\n\nThe survivors of Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people, have said \"nothing has changed\" three years after the disaster.\n\nThose who escaped from the west London tower block said they feel \"left behind\" and \"disgusted\" by a lack of progress in making other buildings safe.\n\nSome 246 buildings still have Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding.\n\nChurches across London will ring their bells 72 times to mark those who died.\n\nThe inferno at Grenfell - the biggest domestic blaze since the Second World War - started as a small kitchen fire.\n\nIt spread to engulf the whole building, and the type of cladding used has been blamed.\n\nA Parliamentary committee has warned cladding, like that which helped the flames spread, could cost up to £15bn to remove nationwide.\n\nOn the third anniversary of the fire, with commemoration services planned online, survivors and relatives also expressed disbelief that a public inquiry into the disaster had yet to conclude.\n\nHearings were paused in March because of the coronavirus pandemic and are due to restart on 6 July.\n\nKarim Mussilhy, whose uncle Hesham Rahman died in the blaze, said \"there's not a lot of compliments right now\" for the government.\n\n\"A lot has changed, but nothing has changed,\" he said.\n\n\"We're still talking about cladding, we're still talking about justice. The public inquiry keeps stopping and starting.\n\n\"It never feels like there's any urgency with the emergency that this country is in with the whole cladding situation.\"\n\nSurvivor Tiago Alves added: \"We knew this wasn't going to be an easy fight. Did I think we'd still be here three years on still talking about the removal of cladding? I think that's a bit absurd.\"\n\nJoseph John, who escaped the fire by climbing out the window of his second floor flat with his then-partner and child, has said he feels \"disgusted\" about where victims still find themselves.\n\n\"I feel like I've been left behind since Grenfell, I haven't been supported.\"\n\nA silent march was held to honour the victims on Sunday afternoon\n\nCampaign group Grenfell United - set up in the wake of the tragedy - organised a series of events, including online commemorations.\n\nA silent march was held to honour victims on Sunday afternoon, and a video message from singer Adele, who visited the site shortly after the fire, was played to a virtual service.\n\n\"Even though we're having to do this in the virtual world, online, 2020 Zoom life as it is, it is still so important for us to mourn together, and for us to remember that night and to reflect on that and also reflect on where we are now,\" she said.\n\n\"And also to celebrate the lives that were lived before sadly being taken that night.\"\n\nRapper Stormzy also sent a message of support to the survivors and those affected by the disaster.\n\n\"To all the people of Grenfell, we're still mourning with you,\" he said.\n\n\"When the Government and the powers that be have turned their back on you, we're here. We've got you, we remember.\n\n\"It was just a day, it was just a week, it was just a month for us, it was a green heart, it was a badge, it was a tweet but that's still a dark reality for these people.\"\n\nAt 22:30 BST, people in homes across the UK have been asked to shine a bright green light from their screens to show solidarity with the bereaved and survivors.\n\nMessages from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer were played at a virtual service hosted by the Bishop of Kensington.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"As a nation, we are still dealing with the consequences of what happened and working to make sure it never happens again.\"\n\nPeople have been asked to shine a green light in their homes to pay tribute to the victims\n\nHe added stricter laws on fire safety had been introduced and that the government was working to implement \"every recommendation made by the first phase of the public inquiry\".\n\nLabour has estimated 56,000 people were still living in homes wrapped in the same flammable cladding as Grenfell.\n\n\"In the midst of their suffering, the Grenfell community came together to campaign for justice, safe homes and change.\n\n\"Because no-one should ever go through the loss and pain they experienced,\" said Sir Keir.\n\n\"But three years on and, unbelievably, tonight, people will go to bed in unsafe homes,\" he added.\n\nIn a written statement, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said he would be relentless in ensuring the Grenfell community gets justice and that Londoners would feel safe in their homes.\n\nSome of victims of the fire have said they feel \"left behind\" by the government\n\nThe public inquiry is due to restart on 6 July\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government spokeswoman said it had set up the Building Safety Programme and testing process to identify all high-rise buildings with ACM cladding and had worked with councils to ensure buildings at risk were made safe.\n\nThe Fire Brigades Union said high-rise residents faced a \"postcode lottery\" concerning how many firefighters would be sent to their building in the event of a blaze.\n\nIt said \"many brigades would not be able to mobilise anywhere near the scale\" that was needed to tackle the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nA public inquiry is due to restart in July\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will talk online with EU institution leaders including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday\n\nPsssst .. Over here! Lift the tarpaulin and dust down the jargon. Brexit is back on the political menu. Whether you voted for it or not, now is the time to start sitting up and listening again.\n\nIt starts with Monday's online meeting between UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU institution leaders (the president of the European Council, Commission and Parliament).\n\nI know you've seen countless \"make or break summits\", so many \"deadlines\" come and go, so many threats of \"no deal\" that came to nought.\n\nSo here is an attempt to try and help navigate what's spin and what you should be looking out for. More insights - including deal-making tips from a professional hostage negotiator - in my podcast here.\n\nFirst off, Brexit has, of course, \"happened\". The UK left the EU at the end of January. But we're not yet living the next chapter. The transition period we're in means that, in practical terms, little has changed. The UK is still a member of the EU's single market and customs union. The UK isn't going it alone, just yet.\n\nThe EU and UK have until the end of this month - according to the Withdrawal Agreement, aka the Brexit divorce deal - to call for an extension to transition. But the UK government has long rejected the idea. On Friday, the EU publicly accepted that UK \"no\" as definitive.\n\nSo, there are six months left to negotiate, sign and seal the parameters of the UK's future relationship with its biggest and closest trade partner.\n\nThat's six months left to compromise.\n\nBecause without compromise - on both sides - there will be no trade deal come the end of this year.\n\nThat is why it's worth keeping a closer eye on things again. The UK government promised a brighter future post-Brexit - a taking back of control over national borders, waters and immigration.\n\nThe next half-a-year is when we find out if it will keep those promises.\n\nWhat compromises, if any, will the UK government make on its Brexit pledges in order to reach a trade deal with the EU and others?\n\nAnd if the UK refuses to compromise, how might having no deal at all with the EU affect our lives?\n\nRight now, EU-UK trade negotiations are at an impasse, because of political priorities both sides of the Channel.\n\nThe government rejects EU demands on competition regulations and fishing because, it says, they fail to respect the UK's post Brexit national sovereignty.\n\nThe UK and EU have so far failed to agree on fishing and competition rules\n\nThe EU insists without agreement on fishing and competition rules, there'll be no deal at all. It wants restrictions on the UK's ability to slash costly environmental or labour regulations for example, in order to prevent UK businesses becoming more competitive than European ones in their own market. This, says the EU, is imperative to protect the \"integrity\" of the single market and what it calls \"the European project\".\n\nBut political rhetoric aside, Boris Johnson and EU leaders want a deal. It makes economic sense. This doesn't mean a deal is certain. But the UK isn't walking away from talks this month either, as it once threatened to do.\n\nInstead, after their meeting on Monday, the prime minister and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are expected to announce a timetable of intensified negotiations this summer, including some face-to-face meetings (Covid-19 permitting) in a declared attempt to break the deadlock.\n\nPrepare for the setting of more deadlines too. Plus dark mutterings from both sides (France's Europe minister was already at it on Thursday) should these deadlines not be met.\n\nThe UK says a deal must become clear before the autumn to give businesses and workers the chance to prepare. Spoiler alert: a deal is extremely unlikely to materialise by then.\n\nThe EU insists 31 October is the latest date a deal can be reached, if it is to be ratified by the end of the year (the UK's other deadline).\n\nSpoiler alert Number 2: the late October date is also quite possibly not going to be met.\n\nThe UK has so far insisted it won't extend the transition period\n\nSo, does this make no-deal now the most probable outcome?\n\nNot necessarily. A deal is there to be done by December if both sides want one and if both are willing to make concessions. A compromise could be found on fishing, if, for example, EU coastal nations give up the dream of keeping the same quotas they had to fish in UK waters when the UK was an EU member. And if the UK accepts it can't have the exact same fishing agreement Brussels has with much smaller Norway.\n\nOn competition rules - aka level playing-field regulations - the EU would need to give up its insistence that the UK mirror the bloc's evolving state aid rules forever in to the future.\n\nThe UK concession could be to sign up to not weakening labour and environmental regulations below the current level.\n\nBut that is a political decision for the UK. The EU recognises that. And it's really not sure which way the government will eventually jump. Much will depend, Brussels thinks, on whatever else is going on for Boris Johnson domestically, come the autumn.\n\nGive up some sovereignty (as trade negotiators say all deals demand, to a greater or lesser extent) and come under fire from Brexit purists, or walk away, declaring that no deal was possible with the EU, and face an outcry from many in the business community and beyond.\n\nIt's at this point in off-the-record chats that my EU contacts love to repeat the phrase they've so often directed at the UK since the 2016 referendum, that \"you can't have your cake and eat it\". Or as the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier likes to say: \"You can't have the best of both worlds.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhatever the next months may bring, negotiators from both sides privately acknowledge this summer is probably too early for big compromises.\n\nThe theory is that the \"other side\" would simply bank those summer compromises and demand more come the autumn.\n\nAnd if they're almost there but not quite, come November, the whispered wisdom in Brussels is that with all the \"clever lawyers\" in town, as they're described to me, it should be possible to find a way of fudging an extension (though for political face-saving reasons, especially in the UK, not actually calling it an extension) for a limited period beyond the end of the year, if both sides want one, and only if they are very close indeed to sealing the deal.\n\nAfter all my years EU-watching, I cannot imagine the bloc allowing a deal with close neighbour and ally UK to fall through over a deadline, if the UK government too were keen to keep talking.\n\nBut this is not an official topic of discussion in Brussels, never mind London, at this stage.\n\nMeanwhile in Berlin, Paris, Rome and elsewhere, EU leaders are still very much focussed on Covid-19 and its fallout.\n\nYet another reason Brussels predicts the bartering and compromise possibilities will only become clearer come October, with the clock ticking down to the end of the year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patrick Hutchinson: \"We did what we had to do\"\n\nThe person pictured carrying a man to safety following a clash between protest groups in London has said he and his friends \"stopped somebody from being killed\".\n\nPatrick Hutchinson was widely praised after a photo of him helping the man on Saturday went viral.\n\nDescribing the events behind the image, he told the BBC the situation \"wasn't going to end well\" without their help.\n\n\"I scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out,\" he said.\n\nA number of peaceful anti-racism protests took place in London and other cities across the UK on Saturday.\n\nBut groups including some far-right activists also congregated in the capital, and more than 100 people were arrested after violence broke out and police were attacked.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Hutchinson's \"instincts in that moment represent the best of us\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added: \"The images are very moving. Nobody should have to face vile racism and abuse.\"\n\nSpeaking about the events leading up to the photo, Mr Hutchinson said he was with his friends when one of them saw an altercation at the top of the stairs by the Southbank Centre, near Waterloo.\n\n\"The guy ended up on the floor and these guys [signalling to his friends] rushed in to stop him from getting trampled,\" said Mr Hutchinson, a personal trainer and grandfather.\n\n\"In doing so, they created a barrier around him, and I was the last one to come in. I scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out with the guys around me, protecting me and shielding me and protecting this guy from getting any further punishment.\"\n\nHe said people were still trying to hit the man as they were leaving the scene.\n\n\"I wasn't thinking, I was just thinking of a human being on the floor. It wasn't going to end well had we not intervened,\" Mr Hutchinson said. \"I had no other thoughts in my mind apart from getting to safety.\"\n\nHe added: \"We did what we had to do. We stopped somebody from being killed.\"\n\nThousands of people have taken to the streets in cities around the world following the death of African American man George Floyd, who died last month as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nFour police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nMr Hutchinson told Channel 4 News in a separate interview that Mr Floyd \"would be alive today\" if the other police officers had intervened - as he and his friends did on Saturday.\n\nPierre Noah was one of those to help Mr Hutchinson during the clash between protesters.\n\nMr Noah, who works as a bodyguard, told the BBC: \"I'm saving two lives right there. I'm saving the man that's just about to get squashed up and beat up. And then I'm saving those young boys to get a life sentence.\"", "Dr Muge Cevik has studied cases from around the world Image caption: Dr Muge Cevik has studied cases from around the world\n\nThe World Health Organisation said this week that coronavirus could be transmitted by people who never develop symptoms, so may not know they are carrying the virus.\n\nDr Muge Cevik, an infectious diseases expert at St Andrews University, has studied a range of asymptomatic cases from contact tracing around the world.\n\n\"What we found is that while asymptomatic patients can certainly transmit the virus to others, they transmit the infection to fewer cases, which means they are less contagious compared to someone with symptoms,\" she told Politics Scotland.\n\nMs Cevik said transmission rates depend on many different aspects, including the duration of the contact, proximity, and the environment.\n\nShe explained that 'super-spreaders' - cases when maybe 20 people are infected at the same time - occur when someone at their most infectious goes to an all-day meeting for example, or a crowded indoor event, and then might go out for dinner afterwards.\n\n\"If the same person had an evening at home, we might not see any transmission,\" she added.\n\nQuote Message: We still need to understand when patients are at their most infectious, but it seems to be when they start to develop symptoms or feel mildly unwell.\" from Dr Muge Cevik We still need to understand when patients are at their most infectious, but it seems to be when they start to develop symptoms or feel mildly unwell.\"", "Rescuers tried to save the 30ft (10m) fin whale after it was beached twice\n\nA beached whale has died after getting stranded for a third time on the same stretch of the coastline.\n\nThe 30ft (10m) fin whale was spotted again on a sand bank near the Dee estuary in Flintshire on Sunday morning.\n\nThe 14-tonne sea mammal was being observed by rescue teams from a distance for \"signs of life\".\n\nBut a Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokeswoman confirmed the whale had died.\n\n\"It will be taken away and post-mortem examination carried out in the next day or two to determine how and why it died,\" she said.\n\nMembers of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) spotted the whale this morning but said there were \"no signs of life left\".\n\nOn their Facebook page, they said: \"The fin whale re-stranded late last night on a sand bank near the Dee estuary mouth on the outgoing tide, but it was far too dangerous to send anyone out there to see if it was still alive.\n\n\"It has been found stranded once again this morning and a team from the coastguard and a licensed drone pilot with permission to fly the area have been observing it from a distance.\n\n\"Sadly, though expected, there appear to be no signs of life left.\"\n\nThe whale beached itself for the first time on Friday\n\nThe BDMLR urged members of the public not to enter the estuary in an attempt to get near the whale, which was thought to be only six or seven months old.\n\nThey said it had been a \"harrowing ordeal over the last couple of days\" for the team as they had battled to save the whale.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers were keeping their fingers crossed after seeing the whale swim towards open waters\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Delight as family reunites after weeks apart\n\nThere were squeals of delight as a family had their first hugs after weeks of social distancing.\n\nLike many, Hayley Matthews, 36, from Telford, Shropshire, was separated from her mother Rita Kenyon during lockdown.\n\nBut on Saturday they were reunited, after the government allowed single adults living alone to link with another household.\n\nThe family said news they were able to reunite was like \"being let out of jail\".\n\nMrs Matthews and her husband Rob both work, so she said her mum was her \"main source of childcare\" for nine-year-old Maddison, seven-year-old Jude and Rowan, five.\n\nThe Matthews family and Rita Kenyon always go on holiday together, as seen in this pre-lockdown snap\n\n\"We have really missed her, especially my youngest,\" she said.\n\n\"Rowan spends lot of time with Nanny, so it has been really difficult, the other two understand a bit more.\n\n\"At the first part of lockdown, I wouldn't go to see her because I couldn't deal with it.\n\n\"My husband went and dropped the shopping off, because we have done all her shopping throughout lockdown.\"\n\nHayley Matthews said her mother was her \"rock\" (pic taken before lockdown)\n\nIt was very emotional when they realised they would be able to get back together, she said.\n\n\"I rang her because she didn't watch the news, and she was crying down the phone, it is like being let out of jail were mum's words,\" Mrs Matthews said.\n\n\"Rowan couldn't get his head around it, when we are out for walks he knows you have to socially distance and he gives Nanny a virtual hug.\n\n\"He has been counting down the days.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "A statue of Robert Baden-Powell in Poole has been boarded up\n\nThe Scout movement must learn from the \"failings\" of its founder Robert Baden-Powell, chief scout Bear Grylls says.\n\nThe adventurer was speaking following a row about whether to take down a statue of Baden-Powell in Poole, Dorset.\n\nAmid claims of Baden-Powell being a supporter of Hitler, the local council initially said it would remove the statue to stop it being targeted.\n\nGrylls said of the Scouts' founder: \"We most certainly do not celebrate Baden-Powell for his failings.\"\n\nIn a statement on the Scouts website, the TV presenter continued: \"We see them and we acknowledge them.\n\n\"And if he were here today we would disagree with him on many things, of that there is no doubt. And I suspect he would too.\n\n\"But we also recognise that Baden-Powell is part of our history, and history is nothing if we do not learn from it.\"\n\nBear Grylls said he hoped Poole's statue of Baden-Powell would remain in place\n\nHe added: \"Baden-Powell may have taken the first step in creating Scouting, but the journey continues today without him.\n\n\"We know where we came from but we are not going back.\"\n\nHe said that he hoped Scouting statues, like the one in Poole, would remain in place \"to remind us all of one thing - the huge positive influence that Scouting continues to bring to so many young people worldwide\".\n\nThere was a public outcry over the decision to remove the Baden-Powell statue temporarily, following its appearance on a target list, and it was instead boarded up.\n\nBaden-Powell had been criticised by campaigners who have accused him of racism, homophobia and support for Adolf Hitler - although this characterisation of him has been rejected by his biographer.\n\nThe Baden-Powell statue was ultimately not removed from Poole Quay\n\nThere had been fears over the monument since Black Lives Matter protesters tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol last weekend.\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council leader Vikki Slade said she and her 15-year-old daughter had been verbally abused after giving interviews about the monument's removal.\n\nA petition to keep it in place gained more then 40,000 signatures and protesters gathered at the quayside to show support for the statue on Thursday, with some camping overnight to ensure it was not vandalised.\n\nCouncil deputy leader Mark Howell said the decision to board it up temporarily was made because \"some people were suspicious the council might not put it back\".\n\nSupporters of the statue remaining in place include Tobias Ellwood, MP for Bournemouth East, who congratulated protesters who \"stepped forward to defend modern-day values, to defend [against] any vandalism and also - dare I say it - a rush to remove this statue without actually any debate\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The largest gathering on Sunday was in Monmouthshire\n\nHundreds of people across Wales have attended protests in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nThe largest gathering was in Monmouth, where about 400 people wore masks and social distanced due to coronavirus.\n\nA further 200 were at a separate event in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, along with about 30 others, including ex-service personnel, saying they were protecting the cenotaph from potential damage.\n\nBrecon and Aberavon Beach, near Port Talbot, also hosted demonstrations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Taylor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMargaret Ogunbanwo, from nearby Penygroes, spoke at the event in Caernarfon after deciding not to erase a swastika found painted on her garage door.\n\nShe shared her experiences of racism and also spoke of the support she received from locals, especially over the past few days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margaret Ogunbanwo spoke in Caernarfon after deciding not to erase a swastika daubed on her garage\n\nOrganisers, the North Wales African Society, said they wanted a peaceful demonstration to raise awareness and show that racism exists everywhere.\n\nSgt Non Edwards from North Wales Police said the force was \"very happy\" with the way the protest had been organised.\n\nMargaret Ogunbanwo (right) had a swastika spray painted on her garage door on Saturday\n\nShe added social distancing had been observed and the event was trouble-free.\n\nThe latest demonstrations follow peaceful protests in Chepstow and Barry on Saturday.\n\nBut there were more than 100 arrests at a protest in London in clashes with police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Chepstow, some people \"took the knee\", while in Barry those who experienced racism were asked to form a line.\n\nProtests around the world have been sparked following the death of George Floyd in the US.\n\nPeople gathered on the Maes in Caernarfon for the demonstration\n\nThe 46-year-old died in Minneapolis in May as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe final moments were filmed on phones and four police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nOrganisers of the demonstration at Chippenham Fields in Monmouth said they \"do not tolerate any violence\" and personal protective equipment was mandatory.", "PM Boris Johnson has commissioned a review into the 2m social distancing rule, the chancellor has confirmed.\n\nMr Johnson said there was \"margin for manoeuvre\" in the 2m rule as the number of coronavirus cases falls.\n\nRishi Sunak told the BBC the government would \"actively\" look again at the measure, given its \"enormous impact\" on the profitability of businesses.\n\nIt is understood the review will aim to report back by 4 July, when pubs and restaurants could open in England.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"As we get the numbers down, so it becomes one in 1,000, one in 1,600, maybe even fewer, your chances of being two metres, or one metre, or even a foot away from somebody who has the virus is obviously going down statistically, so you start to build some more margin for manoeuvre.\"\n\nThe chancellor added he would like to see the rule relaxed, if \"safe and responsible\" to do so.\n\nEx-Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the evidence \"already shows that it is wholly feasible to move to 1m\".\n\n\"If other countries are doing it successfully, we need to move now,\" he added.\n\nThe review, which was first reported in the Mail on Sunday, will take evidence from scientists as well as economists, Mr Sunak confirmed.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, Mr Sunak said \"many other countries\" had a rule less than 2m and the review would \"look at the issue in the round\".\n\n\"Much as I would like to see it reduced - everyone would like to see that reduced from an economic perspective - we can only do that if it's safe and responsible to do so,\" he said.\n\nHe added that scientists had made clear there is a \"different degree of risk at different levels,\" and the decision on relaxing it is \"ultimately\" for ministers to make.\n\nThe UK government currently advises people to stay 2m (6ft 6in) apart from others to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nThis is further than the World Health Organization's recommendation of at least 1m (just over 3ft), and some other countries like France and Denmark. But the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nHowever, there are widespread concerns about the impact of the rule on the UK economy, which is already suffering from the pandemic.\n\nShops in London's Oxford Street are preparing to reopen on Monday with the 2m rule in place\n\nSome bars, restaurants and pubs say they will be unable to make a profit if the 2m guidance is still in place when they reopen. Tourism firms have also warned of tens of thousands of job losses unless the distance is shortened.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of the industry body UK Hospitality, says that with a 2m rule, outlets would be only able to make about 30% of normal revenues, whereas 1m would increase that to 60-75%.\n\nRichard Caring, chairman of Caprice Holdings which runs the Ivy, told the Mail on Sunday the government was \"killing the country\".\n\n\"There are estimates saying we could have up to five million unemployed,\" he said. \"It's not going to be five million - it's going to be more. I don't think we've seen anything yet.\"\n\nMr Johnson is also under pressure from some of his own MPs to reduce the 2m rule over concerns it would made it difficult for firms to turn a profit after they reopen.\n\nSir Iain said the review should be \"swift,\" and called on the prime minister to reduce the rule now \"for the good of the economy\".\n\n\"Whether there is a review or not, it will come down to a political judgment for the prime minister to make,\" he added.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said Labour would support a relaxation of the 2m rule if the evidence showed it was \"the right time to do it\".\n\nAlso speaking on the Andrew Marr programme, he said the government should \"follow the science,\" and be \"frank and honest with the public on balancing risk\".\n\nHe added: \"I think the government's been slow, slow on testing, slow on lockdown, slow on PPE [personal protective equipment], and I suspect they'll be slow again on this\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nThe 2m distance has been implemented by all nations of the UK, which have their own powers over restrictions. But so far, political leaders have rejected calls to relax the 2m rule.\n\nEarlier this week, Scotland's chief medical officer Dr Gregor Smith said the evidence was \"incontrovertible\" that the risk of transmitting the virus increased the closer you got to someone.\n\nHe said it was a \"balanced and sensible precaution\" to ensure transmission is reduced.\n\nAnd Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster said the medical advice suggested 2m apart was the \"safest place to be\".\n\nWhile pubs, bars and restaurants could open in England from 4 July, no date has been given in Scotland, Wales or NI.\n\nFrom Monday, all non-essential shops in England will be allowed to reopen - as long as they enforce the 2m guidance among shoppers and staff.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, all shops were allowed to open from Friday. No dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales, although each country has set out its planned stages for lifting lockdown.\n\nThe UK government has repeatedly said it is constantly reviewing its coronavirus lockdown guidance.", "Police were present as scores of young people made their way to the Carrington area rave\n\nA 20-year-old man has died, a woman has been raped and three people have been stabbed during two illegal \"quarantine raves\" that attracted 6,000 people.\n\nThousands flocked to Daisy Nook Country Park and Carrington in Greater Manchester late on Saturday.\n\nThe man at the country park died of a suspected drug overdose and the stabbings and the attack on an 18-year-old woman took place in Carrington.\n\nPolice said the illegal raves have had tragic consequences.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Chris Sykes condemned them as a clear breach of coronavirus legislation, adding officers \"were met with violence, resulting in items being thrown and a police car being vandalised\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteers have been clearing up a \"sea of canisters\" and other litter after two illegal raves.\n\nPolice said about 4,000 people were at the Daisy Nook rave in Failsworth, Oldham, where there were no reported crimes.\n\nThere were, however, three separate stabbings at the Carrington site - one of which left an 18-year-old man with life-threatening injuries.\n\nPolice were able to find the man and give him first aid before paramedics arrived.\n\nTwo other men, aged 25 and 26, were hurt in separate stabbings and a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon.\n\n\"We are also investigating the rape of an 18-year-old woman... and we have specialist officers supporting her and her family,\" police said.\n\nThe raves continued through the night\n\nPeople were seen congregating near the rave site\n\nStreams of young people were seen on their way to an area just off Common Lane in Carrington on Saturday evening.\n\nThere was a large police presence at both sites.\n\nImages and footage were also shared on social media showing densely-packed crowds of people dancing and singing at the outdoor raves.\n\nA large sign reading \"Quarantine Rave\" can be seen in background of one video.\n\nAnyone with footage that could help with inquiries has been asked to contact police.\n\nPolice were called to Daisy Nook Country Park after illegal raves were reported\n\nSacha Lord, who is the night-time economy adviser for the region, said those that had attended had put themselves and those they loved at risk.\n\nMr Lord tweeted: \"I've seen some of the footage. You aren't clubbers. Just selfish idiots.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sacha Lord This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe MP for Ashton-Under-Lyne, Angela Rayner, said she had joined Oldham Street Angels at the Daisy Nook site during the rave.\n\nThe group offers support and pastoral care to partygoers and others that need it during the night-time.\n\nMs Rayner tweeted that she had \"just finished my shift at Street Angels in Oldham\" and had been \"dealing with the illegal rave at Daisy Nook liaising with the police\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 🌈 Angela Rayner 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVolunteers spent Sunday morning clearing away rubbish left scattered across the fields at the Daisy Nook site with help from Oldham Council.\n\nVolunteers helped clear the rubbish left on the grass\n\nOldham Council leader Sean Fielding tweeted his thanks to the \"dozens of volunteers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sean Fielding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe region's deputy mayor for policing and crime, Bev Hughes, said the events industry had agreed \"to blacklist any supplier who is involved with illegal raves\".\n\nShe said \"those reckless individuals\" have \"put a needless demand on vital police time,\" and \"themselves and their communities in real danger\".\n\nBut she praised communities helping clean up, saying: \"We have seen the real Greater Manchester this morning.\"\n\nACC Sykes responded to suggestions police had been slow to act or allowed the events to go ahead in a lengthy statement on the force's website.\n\nGreater Manchester Police had seen huge demand including a 60% surge in emergency calls from 17:00 BST on Saturday to 04:00 on Sunday, he said.\n\nHe said said the gatherings were carefully monitored but \"we needed to balance the present public health emergency and our overall demand with ongoing incidents\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"It's very exciting, we can't wait to have our customers back,\" says Annie Martin, who manages the Waterstones Piccadilly bookshop, in London.\n\nNon-essential retailers, such as fashion, toy and book shops, will be allowed to reopen in England on 15 June - as long as they have coronavirus-related safety measures in place.\n\nWaterstones, for example, is introducing Perspex \"sneeze screens\" and a quarantine trolley where books that have been browsed will be held for \"a couple of days\".\n\n\"We want to keep bookshop experience exactly as it normally would be,\" says Annie. \"We're still encouraging people to browse, we're just looking after those books once you've browsed them.\"\n\nAnnie has been working on implementing those changes behind-the-scenes, but is also looking forward to seeing her colleagues back in-store.\n\n\"Bookshops are quite close teams... We've been messaging, but it's not quite the same as seeing colleagues in person for a chat, particularly about the books you've been reading on furlough.\"\n\nSuki, who works at a Boots beauty hall in London, also says that it's \"refreshing to come back to work, which is like my second home\".\n\nMost Boots stores have remained open during lockdown. That means that staff on the beauty counter have had the chance to trial different ways of working about a week before shoppers return to the High Street.\n\nBoots is removing all make-up testers, and assistants will wear plastic visors in its beauty halls, to try to keep both customers and staff safe.\n\nSuki acknowledges that some changes could make shopping more difficult. That there won't be testers is \"going to be a shock for a lot of us, because with beauty you often need to try things on,\" she said.\n\n\"The visor isn't the most glamorous thing in the world, but it does mean that I'm not touching my face and my make-up can stay on longer. And, safety isn't supposed to be glamorous,\" she adds.\n\nOverall, Suki feels as though she's in a safe pair of hands: \"We're all as nervous as each other, so I think as long as we all take the necessary steps, we'll be fine.\"\n\nShoppers, though, might be feeling more anxious about their return to the High Street.\n\nMore than half of UK customers expect they will now go shopping less often over the next one or two years, according to a survey of more than 1,000 people by accountancy giant EY.\n\nOne trade body, the British Retail Consortium (BRC), is urging the public to \"play their part\" in making shopping safer. Along with 25 other retailers, it says customers should follow five steps:\n\nHelen Dickinson, the BRC's chief executive, said: \"Every visit we make helps support jobs in retail, as well as throughout the supply chain. Retailers have been working around the clock to create a safe shopping environment\".\n\n\"Our shopping experience may be changing, but if we all follow the necessary social distancing measures and show a little consideration to those around us, then everyone will be better off.\"\n\nHer plea was echoed by Damian McGloughlin, chief executive of Homebase.\n\n\"While the vast majority of our customers have adhered to the safety measures we have in store, in recent weeks, a small minority of shoppers are disobeying the guidelines set out and at times reacting abusively when challenged by store teams,\" he said.\n\n\"It's for this reason we're calling on members of the public to help us reverse the trend that saw cases of abusive incidents towards shop workers rise by 9% during the last year.\"\n\nFor any customers who don't want to go into a store, HMV will offer to do their shopping for them. From Monday, people can drop in a shopping list, a team member will collect it, package it up and have it waiting for the customer to pick up later. Alternatively, customers can ring their local HMV to have a product put aside for them to collect later on.\n\nThe idea came from the chain's Canadian customers who have been a little bit more cautious about returning to stores as opposed to its US shoppers, says its owner Doug Putman.\n\nSo what does he expect from customers in England when HMV opens 93 shops on Monday? Read more here.\n\nMany retailers in England will soon open their doors for the first time since lockdown measures were introduced in March.\n\nNo dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales, although each country has set out its planned stages for lifting lockdown. Those in Northern Ireland have been open since Friday.\n\nJohn Lewis stores in Poole and Kingston will be the first to reopen on 15 June, followed by another 11 shops later that week. Marks & Spencer will also reopen the majority of its clothing stores.\n\nPrimark has also announced that it will reopen all 153 of its stores in England on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMeanwhile, Debenhams will open 50 shops in England. The firm collapsed for the second time in a year in April after coronavirus ramped up the pressures facing the business. It has struck deals with landlords to keep 120 stores open.\n\nHowever, 17 of its stores will remain closed for good when coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted. It is still in discussions over a \"handful\" of others.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, said: \"The survival of so many retailers will hinge on the success of reopening stores over the coming weeks and the pace at which consumers return.\"\n\nMr Lim also pointed out that the \"significant shift\" towards online seen during lockdown may change shopping habits for good.\n\n\"Many of these consumers are shopping for goods online for the first time, overcoming the barriers of setting up online accounts, entering payment details and gaining trust. It is inevitable that some of these behaviours will become sticky,\" he said.\n\nFormer John Lewis boss and current mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, told Sky News he hopes to see a permanent reform to business rates, a kind of council tax businesses pay.\n\nHe is also keen on proposals for a digital sales tax for online retailers, \"making sure online companies pay a fair share,\" he said.\n\nFor physical shops, a rare ray of sunshine from the lockdown could be customers wanting to visit local shops as they work from home and spend more time near their homes, he added.\n\n\"I do believe one of the things to come out of this is a concentration on local areas,\" he told Sky.", "Little Britain first aired in 2003 and ran for four series until 2008.\n\nMatt Lucas and David Walliams have apologised for playing characters of different ethnic backgrounds in their sketch show Little Britain.\n\nThe series used blackface make-up in some sketches. Earlier this week it was removed from BBC iPlayer, Netflix and BritBox after objections resurfaced.\n\nThe pair said they \"regret that we played characters of other races\".\n\n\"Once again we want to make it clear that it was wrong and we are very sorry,\" they said in their statements.\n\nLucas and Walliams said they had both spoken publicly in recent years about the regret they felt about such scenes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by realmattlucas This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2017, Lucas said: \"If I could go back and do Little Britain again, I wouldn't make those jokes about transvestites. I wouldn't play black characters.\n\n\"Basically, I wouldn't make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I'd do now.\"\n\nWalliams has also said he would \"definitely do it differently\" in today's cultural landscape.\n\nEarlier this year, Lucas said the pair would \"love to bring it back in some way and at some point\", and suggested a Little Britain stage show could be one option.\n\nWalliams used black make-up and an afro wig to play the black woman Desiree DeVere, while Lucas used blackface to play Pastor Jesse King.\n\nLast Friday in the wake of anti-racism protests, Netflix took the show off its platform along with their other comedy, Come Fly With Me.\n\nThe BBC and Britbox took Little Britain off on Monday. Both outlets said \"times have changed\" since it first aired.\n\nLittle Britain first aired in 2003 and ran for four series until 2008.\n\nCome Fly With Me aired in 2010 and there were complaints then over its portrayal of racially stereotyped characters and the use of blackface.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Education Secretary John Swinney said the new academic year, starting in August, is unlikely to get back to normal\n\nNext year's exams may take place later than normal, according to Education Secretary John Swinney.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's Politics Scotland it was possible the timetable could be put back to allow courses to be completed.\n\nNormally the diet begins towards the end of April. This year, exams were cancelled for the first time ever.\n\nMr Swinney accepted next year's exams could also have to be cancelled but was hopeful that would not happen.\n\nExams could be held later in the year in Scotland in 2021\n\n\"The exam diet is being prepared for the spring of 2021 and our working assumption is that it will take place,\" he said.\n\n\"We have also said to schools that they should be gathering evidence of the achievements of young people on an ongoing basis in case we are not in a position to be able to run the exam diet in the spring of next year.\n\n\"It normally starts in late April, it might be possible that we could start it later in the year.\"\n\nThe longer these emergency arrangements continue, the harder it will be to complete National 5 and Higher courses.\n\nMr Swinney said he hoped the blended model would not go on for a moment longer than necessary.\n\nThe fact students hoping to go to college or university next autumn would need their results by a certain date means there are practical limitations on how long any postponement of the exams could be.\n\nThe SSTA union has already called for next year's exam diet to be cancelled.\n\nThe largest union, the EIS, had previously argued that some students should not sit exams next year - such as S4 students who intended to continue with a subject in S5.\n\nMr Swinney also told the programme he was confident schools could go back on 11 August and hoped the \"blended\" model of home and face-to-face learning would not go on for \"a minute longer\" than was necessary.\n\nHowever, he said he accepted it was \"unlikely\" that schools would return to normal before the end of the academic year due to social distancing.\n\n\"The more we can try to expand the capacity and involvement of young people in their education in face-to-face schooling we will be taking those opportunities when it is safe to do so,\" he said.\n\nMr Swinney added that he understood parental anxiety about sending children back to school in August which he said would be a legal requirement.\n\n\"We will have considered discussions with parents about the issues about which they are concerned,\" he said.", "Private care homes are getting some of the heat for the spread of coronavirus and high numbers of residents' deaths.\n\nThat has led to claims they should be in public hands, and that they are raking off excess profits.\n\nThere are examples of that. But the wider problem seems to have more to do with under-funding than profiteering.\n\nIndeed, private care homes in Britain are struggling with unsustainably low levels of government-paid fees.\n\nThe shortfall is reckoned to be around £1bn, and much of that is made up with excess fees, paid by older and vulnerable residents, required to draw on often modest savings.\n\nThat was the finding of the Competition and Markets Authority, when it took a close look at the private care home sector in 2017.\n\nIt was trying to find out if the market operated in the interests of those who have to use the homes.\n\nThe answer: not sufficiently. At the point of choosing a home, people are often in a weak position to choose or negotiate.\n\nBut the other main finding was that local government is failing to pay sufficient fees to make the sector sustainable. It needs more to pay for repairs and maintenance, and to attract new investors, when demographic change points to the need for a big rise in capacity.\n\nThose that are building new care homes are doing so in affluent areas, where they can attract wealthier \"self-funders\", the CMA found.\n\nIn Scotland, a self-funder is someone who has to pay their way, after getting the standard government grants for nursing and personal care - if they're assessed as needing them.\n\nWith care home fees for private individuals costing more than £900 per week on average, that's £200 more than the nationally negotiated set rate for council-funded residents.\n\nThe Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) tells care homes what it thinks is reasonable to pay. It assumes the minimum level of staffing, and a minimum £9.30 per hour for care assistants, though the maximum isn't much more.\n\nScottish Care, which represents most private care homes, says the National Care Contract assumes a lower level of nurse pay than equivalent work in the NHS. There's heating, and less than £6 a day for food. A 4% margin is allowed for profit.\n\nFor a nursing home resident, that comes to a weekly £740 this year. Care Scotland says the true price should be £950 to £1000. But it's not in a strong negotiating position.\n\nIn England, each council negotiates its own rates, leaving a much less clear picture. The rates for private individuals in England can be up to a third higher than the council rate.\n\nAn alternative analysis of the private care home sector, by the GMB trade union, found that care homes can be far too profitable, and that some people have become very rich.\n\nOwnership is hard to pin down, through complex corporate vehicles, these \"private equity\" owners are hard to determine, sometimes because their profits go to tax havens.\n\nThat union research suggests the bumper profits are made from property rather than running the service. But the GMB argues that it has a direct effect on the low pay and poor employment conditions of care home workers.\n\nThe private equity ownership model accounts for fewer than a fifth of Scottish care homes.", "As face coverings become mandatory on public transport in England from tomorrow, we've been listening to what you have to say.\n\nChristine Bithrey, from London, told us she has chronic asthma and that wearing a mask makes it feel harder for her to breathe. In a government briefing earlier this month, transport minister Grant Shapps said people with breathing difficulties would be exempt from the new law.\n\nChristine is currently working from home but she doesn't want to use public transport, because as her condition is hidden, she fears she will be attacked or stopped for not wearing a mask.\n\n\"I am terrified about the prospect of using public transport\", she says. \"A couple of weeks ago I went on a bus to a different location, and I was coughing because of my asthma. I am nearly 60. A man appeared in front of me with a disgusting tissue and asked me to put it over my mouth.\"\n\nBut Christine says she will need to travel to work at some point.\n\n\"I have no idea how I am going to get to my office,\" she says. \"I spoke to some staff at Camden Road station who said they weren't even aware of any exemptions. If London Transport Police approaches me, how can I prove I have a health condition?\"", "It is the first time the Queen has celebrated her official birthday at Windsor Castle\n\nThe Queen's official birthday has been marked with a unique ceremony performed by the Welsh Guard at Windsor Castle.\n\nIt comes after the traditional Trooping the Colour parade was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is only the second time in her 68-year reign that the parade in London has not gone ahead.\n\nThe Queen, flanked by officials, sat alone on a dais for the ceremony. It was her first official public appearance since lockdown began.\n\nThe Queen celebrated her 94th birthday in April, but it is officially - and publicly - celebrated on the second Saturday of June every year.\n\nIt is typically accompanied by the annual announcement of the Queen's Birthday Honours' List. However, this year she has \"graciously agreed\" to postpone publication of the list to the autumn.\n\nIn a statement last month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the delay \"will allow us to ensure that the list, agreed before this public health emergency developed, reflects the Covid-19 effort, and comes at a time when we can properly celebrate the achievements of all those included\".\n\nGuardsmen kept their distance as they stood in formation in the central quadrangle of Windsor Castle\n\nAll the troops had learnt new marching techniques for the occasion, to conform with social distancing measures\n\nThe ceremonial tribute, dubbed a mini-Trooping, was performed by a small number of Welsh Guardsmen and the band of the Household Division.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell described it as \"a birthday parade for changed times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen received a royal salute. It was followed by a display of precision marching - with the military maintaining strict social distancing measures, in keeping with government guidelines.\n\nWith fewer people on parade because of social distancing rules, \"there is no hiding place\" said Garrison Sgt Maj Warrant Officer Class 1 Andrew Stokes, who created the display.\n\n\"But more spacing between individuals means that there is also no room for errors and so the soldier has to really concentrate on their own personal drill, reaction to orders, dressing and social distancing,\" he said.\n\nNormally, Guardsmen stand shoulder-to-shoulder during their drills or when formed up on the parade ground, but on Saturday they stood 2.2m apart.\n\nGuardsman Lance Corporal Chusa Siwale, 29, originally from Zambia, had a central role in the ceremony, performing the Drummer's Call.\n\n\"Only four weeks ago I was involved with testing key workers for Covid-19, as part of the Welsh Guards' contribution to the battle against the virus. Now I am on parade performing in front of Her Majesty.\n\n\"This is a very proud day for me.\"\n\nThe Queen appeared to enjoy the more intimate occasion\n\nNo other members of the Royal family attended the ceremony on Saturday\n\nIt was the first time the Queen has celebrated her official birthday at Windsor Castle. An event for a sovereign's birthday has not been staged there since 1895, during the reign of Queen Victoria.\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have spent the lockdown in isolation at Windsor Castle, and were photographed there earlier this month to mark Prince Philip's 99th birthday.\n\nA new photo of the Queen and Prince Philip was released to mark his 99th birthday\n\nLast year's parade: The Queen and other royals gather to witness the Red Arrows perform a flypast\n\nThe Trooping the Colour parade in Whitehall is usually watched by thousands of spectators and senior members of the Royal Family.\n\nThe last time the event was cancelled was in 1955, two years after the Queen's coronation, due to a national rail strike.\n\nMaj Gen Christopher Ghika, who commands the Household Division, said the circumstances surrounding the decision to host the tribute in Windsor were \"clouded in tragedy\".\n\n\"The effects of Covid-19 have been devastating in terms of loss of life and the threatening of livelihoods of so many across the country,\" he said.\n\n\"People have had to endure separation from loved ones, great uncertainty and the suspension of so much of what is special about our national life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Royal Opera Chorus reunites online for the Queen's official birthday\n\nGen Ghika added: \"The Welsh Guards and many of those on parade have recently been deployed within the United Kingdom as part of the nation's response to the virus and so the context of the ceremony is particularly poignant.\"\n\nThe Welsh Guards, along with the rest of the Household Division, have been among the soldiers helping with the coronavirus response, for example at test centres.", "The memorial for PC Keith Palmer was unveiled outside Parliament in 2018\n\nA man has been charged after an individual was photographed apparently urinating at the Westminster memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer.\n\nThe incident is believed to have taken place on Saturday afternoon.\n\nAndrew Banks, aged 28, of Stansted, Essex has been charged with outraging public decency, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nPC Palmer, 48, was stabbed while on duty during the Westminster terror attack on 22 March 2017. He was one of five people murdered by Khalid Masood.\n\nPC Keith Palmer was unarmed as he was attacked by Khalid Masood\n\nThe image of a man was widely shared on social media on Saturday as violent clashes between far-right protesters and police took place in central London.\n\nThe man in the photo was widely condemned by politicians including MP Tobias Ellwood, who gave first aid to PC Palmer as he lay dying after being stabbed in the grounds of Parliament by Masood in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A statue of Churchill in Parliament Square was boarded up ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest on Friday\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill may have to be put in a museum to protect it if demonstrations continue, his granddaughter has said.\n\nEmma Soames told the BBC the war-time prime minister was a \"complex man\" but he was considered a hero by millions.\n\nShe said she was \"shocked\" to see the monument in London's Parliament Square boarded up, although she said she understood why this was necessary.\n\nIt came after protesters daubed \"was a racist\" on the statue last weekend.\n\nMs Soames said it was \"extraordinarily sad that my grandfather, who was such a unifying figure in this country, appears to have become a sort of icon through being controversial.\"\n\n\"We've come to this place where history is viewed only entirely through the prism of the present,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMs Soames acknowledged her grandfather had often held views which \"particularly now are regarded as unacceptable but weren't necessarily then\".\n\nHowever she added: \"He was a powerful, complex man, with infinitely more good than bad in the ledger of his life.\"\n\nShe said if people were \"so infuriated\" by seeing the statue it may be \"safer\" in a museum.\n\n\"But I think Parliament Square would be a poorer place without him,\" she added.\n\nChurchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames said he was \"deeply upset\" after the statue was vandalised and then boarded up.\n\n\"I find it extraordinary that millions and millions of people all over the world who look up to Britain will be astonished that a statue of Churchill and the Cenotaph, our national war memorial, could have been defaced in this disgusting way,\" he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nLast weekend the statue of Winston Churchill was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nHowever, author Shrabani Basu, who has written books about the British Empire, said there were \"two sides of Churchill\" and \"we need to know his darkest hour as well as his finest hour\".\n\nShe argued that in India, Churchill is not seen as a hero, citing his role in the 1943 Bengal famine, during which at least three million people are believed to have died.\n\nWhile Ms Basu said she did not want to see the statue removed from Parliament Square, she said people should be taught \"the whole story\" about the war-time figure.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activist Imarn Ayton said statues of slave traders and people who had spoken negatively towards black people were \"extremely offensive\" and should be moved to museums.\n\n\"I think it's a win-win to everyone so we no longer offend the black nation and we also get to keep our history,\" she told the BBC.\n\nOn Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson branded the boarding up of the statue to protect it from potential vandalism as \"absurd and shameful\".\n\nMr Johnson said the former prime minister had expressed opinions which were \"unacceptable to us today\" but remained a hero for saving the country from \"fascist and racist tyranny\".\n\n\"We cannot try to edit or censor our past,\" he wrote of moves to remove tributes to historical figures. \"We cannot pretend to have a different history.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain’s wartime leader divided opinion in his own lifetime, and remains a divisive figure today\n\nWinston Churchill, who lived between 30 November 1874 and 24 January 1965, is often named among Britain's greatest-ever people but for some he remains an intensely controversial figure.\n\nDespite his leading the country through the darkest hours of World War Two and being prime minister twice, critics point to his comments on race and some of his actions during both world wars.\n\nChurchill told the Palestine Royal Commission that he did not admit wrong had been done to Native Americans or aboriginal Australians as \"a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place\".\n\nHis supporters argue that he was by no means the only person to hold these sorts of views during the period.\n\nHe also advocated the use of chemical weapons, \"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes,\" he wrote in a memo.\n\nAnother criticism is for his part in the Bengal famine in India in 1943, during which at least three million people are believed to have died after Allied forces halted the movement of food in the region - including through British-run India - following the Japanese occupation of Burma.\n\nThe statue in London's Parliament Square was boxed up ahead of a Black Lives Matter protest in Westminster on Friday evening.\n\nA demonstration planned for Saturday was brought forward by a day because of fears there could be violent clashes with far-right groups.\n\nThe Met Police have placed restrictions on several groups intending to protest on Saturday, including requiring demonstrations to end at 17:00 BST.\n\nThousands of people gathered in Central London on Saturday, including around the Cenotaph war memorial in Whitehall and the nearby Churchill statue.\n\nThe protesters, largely groups of white men who were right-wing activists, sang the national anthem and chanted \"England\", amid a tense atmosphere and heavy police presence.\n\nAmong the demonstrators was Paul Golding, leader of far-right group Britain First, who said they had turned out to \"guard our monuments\".\n\nOther monuments have been removed ahead of separate protests planned over the weekend, while the Cenotaph has also been covered.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said other \"key statues\", including one of Nelson Mandela, would be protected, saying there was a risk statues could become a \"flashpoint for violence\".\n\nIt comes after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was thrown into the harbour in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday.\n\nDemonstrations have been taking place across the world following the death in police custody of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.", "Certain groups are at higher risk of serious illness\n\nFactors such as racism and social inequality may have contributed to increased risks of black, Asian and minority communities catching and dying from Covid-19, a leaked report says.\n\nHistoric racism may mean that people are less likely to seek care or to demand better personal protective equipment, it says.\n\nThe Public Health England draft, seen by the BBC, contains recommendations.\n\nOther possible factors include risks linked to occupation, it said.\n\nAnd inequalities in conditions such as diabetes may increase disease severity.\n\nThe report, the second by PHE on the subject, pointed to racism and discrimination as a root cause affecting health and the risk of both exposure to the virus and becoming seriously ill.\n\nIt said stakeholders expressed \"deep dismay, anger, loss and fear in their communities\" as data emerged suggesting Covid-19 was \"exacerbating existing inequalities\".\n\nAnd it found \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant individuals in BAME groups were less likely to seek care when needed or to speak up when they had concerns about personal protective equipment or risk.\n\nThe report concluded: \"The unequal impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities may be explained by a number of factors ranging from social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, occupational risk, inequalities in the prevalence of conditions that increase the severity of disease including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma.\"\n\nThe draft report from Public Health England says questions remain on the role of diet and vitamin D and makes clear no work has been done to review this evidence yet.\n\nA recent review confirmed the risk of death from Covid-19 higher for ethnic minorities. PHE found that people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white Britons, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.\n\nFor weeks and weeks people from ethnic minority communities have been wanting to know how they can better protect themselves from coronavirus.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic there had been growing evidence that they were being hit harder by the disease - and this was confirmed by the government's review into Covid-19 risk factors released last week.\n\nYet it was only after being approached by the BBC that the existence of this second report - previously unseen and still unpublished - was formally acknowledged by the government.\n\nThe draft document is clearly a work in progress and some of the issues raised, such as concerns about deep-rooted racism and discrimination in society, cannot be tackled overnight.\n\nBut against the backdrop of thousands of people protesting in the streets over what they see as social injustice, many will be wondering why it took so long for this report to come to light.\n\nAnd as the threat of coronavirus continues, people from these communities will be hoping swift action is taken soon.\n\nOn Thursday, a senior academic told the BBC that advice for the government on how to protect BAME communities from coronavirus had yet to be published.\n\nProf Raj Bhopal, a scientist who had been asked to peer-review the unpublished recommendations report, including contributions from 4,000 stakeholders, said Parliament had \"not been told the full truth\".\n\nEarlier on Saturday, the British Medical Association sent a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, asking why pages with recommendations to safeguard BAME communities had been \"omitted\" from the first report.\n\nIn a letter, the head of the doctors' union, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, CBE, called for the recommendations to be published immediately, to tackle \"the disturbing reality that the virus is causing disproportionate serious illness and deaths in the BAME community\".\n\nIn a letter to Matt Hancock, he wrote: \"A clear response is needed as to why these pages and important recommendations were omitted from publication, especially when it is so critical that action is taken to save lives now and reduce race inequalities.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dr Nagpaul said large numbers of BAME doctors feel let down. \"What is critical is that we must avoid further deaths and further ill-health amongst our medical workforce,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health England has said the recommendations will be published next week at the same time that the work is submitted to ministers.\n\nMeanwhile, ethnic minority doctors in the NHS have said they feel \"let down\" by delays in work to ensure they are protected from coronavirus.\n\nThe BMA said many had not received promised risk assessments and redeployment opportunities.\n\nHospital trusts and other health service bodies have been asked to prioritise risk assessments for BAME staff and other vulnerable groups. But BBC research has found that hundreds of doctors still have not had a risk assessment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protests were sparked following the death of George Floyd in the United States\n\nHundreds of people have marched through two towns in a peaceful protest in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nMore than 350 people gathered outside the town hall in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\nAnother protest in Chepstow saw about 200 people march from Dell Park, past Chepstow Castle to the riverfront, where they listened to speakers.\n\nProtesters were asked by organisers to wear a face mask and respect social distancing.\n\nProtests were sparked following the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe 46-year-old died in Minneapolis in May as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe final moments were filmed on phones and four police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nIn Chepstow, some people \"took the knee\", while in Barry those who experienced racism were asked to form a line.\n\nOrganisers of the Barry protest, Stand Up to Racism Cardiff, said they were protesting in support of the Justice for George Floyd campaign.\n\nSpeakers included lawyer and activist Hilary Brown and Suresh Grover from the Stephen Lawrence Campaign.\n\nAt regular intervals Ms Brown led the crowd in chants of \"no justice, no peace\" and \"whose lives matter? Black lives matter\".\n\nEarlier, Luis Williamson, 29, told the crowd how he had been subjected to racial abuse last week while he was jogging with his top off near Barry Island.\n\nSomeone in a passing car wound down their window and shouted racist insults at him, he said.\n\nHe told the crowd that not being racist is \"not enough\" and said people must be \"vocally and visibly\" anti-racist.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Not My Britain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post by Not My Britain\n\nAnother speaker, Jamie Baker, told BBC Wales: \"This is Barry and it never has events, it never has demonstrations, it never does this kind of thing.\n\n\"So to see young people - and the majority of our audience or young people - actually angry and annoyed and seeking change, that puts all of their parents, their grandparents, and everybody on notice.\"\n\nCalling for schools and the local authority to better reflect the area's black history, he added: \"And hopefully it'll put some schools on notice that what they're teaching is inaccurate.\"\n\nProtesters gathered on King Square, Barry, to listen to speakers in support of Black Lives Matter\n\nThe two peaceful demonstrations have followed a number of similar events in towns and villages around Wales including Bridgend, Cardiff and Machynlleth.\n\nOn Thursday, about 1,000 people gathered in Newport in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nMany carried placards bearing political slogans while others knelt on one knee - a protest against racism that stems from the US.\n\nThe demonstrators marched from the civic centre toward the University of South Wales building on the banks of the River Usk.", "Saab was charged with money laundering in the US last July\n\nCape Verde authorities have arrested a businessman accused by the US of corrupt dealings with the government of Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro.\n\nAlex Nain Saab, who is Colombian, was indicted by the US justice department for money laundering last July.\n\nThe 48-year-old was detained on Friday on an Interpol \"red notice\" stemming from the indictment.\n\nMr Saab was reportedly travelling to Iran on a Venezuelan plane and had stopped in Cape Verde to refuel.\n\nHis lawyer in the US, María Domínguez, confirmed the arrest, but declined to comment.\n\nMr Saab is accused by the US government of serving as President Maduro's front man in a large network of money laundering and corruption.\n\nHe is accused of making large amounts of money from overvalued contracts, as well as Venezuela's systems of government-set exchange rate and centralized import and distribution of basic foods.\n\nVenezuela has faced chronic shortages of food and medicine as a result of years of political and economic crisis.\n\n\"Saab engaged with Maduro insiders to run a wide-scale corruption network they callously used to exploit Venezuela's starving population,\" said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said when the sanctions were announced.\n\n\"They use food as a form of social control, to reward political supporters and punish opponents, all the while pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars through a number of fraudulent schemes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 2018: Families have resorted to eating rotten meat in Zulia state\n\nMr Saab was also wanted for money laundering in his native Colombia, where he is regarded as a fugitive from justice.\n\nWashington has long accused the President Maduro of leading a corrupt regime in Venezuela - a charge he has repeatedly rejected.\n\nIn March, the US charged him and other senior officials in the country with \"narco-terrorism\".\n\nThe Trump administration backs Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president last year.", "After three months of lockdown learning through online platforms, some Year 10 and Year 12 pupils in England are heading back to school.\n\nAs part of lockdown restrictions easing, students will be able to go back to class under social distancing measures.\n\nAt Swanmore College in Hampshire teachers say they are excited to be back with their students and for the children of key workers who have been in since the start, it's time to see their friends again.", "Young people can feel isolated from friends despite the presence of social media\n\nThe delay in getting children and adolescents back to schools is a \"national disaster\" that is putting their mental health at risk, say leading psychologists.\n\nIn an open letter to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, they say the isolation of lockdown is harming already vulnerable young people.\n\nHighlighting the low risk to children of Covid-19, they call for social distancing measures to be minimised.\n\nAnd for a return to normal life.\n\nIn the letter, signed by more than 100 specialists in psychology, mental health and neuroscience, and published in The Sunday Times, they write: \"As experts working across disciplines, we are united as we urge you to reconsider your decision and to release children and young people from lockdown.\n\n\"Allow them to play together and continue their education by returning to preschool, school, college and university, and enjoy extra-curricular activities including sport and music as normally, and as soon, as possible.\"\n\nIt comes after an opinion piece in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health warned of the damaging long-term consequences of a lack of face-to-face contact among young people and their peers.\n\nProf Ellen Townsend, professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham, who organised the letter, said mental health problems such as anxiety were already rising in young people before lockdown.\n\nShe told the BBC there was evidence that growing feelings of loneliness and social isolation as a result of school closures during the pandemic could be making that worse, especially among teenagers.\n\nAnd she described hearing some \"heart-breaking stories\" of children struggling.\n\nThe letter also points to evidence that children are at low risk from Covid-19.\n\n\"Suicide is already the leading cause of death in 5-19 year olds in England and the second leading cause of death in young people globally; thankfully, Covid-19 will never claim this many young lives,\" it says.\n\nThe letter goes on to say that children are being \"neglected in this crisis\" and \"their futures must now be given priority\".\n\nSchools were shut across the UK on 20 March in order to reduce the spread of coronavirus. Apart from the children of key workers, most children have not been to school since then and will not enter a classroom until after the summer holidays.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.\n\nSignatories to the letter include Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge, Prof Rory O'Connor, chair in health psychology at Glasgow University, broadcaster and author Prof Tanya Byron and Prof Uta Frith, from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.\n\nFrom now on, young people must be included in making decisions involving them, they say.\n\n\"We need to recognise the sacrifice that children have already made for others and we should not ask for that sacrifice to continue.\n\n\"When many of this cohort enter adulthood, we will be deep in recession, so they will need mental resilience and educational preparedness.\n\n\"Instead we are damaging both, with lifelong consequences for them and society,\" the letter ends.", "John Cleese, who plays Basil Fawlty, said removing the episode was \"stupid\"\n\nA classic episode of the comedy Fawlty Towers will be reinstated to streaming service UKTV with a warning about \"offensive content and language\".\n\nA 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off the BBC Studios-owned platform because of \"racial slurs\".\n\nIn it, the Major character uses highly offensive language, and John Cleese's hotel owner Basil Fawlty declares \"don't mention the war\".\n\nUKTV had temporarily removed the episode while it carried out a review.\n\nThe move had been criticised by Cleese who wrote on Twitter: \"I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.\n\n\"One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Cleese This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhile the episode is best remembered for Fawlty's goose-stepping it also contains scenes showing the Major Gowen character using offensive language about the West Indies cricket team.\n\nAccording to reports, the Major's scenes had already started to be edited out by some broadcasters.\n\nAs the Black Lives Matter movement has returned to prominence following the death of George Floyd, broadcasters and streaming services have reevaluated their content.\n\nUKTV also operates channels including Gold, and many of its channels and its digital player were taken over by the BBC's commercial arm BBC Studios last year.\n\nA UKTV statement said: \"We already offer guidance to viewers across some of our classic comedy titles, but we recognise that more contextual information can be required on our archive comedy, so we will be adding extra guidance and warnings to the front of programmes to highlight potentially offensive content and language.\n\n\"We will reinstate Fawlty Towers once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days.\n\n\"We will continue to look at what content is on offer as we always have done.\"\n\nThe Germans is still available to view on Britbox, which is part-owned by the BBC, with a message saying it \"contains some offensive racial language of the time and upsetting scenes\". It is also on Netflix, carrying a warning about \"language, [and] discrimination\".\n\nIn 2013, it was reported that Cleese agreed for the offending lines to be edited out when it was repeated on TV.\n\nThis week, many channels and comedy figures have been making moves to reassess what is acceptable in today's society, following mass Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nHBO Max temporarily removed Gone With The Wind because of its \"racial depictions\", and Little Britain was removed from the BBC iPlayer and Britbox because \"times have changed\".\n\nNetflix has also removed Little Britain plus David Walliams and Matt Lucas's Come Fly With Me, and The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh.\n\nMeanwhile, Ant and Dec apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway, and requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having dressed as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jan Maddox has not been able to see her partner since the day before lockdown.\n\n\"For the last three months, the only living thing I've touched is a dog.\"\n\nFor people living alone like Jan Maddox, 71, the risks of loneliness in lockdown are significantly greater, according to data.\n\nBoris Johnson has announced that, in England, adults living alone or single parents can form a \"support bubble\" with another household.\n\nBut that's not the case in Wales, with Cardiff Bay saying changes will only be made when it's safe to do so.\n\nAnd Jan, whose partner lives in the Midlands, is starting to struggle.\n\n\"I did have a terrific social life,\" she said.\n\n\"I was always out with friends, pub quizzes, music - everything. That all stopped. It's been a very lonely time.\"\n\nJan, from Newport is one of nearly eight million people in the UK who live alone. They are a group at significantly greater risk of loneliness during lockdown.\n\n\"I have a lot of texts from friends, and people ring up, from that perspective it's been really good,\" she said.\n\n\"At the beginning we managed alright. But now we're three months in... I think mentally we're getting a bit stretched.\"\n\nWales' next lockdown review is due on 18 June, but it is not clear whether there will be similar support bubble measures introduced.\n\nNew ONS data showed working-age adults living alone are at greater risk of lockdown loneliness than older people, and those aged 16-24 more than twice as likely to have experienced it than those aged 55-69.\n\nCraig Johnson says living alone during lockdown has been \"draining\"\n\nCraig Johnson, 29, lives in Cardiff and says there's a \"tension\" between what people living alone would like to see on an individual level, and what \"the collective societal thing needs to be\".\n\n\"I live alone in a small flat. In normal times I would've largely just come home to eat, come home to sleep.\n\n\"The rest of the time I'm either working in an office with colleagues, with friends or I'm in a pub, or a restaurant or café, with friends, or friends are coming here for food.\n\n\"Prior to March every bit of what made my life happy, every positive thing to look forward to during the week are the kind of things not now allowed - and with good reason. All of my life was non-essential social and close contact.\n\n\"From a public health angle, I support the fact they aren't allowed. But it's kind of follows that if everything I did that was a good thing in my life, I can't now do, that has knock-on effects for how happy and mentally healthy you feel.\n\n\"Draining I think is the word.\"\n\nCraig said he broadly supported the Welsh Government's \"more cautious approach\".\n\nHe added: \"The UK government has been talking about quarantine corridors between the UK and other countries so that people could have holidays in Portugal or in Spain. I watched that thinking: 'I've not had a hug for three months.' Can we balance the priorities a little bit?\"\n\nJulia Lloyd says loneliness in lockdown has been \"immense\" without friends living nearby.\n\nFor Julia Lloyd, 66, who lives inland from Colwyn Bay, the differences in lockdown rules between England and Wales have made things harder.\n\n\"You accept it, you accept it, you accept it. But then when you hear what England are getting you think, 'hang on a minute. Why can they do that and I can't?'.\"\n\nJulia said before lockdown she had a \"really good social life\" but has felt \"really shutdown\" since and has experienced anxiety attacks.\n\n\"Because I live out in the country and I don't have any neighbours - I just don't see another human being. For 14 weeks, the only other person I've seen is the postman or a food delivery driver.\n\n\"I have some days I just get so down I spent half the day crying, because I just don't see when I'm going to be able to see people or do anything.\n\n\"I'm lonely, I don't see anybody. All I see is sheep.\n\n\"I have times I feel like I am being punished for abiding by all the rules and regulations.\"\n\nSimon Jones, head of policy at Mind Cymru, said: \"The coronavirus pandemic is as much a mental health crisis as it is a physical one.\n\n\"People are really struggling with isolation, stress, grief, financial worries and fears about the future.\n\n\"People who live alone have been particularly affected by lockdown, and we know that loneliness is a real problem.\"\n\nHe said it is \"especially important\" to reach out to people who live alone at the moment.\n\n\"A good place to start is to ask them how they are, and what support they need, and listen non-judgementally to their response.\"\n\nBefore the lockdown began, the Welsh Government launched a loneliness strategy, including a fund of £1.4m over three years to help tackle it.\n\nJulie Morgan MS, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, said £440,000 of this has been given to a scheme to tackle loneliness in older people at this time - by pairing them up with volunteers to speak to weekly.\n\nBut she acknowledged loneliness during lockdown is an issue particularly affecting young people.\n\n\"Obviously, the physical health of people is the primary concern. But we are aware that the longer it goes on, it does have an effect on people's mental health.\n\n\"So all of the decisions we make are a fine balance between those two - we are trying to do all we possibly can to mitigate loneliness and the inevitable mental health problems that arise from that.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Ministers review all the restrictions in place at each review period - and then decide what, if anything, can be changed.\n\n\"Our focus is on helping to save lives.\"\n\nPolitics Wales is on BBC 1 Wales at 10:15 BST on 14 June\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crowds filled Trafalgar Square in London - but protests were held in many smaller towns and cities too\n\nA shocking death caught on video in the US sparked protests all over the UK and a national debate over Britain's history.\n\nBut what are some of the issues in the UK which prompted so many to react so strongly to the killing of George Floyd 4,000 miles away?\n\nIt was the \"absolute brutality\" of George Floyd's death and the fact that it was caught on video which mobilised people to come out and protest in the UK, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury, an academic at the University of Manchester and an organiser with the Racial Justice Network.\n\nAnd he says incidents are increasingly being recorded in the UK, such as the footage of Desmond Mombeyarara being Tasered in front of his five-year-old son in Manchester last month. Police are investigating the incident.\n\n\"People are starting to connect the dots with what's going on in the UK,\" says Dr Joseph-Salisbury, citing the video of rapper Wretch 32's father being Tasered at home and the death of Simeon Francis in a Devon police cell. Police are investigating the case of Mr Francis. In the case of Wretch 32's father, police say a review had found no indication of misconduct.\n\nOfficial figures show that police in England and Wales were three times more likely to arrest a black person than a white person and five times more likely to use force in 2018-19.\n\n\"The UK is not innocent\" was one of the protest's rallying cries\n\nBlack people were also more than nine times as likely to be stopped and searched.\n\nDr Joseph-Salisbury says it has sometimes been more difficult to mobilise UK protesters in the past. \"Britain likes to think of itself as being much less racist than the US,' he says.\n\nBut, he says, abuses caught on video were a powerful motivating factor. \"There's something more grassroots and more urgent to what's happening this time.\"\n\nSince 1990, there have been 1,743 people in England and Wales who have died following contact with the police, according to the charity Inquest.\n\nAs a proportion of the population in these countries, black people are more than twice as likely to die in police custody and force or restraint is more than twice as likely to be involved in their deaths.\n\nAnd for Ken Fero, a spokesman for the United Friends and Families Campaign, which represents those whose loved ones have died after contact with the police, there is increasing evidence that this history of deaths in custody is motivating protesters.\n\nThe names of British men who died in custody such as Sean Rigg appeared alongside US victims on placards\n\nNames such as Sean Rigg and Leon Patterson have appeared on placards or been chanted by protesters.\n\n\"With the young people who are protesting at the moment, and it does seem to be young people, there is a stronger sense of history and consciousness than there has been in the past,\" he says.\n\nIt has also been a feature of Black Lives Matter protests in the US to make the names of those who died due to police violence a focus of demonstrations and online activism, with the hashtag #saytheirnames.\n\n\"When ordinary people begin talking about it, tweeting about it, protesting about it, when celebrities start speaking about it, when people who have a voice and who are not politicians, speak out - that is what gives them some hope,\" Mr Fero says of the campaigning families.\n\nProtesters have said both of these \"deadly pandemics\" - racism and coronavirus - must be tackled together, as data has shown black Britons in England and Wales have been nearly twice as likely to die with the disease as white people.\n\nThe government's review into the impact of coronavirus on ethnic minority communities told a similar tale of social and economic inequalities with poverty, overcrowded housing, and being employed in lower-paid or key worker roles being put forward as factors for this disparity.\n\nRailway station worker Belly Mujinga has become a symbol of inequality during the pandemic\n\nPeople from black and ethnic minority groups have also been hit harder financially during the crisis, as research has shown they are more likely to be working in shut-down sectors or precarious jobs.\n\nBelly Mujinga, a railway ticket office clerk in London who died with coronavirus after reportedly being spat at, has become a symbol during the protests of these socio-economic divides. \"Black lives do matter. Belly's life mattered,\" placards read.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people have since signed a petition calling for \"justice\" for the 47-year-old, who was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after the British Transport Police closed her case due to insufficient evidence.\n\nAs ethnic minority groups continue to bear the brunt of the labour, health and socio-economic impact of this pandemic, many will be hoping protective measures will be brought in soon.\n\nEven before the UK had a Black Lives Matter movement, it had the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. Inspired by similar movements in South Africa, it sought to remove the statue of Oriel College's imperialist benefactor Cecil Rhodes and to reform Oxford University's curriculum to focus less on white Europeans.\n\nOn Sunday, that debate about the symbols of Britain's colonial past moved from academia to the streets, when protesters pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol city centre and threw it into the harbour.\n\nThe action recalled similar forced removals by protesters of Confederate memorials in US states such as North Carolina and Georgia.\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was rolled through the streets on the way to the harbour\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, suggests the movement's success in increasing support from white people may have played a part in the removal of the Colston statue.\n\n\"If you look at who tore down the statue, it was predominantly white protesters. They can get away with things that we probably couldn't,\" he says.\n\n\"If you have a majority black protest tearing down a statue like that, I'm not sure what the response is - from the police, let alone the media.\"\n\nWhen Black Lives Matter started in the UK in 2016, Patrick Vernon says it was a youth-led movement that was not taken very seriously by older black people.\n\nThe movement, started in protest at police killings of black people in the US, came to Britain as a coalition of black activists opposing unjust policing and other forms of racism.\n\nOver the next two years, Mr Vernon says, older people changed their minds.\n\nFirst came the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, which led to the deaths of 72 people, many of them black and Asian, amid claims of official neglect. Then the Windrush scandal emerged in 2018, with thousands of people from Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean and Africa wrongly told they were in Britain illegally.\n\nMr Vernon, a campaigner for the Windrush victims, said people lost their homes, their jobs and were deported, having a \"traumatic effect\".\n\n\"It raises that vexed question, are we British? Are we really British? Are we valued? Is our contribution valued in this country? The whole Black Lives Matter thing crystallises that,\" he says.\n\nBlack Lives Matter has become an increasingly multi-generational protest in the UK, some say\n\nThis succession of issues affecting black communities has made people more willing to speak out and demonstrate, Mr Vernon suggests.\n\n\"They are now activists because they are fighting for their rights to stay in this country or for their compensation,\" he says.\n\n\"They want to take action because the current democratic process is not working for people.\"", "Sushant Singh Rajput was perhaps best known for playing legendary cricketer MS Dhoni\n\nA rising star in Bollywood, Sushant Singh Rajput, has been found dead in his apartment in Mumbai.\n\nThe 34-year-old is believed to have taken his own life, Mumbai police said.\n\nPopular for his acting in both TV and film, Rajput is perhaps best known for MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, where he played the legendary cricketer.\n\nMany have been paying tributes to Rajput, including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who called him \"a bright young actor gone too soon\".\n\nRajput's death comes just days after that of his former manager.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Narendra Modi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in the eastern state of Bihar, Rajput dropped out of a university course in engineering to pursue a career in acting and dance.\n\nHis Bollywood breakthrough came in the 2013 film Kai Po Che, which won acclaim at the Berlin film festival.\n\nThe actor's last film was Chhichhore, which was released last year. The film's director Nitesh Tiwari said he had spoken to Rajput last week.\n\n\"I am at a loss for words. I spoke to him last week over messages. We would text each other on and off. Now this is what I get to hear. He was like a younger brother to me,\" he told the Press Trust of India (PTI).\n\nIn his last post to his 10.2 million Instagram followers on 3 June, Rajput posted a picture of his late mother, who died in 2002, when he was a teenager, according to PTI.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sushantsinghrajput This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis former manager, Disha Salian, 28, died earlier this week after falling from the 14th floor of a building in Mumbai.\n\nIn a Instagram story after her death, Rajput wrote: \"It's such devastating news. My deepest condolences to Disha's family and friends. May your soul rest in peace.\"\n\nHis death will be mourned by Bollywood fans across the globe still reeling from the deaths of legendary actors Rishi Kapoor and Irrfan Khan within days of each other in April.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.", "Many of Wales' poorest areas have been hardest hit by the pandemic\n\nA coronavirus community recovery fund worth £250m should be set up to support the hardest-hit communities, the Welsh Conservatives have said.\n\nThe party's group leader in the Welsh Parliament said it would help address a \"public economic crisis\".\n\nPaul Davies said business rates could be scrapped for certain businesses in the worst-affected towns.\n\nHe said the money was already available, but Welsh Labour has questioned the figures.\n\nThe Conservatives' policy announcement follows the publication of a report that claimed a number of Welsh towns were among the most vulnerable across the UK.\n\nUnder the party's plans, a £250m fund would be established for the term of the next Welsh Parliament to support the worst-affected communities.\n\nThe Conservatives said it would allow the establishment of \"business rate-free zones\" where business rates would be scrapped for all businesses for three years.\n\nBeyond those zones, the party wants to scrap business rates for businesses with a rateable value of up to £15,000.\n\nCurrently, businesses with a rateable value of less than £6,000 are exempt from paying rates and the amount payable is tapered for those valued between £6,000 and £12,000.\n\n\"We are going through not only a public health crisis, but we're also going through a public economic crisis,\" Mr Davies told the BBC's Politics Wales.\n\n\"And that's why it's absolutely crucial now as we come out of this pandemic that we support the communities which will be hardest-hit by this pandemic.\"\n\nMr Davies said the business rates relief scheme would \"support those existing businesses in those communities, but also attract new businesses\".\n\nHe claimed there was enough money in the Welsh Government's coffers to pay for the scheme as a result of UK government spending on the pandemic in England.\n\nBut a Welsh Labour spokesman said that was not the case: \"The Welsh Conservatives seem not to understand that there are strict limits in the extent to which we can carry forward funds from one year to the next, with our maximum reserve being £350m.\n\n\"Small businesses with premises with a rateable value of less than £12,000 already get small business rate relief.\n\n\"While extending this further would be desirable, we would only be able to consider doing so if the Conservative government at Westminster were to provide a significantly more generous financial settlement.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's recovery plan includes guaranteeing a job for every unemployed 18-24 year old in Wales and setting up a \"renewal fund\" to \"transform sectors identified as being hit hardest by Covid-19\".", "From Saturday, some children in England may be able to see grandparents again\n\nPeople who live alone in England and Northern Ireland will be able to form a support bubble with another household from Saturday, in a further easing of coronavirus lockdown rules.\n\nAdults who live alone will be allowed to visit someone else's home and are even allowed to stay overnight.\n\nIn England, the rule also applies to single parents with children under 18.\n\nIt comes as charities warned about isolation, with the latest changes aimed at helping those who are lonely.\n\nThe new measures open up the possibility for grandparents who live alone to visit and hug their grandchildren for the first time since lockdown began.\n\nCouples who live apart will also be able to be close to each other again.\n\nIt comes as the UK death toll rose by a further 181.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, released on Saturday, 41,662 people who tested positive for coronavirus - across all settings - have now died.\n\nThe latest relaxation of the lockdown rules in England was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson earlier this week.\n\nA person's bubble can be with one other household of any size and close physical contact is allowed, meaning people in the bubble do not have to stay 2m apart.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said support bubbles must be exclusive, meaning someone can only form a bubble with one other household and they cannot swap.\n\nIf anyone in the bubble develops symptoms of coronavirus, then everyone in the bubble must self-isolate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New measure is \"to support those who are particularly lonely as result of lockdown measures\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has introduced a similar scheme, allowing people who live alone indoor visits with one other household.\n\nNeither the bubble measures in England or NI apply to people who are shielding.\n\nIn Scotland, the government is considering the idea, while the Welsh government is reviewing the next steps out of lockdown.\n\nSarah Griffiths Hughes will hold her daughter and grandchildren after months of no physical contact\n\nAmong those who are looking forward to Saturday's changes are 70-year-old Sarah Griffiths Hughes, from Dorset, who said she is looking forward to hugging her daughter for the first time in months.\n\n\"It's the loneliness,\" she said. \"I don't think people realise how lonely and frightened we all are.\"\n\nKeith Grinsted, from Sudbury in Suffolk, said he was \"welling up just thinking about\" hugging his daughters, who live with his ex-partner.\n\nBut as he has type-2 diabetes, making him vulnerable to coronavirus, and he still has concerns about his safety.\n\nHe said: \"Even now it is still quite worrying, for example, because one of my daughters works for a fashion retailer and they are opening on Monday and she has her first shift on Thursday next week, now we are discussing, okay we can have a hug on Saturday but once she starts working does that still mean it is safe to hug?\"\n\nAlso from Saturday in NI, the maximum number of people who can gather outside together has also been increased to 10. In England, that number is six, while it is eight in Scotland and unlimited in Wales.\n\nThe latest papers published by the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), revealed that last month some experts urged \"strong caution\" that allowing bubbles could cause \"significant unwanted effects\" - especially if it was accompanied by lifting other restrictions.\n\nIt also warned there was \"significant potential risk\" if larger households are allowed to bubble together - although the government's new rules only apply to single-person or single-parent households.\n\nIt comes ahead of the next stage of easing lockdown in England, as non-essential shops prepare to reopen on Monday.\n\nShoppers queued to get into some clothing shops in Belfast on Friday\n\nShops in NI began opening on Friday, with customers encountering queuing systems, screens at tills and shop workers wearing masks.\n\nNo dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt comes after figures showed the UK economy shrank by 20.4% in April - the largest monthly contraction on record.\n\nMeanwhile, there are growing calls for the government to drop the 2m social distancing rule in England, with Tory MPs saying it is essential for the economy.\n\nThe government has said it is constantly reviewing its coronavirus lockdown guidance.\n\nHave you planned to visit the home of a loved one today for the first time since lockdown? After your reunion, tell us what it was like by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Statistics from England show people from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups are more likely to die from coronavirus than those from white ethnic groups.\n\nPublic Health England found people from black ethnic groups are most likely to be diagnosed with Covid-19, and death rates were highest among people of black and Asian ethnic groups.\n\nBut why is this exactly? Is it to do with ethnicity - or are there other reasons which put people from BAME communities at such a disadvantage?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New measure is \"to support those who are particularly lonely as result of lockdown measures\"\n\nPeople living alone in England will be able to stay at one other household as part of a further easing of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced that, from Saturday, single adults can spend the night at another house in a \"support bubble\".\n\nNo 10 said the change aims to help combat loneliness and that people are being trusted to observe the rules.\n\nThe relaxation does not apply to those who are shielding, or other UK nations.\n\nThe PM also announced a new national \"catch-up programme\" for school pupils in England, after it was confirmed most children will not return to classrooms until September.\n\nMr Johnson told the daily Downing Street briefing the new \"support bubbles\" apply to single adult households or single parents with children under 18.\n\n\"All those in a support bubble will be able to act as if they live in the same household, meaning they can spend time together inside each others' homes and do not need to stay two metres apart,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I want to stress that support bubbles must be exclusive, meaning you can't switch the household you are in a bubble with or connect with multiple households.\n\n\"And if any member of the support bubble develops symptoms, all members of the bubble will need to follow the normal advice on household isolation.\"\n\nIn addition to the new \"support bubbles\", the PM also confirmed non-essential shops can reopen on 15 June alongside outdoor zoos, safari parks and drive-in cinemas.\n\nThe government gave examples for how the new \"support bubbles\" might work for single adults in England:\n\nNo 10 also said that if a person lives alone but their partner has a flatmate, for example, then they can form a bubble but the flatmate cannot then form their own with another household.\n\nIf anyone within a bubble develops coronavirus symptoms, everyone within the bubble must self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThere were 8.2 million people living alone in the UK last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, with just under half aged 65-and-over. There were also 2.9 million single-parent households.\n\nMr Johnson said the new rule is \"not designed for people who don't qualify to start meeting inside because that remains against the law\".\n\nOne part of the bubble has to be a single household, or be a single parent to children aged under 18.\n\nIt does not apply to grandparents who live together, people living in houses of multiple occupancy, such as flat shares, or to couples who already live together.\n\nThose who are shielding cannot be advised to form a bubble, the PM said.\n\nHe added: \"However, I want to say I know how hard it is for those of you who are shielding and we will say more next week about the arrangements that will be in place for you beyond the end of June.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is keen to emphasise the government is moving slowly in easing the lockdown.\n\nThe \"support bubble\" plan is very limited - designed to help the loneliest in England.\n\nIt's the government dipping another very tentative toe into the water when it comes to easing distancing restrictions.\n\nBut just as lockdown is eased further, questions are increasing about the decisions we've seen so far.\n\nComments from Prof Neil Ferguson on lockdown coming too late will be very uncomfortable reading for those in power, even if they can say they were acting on the advice they were getting.\n\nLikewise, England's chief medical officer saying testing could have been ramped up earlier will be seized upon by the government's critics.\n\nThe government doesn't want to talk about its early decisions yet - but many others already are.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asked why children will soon be able to go and look at lions in a zoo but may not be able to return to the classroom until September.\n\nMr Johnson said the government had wanted to get the remainder of primary pupils back before the summer holidays.\n\nBut the circulation of coronavirus was \"not quite down far enough to change the social distancing measures that we have in our schools\".\n\n\"What we'll be doing is a huge amount of catch-up for pupils over the summer months,\" he pledged, adding that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson \"will be setting out a lot more next week about the catch-up programme\".\n\nHe defended the approach on schooling by comparing England's policy to other European countries.\n\nAnd he said a return for all pupils in September depended on progress continuing in controlling the virus.\n\nEarlier, Prof Neil Ferguson, a former government science adviser, told MPs deaths in the UK would have halved had the country entered lockdown a week earlier.\n\nAsked about the comments at the government briefing alongside the PM, the UK's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said people would have different views on when the lockdown should have been introduced.\n\nHe said there was \"very limited\" information about the virus at that stage and we now know more.\n\nThe PM said: \"It's too early to judge ourselves. We know a lot more about the virus than we did in January, February or even March.\n\n\"You have to proceed with caution, that is what we are doing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Lockdown decisions should be assessed 'in fullness of time'\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the R number - the number of people an infected person passes the virus on to - remains \"just below one\".\n\n\"The epidemic is shrinking, but not fast,\" he said. \"Numbers are coming down but are not yet very low.\"\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed there have been a further 245 coronavirus deaths across all settings in the UK, taking the UK death toll to 41,128.\n\nThe pandemic has, effectively, become a game of risk management - that's because, as Prof Witty says, nothing is \"risk free\".\n\nWe could continue to suppress the virus by not easing lockdown any further.\n\nThat would further reduce the spread of coronavirus - and no doubt save lives.\n\nBut it would come at a huge cost economically, socially, to children's education and also to people's health, whether it is from mental or physical illness linked to continued strict curbs.\n\nInstead, the fine line being trod by the government and its advisers is to navigate a way through this (whether they are doing a good job or not is a whole other question).\n\nThe aim is to keep the spread of the virus low, while reopening society.\n\nWhatever is done, there will be victims.\n\nIn the end it will come down to both political judgements, in terms of how quickly restrictions continue to be lifted, and also individual judgements, in terms of how quickly we each embrace the new freedoms.\n\nThat, unfortunately, is the way life is in this pandemic.\n• None What are the social distancing rules?\n• None Who can you have in your bubble?", "President Donald Trump talks about imposing law and order, and his hardline approach towards the protesters this week is helping to shore up his base of supporters. But what do the parts of the US that propelled him to victory in 2016 think of his aggressive strategy?\n\nShirley Hartman, an artist who works in watercolour and acrylics, moved to Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, years ago because she wanted to feel safe. She had been robbed in Philadelphia, a city about 60 miles away, and she was looking for a place where she did not have to worry about violence.\n\nWith protests unfolding across the US, she says that she is again concerned about her safety and is glad that the president acted forcefully, threatening to deploy the military. The demonstrators went too far, she says, and he responded appropriately.\n\n\"It's gotten out of hand,\" says Ms Hartman. \"They've gone to extremes, and sometimes it's necessary to go to extremes, too, to respond.\"\n\nThe protests have continued for more than a week, with tens of thousands taking to the streets across the US. The demonstrations were largely peaceful, however, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests most people in the US disapprove of the president's hardline approach.\n\nStill a significant number of people, one-third of those who were surveyed, support the president and his actions.\n\nMany of them are like Ms Hartman - they live in suburban areas of the country and are concerned about security. Their views will play a significant role in the November election.\n\nMs Hartman lives in a swing district in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which Mr Trump won in 2016 and is widely viewed as crucial to his chances again this time around.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nFor that reason, political operatives, scholars and others are watching closely to see how the president's law-and-order message plays in key states across the country.\n\nIn a week of more than 20 interviews in Pennsylvania, Missouri and North Carolina - three states Trump won in 2016 - most people echoed the views of Ms Hartman and agreed that the president's tough rhetoric was necessary and say they will support him in November.\n\nSome said they supported the protesters and their goals, but were concerned about those who had become violent.\n\n\"I understand how people feel about George Floyd and I agree that something needs to change. But burning a church, looting, turning over cars - I don't agree with that. I don't agree with burning a town to the ground,\" says Brian Bufka, 47, who lives in Warrenton, Missouri, and runs a printing company.\n\n\"I support our president - I think his heart is in the right place, and I will vote for him again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump voters think of his handling of the virus outbreak\n\nLyle Updike, who is 75 and lives in Kearney, Missouri, says: \"I'm strong on law and order. I don't tolerate this violence - this rioting. I'd like to see the president tighten the screws better.\" He added: \"The mayors and governors won't do it, so he needs to.\"\n\nRosella Roberts, who works for a musical theatre company in Steelville, Missouri, says she is concerned about the violence: \"I'm not saying that all of the people who are protesting are evil. But when you shoot at a policeman - that's just evil.\"\n\nThe election is still five months away, and the fortunes of the candidates and their political parties may change dramatically. One of the factors is the economy.\n\nFor many conservatives, the Trump presidency has been a blessing - spiritually as well as financially. Brian Watts, 45, from Kearney, Missouri, says that he loves the image of the president holding a bible while walking near the White House: \"It shows he's for the church.\"\n\nBrian Watts, who lives in Missouri, says the president has \"got to have security\"\n\nMr Watts' radio station has survived the financial problems brought about by the pandemic, and he is confident that Mr Trump will pull the country out of its malaise.\n\nThis upbeat view could play a crucial role in the election. As Matthew Mackowiak, a Texas-based political consultant, points out, most elections hinge on economic concerns, not social issues.\n\n\"In the end the president's law-and-order mandate probably won't contribute much to the election,\" says Mr Mackowiak. \"But coronavirus and the economy will.\"\n\nEconomists are predicting an uptick in the coming months, a trend that is likely to help Mr Trump. The monthly job numbers this week were better than expected but it's unclear how the pandemic - and possible new infection spikes - will affect the economic recovery.\n\nOthers the BBC spoke to said they have been energised by the protests and horrified by the White House response. They fear the president's language would embolden aggressive police officers.\n\n\"People have been turned off by the president's behaviour,\" says Lauren Arthur, 32, a Democratic state senator in Missouri's 17th district, which includes parts of suburban Kansas City. She won in 2018 and believes that progressive women, disturbed by the president's actions, will vote in large numbers: \"They're saying: 'We are going to show up in full force.'\"\n\nIn Durham, North Carolina, an important battleground state, Gemynii, a 35-year-old poet, wasn't happy to see Mr Trump hold a bible in front of a church near the White House after peaceful protesters were cleared out of the way.\n\nGemynii at a beauty-supply store in North Carolina: \"He's definitely not my president\"\n\n\"Yeah, it definitely feels like a nightmare,\" says Gemynii of the president's efforts to impose order. \"I can understand how other countries look at us and don't have respect because of what's going on.\"\n\nThe experience of watching the president in news clips this week has made Gemynii and her friends in Durham even more determined to change the country's leadership. She was distressed when Mr Trump was elected, and his recent actions have reinforced her mission: \"It's another wake-up call for America.\"\n\nThe dismay among Democrats is near-universal, and many of those who have felt lukewarm about Mr Biden, who has centrist roots, now have a different view. They are focused on getting the president out of the White House.\n\nSays Peggy Wilson, 68, a retired schoolteacher in Kansas City: \"I don't care who is it - it could be anybody. Just someone to replace him.\"\n\nShirley Hartman says that she's had her ups and downs as an artist in Philadelphia, New York and most recently in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and voted for Democrats in some elections. She chose Mr Trump last time. Afterwards, she says, her business \"slowly went up, year after year\". She has been happy with him as president.\n\nWith the onset of the pandemic, business has dropped off again, and she is spending time at home with her cats, Darma and Peanut. She takes walks in the park, \"sketching and doing pastels in the grass\", and is hoping for a speedy economic recovery. This variable, one that is still unknown, is likely to decide her vote.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shaniqua Okwok: \"I really felt this weight on my shoulders\"\n\nA group of young BAME actors who have spoken out about racial discrimination they endured at a leading drama school have proposed their own action plan.\n\nThe Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London has admitted it has been complicit in systemic racism.\n\nNow, 240 former students have signed a blueprint letter which they hope could be a model for other drama schools.\n\nThey say \"racism is real at Central and it scars the lives of its students [and] staff\" as well as many alumni.\n\nThe group formed after being dismayed when the institution posted a message supporting Black Lives Matter last week.\n\nTheir letter says: \"Words and actions of open and overt racism - primarily by staff towards students - have taken place on a consistent and regular basis without respite or consequence.\"\n\nBig names from theatre and TV, including Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah and writer Russell T Davies have added their names to it.\n\nFormer students of other drama schools, including Rada, the Oxford School of Drama, Alra and Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, have also spoken out in recent days after similar messages.\n\nCentral's acting principals have said they \"personally commit to bringing about lasting and wide-ranging change\".\n\nOne former student has spoken about how she was told to accept she would play a slave in her career because she had \"inherited this trauma\", and was silenced when she complained.\n\nOthers have said the school failed to take action about racism by directors and other students; that teachers regularly called black students by the wrong names; that they were stereotyped in the roles and comments they were given; and that there was a lack of diversity among staff and in the plays they studied.\n\nAnna Crichlow, who graduated in 2016, said she didn't work on a play by a black playwright until her second year, and none at all by a black British playwright over three years.\n\n\"I was told by a teacher that I would never work classically,\" she told BBC News. \"When I graduated, my first job was in a production of Pride & Prejudice. So it's just simply not true.\"\n\nShe added: \"People are not getting the breadth of training that prepares them for this really quite diverse industry now. They're not getting training that's inclusive to them and their experiences.\n\n\"Everyone wants to help the school move on because there is great teaching going on, but it's being detracted from because of this systemic issue and this racism which is running through the school's centre.\"\n\nAnother black former student said Central is not racist, \"just very stupid\".\n\nThe action plan calls for: A system to report racism and prejudice, and to investigate all complaints; more staff training; to restructure the curriculum; a more diverse workforce; and more people of colour on the board.\n\n\"We hope this is taken with the intention in which it's being given,\" said Chi-San Howard, who studied movement directing and teaching until 2016.\n\n\"We are never going to not read Shakespeare. We are never going to not enjoy the work of Pinter. They are brilliant. It's just that there are other brilliant people as well who deserve to be heard and deserve to be seen.\"\n\nCrichlow added that the past week had revealed that people in other drama schools had been through similar experiences.\n\n\"These places are historical and we're very lucky to have them here, but it does mean they've been operating in a similar way for a very long time,\" she said.\n\n\"I certainly think the blueprint letter that we've been working on could be applied to lots of different schools and institutions. All of our hopes are for it to be a really positive step for everyone.\"\n\nThe school's principal Prof Gavin Henderson, who was due to retire at the end of term, has brought forward his retirement by three months to deal with a \"personal, family matter\".\n\nHis acting replacements, Debbie Scully and Prof Ross Brown, said: \"We have no way to fully understand the pain that many people will have gone through over the last week, and in the past.\n\n\"We are committed to forging a transparent course of action, and we will be reaching out to many of the people who have posted online, as well as meeting with current staff and students.\n\n\"We will learn from shared experiences and act upon them to effect transformational change.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Russell Harrison says many of his classmates are nervous about the estimated grades\n\nSchools and colleges in England have to submit their estimated grades for GCSE and A-levels by the end of this week.\n\nIn each subject, pupils will also be ranked from highest to lowest achieving.\n\nExam regulator Ofqual has issued extra guidance following a consultation on how to make the process as fair and accurate as possible.\n\nAny pupils unhappy with their grades will be able to sit the actual exam in October or November.\n\nBut they will not know how their have fared until mid-August when results are released.\n\nThe arrangements, put in place after exams were cancelled in the coronavirus lockdown, are a source of concern for pupils, according to Russell Harrison, a year 11 student at Blacon High School in Cheshire.\n\n\"You never know what you could have done in the exam, on the day you could have done better than any of the target grades you've been set,\" says Russell who, along with half a million other teenagers in England, was due to sit his GCSEs this May and June.\n\nNot doing the exams after the intense focus earlier in the year has been strange, he says.\n\n\"This year we had more work, more mock exams, coming into school during the holidays, [and] booster sessions to help get grades up.\"\n\nRussell recently had a bursary place at a private sixth-form school confirmed, regardless of his results, funded by the charity Hope Opportunity Trust.\n\nBut he says many of his classmates will be worried, especially those unsure of achieving the grade 4 or above they need in maths and English.\n\nHis mum, Julie Harrison, says her first reaction when the exams were cancelled was: \"Panic, at first.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I thought to myself: 'What's going to be happening with the grades?'\n\n\"It's unknown times for everybody, the first time of doing things this way, but once we knew how it was going to be worked out, we were absolutely fine with it.\"\n\nFor teachers this is an intensely stressful time, having not only to estimate pupil's grades but to rank each one from top to bottom in every subject.\n\nBlacon High School was rated good by Ofsted for the first time in its history in 2016, and it is now oversubscribed.\n\nMore than half the pupils, 55%, qualify for pupil premium funding because at some point in recent years they have been eligible for free school meals.\n\nHeadteacher Rachel Hudson says teachers feel a huge responsibility and senior staff have been reviewing decisions on every pupil.\n\n\"We all know, despite the two mock exams in November and February, that there are always students who excel at the last moment. It does tend to be boys, so trying to make a judgement holistically is very difficult.\"\n\nThe hardest judgements are on ranking pupils bunched around the middle grades or on grade borderlines.\n\nTeenagers and their parents will have to wait for results day to know what grades have been submitted by the school.\n\nLike many headteachers in schools which have been working hard to improve, Ms Hudson has to hope and trust the next stage in this new system will be fair.\n\nOnce the estimated grades and rankings have been submitted, the exam boards and the regulator Ofqual will compare them with previous years' exam performance and against national benchmarks, to ensure this year's results are not wildly out of kilter.\n\nBut the process has faced other criticisms.\n\nProf Kalwant Bhopal, director of Birmingham University's Centre for Race and Education, is one of a number of academics who wrote to the Department for Education when the plans were announced.\n\n\"To put it bluntly, when you look at the demographics of the teaching workforce, 85% of teachers are white - and 93% of headteachers,\" she tells BBC News.\n\nShe cites a wealth of research showing the impact of unconscious stereotypes in education, particularly in estimating A-level grades, which can be measured against the actual results.\n\nHer concern is that calculated exam grades this year for both GCSE and A-level will begin with estimates and rankings made by teachers which are likely to underrate some pupils\n\n\"Teachers have unconscious bias processes about particular students. So, for example, white middle-class students are seen as ideal, black working-class students are seen as aggressive and confrontational. So within this process there will be unconscious bias.\"\n\nShe would have preferred to see independent scrutiny from the outset in the school stage of the process.\n\nOfqual has issued extra guidance about unconscious bias to teachers after its consultation highlighted the issue as a potential concern.\n\nIt consulted a range of bodies including the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nIts advice to schools is that at least two people, including the lead teacher on each subject, should be involved.\n\nA formal declaration has to be signed by the headteacher, saying the estimated grades and rankings are an honest and fair reflection of the grades pupils would have obtained.\n\nAre you a parent or guardian of a GCSE or A-level student? Are you awaiting estimated grades? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Boris Johnson announces that from Saturday 13 June, single adult households in England can form one “support bubble” with one other household of any size.\n\nThis means they can go to each other’s houses, stay the night and don’t have to maintain social distancing.\n\nThe prime minister says all those in a support bubble will be able to act as if they live in the same household.\n\nAs such, if any member of the bubble develops symptoms all members of the bubble have to follow guidelines.\n\n\"We're making this change to support those who are particularly lonely,\" he says.\n\n\"It is not designed for those who do not qualify to start meeting inside people's homes, because that remains against the law.\"\n\nThose who are shielding cannot take part.\n\nThe rules in Scotland remain unchanged, with people from two households only allowed to meet outdoors in small groups of no more than eight.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned people that meeting up with other households indoors is a \"surefire way\" of allowing coronavirus to spread.", "Chester Zoo’s chief operating officer Jamie Christon said the zoo was \"absolutely ecstatic\" at the prospect of reopening to the public.\n\nBut he said the coronavirus crisis had put a \"massive scar on the side of Chester Zoo\".\n\nHe said the attraction had a \"long way to go\" to get \"anywhere near\" where it was before the crisis.\n\nThe 128 acre site is home to more than 35,000 animals, from more than 500 of the world’s rarest species.\n\nTwo million people visited the attraction in 2019 and the zoo gets 97% of its income from visitors and costs £1.5m a month to run, Mr Christon said.\n\nQuote Message: We are already £5m down so far this year and even when we open on Monday we will be opening on controlled capacity of around 3,000 people a day - a fifth of our normal capacity. It’s going to take us a long, long, time to recover.\" from Jamie Christon Chester Zoo’s chief operating officer We are already £5m down so far this year and even when we open on Monday we will be opening on controlled capacity of around 3,000 people a day - a fifth of our normal capacity. It’s going to take us a long, long, time to recover.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kate talks about the frustration of not knowing when she will be allowed to visit her mother who has Alzheimer's\n\nPatients with dementia, difficulty understanding English or other communication problems should be allowed a family member with them while in hospital, it has been argued.\n\nVisiting is currently suspended across Wales due to the coronavirus restrictions.\n\nNow calls are being made by the Welsh Liberal Democrats and Alzheimer's Society for a review.\n\nThe Welsh Government said exceptions were in place for certain patients.\n\nA spokesperson suggested those with mental health issues, such as dementia, a learning disability or autism should be able to request a visit under the current guidelines.\n\nBut BBC Wales has spoken to a number of people in this situation who have had a different experience.\n\nFamily times with Janice aren't possible at the moment\n\nKate, from south Wales, said she fears her mother will no longer recognise her after months apart.\n\nDiagnosed with Alzheimer's disease four years ago, 71-year-old Janice was admitted to hospital a few weeks before the lockdown for help with medication.\n\nThe family accompanied her on admission and would visit every day, helping her to eat and wash, bringing in her familiar shower gel, hand cream and music to trigger memories and make her feel comfortable.\n\nBut then \"we were completely cut off\", Kate said.\n\n\"For somebody with dementia that has huge repercussions.\"\n\nThey had to wait nine weeks before being offered a video call with their mum, after an iPad was donated to the ward.\n\nJanice was admitted to hospital a few weeks before lockdown\n\nKate said the change she noticed in Janice's condition was \"distressing\".\n\n\"The worry is if we're not in touch, will it be more difficult for her to recognise us and feel comfortable in the house when she comes home?\n\n\"It makes you feel really anxious and really concerned that nobody seems to be thinking about the bigger picture and putting a strategy in place.\"\n\nAt the moment it's just 'it's not safe, end of story'\n\n\"Even if they said, 'right the R number would need to be this or we would need such and such to be in place to allow visiting' - then at least that would give us some reassurance that we're aiming for something.\n\n\"It would be something to hold on to, some light at the end of the tunnel. But at the moment it's just 'it's not safe, end of story'.\"\n\nThe wife of another hospital patient in south Wales with dementia - who wished to remain anonymous - said she had been preparing to visit her husband when lockdown happened, describing the situation since then as \"like a bereavement\".\n\n\"The ward was locked with immediate effect meaning I couldn't say goodbye,\" she said.\n\nDespite having power of attorney over his health and welfare, she says she is \"not being consulted or listened to\".\n\n\"He has definitely deteriorated a lot since lockdown. Dementia can change so quickly and you lose so much.\"\n\nSue Phelps, country director for Alzheimer's Society Cymru, said the current situation could lead to \"increased isolation, anxiety and unnecessary cognitive decline\" for patients with dementia.\n\n\"The most frustrating thing for carers or loved ones is not being able to share their insight. They are the ones who know the person best, they can articulate for that person and make sure they are getting the support they are familiar with.\"\n\nConcerns have also been raised for patients who have difficulties communicating for other reasons, including those for whom English is not their first language.\n\nJane Dodds said language issues had also been raised with the party\n\nJane Dodds, Welsh Liberal Democrats leader, said she wanted to see a relaxation of the rules, with hospitals considering whether to allow a family member to accompany patients on admission or visit them on a \"case by case basis\".\n\nRecalling her own experience of seeing her mother revert to only being able to speak Welsh at the end of her life because of dementia, she said it was \"something particularly for Wales to think about\".\n\nShe also said the party had been contacted by the family of an elderly man of Asian heritage who were distraught at not being able to accompany him into hospital as he could not understand English.\n\n\"We do understand totally the situation at the moment with Covid-19 and how difficult it is for medical staff to keep everybody safe. But we're asking that they look at every case and consider, where there are people with communication problems, whether they can take somebody in with them.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said exceptions were already in place to enable people to visit people with mental health issues, as well as dementia, a learning disability or autism in hospital.\n\n\"It is entirely appropriate for people with specific needs to be accompanied to hospital for an appointment if it would be detrimental to their care if they were unsupported,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"In all such instances, agreement should be sought in advance from the nurse in charge of the area.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England\n\nThe postponement of tens of thousands of hospital procedures is putting the lives of people with long-term heart conditions at risk, according to the British Heart Foundation.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has created a backlog which would only get larger as patients waited for care, it said.\n\nPeople with heart disease are at increased risk of serious illness with Covid-19, and some are shielding.\n\nIn the last two weeks, cardiology services have started again in England.\n\nThe BHF estimates that 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England since the outbreak of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThese are planned hospital procedures, including the implanting of pacemakers or stents, widening blocked arteries to the heart, and tests to diagnose heart problems.\n\nPeople now waiting for new appointments would already have been waiting for treatment when the lockdown started, the charity said, as it urged the NHS to support people with heart conditions \"in a safe way\".\n\nSarah Miles is shielding because of her high risk of being very ill with Covid-19\n\nSarah Miles, 45, a former nurse from Somerset, has been ill for some time with heart failure, after a heart attack and cardiac arrest when she was 38.\n\nShe has had several recent appointments cancelled, including a procedure to correct abnormal heart rhythms she had already waited six months for, and an assessment for a new heart.\n\n\"It makes you feel anxious and alone,\" she says, having been shielding from the virus because of her high risk of complications.\n\nYet the last thing she wants to do is complain.\n\n\"I understand the practicalities but it's worrying me that there is no plan - no-one is keeping me informed or anything.\n\n\"Even accessing medication online is more difficult because doctors need extra time to arrange it.\"\n\nA nurse would normally come to her house, where she is sleeping in the front room, to carry out blood tests - but that hasn't happened.\n\n\"I haven't had any follow-up after being in hospital in February either,\" she says.\n\nShe is no longer able to walk very far and the hope of a heart transplant keeps her going, but that's likely to be a long way off.\n\n\"I'm just in limbo. It's the not knowing that's the worst.\"\n\nThe NHS scaled back services in many areas and redeployed staff in order to stop the health service from being overwhelmed by patients with Covid-19.\n\nThis led to drops in cancer referrals, routine operations and visits to A&E - and there were concerns that seriously ill people were being put off seeking treatment.\n\n\"People with heart and circulatory diseases are already at increased risk of dying from Covid-19, and their lives should not be put at even greater risk by missing out on treatment for their condition,\" said Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation.\n\n\"If hospital investigations and procedures are delayed too long, it can result in preventable permanent long-term complications, such as heart failure.\"\n\nThe implanting of pacemakers is one of the procedures postponed during the epidemic\n\nA survey of 1,409 adults with heart and circulatory conditions carried out by BHF with YouGov found that during the crisis, a third had struggled to get the medicines they needed and about 40% had had a planned test or procedure postponed or cancelled.\n\nSome of the most urgent heart procedures have taken place during the epidemic.\n\nBut although cardiology services have started again, it is not yet clear how long patients will have to wait to for rescheduled appointments.\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"Now we are through the first peak of the virus, the NHS is safely bringing back other services, as clearly many people will have worried about seeking help during the outbreak.\"\n\nThe number of people coming to A&E for cardiac conditions is \"back to the levels we would normally expect\", he said.\n\nNHS England said it was also \"significantly increasing rehab care for everyone suffering after-effects of the virus\".", "The coronavirus pandemic has claimed another 3,600 UK jobs after the Restaurant Group, Monsoon Accessorize and Quiz announced major restructures.\n\nThe Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie and Benny's, expects to cut up to 3,000 workers after confirming plans to shut 125 sites.\n\nMonsoon Accessorize has announced 545 job losses and the closure of 35 shops.\n\nAnd fashion chain Quiz has put its stores into administration because they are not currently \"financially viable\".\n\nSome 93 jobs will be lost through the reorganisation.\n\nThe Restaurant Group said the closures would fall mainly on its Frankie and Benny's restaurants, but other chains such as Garfunkel's and Chiquito will also be affected.\n\nMeanwhile, Monsoon Accessorize said its current structure was \"unviable\" following the lockdown.\n\nMonsoon Accessorize assets have been put into administration and sold to a business controlled by Peter Simon, the founder and owner of the chain.\n\nIt will now attempt to renegotiate the terms of its remaining 162 shops with its landlords and aims to safeguard up to 2,300 jobs.\n\nThe restructurings are coming thick and fast. And it's no surprise. Retail and hospitality businesses have taken a massive hit in this pandemic.\n\nSales have disappeared. Even when they're able to re-open, many firms will struggle, or be unable, to pay their rent bills for many months to come.\n\nThese household names were already having challenges before coronavirus. And they're all now hoping to survive in a leaner, slimmed down, form by securing better deals with their landlords.\n\nExpect to see a lot more of this in the weeks and months to come.\n\nThe Restaurant Group is restructuring part of its business through an insolvency procedure known as a company voluntary arrangement (CVA).\n\nAs well as the closures of some of its eateries, the company said it would attempt to renegotiate rents and terms on a further 85 sites.\n\nThe Restaurant Group's chief executive, Andy Hornby, said: \"The proposed CVA will deliver an appropriately-sized estate for our Leisure business to ensure we are well positioned despite the very challenging market conditions facing the casual dining sector.\"\n\nThe Restaurant Group also owns the Wagamama restaurant chain, but this will not be affected by the restructuring.\n\nSome of the company's brands were struggling before the pandemic hit as conditions in the so-called fast casual dining sector in which it operates were already tough.\n\nThe shift to online shopping has meant fewer visitors to its outlets on High Streets and in shopping centres.\n\nThat, together with rising rent and wage costs, has prompted a wave of site closures.\n\nLast year, Restaurant Group said it would close a number of its sites, and in February said it would close a further 90 restaurants by the end of 2021.\n\nMonsoon Accessorize will try to renegotiate rental terms on 162 of its remaining shops\n\nQuiz said it would put its 82 outlets in the UK and Ireland into administration before buying them back so it can negotiate better rental terms with its landlords.\n\nIt said some 822 employees out of a total of 915 would transfer to the new company.\n\nQuiz chief executive Tarak Ramzan said the company's shops were already facing challenges before the coronavirus outbreak as fewer people were shopping in store.\n\nHowever, he said that \"the significant economic uncertainty we now face as consumers and businesses emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic\" meant that the group had to be restructured.\n\nThe coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown has prompted thousands of job cuts across the UK economy.\n\nOn Tuesday, Debenhams said a further 300 jobs would go and in recent weeks Rolls-Royce, British Airways, EasyJet and car dealership Lookers have announced extensive cuts.", "Coronavirus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, a major analysis of the genetics of the virus shows.\n\nThe study, by the Covid-19 Genomics UK consortium (Cog-UK), completely quashes the idea that a single \"patient zero\" started the whole UK outbreak.\n\nThe analysis also finds China, where the pandemic started, had a negligible impact on cases in the UK.\n\nInstead those initial cases came mostly from European countries.\n\nThe researchers analysed the genetic code of viral samples taken from more than 20,000 people infected with coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThen, like a gigantic version of a paternity test, the geneticists attempted to piece together the virus's massive family tree.\n\nThis was combined with data on international travel to get to the origins of the UK epidemic.\n\nThey found the UK's coronavirus epidemic did not have one origin - but at least 1,356 origins. On each of those occasions somebody brought the infection into the UK from abroad and the virus began to spread as a result.\n\n\"The surprising and exciting conclusion is that we found the UK epidemic has resulted from a very large number of separate importations,\" said Prof Nick Loman, from Cog-UK and the University of Birmingham.\n\n\"It wasn't a patient zero,\" he added.\n\nThe study showed that less than 0.1% of those imported cases came directly from China. Instead the UK's coronavirus epidemic was largely initiated by travel from Italy in late February, Spain in early-to-mid-March and then France in mid-to-late-March.\n\n\"The big surprise for us was how fluid the process was, the rate of and source of virus introduction shifted rapidly over the course of only a few weeks,\" said Prof Oliver Pybus, from the University of Oxford.\n\n\"This happened later than perhaps we would have expected,\" added Prof Loman.\n\nThe study estimates 80% of those initial cases arrived in the country between 28 Feb and 29 March - the time the UK was debating whether to lockdown.\n\nAfter this point, the number of new imported cases diminished rapidly.\n\nThe earliest one could be traced back to the beginning of February, but it is possible there were cases even earlier that could not be picked up by the analysis.\n\nThe study also says the controversial football match between Liverpool and Atletico Madrid, on 11 March, probably had very little impact on bringing the virus into the country.\n\nAn estimated 3,000 fans flew in from Spain to watch the game, but there were 20,000 people flying in from Spain every single day in mid-March.\n\n\"[It] shows that individual events such as football matches likely made a negligible contribution to the number of imports at that time,\" the study says.\n\nThe imported cases each started off a chain of transmission where the virus is passed from one person, to the next, to the next and so on.\n\nHowever, the study shows lockdown has massively disrupted the spread of the virus.\n\n\"If there's good news here, these chains of transmission were and are being suppressed and going extinct as a result of social distancing and we continue to see that now,\" Prof Loman said.", "The guidance looks at how passengers and staff can stay safe while travelling\n\nThermal-imaging cameras and swab tests for coronavirus are not \"clinically valuable\" in airports, according to a panel of aviation health experts.\n\nAbout one in every three infectious people would be missed, they say.\n\nAir systems and low humidity on planes already reduces virus spread through the cabin.\n\nBut passengers should wear face coverings at all times, board and disembark one row at a time and be seated apart from others if possible.\n\nAnd those seated at the back should be the first on and last off.\n\nThe recommendations for safe air travel have been sent to the UK aviation industry and the Department for Transport.\n\nIt comes as the UK introduces a two-week quarantine period for anyone arriving from abroad by plane, train or ferry, although there are some exceptions.\n\nHowever, more than 200 travel companies have asked for the new rules to be scrapped and some MPs have voiced concerns.\n\nTemperature screening detects anyone with a high temperature, and so has \"substantial high false positive rate\" for coronavirus, causing hold-ups for many passengers, the document says.\n\nAnd throat swab tests, which could be introduced for potentially infected passengers, have \"a false negative rate of up to 30%\".\n\nThermal cameras have been set up in a number of airports in the UK\n\nProf Ashley Woodcock, from the University of Manchester, who led the panel, said air filtration systems in planes were very efficient and filtered out 99.8% of small particles.\n\n\"The air in planes is about as clean as an operating theatre,\" he said.\n\nOn board, there should also be 'sequencing' of toilet visits - with people asking permission to go from cabin crew - and a spare supply of face coverings, it adds.\n\nPassengers with a long-standing cough caused by asthma, COPD or other respiratory disorders should consider wearing a coloured mask to highlight their underlying condition.\n\nIn airports, shops and restaurants should be opened but managed carefully to avoid overcrowding.\n• None How safe is it to get on a plane?", "There would usually be lifeguard patrols on 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands\n\nThe RNLI is planning summer lifeguard cover at more beaches after saying staff were only to be at 70 in the UK.\n\nIt paused its roll-out programme in March amid measures to control the spread of coronavirus, and said in May it would not be at its usual 240 sites.\n\nThe charity said it was now planning a \"more comprehensive\" service but did not confirm at how many beaches.\n\nPlans also depend on no further virus spikes or \"reintroduction of [lockdown] restrictions\", bosses said.\n\nThe charity has been facing calls to increase cover in the UK and Channel Islands after several incidents during the recent sunny weather, including two people dying in incidents in Cornwall.\n\nChief Executive Mark Dowie said at that time, restarting the full service in a pandemic was not simple as staff needed \"time to train and prepare for ever-changing medical directions about what we can and can't do on the beach\".\n\nThe RNLI said it was now \"planning to maximise the number of beaches we can put lifeguards on in the fastest possible time\" and \"provide a more comprehensive lifeguard service this summer safely, despite the continuing challenges created by the pandemic\".\n\nIt said it had been testing \"new ways of operating\" and was reassuring everyone that \"we can accelerate and expand our plans.\"\n\nRNLI lifeguards have already started working on an additional beach in Cornwall.\n\nThey were due to be patrolling only seven beaches in the county, starting on 30 May, but increased it to eight.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neville Staple is a singer with the ska band The Specials\n\nFacebook wrongly removed a page about The Specials in what band members think was a mistaken link to racism.\n\nBand legend Neville Staple and wife and manager Christine were among hundreds of people affected as pages linked with skinheads were removed.\n\nThe couple believe algorithms linked the 1970s 2 Tone movement with racism, which they said was \"the complete opposite of what we were about\".\n\nFacebook said the accounts were \"removed in error\" and were reinstated.\n\nMr and Mrs Staple realised their accounts had been removed on Monday evening and said they were \"astounded\" when it emerged it was because they had been wrongly identified as racist.\n\nThe Specials formed in Coventry in the 1970s\n\n\"We're the 2 Tone era, we came about when racial tensions were nuts - a bit like what we're going though now,\" Mrs Staple said.\n\n\"We were all about bringing black and white together.\"\n\nThe couple said they believed Facebook was \"generalising anyone associated with skinhead\" - often linked with far-right ideology - and should apologise.\n\n\"They've clearly not looked into 2 Tone,\" Mrs Staple said.\n\n\"It was all about change - we've got skinheads, rudies... a whole range of fans out there.\"\n\nNeville and Christine 'Sugary' Staple both had their Facebook pages removed for about 24 hours\n\n\"It's incredibly hurtful to be labelled racist,\" said one fan who had her account suspended.\n\nThe woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said her Facebook page was restored on Tuesday evening, but she accused the company of \"blanket ignorance\".\n\n\"It's all just assumption - I've not shared anything offensive, or derogatory and I openly condemn those who do share hateful messages.\"\n\nCarrie Frost, a self-described skinhead since the age of 14, also had her profile removed.\n\nThe last thing she posted about was Snoopy, the cartoon dog from the Peanuts comic strip.\n\nThe 54-year-old from Coalville in Leicestershire said she was \"really upset\".\n\n\"I felt absolutely awful... you do feel you are being tarred with that [racism] brush,\" she said.\n\nIn a statement, a spokesperson for Facebook said the company was \"reviewing what happened in this case and taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shared online shows a male officer being pinned to the ground and kicked\n\nThe home secretary and the Police Federation have condemned a video which shows an officer on the ground apparently being kicked.\n\nVideo circulating on social media shows an officer struggling with a man in Frampton Park Road in Hackney, north London.\n\nThe footage was branded \"sickening\" by Priti Patel, while the federation said: \"We are not society's punch bags.\"\n\nFour people have since been arrested on suspicion of assault on police.\n\nThey include a 13-year-old boy and three men, aged 20, 32 and 34.\n\nThe officers, a man and a woman, suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment, the Met Police said.\n\nA member of the public, who had claimed to have been assaulted, flagged down the police on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said: \"As an officer attempted to speak with those involved, one of the men resisted and a struggle ensued. A number of other people became involved whilst the officer was on the ground.\"\n\nAn officer was filmed while he was pinned to the ground in Frampton Park Road\n\nFootage appears to show the officer trying to restrain a man but they then fall to the ground with the officer pinned underneath.\n\nPassers-by began filming and taking selfies as the officer and the suspect grappled.\n\nThe female officer attempted to keep people away from the scene and also suffered injuries before more officers arrived and the first two arrests were made.\n\nTwo police officers, presumably awaiting backup, are having to fight for control, on a London pavement, surrounded by people, seemingly hostile.\n\nAs is so often the case, phones came out of pockets as the incident developed, so the video doesn't show what happened in the minutes before.\n\nThat is crucial since officers have to justify the force they use.\n\nEven before George Floyd's death, any number of controversial arrests in recent years have demonstrated that a single video posted on social media can transform the public's opinion of an incident, and therefore their views of the police.\n\nThis investigation may be able to rely on the officer's own body-worn video cameras, increasingly vital in establishing the context.\n\nBut more generally, figures show the number of reported assaults on police officers have been rising steadily since 2014.\n\nThis, during a period when police numbers fell because of years of austerity. Fewer officers on the streets means fewer officers to respond, when their colleagues get into difficulty.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said: \"Yet again this starkly shows the dangers [officers] face and the bravery they show each and every day keeping Londoners safe.\n\n\"We are not society's punch bags. We have families we want to go home to at the end of every shift, but the dangers are stark and seemingly escalating.\"\n\nSupt Martin Rolston said: \"This incident, which was captured on someone's mobile phone is truly shocking.\n\n\"My officers went to the assistance of a member of the public - who asked for their help - after stating that they had been assaulted.\n\n\"What happened next is a reminder of the risks our officers take whilst going about their duties.\"\n\n\"My thoughts are with the outstanding officers who were subject to this disgusting violent attack.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"I utterly condemn the disgraceful attack on two Metropolitan Police officers this afternoon.\n\n\"These brave officers were doing their duty and assisting the public. We owe them a debt of gratitude.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chemistry experiments are difficult to replicate at home\n\nGovernment plans for schooling during the pandemic \"lie in tatters\", with England's pupils set to miss six months of lessons, Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nCalling for a national task force to tackle the issue, the Labour leader said the consequences for inequality and children's education were stark.\n\nBoris Johnson defended the plan during Prime Minister's Questions, pledging extra support for vulnerable families.\n\nPlans for all primary pupils to go back this term were ditched on Tuesday.\n\nAnd although some secondary students, most of whom have been out of school since the end of March, are expected to be invited back for some face-to-face time with their teachers, their lessons are not expected to resume until September at the earliest.\n\nSpeaking during Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson said the government \"fully intends\" to bring all children in England back to school in September \"provided the progress we are making continues\".\n\n\"What we'll be doing is a huge amount of catch-up for pupils over the summer months,\" he said, adding that the education secretary will announce more on a catch-up programme next week.\n\nAt PMQs, Sir Keir said Mr Johnson had announced his plan to reopen primaries on 1 June, without consulting head teachers or having convincing scientific evidence on safety.\n\nAnd he said parents had lost confidence in the government's schools plan.\n\nHe accused the prime minister of \"flailing around trying to blame others\" for what had been a completely avoidable \"mess\".\n\nMr Johnson retaliated, during a series of testy exchanges, saying Sir Keir should ask \"his friends in the left-wing trade unions\", meaning the teachers' unions, to help schools prepare.\n\nHe also accused the Labour leader of changing his mind over whether schools should be open.\n\nSir Keir said England was an \"outlier\" compared with other countries in Europe, which had re-opened some of their schools.\n\nAnd his attempts to set up a cross-party task force to tackle the issue had been ignored.\n\nOfsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman said the government's decision not to require all primary school pupils in England to return to the classroom before the summer holidays was \"disappointing\".\n\nShe told a House of Lords Committee she was \"saddened\" that people may have become \"more frightened than they actually need to be\".\n\nChildren's Commissioner Anne Longfield called for a national strategy to return pupils to classes, warning children risked being forgotten as the lockdown lifted.\n\nAnd concerns were raised at the Commons Education Committee about the impact of school closures on children's life chances.\n\nProf Lee Elliot Major, former chief executive of the Sutton Trust education equality charity, said he was \"really worried\" about the eight million children currently out of school.\n\nHe said: \"There is a tsunami of anxiety hitting schools about the one million children who are going to be taking their GCSEs and A-levels next year.\"\n\nAnd there needed to be clarity about how public exams would be handled next year, adding that he preferred a combination of exams and teacher assessment.\n\nSally Collier, chief executive of England's exams watchdog, told the committee contingency plans were being drawn up but gave no details.\n\nReports have suggested Ofqual might be considering delaying exams or using a system involving predictive grades.\n\nMs Collier suggested the government may be re-thinking the content of exams for next year and that schools would need to know at the earliest opportunity what they were going to need to teach next year.\n\nOfqual would be publishing a consultation in the coming weeks on possible measures to ameliorate the impact of educational disruption on next year's exam candidates, she told MPs.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said it was increasingly clear disruption to schooling was going to continue.\n\n\"Looking at the exams system, we could face some of this, a very similar situation, next year, we have got to learn from this year,\" he said.\n\nDr Zubaida Haque, of the Runnymede Trust, said there needed to be an urgent look at what could be done for pupils who were not going back to school this summer.\n\nShe said there were lots of venues available out of school, which could be utilised because of Covid-19 restrictions - such as football stadiums, private schools and golf fields.\n\nShe urged ministers to think creatively and urgently about how such facilities could be used, with a view to setting up summer schools to help pupils catch up and support them with pastoral and emotional needs.\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh government has published new guidance on the measures schools should consider when reopening, including outside learning, teaching in small groups and pupils eating at their desks.\n\nSchools in Wales will reopen to all age groups from 29 June but only a third of pupils will be in classes at any one time.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish schools will reopen from 11 August, using a blended model, with some continued home-learning.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers have set a target date for some pupils to go back on 17 August, with a phased return for the rest in September.", "Ant and Dec have apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway.\n\nThe duo concealed their real identities with darker make-up and prosthetics in order to pull pranks on famous people.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, they said they were \"sincerely sorry\" and had requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nTheir apology follows widespread Black Lives Matter protests, in the US and the UK, over the death of George Floyd.\n\n\"During past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway we impersonated people of colour in the Undercover segment of the show,\" they wrote in a statement.\n\n\"We realise that this was wrong and want to say that we are sincerely sorry to everyone that we offended.\"\n\nThey added: \"We purposely stopped doing this several years ago and certainly would not make these sketches today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by antanddec This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe presenting pair dressed up as two fictional Jamaican women, Patty and Bernice, during a segment in 2003, and as two Japanese girls, Suki and Keiko, the year after, adopting fake accents.\n\nIn January, Ant and Dec won their 19th consecutive presenting award, at the National Television Awards.\n\nBut it's not the first time this year that they have had to apologise for causing cultural offence on their primetime weekend show.\n\nIn March, they both wore headbands that featured the Japanese Rising Sun flag - seen by some as a symbol of Japan's imperialist past - during a martial arts inspired performance alongside pop singer Anne Marie.\n\nTheir latest apology arrives just days after the BBC removed the popular comedy Little Britain from streaming sites due to objections resurfacing regarding some of the sketch show's similarly outdated characters.\n\nOn Wednesday, BBC director general Tony Hall said creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams had agreed with the decision.\n\n\"We are constantly looking at what we have in our archive and thinking, is it still appropriate?\" Lord Hall told BBC Radio 4 Front Row.\n\n\"Times move on. Indeed I think David and Matt, who made the programme, felt that times had moved on as well. It was acknowledged by them. So we're constantly keeping this under review, and that's why the decision has been made.\"\n\nHowever, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he would not have removed the series, which was originally broadcast between 2003-2008.\n\n\"The BBC have editorial independence, and it wouldn't have been my choice, but that's up to the BBC,\" he told ITV's Robert Peston. \"I'm not going to second-guess them all the time.\"\n\nAsked about the sketches in question last November, Walliams told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz that blacking up was acceptable at the time - but it was \"probably the right thing\" that people don't do it any more.\n\n\"It was acceptable at some point about 15 years ago because lots of other comedians were doing it at the time, and now it's become unacceptable again,\" he said.\n\n\"It was unacceptable, then it was acceptable, then it was unacceptable again, so it's quite interesting how that has shifted. I don't exactly know why, but I think it's good that people express what they want to see and what they don't want to see - it's perfectly reasonable.\"\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having made himself up as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Wildlife crime is the greatest threat to the pangolin\n\nConservation groups have welcomed China's move to remove pangolins from the official list of traditional Chinese medicine treatments, saying this could be a \"game changer\".\n\nThe news, reported by China's Health Times newspaper, comes after China raised the animal's protected status to the highest level last week.\n\nPangolins have been pushed to the brink by illegal hunting for scales and meat.\n\nThey are implicated in coronavirus, but the evidence is unclear.\n\nConservation charities have welcomed the move to remove them from the official list of traditional Chinese medicines. Paul Thomson of Save Pangolins said it was a breakthrough moment.\n\n\"China's move to phase out pangolin scales from traditional medicines could be the game changer we have been waiting for,\" he said.\n\n\"We hope China's next move will be to enforce the regulations and work to change consumer behaviour.\"\n\nHundreds of thousands of pangolins have been killed for their scales\n\nAnd Katheryn Wise of animal welfare campaign group, World Animal Protection, said it was \"great news\" that China had upgraded pangolins to the highest level of protection and removed them from the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.\n\nShe called for this to be extended to all wild animals, \"who, like pangolins, are poached from the wild and often placed in squalid, cramped cages, creating a lethal hotbed of disease\".\n\nPangolins are covered with a layer of scales, which are designed to protect them against predators. The scales are highly coveted by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, while pangolin meat is seen as a delicacy.\n\nChina banned the consumption of live wild animals for food in the wake of the outbreak, but there are certain exemptions, such as for medicine or fur.\n\nPangolins are in the spotlight as a possible animal host for coronavirus, but no direct link has been shown.\n\nThere are eight species of pangolin across Asia and Africa\n\nNicole Benjamin-Fink of Conservation Beyond Borders said that, whether pangolins served as the conduit for the coronavirus or not, it's time to halt the demand for the most trafficked mammals worldwide.\n\n\"Let's hope that this ban is the first in a series that ultimately ban all wildlife usage in traditional Chinese medicine,\" she said.\n\nPangolins eat ants and other insects, and are often known as the scaly anteater. All eight species are protected under international law, but trade has been growing.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were photographed in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle\n\nBuckingham Palace has released a new photograph of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to mark the duke's 99th birthday.\n\nPrince Philip, who celebrates his birthday on Wednesday, has been shielding with the Queen at Windsor Castle during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe photo was taken in the castle's grounds during sunny weather last week.\n\nIt is the first public photo of the duke since he was seen leaving hospital in London on 24 December last year.\n\nPrince Philip spent four nights in the private King Edward VII's Hospital in relation to a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nIn the picture, which was taken by a Press Association photographer, the duke is wearing a Household Division tie.\n\nThe Queen is wearing a heart-shaped 18.8 carat diamond brooch called Cullinan V, which she has worn many times, including for her granddaughter Princess Eugenie's wedding and London Fashion Week.\n\nIt follows another photograph last week that showed the Queen, 94, riding a pony called Balmoral Fern in Windsor Home Park.\n\nThe Queen was seen outside for the first time since lockdown began riding a 14-year-old Fell pony\n\nPrince Philip, who has been married to the Queen for 72 years, has rarely been seen in public since he retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\nHe is the longest-serving consort in British history and the oldest serving partner of a reigning monarch.\n\nThe duke issued a rare statement in April thanking key workers who were keeping essential services running during the pandemic.\n\nIt followed the Queen's own message on television, watched by about 24 million viewers.\n\nMeanwhile the Duke of Cambridge said he was worried about Prince Philip and the Queen during the coronavirus outbreak, but said his grandparents were doing everything they could to ensure they were protected and isolated.\n\n\"Obviously I think very carefully about my grandparents who are the age they're at - we're doing everything we can to make sure that they're isolated away and protected from this,\" said Prince William.\n\nPrince Philip was last seen in public leaving hospital in time for Christmas last year\n\nThe Queen cut short her official duties because of the coronavirus in mid-March.\n\nPrince Philip, who had been staying at the Sandringham estate, was flown by helicopter to join the Queen at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe government's rules for the lockdown identified groups of \"clinically vulnerable\" people who should take particular care to minimise contact with anyone outside their household.\n\nThey included those aged 70 or over, \"regardless of medical conditions\".\n\nThe managing editor of Majesty magazine, Joe Little, said the royal couple's time in lockdown together was \"an opportunity for them in their later years to reconnect... It is the perfect royal cocooning\".\n\nHe added: \"They will make a fuss of him on Wednesday as much as you can make a fuss of the Duke of Edinburgh.\"", "The UK's most senior black and minority ethnic police officer has urged forces to \"stand up to racists, inequality and injustice\".\n\nAnti-racism protests have been held across the UK in the wake of George Floyd's killing in the United States.\n\nIn a message to officers, Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said he was \"horrified\" by Mr Floyd's death.\n\nBut he said it could be \"a moment for change\" similar to the Macpherson Inquiry into Stephen Lawrence's murder.\n\nHowever, in an interview with The Guardian, Mr Lawrence's father Neville said police forces had fallen \"way, way short\" of making reforms promised after the 1999 inquiry and remain \"institutionally racist\".\n\nBlack people are still treated as second-class citizens \"not only in this country but all over the world\", he added.\n\nThe death of 46-year-old black man Mr Floyd, in Minneapolis, after a white police officer was filmed kneeling on his neck, triggered an international outcry and has sparked days of protests in cities across the UK.\n\nProtests have been held across the UK since the weekend\n\nDemonstrations have been largely peaceful, but there were clashes in London on Saturday, and a statue of Winston Churchill was vandalised.\n\nIn Bristol, demonstrators toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into the harbour.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has condemned a \"lawless minority of protesters\" who \"regrettably turned to violence\" while the prime minister urged the country to \"work peacefully, lawfully\" to defeat racism and discrimination.\n\nMr Basu said \"the overwhelming majority\" of protesters were \"showing solidarity with George and what his death represents\" and should be listened to.\n\nThe protests on both sides of the Atlantic have been based on \"anger directed not just at police brutality but the racial bias built into the very fabric of our institutions and society\", he added.\n\nMr Basu said there had been progress since the Macpherson Inquiry but \"despite how far we have come we must confront the fact that with many of our communities - especially the black community - we still have a long way to go\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The women were celebrating Bibaa Henry's (right) birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters who were found dead in a park where they had been celebrating a birthday had both been stabbed multiple times, police have said.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27 and Bibaa Henry, 46, were discovered on Sunday in Fryent Country Park, Brent.\n\nThey had been among a group who had gone to celebrate Ms Henry's birthday on Friday evening. The pair were reported missing the next day.\n\nNo arrests have been made but the Met said they had several lines of inquiry.\n\nThe group had met at about 19:00 BST at a spot in the park about five minutes from the Valley Drive entrance.\n\nPeople gradually left during the evening with Ms Smallman and Ms Henry being the only ones remaining by midnight.\n\nA search began late on Saturday after they failed to return home, before they were both discovered shortly after 13:00 and pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said their families were \"devastated by their loss\".\n\nHe added that the group had met in a \"well-known spot to sit and look over London\" and appealed for anyone who noticed them or \"may have seen a person acting suspiciously in the days leading up to the attack\" to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, a German man who is the new suspect\n\nGerman prosecutors say they may have to drop the investigation into a convicted paedophile suspected of killing Madeleine McCann if they do not receive more information from the public.\n\nInvestigators told the BBC they have substantial evidence that Madeleine is dead - but this is not enough to take the suspect to court.\n\nThe three-year-old disappeared while on holiday in Portugal in 2007.\n\nThe suspect, 43, has been named by German media as Christian B.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, a prosecutor in the northern city of Braunschweig - where detectives are leading the investigation - told the BBC: \"We have evidence against the accused which leads us to believe that he really killed Madeleine but this evidence is not strong enough at the moment to take him to court.\"\n\nThe evidence is \"strong enough to say that the girl is dead and strong enough to accuse a specific individual of murder - that strong,\" he said.\n\nHowever he added: \"One has to be honest and remain open to the possibility that our investigation could end without a charge, that it ends like the others have.\n\n\"We are optimistic it will be different for us but for that we need more information.\"\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nThe suspect, a German man, is currently serving a jail term in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, for drug-dealing, having been extradited from Portugal in July 2017.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the Praia da Luz area in 2007, when Madeleine went missing. She had been there on a family holiday with her parents and siblings.\n\nIn December 2019, the man was sentenced to seven years for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.\n\nThe rape conviction is currently under review in the German courts, according to German n-tv news.\n\nGerman media say Christian B has also been investigated over the disappearance of a five-year-old German girl, named only as Inga. She went missing from a family party in Saxony-Anhalt on 2 May 2015 and has never been found.\n\nPolice say the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve in Portugal between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nA senior judicial source in Portugal told the BBC the joint investigation into the new suspect began after a tip-off in Germany in 2017.\n\nInvestigators were told by a friend of Christian B that the suspect had made a \"disturbing comment\" in a German bar, as they were watching news coverage of the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, according to the source.\n\nGerman prosecutors have previously said they are assuming Madeleine is dead.\n\nHowever, the Metropolitan Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because there is no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry, were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Met Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "The development would have built 1,500 new homes on Westferry Road, the Isle of Dogs\n\nLabour has urged Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to publish all correspondence relating to his approval of a £1bn property scheme.\n\nThe call came after it emerged the developer of the scheme has since given money to the Conservative Party.\n\nRichard Desmond donated £12,000 to the party two weeks after Mr Jenrick gave planning permission for his company to build 1,500 homes in east London.\n\nThe Conservatives said policies were \"in no way influenced by donations\".\n\nLabour has criticised Mr Jenrick for \"refusing\" to answer an Urgent Question in the House of Commons on the matter.\n\nChris Pincher - a junior housing minister - is answering the question instead.\n\nSources close to Mr Jenrick say he will be taking MPs' questions on Monday, at his regular Commons question time.\n\nMr Jenrick granted planning permission on 14 January for Mr Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks site on the Isle of Dogs.\n\nIt has emerged that Mr Desmond made a personal donation to the Conservatives on 28 January.\n\nLabour said Mr Jenrick must show the process was \"fair and transparent\" and a local councillor said the donation \"raised questions\" for the minister.\n\nThe property development was approved the day before the introduction of a new council community levy which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted he did not show any bias\n\nIn giving the project the green light, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate whch said the development needed to deliver more affordable housing in London's poorest borough.\n\nThe council has since challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nLocal councillors asked the High Court last month to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nThe £12,000 figure was included in Tuesday's Electoral Commission audit of party donations for the first three months of the year and first reported by the Daily Mail.\n\nMr Jenrick has come under growing political pressure in recent weeks after it emerged he sat at the same table as Mr Desmond, the former owner of the Daily Express, at a Conservative Party fundraiser last November.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Jenrick told the Daily Mail \"the developers did raise their application, but Mr Jenrick informed them that it would not be appropriate for them to discuss the matter with him, or for him to pass comment on it\".\n\nBut Labour said Mr Jenrick must now make clear whether he told officials at his department about the meeting and disclose whether he or members of his team had any other contacts with the developer.\n\nUnless the Housing Secretary published all documents about the application and any correspondence with Mr Desmond in the run-up to the decision, the opposition said \"the public will be entitled to think it's one rule for the Conservatives and their wealthy friends, and another rule for everyone else\".\n\nMr Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\n\"Communities must have confidence that the planning process is fair and transparent, but the unanswered questions around Robert Jenrick's unlawful decision have weakened that trust,\" said Labour's shadow communities secretary Steve Reed.\n\n\"It's time for Mr Jenrick to come clean and answer these crucial questions about why he over-ruled his own inspector to grant planning permission for a billionaire Conservative Party donor to build a luxury development.\"\n\nAndrew Wood, who resigned as leader of the Conservative group on Tower Hamlets Council because of his concerns over the property deal, has called for the Cabinet Office to launch an investigation.\n\nHe told the BBC details of Mr Desmond's donation raised \"more questions about what was going on\", adding that although £12,000 was \"not a lot of money,\" it did not look good.\n\n\"The optics are terrible,\" he added.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said Mr Desmond's donation was properly declared to the Electoral Commission and fully complied with the law.\n\n\"Government policy is in no way influenced by party donations - they are entirely separate,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted there was no actual bias towards Mr Desmond but said it was right for the decision to be revisited to \"ensure there was complete fairness\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that while \"we reject the suggestion there was any actual bias in the decision, we have agreed that the application will be re-determined.\"\n\nMr Desmond has, in the past, donated money to both Labour and UKIP.\n\nNorthern & Shell, of which he is the majority shareholder, sold its publishing interests in 2018 and now focuses largely on property development as well as digital ventures and the Health Lottery.\n\nFormer Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis has written to the Cabinet Secretary about the matter.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Lord Adonis said he would raise Mr Jenrick's \"failure to answer parliamentary questions about his conduct\" in the House of Lords.", "The American dictionary Merriam-Webster is to change its definition of the word racism after receiving an email from a young black woman.\n\nKennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in Iowa, suggested that the definition should include a reference to systemic oppression.\n\nAn editor then responded, later agreeing to update their definition.\n\nThe decision comes amid international anti-racism protests after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\n\nFloyd died after a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nMs Mitchum had encountered people pointing to the dictionary to prove that they were not racist because of the way they felt towards people of colour. She felt the definition needed to reflect broader issues of racial inequality in society.\n\nMs Mitchum told the BBC that she first became aware of the shortcomings of the current definition around four years ago.\n\n\"I was just speaking on my social media about racism and just about how the things I was experiencing in my own school and my own college,\" she said. \"There were a lot of things that were racist but it wasn't as blatant.\"\n\nMs Mitchum says the dictionary definition was being used by people attempting to tell her she was wrong.\n\n\"Some troll was messaging me trying to say 'You don't understand what racism truly is,'\" she said.\n\nPeople were copy-and-pasting the definition to her in an attempt to prove racism could only exist if you believe your race to be superior to another.\n\n\"They were saying: 'You're in school [university], so what do you mean? You have privileges as well'. I said it's not about that, it's about the hurdles that I had to jump over because of the colour of my skin and the systems that are in place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Muhammad Ali: 'Why is everything white?'\n\nOn 28 May, Ms Mitchum emailed Merriam-Webster to point out that racism is \"both prejudice combined with social and institutional power. It is a system of advantage based on skin colour\".\n\nTo her surprise, she got a response the next day. After some back-and-forth, Merriam-Webster said the \"issue needed to be addressed sooner rather than later\" and that a revision would be made.\n\nMerriam-Webster's editorial manager Peter Sokolowski told the BBC that the wording of the second definition of racism will be \"even more clear in our next release\".\n\n\"It could be expanded ... to include the term systemic and it will certainly have one or two example sentences, at least,\" he said.\n\nThe people working on the new definition will be consulting the work of experts in black studies, he said, adding that the revision could be done by August.\n\nMs Mitchum said the issue of definition is vital.\n\n\"I think it's very important for people to be on the same page,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Floyd's niece: 'This is not just murder, but a hate crime'", "Annemarie Plas is credited with starting the clap for carers initiative, which ran for 10 weeks\n\nPeople are being encouraged to celebrate the NHS's 72nd birthday and thank key workers for their support during the coronavirus pandemic with a nationwide clap next month.\n\nNHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby are among the influential figures supporting the initiative.\n\nThe initiative would make 5 July an official day to pay tribute.\n\nClap for carers founder Annemarie Plas is also backing the campaign.\n\nDutch-born Londoner Ms Plas was credited with starting the nationwide applause for NHS staff and key workers, which saw millions of people clapping at their windows and on their doorsteps on Thursday evenings in lockdown.\n\nMs Plas, who called for the event to end in its 10th week and be replaced by an annual event, said: \"Now is the time to expand this gratitude and acknowledge everyone who has and is still helping us through this crisis.\n\n\"I hope we can make 5 July a day which unites us in a countrywide 'thank you'.\"\n\nIn a letter, compiled by the Together coalition, public figures including Sir Simon and the Most Reverend Justin Welby, the leader of the Church of England, voiced their support.\n\nIt said: \"We all owe a debt of gratitude to the nurses, doctors, physios, porters, cleaners, and countless others who have delivered for patients and their families along with all those in the care sector.\n\n\"But we are also hugely grateful to the shop workers, transport staff, delivery drivers, teachers, refuse collectors, farmers, armed service personnel and other key workers who have kept the country going.\"\n\nSir Simon added he wanted to thank the public, in particular, whose support had meant so much - \"from the children who put rainbows and NHS signs in their windows, to all those who saved lives by staying at home to slow the spread of this terrible virus\".\n• None Is this the last hurrah for clap for carers?", "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson: Accused of spreading hate without breaking hate laws\n\nThe government's adviser on extremism is investigating whether it's possible to ban behaviour that leads people to hate each other.\n\nThe Commission for Countering Extremism says there may be gaps in the law, allowing extremists to sow divisions.\n\nThe former head of counter-terrorism, Sir Mark Rowley, will lead the review into the complex area of law.\n\nSuccessive governments have tried and failed to come up with an agreed criminal definition of extremism.\n\nThe commission, set up by the Home Office but operating independently of ministers, says it has gathered widespread evidence of people falling victim to hate that leaves them living in fear - but is short of a crime.\n\nIncidents include sectarian campaigns between communities, far-right street and Islamist protests that encourage hostility to other groups, and online abuse that makes violence more likely.\n\nIn each case it says victims can feel let down by the authorities who are powerless to stop subtle attacks that are not crimes under terrorism legislation or hate laws.\n\nAnjem Choudary: Radical preacher evaded prosecution for years because he did not directly advocate violence\n\nLast year, the commission concluded in a report that government should focus on \"hateful extremism\" - meaning activity that amplifies hate and pitches communities against each other - potentially leading to violence.\n\nNow it has asked Sir Mark Rowley to examine the existing laws and how they are used to see if there are gaps that may need filling.\n\nSara Khan, head of the commission, said: \"Hateful extremism threatens our ability to live well together. Yet despite this, our ability to counter repeat and persistent offenders is inconsistent and often ineffective.\n\n\"When extremists engage in terrorist activity, they are often caught by robust counter-terrorism legislation. But when they incite hatred, engage in persistent hatred or justify violence against others, extremists know they will not cross over into the threshold of terrorism.\n\n\"As a result, many extremist actors and organisations, whether far-right, Islamist or other continue to operate with impunity in our country both online and offline.\"\n\nSir Mark Rowley said: \"Extremism, hate crime and terrorism have all been increasing challenges for our communities and society as a whole.\n\n\"While I was in post as head of counter-terrorism policing for four years, I knew that we had strong counter-terrorism system, resources and laws in place. However, I increasingly realised that nationally we are less experienced and ready to address the growing threats from hateful extremists.\"\n\nTheresa May, when she was Home Secretary, pledged to introduce new powers to act against extremist groups which could not be outlawed under terrorism legislation - but the 2016 plan was abandoned.\n\nSir Mark said: \"When Sara asked me to look... at whether the existing legal framework has gaps that allow extremist to flourish, I was initially cautious - not least because successive governments have tried to tackle this very problem, by proposing new legislation, and failed.\n\n\"However, after some initial scoping I am convinced that the Commission's clarity of focus on 'hateful extremism' can help identify the gaps that exist at the boundaries of current laws, such as hate crime and terrorism, which are being exploited daily by extremists.\"\n\nHe will report his findings later in the year.", "London Zoo had said it faced an \"uncertain future\"\n\nZoos, safari parks and drive-in cinemas are set to reopen in England from Monday, the PM has said.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's daily briefing, Boris Johnson outlined the latest steps in the easing of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe said the outdoor attractions can reopen as long as they follow social distancing rules.\n\nSome zoos, including Chester Zoo and London Zoo, have reported financial struggles during the pandemic.\n\nA number of Tory MPs have been calling for zoos to reopen to ensure they survive the crisis.\n\nThe move will pave the way for zoos to reopen in England alongside non-essential shops, which can also open from 15 June.\n\nBut Mr Johnson faced criticism from the Labour leader at Prime Minister's Questions, after the plan for the reopening of all primary schools in England by the summer was ditched by the government.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said the government's plan for getting children back to school in England was \"in tatters\", blaming the situation on a lack of leadership from Mr Johnson.\n\nHe called for a \"national taskforce\" to be set up, to find a way forward.\n\nMr Johnson said Sir Keir had previously said school reopenings were happening too quickly and accused him of trying to have it both ways.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg at the daily briefing why children could go to the zoo but not school, the prime minister said he had wanted all children to return before the summer holidays but the \"continued prevalence\" of the disease meant it wasn't possible.\n\nHe said the government would be doing \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\" and the education secretary would be setting out further details.\n\nHe defended the government's policy on reopening schools saying: \"We're very much in line or slightly ahead of some other European countries.\"\n\nThe chair of the education select committee, Conservative MP Robert Halfon, has called on the PM to \"set out a national plan on how we get schools opening again and a catch up programme for left-behind pupils whose life chances are being damaged by being off school for 40% of school year\".\n\nEarlier this week Chester Zoo - which has been closed since 21 March - said its future was \"on a knife edge\", despite a government pledge to provide financial support.\n\nAnd last month London Zoo - closed since 20 March - said it faced an \"uncertain future\" without immediate support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large zoo says it needs government grants as it has no visitors or income\n\nSpeaking at the daily press conference, the prime minister said outdoor attractions where visitors remain in their cars can reopen because the risk of spreading the disease is lower outside.\n\nHe said zoos would be able to reopen \"provided visitor numbers are managed and safeguards are put in place - that includes keeping indoor places such as reptile houses closed\".\n\nZoos must also ensure amenities including cafes are take-away only.\n\nDowning Street continues to emphasise that the UK government wants to move forward carefully in further easing the lockdown.\n\nWednesday's announcement on zoos reflects the belief the risk of transmission is lower outdoors and is based on social distancing rules being followed.\n\nWe also know non-essential shops in England and Northern Ireland will reopen in the coming days (though we don't know when this will happen in Scotland and Wales). Small parts of normal life are returning, even if they will likely feel quite different.\n\nBut while steps to reopen the economy are being taken, the slow progress on schools shows that coming out of lockdown is not always easy and not always in the hands of ministers.\n\nThe delay in getting primary school pupils back to classrooms in England is a reminder that practicalities - and in some cases public reluctance - are important too.\n\nThe government says it has already provided a £14m support fund for zoos.\n\nThey have also been eligible to apply for a \"range of support schemes\", including business rate relief, during the pandemic.\n\nAndrew Hall, spokesperson for Biaza - British and Irish Association for Zoos and Aquariums - said he was \"delighted\" with the announcement, but added the sector was \"not out of the woods\".\n\n\"Aquariums are still closed, and zoos and safari parks have taken a real hit,\" he said.\n\n\"For some zoos, particularly those reliant on tourism, reopening isn't going to be financially viable for them.\"\n\nHe said the announcement was \"not the full answer\" and government support would still be required, especially with limited entry.\n\nHe added: \"Zoos and aquariums in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will still be facing significant challenges and we will be working hard to achieve positive outcomes in these nations.\"", "A total of 4,000 deaths in Scotland have now been linked to Covid-19, according to the latest figures.\n\nThe National Records of Scotland (NRS) data indicated that 89 people died in the week ending 7 June, down 42 on the previous week.\n\nThe NRS figures have now shown a reduction in the number of deaths from Covid-19 for six weeks in a row.\n\nDeaths involving Covid-19 accounted for 8% of all deaths registered last week, down from 36% at its peak.\n\nThe largest proportion of coronavirus deaths last week (47%) were still related to care homes but the proportion has dropped back from previous weeks.\n\nThe figures show that, as of 7 June, there had been 1,861 deaths in care homes when Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate, higher than the 1,854 fatalities in hospitals.\n\nThree-quarters of all deaths involving Covid-19 have been of people aged 75 or over.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday that the figures represented the lowest number of total deaths since late March.\n\nDeaths in week beginning 23 March - the day lockdown was announced - were 63 and they peaked at 659 in the week from 20 April. Deaths have dropped for the past six weeks to this week's total of 89 Covid deaths.\n\nThe latest figures show \"excess deaths\" - the number above the five-year average for the same week of the year - were down to 37.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the downward trend would not console those who had lost loved ones to the virus, but that progress was \"significant\".\n\n\"We want to take care to see that it is sustained,\" she said.\n\n\"If it is, I hope that next week we will be able to announce some further, albeit careful, changes to lockdown measures.\"\n\nThe NRS figures are higher than those announced each day by Ms Sturgeon because they include all cases where Covid-19 is mentioned on a death certificate, even if the patient had not been tested.\n\nThe total number of patients who have died in Scotland after testing positive rose by 12 to 2,434 on Wednesday.\n\nIn the latest daily totals, there were 987 patients in hospital with confirmed or suspected coronavirus, a decrease of 24. This represented the lowest number since figures for the pandemic became publicly available in March.\n\nThere are currently 18 ICU patients with Covid-19 or suspected Covid, a decrease of three.\n\nMs Sturgeon also revealed that since the Test and Protect scheme in Scotland was launched on 28 May, 681 cases had tested positive and 741 contacts had been traced.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said contact tracers had followed up each new positive test to ensure that those who may have come into contact with the virus take steps to isolate.\n\n\"By doing so, we can break the chains of transmission while slowly changing lockdown measures,\" she said.\n\n\"The average number of people traced for each positive case reflects that we are still in phase one of lifting lockdown restrictions and people should not be mixing with large numbers of people outside of their own household.\"", "The spill now threatens a huge, pristine area of Arctic wilderness\n\nDiesel oil from a huge spill in Russia's Arctic north has polluted a large freshwater lake and there is a risk it could spread into the Arctic Ocean, a senior Russian official says.\n\nEmergency teams are trying to contain the oil, which has now travelled about 20km (12 miles) north of Norilsk from a collapsed fuel tank.\n\nIt is the worst accident of its kind in modern times in Russia's Arctic region, environmentalists and officials say.\n\nThe oil started leaking on 29 May.\n\nSo far about 21,000 tonnes have contaminated the Ambarnaya river and surrounding subsoil.\n\nInvestigators believe the storage tank near Norilsk sank because of melting permafrost, which weakened its supports. The Arctic has had weeks of unusually warm weather, probably a symptom of global warming.\n\nThe power plant where it happened is run by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, the world's leading nickel and palladium producer.\n\nLake Pyasino serves as the basin for the Pyasina river, which flows to the Kara Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean. From October to June that river is usually ice-bound.\n\n\"The fuel has got into Lake Pyasino,\" said Alexander Uss, governor of Krasnoyarsk region.\n\n\"This is a beautiful lake about 70km [45 miles] long. Naturally, it has both fish and a good biosphere,\" Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.\n\n\"Now it's important to prevent it from getting into the Pyasina river, which flows north. That should be possible.\"\n\nOfficials say booms have not prevented the oil drifting\n\nClean-up teams have removed about 23,000 cubic metres (812,000 cubic feet) of contaminated soil, Ria Novosti news reports.\n\nThe pollution \"will have a negative effect on the water resources, on the animals that drink that water, on the plants growing on the banks\", said Vasily Yablokov of Greenpeace Russia.\n\nGreenpeace has compared it to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.\n\nRussian prosecutors have ordered checks at \"particularly dangerous installations\" built on permafrost.\n\nDelays over reporting the collapse angered President Vladimir Putin and the power plant's director, Vyacheslav Starostin, has been taken into custody.\n\nThe Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case over pollution and alleged negligence.\n\nThe term is used for ground that is frozen continuously for two or more years.\n\nSome 55% of Russia's territory, predominantly Siberia, is permafrost and home to its main oil and gas fields.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 2017 report to the Arctic Council, an international forum which includes Russia, warned that because of global warming and melting ice, foundations in permafrost regions could no longer support the loads they did as recently as the 1980s.\n\nA recent report by Bloomberg news agency points out that Russia's newer oil infrastructure takes account of the changing climate: storage tanks on the Yamal Peninsula, for instance, are mounted on piles.\n\nThe leaked oil turned long stretches of the Ambarnaya river crimson red.\n\nExperts have warned that the clean-up operation poses huge challenges\n\nIn a statement, Norilsk Nickel said the incident had been reported in a \"timely and proper\" way. The company has pledged to pay for the clean-up, estimated so far at $146m.\n\nNorilsk is already a well-known pollution hotspot, because of contamination from the industry that dominates the city.\n\nIn 2016, Norilsk Nickel admitted that an accident at one of its plants was responsible for turning a nearby river red.\n\nYulia Gumenyuk, deputy environment minister for Krasnoyarsk region, said booms had so far failed to stop the oil spreading downriver.\n\n\"We can see a large concentration of diluted oil products beyond the booms,\" she said.", "The pandemic has, effectively, become a game of risk management – that’s because, as UK chief medical adviser Chris Witty says, nothing is “risk free”.\n\nWe could continue to suppress the virus by not easing lockdown any further. That would further reduce the spread of coronavirus – and no doubt save lives.\n\nBut it would come at a huge cost – economically, socially, to children’s education and also to people’s health, whether it is from mental or physical illness linked to continued strict curbs.\n\nSo instead, the government and its advisers are treading a fine fine, and trying to navigate a way through this (whether they are doing a good job or not is a different question).\n\nThe aim is to keep the spread of the virus low, while re-opening society.\n\nWhatever is done there will be losers. After all, there is a new virus circulating, which for some is deadly.\n\nIn the end it will come down to both political judgements, in terms of how quickly restrictions continue to be lifted, and also individual judgements in terms of how quickly we each embrace the new freedoms.\n\nThat, unfortunately, is the way life is in this pandemic.", "Philonise Floyd, brother of George Floyd, spoke at a House Judiciary Committee hearing about police brutality and racial profiling.\n\nHe said his brother \"didn’t deserve to die over $20\" and urged lawmakers to ensure he did not die \"in vain\".\n\nMr Floyd died in Minneapolis last month as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe police had been called after a report that Mr Floyd had used a counterfeit $20 (£16.20) bill.", "A mural dedicated to George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York.\n\nHere's a timeline of major incidents since 2014 involving police officers which resulted in the deaths of black Americans.\n\nA protest over the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York police\n\nEric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes.\n\nWhile in a choke hold, Mr Garner uttered the words \"I can't breathe\" 11 times.\n\nThe incident - filmed by a bystander - led to protests across the country. The police officer involved was later fired, but was never prosecuted.\n\nIt came a year after the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response to the acquittal of the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.\n\nThe killing of Michael Brown led to violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri\n\nMichael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was responding to reports that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.\n\nThe officer, Darren Wilson, stopped his car in front of Brown.\n\nBrown reached into the car and punched Wilson, and in the struggle that followed, he tried to grab the police officer's gun, according to a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which was based on forensic evidence and interviews with dozens of witnesses.\n\nOne shot was fired and Brown ran off, pursued by Wilson. When he turned back and moved towards Wilson, the fatal shots were fired, according to witnesses.\n\nAlthough the police officer was cleared of wrongdoing, the DOJ report was scathing about systemic problems in the Ferguson police and racial disparities in the justice system.\n\nThe incident led to multiple waves of protests and civil unrest in Ferguson, boosting the Black Lives Matter movement further.\n\nA solitary toy is left as a memorial near where Tamir Rice died\n\nTamir Rice, a boy of 12, was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a male who was \"probably a juvenile\" pointing a gun that was \"probably fake\" at passers by.\n\nPolice claimed that they told Rice to drop the weapon - but instead of dropping it he pointed it at police.\n\nThe police confirmed that the gun was a toy after Rice had been shot dead.\n\nThe police officer who fired the fatal shots was sacked three years later for lying on his job application form.\n\nIn December 2020, the Justice Department said it was closing its investigation into the case as there was not enough evidence to bring federal criminal charges.\n\nWalter Scott was shot in the back five times by a white police officer, who was later fired and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\nMr Scott had been pulled over for having a defective light on his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and ran away from the police officer after a brief scuffle.\n\nThe killing sparked protests in North Charleston, with chants of \"No justice, no peace\".\n\nAlton Sterling's death led to days of protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr Sterling was killed after police responded to reports of a disturbance outside a shop.\n\nThe incident was caught on mobile phone footage and spread online.\n\nThe two officers involved did not face criminal charges, but one was dismissed and the other suspended from the police.\n\nPhilando Castile was killed while out driving with his girlfriend in St Paul, Minnesota.\n\nHe was pulled over by the police during a routine check, and told them he was licensed to carry a weapon, and had one in his possession.\n\nHe was shot as he was reaching for his licence, according to his girlfriend.\n\nShe live-streamed the encounter on Facebook. The officer involved was cleared of murder charges.\n\nStephon Clark died after being shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California, by police who were investigating a nearby break-in.\n\nOnly a mobile phone was found at the scene, and Mr Clark was unarmed.\n\nThe release of a police video of the incident sparked major protests in the city.\n\nIn March 2019, the authorities announced that the two officers involved would not face criminal prosecution as the officers had feared for their lives, believing Mr Clark had a gun.\n\nBreonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times when officers raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\nLouisville police said they returned fire after one officer was shot at and wounded.\n\nBreonna Taylor's family filed a lawsuit, and in September 2020 reached a settlement of $12m (£9.4m) with the city authorities.\n\nThe lawsuit stated that Ms Taylor's partner - who was with her at the time - had fired in self-defence because the police did not identify themselves, and he thought the apartment was being burgled.\n\nA grand jury charged one police officer not with Ms Taylor's death, but with \"wanton endangerment\" for firing into a neighbouring apartment.\n\nThree officers involved in the raid have now been dismissed from the police force.\n\nProtests and demonstrations in Minneapolis as the trial of Derek Chauvin gets underway\n\nGeorge Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and held down by police officers, one of whom had his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.\n\nHe pleaded that he couldn't breathe, and after his death, protests broke out across the US, and there were demonstrations in other parts of the world.\n\nFormer police officer Derek Chauvin - who had knelt on Mr Floyd - was convicted on charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter after a three-week trial.\n\nThree other officers who were involved in the incident will be tried later this year accused of aiding and abetting Mr Chauvin.\n\nClashes erupted following Daunte Wright's killing, which occurred during the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin\n\nDaunte Wright was shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, just north of Minneapolis.\n\nAfter being pulled over for a traffic violation, the police told Mr Wright he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.\n\nHe broke free and tried to re-enter his car, at which point an officer is heard shouting \"Taser\" several times before firing a shot.\n\nLocal police said the killing appeared to be accidental, and the officer, Kim Potter, had meant to use her Taser and not her handgun.\n\nThe family has rejected that explanation, and protests over the shooting have continued.\n\nMrs Potter has resigned from the police, and been charged with second-degree manslaughter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says black and minority ethnic workers are at the “forefront of the of the struggle against the coronavirus”\n\nWorkers in close contact with the public will get coronavirus tests even if they are not showing symptoms, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe PM said the move would help mitigate higher risks faced by black and minority ethnic workers in \"frontline\" transport and health roles.\n\n\"High contact professions\" would now get expanded and targeted testing, he told MPs at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nIt followed criticism from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nSir Keir referenced a Public Health England report, saying: \"That report concluded that death rates are highest among black and Asian ethnic groups and it went on to say, and this was the important bit, that it is already clear that relevant guidance and key policies should be adapted to mitigate the risk, already clear.\n\n\"If it is already clear that guidance and policy need to be changed, why has the government not already acted?\"\n\nThe report did not include any recommendations, and the government said it was carrying out more work to find out why risks were higher for certain groups, including whether housing density or profession played a role.\n\nSir Keir Starmer accused the PM of failing to take action\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the government was \"already acting\" to mitigate coronavirus risks for black and minority ethnic groups, after Sir Keir accused him of failing to take action.\n\nHe said: \"We are looking at the particular exposure of black and minority ethnic groups to coronavirus and be in no doubt they have been at the forefront of the struggle against coronavirus whether it is in the NHS or public transport.\"\n\nHe said he had reached an agreement with Dido Harding, head of the NHS England's test and trace system, to implement the new measures.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"What we are doing first and most directly is to ensure that those high-contact professions get expanded and targeted testing now.\"\n\nHe said 44% of the NHS workforce in London were from black and minority ethnic groups.\n\nThe prime minister also announced a £63m fund aimed at helping vulnerable families, after Sir Keir called for free school meals to be extended over the summer holiday.\n\nThe prime minister announced money for local authorities to aid families\n\n\"We are announcing a further £63m of local welfare assistance to be used by local authorities at their discretion to help the most vulnerable families,\" Mr Johnson told MPs.\n\n\"This government has put its arms around the people of this country throughout this crisis and has done its absolute best to help.\"\n\nThe extra money was welcomed by the Local Government Association, but it added: \"Many households are likely to be economically vulnerable for some time to come and it is vital that the government puts local welfare funding on a long-term, sustainable footing.\n\n\"The ability of councils to provide preventative support to all households who need it is vital if they are to ensure households can be financially secure and can benefit from council efforts to reboot local economies once the virus is defeated.\"\n\nDowning Street said the government was looking at whether to extend furlough scheme eligibility for workers who are shielding for health reasons, after it was raised at PMQs.\n\nAnswering a question from Labour MP Vicky Foxcroft, the prime minister said: \"Clearly newly-shielded people may be asking themselves whether they are entitled to furlough funds.\n\n\"I've been made aware of the issue very recently and I can assure her that we will be addressing it forthwith.\"", "Little Britain has been removed from BBC iPlayer, Netflix and BritBox as objections resurfaced to some of the sketch show's characters.\n\nNetflix pulled the Matt Lucas and David Walliams series on Friday, along with their other comedy Come Fly With Me.\n\nThe BBC and Britbox took Little Britain off on Monday. Both outlets said \"times have changed\" since it first aired.\n\nBoth shows include scenes where the comedians portray characters from different ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"There's a lot of historical programming available on BBC iPlayer, which we regularly review,\" a BBC spokesperson said.\n\n\"Times have changed since Little Britain first aired so it is not currently available on BBC iPlayer.\"\n\nNetflix has not commented on the reasons for the removal, but has said recent reports that it was in negotiations with Walliams and Lucas to make a new series were false.\n\n\"We were not in active conversations about reviving the show,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe removal angered some fans, with one viewer saying people should be able to make their \"own choices\".\n\nBut others have expressed unease about watching sketches which featured the comedians wearing make up to portray different races.\n\nIn 2017, Lucas said: \"If I could go back and do Little Britain again, I wouldn't make those jokes about transvestites. I wouldn't play black characters.\n\n\"Basically, I wouldn't make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I'd do now.\"\n\nWalliams has also said he would \"definitely do it differently\" in today's cultural landscape.\n\nEarlier this year, Lucas said the pair would \"love to bring it back in some way and at some point\", and that they had had a conversation with Netflix.\n\nHe suggested a Little Britain stage show could be one option, adding: \"It will come back in some form, we're just still figuring out what that will be.\"\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis apologised for portraying black celebrities on sketch show Bo' Selecta.\n\nIt comes as certain parts of life have come under scrutiny in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd.\n\nCome Fly With Me came off Britbox around November, and has not been available to view on iPlayer since it was first broadcast in 2010 and 2011.\n\nLittle Britain first aired in 2003 and ran for four series until 2008. There have also been a handful of specials, including a sketch on the BBC One coronavirus charity fundraiser The Big Night In this April.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "All 17 members of the Garg household\n\nMukul Garg wasn’t too worried when his 57-year-old uncle developed a fever on 24 April. Then, within 48 hours, two others in his family of 17 also became ill.\n\nThe symptoms trickled in as expected - temperatures spiked and voices grew hoarse with coughing.\n\nMr Garg initially chalked it up to seasonal flu, unwilling to admit it could be coronavirus.\n\n“Five or six people often fall sick together in this house, let’s not panic,” he told himself.\n\nOver the next few days, five more people in the house showed Covid-19 symptoms. And the pit in his stomach grew.\n\nSoon, the Garg family would become its own coronavirus cluster as 11 of its 17 members tested positive.\n\n“We met nobody from the outside and no-one entered our house. But even then the coronavirus entered our home, and infected one member after the other,” Mr Garg would later write in his blog, which has since attracted hundreds of comments from readers.\n\nThe exhaustive account shows how the multi-generational family, a mainstay of Indian life, poses a unique challenge in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nThe country's stringent lockdown, which began on 25 March and lasted until this week, focused on keeping people at home, off its busy streets and out of packed public spaces.\n\nBut in India - where 40% of households comprise many generations (often three or even four living together under one roof) - home is a crowded place.\n\nIt’s also vulnerable because research shows that the virus is more likely to spread indoors.\n\n“All families under lockdown become clusters the moment someone is infected, that is almost a given,” says virologist Dr Jacob John.\n\nAnd, as the Gargs discovered, social distancing isn’t possible within large families, especially during a lockdown when you are already cut off from the outside world.\n\nThe Gargs live in a three-storey home in a packed neighbourhood in north-west Delhi.\n\nMr Garg, 33, his wife, 30, and their two children, aged six and two, live on the top floor, along with his parents and grandparents.\n\nOn the two floors below them live his uncles - his father’s brothers - and their families. Members range from a four-month-old baby to a bedridden grandfather of 90.\n\nMr Garg's uncle may have caught the virus from a vegetable vendor\n\nContrary to cramped joint family homes where many people share a room and a bathroom, the Garg home is spacious. Each floor is about 250 square metres, roughly the size of a doubles tennis court, with three bedrooms, en suite bathrooms and a kitchen.\n\nAnd yet, the virus spread quickly, travelling across floors and infecting almost all the adults in the house.\n\nThey identified patient zero - Mr Garg’s uncle - but the family is still not sure how he caught the virus.\n\n“We think it could be from a vegetable vendor or from someone at the grocery store because that was the only time anyone from the family stepped outside,” he says.\n\nBut as the virus spread, fear and shame kept them from getting tested.\n\n“We were 17 of us, but we felt so alone. We worried that if something happened to us, would anyone even come to the funeral because of the stigma associated with coronavirus?”\n\nBut in the first week of May, when his 54-year-old aunt complained of breathlessness, the family rushed her to a hospital. And, Mr Garg says, they knew they all had to get tested.\n\nAll of May was spent fighting the virus.\n\nMr Garg says he would spend hours talking to doctors over the phone, while everyone checked in on each other on WhatsApp daily.\n\n“We also kept changing the position of the members depending on symptoms, so no two people with high fever were in the same room.”\n\nSix of the 11 infected have co-morbidities - diabetes, heart disease and hypertension - which made them more vulnerable.\n\n“Overnight, our home became a Covid-19 healthcare centre with all of us taking turns to play nurse,” Mr Garg says\n\nFamilies are particularly vulnerable to widespread infection in a lockdown\n\nVirologists say large families are like any other cluster, except for the range in ages.\n\n“When you have a range of age groups sharing common spaces, the risk is disproportionately distributed, with the elderly at most risk,” says Dr Partho Sarothi Ray, a virologist.\n\nThis weighed heavily on Mr Garg, who worried about his 90-year-old grandfather.\n\nBut the virus, which continues to confound medical experts around the world, also held surprises for the Gargs.\n\nIt wasn’t unusual that he and his wife, both in their early 30s, were asymptomatic. But it was bewildering that his grandfather was also asymptomatic. And one member of the family, who had no comorbidities, was taken to hospital. The others showed typical symptoms.\n\nMr Garg says he wrote the blog because he wanted to reach out to people worried about seeking help.\n\n“In the beginning, we cared so much about what people would think. And reading the comments, it’s so nice to see people saying it's ok if you get it, it’s not something to be ashamed of.”\n\nIn the second week of May, symptoms began to vanish and the family watched as more and more negative tests rolled in, bringing relief. This was also when Mr Garg's aunt was discharged from hospital after testing negative.\n\nThey finally felt like the worst was over.\n\nBy the end of May - “the month of the disease” as Mr Garg called it - only three people, including him, were still positive.\n\nOn 1 June, they got tested for the third time and the results came back negative.\n\nIndia’s large families can be a source of support and care, but also friction and thorny property disputes. But at times like these they can also come to the rescue.\n\n“Can you imagine an elderly person in quarantine all by themselves with no-one to help? Despite the challenges, joint families benefit from the young taking care of the old,” Dr John says.\n\nCases in India have sprinted past the 250,000-mark, spurring a debate over whether the pandemic could threaten extended families, as young people worry about carrying the infection home to older relatives.\n\n“It's a system that has survived hundreds of years of an onslaught of Western values and colonisation,” says Prof Kiran Lamba Jha, who teaches sociology at Kanpur's CSJM university. “Coronavirus is not going to destroy the joint family.”\n\nBefore the virus struck, the family was thriving. It was almost reminiscent of a 90s Bollywood flick, Mr Garg says.\n\n“As a family, we had never spent so much time together than we did that first one month of the lockdown. It was also the happiest the family had ever been,\" he says, adding that it only made it harder to watch as one person after another fell sick.\n\n“We saw each other at our best and worst but we came out of it stronger,” he says.\n\n“We’re still cautious about reinfection but right now, we’re basking in the glory that we managed to beat this virus and come out on the other side.”", "Three-quarters of the world's workers have seen their place of work close at least partially during the pandemic, the UN says\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic will turn global economic growth \"sharply negative\" this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.\n\nKristalina Georgieva said the world faced the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.\n\nShe forecast that 2021 would only see a partial recovery.\n\nLockdowns imposed by governments have forced many companies to close and lay off staff.\n\nEarlier this week, a UN study said 81% of the world's workforce of 3.3 billion people had had their place of work fully or partly closed because of the outbreak.\n\nMs Georgieva, the IMF's managing director, made her bleak assessment in remarks ahead of next week's IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings.\n\nEmerging markets and developing countries would be the hardest hit, she said, requiring hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign aid.\n\n\"Just three months ago, we expected positive per capita income growth in over 160 of our member countries in 2020,\" she said.\n\n\"Today, that number has been turned on its head: we now project that over 170 countries will experience negative per capita income growth this year.\"\n\nShe added: \"In fact, we anticipate the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.\"\n\nMs Georgieva said that if the pandemic eased in the second half of 2020, the IMF expected to see a partial recovery next year. But she cautioned that the situation could also worsen.\n\n\"I stress there is tremendous uncertainty about the outlook. It could get worse depending on many variable factors, including the duration of the pandemic,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer comments came as the US reported that the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits had surged for the third week by 6.6 million, bringing the total over that period to more than 16 million Americans.\n\nThe US Federal Reserve said it would unleash an additional $2.3tn in lending as restrictions on activity to help contain the coronavirus had forced many businesses to close and put about 95% of Americans on some form of lockdown.\n\nSeparately, UK-based charity organisation Oxfam warned that the economic fallout from the spread of Covid-19 could force more than half a billion more people into poverty.\n\nBy the time the pandemic is over, the charity said, half of the world's population of 7.8 billion people could be living in poverty.\n\n2021 would only see a partial recovery, Ms Georgieva said\n\nOn Thursday, following marathon talks, EU leaders agreed a €500bn (£440bn; $546bn) economic support package for members of the bloc hit hardest by the lockdown measures.\n\nThe European Commission earlier said it aimed to co-ordinate a possible \"roadmap\" to move away from the restrictive measures.\n\nEarlier this week, the International Labour Organization (ILO), a UN agency, warned that the pandemic posed \"the most severe crisis\" since World War Two.\n\nIt said the outbreak was expected to wipe out 6.7% of working hours across the world during the second quarter of 2020 - the equivalent of 195 million full-time workers losing their jobs.\n\nLast month, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warned that the global economy would take years to recover.\n\nSecretary general Angel Gurría said that economies were suffering a bigger shock than after the 9/11 terror attacks of 2001 or the 2008 financial crisis.", "Vivien Leigh and Hattie McDaniel both won Oscars for their work in the film\n\nGone with the Wind has been taken off HBO Max following calls for it to be removed from the US streaming service.\n\nHBO Max said the 1939 film was \"a product of its time\" and depicted \"ethnic and racial prejudices\" that \"were wrong then and are wrong today\".\n\nIt said the film would return to the platform at an unspecified date with a \"discussion of its historical context\".\n\nSet during and after the American Civil War, Gone with the Wind has long been attacked for its depiction of slavery.\n\nBased on the novel by Margaret Mitchell, it features slave characters who seem contented with their lot and who remain loyal to their former owners after slavery's abolition.\n\nGone with the Wind received 10 Oscars and remains the highest-grossing movie of all time when its takings are adjusted for inflation.\n\nHattie McDaniel became the first black actress to be nominated for, and win, an Academy Award for her role as domestic servant Mammy.\n\nWriting in the Los Angeles Times this week, screenwriter John Ridley said the film \"glorifies the antebellum south\" and perpetuated \"painful stereotypes of people of colour\".\n\n\"The movie had the very best talents in Hollywood at that time working together to sentimentalise a history that never was,\" continued the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years A Slave.\n\nGone with the Wind was originally released in 1939\n\nIn a statement, HBO Max said it would be \"irresponsible\" to keep the film on its platform without \"an explanation and a denouncement\" of its \"racist depictions\".\n\nIt said the film itself would return \"as it was originally created\", saying \"to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed\".\n\nThe wording of the statement is similar to advisories that accompany Tom and Jerry cartoons and other vintage animations on various streaming services.\n\nDisney+ also advises its subscribers that some of its older films - among them 1941 animation Dumbo - \"may contain outdated cultural depictions\".\n\nHBO Max's move comes amid mass protests against racism and police brutality that have prompted several television networks to reassess their offerings.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany - who panned HBO's decision - likened the removal to conversations about whether the US should rename US military bases that are named for Confederate generals who fought against the United States during the Civil War.\n\n\"Where do you draw the line here? I'm told you can no longer find on HBO, Gone with the Wind because somehow that is now offensive,\" she said, questioning whether sites named after the US Founding Fathers would someday be renamed.\n\nHBO's decision follows the removal of Little Britain from Netflix, BritBox and BBC iPlayer. The show saw Matt Lucas and David Walliams play characters from different ethnic backgrounds, including Desiree DeVere - a woman played by Walliams in full blackface.\n\nThe issue at stake here isn't about one film. It's about a much broader issue of whether we judge history by modern standards, even while recognising that what we consider to be modern standards are fluid, contested and will some day themselves be consigned to history.\n\nWhether it's statues of long dead men or films from 1939, there does seem to be something like a global movement emerging which is asking us to re-appraise our heritage.\n\nThat is fraught with difficulty. Where does it stop? I'm reading TinTin with my son at the moment and an exhibition of tolerance it certainly is not. It reads like one long parade of racial cliches.\n\nThis might be the beginning of a new front in our culture wars, powered by digital media.\n\nWhich makes me think another novelist, William Faulkner, had it about right when he said: \"The past is never dead. In fact, it's not even past.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The coronavirus lockdown may have led more individuals to become radicalised as they spend more time online, a police chief has warned.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's Lucy D'Orsi said the impact of the lockdown on the terrorism threat was not yet known.\n\nShe urged the public to remain alert and vigilant as people return to crowded places closed in March.\n\nThe current UK threat level is \"substantial\" meaning an attack is likely.\n\n\"The reality is that the threat has not gone away,\" Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner D'Orsi told the BBC.\n\nThere are also concerns some of the mechanisms to spot the signs someone has been radicalised will not have been present during the pandemic.\n\nCrowded places have been a prime focus for terrorist attacks in recent years.\n\nAs lockdown eases, she is concerned terrorists will be looking to make an impact.\n\n\"My plea to the public is as lockdown eases and people return to crowded places, we need to remain alert, we need to remain vigilant,\" DAC D'Orsi, who is also national policing lead for protective security, said.\n\nThe threat level comes from individuals supporting far-right as well as jihadist ideologies.\n\nPolice have said their own ability to operate has not been affected by lockdown and they have been able to take advantage of the fact that some people under investigation are staying in one place.\n\nBut they are also aware that people are spending more time online, which carries risks as that has increasingly been a means of radicalisation.\n\nDAC D'Orsi said what that meant in terms of radicalisation was as yet unknown.\n\nSome terrorist groups have adapted their methods and messaging to the new environment, including using the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"They are looking to change the way they deliver their propaganda,\" she said, adding that propaganda often seeks to divide communities.\n\nReferrals to the Prevent anti-radicalisation scheme, designed to spot and counter signs of radicalisation, have gone down during the pandemic.\n\nThat is because many will come from public bodies, including schools, which will have not been operating in the same way.\n\nIt leaves the possibility that a problem has been brewing beneath the surface which may now become visible.\n\nOfficers said one advantage of lockdown has been that people have undertaken an online counter-terrorism training course from home.\n\nSome 70,000 people have used the 'Action Counters Terrorism' interactive course which is designed for members of the public to help them spot and report suspicious behaviour and know what to do in the event of an attack.\n\nOverall half a million participants have responded to the call since the course was launched two years ago.\n\n\"Having more people with a basic level of awareness, and who know what to do if they see suspicious activity, is a real asset to the police,\" DAC D'Orsi said.", "Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach.\n\nThe firm was alerted to the problem after one of its users discovered he had been given access to dozens of video recordings of other patients' consultations.\n\nA follow-up check by Babylon revealed a small number of further UK users could also see others' sessions.\n\nThe firm said it had since fixed the issue and notified regulators.\n\nBabylon allows its members to speak to a doctor, therapist or other health specialist via a smartphone video call and, when appropriate, sends an electronic prescription to a nearby pharmacy. It has more than 2.3 million registered users in the UK.\n\nLeeds-based Rory Glover had access to the service via his membership of a private health insurance plan with Bupa, one of Babylon's partners.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, when he went to check a prescription, he noticed he had about 50 videos in the Consultation Replays section of the app that did not belong to him.\n\nClicking on one revealed that the file contained footage of another person's appointment.\n\n\"I was shocked,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You don't expect to see anything like that when you're using a trusted app. It's shocking to see such a monumental error has been made.\"\n\nMr Glover said he alerted a work colleague to the fact, who used to work for Babylon. He in turn flagged the issue to the company's compliance department.\n\nMr Glover discovered dozens of replay videos in his app that he should not have had access to\n\nShortly afterwards, Mr Glover's access to the clips was rescinded.\n\nBabylon, which has its headquarters in London, has since confirmed the breach.\n\n\"On the afternoon of Tuesday 9 June we identified and resolved an issue within two hours whereby one patient accessed the introduction of another patient's consultation recording,\" it said in statement.\n\n\"Our investigation showed that three patients, who had booked and had appointments today, were incorrectly presented with, but did not view, recordings of other patients' consultations through a subsection of the user's profile within the Babylon app.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the firm amended its statement to make clear that it meant two patients in addition to Mr Glover - who had in fact viewed a recording - to make the total of three.\n\n\"This was the result of a software error rather than a malicious attack,\" it continued.\n\n\"The problem was identified and resolved quickly.\n\n\"Of course we take any security issue, however small, very seriously and have contacted the patients affected to update, apologise to and support where required.\"\n\nA spokesman said that Babylon's engineering team was already aware of the issue before it was contacted by Mr Glover's workmate.\n\nHe said the problem had been accidentally introduced via a new feature that lets users switch from audio to video-based consultations part way through a call.\n\nAnd he said that Babylon had informed the Information Commissioner's Office of the matter.\n\n\"Affected users were in the UK only and this did not impact our international operations,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Mr Glover said he still had concerns and did not intend to use the service again.\n\n\"It's an issue of doctor-patient confidentiality,\" he said.\n\n\"You expect anything you say to be private, not for it to be shared with a stranger.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed that it had been contacted by Babylon and that it was now waiting to receive the company's breach report.\n\n\"People's medical data is highly sensitive information, not only do people expect it to be handled carefully and securely, organisations also have a responsibility under the law,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\n\"When a data incident occurs, we would expect an organisation to consider whether it is appropriate to contact the people affected, and to consider whether there are steps that can be taken to protect them from any potential adverse effects.\"\n\nBabylon told the BBC it had already been in touch with everyone involved to inform them and apologise.", "There were fewer chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments during the epidemic\n\nAbout 2.4 million people in the UK are waiting for cancer screening, treatment or tests, as a result of disruption to the NHS during the past 10 weeks, according to Cancer Research UK.\n\nIt estimates 2.1 million have missed out on screening, while 290,000 people with suspected symptoms have not been referred for hospital tests.\n\nMore than 23,000 cancers could have gone undiagnosed during lockdown.\n\nCancer services are starting to reopen across the UK.\n\nCancer Research UK's figures are based on data for England and estimated for the whole of the UK.\n\nDuring lockdown, the health service focused on the care and treatment of patients with Covid-19, while other services, such as cancer care, were scaled back.\n\nPeople were still encouraged to seek medical help when they needed it - but there were fewer cancer operations and many chemotherapy and radiotherapy appointments were postponed.\n\nScreening programmes that detect early signs of bowel, breast and cervical cancer were paused in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, although not officially stopped in England.\n\nAnd an estimated 2.1 million people who would normally have had routine screening missed out, Cancer Research UK says.\n\nBreast screening is just one of many ways of detecting cancers\n\nThe charity says urgent referrals, when patients with suspected cancer symptoms are referred to hospitals by their GP, fell by up to 75% in the first four weeks of lockdown, although these figures have since improved.\n\nPatients receiving treatments for cancer also fell, with 6,000 fewer people receiving chemotherapy and 2,800 fewer receiving radiotherapy over the past 10 weeks.\n\nAnd there were only 60% - 12,800 fewer - of the usual number of operations to remove tumours, Cancer Research UK estimates.\n\nChief executive Michelle Mitchell said Covid-19 has placed an \"enormous strain on cancer services\".\n\n\"The NHS has had to make very hard decisions to balance risk,\" she said.\n\n\"And there have been some difficult discussions with patients about their safety and ability to continue treatment during this time,\" she said.\n\n\"Prompt diagnosis and treatment remain crucial to give people with cancer the greatest chances of survival and prevent the pandemic taking even more lives.\"\n\nTo ensure no-one is put at risk from the virus now that cancer care is returning, Cancer Research UK said \"frequent testing of NHS staff and patients, including those without symptoms\" was vital.\n\nIt estimates that up to 37,000 tests for the virus would need to be carried out each day for this purpose if the NHS was back running as normal.\n\nThis is happening at different speeds in the four nations of the UK, with the setting up of safe Covid-free spaces in hospitals key to addressing the backlog of patients.\n\nNHS England said coronavirus \"has turned millions of lives upside down\" but cancer services were now largely \"open, ready and able to receive all patients who need care\".\n\nAnyone concerned about cancer symptoms should contact their GP.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments said cancer screening programmes would resume when safe, based on clinical advice.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, there are plans for urgent cancer surgery and treatment to resume, along with routine screening.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support recently warned of a potential \"ticking cancer timebomb\" due to disrupted cancer services. It said urgent action was needed to make sure cancer does not become the forgotten 'C' during the pandemic.\n\n\"We continue to urge the government to set out exactly how it will support the NHS to rapidly rebuild cancer services, including how people will be protected from infection by ensuring there is enough staff, regular testing, plentiful supplies of PPE and... social distancing,\" Sara Bainbridge, head of policy, said.\n\nHave you or a loved one missed cancer screening, treatment or tests in the past 10 weeks? How has the lockdown affected your cancer treatment? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Reni Eddo-Lodge has become the first black British author to top UK's best-seller list since the official book chart was launched in 1998.\n\nLast week, Eddo-Lodge's book Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race topped the paperback non-fiction chart, following protests about racism.\n\nThe 2017 work has now become the best-selling title in the UK overall, according to Nielsen BookScan.\n\nThe author said it felt \"absolutely wild to have broken this record\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reni Eddo-Lodge This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"My work stands on the shoulders of so many Black British literary giants,\" Eddo-Lodge wrote on Twitter. \"Bernadine Evaristo, Benjamin Zephaniah, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Stella Dadzie, Stuart Hall, Linton K Johnson, Jackie Kay, Gary Younge - to name a few.\"\n\nFellow author Nikesh Shukla congratulated her, adding: \"Bewildering it's taken so long for this to happen but it couldn't happen to a better writer and person.\"\n\nAfter she topped the paperback non-fiction chart last week, Eddo-Lodge criticised the UK publishing industry for the fact it had taken so long for a black author to achieve the feat.\n\nShe said she was \"dismayed\" that the achievement only came about under \"tragic circumstances\" - referring to the death of George Floyd.\n\nRenewed interest in the title was sparked following protests around the death of Mr Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.\n\nAfter her book topped the non-fiction chart, Eddo-Lodge said: \"The fact that it's 2020 and I'm the first. Let's be honest. Reader demand aside, that it took this long is a horrible indictment of the publishing industry.\"\n\nSince 1998, only one other black author, former US first lady Michelle Obama, has scored the overall best-selling book in the UK, with her 2018 memoir Becoming.\n\nEddo-Lodge's book explores the links between gender, class and race in the UK and around the world.\n\nLast month, the writer posted online that she had noticed an upsurge in sales, which she found unsettling.\n\n\"This book financially transformed my life and I really don't like the idea of personally profiting every time a video of a black person's death goes viral,\" she wrote, urging readers to offer a donation to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.\n\nOn Monday, the newly-formed Black Writers' Guild sent an open letter to publishers raising concerns that the companies were \"raising awareness of racial inequality without significantly addressing their own\".\n\nThe letter was signed by authors including Evaristo, Zephaniah and Malorie Blackman.\n\nLast week, fellow author Dorothy Koomson posted an open letter to the publishing industry, in which she called it an \"extremely damaging\" environment for black authors.\n\nAlso last week, Evaristo became the first female writer of colour to top the mass market fiction chart with Girl, Woman, Other.\n\nHer novel jointly won the Booker Prize last year, together with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None ‘Britain is in denial about race’", "Prof Neil Ferguson modelled the impact of the epidemic for the UK government\n\nThe number of coronavirus deaths in the UK would have been halved if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier, a former government adviser has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose advice was crucial to the decision to go into lockdown, said the outbreak had been doubling in size every three or four days before measures had been taken.\n\nThe prime minister said it was still too early to make such a judgement.\n\n\"We will have to look back on all of it and learn the lessons that we can.\"\n\nBoris Johnson added: \"A lot of these things are still premature. This epidemic has a long way to go.\"\n\nChief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance said important questions about the measures taken \"still needed to be addressed\".\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said looking back at \"how we improve on what we do\" was routine.\n\n\"Part of the problem... at that stage is that we had very limited information about this virus,\" he added.\n\nIn the UK, lockdown began on 23 March.\n\nThe number of people known to have died with coronavirus in the UK stands at 41,128.\n\nProf Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told a committee of MPs: \"Had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have reduced the final death toll by at least a half.\n\n\"So whilst I think the measures, given what we knew about this virus then, in terms of its transmission, were warranted... certainly had we introduced them earlier, we would have seen many fewer deaths.\"\n\nProf John Edmunds, another scientist who advises government, recently said the delay to go into lockdown \"cost a lot of lives\" but the data available in March had been quite poor, making it \"very hard\".\n\nProf Ferguson, who resigned as a government adviser last month after allegedly breaching lockdown rules, indicated many lives in care homes could have been saved.\n\n\"We made the rather optimistic assumption that somehow the elderly would be shielded,\" be said.\n\nBut \"that simply failed to happen\".\n\nProf Ferguson said the government's Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) had \"anticipated in theory\" the risk to people living in care homes.\n\nAnd it had been discussed in meetings as early as February.\n\nBut the \"only way you can really protect care homes is to do extensive testing to make sure it doesn't get in\".\n\nAnd more was now understood about how the virus was transmitted,\n\nCare home workers often worked at more than one facility and might be spreading infection between residences, for example.\n\nCoronavirus was growing \"exponentially\" in February and March.\n\nScientists have told BBC News an estimated 100,000 people were being infected every day in England by the time it went into lockdown.\n\nIntroducing measures a week earlier would have significantly cut that figure and in turn saved lives.\n\nWhy this did not happen is one of the major questions about the government's handling of this pandemic.\n\nIt is far easier to look back than to make the decision in the moment.\n\nThere was a lack of information and the scale of the outbreak within the UK was not clear.\n\nBut other scientists were making the case for the UK to go into lockdown weeks before it happened.\n\nDiscussing the timing of the lockdown on BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme, mathematician Kit Yates said there had been an \"overreliance\" on certain models when determining how fast the epidemic had been doubling.\n\n\"Some members of [pandemic modelling group] SPI-M have communicated their concerns to me that some of the modelling groups had more influence over the consensus decisions than others,\" he said.\n\nThis meant \"some opinions or estimates that may have been valid didn't get passed on up the chain\".\n\nOn average, about 1,600 people a day die in the UK. What is not known about the coronavirus deaths reported during the epidemic is to what extent those deaths are on top of that figure, or part of it.\n\nMost of the victims have been older or with underlying health conditions.", "The leader of the SNP in Westminster, Ian Blackford, is next up by video link. He starts by referring to comments made by the PM in front of the Liaison Committee, saying he did not read all the scientific papers on coronavirus.\n\n\"No wonder it took so long on quarantine measures,\" he says. \"This has been a complete shambles and too little, too late\".\n\nHe asks the PM which papers he has read on the 2m social distancing rule, to which Mr Johnson replies he has read a \"huge amount\".\n\nThe PM then confirms the 2m should be kept under review.\n\nMr Blackford says the cabinet has discussed reducing the distance, but \"that is not the experts advice right now\".\n\nHe adds: \"People are losing confidence in this government... will the prime minister continue to ignore the experts or start following the advice of those who have read the scientific papers?\"\n\nJohnson says \"the people of this country are overwhelmingly following the guidance\" and tomorrow the Commons will hear more on test and trace, which will labour this point.\n\nHe adds: \"There are all sorts of views about the 2m view, but clearly as the incidents of the disease come down, the statistical likelihood of being infected goes down.\"", "Mark Redfern said the head was \"saved by the people of Ashbourne\"\n\nA figure of a black man's head has been removed from a pub sign amid a row over racism.\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council said on Monday the 18th Century iron and wood feature in Ashbourne would be \"removed with immediate effect\".\n\nAbout 150 residents gathered to take down the figure, vowing to return it, before the council could act.\n\nA petition to remove the head, launched on Friday, has gathered more than 40,000 signatures.\n\nThe district council said permanent removal of the head would need listed building consent and consultation with Historic England\n\nAshbourne resident Mark Redfern said the head, which is part of the Grade II*-listed sign for The Green Man & Black's Head Royal Hotel in St John Street, \"will be restored while on the ground and returned to its position at a later date\".\n\nHe said local councillors witnessed the removal.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mr Redfern said the head would be given \"a lick of black paint\", and claimed the move was to save it from vandalism.\n\nHis son, 17-year-old Shaun Redfern, has gathered more than 4,000 signatures on a petition calling for the head to remain for historical reasons.\n\nThe district council said it intended to remove the sign as it was a public safety concern and the issue required urgent discussion\n\nResident Darren Waring, who said he was involved in taking down the feature, said: \"People are making these racist overtures without knowing the facts.\"\n\nHe said the figure is a head of a Turkish man who came to Ashbourne hundreds of years ago and traded coffee.\n\n\"He brought prosperity. He was a well-respected and well-loved Turkish man so in his honour they put his head up. It has nothing to do with slavery,\" he said.\n\nHe added in the 1980s, he went up to the sign to restore it with his father.\n\n\"The sign was actually dark brown,\" he said. \"My dad explained to me this is a Turkish man, not a black man. It was painted brown then something has gone wrong in the restoration.\"\n\nA 19-year-old student from the town said: \"Having it in the middle of the street in a small town is so unwelcoming\"\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council's decision to remove the head followed the statue of a slave trader in Bristol being torn down during demonstrations on Sunday.\n\nA council spokesman said a councillor spoke to the group, explaining the council needed to take down the figure temporarily in the interests of public safety ahead of a consultation.\n\nHe said: \"The group, who had ladders, then decided they would remove the figure themselves for safe keeping and, not wanting to create a confrontation, in the circumstances we did not object.\n\n\"We expect to have possession of the head figure later today.\"\n\nHistoric England said: \"As the government's adviser on heritage, we will be ready to advise the council on next steps if they need it.\"\n\nOne 20-year-old anthropology student from the town - who did not want to be named - said the sign resembled a gollywog, a 19th Century rag doll which is largely considered racist.\n\n\"I think people are ashamed of it,\" she said.\n\nMatthew Holt, a 19-year-old international relations student from Ashbourne, said: \"It should be in a museum where we can learn about it with a description to contextualise it.\"\n\nCouncillor Barry Lewis, Derbyshire's County Council leader, said the figure should not be taken down, although it was \"clearly culturally insensitive and racist\".\n\nHe added: \"Cultural heritage is there to challenge us sometimes, to make us uncomfortable.\"\n\nThe district council said it was gifted the sign a number of years ago\n\nA Derbyshire Police spokesman said officers attended from 21:00 until 23:00 BST to \"monitor the situation and ensure there were no breaches of the peace\".\n\n\"There were no arrests,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Government progress on improving the life chances of disadvantaged people in England has been \"disappointing,\" according to its own watchdog.\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission says ministers have only delivered on 23% of its proposals since 2013.\n\nAnd it warns in a report that the coronavirus crisis could destroy any gains that have been made.\n\nThe government said it was committed to spreading opportunity and \"ensuring no-one is left behind by coronavirus\".\n\nA spokesperson said the government was pleased the Commission recognised progress in areas such as improving life chances for poorer groups and keeping disadvantaged pupils in education for longer.\n\nBut the commission warned that coronavirus was \"already having a huge impact on those from all disadvantaged backgrounds, and this will only get worse as the recession bites harder\".\n\n\"It is now really important to have a coherent and coordinated plan to help the most vulnerable in the months and years ahead,\" said the commission's joint deputy director Steven Cooper.\n\nThe commission says more progress is needed in a range of areas including:\n\nLabour's shadow works and pensions secretary Kate Green said the commission's report \"exposes a government with no interest in levelling up Britain\".\n\n\"It's an appalling record of mismanagement and indifference to the life chances working class families and their children,\" she added.\n\nThe commission was set up by Parliament to hold successive governments to account on many promises made on the steps of No 10: to rebalance the economy, to fight burning injustices, to level up and unite the country.\n\nAlthough couched in temperate language, this year's report lambasts ministers for their failure to put cross-government measures in place and to turn warm words into reality.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions is singled out for particular criticism.\n\nBenefit cuts are increasing child poverty, commissioners say, and the DWP \"appears to have done little work\" to ensure it is not making matters worse.\n\nThe government will speak of its commitment to improve life chances for all, but today's report says the pandemic means social mobility has never been more important and it will be the poor and young who suffer most.\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission was set up in 2013 by David Cameron's coalition government - but its chairman, former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn quit in 2017, saying Theresa May's government was \"unable to devote the necessary energy and focus to the social mobility agenda\".\n\nIn a State of the Nation report last year, covering England, Scotland and Wales, the commission said that inequality was entrenched \"from birth to work\" - and little progress had been made on improving the situation since 2014.\n\nNow, in an audit of government departments, the commission has found that \"no or very little action\" has been taken in England on 31% of the proposals it has made since it was set up, most of which applied to England only.\n\nThere has been \"insufficient\" progress on 46% of its proposals, and strong progress had been made, or the proposal delivered, in only 23% of cases.\n\nExtending 30-hour free childcare to parents working the equivalent of eight hours a week and more funding for adult education are among the proposals the commission says have been ignored by government.\n\nAlan Milburn's successor Dame Martina Milburn, who is not related to the former Labour MP, told the prime minister in April she was standing down to concentrate on her concentrate on her \"day job\" as chief executive of the Prince's Trust charity.\n\nIn a foreword to the commission's new report, Dame Martina says there had been \"some evidence of success\" in boosting social mobility before the coronavirus pandemic, but renewed focus was now needed if Boris Johnson was going to meet his promise to \"level up opportunity\" across England.\n\nJustine Greening says the government needs a plan\n\nHer message was echoed by former Conservative education secretary Justine Greening, who stood down at the last election.\n\n\"We've heard a lot about levelling up but too little on the detail. A piecemeal plan, or a plan for a plan, announced in July won't cut it,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are pleased the Commission recognises progress in areas such as improving life chances for poorer groups, boosting mental health support for young people, and keeping disadvantaged pupils in education for longer.\n\n\"We remain committed to levelling up opportunity across the country, and continue to do all we can to make sure no-one is left behind as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"From the start of the outbreak, all vulnerable children have been able to attend school and we have provided over £100m to support children to learn at home.\n\n\"We also continue to invest significantly in schools and early years, alongside raising wages and increasing work incentives for the lowest paid families.\"", "William Ewart Gladstone argued against the abolition of slavery\n\nThe University of Liverpool has agreed to rename a building named after former prime minister William Gladstone due to his links to the slave trade.\n\nGladstone spoke out against abolition in Parliament because his family had slaves on plantations in the Caribbean.\n\nStudents wrote an open letter saying the move would \"show solidarity in the rejection of Black oppression\".\n\nThe university said it will work with students and staff \"to agree an appropriate alternative name\".\n\nGladstone Hall in the Greenbank Student Village was recently rebuilt but the name was kept\n\nStudents have been campaigning over the issue for several years, arguing that the university should not be honouring people who benefited from slavery.\n\nThe move follows Black Lives Matter protests in the city in response to the death of American George Floyd and the tearing down of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.\n\nThousands of people have also been demanding a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes be removed from Oxford University's Oriel College.\n\nLiberal politician William Ewart Gladstone was born in Liverpool in 1809 and is the only person to have been prime minister on four separate occasions.\n\nHe is described as having \"ultra-conservative\" views and used his maiden speech in the House of Commons to support his father's interests, arguing against abolition.\n\nWhile that argument failed, his finances did not - when slavery was abolished in the 1830s, the Gladstones received more than £90,000, about £9.5m in today's terms, as compensation for the slaves they were forced to free.\n\nCampaigners said William Gladstone shared the views on slavery of his father, \"who was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies\"\n\nIn an open letter to university vice chancellor Professor Janet Beer, student campaigners urged the university to \"qualify your words\" about combating racism on campus \"with some real action\".\n\nThe letter said Liverpool is \"entrenched in the history of Black oppression\" with buildings \"built with bricks that were bartered for by slaves\".\n\nIt said Gladstone \"used his position to defend the interest of those who, like his father, owned West Indian slave-ran plantations.\"\n\n\"Whilst we cannot possibly expect that the entire architecture of Liverpool is torn down and replaced, renaming Gladstone Hall and removing this reminder of William Gladstone is one small and simple act that the university can enact to show solidarity in the rejection of Black oppression.\n\n\"We can not facilitate normalising people like William Gladstone by naming our campus after them.\"\n\nA University of Liverpool spokeswoman said: \"We share in the shame that our city feels because its prosperity was significantly based upon a slave economy.\"\n\nShe said the institution has \"an important opportunity to send a clear message about the commitments we have made to our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and student community\" and \"will work with the Guild of Students and with staff and student groups to agree an appropriate alternative name for the hall.\"\n• None How Britain is facing up to its hidden slavery history - BBC Culture\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK is likely to be the hardest hit by Covid-19 among major economies, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has warned.\n\nBritain's economy is likely to slump by 11.5% in 2020, slightly outstripping falls in countries such as Germany, France, Spain and Italy, it said.\n\nIf there were a second peak in the pandemic, the UK economy could contract by as much as 14%.\n\n\"The crisis will cast a long shadow over the world,\" the OECD added.\n\nIt said that in what it called a \"single-hit scenario\", with no second peak, there could be contractions of 11.4% in France, 11.1% in Spain, 11.3% in Italy and 6.6% in Germany.\n\nIn its latest assessment, the OECD found that the UK's largely service-based economy meant that it had been particularly badly hit by the government's lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe services sector, including financial services, hospitality and tourism, makes up about three-quarters of the UK's GDP.\n\nIn response to the think tank's report, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK was not the only one to suffer: \"In common with many other economies around the world, we're seeing the significant impact of coronavirus on our country and our economy.\n\n\"The unprecedented action we've taken to provide lifelines that help people and businesses through the economic disruption will ensure our economic recovery is as strong and as swift as possible.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said: \"Today's evidence from the OECD is deeply worrying, showing the UK was particularly exposed when the coronavirus crisis hit.\n\n\"The government's failure to get on top of the health crisis, delay going into lockdown and chaotic mismanagement of the exit from lockdown are making the economic impact of this crisis worse.\"\n\nThe central finding of the OECD forecasts is that the expectations or hopes of a rapid bounceback in the economy - a so-called V-shaped chart - is not now happening.\n\nAs Secretary General Angel Gurria put it to me, it will be \"U-shaped\", the question is how long will be the period at the bottom of this \"U\".\n\nThis pattern is not affecting all countries equally.\n\nAnd in the event of there being no further peak, the prediction is that the UK is the worst hit this year, though just a little bit worse than Italy and France.\n\nFor those who like a glass half full, it also predicts the strongest growth in the UK at 9% for 2021. But that is a rather hollow prize.\n\nThe reason why is that the UK economy is peculiarly exposed as a trading economy with significant service and tourist sectors.\n\nBut it is also a nation that has been among the hardest hit by the underlying pandemic.\n\nThis hit comes despite a much-praised rapid response deploying tens of billions to keep millions of workers on payrolls.\n\nThe OECD also mentions the pandemic economic impact being \"compounded\" by the looming plausible failure to sign a trade deal with the EU and new trade barriers with the European Union at the end of the year.\n\nIt recommends temporarily extending the UK's stay in the single market. That is advice that the government has shown no inclination to follow so far.\n\nThe bigger point is that the OECD is subtly pointing to the fact that one rescue package is not enough.\n\nLate last week the Germans announced a massive 4% stimulus to the economy, including a thumping cut to VAT, and significant subsidies for the purchase of cars.\n\nThe league table is an invitation to do more. And we will soon enough get actual hard economic data, as opposed to forecasts such as this, when the monthly GDP figure for April - entirely locked down - is published on Friday.\n\nThe OECD said the pandemic had started to recede in many countries and activity had begun to pick up, but it does not expect a convincing recovery. It sees the outlook for public health as extremely uncertain.\n\nOECD chief economist Laurence Boone said the pandemic would have \"dire and long-lasting consequences for people, firms and governments\".\n\nShe added: \"Extraordinary policies will be required to walk the tightrope towards recovery. Even if growth does surge in some sectors, overall activity will remain muted for a while.\"\n\nThe OECD looked at two scenarios for how the pandemic might unfold, depending on whether there is a second wave of contagion or not before the end of this year.\n\nIf that does happen, two countries - France and Spain - would suffer even deeper declines in economic activity than the UK this year.\n\nThe report describes both outlooks as sobering, but either way, the deep recession now unfolding will be followed by a slow recovery.\n\nIn the more severe case, the global economy could shrink by 7.6% over this year, the OECD says.\n\nThat figure is significantly worse than predictions put forward by other agencies, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which have warned about the high level of uncertainty attached to their forecasts.\n\nBy the end of 2021, the report says that five or more years of income growth could be lost in many countries. It says the impact on livelihoods will be especially severe among the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe OECD also says the pandemic has accelerated the shift from what it calls \"great integration\" to \"great fragmentation\".\n\nThat is essentially a setback for globalisation, reflected in additional trade and investment restrictions and many borders that are closed at least while the health crisis persists.", "Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary talks to two colleagues who have lived away from home since the early days of the pandemic to avoid the risk of infecting their families. One says she fears that cases will begin to rise because members of the public, unlike medical staff, seem too eager to \"move on\".\n\nI am so humbled by the personal sacrifices that some of my colleagues have made during the pandemic. Those with young children who have sent them away to their parents to protect them from harm, like evacuees to the countryside during World War Two. Those who have retreated into lives of hermits to reduce the risk of any transmission from their work environments.\n\nHealthcare workers are five or six times more likely to be infected than the general public, so they also have a much greater risk of infecting others. Living as a civilian in a house with a healthcare worker can be bad for your health.\n\nBecky Aird is a specialist respiratory nurse and acting ward sister on our busiest Covid-19 ward. Three months ago, before we had our first patient, she made the tough decision to move out of her parents' home to protect her mother, who has MS.\n\nKirsten Sellick is a junior doctor who moved out of a family home to live in hospital accommodation. I see her on sunny days reading outside the hospital - the car park is her lockdown garden retreat.\n\nAfter lockdown I was offered the chance to move into the hotel to keep my family safe and I took it. That was 30 March. My mum is quite poorly, she's got secondary progressive MS, she's very independent and both she and my dad wanted me to stay at home; they kept thinking of ways we could live together safely but I knew it wouldn't be 100% safe. There was no way to eliminate the risk for my mum. The only option was to eliminate myself.\n\nBecky Aird with her mother and a young relative, pre-lockdown\n\nAt first I thought it was quite cool in the hotel - it was like going on a little holiday - but it quickly wore off. I've got a reasonably small room. I brought a travel fridge with me and it broke within the first week. It's just very lonely, and I mostly read. I haven't seen my friends, just one girl who I dropped a care package off to and she stood at her front door.\n\nI was very upset when one of my friends, Kelly, was admitted to my ward. I was the main nurse in charge and it really shocked me, it was such a big thing to see her fighting for breath and so ill. I was crying when I got back to the hotel - I couldn't stop thinking about her. She asked me to promise her that she wasn't going to die. Thankfully she went on to CPAP [non-invasive ventilation] and started to improve.\n\nWe are still admitting patients on to the Covid ward and I don't see much sign it's stopping. Some people tell us they haven't been social distancing - they've been with relatives, or to other houses. I definitely think it's going to get worse before it gets better, because I think people just think that it's over.\n\nThe sad fact is that there are nurses and doctors and healthcare workers struggling to work in PPE, working really hard for three months in such difficult conditions, and like me, making sacrifices - not seeing family and friends, following all the rules - and then there are people out there that aren't doing that. So that's disheartening.\n\nIt's really sad. It's funny because people did love the NHS and clapped and everything - people really cared. But then it's kind of people want to move on. I don't necessarily agree that we should be called heroes, but I think that that might have all been forgotten about now.\n\nI'm leaving soon, because soon I'll have done three months in the hotel and the bill [paid by the NHS] is mounting up. There's nowhere else I could stay to be isolated so I need to go back home - and that means stopping work on the Covid wards.\n\nI would stay if I could. Don't get me wrong, there have been some horrendous things, but this is what I'm trained for. I have the ability to help, to make a difference and if living in the hotel is the only way to do it, then I'm prepared for that. I don't have children. I don't have a partner. But I'm also really looking forward to being home, to having my own bed, to being with my parents again.\n\nI will miss the Covid ward. The team's fantastic. Everyone's been so pleasant and lovely with each other, I think that's been the best thing. I've actually seen patients get better and clapping them out is my favourite thing ever. I love that.\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nMy garden is the hospital car park and my commute is dreamy - it takes me two minutes to get from my bed into work. But it's a bit odd - I don't ever leave the hospital site.\n\nI was living with family and it made more sense not to live with them as I'm high-risk, interacting with patients who are really unwell with coronavirus. The thought of taking it home to family was just too much.\n\nIt is pretty lonely. There are two other doctors but it's difficult not being around family or people you love, and a phone call can only do so much.\n\nI've been in the flat for months now. I had to properly isolate when my flatmate had a positive test, so we couldn't even leave the flat. That was really bad. It's a hospital flat so the window has a padlock on it and only opens less than an inch so my fresh air was leaning against the window trying to breathe in some air.\n\nYou get used to having a garden, a nice kitchen and a home but now I haven't got any of that. I have found a little bit of the car park that I sit in when the sun is out.\n\nIt's been sad work, seeing young people who aren't doing as well as I'd like them to. It's hard to explain to family members - I try to get across that we are doing our best. But it's been heart-breaking speaking to them on the phone.\n\nIt was a lovely moment to see our first patient come off the ventilator and leave the ward. That makes the sacrifice worth it - knowing we can really help people.\n\nI'd love to be done, so that I could go and see my family and my partner, I'd really love to do that but I don't feel like I can yet. I'm hoping that time will come soon.\n\nBecky and Kirsten are the embodiment of the dedication of the NHS front-line workers. This is what they trained for - to care for people and to save lives. However, working on the Covid \"red\" wards has to be one of the toughest jobs, both physically and emotionally, and I worry about the impact on their physical and mental health when they are separated from their usual support networks of loving family and friends.\n\nWe will have to work hard to care for our carers.", "Health bosses fear the Covid-19 crisis could see the number of people waiting for NHS treatment double to 10 million by the end of the year.\n\nThe NHS Confederation said challenges include a backlog of cases, maintaining social distancing, and staffing.\n\nThe body, which represents health and care leaders, said emergency funding and longer-term spending were needed.\n\nThe Department of Health has said it will continue to provide the resources, funding and support the NHS needs.\n\nGuidance had been issued on how the NHS \"should start to restore services in a safe way\", a spokesman added.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to announce further plans to ease lockdown restrictions in England later, with zoos and drive-in cinemas among the businesses expected to be allowed to reopen from Monday.\n\nMr Johnson will lead the daily Downing Street briefing, where he is also likely to face questions about the government scrapping plans for all primary school children in England to return to school before the summer break.\n\nProjections by the NHS Confederation show that the NHS waiting list is expected to rise from about 4.2 million currently to about 10 million by Christmas.\n\nThis assumes the health service makes a steady return to full capacity within the next 12 months.\n\nIn a new report, the NHS Confederation said healthcare services were operating at a reduced capacity of about 60% because of infection control measures.\n\nThe body - which covers organisations commissioning and providing health services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - said it faces an \"uphill battle\" as it tries to restart cancer, stroke and heart care services, while continuing to manage thousands of sick and recovering Covid-19 patients.\n\nPredicting the immediate future of the NHS and the likely path of patient demand is like holding a finger in the wind.\n\nNobody knows whether there will be a second spike of Covid-19 cases and, if there is, when that might happen and how serious it could be.\n\nIt is hard to forecast how quickly those patients who have stayed away from hospitals because of fears of the virus will return to seek urgent treatment.\n\nHospitals, GP surgeries and other NHS sites will need time to adapt to social distancing rules and assess how they manage their workload.\n\nThe NHS Confederation is simply saying that an independent forecast that the waiting list for routine surgery in England might hit 10 million by the end of this year looks reasonable. Others have floated similar predictions.\n\nThe bigger point being made by the confederation is that the government in Westminster needs to think very hard about how the health service is managed in the months ahead and how patients' expectations should be prepared.\n\nThe devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will have to face up to the same challenges.\n\nHealth leaders urged the government to prepare the public not to expect the same level of service for many months.\n\nOver the past fortnight, cardiology services have restarted in England but the British Heart Foundation on Friday warned of a backlog as an estimated 28,000 heart procedures had been delayed since the outbreak of coronavirus.\n\nCancer services are also starting to reopen.\n\nCancer Research estimates about 2.4 million people in the UK are waiting for screening, treatment or tests with a potential 23,000 cancers having gone undiagnosed during lockdown.\n\nThe already-long waiting lists were \"certain to rise significantly\", the body said, and coronavirus patients would continue to require care in recovery including respiratory and psychological treatment.\n\nIt added that care was being delivered by \"exhausted and traumatised staff\", and health leaders had to stay prepared for a second wave.\n\nIn its study and accompanying letter to the prime minister, the NHS Confederation warned that it would not be possible to simply \"switch on\" NHS services immediately.\n\nA patient receives physiotherapy at the NHS Seacole Centre for patients recovering from coronavirus, as health leaders call for extra funding in rehabilitation and recovery services\n\nIt also called for further assurances on the effectiveness of the Test and Trace programme and further guarantees over personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAnd the report said a review of the impact of the pandemic on NHS and social care staff was needed.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing has warned it will be a \"struggle\" for \"burnt-out\" nursing staff on short-staffed wards, care homes or in clinics to restart services.\n\n\"The legacy of this pandemic is yet to dawn - the professionals are still focused on the here and now,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"As services begin to return, the government must continue to invest in the workforce so that an exhausted profession... is properly supported.\"\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for ministers to \"take heed of these warnings\".\n\n\"It is inevitable that the Covid-19 pandemic will impact our health service in the months ahead but it is vital that ministers begin to address this backlog of delayed treatment and rising clinical need,\" he said.\n\nThe NHS Confederation has asked for an extension of the government's deal with the private sector, to provide beds, equipment and staff to the NHS, until next March.\n\nIts chief executive Niall Dickson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Frankly, we need all the capacity we can get to try and build up services going forward.\"\n\n\"We're not entirely clear what the levels of demand coming out of this are. We of course know patients that were waiting beforehand, but of course we've now got a huge backlog of patients that we haven't seen and we don't know what their needs will be,\" he said.\n\nHe added that infection control measures would be \"really important\" as long as the virus is in the community.\n\nBusiness minister Nadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast the prime minister was \"absolutely committed\" to \"making sure this forecast that has been put forward doesn't actually happen\".\n\nSpeaking about whether the deal with the private sector would be renewed, he said the NHS could resume delivering broader services \"without the private hospitals\".\n\nAsked when the government will publish data relating to England's track and trace system, he said statistical experts wanted figures to be \"robust\" before publication.\n\n\"The worst of all worlds is to publish figures that are then having to be changed or are wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"This country has a proud track record of making sure that we are transparent in everything we do. We will learn the lessons from this, I guarantee you, but we'll do it after we get through this challenge. That's the right thing to do.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokesperson previously told the BBC that the NHS was \"safely bringing back other services\" and was also \"significantly increasing rehab care for everyone suffering after-effects of the virus\".\n\nNHS England published a plan in May setting out how to increase routine operations and treatment.\n\nHas your NHS treatment been affected by the coronavirus pandemic? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Wretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of his father falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in Haringey\n\nThe Tasering of rapper Wretch 32's father will be assessed by the police watchdog after the Met was instructed to refer it.\n\nWretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of Millard Scott falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in Haringey, north London, in April.\n\nThe force previously said a review had found \"no indication of misconduct\".\n\nBut the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) used its powers to require the force to refer it.\n\nIt will now assess what happened to decide if it needs to be investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Millard Scott was Tasered by officers after they entered his home in April\n\nThe 35-year-old rapper, whose real name is Jermaine Scott, shared the 36-second clip on his Twitter account with the caption: \"This is how the police think they can treat a 62 year old black man in Tottenham but this 1 happens to be my dad.\"\n\nHe later spoke about the lack of progression on \"police brutality\" in the UK.\n\nHis 62-year-old father told ITV News he believed he would not have been Tasered if he were white and he was \"lucky to be alive\".\n\nThe video shows Mr Scott falling down the stairs after an officer is heard to warn: \"Police officer with a Taser. Stay where you are.\"\n\nScotland Yard said officers had gone to the property as part of \"a long-running operation to tackle drugs supply linked to serious violence\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"As officers entered the premises, a man came downstairs and started moving towards an officer suddenly.\n\n\"He was ordered to remain where he was but continued towards officers who, after several warnings, deployed a Taser.\n\n\"The man was not arrested, but was assessed by the London Ambulance Service at the scene. He did not require further medical treatment.\n\n\"Officers from the North Area Command Unit have liaised with the family to discuss any concerns they have about the incident.\n\n\"The incident, including body-worn footage, has been reviewed by the Met's directorate of professional standards and no indication of misconduct has been identified.\"\n\nPolice said a 22-year-old man found in the house was arrested and charged with encouraging another to commit an offence, while a 52-year-old woman was charged with obstructing police after being interviewed under caution at a later date.\n\nThe force said in a further statement that, following examination of the body-worn footage, it believed the incident \"does not meet the criteria for a referral to the IOPC\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The statue of Robert Milligan was removed by the Canal and River Trust to \"recognise the wishes of the community\"\n\nA statue of noted slaveholder Robert Milligan has been removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nSadiq Khan earlier announced a review of all of London's statues and street names, saying any with links to slavery \"should be taken down\".\n\nOn Sunday, anti-racism protesters in Bristol tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston.\n\nMilligan's monument was removed to \"recognise the wishes of the community\" said the Canal and River Trust.\n\nThere were cheers and clapping as the monument was lifted from its plinth using a crane.\n\nThe Museum of London Docklands said the statue of the prominent British slave trader, who owned two sugar plantations and 526 slaves in Jamaica, had \"stood uncomfortably\" outside its premises \"for a long time\".\n\n\"The Museum of London recognises that the monument is part of the ongoing problematic regime of white-washing history, which disregards the pain of those who are still wrestling with the remnants of the crimes Milligan committed against humanity,\" they added.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said it had worked with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the museum and partners in Canary Wharf to have it removed.\n\nAs the Milligan statue was lowered from its plinth, thousands of people gathered outside an Oxford college to demand the removal of a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes.\n\nMilligan was a noted slaveholder and founder of London's global trade hub, West India Docks\n\nMr Khan said London had to face \"an uncomfortable truth\" with its historical links to slavery.\n\nThe Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm will review the city's landmarks - including murals, street art, street names, statues and other memorials - and consider which legacies should be celebrated before making recommendations.\n\nMr Khan said London was \"one of the most diverse cities in the world\", but said recent Black Lives Matter protests had highlighted that the city's statues, plaques and street names largely reflect Victorian Britain.\n\n\"It is an uncomfortable truth that our nation and city owes a large part of its wealth to its role in the slave trade,\" he said.\n\n\"While this is reflected in our public realm, the contribution of many of our communities to life in our capital has been wilfully ignored.\"\n\nDuring a Black Lives Matter protest in central London on Sunday, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was sprayed with graffiti.\n\nBut Mr Khan said he did not consider statues of the likes of Churchill to be included in the review.\n\nHe said pupils needed to be educated about famous figures \"warts and all\" and that \"nobody was perfect\", including the likes of Churchill, Gandhi and Malcolm X.\n\nThe statue of Robert Milligan was covered with fabric and Black Lives Matter sign before being removed\n\nMr Khan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he did not have ownership of the statues and the land they are on.\n\nHe also said it would be \"inappropriate\" to single out which statues and street names he thinks should go.\n\nInstead a number of new memorials in the capital have been pledged by Mr Khan, including ones for Stephen Lawrence, the Windrush generation, a National Slavery Museum or memorial and a National Sikh War Memorial.\n\nA statue of Sir Winston Churchill was sprayed with graffiti during a Black Lives Matter protest\n\nThe Local Government Association's (LGA) Labour group has also announced that Labour councils across England and Wales are to review \"the appropriateness\" of monuments and statues in their towns and cities.\n\nCampaigns calling for the removal or amendment of monuments celebrating controversial figures have increased in volume around the UK in recent days.\n\nIn Oxford, 26 councillors and an MP have called for a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes to be removed from an Oxford University college.\n\nA plaque is to be added to a Henry Dundas monument in Edinburgh to \"reflect\" the city's links with slavery, while the leader of Cardiff Council said he would support the removal of a statue of slave-owner Sir Thomas Picton from the city's civic building.", "Michael R White is seen here in an undated photograph\n\nA US Navy veteran is returning home after being freed from detention in Iran.\n\nMichael White was sentenced to prison last year on unspecified charges, but was released temporarily on medical grounds to the Swiss embassy in March.\n\nHe was arrested in 2018 after travelling to meet his girlfriend in the Iranian city of Mashhad.\n\nHis release came on the day that Iran's foreign minister announced the return from the US of an Iranian doctor.\n\nUS officials have yet to confirm the release of Majid Taheri, but a third man - an Iranian scientist detained in the US - was deported to Iran earlier this week.\n\nSirous Asgari, a materials science professor from Tehran, had been charged in 2016 with trying to trade secret research from an American university, but was acquitted in November.\n\nThe releases appear to be a rare example of co-operation between Iran and the US - although Washington has denied so far that it was a straight prisoner swap.\n\nUS President Donald Trump confirmed on Thursday that Mr White had been freed and the Swiss plane he was travelling on had left Iranian airspace.\n\n\"I will never stop working to secure the release of all Americans held hostage overseas,\" he said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"For the past 683 days my son, Michael, has been held hostage in Iran by the IRGC [Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps] and I have been living a nightmare,\" Mr White's mother said in a statement. \"I am blessed to announce that the nightmare is over, and my son is safely on his way home.\"\n\nBoth Mr White's family and President Trump thanked Switzerland for its help.\n\nThe 48-year-old was one of at least six US citizens either imprisoned in Iran or out on bail.\n\nHe was granted medical furlough to the Swiss embassy in March amid the release of large numbers of prisoners due to the spread of coronavirus in Iran.\n\nHis family said he had visited the country a number of times before he was detained.\n\n\"We look forward to reuniting him with his family,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday.\n\n\"[We] will not rest until we bring every American detained in Iran and around the world back home to their loved ones,\" he added.\n\nIn December, the US and Iran conducted a prisoner swap in a rare sign of co-operation. Chinese-American researcher Xiyue Wang and Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani were freed.\n\nRelations between the two countries have been increasingly hostile since the US abandoned the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.\n\nBut tensions escalated further this year when the US assassinated top Iranian commander Gen Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq in January. Iran retaliated by launching ballistic missiles at Iraqi military bases hosting US forces.", "Police have been searching for Madeleine McCann for over 13 years\n\nA 43-year-old German man who travelled around Portugal in a camper van is now the focus of Scotland Yard's investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann 13 years ago.\n\nPolice believe the man, now in jail for a sex crime, was in the area where the girl, then aged three, was last seen.\n\nMadeleine's parents Gerry and Kate McCann thanked the police, adding: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information about two vehicles owned by the man.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished, the suspect transferred a Jaguar car to someone else's name.\n\nMadeleine went missing from an apartment on a Portuguese holiday resort on the evening of 3 May 2007, while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.\n\n\"Someone out there knows a lot more than they're letting on,\" said Det Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is leading the Met inquiry.\n\nThe force said it remained a \"missing persons\" investigation because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nHowever, German investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry.\n\nThe London police force said the German authorities had taken the lead at this stage of the case because the German suspect was in custody in their country.\n\nGerman police told the country's ZDF TV channel the suspect, who is not being named, is a sex offender currently in prison for a sex crime.\n\nThe man has two previous convictions for \"sexual contact with girls\", according to Christian Hoppe from Germany's federal criminal police office.\n\nAn appeal on German television was broadcast this evening at 19:15 BST.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said the prisoner, then aged 30, frequented the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, staying for \"days upon end\" in his camper van and living a \"transient lifestyle\".\n\nHe was in the Praia de Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 7.32pm, which ended at 8.02pm.\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number and the number which dialled him, saying any information about them could be \"critical\" to the inquiry.\n\nThe suspect is believed to have been using a Portuguese mobile phone, with the number +351 912 730 680 on the day Madeleine went missing.\n\nThe phone received a call in the area of Praia da Luz from a second mobile number, +351 916 510 683, from someone not in the area. They want the person who made this call to come forward.\n\n\"They're a key witness and we urge them to get in touch,\" said Det Ch Insp Cranwell.\n\n\"Some people will know the man we're describing today... you may be aware of some of the things he's done,\" he said.\n\n\"He may have confided in you about the disappearance of Madeleine.\n\n\"More than 13 years have passed and your loyalties may have changed,\" he added.\n\n\"Now is the time to come forward.\"\n\nIs this the breakthrough? Is this German prisoner the man who can unlock the mystery?\n\nIt certainly has the feel of a significant development - police have used those very words.\n\nEvidence, according to detectives, places the man near the scene; the re-registering of his car the next day is undoubtedly suspicious.\n\nAnd his criminal record, disclosed by the German police, is a disturbing guide as to what his motivations might have been.\n\nBut... there have been so many false trails in the case before - clues, sightings and suspects that led nowhere.\n\nThree years ago, during the last major police appeal, Scotland Yard said it was working on one final \"critical\" line of inquiry.\n\nNow, we're told there's another one. That may explain why Met detectives - who've been involved in the case for nine years - are being rather more cautious than their German counterparts.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann, pictured in 2017, said they would never give up hope\n\nIn a statement, the McCanns welcomed the appeal: \"We would like to thank the police forces involved for their continued efforts in the search for Madeleine.\n\n\"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nPolice said the suspect was one of 600 people that detectives on the inquiry, known as Operation Grange, originally looked at, though he had not been a suspect.\n\nAfter an appeal in 2017, \"significant\" fresh information about him was provided.\n\nSince then, Met detectives have carried out \"extensive inquiries\" in Portugal and Germany in order to gather more details about him.\n\nThe force said it was trying to \"prove or disprove\" his involvement in the case and retained an \"open mind\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell: \"He could have looked somewhere between 25 and 32\"\n\nThose with information can contact the Operation Grange incident room on 020 7321 9251.", "Passengers may have to book trains and buses in future because of Covid-19\n\nPassengers might have to pre-book bus and train tickets in future to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, Wales' economy minister has warned.\n\nKen Skates said space on services would be \"vastly reduced\" for passenger safety.\n\nIt comes as travellers are being warned by a Welsh train operator to only use services if \"absolutely essential\".\n\nTransport for Wales said rail journeys had fallen 95% over the last 10 weeks.\n\nLeyton Powell, Transport for Wales' safety and assurance director, said: \"Only travel by rail if it's absolutely essential and you have no other means of transport available.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our capacity is down because of social distancing, less than 10% availability. We cannot guarantee people's safety unless we manage the controls at all times, we are trying to run a safe service for our key workers.\"\n\nMr Skates said the Welsh Government did not want trains and buses full of commuters in Wales, as happened in London when lockdown rules were relaxed.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would also consider prioritising places on public transport for key workers and disabled people.\n\nMr Skates said passenger safety on public transport was a \"huge consideration\".\n\nThe Welsh Government has been discussing with transport operators and unions how they will manage demand with social distancing in place.\n\nScenes like these could become a thing of the past as people are urged only to use public transport if absolutely necessary\n\nMr Skates said: \"Trains and buses will carry far fewer people.\n\n\"We will have to consider measures such as pre-booking only, such as careful travel planning, such as prioritisation of who travels on buses and trains - for example key workers and disabled people.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Transport for Wales is urging people to \"travel safe\" and keep public transport clear for key workers.\n\nIt said people should follow five new principles if they are going to travel.\n\nThese include staying local, avoiding busy periods, following travel advice and respecting other passengers.\n\nIn Newport, a pilot project is trialling booking bus journeys by phone and app.\n\nThe \"Fflecsi\" scheme is being run by Newport Bus with Transport for Wales.\n\nKen Skates said passenger safety on public transport was a \"huge consideration\"\n\nNumerous scheduled services have been replaced with flexible ones.\n\nPassengers can request to be picked up and dropped off near work, shops or home, rather than following a set timetable at fixed stops.\n\nOnce a passenger has booked, Newport Bus will guarantee them a seat and space to social distance.\n\nThe scheme runs Monday to Saturday and includes key destinations such as hospitals and supermarkets.\n\nIf the pilot is successful Transport for Wales will look to roll the scheme elsewhere.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of people have joined a protest in London over the death of African-American George Floyd in US police custody nine days ago.\n\nIt comes as UK chief constables said they stand alongside all those \"appalled and horrified\" by his death.\n\nIn a joint statement, they said the right to lawful protest was a \"key part of any democracy\".\n\nBut they stressed coronavirus restrictions, including not gathering in groups of more than six, remained.\n\nProtests began in the US after a video showed Mr Floyd, 46, being arrested on 25 May in Minneapolis and a white police officer continuing to kneel on his neck even after he pleaded that he could not breathe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Boyega gives emotional protest speech: \"Black men, it starts with you\"\n\nThe officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with second-degree murder, according to court documents.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that Mr Floyd's death had been \"appalling\" and \"inexcusable\", but was criticised for failing to comment on the killing before now.\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the UK government had \"shuttered itself in the hope no-one would notice\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer called on the PM to convey to US President Donald Trump the UK's \"abhorrence about his response to the events\".\n\nSpeaking later when asked about it at Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson said: \"My message to President Trump, to everybody in the United States from the UK is that… racism, racist violence has no place in our society.\"\n\nHe said people had the right to protest but \"I would urge people to protest peacefully, and in accordance with the rules on social distancing\".\n\nProtesters in Hyde Park chanted \"black lives matter\" and \"we will not be silent\"\n\nThousands of people marched through Westminster in central London\n\nDemonstrators gathered in London's Hyde Park for the protest organised by campaign group Black Lives Matter, before marching south through the city.\n\nIt followed days of protests in US cities including Washington DC, Los Angeles, Houston and Seattle, after the Floyd case reignited deep-seated anger over police killings of black Americans and racism.\n\nTens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets there - not only to express their outrage at the treatment of Mr Floyd - but to condemn police brutality against black Americans more widely.\n\nIn the UK protesters marched to Victoria Station, where they hung a sign reading \"Justice for Belly Mujinga\" - referring to a railway worker who died with Covid-19. Initially it was thought this may have been because she was spat at by a man claiming to have coronavirus. However, police concluded that her death was not linked to the attack.\n\nThe protestors then continued towards Westminster, where they blocked the roads outside Parliament.\n\nA number of videos shared on social media showed protesters and police clashing outside Downing Street.\n\nFootage showed objects, including signs and a traffic cone, being thrown at police, while one protester was wrestled to the ground and restrained by officers.\n\nSome protesters clashed with police outside Downing Street\n\nThere was anger in the crowd, as they sat, as they listened to speeches, as they took the knee.\n\nThis is yet another generation who have painted placards and taken to the streets to march against racism.\n\nAs they started to fill Hyde Park, organisers shouted at them to spread out their arms to maintain the two-metre social distancing rule. But so many gathered, it became impossible.\n\nFriends and families together, different ages, different races.\n\nAt the start, organisers told me they were expecting about 1,000 people. But the protesters came out in their thousands.\n\nThey chanted \"Black Lives Matter\", they shouted \"say his name\". They said the \"UK is not different\" when it comes to racism. They want change.\n\nEarlier, Star Wars actor John Boyega made an emotional speech to fellow protesters in which he said the crowds were \"a physical representation of our support\" for Mr Floyd along with two other black Americans who controversially died in the US, and Stephen Lawrence who was killed in a racist attack in London in 1993.\n\nHe said he was speaking from his heart and did not know whether he would still have a career after speaking out.\n\n\"Today is about innocent people who were halfway through their process - we don't know what George Floyd could have achieved, we don't know what Sandra Bland could have achieved, but today we're going to make sure that won't be an alien thought to our young ones,\" he said.\n\n\"I need you to understand how painful it is to be reminded every day that your race means nothing.\"\n\nThe crowds marched from Hyde Park towards Victoria station\n\nProtesters in Whitehall took the knee to show solidarity with George Floyd\n\nFirefighters in uniform knelt in Windrush Square, Brixton, in south London\n\nPolice clashes with protestors on Downing St carried on into the evening\n\nOne activist attending the protest, Brogan Baptiste, told the BBC: \"It's imperative that all of us, whether you're black, white, that you're involved in this because we need change and we need it now.\"\n\nFilippa, a 20-year-old student who also joined the protest, said: \"I know that I'm healthy. So this felt more important than to stay inside when I have the opportunity.\"\n\nProtests also took place in other UK cities, including Belfast and Northampton.\n\nIn their joint statement, the National Police Chiefs Council said: \"We stand alongside all those across the globe who are appalled and horrified by the way George Floyd lost his life. Justice and accountability should follow.\"\n\nThey said officers in the UK were \"trained to use force proportionately, lawfully and only when absolutely necessary\".\n\nHowever, they added: \"We strive to continuously learn and improve. We will tackle bias, racism or discrimination wherever we find it.\"\n\nThousands of protesters gathered in London's Hyde Park on Wednesday\n\nThey said UK police \"uphold and facilitate\" the right to lawful protest and \"we know people want to make their voices heard\".\n\nBut amid the coronavirus pandemic they stressed restrictions on gatherings were still in place and urged people to \"continue to work with officers at this challenging time.\"\n\nThis latest protest follows another on Sunday, which saw thousands gather in Trafalgar Square, in central London.\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.", "Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, then aged three\n\nIn the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, say all they have ever wanted is to find their daughter.\n\nHere is the story so far.\n\nMadeleine went missing from this apartment block at the Ocean Club. The family's apartment is on the left of the building, as seen here\n\nOn 3 May Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, is on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal.\n\nOn 12 May, the McCanns say they \"cannot describe the anguish and despair\" they are feeling.\n\nPortuguese police say they believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive and in Portugal.\n\nOn 26 May, police issue a description of a man seen on the night of Madeleine's disappearance, possibly carrying a child.\n\nA search took place in the areas around Praia da Luz on the Algarve\n\nIn June, a Portuguese police chief admits vital forensic clues may have been destroyed as the scene was not protected properly.\n\nIn July, British police send sniffer dogs to assist the investigation, and inspections of the McCann's apartment and rental car are conducted.\n\nBy August it is 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. Investigating officers publicly acknowledge she may not be found alive.\n\nOn 6 September, Portuguese police interview Kate McCann as a witness. On 7 September, detectives make the couple \"arguidos\" and days later, the McCanns return to the UK. Prosecutors later say there is no new evidence to justify re-questioning them.\n\nGerry McCann releases a video in November saying he believes his family was watched by \"a predator\" in the days before his daughter's disappearance.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann leave church after a service to mark the first anniversary of their daughter's disappearance\n\nOn 20 January the McCanns release sketches of a suspect, based on a description by a British holidaymaker of a \"creepy man\" seen at the resort.\n\nIn April, Portuguese police fly to the UK to sit in on interviews conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' friends they had dinner with on the night Madeleine disappeared.\n\nOn 3 May, one year since the disappearance, Mrs McCann urges people to \"pray like mad\" for her little girl.\n\nBy July Portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. Weeks later, authorities shelve their investigation and lift the \"arguido\" status of the McCanns.\n\nAn image was released of how Madeleine might look at six\n\nOn 3 November, new images of how Madeleine might now look are released.\n\nIn March 2010, the McCanns criticise the release of previously unseen Portuguese police files - detailing possible sightings of Madeleine - to British newspapers.\n\nA month later, in April, Gerry McCann says it is \"incredibly frustrating\" that police in Portugal and the UK had not been actively looking for his daughter \"for a very long time\".\n\nIn November, the couple sign a publishing deal to write a book about Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThe McCanns' book, Madeleine, is released in May.\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron asks the Metropolitan Police to help investigate. A two-year review follows.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Redwood, the detective leading the UK review of Madeleine's disappearance, tells an April broadcast of the BBC's Panorama his team is \"seeking to bring closure to the case\".\n\nA computer-generated image of what Madeleine might look like aged nine is released, a day before Portuguese authorities say they are not reopening their investigation.\n\nIn May, UK detectives reviewing the case say they have identified \"a number of persons of interest\".\n\nBy July, Scotland Yard announces it has \"new evidence and new witnesses\" in the case and opens a formal investigation.\n\nBy October, Scotland Yard detectives say they have identified 41 potential suspects.\n\nA BBC Crimewatch appeal features e-fit images of a man seen carrying a blond-haired child of three or four in Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine went missing.\n\nPortuguese police reopen their investigation - to run alongside Scotland Yard's - citing \"new lines of inquiry\".\n\nMet Police officers searched scrubland near where Madeleine vanished in 2014\n\nIn January British detectives fly to Portugal amid claims they are planning to make arrests.\n\nIn June searches in Praia da Luz are carried out, including an area of scrubland situated south-west of the Ocean Club complex. It yields nothing of interest.\n\nA month later, in July, four suspects are quizzed by police but no new developments emerge.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nIn September 2015 the British government disclose that the investigation has cost more than £10m.\n\nIn April 2017 the four official suspects investigated by police are ruled out of the investigation but senior officers say they are pursuing a \"significant line of inquiry\".\n\nIn June 2019 the UK government says it will fund the Met Police inquiry, which began in 2011, until March 2020.\n\nA year later, in June 2020, police reveal that a 43-year-old German prisoner - named by German media as Christian B - has been identified as a suspect. The McCanns thank police, saying: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nGerman investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry and say they are assuming that Madeleine is dead.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police says it has received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nIn April 2022, a German man is declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the case.\n\nChristian Brueckner, then 45, is made an \"arguido\", although Portuguese authorities do not formally reveal the suspect's name.\n\nThe McCann family mark the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance on 3 May 2022, saying she is \"still very much missed\" and they \"await a breakthrough\".\n\nLater that month, a Portuguese news website reports that an area near a reservoir, about 30 miles (48km) from Praia da Luz, had been being sealed off. Police say they will begin searching the Arade dam on 23 May.\n• None In Pictures: The search for Madeleine McCann", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan called on young people and students at the school to come together to rebuild society\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex has issued a personal message about the impact of George Floyd's death in the United States, saying his life \"mattered\".\n\nAddressing students graduating from her former school in Los Angeles, Meghan said the events had been \"devastating\".\n\nShe also recalled living through race riots in 1992 and spoke of her regret that nothing appeared to have changed.\n\nIn her video message, Meghan called on young people and students at the school to come together to rebuild society.\n\nA wave of anti-racism protests have been triggered by the death of African-American Mr Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis on 25 May.\n\nFour officers have been charged in relation to his death.\n\nAnger has since spread to other parts of the world, including the UK, where thousands of people joined a protest in London on Wednesday organised by campaign group Black Lives Matter.\n\nThe sister of black teenager Anthony Walker, who was murdered by two men in a racially-motivated attack in Merseyside in 2005, called for an \"ongoing revolution\" following the demonstrations - to break down institutional racism in society.\n\nDominique Walker, vice chair of the Anthony Walker Foundation set up after her brother's murder, told BBC Breakfast that police reform in the UK \"has to be taken further\".\n\n\"There has to be that definitive work that works to break down institutional racism,\" she said.\n\nIn the UK, protesters marched to Westminster in central London, where they blocked the roads outside Parliament\n\nIn the video of her virtual address to Immaculate Heart High School, the duchess said she was \"nervous\" about addressing graduates and speaking about events of the previous weeks.\n\nBut she said that she \"realised the only wrong thing to say is nothing because George Floyd's life mattered\", before referring to other African-Americans who died in police shootings in the US in recent years.\n\nIn the video, which was first reported by the African-American female magazine Essence, Meghan also gave a heartfelt apology to the graduating students \"that we have not gotten the world to the place that you deserve it to be\".\n\nShe told the all-girls school: \"I wasn't sure what I could say to you. I wanted to say the right thing and I was really nervous that I wouldn't or it would get picked apart, and I realised the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing - because George Floyd's life mattered and Breonna Taylor's life mattered and Philando Castile's life mattered and Tamir Rice's life mattered.\n\n\"And so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we do not know.\"\n\nShe then shared her memories of living in the city through race riots in 1992, after police officers were filmed violently beating Rodney King.\n\nThe duchess said: \"I was 11 or 12 years old and it was the LA riots, which was also triggered by a senseless act of racism.\n\n\"I remember the curfew and I remember rushing back home, and on that drive home, seeing ash fall from the sky, and smelling the smoke and seeing the smoke billow out of buildings.\n\n\"I remember seeing men in the back of a van just holding guns and rifles.\n\n\"I remember pulling up the house and seeing the tree, that had always been there, completely charred. And those memories don't go away.\"\n\nMeghan said she could not imagine that the students \"would have to have a different version of that same type of experience\".\n\n\"That's something you should have an understanding of, but an understanding... as a history lesson not as your reality,\" she said.\n\n\"So I'm sorry that in a way we have not gotten the world to the place that you deserve it to be.\"\n\nShe went on to highlight that people are \"standing in solidarity\" despite the unrest, and appealed to young people to \"be part of this movement\".\n\nThe duchess said: \"I know that this is not the graduation that you envisioned [...] but I also know that there is a way to reframe this for you, and to not see this as the end of something.\n\n\"But instead to see this as the beginning of you harnessing all of the work, all of the values, all of the skills that you have embodied over the last four years.\n\n\"Now all of that work gets activated, now you get to be part of rebuilding.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are going to rebuild and rebuild and rebuild until it is rebuilt, because when the foundation is broken, so are we.\"\n\nIn the US, protests began in Minneapolis where Mr Floyd died, and quickly spread across the country.\n\nDemonstrations have taken place in areas including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington DC, South Carolina and Houston.\n\nSome have included clashes between police and protesters, including the use of tear gas and rubber bullets by officers.\n\nUS president Donald Trump has pressed state governors to take a more forceful approach against protesters.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex are now living in Los Angeles with their one-year-old son Archie, after stepping back as working members of the Royal Family.", "At the Scottish government's daily briefing the first minister called on people to focus even more so now on what the Scottish government is asking them not to do.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"It is by not doing certain things right now that we will all help stop this virus spreading.\"\n\nShe went on to say, that this weekend would see more traditional Scottish rain and warned: \"You cannot and you must not meet people from an other household indoors.\"\n\nThat's a surefire way of spreading the virus, Ms Sturgeon added.\n\nYou can find all the guidance below:\n\n1. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Phase 1: staying at home and away from others (physical distancing)\n\nThis is the guidance for the first phase of easing the lockdown.\n\n2. Scotland’s route map through and out of the crisis\n\nThe Scottish government has identified four phases for easing the restrictions. We are currently in phase one.\n\nIf you have Covid-19 symptoms go immediately to NHS Inform online or phone 0800 028 2816 to book a test\n\nThe latest from NHS Scotland and the Scottish government, including social distancing, face covering and stay at home advice.", "Twitter has accused the US president of making false claims, in one of the app's own articles covering the news.\n\nThe move - which effectively accuses the leader of lying - refers to a tweet by Donald Trump about his first defence secretary.\n\nMr Trump had tweeted that he had given James Mattis the nickname \"Mad Dog\" and later fired him.\n\nBut Twitter's article says that the former general resigned, and his nickname preceded Trump's presidency.\n\nIt follows last week's explosive confrontation, which saw Twitter fact-check two of President Trump's tweets and label another as glorifying violence.\n\nThe latest confrontation was prompted by a strongly-worded statement issued by General Mattis last night, in which he criticised the president's handling of the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd.\n\nGen Mattis described Donald Trump as \"the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people - does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us.\"\n\nThe president fired back quickly in a tweet saying that the one thing he and predecessor Barack Obama had in common was \"we both had the honour of firing Jim Mattis, the world's most overrated general. I asked for his letter of resignation and felt good about it\".\n\n\"His nickname was 'Chaos', which I didn't like, and changed it to 'Mad Dog',\" he added.\n\nTwitter later published what it calls a Moment, a summary of a news story that you can see when you press the platform's search button. It has also been promoted within the What's Happening box that appears on Twitter's website.\n\nThe article says that \"Mattis resigned from the position... after the administration decided to withdraw US troops from Syria\", and attributes the fact to a report by the Associated Press news agency.\n\nIt then refers to journalists at CNN, the National Review, the Washington Post and The Dispatch as having written that the nickname 'Mad Dog' had been used before Trump's presidency, with published references dating back to 2004.\n\nMoments are curated by an internal team at Twitter. They provide a summary of a recent development before presenting some related tweets.\n\nThis is not the first time the tool has been used to call out Donald Trump.\n\nIn March 2019, it said the president had misidentified a co-founder of Greenpeace, and in April 2020 it said he had falsely claimed he could force states to reopen during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBut what is interesting here is that Twitter has chosen to raise the temperature of its clash with the president over what could be seen as a relatively minor issue.\n\nDesktop users of Twitter will have seen the story prominently featured alongside their streams of tweets\n\nIt was on 20 December 2018 that Gen Mattis announced his resignation, effective from 28 February 2019.\n\nA furious Mr Trump then announced his defence secretary was going from 1 January and stated he'd essentially fired him. So you could at least argue that, as in many cases, there is a blurry line between a resignation and a firing.\n\nPerhaps Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey is looking on, with a degree of schadenfreude, at what has happened in recent days at Facebook.\n\nThere, Mark Zuckerberg's determination not to follow Twitter's lead and take some kind of action over the president's posts has sparked open revolt.\n\nFacebook staff, who previously would only grumble anonymously about the company's practices, have put their names to statements deploring Mr Zuckerberg's failure to act.\n\nThis morning, nearly three dozen former employees, including some who had helped write the original guidelines on what can and cannot be posted, published an open letter accusing Mr Zuckerberg of a \"betrayal\" of Facebook's ideals.\n\nLast week, it felt as though Twitter might be putting its future in danger by taking on the president.\n\nThis week, it feels as though Mr Zuckerberg's failure to act might leave him facing an even bigger crisis than the Cambridge Analytica scandal.", "Dyfed-Powys Police said many of those it stopped were from England and thought lockdown restrictions were the same in Wales\n\nPolice turned away more than 1,000 cars from one beauty spot in just two days for breaching lockdown rules.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said many people officers spoke to in the Brecon Beacons were from England who said they did not know about Wales' different rules.\n\nThe force's commissioner has said the UK government \"hasn't been all that clear\" on the differences.\n\nSupt Steve Davies said fines were issued if people had \"clearly flouted the rules\".\n\nThe force said many of those stopped at the weekend claimed they thought the rules in Wales were the same as in England and came from as far afield as London and the Midlands.\n\nPolice said they were kept busy due to the volume of people trying to drive to the area around Ystradfellte, Powys, known as \"waterfall country\".\n\nThe force, which covers some of Wales' most rural areas, also said 72% of people reported for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions in Powys since 27 March had been from outside the force area.\n\nDafydd Llywelyn, Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, told BBC Radio Wales that the \"majority\" of people had listened to advice to stay local.\n\nBut he concluded the number of people breaking the rules was \"not surprising\".\n\n\"We have people travelling from Cardiff and the valleys into the force area. We also are getting people coming across the border,\" he said.\n\n\"In the first instance the police are trying to educate those coming across the border because the message from the central government hasn't been all that clear.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said it had been \"absolutely clear\" that people should check and follow local guidance when travelling between different parts of the UK.\n\n\"Our analysis shows that this message has been received clearly and is helping to tackle coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nDafydd Llywelyn says he \"felt sorry\" for people who did not know the rules were different in Wales\n\nMr Llywelyn added he \"felt sorry\" for people who did not know the rules were different in Wales because it is often \"impossible\" for officers to do anything other than issue a fine.\n\nSupt Davies added: \"Our officers have worked hard to engage with the public at every opportunity throughout these unprecedented times by explaining what we are doing and why, and encouraging people to make the best choices to protect public health in Wales.\n\n\"But where people have clearly flouted the rules we have dealt with them appropriately and issued fines.\"\n\nHe said officers would continue to conduct stop checks throughout Powys and across the force area this weekend.\n\nWales' three national parks and all National Trust sites remain closed to the public during the lockdown, although the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority has said parts of the park will open from Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma is self-isolating at home after becoming unwell in Parliament.\n\nMr Sharma looked uncomfortable while taking part in a debate on Wednesday, mopping his brow several times with his handkerchief while speaking.\n\nA spokesman said the MP for Reading West had been tested for coronavirus and had returned home.\n\nWhile it is unknown if Mr Sharma has the virus, it has added to the row over virtual proceedings in Parliament.\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament - with additional motions due later to allow members who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy.\n\nBut critics have said the motions do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nLabour's shadow leader of the House, Valerie Vaz, said Parliament had been brought into \"disrepute\" and stopping the so-called hybrid proceedings was \"putting people's lives at risk\" - calling for virtual measures to be in place until the R number had gone down and the government's alert level had fallen.\n\nBut Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\".\n\nHe added: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael is expected to apply for an emergency debate later on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic.\n\nMr Sharma was pictured in Downing Street on Tuesday, and took part in votes in the Commons later that day.\n\nOn Wednesday, he was in the Commons chamber for nearly an hour while leading for the government on the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.\n\nA spokesman for the business secretary said on Wednesday: \"Alok Sharma began feeling unwell when in the Chamber delivering the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.\n\n\"In line with guidance he has been tested for coronavirus and is returning home to self isolate.\"\n\nIt's important to highlight that we don't know for sure whether the business secretary has coronavirus.\n\nHowever, a potential case is causing real anger at Westminster.\n\nSenior opposition figures say it shows the government was wrong to scrap a hybrid model which allowed MPs to contribute and vote remotely.\n\nThere are concerns some MPs didn't maintain social distancing rules in lengthy voting queues. Others fear they could become super spreaders, taking the virus back to their constituencies if there is an outbreak.\n\nIf Mr Sharma did test positive, anyone he had spent more than 15 minutes within two metres of would have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nMr Miliband subsequently sent his best wishes to Mr Sharma for a quick recovery.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" had taken place, following the debate.\n\nAnd the BBC's chief political correspondent Vicki Young said the MP who had sat nearest to Mr Sharma during his statement insisted that social distancing protocols had been observed throughout.\n\nAlthough it is not yet known if Mr Sharma has contracted coronavirus, if his test comes back positive, the government advice is for his \"close contacts\" to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThose who count as close contacts are either:\n\nMr Sharma was one of hundreds of MPs who queued around the building on Tuesday at two metre intervals as the Commons introduced new temporary voting procedures.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Nick Watt said talks were at an \"advanced stage\" to change the temporary system, instead allowing MPs to vote by swiping their parliamentary passes in the normal voting lobbies.\n\nBut while it would be quicker than the system used this week - which saw votes take up to 46 minutes - it would not be as fast as the usual system, which sees votes completed in around 15 minutes.\n\nMPs are supposed to be queuing two metres apart - but some are wondering whether the rules were properly observed\n\nWhile the number of MPs permitted to sit in the chamber is still limited, many MPs are unhappy about being forced to return to Westminster, saying it poses a risk to them and their constituents.\n\nOthers are concerned MPs will be forced to expose the personal situations of them and their families in order to fit the criteria to be allowed to participate virtually.\n\nThe SNP's deputy Westminster leader, Kirsty Blackman, said she sent her best wishes to Mr Sharma, but added: \"It demonstrates just how ridiculous and irresponsible the Tory government's decision to end virtual participation in Parliament was.\n\n\"They must now rectify this serious mistake and reintroduce hybrid proceedings without delay.\"\n\nBut Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"premature\" to use Mr Sharma as the case to support keeping virtual proceedings, as his results have not even come back yet.\n\nLabour MP Karl Turner said he had asked the Health and Safety Executive to conduct an urgent risk assessment of working conditions in Parliament.\n\nHe said MPs having to \"huddle together\" on escalators on the parliamentary estate while lining up to vote were among a number of \"unsafe practices\".\n\nThe HSE said it was aware of the letter and would \"respond in due course\", adding: \"While we have no jurisdiction at the Palace of Westminster, all places of work are expected to adhere to the government's working safely guidelines.\"\n\nThere have also been issues in committee rooms, with members not being able to sit around the tables and still keep to social distancing rule.\n\nAt the start of the Domestic Abuse Bill Committee, it's chair, Tory MP Peter Bone, said some members were having to sit in the public gallery away from the microphones, meaning they could not be recorded so could not contribute.\n\nThe Westminster leader of Plaid Cymru, Liz Saville Roberts - who sits on the committee - called it a \"shambles\", adding: \"Westminster isn't working.\"", "Looting of Apple stores has led some to close temporarily\n\niPhones stolen in lootings of Apple stores in the US are tracked, disabled and the local authorities notified, according to messages displayed on their screens.\n\nApple has temporarily closed some of its US stores following a series of attacks, amid protests over the death of George Floyd.\n\nSeveral images of the warnings have been shared on social media.\n\nApple said that it did not comment on \"security matters\".\n\nIt is not clear whether the company has passed on the location of stolen devices to any police forces.\n\nIt has long been rumoured that the devices on display in Apple stores have software installed so that they can be tracked if any are stolen.\n\nPictures on social media confirm this. One image of a device posted to Twitter showed the message: \"Please return to Apple Walnut Street. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted.\"\n\nThe store in Philadelphia was among those attacked and looted.\n\nPurchased devices do not have such software on them but they can be remotely locked by Apple if they are subsequently stolen or lost.\n\nThe firm had only recently started reopening stores following the easing of lockdowns around the country but a series of raids in Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia has forced them to shut again.\n\nChief executive Tim Cook has told employees in a memo that the killing of Mr Floyd, a black man killed by a white police officer, was \"senseless\" and has pledged to donate to human rights groups.", "Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nMadeleine McCann is \"assumed\" to be dead, say German prosecutors, who are investigating the disappearance of the British girl in 2007.\n\nA 43-year-old German man is being investigated on suspicion of murder, the public prosecutor added.\n\nThe suspect, who has been named in German media as Christian B, is currently serving a prison sentence.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Portugal.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police said it had received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, from the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office in Germany, said in an update on Thursday: \"We are assuming that the girl is dead.\n\n\"With the suspect, we are talking about a sexual predator who has already been convicted of crimes against little girls and he's already serving a long sentence.\"\n\nHe said the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe McCann family's spokesman said Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, felt the new development was \"potentially very significant\".\n\nClarence Mitchell, who has represented the family since Madeleine went missing, said that in 13 years he couldn't \"recall an instance when the police had been so specific about an individual.\n\n\"Of all the thousands of leads and potential suspects that have been mentioned in the past, there has never been something as clear cut as that from not just one, but three police forces\", he said.\n\nThe Met Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nThe man is linked to a house between Praia da Luz and Lagos, and another inland\n\nPolice released pictures showing the interior of one house believed to be linked to the suspect\n\nThe suspect has been described as white with short blond hair, and about 6ft (1.8m) tall with a slim build at the time.\n\nPolice have also released photos of two vehicles - a VW camper van and a Jaguar car - which are believed to be linked to the man, as well as a house in Portugal.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished in 2007, the suspect transferred the Jaguar to someone else's name.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz on the evening of 3 May 2007 while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is in charge of the Met investigation - known as Operation Grange - said the suspect, then aged 30, frequented the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, staying for \"days upon end\" in his camper van and living a \"transient lifestyle\".\n\nHe was in the Praia da Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 19:32, which ended at 20:02. Madeleine is believed to have disappeared between 21:10 and 22:00 that evening.\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number (+351 912 730 680) and the number which dialled him (+351 916 510 683), and said any information about these numbers could be \"critical\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said the caller was a \"key witness\" and should get in touch, while he also appealed to the public for details about the suspect.\n\nThe Ocean Club in Praia da Luz where the McCann family were staying\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared\n\nThe joint appeal from the British, German and Portuguese police includes a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThose with information can contact the Operation Grange incident room on 020 7321 9251.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said he wanted to thank members of the public who had already got in touch.\n\n\"We are pleased with the information coming in, and it will be assessed and prioritised,\" he said.\n\n\"We continue to urge anyone with information to come forward and speak with us.\"\n\nJim Gamble, who served as the senior child protection officer in the UK's first police investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, said it was the first time in 13 years \"when I actually dare to hope\".\n\nThe \"circumstantial evidence\" that had been shared by the police made the new suspect a \"really significant person of interest\", he said.\n\nHe said he believed the man \"came to light a number of years ago\" but was only being made public now because it was a \"painstaking\" process which began from \"a point of chaos\" after the initial investigation had been \"bungled\".\n\nIs this the breakthrough? Is this German prisoner the man who can unlock the mystery?\n\nIt certainly has the feel of a significant development - police have used those very words.\n\nEvidence, according to detectives, places the man near the scene; the re-registering of his car the next day is undoubtedly suspicious.\n\nAnd his criminal record, disclosed by the German police, is a disturbing guide as to what his motivations might have been.\n\nBut... there have been so many false trails in the case before - clues, sightings and suspects that led nowhere.\n\nThree years ago, during the last major police appeal, Scotland Yard said it was working on one final \"critical\" line of inquiry.\n\nNow, we're told there's another one. That may explain why Met detectives - who've been involved in the case for nine years - are being rather more cautious than their German counterparts.\n\nIn a statement, the McCanns, from Rothley in Leicestershire, welcomed the appeal: \"We would like to thank the police forces involved for their continued efforts in the search for Madeleine.\n\n\"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the latest developments appeared to be significant and No 10's thoughts were with the McCann family \"who have had to endure so much\".\n\nPolice said the suspect was one of 600 people that detectives on the UK inquiry originally looked at, though he had not been a suspect.\n\nAfter a 10-year anniversary appeal in 2017, \"significant\" fresh information about him was provided.", "People arriving in the UK will have to isolate for 14 days or face penalties\n\nThe travel industry has condemned the government's quarantine rules, warning the mandatory two-week isolation will deter visitors and put jobs at risk.\n\nFrom 8 June all passengers arriving in the UK must self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe manufacturing industry has added to the criticism, warning fewer flights will restrict imports and exports.\n\nThe boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr O'Leary said most countries in Europe have a lower rate of coronavirus than the UK.\n\nAt a time when \"Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal are removing visitor restrictions, the UK is imposing them,\" he said.\n\nSwissport chief Jason Holt questioned why the rules were being put in place now.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, he said: \"If it's so important and it's so relevant to the virus, and we all want the country to be safe, why wasn't this done in March? That's why everybody's quite confused on this.\"\n\nMore than 200 travel companies have written to the government asking for the new rules to be scrapped, while some MPs have also raised concerns.\n\nThe boss of tour operator Red Savannah said the government had failed to listen to the concerns of the travel industry.\n\n\"We are none the wiser as to the science behind the rationale for quarantine,\" said George Morgan-Grenville.\n\n\"It is the wrong policy that is going to cause untold misery for hundreds of thousands of people who will now very likely be made redundant.\"\n\nBut the government says the quarantine period is a \"proportionate and time-limited approach'' to protect public health.\n\nOn Wednesday, Home Secretary Priti Patel told Parliament imported coronavirus cases now ''pose a more significant threat''.\n\n\"We are past the peak but we are now more vulnerable to infections being brought in from abroad,\" she said.\n\nThe manufacturing industry has warned the quarantine rules will have knock on effects for freight, and that will hamper the recovery of some businesses.\n\nSpeaking to a committee of senior MPs, Stephen Phipson, the head of the manufacturers' association Make UK, said \"passenger aircraft are really important for freight. The belly of the aircraft carries freight. Heathrow is the largest port in the country.\"\n\n\"For import and export in manufacturing that passenger freight traffic is vital\", he said.\n\nHe described the quarantine rules as \"disappointing from that point of view\".\n\nFrom Sunday, all passengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days.\n\nSurprise visits will be used to check they are following the quarantine rules. Those in England could be fined up to £1,000 if they are not at home.\n\nA spokesman for the trade body Airlines UK said the government needed to clarify whether people from some countries with low infection rates would be exempt from quarantine rules, under a so-called air bridge.\n\n\"If the government leave it too late we run the risk of the summer season being over and losing out to other countries who are starting to open up their borders now,\" he said.\n\nSwissport, which handles airport ground services and cargo, earned more than €3bn (£2.8bn) in revenue in 2019 but the coronavirus crisis has reduced revenue by 95%, according to Mr Holt.\n\nThe company has furloughed most of its 6,000 UK staff.\n\nMr Holt said they would remain on the Job Retention Scheme until the government's future travel policies became clear.\n\nHe said Swissport had lobbied the government to avoid introducing quarantine, but the company was now hoping the rules will only be in place for short time.\n\n\"We're really hoping no more than three weeks,\" he said. If it goes beyond that it could do \"irredeemable damage to the sector\".", "Almost £7bn has been raised to immunise 300 million children at a virtual global vaccine summit hosted by the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said up to eight million lives would be saved as a result of the funds pledged at the Gavi vaccine summit on Thursday.\n\nThe money will help immunise children against diseases like polio, diphtheria and measles over five years.\n\nMr Johnson said the triumph of humanity over disease was the \"greatest shared endeavour of our lifetimes\".\n\nThe summit raised funds for Gavi, a global alliance of public and private sector organisations promoting vaccination among the world's poorest communities.\n\nPledges by more than 50 countries and individuals like billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates saw the total surpass an initial target of $7.4bn (almost £6bn).\n\nMr Gates donated $1.6bn (£1.3bn) from his foundation and Mr Johnson pledged £1.65bn over the next five years, making the UK the organisation's biggest donor.\n\nThe summit comes as the world continues to struggle to get to grips with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson also used the conference to urge world leaders to renew their \"collective resolve\" to find a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\n\"Just as we have great military alliances like Nato... where countries collaborate on building their collective military defence, so we now need that same spirit of collaboration and collective defence against the common enemy of disease,\" he said.\n\n\"It will require a new international effort to co-operate on the surveillance and the sharing of information - data is king - that can underpin a global alert system, so we can rapidly identify any future outbreak. And it will mean a radical scaling-up of our global capacity to respond.\"\n\nInternational Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan later said she believed the UK was capable of delivering a coronavirus vaccine to those who need it \"at speed\" when one becomes available.\n\nUS President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at the virtual global vaccine summit.\n\nLast week, Mr Trump severed ties with the UN's health agency, the World Health Organization, stopping around $400m (£317m) in support, after accusing it and China of mishandling the outbreak.\n\nThere was international criticism of the decision, particularly because it was made in the middle of a global pandemic.\n\nBut at the summit, Mr Trump struck a different tone in what was a very brief and seemingly very off-the-cuff, pre-recorded message.\n\n\"As the coronavirus has shown, there are no borders, it doesn't discriminate,\" he said.\n\n\"It's mean, it's nasty but we're going to take care of it together.... We will work hard, we will work strong... good luck, let's get the answer.\"", "A forthcoming US ban on flights from China has left some Chinese students worried they won’t be able to get home.\n\nYesterday, the US announced that it would suspend all Chinese passenger planes from 16 June. This has led to an outpouring of anxiety on social media, with many asking, \"What will international students do?\"\n\nThe independent South China Morning Post said that last year some 370,000 students from China were enrolled in institutes across the US. .\n\nSeemingly in response to reaction to the US ban, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has signalled that it will loosen its own restrictions on arrivals, saying airports in 37 cities across China should now become available to international flights.\n\nThis has led to praise online, with users of the popular Sina Weibo platform saying that China is “putting people’s interests first” and that they hope those in the US can “hurry home”.\n\nBut there are also concerns. China has gone to great lengths to ensure that it doesn’t see a second wave of Covid-19, implementing mass testing and strict quarantine procedures. Many are worried that an influx of people returning from overseas could lead to a fresh spike in cases.", "It is unlikely Snowdon will be open to visitors soon, to prevent crowds gathering on the summit Image caption: It is unlikely Snowdon will be open to visitors soon, to prevent crowds gathering on the summit\n\nAny moves to reopen parts of the Snowdonia National Park will be \"cautious and measured and will be phased\" say officials.\n\nIt follows the announcement from the Brecon Beacons park authority that it is preparing to reopen some areas to the public from Monday 8 June.\n\nHowever, popular sites such as Pen y Fan, Waterfalls Country and Llyn y Fan Fach will remain closed for the time being.\n\nPictures of hundreds of people queuing at the top of Snowdon and overflowing car parks in the area are thought to have played a role in the coronavirus lockdown measures being implemented in March.\n\nIn a statement on Thursday, officers in Snowdonia said they had been reviewing the measures in place.\n\n\"In the coming weeks there will be only minor changes to allow for local people to exercise locally as set out by Welsh Government,\" said a spokeswoman for the park authority.\n\n\"Internationally recognised sites that are very busy will be opened much later.\n\n\"We would like to thank visitors for their patience and for continuing to respect the restrictions in Wales.\n\n\"The ancient landscape, vast night skies and fragile wildlife of Snowdonia will be well worth the wait when it’s finally safe to return.\"", "Lookers has implemented safety measures including deep cleaning vehicles as it reopened its showrooms\n\nCar dealership Lookers has announced it will cut up to 1,500 jobs with the closure of more showrooms in the UK.\n\nThe company reopened its showrooms on Monday after the government lifted coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nLuxury carmaker Aston Martin also announced 500 redundancies, a week after naming a new chief executive.\n\nIt comes as the SMMT trade body said only 20,000 new cars were registered in May - down 89% year-on-year - in the worst May performance since 1952.\n\nCar manufacturers, suppliers and showrooms have been closed for weeks, with consumers in lockdown and holding off big-ticket purchases.\n\nAltrincham-based Lookers will shut another 12 sites - either by closure, merging with other showrooms or refranchising - on top of the 15 dealerships being closed already under plans announced in November.\n\nThe closures, blamed on what Lookers called \"the structural changes taking place across the industry\", will leave it with 136 dealerships across the UK\n\nLookers, which employs 8,000 people, resumed trading from all its sites on 1 June with social distancing measures in place.\n\nChief executive Mark Raban, said: \"We have taken the decision to restructure the size of the group's dealership estate to position the business for a sustainable future, which regrettably means redundancy consultation with a number of our colleagues.\"\n\nAston Martin shares have tumbled along with car sales\n\nAston Martin also announced 500 job cuts, to \"right-size the organisational structure and bring the cost base into line with reduced sports car production levels, consistent with restoring profitability,\" it said in a statement.\n\nLast month, the 107-year-old company reported a deep first-quarter loss after sales dropped by almost a third due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts come a week after Aston Martin confirmed that Tobias Moers, boss of Mercedes-AMG, would become chief executive on 1 August, replacing Andy Palmer.\n\nThe scale of the problems facing the motor industry were underlined on Thursday in new figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).\n\nBritish new car registrations tumbled by 89% in May on the same month last year, only slight improvement on April's record 97% collapse.\n\nLast month's new registrations of 20,247 units represented the weakest May since 1952. Sales were down 51.4% in the first five months of 2020 but the industry is hopeful that a re-opening of dealer showrooms in England this week will help to spur a recovery.\n\nHowever, Mike Hawes, the SMMT's chief executive, said: \"Early reports suggest there is good business given the circumstances, although it is far too early to tell how demand will pan out over the coming weeks and months.\"\n\nBut the uncertainty has not been helped by fresh worries about the UK leaving the European Union without a trade deal.\n\nNissan's car manufacturing plant in Sunderland, which employs 7,000 people, is \"unsustainable\" under a no-deal Brexit, the car company told the BBC on Wednesday.", "AG Ellison: US has under-prosecuted police killings in the past\n\nAttorney General Ellison ends the press conference by promising to \"hold everyone accountable for behaviour we can prove in court\". \"As the people who are legal professionals, professional prosecutors – we are taking our duty seriously, and we are working with the people who gather the facts, and we have done the work that we begin is possible, ethical and right.\" When asked about the lack of trust between the public and the authorities, he says: \"Our country has under-prosecuted these matters, in Minnesota and throughout the country.\" This, he says, is \"the origin of the trust problem\" - as \"people who have public guardians\" have not been held accountable in similar situations in the past. \"We can’t control the past – all we can do is take the case we have in front of us right now, and do our best to bring justice to the situation.\"", "Officers were called to Energen Close in Harlesden\n\nA two-year-old boy is in a serious condition in hospital after being hurt in a shooting in Harlesden, north west London, police have said.\n\nThe lone gunman is thought to have fled on a motorbike after firing at two men, a mother and her child in Energen Close just before 21:45 BST on Wednesday.\n\nThe three adults are in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.\n\nDet Ch Insp Rick Sewart said the child had been the victim of \"wanton indiscriminate violence\".\n\nHe added: \"As result of this terrible crime an innocent two-year-old boy is now seriously ill in hospital.\n\n\"I know that people will be shocked and horrified that a little boy should be the victim of a gunman and I need the community to show their support for him and his family, by telling police what they know.\"\n\nPolice said specialist gang officers were helping with the investigation\n\nPolice believe the suspect was holding a hand gun and he approached the victims in the street.\n\nThe child suffered his gunshot injury while sitting in a car.\n\nThe three adults, aged in their late teens and late 20s, are said to have known one another.\n\nAn witness, who did not want to be named, said she was watching TV when she heard screaming from outside before \"everyone came out of their houses\".\n\nThe neighbour, who has lived in Energen Close for 10 years, said the mother was screaming after her son was shot.\n\nSpecialist detectives are continuing to investigate and the Met said no arrests have been made.\n\nForensic officers are continuing to examine the scene\n\nThe Met's North West Borough Cmdr Roy Smith said extra patrols of armed police officers will be carried out to reassure the public.\n\nHe said: \"I know that residents will be worried about their safety and the safety of their families.\n\n\"This is my primary concern and local officers will be conducting additional patrols to provide support and a visible reassurance.\"\n\nOvernight a Section 60 order was in place for the borough of Brent until 07:00, and a dispersal zone has been authorised for the Harlesden area, the force added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England\n\nThe postponement of tens of thousands of hospital procedures is putting the lives of people with long-term heart conditions at risk, according to the British Heart Foundation.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has created a backlog which would only get larger as patients waited for care, it said.\n\nPeople with heart disease are at increased risk of serious illness with Covid-19, and some are shielding.\n\nIn the last two weeks, cardiology services have started again in England.\n\nThe BHF estimates that 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England since the outbreak of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThese are planned hospital procedures, including the implanting of pacemakers or stents, widening blocked arteries to the heart, and tests to diagnose heart problems.\n\nPeople now waiting for new appointments would already have been waiting for treatment when the lockdown started, the charity said, as it urged the NHS to support people with heart conditions \"in a safe way\".\n\nSarah Miles is shielding because of her high risk of being very ill with Covid-19\n\nSarah Miles, 45, a former nurse from Somerset, has been ill for some time with heart failure, after a heart attack and cardiac arrest when she was 38.\n\nShe has had several recent appointments cancelled, including a procedure to correct abnormal heart rhythms she had already waited six months for, and an assessment for a new heart.\n\n\"It makes you feel anxious and alone,\" she says, having been shielding from the virus because of her high risk of complications.\n\nYet the last thing she wants to do is complain.\n\n\"I understand the practicalities but it's worrying me that there is no plan - no-one is keeping me informed or anything.\n\n\"Even accessing medication online is more difficult because doctors need extra time to arrange it.\"\n\nA nurse would normally come to her house, where she is sleeping in the front room, to carry out blood tests - but that hasn't happened.\n\n\"I haven't had any follow-up after being in hospital in February either,\" she says.\n\nShe is no longer able to walk very far and the hope of a heart transplant keeps her going, but that's likely to be a long way off.\n\n\"I'm just in limbo. It's the not knowing that's the worst.\"\n\nThe NHS scaled back services in many areas and redeployed staff in order to stop the health service from being overwhelmed by patients with Covid-19.\n\nThis led to drops in cancer referrals, routine operations and visits to A&E - and there were concerns that seriously ill people were being put off seeking treatment.\n\n\"People with heart and circulatory diseases are already at increased risk of dying from Covid-19, and their lives should not be put at even greater risk by missing out on treatment for their condition,\" said Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation.\n\n\"If hospital investigations and procedures are delayed too long, it can result in preventable permanent long-term complications, such as heart failure.\"\n\nThe implanting of pacemakers is one of the procedures postponed during the epidemic\n\nA survey of 1,409 adults with heart and circulatory conditions carried out by BHF with YouGov found that during the crisis, a third had struggled to get the medicines they needed and about 40% had had a planned test or procedure postponed or cancelled.\n\nSome of the most urgent heart procedures have taken place during the epidemic.\n\nBut although cardiology services have started again, it is not yet clear how long patients will have to wait to for rescheduled appointments.\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"Now we are through the first peak of the virus, the NHS is safely bringing back other services, as clearly many people will have worried about seeking help during the outbreak.\"\n\nThe number of people coming to A&E for cardiac conditions is \"back to the levels we would normally expect\", he said.\n\nNHS England said it was also \"significantly increasing rehab care for everyone suffering after-effects of the virus\".", "Luxury carmaker Bentley has said it will cut 1,000 jobs in the UK, about a quarter of its workforce.\n\nThe company, which makes its cars in Crewe, has offered all staff the chance to take voluntary redundancy.\n\nThe move comes as the car industry faces a sharp drop in sales due to coronavirus. Bentley has also struggled to be profitable in recent years.\n\nBentley's boss, Adrian Hallmark, said the virus was not the cause of the cuts, but a \"hastener\".\n\nCar sales have been severely hit by the closure of car manufacturers, suppliers and showrooms due to the virus.\n\nIn a statement, Bentley which turns 101 on 10 July, said it was launching a restructuring programme which would \"redefine Bentley for the next 100 years\". The plan had been due to be announced in March, but was deferred due to the pandemic.\n\nWhile the substance of the new strategy remained the same, the company said the effects on the short-term financial outlook for the company meant that it had to \"significantly reduce the size of the organisation through a voluntary release programme\".\n\nIt said it was looking for as many as 1,000 people to accept voluntary redundancy, but it \"cannot rule out future compulsory redundancies\".\n\n\"Losing colleagues is not something we are treating lightly but this is a necessary step that we have to take to safeguard the jobs of the vast majority who will remain, and deliver a sustainable business model for the future through our Beyond100 strategy,\" said Mr Hallmark.\n\nThat strategy aims to make Bentley the \"leader in sustainable luxury mobility for the next 100 years\", with an \"accelerated journey towards electrification with every model\".\n\nLast month, Mr Hallmark said that a quarter of the company's workers had been furloughed due to the lockdown while another quarter were working from home.\n\nThe carmaker has since restarted production at its Crewe factory, but with only around half the usual number of staff.\n\nBentley, which is owned by Volkswagen, has struggled to be profitable in recent years.\n\nIt is in the middle of a turnaround plan which began in 2018. Last year, it increased its worldwide sales by 5% to 11,000 cars and it reported a record performance in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nBut now with \"considerable forecast reduction to future revenues\" due to coronavirus it has carried out a review of its cost and investment structure and \"as the last resort... the people cost and structure\".\n\nThe SMMT trade body said only 20,000 new cars were registered in the UK last month - down 89% year-on-year - the worst May performance since 1952.", "The protest was held in Birmingham's Centenary Square\n\nThousands of demonstrators gathered in Birmingham to protest about the death of George Floyd in US police custody.\n\nMr Floyd, an African-American, died on 25 May when a white police officer continued to kneel on his neck after he pleaded he could not breathe.\n\nThousands of people marched in London on Wednesday after the death sparked global protests against racism.\n\nThe Birmingham protest started outside the library but later moved through the city to the police's headquarters.\n\nWest Midlands Police said an estimated 4,000 people took part and there were no arrests.\n\n\"The protesters were loud and passionate, and made their voices clearly heard, but there were no arrests and no disorder,\" a force spokesman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe city \"has a proud history of standing up to racism\", the council said\n\nProtest organisers UK Isn't Innocent said Britain had \"a duty to stand in solidarity with the US while exposing the inner workings of racism and police brutality in the UK\".\n\n\"We are tired and we have been tired for too long,\" lead organiser Hannah Ringane said.\n\n\"We have been taught that we won't be treated the same as everyone else, that we will be viewed as aggressors.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death has led to protests around the world\n\nThe demonstration had to be relocated to a larger square due to the number of protesters\n\nCarol Smith, who was among the demonstrators, said: \"My grandchildren were born here, they have to have a different world to the world I have.\n\n\"They have to realise they have a right to be here, and they have a right to equality, just like everyone else who don't look like them.\n\n\"I can't give you the answer to racism. I didn't create it, people who look like me didn't create it.\"\n\n\"Not just for us, but changes for the world. These are the things that are demanded now.\"\n\nCrowds took a knee as the protest moved through the city\n\nAston Villa and England defender Tyrone Mings - who was targeted with racist abuse while playing for his country against Bulgaria last year - indicated he would join demonstrators, urging his followers online to \"stand for what's right\".\n\nPeople were originally due to gather in Victoria Square outside the council house, but when it became clear the numbers would be too large it was moved to Centenary Square.\n\nAlthough it was billed as a stand-in demonstration, protesters moved on from the square and marched towards Lloyd House, the headquarters for West Midlands Police, shouting \"justice now\" and calling for an end to police brutality.\n\nThe demonstration continued into the evening\n\nDemonstrators marched on Lloyd House, the headquarters for West Midlands Police\n\nIn the past month, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has begun nine investigations into West Midlands Police connected to alleged excessive use of force on black men and two officers have been suspended.\n\nCh Insp Sarah Tambling, from the force, said she was \"really pleased with the atmosphere\" at the protest in the city.\n\nAlthough some people have begun to leave, many more are continuing to arrive. The atmosphere has been good, with whole families coming to express their solidarity with the demonstrators.\n\nA handful of police liaison officers have kept a respectful distance and the crowds have remained peaceful.\n\nThe younger generation in particular have made banners with clever slogans, while several older onlookers, especially from the Afro-Caribbean community, have been overcome with emotion when they see the size of the crowd.\n\nThe protest moved down Colmore Row after stopping outside West Midlands Police's headquarters\n\nBirmingham City Council said it supported the demonstration, but encouraged protesters to maintain social distancing.\n\n\"The city of Birmingham has a long and proud history of standing up to racism and to prejudice, and that is why today we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement,\" said Labour councillor and cabinet member for social inclusion John Cotton.\n\nFour Minneapolis police officers have been charged over 46-year-old Mr Floyd 's death, including Derek Chauvin who faces a second-degree murder charge.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nMr Sharma said he would like to offer \"huge thanks\" to those who have expressed their well wishes over the last 24 hours as well as the Parliamentary authorities.\n\nHe became unwell in the Commons on Wednesday, where he was seen mopping his brow several times while speaking.\n\nHe was then tested for the virus and went home to self-isolate.\n\nEarlier, the government had faced questions about whether the prime minister and chancellor would have to self-isolate, after Mr Sharma met them in Downing Street a day before falling ill.\n\nMr Sharma's condition also reignited concern over the scrapping of virtual Parliament this week, and the return of MPs to Westminster.\n\nAnnouncing the result of his negative test, Mr Sharma sent his \"grateful thanks\" to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Reading West MP was in the Commons on Wednesday for the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill, when he began to feel unwell.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" took place after the debate.\n\nA day earlier, Mr Sharma had a 45-minute meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak in Downing Street.\n\nNumber 10 said the meeting had been \"socially distanced\".\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament, after Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg scrapped online voting procedures brought in at the height of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nMeasures to allow MPs who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy were approved on Thursday.\n\nBut critics have said these measures do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nReacting to the news of Mr Sharma's negative test, Lib Dem MP Daisy Cooper said it was \"good news\" but it \"should still be a wake-up call for Rees-Mogg\".\n\nShe said the government should lead by example by supporting people to work from home where they can and \"stop needlessly risking health of MPs and staff\".\n\nLabour MP Barry Sheerman said he was \"very relieved\" that Mr Sharma tested negative, but that \"doesn't mean that the reintroduction of physical presence voting is not stupid\".\n\nThe PCS union, representing about 800 of Parliament's clerks, security guards and kitchen staff, has written to the prime minister to say the decision to end virtual voting was endangering the workers.\n\n\"We believe Parliament has opened too soon and the lives of PCS members, and those of our sister unions, are being put at risk unnecessarily,\" general secretary Mark Serwotka said.\n\nEarlier, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\" and return to Westminster.\n\nHe said: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has been granted an emergency debate on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic, which will take place on Monday.\n\nThe MP for Orkney and Shetland argued that the government's insistence that MPs must be present in Parliament constituted a serious risk to health.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma met the prime minister and chancellor in No 10 the day before he became unwell in the Commons, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said the 45-minute meeting held in the cabinet room on Tuesday was socially distanced.\n\nMr Sharma is now self-isolating at home and is waiting for the result of a coronavirus test.\n\nHe had looked uncomfortable in the Commons on Wednesday, mopping his brow several times while speaking.\n\nAsked about Mr Sharma's condition at the Downing Street daily 17:00 BST press conference, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said he was \"doing fine\".\n\nHe said he had spoken to Mr Sharma in the past hour and the business secretary was working from home and \"awaiting\" the result of his coronavirus test.\n\nWhile it is unknown if Mr Sharma has the virus, it has added to the row over virtual proceedings in Parliament.\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament, and additional motions to allow members who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy were approved on Thursday.\n\nBut critics have said the measures do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nMr Sharma was pictured in Downing Street on Tuesday, when he attended a meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak in No 10. He then took part in votes in the Commons later that day.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said those at the Downing Street meeting \"were all 2m apart\".\n\n\"Meetings in Number 10 are all socially distanced,\" he said.\n\nIf Mr Sharma has a positive coronavirus test \"he will work with the test and trace service\", the spokesman said.\n\nThe Reading West MP was also in the Commons on Wednesday for the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill, when he began to feel unwell.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nMr Miliband subsequently sent his best wishes to Mr Sharma for a quick recovery.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" had taken place, following the debate.\n\nAlthough it is not yet known if Mr Sharma has contracted coronavirus, if his test comes back positive, the government advice is for his \"close contacts\" to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThose who count as close contacts are either:\n\nIt's important to highlight that we don't know for sure whether the business secretary has coronavirus.\n\nHowever, a potential case is causing real anger at Westminster.\n\nSenior opposition figures say it shows the government was wrong to scrap a hybrid model which allowed MPs to contribute and vote remotely.\n\nThere are concerns some MPs didn't maintain social distancing rules in lengthy voting queues. Others fear they could become super spreaders, taking the virus back to their constituencies if there is an outbreak.\n\nIf Mr Sharma did test positive, anyone he had spent more than 15 minutes within two metres of would have to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nIt comes amid a row among MPs over the return to physical sittings in Parliament.\n\nLabour's shadow leader of the House, Valerie Vaz, said stopping the so-called hybrid proceedings was \"putting people's lives at risk\" - and she called for virtual measures to be in place until the R number had gone down and the government's alert level had fallen.\n\nBut Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\".\n\nHe said: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has been granted an emergency debate on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic, which will take place on Monday. The MP for Orkney and Shetland argued that the government's insistence that MPs must be present in Parliament constituted a serious risk to health.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SNP MP Alison Thewliss' claims that forcing black people to work is a racist policy are rejected by Kemi Badenoch\n\nA minister has hit back at claims \"systemic injustice\" is the reason ethnic minorities are more likely to die from coronavirus in England.\n\nKemi Badenoch said work was under way on why risks were higher for some ethnic groups, including factors like jobs and housing.\n\nThe equalities minister told them: \"This is one of the best countries in the world to be a black person.\"\n\nIn heated Commons exchanges, Labour's Zarah Sultana called for a strategy covering all government departments to tackle underlying inequalities and \"systemic injustice\", adding that Covid-19 does not discriminate but the \"system in which it is spreading does\".\n\n\"Higher rates of poverty, overcrowded housing, precarious work and jobs on the front line mean that if you're black or Asian you're more likely to catch the virus and to be hit worse if you do,\" she told MPs.\n\n\"Black Lives Matter is not just a slogan and we are owed more than confirmation that our communities are suffering - we're owed justice.\"\n\nMs Badenoch said other groups, including those based on age and gender, have also been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus and must be looked at.\n\nBut she added: \"I'm not going to take any lessons from the honourable lady on race and what I should be doing on that. I think this government has a record to be proud of.\"\n\nLabour's Rupa Huq raised the Black Lives Matter protests in Westminster on Wednesday over the death of African-American George Floyd in US police custody, saying: \"The placard that sticks in my mind most is one that said 'Being black should not be a death sentence'.\"\n\nMs Badenoch insisted the government was examining the reasons for the higher death rate and stressed it would be more than just a \"box-ticking exercise\".\n\nBut she added: \"Let us not in this House use statements like 'being black is a death sentence', which young people out there hear, don't understand the context and then continue to believe that they live in a society that is against them when actually this is one of the best countries in the world to be a black person.\"\n\nA report by Public Health England this week confirmed people from ethnic minorities are at higher risk of dying from coronavirus.\n\nThe report showed that age remains the biggest risk factor, while being male is another.\n\nThe government has faced criticism for not publishing any recommendations to address these disparities.\n\nLabour's shadow equalities minister Marsha De Cordova called for an action plan, adding: \"The government must not wait any longer to address underlying racial and socioeconomic injustices, so that no more lives are lost.\"\n\nMs Badenoch also faced claims from Labour and Lib Dem MPs that the government had censored the Public Health England report to leave out comments from organisations and individuals who had contributed to the review.\n\nAccording to the Health Service Journal, one of the responses, from the Muslim Council of Britain, called on Public Health England to look into \"specific measures to tackle the culture of discrimination and racism\" in the NHS.\n\nLabour MP Dawn Butler accused the government of engaging in a \"whitewash\".\n\nMs Badenoch said it was never the government's plan to publish these responses - and she would be working with the government's Race Disparity Unit to come up with recommendations.\n\nShe said the Public Health England report did not cover factors such as housing density, underlying health conditions or the occupations of those who have died, which she said \"may well go some way to explain the gaps\".\n\nWork is also under way to find out why an initial report by Public Health Scotland, found no racial disparity in coronavirus deaths in Scotland, she told MPs.", "More than half the UK population has struggled with sleep during the lockdown, a survey suggests.\n\nKing's College London researchers said sleep problems were more common in people facing financial hardship, while two in five reported having more vivid dreams than usual.\n\nSome people slept for longer than usual, but without feeling rested.\n\nThe findings are based on online interviews in late May with 2,254 UK residents in the 16-75 age bracket.\n\nThe study was carried out by market research company Ipsos MORI and King's College London.\n\nThe researchers said lack of sleep may itself have had knock-on effects on people's capacity to be resilient during the pandemic, and there are signs of a disproportionate impact on particular groups: women, younger people and those facing financial difficulties.\n\n\"As with so much about Covid-19, the crisis is affecting people very differently depending on their circumstances, and that includes the most fundamental aspects of life, such as sleep,\" said Prof Bobby Duffy of King's College London.\n\nHe said nearly two-thirds of the public reported some negative impact on their sleep, showing just how unsettling the pandemic and lockdown measures have been.\n\nDisturbed sleep is often caused by stress, and can itself increase stress levels, creating a cycle that is difficult to break, added Dr Ivana Rosenzweig, of Kings College.\n\nHowever, a quarter of participants reported they were sleeping more and feeling better for it, she said, highlighting that, \"as a society, we simply do not get the chance to sleep as much as we need, and that this pandemic is allowing some of us to rediscover the importance of sleep\".\n\nPrevious research has shown that for many people lockdown has led to disturbed sleep, insomnia and vivid dreams.\n\nExperts have suggested keeping to a routine, not taking naps and trying to get some exercise outside.\n• None Five tips to help you sleep better", "Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski was asked on Thursday to respond to former Defence Secretary James Mattis’s blistering criticism of his former boss, President Donald Trump, in an article published the previous day.\n\n“I felt like perhaps we are getting to a point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we might hold internally and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up,\" she said. “I thought General Mattis's words were true, and honest and necessary and overdue.”\n\nMurkowski has always been a bit of a wildcard. She won re-election to the Senate in 2010 after losing the Republican primary and running as a write-in candidate. She voted against Republican efforts to repeal Barack Obama’s healthcare reform in 2017. In 2018, she was the lone Republican opposed to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh after a brutally partisan confirmation process.\n\nSo it’s hard exactly to figure whether her recent expression of doubt about supporting Trump reflects a turning point for the Republican Party or just another jab from an iconoclast.\n\nMattis’s critique of the president, however, was particularly stinging – and particularly noteworthy. A ex-general and former senior official in the Trump administration was accusing the president of being willfully divisive, suggesting he was abusing his power and making a “mockery of the Constitution”. It may give cover for other former officials, who have occasionally criticised the president without attribution, to come out of the shadows.\n\nTrump responded in predictable fashion (by attacking Mattis) and in a predictable forum (Twitter).\n\nThe president’s penchant for counterpunching, however, may work against him here. Besides inducing Murkowski’s reflection, Trump’s social-media belittling of Mattis prompted another former top aide, ex-chief of staff John Kelly, to contradict the president’s account of Mattis’s departure from the administration and call the former general an “honourable man”.\n\nEarly in his presidency, Trump had a penchant for surrounding himself with former military officers. Now that his threat of sending active duty military unites to secure US cities – even over the objections of local officials – has caused unease among the armed forces, those early staffing moves may come back to haunt him.\n\nIf the military is closing ranks in opposition of the president, they could make life very hard for him in the days ahead.", "George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nThe US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.\n\nGeorge Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\nFootage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.\n\nTranscripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.\n\nThe key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.\n\nIt began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.\n\nA report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.\n\nBelieving the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.\n\nMr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.\n\nBut Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.\n\nIn a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but \"he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that\", according to a transcript released by authorities.\n\nThe employee said the man appeared \"drunk\" and \"not in control of himself\", the transcript says.\n\nShortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.\n\nAfter approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.\n\nMr Lane, prosecutors said, \"put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car\". Then Mr Floyd \"actively resisted being handcuffed\".\n\nOnce handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for \"passing counterfeit currency\".\n\nCourt transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.\n\nMr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.\n\nIt was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'\n\nAt about 20:14, Mr Floyd \"stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic\", according to the report.\n\nMr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.\n\nDuring this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.\n\nHe lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.\n\nThat's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.\n\nMr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.\n\nFor more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.\n\nThe transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging \"please, please, please\".\n\nAt one point, Mr Floyd gasps: \"You're going to kill me, man.\"\n\nDerek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder\n\nOfficer Chauvin replies: \"Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\"\n\nMr Floyd says: \"Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead.\"\n\nA female bystander told the police: \"His nose is bleeding, come on now.\"\n\nAbout six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.\n\nOfficer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but \"couldn't find one\". Yet the other officers did not move.\n\nAt 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.\n\nHe was pronounced dead about an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death\n\nOn the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.\n\nForgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.\n\n\"The way he died was senseless,\" Harris said. \"He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.\n• None Why is a US city in flames?", "More than 160 migrants travelled across the Channel in small boats in 24 hours - a record for a single day.\n\nThe Border Force intercepted seven boats on Wednesday, while 11 men were detained on a beach at Samphire Hoe in Kent.\n\nThere were 166 migrants in total, including one boat which had 48 males and 16 females who presented themselves as Iranian, Iraqi, Kuwaiti and Afghani.\n\nThe Home Office said they have all been taken to Dover to be assessed.\n\nPreviously the most migrants attempting to cross the Channel in a day was 145, on 8 May.\n\nAs well as the boat with 64 people on board, a second vessel earlier was carrying a group of 14 males, and a third had a group of 17 males and females.\n\nTwo more boats were carrying 16 males each, with one group presenting themselves as Iraqi, Kuwaiti, Iranian and Syrian.\n\nA sixth boat was carrying a group of 13 males who presented themselves as Iranian and Iraqi nationals, and a seventh was carrying a group of 15 males who presented themselves as Iranian, Iraqi, Yemeni, Syrian, and Chinese.\n\nIn the eighth incident, a group of 11 males, who presented themselves as Yemeni and Sudanese nationals, were arrested on the beach by Kent Police.\n\nThe Home Office said the migrants would be interviewed, with transferrals to detention \"where appropriate\".\n\nImmigration minister Chris Philp said: \"We are determined to stop migrants putting their lives at risk, and we are working tirelessly alongside the French government to do so\".\n\nHe added: \"We will continue to pursue the criminals perpetrating these heinous crimes and prosecuting them for their criminal activity.\n\n\"Last year, immigration enforcement made 418 arrests, leading to 203 convictions for a total of 437 years.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Prince of Wales has said he \"got away with it quite lightly\" when he contracted coronavirus at the beginning of the UK's epidemic in March.\n\nPrince Charles, 71, self-isolated after testing positive for the virus and only experienced mild symptoms.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, he said: \"I was lucky in my case... but I've had it, and I can so understand what other people have gone through.\"\n\nHe expressed sympathy with those who had lost family or friends.\n\n\"I feel particularly for those who have lost their loved ones and have been unable to be with them at the time. That, to me, is the most ghastly thing,\" the prince said.\n\n\"But in order to prevent this happening to so many more people, I'm so determined to find a way out of this.\"\n\nPrince Charles, who is the heir to the throne, recovered from coronavirus after spending his seven days of quarantine at his Birkhall home on the royal Balmoral estate. The Duchess of Cornwall, 72, was tested and did not have the virus.\n\nHe said: \"I can't tell you how much I sympathise with the way that everyone has had to endure with this unbelievably testing and challenging time.\"\n\nThe prince said the experience made him more determined to \"push and shout and prod\" as he called for nature to return to the \"centre of our economy\".\n\n\"Before this, nature has just been pushed to the peripheries, we've exploited and dug up and cut down everything as if there was no tomorrow, as if it doesn't matter.\"\n\nWithout learning from the pandemic, he said we may face a similar threat in future: \"The more we erode the natural world, the more we destroy biodiversity, the more we expose ourselves to this kind of danger.\n\n\"We've had these other disasters with Sars and Ebola and goodness knows what else, all of these things are related to the loss of biodiversity. So we have to find a way this time to put nature back at the centre.\"\n\nHe calls it - perhaps rather hopefully - \"the Great Reset\": a great opportunity to seize something good from this crisis.\n\nPrince Charles is not the only environmental voice out there; from those marvelling at the sound of birdsong these past few months, to those urging a shift to sustainable transport, there is a green wave that the prince is surfing.\n\nThe prince is no mere follower of fashion; he has (as he once put it in a broadcast chat with his son Prince Harry) been \"banging on\" about the environment for more than four decades now.\n\nIt means his words on the subject are often dismissed as same-old, same-old.\n\nBut there is new urgency in this interview, and a bluntness; catastrophes, he says, concentrate the mind. The current generation and those that have come before have, he says, acted as if there is no tomorrow.\n\nAnd there is controversy. Not everyone sees the planet as a sick patient in need of care.\n\nOthers, charged with the herculean task of restoring shattered economies, will have to grapple with trade-offs around environmental protection and quickly getting people back into jobs.\n\nPrince Charles has mellowed with age; no longer does he toss policy hand grenades into the public sphere.\n\nBut on the future of the earth his passion still burns bright. And it is clear that he believes a moment has arrived when change is possible; he is determined to try and drive that change.", "Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nThe government has said it will continue to fund the police investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann until March next year.\n\nThe three-year-old disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.\n\nMore than £11m has been spent on the Met Police inquiry, known as Operation Grange, since it began in 2011.\n\nThe Home Office said a \"similar\" level of funding would be granted this year as in 2018/19, when the inquiry was given £300,000.\n\nHowever, the department said the final decision on the amount would not be made until October.\n\nDetectives have been applying to the Home Office every six months for a grant to continue their work.\n\nOperation Grange was set up after former Prime Minister David Cameron asked the force to \"bring their expertise\" to the inquiry, after the Portuguese investigation failed to make headway.\n\nFour people were identified as suspects in 2013, but no further action was taken after they were interviewed by Portuguese officers and the Met Police, who visited the holiday resort in 2014.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann, of Rothley, Leicestershire, have pledged never to give up the search for their daughter, who vanished from the family's holiday apartment while they were dining at a restaurant nearby.\n\nOn the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance in 2017, detectives said that a \"critical line of inquiry\" was still being pursued.", "Kate and Gerry McCann pose with an image of how their daughter Madeleine, who went missing aged three, might have looked in 2012\n\nThe disappearance of Madeleine McCann in May 2007 was a shocking family tragedy. A perfect holiday became the most awful event imaginable. And 13 years on, still no answers.\n\nFor all the years that she has been missing, her parents - and a small group of British police officers who took over the case in 2011 - have not given up hope of finally discovering what happened.\n\nNow, with a potentially astonishing new lead on a known sex offender from Germany, the question is whether they are, finally, close to the truth after so many false turns.\n\nOn 3 May 2007 Madeleine was on holiday with her siblings and parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, in an apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz.\n\nHer parents were eating dinner with friends a short walk from the apartment - and when Mrs McCann went back to check on the three sleeping children, she discovered Madeleine was gone.\n\nThrough the night, local police and volunteers began to search. As the hours ticked by, more and more people gave up their holidays and time to find the little girl.\n\nBut within days, the first of a series of major wrong turns arguably hampered the investigation.\n\nHe became the centre of an erroneous police inquiry - and enormous attention from the British press.\n\nBut he had nothing to do with the disappearance - and 11 British newspapers eventually paid him £600,000 in libel damages after wrecking his life.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz\n\nAnd a month after Madeleine's disappearance, the Portuguese investigation was stalling.\n\nThere was an appeal for information on an unknown figure seen carrying a child - but a police chief admitted potentially vital forensic evidence had not been secured in the apartment.\n\nThe chance of finding fingerprints, DNA or fibres linking the scene to an abductor were lost.\n\nBy July, the local Portuguese police were at a dead end. They asked the UK to help - and a team of experienced search detectives and sniffer dogs were flown in.\n\nThe British team went back to basics with an agonisingly meticulous search, the gold standard for murder inquiries in the UK.\n\nThey did not find any leads - and in September 2007, with Madeleine's parents still in turmoil, the local police suddenly named them as suspects. There was no evidence to support that supposition, and that line of inquiry was later abandoned.\n\nNaming the parents as suspects felt to many observers at the time as a desperate clutching at straws by an investigation on the rocks. And 14 months after Madeleine McCann disappeared, the Portuguese authorities shelved its inquiry as unsolved.\n\nThe McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, were convinced their daughter had been abducted.\n\nThe UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, experts in the trafficking of children into sexual abuse, became involved and in the following years tried to keep interest alive with artist's images of what Madeleine would now look like as she grew up.\n\nIn 2011, the McCanns lobbied then Prime Minister David Cameron to do more, and a senior Scotland Yard team were asked to review thousands of pages of evidence.\n\nThat decision may prove the crucial turning point.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police ended up with a list of 600 people they needed to find out more about and ultimately 41 potential suspects.\n\nBehind the scenes a tantalising lead began to emerge.\n\nStranger kidnaps of children are rare. They tend to involve calculating abusers who have thought carefully about how they will do it. People who have a plan and know the area where they will strike.\n\nDetectives reasoned that if Madeleine was kidnapped, the culprit could be German or Dutch - the two other predominant nationalities in the resort, along with British and Portuguese.\n\nIn 2013 the German equivalent of BBC TV's Crimewatch launched an appeal asking for any information about two German-speaking men at Praia da Luz.\n\nThat TV appeal led to a tip-off to German federal detectives, although it is not clear what it was or whether an individual was named.\n\nThe Ocean Club in Praia da Luz where the McCann family were staying\n\nThen, around the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, the German Federal Police received more information that did identify a man who set alarm bells ringing, someone whose name had been known to Scotland Yard.\n\nAccording to the German Federal Police, the man is a sex offender - they have called him a \"predator\" - who has been convicted of offences against girls and is currently in prison.\n\nHe is also known to be a burglar, with experience of breaking into apartments.\n\nBetween 1995 and 2007 he was living a transient lifestyle in the Algarve and odd-jobbing in catering. At the same time, he is believed to have burgled holiday apartments and hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThey now know that this man was close to the McCann holiday apartment at the critical time on the night she disappeared in 2007, and he received a half-hour phone call from an unknown person.\n\nHe had been using two vehicles, a VW camper van and a Jaguar, with the British-made car having been re-registered to another person the day after Madeleine disappeared.\n\nHe has also been connected to two properties, one of which German police have described as a hideaway for stolen goods. Both homes are small, villas on quiet country lanes.\n\nOne is a 10 minute drive from Praia da Luz. The other lies just over a mile away - and is, in turn, just a mile from grassy land where British police carried out an extensive search in 2014.\n\nWho is the suspect? Neither German investigators nor Scotland Yard will confirm that name, but German media have identified him as Christian B.\n\nDid this man take Madeleine McCann? Was a dangerous sexual offender effectively hiding in plain sight in the middle of a peaceful holiday town? It would not be the first time - almost everywhere in the world there are stories of predatory offenders locating themselves in resorts.\n\nAt the moment, we just don't know. But one thing is certain in the minds of the German police who may unlock this tragedy. They believe Madeleine McCann is dead.\n\nAnd while her disappearance has always been a missing person inquiry in the UK - in Germany, this is now a hunt for the final clues that could catch a murderer.", "Thousands of homeless people who have been housed during the coronavirus pandemic could return to the streets by the end of June, a charity has warned.\n\nSince the lockdown began, more than 14,500 people who were on the streets or at risk of sleeping rough have been given emergency accommodation.\n\nBut Crisis has warned contracts between local councils and hotels are due to end as government funding runs out.\n\nThe government said councils must continue to provide accommodation.\n\nBut councils have asked the government to be clear on what extra practical support they will get.\n\nLocal authorities in England began moving rough sleepers into emergency accommodation such as hotels in March after the start of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe councils were given £3.2m from the government as part of an emergency scheme called \"Everyone In\", which was aimed at stopping the spread of the virus.\n\nBut earlier this month, it emerged government funding for that scheme was to end. The government said it had given councils an extra £3.2bn in funding to help them deal with the pandemic, although that money is not specifically for the emergency rough sleeping scheme.\n\nCrisis called the action to house rough sleepers over the past weeks \"extraordinary\", adding: \"This has demonstrated that when the political will is there it is possible to end homelessness.\"\n\nBut the charity said the government should take further action to provide everyone with permanent housing, warning that if not people will be forced to return to the streets.\n\nAmanda, who was given accommodation in Manchester, said she was \"dizzy with all the help\"\n\nMatt Downie, director of policy at the charity, said most contracts between local authorities and hotels are set to end at the end of June and the charity had received \"no indications at all\" from the government that more money is coming to extend the scheme.\n\nMr Downie said: \"We will take one of two paths here: one is that 15,000 people are permanently helped out of homelessness through the amazing Everyone In scheme, or we will see a massive increase in rough sleeping in this country just at the point when we thought it would be possible to avoid that.\n\n\"It's within the government's control to make decisions so that doesn't happen, for example to either continue hotel schemes or to give alternative arrangements to local authorities and individuals.\"\n\nCrisis has estimated it would cost £282m to provide the people in emergency accommodation with permanent housing and support for the next 12 months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe charity also carried out a survey of 150 charities and organisations in England, Scotland and Wales and found more than half reported a rise in people seeking help during the lockdown.\n\nSome people have lost their homes because their jobs have gone, while for others there have been relationship problems or an end to sofa surfing arrangements.\n\nCrisis wants the government to pass an emergency homelessness bill forcing councils in England to provide emergency accommodation for a year to anyone who becomes homeless during the pandemic.\n\nThe government said any suggestion it was rowing back on its commitment to support rough sleepers was untrue.\n\n\"Our new rough sleeping taskforce will ensure as many people as possible who have been brought in off the streets in this pandemic do not return,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We have accelerated plans for new services - backed by £433m - which will ensure 6,000 new housing units will be put into the system, with 3,300 available in the next 12 months.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has given a £20m to councils, after an initial £10m, to help councils house rough sleepers \"and ensure no-one need return to rough sleeping\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has announced £350m to help councils, charities and groups, including those working with rough sleepers.\n\nAnd Northern Ireland's Housing Executive approved emergency measures including the sourcing of additional temporary accommodation for those who are homeless.\n\nThe body representing local councils in England and Wales, the Local Government Association, said councils had faced \"significant challenges\" housing large numbers of homeless people since the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nCllr David Renard, the LGA's housing spokesman, said the overwhelming majority - nearly 15,000 - of rough sleepers and homeless people have been found accommodation.\n\nBut he added: \"Following the initial surge in demand for accommodation, councils are also now experiencing an urgent need for more accommodation as people, including young people, continue to face homelessness and rough sleeping.\n\n\"While the recently announced funding for councils to support rough sleepers is positive, we still need clarity from government on what additional practical support will be available to councils to help them move people out of hotels and temporary accommodation and into housing.\"\n\nThe government said any suggestion it is rowing back on its commitment to support rough sleepers is untrue, adding: \"We are clear that councils must continue to provide safe accommodation.\n\n\"Our new rough sleeping taskforce will ensure as many people as possible who have been brought in off the streets in this pandemic do not return. We have accelerated plans for new services - backed by £433m - which will ensure 6,000 new housing units will be put into the system, with 3,300 available in the next 12 months.\"", "Home Secretary Priti Patel insists quarantine will help stop the virus' spread\n\nBritish Airways refused to attend a meeting with Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday to discuss the UK's new quarantine plans.\n\nThe UK's biggest airline is a fierce opponent of the plans, which will require travellers to the UK to isolate for 14 days or face a £1,000 fine.\n\nBA did not give a reason for its absence and declined further comment.\n\nBut a Whitehall source told the BBC it was clear BA was not serious about getting \"Britain moving again\".\n\nThe new quarantine rules come into force from 8 June. BA, under huge financial strain due to the pandemic, has called it \"another blow to our industry\".\n\nBA and owner IAG - which also runs Iberia and Aer Lingus - are understood to be annoyed at what they see as a lack of consultation over the quarantine's introduction.\n\nEasyJet and Virgin Atlantic, as well as the owner of Heathrow Airport, were among the aviation businesses that attended the telephone meeting with Ms Patel and junior aviation minister Kelly Tolhurst. The Home Office said 24 representatives from the aviation, maritime and rail industries were on the call.\n\nAirlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nThe home secretary told the meeting it was important for everyone in the transport sector to help \"safeguard our [economic] recovery\" and \"protect passengers and the whole country from a second wave of coronavirus\".\n\nHowever, an industry source said that BA feels \"it has not been treated professionally; that the meeting was a waste of time\".\n\nA Whitehall official hit back, telling the BBC: \"It's a shame that British Airways don't want to directly make their case to the home secretary and the aviation minister. Clearly they are not serious about working with the government to get Britain moving .\"\n\nBA has faced heavy criticism in parliament in recent days over a plan to slash jobs while accessing the government's furlough scheme.\n\nIn April, BA said it would cut 12,000 roles and weaken terms and conditions for its remaining staff, just weeks after it had put 30,000 workers on the job retention scheme which pays workers' wages.\n\nThe airline has defended the cuts as necessary, but on Wednesday Ms Tolhurst suggested BA should be held to account for what one MP called a \"breach of faith\".\n\n\"The [furlough] scheme was not designed for taxpayers to fund the wages of employees only for those companies to put the same staff on notice of redundancy during the furlough period,\" Ms Tolhurst said.\n\nAviation bosses are fuming about the quarantine. And tonight's conference call seems to have made things worse.\n\nMost were apparently unimpressed, with one person present on the call even describing it as \"a shambles\".\n\nThey feel they got no reassurances from Priti Patel that the quarantine would be reduced in any significant way soon by agreeing so-called \"air bridges\". These are safe corridors between the UK and countries with low infection rates meaning people won't have to self-isolate after they travel.\n\nThat is an interesting contradiction in tone from other government sources who insist ministers are working hard to establish a number of air bridges, especially with European countries, as soon as possible.\n\nThe fact that BA's parent company IAG didn't even attend the call is the ultimate sign that relations between the government and UK aviation are at rock bottom.\n\nThe government insists the new quarantine rules will help contain the spread of coronavirus but has faced a backlash from Conservative MPs who argue they will harm airlines and stop people taking summer holidays\n\nThe rules have also been roundly criticised by the UK's tourism industry, which has all but ground to a halt due to the pandemic.\n\nIn her opening remarks at the meeting Ms Patel said: \"Protecting lives will always be our top priority, but I am alive to the impact on your sector and I'm asking you to work with us on this.\"\n\nBut earlier on Thursday, the boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said on Thursday that the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\n\"The safety and security of our people and our customers is always our top priority and public health must come first,\" a Virgin Atlantic spokesman said.\n\n\"However, the introduction of mandatory 14-day self-isolation for every single traveller entering the UK will reduce customer demand significantly and prevent a resumption of services at scale.\"\n\nOn Monday, a group of 200 travel companies wrote to Ms Patel asking for the plans to be scrapped.\n\nThe letter suggested travel should be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nA government source told the BBC there was a \"list\" of countries which the government was hoping to secure air bridge agreements with, which include all major European tourist destinations such as Portugal, Spain and France as well as Australia and Singapore.\n\nHowever, for now the government's official position is that the idea is \"under consideration\", not established policy.", "Eight homes were swept into the sea following a powerful landslide in June in the Norwegian town of Alta.\n\nAs drones flew overhead to capture the damage - land continued to collapse.", "Debenhams is to reopen its first stores in Northern Ireland on Monday, followed by 50 shops in England the week after.\n\nIt says three stores with street access in Belfast, Newry and Rushmere will be able to open following updated guidance from the NI Executive.\n\nDebenhams collapsed into administration for the second time in a year in April after coronavirus ramped up the pressures facing the business.\n\nIt has struck deals with landlords to keep 120 stores open.\n\nHowever, 17 stores will remain closed for good when coronavirus lockdown restrictions are lifted. It is still in discussions over a \"handful\" of others.\n\nThe future of its five main stores in Wales has been secured after it reached agreement on business rates. Debenhams had threatened to close them if it did not get the same level of support enjoyed by its stores in England.\n\nSteven Cook, managing director of Debenhams, said: \"We are delighted to be welcoming customers back to our stores in the coming weeks.\n\n\"From the installation of perspex screens at till points to the roll-out of social distancing procedures and PPE, we have been working hard to ensure our colleagues and customers can work and shop with confidence.\n\n\"Our reopening plans follow the successful conclusion of lease negotiations on 120 stores, meaning that the vast majority of our stores will be reopening.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the administrators have written to creditors with an update.\n\nWhen Debenhams collapsed into administration, the business owed £155m to creditors, including many suppliers.\n\nIt is still unclear how much will be paid and to whom.\n\nDebenhams has also been cutting jobs at its head office and closing the majority of its store cafes in a bid to cut costs and become a leaner business.\n\nA total of 4,000 jobs will be lost as a result of these changes, as well as the 17 store closures.\n\nThe key question now is whether the chain can be rescued from administration as a going concern.\n\nIt is in what is being described as a \"light touch\" administration, where the current management has remained in place.\n\nIts lenders are said to remain supportive. They took control of the chain after it collapsed into administration last year, after struggling for years to keep up with the competition.\n\nThe business may not exit administration until the new year.\n\nAdministrators and lenders will no doubt want to see how the business performs post-lockdown, as well as the crucial Christmas trading period, in order to be confident it has a viable future in its current form.\n\nFuture store closures are still possible.\n\nDebenhams will be back in business on the High Street along with its rivals this month, but it still has a long and difficult journey ahead.", "The document plans for a massive expansion in offshore wind\n\nGreenpeace has joined a growing list of organisations demanding that the UK government puts protecting the environment at the heart of any post-Covid-19 economic stimulus package.\n\nThe campaign group has produced a detailed \"manifesto\" with measures to boost clean transport and smart power.\n\nThe document follows a comparable call from some of Britain's most powerful business leaders earlier this week.\n\nLast week, the prime minister also expressed a similar ambition.\n\nBoris Johnson said he wanted to see a \"fairer, greener and more resilient global economy\" after Covid-19 and that \"we owe it to future generations to build back better\".\n\nThe manifesto also contains measures to support the protection of nature, green buildings and the creation of an economy in which virtually everything is reused.\n\nGreenpeace says the crisis has given Britain a \"once in a lifetime\" opportunity to transform life, travel and work.\n\nIt added that the plan would create hundreds of thousands of secure jobs.\n\nOn Monday, more than 200 chief executives of some of the UK's top firms - including HSBC, National Grid, and Heathrow airport - signed a letter to the prime minister asking him to use the Covid-19 lockdown as a springboard to \"deliver a clean, just recovery\".\n\nMany people may be surprised how similar the recommendations of these two very different interest groups are.\n\nGreenpeace's manifesto is, however, considerably more detailed.\n\nIt is a 62-page document with specific policy, spending and tax measures covering most of the British economy.\n\nIt calls on the government to deliver its 2050 net zero emissions goal before 2045.\n\nThe manifesto contains measures to encourage clean transport\n\nMany voters say they support tackling climate change when polled.\n\nHowever, lots of the policies Greenpeace proposes would prove very controversial.\n\nFor example, motorists say they are ready to change their behaviour to improve air quality, according to a recent AA survey.\n\nBut many drivers may balk at Greenpeace's proposals to radically redesign the road network to favour walking and cycling, at the suggestion that petrol and diesel cars are banned by 2030 or that fuel duty is steadily increased.\n\nMany homeowners might be reluctant to spend money to upgrade their properties to meet tough energy efficiency standards.\n\nAt the same time, many local communities are likely to resist the plan for a big increase in onshore wind and solar power to complement a proposed massive expansion of offshore wind farms - few things unite local communities like a proposal to put in an array of wind turbines.\n\nThe manifesto proposes the creation of an economy in which virtually everything is reused\n\nBut, says Greenpeace, tough policies like these are essential if the government is going to take meaningful action to tackle climate change.\n\n\"The choices our government makes now will define… whether or not we succeed in the fight against the climate emergency\", says John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace.\n\n\"If we fail to get this right, we may never get another chance. Now is the time for a green recovery, and for that we need action not words.\"\n\nIt says there would be huge dividends in terms of job creation, should its programme be adopted.\n\nGreenpeace calculates that its plans would create hundreds of thousands of new high-skilled jobs as well as helping to level up inequalities between communities in the UK.\n\nThe UK government has already indicated that protecting the environment will feature heavily in any stimulus package.\n\nBack in April, Boris Johnson said a post-Covid-19 recovery plans should include efforts to \"turn the tide on climate change\".\n\nMeanwhile, the European Union has unveiled what it called the biggest \"green\" stimulus in history.\n\nLast week, it said it planned to commit a whopping €750bn (£667bn; $841bn) to its recovery package.\n\nAdd in spending from future budgets and the total financial firepower the European Commission says it will be wielding is almost €2tn (£1.8tn; $2.2tn).\n\nFighting climate change is at the heart of the bloc's recovery from the pandemic.\n\nThere will be tens of billions of euros to make homes more energy efficient, to de-carbonise electricity and phase out petrol and diesel vehicles.\n\nThe idea is to turbo-charge the European effort to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.\n\n\"If we do not do it, we will be taking much more risk,\" Teresa Ribera, deputy prime minister of Spain, told the BBC.\n\n\"The recovery should be green or it will not be a recovery, it will just be a shortcut into the kind of problems we are facing right now.\"", "Young people have already lost months of education and a global recession is being widely predicted in the wake of the current crisis.\n\n\"The reality is that 76% of Covid-19 deaths in the UK have been aged over 75 with most of those entirely avoidable - and that's a tragedy,\" says Linda Bauld, Professor of Public Health at the University of Edinburgh.\n\n\"But the risk for young people is minimal and I think we need to recognise that.\n\n\"Social distancing is something we all need to try and maintain because we don't want more preventable cases rising in the future.\n\n\"But we have to balance the need to restart society - to not seriously disadvantage the young in the longer term. I'd like to see a gradual, phased approach, but try to get education and the economy up and running as quickly and as competently as we can.\"", "Demand for water across the East of England was 20% above normal levels during May, Anglian Water has revealed.\n\nHand-washing to prevent Covid-19's spread may have further boosted demand during a dry, sunny month, it said.\n\nMay's drought compounded problems for farmers, already suffering after a wet February delayed seed germination, making some crops unlikely.\n\nAnglian Water said: \"An additional 200m litres of water was pumped to homes in May... roughly 20% more than normal.\"", "The Covent Garden venue has been closed since 17 March\n\nThe BBC is to broadcast the Royal Opera House's first post-lockdown performance across TV and radio later this month.\n\nThe concert, which will take place without a live audience, is scheduled for 13 June, hosted by the venue's director of music Antonio Pappano.\n\nIt will feature a dance premiere by Wayne McGregor, resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet, as well as music by Britten, Handel and Butterworth.\n\nRadio 3 will air the show on 15 June, with TV highlights later in the month.\n\nLike all cultural venues around the UK, the Opera House closed in March, when the government banned gatherings to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSince then, the venue's income has dropped by 60%, chief executive Alex Beard told the BBC.\n\n\"With no box office income and limited reserves we, like theatres and performing arts organisations across the country, face unprecedented financial stress,\" he said.\n\n\"We need all our creativity and resolve to get through this, alongside a catalysing and vital investment from Government. Together we can ensure that a generation of talent is not lost to history, and the UK's creative sector can continue to play its full role in our cultural lives.\"\n\nThe venue's re-opening performance will also be free to watch on YouTube and Facebook, with subsequent concerts on 20 and 27 June available to view live and on demand for £4.99.\n\nThe BBC's coverage was announced by director general Tony Hall as part of a raft of cultural commissions.\n\nPeter Capaldi will play Ludwig van Beethoven in a new Radio 3 drama marking the 250th anniversary of the German composer's birth, while BBC Four will present a \"major new series\" about his life.\n\nA performance of his opera Fidelio, filmed at the Royal Opera House before it closed its doors, will also be broadcast.\n\nThe musical family of royal wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason will feature in a new BBC One film, culminating in a lockdown concert from their home; while BBC Four will profile conductor Bernard Haitink to mark his 90th birthday earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Growing up in a very musical family\n\nAnd with the summer music season on hold, a number of performances will be made available on iPlayer from opera houses that have had to shut their doors during the lockdown.\n\nAmong them will be The Barber of Seville from Glyndebourne, The Turn of the Screw and The Marriage of Figaro from Garsington, and a performance of Opera North's La Traviata filmed from backstage.\n\nLord Hall said the BBC would also expand its Culture In Quarantine programme, with \"unique projects focused on museums and galleries\" and the release of archived concerts from the BBC's vaults.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC Children's will launch a major Shakespeare project in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, with readings and lessons from actors including Niamh Cusack and Jamie Wilkes on the educational website BBC Bitesize.\n\n\"While the weeks ahead may see many forms of retail opening again, culture will effectively remain in quarantine for some time,\" Lord Hall said in a blog post.\n\n\"Many theatres have had to face up to the fact they are unlikely to be able to produce new work until the second half of 2021. For some the consequences will be devastating.\n\n\"It has left me more convinced than ever that the BBC has an essential role to play as ringmaster and champion for the arts in this country.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The White House press secretary has likened President Donald Trump's \"resilience and determination\" during the #GeorgeFloyd protests to Winston Churchill inspecting bomb damage during World War Two.", "Here is a look back at the search for Madeleine, who has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in May 2007.", "Prof Neil Ferguson's advice led to the UK government's decision to go into lockdown Image caption: Prof Neil Ferguson's advice led to the UK government's decision to go into lockdown\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, a former UK government adviser whose advice led to the decision to go into lockdown, has said he does not believe a second national lockdown would be necessary.\n\nInstead, he said he would expect to see \"targeted\" restrictions to contain outbreaks. He also said the easing of restrictions needed to be monitored \"very closely\".\n\nThe UK should \"be prepared to row back a bit if we start seeing increases in case numbers,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking programme.\n\nThe next series of measures to ease the lockdown will take place in England on 4 July, when the two-metre (6ft) social-distancing rule will be reduced to \"one metre plus\".\n\nProf Ferguson said he \"did not disagree\" with the policy changes announced this week and did not expect to see \"very large growth of cases across the country\" as a result.\n\n\"What I do expect to see, depending on how sensible people are, how much they judge the risks themselves and reduce those risks, is clusters of cases,\" he said.\n\nBut he added he believed there would be \"a bigger potential risk of more widespread community transmission\" as the UK goes into autumn and winter.", "A former government adviser has said he does not believe a second national lockdown would be necessary during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose advice led to the decision to go into lockdown, said he would expect to see \"targeted\" restrictions to contain outbreaks.\n\nHe told Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking the easing needed to be monitored \"very closely\".\n\nAnd the UK should \"be prepared to row back a bit\" if cases increased.\n\nThe next series of measures to ease the lockdown will take place in England on 4 July, when the 2m (6ft) social distancing rule reduces to \"one metre plus\".\n\nThis will allow some pubs, restaurants and cafes to reopen while complying with safety guidelines.\n\nNorthern Ireland has also announced it will reduce the distancing rule to 1m with restrictions from Monday.\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, the 2m distancing rule remains in place for the moment.\n\nProf Ferguson, who quit his adviser role after he breached lockdown guidance, told the BBC's Nick Robinson: \"Right now we are experimenting, frankly.\n\n\"I don't disagree with the policy changes announced this week, but I would say we need to monitor their effects very closely and be prepared to row back a bit if we start seeing increases in case numbers.\"\n\nHe said it will be like playing \"a game of Whack-A-Mole\" - a phrase frequently used by Prime Minister Boris Johnson - with \"targeted\" lockdowns to suppress local outbreaks.\n\n\"I think we just need to look around Europe at the clusters of cases popping up in different contexts to have a good understanding of what we might expect to see here after 4 July,\" Prof Ferguson, from Imperial College London, said.\n\n\"I don't expect to see a uniform, very large growth of cases across the country.\n\n\"What I do expect to see, depending on how sensible people are, how much they judge the risks themselves and reduce those risks, is clusters of cases - outbreaks in some individual facilities like food production plants, but also maybe in social contexts, particular work places and particular schools.\"\n\nHe said he believed there would be \"a bigger potential risk of more widespread community transmission\" as the UK goes into autumn and winter.\n\nProf Ferguson also said that if there is to be an inquiry into the UK government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, it should not be held until the end of the year.\n\nHe said that would be the \"appropriate\" time to look back as it would be \"highly disruptive\".\n\nAn inquiry would highlight \"how systems can work better and what structural things can be done better\", he said.\n\n\"I don't think inquiries in this context serve much purpose in attributing personal blame on individuals,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the failure to set up testing, I wouldn't lay at any individual's door, but there were clearly some structural failures which led us to being quite so slow.\"\n\nIt comes as some MPs say they will form a cross-party parliamentary group in support of an urgent inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe group, set up by campaign group March for Change, will be led by Layla Moran, who is bidding to be the next Liberal Democrat leader.\n\n\"This isn't about attributing blame, it's about working together across political parties to ensure the right lessons are learned ahead of a potential second wave,\" she said.\n\nConservative MP and group member Dan Poulter said: \"It is vital that we are not complacent during the summer months and use this time wisely to urgently learn lessons and ensure we are better prepared for the potentially dangerous winter months ahead.\"\n\nElsewhere, Bernard Jenkin, Commons Liaison Committee chairman, has said it was \"essential\" that the UK is prepared for a second wave of coronavirus later this year.\n\n\"Medics are right to call for a swift cross-party 'lessons learned' exercise to be completed by October,\" he said in response to an open letter from health profession leaders published in the British Medical Journal.\n\n\"This would not only contribute to UK's readiness for a new Covid peak but would also strengthen public confidence in the government's readiness.\"", "A government roadmap for the return of live theatre and music has been met with calls for financial support and a timetable for reopening, with many dismissing the plan as inadequate.\n\nThe five-step roadmap did not come with dates or monetary help attached.\n\nActors' union Equity said that without investment to save jobs and venues, such guidance \"will be meaningless\".\n\nBirmingham Hippodrome and UK Theatre head Fiona Allan said it was \"of no practical benefit\" without a timescale.\n\n\"We need dates to work towards in order to plan properly or more jobs will be lost and more venues and companies close,\" she wrote. \"How is this not clear?\"\n\nVenues have been shut since March, with many warning that they will go out of business in the coming months without support.\n\nMr Dowden said the roadmap \"provides a clear pathway back\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We want to get the performing arts fully back up and running safely as soon as possible and are working closely with the sector on a phased approach, guided by public health and medical experts.\"\n\nThe arts have been supported by loans, grants, the furlough scheme and a £160m Arts Council England emergency package, and the government is \"considering ways in which we may be able to support it further on top of the unprecedented financial assistance we have already provided\", the spokesperson said.\n\nOn Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden published the five-stage plan for a \"phased return\", which will initially let performances take place outdoors, with indoors performances to follow later.\n\nMr Dowden said he wanted \"to raise the curtain on live performances\" as soon as possible, and that the roadmap \"provides a clear pathway back\".\n\nHe said: \"I am determined to ensure the performing arts do not stay closed longer than is absolutely necessary to protect public health.\"\n\nSir Ian McKellen has given a ray of hope with the news that he will play Hamlet on stage\n\nDespite the lack of an official timetable, on Friday the producers of a musical based on Sleepless In Seattle went ahead and announced its world premiere at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre in London on 1 September.\n\nSleepless, A Musical Romance will star Strictly Come Dancing winner Jay McGuiness and ex-Girls Aloud singer Kimberley Walsh. Audiences will be socially distanced, temperature checked and required to wear masks.\n\nThat news came a day after the announcement that Sir Ian McKellen will play Hamlet at the age of 81, in what was billed as the \"first major UK theatre production post-Covid to start rehearsals\".\n\nIt will be staged at Theatre Royal Windsor, but no opening date has yet been announced.\n\nOn Thursday, Leeds theatre company Slung Low staged a rare live performance with an audience. The children's show took place outdoors, with the performers on the back of a truck and families watching from tents.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alan Lane This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTheatre Royal Plymouth has warned it could cut 110 of its 350 staff\n\nEarlier this week, the Newcastle Theatre Royal and Plymouth Theatre Royal became the latest theatres to announce job cuts.\n\nWelcoming the government roadmap, Julian Bird, chief executive of the Society of London Theatres and UK Theatre, said it was \"essential\" to have indicative dates for each stage.\n\n\"Otherwise with no information at all, theatres and producers will have to assume a worst case scenario and plan to be shut for a long period,\" he said.\n\nLouise Chantal, chief executive of the Oxford Playhouse, said the plan was \"as useful a map as a snakes and ladders board\", adding: \"We need dates, data and INVESTMENT now!\"\n\nPlaywright Lisa Holdsworth, chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, said \"a road map is only any use if you have enough petrol to get you where you need to go\".\n\nMatt Trueman, creative associate at Sonia Friedman Productions, which staged shows like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, said: \"Destinations without directions - that's not a roadmap, it's a fantasy gap year.\" He dismissed the plan as \"fag packet stuff\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTom Kiehl, acting CEO of UK Music, which represents the music industry, said: \"A roadmap is welcome but we also need a timeline for when live performances can resume.\n\n\"Financial help in the form of sector specific support is increasingly needed to stop music businesses from going bust.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the Music Venues Trust (MVT) published an open letter to the government calling for support to \"prevent the closure of hundreds of grassroots music venues\".\n\nIn response to the roadmap, MVT chief executive Mark Davyd said: \"We don't need guidance on how to organise creative activity and connect with audiences, this is what our venues do professionally.\n\n\"We need the money to survive the crisis and plan our own route back to full use.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Emily Robison (left) and Natalie Maines of The Chicks\n\nCountry band Dixie Chicks have changed their name to The Chicks, to help highlight racial inequality in the US.\n\n\"Dixie\" was often used as a nickname for the southern states that made up the Confederate States of America during the US Civil War era.\n\nThe Texas trio revealed they'd dropped it on Thursday, while unveiling a protest song called March March.\n\nThey follow in the footsteps of US pop group Lady Antebellum, who changed their name earlier this month.\n\nAntebellum has similar connotations with the slavery-era.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by The Chicks This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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End of youtube video by The Chicks\n\nThe move allies the Not Ready to Make Nice singers, who have won 13 Grammy Awards, with the anti-racism movement that has gathered momentum in the wake of the death of George Floyd - a black American, who died while in the custody of a white police officer.\n\nIt comes a week after Variety writer Jeremy Helligar questioned the acceptability of the name in 2020.\n\n\"The Dixie Chicks don't need to change their name to get that kind of publicity,\" he wrote, referring to the widespread reports about the newly-named Lady A, \"but their silence has been deafening.\"\n\n\"This is a discussion we need to have, and they should be a part of it,\" he added.\n\nThe term Dixie, or Dixieland, which was also sung about in Elvis's epic American Trilogy, derives from the states around the Mason-Dixon line.\n\nIn a statement obtained by Pitchfork The Chicks offered \"a sincere and heartfelt thank you\" to a pre-existing New Zealand band, who were already operating under that name, for allowing them to share it.\n\n\"We are honoured to co-exist together in the world with these exceptionally talented sisters,\" they said.\n\nThe band have previously used their platform to make a political point, telling a London crowd in 2003 that they did not support the US's invasion of Iraq.\n\nNatalie Maines from the band said they were \"ashamed\" of then-US President George W Bush being from Texas.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Hit US band change name over slave-era links", "Peter Kraus, pictured with wife Doris, posted pictures on Facebook of monkeys by a photo of black protesters\n\nA former mayor has resigned after comparing Black Lives Matter protesters to monkeys jumping on a car.\n\nPeter Kraus, 68, resigned as a Pembroke Dock councillor after putting the images side-by-side on his Facebook page.\n\nThe images showed a group of monkeys on top of a car at a safari park paired with an image of black protesters stood on a police car during riots.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it was investigating an alleged hate crime.\n\nMr Kraus, whose post was later deleted after complaints, first claimed he was hacked but later admitted he posted the images.\n\nMr Kraus, who was Pembroke Dock mayor between 2012 and 2013, said: \"I have lots of black and white friends around the world.\n\n\"I have never in my whole life been racist in any way or form.\n\n\"The picture in question actually means to me that some people are worse than animals and enjoy destroying things, whether it be vehicles, buildings or statutes.\"\n\nBlack Lives Matter demonstrations have taken place across Wales and the world\n\nHis fellow ward councillor Joshua Beynon complained to the Public Services Ombudsman for Wales about the post.\n\nMr Beynon said: \"I'm sad to see another derogatory post, this time one that compares black people to monkeys, it is the lowest of the low.\n\n\"While it seems that there is a lot of hatred and negativity around, this whole event has highlighted the urgent need to fight racism that is clearly evident in our county.\n\n\"I will continue to call it out when I see it.\"\n\nThe statement said: \"Members of the council would like to thank Peter for all his hard work which he has undertaken over the years throughout the town and for his continued efforts within the town council.\"", "Jonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged with attempted murder\n\nA teenager who threw a six-year-old boy from a 10th floor balcony at London's Tate Modern has been jailed for at least 15 years.\n\nJonty Bravery, 18, of Northolt, planned an attack and targeted young children last August, the prosecution said.\n\nThe victim suffered a bleed to the brain, fractures to his spine and has been left with life-changing injuries.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, Mrs Justice McGowan said Bravery intended to kill and \"almost killed that six-year-old boy\".\n\n\"That little boy has suffered permanent and life-changing injury,\" the judge said in her sentencing remarks after Bravery had admitted attempted murder.\n\n\"You went to the viewing platform, looked around and spotted the victim and his family and went to the boy and threw him over the railing.\n\n\"The fear he must have experienced and the horror his parents felt are beyond imagination.\n\n\"What you did on the day of this offence proves you are a grave danger to the public. You planned this and appeared to revel in the notoriety.\"\n\nThe boy had been visiting London from France with his parents\n\nOn 4 August Bravery made his way to the Tate Modern's viewing balcony and the court heard CCTV footage showed him following young children and looking over railings.\n\nFurther video showed the victim - who had been visiting London from France - skipping ahead of his family along the platform towards Bravery.\n\nProsecutor Deanna Heer said: \"The defendant scooped him up and, without any hesitation, carried him straight to the railings and threw him over.\"\n\nThe boy \"fell head-first towards the ground\", landing on a fifth-floor balcony below, she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Audio recording of Jonty Bravery telling carers in autumn 2018 about his plan to commit murder\n\nThe victim survived the 100ft (30m) fall, but suffered life-changing injuries including a bleed on the brain and multiple broken bones. He remains in a wheelchair.\n\nHe was moved to a hospital in France in September but will require round-the-clock care support until at least 2022.\n\nIn mitigation Bravery's defence barrister Pippa McAtasney QC said at the time of the attack the teenager had been in the care of Hammersmith and Fulham Council.\n\nThe court heard Bravery had a history of lashing out at staff, but despite this he was allowed to leave home unsupervised for up to four hours at a time.\n\nThe six-year-old boy taken by air ambulance to Royal London Hospital\n\nMs McAtasney referenced a recording obtained by the BBC which revealed Bravery told carers about his plans to kill a year earlier.\n\nShe said letters from his parents revealed to the court that Bravery was diagnosed with autism and \"is a loved child\".\n\n\"Both parents strived to improve the quality of his life and a secured and managed environment for their son,\" she said.\n\n\"They had no inclination their son would commit such a shocking crime. Those responsible for his care never communicated the contents of the shocking, prophetic recording that was revealed through the media.\"\n\nA GoFundMe page has raised more than £200,000 for the boy's medical treatment\n\nIn a victim impact statement taken in February, the boy's parents described Bravery's actions as \"unspeakable\".\n\n\"Words cannot express the horror and fear his actions have brought up on us,\" the couple said.\n\n\"Our son, who now, six months on, is wondering why he's in hospital.\n\n\"How can he not see in every stranger a potential 'villain' who could cause him immense pain and suffering?\"\n\nNo members of the victim's or Bravery's family were present in court for the sentencing.\n\nA Hammersmith and Fulham Council spokesman said a serious case review into Bravery's care was under way.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth on the second day of the UK heatwave\n\nThe UK is experiencing its hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures reaching 33.3C (92F) at Heathrow Airport, the Met Office has said.\n\nThursday's high surpasses the 32.6C recorded in London on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes after a major incident was declared in Bournemouth, as thousands of people headed to the Dorset coast.\n\nDorset Police urged people to stay away after reports of traffic gridlock, anti-social behaviour, fights and overnight camping.\n\nPeople have also been cautioned to stay safe by Public Health England and the Met Office.\n\nAn amber level three heat-health alert, issued by the Met Office, was extended on Thursday to take in Yorkshire and the east and south of England as well as the West and East Midlands.\n\nThat means people should drink plenty of fluids, avoid consuming excess alcohol and \"look out for\" young children, babies and those with underlying health conditions, the Met Office said.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) echoed the Met Office advice, saying older people, those with underlying health conditions, and very young children were all more at risk from the \"exceptionally hot weather forecast this week\".\n\nBoth Wales and Scotland also recorded their hottest days of the year on Thursday.\n\nIn Wales, the temperature reached 30.7C at Gogerddan, near Aberystwyth, beating the previous high of 30C from Wednesday. And in Scotland, a high of 30C was recorded in Prestwick.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a high of 25.5C was recorded in Aldegrove.\n\nThe Met Office also warned of high levels of UV radiation. By 13:00 BST, UV radiation was high or very high across the UK, with the south of England recording the highest levels.\n\nThe highest recording for UV radiation in the UK was in south-west England, which reached 9 on the UV index, the Met Office said.\n\nThe index goes up to 11, with a recording of 3-5 described as moderate, 6-7 as high, 8-10 as very high and 11 as extreme.\n\nUV exposure will not just put you at risk of sunburn.\n\nExcessive UV radiation from the sun is also strongly linked to increased skin cancer cases in fair-skinned populations worldwide - according to the WHO.\n\nThe amount of UV reaching your skin is not driven by the daily temperature. UV levels on a bright and breezy late April day will be about the same as a warm sunny day in August.\n\nPeople have flocked to the beach in Brighton to take advantage of the hot weather\n\nDr Lynn Thomas, medical director of St John Ambulance, said vulnerable people, such as young children or the elderly, should stay inside if possible - but she recognised it was tempting to go outside during the \"lovely\" weather.\n\n\"But make sure you've got plenty of sunscreen on, make sure you're wearing a hat, try and stay in the shade as much as possible and make sure you take plenty of cool drinks with you,\" she said.\n\nBBC Weather presenter Matt Taylor said high levels of UV radiation were due to the conditions.\n\n\"We have just gone past the summer solstice so the sun is higher in the sky,\" he said.\n\nThe seafront at Bridlington was also thronged with people\n\nHe added that an \"exceptionally large depletion of ozone in the northern hemisphere\", a recent lower level of pollutants and a current spell of high pressure were other factors that were helping to keep the skies clear, so UV rays were not being interrupted.\n\nTemperatures are expected to drop after Thursday with thunderstorms forecast for Friday.", "The hailstones were about the same size as a £2 coin\n\nParts of Yorkshire were pelted with hailstones the size of a £2 coin during thunderstorms.\n\nPhotographs posted on social media showed people in Leeds and Sheffield cradling handfuls of the icy precipitation.\n\nThe \"large\" hailstones in the images appeared to be between 3 and 4 cm in size, a Met office meteorologist said.\n\nA yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and rain is in place for much of the UK until 09:00 on Saturday.\n\nHailstones are formed when drops of water freeze together in the cold upper regions of thunderstorm clouds.\n\nCraig Snell, a meteorologist with the Met Office, said those seen in winter were \"quite small\", but heat in summer months gives thunderstorms more energy.\n\nThis \"helps keep the hailstones up in the clouds for longer, they get to grow more and then fall from the sky,\" he said.\n\nExperts say hailstones are \"usually\" much smaller\n\nThe thunderstorms follow on from the heatwave on Thursday, when temperatures reached 33.4C (92.1F) at Heathrow Airport in west London.\n\nTemperatures on Friday reached a maximum of 31.2C (88.16F), recorded at Kew Gardens in west London, the Met Office said.\n\nIt warned up to 20mm of rain could fall in an hour in areas covered by the yellow warning, but said the storms were expected to clear towards the north east on Friday evening.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jurgen Klopp has succeeded where seven managers before him failed by ending Liverpool's 30-year wait for a top-flight title and guiding them to a first Premier League crown.\n\nThe Reds are on course for a record-breaking domestic season, but it has not always been smooth sailing for the charismatic German, who took charge in October 2015.\n\nBBC Sport - in conjunction with a BBC Radio 5 Live special featuring football correspondent John Murray, former Reds defender Stephen Warnock and John Gibbons from The Anfield Wrap - have selected 10 games which have shaped Klopp's reign at Anfield.\n\nHere they are in chronological order - and you can rank them in terms of importance at the bottom. You can listen to the discussion as an edition of the Football Daily podcast later on Friday or on BBC Radio 5 Live on Sunday at 11:00 BST.\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n\nKlopp gets the fans on board\n\nTwo months into Klopp's tenure, a late Divock Origi goal rescued a point for Liverpool against West Brom at Anfield, taking them up to ninth in the Premier League table.\n\nKlopp did not shake hands with opposite number Tony Pulis - with then Baggies winger James McClean calling the German an \"idiot\" - and instead pumped his chest and took his players over to salute the fans.\n\nHe was ridiculed at the time for such a reaction to a draw against a team of West Brom's status, but he said years later: \"I wanted to show that we really are one unit. That means I know I am responsible for the performance, but the people are responsible for the atmosphere.\"\n\nIt was the first sign that a bond was developing between Klopp and the club's supporters.\n\nWarnock: \"I remember watching it and thinking: 'What is he doing?' A draw against West Brom - is that really where he thinks Liverpool are? But it was so much deeper than that, and it set things up for future games at Anfield.\"\n\nGibbons: \"About a month or so before, Liverpool lost to Crystal Palace - and when they scored their second goal in the 82nd minute everyone just left. Klopp was a bit taken aback by the exodus. He said after that game he felt lonely and gave us a bit of a telling off. He made the point that we decide when games are finished and we should go to the end. His words made an impact and against West Brom far more people stayed. He was then saying: 'Look what we can do when we stick together.' Jurgen believes in togetherness and unity, and when he talks about being stronger together there are echoes of Bill Shankly. The fact he was saying that chimed with supporters, who felt there had never been a greater gap between supporters and players. It was really exciting.\"\n\nThe return of magical European nights at Anfield\n\nKlopp again got his players to take a bow at the Kop after this one - but nobody was laughing this time.\n\nTrailing 4-2 on aggregate, Liverpool scored three goals in the final 24 minutes to knock Klopp's old side Borussia Dortmund out of the Europa League quarter-finals.\n\nIt was a sensational atmosphere at Anfield, with Klopp almost in a frenzy urging Reds fans to cheer them on in the dramatic finale.\n\n\"It was brilliant, outstanding, emotional,\" said Klopp afterwards. \"When we scored everyone could see something happen in the stadium. You could feel it, hear it, smell it.\"\n\nThey would go on to lose the final against Sevilla, costing them a place in the Champions League.\n\nGibbons: \"It was almost like the start of Klopp's reign - it felt like night one, where we saw it all make sense. Dortmund were a phenomenal side. They went 2-0 up playing some of the best football I'd seen at Anfield. But after that game we felt like we'd seen the template of Klopp's football. I'd say it's in my top five nights at Anfield and it felt like the start of the adventure.\"\n\nMurray: \"When we talk about defining games for Klopp, this is one of the ones that instantly comes to mind. This is probably top three. It was pivotal in what Klopp's Liverpool turned into.\"\n\nLiverpool had only qualified for the Champions League once - going out in the group stage - in the six seasons prior to reaching the 2018 final in Kiev.\n\nBut they only just sealed that spot in Europe's top competition with a victory over Middlesbrough on the final day of the season, finishing one point above fifth-placed Arsenal and 17 points behind champions Chelsea.\n\n\"I'm really looking forward to next season. I think we have created a wonderful base,\" said Klopp afterwards.\n\nBBC Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer correctly predicted: \"They'll be bigger and better next season.\"\n\nMurray: \"It was crucial in terms of the players they wanted to attract. You've got that extra level to persuade players to come. It was a huge step to get back into the Champions League.\"\n\nGibbons: \"Fans were hoping for steady progress - we knew things wouldn't happen overnight. We knew there were teams with better resources and coming from a better starting position. Jurgen has achieved the things he has done in steps. Achieving this aim was vital for supporters.\"\n\nSalah, Mane and Firmino all start... and score\n\nSadio Mane and Roberto Firmino had already been at Liverpool for one and two seasons respectively when Mohamed Salah arrived from Roma in 2017.\n\nThe attacking trident which Liverpool's recent success has been built on all started on the opening day of the 2017-18 season.\n\nAnd they all found the back of the net.\n\nMane scored their first, before Salah won a penalty which Firmino converted - and Firmino then set up Salah for their third.\n\nThe three of them have scored a sensational 211 goals in less than three seasons (92 for Salah, 65 for Mane and 54 for Firmino). It was a formula that worked from the start - and the Reds have never looked back.\n\nWarnock: \"I remember thinking: 'Salah has missed so many chances, he's not going to score many goals if he carries on finishing like that.' But why was he getting so many chances? The way he was cutting in was something we hadn't really seen from someone in that position.\n\n\"Liverpool at this point weren't spending silly money on players. This was a long-term vision that they had - to fit players into the system. Eyebrows were raised at all three when they were signed, but you have to pat Klopp and sporting director Michael Edwards on the back for seeing the players and fitting them into a vision. They are now the best three in world football for their link-up play, and also in the way they press and close teams down.\"\n\nGibbons: \"I remember coming out of the ground and all the talk was about the defence. It's amazing to think that was the birth of this front three. We weren't quite sure about Salah - no-one came out thinking this forward line is going to be amazing.\"\n\nHaving failed to prise defender Virgil van Dijk from Southampton in the summer of 2017, Klopp eventually got his man when the Dutchman joined for £75m, a world-record fee for a defender at the time. Their attempts to sign him months earlier failed when they annoyed the Saints with an alleged illegal approach.\n\nIf anybody wondered if he would be worth the wait - and the money - they were probably slightly more convinced after his debut, when his 84th-minute header won the Merseyside derby in the FA Cup.\n\nHe had an instant rapport with the Anfield faithful from that moment he slid in front of them to celebrate.\n\nBut his real impact that season was at the back. By the time he made his first Premier League appearance for the Reds, they had conceded 28 goals in their 23 league matches. They let in 10 in the 14 he played.\n\nWarnock: \"At Southampton he had everything going for him but I don't think we realised how good a one-on-one defender he was and the stature he would bring into the Liverpool changing room. When you walk out against him you think: 'Gosh, how am I going to win a header against him? How am I going to go past him?' Liverpool hadn't had that. The big thing for me was whether he could handle the price tag. He was always going to take time to get up to speed - but when he did, wow, what a signing.\"\n\nGibbons: \"That goal almost paid the fee on its own. Because we'd waited so long there had been this build-up - he probably could have retired after that game!\"\n\nSome teams struggle to come back from Champions League final defeats. Borussia Dortmund have won one German Cup since losing in 2013, Atletico Madrid have won nothing since losing in 2014 and 2016, and Mauricio Pochettino ended up being sacked as Tottenham Hotspur struggled to recover from 2019.\n\nBut Liverpool made one crucial change after losing 3-1 to Real Madrid in Kiev in 2018, when Loris Karius made two of the worst mistakes any goalkeeper has made in a Champions League final.\n\nHis confidence was shot in pre-season and so the Reds turned to Roma's Alisson for a world record £66.8m, despite the Brazilian conceding seven goals over two legs against Liverpool in the semi-finals.\n\nThat signing changed everything as the Reds went on to win the Champions League the following year and the Premier League this season. Alisson has only conceded 51 goals in 81 games.\n\nGibbons: \"When we came back for pre-season Karius actually played the first few games but that must have just been to get the price down for Alisson. He looked absolutely shot and it was sad to see. You couldn't help but feel sorry for him. He didn't look like he could cope with the pressure and it was clear we had to do something. It had clearly affected him so much. It was very obvious quite soon that this was the end for Karius.\"\n\nWarnock: \"A lot of people thought it was a strange buy. Alisson had only really played one season at Roma so the homework they had done must have been big - to be able to go to your board and say he is the next piece of the jigsaw and he's going to bring us success, so please give me £66.8m. How do you swing that fee on that basis? But the manager had earned that trust and respect, and that enabled him to go out and spend that money.\n\n\"Klopp had put all his trust in Karius and believed he was going to be a world-class keeper. He made world-class saves but he always had that concentration issue. One day Klopp just knew that wasn't good enough if he wanted to take Liverpool to the next step. I think he knew he needed to put a bit of loyalty aside, be ruthless and say: 'You're not good enough to get us to the next level.' He put his money into Alisson and he has been quite sensational.\"\n\nWhile Liverpool broke world records for Alisson and Van Dijk, one of the key components of their triumphs has been their full-backs, who cost a combined £8m.\n\nIt took a while for Andy Robertson and hometown hero Trent Alexander-Arnold, who is still only 21, to turn into the assist machines they are today.\n\nThe first game they both set up a goal in was a fairly nondescript win over rock-bottom Fulham. Alexander-Arnold teed up Salah's opener and Robertson crossed for Xherdan Shaqiri's goal.\n\nBefore that match they had a combined nine Premier League assists (seven for Robertson and two for Alexander-Arnold), but from that point on - including that Fulham game - they have racked up a joint 40 since (23 for Alexander-Arnold and 17 for Robertson).\n\nGibbons: \"Both of them really resonate with the fans. At the end of last season we presented an award for the player who most represents the values of the club and that went to Robertson, which says a lot given all the great players we have.\n\n\"Trent is the player young boys and girls can look at and see that he's fulfilled a dream. He's such a good role model and so humble. Those two are the heartbeat and soul of the team. They don't take any nonsense. They are phenomenal footballers.\"\n\nWarnock: \"The quality they both possess is frightening. They don't panic when they know the next cross can be to a goalscoring situation. There is a calmness about them.\"\n\nLiverpool looked down and out after losing 3-0 at the Nou Camp in last season's Champions League semi-final first leg.\n\nBut the second leg produced one of Anfield's greatest nights as the Reds scored four goals without conceding to reach the final.\n\nAlexander-Arnold's quick corner for Divock Origi's winner while Barca's defence slept will probably be discussed in Merseyside pubs 50 years from now.\n\nAnd without that, there would not have been the next match on our list.\n\nGibbons: \"We do like to keep the faith but I turned up that night thinking there was no real chance. It was the most incredible thing we'd ever seen. As soon as we got that first goal we thought: 'Maybe.' Then it started to feel like it was written and you were watching the most amazing piece of theatre. We've seen some brilliant nights at Anfield but that is right at the top for me.\"\n\nWarnock: \"It was all about the emotion and the energy. I was on the front row of the Kop and I'd never heard a roar like it when that first goal went in. People were turning around and looking at each other and thinking: 'Could we?' I've never felt a feeling like that in my life, and I grew up standing on the Kop as a kid. It sends shivers down my spine even now thinking about it.\n\n\"I walked out after that game and there was just a stunned silence, and I've never witnessed that before. People were sitting in the pub I went into in shock. No-one could believe what had just happened. No-one had believed it was possible.\"\n\nIt will almost be forgotten now but it actually took Klopp nearly four years to win his first trophy with Liverpool.\n\nHe had lost his previous six finals with Borussia Dortmund and the Reds. And they had just finished second in the Premier League to Manchester City with 97 points, the highest tally any team had achieved when not winning the title.\n\nBut they found a way to win the Champions League final against their English rivals Spurs, despite not playing particularly well. Salah gave them a second-minute lead after Moussa Sissoko's handball and cult hero Origi added a late goal to seal the result.\n\n\"It was an intense season with the most beautiful finish I could have imagined,\" Klopp said.\n\nMurray: \"It was a great narrative - the fact they had to knock and knock and knock until they finally got through. We know in sport it's not always like Hollywood - it doesn't always turn out right in the end. With Klopp's Liverpool I genuinely believed this would be the start of trophies coming. They won the Champions League and they deserve to be a multiple trophy-winning team.\"\n\nGibbons: \"We can talk about the mentality of the players but if they hadn't won that night I don't think this season would have happened in quite the same way. I think doubts might have started to creep in. Against Real Madrid the previous season we weren't expected to win. But it would have been worse if we'd lost to Spurs and it might have been a blow too many for this project.\"\n\nLiverpool go eight clear and never look back\n\nLiverpool ended up missing out on the Premier League title in 2018-19 because of a 2-1 defeat by Manchester City on 3 January 2019.\n\nBut their redemption came in November this season at Anfield. A win for Pep Guardiola's side would have reduced the gap to three points, but instead the Reds won 3-1 - with 21 key seconds that could have decided the title race.\n\nLiverpool went nine points above City - and eight above second-placed Leicester - and never looked back, with an 18-game winning run and 422-day unbeaten streak ending with the shock 3-0 reverse at Watford. By that point the Reds were in total control.\n\nThey won the league without playing, thanks to Manchester City failing to beat Chelsea, and are on course for a record points tally.\n\nGibbons: \"We knew the head to heads were going to be important even at this early stage. You couldn't rely on anyone else to take points off City - you had to do it yourself.\"\n\nMurray: \"It was a symbolic win. What happened the previous season, particularly at Etihad Stadium, was the difference between it going one way or the other. For Liverpool to continue the start they had made and to win like that - and to win well - opened up the gap and Liverpool never let go.\"\n\nNow have your say\n\nSo which of these 10 moments do you think shaped Klopp's reign the most? Pick them in your order below, with the most important first.", "Residents have described the \"mayhem\" as tens of thousands of sun-worshippers descended on Bournemouth beach \"with no idea of social distancing\".\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council declared a major incident after services were \"completely overstretched\" as huge numbers of visitors crowded on to the beach on Thursday.\n\nPat Munday, 73, described how cars were double-parking and blocking driveways, preventing emergency vehicles from getting through, while people were using the gardens of her apartment block as a toilet on Wednesday and Thursday.\n\n\"It was just mayhem, people just want to have a good time but they just don't give a monkey's about others,\" she said. \"It's a shame, it's such a beautiful part of the country but people just need some control, people have lost all sense of respect - when they urinate in your garden, it's the pits.\"\n\nVic Williams, 75, said: \"There was no idea of social distancing, when we left at 14:00 the crowds were still arriving, there wasn't any two metres...because the restaurants are closed, there's nowhere else for people to go.\"\n\nHe added: \"The litter afterwards was unbelievable, they just walk away from the beach and leave their rubbish. There were tents left, BBQs - it costs us ratepayers a fortune.\"", "Customers have been flocking to supermarkets for toilet roll amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in Victoria\n\nSupermarkets in Australia have reintroduced limits on purchasing toilet roll amid a rise in panic-buying.\n\nOn Friday, Coles imposed a one-pack limit on toilet roll and paper towels nationwide, while Woolworths has a two-pack limit on toilet roll.\n\nThe rush was triggered by a spike in Covid-19 cases in the state of Victoria.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said there was no reason to panic-buy.\n\nLimits were previously imposed in March, when Australian shoppers anticipating a lockdown emptied supermarket shelves. Police were called to one store in Sydney after customers fought over toilet roll.\n\nVictoria's tally of new Covid-19 cases has been in double digits for over a week. On Thursday, 33 new cases were confirmed.\n\nImages and video posted to social media in recent days show people picking up multiple packs of toilet roll, leaving shelves nearly empty.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brooke Simmons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe latest curbs began in Victoria on Wednesday when supermarkets announced a return to limited toilet roll sales.\n\nColes has also imposed limits on hand sanitiser and food staples like pasta and eggs in the state.\n\nWoolworths reported a big rise in toilet roll demand in Victoria, but said other states are also panic-buying again. Customers at supermarkets in New South Wales and South Australia have reported empty shelves.\n\n\"We've regrettably started to see elevated demand for toilet roll move outside Victoria in the past 24 hours,\" said Woolworths' managing director of supermarkets Claire Peters.\n\n\"While the demand is not at the same level as Victoria, we're taking preventative action now to get ahead of any excessive buying this weekend.\"\n\nThe supermarket chain has ordered an extra 650,000 packs of toilet roll - a third more than normal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustralia has reported 7,500 coronavirus cases in total and 104 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday there was no need for customers to start panic-buying again.\n\n\"I'm sure [panic-buying] will pass, as it did last time. There's no need for it, and I think today it's important to reassure people the outbreak doesn't mean there's a problem. The response to that outbreak is strong, which means that Australians can have confidence,\" he said.\n\nMr Morrison and the country's chief medical officer said the virus remains under control, and plans to reopen Australia's economy will go ahead.", "The owner of some of the UK's biggest shopping centres, Intu, has warned that it is likely to call in administrators.\n\nThe firm, which owns the Trafford Centre, the Lakeside complex, and Braehead, said it had not reached an agreement in financial restructuring talks with its lenders.\n\nIts centres are expected to stay open if it falls into administration, at least in the short term.\n\nIntu has already warned that longer term some of its centres may close.\n\nThe company is the UK's biggest shopping centre group, with 17 centres in the UK and three in Spain.\n\nShould Intu fall into administration, the shopping centres are likely to remain open while the administrators decide what course of action they want to take.\n\nOptions will include trying to sell the centres on to other potential buyers.\n\nRetail analyst Richard Hyman said he expected that most of Intu's shopping centres \"will live to fight another day\".\n\n\"Possibly not all, but most,\" he said. \"There are some very good and important centres in Intu's portfolio.\"\n\nOne of Intu's shopping centres is in Milton Keynes\n\nIntu had been struggling even before the coronavirus outbreak, and about 132,000 jobs in the company and in its wider supply chain will be in question should the firm fall into administration.\n\nRetail expert Kate Hardcastle said one area of concern was Intu's £4.5bn debt, given the declining value of its shopping centres.\n\nThey \"just aren't worth the value they once were\", she told BBC Breakfast.\n\nWhile the coronavirus crisis forced the closure of all non-essential shops, retailers had already been under pressure from a host of factors including changes in shopping habits as people move online.\n\nBig shopping centre landlords such as Intu rely on big retailers for their revenues - but in recent years retailers have been asking landlords for rent reductions due to the pressures they are under, Ms Hardcastle said.\n\nMr Hyman said that retailers were already under pressure before the coronavirus pandemic, and had too much floor space.\n\nThe pandemic had then speeded up a shift to online shopping.\n\n\"What would have taken five years to evolve - we're seeing that happen now,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been forced to shop online. When the dust settles, some of that spend will come back to physical stores - but not all of it will.\"\n\nIntu's centres were partially shut during the coronavirus lockdown, with only essential shops remaining open. The company had about 60% of shopping centre staff and about 20% of head office employees on furlough.\n\nIn its update to investors on Friday, Intu said it had failed to reach agreement in discussions with lenders on so-called \"standstill\" terms, under which it would look to defer interest payments on its large and complex debts.\n\nIt was also seeking agreements from its wide range of creditors, from big banks to hedge funds, for them not to take action if it breached certain terms on its loans.\n\nIntu has already lined up administrators KPMG as a \"contingency\".", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nOn 1 May 1990, Liverpool's players paraded the top-flight league-winners' trophy around a packed and joyous Anfield.\n\nThey would not win the title again for another 30 years but the relative drought was not due to a lack of trying.\n\nTransfers were made, goals scored and games won, but it was never quite enough until this remarkable record-breaking season.\n\nNow that their wait is over, BBC Sport looks back at the players, managers, money and more that Liverpool have put in to the pursuit of number 19.\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nLiverpool have played 1,149 games since the start of the 1990-91 season. That is 103,410 minutes (not including injury time) spent on the pitch in pursuit of that 19th title.\n\nThey have won 595 of those matches (which is a win percentage of around 52%), scored 1,968 goals (for an overall goal difference of +822) and taken 2,075 points.\n\nHowever, all but 28 of those wins, 70 of those goals and 86 of those points were ultimately amassed in a vain attempt at league glory.\n\nThe highest number of points they have claimed from a single opponent over the three decades is the 108 points they have taken off Tottenham from 60 encounters between the two.\n\nThey have won 105 points against Merseyside rivals Everton, while West Ham have been plundered for 101.\n\nThey have a 100% win record against Brighton, Cardiff, Huddersfield and Notts County, although the most number of times they have faced any of those sides is the five games they have played against the Seagulls.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the sides that have done the most consistent damage to Liverpool's title aspirations since 1990-91 are Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal - all multiple title winners during the Reds' barren three decades.\n\nGallingly for Liverpool, they have just a 29.3% win percentage against fierce rivals United, who have beaten them 28 times in their 58 games since 1990-91. United also have comfortably the best goal difference against them too, with it currently standing at +8 in the Red Devils' favour.\n\nBirmingham (21.4% win percentage against) and Wimbledon (26.3%) have both been thorns in the Reds' side.\n\nThere is only one team against whom Liverpool have played in the top flight and failed to take a single point in the past 30 seasons - Blackpool, who beat them home and away in their one Premier League campaign in 2010-11.\n\nOf course, no Liverpool season of the last 30 has matched 2019-20 for efficiency. In fact, no league campaign in English history is comparable to Liverpool's current one.\n\nAs an indication of just why this season is the one that has ended their title drought, compare their 2019-20 stats with their average over the previous 29 seasons…\n\nLiverpool this season vs season average from previous 29\n\nSince the start of the 1990-91 season, 239 players have represented Liverpool in the top flight.\n\nTheir quest for a 19th title began with a 3-1 win at Sheffield United on 25 August 1990, the goals scored by John Barnes, Ray Houghton and Ian Rush. This was one of eight straight victories as part of a 14-game unbeaten run at the start of that season.\n\nAlmost 30 years later, the job would finally be completed without the need to step on to the field as Manchester City failed to beat Chelsea, finally ending a title race which in truth had been over for months.\n\nOf those 239 players, academy product Jamie Carragher has made the most league appearances in a Liverpool shirt in the past 30 years, playing in 508 games for the club.\n\nThere are some familiar names in the top 10 appearance-makers in that time, but only one member of the current squad makes the list - captain Jordan Henderson, courtesy of his 266 matches.\n\nAt the opposite end of the scale is a group of former players who contributed just one appearance to the cause - the likes of Daniele Padelli, David Raven, Jon Newby, Patrice Luzi, Istvan Kozma and Rafael Camacho.\n\nThe goalscorers list is also topped by a home-grown talent in Robbie Fowler, who scored 128 league goals for the club over two spells.\n\nThere is a much healthier modern presence, with current first-choice front three Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah all making the top 10.\n\nOne player deserving of special recognition is Steven Gerrard, an individual intrinsically linked with Liverpool's long pursuit of their 19th title, for both positive and negative reasons.\n\nThe midfielder and captain is a presence on both appearance and goals list, and has also contributed the most assists of any Liverpool player in the past 30 years (70).\n\nHe was the driving force behind two of the major trophies the club have lifted since 1990 - the 2004-05 Champions League and 2005-06 FA Cup. Both thrilling 3-3 draws, both won on penalties, both with Gerrard as the game's key man.\n\nIt is also impossible to think about a Liverpool title challenge without it evoking two images of the Merseyside-born England international - the first of him in in the middle of a huddle of Reds players, demanding that they \"don't let it slip\" and the second of him looking absolutely devastated at Anfield having done just that against Chelsea.\n\nGerrard will never forget how Liverpool agonisingly allowed the 2013-14 title to elude them, but the club have at least now provided a positive moment to supersede it.\n\nKenny Dalglish delivered Liverpool their 16th, 17th and 18th titles and began the defence of the latter as the Reds' manager. He would leave before that attempted defence was complete, shocking the club by resigning on 22 February 1991, with them three points clear at the top of the table.\n\nA combination of caretaker boss Ronnie Moran and permanent successor Graeme Souness were unable to retain the top-flight trophy, which instead went to Arsenal.\n\nIn total, Liverpool have had nine permanent managers since the start of the 1990-91 season.\n\nThis includes a rare joint-manager tenure at the start of the 1998-99 season between Roy Evans, who had been in sole charge but to diminishing returns for four seasons, and Gerard Houllier, who would continue on his own after Evans resigned just four months into the shared arrangement.\n\nExcluding Souness, who was only in charge for the final five games of 1990-91, four managers have taken Liverpool to within one place of league glory during the past 30 years - Houllier (2001-02), Rafael Benitez (2008-09), Brendan Rodgers (2013-14) and Jurgen Klopp (2018-19).\n\nAll but Roy Hodgson (who didn't last a season in the job) and Rodgers (who came agonisingly close) won a trophy with the club.\n\nIn Klopp, though, they have finally found a successor to King Kenny's crown. The German is the only Reds manager since Dalglish left (including the Scot himself during his second spell) with a win percentage over 60.\n\nRosenthal to Minamino - how the Reds spent £1.47bn\n\nLiverpool's first bit of transfer business following their 1989-90 title win was to make Ronny Rosenthal's loan move from Standard Liege permanent for a fee of around £1m.\n\nThe Israeli striker, a cult figure at Anfield, would be the first of 218 signings the club would make between their 18th and 19th league triumphs, concluding with the £7.25m capture of Takumi Minamino in the last January window.\n\nInevitably, there has been the good, the bad and the ugly.\n\nFor every Luis Suarez or Virgil van Dijk, there is a Torben Piechnik, a Bruno Cheyrou and a Sean Dundee.\n\nAnd then there are the big-money disasters, more often than not failing forwards, like Andy Carroll (£35m, six goals in 44 league games), Christian Benteke (£32.5m, nine in 29) or Mario Balotelli (£16m, one in 16).\n\nTheir most prolific period for signings was between 2005 and 2008, when the club brought in 40 players in just three seasons under Benitez.\n\nThis included a number who served them well (Pepe Reina, Dirk Kuyt, Lucas Leiva and Fernando Torres), some not so well (Mark Gonzalez and Jermaine Pennant) and a few many won't remember (Gabriel Paletta and Sebastian Leto anyone?).\n\nInevitably, the bills have added up over the past 30 years and according to figures from Transfermarkt, the club have spent an estimated £1.47bn on players between their 18th and 19th titles.\n\nIt is important to note the Reds have also recouped a sizeable amount of money through player sales, reportedly £936.6m over those 30 years.\n\nArguably, the best players that came into the side between 1990 and 2020 are the ones they got for nothing; academy graduates Robbie Fowler, Gerrard, Carragher, Michael Owen and Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nAt the other end of the scale, though, are the likes of Van Dijk, Alisson and Naby Keita - the top three biggest deals the club have made in that time, with all three playing a prominent role in bringing Liverpool their 19th title.\n\nMore often than not in modern football, you get what you pay for.\n\nPlayers come and go, but the constant at any club is its fans.\n\nThe Liverpool supporters have had to wait longer than they imagined for this 19th title and have suffered some agonising near misses.\n\nThey will also be denied the true experience of celebrating their side's charge towards the title this season with the last nine games being played behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut prior to this they have continued to show up at Anfield in vast numbers, season upon season.\n\nThe difficulty in obtaining season-ticket numbers at the club means gauging an accurate tally of fans to have visited the ground since that celebration at the end of 1989-90 is impossible.\n\nBut according to figures from Transfermarkt, the number of visits by supporters to Anfield over the past 30 years is 24,698,942.\n\nAnd finally, it's time to get a bit shirty...\n\nOops you can't see this activity! To enjoy Newsround at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on.", "Here are five things you need to know this Friday evening about the coronavirus outbreak. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.\n\nBoris Johnson has warned that spikes in cases of coronavirus cases abroad should act as a warning to Britons who flout social distancing rules. The PM said crowded scenes on Bournemouth beach on Thursday suggested people needed to understand that too much mingling could set the UK back. Ministers have also warned that UK beaches could be closed if infections rise.\n\nMeanwhile, Wales's first minister has warned that lockdown restrictions will not be eased if large parties and fights at beaches continue in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A major incident was declared in Bournemouth on Thursday as people flocked to the coast\n\nMr Johnson's warning comes as Liverpool's mayor, Joe Anderson, and Merseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Rob Carden expressed dismay at scenes of thousands of football fans gathering at Anfield stadium after Liverpool became Premier League champions on Thursday. The city would have to wait and see whether the gathering resulted in a spike of cases, Mr Anderson added.\n\nTackling shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and care workers in England was a job of \"crisis management\" during and immediately after the peak of coronavirus cases, the business leader brought in by the government to sort out the issue has told the BBC. Speaking to BBC health editor Hugh Pym, Lord Paul Deighton, one of the masterminds of the London 2012 Olympics, said supplies were now stable and had been secured for the rest of the year with 28 billion items on order.\n\nCoronavirus patients in hospital in England are dying at a slower rate now than they were at the peak of the epidemic, analysis by University of Oxford researchers has found. The proportion of coronavirus patients dying each day in England fell from 6% to 1.5% between April and June, they said. Improvements in treatments, changes in the patient population and seasonal effects could all be playing a role.\n\nWith cinemas still closed, could a virtual screening be the best way to get your movie fix? If so, tonight, Fortnite players are stowing away their guns and kicking back for a screening of three of Christopher Nolan's biggest films - The Dark Knight, Inception, and The Prestige. But why would anyone want to watch a film inside a video game? It's about being \"able to watch things together with people\", says Darshan Shankar, the founder of Bigscreen VR - a company that lets users watch films in cinemas created within virtual reality.\n\n...you can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest from our live page.\n\nAnd with all the concern about large gatherings causing spikes in cases, we examine how local lockdowns might work.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Temple Court said it had been \"completely overwhelmed\" by Covid-19\n\nA care home at the centre of a police investigation after the deaths of 15 residents during the coronavirus pandemic has been rated inadequate.\n\nThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) identified \"serious failings which led to people suffering harm\" at Temple Court care home in Kettering.\n\nThe home was closed in May amid serious concerns from the CQC after a major coronavirus outbreak.\n\nTemple Court said it had been \"completely overwhelmed\" by Covid-19.\n\n\"We are astonished the CQC report has chosen to disregard the reason why standards at Temple Court deteriorated - the home was completely overwhelmed due to the Covid-19 epidemic,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"An influx of residents from the NHS in late March led to an outbreak of Covid-19 which affected existing residents and a large proportion of staff, including the manager and entire senior team.\n\n\"This left the home disproportionately reliant on the use of available agency staff, with very little opportunity to adequately train them on our policies and procedures.\"\n\nInspectors who visited Temple Court on 12 and 13 May found the care home had not informed the CQC about serious incidents without delay, including when people died or suffered injuries.\n\nThe CQC found residents' health had deteriorated through a lack of oversight at the home and an insufficient understanding of residents' needs.\n\nDeanna Westwood, CQC head of inspection for adult social care, said: \"Our inspection of Temple Court identified serious failings which led to people suffering harm.\"\n\nShe said the situation at the home was \"unacceptable\" and added the service was not currently in use and no new residents would be admitted \"unless we are fully assured that they can be cared for safely\".\n\nThe CQC report said people had been malnourished and dehydrated because of poor management of their diets.\n\nIt said the home admitted 15 people when it did not have resources to meet their needs, while several people had to go to hospital with dehydration.\n\nOther failings included observations not always being completed, staff not always seeking medical care when it was needed, infection prevention and control - including relating to catheter care - not being well managed, and insufficient measures to protect people from falls.\n\nAll of the home's 21 residents were moved out by the end of the second day of the inspection.\n\nThat decision was made by the Nene Clinical Commissioning Group and Northamptonshire County Council.\n\nEvidence of unexplained injuries found by the CQC inspectors were being looked into by the county council as part of an investigation under section 42 of the Care Act, which would happen in cases when there were allegations of abuse or neglect.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said it was working with the county council to investigate the home.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The owner of some of the UK's biggest shopping centres, Intu, has called in administrators.\n\nThe firm, which owns the Trafford Centre, the Lakeside complex, and Braehead, said earlier it had not reached an agreement in financial restructuring talks with its lenders.\n\nIts centres will stay open under administrators KPMG.\n\nThe company said shares listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges had been suspended.\n\nThe significance of Intu's collapse \"cannot be understated,\" said Richard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics.\n\nThe coronavirus lockdown is speeding up a trend towards buying more consumer goods online, he said. He estimates 50% of workers normally can't receive parcels at work.\n\nBut with many people spending most of their time at home, and car journeys to shopping centres discouraged, many of those people are now ordering via websites.\n\nHow landlords should react is a difficult question and there won't be a simple solution that will work for every mall, he says.\n\nShoppers in Nottingham said they hope the shops will remain open\n\nParticularly hard-hit will be shops at large office developments like Canary Wharf if more people are working from home.\n\n\"It's going to be a really, really tough challenge. There's no getting away from the fact we have too much retail space.\"\n\nWhile more retailers and shopping centres are likely to close, landlords can offer shorter, flexible leases, he said, to attract retailers with new ideas.\n\nThe firm said it had appointed three administrators at the KPMG accountancy firm and that \"the appointment is expected to become effective shortly\".\n\nThe company was one of the UK's biggest shopping centre groups, with 17 centres in the UK.\n\nIn Nottingham, where it owns the Victoria Centre, shoppers said they hoped stores would remain open.\n\nOne worker at the local Boots, who didn't give her name, said she didn't know yet whether her shop will be affected. \"I think we'll all be worried,\" she told the BBC.\n\nIntu had been struggling even before the coronavirus outbreak with about £4.6bn worth of debt.\n\nAlthough the company's gone into administration, its shopping centres haven't.\n\nThey are separate companies owned by a myriad of banks and lenders.\n\nAnd they've now got the keys. Shoppers aren't likely to notice any real difference in the short term. But buyers will be sought.\n\nThe jewel in the crown is Manchester's Trafford Centre, followed by Lakeside.\n\nBut Intu's less-popular malls will prove more difficult to sell, especially given the turmoil in retail right now.\n\nIntu is a property business which basically put all its eggs in one basket, buying more malls as shopping habits changed, and it ended up with way too much debt.\n\nIntu's spectacular collapse also highlights the pressures retail landlords are now under given the big slump in rental income from their tenants.\n\nAccording to its annual report, published in March, its debts were worth 68% of its assets, a jump from 53% a year earlier.\n\nIt told investors earlier this month that it expected rent collected for 2020 to drop to £310m from £492m a year earlier.\n\nAccording to Property Week, landlords collected just 18% of commercial rents for the three months to 24 June.\n\nAs rent payments dried up and property values fell, its prospects declined.\n\nThe company employs 2,500 people and its wider supply chain supports about 130,000 jobs, which will now be in doubt.\n\nIntu's centres were partially shut during the coronavirus lockdown, with only essential shops remaining open.\n\nThe company had about 60% of shopping centre staff and about 20% of head office employees on furlough.\n\nInvestors in the company's shares will be nursing heavy losses.\n\nIts shares traded as cheaply as 1.2 pence each early on Friday, valuing the company at £16m. It was worth as much as £13bn in 2006.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 19 June and 26 June. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs which can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nCapital interest: \"A perfect view of the Edinburgh skyline with the sun above the castle\", says Scott Wilkinson.\n\nPeak viewing: Ben Ledi at sunset taken from Cambusbarron, from Sandy Gillone\n\nQuite a mouthful: A puffin with a catch of sand eels at the Bullers of Buchan, from Bill McLean.\n\nNicely Dun: Zbigniew Ziembinski captured this wonderful image of a \"beautiful sunset\" at Dunnottar Castle near Stonehaven.\n\nBridging the divide: \"I love the contrast between the oranges and inky blues\", says Gillian Brown at South Queensferry.\n\nRock star: This heron looks magnificent at Crovie, as spotted by Adam Sneddon.\n\nA bolt from the blue: \"Impressive display off the coast of Ardrossan\", says Bobby Hughes.\n\nMirror mirror: Inesa Strielciunaite took this cracking picture at Loch Oich.\n\nFunnel vision: \"The iconic paddle steamer Waverley had both of her funnels refitted at Dales Marine, Greenock\", says Roy Tait. \"Following a successful public appeal last year she has undergone the marine equivalent of open heart surgery to replace her two boilers\".\n\nGo Firth and conquer: Neil Robertson took this super shot from the Caley Thistle stadium of the Moray Firth.\n\nCatching some sun: \"We are a group of open water swimmers called Barassie Sea Swim Sessions\", says Lynda Hardman. \"Safety first, social distancing adhered to\".\n\n\"Just me, my camera, and nature\": \"I visited the beautiful wild beach in Stevenston, next to Saltcoats\", says Konrad Slowick. \"No people\".\n\nGlasglow: \"Truly stunning sunset overlooking Glasgow and the Campsies\", says Sally Clegg. \"Could watch for ages - mesmerising!\"\n\nDouble delight: This scene at a field near Fullarton woods, Troon, was captured by Colin McMillan.\n\nFeed me now: Callum Edwards was working on a bush in Balmedie and heard some noise. Stuck his hand in blindly with phone - and this was the result.\n\nSunrise going swimmingly: \"Olivia McIntosh was one of four swimmers out braving the cold waters of The Firth of Forth\", says Graham Paton. \"This was taken early at Portobello beach. The sunrise was breathtaking, as you can see\".\n\nAs haar as the eye can see: Queensferry Crossing disappears into the distance, as seen by Cairn Rae.\n\nThistle do nicely: Mangela Coia sent this wonderful close-up.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Sunrise on midsummer morning over fields at Sanquhar Farm just outside Forres from the Dava Way\", says Derek Sinclair.\n\nBaby steps: \"Came across this very young mouse who obviously was on its first excursion from its nest\", says Bill Brown in Perth. \"Managed to make it from the pavement to cover with a few rests\".\n\nLess is Morlich: Kerrie Tolmie found the normally popular Loch Morlich near Aviemore looking very quiet.\n\n(F)lockdown curls: \"Curly, a black-faced ram, taken just outside of my hometown of Hawick\", says Stewart Beattie.\n\nFlower power: \"Baby blue tit perched on a foxglove\", from Jayne Elder in Limekilns in Fife.\n\nPoppy day: A colourful field on the east coast near Dunbar, from Dave Cullen.\n\nDrawing a crowd? \"This was taken beside Craiglockhart woods\", says Jules Goodlet-Rowley. \"We have been enjoying bird artwork for months\".\n\nMe and my shadow: \"Dan out for a late evening walk near Markinch, Fife\", says Allan Copland. \"This young German Shepherd’s personality is as big as his shadow\".\n\nWindow shopping: This fox was spotted looking for dinner in Burnside, Glasgow, by Billy Wright. \"He/she is a regular visitor. If we happen not to notice, it has now taken to letting us know that it is there by coming right up to the window\".\n\nRising to the challenge: Phil Astley captured this beautiful scene at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, looking over the Ythan Estuary towards Collieston.\n\nMaking a splash: 11-year-old Olivia having fun in Dalkeith, courtesy of uncle Tom Bielawski.\n\nCapping off an unforgettable time: \"Unfortunately, no nursery graduation ceremony for my five-year-old son Taylan\", says Katie Watson in Kilmarnock. \"But we made do with our home-made graduation cap\".\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than two thirds of black, Asian and minority ethnic pharmacists have not had workplace risk assessments for coronavirus, a survey suggests.\n\nOf the 380 hospital and community-based pharmacists surveyed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the UK Black Pharmacists Association, 236 were from a BAME background.\n\nOf those, 166 (70%) said they had not been approached by their employer to have a risk assessment.\n\nAnd it called on employers to take urgent action to ensure ethnic minority pharmacists are risk assessed.\n\nNHS England said it had written to hospital trusts, clinical commissioning groups and community pharmacists asking all employers to carry out risk assessments for at-risk staff within the next two weeks.\n\nThe RPS-UKBPA survey also found that 78% of black pharmacists and pharmacy students felt they were at risk of coronavirus and wanted changes to be made to the way they work.\n\nSandra Gidley, president of the RPS, said it was essential that pharmacists were properly risk assessed.\n\n\"Those at high risk can be supported to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission, while still providing a vital service to the NHS and the public.\n\n\"Lessons are to be learned from this pandemic, especially with the risk of a second wave, and we now need action so our workforce is protected.\"\n\nSome 43% of the pharmacist workforce across the UK is from a BAME background, according to the General Pharmaceutical Council, which regulates pharmacists.\n\nBoth the RPS and the UKBPA have already called for individual risk assessments to be mandatory for BAME staff. They have also written to the government asking for better support for BAME pharmacists.\n\nUKBPA President Elsy Gomez Campos said pharmacists needed to feel safe at work.\n\n\"This is the time to look after each other and to look after everyone. Our profession must rise to the challenge and respond to a call to risk assess pharmacy staff. In a month's time, the survey results must be very different from what we see today.\"\n\nAt the end of April, NHS England recommended that ethnic minority healthcare workers should be risk assessed for the virus. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have issued similar guidance.\n\nA number of reviews into deaths from Covid-19, including by Public Health England and the Office for National Statistics, have now concluded that people from ethnic minority backgrounds are disproportionately dying from the virus.\n\nAmong the reasons for this are existing health inequalities, public-facing occupations and structural racism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere were at least 3,876 deaths of BAME individuals in hospitals in England up to 9 June. This means that BAME people represented 15.5% of all coronavirus deaths up to this point.\n\nResearch from the Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates that deaths of black Africans from the virus are 3.7 times higher than might be expected by geography and age, while the risk for Pakistanis is 2.9 times higher and for black Caribbean people it is 1.8 times higher.\n\nNHS England's letter to hospitals, CCGs and community pharmacists on 24 June states: \"All employers need to make significant progress in deploying risk assessments within the next two weeks and complete them - at least for all staff in at-risk groups - within four weeks.\"\n\nIt is also asking organisations to publish information on the number of staff who have been risk-assessed, including how many assessments have been completed for BAME staff, and are urging employers to make clear what additional mitigation is in place in settings where infection rates are highest.", "Artwork: OneWeb had launched 74 spacecraft before it collapsed\n\nThe UK government looks set to put money behind a rescue package for the ailing satellite company OneWeb.\n\nThe London start-up had been trying to build a network of spacecraft to deliver broadband connections but was forced to seek bankruptcy protection in March because of insufficient funds.\n\nIt's understood Boris Johnson's government could now put about £500m into the project, in part because it believes OneWeb can also provide a satellite navigation service.\n\nThis has become an important issue since the UK lost its membership of the European Galileo sat-nav system after exiting the EU.\n\nThe OneWeb service would be backup for the US-based Global Positioning System (GPS) in case it is attacked or fails.\n\nIf GPS were to go down motorists, businesses and the military would be left without a precise navigation signal.\n\nThe prime minister has agreed to put up taxpayer money for the purchase, as part of a larger private sector consortium bid, the BBC understands.\n\nDowning Street declined to comment on the reported negotiations to buy a stake in OneWeb.\n\nA Number 10 spokesman said the UK was continuing to develop a sovereign space programme through the national space strategy.\n\n\"Work on that is continuing on multiple fronts. This includes developing plans for our own national capabilities in satellite navigation, positioning and timing,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"We continue to work and have regular conversations with the space industry about this.\"\n\nUK-based OneWeb filed for bankruptcy in March in the US, where half its operations and all of its manufacturing are located, after failing to secure new funding.\n\nBefore its collapse, OneWeb had launched 74 spacecraft in what was planned to be a broadband internet constellation of 650. The start-up has a goal, though, for thousands more.\n\nOneWeb has plans for thousands more satellites\n\nAs part of any deal, the government would expect the building of future satellites to be brought to the UK.\n\nThe American bankruptcy court is now running a bidding process for OneWeb's assets, such as the radio frequencies it owns.\n\nThe Japanese tech investor Softbank and aerospace giant Airbus are among the largest shareholders.\n\nThey will have to choose whether to go with a UK government-backed rescue package or another offer.\n\nAirbus issued a statement on Friday, saying: \"The reported support of the UK government for a bid for OneWeb looks positive to support (the) UK's ambition to continue to be a leading player in space. As an original investor, and the manufacturer, in OneWeb, Airbus is pleased that a way forward looks likely.\n\nIt added: \"Airbus and the wider UK space ecosystem have the skills to build future capability and then drive export opportunities. We would look forward to supporting OneWeb in the next phase of their business and growing the UK contribution to this market-changing business.\"\n\nIf this comes off, it would be a bold move by the government - a statement that it is prepared to spend big in space.\n\nThe question remains, though, whether it would be the right move.\n\nThere is excitement currently about constellations of hundreds - if not thousands - of low-orbiting satellites and how they could be used to deliver broadband internet to places where connections are poor or simply non-existent.\n\nBut the business case is still on trial. Witness OneWeb's present difficulties; and although rival SpaceX continues to launch more of its Starlink spacecraft month after month, the Californian firm is a long way from earning meaningful revenues.\n\nSo, there are those in the UK space sector who believe the government will be taking an enormous gamble if it seeks to put a positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) service on the back of OneWeb.\n\nAfter all, this would be critical national infrastructure. What would happen were OneWeb to fail again?\n\nA better solution, the doubters argue, would be to use satellites operated by established British telecommunications companies.\n\nIn the flurry of lobbying that's been going on, the government has been presented with low-cost ideas to use a mix of high and low-orbiting satellites to provide what would, at first, be a regional satellite-navigation service, but one that could eventually be built out into a global system.\n\nPreviously, the UK aimed to build its own global navigation satellite system, at a cost estimated by independent experts of between £3bn and £5bn.\n\nThe EU's Galileo system went live in 2016, as an alternative to using GPS or the Russian GLONASS system.\n\nThe UK and EU previously argued over the level of access the UK should have to the Galileo satellite-navigation system after Brexit.\n\nThen-Prime Minister Theresa May said in December 2018 that the UK expected to work with its Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partners - the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - in developing a new system.\n\nThe Americans are understood to like the OneWeb solution because it provides something very different to the existing architectures for satellite navigation.\n\nFor the UK, it also presents the possibility of obtaining capability at significantly lower cost than had originally been envisaged for an independent system.", "The US Treasury department did not check death records before mailing out stimulus cheques\n\nThe US Treasury mistakenly sent more than $1.4bn (£1.1bn) of its pandemic rescue funds to dead people, government inspectors have found.\n\nThe finding was one of several \"challenges\" uncovered in the official review of federal coronavirus aid.\n\nSince March, Congress has pumped some $2.6tn into the American economy in an effort to shield it from virus slowdown.\n\nBut the rush to deliver the money has contributed to errors, inspectors said.\n\nFor example, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that the Treasury Department, which was in charge of mailing stimulus cheques to American families, did not check death records, even though some of the tax officials working on the programme said they raised concerns about the risk of erroneous mailings.\n\nThe report also warned that the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses - a low-cost loan fund that accounts for 26% of US pandemic spending - was at \"significant risk\" of fraud, faulting the Small Business Administration for not cooperating with requests for information about the loans and its plans for oversight.\n\n\"Because of the number of loans approved, the speed with which they were processed, and the limited safeguards, there is a significant risk that some fraudulent or inflated applications were approved,\" the inspectors said.\n\nIt said changes to respond to those risks were \"essential\".\n\nThe report comes as lawmakers in Washington debate whether or not additional aid is necessary.\n\nWhile Democrats and many economists - including the head of America's central bank - have recommended further relief, pointing to high unemployment, many Republicans have been hesitant to approve more money.\n\n\"We should be very, very careful in evaluating what's necessary before we go forward,\" Republican Senator Pat Toomey said at a recent hearing.\n\nWhite House officials have said additional stimulus is likely, but that it makes sense to see how the efforts so far are working. Critics say federal programmes have resisted oversight efforts, however.\n\nIn April, President Donald Trump removed the official in charge of overseeing coronavirus spending.\n\nCongresswoman Nydia Velázquez, a Democrat from New York, said the audit had revealed \"mishandling and negligence\" and \"mismanagement of taxpayer funds\".\n\n\"If today's report makes one thing clear, it is the need for transparency and accountability,\" she said. \"Administration officials must answer that call.\"\n\nHow much has the US spent on coronavirus?\n\nCongress has approved about $2.6tn in pandemic spending since March - a package estimated at about 14% of the country's output.\n\nAbout 11%, or more than $280bn, was intended to be spent on direct payments of up to $1,200 for individuals earning less than $75,000 and $500 for children.\n\nThe US has sent 160.4 million pandemic payments worth a total of $269bn so far, according to the report.\n\nThe single largest chunk of the rescue funding - about 26% - was for small business loans through the Paycheck Protection Program.\n\nThe US has distributed more than $500bn in loans to 4.6 million businesses so far.\n\nCritics have said the distribution of those funds has been bungled by unclear rules and lack of oversight, claims supported by the GAO report.\n\n\"Consistent with the urgency of responding to serious and widespread health issues and economic disruptions, agencies have given priority to moving swiftly where possible to distribute funds and implement new programs,\" it said.\n\n\"As trade-offs were made, however, agencies have made only limited progress so far in achieving transparency and accountability goals.\"", "Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says \"everything is possible\" for his side if they stay \"humble\" after completing the club's first title win in 30 years.\n\nThe Reds were crowned Premier League champions after Manchester City's defeat at Chelsea on Thursday.\n\nThe title triumph is the Anfield club's 19th overall but first since 1990.\n\nSpeaking to BBC sports editor Dan Roan, the German said it meant \"absolutely everything\" to help deliver a first Premier League title to Liverpool fans.\n\n\"As long as we stay humble and we're still ready to write stories we want to tell our grandchildren, everything is possible for us,\" he added.\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nThe German became Liverpool manager in October 2015 and led them to Champions League victory last season, as well as a second-placed finish in the league. They subsequently won the Club World Cup in December.\n\n\"Without knowing it at the time, the most important thing I said to the players was that we have to create our own stories and own history,\" said Klopp.\n\n\"When I came in, I had to tell them not to compare themselves with anyone any more, some of the fantastic people who played for this club and won everything in the past.\n\n\"We needed to get the opportunity from our supporters to find our own way, and this is only possible because people never lost patience with us in any moment.\"\n\n\"We got rid of the heavy backpack. I took it off that day and never got it back.\"\n\nHis first reaction to winning the title\n\n\"Last night I was absolutely overwhelmed and didn't understand anything, what happened with my body, what happened with my emotions.\n\n\"I realised it was obviously really big, I knew that before but I don't think you can be prepared for a situation like this. I was not.\n\n\"Maybe you can, but I wasn't and so it hit me full, in my face, and when I've had similar situations you know that it's nice but it's intense as well.\n\n\"I don't feel the pressure too much before it happens - but when it happens the amount of relief shows how big the pressure was before.\n\n\"I was just not able to speak. Usually it's a good moment to have a speech to the players but I was just not able to do it - I was completely overwhelmed, I was crying too much last night.\"\n\nHis relationships with his players\n\n\"I have a very good relationship with all my teams but the mix of skill sets that these boys bring in here, plus the personality they bring, is absolutely exceptional and only this combination of things makes it possible.\n\n\"They are really a bunch of top boys and I am really happy to be part of this moment.\n\n\"They are all individuals and different and that's good, but they have no real selfish characteristics as well.\"\n\n\"It means absolutely everything to me. It's the only reason why we play football.\n\n\"This city is a very emotional city that went through a lot of hard times, like the club had to go through, and having these good moments is essential. Having a successful football team in a city always lifts the mood in a city so it helps everything.\n\n\"At this moment in time, in the biggest crisis our generation has probably ever had, it's so important that we don't forget that there is something we can really look forward to.\"\n\nKlopp told a news conference he \"doesn't want a statue, that's not my motivation\" and responded to a question about a lifetime contract by saying he will \"be here for a while\".\n\nOn comparisons with Liverpool managerial legends, he told BBC Sport: \"I don't see it that way. It's not too important. But if people want to see it like this, I'm not the guy to tell them to stop doing that.\n\n\"But they are really icons. What Bill and Bob did is just incredible and in very difficult times - people had nothing and they lifted and built this city. Kenny was player-manager - it's unbelievable, I don't think there is any story that can compare with that, just incredible.\n\n\"Since we use our history in the right manner, since we don't compare any more, since we are just happy about it, build on it, since then we can do what we do now.\"\n\n\"The history is no burden any more. It is the basis for what we are doing.\n\n\"Last year we had 97 points so we were really close - it's not like it's been up and down with us. Here's the second year now where obviously we are pretty good.\n\n\"Winning all the time, that's really difficult because the other teams are too good for that. They have a good chance to improve of course as well - we have to be better, they have to, we will, they will and then we will see who is best.\n\n\"We have to bring in new things, other teams will defend us differently, we have to adapt but that is normal in life and in football. But the consistency, if we can keep it that would be a massive achievement already.\"\n\n\"If I want to dance, I'll dance. I don't do it for the boys.\n\n\"We were in a good mood, so it happened not for the first time at an evening event. The boys know that I like a dance from time to time.\n\n\"Last night was a good moment in my life so I expressed that on the dance floor as well.\"\n• None An exclusive preview of the latest must-see show:", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nJurgen Klopp described guiding Liverpool to their first league title in 30 years as \"more than I ever thought possible\".\n\nThe Reds were confirmed as Premier League champions without kicking a ball on Thursday as Manchester City's 2-1 defeat at Chelsea meant they could no longer be caught.\n\nLiverpool are 23 points clear with seven games remaining.\n\n\"It's the best thing I can imagine and more than I could have ever dreamed of. It's unbelievable. Much more than I ever thought would be possible.\"\n\nThe German, who was wearing a Liverpool shirt during his interview and was visibly emotional, added: \"Becoming champions with this club is absolutely incredible.\n\n\"It is an incredible achievement from my players... and a pure joy for me to coach them.\"\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nKlopp arrived at Anfield in October 2015 following the sacking of Brendan Rodgers and with the club 10th in the Premier League.\n\nHe led Liverpool to a sixth European Cup last season and has now ended an even longer wait to become champions of England.\n\n\"I felt from day one when he came in the door he changed everything,\" said Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson.\n\n\"We followed him and believed him. It's been an amazing journey. I'm hoping there is more - we just stay hungry, keep wanting more and following him.\n\n\"The biggest thing is no matter what, we all follow him, believe in him, and he's taken us to this point. This wouldn't be possible without him.\"\n\nLiverpool narrowly missed out on the title in 2014 when a defeat by Chelsea at Anfield towards the end of the season allowed Manchester City to clinch the Premier League trophy instead.\n\nLast season they recorded the third-highest points tally in the division's history (97) only to be beaten to top spot by a solitary point, with Pep Guardiola's side sealing the title on the final day.\n\nHowever, an incredibly dominant campaign this time around, in which the Reds have won 28 of their 31 fixtures, meant any end-of-season drama never looked likely.\n\nA 4-0 win against Crystal Palace meant a draw or Chelsea win in their game against Manchester City would cement the championship for the Reds and when the final whistle went at Stamford Bridge there were scenes of jubilation outside Anfield, while a group of Liverpool players gathered to watch the game.\n\n\"It shows the character in the squad to get so close last time and to go again,\" Liverpool midfielder James Milner told Match of the Day. \"We have proven we are fuelled by disappointment and learning.\n\n\"I am sure the hunger will stay and we want to keep being successful. It is absolutely massive - to get over the line is huge.\"\n\nIn winning the league after 31 games, Liverpool have recorded the earliest Premier League victory by matches played, yet football's 100-day suspension because of coronavirus means it is the latest success by date.\n\n\"We had to wait 13 weeks,\" Liverpool defender Andrew Robertson said. \"It was 13 long weeks with uncertainty, but a lot of our fans had to wait 30 years so it was a short time compared to what they've had.\n\n\"I hope they enjoy their night. We will enjoy ours.\"\n\n'The highlight has been the camaraderie in the team'\n\nThe title is Liverpool's 19th and their first since the 1989-90 season, when they won the First Division under Kenny Dalglish.\n\n\"I'm very pleased for everybody connected with the football club,\" Dalglish told Sky Sports. \"Jurgen has done a fantastic job. The highlight has been the camaraderie within the team and the way everyone has helped the team. Last night's game was a huge example of that.\n\n\"They played with tempo and never gave Crystal Palace time on the ball. It's the whole feeling within the club. You do not win anything without a great dressing room, and they have that.\"\n\nLiverpool's principal owner John W Henry saluted his team's \"season for the ages\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"It has been an incredible year of magnificent achievement culminating tonight in capturing the Premier League title.\n\n\"The totality of this accomplishment has brought respite and joy to so many in a year filled with so much tragedy.\n\n\"Liverpool has made the beautiful game more beautiful than ever.\"\n\nLiverpool won the Champions League last season under Klopp and can now beat City's Premier League record of 100 points in a campaign if they are victorious in five of their remaining seven matches.\n\n\"Liverpool have played an incredible season. Well deserved,\" Guardiola, whose side won the title in the previous two seasons, told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"Two seasons ago we were 100 points and they finished more than 25 points behind. Last season they didn't recover the distance and this season they went the distance.\n\n\"We have to learn from this season and improve for the next one.\"\n• None He's joined by his former boss Sean Dyche\n• None The top 10 Premier League matches of all time: Gary, Alan and Ian discuss the best matches ever", "A man has been shot dead by police after a stabbing attack at a hotel in Glasgow city centre.\n\nSix people are being treated in hospital for their injuries, including a 42-year-old police officer who was said to be \"critical but stable\".\n\nSources had suggested two other people died at the hotel, which is currently housing asylum seekers. In fact it appears only the suspect was killed.\n\nPolice said the incident was not being treated as terrorism.\n\nThe other injured men in hospital are aged 17, 18, 20, 38 and 53.\n\nA police spokesman said the situation was \"contained\" and there was no danger to the general public.\n\nHe added that they were not looking for anyone else in relation to the incident, which was first reported at 12:50. He added that officers were on the scene within two minutes of the incident.\n\nOne witness, who gave his name as John, said he came down from the third floor of the hotel to see the reception covered in blood.\n\nHe said he initially saw one person who had been stabbed.\n\n\"I went down to the entrance and shouted at him and told him to stay calm and I will call for help,\" he said.\n\nHe then saw another man, who was \"fighting for his life\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Glasgow stabbing eyewitness: \"There was blood all over the steps\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said reports of the incident were \"truly dreadful\" and she was being \"updated as the situation becomes clearer\".\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are with everyone involved. The injury of a police officer, of course, reminds us of the bravery of our police service. They run towards dangers as the rest of us would run away.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"deeply saddened by the terrible incident in Glasgow\".\n\nHe said: \"Officers were on the scene within two minutes, and armed officers shortly afterwards, and the incident was quickly contained.\"\n\nThe assistant chief constable added: \"The individual who was shot by armed police has died.\n\n\"Six other people are in hospital for treatment to their injuries including a police officer, who is in a critical but stable condition.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the families of those who were injured, including our officer.\n\n\"The incident is not being treated as a terrorism and our investigation is continuing into the circumstances.\"\n\nAnother witness, Craig Milroy, saw the aftermath of the incident from an office building nearby and said he had seen four people taken away in ambulances.\n\nHe said: \"I saw a man lying on the ground, of African descent, with no shoes on. He was on the ground with someone holding his side - I don't know if it was a bullet wound, a stab wound, or what it was.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Scotland News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Milroy said the man was one of the four taken away by medics and believed him to be a victim of an attack.\n\nHe added: \"After that we saw commotion, ambulances further up and we saw armed police all running into the hotel next to the Society Room.\n\n\"We were still standing outside, after that the police all came down, the riot police and triage team told us to go back in and lock the door.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Did you witness the incident? If it is safe to do so please email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n• None Glasgow stabbings: What we know", "Antibody tests are already under way in many other countries\n\nVolunteers are being sought from NHS staff and other public service workers for a study into the effectiveness of Covid-19 antibody home testing kits.\n\nA number of the rapid response kits are to be studied, including one from a consortium including Oxford University.\n\nThe test to see if someone has already had coronavirus has been described by the prime minister as a game changer to get people back to work.\n\nPublic Health England said it would find 2,500 recruits through employers.\n\nExperts have questioned the usefulness of the tests because little has been known about whether antibodies protect people from the virus but the government said the study would help its understanding of Covid-19.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"No reliable home test has yet been found, and we do not know whether antibodies indicate immunity from reinfection or transmission.\n\n\"This research is part of our ongoing surveillance work to increase our understanding of how to tackle this virus.\"\n\nHealthcare workers have already been taking part in a study involving antibody testing\n\nCommercial tests, which ask the user to send a blood sample off to a lab, have been suspended in the UK and people have been warned not to buy unapproved tests.\n\nIn March, the government bought 3.5 million antibody home tests but scientists at Oxford University found they were unreliable.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has since launched a separate study of 10,000 healthcare workers which involves antibody blood tests to learn more about immunity to the virus.\n\nThe Rapid Test Consortium, involving Oxford University and four UK manufacturers - BBI Solutions, Abingdon Health, CIGA Healthcare and Omega Diagnostics - has claimed its device, which uses a finger prick of blood to produce results in 10 minutes, is highly accurate.\n\nSir John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, who has been overseeing the government's antibody testing validation and strategy, said: \"We've really set the gold standard in what you need to expect from these tests and I suspect a lot of people will be really interested in what we have produced in the last couple of months.\"\n\nPHE has been planning to recruit 2,500 volunteers to see how effective and easy tests would be to use, with initial results expected in late summer.\n\nSir John Bell has been overseeing the government's antibody testing validation and strategy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken says \"division is the last thing we need\" Image caption: Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken says \"division is the last thing we need\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council was asked about a suggestion that Glasgow was a \"powder keg\" - and that the incident could lead to further disorder in the city.\n\nEarlier this month there were violent scenes in the city when far right supporters turned up at a rally in support of refugees.\n\nSusan Aitken told Reporting Scotland: \"I would absolutely urge anyone not to politicise this, not to use this to divide the city.\"\n\nMs Aitken said Glasgow had faced tragedy in the past - and would come through it by supporting each other and not allowing communities to be divided.\n\n\"There has been a lot of speculation this afternoon which hasn't been helpful which doesn't help. It's not fair to the victims, it's not fair to the victims' families and it doesn't help the city,\" she said.\n\n\"Glasgow needs to pull together, we need to have each others' backs and support our communities through this. Division is the last thing we need.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 30-year wait for a top-flight title is over after Manchester City lost 2-1 at Chelsea to confirm the Reds as Premier League champions.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side needed one victory to seal the league but City's failure to win means they cannot be caught.\n\nIt is Liverpool's 19th top-flight title and their first since 1989-90.\n\nDespite being urged to \"stay home\" by the city's metro mayor because of coronavirus, thousands of fans gathered at Anfield to celebrate.\n\nMany of the supporters who congregated at the club's ground wore face masks and some lit flares.\n• None How Klopp turned Liverpool into title winners - the inside story\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nA number of Reds players, including goalkeeper Alisson, defender Virgil van Dijk and midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, celebrated together after watching the Chelsea-City game.\n\nKlopp, wearing a Liverpool shirt and clearly emotional, told Sky Sports: \"I have no words, it's unbelievable.\n\n\"It's much more than I ever thought would be possible. Becoming champion with this club is absolutely incredible.\n\n\"I haven't waited 30 years - I have been here for four and a half years - but it is quite an achievement, especially with the three-month break because nobody knew if we could go on.\n\n\"I know it is difficult for people in this moment but we could not hold back. We will enjoy this with our supporters when we can.\"\n\nAs the global pandemic disrupted life in England and led to the suspension of the Premier League for three months, Liverpool supporters endured a nervous wait to see how the season would end, with some early suggestions it might have been declared null and void, thus wiping their remarkable efforts from the record books.\n\nThe Premier League's return this month enabled them to cap their stunning success.\n\nHowever, because of the measures put in place in response to the virus, Liverpool will not be able to celebrate their long-awaited success with their supporters immediately, at least not in the traditional sense.\n\nAs with Wednesday's impressive 4-0 win over Crystal Palace, when they next play at Anfield - against Aston Villa on Sunday 5 July, and for their two other remaining home games - it will be behind closed doors.\n\nIt also seems unlikely they will be able to take part in any of the usual public events in Liverpool, such as an open-top bus parade around the city.\n\nBy a quirk of fate, though, the next time they take to the field will be at the side they have beaten to this season's title and who pipped them so narrowly last campaign, Manchester City.\n\nFollowing their defeat at Chelsea, City boss Pep Guardiola congratulated Liverpool on their title success.\n\nWinning the title was always the main aim for a club which endured such a long wait to be crowned champions of England again, having earned that honour 11 times between 1973 and 1990.\n\nThings could get better yet, with City's 100-point total for a season one of numerous records Liverpool can still break.\n\nKlopp's side have produced one of the most memorable campaigns in Premier League history, amassing 86 points with 28 victories, two draws and a single defeat from 31 games.\n\nSuch has been their dominance, at one stage they led the table by 25 points - a record gap between a side in first and second in the English top flight.\n\nAlso still a possibility are the most wins in a season (the record is 32), most home wins (18), most away wins (16) and biggest winning margin (19 points).\n\nTheir title win this season is the earliest on record, at least with regard to games remaining, with the Reds having seven to play.\n\nThat it is not the earliest title win by date is only because of the halting of football in England between March and May as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLiverpool's triumph represents a huge moment for their fans, who grew accustomed to success in the 1970s and 1980s, including a run between the 1972-73 and 1990-91 seasons in which they failed to finish first or second in the league only once.\n\nThey have not been without silverware in the past 30 years, winning three FA Cups, four League Cups, a Uefa Cup, the Champions League twice - the latest coming last season under Klopp - as well as three Super Cups and one Club World Cup.\n\nHowever, since Kenny Dalglish led them to the First Division championship, they have had to endure three decades without league success, during which their record tally of titles was surpassed by rivals Manchester United, who have 20 to their name.\n\nIt was during this period that United boss Sir Alex Ferguson famously revelled in having \"knocked Liverpool off their perch\".\n\nLiverpool have come close during that time to restoring themselves to the top of the English game, finishing second in the Premier League four times.\n\nGerard Houllier (2001-02) and Rafael Benitez (2008-09) both took them close.\n\nFamously, in the 2013-14 season, Brendan Rodgers' side looked as though they were going to take the crown but a late-season slump - synonymous with a Steven Gerrard slip that enabled Chelsea to score and win at Anfield - saw them fall agonisingly short.\n\nLast season, they racked up a stunning 97 points, losing only one game all campaign, but had the misfortune of coming up against an even better Manchester City side, who beat them to the title by a point. No side had ever earned so many points without winning the league.\n\nThe appointment of Klopp has been pivotal to Liverpool's rise in recent seasons to this moment of success.\n\nThe German arrived at Anfield in October 2015 following the sacking of Rodgers and with the club 10th in the Premier League.\n\nKlopp arrived with a record of success, having led Borussia Dortmund to two Bundesliga titles and the 2013 Champions League final, and with a reputation for fast-paced, high-pressing attacking play, which he described as \"heavy metal football\".\n\nHis four full seasons to date have yielded finishing positions of fourth, fourth, second and now first.\n\nIntelligent dealing in the transfer market has also been key to his success, with Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane signed during his reign. Along with Roberto Firmino, who arrived shortly before Klopp, the trio have scored a sensational 211 goals in less than three seasons (92 for Salah, 65 for Mane and 54 for Firmino).\n\nThe additions of world-class goalkeeper Alisson and centre-back Virgil van Dijk were also crucial.\n\nKlopp has also improved players who were at the club before he arrived, including midfielder Jordan Henderson - his captain - and young full-back Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n\nKlopp is the only Liverpool manager since Dalglish left (including the Scot himself during a second spell from January 2011 to May 2012) with a win percentage over 60.\n\nDalglish delivered Liverpool their 16th, 17th and 18th league titles and now, after 30 years, they have found a fitting successor to provide them with their 19th.\n\n\"The last two years and since Jurgen's come in has been very positive,\" Dalglish told BT Sport. \"He's been fantastic and epitomises everything Liverpool football club stands for. Whatever they got, they have deserved it.\n\n\"Onwards and upwards. We have a lot more happy days to look forward to as long as Jurgen is here.\"\n• None He's joined by his former boss Sean Dyche\n• None The top 10 Premier League matches of all time: Gary, Alan and Ian discuss the best matches ever", "Coronavirus patients in hospital in England are dying at a slower rate now than they were at the peak of the epidemic, analysis suggests.\n\nUniversity of Oxford researchers found the proportion of coronavirus patients dying each day in England fell from 6% to 1.5% between April and June.\n\nImprovements in treatments, changes in the patient population and seasonal effects could all play a role.\n\nThe data emerged as the government prepares to ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nAround the height of the outbreak, on 8 April, there were 15,468 people in hospital in England with coronavirus of whom 899 died (6%).\n\nBy 21 June there were 2,698 hospitalised coronavirus patients, 30 of whom died (1%), according to the most recent data compiled University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine.\n\nHospital case fatality is a measure used since the beginning of the outbreak, providing consistent figures and enabling researchers to look for trends.\n\nWhile both the number of people in hospital and the number of hospitalised people dying are falling, deaths are falling at a faster rate.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 is halving every 29 days, while deaths are halving every 16 days.\n\nProf Carl Heneghan, who carried out the analysis, said the pattern of falling death rates in hospitals was also being seen in other countries, including Italy,\n\n\"We should be investigating what's changed,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a radically different disease we're looking at if the death rate is 1% rather than 6%\".\n\nHe said that translated to a difference of 500 deaths a day in April when the disease was at its height.\n\n\"This is an encouraging trend but one that needs more work to understand the cause,\" his co-author Jason Oke said.\n\nAlthough the researchers were unable to determine exactly what was behind the trend, they put forward a number of reasons.\n\nOne is that, as more is understood about the disease, healthcare staff have been better able to treat it using existing drugs, even without any major breakthrough in new treatments.\n\nFor example, doctors are now primed to expect patients with blood clotting and overactive immune responses, whereas in the early days they were looking to treat the symptoms of what was seen as primarily a respiratory disease.\n\nAnd in critical care patients, the common steroid dexamethasone is now being used to dampen down the out-of-control immune reactions that can cause organ damage.\n\nThis is likely to be a key factor, but is unlikely to completely explain the falling death rate, according to Prof Heneghan.\n\nIt may also be down to changes in the types of patients admitted to hospital.\n\nAs strain on the NHS has eased, the researchers say it is possible that there is room to admit patients who would not have met the stricter threshold for hospital care at the height of the epidemic. And these patients may be slightly less vulnerable and therefore less likely to die.\n\nMore sombrely, it's also possible that the virus, having torn through the most vulnerable populations, has left behind people who were at lower risk to start with.\n\nA further possibility is that there could be a group of patients in hospital for long periods, not being discharged but also not succumbing to the virus.\n\nSummer might also be playing a protective role: there are fewer other illnesses in circulation to compromise people's immune systems, and more sunlight means more Vitamin D.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo Met Police officers have been suspended after \"inappropriate photos\" were taken at the crime scene of a double murder.\n\nThe unnamed officers were arrested by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) on 22 June and have since been bailed.\n\nThe bodies of sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were found earlier this month at Fryent Gardens in Wembley.\n\nCommander Paul Brogden said he was \"horrified\" by the allegations.\n\nHe added senior officers from the Met and the IOPC visited the sisters' family to inform them of the serious allegations.\n\n\"This deeply disturbing information will no doubt have created additional trauma for a family who are already grieving the devastating loss of two loved ones,\" Commander Brogden said.\n\n\"I am horrified and disgusted by the nature of these allegations; a sentiment which will be shared by colleagues throughout the organisation.\n\n\"If true, these actions are morally reprehensible and anyone involved will be robustly dealt with.\"\n\nMs Smallman, 27, had been with friends celebrating Ms Henry's 46th birthday at the park on the evening of 5 June.\n\nA 36-year-old man arrested in south London on suspicion of murder was released with no further action.\n\nDetectives believe the sisters were killed by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed them in the early hours of 6 June - their bodies were not found until the following day.\n\nIn a statement the Met said two officers from the North East Command unit had both been suspended from duty.\n\nImages recovered from their phones - which were found in a pond - showed the sisters dancing with fairy lights hours before they were killed\n\nThe force said its directorate of professional standards was told last week about allegations that \"non-official and inappropriate photographs\" had been taken at the crime scene.\n\nThe IOPC said the pictures were allegedly \"shared with a small number of others\", adding the Met was \"handling matters involving those members of the public who may have received those images\".\n\nSince their bodies were found forensic officers have been searching a large area of the park including a pond and have trawled through hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish that was accidently cleared from the scene.\n\nDetectives believe the killer received injuries in the attack \"which caused significant bleeding\".\n\nThe IOPC is also separately investigating how the Met handled calls from worried family and friends of the sisters after they went missing.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong died in the attack\n\nThree men killed in a knife attack in a park in Reading each died of a single stab wound, post-mortem tests have revealed.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were fatally wounded in Forbury Gardens on Saturday evening.\n\nCounter terrorism police said three other people who were also stabbed have since been released from hospital.\n\nPolice continue to question suspect Khairi Saadallah, 25, who was arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nA statement released through Thames Valley Police said: \"Following the terrorist attack in Reading on Saturday 20 June, Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) is now in a position to confirm the post-mortem examination results of the three men who were killed.\n\n\"David Wails, aged 49, Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, aged 39, and James Furlong, aged 36, each died of a single stab wound.\"\n\nA virtual vigil is to be held for the men on Saturday, exactly a week on from the attacks.\n\nReading Council is inviting people to light a candle on their doorstep or in their window at 19:00 BST.\n\nThe vigil will be broadcast live on the council's Facebook page when the mayor will say a few words before the lighting of a remembrance candle.\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock said: \"There is an overwhelming sense of grief within the Reading community about last Saturday's tragic events.\n\n\"The council and public are united in their desire to mourn the victims and appropriately remember them.\"\n\nThe authority has also set up a website offering support in the aftermath of the attacks and an online book of condolence.\n\nA fund has also been established to support the families of those who died and people affected by the tragedy.\n\nA permanent memorial to the victims is also planned.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nPolice were called to Reading's Forbury Gardens at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWitnesses recalled seeing a lone attacker armed with a knife who shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nThree others who were injured in the attack have since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nThe suspect, Mr Saadallah, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool fans let off flares outside the Liver Building\n\nFootball fans who gathered in Liverpool for a second night after their team netted the Premier League title have been asked to leave by police.\n\nA dispersal order was issued around the city centre after groups came out again on Friday to celebrate Liverpool's first title win in 30 years.\n\nPolice and politicians urged Liverpool fans to stay at home due to Covid-19, which was \"still a real risk\".\n\nMerseyside Police said the order will be in place until Sunday.\n\nThe force said a Section 34 Dispersal Order was issued \"following large gatherings in the area this evening\".\n\n\"We know a lot of Liverpool fans want to celebrate their Premier League win, but there is a time and a place for this - and this weekend is neither.\n\n\"Tonight we have seen masses of people flock to the Pier Head area heightening the risk of spreading Covid-19,\" it said.\n\nPolice urged people to \"act responsibly\" and abide by social distancing measures\n\nPeople took to social media to comment on how people were behaving, about flares being launched at the Liver Building and fireworks being set off.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice urged people to \"act responsibly\" and abide by social distancing measures to \"protect yourselves and each other\".\n\nMayor Joe Anderson tweeted a photo of crowds gathered at the Mersey Ferry terminal\n\nAs celebrations got under way again, 24 hours after the club's title triumph was confirmed, the mayor tweeted a photo of a large crowd gathered next to the city's Mersey Ferry terminal.\n\nHe wrote: \"Clearly too many people intoxicated and causing anti-social behaviour.\n\n\"I urge you leave the city centre now it is not safe.\"\n\nHe went on to say \"councils simply do not have the power\" to move people on or prevent them from gathering.\n\n\"If you know someone who is there, please message them and ask them to come home,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We're not saying this to be party poopers but hundreds of people have already died in our region because of coronavirus,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Until it's safe for us to come together, please celebrate at home.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Anderson, who warned that such scenes would happen, said it was \"disappointing\" so many had ignored advice.\n\nMerseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Rob Carden said fans should only celebrate with \"members of your household and in your social bubble\".\n\n\"As we all know, Merseyside has been disproportionately affected by Covid-19 and we must all do what we can to prevent further cases and deaths,\" he said.\n\nOfficial figures show Liverpool registered 544 coronavirus-related deaths up to 12 June and 1,677 cases up to 25 June.\n\nAnnouncing that the city's civic buildings would be lit red for a week to celebrate the club's achievement, a council spokesman urged \"ecstatic fans to try and maintain social distancing guidance to prevent the spread of coronavirus\".\n\nCouncil chief executive Tony Reeves added that it was \"vital we don't throw away the months of hard work for a weekend of celebration\".\n\nIn April, Mr Anderson said he feared restarting the Premier League would lead to a \"farcical\" situation with fans congregating outside Anfield.\n\nThe club said at the time that they were \"disappointed\" by the mayor's comments, while supporters group Spirit of Shankly called on him to retract his statement, adding that there was \"no evidence to support the mayor's perception that supporters will break any lockdown regulations\".\n\nBoth Liverpool FC and Spirit of Shankly have been approached for comment.\n\nNo attempts were made to disperse the crowd by police officers at the ground\n\nSpeaking to BBC, Mr Anderson said he had \"warned that I was concerned about the numbers that would turn up, not just outside Anfield but in other parts of the city centre\".\n\n\"In the euphoria... people have decided to ignore advice, but it's gone, it's happened.\n\n\"We'll have to see whether there's a spike in coronavirus as a result of this.\"\n\nHe added that it was \"disappointing, in the same way it was to see the scenes on Bournemouth beach\".\n\n\"But if Chelsea or Manchester City had won the league, we would have seen the same scenes outside Stamford Bridge or the Etihad.\n\nThe city's council has already begun investigating the impact of the club's Champions League match against Atletico Madrid on 11 March, which saw more than 3,000 away fans travel to the game, even though Spain was in partial lockdown at the time.\n\nIn May, the scientist leading the UK's coronavirus tracking project, Professor Tim Spector, said allowing the game to happen had \"caused increased suffering and death\", while the family of Reds fan Richard Mawson, who died with Covid-19 after attending the game, have called for an inquiry.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nThe mother of two sisters murdered in a park said her grief had \"been taken to another place\" after two officers were suspended amid allegations they took selfies next to their bodies.\n\nNicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were stabbed to death at a park in Wembley earlier this month.\n\nMina Smallman has complained about the Met's initial response - saying she had to organise a search for her daughters.\n\nNo-one has been charged with the murders.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mrs Smallman, the former Archdeacon of Southend, said the pictures \"dehumanised\" her children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They were nothing to them and what's worse, they sent them on to members of the public,\" she said.\n\nSenior officers from the Met and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) personally visited the family to explain what had happened after they were made aware of the alleged photographs.\n\nMrs Smallman said she was told the photos showed the girls' faces and she fears the images will appear on the internet.\n\n\"This has taken our grief to another place,\" she said.\n\n\"If ever we needed an example of how toxic it has become, those police officers felt so safe, so untouchable, that they felt they could take photographs of dead black girls and send them on.\n\n\"It speaks volumes of the ethos that runs through the Metropolitan Police.\"\n\nNicole Smallman's body was found by her boyfriend after she was reported missing\n\nThe IOPC said the pictures were allegedly \"shared with a small number of others\", adding the Met was \"handling matters involving those members of the public who may have received those images\".\n\nYesterday evening, the Met said two officers had been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and suspended from duty.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick said she was \"disgusted\" with the allegations against the officers.\n\nMrs Smallman said she had coordinated a search operation on weekend her daughters died and it was Nicole's boyfriend, Adam, who found the sisters' bodies and the murder weapon.\n\nShe says the police were \"making assumptions\" when they didn't immediately respond when the sisters were first reported missing.\n\n\"I knew instantly why they didn't care. They didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and thought they knew who she was.\n\nImages recovered from their phones - which were found in a pond - showed the sisters dancing with fairy lights hours before they were killed\n\nMs Smallman, 27, had been with friends celebrating Ms Henry's 46th birthday at the park on the evening of 5 June.\n\nDetectives believe they were killed by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed them in the early hours of 6 June - their bodies were not found until the following day.\n\nForensic officers have since been searching a large area of the park including a pond and have trawled through hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish that was accidently cleared from the scene.\n\nDetectives believe the killer received injuries in the attack \"which caused significant bleeding\".\n\nThe IOPC is also separately investigating how the Met handled calls from worried family and friends of the sisters after they went missing.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to invalidate Obamacare, which has provided health insurance to millions of Americans.\n\nGovernment lawyers said the act became invalid when the previous Republican-led Congress axed parts of it.\n\nDemocratic challenger Joe Biden attacked the move, saying Mr Trump had put millions of lives at risk during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHealth care will be a key battleground in the November presidential election.\n\nSome 20 million Americans could lose their health coverage if the court overturns the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was introduced by Donald Trump's Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.\n\nThe act's popular provisions include banning insurers from denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions and allowing children to stay on their parents' health plans until age 26. Millions of low-income Americans were able to obtain insurance due to the act.\n\nMr Trump says the scheme costs too much and has promised a different plan to replace it, preserving some popular elements of the existing law but covering fewer people.\n\nUnder the act, millions of people in the United States must purchase health insurance or face a tax penalty.\n\nBut in 2017, Congress removed a key plank of the policy, eliminating the federal fine for those who did not sign up, known as the \"individual mandate\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is \"Obamacare\", and why are Republicans against it?\n\nIn its filing to the Supreme Court late on Thursday, the justice department argued \"the individual mandate is not severable from the rest of the act\".\n\nAs a result, it said, \"the mandate is now unconstitutional as a result of Congress's elimination... of the penalty for non-compliance\".\n\nMr Trump cannot rely on Congress to complete the dismantling of Obamacare because the Democrats took control of the lower house in 2019.\n\nMr Biden, who wants to rally the public behind an expanded Affordable Care Act, said some coronavirus survivors could lose their comprehensive healthcare coverage if the act was overturned.\n\n\"They would live their lives caught in a vice between Donald Trump's twin legacies: his failure to protect the American people from the coronavirus, and his heartless crusade to take healthcare protections away from American families,\" Mr Biden said.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, White House spokesman Judd Deere said Obamacare was \"an unlawful failure\".\n\n\"It limits choice, forces Americans to purchase unaffordable plans, and restricts patients with high-risk preexisting conditions from accessing the doctors and hospitals they need.\"\n\nThe US has been badly hit by the pandemic, recording 2.4m confirmed coronavirus infections and 122,370 deaths - more than any other country.\n\nBut the true number of infections is likely to be 10 times higher than the reported figure, according to the latest estimate by health officials.\n\nThe Supreme Court is unlikely to hear the case before voters go to the polls in November, US media report.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lockdown: Litter and brawling on hottest day of the year\n\nRevellers who dumped beer and cider cans in Cardiff have been criticised for leaving the area in a mess.\n\nPhotographs of workers clearing Roald Dahl Plass, known as The Basin, in Cardiff Bay were posted on Twitter.\n\nVisit Cardiff Bay tweeted \"littering is not acceptable\" while others blasted people for leaving it behind.\n\nA city council spokesman said he appreciated people wanted to spend more time outside as lockdown eased, but urged them to take rubbish home.\n\nThere have also been concern from locals after mass gatherings and littering at places including Ogmore-by-Sea and on Swansea's beaches.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by mrtimncorrigan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to the Cardiff Bay rubbish, a council spokesman said: \"What isn't acceptable is for residents to leave their litter in parks and open spaces, ruining them for everyone else, and expecting someone else to clear up the mess they've left behind.\n\n\"The pandemic is not over and the council is using the resources available to us to ensure we can deliver the best possible services for the residents of Cardiff.\n\n\"People need to take responsibility for their own waste. If the litter bin is full, please take your litter home with you to dispose of correctly.\"\n\nIn a series of tweets, the council also called littering \"a zero tolerance offence\" that can bring a £100 fine.\n\nIt said its enforcement team was aware of the situation and larger bins are due to be placed at Cardiff Bay next week to encourage people to dispose of rubbish properly.\n\nBottles and takeaway wrappers were left after people enjoyed the sunshine\n\nIn Wales, it is illegal to gather in large groups and people are advised not to travel outside of their local area because of the coronavirus pandemic. Social distancing measures also remain in place.\n\nBut people gathered at a number of locations on Thursday, including Ogmore-by-Sea, Vale of Glamorgan, where there were reports of a large brawl and people had to clean up the rubbish left behind.\n\nCardiff council asked local people not to put more pressure on already-stretched workers\n\nPeople who live near the beaches of Rotherslade, Langland and Caswell in Swansea said they had been forced to pick up \"huge amounts\" of litter every morning following almost-nightly parties over the last week.\n\nEve Haynes, who lives at Rotherslade Beach, near Mumbles, said fireworks were lit from the road and aimed at the beach on Thursday night.\n\n\"They came straight past us and they erupted over people and around people that were on the beach. There were children, there were young people and there were families, and it was just really quite scary,\" she said.\n\nNatasha Jenkins has helped pick up litter on Langland Bay every morning this week and said: \"24 hours after we had cleaned the beach, it looked even worse the next morning\".\n\nResidents have become increasingly concerned about gatherings at Langland Bay\n\nChris Knight, who lives in the area, said the situation with raves at Langland Bay were getting so bad, he was concerned violence could erupt.\n\n\"The police need to do more. It's so disappointing. There's a lack of education but also a lack of consequence. If they get away with it they'll keep doing it,\" he said.\n\nPolice in Swansea have already issued three dispersal orders in two weeks to tackle anti-social behaviour.\n\nSouth Wales Police said: \"Extra patrols will be taking place in the Langland Bay area and we would like to remind people that Covid-19 legislation remains in place and anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated.\"", "Tesco says that customers have been buying more food during fewer shopping trips amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe supermarket said that while the number of trips made by shoppers fell by nearly a third in the 13 weeks to 30 May, the amount being bought rose 64%.\n\nIn a trading update, Tesco said group sales had risen 8% to £13.4bn in the period, but warned coronavirus-related costs were set to hit £840m this year.\n\nTesco's boss said it had been \"a very challenging period for everyone\".\n\nLike many of its rivals, Tesco was forced to overhaul its strategy in-store and online amid the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nTesco chief executive Dave Lewis said: \"In just five weeks, we doubled our online capacity to help support our most vulnerable customers and transformed our stores with extensive social distancing measures so that everyone who was able to shop in store could do so safely.\"\n\nThe supermarket says that it saw a substantial increase in costs as a result. They stemmed from offering 12 weeks' paid leave to 26,000 vulnerable workers and recruiting 47,000 temporary staff to cover sickness and meet demand.\n\nAcross its UK & Ireland business, sales rose by 9.2% in the three months to 30 May. Online sales mainly drove the increase, jumping by 48.5% in the quarter.\n\nAs more customers turned to online shopping, the firm ramped up online delivery slots and is now fulfilling more than 1.3 million online order per week.\n\nIn UK stores, food sales also increased by about 12% as customers \"focused more on the purchase of their essential items\".\n\nMr Lewis said that coronavirus-related costs had been \"only partly off-set\" by the sales boost and business rates relief.\n\nTesco said it had benefitted from rates relief worth about £532m under the measures offered to shops in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said that customers stocking up during fewer trips \"wasn't a surprise\".\n\n\"Entering busy shops is something we're less inclined to do than a few short months ago. This change in habits has tangible benefits for Tesco, because its bigger stores and range of products are likely behind the higher number of customers switching to Tesco from discounters like Aldi.\"\n\nIn response to increasing pressure from budget retailers, Tesco introduced an \"Aldi price match\" promise in March. On Friday it said it would extend the offer to nearly 500 Tesco products.\n\nTesco warned that its bank was expected to make a loss this year, as a result of the expected downturn in the economy following the coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nIt said it had increased its provision for potential bad debts, and now expected Tesco Bank to report of loss of between £175m and £200m in the current financial year.\n\nNeil Shah, director of research at Edison Group said that Tesco had \"clearly benefited from their revised strategy, helping them restore confidence in the group\".\n\nBut he urged some caution: \"Investors should keep a close eye on the company, since the group operates in a crowded market with retailers Aldi and Lidl continuing to gain market share and current results might not be replicated when the UK is lifted from lockdown.\"\n\nThe trading update came ahead of the company's annual general meeting, where it is expected to face a shareholder revolt over its pay rules and plan to hand the outgoing boss a £6.4m pay deal.\n\nIts executives saw pay boosted last year after online supermarket Ocado was removed from a calculator used to set bonuses.\n\nDave Lewis would have missed out on free shares worth about £1.6m if Ocado had stayed on a list used to compare rivals' success. Ocado's sharp share price rise meant Tesco would have underperformed in a benchmark comparing performance.\n\nTesco said at the time that Ocado was no longer relevant as it was now a technology business.", "HMS Queen Elizabeth (pictured) and sister ship HMS Prince of Wales each cost more than £3bn\n\nAmbitious plans for the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers - each of which cost more than £3bn - will not be met without proper funding, the government spending watchdog has said.\n\nThe National Audit Office highlighted concerns over missing key elements such as aircraft and support ships.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said it expects to meet its target of declaring an \"initial operating capability\" for the carriers by December 2020.\n\nBut the NAO called the target \"tight\".\n\nThe MoD is yet to commit the funding required for enough Lightning II fighter jets to sustain the carriers over their expected 50-year operating life, the NAO said in its report.\n\nIt also said the Navy had just one supply ship able to keep the carriers stocked with food and ammunition while on operations.\n\nAnd it further warned the carriers' new Crowsnest airborne radar system - which forms a crucial part of its defences - was running 18 months late, further diminishing its capabilities during its first two years.\n\nAircraft carriers are often seen as a symbol and tool of global reach and military power.\n\nBut few countries can afford to build and operate them.\n\nIt's not just the Royal Navy that's staked its future on the two enormous Queen Elizabeth Class Carriers - it's the whole of UK defence.\n\nThe carriers need a small armada of ships for protection, refuelling and supplies. They need aircraft for logistics, airborne early warning and to carry out strikes.\n\nNone of this is cheap, but no one at the MoD appears to be entirely sure of the costs overall.\n\nRemember the carriers have been built to last 50 years.\n\nWhat is clear is that all the elements of Carrier Strike will take a significant bite out of the defence budget at a time when it's already under strain.\n\nLabour MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee which follows the work of the NAO, said the Navy was in danger of being left with a \"hollowed-out\" capability unless the issues were addressed.\n\n\"The Ministry of Defence has lofty ambitions for the carriers but hasn't put its money where its mouth is,\" Ms Hillier added.\n\n\"Worryingly, it still doesn't know the full cost of supporting and operating Carrier Strike.\"\n\nA MoD spokesman said: \"Carrier Strike is a complex challenge, which relies on a mix of capabilities and platforms.\n\n\"We remain committed to investing in this capability, which demonstrates the UK's global role.\n\n\"Despite the disruptions of Covid-19, the Carrier Strike group is on track for its first operational deployment.\"", "If you try to call the Trencreek Holiday Park in Newquay, Cornwall this week, you're likely to find the line engaged.\n\nThe holiday park is one of many UK accommodation providers that have seen a surge in bookings over the past 48 hours, since Boris Johnson gave the go ahead for summer holidays from 4 July onwards.\n\n\"Literally, as soon as he announced yes to campsites, the phone has not stopped ringing,\" says Julliette Hautot, who runs the business with her husband.\n\nHotels, bed and breakfasts (B&B), camping grounds and rental owners say they've been inundated with enquiries from holidaymakers hoping to lock in a \"staycation\" for July or August.\n\n\"The calls have been bonkers [and] then there's the emails and Facebook Messenger pinging,\" says Ms Hautot.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flying is a very different experience in the age of coronavirus\n\nIt's been a similar story for Somerset B&B owner Melanie Cable-Alexander.\n\n\"We had a phone call within a minute of the Prime Minister's speech\", she says.\n\n\"We've had people writing to us, asking what the plan is, but we don't know what the guidelines are and that's all very confusing.\"\n\nMs Cable-Alexander plans to limit the number of guests in her B&B Ellesmere House in Castle Cary and leave breakfasts outside room doors, instead of inviting guests to share the meal at a communal table.\n\nShared breakfasts are off the menu at Ellesmere House in Castle Cary, Somerset\n\nThe government has said B&Bs and campsites can open up from 4 July, as long as shared facilities are kept clean.\n\nThat news led to campsite booking website coolcamping.com recording one of its largest ever surges in traffic, plus a 750% increase in bookings compared to this time last year.\n\n\"On Tuesday afternoon and evening we had a booking every 30 seconds,\" says the company's founder Jonathan Knight.\n\n\"It's a huge relief for campsite operators across the country, who were concerned there might not be any season at all.\"\n\nTo maximise space between holidaymakers, one of their campsites, Wardley Hill in Norfolk, has reduced the number of pitches on offer this year.\n\nCenter Parcs has announced its opening its five villages in England on 13 July, but swimming pools and water parks at the camps will remain closed until at least 27 July.\n\nThe company also plans to reduce the number of guests at any one time, to help maintain social distancing.\n\nAfter months with hardly any interest, hotel bookings have also shot up this week, with hotel chain Best Western reporting that bookings are up 700% since Monday 22 June.\n\n\"It's crazy and exciting,\" spokesperson Andrew Denton tells the BBC.\n\n\"On the website itself, traffic is back up above 2019 levels - the world hadn't even heard of the coronavirus then, so it must be pent-up demand.\n\n\"There's a buzz in the office, it's just a fantastic feeling after so many dark days.\"\n\nIndustry group UK Hospitality, which represents hotels and other accommodation providers, says its members are reporting a very welcome increase in bookings since the government announced it was easing lockdown restrictions on holiday accommodations.\n\n\"This is a good first step in getting the sector back up and running and a welcome indication that consumer confidence is high,\" said chief executive Kate Nicholls.\n\nHowever, the surge in bookings has sparked a wave of scams, according to UK Finance, trade group for the banking industry.\n\nThe banking industry is warning holidaymakers to beware of fake caravan and villa holiday websites\n\nIn a report published 19 June, the body highlighted in particular fake caravan and motorhome listings online, as well as criminals impersonating airlines and travel agencies.\n\nUK Finance says customers should ask to see caravans and motorhomes over a live video call before booking, since they can't view them in person.\n\nThe group says customers searching for a UK holiday should pause and think before parting with their money online.\n\n\"Always be wary of any requests to pay by bank transfer when buying goods or services online and instead use the secure payment options recommended by reputable websites,\" advises UK Finance's Katy Worobec.\n\nUK Finance has also seen fake websites of villas and apartments offering unusually cheap deals.\n\n\"If something is advertised at a rock-bottom price, ask yourself why,\" said Ms Worobec.\n\nBest Western's Mr Denton said he could sense the excitement in a WhatsApp group for the firm's 300 UK hotel owners.\n\n\"It just went crazy. People are saying 'summer's back on',\" he says.\n\nScotland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Cornwall and Norfolk are the most searched for destinations, according to the company, while searches for city breaks and shopping trips in London and Manchester are down.\n\nLuxury hotel and spa provider Harbour Hotels has seen a similar trend. The group, which owns 15 hotels in England, says web traffic over the past few days is up 210% and bookings over the last few days have been particularly strong at coastal locations.\n\nAirbnb hosts also report city dwellers are looking for an escape to the outdoors after lockdown.\n\nCaroline Howell's cottage in the Cotswolds has been booked by Londoners \"dying to get out\"\n\nCaroline Howell, who rents out a cottage in Chedworth in the Cotswolds, has had six enquiries in the past 48 hours, mostly from \"people fatigued with city life and dying to get out\".\n\n\"Bookings for the summer were basically non-existent during lockdown, with everybody unsure as to how the situation would unfold,\" she says.\n\n\"A lot of my existing bookings were from Americans on a road trip of a lifetime. They have all cancelled. New bookings this week are not from abroad, but quick domestic getaways.\"\n\nAirbnb owner Hannah Grace Lodge says customers are swapping their holiday abroad for a week on the coast in the UK\n\nIt's been a similar experience for Hannah Grace Lodge, who runs an Airbnb property in Margate.\n\nShe had lots of cancellations for her property, not just for dates during lockdown, but also further into the summer, due to the ongoing uncertainty about coronavirus lockdown measures, but now the property is fully booked for the rest of the summer.\n\nHannah says her customers are booking much longer stays, whereas last year the demand was for short breaks: \"Our guests have messaged about how they are swapping their holiday abroad for a week or two on the coast in the UK.\"", "Close to 20,000 new cases are being recorded daily in the WHO's European region\n\nEurope has seen an increase in weekly cases of Covid-19 for the first time in months as restrictions are eased, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.\n\nIn 11 places, which include Armenia, Sweden, Moldova and North Macedonia, accelerated transmission has led to \"very significant resurgence\", said Regional Director Dr Hans Henri Kluge.\n\nHis warnings about the risk of resurgence had become reality, he said.\n\nIf left unchecked, he warned health systems would be \"pushed to the brink\".\n\nMore than 2.6 million cases of Covid-19 and 195,000 deaths have been reported in the WHO's European region, which is expansive, covering 54 countries and seven territories across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.\n\nAlmost 20,000 new cases and more than 700 new deaths are being recorded daily.\n\n\"For weeks, I have spoken about the risk of resurgence as countries adjust measures,\" Dr Kluge told a virtual news conference on Thursday.\n\n\"In several countries across Europe, this risk has now become a reality - 30 countries have seen increases in new cumulative cases over the past two weeks.\n\n\"In 11 of these countries, accelerated transmission has led to very significant resurgence that if left unchecked will push health systems to the brink once again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries across Europe have started reopening their borders\n\nThe 11 countries and territories were later identified by the WHO as Armenia, Sweden, Moldova, North Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Kosovo.\n\nDr Kluge said countries such as Poland, Germany, Spain and Israel had responded quickly to dangerous outbreaks associated with schools, coal mines, and food production settings, and brought them under control through rapid interventions.\n\nDespite warning about resurgences, he said the WHO anticipated that the situation would calm down further in the majority of countries over the summer.\n\n\"But we have indeed to prepare for the fall, when Covid-19 may meet seasonal influenza, pneumonia, other diseases as well, because ultimately the virus is still actively circulating in our communities and there is no effective treatment, no effective vaccine, yet.\"\n\nIn a separate development on Thursday, Germany and France pledged their support to the WHO after holding talks with its director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in Geneva.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn said his country planned to give more than €500m ($560; £451m) in money and equipment to the agency this year.\n\nThe German and French health ministers expressed their support for the WHO in Geneva\n\nHe stressed that global pandemics needed a global co-ordinated response, adding: \"Isolated national answers to international problems are doomed to fail.\"\n\nFrance's health minister, Olivier Veran, promised €50m in direct funding for the WHO and another €90m for its research centre in Lyon.\n\n\"I truly believe the world needs, more than ever, a multilateral organisation. I believe the world cannot get rid of partners,\" he said.\n\nEuropean leaders have been keen to show public support to the WHO after the US called the agency a \"puppet of China\" and said it would cut funding and leave.", "PC David Whyte is being treated in hospital for serious injuries\n\nConstable David Whyte has been named as the police officer seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a Glasgow hotel.\n\nThe 42-year-old is being treated in hospital and his condition has been described as \"critical but stable\".\n\nHe was one of six people injured in the attack at the hotel, which was housing asylum seekers. The suspect was shot dead by police.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said he offered his \"personal support to all those affected\" by the incident.\n\nIn a statement published on Police Scotland's Twitter account, Mr Livingstone also paid tribute to the officers who dealt with the \"terrible incident\" that \"shocked the whole country\".\n\n\"Officers have once again run into danger to protect their fellow citizens,\" he said.\n\n\"Their professionalism as police officers was outstanding. I pay tribute to their bravery, selflessness and commitment to protect the public.\"\n\nWith coronavirus lockdown restrictions still in place, he went on to urge people not to gather in crowds in the city this weekend.\n\n\"In the context of the current health emergency, and to respect those injured today and the people of Glasgow, I ask everyone to exercise personal responsibility,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis plea was supported by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who earlier said it had been \"the toughest of days for Glasgow\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone involved,\" she said. \"The injury of a police officer, of course, reminds us of the bravery of our police service. They run towards dangers as the rest of us would run away.\"\n\nBBC Scotland has learned that one of the injured being treated in Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a 17-year-old from Sierra Leone.\n\nThe young man is said to have sustained injuries to his foot after a struggle with the attacker. He is said to be fit enough to communicate and is continuing to receive treatment.\n\nThe other injured men in hospital are aged 18, 20, 38 and 53.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Park Inn hotel in West George Street had been used as emergency accommodation for asylum seekers during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nA police spokesman said the incident was not being treated as terrorism.\n\nA formal investigation has started into the police response to the stabbing attack. The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) will be involved in examining the action of officers.\n\nThis is normal procedure for a death involving the police.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said West George Street would remain closed around the hotel as investigations continued.\n\nScottish Police Federation chairman David Hamilton has spoken of his concerns for the injured officer.\n\n\"We are hoping he pulls through from this,\" he said. \"We are making sure we are giving his family the appropriate support.\"\n\nMr Hamilton said that officers were met with \"a pretty difficult scene\" at the Park Inn hotel.\n\n\"This will be a closed-down scene for some time yet,\" he added.\n\n\"We will try to get things moving as quickly as possible, but there are a lot of inquiries and investigations to be done.\"\n\nHave you any information you are willing to share about the attack? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Justin Bieber has denied the allegations made against him\n\nJustin Bieber is suing two women for defamation after they accused him of sexual assault.\n\nLast week, two Twitter accounts tweeted claims about incidents alleged to have happened in 2014 and 2015.\n\nBieber denied the claims and vowed to speak to Twitter to urge the social media giant to take legal action.\n\nThe singer, 26, filed a $20 million (£16.2m) lawsuit in Los Angeles on Thursday which describes the allegations as \"fabricated lies\".\n\nAn account from a woman known only as Danielle claimed she was assaulted by Bieber at a hotel in Austin, Texas on 9 March 2014.\n\nShe claims that after a surprise performance in front of a crowd at a bar, Bieber invited her and two friends to a Four Seasons hotel.\n\nDanielle then claims she was taken to a private room in the hotel and assaulted.\n\nHer tweets have been deleted however screenshots have been shared on social media.\n\nResponding to the claims, Bieber shared screenshots from articles from the day the alleged assault took place, which show him with his then-girlfriend Selena Gomez.\n\nHe says they did not stay at the Four Seasons Hotel. Bieber shared a screenshot of a tweet which claimed he was spotted at restaurant inside a Four Seasons Hotel on 10 March, the day after the alleged assault.\n\n\"Even though Bieber went to the restaurant, he did NOT stay at the Four Seasons Hotel,\" the lawsuit said.\n\nAnother woman who identified herself as Kadi alleged on Twitter that she was sexually assaulted by Bieber in a New York hotel in May 2015.\n\nThe lawsuit says her accusation is false and that she had fabricated her allegation \"out of her desire for fame and attention\".\n\nIt claimed that the women were \"trying to capitalize on the climate of fear permeating the entertainment industry, Hollywood and corporate America, whereby it is open season for anyone to make any claim (no matter how vile, unsupported, and provably false) about anyone without consequence\".", "Objects were thrown at officers as they tried to disperse crowds in Notting Hill\n\nPolice officers have been attacked while attempting to disperse crowds at an illegal party for a second night.\n\nThe Met Police said objects were thrown at officers at an \"unlicensed music event\" in Notting Hill, west London, in the early hours of Friday.\n\nA witness said there were \"about 150-200 people\" present with violence breaking out from about midnight.\n\nCommissioner Cressida Dick revealed that \"140-odd\" officers had been hurt at protests in the last three weeks.\n\nIt comes after \"horrendous\" scenes of violence at a street party on Wednesday.\n\nMalcolm, who has lived in the Notting Hill area for 10 years, told the BBC scores of people had gathered at the corner of Portobello Road and Blenheim Crescent from about 21:00 BST.\n\n\"After midnight it seemed to switch into more violent behaviour,\" he said.\n\nHe added it had been \"pretty terrible round here\" for the last few nights with \"anti-social behaviour, alcohol, drugs and a huge amount of violence and disruption\".\n\nThe Met said most people had dispersed from the area by 02:00 and there were no confirmed reports of serious injuries.\n\nDame Cressida said the force had been on the lookout for unlicensed music events across the capital on Thursday evening and had \"closed down several before they even got going\".\n\nShe condemned the \"utterly unacceptable\" behaviour, adding that: \"These events are unlawful. They shouldn't be happening and we have a duty to go and close them down and to disperse them.\"\n\nKensington and Chelsea Police tweeted that objects had been thrown at officers breaking up the crowd at the event near Colville Gardens.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the violence seen in some areas was \"appalling\" and officers \"have my full backing in tackling criminality and enforcing the law\".\n\nPolice were also called to a large \"unlicensed music event\" on Streatham Common\n\nElsewhere there was a large gathering on Streatham Common, with Lambeth Police tweeting that officers had \"engaged with a large number of those in attendance and the crowd has now almost entirely dispersed\".\n\nAnother event was shut down in Mitcham, according to the force.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Scotland Yard said it was undertaking an \"enhanced policing operation\" across the capital to ensure there was an \"effective and prompt response to any reports or disorder\".\n\nCommander Bas Javid said the move was \"in direct response to concerns expressed by our communities, many of whom were scared and shocked by the events taking place outside their homes\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage on social media appears to show police officers being chased in Brixton on Wednesday\n\nExtra police officers in protective gear were dispatched following \"appalling scenes\" of violence at a street party in Brixton on Wednesday.\n\nScotland Yard said it was targeting further unlicensed music events and block parties around the city after 22 officers were injured on the Angell Town estate.\n\nFootage on social media showed police vehicles smashed and officers pelted with bottles during clashes with a large crowd, with Downing Street condemning the scenes as \"appalling\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officials said they had \"no choice\" but to \"instigate an emergency response\"\n\nSun-seekers have been urged to stay away from a beach as thousands flocked to the Dorset coast and a major incident was declared in Bournemouth.\n\nBournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council said Bournemouth Beach was \"stretched to the absolute hilt\" on the second day of a UK heatwave.\n\nDorset Police said there were reports of gridlocked roads, fights and overnight camping.\n\nPeople were urged to \"act responsibly\" as temperatures hit the mid-20s.\n\nTraffic built up early on coast-bound roads - including Durdle Door - and people travelled to Bournemouth from as far as Birmingham.\n\nBy Thursday evening the Sandbanks peninsula was \"heavily congested\", the council said, repeating its warning for people to \"please stay away\".\n\nThe ferry service in Sandbanks tweeted: \"Again we're struggling to get traffic off the ferry at Poole, for now we hope to carry half loads of vehicles from Studland, but depends on the gridlock in Sandbanks tonight.\"\n\nA local resident took a photo of the lengthy queue for the Mudeford ferry as beach-goers left for the day.\n\nThe queue for Mudeford ferry at 16:30 BST\n\nThe council said declaring a major incident meant a \"multi-agency emergency response has now been activated to co-ordinate resources across the area to tackle the issues\".\n\nEngland's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, tweeted in response to Thursday's beach scenes with a warning Covid-19 \"will rise again\" unless people followed social distancing guidelines.\n\nCouncil leader Vikki Slade said they were \"absolutely appalled at the scenes witnessed on our beaches\".\n\n\"The irresponsible behaviour and actions of so many people is just shocking and our services are stretched to the absolute hilt trying to keep everyone safe. We have had no choice now but to declare a major incident and initiate an emergency response,\" she added.\n\nThe council said it issued a record 558 parking fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'It's getting a bit hectic down here now' - Bournemouth visitors give their views\n\nIt said 33 tonnes of waste was cleaned up along the coastline on Thursday morning, along with eight tonnes collected between the piers on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tobias Ellwood MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood said he had asked the government to dispatch additional officers to Dorset if needed to deal with traffic and antisocial behaviour.\n\n\"It is very sad to see a number of people being selfish and also acting dangerously,\" he said.\n\nMr Ellwood said it was \"not practical\" to close Dorset's beaches altogether but suggested signs warning about overcrowding could be put up at railway stations and on approaching motorways.\n\nHe added the government needed to be \"dynamic\" in its response to beach crowding, otherwise the lockdown would have \"been for nothing\".\n\n\"I'm sorry to see the departure of the No 10 briefings because they would have been perfect for today - for a key figure in No 10 to clarify what is actually happening in Bournemouth and to clarify that message nationally - to say 'please for the moment stay away from all our seafronts',\" he said.\n\nExtra police officers have been brought in and security is in place to protect refuse crews who the council said faced \"widespread abuse and intimidation\" as they emptied overflowing bins.\n\nPeople have travelled to Bournemouth from as a far away as Birmingham\n\nThe Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital confirmed they had declared a \"major incident standby\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the hospital trusts said this was due to \"the impact of extremely crowded beaches, traffic gridlock on roads... the number of incidents of public disorder and risks from fire and to public health.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Sam de Reya, of Dorset Police, said people should stay away from beaches in these \"unprecedented times\".\n\n\"Clearly we are still in a public health crisis and such a significant volume of people heading to one area places a further strain on emergency services resources,\" she said.\n\nServices have been stretched to \"the absolute hilt\" , the council warned\n\nRubbish was left strewn across Bournemouth Beach after Wednesday's influx of visitors\n\nPhotographs showed beaches and beauty spots heaving with people on Wednesday, which was the UK's hottest day of the year so far.\n\nDavid Morley, who lives in Sandbanks, said: \"What we saw was a complete breakdown of normal decent behaviour and law and order - it's completely swamping the system.\"\n\nThe chain ferry linking Sandbanks and Studland was unable to carry vehicles late into Wednesday evening because of the gridlock on surrounding roads. There were also reports of illegal overnight camping on Bournemouth beach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth on the second day of the UK heatwave\n\nElsewhere along the coast, police at Hove Lawns seafront put a dispersal order in place after a large gathering.\n\nFrom Bournemouth pier there are thousands of people as far as the eye can see. Some in the sea on inflatables, others sitting on the sand, there are significant [numbers of] gazebos - there is one group of about 50 people.\n\nOne man told me he camped in a tent overnight, a lot of people have come from Birmingham - a six-hour round trip. People were telling me they wanted to get \"out and about\" after lockdown.\n\nIt's incredibly hard to keep social distancing - people are passing each other certainly at less than 2m.\n\nOne woman from Birmingham admitted she felt uncomfortable, but said: \"You've got to understand, after three months lockdown in the city centre, even seeing the sea is worth it.\"\n\nThe car park at Durdle Door was approaching capacity by mid-morning\n\nDorset councillor Laura Miller said she was verbally abused and spat at as she directed traffic at Durdle Door on Wednesday.\n\nRoads to the beauty spot were closed after people failed to use the pre-booking parking system.\n\n\"Our local industry is dependent on tourism - we're not saying 'don't come', but come here in a safe and managed way. When it's too busy, no-one is having fun,\" she said.\n\nThe car park was approaching capacity again by mid-morning on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Councillor Laura Miller tells BBC 5 live about the abuse she faced when volunteering at Durdle Door beach\n\nCurrent government guidelines state households can drive any distance in England to parks and beaches.\n\nEarlier this month, both Dorset councils called on the government to impose travel restrictions, raising concerns that visitor numbers could increase Covid-19 cases in the county.\n\nSome visitors appeared to have camped overnight in Bournemouth against coronavirus restrictions\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: \"I've made it my first priority to tackle anti-Semitism\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey, saying she shared an article containing an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey retweeted an interview with actor and Labour supporter Maxine Peake.\n\nThe shadow education secretary - who was beaten to the party leadership by Sir Keir - later said she had not meant to endorse all aspects of the article.\n\nBut Sir Keir said his \"first priority\" was tackling anti-Semitism.\n\nThe Labour leader said: \"The sharing of that article was wrong… because the article contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and I have therefore stood Rebecca Long-Bailey down from the shadow cabinet.\n\n\"I've made it my first priority to tackle anti-Semitism and rebuilding trust with the Jewish community is a number one priority for me.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Labour leader added: \"Anti-Semitism takes many different forms and it is important that we all are vigilant against it.\"\n\nIn the article, Ms Peake discussed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\n\nShe said: \"The tactics used by the police in America, kneeling on George Floyd's neck, that was learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services.\"\n\nThe Independent article also quoted the Israeli police denying Ms Peake's claim saying: \"There is no tactic or protocol that calls to put pressure on the neck or airway.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Ms Peake tweeted that she had been \"inaccurate in my assumption of American police training and its sources\".\n\nShe added: \"I find racism and anti-Semitism abhorrent and I in no way wished, nor intended, to add fodder to any views of the contrary.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere are political consequences to Keir Starmer's sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey.\n\nOn becoming leader, Sir Keir said he wanted to bring unity to the party where previously there have been factional fighting.\n\nHis decision may re-open divisions, with one former shadow minister on the party's left telling me that this was \"a dangerous moment for the party\" - with the new leader 'purging' those with whom he disagreed.\n\nOthers in the party note that Sir Keir has done quite a lot in a short space of time to install people close to him in key positions.\n\nLeadership sources, though, insist the sacking was not part of some grand plan.\n\nThey say Mrs Long-Bailey had to go because she repeatedly refused to remove her retweet of Maxine Peake's article when asked to do so.\n\nAnd for Sir Keir, this is all about tackling the toxic perception of anti-Semitism in the Labour party ahead of a potentially damning report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nHis allies say he promised actions not words to the Jewish community and he is following through.\n\nHe wants to make sure that under his leadership he sends out a signal that those who are accused of anti-Semitism have no place at his top table.\n\nThe new shadow education secretary won't be announced today.\n\nThose formerly close to Jeremy Corbyn say that the appointee must come from the left of the party if Labour's leader is concerned about maintaining unity.\n\nBut he is proving that he won't duck difficult decisions.\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement - which has led calls for a crackdown on anti-Semitism in Labour's ranks - welcomed Sir Keir's decision to sack Mrs Long-Bailey.\n\nNational chairman Mike Katz said: \"We have consistently maintained that the pervasive culture of anti-Semitism, bullying and intimidation can only be tackled by strong and decisive leadership.\n\n\"The culture of any organisation is determined by the values and behaviours of those who lead them.\"\n\nAnd the Board of Deputies of British Jews President Marie Van der Zyl called Mrs Long-Bailey's initial response \"pathetic\" and thanked the Labour leader for his \"swift action\".\n\nBut Mrs Long-Bailey's allies on the left of the party have criticised the decision.\n\nFormer shadow chancellor John McDonnell, who supported her leadership bid, said: \"Throughout discussion of anti-Semitism it's always been said criticism of practices of Israeli state is not anti-Semitic.\n\n\"I don't believe therefore that this article is or Rebecca Long-Bailey should've been sacked. I stand in solidarity with her.\"\n\nUnite general secretary Len McCluskey, whose union supported Mrs Long-Bailey in her leadership bid, said her sacking was \"an unnecessary overreaction to a confected row\".\n\n\"Unity is too important to be risked like this,\" he said.\n\nThe row erupted when Mrs Long-Bailey tweeted \"Maxine Peake is an absolute diamond\" with a link to the article on the Independent website.\n\nThe Salford and Eccles MP said she had retweeted the article because of Ms Peake's \"significant achievements and because the thrust of her argument is to stay in the Labour Party\" but she did not endorse \"all aspects of it\".\n\nAfter she was sacked, Mrs Long-Bailey said she had issued a clarification of her retweet of the article \"agreed in advance by the Labour Party Leader's Office\".\n\nShe added that she was \"subsequently instructed to take both this agreed clarification and my original retweet of Maxine Peake's interview down\".\n\n\"I could not do this in good conscience without the issuing of a press statement of clarification.\n\n\"I had asked to discuss these matters with Keir before agreeing what further action to take, but sadly he had already made his decision.\"\n\nRebecca Long-Bailey was a contender in the this year's Labour leadership race along with Lisa Nandy and, eventual winner, Sir Keir Starmer\n\nMrs Long-Bailey became a Labour MP in 2015. She was a supporter of former leader Jeremy Corbyn and was quickly promoted to his frontbench team, serving as shadow chief secretary of the Treasury and later shadow business secretary.\n\nFollowing Labour's defeat in the 2019 election, Mrs Long-Bailey entered the leadership contest to replace Mr Corbyn and was supported by many on the left of the party.\n\nShe came second in the contest securing 26.6% of the vote, while Sir Keir won 56.2%.\n• None Starmer warns of up to three million job losses", "Within half an hour of the Manchester City result, about 2,000 fans had gathered at Anfield\n\nThousands of Liverpool fans gathered at Anfield to celebrate the club's first Premier League title.\n\nSupporters set off flares and fireworks after Chelsea's 2-1 win against Manchester City gave the Reds their first league title in 30 years.\n\nWithin half an hour of the result about 2,000 fans had gathered outside the club's stadium, with some celebrating outside the famous Kop stand.\n\nNo attempts were made to disperse the crowd by police officers at the ground.\n\nMerseyside Police closed roads around Anfield at 23:00 BST and advised motorists to avoid the area.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Rob Carden said \"a large number of people chose to gather outside the stadium\" but said it was mostly \"good natured\".\n\nHe praised the \"overwhelming majority\" of fans that \"recognised now is not the time to gather together to celebrate, and chose to mark the event safely\".\n\nThousands of Liverpool fans celebrated into the night\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Liverpool players found out they were champions\n\nIt is Liverpool's 19th top-flight title and their first since 1989-90, when Sir Kenny Dalglish led them to victory.\n\nJurgen Klopp's side needed one victory to seal the league but City's failure to win means they cannot be caught.\n\nA number of Reds players, including goalkeeper Alisson, defender Virgil van Dijk and midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, celebrated together after watching the Chelsea-City game.\n\n\"Remember this moment son\" - two Liverpool fans celebrate with a replica Premier League trophy\n\nThousands more fans gathered outside the club's famous Kop stand throughout the night, with some climbing on walls, bins and the roof of a merchandise stand.\n\nSupporters danced, set off flares and waved flags while singing the name of Liverpool players including Mo Salah and captain Jordan Henderson.\n\nMany fans were seen hugging and one man stood with his arm around a cardboard cut-out of manager Jurgen Klopp.\n\nAs well as gathering at Anfield, fans also filled Liverpool city centre where they joined together to sing the club's famous anthem You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC North West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany of the fans that congregated wore face masks and cars also gathered outside Anfield, with some beeping horns as they passed.\n\nSix-year-old Anthony Nesbitt went to the ground with his father Anthony and mother Marilyn, as well as a cardboard cut-out of Liverpool star Sadio Mane.\n\n\"This is amazing, especially for them. We've been waiting 30 years for it,\" Ms Nesbitt said.\n\nAn emotional Charlie Cooper, 48, who watched it at his home in Halewood, said he remembered the last time Liverpool won the league.\n\n\"To finally do it is a relief more than anything,\" he told the BBC's Nick Garnett.\n\nAnother ecstatic fan David Taylor, 65, added: \"It is amazing. We've done it now.\"\n\nHe said he was \"more delighted\" for the younger generation, like his granddaughter who had never seen the club lift a league title.\n\nOne fan climbed on to the statue of Bill Shankly outside Anfield\n\nNo attempts were made to disperse the crowds\n\nEarlier on Thursday, fans were urged by the city's metro mayor Steve Rotheram to be the \"best 'stay at home' fans in the world\" to prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nAs fans began gathering in the city, Liverpool City Council told them to \"have a great party\" but maintain social distancing as they celebrated.\n\nThe club's CEO Peter Moore tweeted a picture of Liverpool fan Sean Cox, who sustained serious brain injuries in an attack by Roma supporters outside Anfield in 2018.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by LeBron James This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said he \"stands by\" his decision to sack shadow minister Rebecca Long-Bailey after a meeting with left-wing Labour MPs.\n\nThe Labour leader said the virtual meeting was \"constructive\" but his mind was \"made up\" on the matter.\n\nThe MPs had urged him to reinstate Mrs Long-Bailey as shadow education secretary.\n\nMrs Long-Bailey was sacked after sharing a story Sir Keir said contained an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.\n\nDuring the Zoom meeting, Sir Keir spoke to more than 20 MPs in the Socialist Campaign Group, who have expressed concern about Mrs Long-Bailey's removal as shadow education secretary on Thursday.\n\nIts membership includes former leader Jeremy Corbyn and other prominent left-wingers such as Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon, although the list of MPs that took part has not been released.\n\nCampaign Group MPs who took part said they wanted reassurance that those who criticised the Israeli government would not be suspended.\n\nThe meeting had happened \"in a mutually respectful manner\" and there had been a \"significant disagreement\", the MPs said in a statement.\n\nThey received assurances that no further disciplinary action against Mrs Long-Bailey was being sought but Sir Keir rejected calls for her reinstatement.\n\nSir Keir said: \"We engaged in, for about an hour, a discussion but my mind is made up on this. I took my decision yesterday and put out my statement yesterday.\"\n\nMaxine Peake is known for legal drama Silk, Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies and Channel 4 show Shameless\n\nHe sacked Mrs Long-Bailey, MP for Salford and Eccles, from his frontbench team on Thursday after she tweeted that actress and Labour supporter Maxine Peake was \"an absolute diamond\", adding a link to an interview with her on the Independent website.\n\nIn the article Ms Peake suggested US police learned violent tactics from Israeli secret services - a claim she subsequently described as \"inaccurate\".\n\nAfter her sacking, Mrs Long-Bailey said she did not agree with all aspects of the article and it had not been her \"intention to endorse every part\" of it.\n\nJewish groups and some MPs welcomed Sir Keir's decision but Mrs Long-Bailey's allies on the party's left said it had been an overreaction.\n\nAt Friday's meeting with Sir Keir, Socialist Campaign Group members said there was \"a need\" for MPs and others within Labour to speak out against the Israeli government ahead of moves to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson says he was told there was \"some\" understanding of Sir Keir's position, with a damning report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission on anti-Semitism in the party expected soon, and that he had to be seen to be acting decisively.\n\nLabour has struggled with allegations of anti-Semitism since 2016.\n\nIt became a constant backdrop to the tenure of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Sir Keir stood as his successor on a platform of being tough on anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nIn demonstrating firm leadership, Sir Keir Starmer has inevitably highlighted his party's divisions.\n\nThe sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey brought plaudits from MPs who had been close to ex-party leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and from the Jewish labour movement.\n\nBut it attracted denunciation from those who had most strongly supported Jeremy Corbyn\n\nSome don't believe Maxine Peake's assertion - that the American police had learned the technique that killed George Floyd from the Israeli security services - was anti-Semitic. But in any case Mrs Long-Bailey hadn't specifically endorsed this and Peake had admitted she'd been wrong.\n\nSo they will question whether Sir Keir was looking for an excuse to marginalise the left.\n\nMomentum has begun a petition against the sacking and is urging members to win back power within the party.\n\nSir Keir's allies say the sacking of Mrs Long-Bailey should be taken at face value - she had refused to take down her retweet of Peake's views.\n\nAnd that when he promised Jewish community groups \"actions not words\" on anti-Semitism, he had to deliver.\n\nThe removal of Mrs Long-Bailey was not part of a grand plan, they said, and it was \"nonsense\" that he was simply seeking an excuse to fire her.", "When Jurgen Klopp walked into Anfield for his first day as Liverpool manager on 8 October 2015, there was one keynote message from his public address.\n\n\"We must turn from doubters to believers,\" said the charismatic German as he sat in front of the cameras and lights of the world's media.\n\nLess than five years on, no-one doubts Klopp or his players. After a remarkable rise from 10th place on his arrival to European champions for the sixth time, they have now returned to their domestic perch as Premier League champions, too.\n\nLiverpool and their manager were forced to wait an extra three months for their coronation as the season was halted by the global coronavirus pandemic but the silverware is reward for his revitalisation of the club and its support.\n\nKlopp's public persona is the big man with the tactile approach and the booming laugh. The animated presence in the technical area, celebrating with players and fans. So much more goes on behind the public image - so much more that gives the lie to those who nonsensically claimed Klopp's greatest coaching quality in his early days was as a cheerleader.\n\nBehind the scenes, away from the public gaze, his meticulous approach, as well as his intellect for football's modern methods and matters outside the game, make him the towering figure in Liverpool's spectacular revival.\n\nThe notion that he simply strolls around Melwood smiling and hugging people may sustain those who wish to pour cold water on his brilliant successes, or downplay his tactical shrewdness. The reality could not be more different.\n• None Rank the 10 games which have defined Klopp's reign\n\nKlopp believes the training ground is where the difference is made. This is where the drills are run through, where tactical ideas are tried and tested. Bolt onto this some spectacular recruitment and you have the 2019-20 Premier League champions.\n\nEvery session is meticulously planned with his staff before training. Klopp will then address his players to outline their work in depth. He is not just Liverpool's manager, he is Liverpool's coach. Every aspect of every day is plotted and analysed in minute detail.\n\nIn preparing for games, he insatiably gathers information before condensing it into the essential and most urgent details. Inside Anfield this is regarded as a key skill that helps drive one of his best qualities - the ability to take big decisions quickly, without prevarication, and getting those decisions right.\n• None Klopp - the Black Forest boy who 'became a hero'\n\nKlopp himself is the exact model of planning and efficiency he expects of others. He insists on punctuality, on everything operating like clockwork. If a meeting is planned for 10am, 10am it is. His and Liverpool's success is the result of a fiercely driven individual. The hard work of the manager and all those behind him. As he says: \"I live 100% for the boys, with the boys.\"\n\nThere are no gimmicks. No \"Hollywood\" moment was transformative in the story leading to Liverpool's coronation as Premier League champions. Klopp is the leader, strategist and inspiration. But of course there is also a team behind him.\n\nWhen the German arrived at Anfield it was inevitable that he would be joined by two of his closest, most trusted allies - Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz.\n\nBuvac and Krawietz had been central to Klopp's management team at Mainz and Borussia Dortmund. The trio came as a package wherever he went. Within that structure, the taciturn Bosnian-Serb Buvac was known as \"The Brain\" for his awareness of tactical detail while German Krawietz was \"The Eye\" for his acute analytical skills.\n\nBut when Buvac's 17-year association with Klopp ended suddenly in April 2018, it led to a new dynamic in Liverpool's coaching set-up - and new levels of success.\n\nKlopp, of course, is the leader in all respects, while Krawietz is now joined by Pep Ljinders.\n\nThe 37-year-old Dutchman had already made a huge impression at Liverpool, having worked at the club as an under-16s coach before being appointed first-team development coach in 2015.\n\nThree years later, Ljinders left to take over as manager of NEC Nijmegen in the Netherlands. It proved to be a short stint and when he left, Klopp had no hesitation in bringing him back for the start of the 2018-19 season to fill the gap vacated by Buvac.\n\nBoth Krawietz and Lijnders are assistant managers. No hierarchy exists and both serve crucial, differing roles within Klopp's team. Krawietz runs a team of four analysts, focusing on all aspects of previous and forthcoming games - a role so integral it shapes training sessions and team selection. He is on the training ground every day.\n\nAn example of how the Klopp-Krawietz partnership works is seen in messages exchanged by the pair during the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n\nThey had homed in on the increasing influence of set-pieces, both defensive and attacking, and a decision was made to be more innovative, especially as Liverpool were now armed with the height of Virgil van Dijk and the delivery of Trent Alexander-Arnold. The facts speak for themselves.\n\nIn 2017-18, Liverpool scored 13 goals and conceded 12 from set-pieces. Increased focus and innovation following the World Cup saw them score 29 and concede only eight in the subsequent campaign.\n\nSuch enlightened attention to detail even included the arrival of a dedicated throw-in coach, the Dane Thomas Gronnemark, after the tournament, an appointment designed to eradicate errors and maximise the many re-starts from this position during games.\n\nHowever, Liverpool and Krawietz are not slaves to specifics. He and Klopp still want room for free thinking and spontaneity at set-pieces. What greater example than Trent Alexander-Arnold's quickly taken corner that caught Barcelona cold in last season's Champions League semi-final second leg at Anfield?\n\nDuring a normal week at Melwood, Krawietz will usually present Klopp with 90 minutes of analytical detail which will be whittled down over the course of two meetings to a 25-30 minute presentation which the manager will deliver the day before the game.\n\nThe main aim of the session is that Liverpool's players are made aware of their opponents' strengths. But they also leave the room with greater confidence in their own ability to do damage.\n\nKlopp, as ever, takes the final decisions. but the analysis provided by Krawietz has always been crucial. As is the more visible presence of the lively, tactically sharp Lijnders.\n\nHe is a vocal, traditional assistant who takes many training sessions along with Klopp. He is also the buffer between other non-football departments at Liverpool, shaping operational management and drawing up schedules to ensure players get enough rest, deciding when to train and maximising performance.\n\nKlopp's confidence in himself and those around him is such that he says: \"I know I'm good at a couple of things and really good at a few things and that's enough. My confidence is big enough that I can really let people grow next to me. That's no problem. I need experts around me.\"\n\nIt is a three-pronged approach that brought almost perfection at various stages over the past two seasons and, to use the words of Brian Clough about Peter Taylor, the goods at the back of the store are almost as essential to the overall package as what is in the shop window.\n\nOn the pitch, Klopp has earned his reputation alongside the other coaching greats now in the Premier League, such as Manchester City's Pep Guardiola, Carlo Ancelotti at Everton and Jose Mourinho at Tottenham.\n\nHe has also, almost without fail, made players better, whether they were signed by him or already at Liverpool.\n\nLiverpool captain Jordan Henderson, signed by Kenny Dalglish in June 2011, had his doubters almost up to the time he lifted the Champions League in Madrid last May. Klopp never wavered. Now, Henderson's form and reputation has never been higher.\n\nRoberto Firmino is another he inherited. His signing from Hoffenheim in June 2015 initially raised doubts over Liverpool's \"transfer committee\", the group that used to lead buying strategy and was responsible for far more failures than successes.\n\nIn a previous time, there was justifiable cause to question a muddled transfer policy, especially after the £75m sale of Luis Suarez to Barcelona in summer 2014. The prime example was the folly of subsequently spending £16m on Mario Balotelli from AC Milan, shortly after then-manager Brendan Rodgers had insisted publicly: \"I can categorically tell you he will not be coming to Liverpool.\"\n\nFirmino has now moved into the category of world class under Klopp's tutelage. Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and goalkeeper Alisson - who all had quality on arrival - have become even better for Klopp's work.\n\nMane told BBC Sport: \"He is close to his players and he gives us responsibility on the pitch, which is really important for each player. At the same time he is very friendly with us. That is one of his big strengths.\"\n\nSince Klopp's arrival, Liverpool's transfer business has become the template for efficiency. This January, before any rivals had made their moves, a £7.5m deal for Red Bull Salzburg's Takumi Minamino was signed, sealed and delivered for the first day of the month. The same was true of the £75m move for Van Dijk from Southampton. Deal announced on 27 December 2017. Deal signed 1 January 2018.\n\nAnd this is down, in large part, to what those behind the scenes at Anfield describe as Liverpool's \"Holy Trinity\". The relationship between Klopp, sporting director Michael Edwards and Mike Gordon, the man with the second biggest equity stake in the club and who could be described as the \"managing owner\".\n\nGordon has the complete trust of principal owner John W Henry and chairman Tom Werner. While Henry may be the figurehead, Gordon is the most influential owner in many ways because he makes the crucial decisions along with Klopp and Edwards - whether it is a signing, contract renewals or extensions, even down to the recruitment of academy coaches.\n\nGordon has the final sign-off on major projects, such as the £60m extension of the Anfield Road Stand to take capacity above 60,000, and the new £50m training facility at Kirkby. But he is not simply the man who signs the cheques. Anfield insiders acknowledge his sharp football brain as well as business acumen.\n\nHe sees his role as empowering Klopp and Edwards to ensure the football operation flourishes. He has total trust and confidence in their judgement. The three are in constant touch daily, WhatsApp messages fly between all parties.\n\nEdwards joined the club as head of analytics in 2011 and was appointed as sporting director in November 2016. In terms of public profile, he remains secretive and elusive, out of the public eye. He believes that helps him do his work under the radar to deliver what Klopp and Liverpool need.\n\nInside Melwood, the story is very different. Edwards is respected and admired, operating an open-door policy and having his own trusted staff such as head of scouting and recruitment Dave Fallows, chief scout Barry Hunter, and Ian Graham, Julian Ward and Dave Woodfine.\n\nWhen Klopp signed a new contract in December, tying him to the club until summer 2024, he said: \"I must highlight the role of our sporting director Michael Edwards in this journey so far. His input and collaboration has been just as important as anyone else's in getting us into a position to compete for the game's top titles.\"\n\nEdwards has his team. Klopp has his. Gordon empowers and discusses before signing off, and therein lies the method behind Liverpool's brilliant resurgence.\n\nOne of the classic examples of how this triangle of power works came when, in Hong Kong on a pre-season tour in summer 2017, midfielder Philippe Coutinho effectively told the club that overnight he had become unhappy and wanted to move to Barcelona, who had just sold Neymar to Paris St-Germain.\n\nCoutinho, despite his obvious brilliance, was actually regarded by some as a player Liverpool had come to rely on too much. When he did not perform, as in the 2016 Europa League final loss to Sevilla in Basel, the overall team suffered.\n\nWhen the Brazilian duly made his move in January 2018, plans were in place to conclude two of the most important signings in the club's recent history, following up the long-planned pursuit of Van Dijk with the £66.8m arrival of Brazil goalkeeper Alisson from Roma in July 2018.\n\nCoutinho was not replaced, but acquisitions were made in other areas that pushed Liverpool to their current level.\n\nIn February 2017, Liverpool had drawn up their list of transfer targets that included the likes of Bayer Leverkusen's Julian Brandt and Christian Pulisic, who was coming to prominence at Borussia Dortmund and is now with Chelsea. The name of Roma's Mohamed Salah lurked elsewhere on Liverpool's radar.\n\nSalah was the deal that was done, with Klopp very happy to give much of the credit to the forceful opinions of Edwards that this was a potentially game-changing signing.\n\nThis cool, analytical, collegiate system is now the envy of Europe's elite clubs and central to the plans that have brought the title back to Anfield after 30 years.\n\nKlopp has not simply built for the present. He is taking care of the future.\n\nIn his first days at Liverpool in October 2015, he was pictured gazing out over the Melwood training grounds with academy director Alex Inglethorpe. This wasn't just a new manager doing the rounds. He was seeing what he had to work with.\n\nKlopp is willing to spend big but not with waste, and the development of youngsters such as teenagers Curtis Jones and Neco Williams in FA Cup wins over Everton and Shrewsbury Town - when Klopp entrusted his under-23s while he and the seniors took a winter break - is confirmation of this strategy.\n\nHe is a firm believer in looking first from within. Liverpool will make the high-profile signings and are in a healthy position to do so, but Klopp knows he has golden reserves. The development of Jones and Williams, and his trust in them, means Liverpool arguably have another £50m that can be spent elsewhere.\n\nNot that Klopp is a romantic. All decisions are based on hard-headed business reality and if the game-changer is there, Liverpool will be in the hunt. Klopp is frugal but strategic. It is an all-encompassing policy that has renewed Liverpool to the point where they are, in the eyes of many, Europe's finest side with a team and club built in Klopp's image.\n\nFormer Liverpool chief executive Ian Ayre, who sat at Klopp's right hand when he was introduced at Anfield, says: \"Is Jurgen right for Liverpool? The answer is absolutely.\n\n\"Everything is natural. Nothing is made up. He doesn't do anything for effect. He is naturally engaging. He raises the energy level in a room when he walks in.\n\n\"He is big and imposing. He is a hugger. All these things he does because it is natural to him. He doesn't think 'I'm going to hug the staff and the players'. He does it because he cares for these people. That is who Jurgen Klopp is. He just fits perfectly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A major incident has been declared in Bournemouth after people flocked to the coast\n\nPeople must follow social distancing guidance while enjoying the sun, or Covid-19 cases \"will rise again\", the UK's chief medical adviser has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty's remarks on social media came after a major incident was declared in Bournemouth when thousands of people flocked to the Dorset coast.\n\n\"Naturally people will want to enjoy the sun but we need to do so in a way that is safe for all,\" he said.\n\nThe UK's coronavirus death toll is now 43,320, a rise of 149 since Wednesday.\n\nThe latest figures, released by the Department for Health and Social Care, showed 307,980 people have tested positive across the UK.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said the government has the power to shut down beaches if necessary.\n\nSpeaking on talkRADIO, Mr Hancock said he was reluctant to use it \"because people have had a pretty tough lockdown\" but he added: \"If we see a spike in the number of cases we will take action.\"\n\nBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council said Bournemouth Beach was \"stretched to the absolute hilt\" on Thursday, while Dorset Police said there were reports of gridlocked roads, fights and overnight camping.\n\nCouncil leader Vikki Slade said they were \"absolutely appalled at the scenes witnessed on our beaches\".\n\nAnd in Glasgow, police cleared hundreds of people from Kelvingrove Park, prompting First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to say that, while she understood the desire to enjoy the hot weather, people should \"follow the rules\".\n\nOn Twitter, Prof Whitty said: \"Covid-19 has gone down due to the efforts of everyone but is still in general circulation.\n\n\"If we do not follow social distancing guidance then cases will rise again.\"\n\nBBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said that six weeks ago, when the PM announced the first steps out of lockdown, the number of newly diagnosed infections was around 4,000 a day.\n\n\"Those numbers have fallen four-fold since, with under 1,000 being recorded on average over the past week,\" he added.\n\n\"Government experts believe with the testing and tracing system in place the virus can continue be suppressed - but only if the public plays its part.\"\n\nProf Chris Whitty is the UK's chief medical adviser and England's chief medical officer\n\nSince May, people in England have been able to meet in groups of up to six people in outdoor spaces such as parks or private gardens - provided they observe social distancing and remain two metres apart.\n\nThe government has since announced a further easing of lockdown restrictions in England - to come into effect from 4 July.\n\nThis includes the introduction of a new \"1m plus\" rule - meaning that if a distance of 2m is not possible then 1m will be acceptable if certain precautions are taken, such as the use of face coverings.\n\nThe announcements at the prime minister's Downing Street briefing this week on the reopening of pubs and other venues in England in early July and the new \"1m plus\" rule made all the headlines.\n\nBut the note of caution struck by the senior official advisers, Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance was all too obvious.\n\nThere were repeated comments that the easing of lockdown restrictions was not risk free and that the virus would be circulating right through the winter.\n\nProf Whitty said it was \"really critical\" that people took social distancing rules seriously otherwise chains of virus transmission would be re-established.\n\nHe clearly feels the rules are not being taken seriously on the beach in Bournemouth and has felt the need to repeat his warning.\n\nThis further underlines the concerns felt by health leaders that people will drop their guard and create mass gatherings in the hot weather and holiday season which will allow the spread of the virus to pick up again.\n\nOn Thursday, for the second consecutive day, the UK recorded its hottest temperature of the year so far, with highs of 33.3C (92F) at Heathrow Airport.\n\nBoth Wales and Scotland also individually recorded their hottest days of the year.\n\nIn Wales, the temperature reached 30.7C at Gogerddan, near Aberystwyth, beating the previous high of 30C from Wednesday. And in Scotland, a high of 30C was recorded in Prestwick.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, a high of 25.5C was recorded in Aldegrove.\n\nTemperatures are expected to drop after Thursday with thunderstorms forecast for Friday.\n\nThousands of people flocked to the Dorset coast on both Wednesday and Thursday\n\nAn amber level three heat-health alert, issued by the Met Office, was extended on Thursday to take in Yorkshire and the east and south of England as well as the West and East Midlands.\n\nThat means people should drink plenty of fluids, avoid consuming excess alcohol and \"look out for\" young children, babies and those with underlying health conditions, the Met Office said.\n\nFurther along the south coast, Brighton beach was also busy\n\nCommenting on the crowded scenes in his constituency, Bournemouth East MP Tobias Ellwood said he had asked the government to dispatch additional officers to Dorset if needed to deal with traffic and antisocial behaviour.\n\n\"It is very sad to see a number of people being selfish and also acting dangerously,\" he said.\n\nMr Ellwood said it was \"not practical\" to close Dorset's beaches altogether but suggested signs warning about overcrowding could be put up at railway stations and on approaching motorways.\n\nHe added the government needed to be \"dynamic\" in its response to beach crowding, otherwise the lockdown would have \"been for nothing\".", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nThe Met Police Commissioner said she is \"dumbfounded\" by allegations that two of her officers shared \"inappropriate\" photographs of a double murder scene.\n\nThe bodies of sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were found earlier this month at Fryent Gardens in Wembley.\n\nThe officers have been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office and suspended from duty.\n\nDame Cressida Dick said she was appalled and disgusted non-official photos had been taken and shared.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said the pictures were allegedly \"shared with a small number of others\", adding that the Met was \"handling matters involving those members of the public who may have received those images\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDame Cressida said: \"I don't know all the details but if it is as it appears to be then it is shocking.\n\n\"It is disgusting and the whole of the Met would condemn what has happened here.\n\n\"If those officers' actions have added to the families' unimaginable distress, then I apologise from the bottom of my heart.\"\n\nThe sisters' family previously told of the \"devastating impact\" of their loss after their loved ones' bodies were found next to each other shortly after 13:00 BST on 7 June.\n\nThe IOPC is separately investigating how the Met handled calls from worried family and friends of the sisters after they went missing.\n\nImages recovered from their phones - which were found in a pond - showed the sisters dancing with fairy lights hours before they were killed\n\nAsked if she accepted criticism that there may have been an element of institutional racism in the police response to the double murder, Dame Cressida said: \"This is a horrible, horrible double murder of two beautiful young women.\n\n\"My heart goes out to their family. It is just appalling.\n\n\"We have an enormous investigation, very well resourced and using all the expertise not just in London but all across the country and beyond.\"\n\nPolice previously released pictures of senior social worker Ms Henry, from Brent in north-west London, and photographer Ms Smallman dancing with fairy lights before they were murdered.\n\nTheir last contact with friends and family was about 01:05, police said.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Paul Waterson from the Scottish Licensed Trade Association says pub owners are \"shocked and dismayed\" about today's announcement.\n\n\"We all expected that we would have a date for opening our beer gardens,\" he explains.\n\nHe adds: \"To be told today that not only we're not getting an opening date, but that we're not getting a review of it until 2 July has been a bit of a shock.\"\n\nHe says many businesses have spent a lot of money to get their outdoor areas ready for today.\n\nSandy Elrick, who runs the Bennachie Lodge in Aberdeenshire, says he is \"devastated\" by the news.\n\n\"We were all ready to go, we had done everything that was asked of us, we were ready to just push the button and go\", he tells Drivetime.\n\nHe says there was no indication pubs would not be able to open their beer gardens and he had been expected opening next would would be the worst case scenario.", "The Bank of England will pump an extra £100bn into the UK economy to help fight the \"unprecedented\" coronavirus-induced downturn.\n\nBank policymakers voted 8-1 to increase the size of its bond-buying programme.\n\nHowever, they said there was growing evidence that the hit to the economy would be \"less severe\" than initially feared.\n\nThe Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) also kept interest rates at a record low of 0.1%.\n\nThe move comes just days after Bank governor Andrew Bailey said policymakers were ready to take action after the economy suffered its biggest monthly contraction on record.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 20.4% in April, while official jobs data showed the number of workers on UK payrolls fell by more than 600,000 between March and May.\n\nThe Bank said more recent indicators suggested the economy was starting to bounce back.\n\nMinutes from the MPC's June meeting said: \"Payments data are consistent with a recovery in consumer spending in May and June, and housing activity has started to pick up recently.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Bailey warned that the outlook for the economy remained uncertain. He said: \"We don't want to get too carried away by this. Let's be clear, we're still living in very unusual times.\"\n\nThe minutes added: \"While recent demand and output data had not been quite as negative as expected, other indicators suggested greater risks around the potential for longer-lasting damage to the economy from the pandemic.\"\n\nBack in May, policymakers warned the economy was heading for its sharpest recession on record.\n\nScenarios drawn up by the Bank suggested the economy could shrink by 25% in the three months to June.\n\nHowever, the MPC said more recent evidence suggested the contraction would be less severe.\n\nThe extra monetary stimulus - known as quantitative easing (QE) - will raise the total size of the Bank's asset purchase programme to £745bn.\n\nPolicymakers said the injection would help to support financial markets and underpin the recovery.\n\nHowever, Andy Haldane, the Bank's chief economist, voted against the increase.\n\nHe said the recovery was happening \"sooner and materially faster\" than the Bank expected in May.\n\nPolicymakers said the jobs market was likely to remain weak for some time, with a risk of \"higher and more persistent unemployment\".\n\nMillions of workers have already seen their pay packets shrink as a result of lower pay for furloughed employees. A survey by the Bank said other companies had postponed or cancelled pay rises this year.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"Even with the relaxation of some Covid-related restrictions on economic activity, a degree of precautionary behaviour by households and businesses is likely to persist. The economy, and especially the labour market, will therefore take some time to recover towards its previous path.\"\n\nMr Bailey also addressed the recent fall in UK inflation in an open letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nInflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), fell to 0.5% in May, from 0.8% in April - well below the Bank of England's 2% target.\n\nMr Bailey said weak inflation had been by driven by falling oil and energy prices, as well as a global drop in economic activity.\n\nThe Bank expects inflation to return to target within two years.\n\nSamuel Tombs of Pantheon Macroeconomics expects the Bank to increase QE again later this year.\n\n\"Unemployment looks set to rise sharply in the second half of this year and to fall back slowly thereafter,\" he said.\n\n\"The resulting prolonged weakness in domestically generated inflation likely will necessitate the MPC doing more to stimulate the economy in the winter.\"\n\nThe Bank of England has increased its support for the economy, despite it assessing that the outlook is not quite as awful as its scenario last month. The economy is on course for a hit in the second quarter of about 20% compared with the final three months of 2019. That's still historic, and off the scale, but not quite as extreme as the 27% it predicted in May.\n\nThe extra £100bn of purchases of government bonds also has the air of an insurance policy.\n\nMost of the MPC were concerned about a couple of factors, A less awful outlook does not mean the recovery will be quick. This is for two reasons stretching beyond economics.\n\nThere is a fear that the \"prevalence of the virus\" in the UK will mean that Britons will continue to socially distance, voluntarily, holding back the recovery more than other nations (Germany would be an example).\n\nRelated to that was the idea that more QE now could mitigate the economic impact of \"higher rates of Covid-19 infection going forward\" - a second wave.\n\nSo the news is still bad, but less awful. But risks beyond the purely economic led to more billions being injected into the economy.", "Pub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London have apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean.\n\nMeanwhile, maritime insurance - which was focused on Lloyd's - thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.\n\nBoth organisations have apologised and Lloyd's has said it will donate to charities representing black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) groups.\n\nGreene King said it would make a \"substantial investment to benefit the BAME community\", after consulting with its staff on how this money can best be used.\n\nLloyd's and Greene King's moves were first reported by the Telegraph in the UK.\n\nLloyd's, which was founded in 1688, insured slave ships. It is often lauded as the world's leading insurance market, focusing on specialist areas, such as marine, energy and political risk.\n\nIn a statement, Lloyd's said: \"There are some aspects of our history that we are not proud of.\n\n\"In particular, we are sorry for the role played by the Lloyd's market in the 18th and 19th-Century slave trade.\"\n\n\"This was an appalling and shameful period of English history, as well as our own, and we condemn the indefensible wrongdoing that occurred during this period.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?\n\nLloyd's said it would provide financial support to charities and organisations promoting opportunity and inclusion for BAME groups.\n\nIt has also launched a number of new initiatives aimed at developing black and minority ethnic talent within the organisation.\n\n\"In recent years, Lloyd's has driven ahead with a series of positive programmes designed to improve culture across the market. We have made progress, but not enough.\"\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\n\"Racism - the ideology used to justify slavery - is a legacy that still shapes the life chances for people of African and Caribbean heritage in the UK,\" said Dr Katie Donington, a senior lecturer in history at the London South Bank University.\n\n\"It is an important step that firms with historical links to trans-Atlantic slavery are now beginning the process of acknowledging the past.\"\n\nWhile she welcomed the commitment by Lloyd's, she added: \"The offer of investment in BAME charities and organisations needs further scrutiny - how much will be invested and who will receive the money?\n\n\"This is a history which is specific to the black community and directing forms of reparative justice towards descendent groups must be the priority.\"\n\nWhile companies may have been reluctant to speak out in the past, the international outcry and huge demonstrations following Mr Floyd's death has made speaking up a \"business imperative\".\n\nDwayna Haley, a senior vice president at Porter Novelli, a communications firm that has advised companies such as McDonald's and Pepsi, previously told the BBC: \"What is driving this is the understanding that if we don't cater to the people that we serve, we could lose market share,\" she says. \"It is a strategic business move.\"\n\nBrewer and pub chain Greene King was originally founded in 1799 by Benjamin Greene, who owned highly-profitable plantations.\n\nHis son Edward took over control of the brewery in 1836 and it was renamed Greene King in 1887 after merging with a local brewery.\n\nWhen slavery was abolished in 1833, the UK government raised huge amounts for compensation. However, that money was not paid to those who had been enslaved, but was given instead to slave-owners for their \"loss of human property\".\n\nBenjamin Greene was one of thousands who received payment. Details of the sums are listed in a database held by the University College London (UCL).\n\nNick Mackenzie, Greene King's chief executive officer, said: \"It is inexcusable that one of our founders profited from slavery and argued against its abolition in the 1800s. While that is a part of our history, we are now focused on the present and the future.\"\n\nTo address the issue, the pub chain will \"make a substantial investment to benefit the BAME community and support our race diversity in the business\".\n\nRoyal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and HSBC were among a number of banks found by the Telegraph to be linked to the slave trade.\n\nFounded in Edinburgh in 1727, it also found evidence that suggested other partners of its predecessors may have been part-owners of \"ships involved in slave trading voyages during the 18th and early 19th Centuries\".\n\nThe UK government owns a 62% stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland today\n\n\"As an organisation with a history stretching back more than 300 years, these important and painful issues have a place in our history. We recognise our responsibility to engage with that\", RBS said in a statement.\n\nThe bank, currently majority-owned by the UK government, added that it had \"looked into its past links with slavery very extensively and thoroughly\", and would look at \"what more we can do as a bank\", including making financial contributions to BAME groups.\n\nA Lloyds Banking Group spokesperson said: \"A lot has changed during the 300-year history of our brands and while we have much within our heritage to be proud of, we can't be proud of it all. Like any institution that is so interwoven with our country's history, we must acknowledge and learn from our past.\"\n\nThey added that the firm would \"deliver better results for our colleagues and customers. This is our aim. We can do more, we can do better and we will do it together.\"\n\n\"The history of Barclays, like other institutions, is being examined following recent events. We can't change what's gone before us, only how we go forward,\" a Barclays spokesperson said.\n\n\"We are committed as a bank to do more to further foster our culture of inclusiveness, equality and diversity, for our colleagues, and the customers and clients we serve.\"\n\nHSBC did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment.", "A new leader and the end of Brexit as an election issue will not be enough for Labour to win back power, a review of the party's 2019 defeat has warned.\n\nThe Labour Together project says the party has a \"mountain to climb\" after slumping to its lowest number of seats since 1935 in December's poll.\n\nIt says the historic defeat had been a \"long time coming\" and deep-seated changes were needed.\n\nLabour will have been out of power for 14 years by the next election in 2024.\n\nThe Conservatives won December's election with a majority of 80, while Labour lost 59 seats and saw its vote share fall by eight points.\n\nLabour's defeat led to the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. He was replaced in April by Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThe Labour Together report, which was largely compiled before the coronavirus pandemic, warned that \"disunity and division within our party over time has badly damaged our electoral fortunes\".\n\nAnd the commissioners of the review agreed it would \"be a mistake to believe that a different leader, with Brexit no longer the defining issue, would in itself be sufficient to change Labour's electoral fortunes\".\n\nThe organisation, which describes itself as a network of activists from all Labour traditions, surveyed 11,000 members, held in-depth interviews with former MPs and party candidates, and spoke to polling experts and academics.\n\nIt identified a manifesto viewed as \"undeliverable\" by many voters, concerns about Mr Corbyn's leadership and the party's position on Brexit as the \"interlinked and indivisible\" factors behind the 2019 defeat.\n\nBut it says the party's problems run far deeper and its failure to properly analyse previous defeats \"sowed the seeds for our failure in 2019\".\n\nMr Corbyn has said Labour \"won the argument\" at last year's election but blamed media bias for the party's defeat and the fact that the campaign was dominated by Brexit.\n\nThe report paints a portrait of a party riven by \"factionalism\", \"internal arguments\" and \"division\".\n\nBut it issues a stark warning to those who believe that a change in both the party leadership and in the political landscape will necessarily bring Labour much closer to power.\n\nThe report says: \"It would be a mistake to believe that a different leader, with Brexit no longer the defining issue, would in itself be sufficient to change Labour's electoral fortunes.\"\n\nAnd this is perhaps the true value of the report for the new leadership - it serves as both a reality check for activists and an opportunity for the new regime to argue that a break for the past is necessary.\n\nIt declares that Labour has \"a mountain to climb\" - and the authors are clearly thinking of K2 rather than a Scottish munro.\n\nThe Labour Together review was headed by MP Lucy Powell - who ran Ed Miliband's unsuccessful 2015 election campaign, leading the party to win more seats than Mr Corbyn in 2019, but with a slightly lower vote share.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said Labour needed to address a long-standing \"disconnect\" with working-class voters to win again.\n\nThe \"red wall\" of seats in the party's traditional strongholds, she said, had \"been crumbling for twenty years\".\n\nShe said there was \"no sign yet that long-term decline is in any way abating,\" adding it could put a number of Labour MPs in formerly safe seats at risk in future.\n\nMr Miliband, who has returned to the shadow cabinet under Sir Keir and was a member of the Labour Together panel, said winning the next election would be a \"Herculean task\".\n\nWriting for the Guardian, he said the party's \"new core vote\" of younger graduates in big cities are \"not enough on their own to win us the election\".\n\nBut he said the party needed to maintain a commitment for \"economic transformation,\" adding this was desired by both Leave and Remain voters.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would stand down after the 2019 election loss\n\nThe report said responsibility for the defeat did not rest \"wholly with one side or part of our movement\".\n\nBut it said Mr Corbyn's low poll ratings going into the election could not \"easily be disentangled from the handling of issues like Brexit, party disunity and anti-Semitism\".\n\nMomentum, the campaign group formed out of Mr Corbyn's successful 2015 leadership bid, called the report a \"much needed contribution\" to the debate over Labour's future election strategy.\n\nA spokesperson said the party needed to \"professionalise the party machine,\" and better engage party members through \"community organising\".\n\nThey added the group was happy to offer its \"expertise\" in digital campaigning to help the party reach more voters online.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the report included:\n\nIn its recommendations, the report warned Labour could \"could fall further, unless it faces up to the disconnect between the party and the public and is realistic about the scale of the political and organisational task ahead\".\n\nIt said the party needed to \"build a winning coalition of voters which spans generations, geographies and outlooks\", while holding onto Labour's existing supporters and \"inspiring more younger voters\".", "A government minister has said the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app is \"not a priority\" and he was not sure it would be out by winter.\n\nThe app, which has been trialled on the Isle of Wight, was initially expected to launch nationally weeks ago.\n\nThe BBC can also reveal that the project's two lead managers - NHSX's Matthew Gould and Geraint Lewis - are stepping back.\n\nAnd Simon Thompson - a former Apple executive - is joining to manage it.\n\nMr Thompson is currently chief product officer at the online grocer Ocado. He has been appointed to Baroness Dido Harding's Test and Trace team, where he will have other duties in addition to the app.\n\nMr Gould and Mr Lewis had always expected to move back to their other duties this month, however they had intended for the app to have had its national rollout by now.\n\nLord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, said he was unable to give a date for its launch.\n\nBut he insisted that the trial \"has gone very well indeed\".\n\nHe was responding to questions at the Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday afternoon.\n\n\"We are seeking to get something going for the winter, but it isn't the priority for us at the moment,\" Lord Bethell said in answer to a question about the app.\n\nHe admitted that was \"an expectation of management answer, saying I can't give you a date\".\n\nLord Bethell said it was still the government's intention to launch it at some point.\n\nLord Bethell has just poured a bucket of icy water over the project that was supposed to be at the heart of the government's test-and-trace strategy.\n\nAt the beginning of May, the Health Secretary Matt Hancock said people had a duty to download the app, which was expected to be rolled out nationally by the end of the month.\n\nPlenty of people warned at an early stage that telling people via an app notification to go into quarantine might not work.\n\nNow it seems the Isle of Wight trial has confirmed that most prefer the more human touch of a phone call.\n\nThe team behind the app have an updated version ready to go which they feel addresses many of the concerns. But it looks as though ministers and the Test-and-Trace supremo Baroness Harding have decided to put the whole idea in the deep freeze. Don't bet on it coming back in the winter.\n\nHe also added that the trial on the Isle of Wight had shown that some people preferred humans to do the contact tracing.\n\n\"There is a danger of it being too technological and relying too much on text and emails, and alienating or freaking out people - because you're peddling quite alarming news through quite casual communication,\" he said.\n\nSince the launch of the trial phase six weeks ago, there have been few official updates about any expected timeline, and reports that ministers are considering switching systems.\n\nLord Bethell said that because the disease's prevalence was currently relatively low, \"we're not feeling under great time pressure, and therefore we're focusing on getting the right app\".\n\nHe added: \"I won't hide from you that there are technical challenges with getting the app right, and we are really keen to make sure that we get all aspects of it correct.\"\n\nHe also acknowledged that the public were highly concerned about the app, which he said was one reason an app had not been \"rushed\" out.\n\n\"If we didn't quite get it right the first time round, we might poison the pool and close down a really important option for the future.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The clashes involving demonstrators and police took place on Wednesday teatime\n\nNicola Sturgeon has condemned \"racist thugs\" as she described disorder in Glasgow city centre as \"disgraceful\".\n\nSix men have been arrested by police after two separate protest groups gathered in George Square.\n\nNational Defence League supporters went to the square saying they wanted to \"make and stand\" and \"protect the Cenotaph\".\n\nShortly afterwards activists from No Evictions Glasgow arrived for their planned demonstration.\n\nThey chanted \"refugees are welcome here\" before leaving the square.\n\nImages on social media showed some protestors clashing with police.\n\nBoth the first minister and Humza Yousaf, the Scottish justice secretary, used social media to condemn the scenes.\n\nThe first minister tweeted: \"Disgraceful scenes in Glasgow tonight. Racist thugs shame Scotland.\n\n\"If they break the law, they should face the full force of it. And all of us should unite to say that welcoming refugees and asylum seekers is part of who we are.\"\n\nMr Yousaf said on Twitter that he had been briefed on the incident by Police Scotland.\n\n\"Let's not mince our words, this has nothing to do with statues and everything to do with racist thuggery,\" he said.\n\n\"Police have made a number of arrests already and will continue to take all necessary action against those responsible.\"\n\nAhead of the protests, Ch Supt Mark Hargreaves urged people not to attend the events but follow government coronavirus lockdown guidelines.\n\nAfterwards, he said Police Scotland had an \"appropriate\" presence to ensure public safety.\n\n\"So far, six men have been arrested for minor public order offences and reports will be submitted to the procurator fiscal,\" he added.\n\n\"The majority of protesters have now left George Square and officers remain in the area for public reassurance.\n\n\"A review will be undertaken and should any further criminality be identified appropriate action will be taken.\"\n\nFour of the protestors who were arrested said they were in the square to protect the statues, while the other two men said they were attending the protest calling for better housing for asylum seekers.\n\nMeanwhile, No Evictions Glasgow accused \"far-right groups\" of trying to \"hi-jack\" their peaceful protest.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, they said their protest was about conditions facing people in the asylum system in Glasgow - not the cenotaph.\n\nThe group from Glasgow No Evictions were guided away from George Square by police", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A car driving the PM away from Prime Minister's Questions has been involved in a bump on leaving Parliament.\n\nBoris Johnson's convoy was involved in a minor collision outside Parliament when a protester ran towards the cars.\n\nThis forced the lead car in the convoy to brake suddenly causing the escorting vehicle to collide with the saloon car carrying Mr Johnson.\n\nA large dent was seen in the prime minister's Jaguar as the convoy drove off towards Downing Street.\n\nNo 10 confirmed Mr Johnson was in the car and said there are no reports of any injuries.\n\nAsked later about the incident, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said Mr Johnson was \"wholly unscathed\".\n\nThe car carrying the prime minister left Parliament Square with a large dent\n\nThe demonstrator had been protesting about Turkey's action against Kurdish rebels.\n\nThe police said a man was later arrested at the scene for offences under the Public Order Act and for obstructing the highway.\n\nThe prime minister was in Parliament on Wednesday, for the weekly Prime Minister's Question session.", "Matthew Wain admitted making threats to staff at City Hospital in Birmingham\n\nA YouTuber who filmed himself phoning a \"truly despicable\" bomb threat to a hospital dealing with Covid-19 patients has been jailed for 12 weeks.\n\nMatthew Wain, 31, said he hoped NHS staff at Birmingham City Hospital - where he had recently received treatment - \"die of coronavirus\".\n\nWain had admitted posting the \"grossly offensive\" footage on 29 March.\n\nBirmingham Magistrates' Court heard he was angry at a supposed lack of treatment at the start of lockdown.\n\nWain, of Hatfield Road, Birmingham, told an emergency department worker: \"Not being funny... after what I had done to me yesterday I would bomb the place, to be honest.\n\n\"After the way they spoke to me I hope they all die of the coronavirus because they would deserve it.\"\n\nThe 10-minute video containing the phone call was played to the court, as Wain laughed in the dock.\n\nIn the footage, which had 81,000 views, Wain introduced himself as a YouTuber and levelled various allegations against staff, made a racist remark, and asked to speak to the nurse in charge.\n\nDuring the rant, he said: \"This is going to go viral and it's getting put in the papers.\"\n\nWain has a previous conviction for a 2017 malicious communications offence involving gay bars in Norfolk, for which he was given a community order.\n\nDescribing the Covid-19-related comment on the video, District Judge Briony Clarke said: \"That's truly despicable, Mr Wain.\n\n\"There was the use of threats and you're fortunate you weren't charged with something more serious.\n\n\"Whilst we were sat here horrified at the contents of it, there were points when you were laughing.\"\n\nWain was also ordered to pay costs of £135 and a £122 surcharge.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils who have fallen behind during school closures are expected to be offered focused tuition as part of the government's catch-up plans.\n\nEngland's schools will receive funding for support through a national tutoring programme to run for up to three years.\n\nThe scheme will use proven tutoring organisations and charities, using volunteer and paid tutors.\n\nHead teachers support the plans but want to be able to use the service to supplement their own catch-up work.\n\nA pilot tutoring project, led by several social mobility groups including the Sutton Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation and Impetus, is looking at how best pupils affected by school closures can be supported.\n\nIt is expected that this will be rolled into a national tutoring service, but it is not known how many pupils will be supported or how much is being invested.\n\nThe scheme is likely to offer primary pupils support in maths and English in six-week blocks, while secondary pupils would be offered targeted help in specific subjects from specialist graduates and post-graduates.\n\nSummer activity schemes and emotional support are also set to be offered in the run up to schools re-opening in September.\n\nThe government said it was drawing up proposals for an extended catch-up last week, adding that they would involve all pupils, not just those from poor backgrounds who are believed to have fared worst during closures.\n\nNana, 17, from Enfield north London is aiming for a place at Cambridge to study human, social and political science.\n\nSince lockdown began, her tutor with the Access Project has been sending her sample exam questions which she does to time and sends back for feedback.\n\nWeekly face-to-face sessions with a graduate volunteer who works in finance in the City of London, have been keeping her on track.\n\nNana will apply for Cambridge next term\n\nAt first they focused on reading and discussing excerpts from key historical or political texts.\n\nNana's mum is a cleaner and her dad is a nursing assistant, and the idea that she could apply to one of the best universities in the world didn't occur to her until her mentor at the education charity, The Access Project suggested it at the start of Year 12.\n\n\"She said: 'You have the potential, you might as well try,'\" Nana remembers.\n\n\"I didn't know about the collegiate system, that you had to do an admissions test or an interview or how important the personal statement was,\" she says.\n\nThe Access Project has helped her get to grips with all that and drilled into her the importance of wider reading in order to get top grades in her A-levels in history, sociology and English literature.\n\nNow similar schemes could be rolled out to help other young people fulfil their potential at this difficult time.\n\nBoris Johnson said his Education Secretary Gavin Williamson would be setting out plans soon.\n\nThe government has been under intense pressure over its back to school policy.\n\nConcerns had been raised about the potential for a lost generation of learners, whose education will have been interrupted for at least six months even if schools return, as now planned, in September.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the Association of School and College Leaders, agrees there is evidence that high quality one-to-one tuition is beneficial but suspects \"the devil will be in the detail\".\n\n\"It is enormously frustrating that we haven't had the opportunity to discuss these points with the government ahead of an announcement and that we once again find ourselves having to guess what they will say.\"\n\nThe move comes after the education secretary ditched plans for all primary pupils to return to school before the summer break.\n\nHowever, pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 have been prioritised and are attending in many schools for at least part of the week.\n\nAnd pupils facing GCSEs and A-Levels next year are being invited into schools in smaller groups for time with their teachers over the next few weeks.\n\nBut this can be anything from a half hour catch-up appointment to a few hours' learning each week.\n\nThe Prime Minister has been accused of \"flailing around\" over schools.\n\nLabour leader Keir Starmer has called for a national recovery plan, saying the current plan to get pupils back to classrooms were \"lying in tatters\".\n\nSchool capacity is severely restricted by guidelines on social distancing.\n\nClasses have been divided into smaller groups of up to 15 pupils, depending on classroom size, which means only a fraction of children can be on site at any one time.\n\nSchools in Wales are re-opening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time,\n\nIn Scotland, schools are preparing to re-open on 11 August, and in Northern Ireland ministers are aiming to start bringing pupils back on 17 August.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock could be seen slapping a colleague on the back\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has been spotted slapping a colleague on the back in the House of Commons, despite social distancing measures in place to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nMr Hancock's moment of apparent forgetfulness happened as he arrived to Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nHe and other ministers have repeatedly urged the importance of people keeping two metres away from one another.\n\nMr Hancock said he was \"so sorry for a human mistake on my part\".\n\n\"Like all of us, I instinctively wanted to reach out to a friend I'd just seen - in this case, for the first time in many weeks. I realised my mistake and corrected myself,\" the health secretary said.\n\nHe said it shows how hard social distancing can be, but added it is \"so important that we all keep trying to do our bit\".\n\nIn a clip which quickly garnered thousands of views after it was posted on Twitter, the health secretary can be seen putting his arm across a colleague's shoulder as he enters the Commons.\n\nA third MP then comes and stands beside both of them, before the man in the middle steps back.\n\nMr Hancock then steps across to fill the gap to speak to the third MP, before moving back again.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Hortop This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Hancock announced he had tested positive for coronavirus in March - shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed his own positive test.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson had to spend several days in intensive care, Mr Hancock had mild symptoms.\n\nScientists have said it is likely that people who have already had the virus will have some immunity to it, but that everyone must still stick to social distancing rules.\n\nThe World Health Organization said in May that there was \"currently no evidence\" that people who have recovered from the virus are protected from a second infection.\n\nMr Hancock's back-slapped colleague stepped away when a third MP joined them\n\nSpeaking in the Commons after the slip-up, Mr Hancock defended why the government has not yet reduced social distancing from two metres to one metre - something many businesses have said will be crucial to their recovery as they reopen.\n\n\"It's the sort of thing of course we want to lift and we need to do that in a way that is careful and safe,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"The scientists are reviewing it, along with the economists, and we will take forward the further measures on this when it's possible and safe to do so.\"\n\nThe health secretary stepped over yellow-and-black tape - in place to help people to maintain social distancing - to greet another colleague\n\nA review into the two-metre rule will be completed \"in the coming weeks\", No 10 said on Monday.\n\nWorld Health Organization (WHO) guidelines suggest a one-metre distance sufficiently reduces the spread of the virus.\n\nBut the government's scientific advisers say that being one metre away from others carries up to 10 times the risk of being two metres apart.", "An undated photo of the Trump siblings, from left to right: Robert, Elizabeth, Fred, Donald and Maryanne\n\nUS President Donald Trump's niece is set to publish an unflattering tell-all memoir about him. So who is she and why has she come forward now?\n\nOn 28 July, Mary Trump is due to release Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, Simon & Schuster announced on Monday.\n\nThe book will hit the shelves just weeks before the Republican National Convention, when her uncle will accept the party's nomination for his re-election bid in November.\n\nThe memoir will reportedly reveal how she supplied the New York Times with confidential documents to print a sprawling investigation into Mr Trump's personal finances.\n\nThe Pulitzer Prize-winning exclusive alleged the president had been involved in \"fraudulent\" tax schemes and received more than $400m (£316m) in today's money from his father's real estate empire.\n\nAn Amazon blurb for the book says the author will set out how her uncle \"became the man who now threatens the world's health, economic security and social fabric\".\n\n\"She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr and Donald,\" it continues.\n\nThe blurb says the author will draw on her insights as a \"firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions\".\n\nThe memoir will also accuse the president of having \"dismissed and derided\" his father once he began to suffer from Alzheimer's.\n\nDonald Trump as a boy (far left) with siblings Fred, Elizabeth, Maryanne and Robert\n\nMary Trump, 55, is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr, the president's older brother, who died in 1981 at the age of 42.\n\nHe struggled with alcoholism for much of his life and his premature death was caused by a heart attack linked to his drinking.\n\nPresident Trump has cited his brother's personal problems as spurring his administration's push for tackling the scourge of opioid addiction.\n\nIn an interview last year with the Washington Post, Mr Trump said he regretted pressuring his older brother to join the family real estate business as he pursued dreams of becoming a pilot.\n\nMary Trump has largely avoided the limelight since her uncle became president, though she has been critical of him in the past.\n\nThe bad blood between them goes back at least 20 years to a lawsuit filed by her and her brother against their uncle and his siblings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump spoke in 2017 about his brother's battle with alcoholism\n\nIn 2000, Mary Trump and Fred Trump III sued to dispute the money left to them by the estate of Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump Sr.\n\nThey said the 1991 will was \"procured by fraud and undue influence\" on the part of Donald Trump and his siblings, as the family patriarch suffered dementia, according to the New York Daily News.\n\nMary Trump told the city tabloid that her aunt and uncles \"should be ashamed of themselves\" over the legal battle.\n\n\"Given this family, it would be utterly naive to say it has nothing to do with money,\" she told the newspaper at the time.\n\nMary Trump and her brother filed another lawsuit after their medical insurance provided by the Trump company was cancelled in apparent retaliation for the first legal action.\n\nThe case was eventually settled and details were not released, reports say.\n\nDonald and his father, Fred, in 1988 at The Plaza Hotel in New York City\n\nAccording to People magazine, public records show she was born Mary Lea Trump in May 1965 and lives on Long Island, New York.\n\nForbes magazine reports she earned a bachelor's in English Literature from Tufts University in Massachusetts and a master's in the same subject from Columbia University in New York.\n\nShe also did a PhD in clinical psychology at Adelphi University in New York.\n\nAccording to a now-deleted LinkedIn profile, Mary Trump is a certified professional life coach.\n\nIn 2012, she reportedly founded a New-York based company, the Trump Coaching Group.\n\nIts website says: \"Are you depressed and feeling low? Finding the true meaning of your life? If yes then our life coaches can bring you out from such dwindling situations.\"\n\nAccording to tweets attributed to her, Mary Trump appears to have been feeling low on the day of her uncle's 2016 election.\n\nAn account bearing her name has a post that says: \"This is one of the worst nights of my life.\"\n\nAnother tweet called the president's defeated rival, Hillary Clinton, \"an extraordinary human being and public servant\".\n\nThe Twitter account's bio contains the Black Lives Matter hashtag, a gay pride flag and the pronouns she/her/hers.", "A 14-year-old boy has appeared in court accused of trying to make homemade bombs containing shrapnel.\n\nThe teenager, from Eastleigh, was arrested on Friday after concerns were raised by social services.\n\nHe appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court charged with one count of preparation of a terrorist act.\n\nThe boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is thought to be the youngest person ever accused of planning a terrorist attack in the UK.\n\nThe defendant did not enter a plea and was remanded in youth detention.\n\nHe is next due to appear at the Old Bailey on Monday 22 June.\n\nThe court was told the boy had converted to Islam.\n\nIt is alleged he researched how to make explosives, constructed a series of devices with the aim of making them explosive devices containing shrapnel, and had recorded a video saying he wanted to be a martyr.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors and nurses in Russia have told the BBC about working with limited protective equipment Image caption: Doctors and nurses in Russia have told the BBC about working with limited protective equipment\n\nOn the face of it this was a stark announcement by the head of Russia’s healthcare watchdog. Alla Samoylova told an online seminar that 489 medical workers had died as a result of coronavirus, which would represent more than 6% of all Covid-19 deaths here.\n\nRoszdravdadzor later clarified that the figure referred to an unofficial but widely followed tally kept by medical professionals themselves, not official statistics. But we now know that the watchdog keeps a close eye on those numbers, and gives them credence.\n\nIn fact, the \"memorial list\", as it’s called, currently records 505 deaths, including healthcare workers from Ukraine and Belarus.\n\nThe last official count from the health ministry came three weeks ago and reported that 101 people had died.\n\nWhat looks like an abnormally high percentage of medics’ deaths probably partly reflects issues with overall fatality figures. Excess mortality statistics for Moscow in May show three times more deaths than the number so far officially attributed to coronavirus.\n\nThere has long been concern about the provision of protective gear (PPE) for hospital and ambulance staff. Doctors and nurses have described to us having to work with infected patients in regular, gauze masks, and hospital \"red zones\" that were not fully isolated. Most said the situation had later improved.", "One of two gravestones at the site has been smashed in two\n\nThe headstone of an African man who was enslaved in the 18th Century has been smashed in two.\n\nThe Grade II* listed grave of Scipio Africanus is in St Mary's Churchyard in Bristol.\n\nA local councillor said he believed it was a \"retaliation attack\" for the recent toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in the city.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it was investigating after receiving a report of criminal damage.\n\nThe force said it believed the damage occurred between 12:00 BST on Tuesday and 08:00 on Wednesday.\n\nScipio Africanus was an African servant of the 7th Earl of Suffolk.\n\nAn inscription on the brightly painted gravestone - which is one of two at the site in Henbury - says he died in the city in 1720 aged 18.\n\nA message was scrawled on the ground nearby\n\nA message left in chalk on the flagstones near the grave said: \"Now look at what you made me do.\n\n\"Put Colston's statue back or things will really heat up.\"\n\nConservative councillor Mark Weston, who represents Henbury on Bristol City Council, said he was \"deeply saddened by what is happening\".\n\n\"We have seen war memorials defaced and statues vandalised and I have to wonder where this will end,\" he said.\n\nBristol's elected mayor Marvin Rees appealed for people not to go down the route of \"tit-for-tat\" attacks.\n\nSpeaking during a Facebook Live Q&A, he said the \"iconic piece of Bristol's history\" had been \"smashed in two\".\n\n\"The opportunity is to showcase to the country and the world we are a city that has the ability to live with difference,\" he said.\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was pushed into the harbour after being toppled by protesters\n\nHistorians believe Scipio Africanus may have been born into the household of 7th Earl of Suffolk, Charles Howard, and was the son of an enslaved West African woman, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.\n\nHe was named by his \"owners\" after the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus.\n\nThe Colston statue was torn down and dumped in Bristol's harbour during anti-racism protests earlier this month.\n\nIt has since been pulled from the water and is expected to be given a new home in a city museum.\n\nThere have been several other protests calling for statues and monuments celebrating controversial figures in the UK to be taken down or amended.\n\nThis includes governors at Oxford's Oriel College voting on Wednesday to remove a statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes, and a statue of slave trader Robert Milligan being removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands last week.", "Dame Vera Lynn, who has died at the age of 103, was Britain's wartime Forces' Sweetheart, and remained one of the country's most potent symbols of resilience and hope.\n\nWith songs such as We'll Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover, she inspired both troops abroad and civilians at home during World War Two.\n\nAs Britain's cities came under attack, her wistful songs, with their messages of yearning and optimism, were heard in millions of British homes.\n\nAnd 75 years later, the country turned to her once again as it faced another stern test.\n\nShe was born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917 in the London suburb of East Ham, the daughter of a plumber.\n\nShe discovered her talent for singing at an early age and was performing in local clubs when she was seven. By the time she was 11, she had abandoned school for a full-time career as a dancer and singer in a touring music hall revue.\n\nShe had also adopted a new stage name, Vera Lynn, borrowing her grandmother's maiden name.\n\nShe regularly broadcast with Britain's biggest bands in the 1930s\n\nShe was a soloist by the age of 16, fronting a number of bands. Lynn was self-effacing, unlike many of the singing stars of the day, and her gentle persona quickly endeared her to audiences.\n\nHer broadcasting debut came in 1935, singing with the Joe Loss Orchestra, which led to regular radio appearances and widened her circle of fans.\n\nBut in 1939, war intervened. As families gathered around the wireless to listen to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's announcement that Britain was at war with Germany, Lynn remembered thinking: \"Oh well, bang goes my career.\"\n\nBut when she volunteered for war work, she was told the best thing she could do was to keep on being an entertainer.\n\nThis was reinforced when, in a 1939 poll by the Daily Express, she was voted by servicemen as their favourite entertainer, and gained her Forces' Sweetheart nickname.\n\nIn the same year, she first sang We'll Meet Again, the song that more than any other came to be associated with World War Two.\n\nShe thought it was vital to bring a touch of home to the troops\n\nIts underlying message of hope - that scattered families would eventually be reunited after the conflict - struck a chord with troops abroad and their relatives at home.\n\nHer down-to-earth style quickly established her as the public's favourite antidote to the misery of the blackout and the Blitz.\n\nWith appearances at the London Palladium and Holborn Empire, Vera Lynn proved a national tonic in the anxious days at the beginning of the war.\n\nIn 1941 she married musician Harry Lewis. \"I don't think I thought much of him at first,\" she later said. \"He wooed me with chewing gum.\" But the union lasted six decades until his death. Lewis also became her manager.\n\nShe was given her own radio programme and, thanks to the BBC's shortwave transmitters, could be heard across the world.\n\nLynn spent the war years entertaining the troops, performing in hospitals and army camps, and travelling as far as India and Burma. She stayed in tents and grass huts, and \"went goodness knows how long without a bath\".\n\nOf her journeys to such threatening territory, she explained: \"It was so important to get entertainment to the boys.\"\n\nBing Crosby was one of many stars who appeared on her BBC TV shows\n\nVera Lynn's success continued well into peacetime and, in 1952, she became the first British artist to have a number one hit in America with the song Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart.\n\nAnd two years later, she had her only British number one single with My Son, My Son.\n\nShe never retired and was always happy to move in new directions, notably with a cover of Abba's Thank You For The Music. However, it was plain that the public, including those born long after the war, wanted to hear her perform her classic songs.\n\nIn 2009, at the age of 92, Lynn became the oldest living artist to top the British album chart, outselling both the Arctic Monkeys and the Beatles, with whom she shared the top 10.\n\nThe singer had a realistic approach to her fame. \"I don't live in the past,\" she once said, \"even though I have never been allowed to forget it.\"\n\nShe appeared on stage during the 60th anniversary commemorations for VE Day in 2005\n\nIn 1976 Lynn was made a dame and in 2000 she was named as the Briton who best exemplified the spirit of the 20th Century.\n\nAs well as making frequent appearances at veterans' reunions, Lynn was a tireless charity worker for hundreds of organisations. In 1992 she founded the Dame Vera Lynn School for Parents and Handicapped Children.\n\nShe performed in front of thousands of people outside Buckingham Palace to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in 1995, and put in an appearance at the next anniversary concert 10 years later.\n\nIn a 2005 speech, she remarked: \"We should always remember, we should never forget, and we should teach the children to remember.\"\n\nThis photo was released on Dame Vera's 103rd birthday in March\n\nBy the time the 75th anniversary of VE Day approached, the impression made by Dame Vera's songs and contribution was shown to be as deep as ever. The UK was facing another crisis - and a virus, rather than a foreign army, was the foe this time.\n\nIn a televised address in April, the Queen evoked Dame Vera's wartime message, assuring families and friends who were separated during the coronavirus pandemic: \"We will meet again.\"\n\nJust two weeks earlier, Dame Vera herself had sent a message on her 103rd birthday, calling on the British public to find \"moments of joy\" during these \"hard times\".\n\nThen in May, We'll Meet Again was used during the finale of the BBC's coverage of the VE Day anniversary. Dame Vera appeared in a virtual duet with Katherine Jenkins, while key workers also joined in with the song.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThat led an album that had been released for her 100th birthday - featuring contributions from younger singers including Alfie Boe, Alexander Armstrong and Cynthia Erivo - to re-enter the UK top 40.\n\nAfter a lifetime of service to her country, Dame Vera was still held as the embodiment of the best of the British spirit.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he does not think the song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the Rugby Football Union announced it would review its use.\n\nThe RFU said many people were not aware of the song's links with slavery.\n\nBut the PM said people should focus less on symbols and more on the substance of racism.\n\nMr Johnson said he did not think there should be \"any sort of prohibition\" on singing the song.\n\nHe added: \"Frankly I think what people need to do is focus less on the symbols of discrimination... all these issues that people are now raising to do with statues and songs and so on - I can see why they're very emotive, I understand that.\n\n\"But what I want to focus on is the substance of the issue.\"\n\nHe added that he \"certainly didn't think there should be any sort of prohibition on singing [Swing Low, Sweet Chariot]\".\n\n\"Nobody, as far as I'm concerned, seems to know the words,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Before we start complaining about Swing Low, Sweet Chariot I'd like to know what the rest of the words are.\"\n\nFormer rugby league and union wing Martin Offiah, who was playing during the song's first known use at Twickenham in 1987, has welcomed the RFU review but does not want it banned either.\n\nOffiah told Radio 5 live: \"The song is not really what the issue is here - the issue is about diversity and inclusion.\n\n\"I think this is the first step as we progress towards change.\"\n\nThe song is believed to have been sung at rugby clubs since the 1960s but came to prominence at Twickenham in 1987, when Offiah played in the Middlesex Sevens tournament.\n\nIt is thought Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was written in the mid-19th century by Wallace Willis, who was a black slave.\n\n\"It's definitely an emotional piece of music, very emotive, it stirs up feelings and that's probably something to do with its history,\" Offiah said.\n\n\"That history is probably not that well known by a lot of people in the UK. I champion the RFU reviewing it, I wouldn't support the banning of such a song. When you do try to ban things like that it just makes the song more divisive.\n\n\"If this review leads to the RFU putting a positive spin on this song, engaging with ethnic communities, looking at the rooms where decisions are made in the RFU and addressing those issues, that's what we actually want.\"\n\nFormer England captain Maxine Edwards believes the RFU has bigger issues to face than fans' use of the song.\n\nEdwards said: \"I think it is interesting that the RFU has decided to review this song and have discussions about its appropriateness, as part of their bigger process of reviewing their approach to the representation of people of BAME backgrounds within their organisational structure at all levels and taking part in their sport.\n\n\"I would, however, ask why this is the first thing that they have on their list to review as part of this review process?\n\n\"It is complicated, but it is really by no means the biggest issue that the RFU needs to address.\"\n\nEngland's Maro Itoje, who spoke about rugby and race on the Rugby Union Weekly podcast, recently said the song had a \"complicated\" background .\n\nLast week World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi - the only black person on the RFU council - said that the death of George Floyd in the United States had led to \"powerful conversations\".\n\nRFU chief executive Bill Sweeney has promised to increase diversity in the organisation, saying: \"We have undertaken some very good initiatives at the grassroots level to encourage more diverse participation. However, that in itself is not enough.\n\n\"We need to do more to achieve diversity across all areas of the game, including administration.\"\n• Football Daily: When will the Champions League restart?", "The boy is set to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been charged with plotting an \"Islamist\" terror attack, police have said.\n\nThe teenager, from Eastleigh, who cannot be named, faces one count of preparation of terrorist acts.\n\nHampshire Police, which arrested the boy on 12 June, said it believed the investigation was \"isolated\". The boy was later re-arrested by counter-terror police.\n\nHe is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grace Millane's family have donated hundreds of care packages to hospitals in her memory\n\nThe family of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane have described plans to outlaw the \"rough sex gone wrong\" defence as \"fantastic news\".\n\nMiss Millane, from Essex, was killed in New Zealand in December 2018.\n\nHer killer said she died accidentally after asking to be strangled during sex, but his defence was rejected and he was convicted of her murder.\n\nMinister Alex Chalk said it would be made clear in the Domestic Abuse Bill the defence was not acceptable.\n\nThe new legislation is due to come into force in England and Wales later this year.\n\nA man from New Zealand was convicted last November of murdering Miss Millane, from Wickford.\n\nHer cousin said it was \"horrendous\" to have to listen to his lies during the court case.\n\nHannah O'Callaghan said: \"It felt like Grace was on trial, yet not able to defend herself.\"\n\nGrace's cousin Hannah O'Callaghan (left) and mother Gillian Millane (right) have donated thousands of handbags to refuges in her memory\n\nShe said of the planned new law: \"It won't change things for us but hopefully it will stop any other family having to go through this.\n\n\"Men must not be allowed to use this defence as an excuse to kill women, knowing they can get a lesser sentence.\n\n\"Families won't have to sit and listen to only one side of the story while the victim is re-victimised and does not get the chance to tell their side.\"\n\nMiss Millane's death provoked an outpouring of anger, partly because of her killer's attempts to explain her death. Personal details about the 22-year-old's sex life were discussed in court and reported around the world.\n\nGrace Millane's murder provoked an outpouring of anger, partly because of her killer's attempts to explain her death\n\nThe case led to increased concerns about the defence and a campaign group formed to put pressure on ministers to ban it.\n\nFiona Mackenzie, founder of the We Can't Consent To This campaign, said she was \"extremely thrilled\" by the announcement and was waiting to see the proposals.\n\nMs Millane's family said they wanted to create a positive legacy from her death. They have set up an initiative called Love Grace x to help domestic abuse victims.\n\nThey have donated thousands of handbags packed with toiletries to refuges across the world, and have also been making care packages for patients, nurses, doctors and carers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nGrace Millane's family have been making care packages for patients, nurses, doctors and carers battling coronavirus\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None Press — We Can't Consent To This The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A giant teddy bear has been cheering up people up on a Cornish street for 50 days of lockdown.\n\nEach day 'Paws' was given a different theme and accompanied by a motivational message written on his whiteboard on Paul's Row in Truro.\n\nThe family behind the idea say they decided to put him outside at the start of lockdown to make people smile on their daily walk and soon realised people wanted to see more of him.\n\nHe even has his own Facebook page .\n\nQuote Message: \"We just put the bear out one morning and had loads of people say they loved it so we did it again and then 50 days later here we are. We have had lots of letters and cards to say how grateful people are and people changed their walk routes to visit Paws daily.\" from Lauren Turner \"We just put the bear out one morning and had loads of people say they loved it so we did it again and then 50 days later here we are. We have had lots of letters and cards to say how grateful people are and people changed their walk routes to visit Paws daily.\"", "In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google.\n\nThe Apple-Google design has been promoted as being more privacy-focused.\n\nHowever, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data.\n\nThe government now intends to launch an app in the autumn, however it says the product may not involve contact tracing at that point.\n\nInstead the software may be limited to enabling users to report their symptoms and order a test.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace programme - will only give the green light to actually deploying the Apple-Google technology if she judges it to be fit for purpose, which she does not believe is the case at present. It is possible this may never happen.\n\nGermany, Italy and Denmark are among other countries to have switched from a so-called \"centralised\" approach to a \"decentralised\" one.\n\nThe NHS has been testing both systems against each other, over the course of the past month.\n\nThe centralised version trialled on the Isle of Wight worked well at assessing the distance between two users, but was poor at recognising Apple's iPhones.\n\nSpecifically, the software registered about 75% of nearby Android handsets but only 4% of iPhones.\n\nBy contrast, the Apple-Google model logged 99% of both Android mobiles and iPhones. But its distance calculations were weaker.\n\nIn some instances, it could not differentiate between a phone in a user's pocket 1m (3.3ft) away and a phone in a user's hand 3m (9.8ft) away.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested the original plan might have worked had it not been for Apple's restrictions on third-party apps' use of Bluetooth.\n\nMr Hancock said he would not recommend use of a contact-tracing app \"unless I'm confident in it\"\n\n\"Apple software prevents iPhones being used effectively for contact tracing unless you're using Apple's own technology,\" he said.\n\n\"Our app won't work because Apple won't change that system... and their app can't measure distance well enough to a standard that we are satisfied with.\n\n\"What matters is what works. Because what works will save lives.\"\n\nBaroness Harding added: \"What we've done in really rigorously testing both our own Covid-19 app and the Google-Apple version is demonstrate that none of them are working sufficiently well enough to be actually reliable to determine whether any of us should self-isolate for two weeks [and] that's true across the world.\"\n\nIn response, Google noted that it and Apple had developed an application programming interface - a set of functions and procedures for others to build on - rather than a fully-fledged app.\n\n\"We have developed an Exposure Notification API with Apple based on consultation with public health experts around the world, including in the UK, to ensure that our efforts are useful to authorities as they build their own apps to limit the spread of Covid-19, while ensuring privacy and security are central to the design,\" added a spokeswoman.\n\nThe latest developments come a day after the BBC revealed that a former Apple executive, Simon Thompson, was taking charge of the late-running project as part of Baroness Harding's team.\n\nContact-tracing apps are designed to help prevent a second wave of the coronavirus.\n\nThey work by logging when two people have been in close proximity to each other for a substantial period of time.\n\nIf one of the users is later diagnosed as having the disease, an alert can be sent to others they have recently been close to, telling them that they should also get tested and/or self-isolate.\n\nThe UK's previous \"centralised\" design carried out the contact-matches on a remote server.\n\nThe Apple-Google model carries the process out on the handsets themselves, making it more difficult for the authorities or potentially hackers to de-anonymise the records and use them for other means.\n\nOne advantage of the switch - if deployed - is that the NHS Covid-19 app would be able to overcome a limitation of iPhones and carry out Bluetooth \"handshakes\" when the software is running in the background.\n\nAnother is that it should be easier to make the app compatible with other countries' counterparts, which are based on the same system - including the Republic of Ireland and Germany.\n\nEarlier in the week, the European Commission said that France - which had adopted a centralised app - would face challenges in this regard.\n\n\"This is a welcome, if a heavily and unnecessarily delayed, move,\" commented Dr Michael Veale from the DP3T group, which promotes the decentralised model.\n\n\"The Google-Apple system in a way is home-grown: originating with research at a large consortium of universities led by Switzerland and including UCL in the UK.\"\n\nHe added that developers should be able to adapt code already being used by Germany and Switzerland if required.\n\nIf Baroness Harding decides the Apple-Google tech is never good enough to roll out, then another alternative might be a system based on wearable tech.\n\nSingapore recently ordered 300,000 dongles to test as an alternative. Rather than uploading data over the internet, users will physically hand them over if they test positive for the virus, allowing recent contacts to be flagged.\n\nBaroness Harding's team is monitoring it and other innovations, but for now intends to focus on manual contact tracing carried out by humans.\n\nWhile the government is still set to launch an app of some kind across England, health is a devolved issue.\n\nAs a consequence, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have still to commit to the initiative.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the UK government to gather the information we need on data integration, technical information and overall timescales before making any decisions on whether or not to support its use,\" a spokesman for the Scottish government told the BBC.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Northern Ireland Executive added: \"People in Northern Ireland already have access to a symptom checker and advice app called Covid-19 NI, which more than 50,000 have downloaded and use regularly. This helps people to improve access to information, particularly when they have been advised to self-isolate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n• None What is contact tracing and how does it work? Video, 00:03:37What is contact tracing and how does it work?", "Protesters have been calling for an Oxford college's statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed\n\nOriel College in Oxford has announced that it wants to take down the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes.\n\nThe governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday to remove the statue of the colonialist.\n\nCampaigners have called for the statue to be taken down - saying it was a symbol of imperialism and racism.\n\nThe removal is not expected to be immediate - as the college says there will need to be consultations over planning regulations.\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaigners said the announcement was \"hopeful\", but warned they would remain cautious until the college had actually carried out the removal.\n\nIn a statement, campaigners said that until the \"Rhodes statue ceases to adorn the facade of Oriel College on Oxford's High Street\" there would still be protests over \"imperial and colonial iconography\" in university buildings.\n\nOriel College's governors said the decision had been reached \"after a thoughtful period of debate and reflection\" - and in \"full awareness of the impact these decisions are likely to have in Britain and around the world\".\n\nThe college is to launch an \"independent commission of inquiry\" into the legacy of Cecil Rhodes, which also includes scholarships at the university.\n\nProtesters in Oxford said the statue was no longer acceptable\n\nThe commission, to be headed by Carole Souter, will also consider wider issues, such as support for black and ethnic minority students and a commitment to \"diversity\" - and will consult with groups including students, local people, councillors and the Rhodes Must Fall campaigners.\n\nSusan Brown, leader of Oxford City Council, backed the decision to take down the statue - and said the college's inquiry would be a chance to decide where the statue will \"best be curated in future\".\n\nThe fate of the statue has divided opinion.\n\nLabour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy called it the \"right decision\" on Twitter, adding that it was \"time to take figures like Rhodes down off their pedestals\".\n\nAlan Rusbridger, principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, also welcomed the decision, tweeting: \"I hope they can find a good home for him where we can discuss him rather than (appear to) venerate him.\"\n\nHowever, former Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan tweeted that \"Rhodes's generosity allowed thousands of young people to enjoy an education they could not otherwise have had\".\n\n\"Why would anyone give to an institution that treats its benefactors this way?\" he asked.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday the universities minister had spoken against calls to remove the statue.\n\nMichelle Donelan said it would be \"short sighted\" to try to \"rewrite our history\" - and rejected attempts to \"censor or edit\" the past.\n\n\"I want to be really clear that racism is abhorrent and shouldn't be tolerated anywhere in our society, and that includes universities,\" she told a Higher Education Policy Institute event.\n\nMs Donelan said she was opposed to the renaming of buildings named after the 19th Century statesman, William Gladstone, or the removal of the Rhodes statue.\n\nProtesters on the streets of Oxford have called for the statue to be taken down, saying that it represented imperialist values that were no longer acceptable.\n\nBut last week the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, gave little support for removing the statue - and warned against \"hiding\" the past.\n\n\"My own view on this is that hiding our history is not the route to enlightenment,\" Prof Richardson told the BBC.\n\n\"We need to understand this history and understand the context in which it was made and why it was that people believed then as they did,\" she said.\n\n\"This university has been around for 900 years. For 800 of those years the people who ran the university didn't think women were worthy of an education. Should we denounce those people?\n\n\"Personally, no - I think they were wrong, but they have to be judged by the context of their time,\" said Prof Richardson.", "Companies that benefited from slavery must go further than apologising, the chairman of the Caribbean Reparations Commission has said.\n\nMany British and European firms and their predecessors \"drank from the well of Caribbean slavery\", said Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles in a Reuters interview.\n\nThe comments came as several financial institutions apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nHe called on British firms to fund development projects in the Caribbean.\n\n\"Unfortunately, one cannot go back and remake the history but you can make atonement: it is not enough to make your apology as a public spectacle, it is not enough to present it as public relations exercise,\" said Prof. Beckles, who is vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies.\n\nThe historian added that British institutions should sit down with Caribbean nations to fund development projects. Alternatively, they could consider a type of \"Marshall Plan\" - a reference to the US aid given to Europe after World War Two.\n\n\"All the institutions that created this mess really have to come and help in practical ways to clean it up,\" he said.\n\nThe Bank of England and the Church of England have apologised for the role that some of their senior figures played in the slave trade. The Daily Telegraph, which first reported the news, said the Church called its links a \"source of shame\".\n\nThe Bank said it would ensure that images of former governors who were involved in the slave trade are not displayed in its buildings.\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\n\"Racism - the ideology used to justify slavery - is a legacy that still shapes the life chances for people of African and Caribbean heritage in the UK,\" said Dr Katie Donington, a senior lecturer in history at the London South Bank University.\n\n\"It is an important step that firms with historical links to trans-Atlantic slavery are now beginning the process of acknowledging the past.\"\n\nIn 2006, the Church voted to apologise to the descendants of victims of the slave trade.\n\nIts missionary arm, the Society for the Propagation of the Christian Religion in Foreign Parts (SPG), inherited three sugar estates in the Caribbean.\n\nThe plantation was run for the Church by professional planters, but its profits went to the missionary group. Slaves working on the estate were branded on their chests with the word \"society\".\n\nAnd now, the Telegraph has reported that nearly 100 clergymen also benefitted individually from slavery.\n\n\"While we recognise the leading role clergy and active members of the Church of England played in securing the abolition of slavery, it is a source of shame that others within the Church actively perpetrated slavery and profited from it,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nWhen slavery was abolished in 1833, the UK government raised huge amounts for compensation. However, that money was not paid to those who had been enslaved, but was given instead to slave-owners for their \"loss of human property\".\n\nA database compiled by University College London shows that at least 11 former Bank governors and 16 early directors either benefitted from those payments or had links to the slave trade.\n\n\"There can be no doubt that the 18th and 19th Century slave trade was an unacceptable part of English history,\" a Bank spokeswoman said.\n\n\"As an institution, the Bank of England was never itself directly involved in the slave trade, but is aware of some inexcusable connections involving former governors and directors and apologises for them.\"\n\nShe said the Bank had started a \"thorough review\" of its image collection to ensure no pictures of anyone involved in the slave trade remained on display.\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\nVideos showed Mr Floyd, who was unarmed and in handcuffs, dying after a white policeman knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nOn Wednesday, pub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London also apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean, while the maritime insurance business, which centred around Lloyd's, thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.", "The UK's biggest building society has tripled the minimum deposit it will ask for from first-time buyers.\n\nThe Nationwide will lower its ceiling for mortgage lending to new customers in response to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt said the change, from Thursday, was due to \"these unprecedented times and an uncertain mortgage market\".\n\nFirst-time buyers are likely to be the most significantly affected because they often have smaller amounts saved to get on the property ladder.\n\nNationwide has reduced the proportion of a home's value that is willing to lend from 95% to 85%.\n\nSo for example, if a property costs £100,000, a new buyer would now need a £15,000 deposit rather than a £5,000 deposit.\n\nNationwide made the move in case house prices fall and buyers go into negative equity - that is when the debt is greater than the value of the property.\n\nBut it was also to cut the risk of customers not being able to make repayments if they lose their jobs.\n\n\"Our priority at this time must be to help members keep their homes. As such, we need to ensure our members can afford their repayments, while doing what we can to protect them from falling into negative equity,\" said Henry Jordan, Nationwide director of mortgages.\n\nAfter the elation over the re-opening of the housing market, Nationwide's move to limit how much we can borrow will bring everyone down to earth.\n\nIf there is a downward lurch in house prices, recent buyers with big loans will be in serious danger of slipping into negative equity.\n\nAnyone who has been there in previous recessions will tell you it is stressful experience, and not just because of the usual worry about meeting the monthly payments.\n\nYou can feel trapped, because if you sell you make a loss. Plus, there is virtually no prospect of getting another loan to move up the ladder.\n\nOf course, people who are priced out the market will welcome cheaper property, if that is what happens.\n\nBut Nationwide is saying that it is time to \"protect\" us from risking too much to get a dream home.\n\nDavid Hollingworth, associate director of communications at L&C Mortgages, said that Nationwide was following many other major UK mortgage lenders.\n\n\"The market has been changing quickly,\" he said. When the lockdown started, many institutions dramatically dropped the percentage of a property's price they were willing to lend: this is known as the loan-to-value ratio.\n\nAs the housing market has reopened, those maximum loan-to-value ceilings have been rising again, but not up to Nationwide's previous level of 95%.\n\nIn a sense, Nationwide is now \"running with the rest of the pack\", Mr Hollingworth said.\n\nSome lenders, such as HSBC, still have mortgages with a 90% loan-to-value ratio.\n\nHowever, there is more demand for that type of mortgage than many banks have the capacity to deal with at the moment, he said.\n\nEmma Harvey, mortgages director at MoneySuperMarket, said: \"It's getting harder to borrow money to buy a house, as providers look to limit risk in these uncertain times, and Nationwide is the latest example of this.\n\n\"In addition, there are also fewer mortgage products out there to choose from. For example, whilst 90% [loan-to-value] mortgages were commonplace at the start of 2020, only a handful of lenders are still offering these, and even then only with restrictions.\"\n\nMs Harvey said that it has always been a good idea to have as large a deposit as you can save.\n\n\"If you're looking to get on the housing market, you should review your finances, look for areas of savings and be realistic about when you will be in a position to purchase a property.\n\n\"But with the Bank of England base rate so low, there are some great deals out there at the moment for people with a healthy deposit,\" she added.", "Around the world, major countries are unveiling new contact-tracing apps as they emerge from lockdown.\n\nGermany has just launched a decentralised app based on the Apple and Google platform. Switzerland, Ireland and Austria are testing theirs. And Japan is said to be unveiling something similar, with the help of Microsoft, later this week.\n\nSo the inhabitants of an island just off the south coast of England could be forgiven for asking - has everybody forgotten about us?\n\nSix weeks ago, a trial of the NHS contact-tracing app was launched on the Isle of Wight with great fanfare. Islanders were urged to download it, almost as a patriotic duty - with the prospect that successful testing would lead to a national rollout, at least across England, a couple of weeks later.\n\nThe NHS team was quick to claim early success with over 55,000 downloads, something like 60% of the people whose mobile phones were capable of downloading it.\n\nAs the weeks went by islanders were assured that much was being learned, even if this early version of the app was quite limited - it sends rather vague messages to people who might have been in contact with someone who has reported symptoms.\n\nThen everything went quiet.\n\nThere was no information about the data that had been gathered - how many alerts had been sent out, how people had reacted.\n\nA new version of the app with more questions about symptoms and with test requests and results integrated into the process was due to have been launched last Tuesday, but the date came and went without any update.\n\nMeanwhile, both ministers and Baroness Dido Harding, who is running the wider Test and Trace programme, have stonewalled questions about the app.\n\n\"App? What app? Oh that thing that we were so excited about back in April…,\" characterises a typical response.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nThe best thing they can say about it is that it will be the cherry on the cake of contact tracing, rather than the cake itself. As for a timetable, they are no longer willing to provide one.\n\nThis has left the people of the Isle of Wight somewhat baffled.\n\nAmong them is a man who has spent a career building commercial apps and knows a bit about the complexities of a launch.\n\nIn late May, Steve Clark, who now runs a tech consultancy from the Isle of Wight, blogged some suggestions for making the NHS app more engaging.\n\nMr Clark suggested the app needed to do more to ensure that people kept it active on their phones\n\nHe told me that a large proportion of the population had been enthusiastic about getting involved in the trial.\n\n\"We were excited and proud,\" he says, \"to be doing our bit for the effort, and to be involved with testing what we assumed was going to be a major plank of getting on top of the virus, and keeping on top of it, as we come out of lockdown.\"\n\nBut he says that enthusiasm has waned because people just don't know what is going on.\n\nHe puts that down, partly, to one of the key problems with a lack of \"hand-holding\" in the app to guide people through it, coupled with the fact that there is no incentive to look at it every day.\n\nSteve still has the NHS app on his phone, but says it seems that others have deleted it.\n\n\"Just as you're trying to get something that would roll out nationally, you've actually got people on the trial wanting to remove it - and I think that was substantially because there was no support framework and feedback loop.\"\n\nAnother islander, who did not want to be named, told the BBC their concern was about what the alerts from the app meant: \"Currently wishing I hadn't downloaded it. It lacks information - not knowing where this mysterious contact is, or was, and even if they have had a test.\"\n\nThe irony is that the team behind the NHS app believe that version two, which should have been out on the island by now, will deal with many of these issues. But they seem to be as much in the dark as anyone else as to when it will be rolled out.\n\nIsle of Wight MP Bob Seely says there is some evidence from the trial that it may have helped suppress the virus.\n\n\"I look forward to the island getting an update from the Trace and Test leadership team very soon, so that we know what is happening with the app,\" he says.\n\nAnd the fact that others are rolling out apps while the NHS project seems becalmed, might not be quite as embarrassing as it seems.\n\nAll the signs are that every country is finding it a struggle to prove that Bluetooth contact-tracing apps, whether centralised or decentralised, can really be effective.\n\nA poll in Germany found only 42% of people saying they would download the Covid-Warn app, while 46% said they would not.\n\nMeanwhile, Singapore appears to have decided that a wearable device is more likely to prove an effective method of contact tracing than its TraceTogether app, which has suffered from low uptake and technical glitches.\n\nNevertheless the UK, which a couple of months ago appeared to be a pioneer in this technology, now looks like an also-ran.\n\n\"Where the Isle of Wight goes, Britain follows,\" said the Health Secretary Matt Hancock when he announced the trial.\n\nBut, so far, people on the island could be excused for thinking the app is taking them on the road to nowhere.", "A child who died at Sheffield Children's Hospital on Monday tested positive for Covid-19\n\nA 13-day-old baby with no known underlying health conditions has died with Covid-19, NHS England has said.\n\nThe baby is thought to be the youngest to die with the disease in the UK.\n\nIt comes as Sheffield Children's Hospital confirmed a child died on Monday after being admitted in a critical condition.\n\nThe hospital, which has not confirmed the child's age, said the victim tested positive for Covid, but the cause of death was yet to be determined.\n\nEarlier it was announced a further 62 people aged between 13 days and 96 years, who tested positive for coronavirus, had died in hospitals in England.\n\nThe 13-day-old baby was the only person under 20 years of age recorded as dying.\n\nIn a statement, Sheffield Children's Hospital, said: \"Sadly on Monday June 15, a child passed away... having been brought in to the hospital in a critical condition. Attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.\n\n\"The cause of death is not yet known. Tests have confirmed that the child had Covid-19, but it isn't yet clear if it was a contributing factor.\"\n\nPreviously, the youngest person to have died with the virus in the UK with no pre-existing health problems was Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab who was 13 and from Brixton in south London.\n\nIn May, a six-week-old child who did have underlying health conditions died.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Five years before air travel is back to normal says minister\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson has predicted air travel to and from Scotland will take at least five years to return to pre-coronavirus levels. A limited number of flights have continued during lockdown and he said the Scottish Government expects \"a slow recovery of some air services\" over the summer. This will start with domestic services and be followed by international routes, he said. In a written answer to Scottish Conservative MSP Dean Lockhart about the speed routes can be re-established, Mr Matheson said: \"Realistically, it will take at least five years for services to recover to pre-Covid-19 levels.\"", "\"Initially I didn't know how to feel, but it only took about five or ten minutes' worth of research to realise that no, you definitely couldn't work in any capacity.\"\n\nSteve (not his real name) is 27 and works in manufacturing in County Durham. His employer told him that he had been furloughed but he later received a message from his boss asking him to log on and work.\n\nUnder the furlough scheme, which was brought in to minimise unemployment due to the coronavirus crisis, the government pays 80% of staff salaries up to £2,500 a month. But once an employee has been furloughed, they cannot do any work that would help their employer make money.\n\nNevertheless, HM Revenue and Customs has told the BBC that it has received more than 3,000 reports of furlough fraud since April.\n\nAfter Steve learned that he was not allowed work while on furlough, he felt uncomfortable and refused to log on. He lost his job in May.\n\n\"I'm disappointed and angry that there are companies out there that want to exploit the furlough scheme,\" he said.\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK workforce is now being supported by the furlough scheme and the cost so far has reached £19.6bn.\n\nAn employer applies online, giving their employees' names, National Insurance numbers and dates of employment.\n\nBut the system has been found to be open to abuse. One survey found that more than a third of furloughed employees have been asked by bosses to carry out work while receiving funds under the government's coronavirus job retention scheme.\n\nA third of furloughed employees were asked to carry on doing their usual job, while 29% were told to undertake more administrative tasks, according to the survey by Crossland Employment Solicitors.\n\nHMRC is now preparing to tackle fraudulent and erroneous claims.\n\nHMRC chief executive Jim Harra said that while the scheme had saved nearly nine million jobs, it was a “magnet for fraudsters”.\n\nEarlier this month, its chief executive Jim Harra told the Commons Public Accounts Committee that the scheme was \"a magnet for fraudsters\". He said tipoffs were taken \"very seriously\".\n\nThere is no automatic trigger that would tell HMRC someone was being asked to work while on furlough, or if the money had not reached the right account.\n\nBut if an employee reported their employer to HMRC, it would be straightforward for the department to cross-check the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system. An employee could also produce evidence that shows they had been asked to work.\n\nLucy (not her real name) is in her mid-20s and works in housing in London. She was placed on furlough in March but says she was then asked to work using her personal email account and phone number.\n\nLucy told the BBC she is still working up to 20 hours a week, even though she knows what she is doing is wrong.\n\n\"My livelihood depends on this,\" she said. \"I feel a huge amount of anxiety.\"\n\n\"The whole team is still working. They've told us if we want to stop we can, but I know that if I did, it would look bad - that I wouldn't look committed.\n\n\"Also, I want my company to survive this.\"\n\n\"On the one hand, I want to work to feel normal while the world falls apart, but it feels like a moral conundrum. I am confused and upset and wondering what is the right thing to do.\"\n\nWhere employers are found to have inadvertently broken the rules, they could be made to return the cash. But if HMRC can prove they intended to do it, the employer could face up to 10 years in prison.\n\nToby Duthie, a forensic accountant and partner at Forensic Risk Alliance, said that while the government had needed to act quickly to cover wages, the speed at which the furlough scheme was introduced meant there was a lot of uncertainty and a lack of clarity for employers.\n\n\"This is also open season for people who want to abuse the system,\" he told the BBC.\n\nHMRC has stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud - such as inviting colleagues back to do some work before their starting date. And during its first round of investigations, around one third of cases did not warrant further investigation.\n\nIt said: \"We believe the vast majority of companies will have used the system correctly.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron viewed documents and artefacts relating to General Charles de Gaulle\n\nBoris Johnson has met French President Emmanuel Macron in Downing Street to mark the 80th anniversary of a famous wartime broadcast.\n\nIn 1940, French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle used the BBC to send a radio message to Nazi-occupied France, urging people not to give up the struggle against Hitler.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"courage and sacrifice\" of those who fought on.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall welcomed Mr Macron to the UK.\n\nAnd the Red Arrows and their French counterparts, La Patrouille, performed a flypast above London to mark the occasion.\n\nDuring their meeting, Mr Johnson and Mr Macron discussed post-Brexit trade arrangements between the UK and EU, with No 10 saying the prime minister \"welcomed the agreement to intensify talks in July\".\n\nThe air display flew directly over Westminster and the recently-uncovered Winston Churchill statue\n\nA spokesperson added that he had restated that the UK \"does not believe it makes sense for there to be prolonged negotiations into the autumn\". The \"transition period\" - during which the UK remains in the EU single market and customs union - is due to finish at the end of the year.\n\nThe two leaders also talked about easing the 14-day coronavirus quarantine measures in place for visitors to - and UK citizens returning to - the UK.\n\nMr Macron was exempt from the requirements, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nThe Red Arrows and La Patrouille flew over Buckingham Palace\n\nIt was earlier announced that four surviving French Resistance fighters are to be appointed honorary MBEs.\n\nEdgard Tupet-Thome, 100, Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier, 99, Hubert Germain, 99, and Pierre Simonet, 98, are already members of the Order of Liberation, an honour given by France to those who played an outstanding role in freeing the country from its four-year wartime occupation.\n\nMr Macron's visit also comes after it was announced that Dame Vera Lynn, the singer dubbed the \"forces' sweetheart\" for her morale-boosting performances during World War Two, has died aged 103.\n\nSocial distancing was maintained during the French president's visit to London\n\nThe two leaders viewed artefacts and letters from General de Gaulle's time in London and from his partnership with the UK's wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nMr Johnson presented Mr Macron with a framed montage of a telegram sent from General de Gaulle to Sir Winston on VE Day, in 1945, and Sir Winston's reply.\n\nHe also gave him a model of Sir Winston's open-top Land Rover and a photograph of General de Gaulle in Paris, shortly after the city's liberation from German forces in 1944.\n\nIt was 80 years ago that General Charles de Gaulle broadcast a historic message from London to his fellow countrymen imploring them not to give up the fight against Hitler.\n\nFrance was on its knees at the time, German troops having entered Paris four days earlier, and on the verge of agreeing an armistice confirming its formal military surrender.\n\nIn the message, broadcast in French, De Gaulle said: \"Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.\"\n\nTransmitted on the BBC's French Service, the broadcast was not recorded and relatively few people in France heard it.\n\nBut a similar broadcast four days later on the same network reached a wider audience and went a long way to establishing de Gaulle as his country's leader in-exile.\n\nThe 18th June 1940 remains one of the most important dates in UK-French history and still has enormous resonance on both sides of the channel.\n\nAfter the fall of France, General de Gaulle made a speech from London 18 June 1940. Known as the \"Appel\", or appeal, it rallied the country in support of the Resistance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When she was 21, Olivia Jordan found herself driving French resistance leader Charles de Gaulle around London\n\nMr Macron, speaking next to General de Gaulle's statue in Carlton Gardens, in central London, said: \"This is where de Gaulle was able to call on the French people to join the Resistance, the soldiers of the shadows.\n\n\"Because 80 years ago today, on June 18 1940, the United Kingdom gave Free France its first weapon, a BBC microphone.\"\n\nEmmanuel Macron laid a wreath at the statue of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother\n\nMr Johnson said General de Gaulle had arrived in 1940 knowing that Britain and France's shared values of \"freedom, tolerance and democracy\" were under threat and pledging to defend them.\n\n\"The struggles we face today are different to those we confronted together 80 years ago. But I have no doubt that - working side by side - the UK and France will continue to rise to every new challenge and seize every opportunity that lies ahead,\" he said.", "The Queen and Dame Vera, pictured in 1992, were both key UK figures during World War Two\n\nThe Queen, Prince Charles and Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney are among those who have paid respects to Dame Vera Lynn, who has died aged 103.\n\nForces' Sweetheart Dame Vera, whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, was best known for her wartime anthem We'll Meet Again.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Queen will send private condolences to the singer's family.\n\nVirginia Lewis-Jones said during a BBC One special on Thursday evening: \"We as a family are very sad that my mother is no longer with us and this programme is a tribute to her wonderful life and her fantastic career.\n\n\"She touched so many people's lives and we are very, very proud of her.\"\n\nSir Paul tweeted after the programme to describe Dame Vera as \"strong and inspiring\".\n\n\"I am so sad to hear of her passing but at the same time so glad to have met her and experienced first-hand her warm, fun-loving personality. Her voice will sing in my heart forever,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nClarence House shared images of the singer meeting Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall and receiving her honour at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Queen previously echoed Dame Vera's famous WW2 anthem during a speech to Britons who were separated from families and friends during the coronavirus lockdown in April.\n\nShe told the nation: \"We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said Dame Vera's \"charm and magical voice entranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Her songs still speak to the nation in 2020 just as they did in 1940.\"\n\nBBC director general Lord Hall said: \"What sad news. Not only was she dear to many, she was a symbol of hope during the war and is a part of our national story.\n\n\"She demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times. Something that will resonate with many people today.\"\n\nDame Vera's family said they were \"deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain's best-loved entertainers\".\n\nIn a statement, they confirmed she died on Thursday morning surrounded by her close relatives.\n\nWW2 veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m for NHS charities during the coronavirus lockdown, said: \"I really thought Vera Lynn would live longer, she's been speaking so well on TV recently.\n\n\"She had a huge impact on me in Burma and remained important to me throughout my life.\"\n\nSir Cliff Richard, who performed with her on the 50th anniversary of VE Day in 1995, said she was \"a great singer, a patriotic woman and a genuine icon\".\n\nHe recalled his \"best, and favourite, memory\" of sharing a stage with her in front of Buckingham Palace that year.\n\n\"We walked to the stage through a crowd of survivors of that war, and they were reaching out to touch and get a smile from Vera,\" he remembered.\n\n\"I heard the words... 'God bless you' ... 'Thank you' ... 'We love you' for their very own Forces' Sweetheart! A great singer, a patriotic woman and a genuine icon.\n\nKatherine Jenkins, whose virtual duet was seen on the recent 75th VE Day anniversary, said Dame Vera's voice \"brought comfort to millions\".\n\n\"It was she who chose the sentiments of her songs - she knew instinctively what people needed to hear, how to rally the morale and her spirit and strength created the soundtrack of a generation,\" she added.\n\nMichael Ball said she was \"an inspiration to us all\", adding: \"We shall never see her like again.\"\n\nHe wrote that \"her talent was so very rare and special\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michael Ball OBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlfie Boe, one of the younger generation of singers who appeared on an album released for Dame Vera's 100th birthday in 2017, said: \"It was a real pleasure to sing with her - an honour I will treasure forever.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Alfie Boe OBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAled Jones, who also appeared on that album, echoed those sentiments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Aled Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress and singer Sheridan Smith, who performed Dame Vera's anthem We'll Meet Again for the 75th anniversary of D-Day last year, told BBC Radio 5 Live her music is \"so relevant today, just as it was back then\".\n\n\"She boosted morale with her music and brought the nation together though music, and it's been very relevant recently. A lot of people have been using it again at this strange time,\" Smith said. \"She'll never be forgotten. Her music lives on.\"\n\nDame Vera was able to \"move everybody in the country\", Lesley Garrett said\n\nLesley Garrett told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that Dame Vera was \"still able to stir us\" until late in life.\n\n\"She had the ability to communicate to an extraordinary degree, and there was nobody who she didn't touch,\" she said.\n\n\"She had the ability to move everybody in the country - royalty, politicians, you name it, she was an inspiration to them.\"\n\nLyricist Sir Tim Rice also paid tribute, saying: \"Dame Vera Lynn was one of the greatest ever British popular singers, not just because of her immaculate voice, warm, sincere, instantly recognisable and musically flawless.\n\n\"She will be remembered just as affectionately for her vital work in the Second World War and for her own Charitable Foundations in the 75 years since. A link with more certain times has been irrevocably broken.\"\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said she \"demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times\".\n\nBBC Radio 2 will repeat a special edition of The People's Songs about We'll Meet Again at 21:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Leaders of social services in England have said there will be \"catastrophic consequences\" without immediate investment in the sector.\n\nCouncils could run out of cash and care providers could \"go to the wall\", a report by the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) warns.\n\nIt says increased costs due to Covid-19 have exacerbated an existing crisis.\n\nThe government has given councils an extra £3.2bn to tackle the pandemic and £600m for care.\n\nThe ADASS report warns that increased spending due to coronavirus - for example, on personal protective equipment (PPE), staffing costs and sickness cover - means some private care providers may go out of business.\n\nIt has previously estimated that providers face potential additional costs of £6.6bn between April and September.\n\nNow the organisation is calling for a two-year ring-fenced funding settlement for adult social care and as well as reform of the sector, including better pay and conditions for care workers.\n\nJames Bullion, ADASS president, said the findings represent \"a wake-up call that requires a clear response\".\n\n\"Urgent action is needed to plug the financial black hole that has been blown in local government finances, to properly recognise and reward colleagues working in social care, stabilise providers of care and most importantly safeguard and ultimately enhance the care and support available to those of us who need it,\" he said.\n\n\"Without such action, local authorities will run out of money, care providers will go to the wall, many of us will not get the care and support we need, and the economy will take a further hit as more of us are forced to give up work to fill the caring gaps.\"\n\nLocal authorities have been given £3.2bn by the government to support their work during the pandemic, and there is a £600m infection-control fund for care homes.\n\nThis month, the Department of Health and Social Care said it would keep future funding needs under review, but would not confirm that it would provide more money to councils.", "Schools have been preparing for the return of children\n\nSocial distancing of 1m (just over 3ft) as opposed to 2m (6ft) is \"safe and appropriate\" for children and young people at school, the Northern Ireland Executive has agreed.\n\nThe measure will allow \"full classes to attend\" school.\n\nThat is according to guidance being sent by Education Minister Peter Weir to school principals.\n\nMr Weir also said he has moved the target for full reopening from 17 August to 24 August.\n\nThe guidance outlined how schools may operate when they fully reopen and is due to be published on Friday.\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's The View on Thursday night, First Minister Arlene Foster said the executive's objective \"is to get everybody back to school in September, I think that's what parents want\".\n\nShe said they would work with schools \"to find extra space, whether that's the assembly hall, the dining hall, or indeed as I've said, other facilities beside the schools\".\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said: \"This was all discussed today with the chief medical officer and the chief scientific officer; we would never step outside that, we will make sure that we can get the maximum number of children into school, but all that has to be safe for the children, safe for the staff.\"\n\nIn the letter, Mr Weir said the guidance had undergone \"extensive review by the Public Health Agency (PHA) and Chief Medical Officer (CMO)\".\n\nHe said that the guidance has a \"day one focus\" and that it concentrates on \"social distancing and hygiene considerations within schools settings\".\n\nThe letter said: \"The Northern Ireland Executive has agreed that the current social distancing guidance of 2m must continue to be followed between all adults within the education sector, but that a distance of 1m is safe and appropriate between children and young people.\n\n\"Using 'protective bubbles' has been supported by the Department of Health and PHA, and flexing their use to 1m will allow full classes to attend.\n\n\"The 1m guidance between children is to be followed as far as possible within the confines of the physical capacity of each classroom and the 2m rule for staff adhered to fully.\"\n\nMr Weir also said that the term will now start for Primary Seven, Year 12 and Year 14 pupils on 24 August.\n\nChildren will not have to sit 2m apart, under the fresh guidance\n\n\"To facilitate these arrangements, schools will be opening in week commencing 17 August for preparation purposes,\" he said.\n\nMr Weir added that the guidance \"will be subject to ongoing review\" depending on scientific and medical advice over Covid-19.\n\nHowever, a primary school principal in Belfast has said the advice is \"impossible\" to implement and had left him \"totally confused\".\n\n\"I'm sitting here with a piece of paper in front of me trying to work out how I could possibly place desks in a primary classroom,\" Paul Bell, from Botanic Primary School, told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra.\n\n\"A lot of my classrooms are 56m square... I have no idea who has done the mathematics to indicate in any way that you can put a full classroom of 30 pupils in and still have 2m from the teacher.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm quite happy to assist a programme whereby we will get the children back into school as quickly as possible, quite happy to talk about bringing children back in August, quite happy to have all of these conversations - but it's impossible to have conversations where advice is issued which is totally impossible to implement.\"\n\nMr Weir, also speaking on the programme, said that protective bubbles and reduced social distancing will \"mean that for many schools you'll be able to get every pupil in\".\n\n\"For others, it will be at least a large percentage of their pupils in each day and we will work with schools where they cannot get everybody in to see if there's any additional action that can be taken.\n\n\"I think if there's a willingness to do this, I don't think it's a mathematical impossibility.\n\n\"I think a reduction from two (metres) to one (metre) is a massive game changer in terms of education. This is a very positive step forward.\"\n\nA previous draft document seen by BBC News NI stated that post-primary pupils would attend school every other week and that primary school children would likely be in school for at least 40% of the week.\n\nThe change in social distancing guidelines would allow more children to attend throughout the week.\n\nA draft plan of the new guidance previously suggested a range of measures for the full reopening of schools, including that the beginning and end of school days could be staggered to avoid all children arriving and leaving at once.\n\nThe 'Education Restart' guidance has been drawn up by Department of Education (DE) officials, principals and teaching unions.\n\nIt will provide detailed guidance to schools and principals about how the school day would operate.\n\nSome of the measures in it are understood to include:\n\nThere is also expected to be guidance on hygiene measures, cleaning, and the circumstances in which Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) can be used in schools.\n\nHowever, while the guidance is detailed, a lot of decisions on how schools will operate when the new term begins are still going to be left up to principals and teachers.", "Dame Vera recorded the song several times, with the most famous version coming from the 1943 film of the same name\n\nWe'll Meet Again became Dame Vera Lynn's signature song. It was also one of the first singles to use a synth, was accused of being too \"slushy\" for the troops, and has featured in Dr Strangelove and Stranger Things.\n\nNo song captured the heartbreak and optimism of Britain at war better than We'll Meet Again.\n\nRecorded in 1939 by Vera Lynn, who has died at the age of 103, its lyrics provided comfort to all those who were apart from their loved ones.\n\n\"We'll met again, don't know where, don't know when / But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.\"\n\nThe song has since been quoted by the Queen and covered by Johnny Cash. It even entered the UK chart earlier this year, offering a message of hope during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"Its lyric seemed to me to be a perfect example of what you might call the 'greetings card song,'\" Dame Vera wrote in her 1975 autobiography Vocal Refrain.\n\n\"A very basic human message of the sort that people want to say to each other but find embarrassing actually to put into words.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Music Video Vault This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe singer was only 22 when she first recorded the song. It was in the first year of the conflict - during the so-called \"phoney war\", when troops were conscripted but very little fighting took place - that Lynn found the song while shopping around music publishing companies in London's Denmark Street for new material.\n\nOne of the leading lights at the time was Hughie Charles, who had turned down the opportunity to open the batting for Lancashire County Cricket Club to seek his fortune as a composer.\n\nHaving appraised Lynn as \"a very nice kid\", he encouraged her to record two patriotic songs he'd written with Ross Parker in anticipation of the coming hostilities - the strident, optimistic There'll Always Be An England and the more wistful We'll Meet Again.\n\nShe first performed We'll Meet Again in the summer with Bert Ambrose and his orchestra. \"Looking back on the reviews, I notice the newspapers picked up on it right away,\" she told The Guardian in 1995.\n\n\"It was the perfect song to sign off with, and I started to use it more and more.\"\n\nWith a melody loosely based on Anton Rubinstein's Melody in F, it was the singer's performance that touched people's hearts - her characteristically low tone and emotional delivery chiming with the prevailing mood of the times.\n\nA polyphonic synthesizer was first heard at the 1939 New York World's Fair\n\nHer first recording of the song took place later that year, accompanied by Arthur Young on a new instrument called the Hammond Novachord, the world's first commercially-available polyphonic synthesizer.\n\nThe \"instrument that reproduces the tone of a dozen instruments\" had only made its debut at the New York World Fair that April, making Lynn's single one of the first pop records (perhaps the very first) to feature a synth.\n\nHowever it was a later recording, backed by a full orchestra, that became more famous.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story behind Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again\n\nBy that time, she had become a fixture on forces' radio with her programme Sincerely Yours.\n\nMore than 20% of the British public tuned in to the show every Sunday night, as Lynn performed songs of hope amid hardship and read out letters from people separated by the war.\n\n\"Although we did the programme from a studio, I always tried to imagine myself singing and talking from my own home,\" said the singer. \"Addressing myself not to an audience in the conventional sense, but to scattered individuals - an intimate conversation, but to a couple of million people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Vera Lynn speaks to the troops in 'Sincerely Yours'\n\nEach episode closed with a rendition of We'll Meet Again. \"Keep smiling through / Just like you always do,\" she urged listeners. But not everyone was happy.\n\nFollowing a series of British military defeats in northern Africa, a small but vocal campaign argued that \"radio crooners\" and \"sloppy sentimental rubbish\" were affecting the forces' morale.\n\n\"If our Armed Forces really like this sort of thing, it should be the duty of the BBC to hide the fact from the world,\" wrote a typical correspondent to the Daily Telegraph in 1942. Instead, he argued, the troops should be listening to \"something more virile\".\n\nIn response, the BBC formed a Dance Music Policy Committee, known colloquially as the \"anti-slush\" committee, to review the music it was broadcasting.\n\n\"We have recently adopted a policy of excluding sickly sentimentality which, particularly when sung by certain vocalists, can become nauseating and not at all in keeping with what we feel to be the need of the public in this country,\" said one ruling from 1942.\n\nAmong the victims were Bing Crosby's standard I'll Be Home For Christmas, which the committee felt would make troops homesick and despondent. Similarly, The Mills Brothers' Paper Doll was banned as \"we did not think it desirable to broadcast the song's theme of feminine faithlessness\".\n\nThe star was not swayed by the arguments, writing a column in the Sunday Dispatch saying the forces personnel and their \"wives and sweethearts\" valued the sentiment of her weekly radio show.\n\n\"During my two series of Sincerely Yours, I received letters from the boys in the forces at the rate of 1,000 a week. By the end, I received 18,000 and they have been coming ever since,\" she wrote.\n\n\"As I saw it,\" she later reflected, a song like We'll Meet Again \"was reminding the boys of what they were really fighting for, the precious, personal things rather than the ideologies and theories.\"\n\nAs the \"anti-slush\" debate raged, one of the star's \"middle-aged listeners\" wrote to the Radio Times, voicing his support for Lynn in particular.\n\n\"The words of her songs may have been so much sentimental twaddle. But she treated them with as much tenderness as though they were precious old folk, as though they meant something, something that she believed in and assumed that her audience believed in too,\" he wrote.\n\n\"By some magic she contrived to persuade you that neither she nor anybody else had ever sung or heard the songs before, that she had only just discovered their peculiar delights… and was generously passing them on.\"\n\nSadly, the BBC bowed to pressure and cancelled Lynn's show, but her popularity persisted.\n\nIn 1943, she starred in a film loosely based on her own life, in which a beautiful young dancer discovers a gift for singing, and turns her talents to entertaining the British Army in Europe.\n\nTitled We'll Meet Again, the finale featured a re-recording of the title track, which became the best-known version of the song.\n\nSoon afterwards, Sincerely Yours was reinstated by the BBC, and Lynn continued to travel the world, performing to \"the boys\" in uniform.\n\nDame Vera appeared with Petula Clark and Bruce Forsyth on the 60th anniversary of the end World War Two in 2005\n\nBut while the bittersweet lyrics of We'll Meet Again were perfectly suited to the uncertainty of war, the song endured and adapted after 1945.\n\nIt has been covered by Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Rod Stewart and Sammy Davis Jr. It was referenced by Pink Floyd in their song Vera, and used to haunting effect in the closing scenes of Stanley Kubrick's apocalyptic satire Dr Strangelove.\n\nDuring the Cold War, it was chosen by the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service as one of the tracks that would be played to comfort and reassure survivors of a nuclear Armageddon.\n\nMore recently, it has featured in TV shows like Stranger Things and The Simpsons, and films including Hellboy and Trainspotting 2; while it also provides an eerie backdrop to the Tower of Terror ride at Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland Paris.\n\nAs the coronavirus hit the UK earlier this year, the song's message of cheerful resilience was invoked by the Queen who, in a rare televised address, told the nation: \"We will be with our friends again. We will be with our families again. We will meet again.\"\n\nHer message helped the song enter the singles chart for the first time in its 81-year history (the original recording pre-dated the charts, although Charles and Parker's sheet music was a best-seller in the 1940s).\n\nIn all that time, Dame Vera said she \"never tired of singing\" it.\n\n\"I had no idea that that particular song would become the tune people most associated with the war era,\" she wrote in her autobiography. \"Or that my voice would become the one that most reminded people of the hope for the future that we needed to have at that time.\n\n\"I'm told that schoolchildren today still learn the words to We'll Meet Again. That thrills me.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "YouTube has banned all conspiracy theory videos falsely linking coronavirus symptoms to 5G networks\n\nUnregulated social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube may present a health risk to the UK because they are spreading conspiracy theories about coronavirus.\n\nThat's the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Psychological Medicine, which finds people who get their news from social media sources are more likely to break lockdown rules.\n\nThe research team from Kings College London suggests social media news sites may need to do more to regulate misleading content.\n\n\"One wonders how long this state of affairs can be allowed to persist while social media platforms continue to provide a worldwide distribution mechanism for medical misinformation,\" the report concludes.\n\nThe study analysed surveys conducted across Britain in April and May this year.\n\nFacebook said it had removed \"hundreds of thousands\" of coronavirus posts that could have led to harm, while putting warning labels on \"90 million pieces of misinformation\" globally in March and April.\n\nPeople were asked if they believed a number of conspiracy theories relating to Covid-19: that the virus was made in a laboratory, that death and infection figures were being manipulated by the authorities, that symptoms were linked to 5G radiation or that there was no hard evidence the virus even exists.\n\nNone of these theories has any basis in verifiable fact.\n\nThose who believed such conspiracies were significantly more likely to get their news from unregulated social media. For example, 56% of people who believe that there's no hard evidence coronavirus exists get a lot of their information from Facebook, compared with 20% of those who reject the conspiracy theory.\n\nSixty percent of those who believe there is a link between 5G and Covid-19 get a fair amount or great deal of their information on the virus from YouTube. Only 14% of those who reject the theory are regular YouTube users.\n\nThere were dozens of reported attacks on telecoms equipment during the pandemic\n\nAnd 45% of people who believe Covid-19 deaths are being exaggerated by the authorities get a lot of their news on the virus from Facebook, more than twice the 19% of non-believers who say the same.\n\n\"There was a strong positive relationship between use of social media platforms as sources of knowledge about Covid-19 and holding one or more conspiracy beliefs,\" the study finds. \"YouTube had the strongest association with conspiracy beliefs, followed by Facebook.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who starts viral misinformation... and who spreads it?\n\nThe research also found that people who have left home with possible Covid-19 symptoms were more than twice or three times as likely than those who haven't to get information about the virus from Facebook or YouTube.\n\nPeople that admitted having had family or friends visit them at home were also much more likely to get their information about coronavirus from social media than those who have stuck by the rules.\n\nThe researchers conclude that there is a strong link between belief in conspiracy theories about the virus and risky behaviour during restrictions imposed to prevent its spread.\n\n\"Conspiracy beliefs act to inhibit health-protective behaviours,\" the study concludes, and \"social media act as a vector for such beliefs.\"\n\nThe report notes that when misinformation about Covid-19 was propagated by conspiracy theorist David Icke on the local London Live TV station, the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom intervened.\n\nLondon Live was sanctioned for content which \"had the potential to cause significant harm to viewers\".\n\nYouTube and Facebook also deleted Mr Icke's official channels from their platforms and social networks insist they have made efforts to bring fake news about the coronavirus under control.\n\nThe study will be seized upon by those who believe social media companies like Facebook and YouTube owners Google should do more to control the publication of false information.\n\nA Facebook spokesman said: \"We have removed hundreds of thousands of Covid-19-related misinformation that could lead to imminent harm including posts about false cures, claims that social distancing measures do not work, and that 5G causes coronavirus.\n\n\"During March and April, we put warning labels on about 90 million pieces of Covid-19-related misinformation globally, which prevented people viewing the original content 95% of the time.\n\n\"We have also directed more than 3.5 million visits to official Covid-19 information and lockdown measures from the NHS and the government's website, directly from Facebook and Instagram.\"", "New details of the helicopter crash which killed NBA star Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna, have been revealed.\n\nPilot Ara Zobayan told air traffic controllers he was climbing, when in fact he was descending, shortly before the crash.\n\nIt's believed he was disorientated due to thick fog.\n\nThese new details are from 1,700 pages of reports released by the National Transportation Safety Board, which has been investigating the accident.\n\nThe NTSB states that \"no conclusions about how or why the crash occurred should be drawn from the information\".\n\nIt says analysis of the new documents and probable cause will be issued \"at a later date\".\n\nUS reports state that in Ara Zobayan's last radio transmission, he said he was climbing to 4,000ft to get above the clouds.\n\nInstead, the helicopter plunged into a hillside in the city of Calabasas, California, killing all nine people inside.\n\nThe newly released documents include text messages shared between Ara, Kobe's drivers and other people involved in Kobe's flight.\n\nThey discussed conditions before the flight, with Ara saying: \"Weather looking OK\" at 7:30am on the day of the accident.\n\nHe also messaged to say that conditions \"should be OK\" for the planned 9am departure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Site where basketball legend Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash\n\nThe crash took place on Sunday, 26 January and resulted in a huge outpouring of tributes from people across the USA and worldwide.\n\nKobe, a five-time NBA champion, played for the LA Lakers throughout his career and is considered one of the greatest players in the game's history.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by LA County Sheriffs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has had his permission to officiate revoked\n\nFormer Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, has had his permission to officiate as a priest revoked.\n\nThe Church of England said new evidence linking Lord Carey, 84, to a review into allegations of abuse against the late John Smyth, had emerged.\n\nThere are no claims of abuse against him, and in a statement he said he was \"dismayed\" by the revocation.\n\nMr Smyth was accused of attacking boys whom he had met at a Dorset Christian camp in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe independent inquiry was launched into the Church's handling of allegations against Mr Smyth, a barrister who died aged 77 last year.\n\nPermission to Officiate (PTO) is required for any Church of England priest to preach or minister.\n\nIn a statement Lord Carey said: \"I am bewildered and dismayed to receive the news a short time ago that due to 'concerns' being raised during the review of John Smyth QC I have had my PTO revoked.\n\n\"I have been given no information on the nature of these 'concerns' and have no memory of meeting Mr Smyth.\"\n\nIn 2017 a damning independent report found he had \"colluded [with the convicted abuser Peter Ball] rather than seeking to help those harmed\".\n\nHe resigned from his post as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford and as a result his PTO was automatically revoked.\n\nBall was jailed for sex offences against teenagers and young men between the 1970s and 1990s\n\nHe was later granted a PTO by the diocese in 2018, allowing him to preach at the church where he worships, conditional on no further concerns coming to light.\n\nA spokesman for the diocese said: \"A planned independent review into the Church of England's handling of allegations against the late John Smyth QC is currently under way.\n\n\"In the course of that review, new information has come to light regarding Lord Carey, which has been passed to the National Safeguarding Team for immediate attention as per the agreed terms of reference set for the review.\"\n\nLord Carey's PTO has been withdrawn while the matter is being investigated and he is unauthorised to \"undertake any form of ministry in the Diocese until further notice.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"However, for the avoidance of doubt, we wish to make clear that the new information received relates only to the review currently underway, and that there has not been an allegation of abuse made against Lord Carey.\"", "It's deadline day for anyone deciding whether to accept their university offers.\n\nThe Universities and Colleges Admissions Service - UCAS - said earlier this week that more than 65,000 applicants have yet to make up their minds.\n\nBeing in the middle of a pandemic means those choices are more complicated than usual.\n\nWhile university is still an exciting idea for some, others feel unsure about the prospect of a first year affected by online learning and social distancing.\n\nAbigail Coe, who is still planning to go to Manchester Metropolitan University, says she feels worried.\n\n\"Covid-19 has changed my expectations of what the university experience will be. We won't get freshers or nightlife, the social aspect seems almost non-existent.\n\nFor 17-year-old Abigail, university was actually a back-up plan. She had wanted to get a journalism apprenticeship and start working once she left school.\n\nBut the coronavirus outbreak meant some media companies, like lots of others, have stopped recruiting.\n\n\"The lack of job opportunities has pushed me into studying in the autumn,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"So the pandemic has changed my whole future.\"\n\nAbigail feels the \"freedom of adulthood\" she would have had at university has been taken away.\n\n\"I fear I'll be stuck at home in my first term doing lectures online.\n\n\"I was really looking forward to joining societies and clubs like hockey, but how can a Zoom call give you that experience?\"\n\nHomam's looking forward to becoming a medic\n\nCovid-19 has altered 20-year-old Homam Naser Al Din's university choice. He had received an offer from Keele University, which he was keen to take, but it required an IELTS English test.\n\n\"Unfortunately the test was cancelled due to the pandemic which meant that I had to firm my offer with Hull York Medical School instead,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\nHe says his main concern is about the practical side of studying medicine.\n\n\"My friends and I are quite worried about the hands-on experience and activities required in a medical degree, especially if the two metre restrictions are still in place.\"\n\nBut he has had emails from the university about what the start term will look like.\n\n\"I know there will be a mixture of online learning and activities in smaller groups. We just have to get on and deal with whatever may happen.\"\n\nMolly Scales, from Glasgow, has decided to decline all her offers and also thinks the experience will be diminished because of the pandemic.\n\nThis also means the 17-year-old can reapply for her top choice university, from which she was rejected.\n\n\"I personally find face-to-face learning much more useful than online teaching,\" she says.\n\nBut, she continues: \"Deferring has made me rather anxious, especially as one university admitted that competition for places may be fiercer next year.\"\n\nProfessor Wyn Morgan, Vice-President for Education at the University of Sheffield, says some people deferring or rejecting offers means there might be more places than usual this year.\n\n\"There are more places available at some of the world's best universities, giving school leavers a unique opportunity.\n\n\"In contrast, 2021 will be an incredibly competitive time to enter university, so applicants wanting to defer should think carefully before they do so.\"\n\n18-year-old Catherine Prior is feeling more positive. If she gets the grades she needs, she plans to go ahead and study biological natural sciences at Cambridge.\n\n\"I am trying to keep in mind that although the first term or so may be disrupted we will still have second and third year to make up for the lost time. Many uni students I have talked to have said it's better in the later years anyway because you actually have friends,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\nSome students have complained about a lack of clarity from universities over issues like how accommodation will work.\n\nHowever Catherine, from Essex, says she feels relatively well supported.\n\n\"I have had emails with positive encouragement that the university experience will be as normal as they can make it, and that they want lectures to start as soon as they can but they are limited by the government guidelines.\n\n\"We have been told that face-to-face teaching should still go ahead, just in a socially distant form.\n\n\"I am still holding out hope because there is some time until October and the situation is changing so quickly.\n\n\"I don't yet know what is happening with accommodation but I completely empathise with the university that it is hard to know what is the appropriate action, and it all depends on if there is a second wave.\"\n\nIt's not just people about to go to university in the UK who are taking difficult decisions.\n\nIsobel Roberts, a first-year civil engineering student at Bristol University, was looking forward to heading to Sydney for a year.\n\nBut because of the pandemic, the Australian border is closed to international students.\n\nIsobel was offered the chance to do classes online from the UK but has turned it down.\n\n\"Some of the courses may have to be taken in real-time, meaning I would be studying in the middle of the night, which is completely unfeasible in the long term,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\nCourteney Sheppard, a senior customer experience manager at UCAS, has some advice for young people still making up their minds about their offers.\n\n\"When you have as much information as you need to make the right decision for you, log into Track and choose your firm and insurance choices before 6pm UK time.\n\n\"It's important to remember the reasons you chose to go to university before coronavirus, as they'll still be valid in the future.\"\n\n\"Take some time to talk things through with those people whose opinions you value the most. That could be your teachers, parents or friends.\n\n\"You can also speak to an expert UCAS adviser on the phone, on social media, and speak to current students through our website.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The Xenon1T detector was installed at Italy's Gran Sasso lab from 2016 to 2018\n\nAn experiment searching for signs of elusive dark matter has detected an unexplained signal.\n\nScientists working on the Xenon1T experiment have detected more activity within their detector than they would otherwise expect.\n\nThis \"excess of events\" could point to the existence of hypothesised particles called axions, some of which are candidates for dark matter.\n\nDark matter comprises 85% of matter in the cosmos, but its nature is unknown.\n\nWhatever it is, it does not reflect or emit detectable light, hence the name.\n\nThere are three potential explanations for the new signal from the Xenon1T experiment. Two require new physics to explain, while one of them is consistent with the existence of solar axion particles.\n\nThe findings, which have not been peer reviewed, were published on the Arxiv pre-print server.\n\nSo far, scientists have only observed indirect evidence of dark matter. A definitive, direct detection of dark matter particles has yet to be made.\n\nThere are several theories to account for what that particle might be like. The most favoured one has been the WIMP, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particle.\n\nPhysicists working on the Xenon series of experiments have spent more than a decade hunting for signs of these WIMPs. But the search has been fruitless.\n\nBut Xenon1T, the most recent iteration was also sensitive to other candidate particles.\n\nThe experiment was operated deep underground at the Gran Sasso facility in Italy, from 2016 to 2018.\n\nIts detector was filled with 3.2 tonnes of ultra-pure liquefied xenon, two tonnes of which served as a \"target\" for interactions between the xenon atoms and other particles that were passing through.\n\nWhen a particle crosses the target, it can generate tiny flashes of light and free electrons from a xenon atom.\n\nMost of these interactions - also known as events - are with particles we already know about, such as muons, cosmic rays and neutrinos. This constitutes what scientists refer to as the background signal.\n\nIndirect evidence for dark matter: the titanic collision of two galaxy clusters separates dark matter (blue) from ordinary matter (pink)\n\nA potential signal from an undiscovered particle needs to be strong enough to rise above this background noise.\n\nScientists carefully estimated the number of background events in Xenon1T. They expected to see roughly 232, but the experiment instead saw 285 - an excess of 53 events.\n\nOne explanation could be a new, previously unconsidered source of background contamination, caused by the presence of tiny amounts of tritium in the Xenon1T detector.\n\nIt could also be due to neutrinos, trillions of which pass through your body, unhindered, every second. One explanation could be that the magnetic moment (a property of all particles) of neutrinos is larger than its value in the Standard Model, which categorises the elementary particles in physics.\n\nThis would be a strong hint that some other new physics is needed to explain it.\n\nHowever, the excess is most consistent with a signal from axions, a very light as-yet undetected class of particle. In fact, the excess of events has an energy spectrum similar to that expected from axions produced in the Sun.\n\nWhile these solar axions are not dark matter candidates, axions produced in the early Universe could be a source of dark matter.\n\nIn statistical terms, the solar axion hypothesis has a significance of 3.5 sigma.\n\nWhile this significance is fairly high, it is not large enough to conclude that axions exist. Five sigma is generally the accepted threshold for a discovery.\n\nThe significance of both the tritium and neutrino magnetic moment hypotheses corresponds to 3.2 sigma, meaning that they are also consistent with the data.\n\nScientists working on the Xenon collaboration are currently upgrading to a different iteration called Xenon-nT. With better data from this future version, they are confident they will soon find out whether the excess is a statistical fluke, a background contaminant, or something far more exciting.", "The Principality Stadium, in Cardiff, was transformed into a field hospital to treat coronavirus patients\n\nOnly one of the field hospitals set up to help ease demand during the coronavirus pandemic has treated any patients, despite costing £166m.\n\nBuildings, including sports stadiums and theatres, were rapidly turned into 17 hospitals at the peak of the crisis.\n\nBut only the Dragon's Heart Hospital in Cardiff has received any patients.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething defended the decision saying in hindsight he would have \"made different choices at the time\".\n\n\"If we had needed extra capacity, in much greater numbers, and I had not acted as I did, I think the public would have rightly said, 'Why on earth didn't that man in charge do something about it?',\" he said.\n\nIn a bid to ease pressure on hospitals, 17 field hospitals were rapidly built to provide 6,000 additional beds, doubling the Welsh NHS's capacity at the peak of the pandemic.\n\nIt took just eight weeks to build those field hospitals, and two additional community step-down facilities for non-coronavirus patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cameras got a first look inside the field hospital at the Principality Stadium\n\nSince the Dragon's Heart Hospital at the Principality Stadium opened in April, 46 patients have been treated at the home of the Welsh Rugby Team, which is now empty and on standby in case of a second wave.\n\nNo-one has been admitted to the other 16 locations around the country, including the 1,000-bed facility at Swansea Bay Studios and Venue Cymru in Llandudno, Conwy.\n\nA pre-recorded message from Prince Charles was played on a big screen during the opening ceremony at the Dragon's Heart field hospital\n\nMr Gething said the Welsh Government had set up the hospitals after seeing how parts of the health service in Italy had been overwhelmed.\n\nA review is due later this month to decide how many field hospitals will be retained or repurposed.\n\nA health economist from Swansea University said that, in hindsight, spending £166m on 46 patients was \"not a good use of limited resources\".\n\nProf Ceri Phillips said: \"Elective operations were cancelled, the level of demand was reduced, out-patients was reorganised so people weren't coming into hospital.\"\n\nMr Gething said it was possible \"fewer field hospitals\" would be needed in the coming months.\n\n\"It's also possible we can make more use of the current capacity we have as we restart more normal NHS activity,\" he added.\n\nRoy Thomas gave one of his buildings at Bay Studios to be used as a field hospital\n\nThe owner of Swansea Bay Studios, Roy Thomas, signed a lease allowing the Welsh NHS to use the largest building on his site free of charge for a year to help tackle the virus.\n\nBut Mr Thomas said the complex needed financial support to survive.\n\nHe said: \"I see myself in next 12 months serving two masters.\n\n\"One is the health authority, to maintain whatever requirement they have 12 months in the future. and the other is to attempt to play my part in maintaining the filming industry for Neath Port Talbot, Swansea and west Wales.\"\n\nSwansea Bay UHB's Chief Operating Officer, Chris White, said it was fortunate the beds at the two field hospitals had not been needed at the peak of the pandemic.\n\nBut while cases have fallen, Mr White said it was important the field hospitals were \"ready in case we need them\".\n\nWales' field hospitals doubled the capacity for the Welsh NHS during the pandemic\n\nVenue Cymru in Llandudno also faces financial challenges after giving over its building to create 350 extra beds for the Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nThe theatre and conference centre, which is owned by Conwy council, has a three-month contract to act as field hospital until 6 July.\n\nThe deal, which is based on it having no financial impact on the local authority, will then be extended by agreement on a month-by-month basis.\n\nBut Venue Cymru said it would need financial help to restart shows after the pandemic.\n\nMark Wilkinson, from Betsi Cadwaladr health board, said the focus was now on how to \"resume services which had been put on hold to manage the initial wave of Covid-19 patients\".\n\nBangor University agreed to a three-month minimum lease with the Welsh Government for the use of the Canolfan Brailsford sport centre at Bangor University, to be reviewed on a monthly basis after that.\n\nThe Welsh Government review into field hospitals will look at how many extra beds the Welsh NHS might need if the transmission rate of coronavirus begins to rise towards a second peak.\n\nIt will also examine whether the field hospitals can be used to help the resumption of medical services that were suspended while the NHS focussed on treating Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe Dragon's Heart Hospital is the second biggest field hospital in the UK behind London's Nightingale hospital\n\nThe health board has said the Dragon's Heart Hospital site would be \"retained until the autumn and will be available to admit coronavirus patients should a surge in capacity be required\".\n\nThe Welsh Rugby Union, who own the stadium, have said the contract for it to remain as a field hospital has been extended until early autumn.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A sports centre in Bangor was turned into a field hospital - in just 16 days\n\nThere are three field hospitals, Deeside Leisure Centre in Queensferry, Canolfan Brailsford sports hall at Bangor University and Venue Cymru in Llandudno.\n\nThe three \"Rainbow hospitals\" are \"available and ready\" to accept patients but the health board said the focus is now to \"resume services that were put on hold to manage the initial wave of Covid-19 patients\".\n\nParc y Scarlets in Llanelli is currently home to a makeshift hospital\n\nThere are nine field hospitals here: Bluestone Wales resort in Pembrokeshire; the leisure centres in Cardigan, Carmarthen, Llanelli and Plas Crug (Aberystwyth); two at the Parc y Scarlets in Llanelli, one in the stadium and the other in the training 'barn'; the Selwyn Samuel Centre in Llanelli and Ysgol Penweddig in Aberystwyth.\n\nHywel Dda health board said it was \"exploring many different options\" for the next 12 months including \"different uses of our facilities\" as part of national discussions.\n\nThe WRU training facility at The Vale Resort, was turned into a field hospital to provide 290 extra beds\n\nBridgend Industrial Estate is the only remaining field hospital in the region after it was announced the 290-bed hospital at the WRU's Centre of Excellence at Hensol was being decommissioned this week.\n\nThe health board is also operating \"community step-down facilities\" Abergarw Manor in Bridgend and Marsh House in Merthyr Tydfil for non Covid-19 patients to move out of hospitals.\n\nCwm Taf health board said field hospitals were \"essential to their planning\" so that extra capacity is in place \"should we need it to respond to the challenge of Covid-19\".\n\nThe training base normally used by the Ospreys rugby squad was transformed into a hospital\n\nThere are two field hospitals in the area, one at Llandarcy Academy of Sport (where the Ospreys rugby team usually train) and one at Swansea Bay Studios.\n\nSwansea Bay UHB's Chief Operating Officer Chris White said: \"Flexibility is an important factor in the management of the situation as we move into the next stages.\"\n\nThe new Grange Hospital as seen from the air last autumn - it could take its first patients a year early\n\nThere are no official field hospitals here, although the health board has said the new Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran is \"ready if we need to use it.\"", "Protesters have been calling for an Oxford college's statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed for several years\n\nCampaigners have said protests will continue while the controversial statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes remains at Oxford's Oriel College, after governors voted on Wednesday to remove it.\n\nThe college says there will need to be consultations over planning regulations before it can be taken down.\n\nSizwe Mpofu-Walsh, a founder of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, said they felt \"greatly vindicated\" by the vote.\n\nBut he said it was crucial the college followed through on its plan.\n\nRhodes played a key role in the expansion of the British Empire in Southern Africa, including South Africa and Zimbabwe, previously known as Rhodesia.\n\nCritics accuse the campaign of trying to \"rewrite history\", while campaigners for the statue's removal say it is a symbol of imperialism and racism.\n\nResponding to Wednesday's vote, Rhodes Must Fall said that until the statue \"ceases to adorn the facade of Oriel College on Oxford's High Street\" there would still be protests over \"imperial and colonial iconography\" in university buildings.\n\n\"We have been down this route before, where Oriel College has committed to taking a certain action, but has not followed through,\" a statement read, referring to a commitment to engage in a \"six-month-long democratic listening exercise\" in 2015.\n\n\"Therefore, while we remain hopeful, our optimism is cautious. While the governing body of Oriel College have 'expressed their wish' to take down the statue, we continue to demand their commitment.\"\n\nProtesters in Oxford said the statue was no longer acceptable\n\nOriel College's governors said the decision had been reached \"after a thoughtful period of debate and reflection\" - and in \"full awareness of the impact these decisions are likely to have in Britain and around the world\".\n\nThe college is to launch an \"independent commission of inquiry\" into the legacy of Cecil Rhodes, which also includes scholarships at the university.\n\nThe commission, to be headed by Carole Souter, master of St Cross College and former National Lottery Heritage Fund chief, will also consider wider issues, such as support for black and ethnic minority students and a commitment to \"diversity\".\n\nIt will consult with groups including students, local people, councillors and the Rhodes Must Fall campaigners.\n\nCecil Rhodes was an imperialist, businessman and politician.\n\nBorn in Hertfordshire in 1853, he first went to Africa aged 17 where he gradually became the dominant force in the diamond mining trade.\n\nHe was a strong advocate for colonial power in Africa and played a dominant role in southern Africa in the late 19th Century, driving the annexation of vast swathes of land.\n\nHe believed he was part of \"the first race in the world\", writing to a friend that \"the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race\".\n\nSome see him as one of the people who helped prepare the way for South Africa's apartheid by working to alter laws on voting and land ownership.\n\nRhodes, who studied at Oriel College, left money to the college on his death in 1902. The Rhodes scholarships, created via his will, allow 83 students to come to Oxford each year.\n\nHe said in life that he wanted to cheat the constraints of mortality by leaving a legacy.\n\nRead more about him here.\n\nFormer Oxford student and campaigner Mr Mpofu-Walsh said those who pushed for the removal of the Rhodes statue \"feel greatly vindicated that their position has been given a much fairer hearing this time around\".\n\nBut he said it was \"crucially important, even at this moment of celebration\" to make sure Oriel College removed the statue.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said the objective of the college's commission was \"quite vague\" but he hoped it would focus on how the college can become more representative.\n\nWhen asked about the Rhodes scholarships, Mr Mpofu-Walsh said: \"We need to be very careful here about suggesting that Rhodes could atone for his legacy through a handful of scholarships for people from Africa. The legacy of Rhodes extends wide and deep.\n\n\"Any number of scholarships cannot account for the full scale of the horror that many of those people have felt.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?\n\nThe fate of the statue has divided opinion.\n\nSusan Brown, leader of Oxford City Council, backed the decision to take down the statue - and said the college's inquiry would be a chance to decide where the statue will \"best be curated in future\".\n\nLabour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy called it the \"right decision\" on Twitter, adding that it was \"time to take figures like Rhodes down off their pedestals\".\n\nAlan Rusbridger, principal of Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, also welcomed the decision.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, the universities minister had spoken against calls to remove the statue.\n\nMichelle Donelan said: \"Racism is abhorrent and shouldn't be tolerated anywhere in our society, and that includes universities.\"\n\nBut she said it would be \"short sighted\" to try to \"rewrite our history\" - and rejected attempts to \"censor or edit\" the past.\n\nLast week the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, gave little support for removing the statue - and warned against \"hiding\" the past.\n\n\"My own view on this is that hiding our history is not the route to enlightenment,\" Prof Richardson told BBC News.\n\n\"We need to understand this history and understand the context in which it was made and why it was that people believed then as they did,\" she said.\n\n\"This university has been around for 900 years. For 800 of those years the people who ran the university didn't think women were worthy of an education. Should we denounce those people?\n\n\"Personally, no - I think they were wrong, but they have to be judged by the context of their time,\" said Prof Richardson.", "Pentre has been struck by flooding following rain on Wednesday\n\nFlooding has been reported after thunderstorm forecasts warned of potential power cuts and damage to buildings.\n\nResidents in Pentre, in Rhondda Cynon Taff, have taken to social media saying they have been hit by the downpours.\n\nThe community has already suffered flooding this year, described as \"horrific\" by residents.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning is in place until the end of Wednesday for 20 of Wales' 22 counties.\n\nAnother thunderstorm alert is in place for Thursday for all south Wales counties, pushing west into Carmarthenshire and north of Brecon in Powys, between midday and 21:00 BST.\n\nThere is also a yellow warning for rain in place from 03:00 BST until 12:00 BST on Thursday for all counties except Pembrokeshire, Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff.\n\nRhondda Senedd member Leanne Wood appealed on Twitter for people to come forward if they had towels or sandbags.\n\nResident Bethan Clare Hughes declared on Twitter: \"Pentre, Rhondda Valleys is being flooded again for the 3rd time this year!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is several streets in Pentre that have been flooded before.\n\n\"People are disgusted and horrified it has happened a second or third time in some of their houses.\n\n\"After a short, sharp burst of rain at around half-past six people described torrents of water coming down a hill and coming into people's houses.\"\n\n\"Fire engines were at the scene.\n\n\"In some cases people have not got their houses together from the last time.\"\n\nIt is the third time some homes in Pentre have been flooded this year\n\nOne Queen Street resident told BBC Wales he was angry at watching his home being flooded again: \"I would like to see some of these councillors to live in these houses and go through what we've done.\n\n\"I haven't been in this house since February. I've had to go around the corner and live with my daughter.\"\n\nThis Pentre resident says he has not been able to return to his home since flooding earlier this year - and now it has happened again\n\nRhondda MP Chris Bryant said the area had been \"badly flooded again\" and he would be returning to the area to help after attending Parliament.\n\nAnd Pontypridd Member of the Senedd Mick Antoniw said 200 homes had been affected by the rain.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales said flooding had been from surface water, rather than rivers.\n\n\"Our sympathies are with those affected. We've sent officers to Pentre to offer support and to check our assets in the area,\" said the environment body.\n\nAll of Wales was covered by Wednesday's Met Office alert for thunderstorms, with the exception of Anglesey, the Llŷn peninsula of Gwynedd and Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe Met Office said there could be \"torrential downpours\" in some places", "A factory in Wrexham which produces food ranges for supermarkets across the UK has confirmed 38 staff have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt makes prepared foods for UK supermarket chains including Aldi, Asda and Sainsbury’s.\n\nThe company said there was \"no clear evidence\" the virus had spread within the factory but was a \"reflection\" of an increase in the number of cases across the Wrexham area.\n\nIt said: “The site has 38 staff absent due to testing positive for Covid-19, this is across our direct and agency workforce which totals 1,500.\n\n\"We are very thankful that none of our colleagues are seriously ill or hospitalised from this virus.\n\n“Following notification of a positive Covid case we have worked with Public Health Wales and had already implemented a track-and-trace process to highlight any close contacts.\n\n\"These colleagues are required to isolate for a 14-day period of isolation. Any member of staff who has tested positive for Covid-19 is asked to isolate for at least seven days.\n\n“The safety of our colleagues remains our priority and our focus is remaining Covid-19 secure as a site.\n\n“We are aware through discussions with Public Health Wales that the Wrexham area is seeing significantly high numbers of positive cases. It is concerning but not surprising that we are seeing a number of our staff affected by this local trend.\n\n\"Similarly, we are experiencing a high number of staff required to isolate. A large proportion of our teams are from the same household/family and interact outside of work as well as being work colleagues.\"\n\nIt follows news that more than 50 staff at the 2 Sisters chicken processing plant in Llangefni, Anglesey, have tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nRowan Foods management said there was \"no clear evidence\" the virus had spread within the factory Image caption: Rowan Foods management said there was \"no clear evidence\" the virus had spread within the factory", "The Republic of Ireland has won a seat on the United Nations Security Council for 2021/22.\n\nIt secured the 128 votes needed in the 191-nation General Assembly in New York to win a two year non-permanent seat.\n\nNorway has also secured a seat after a vote by the UN General Assembly.\n\nThe 15-member council has five permanent members - the US, UK, France, Russia and China - and 10 non-permanent seats, filled on a rotating basis.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minster) Leo Varadkar said Ireland's return to the council \"is a recognition of our work on the world stage over many decades\".\n\nThe UN Security Council sits in the UN's headquarters in New York\n\nHe said Ireland \"will use our presence to advance the causes we've championed, peace and security, conflict resolution, reconciliation, climate action, sustainable development, and gender equality\".\n\nIreland has previously won a non-permanent seat on the Security Council in 1962, 1981 and 2001.\n\nThe UN Security Council is composed of 15 members.\n\nIrish President Michael D Higgins welcomed the result of the vote, saying that Ireland ran a campaign which did not avoid urgent global issues.\n\nMr Higgins said that the campaign engaged with issues \"such as peace-building and peacekeeping, the elimination of global poverty, the strengthening of multilateralism, and reform of the United Nations\".", "The founder of the pub chain Oakman Inns has vowed to reopen all of its sites on 4 July even if the government has not relaxed restrictions.\n\n\"We cannot wait for the government to make a decision,\" Peter Borg-Neal wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe government has said pubs would not be able to reopen until July at the earliest under lockdown measures.\n\nBut it has not yet given a definitive date for reopening pubs, despite pressure from the industry.\n\nMr Borg-Neal's vow came as the British pubs' trade body demanded a definitive date so that staff could prepare.\n\nBut some health experts fear that opening venues such as pubs or restaurants too early could increase the number of coronavirus cases, especially as outbreaks reoccur in countries such as China.\n\n\"To open without proper forward planning would also be wrong,\" Mr Borg-Neal wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe later told the BBC: \"I'm not trying to be some reckless rebel.\n\n\"We need to plan ahead, get staff off furlough, remove furniture, install hand-washing stations, change layouts in pubs,\" he said. \"You can't just give us a couple of days' notice and expect us to open safely.\"\n\nHe added: \"We would not open unless we thought it was 100%-safe to do so.\"\n\nOakman Inns told the BBC that it had not yet received a response from the government following the announcement.\n\n\"If they wanted to stop us, they could threaten a licensing review, in which they would need to show that we have broken licensing laws. I do intend to seek legal advice on this,\" Mr Borg-Neal said.\n\n\"In a conflict situation we might not open all of our pubs immediately, I could just open one or two to see what they do.\"\n\nOn 21 March, the government brought in regulations requiring pubs, cafes and restaurants to stop serving customers food and drink for consumption on the premises.\n\nMr Borg-Neal said he would have no choice but to open regardless in July, whether the regulations were still in force or not.\n\n\"We can hang around and definitely go bust, or open and see if they destroy us,\" he said.\n\nOakman Inns and Restaurants has 25 pubs spread over the south of England and the Midlands, with plans to open three more.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has not responded to a request for comment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A pub near Milton Keynes has been testing a possible post-lockdown system\n\nOn Thursday, the British Beer and Pub Association set out demands in a letter calling for a definitive opening date from the government by Friday.\n\n\"Without this certainty by the end of this week, many businesses in the sector will be forced to cut costs to ensure their survival through the extended period of financial uncertainty,\" it said.\n\n\"This could result in hundreds of thousands of job losses and permanent pub closures.\"\n\nIt said that pubs and beer businesses are \"burning through £100m every month in cash while they remain closed\".\n\n\"These costs... could tip many pubs over the edge unless they are given clarity and confidence on when exactly they can reopen,\" it said.\n\nOther pub bosses also joined in the call for clarity.\n\nMark Davies, chief executive of the Hawthorn Leisure chain, said: \"Our pubs are part of the social fabric of their communities, but there's so much our partners need to do to get ready for reopening, from bringing staff off furlough, to adopting new health and hygiene protocols and implementing social distance measures, not to mention getting beer into their pubs from suppliers.\n\n\"If we're to stand any chance of getting the Great British pub open by 4 July, it's imperative that the government provides clear guidance by Friday at the absolute latest.\"", "Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, has died aged 103.\n\nThe singer was best known for performing hits such as We'll Meet Again to troops on the front line in countries including India and Egypt.\n\nHer family said they were \"deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain's best-loved entertainers\".\n\nIn a statement, they confirmed she died on Thursday morning surrounded by her close relatives.\n\nInformation on a memorial will be announced at a later date.\n\nSix weeks ago, ahead of the 75th anniversary of VE Day and during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Dame Vera said simple acts of bravery and sacrifice still define our nation.\n\nA week later, she became the oldest artist to get a top 40 album in the UK, beating her own record when her greatest hits album re-entered the charts at number 30.\n\nDame Vera, who had sold more than a million records by the age of 22, was also remembered for singing The White Cliffs Of Dover, There'll Always Be An England, I'll Be Seeing You, Wishing and If Only I Had Wings.\n\nThe Queen echoed her famous WW2 anthem during a speech to Britons who were separated from families and friends during the coronavirus lockdown in April, telling the nation: \"We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace said the monarch will send a private message of condolence to Dame Vera's family.\n\nThe late singer's daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, said she was proud of the difference her mother made through her charity work.\n\nShe said the Dame Vera Lynn Children's Charity, which her mother founded to help young children with cerebral palsy, \"always held a very special place in her heart\".\n\nBorn in London's East Ham in 1917, Dame Vera's singing talent was discovered at a young age and by age 11 she had left school to pursue a full-time career as a dancer and singer.\n\nIn 1939, in a poll by the Daily Express, she was voted by servicemen as their favourite entertainer - gaining her the Forces' Sweetheart nickname.\n\nPaying tribute, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the singer's \"charm and magical voice entranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours\".\n\n\"Her voice will live on to lift the hearts of generations to come,\" he said.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Her songs still speak to the nation in 2020 just as they did in 1940.\"\n\nBBC One will air a tribute programme at 19:30 on Thursday, the broadcaster confirmed.\n\nBBC director general Lord Hall said: \"What sad news. Not only was she dear to many, she was a symbol of hope during the war and is a part of our national story.\n\n\"She demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times. Something that will resonate with many people today.\"\n\nWW2 veteran Sir Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m for NHS charities during the height of the coronavirus pandemic in April, said: \"I really thought Vera Lynn would live longer, she's been speaking so well on TV recently. She had a huge impact on me in Burma and remained important to me throughout my life.\"\n\nIn 1940, at the height of the London Blitz, Vera Lynn would set off to the BBC's underground studios at the Criterion Theatre in central London.\n\nThe 15-minute show was called Starlight and was broadcast at 2:30am to soldiers around the world.\n\nAt the time, the BBC was being criticised in Parliament for broadcasting slushy, sentimental songs. A number of MPs felt there needed to be more upbeat songs to boost morale.\n\nHer popularity even surprised the BBC, this was after all a little overseas show broadcast in the middle of the night.\n\nVera Lynn sang the songs that resonated emotionally with people who were separated from their loved ones and she sang them directly to you.\n\nIt was warm, intimate, heartfelt and personal, and that's why Vera Lynn became the \"Forces' Sweetheart\".\n\nSinger Katherine Jenkins, who performed Dame Vera's wartime classics for the VE Day anniversary last month, said: \"I simply cannot find the words to explain just how much I adored this wonderful lady.\n\n\"Her voice brought comfort to millions in their darkest hours, her songs filled the nation's hearts with hope, and her emotive performances, whether home or abroad, then or now, helped to get us through.\"\n\nSir Cliff Richard said Dame Vera was \"a great singer\" and \"a genuine icon\".\n\nIn a photo tribute on Twitter, Clarence House posted pictures of Dame Vera meeting the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Royal British Legion described her as \"an unforgettable British icon\" and a \"symbol of hope to the Armed Forces community past and present\".\n\nThe Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, said she was a \"hero\" who captured the \"sense of longing felt by so many during our darkest hour\", while Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said she \"lifted our nation and its Armed Forces in their moment of maximum peril\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The story behind Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again", "Dame Vera Lynn, the singer who held a special place in the hearts of the British for keeping up morale during World War Two, has died.\n\nThese photographs tell the story of her life.\n\nVera Welch was born on 20 March 1917 in East Ham, London. Neither of her parents were involved in showbusiness - her father Bertram was a plumber and mother Annie a dressmaker.\n\nBut by the age of seven, the talented Vera was singing in working men's clubs - an audience she described as \"great\" - and soon became the family's main breadwinner.\n\nWhen she turned 11, Vera took her grandmother's maiden name of Lynn as a stage name. She had no formal singing lessons as a child - and just one as an adult.\n\nShe said: \"I thought I could extend my range but when the teacher heard me sing she said, 'I cannot train that voice, it's not a natural voice.' So I said: 'Well thank you very much madam', and left.\"\n\nVera's talent was spotted aged 15 while singing at Poplar Baths by local band leader Howard Baker. He signed her up on the spot. In 1936, when she was 19, she had her first solo record - called Up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire.\n\nBy the age of 22 she had sold more than a million records, bought her parents a house and herself a car.\n\nHowever, it was during World War Two that her reputation was made. She frequently sang to the troops at morale-boosting concerts, becoming known as The Forces' Sweetheart.\n\nOne of her most famous songs, We'll Meet Again was released in 1939 and as war progressed it increasingly resonated with the British public. As Vera said: \"It's a good song as it goes with anyone anywhere saying goodbye to someone.\"\n\nA large part of her wartime appeal came from her BBC radio programme Sincerely Yours, which ran in 1941 and 42 in the form of \"a letter to the men of the Forces… in words and music\". One feature was announcing the arrival of babies back home - but that had to be cancelled because producers were so overwhelmed with news of new arrivals.\n\nShe had a wholesome appeal that made her a favourite with families as well as the troops. Not everyone thought she was good for morale, however - one retired soldier complained in a letter to The Daily Telegraph that such \"sickly and maudlin programmes are largely responsible for the half-hearted attitude of so many people towards the war\".\n\nBut her popularity was such that she was voted the British Expeditionary Forces' favourite singer, beating Bing Crosby - with whom she's pictured - and Judy Garland.\n\nShe travelled the world to entertain troops, including to Myanmar (then Burma), India and Egypt. She later recalled staying in grass huts and using a bucket of water for a shower.\n\nIn 1941 Vera married Harry Lewis. They had one daughter, Virginia, and lived together in Ditchling, East Sussex, for 58 years until his death in 1999.\n\nFollowing the defeat of Nazi Germany, the BBC Variety Department broadcast a victory programme on VE Day in May 1945. Vera (far left) was joined by entertainers and returned British Prisoners of War. Her popularity survived the war years and after peace came she toured all over the Commonwealth, appeared in a Las Vegas cabaret, and performed for the British Royal Family.\n\nHer sentimental tone went out of fashion at the BBC after the war, but she returned to the airwaves and remained a fixture throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In the very first official UK singles chart in 1952, she occupied three of the top 12 places.\n\nShe's pictured here making the acquaintance of glam rock band Slade in 1973, when they gathered round a piano at the Melody Maker Awards. In 2017 she released her latest album, and holds the record for being the oldest living artist to achieve a top 20 UK album.\n\nDame Vera helped mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in a ceremony on 10 August 2010. Her daughter said fan letters continued to arrive from all over the world, sometimes simply addressed to \"Vera Lynn, UK\".\n\nDuring the build-up to her 100th birthday in 2017, Dame Vera said she found it \"humbling\" that people still enjoyed her songs.\n\nThe Queen wrote to her: \"You cheered and uplifted us all in the war and after the war, and I am sure that this evening the blue birds of Dover will be flying over to wish you a happy anniversary.\"\n\nDame Vera's portrait was projected on to the White Cliffs of Dover to celebrate her 100th birthday. She said it was \"an unprecedented honour to have it marked in such a beautiful way\".", "As the Premier League returned after its enforced 100-day hiatus, some things stayed the same but others were symbolic of the new world those who play the game and those who watch it must now occupy.\n\nThe eyes of the world were trained on the vast empty spaces of a stadium situated just off the M6 in Birmingham as a sliver of normality returned with the resumption of a season halted by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt Aston Villa, old arguments resurfaced within 45 minutes as a gross failure of goalline technology served huge injustice on visitors Sheffield United. Referee Michael Oliver's watch failed to activate as Aston Villa goalkeeper Orjan Nyland tumbled well behind his line clutching Oliver Norwood's free-kick.\n\nIt gave a layer of controversy to a game that held a strange fascination as \"Project Restart\" finally came to fruition.\n\nThe stadium may have been shrouded in silence as this fixture took place behind closed doors but there was true volume, power and emotion behind the statement made by players and officials at kick-off.\n\nAt the blast of referee Michael Oliver's whistle, the players took the knee with perfect choreography for 10 seconds in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nIt was the enduring image of a few hours that offered us a glimpse into how it will be for the foreseeable future. It was preceded by a minute's silence for those who have lost their lives to coronavirus.\n\nThis was a very different experience and environment - but we are living in a very different world to the one the Premier League left behind when Aston Villa lost 4-0 at Leicester City on 9 March.\n\nAs you pulled off the M6 and headed towards Villa Park, you could see old haunts and gathering places were not the usual seething mass of claret and blue. The Holte hostelry, tucked in a corner near the stadium's famous Holte End, was locked and silent, just a few lights on inside.\n\nInstead of the usual hubbub there was calm, although that was shattered by a huge thunder and lightning storm just after the Sheffield United team coach pulled into the car park behind the Witton Lane Stand.\n\nAs Villa Park's floodlights took full effect, it provided a spectacular backdrop to the big relaunch, as the media went through high security checks, including hi-tech temperature testing before being allowed in.\n\nJust below the media area, the sound of thumping music emerged from the dressing rooms as the players tried to create their own atmosphere.\n\nZones were divided into green, amber and red with strict sanitisation and a one-way walking system in operation - all superbly efficient and well-organised by Aston Villa, the first club off the block in this context.\n\nAmong the empty seats, there was a poignant sight - an Aston Villa steward's jacket placed in memory of manager Dean Smith's father Ron, who used to perform that role and who died aged 79 after contracting coronavirus.\n\nAs players warmed up and those of us on the margins looked on, Villa at least tried to inject some atmosphere with a heavy metal soundtrack over the public address system before the players filed out separately.\n\nIt was somewhat incongruous as Villa's announcer revved up the team announcements, brashly welcoming back John McGinn after his long injury absence, the stadium itself festooned with flags, banners (one from as far away as Prague) and coverings to at least add a dash of colour to an anaesthetised occasion.\n\nI have attended one behind closed doors game before, when England drew 0-0 with Croatia in Rijeka in October 2018 but there was arguably an even greater sense of dislocation here. As had to happen, even those of us fortunate enough to be inside were socially distanced, taking the now customary precautions of wearing masks.\n\nThe countdown to kick-off clock and the faces of fans watching at home flickering on the big screens were all eye-catching attempts to fire up the adrenalin but the sight of the teams filing out separately, no handshakes and only the odd elbow bump on the sidelines, brought this new reality into sharp relief.\n\nThe game itself was not a classic and it would be delusional to talk it up, ignoring the fact this this will be an unsatisfactory experience for many traditionalists. Football needs fans but for now this is the Premier League as it has to be.\n\nThere was no holding back from the players, either physically or in terms of verbal encouragement, although those expecting a blizzard of after-the-watershed bad language would have been disappointed.\n\nThe shouts were mainly of encouragement, with Blades manager Chris Wilder the more vocal and visible manager, spending far more time out on the touchline with assistant Alan Knill than his Villa counterpart Smith.\n\nThere were cries of pain as Jack Grealish felt the full force of a couple of challenges, while Villa took advantage of the new rules by using four second-half substitutes.\n\nSo much was new. So much felt strange. Let's say it - it all seemed very odd at times.\n\nWhat must also be said is that every precaution and step is necessary in the current climate when sport is not the top priority in this pandemic, but the Premier League needed to get going again.\n\nThe tepid nature of the game will undoubtedly raise eyebrows among those who are not in favour of football without fans but it should also be said this game could have played out exactly the same in front of a packed Villa Park.\n\nMuscle memory still kicks in with the players and make no mistake they were committed - as proved by loud shouts and groans of frustration from players of both sides when Oliver blew the final whistle on this game after six minutes of stoppage time.\n\nThere was almost a sense of relief among all of us inside Villa Park that this, with all its surreal and unaccustomed elements, was out of the way - although the Blades will nurse that sense of sporting injustice.\n\nIt was not a thriller at the Villa but it was a start and that is something many have been waiting 100 days for.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City's Raheem Sterling said it was a \"massive step\" that players took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement on the opening night of the Premier League's return.\n\nPlayers and staff from Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Manchester City and Arsenal knelt as their matches began.\n\nMatch officials also took part, on a night players' names on shirts were replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\n\"It shows we're going in the right direction,\" Sterling told Sky Sports.\n\n\"Little by little we're seeing change. It was natural, it was organic. We saw the teams do it in the earlier kick-off and thought it was something we had to do as well.\"\n• None Football Daily: The Premier League takes a knee, and the 'ghost goal'\n\nThe Premier League was returning after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnd players and officials showed their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.\n\nA joint statement issued by Villa and Sheffield United shortly after their match began said they \"were proud to stand in solidarity\" with the actions of their players and coaching staff in \"expressing our collective support for the Black Lives Matter movement\".\n\nBoth clubs said they hoped they had sent \"a strong message of unity\" and amplified \"the many messages of support from Premier League players and the wider football family\".\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola added: \"White people should say sorry for the way we have treated black people for 400 years. I am ashamed of what we have done to black people around the world.\n\n\"It is not only in the USA where it has happened. The problem is everywhere.\n\n\"Maybe for our generation it is too late but for the following generations, they can understand the only race is ourselves. We are human beings. It doesn't matter the colour of our skin.\"\n\nColin Kaepernick started kneeling symbolically during the pre-game national anthem in the NFL in 2016, in protest at police violence against African-Americans in the United States.\n\nFormer Crystal Palace striker Clinton Morrison said the moment players took a knee in the opening game of the restart was \"special\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"That touched my heart. I didn't expect that. It was magnificent. Credit to both sets of players and staff.\"\n\nFormer Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright said Premier League players wearing 'Black Lives Matter' on their shirts shows the league wants to be on the right side of history.\n\n\"What the Premier League have done, is to give them the power,\" said Wright, who was sent racist abuse on social media last month.\n\nResearch by UK Sport and Sport England last year found that black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people accounted for just 5.2% of board members across the 130 sport organisations they fund, including the Football Association.\n\nAccording to the 2011 Census, about 13% of the population of England and Wales is from a BAME background.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal's David Luiz was sent off in a performance riddled with mistakes as Manchester City secured a comfortable victory behind closed doors on the first night of the Premier League's return.\n\nLuiz, who came on as a first-half substitute, failed to clear the ball just before half-time and Raheem Sterling fired in City's opener.\n\nThe defender was then sent off after pulling back Riyad Mahrez in the second half to give away a penalty, which Kevin de Bruyne coolly slotted in for City's second.\n\nSubstitute Phil Foden netted a third for the defending champions, capitalising on a rebound from Sergio Aguero's strike.\n\nThere was concern for City late on as Eric Garcia needed several minutes of treatment on the pitch after a nasty collision with goalkeeper Ederson, and was carried off on a stretcher.\n\nArsenal were second best throughout as manager Mikel Arteta left Alexandre Lacazette on the bench and Mesut Ozil was kept out of the extended 20-man squad.\n\nThere were bursts of energy from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Eddie Nketiah going forward in the first half but it was City who were more dangerous.\n\nDe Bruyne, Sterling and David Silva were all denied by Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno, who produced an impressive display, but it seemed inevitable City would move ahead when Luiz's mistake gifted Sterling a chance from close range.\n\nVictory for Pep Guardiola's side means league leaders Liverpool remain six points away from winning the title - writing off any potential celebrations in Sunday's Merseyside derby.\n\nOn an evening in which thousands tuned in to watch a new-look Premier League on their TV screens, players from both clubs used their platform to support the Black Lives Matter movement for racial equality.\n\nAll players and staff took a knee immediately before kick-off, mirroring the actions of those at Villa Park in the earlier match, and the words 'Black Lives Matter' replaced players' names on the back of their shirts.\n• None Football Daily: The Premier League takes a knee, and the 'ghost goal'\n• None 'It's my fault' - Luiz on Arsenal defeat\n\nAfter being left out of the starting line-up by Arteta, Luiz was handed his chance when he was brought on in the 23rd minute as Arsenal suffered their second injury of the match.\n\nPablo Mari, making just his second Premier League start for the club, followed Granit Xhaka, who was taken off on a stretcher early on.\n\nBut Luiz, prone to questionable decision-making, only confirmed his manager's decision to leave him out initially had been for the best.\n\nFailure to clear the ball properly led to Sterling's opener - the ball bouncing off Luiz's knee from De Bruyne's pass, landing straight into the path of the City forward.\n\nAnd Luiz completed a dreadful night four minutes into the second half when he tugged Mahrez's shirt with no intention to play the ball, giving away a penalty and receiving a red card.\n\nDe Bruyne reminds us of his quality\n\nSome things were different on the league's return.\n\nFans were absent, players wore face masks in the dugout, there was enhanced crowd noise for television viewers and managers did post-match press conferences via Zoom.\n\nBut some things remained the same. De Bruyne was the best player on the pitch.\n\nThe Manchester City midfielder, widely regarded as one of the best in the business, reminded those watching at home of his quality with several intricate passes in the first half.\n\nHe forced the first save of the match from Leno with a curling free-kick in the first three minutes and two of his defence-splitting passes again tested the keeper's reactions half an hour later.\n\nIt was ironic one of his poorer passes would lead to Sterling's opener - helped by Luiz's poor control - but De Bruyne stamped his mark on the game even further by scoring City's second from the spot.\n\nHe needed only 69 minutes to whet the appetite of those who feared football would not be the same on its return.\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola, speaking to Sky Sports: \"We are really concerned [about Eric Garcia]. He responded quite well but we have to wait. He is conscious which is a good sign. We will make another test.\n\n\"In the beginning it was a lot of energy. Everybody wanted the ball. It was not quiet. We had chances. It was important to score before half time. I am happy with the performance of the team.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta, speaking to Sky Sports: \"Everything went wrong from the first minute. Every possible accident that could have happened hopefully happened today.\n\n\"[David Luiz] is someone that is very honest and straight forward. My opinion on David Luiz hasn't changed. It won't change because he had a difficult performance tonight.\n\nOn leaving Mesut Ozil out of the squad: \"It was a tactical reason.\"\n\nSterling hits 50 - the best of the stats\n• None Manchester City have won their past seven matches against Arsenal in all competitions, extending their best ever winning run against the Gunners.\n• None Arsenal have lost by three or more goals both home and away in a league season versus an opponent (Man City in 2019-20) for the first time since 1969-70, against Chelsea.\n• None Arsenal are winless in their past 26 Premier League away games against fellow 'big six' opposition (D10 L16), with their last such victory coming at Etihad Stadium in January 2015 (2-0).\n• None Kevin de Bruyne has been directly involved in more Premier League goals than any other player this season (25 - nine goals and 16 assists) - it's also his best goal involvement tally in a single top-flight campaign in England.\n• None Raheem Sterling became the first player to score a goal in the month of June in the English top-flight since Walter Rickett, for Sheffield United against Stoke on 14 June, 1947.\n• None Sterling also scored in his 50th home club game in all competitions - he's never been on the losing side in those fixtures for Liverpool and Manchester City (W47 D3).\n• None David Luiz became the first player to be sent off, concede a penalty and commit an error leading to an opposition goal in a Premier League match since Carl Jenkinson for West Ham against Bournemouth in August 2015.\n• None He has conceded four penalties in the Premier League this season - the joint-most in a single campaign in the competition's history (also Jose Fonte 2016-17, Gary Caldwell 2011-12, Ibrahima Sonko 2007-08, Claus Lundekvam 1999-00, Ken Monkou 1993-94 and Luc Nijholt 1993-94).\n• None Attempt blocked. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Attempt missed. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.\n• None Attempt missed. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Phil Foden.\n• None Attempt missed. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 3, Arsenal 0. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt saved. Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Eric García went off injured after Manchester City had used all subs.\n• None Rodrigo (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Neomi Bennett: \"I was just sitting in a car, minding my own business...it scared the life out of me\"\n\nA nurse pulled over by police who drove in front of her in a \"hard stop\" operation, says she was targeted because of her race.\n\nPolice officers stopped Neomi Bennett in 2019 because, they said, her front windows were tinted too dark.\n\nShe was convicted of obstructing a police officer, but prosecutors later decided not to challenge her appeal.\n\nMs Bennett, who was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to nursing, is now taking legal action.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was \"assessing a complaint in relation to this incident\".\n\nMs Bennett said the officers carried out a hard stop, meaning they pulled a car up in front of her to box her in, on the evening of 4 April 2019, and she refused to get out of the vehicle.\n\nShe said the manner in which she was pulled over \"scared the life out of\" her and, had they taken a different approach, she she might have got out of her car, but instead opted to stay inside.\n\nAt first Ms Bennett, from Wandsworth in south-west London, thought it was \"some kind of hijack\" because she could only see an officer in plain clothing.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I believe I was racially profiled and certainly don't think this would have happened if I were white.\"\n\nThe nurse, who invented the Neo-slip device to help patients with deep vein thrombosis, said she was \"locked up\" even though nothing illegal was found in her car and she was a \"stone's throw away\" from her home and family.\n\nMs Bennett was left \"traumatised\" by her encounter with police\n\nHer lawyer Ann Tayo told BBC News the arrest left Ms Bennett traumatised, and her encounter with the police was a \"genuine case of a woman being bewildered\" before officers made \"all manner of allegations\".\n\nShe added this was an example of what a \"disproportionate number of black British citizens\" have to go through.\n\nMs Bennett was eventually convicted of obstructing a police officer and said the criminal record meant she lost out on some opportunities.\n\nThe 47-year-old said: \"When the police approached me, I think my experience as a black person is very different to that of a white person and the fear it invokes is tremendous.\n\n\"I can't even describe the fear that I experienced on that night.\"\n\nMs Bennett said she has since appealed against and overturned her conviction, but added that many people in her community had experienced similar encounters with police.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met said: \"The South West Basic Command Unit Professional Standards (SWBCU) team is currently assessing a complaint in relation to this incident.\n\n\"Due to the complaint, we cannot go into any more detail at this time, however, Sally Benatar, SWBCU Commander, has recently been in contact with Neomi Bennett and has put her in touch with the local Independent Advisory Group chair to discuss her experiences with police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shopping centres like Friars Walk in Newport have been closed since March\n\nNon-essential retailers in Wales will be told they can reopen from Monday, the first minister is expected to announce.\n\nMark Drakeford will set out further changes to the lockdown laws at a press conference on Friday.\n\nBusinesses will be expected to ensure two-metre social distancing is observed.\n\nOther small changes may be announced, but the advice to stay local is likely to remain in place.\n\nShops in England have been trading since the start of the week.\n\nBut after that prompted queues outside retailers, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said he does not want to see large crowds outside reopened retailers.\n\nThe Welsh Government is expected to keep its cautious approach, and says its priority continues to be \"keep Wales safe\".\n\nEarlier the Scottish Government announced that retailers there could reopen on 29 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt the daily Welsh Government press conference Mr Gething said he did not want to see a repeat \"of crowds bunched together outside shops in complete breach of what social-distancing guidance is supposed to deliver\".\n\nEarlier in the week Mr Drakeford said reopening retail was one of a \"package\" of measures being looked at.\n\nHe said he was keen for the economy to reopen in Wales, but public health must come first \"as that is the best way for our economy\".\n\nCurrently people in Wales are only allowed to travel locally - with five miles given as a guide.\n\nThat is not expected to change on Friday. The rule has been criticised by Conservative politicians who say it unfairly harms people in rural areas.\n\nReopening shops is a move that has been heavily trailed by ministers and they are keen to stress that caution remains their watchword.\n\nThe approach from the Welsh Government has been to announce one big thing in each review and then monitor its effect on the reproduction rate of the virus.\n\nRecently though, they have started putting sectors \"on notice\" for reopening - shops next week, followed by schools the week after.\n\nPerhaps this time there will be something for the tourism sector to look forward to?\n\nRetailers have been given time to prepare to reopen\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed to the public in Wales since lockdown began in late March.\n\nWelsh Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies claimed the Welsh Government had \"listened\" to its calls to begin to reopen the Welsh economy.\n\n\"But while we welcome this announcement, it frankly beggars belief as to why travel restrictions are not being lifted too,\" he said.\n\n\"Many retailers need custom from a wide area to survive and will go to the wall if they are forced to rely on local trade alone.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the announcement did \"not come as a surprise\".\n\n\"Many people will be glad to see yet another element of easing restrictions,\" he said.\n\n\"However, we need to know not only which restrictions are being eased in the here and now but also which restrictions are expected to be lifted in the weeks and months ahead.\"", "Huawei poses challenges to national security and has engaged in unacceptable acts, Google's former boss Eric Schmidt has told the BBC.\n\nBut he says the West should respond by competing with China and its technologies, rather than disengaging.\n\nThe UK is currently reviewing whether to continue letting Huawei help build its 5G mobile networks amid growing pressure to exclude the Chinese firm.\n\n\"There's no question that Huawei has engaged in some practices that are not acceptable in national security,\" Mr Schmidt told a BBC Radio 4 documentary.\n\nHe said it was possible to think of the company as a means of \"signals intelligence\" - a reference to spy agencies like the UK's GCHQ or NSA in the US.\n\n\"There's no question that information from Huawei routers has ultimately ended up in hands that would appear to be the state,\" Mr Schmidt added.\n\n\"However that happened, we're sure it happened.\"\n\nHuawei has consistently denied accusations that it is an arm of the Chinese state, or passes on customer data to the authorities.\n\n\"The allegations made by Eric Schmidt, who now works for the US government, are simply not true and as with similar assertions in the past, are not backed by evidence,\" Victor Zhang, Huawei's UK chief told the BBC.\n\n\"Huawei is independent from any government, including the Chinese government.\n\n\"Where we do agree, and something we've always said, is that applying standards globally ensures innovation, fosters competition and benefits everyone.\"\n\nEric Schmidt says the real issue with Huawei lies in the challenge to US leadership it represents: a Chinese company operating on a global stage that is building a better product than its competitors.\n\n\"It's extremely important that we have choices,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"The answer to Huawei... is to compete by having a product and product line that is as good.\"\n\nThe US has banned Huawei from using US chip technologies but is allowing American firms to work with the firm on 5G standards\n\nEric Schmidt spent a decade and a half as chief executive and then executive chairman of Google and its parent company Alphabet.\n\nHe acknowledges that over a long career in Silicon Valley, he had underestimated China's ability to innovate.\n\n\"I have carried the prejudices about China in my years working with them,\" he said.\n\n\"That they're very good at copying things, that they're very good at organising things, that they throw large numbers of people at it. But they're not going to do anything new. They're very, very good at stealing, if you will, our stuff. Those prejudices need to be thrown out.\n\n\"The Chinese are just as good, and maybe better, in key areas of research and innovation as the West.\n\n\"They're putting more money into it. They are putting it in a different way, it is state-directed in a way that is different from the West. We need to get our act together to compete.\"\n\nHe denies the Chinese model of state-directed investment in technology is intrinsically more successful than a free-market model. However, he believes the West needs to make the most of its strengths by:\n\n\"Most people would prefer to live and work in the West than work in China,\" he says.\n\nOne of the problems in the US and particularly in Silicon Valley, Mr Schmidt believes, is a historical blindness to the role of the government in supporting research.\n\n\"Everything you see in Silicon Valley to the first order came from initial federal science grants of one kind or another.\"\n\nLast year he chaired a US National Security Commission looking at artificial intelligence.\n\nChina's advances in this field are a major concern.\n\n\"I would say they are a few years behind,\" he says.\n\n\"Not five years, and not 10 years. And there's evidence of China closing the gap in the next few years.\n\n\"So the question is: what happens then? Well obviously, artificial intelligence has military and national security applications.\"\n\nChina's work on quantum computing, he adds, is on a par with that of the West, and could even be ahead.\n\nMr Schmidt joined Google in 2001 and gave up his final post as an advisor to the firm in February\n\nMr Schmidt views the decoupling of the technology sectors in China and the US as \"undesirable\", believing it will lead to two distinct systems.\n\n\"Once you diverge these global platforms, you don't get them back,\" he says.\n\n\"We benefit from having a common platform of interchange... and I worry that by building these platforms separate, the countries will understand each other less.\n\n\"China's going to dominate whether we couple or decouple. They have the resources, they have the money, they have the technology.\n\n\"The question is do they operate on global platforms or do they operate on their own platforms? The more segregated the platforms are, the more dangerous it is.\n\n\"It is in the West's interest that every technology platform has Western values in them.\"\n\nMr Schmidt is cautious about picking national champions and supporting them. But he says there are weaknesses in the West's own capacity, particularly in not having foundries that manufacture semiconductor chips. He says it would be better for China to use chips from Western companies rather than build its own.\n\nThe rise of nationalism and protectionism around the world is of \"great concern\", he concludes, pointing to the fact that more than half of the start-ups in Silicon Valley have been founded by foreign-born nationals.\n\nFaced with a challenge from China, he draws on his own Silicon Valley experience.\n\n\"The best strategy is to think of it as a competition not unlike the tech companies, where there's brutal competition,\" he said.\n\n\"[It will be] as rough as it could be - largely unregulated between the various players - where we seek to win.\"\n\nThe New Tech Cold War will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00 BST on Friday and again on Tuesday at 16:00 BST.", "Anita Pointer (far left) said the family was devastated by the death of Bonnie (second left)\n\nShe and her sisters rose to fame as the Grammy award-winning Pointer Sisters, who were best known for the hits Jump (For My Love) and I'm So Excited.\n\n\"Our family is devastated,\" her sister Anita told the Associated Press on Monday.\n\n\"On behalf of my siblings and I and the entire Pointer family, we ask for your prayers at this time.\"\n\nBonnie and her sister June Pointer originally performed as a duet and were later joined by their sisters Anita and Ruth.\n\nThe Pointer Sisters became popular in the 1970s and won the first of their three Grammy Awards for the song Fairytale in 1975.\n\nBonnie left the group to pursue a solo career two years later but the Pointer Sisters' success continued into the 1980s and they were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.\n\nEarlier this year, Anita and Bonnie Pointer released a single in memory of their sister June, who died in 2006.\n\nTheir sister Ruth is the only sibling still performing in the Pointer Sisters, joined by her daughter and granddaughter.", "Lockdowns have saved more than three million lives from coronavirus in Europe, a study estimates.\n\nThe team at Imperial College London said the \"death toll would have been huge\" without lockdown.\n\nBut they warned that only a small proportion of people had been infected and we were still only \"at the beginning of the pandemic\".\n\nAnother study argued global lockdowns had \"saved more lives, in a shorter period of time, than ever before\".\n\nThe Imperial study assessed the impact of restrictions in 11 European countries - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK - up to the beginning of May.\n\nBy that time, around 130,000 people had died from coronavirus in those countries.\n\nThe researchers used disease modelling to predict how many deaths there would have been if lockdown had not happened. And the work comes from the same group that guided the UK's decision to go into lockdown.\n\nThey estimated 3.2 million people would have died by 4 May if not for measures such as closing businesses and telling people to stay at home.\n\nThat meant lockdown saved around 3.1 million lives, including 470,000 in the UK, 690,000 in France and 630,000 in Italy, the report in the journal Nature shows.\n\n\"Lockdown averted millions of deaths, those deaths would have been a tragedy,\" said Dr Seth Flaxman, from Imperial.\n\nTheir equations made several assumptions, which will affect the figures.\n\nThey assume nobody would have changed their behaviour in response to the Covid threat without a lockdown - and that hospitals would not be overwhelmed resulting in a surge in deaths, which nearly happened in some countries.\n\nThe study also does not take into account the health consequences of lockdowns that may take years to fully uncover.\n\nThe model also predicted that the outbreak would be nearly over by now without lockdown, as so many people would have been infected.\n\nMore than seven in 10 people in the UK would have had Covid, leading to herd immunity and the virus no longer spreading.\n\nInstead, the researchers estimate that up to 15 million people across Europe had been infected by the beginning of May.\n\nThe researchers say at most, 4% of the population in those countries had been infected.\n\n\"Claims this is all over can be firmly rejected. We are only at the beginning of this pandemic,\" said Dr Flaxman.\n\nAnd it means that as lockdowns start to lift, there is the risk the virus could start to spread again.\n\n\"There is a very real risk if mobility goes back up there could be a second wave coming reasonably soon, in the next month or two,\" said Dr Samir Bhatt.\n\nMeanwhile, a separate study by University of California, Berkeley, analysed the impact of lockdowns in China, South Korea, Iran, France and the US.\n\nTheir report, also in Nature, says lockdown prevented 530 million infections in those countries.\n\nJust before lockdowns were introduced, they said cases were doubling every two days.\n\nDr Solomon Hsiang, one of the researchers, said coronavirus had been a \"real human tragedy\" but the global action to stop the spread of the virus had \"saved more lives, in a shorter period of time, than ever before\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sweden has kept pubs, restaurants and shops open throughout the Covid 19 pandemic.\n\nThe more open approach is attracting growing numbers of British and European tourists, who’ve broken national guidelines advising against non-essential global travel in search of a beer or even a haircut.\n\nThe BBC spoke to Oana Marcu, 34, from London, who’s been in Stockholm since March, British actor Lewis Sycamore, 25, who’s just arrived to visit his Swedish girlfriend, and Peter Clark, 32, a British barber in the Swedish capital who’s found it uncomfortable serving tourists escaping lockdowns in their own countries.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths since before lockdown started on 23 March. A further 55 people had died after testing positive with the virus as of 17:00 BST on Sunday, taking the total to 40,597. But there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Mondays, because of a reporting lag over the weekend. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, speaking at No 10's daily briefing, also said the R rate is \"below one in all regions\".\n\nThe boss of Ryanair, Michael O'Leary, has said the new rules requiring all people arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days are a \"political stunt\". Those arriving by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - must give an address where they will be in quarantine. Rule breakers will be fined. Read more about how travellers have been impacted by the new rules.\n\nBP is to cut 10,000 jobs following a global slump in demand for oil because of the coronavirus crisis. The oil giant had paused redundancies during the peak of the pandemic - but told staff on Monday that around 15% will leave by the end of the year. It has not said how many jobs will be lost in the UK. It is thought the figure could be close to 2,000.\n\nNicola Sturgeon is \"optimistic\" that Scotland's coronavirus restrictions could be eased further on 18 June after a second day with no recorded deaths. The first minister said the continuing \"steady decline\" in the death rate was \"obviously very encouraging\". It comes as New Zealand lifted almost all of its coronavirus restrictions after reporting no active cases in the country.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the decline in the death rate is encouraging\n\nA five-year old schoolboy who had both of his legs amputated has raised more than £222,000 for the hospital that saved his life. Tony Hudgell, who has new prosthetic legs and crutches, aims to walk every day in June to reach his 10km challenge. He said he had hoped to raise £500 for charity after being inspired by Captain Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m for NHS charities.\n\nTony was inspired to take on the 10km challenge after watching Captain Tom Moore\n\n... you can check the rules on visiting friends or family, and having picnics and barbecues, with our updated guide.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest in our live page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The well had a small amount of water in it for the man to drink\n\nA British man who fell into a well on the Indonesian island of Bali has been rescued after six days.\n\nJacob Roberts, 29, broke his leg after falling into the 4m-deep well in Pecatu village while being chased by a dog, said AFP quoting local authorities.\n\nThe well was dry but his leg meant he was unable to get out. Witnesses say there was a small amount of water in the well which likely kept him alive.\n\nMr Roberts' cries for help were eventually heard by a local resident.\n\nThe resident had been looking for cattle feed near the area, which was in an isolated part of the village, said news outlet the Bali Sun. He alerted the local authorities.\n\nHe had to be lifted out of the well by three men in protective suits\n\n\"He looked thin and injured,\" South Kuta police chief Yusak Agustinus Sooai said of Mr Roberts' condition when he was found on Saturday.\n\nLocal search and rescue chief Gede Darmada said Mr Roberts was lifted out of the well in a stretcher by three men, according to the local search and rescue agency, Basarnas Bali.\n\nMr Roberts was lifted out on a stretcher...\n\nand was taken out of the village to a nearby hospital\n\nIn a statement on Instagram, Basarnas said that Mr Roberts was taken to the BIMC Nusa Dua hospital.\n\nPecatu village is near the popular southern Bali tourist hotspot of Nusa Dua.\n\nIt wasn't clear whether Mr Roberts was a resident or a tourist in Bali.\n\nBali has been on lockdown for months due to the virus outbreak, though several places have now began cautiously re-opening.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of protesters have turned out to anti-racism demonstrations in Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nDespite pleas from the first minister, police and MSPs to find safer ways to express their support, large numbers gathered on Glasgow Green and Holyrood Park.\n\nHowever, most were wearing face coverings and all attendees were asked to observe social distancing.\n\nMarches and rallies were planned following the death of George Floyd.\n\nThe 46-year-old black man died in Minneapolis, Minnesota after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nHis death has sparked days of demonstrations and unrest in the US and around the world.\n\nThousands gathered on Glasgow Green to hear speakers and show their support\n\nEvents were planned in Scotland despite ongoing lockdown restrictions and a ban on mass gatherings.\n\nThe first minister said that in different circumstances she might have joined the demonstrations but that the coronavirus outbreak meant it was \"simply not safe\" and would \"pose a risk to life\".\n\nThere were no new reported deaths among people who have tested positive for coronavirus in Scotland on Sunday, although the figures at a weekend are often low because of delayed reporting.\n\nDespite the progress made in containing the virus, mass gatherings remain banned under the lockdown.\n\nPeople appeared to try to stay in household groups and observe social distancing in Edinburgh\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf said during the Scottish government's daily briefing that the large numbers taking part were worrying and that he had spoken to Chief Constable Iain Livingston a short time before.\n\nHe said: \"He tells me that good social distancing has been put in place. But even with that in place, even with people wearing face coverings, mass outdoor gatherings like this could present risk to public health.\n\n\"And we do know there is a lot of evidence of the disproportionate impact that Covid-19 can have on the minority ethnic community.\n\n\"So the very people whose lives we say matter are the very lives that those people could be putting at risk. So yes, it does give me a great deal of concern.\"\n\nThe Black Lives Matter protest started at Glasgow Green at midday after it was moved from George Square to allow easier physical distancing.\n\nAn hour later, supporters started arriving at Edinburgh's Holyrood Park where organisers asked those attending to wear PPE and to observe social distancing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Philip This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA socially-distanced poster protest has been taking place across Aberdeen throughout the day. Protesters booked limited \"slots\" to display signs, posters, artwork, notes and poems demanding justice for the victims of police brutality.\n\nPeople in Inverness tied messages and artwork to Ness Bridge in the city centre in support of Black Lives Matter.\n\nA protest had been planned, but organisers cancelled it because of concerns social distancing could not be safely maintained due to the numbers of people intending to take part.\n\nPeople in the Highlands have been leaving messages of support on Ness Bridge in Inverness\n\nFourteen police officers were injured during protests in London on Saturday\n\nProtests went ahead south of the border on Saturday despite officials advising against mass gatherings due to the pandemic.\n\nOn Saturday, 14 Met Police officers were hurt during anti-racism protests in London.\n\nThousands of people gathered in cities including London, Manchester, Cardiff, Leicester, and Sheffield which were largely peaceful. However, there were disturbances near Downing Street later in the day.\n\nThe first minister urged people to join digital protests, including one organised by the STUC on Sunday evening.\n\nThe event will host speakers including Kadijartu Johnson - a nurse and the sister of Sheku Bayoh, who died after being restrained by police in Kirkcaldy in 2015. A public inquiry is due to be held into the circumstances of his death\n\nMs Johnson agreed to speak at the virtual anti-racism protest which falls on the fifth anniversary of Mr Bayoh's burial, after making a joint statement discouraging the physical demonstrations.\n\nAlongside Mr Yousaf and other politicians and anti-racism campaigners, she urged people not to attend the rallies, and to find alternative and safe ways of protesting.\n\nMost people at the Glasgow Green event were wearing face coverings\n\nThe joint statement warned that progress on easing lockdown in Scotland is \"fragile\" and said: \"Like so many we want to stand in unity with millions across our planet to show solidarity with those protesting against racial injustice in the USA but also to support those challenging racial injustice and discrimination in Scotland.\n\n\"The rules in place are there to protect people's health and ultimately people's lives.\n\n\"Therefore, as long-term anti-racist campaigners we are still urging people to protest but to use the many other methods available at this time, including digital protests.\"", "Bethan Roper was killed when she leaned out of the window of a train between Bristol and Bath.", "The UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths since before lockdown on 23 March, latest government figures show.\n\nA further 55 people died after testing positive with the virus as of 17:00 BST on Sunday, taking the total to 40,597.\n\nThis included no new deaths announced in both Scotland and Northern Ireland for the second consecutive day.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Mondays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend.\n\nThe number of new UK cases on Monday - 1,205 - is also the lowest number since the start of lockdown.\n\nOn the day lockdown began, 23 March, there was a rise of 74 deaths.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US - to pass the milestone of 40,000 deaths.\n\nThe welcome drop in deaths being announced is encouraging news.\n\nBut they come with a big caveat - there are always delays recording fatalities over the weekend.\n\nLast Monday there were just over 100 new deaths announced, but other days last week topped 300.\n\nNonetheless, it does show that progress is being made. Two Mondays ago there were more than 120 deaths and in the week before that there were 160.\n\nDuring the peak of the virus there were more than 1,000 deaths a day.\n\nThe challenge now will be making sure the figures stay low as restrictions are eased.\n\nAnother difficulty facing the government is that, even with the extra testing in place, not all infections appear to be getting picked up.\n\nMonday's data shows there were 1,205 new infections diagnosed, but surveillance suggests the true figure may be five times higher.\n\nSome of these will be asymptomatic cases - people who do not show symptoms - but the concern remains that some people are simply not coming forward.\n\nIdentifying these will be crucial to keep on top of the virus.\n\nThere were no new deaths reported from London hospitals for the second day in a row. However, NHS England said it was aware of a \"small number\" of people who had died over the weekend and they would be included in figures in the next few days.\n\nIn Wales, three more deaths were announced.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that the R number - the rate at which the virus reproduces - remained below one in every region of the country but said that while the figure was the lowest since lockdown, 55 deaths was \"55 too many\".\n\n\"So, there are encouraging trends on all of these critical measures, coronavirus is in retreat across the land, our plan is working and these downward trends mean we can proceed with our plans. But we do so putting caution and safety first,\" he said.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for the government to proceed with caution but said \"many now fear that the prime minister is starting to throw caution to the wind\".\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing Mr Hancock said data was \"pointing in the right direction\" and showed \"we are winning the battle with this disease but have further to go\".\n\nHe said the government was ready to take action in response to local outbreaks of the virus if the R number was seen to rise.\n\n\"This will mean, for instance, action in particular hospitals or particular care homes to make sure there is control of those outbreaks,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock also announced the launch of a national Covid-19 social care support taskforce, led by David Pearson, a former chief of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.\n\nAll staff and residents at 6,000 care homes for adults with disabilities in England will receive coronavirus tests, Mr Hancock said, following on from his claim on Sunday that the government had hit its target of testing staff and residents homes for the over-65s.\n\nThe final batches were delivered to 9,000 homes last week.\n\nThe health secretary also denied there was a trade-off between the economy and health, amid reports the government is considering further easing measures, and said a \"second spike would be hugely damaging to the economy\".\n\nOn average, a total of about 1,600 people a day die of all causes in the UK. What is not known about the coronavirus deaths being reported is to what extent those deaths are in addition to that average figure, or whether they form part of it.\n\nMany of the victims are old and frail people with underlying health conditions, who therefore are at the highest risk of dying.\n\nExperts predict there will be significant overlap between the coronavirus deaths and those that would normally be expected to die.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which counts death certificates mentioning the virus, suggests those deaths had reached more than 48,000 by 22 May.", "Many countries have been easing lockdown restrictions. In England, dental practices are allowed to open again from today – but with new guidelines in place. Here are the experiences of two dentists in different parts of the world.\n\nDr Sarveen Mann owns a small practice in London, which is preparing to reopen on 15 June, and told BBC Outside Source: \"It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster. We donated our PPE and our oxygen cylinder to the frontline so now we have to have it all back in place. There’s panic within the profession to get PPE.\"\n\nDr Jeff Cooper says getting PPE is a problem Image caption: Dr Jeff Cooper says getting PPE is a problem\n\nDr Jeff Cooper is a dentist in Wisconsin, US, whose practice reopened some weeks ago.\n\n“We don’t have people in waiting rooms, they wait in cars and we call them in when necessary. We’ve got a real problem getting protective equipment, and masks are the worst. Our suppliers are rationing things out.”\n\nWhat’s the reaction from patients been? “People have been very good, but those on reception have caught some flak from patients irate about having to wear a mask. “My choice is to tell them, ‘You’d be better served elsewhere’.”", "A preliminary post-mortem examination on Simeon Francis did not find a cause of death\n\nAn investigation has begun into the death of a man in police custody in Devon, the police watchdog has said.\n\nSimeon Francis, 35, who was black, died in a cell in Torquay police station on 20 May after being arrested in Exeter, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.\n\nA preliminary post-mortem examination did not find a cause of death, it said.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the independent inquiry.\n\nMr Francis was arrested at about 00:45 BST on 20 May in Cowley Bridge Road in Exeter. He was transported by van to Torquay before being booked into custody at about 03:00, the IOPC said.\n\nMr Francis was found unresponsive in a cell at Torquay police station\n\nPolice said paramedics were called after he was found \"seriously unwell\" in his cell in the afternoon. The IOPC said an ambulance crew pronounced him dead at about 18:00.\n\nThe investigation followed a mandatory referral from the Devon and Cornwall force, which officers announced the day after the death.\n\nRegional IOPC director Catrin Evans said: \"Our thoughts are with Mr Francis's family and friends following his death.\"\n\nShe said investigators were gathering evidence and statements from officers and \"analysing a considerable amount of CCTV footage from the custody suite\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at the level of care provided during the period of detention, including the frequency and adequacy of checks carried out.\"\n\nFurther tests were also to be carried out on Mr Francis's body, she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Huawei is launching a newspaper and internet campaign to mark 20 years of business in the UK.\n\nIn an open letter to the public, the Chinese telecoms company says it is \"as committed as ever\" to provide \"the best equipment\" to the UK's 5G mobile and full-fibre broadband providers.\n\nIt comes amid a new security review that could lead the UK government to ban use of Huawei's 5G network kit.\n\nHuawei's local boss said he expects the UK to act in the nation's interests.\n\nThe initiative follows a report in Saturday's Daily Telegraph, which said London-headquartered bank HSBC fears it could face reprisals in China, if the UK acts against Huawei.\n\nThe Sunday Times also reported that China's ambassador to the UK had recently told business leaders that Beijing viewed the matter as \"a litmus test of whether Britain is a true and faithful partner\".\n\nVictor Zhang, vice president of Huawei and head of its UK operations, told the BBC the advertising campaign was about giving people the facts amid all the \"noise\" surrounding the company.\n\nHe said he hoped the UK would take an \"evidence and fact-based approach\" and warned of huge economic impact if greater connectivity was delayed by the company's exclusion, potentially running into the tens of billions of pounds of lost productivity benefits.\n\n\"We need to work closely to address the issue, but we need to take action to accelerate the broadband deployment,\" he said. \"We don't have time to delay this.\"\n\nHuawei's first significant global breakthrough came in the UK in 2005, when it signed a deal to upgrade BT's copper broadband service, five years after having entered the market.\n\nTwo of the UK's mobile operators now need to remove Huawei equipment from their networks in order to meet the 35% cap imposed by the government\n\nAnd 15 years later, the UK government's decision to allow Huawei a role in the country's 5G mobile networks represented another crucial victory.\n\nIn January, ministers announced that Huawei's market share would be capped at 35%, and it would be excluded from sensitive locations, as well as the so-called \"core\" of the network, which is likened to the brains of the system.\n\nIt appeared that the Chinese tech giant had avoided the outright ban that the US had been pressing for, on the grounds that the firm poses a national security risk.\n\nBut a backbench rebellion by Conservative MPs in March and then the coronavirus crisis have heightened political pressure for the UK to be less dependent on China.\n\nAnd Washington's campaign has also not relented since January's decision, despite Huawei's repeated denials that it would ever compromise its clients.\n\nIn May, the US placed significant new sanctions on the company, which limits its access to American computer chip technology.\n\n\"We think this decision will heavily impact on the global supply chain of the semiconductor industry,\" Mr Zhang told the BBC. \"We need to work out a solution.\"\n\nHuawei spells out the benefits it presents the UK in the ad pegged to its 20th anniversary\n\nMr Zhang said that it was still too early for the company to draw any conclusion about the impact, and promised to share details of its own review when complete.\n\nHowever, the sanctions prompted the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to carry out its own review.\n\nNCSC is expected to report in the coming weeks, and may say it has lost confidence it can manage the risks associated with Huawei being involved in 5G.\n\nThat could open the way for the government to shift its position to further reducing, or even eventually eliminating Huawei's role.\n\nThat could be costly to mobile operators, leading to higher bills for customers. It could also mean their rollout of 5G in the UK is slower.\n\nThe advertising campaign also highlights Huawei's support of British universities and other institutions, which might also be affected, were the company to be blocked.\n\n\"We believe the UK will definitely review this based on the facts and the evidence, because the UK will take its own interests very seriously,\" Mr Zhang said.\n\nThe founder of Huawei, Ren Zhengfei was reported by the Wall Street Journal on Saturday to have told staff in 2018 that the company was in a battle with the US and they should \"surge forward, killing as you go, to blaze us a trail of blood\".\n\nAsked about the language, Mr Zhang said it reflected a sense that Huawei was under intense attack from the United States.\n\n\"We are very vulnerable and we know America tried to attack Huawei with so called security reasons which are actually totally wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"It is simply because of trade and protectionism.\"", "The statue of Edward Colston in Bristol \"is a constant reminder of his inhumanity\", says poet Miles Chambers\n\nThis article was first published in February 2018\n\nBristol's fame and wealth were built on the slave trade and few slave traders were more infamous or wealthy than Edward Colston. Almost 300 years since his death, his past is set to be formally acknowledged by the city for the first time. But does this go far enough?\n\nColston made his fortune through human suffering. Between 1672 and 1689, ships are believed to have transported about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas.\n\nHowever, in the city he called home, his memory has been honoured for centuries. On his death in 1721, he bequeathed his wealth to charities and his legacy can still be seen on Bristol's streets, memorials and buildings.\n\nHis statue, which stands on Colston Avenue in the city centre, makes no mention of his notorious past. But this could be about to change.\n\nThe city council is proposing to put a plaque on the statue which will recognise and acknowledge the people Colston and others in the city enslaved.\n\nIt's a move that has been a long time coming, says Ros Martin, one of the driving forces behind the Countering Colston campaign group.\n\n\"The plaque is good but we need it to be part of an ongoing examination of historical narrative and a change of attitudes and culture.\n\n\"What we want goes beyond tokenism - we want institutions and organisations in the city to examine their history and acknowledge their individual roles in the slave trade and beyond.\"\n\nThe statue of the slave trader and philanthropist was erected in 1895\n\nThe drive to reconsider Bristol's attitude to Colston has long been gathering momentum.\n\nFor years Massive Attack refused to play at hometown venue Colston Hall, which last year agreed to drop the slave trader's name.\n\nNot before time, says Miles Chambers, the city's poet laureate.\n\n\"Some people don't get that black people still feel the full impact of slavery today.\n\n\"We can look at the descendants of the slaves and economically they are still worse off; psychologically they are still worse off; mentally they still feel collectively as inferior; more African-Caribbean males are disproportionately in prison and in the judicial system; they do worse at schools; economically are paid less and are working less.\n\n\"The pattern continues and even though many people say slavery is over, because of those legacies we still feel enslaved.\n\n\"A name change or statue move is not going to rectify racism or eradicate the slave mentality that still exists, but it will help to say to black people: 'You are equal to us, you are British, you are valuable and you mean as much to us as any other citizen.'\"\n\nCaptains were instructed to buy as many slaves as the ship could \"conveniently carry\"\n\nIn 1680 Colston became a member of the Royal African Company which at the time had a monopoly on the slave trade. By 1689 he had risen to become its deputy governor.\n\nSlaves bought in West Africa were branded with the company initials RAC, then herded on to ships and plunged into a nightmarish voyage.\n\nClosely shackled together, hundreds of enslaved people lay in their own filth; disease, suicide and murder claimed between 10 and 20 per cent of them during the six to eight week voyage to the Americas.\n\nHuman suffering on this scale made Colston rich and a grateful Bristol honoured his benevolence; naming dozens of buildings, institutions, charities, schools, sports clubs, pubs, societies and roads after him.\n\nHis charity is commemorated during processions and church services. School children have paid homage to him at services. His statue stands in the city centre, inscribed as a \"memorial of one of the most virtuous and wise sons of the city\".\n\nFor hundreds of years, he has been unquestionably venerated.\n\n\"Colston may have helped more people than he abused but the people he abused and their descendants say this is unacceptable and although they are a minority, something needs to be done about it,\" says Mr Chambers.\n\n\"We are still seeing the effects of slavery in this city, there is still money from slavery in this city and so we can't ignore it.\"\n\nRos Martin says tourists wonder why so many buildings and roads are named after Colston\n\nThere have been questions about Colston and his profile in Bristol since the 1920s but they remained largely ignored until 1999 when Prof Madge Dresser, at the University of West England, spoke about Colston and his involvement in the slave trade.\n\nThe next morning, \"Slave Trader\" was scrawled across his statue.\n\nThe graffiti was scrubbed off and the city went back to turning a blind eye until two years ago, when Countering Colston ignited the debate once again.\n\nIt has staged protests outside many events linked to Colston and called for the city to remember, among other things, the \"full, true history of transatlantic slavery, colonialism and exploitation\".\n\n\"When you come to Bristol you go around the streets and, for anyone outside coming in, they must think 'Who is this man?' and 'Why are so many buildings, roads and schools named after him?',\" says Ms Martin.\n\n\"I think it's very disingenuous, very disrespecting of the memory of African ancestors who contributed to the wealth of the city through enslaved labour. They suffered and there is not enough recognition in any way.\n\n\"[Countering Colston] would like to see permanent public art works as a memorial to the victims of the city's human trafficking into enslavement.\n\n\"I would like all those institutions that played a role in this business of transatlantic inhumanity to provide public exhibitions of their involvement and a monument to those who suffered in their institution.\"\n\nAs head girl, Jane Ghosh's had to lay a wreath on Colston's tomb on Commemoration Day\n\nCountering Colston's work is beginning to make its mark.\n\nAfter Colston Hall announced it was severing any connection with the slave trader, others swiftly followed.\n\nFor the first time in centuries, a controversial church service in his name was dropped last year; the custodians of St Stephen's citing a \"growing concern\" about a man who made his money from buying and selling people.\n\nHowever, for some the campaign is simply going too far.\n\n\"We all knew what he'd done but it wasn't spoken about,\" says Jane Ghosh, a former head girl of Colston Girls school. Founded in 1891 with an endowment left in his will, the school has steadfastly refused to drop his name.\n\nDuring her school days, Ms Ghosh took part in many Charter Day ceremonies to commemorate the school's founder. As head girl, she joined the procession through the city to placed a wreath on his tomb, while Colston buns - created by and named after the merchant - were handed out during the service.\n\n\"I'm not an apologist [for slavery] but I am a realist,\" she continues.\n\n\"So many families, so many buildings in Bristol are connected to the slave trade and one of the reasons I get a bit cross is because I think, 'Why are we picking on Colston?'\n\n\"So many people were a mixture of good and bad - as we all are - and he seems to be singled out and I don't know why.\"\n\nFrancis Greenacre standing outside Colston Almshouses - built in 1796 with Colston's money to provide homes for the poor\n\nBetween 1698 and 1807 just over 2,100 Bristol ships set sail on slaving voyages with many of the earliest voyages funded by ordinary people who provided cash or goods to be bartered for captured slaves.\n\nThat Colston's name has not disappeared with time is testament to his membership of an influential and selective group of Bristol businessmen.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers helped set up and run many of the institutions and charities that still bear his name.\n\nFormer museum curator and society member Francis Greenacre says the achievements of a man who did so much for charity have now been overshadowed by the debate about his name.\n\n\"His status was extraordinary... the extent of his charity was vast in Bristol and enormous in London, as it was throughout the country.\"\n\nHis wealth also founded schools and almshouses for the poor and he entrusted the society to carry on his work.\n\nToday, the Merchant Venturers run nine schools in Bristol, are involved in social enterprise, charities looking after the elderly, scholarships and trusts.\n\nHowever, controversial ceremonies are still reported to exist including a Silent Toast to Colston during the Grateful Society's annual dinner.\n\nStanding outside Colston Tower, Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley says she is \"uncomfortable\" that a slave trader's name is \"celebrated\"\n\nCampaigners accuse the society of continuing to \"celebrate a slave trader\". Mr Greenacre says the society is commemorating Colston's charity work, rather than his slaving past.\n\n\"That word [celebrate] comes from Countering Colston - it is in no sense what is being done,\" he says.\n\n\"We are not celebrating the slave trade; that is a perception which is in effect deeply offensive.\"\n\nHowever, he acknowledges that times have changed and society must change as well, referring to the council's decision to acknowledge Colston's past.\n\n\"Someone walking past his statue, which makes no reference to the slave trade; if they are a descendant of enslaved Africans they may feel genuinely offended; indeed some feel not just hurt but real anguish and that ought to be addressed.\"\n\nColston's statue is a \"memorial [to] one of the most virtuous and wise sons of the city\"\n\nFor some, the amendment to Colston's statue is not enough.\n\n\"I would really like it if the statue was put in the museum,\" says Jasmine Ketibuah-Foley, a presenter for community station Ujima Radio, which focuses on Bristol's African-Caribbean population.\n\n\"People can still see that this is a man who did a lot for Bristol, but we should put [a statue] in the city centre of a black Bristolian who has changed Bristol and done something good for Bristol.\"\n\nOthers think saving Colston's legacy is not even as simple as moving a statue or changing the name of buildings, roads and schools.\n\nWhen he heard the concert venue would be dropping the name, history graduate Max Barton set up a petition against the move which attracted 5,000 signatures.\n\nHe said it was \"time to educate and not eliminate\" people about the slave trader and his history.\n\nMax Barton says some people in Bristol see Colston as a figurehead of the city\n\n\"White, working-class Bristolians have grown up with Colston as a kind of father of Bristol,\" he says.\n\n\"They see him as a figurehead, they see him as this person who was a great charitable philanthropist - wiping out that history would alienate this group.\n\n\"Countering Colston has a list of places associated with Colston on their website - a hit list as far as I'm concerned... they want to eliminate him from history and that will alienate people.\"\n\nBristol is not alone in trying to come to terms with its past. From Oxford to Charlottesville, from Sydney to Cape Town, cities are facing the same question - how do you remember history without celebrating brutality?\n\nHistorian Dr Edson Burton is reluctant to see Colston's name disappear but believes Bristol is similar to many cities in being \"built on a romanticised myth\".\n\nHe says now we are in a position to question \"the great figures that we have venerated in the past\", we should not be surprised to \"find that they are not up to the mark for our modern standards\".\n\nDr Edson Burton standing outside Bristol Cathedral, which has a huge stained glass window dedicated to Colston\n\n\"I see that there are a number of institutions willing to look their history in the eye and acknowledge that there is a question about the legacy and foundation on which they were built.\n\n\"I think that is a monumental step - my concern is that it is not sufficient enough.\"\n\nHe is one of many in the city searching for a solution.\n\nAt the vanguard of change, in more ways than one, is Colston Primary School, which announced last year it would be changing its name.\n\nKate Swainson Price said the decision to change the school's name is not about eradicating history\n\nChair of governors Kate Swainson Price said the decision was not about pandering to political correctness.\n\n\"For me, the decision to change our school name is about a recontextualisation of history rather than eradication, obliteration or whitewashing.\n\n\"It's making history, not erasing history. Facts don't change but attitudes and values do, as do societies.\"\n\nThe school is now at the centre of plans to design the new plaque on Colston's statue, which will recognise and acknowledge the people he and others in the city enslaved.\n\nThe children will be joining Countering Colston members, Prof Dresser and the city council to help put Colston's legacy into context.\n\nMs Swainson Price said it was \"amazing and appropriate\" for the children to \"to help review and redress the balance about how we remember and acknowledge Bristol's historical figures\" and \"importantly, the slaves themselves\".\n\nThe current plaque makes no mention of the thousands of people he enslaved\n\nThe man in charge of the project, the council's historic environment officer Pete Insole, said the people who were exploited by Colston are \"invisible\" in Bristol.\n\nHe is helping to co-ordinate events during the summer about the city's links to the slave trade, which will culminate in the unveiling of the plaque.\n\n\"Slave traders are the most commemorated people in the city; we can't change the past but we can change the present and the future,\" he added.\n\nBut for Ms Martin this is only the beginning: \"We have created debate... It's not just Bristol, it's a global narrative, it's about colonisation and decolonisation.\n\n\"Across Europe and across America the debate is very alive. We are questioning people and we are challenging society.\n\n\"You are only here for a short time on Earth and I like to think we are bequeathing something better than we have inherited.\"\n\nIn 1750 Bristol ships transported 8,000 of the 20,000 slaves sent to the Americas\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLearner drivers have been left without clear guidance about when they will be able to take their tests, driving instructors have said.\n\nThey say there has been \"no communication\" from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA).\n\nSteve Britton, a driving instructor from Bridgend, said instructors were \"frustrated\".\n\nThe DVSA said it was keeping the situation under \"constant review\" in line with guidance.\n\nEla Owen, 17, of Llanrwst in Conwy, had her test cancelled in March and rearranged for 28 July.\n\nShe said she was \"disappointed\" when the first test was cancelled and there remains \"uncertainty\" around whether she will be able to sit the rearranged test.\n\n\"We don't live in a city so there's not as many buses or trains to get to places, so needing a car in a rural area is quite important to have that independence,\" she said.\n\nEla Owen says having a car is important for independence in rural areas\n\nHer driving instructor, Rhydian Hughes, said pupils with tests coming up were \"frustrated\" and \"anxious\", adding: \"I can't tell them when they can start having lessons.\"\n\nHe said some instructors were thinking about installing a plastic screen between them and their pupils.\n\nBut Mr Hughes added: \"I don't find that practical... although as a driving instructor I do have dual controls, at some situation or at times you might need to grab hold of the steering wheel.\"\n\nRhydian Hughes says he would not consider installing a plastic screen in his car\n\nThe DVSA, which is responsible for driving tests and approving driving instructors, has suspended tests until 20 June at the earliest, to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe latest figures available show that between July and September 2019, 32,340 driving tests took place in Wales.\n\nInstructor Steve Britton said the backlog could be \"four, five even six months\" and he found it difficult to see how to make lessons safe.\n\n\"I've got a visor and masks but no information from anybody about how it's going to be used,\" he said.\n\nAaron Farmer, 18, who is one of Mr Britton's students, said he was waiting for his cancelled test to be rearranged.\n\nHe said his frustration had been increasing as lockdown measures have been easing.\n\nMr Farmer, who has not driven a car for two months, said: \"It would probably take me a good few weeks again to get back into it and a lot of hours behind the wheel.\"\n\nInstructor Steve Britton says he cannot see how you can make lessons safe\n\nThe Driving Instructors Association said it was concerned at a lack of information available for instructors and students.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Throughout this crisis there has been a disappointing lack of communication from the regulator.\n\n\"We've excused some of that in the earlier phase of this crisis as we are dealing with an unprecedented pandemic and every government agency is on the back foot to some degree in terms of issuing guidance.\n\n\"However, we are at a point now where guidance in crucial.\"\n\nHe added: \"If the regulator knows now that they are not in a position to resume testing at the end of this month, then communicate that to trainers and their pupils now.\"\n\nIn a statement the DVSA said: \"We understand how challenging the current situation is for the industry but our top priority is to stop the spread of coronavirus and keep everyone safe.\n\n\"We will continue to work closely with driving instructor associations on how and when we can resume driving tests and lessons in Wales and other parts of the UK.\n\n\"We're keeping the situation under constant review, in line with UK and Welsh government guidance, and will provide further information as soon as we can.\"", "Muslim leaders have called for mosques to remain closed until congregational prayers can be held\n\nA senior Imam has advised mosques not to open until they can hold congregational prayers, despite government plans for places of worship.\n\nThe government is expected to announce that churches, mosques and synagogues in England can open their doors for private prayer from 15 June.\n\nBut as mosques are primarily for congregational prayers Muslim leaders have warned the plans lack clarity.\n\nImam Qari Asim said opening them would \"cause more challenges\".\n\nFull services and weddings will still be banned under the measures, which the prime minister is expected to outline to his cabinet on Tuesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland already allows private worship but Scotland and Wales have not yet done so.\n\nDowning Street says any changes are contingent on the government's five tests for easing lockdown continuing to be met.\n\nImam Asim, chairman of the Mosques & Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), has called on mosques not to reopen until it is safe to do so and they are able to hold congregational prayers.\n\nHe said: \"The fundamental difference between mosques and some other places of worship is that mosques are first and foremost used for congregational prayers.\n\n\"Individual prayers can be performed anywhere, primarily at homes. Accordingly, opening the mosques on 15 June will cause more challenges for mosques and imams as the expectation from the community will be to resume collective worship.\"\n\nHarun Khan, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said communities needed \"unambiguous guidance\" so they could ensure the safety of everyone.\n\nHe said: \"Mosques are provisioned primarily for congregational worship, so there is currently significant uncertainty and concern from mosque leaders on how the new regulations can actually be implemented.\"\n\nMr Khan added that the MCB, an umbrella group of Muslim associations, had been consulting with communities across the country and it was clear proactive planning about reopening mosques had been taking place.\n\nMINAB has also called on the government to allow small groups to meet for the five daily prayers in mosques, so long as social-distancing and other measures are respected.\n\nThe group has prepared guidelines for mosques to start putting in place ahead of their eventual reopening, with particular concern about the impact of coronavirus on BAME communities.\n\nGroup worship will still be banned by lockdown regulations over fears that the virus could spread\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the most senior Roman Catholic in England and Wales, thanked the government and said the move was the first, measured step in restoring church services.\n\nHe said it was important that \"every care is taken to ensure that the guidance given for this limited opening is fully observed, not least by those entering our churches\".\n\nBut he added that not every Catholic church would be open on 15 June.\n\n\"Local decisions and provision have to lead this process,\" he said.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson recognised the importance of people being able to have space to \"reflect and pray, to connect with their faith, and to be able to mourn for their loved ones\".\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said ensuring places of worship could reopen was a priority as their \"contribution to the common good of our country is clear\" and said faith communities had shown \"enormous patience and forbearance\" since the lockdown came into effect.\n\nPlaces of worship have been closed for almost two months, and in some cases even longer, after closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Jenrick has warned that large gatherings will be difficult to manage for some time, particularly with the demographics in some religions meaning many could be vulnerable to the virus and because practices such as singing could enable the virus to spread more freely\n\nWhile the burden of the lockdown has fallen evenly across the population, religious groups have been forced to sacrifice major festivals that punctuate their practice over the year.\n\nChristians were unable to attend Holy Week services, Muslims have experienced Ramadan without communal Iftar meals each day.\n\nThe Jewish community experienced Passover without extended Sedars and Sikhs were unable to mark the festival of Vaisakhi.\n\nAlthough places of worship will reopen solely for private prayer, it seems the government was persuaded that if the public was ready to re-engage in retail therapy, then people of faith ought to be allowed to enter places of worship.\n\nAll the major religious groups are preparing new hygiene protocols, doors are likely to be opened only for limited periods, numbers attending will be carefully controlled and there will be no communal worship.\n\nBut at a time of widespread grief and anxiety about the future, this will be a welcome opportunity to seek comfort and consolation in sacred spaces around the country.", "People arriving in the UK will have to isolate for 14 days or face penalties\n\nThe travel industry has condemned the government's quarantine rules, warning the mandatory two-week isolation will deter visitors and put jobs at risk.\n\nFrom 8 June all passengers arriving in the UK must self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe manufacturing industry has added to the criticism, warning fewer flights will restrict imports and exports.\n\nThe boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Mr O'Leary said most countries in Europe have a lower rate of coronavirus than the UK.\n\nAt a time when \"Italy, Greece, Spain and Portugal are removing visitor restrictions, the UK is imposing them,\" he said.\n\nSwissport chief Jason Holt questioned why the rules were being put in place now.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, he said: \"If it's so important and it's so relevant to the virus, and we all want the country to be safe, why wasn't this done in March? That's why everybody's quite confused on this.\"\n\nMore than 200 travel companies have written to the government asking for the new rules to be scrapped, while some MPs have also raised concerns.\n\nThe boss of tour operator Red Savannah said the government had failed to listen to the concerns of the travel industry.\n\n\"We are none the wiser as to the science behind the rationale for quarantine,\" said George Morgan-Grenville.\n\n\"It is the wrong policy that is going to cause untold misery for hundreds of thousands of people who will now very likely be made redundant.\"\n\nBut the government says the quarantine period is a \"proportionate and time-limited approach'' to protect public health.\n\nOn Wednesday, Home Secretary Priti Patel told Parliament imported coronavirus cases now ''pose a more significant threat''.\n\n\"We are past the peak but we are now more vulnerable to infections being brought in from abroad,\" she said.\n\nThe manufacturing industry has warned the quarantine rules will have knock on effects for freight, and that will hamper the recovery of some businesses.\n\nSpeaking to a committee of senior MPs, Stephen Phipson, the head of the manufacturers' association Make UK, said \"passenger aircraft are really important for freight. The belly of the aircraft carries freight. Heathrow is the largest port in the country.\"\n\n\"For import and export in manufacturing that passenger freight traffic is vital\", he said.\n\nHe described the quarantine rules as \"disappointing from that point of view\".\n\nFrom Sunday, all passengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days.\n\nSurprise visits will be used to check they are following the quarantine rules. Those in England could be fined up to £1,000 if they are not at home.\n\nA spokesman for the trade body Airlines UK said the government needed to clarify whether people from some countries with low infection rates would be exempt from quarantine rules, under a so-called air bridge.\n\n\"If the government leave it too late we run the risk of the summer season being over and losing out to other countries who are starting to open up their borders now,\" he said.\n\nSwissport, which handles airport ground services and cargo, earned more than €3bn (£2.8bn) in revenue in 2019 but the coronavirus crisis has reduced revenue by 95%, according to Mr Holt.\n\nThe company has furloughed most of its 6,000 UK staff.\n\nMr Holt said they would remain on the Job Retention Scheme until the government's future travel policies became clear.\n\nHe said Swissport had lobbied the government to avoid introducing quarantine, but the company was now hoping the rules will only be in place for short time.\n\n\"We're really hoping no more than three weeks,\" he said. If it goes beyond that it could do \"irredeemable damage to the sector\".", "The Duke of York has been requested by the US authorities to testify about his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the BBC has been told.\n\nIt was first reported in the Sun that the US Department of Justice had made a formal request to speak to Prince Andrew as part of its Epstein inquiry.\n\nHe has been heavily criticised for his friendship with the US financier.\n\nThe duke has previously said he did not witness any suspicious behaviour during visits to Epstein's homes.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties last year following a widely-criticised BBC interview about his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in a US jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond said the BBC had confirmed the reports that the US authorities had submitted a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request to the Home Office - although this has not been confirmed by the US Department of Justice or the UK Home Office.\n\nUnder the terms of a MLA request if Prince Andrew does not voluntarily respond, he can be called to a UK court to answer questions.\n\nOur correspondent said the duke's legal team was bitterly unhappy about the leaking of the request, with a source describing it as \"an extraordinary breach of confidentiality\".\n\nA full statement is expected later with details about Prince Andrew's cooperation with US legal authorities.\n\nMLA requests by other states are used to obtain assistance in an investigation or prosecution of criminal offences, generally when cooperation cannot be obtained by law enforcement agencies.\n\nAccording to Home Office guidance, it is \"usual policy\" that the existence of a request is neither confirmed or denied.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme in November 2019, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein, despite the financier having been convicted of soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in 2008.\n\nHe also denied having sex with Virginia Giuffre, when she was a teenager, who said she was trafficked by Epstein when she was 17.\n\nShortly after the interview was broadcast, Prince Andrew said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency\".\n\nHe was criticised in January by the US prosecutor in charge of the investigation into Epstein - Geoffrey Berman - who said the prince had provided \"zero co-operation\" to the investigators.", "The economic downturn in the US triggered by the pandemic has been officially declared a recession.\n\nThe National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation on Tuesday, citing the scale and severity of the current contraction.\n\nIt said activity and employment hit a \"clear\" and \"well-defined\" peak in February, before falling.\n\nThe ruling puts a formal end to what had been more than a decade of economic expansion - the longest in US history.\n\nMeanwhile, US markets continued their rebound on Monday, as investors remained optimistic that the downturn will be short-lived.\n\nA recession was expected after the US economy contracted 5% in the first three months of the year.\n\nEmployers also reported cutting roughly 22 million jobs in March and April, as restrictions on activity intended to help control the virus forced many businesses to close.\n\nSome economists are hopeful that the job losses have now stopped, and a rebound has begun. In May, US employers added 2.5 million jobs, as states started reopening.\n\nThe National Bureau of Economic Research, a private research organisation, said it viewed the scale of the decline that started in February as more significant than its duration.\n\n\"The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production, and its broad reach across the entire economy, warrants the designation of this episode as a recession, even if it turns out to be briefer than earlier contractions,\" it said.\n\nThe bureau typically defines a recession as an economic contraction that lasts \"more than a few months\".\n\nIt has declared 12 recessions since 1948, the longest of which was the Great Recession, which lasted 18 months, from December 2007 to June 2009.\n\nUS financial markets, which tumbled in February amid signs of the economic collapse, have been on the upswing since March, due to investor hopes that economic damage will be limited, thanks to emergency relief from Congress and the central bank.\n\nOn Monday, the Nasdaq index closed at 9,924.7, gaining 1.1% to top its pre-pandemic record.\n\nEmployees screened by healthcare workers before entering the New York Stock Exchange, which partially reopened in late May\n\nThe S&P 500 rose 1.2% to close at 3.232.3 - returning to where it started the year - while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.7% to 27,572.4. The two indexes are now less than 10% lower than their pre-pandemic peaks.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has celebrated the rebound.\n\n\"Big day for Stock Market. Smart money, and the World, know that we are heading in the right direction. Jobs are coming back FAST. Next year will be our greatest ever,\" he wrote on Twitter on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany economists have warned that the economic pain is likely to linger, even if the worst has passed.\n\nThe World Bank on Monday said it expected the global economy to shrink by 5.2% this year, in the deepest recession since World War Two.\n\nIt said it expected the US economy to contract by 6.1% and the Euro area to shrink by 9.1%.\n\nWhile global growth of 4.2% is expected to return next year, the bank warned that the outlook is \"highly uncertain and downside risks are predominant, including the possibility of a more protracted pandemic, financial upheaval and retreat from global trade and supply linkages\".", "The women were celebrating Bibaa Henry's (right) birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters have been found dead in a London park where they had earlier celebrated a birthday, sparking a murder investigation.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27 and Bibaa Henry, 46, were discovered at 13:00 BST on Sunday in Fryent Country Park, Brent.\n\nThe women had been celebrating Bibaa's birthday with a group of about 10 people on Friday evening, police said.\n\nTheir deaths are being treated as suspicious, the Met Police said.\n\nPolice said the group of partygoers had gradually dispersed until only the pair remained.\n\nThe sisters were both reported as missing to police late on Saturday when they did not return home, before they were discovered on Sunday.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding, of the Metropolitan Police, said: \"We are in the very early stages of the investigation and are working hard to find out what led to these two women losing their lives.\n\n\"I need to hear from anyone who was in Fryent Country Park on the evening of Friday, 5 June, or early into Saturday, 6 June.\n\n\"The area the group were in would be a well-known spot to sit and look over London. If you were in that area of the park and noticed the group, or saw anything else suspicious, please contact us immediately.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The first minister gave his thanks to children and young people in Wales\n\nMore lockdown restrictions could be lifted in Wales in weeks if the number of coronavirus cases continues to fall, the first minister has said.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said he could not make \"any promises\" about reopening pubs and restaurants.\n\nHe said they were on the list of items which could change when restrictions are next overhauled.\n\nThe next lockdown announcement in Wales is expected on 19 June, a day after ministers have to review the rules.\n\nMr Drakeford said cases are falling from a high of about 400 a day at the start to around 50 new cases a day.\n\nThree more people in Wales were announced on Monday to have died from coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking at the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Drakeford said that because the number of new cases is falling, \"the risk of meeting someone with the disease and being infected by it is falling as well\".\n\nHe said that if, at the end of next week, the number of people carrying the disease in Wales is still dropping, \"we will have some headroom to go on in that careful and cautious way of lifting the restrictions in Wales\".\n\nDriving to beauty spots has been banned in Wales\n\nEngland's pubs and restaurants may re-open earlier than planned after warnings of huge job losses.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said he could not make \"any promises\" about re-opening the sector in Wales.\n\nHe said he would be meeting officials to consider the \"long list\" of potential changes for the next review this week.\n\n\"We reduce that list to a short list of the most possible ideas which we then look at greater detail next week,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"There are many many other requests that are being made of us,\" he added.\n\nLockdown restrictions are reveiwed in Wales every three weeks\n\nRestrictions were recently loosened to allow people to travel locally and meet individuals from another household.\n\nLockdown in Wales is controlled by the Welsh government in Cardiff, and in England by the UK government in London.\n\nWhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed timescales for when rules can be eased in England, such as non-essential retail on 15 June, Mr Drakeford has been reluctant to do so.\n\nMaking any changes would depend on the number of new cases continuing to fall, he said.\n\n\"We will have to select the careful measures we can offer to people in Wales while remaining safe from the risk that coronavirus could accelerate away from us again.\"\n\nFacemasks will become compulsory on English public transport from 15 June\n\nIn England, face coverings will become compulsory on public transport from 15 June - there have been calls in Wales for the Welsh government to follow suit.\n\nThe World Health Organization has changed its advice, saying masks should now be worn where social distancing is not possible.\n\nSo far, the Welsh government has not recommended their use, although it has not discouraged people from using them either.\n\nMr Drakeford said his government was still \"working on the detail\" on whether to make the wearing of face masks in public mandatory.\n\n\"The way we do things in Wales is to prepare first and to announce second, not to announce and then work out what the announcement might have meant,\" he said.\n\nHe said further details would be given by the Health Minister Vaughan Gething on Tuesday.\n\nMark Drakeford said he could give no promises on the return of pubs\n\nThe press conference also heard that health boards are training more staff to work in critical care, in case there is a second coronavirus peak in the autumn.\n\nMr Drakeford said normally there were 150 critical care beds available in Wales, but at the height of the pandemic \"there were three times that number\" and more staff were needed.\n\nHe said \"everything was being done to prevent a second peak\" but measures had to be put in place in case it did happen.\n\nAs well as training more staff in critical care, Mr Drakeford said a review was under way looking at the use of field hospitals.\n\n\"In the first wave we managed not to use all our field hospital capacity. Does that mean we have to shut it down? No,\" Mr Drakeford said.\n\n\"We still need to preserve that extra capacity to make sure that it is available to us should we need it in the autumn\".", "Republic Records represents artists like Drake, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift and The Weeknd\n\nRepublic Records, one of the most powerful record labels in the US, will stop using the word \"urban\" to describe music of black origin.\n\nThe company, which is home to Drake and Ariana Grande, says it will no longer use the term to describe \"departments, employee titles and music genres\".\n\n\"We encourage the rest of the music industry to follow suit,\" it added.\n\nThe term is often considered to be a generalisation that marginalises music by black artists.\n\n\"'Urban' is a lazy, inaccurate generalisation of several culturally rich art forms,\" radio presenter DJ Semtex told the magazine Music Business UK in 2018.\n\n\"I despise the word,\" he added. \"I know artists that do hip-hop, grime, or rap. I don't know anyone that does urban music.\n\n\"The connotation of the word doesn't hold a positive weight,\" agreed Sam Taylor, a senior vice president at Kobalt Music, in an interview with Billboard in 2018.\n\n\"It's downgrading R&B, soul and hip-hop's incredible impact on music.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by republicrecords This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe term dates back to the mid-1970s, when black New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker coined the phrase \"urban contemporary\" as a label for the eclectic mix of songs that he played - which covered everything from James Brown to Doris Day.\n\nAt the time, the label didn't carry negative connotations but, after being shortened to \"urban\" it started being used as a catch-all for music created by black musicians - effectively lumping them into one category, regardless of genre.\n\nRepublic Records reflected the growing discomfort around the term in a statement announcing it would remove the word from its company vocabulary.\n\n\"'Urban' is rooted in the historical evolution of terms that sought to define black music,\" it said.\n\n\"As with a lot of our history, the original connotation of the term urban was not deemed negative. However, over time the meaning and connotations of 'urban' have shifted and it developed into a generalisation of black people in many sectors of the music industry, including employees and music by black artists.\n\n\"While this change will not and does not affect any of our staff structurally, it will remove the use of this antiquated term.\n\n\"We encourage the rest of the music industry to consider following suit as it is important to shape the future of what we want it to look like, as to not adhere to the outdated structures of the past.\"\n\nThe label, whose roster also includes The Weeknd, Nicki Minaj, Post Malone and Taylor Swift, also announced the formation of an \"action committee\" to address social justice issues.\n\nManagement company Milk & Honey, whose songwriters have contributed to hits by Drake & Rick Ross, The Chainsmokers, Dua Lipa and Selena Gomez also declared it would \"formally eliminate the term 'urban' at our company\".\n\nIn a statement posted to social media, it said: \"We will no longer be using the term as we believe it's an important step forward, and an outdated word, which has no place in 2020 onwards.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post 2 by milkhoneyla This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe move comes in the wake of widespread protests in the US and UK over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis two weeks ago,\n\nA white police officer was filmed kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes, while the 46-year-old repeated several times, \"I can't breathe\". He was later pronounced dead in hospital.\n\nHis death prompted hundreds of thousands to take to the streets demanding racial justice.\n\nThe music industry responded by pausing work for a day last week, with Universal Music - Republic Records' parent company - establishing a \"task force to accelerate our efforts in areas such as inclusion and social justice\".\n\nHowever, others have said the industry needs widespread systemic change, rather than \"window dressing\".\n\n\"Why is it that black music generates millions and millions of dollars a year and yet none of the companies have a meaningful number of employees of colour, let alone in the executive suite?\" asked senior music industry lawyer Ronald E. Sweeney in an open letter published on Sunday.\n\nSweeney, who has represented the likes of James Brown, P Diddy and Public Enemy, drew up a 12-point plan to address what he called \"the elephant in the room\", including equal pay and the creation of a three-year programme to train people from minority backgrounds for executive roles.\n\n\"[This] is what meaningful and real change looks like,\" he wrote. \"So, let's see what you do.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some people who stayed at the YHA Hostel have moved to more permanent accommodation\n\nWales' housing minister says she is \"absolutely determined\" homeless people will not have to go back on to the streets after the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nCouncils are being asked to find permanent homes for hundreds of rough sleepers who moved into emergency accommodation during lockdown.\n\nRooms in hotels, student accommodation and hostels were bought up at the start of the pandemic to provide 800 places.\n\nBut Julie James said that was not \"OK for the longer term\".\n\nAnother £20m will now go towards building homes and converting empty properties.\n\nShe said it would ensure \"that everybody housed stays housed\".\n\n\"We are absolutely determined that no one will have to go back on to the streets,\" Ms James added.\n\nShe said she was worried about a small number of people who were deemed to have \"no recourse to public funds\" because of their unsettled immigration applications.\n\nSara John said she felt more secure at the YHA Hostel in Cardiff\n\nThey include asylum seekers who have been given temporary housing under the Welsh Government's health powers to protect them from Covid-19.\n\nMs James said there were \"tens\" of them in Wales and she urged the UK government to change its rules so they can continue to get help.\n\nThe Home Office said that was \"inaccurate.\"\n\nA spokesman said: \"Asylum seekers who would otherwise be destitute are provided with free, fully furnished accommodation, and we continue to provide accommodation and support to those whose claims have been rejected and are unable to return home.\n\n\"We will review this situation by the end of June.\"\n\nIn Cardiff, the council has taken over two hotels to temporarily house homeless people.\n\nOfficers say only a handful of people have remained out on the streets during the pandemic.\n\nSara John, 35, is staying at a YHA hostel with her partner after previously staying at other hostels and spending time on the streets.\n\nShe said coronavirus was \"scary because you don't know if you're going to have the virus or not\".\n\nThe YHA hostel in Cardiff has 89 beds for homeless people\n\n\"There are things you hear but, obviously, I've been out every day and I'm still here,\" she said.\n\nThe YHA hostel, which has 89 beds, makes her feel more secure \"because you can lock away and you've got staff here if you need them\".\n\nManager Gareth Edwards said some people had moved on to more permanent accommodation.\n\n\"We are dealing with 200 and something people at the moment so there's probably going to be a bottleneck of people trying to get into private rented accommodation or supported accommodation in some way,\" he said.\n\n\"I think that's going to be the challenge for us now is to try and identify what people's needs are and where is going to be the best place to place them.\"\n\nShelter Cymru director John Puzey said: \"We now have a unique opportunity before us to ensure that homeless people currently in temporary accommodation are supported into homes that they can begin to restart their lives from.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's housing spokeswoman, Delyth Jewell MS, said eradicating homelessness had always been \"a question of political will\".\n\nShe said: \"The fact that the Welsh Government has now made a commitment to eradicate homelessness for good is extremely welcome, although many lives could have been saved had they acted sooner.\"\n\nTory MS David Melding said councils should follow a Newport scheme where private landlords were guaranteed six months' rent if they took in homeless tenants.\n\n\"It does seem that the Newport scheme has worked very well, and may be a very constructive way forward that uses the resources of the private sector, which are so extensive in providing rental accommodation,\" he said.\n\nFunding announced by Ms James would help people into stable housing \"so they don't fall back and then end up in the streets again\", Mr Melding said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Routine dental appointments may not happen until next year\n\nDental health in Wales faces an \"impending disaster\" unless surgeries reopen, a dentist has warned in a letter to the first minister.\n\nCardiff dentist Dr Charlie Stephanakis said his plea on behalf of about 500 Welsh colleagues reflected mounting concerns for patients.\n\nDentists in England can reopen from Monday, but in Wales a phased approach will begin in July.\n\nThe Welsh Government said reinstating services needed to be \"gradual\".\n\nRoutine appointments have been postponed since the start of lockdown, but in that time dentists in Wales have seen 11,500 people in practices for urgent care and provided 140,000 consultations over the phone or using video services.\n\nFrom July patients will be able to be assessed for urgent care at their practices, but those requiring invasive procedures such as high-speed drilling will still be referred to specialist 'Urgent Dental Care' centres.\n\nUnder the phased guidelines set out by Wales' chief dental officer, Colette Bridgman, routine assessments and care will only be reinstated between January and March 2021.\n\nBut in his open letter to Mark Drakeford, Dr Stephanakis said without action \"we are facing the long-term degradation of the oral health of the population of Wales\".\n\nThe dentist said keeping surgeries closed following the coronavirus lockdown in Wales had led to several issues, including:\n\nHe has called for urgent meetings with the Welsh Government to seek a way forward.\n\nThe British Dental Association, which represents the health sector, said there was a \"great, growing demand\" for swifter action before 2021.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We share dentists' concerns and recognise routine care cannot be postponed indefinitely.\n\n\"We have published our plan for the reinstatement of services but this needs to be a cautious and gradual approach, taking into consideration the risk of aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) on Covid-19 transmission.\n\n\"There is a need to balance the oral health needs of patients against the need to protect patients, dental teams and communities in Wales from coronavirus.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon is \"optimistic\" that coronavirus restrictions could be eased further on 18 June\n\nNicola Sturgeon is \"optimistic\" that Scotland's coronavirus restrictions could be eased further on 18 June after a second day with no recorded deaths.\n\nThe first minister said the continuing \"steady decline\" in the death rate was \"obviously very encouraging\".\n\nHowever, she warned it was \"highly likely\" that more deaths would be registered in the coming days.\n\nAnd she confirmed that \"shielding\" of those most at risk from the virus would continue until the end of July.\n\nShe said changes were likely to be made to allow people in this category to exercise outdoors, but that shielding must continue due to the \"very significant threat\" of the virus.\n\nSunday marked the first time since the early days of the pandemic that no new deaths of people confirmed to have the virus were recorded in Scotland.\n\nAfter reporting that there had not been any further deaths on Monday, Ms Sturgeon said: \"I can't tell you how much I've longed to report such a development.\"\n\nHowever, she warned that because fewer deaths tend to be registered at weekend, it was \"highly likely\" that more would be reported in the coming days.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"optimistic\" that if progress continued to be made, Scotland could move into the next phase of the government's \"route map\" towards lifting lockdown on 18 June.\n\nThat is the next formal review point for the Covid-19 restrictions.\n\nThe second phase could allow people to meet up with another household indoors, as long as physical distancing is maintained. It may also involve re-opening more shops and businesses, as well as the resumption of professional sport.\n\nThe first minister said any changes might not include every element of the second phase, but that the Scottish government would also look to \"accelerate things from later phases\" if possible.\n\nShe said ministers \"want to get the economy back to as much normality as possible\", but that \"we have to do it safely so we don't set everybody back again by allowing the virus to run out of control\".\n\nShe added: \"We are making significant progress against this virus, but it is at a very sensitive and critical juncture.\n\n\"We need a safe foundation to lift restrictions more meaningfully in the weeks to come.\"\n\nThe first minister said people \"should still be staying home most of the time and meeting fewer people than you normally would\".\n\nWhile \"very encouraging progress\" was being made, she said that \"sticking with this for a bit longer really does matter\".\n\nShe said: \"These painful but necessary sacrifices have brought us to where we are today, with this virus in retreat. It is in retreat, but it is not gone.\n\n\"This is such a critical junction in our battle against this virus. We will either keep beating it back, or give it a chance to roar back with a vengeance.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has identified four phases for easing the restrictions:\n\nPhase 1: Virus not yet contained but cases are falling. From 28 May you should be able to meet another household outside in small numbers. Sunbathing is allowed, along with some outdoor activities like golf and fishing. Garden centres and drive-through takeaways can reopen, some outdoor work can resume, and childminding services can begin.\n\nPhase 2: Virus controlled. You can meet larger groups outdoors, and meet another household indoors. Construction, factories, warehouses, laboratories and small shops can resume work. Playgrounds and sports courts can reopen, and professional sport can begin again.\n\nPhase 3: Virus suppressed. You can meet people from more than one household indoors. Non-essential offices would reopen, along with gyms, museums, libraries, cinemas, larger shops, pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and dentists. Live events could take place with restricted numbers and physical distancing restrictions. Schools should reopen from 11 August.\n\nPhase 4: Virus no longer a significant threat. University and college campuses can reopen in full, mass gatherings are allowed. All workplaces open and public transport is back at full capacity.", "The publication of a controversial opinion piece sparked anger inside the newsroom\n\nThe New York Times' opinion editor has resigned amid outrage over a piece by a Republican senator calling for military forces to be sent to cities where anti-racism protests had turned violent.\n\nJames Bennet stepped down after Senator Tom Cotton's article \"Send in the Troops\" caused revolt in the newsroom.\n\nIt backed Donald Trump's threat to use troops to quell unrest.\n\nThe newspaper had initially stood by the publication but then said the article \"did not meet\" its standards.\n\nThe change in position came after an outcry from both the public and staff over the piece, published on the newspaper's website last Wednesday. Some journalists did not come into work on Thursday in protest.\n\nMr Bennet, who has been the opinion editor since 2016, later admitted that he had not read the piece before its publication. The Arkansas senator's article called for \"an overwhelming show of force\" against groups he described as \"rioters\".\n\nIts publication happened as hundreds of thousands of people have been marching across the US in recent weeks against racism and police brutality. There have been violent incidents in some cities.\n\nThe demonstrations were sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody last month. Video showed him pinned to the floor, with a white police officer kneeling on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nMore than 800 employees signed a letter denouncing the article's publication, saying it contained misinformation.\n\n\"As a black woman, as a journalist, I am deeply ashamed that we ran this,\" Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote on Twitter.\n\nIn a note to staff on Sunday, New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger said: \"Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we've experienced in recent years.\"\n\nThe note said Mr Bennet had resigned after he agreed that \"it would take a new team to lead the department through a time of considerable change\". There was no mention of Mr Cotton's piece.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nThe New York Times initially defended the article, saying the editorial page needed to reflect diverse viewpoints. But in a lengthy editor's note added to the text on Friday, it said the piece \"fell short of our standards and should not have been published\".\n\nIt said \"the editing process was rushed and flawed\", adding: \"The published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of 'cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa'; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned.\"\n\nThe newspaper also said the senator's statement that police officers \"bore the brunt\" of the violence seen in some cities was an \"overstatement that should have been challenged\". The headline, which had not been written by Mr Cotton, \"was incendiary and should not have been used,\" the note added.\n\nMr Sulzberger's email announced that Jim Dao, who oversees op-eds as a deputy in the opinion section, will be moved to another role, while Katie Kingsbury will become acting opinion editorial page editor.\n\nOn Saturday, Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, resigned after publishing a headline that equated property damage to the deaths of black people, which prompted public condemnation from many of the newspaper's staff.\n\nMr Wischnowski apologised for what he described as a \"horribly wrong\" decision to use the headline \"Buildings Matter Too\" on an article about civil unrest in the US.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I did a little dance': Smiling Ardern confirming New Zealand is free of Covid-19 in early June\n\nNew Zealand has lifted almost all of its coronavirus restrictions after reporting no active cases in the country.\n\nAt midnight local time (12:00 GMT), all of New Zealand moved to level one, the lowest of a four-tier alert system.\n\nUnder new rules, social distancing is not required and there are no limits on public gatherings, but borders remain closed to foreigners.\n\nNew Zealand has reported no new Covid-19 cases for more than two weeks.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern told reporters she did \"a little dance\" when she was told the country no longer had any active virus cases.\n\n\"While we're in a safer, stronger position, there's still no easy path back to pre-Covid life, but the determination and focus we have had on our health response will now be vested in our economic rebuild,\" Ms Ardern said.\n\n\"While the job is not done, there is no denying this is a milestone. So can I finish with a very simple, 'Thank you, New Zealand'.\"\n\nNew Zealand first went into lockdown on 25 March, setting up a new four-stage alert system and going in at level four, where most businesses were shut, schools closed and people told to stay at home.\n\nAfter more than five weeks, it moved to level three in April, allowing takeaway food shops and some non-essential businesses to re-open.\n\nAs the number of community cases continued to decline, the country moved into level two in mid-May.\n\nThe move to level one comes ahead of time - the government had originally planned to make the move on 22 June, but it was brought forward after no new cases were reported for 17 days.\n\nLife has (almost) returned to normal in New Zealand\n\nUnder the new rules, all schools and workplaces can open. Weddings, funerals and public transport can resume without any restrictions. Social distancing is no longer required but will be encouraged.\n\nThe country's borders remain closed to foreign travellers, and rules remain in place requiring New Zealanders arriving from abroad to go through a 14-day period of isolation or quarantine.\n\nMs Ardern warned that the country would \"certainly see cases again\", adding that \"elimination is not a point in time, it is a sustained effort\".\n\nNew Zealand has recorded 1,154 confirmed cases and 22 deaths from Covid-19 since the virus arrived in late February, but has been widely praised for its handling of the crisis.\n\nFor many, the latest announcement is a cause for celebration - but not without caution. Auckland-based lorry driver Patrick Weston told the BBC: \"Everyone is so happy we're finally through this, but we're still nervous.\n\n\"I think the main thing people are worried about is the economy - so many people out of work, so many people looking for work at the same time.\n\n\"[On Tuesday] all restrictions are lifted and we can carry on as normal. Sporting events, music events can all take place with no restriction of numbers. We're still being encouraged to social distance of course, so we hope people will be sensible.\n\n\"We're happy, but nervous about the future.\"\n\nDo you live in New Zealand? What are your thoughts on the lifting of lockdown restrictions? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Mr Hunn received 107 birthday cards after an appeal by his Norwich care home\n\nA war veteran who celebrated his 100th birthday in lockdown has said he is \"so thankful\" after being sent more than 100 cards following an appeal.\n\nEddie Hunn, who lives in Norwich, was unable to share his milestone on Sunday with family and friends amid government guidelines on social distancing.\n\nBut the centenarian received 107 cards after staff at his Chiswick House care home organised a campaign.\n\nSam Bailey, of Black Swan Care, said Mr Hunn was a \"true Norfolk boy\".\n\nBorn in Dereham in 1920, he grew up in Wells-next-the-Sea.\n\nHe joined the Territorial Army in 1938 as a driver mechanic before he saw action in Singapore, and spent three-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war on the Thai-Burma Railway.\n\nMr Hunn moved to Great Yarmouth and ran a guest house after the war. He lost his wife of 69 years, Doris, in 2014.\n\nThe veteran, who has written a book on his experiences, arrived at Chiswick House last year.\n\nAs well as the cards, Mr Hunn received a telegram from the Queen\n\nBlack Swan Care said it was grateful for \"overwhelming support from our local community to give Eddie the best 100th birthday possible\".\n\nAs well as the cards, Mr Hunn received a telegram from the Queen and an email from the High Commission of the Republic of Singapore.\n\nEddie was able to see his family from a distance as he marked his birthday\n\nMr Hunn's family stood on the opposite side of the care home's car park\n\nMr Hunn said he was \"so thankful to everyone involved\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The Post Office prosecuted postmasters over missing money despite having evidence its own computer system could be to blame.\n\nHundreds were accused after the Horizon system showed cash shortfalls at their branches.\n\nBut a BBC Panorama investigation has revealed managers knew problems with Horizon could make money disappear.\n\nThe Post Office says its new leadership has made changes and is working closely with postmasters to provide support.\n\nPostmasters up and down the country were held responsible for missing money because they supposedly had sole control of their Horizon accounts.\n\nIt led to many being fired, going bankrupt or even sent to prison.\n\nThe Horizon system is designed to record the transactions carried out in a post office branch\n\nBut senior Post Office managers were told back in 2011 that computer technicians also had access to the system and could change postmasters' data.\n\nAn Ernst and Young audit report, which was sent to Post Office directors, says it \"has again identified weaknesses\" in the Horizon system.\n\nIt warns that some IT staff have \"unrestricted access\" to postmasters' Horizon accounts which \"may lead to the processing of unauthorised or erroneous transactions\".\n\nPanorama first reported that postmasters' accounts could be accessed without their knowledge in 2015.\n\nIn 2015 whistleblower Richard Roll told Panorama he accessed Horizon data remotely to maintain the system\n\nBut the Post Office strenuously denied this type of remote access was possible and complained to the BBC.\n\nIt then became a central issue in a civil court case brought by 550 postmasters in 2017. The Post Office agreed to pay £58m to settle the case last year.\n\nDuring the trial, the Post Office admitted remote access without the postmaster's knowledge was possible.\n\nManagers claimed they had made an honest mistake when dealing with Panorama because they had not been aware that remote access to Horizon was possible.\n\nBut the programme showed its evidence to Rachel Reeves MP, who had been leading an inquiry into the Post Office and Horizon for the business select committee.\n\nUntil April 2020, Rachel Reeves MP was chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee.\n\nShe said the 2011 audit report suggested the Post Office had known about remote access all along.\n\n\"It is very serious that the Post Office were sitting on information that told them, and could have told the courts, and their sub postmasters, that other people could access their systems.\"\n\nThousands of pages of internal Post Office documents were disclosed in the civil trial and Panorama spent months investigating previously unseen evidence.\n\nThe investigation reveals how Post Office managers ignored reports of multiple faults with the Horizon computer system.\n\nError logs of the Horizon system show that computer bugs could cause losses\n\nEvidence from the system was still used by the Post Office to secure convictions against postmasters like Seema Misra.\n\nShe was pregnant when she was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2010 for stealing £74,000 from her branch in West Byfleet.\n\nAt her trial, the Post Office argued computer errors could not be responsible for the missing money.\n\nBut Panorama has seen internal Post Office emails which show its legal department was told about Horizon errors shortly before her trial.\n\nMetadata shows that the Post Office legal team printed a memo about problems with Horizon\n\nOne email from the Post Office Security Team to the Criminal Law Team is about a bug in the Horizon computer system that makes money \"simply disappear\". In one case, £30,611 went missing.\n\nThe security team tell the legal team they are worried the bug may have \"repercussions in any future prosecution cases\".\n\nAn attachment to the email says that \"any branch encountering the problem will have corrupted accounts\".\n\nThe document was printed out by the Post Office legal department just three days before Seema Misra's trial, but it was never disclosed to her defence.\n\nSandip Patel QC believes Panorama's evidence suggests there has been a miscarriage of justice\n\nBarrister Sandip Patel QC told Panorama the new evidence suggested there had been a miscarriage of justice.\n\n\"Quite clearly the Post Office had material which they should have disclosed, which they did not, and in my view resulted in the wrongful conviction of Mrs Misra.\n\n\"There should be a thorough examination of all the evidence, in respect of any person who might have committed misconduct in the course of these prosecutions by the Post Office.\"\n\nSeema Misra is one of 47 postmasters whose cases have been referred to the Court of Appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).\n\nThe CCRC has also called for a review of whether organisations like the Post Office should be allowed to launch their own prosecutions.\n\nPostmaster Seema Misra now hopes to have her conviction overturned at the Court of the Appeal.\n\nMore convictions could be challenged, as the Post Office is now reviewing 900 prosecutions that may have relied on Horizon evidence.\n\nThe Post Office says it has always accepted its legal obligations, has taken advice throughout and is now conducting a further review about disclosure.\n\nIt says it deeply regrets not doing more to investigate the risk that computer bugs may have been responsible for some of the shortfalls that occurred.\n\n\"It is for this reason that Post Office's new CEO, Nick Read, is making his number one priority the wholesale reform of Post Office's relationship with its postmasters.\"\n\nThe organisation has now launched a new scheme \"to consider the cases of all postmasters who experienced shortfalls which they believe were caused by bugs in historical versions of Horizon.\"\n\nThe Post Office also says it will have a changed culture and greater transparency.\n\nPanorama, Scandal at the Post Office is on BBC One at 19:30 BST on Monday 8 June, or watch later on iPlayer.\n\nBBC Radio 4 have also broadcast a 10-part series, The Great Post Office Trial.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton has urged countries around the world to remove \"racist symbols\" after the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in Bristol.\n\nThe world champion saluted anti-racism protesters for tearing down a monument to the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston at a demonstration on Sunday.\n\nHamilton said governments around the world should \"implement the peaceful removal of these racist symbols\".\n\nHe has made a series of statements amid global anti-racism protests.\n• None Hamilton 'overcome with rage' at events in US\n\nThese have occurred in a number of countries following the death of George Floyd in the US last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died in police custody in Minneapolis after an officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.\n\nHamilton said last week that he was \"completely overcome with rage\" at events following Floyd's death.\n\nAnd on Monday he said the Colston statue should not be recovered after demonstrators threw it into a river.\n\n\"If those people hadn't taken down that statue, honouring a racist slave trader, it would never have been removed,\" he said on Instagram.\n\n\"There's talks of it going into a museum. That man's statue should stay in the river just like the 20,000 African souls who died on the journey here and thrown into the sea, with no burial or memorial. He stole them from their families, country and he must not be celebrated!\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter shortly afterwards, Hamilton made a pointed reference to US President Donald Trump's response to the protests that have swept America.\n\nThe 35-year-old posted a picture of the slogan \"Black Lives Matter\" painted on the road leading to the White House and wrote: \"And don't you forget it.\"", "A further 77 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus - the lowest daily increase since the lockdown began.\n\nNo new coronavirus deaths were recorded in Scotland or Northern Ireland.\n\nExperts say the number of deaths recorded over weekends tends to be lower because of reporting delays.\n\nAnd earlier, a scientist advising the government said there was still \"an awful long way to go\" before the pandemic would end in the UK.\n\nProfessor John Edmunds said there was a risk the disease will \"come back very fast\" if the UK \"relaxed its guard\".\n\nAnd he said he wished the UK had gone into lockdown sooner as the delay \"cost a lot of lives\".\n\nA total of 40,542 people have now died after testing positive for the virus the UK.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US - to reach 40,000 deaths.\n\nThe last time Scotland recorded no new deaths was on 20 March - three days before the lockdown was announced.\n\nScottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman gave a \"note of caution\" about reading too much into Sunday's figures.\n\nShe said: \"It is still very likely that further Covid-19 deaths will be reported in the days ahead.\"\n\nNHS England announced another 72 deaths and Wales announced five.\n\nThe daily figure only includes those who have tested positive for the virus, and other figures show the death toll could be higher.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which counts death certificates mentioning the virus, suggests deaths had reached more than 48,000 by 22 May.\n\nIt has been just over three months since the UK recorded its first coronavirus death on 2 March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor John Edmunds: \"I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. I think that has cost a lot of lives\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock rejected the comments by Prof Edmunds, who sits on the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).\n\nHe insisted: \"I think we took the right decisions at the right time.\"\n\nMr Hancock added that there were more than 100 members of Sage, and said the government had been guided by the balance of scientific opinion from the group.\n\nMeanwhile, the government says it has now reached its target this weekend of delivering tests to all staff and residents of care homes.\n\nMr Hancock said coronavirus test kits have been offered to every care home in England and have delivered tests to 9,000 eligible care homes.\n\nBut Labour's shadow minister for social care, Liz Kendall, said the original pledge had been for tests to have been carried out, not just delivered to care homes, and accused the government of being \"too slow to act\".\n\nThe pledge was made on 15 May, when Mr Hancock said all residents and members of staff in care homes in England would have been tested for coronavirus by early June.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does the ease in restrictions mean for people in Northern Ireland?\n\nAll non-essential retailers can reopen in Northern Ireland from Friday, Stormont's economy minister has said.\n\nPressure had been building on Stormont ministers to name a date, as only large retailers and shops in retail parks could open from today.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all high street shops resumed business on Monday.\n\nDiane Dodds said the executive will discuss when shopping centres can reopen later this week.\n\nMinisters met earlier and agreed to the further changes for retailers, and are due to hold a special meeting on Thursday assessing long-term strategies for helping NI to slowly return to normality.\n\nMrs Dodds described the announcement on shops as a \"major step forward\" for the economy, but that it was time to accelerate the pace of recovery.\n\n\"It was agreed that as long as retailers can adhere to the necessary safety measures, and there is no increase in the spread of the virus by Thursday, then these shops can reopen,\" she added.\n\n\"All retailers must be able to implement measures that minimise the risk to their staff and to the people who visit their stores.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Executive of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, Simon Hamilton, described the announcement as a \"huge step in the right direction\".\n\n\"Reopening will allow more retailers to start trading again after what has been a dark and difficult period for the sector.\"\n\nIt is understood ministers also discussed whether face coverings on public transport should be mandatory at their meeting on Monday, but no decision was taken.\n\nIt comes as no new Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland for the second day in a row.\n\nThe Department of Health's death toll remains at 537.\n\nIts daily figures are mostly comprised of hospital deaths and where a patient had previously tested positive for the virus.\n\nThe latest figures on the department's dashboard show six new confirmed positive cases of the virus, bringing that total to 4,802.\n\nBy 29 May, government statistics agency Nisra had recorded 757 deaths, as it records all fatalities where Covid-19 was mentioned on a death certificate.\n\nSpeaking at the Stormont daily press conference on Monday, First Minister Arlene Foster said she \"regrets\" that the executive has not been able to allow people to visit family indoors yet.\n\nThe measure was included in step one of the Pathway to Recovery blueprint, but Mrs Foster said the science still did not permit ministers to ease this restriction.\n\n\"I hope we can move on it sooner rather than later because I know people have been waiting a long time to hear us say those words,\" said Mrs Foster.\n\nShe added that the executive is looking at the \"social bubble\" approach, advocated by New Zealand, which allows people to have a small, exclusive group of friends and family they can interact with while in lockdown.\n\nThe executive will meet on Thursday to discuss that possibility, as well as recovery from the pandemic across all sectors, said Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill.\n\n\"If you have headroom and space to move, we as an executive have to get our priorities right,\" she said.\n\n\"Working our way out of lockdown was always going to be more complicated, but we're trying to get the balance right between family time, the economy and all those other areas.\"\n\nFrom Monday, restrictions for some visitors entering Northern Ireland come into force, with anyone entering from outside the Common Travel Area having to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThe Common Travel Area covers the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.\n\nLeaving isolation prematurely could result in a fine of up to £1,000.\n\nThe executive has warned that people's behaviour over the next few weeks will determine whether lockdown-easing steps continue, are halted, or are reversed, depending on how the R value is affected.\n\nThe R-number, or reproduction number, is the average number of people that one coronavirus-infected person will pass the virus on to.\n\nSmall outdoor weddings will be allowed in Northern Ireland from Monday, ministers have agreed\n\nThe Department of Health said it estimated the R-number in Northern Ireland is currently between 0.7 and 0.9, enabling ministers to move ahead with lifting restrictions.\n\nIt will publish the R-number every Thursday.\n\nThe executive's five-step Pathway to Recovery does not include a timetable for each of the phases, but aspects of different steps will likely take effect at the same time.\n\nMinisters have stressed that people and businesses must still adhere to physical distancing rules, by staying 2m (6ft) apart.", "The pilots' union Balpa has accused British Airways of undermining talks over proposed job losses by threatening to dismiss and re-hire its members under new contracts.\n\nThe airline proposes to make 12,000 staff redundant, as it struggles with the impact of the pandemic, with more than 1,000 pilot roles at risk.\n\nBritish Airways said it was acting now to protect as many jobs possible.\n\nIt insisted no final decision had been made.\n\nBalpa has been meeting with the company, unlike some unions, including Unite and GMB, which BA says have refused to enter talks.\n\nBut Balpa general secretary Brian Strutton said on Saturday night that those talks now hung \"by a thread\".\n\n\"Balpa reps have been in consultation with BA over its proposed 1,130 pilot job losses and we've been doing that constructively and in good faith,\" Mr Strutton said in a statement.\n\n\"Then, on Wednesday evening, a letter from BA added another 125 job losses and also for the first time threatened all 4,300 BA pilots with dismissal and reengagement if we did not reach agreement on changes to terms and conditions.\n\n\"I'm appalled at the cavalier attitude shown by BA towards the Balpa reps and to its pilots.\n\n\"This has seriously undermined our talks which now hang by a thread.\"\n\nWillie Walsh, the chief executive of BA's parent company IAG, emphasized this week in a letter to Parliament that no decision had been made in relation to actual redundancies.\n\n\"There are some who believe the company is exaggerating the scale of the challenge,\" Mr Walsh said in the letter. \"Nothing could be further from the truth. The situation is unprecedented.\"\n\nBritish Airways said it was acting now to protect as many jobs possible, as the airline industry faced the deepest structural change in its history. It called on Unite and the GMB to consult with it on its proposals as Balpa was doing.\n\nSeparately, BA, Easyjet and Ryanair have made inroads towards a legal challenge to the government's plan to impose two weeks' quarantine on travellers entering, or returning to, the UK.\n\nThe three have written a letter to Procurator General Sir Jonathan Jones, the government's most senior legal official.\n\nIn it, they argue the rules for incoming travellers will be more stringent than those for people who are actually diagnosed as having coronavirus - and point out that the rules are governed by different legislation for residents of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nThe proposals have been roundly criticised across the travel industry. The Home Office has said it believes the measures will help stop the spread of the virus.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"As we get the virus under control here, we must manage the risk of cases being imported from abroad.\n\n\"These measures are informed by science, backed by the public and will keep us all safe.\n\n\"We recognise it is a difficult time for the travel industry, and the government continues to work with industry partners to ensure these measures remain effective and necessary.\"\n\nThe boss of Getlink - formerly Groupe Eurotunnel - has also written to the government, criticising the plan for its burden of paperwork, for instance the efforts that would be needed to keep track of workers who cross the channel frequently.\n\n\"The exemption to quarantine for staff who cross the Channel many times a day, within the concession, turns out to be an administrative burden for each crossing that will require much time to set up and deliver,\" wrote Getlink's chief executive Jacques Gounon.\n\nHe also complained to Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the speed of the new rules.\n\n\"Limited consultation by the Home Office and departmental intransigence have led to a situation that puts a serious risk on the efficiency of operations at the Channel Tunnel, a vital link in the Great British supply chain,\" he wrote.", "Scotland's private sector recorded one of the deepest slumps in business activity in the UK last month as lockdown restrictions continued to disrupt the economy, according to a report.\n\nThe RBS Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for May suggested an improvement in manufacturing and services output from April's record low.\n\nHowever, Scotland saw the smallest rebound in output of any area in the UK.\n\nIn terms of overall activity, only Northern Ireland fared worse out of 12 monitored areas of the UK.\n\nThe report comes after a warning last week from the Scottish government's chief economist that Scotland's economy may not return to pre-pandemic levels until the start of 2023.\n\nOfficial figures showed that, in the first half of May, almost a fifth of businesses were temporarily closed.\n\nThe RBS business activity index, which measures manufacturing and service sector output, posted 21.1 for Scotland in May, up from April's low of 10.7.\n\nThe figure for Northern Ireland last month was 18.9, while the highest reading was 33.4 for the East of England.\n\nAny figure below 50 suggests contraction. The further below the 50 level, the faster the decline signalled.\n\nThe volume of new work received by private sector firms in Scotland continued to plummet in May.\n\nAnecdotal evidence from the survey linked the fall to temporary business closures and weak client demand amid continued lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe pace of contraction was slower than in April, but still the second-fastest since data collection for the survey began in January 1998.\n\nAt the sector level, the drop in order book volumes was sharper in services.\n\nPrivate sector firms in Scotland reduced workforce numbers again, extending the current sequence of job cuts to four months.\n\nPanellists reported that weak client demand had led them to cut staffing levels. The rate of job shedding was the second-quickest on record, despite easing from April.\n\nEmployment also fell at the UK level, with the rate of decline stronger than that seen in Scotland.\n\nScottish firms signalled renewed optimism for the year ahead, with panellists linking that to looser lockdown restrictions and hopes of an economic recovery.\n\nThat said, sentiment remained among the lowest on record, with only Northern Ireland registering a weaker outlook.\n\nMalcolm Buchanan, chairman of RBS's Scotland Board, said: \"Overall, conditions in the Scottish economy remain extremely challenging, with reductions in activity, new business and backlogs all outpacing those seen at the UK level.\n\n\"Although data indicates that the downturn has bottomed out, the pandemic has dealt an unprecedented blow to the economy.\"", "Weekly death registrations in London, which was the epicentre of the UK's coronavirus outbreak, have returned to the range that would normally be expected, as the country moves further beyond the worst weeks of the pandemic.\n\nIn the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), London registered only 64 excess deaths in the week ending 29 May, compared to 2,304 excess deaths in the week ending 17 April.\n\nExcess deaths refer to the number of registered deaths from all causes which are above the five-year average for that week of the year.\n\nBy the week ending 29 May, London recorded fewer excess deaths than any other region in England. In the same week, death registrations in Wales also returned to their normal range, only a few percent above the five year average.\n\nA similar pattern can be seen with deaths specifically linked to Covid-19.\n\nThe week ending 29 May was the fourth week in a row in which London did not register the highest number of deaths attributed to the virus.\n\nThe North West had the highest weekly count, with 282 death certificates mentioning a confirmed or suspected case of Covid-19.\n\nBut every region of England and Wales has passed the peak of the pandemic.\n\nLondon, the West Midlands, the North West and Wales recorded their peaks in the week ending 17 April.\n\nThe South East, South West, East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions all recorded their worst week of deaths in the week to 24 April.\n\nRegions with a later peak have tended to see a more gradual decline in the number of excess deaths.\n\nLondon recorded 21% of the total number of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales until 1 May, despite having 15% of the population.\n\nIn fact, in the four weeks to 24 April, more people were killed by coronavirus in London than died during the worst four-week period of aerial bombing of the city during the Blitz in World War Two.\n\nRegistered deaths in London attributed to Covid-19, in those four weeks, reached 5,901 according to the ONS.\n\nIn comparison, figures collated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission show that 4,677 people were killed during the Blitz and buried in London cemeteries in the 28 days to 4 October 1940.\n\nSeparate ONS data released on 1 May shows that, once you take the age of population into account, the rate of deaths involving Covid-19 is roughly twice as high in the most deprived areas of England and Wales as in the least deprived.\n\n\"We know that people in more deprived areas are less likely to have jobs where they can work from home,\" said Helen Barnard from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\n\n\"This means they may have to face a very significant drop in income or keep going to work, facing greater risks of catching virus. They are also more likely to live in overcrowded homes, increasing the risk for whole families.\"\n\nThe data shows that the highest rates of deaths involving Covid-19 are in inner-city areas where lots of people live close together.\n\nThe majority of the highest age-standardised mortality rates are in London boroughs, such as Newham, Brent and Hackney.\n\nOne of the biggest issues for policymakers now is trying to establish what other factors have caused the recent surge in excess deaths.\n\nFurther deaths from Covid-19 will continue to happen despite the lockdown measures.\n\nBut other deaths have happened because of the restrictions, with people not getting the treatment or support they need for other health conditions.\n\nNational Records Scotland releases figures on a slightly different timescale. In the week to 24 May, there were 1,125 deaths registered in Scotland. That's 11% higher than the five-year average for this week, of 1,017. Around a tenth of the death certificates mentioned Covid-19.\n\nIn Northern Ireland for the week ending 29 May there were 316 deaths registered, up from the five-year average of 290. Covid-19 was mentioned on 49 death certificates.\n\nThis piece has been updated to reflect the latest statistics.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of York's lawyers have rejected claims by US prosecutors that he has not co-operated with the inquiry into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, insisting he has offered to help.\n\nIn a statement, Prince Andrew's legal team said he offered help on \"at least three occasions\".\n\nThe lawyers suggested the US Department of Justice was seeking publicity rather than accepting the offer of help.\n\nHowever, the US prosecutors hit back within hours.\n\nGeoffrey Berman, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Prince Andrew had \"yet again sought to falsely portray himself to the public as eager and willing to co-operate\" with the investigation into sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates,.\n\nHowever, he said, the prince \"has not given an interview to federal authorities, has repeatedly declined our request to schedule such an interview, and nearly four months ago informed us unequivocally - through the very same counsel who issued today's release - that he would not come in for such an interview\".\n\nHe added: \"If Prince Andrew is, in fact, serious about co-operating with the ongoing federal investigation, our doors remain open, and we await word of when we should expect him.\"\n\nThe duke's lawyers declined to comment further, but a source said: \"This is the third time Berman has breached his own confidentiality rules, further diminishing our trust in the DoJ's willingness to play a straight bat. It's frankly bewildering.\"\n\nThe duke stepped away from royal duties last year following his widely-criticised comments in a BBC interview about his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in a US jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nThe duke has been heavily scrutinised for his friendship with Epstein, but he has said he did not witness any suspicious behaviour during visits to the US financier's homes.\n\nShortly after the interview was broadcast, Prince Andrew said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency\" with their investigations.\n\nBut in late January, Mr Berman claimed that the prince had provided \"zero co-operation\", and in March he said Andrew had \"completely shut the door\" on helping investigators.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Prince Andrew's legal team said: \"The Duke of York has on at least three occasions this year offered his assistance as a witness to the US Department of Justice\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the DoJ has reacted to the first two offers by breaching their own confidentiality rules and claiming that the duke has offered zero co-operation. In doing so, they are perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, it was revealed the DoJ had made a formal request to speak to the prince as part of its Epstein inquiry, by submitting a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request to the UK Home Office.\n\nUnder the terms of a MLA request if Prince Andrew does not voluntarily respond, he can be called to a UK court to answer questions.\n\nThe duke's lawyers described the request as \"disappointing\" because the Duke of York was \"not a target of the DoJ investigation and has recently repeated his willingness to provide a witness statement\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.\n\nThe duke's lawyers, Clare Montgomery QC and Stephen Ferguson, said they had previously chosen not to make any comment about their dealings with the DoJ but had now released a \"clarifying\" statement \"in view of misleading media briefings\".\n\nWronged. That's the word that sums up this icily angry statement from Prince Andrew's lawyers.\n\nThey kept their silence as the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey S Berman, paraded on the steps of Epstein's former New York City mansion and flung about what they say are lies about the duke.\n\nThey believed the US Department of Justice when it told them that confidentiality would be respected; then they saw it flouted.\n\nThe lawyers heard the Department of Justice when it said Prince Andrew was not, and never had been, a target of the investigation; and then a well-placed leak told the world that the US was trying to drag the duke to court.\n\nIn the cool language of lawyers, they are mightily upset on behalf of their client; perhaps, they ask, the department is seeking publicity rather than the assistance proffered? The leaks have presented they say an \"entirely misleading\" version of the relationship between them and the US authorities.\n\nUp until this point the duke has only been spoken for by so-called friends dripping poison into the ears of friendly journalists. But this is different. The lawyers think their client has been wronged, and they are not shy of telling the world about it.\n\nThe prince's lawyers added that the first time US authorities requested the duke's help was on 2 January. They were advised the duke \"is not and has never been a target of their criminal investigations into Epstein\" and they wanted his \"confidential, voluntary co-operation\".\n\nThe statement added that they were given \"an unequivocal assurance that our discussions and the interview process would remain confidential\".\n\nIt was a \"matter of regret\" that the DoJ had breached its own rules of confidentiality, the lawyers said, \"as they are designed to encourage witness cooperation\".\n\n\"Far from our client acting above the law, as has been implied by press briefings in the US, he is being treated by a lower standard than might reasonably be expected for any other citizen,\" they said.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme in November 2019, the duke also said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein - which led to Epstein attending events at Windsor Castle and Sandringham - because it had \"some seriously beneficial outcomes\".\n\nHowever, he admitted it was wrong of him to visit Epstein at his home in 2010, after his conviction.\n\nHe also denied having sex with Virginia Giuffre, when she was a teenager, who said she was trafficked by Epstein when she was 17 and forced to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nPrince Andrew emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with her and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting the woman, who was previously known as Virginia Roberts.\n• None Duke asked by US to testify in Epstein sex case", "There are estimated to be 700,000 young carers in England.\n\nTwelve-year-old Finlay cares for his mum, while 15-year-old Danielle helps her mum look after her siblings while her step-dad works long hours.\n\nThey describe how their lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe young carers are supported by a group in Salford run by the charities: Gaddum, The Lowry and the Who Cares Campaign.", "The UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths (55) since before lockdown on 23 March.\n\nThe welcome drop in deaths is encouraging news.\n\nBut it comes with a big caveat - the deaths cover the weekend and there are always delays recording fatalities on Saturdays and Sundays.\n\nThis time last week there were just over 100 new deaths announced, but then later in the week they topped 300.\n\nNonetheless, the figures do show the progress being made.\n\nTwo weeks ago there were more than 120 deaths and the week before that 160. During the peak, more than 1,000 deaths a day were seen.\n\nThe challenge now will be making sure the figures stay low as restrictions are eased.", "Catl already has a contract to supply batteries to Tesla\n\nA Chinese car battery-maker says it is ready to manufacture a product capable of powering a vehicle for 1.2 million miles (two million kilometres) across the course of a 16-year lifespan.\n\nBy contrast, most automakers only offer warranties ranging from 60,000 to 150,000 miles over a three to eight-year period on their cars' batteries.\n\nContemporary Amperex Technology has not revealed who it intends to supply.\n\nBut it was previously reported that the battery was co-developed with Tesla.\n\nThe latest news was revealed in an interview Catl's chairman gave to the Bloomberg news agency.\n\n\"If someone places an order, we are ready to produce,\" it quoted Zeng Yuqun as saying.\n\nHe added that it was set, however, to cost a 10% premium over the batteries it already supplies.\n\nThe company signed a two-year deal to supply batteries for Tesla's Model 3 cars in February. Its other clients include BMW, Daimler, Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo.\n\nCatl has grown into being the world's top-selling car battery-maker since being established in 2011\n\nThe European market for EVs and plug-in hybrids grew by 72% in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2019, representing 7% of all delivered new cars, according to research firm Canalys.\n\nBy contrast, the pandemic weighed on the wider market, which as a whole saw deliveries down by 26% for the quarter.\n\nThe firm said that Catl's claim was \"significant but difficult to verify\".\n\n\"It is likely to be used as a differentiator by some car-makers when there is a significant difference from one vehicle to another - dramatically affecting resale value,\" said Canalys's chief automotive analyst Chris Jones.\n\nHe added that this and other factors - including the wider availability of charging points and longer driving ranges - should help tempt more motorists to make the switch to an electric car.\n\nIn February, the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told the BBC that the UK might ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars as soon as 2032, to help meet the UK's zero-carbon emission targets.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday that the government is considering offering drivers up to £6,000 to swap their existing cars for electric models next month as part of efforts to boost the UK's electric car manufacturing industry.\n\nThe Nissan Leaf and Mini Electric are made locally, and Property Week has reported that Tesla is also considering opening its own \"gigafactory\" car battery plant in England.\n\nHowever, Catl's own European efforts are currently focused on Germany, where it is building a factory in the eastern town of Erfurt, which is scheduled to start producing lithium-ion car batteries in 2021.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nRules requiring the majority of people arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days have come into effect. Whether it's by plane, ferry or train, arrivals - including UK nationals - will have to provide an address where they'll stay and face fines if they don't comply. The government says the quarantine is essential to prevent a second wave of coronavirus infections, but the measures are hugely unpopular across the beleaguered travel industry. There are some exceptions, so check out the rules in full. Our experts have also answered a list of your questions. And if we can't easily go abroad, what are the chances of taking a holiday within the UK?\n\nDental practices in England are allowed to reopen from today, but the British Dental Association says social distancing measures and a shortage of protective equipment will slow the resumption of services. It estimates that only about a third of the normal number of patients can be treated. Read more.\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown is being eased further from today. Vulnerable people who were advised to shield can now go outdoors, some large retailers can reopen and outdoor weddings with up to 10 guests can take place. Read more about the rules on weddings across the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It’s quite beautiful\" - couples’ joy as weddings return to NI\n\nLearner drivers have been left without clear guidance about when they'll be able to take their tests, instructors have told the BBC. They say there's been no communication from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency. The DVSA says it's keeping the situation under constant review. Tests are currently suspended until at least 20 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThroughout the pandemic we've brought you stories of people going to great lengths to help those most in need. Carer Caroline Sinfield is one of those. She volunteered to move in with Shannon, who has Down's Syndrome, when a combination of coronavirus and other factors left her isolated and very vulnerable.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why this doctor's phone is her coronavirus helpline\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest developments via our live page.\n\nDespite the best efforts of staff, the virus has swept through many care homes in England. One man in charge of a home describes the reality of trying to stop it.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Tensions between Minneapolis' black community and the police did not start with the death of George Floyd. They have been years in the making.\n\nOn a hot Thursday morning in the Longfellow neighbourhood of Minneapolis, a 28-year-old father named Nuwman stood outside the Minneapolis Police Department's Third Precinct drinking a large coffee as smoke wafted past from the smouldering ruins of nearby buildings.\n\nIt was day three of protests over the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, after a white police officer named Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Floyd begged for his life before falling unconscious and dying in the street, in full view of witnesses and a rolling mobile phone camera. Four officers, including Chauvin, were fired from the department for their involvement.\n\nThe previous night, tensions ignited, and for the first time the city saw looting, arson and violence. At least one man died in a shooting at a pawn shop.\n\n\"This is everyday. Everyday that these police officers have enforced their protocol has led up to this,\" said Nuwman, his voice rising with emotion over the din of protesters and sirens. \"This is not just a singular moment. This is a cataclysm. A combination of all the things that happened before.\"\n\nThat night, protesters stormed the precinct as police cruisers flew out of the rear parking lot, abandoning it to demonstrators who quickly moved from room to room lighting blazes.\n\nThe following afternoon, a Friday, saw the arrest of Chauvin by Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Chauvin has been charged with murder.\n\nThis is not the first instance of a controversial, police-involved killing in the region. In 2016, Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer in a neighbourhood just 15 minutes away from the current epicentre of protest.\n\nIn 2017, a Minneapolis officer was charged with the shooting death of Justine Damond after she called to report a possible sexual assault. In 2015, protests erupted over the shooting death of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old man who was being pursued by Minneapolis officers.\n\nAll three deaths sparked protest movements and yielded mixed results in terms of prosecution. Yanez was tried and acquitted. Mohamed Noor, Damond's shooter, was sentenced to 12.5 years. No charges were brought in Clark's case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Racism in the US: Is there a single step that can bring equality?\n\nFor some, Floyd's death was the continuation of those stories.\n\n\"WE SHOULD HAVE BURNT THE CITY DOWN FOR PHILANDO CASTILE,\" one person posted on social media.\n\nBut in some ways, the pictures beamed around the world this week tell a story that's unique.\n\nDemonstrations are occurring in the midst of a historic, global pandemic. The sheer amount of property damage and arson has been staggering. The swiftness with which officers were fired, and the speed in which Chauvin was arrested and charged surprised many.\n\nBut Minneapolis - while a prosperous city that celebrates liberal policies and politicians - has struggled for years with socioeconomic inequality and segregation. It's a phenomenon that's been dubbed the \"Minnesota paradox\".\n\nThe Twin Cities, as Minneapolis and St Paul are known, are still overwhelmingly white - about one-quarter of the population is non-white - and its neighbourhoods are still highly segregated. Most people of colour live on the cities' north sides.\n\nThey were shaped by racist red-lining policies dating to the early 20th Century, when black families were not allowed to buy homes in certain neighbourhoods. In the 1960s, the state built a major highway that cut through and destroyed a thriving black community known as Rondo in St Paul.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why we want Americans to talk more openly about race'\n\nAccording to a 2018 study, the rate of black homeownership in the Twin Cities is among the lowest in the nation.\n\nEven before the pandemic caused massive layoffs, 10% of black residents were unemployed compared to 4% of whites. That disparity ranks as one of the nation's worst.\n\nIn 2016, the average white household in the Twin Cities made about $76,000 a year, while the average black household earned just $32,000. Thirty-two percent of black Twin Citians fell below the poverty line, while only 6.5% of whites did.\n\nRacial disparities persist in the way the community is policed.\n\nAfter Philando Castile was killed, data released about police traffic stops in the area showed that 44% of stops were black drivers, though the population was only 7% black.\n\nProtests spread to other cities including New York City\n\nAccording to the Minneapolis police department's own data, in 2018 55% of drivers stopped for \"equipment violations\" were black.\n\nAs Covid-19 ravages the area, these disparities are sure to worsen, as thousands lose their jobs, and their homes to evictions and foreclosures.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, residents of both St Paul and Minneapolis headed into the streets carrying brooms and pails, and slowly began to literally pick up the pieces of the town.\n\nFollowing the announcement that former officer Chauvin had been jailed and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, protesters at Minneapolis City Hall let up a cheer.\n\nBut it was quickly replaced by a new demand: \"One down, three to go.\"", "Lyra McKee was shot dead as she observed rioting in Londonderry\n\nA gun found by police during searches in Londonderry is believed to be similar to the one used in the New IRA murder of Lyra McKee.\n\nThe weapon is being forensically examined to establish if it was the gun used.\n\nPolice have said a bomb also discovered during the searches was fully primed for an imminent attack.\n\nMs McKee, a 29-year-old journalist, was shot during trouble in the city's Creggan area in April 2019.\n\nThe gun, along with the bomb, was found during planned police searches in Derry on Friday and Saturday in the Ballymagroarty area of the city.\n\nSearch operations took place over two days, and covered 38 acres.\n\nDerry City and Strabane district commander Ch Supt Emma Bond said the gun was the same type and calibre used to murder Ms McKee and that extensive forensic examinations would be taking place in the coming days and weeks.\n\nShe said:\"Whilst we regard this as an encouraging line of enquiry, I will repeat that we cannot definitively say at this time whether or not this is the murder weapon,\" she said.\n\n\"That determination will be guided by the forensics.\"\n\nCh Supt Bond added: \"We were able to locate and safely remove a command-wire initiated bomb, a handgun and a quantity of ammunition.\n\n\"A strong line of enquiry is that these munitions belong to the New IRA.\n\n\"They have now been seized and will be subject to rigorous forensic examination in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"The fact that these items were left close to a populated area, and particularly on land where children are known to play, yet again underlines the total lack of regard these violent terrorist criminals have for their own communities,\" she said.\n\n\"These people are so singularly focused on murdering police officers that they do not care if others - men, women, children, families - are caught up in their evil plots.\n\nChief Constable Simon Byrne described the find as a \"major breakthrough,\" adding it was a \"reminder that a small number of people with no community support or mandate are still determined to wreak havoc, destroy lives and devastate families\".\n\nA children's den was located near to where the weaponry was found\n\nEarlier in the year Paul McIntyre, 52, from Kinnego Park in Derry was charged with Ms McKee's murder, which he denies.\n\nSpeaking on the first anniversary of her death, Det Supt Jason Murphy said there were up to 17 suspects in the investigation.", "The Duke of York has \"sought to falsely portray himself\" as eager to cooperate with an inquiry into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the US prosecutor in charge of the investigation has said.\n\nUS attorney Geoffrey Berman said Prince Andrew \"has repeatedly declined our request\" to schedule an interview.\n\nThe duke's lawyers previously rejected claims he had not co-operated, saying he offered to help three times.\n\nHe will not be extradited, the US government's chief lawyer has said.\n\nUS Attorney General William Barr told Fox News: \"I don't think it's a question of handing him over. I think it's just a question of having him provide some evidence.\"\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties last year after an interview he gave to the BBC about his relationship with Epstein.\n\nEpstein took his own life in a US jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nThe duke has been heavily scrutinised for his friendship with Epstein, but he has said he did not witness any suspicious behaviour during visits to the US financier's homes.\n\nMr Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, has criticised the duke in the past. In January he accused him of providing \"zero co-operation\" and in March he said Prince Andrew had \"completely shut the door\" on helping investigators.\n\nOn Monday, the duke's lawyers responded for the first time and hit back at the claims as \"inaccurate\".\n\nMr Berman then issued a statement, deepening the row. He said: \"Today, Prince Andrew yet again sought to falsely portray himself to the public as eager and willing to co-operate with an ongoing federal criminal investigation into sex trafficking and related offences committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.\"\n\nHe said the duke \"has not given an interview to federal authorities, has repeatedly declined our request to schedule such an interview, and nearly four months ago informed us unequivocally - through the very same counsel who issued today's release - that he would not come in for such an interview\".\n\n\"If Prince Andrew is, in fact, serious about co-operating with the ongoing federal investigation, our doors remain open, and we await word of when we should expect him.\"\n\nIn the BBC interview last year, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein\n\nThe duke's lawyers declined to comment further. But a source said: \"This is the third time Berman has breached his own confidentiality rules, further diminishing our trust in the DoJ's willingness to play a straight bat. It's frankly bewildering.\"\n\nEarlier, the legal team said: \"As the public record indicates the DoJ has been actively investigating Mr Epstein and other targets for more than 16 years, yet the first time they requested the duke's help was on 2 January 2020.\n\n\"Importantly, the DoJ advised us that the duke is not and has never been a 'target' of their criminal investigations into Epstein and that they sought his confidential, voluntary co-operation.\"\n\nLawyer Gloria Allred, who represents some of Epstein's victims, told BBC Breakfast she thinks Prince Andrew has \"very little credibility\".\n\n\"I have a lot of suspicion about what he is saying through his representatives,\" she said, adding that she did not feel the same way towards Mr Berman.\n\nShe added that the victims are in pain and \"deserve the truth\".\n\n\"Questioning the motives of the prosecutors, I just think that's meaningless in this situation,\" she said.\n\n\"Let him step up to the bar of justice, take the oath and just tell the truth.\"\n\nThe duke's lawyers said they had asked US prosecutors to confirm the cooperation would remain confidential, adding: \"We were given an unequivocal assurance that our discussions and the interview process would remain confidential.\"\n\nThey added: \"The Duke of York has on at least three occasions this year offered his assistance as a witness to the DoJ.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the DoJ has reacted to the first two offers by breaching their own confidentiality rules and claiming that the duke has offered zero co-operation. In doing so, they are perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of York said he would testify under oath\n\nThe legal team added: \"It is a matter of regret that the DoJ has seen fit to breach its own rules of confidentiality, not least as they are designed to encourage witness co-operation.\n\n\"Far from our client acting above the law, as has been implied by press briefings in the US, he is being treated by a lower standard than might reasonably be expected for any other citizen. Further, those same breaches of confidentiality by the DoJ have given the global media - and, therefore, the worldwide audience - an entirely misleading account of our discussions with them.\"\n\nThe DoJ has made a formal request to speak to the prince as part of its Epstein inquiry, by submitting a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request to the UK Home Office.\n\nUnder the terms of a MLA request if Prince Andrew does not voluntarily respond, he can be called to a UK court to answer questions.\n\nThe duke's lawyers described the request as \"disappointing\" because the Duke of York was \"not a target of the DoJ investigation and has recently repeated his willingness to provide a witness statement\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme in November 2019, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein - which led to Epstein attending events at Windsor Castle and Sandringham - because it had \"some seriously beneficial outcomes\".\n\nHowever, he admitted it was wrong of him to visit Epstein at his home in 2010, after his conviction.\n\nHe also denied having sex with Virginia Giuffre, when she was a teenager, who said she was trafficked by Epstein when she was 17 and forced to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nThe duke emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with her and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting the woman, who was previously known as Virginia Roberts.\n\nShortly after the interview was broadcast, Prince Andrew said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Charity Commission has ruled that Prince Andrew's trust, which supported his charitable work, was in breach of rules over payments of more than £355,000 to a former trustee.\n\nThe duke's charitable body allowed the former trustee, who was an employee of Prince Andrew's household, to work as a director for a fee for three of its subsidiary companies - in breach of charity law.\n\nThe duke's household was then reimbursed £355,297 for a proportion of this employee's time by the subsidiaries, the Charity Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n\"Trustees cannot be paid to act as directors of a subsidiary company, unless there is authority from the charity's governing document or the payments are authorised by the Commission or the court, none of which were in place at the charity,\" the statement read.\n\nHis household has since paid back the money to the Prince Andrew Charitable Trust (PACT).\n\nThe trust has also notified the commission of its intention to wind up, with the remaining funds being distributed to other charities.\n\nA statement from the current trustees said former trustees who were in post at the time had \"inadvertently breached charity law\".\n\n\"The current trustees of PACT are grateful to the Charity Commission for its support in bringing this matter to a satisfactory conclusion with the payment of funds by HRH The Duke of York's office to the Trust,\" the statement said.", "Thousands have lined the streets of London, from the US embassy in Vauxhall to Parliament Square, in an anti-racism protest following the death of George Floyd.\n\nProtesters appeared to be ignoring warnings from both the police commissioner and Health Secretary Matt Hancock not to congregate and risk spreading coronavirus.\n\nFree masks, gloves and hand gel were being handed out by some volunteers.\n\nThis video shows six minutes and 30 seconds of footage condensed into 75 seconds.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel insists quarantine will help stop the virus' spread\n\nBritish Airways refused to attend a meeting with Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday to discuss the UK's new quarantine plans.\n\nThe UK's biggest airline is a fierce opponent of the plans, which will require travellers to the UK to isolate for 14 days or face a £1,000 fine.\n\nBA did not give a reason for its absence and declined further comment.\n\nBut a Whitehall source told the BBC it was clear BA was not serious about getting \"Britain moving again\".\n\nThe new quarantine rules come into force from 8 June. BA, under huge financial strain due to the pandemic, has called it \"another blow to our industry\".\n\nBA and owner IAG - which also runs Iberia and Aer Lingus - are understood to be annoyed at what they see as a lack of consultation over the quarantine's introduction.\n\nEasyJet and Virgin Atlantic, as well as the owner of Heathrow Airport, were among the aviation businesses that attended the telephone meeting with Ms Patel and junior aviation minister Kelly Tolhurst. The Home Office said 24 representatives from the aviation, maritime and rail industries were on the call.\n\nAirlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nThe home secretary told the meeting it was important for everyone in the transport sector to help \"safeguard our [economic] recovery\" and \"protect passengers and the whole country from a second wave of coronavirus\".\n\nHowever, an industry source said that BA feels \"it has not been treated professionally; that the meeting was a waste of time\".\n\nA Whitehall official hit back, telling the BBC: \"It's a shame that British Airways don't want to directly make their case to the home secretary and the aviation minister. Clearly they are not serious about working with the government to get Britain moving .\"\n\nBA has faced heavy criticism in parliament in recent days over a plan to slash jobs while accessing the government's furlough scheme.\n\nIn April, BA said it would cut 12,000 roles and weaken terms and conditions for its remaining staff, just weeks after it had put 30,000 workers on the job retention scheme which pays workers' wages.\n\nThe airline has defended the cuts as necessary, but on Wednesday Ms Tolhurst suggested BA should be held to account for what one MP called a \"breach of faith\".\n\n\"The [furlough] scheme was not designed for taxpayers to fund the wages of employees only for those companies to put the same staff on notice of redundancy during the furlough period,\" Ms Tolhurst said.\n\nAviation bosses are fuming about the quarantine. And tonight's conference call seems to have made things worse.\n\nMost were apparently unimpressed, with one person present on the call even describing it as \"a shambles\".\n\nThey feel they got no reassurances from Priti Patel that the quarantine would be reduced in any significant way soon by agreeing so-called \"air bridges\". These are safe corridors between the UK and countries with low infection rates meaning people won't have to self-isolate after they travel.\n\nThat is an interesting contradiction in tone from other government sources who insist ministers are working hard to establish a number of air bridges, especially with European countries, as soon as possible.\n\nThe fact that BA's parent company IAG didn't even attend the call is the ultimate sign that relations between the government and UK aviation are at rock bottom.\n\nThe government insists the new quarantine rules will help contain the spread of coronavirus but has faced a backlash from Conservative MPs who argue they will harm airlines and stop people taking summer holidays\n\nThe rules have also been roundly criticised by the UK's tourism industry, which has all but ground to a halt due to the pandemic.\n\nIn her opening remarks at the meeting Ms Patel said: \"Protecting lives will always be our top priority, but I am alive to the impact on your sector and I'm asking you to work with us on this.\"\n\nBut earlier on Thursday, the boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said on Thursday that the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\n\"The safety and security of our people and our customers is always our top priority and public health must come first,\" a Virgin Atlantic spokesman said.\n\n\"However, the introduction of mandatory 14-day self-isolation for every single traveller entering the UK will reduce customer demand significantly and prevent a resumption of services at scale.\"\n\nOn Monday, a group of 200 travel companies wrote to Ms Patel asking for the plans to be scrapped.\n\nThe letter suggested travel should be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nA government source told the BBC there was a \"list\" of countries which the government was hoping to secure air bridge agreements with, which include all major European tourist destinations such as Portugal, Spain and France as well as Australia and Singapore.\n\nHowever, for now the government's official position is that the idea is \"under consideration\", not established policy.", "Protestors are calling for the statue of the British Imperialist Cecil Rhodes to be removed\n\nCampaigners protesting against the statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes say Oxford University has \"failed to address its institutional racism\".\n\nThe \"Rhodes Must Fall\" campaign, among other student groups, is demanding the university removes the statue.\n\nProtesters will demonstrate in front of the figure in the city's high street as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nOxford University and Oriel College has been contacted by the BBC for comment.\n\nCalls to remove the Rhodes statue at Oriel College have reignited after the statue of Edward Colston, a 17th Century slave trader, was toppled in Bristol on Sunday.\n\nCampaigners have long argued Rhodes, a 19th Century businessman and politician in southern Africa, represented white supremacy and is steeped in colonialism and racism.\n\nOriel College decided not to remove the statue in High Street in 2016 and said the figure \"was a reminder of the complexity of history and of the legacies of colonialism\".\n\nIn an open letter to the university's vice-chancellor, campaigners said \"none of the demands of the movement have been met...and concerns continue to be dismissed by senior members of the university\" four years since the previous protests.\n\n\"Many colleges and university institutions who have benefited from slavery and imperialism have made no attempts at reparation,\" they added.\n\nFemi Nylander, Rhodes Must Fall campaigner, said promises made to black students by the university \"around the curriculum, access and representation have never materialised\".\n\nThe letter to vice-chancellor Professor Louise Richardson outlines five steps campaigners \"hope the university will agree to, in order to make upholding anti-racist values a reality\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rhodes Must Fall Ox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Rhodes Must Fall Ox\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaign began in South Africa, where a Rhodes statue was removed, and was adopted in Oxford by campaigners who argued his views were incompatible with an \"inclusive culture\" at the university.\n\nRhodes was a student at Oxford and a member of Oriel College in the 1870s. He left money to the college on his death in 1902.\n\nA scholarship programme in his name has been awarded to more than 8,000 overseas students.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters in Bristol pull down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston\n\nThe name Edward Colston looms large over Bristol, with streets and buildings named after the 17th Century merchant and slave trader.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters at an anti-racism demonstration in the city toppled a statue of Colston and dumped it in Bristol Harbour. The BBC's Jack Grey witnessed the statue's fall.\n\nThousands of people attended the demonstration in Bristol, one of many in the UK sparked by the death of George Floyd while he was under arrest in Minneapolis in the United States last month.\n\nA group of protesters surrounded the statue on Colston Avenue, erected in honour of a man whose ships sent about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas between 1672 and 1689.\n\nColston's memory has divided the city for years, with some thinking history can't be changed and others campaigning successfully for his name to be erased from streets, schools and venues.\n\nThe statue in Colston Avenue was erected in 1895\n\nThere was clear frustration in Sunday's crowd, partly because the statue still stood in 2020, but also because it had simply been covered for the protest.\n\nThe canvas covering, which had already been targeted by egg-throwers, was torn off with some people saying they wanted to look the man in the eyes. Soon ropes had been tied round the bronze monument and the process of removing it began.\n\nOnce the covering was removed, three protestors climbed atop the statue to fasten two ropes around the head.\n\nThirty seconds later Colston was on the floor. Many jumped on the fallen statue, others holding a Black Lives Matter banner climbed the plinth where it had stood.\n\nThere was not so much joy when the statue hit the ground as anger, but the crowd had not finished with the monument.\n\nIt was dragged the short distance to Bristol Harbour and dumped over the quayside.\n\nThe statue was taken from Colston Avenue and dumped into Bristol Harbour\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "BP has announced plans to cut 10,000 jobs following a global slump in demand for oil because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe oil giant had paused redundancies during the peak of the pandemic but told staff on Monday that around 15% will leave by the end of the year.\n\nBP has not said how many jobs will be lost in the UK but it is thought the figure could be close to 2,000.\n\nChief executive Bernard Looney blamed a drop in the oil price for the cuts.\n\nIn an email to staff, he said: \"The oil price has plunged well below the level we need to turn a profit.\n\n\"We are spending much, much more than we make - I am talking millions of dollars, every day.\"\n\nCountries across the globe have ordered people to stay indoors and not travel, which has caused a slump in demand for oil. As a result, the cost of oil fell to less than $20 a barrel at the peak of the crisis, less than a third of the $66 it cost at the start of the year. It has since partly recovered to around $42 a barrel.\n\nThat has taken a toll on the industry, sparking warnings that 30,000 UK jobs could be lost as a result of the crisis.\n\nBP employs around 15,000 people in the UK. The firm's office-based workers are expected to bear the brunt of the redundancies, which will not affect any of its retail staff.\n\n\"It was always part of the plan to make BP a leaner, faster-moving and lower carbon company,\" Mr Looney - who took over as the boss of BP in February - said in his email to staff on Monday.\n\n\"Then the COVID-19 pandemic took hold,\" he said. \"You are already aware that, beyond the clear human tragedy, there has been widespread economic fallout, along with consequences for our industry and our company.\"\n\nDeirdre Michie, the chief executive of industry group Oil and Gas UK (OGUK), said the planned redundancies highlighted the \"very real and personal\" impact of the coronavirus pandemic on jobs and livelihoods.\n\n\"There is a serious risk the UK loses the skills it needs not only to meet existing energy demands from domestic resources, but also to meet the UK's climate ambitions,\" she said.\n\nThe message from BP's chief executive, Bernard Looney, is that the numbers don't add up.\n\nThe oil price has recovered a bit but the business is still losing money hand over fist.\n\nOn top of that, Big Oil is trying to execute a big swerve towards renewables.\n\nNone of the above is of any comfort to the thousands who will be pushed out of BP's doors in a matter of months.\n\nThis is a sign of how precarious the job market is becoming as the crisis caused by the virus takes hold.\n\nThe pain will be felt most in the senior ranks but, whatever the pay grade, each loss will be hard to bear.\n\nIn April, BP said it planned to pay a $0.11 per share dividend to shareholders and in an announcement on Monday, the company said it would still make that payment later this month.\n\nEnergy expert Professor David Elmes from Warwick Business School said other firms would question how much they can hand out to shareholders as a result of the crisis.\n\n\"The job losses at BP are symptomatic of the wider challenges facing the industry,\" he said. \"Coronavirus has reduced oil demand and the price per barrel has plummeted, but that has happened in a wider context of short-term and long-term decline.\"\n\n\"All firms in the sector will all be looking at how they can cut costs, shift their activities to the lowest cost field, trim investment, and thinking hard about what dividend they can pay.\"", "England and Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling has backed protests taking place across the UK, saying \"the only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting\".\n\nThousands of people have taken part in Black Lives Matter marches in the UK, despite government warnings to avoid mass gatherings because of the threat of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is the most important thing at this moment in time because this is something that is happening for years and years,\" Sterling, 25, said.\n\nLarge protests have been held in London, Bristol, Manchester, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh following the death of American George Floyd.\n\nFloyd, 46, died while being arrested on 25 May in Minneapolis. The four officers involved have since been charged over the death, which sparked days of protests in the US and demonstrations across the world.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Newsnight programme, Sterling said: \"Just like the pandemic, we want to find a solution to stop it.\n\n\"At the same time, this is what all these protesters are doing. They are trying to find a solution and a way to stop the injustice they are seeing and they are fighting for their cause.\n\n\"As long as they are doing it peacefully and safely and not hurting anybody and not breaking into any stores, they continue to protest in this peaceful way.\"\n• None Watch the full Sterling interview on Newsnight on BBC Two on Monday at 22:45 BST\n\nMany sports people have spoken out in protest over Floyd's death, with Sterling's England team-mate Jadon Sancho making on-pitch statements in Germany's Bundesliga.\n\nSterling, whose City side return to Premier League action on 17 June, has previously spoken of racist abuse he has suffered and the media's portrayal of black players.\n\nAsked whether speaking out makes his job as a footballer harder, he said: \"First and foremost, I don't really think about my job when things like this happen. I think about what is right.\n\n\"And at this moment in time, there's only so much people can take. There's only so much communities and other backgrounds can take - especially black people.\n\n\"It's been going on for hundreds of years and people are tired and people are ready for change.\n\n\"I keep saying this word. I see a lot of people on social [media] supporting the cause. But this is something that needs more than just talking.\n\n\"We need to actually implement change and highlight the places that do need changes.\n\n\"But this is something that I myself will continue to do, and spark these debates and get people in my industry looking at themselves and thinking what they can do to give people an equal chance in this country.\n\n\"Hopefully other industries can do that, and everyday society and the system as well.\"\n\nSpeak out if you feel the need - Archer\n\nEngland pace bowler Jofra Archer says the events of the past week show \"so many people around the world are behind equality\".\n\nThe 25-year-old was subjected to racist abuse by a spectator during the final day of the first-Test defeat by New Zealand in 2019.\n\n\"No longer will people just sit around quietly and let unjust things happen,\" Archer wrote in his Daily Mail column.\n\n\"As an individual, I've always been one for speaking out, especially if something bothers you. My personal view is that you should never keep things bottled up, because racism is not OK.\n\n\"If you feel the need to speak out, you should do so. I accept that others might choose not to make it public and deal with things in their own way, but it is why I acted when I was verbally abused in New Zealand last year.\"\n\nThe spectator responsible - a man from Auckland - was banned from attending international and domestic matches in the country for two years after admitting the abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPlaying in empty stadiums is going to become the new norm for footballers, so it's probably best they start to get used to it.\n\nThat may have been the reasoning behind several Premier League teams holding training sessions at their grounds this week, with some even playing full friendlies to give their players a taste of what is to come.\n\nThe Premier League is set to resume behind closed doors from 17 June after being suspended since 13 March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt Old Trafford, Harry Maguire captained a 'home' Manchester United team against an 'away' side led by Bruno Fernandes.\n\nIt marked the first time Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men had played on home soil since their 2-0 win over derby rivals Manchester City on 8 March - their final match before lockdown.\n\nIt had been even longer since Marcus Rashford and Paul Pogba had done so, last featuring for United on 26 December and 15 January respectively before long injury lay-offs.\n\nThey both donned the red home kit as Juan Mata, Anthony Martial and Aaron Wan-Bissaka joined Fernandes in the away team for the match refereed by fitness coach Charlie Owen.\n\nUnited - currently fifth in the Premier League - will restart their season away at Tottenham on 19 June before welcoming Sheffield United to Old Trafford on 24 June.\n\nRather than an inter-squad match, Arsenal went one step further and welcomed Championship strugglers Charlton to Emirates Stadium.\n\nMikel Arteta's Gunners ran out 6-0 winners over the Addicks, with Eddie Nketiah scoring a second-half hat-trick in addition to strikes from Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Joe Willock.\n\nNinth-place Arsenal travel to Manchester City on 17 June to kick off their return to action.\n\nFrank Lampard took his Chelsea players to Stamford Bridge for a change from their Cobham training base, holding an in-house game on Saturday.\n\nLampard and his coaching staff officiated the match, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek scoring for the Blues in blue.\n\nChelsea are three points above United in fourth and resume their campaign at Aston Villa.\n\nTalking of Villa, they reportedly held a behind-closed-doors friendly against West Brom, who are second in the Championship, at Villa Park.\n\nJack Grealish and Keinan Davis scored for the hosts as they twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with the Baggies, for whom Kamil Grosicki and Filip Krovinovic found the back of the net.\n\nNewcastle also took a trip home to St James' Park for an inter-squad friendly which finished in a 1-1 draw.\n\nJoelinton gave his side - wearing the Magpies' orange strip - the lead before Nabil Bentaleb equalised for those wearing the black and white kit with a stunning strike from outside the box.\n\nEarlier in the week, Premier League leaders Liverpool held a series of short 11v11 matches at Anfield, while Norwich and West Ham also returned to Carrow Road and London Stadium respectively.", "St Alban on the Moors Church is in the Splott area of Cardiff\n\nA Catholic archbishop has said he was \"shocked and upset\" that a priest felt \"pressured\" into holding a wedding during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nArchbishop of Cardiff George Stack said he felt sympathy for the priest, who had to deal with a \"very difficult pastoral situation\".\n\nThe marriage on 12 May, conducted by Father Sebastian Jones at the church in the Splott area, broke lockdown rules.\n\nCardiff Council said the wedding was not legal because notice wasn't given.\n\nGwent Police also confirmed officers were called to complaints about a disturbance that night at an address in Newport at about 22:00 BST where a \"wedding party\" was reportedly going on.\n\nThe force is continuing to investigate and will take action if rules on gatherings and social distancing have been broken.\n\nMeanwhile, the archbishop is sending guidance to other churches in the diocese that such weddings must not happen again during the lockdown.\n\nHe has spoken to Father Jones who, according to the archbishop, was \"presented with a crisis situation\", and went ahead with the ceremony at St Alban on the Moors Church.\n\nArchbishop of Cardiff, George Stack, has been looking into what happened on 12 May\n\nHe said Father Jones used his \"pastoral judgement\" that going ahead with the wedding was the right thing to do in the circumstances.\n\n\"The issue really is should this have taken place when the churches were in lockdown and all that signifies,\" the archbishop said.\n\n\"The answer of course is no, on one level, but the priest felt pressured by a very difficult pastoral situation.\"\n\nHe added: \"When you're presented with a crisis situation, in a way you're under a lot of pressure internally and externally.\"\n\nAsked about media reports that the church will launch an investigation, the Archbishop said that was a \"very strong\" and \"dramatic\" word, as it was clear what had happened.\n\n\"It shouldn't have happened in strict accordance with the law, but when you're dealing with a kind of turmoil-ridden situation, it's very difficult to resolve,\" he said, adding it was \"not the right time\" to talk about discipline.\n\nA Cardiff council spokesman said: \"For a wedding to be legal, notice of the wedding must be given at least 28 days in advance.\n\n\"New notices of marriage are not currently being accepted due to Covid-19 and notice has not been given for this wedding.\"\n\nGwent Police Insp Martin Cawley said: \"We are now aware of the individuals who reside at or on the property and we will take appropriate and proportionate action if officers determine that a breach has occurred.\n\n\"Officers from my neighbourhood policing team are continuing to look into the matter as new information becomes available.\"\n• None 'Lockdown has bonded us - now we're getting married'", "The partner of Papua New Guinea sports star Debbie Kaore has been charged with grievous bodily harm over footage appearing to show him attacking her.\n\nThe graphic video, which reportedly showed the rugby player being hit with a hot iron and headbutted, was posted on social media on Friday.\n\nIt sparked outrage and calls for action against domestic abuse in the country.\n\nPrime Minister James Marape put out a statement urging the country's men not to beat up their wives.\n\nAccording to a UN report, more than two-thirds of women in Papua New Guinea have experienced domestic violence.\n\n\"I am putting this out here 'cause this has gone too far,\" Ms Kaore, 30, posted on social media. \"I can only hope that there won't be another victim after me.\"\n\nShe is also a champion boxer - she won gold for Papua New Guinea at the Pacific Games in 2015. She recently switched to rugby sevens and she represented the country at the HSBC World Series last year.\n\nMs Kaore lodged a complaint with police after being attacked and releasing the images.\n\nHer partner, 33-year-old army lieutenant Murray Oa with whom she has a two-year-old child, was arrested and charged.\n\n\"I'm still traumatised by what happened... I know there's a lot of women, Papua New Guinea women out there, who go through the same thing,\" Ms Kaore told Australian broadcaster ABC.\n\n\"They need to be strong, they need to get and report if it's wrong. Do what is right for you. Your life matters.\"\n\nDebbie Kaore, second from the right, is a rugby star and champion boxer\n\nIn his response, Prime Minister Marape said: \"I am a Tari man who learnt not to beat up my wife. My brother or son, you can do it too.\"", "A bill introducing \"no-fault\" divorces in England and Wales has been backed by MPs.\n\nIt passed its first hurdle in the Commons by 231 votes to 16 against, following a debate.\n\nCurrently, in order to start divorce proceedings immediately, one spouse has to allege adultery, unreasonable behaviour or desertion has taken place.\n\nUnder the proposed law, they will only have to state that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.\n\nThe Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill - which has been passed by the House of Lords - also removes the possibility of contesting the decision to divorce.\n\nAt the moment, someone wishing to obtain a divorce without the consent of their spouse must live apart from them for five years.\n\nDivorce proceedings will still be challengeable on certain grounds including fraud and coercion. Currently fewer than 2% of divorce cases are contested.\n\nThe bill also introduces a new option, allowing couples to jointly apply for a divorce, where the decision to separate is a mutual one.\n\nAnd it replaces the terms \"decree nisi\" and \"decree absolute\" with \"conditional order\" and \"final order\". \"Petitioners\" will also become \"applicants\".\n\nUnder the proposals, there must be a minimum six-month period between the lodging of a petition to the divorce being made final.\n\nOpening the debate, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the bill will seek to make separation \"less traumatic\".\n\nHe told MPs: \"No-one sets out thinking that their marriage is going to end, no-one wants their marriage to break down, none of us are therefore indifferent when a couple's lifelong commitment has sadly deteriorated.\n\n\"It is a very sad circumstance but the law, I believe, should reduce conflict when it arises.\n\n\"Where divorce is inevitable, this bill seeks to make the legal process less painful.\"\n\nConservative MP Jonathan Gullis said he had to put the blame on his partner during his own divorce, saying: \"I would have preferred to have had a no-fault divorce.\n\nBut, raising concerns about the bill, the DUP's Jim Shannon said: \"More funding must be allocated to counselling services to provide trained help for those in marriage difficulties and to prioritise saving a marriage.\"\n\nMr Buckland replied: \"It is, I think, the sad experience that by the time a decision to issue a divorce petition has been made then matters have sadly gone beyond that.\"\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary David Lammy says his party welcomed the bill as it offers a \"common-sense approach\" and respects the institution of marriage and civil partnerships.\n\nHe said the new law \"will promote conciliations and compromise\" and it will reduce legal costs which can reach \"eye-watering sums quite unnecessarily\".\n\nTini Owens was refused a divorce by the courts\n\nThe bill cleared its first hurdle - its second reading - in the House of Commons; despite some Conservatives expressing opposition.\n\nIn a letter to the Telegraph, MPs including Sir Desmond Swayne, Sir John Hayes and Fiona Bruce urged the government to focus on helping couples reconcile instead of \"undermining the commitment of marriage\".\n\nThey said the bill was badly-timed, arguing that many \"otherwise durable\" marriages were under \"intense Covid-related strain\".\n\nThe move to change divorce laws was partly prompted by the case of Tini Owens - a woman from Worcestershire who wanted to divorce her husband of 40 years.\n\nHowever, because her husband contested the split, the law stated she could only obtain a divorce by living apart from him for five years.\n\nMrs Owens said she was \"desperately unhappy\" in the marriage but Mr Owens disagreed and said the couple still had a \"few years\" to enjoy.\n\nIn 2018, her case was heard and rejected by Supreme Court justices - one of whom said, they had ruled against Mrs Owens with \"no enthusiasm whatsoever\" and that it was up to Parliament to change the law.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said: \"We will always uphold the institution of marriage. But when divorce cannot be avoided, the law must not create conflict between couples that so often harms the children involved.\n\n\"Our reforms remove the needless 'blame game', while ensuring there is a minimum six-month time frame to allow for reflection and the opportunity to turn back.\"", "Rachel Adedeji has appeared in more than 200 episodes of Hollyoaks\n\nHollyoaks has launched an investigation after Rachel Adedeji alleged she witnessed racism on the soap.\n\nThe actress said a senior producer referred to black cast members using a racial slur and claimed black actresses were told to change their hair.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Hollyoaks' producers said they were \"deeply shocked and saddened\" by the issues that had come to light.\n\nThey said they have \"zero tolerance on racism\" but \"have further work to do\".\n\nOn Saturday, Adedeji tweeted several claims about her experiences on the Channel 4 soap, which is produced by Lime Pictures.\n\nThe actress said she was told \"You're all the same\" by a make-up artist, and said black actresses on the show were \"forced to drastically change their hair\" after being told viewers wouldn't be able to tell them apart.\n\nAdedeji, has appeared in more than 200 episodes of the show, but said in her four years on the soap she had only worked with one black director.\n\n\"Working at Hollyoaks is mostly positive, but the experiences I have encountered are a constant reminder of how difficult it is being a black woman in the industry,\" Adedeji said. \"I am no longer standing for it.\"\n\nAdedeji's co-star Kéllé Bryan said the show was launching a series of podcasts about racism\n\nIn their statement on Tuesday, Lime Pictures said: \"We must stamp out implicit bias which means calling out racism wherever and whenever we see it.\n\n\"We will continue to add to our action plan as we continue and broaden our dialogue with cast and staff.\"\n\nThe action plan includes the following measures:\n\nFormer Hollyoaks star Amanda Clapham supported Adedeji on Twitter, saying she witnessed \"micro-aggressions\" towards BAME staff on the show.\n\nClapham alleged one male black cast member was \"disproportionately told off\" for talking and messing around during filming, when a whole group of actors had been involved.\n\nAndrea Ali, who plays Celeste Faroe, supported Adedeji but praised the soap's efforts on representation.\n\n\"I am beyond blessed to be a part of a team as diverse and as inclusive as Hollyoaks,\" Ali said.\n\n\"Celeste Faroe is a powerhouse and that representation of black women is not only one that I am proud of, but one that matters.\"\n\nLast week, Hollyoaks announced it would address the Black Lives Matter movement by recording a series of special podcasts about racism.\n\nAt the time, actress Kéllé Bryan said: \"We've been busy behind the scenes having lots of highly important conversations and we'll be kick-starting with a podcast all about racism - how we tackle it, how we face it and, most importantly, how we overcome it.\"\n\nBut in her statement, Adedeji said: \"Putting out a podcast and asking your black cast members to teach you how to tackle these issues is the bare minimum. Do better.\"\n\nOn Monday's Loose Women, Bryan addressed the backlash she'd received from the podcast announcement, but said there was no bad blood between herself and Adedeji.\n\n\"Myself and Rachel have spoken and we have shared our feelings... I'm supporting her and she's reached out to me also. We'll just work through this, hopefully, internally.\n\n\"She meant no harm in her post in terms of me personally.\"\n\nHollyoaks is set to resume production in Liverpool this week, with the cast expected back on set in July.\n\nAdedeji first shot to fame as an X Factor finalist in 2009, finishing in ninth place. She joined Hollyoaks in 2016.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Hydroxychloroquine received global attention after being taken by Donald Trump\n\nA malaria drug that has been tested as a treatment for coronavirus does not save lives, one of the world's largest trials shows.\n\nHydroxychloroquine received global attention after being promoted by Donald Trump, and then controversy after studies on it were retracted.\n\nThe drug has now been pulled from the UK's Recovery trial, which is run by the University of Oxford.\n\nThe findings have been passed on to the World Health Organization.\n\nBack at the start of the pandemic, laboratory studies had suggested the malaria drug could affect the virus. Small-scale studies in China and France then hinted it might help patients.\n\nThere was a huge amount of hope, as the medicine is cheap and has been safely used to treat malaria and conditions such as lupus and arthritis.\n\nHowever, the evidence supporting its use for coronavirus has been weak.\n\nThat is why the data from the Recovery trial is crucial. It is the first to test the drug in large numbers of people in a thorough clinical trial.\n\nMore than 11,000 patients with Covid-19 are taking part, with 1,542 patients given hydroxychloroquine.\n\nDue to mounting controversy about the drug, the UK's drugs regulator last night asked the Oxford researchers to review their data.\n\nThe results showed 25.7% of people taking hydroxychloroquine had died after 28 days. This compared with 23.5% who were given standard hospital treatment.\n\n\"This is not a treatment for Covid,\" said Prof Martin Landray, part of the Recovery trial. The trial immediately stopped using the drug.\n\nThe findings come in the wake of deep concern in academic publishing that led to an article being retracted in the Lancet - one of the world's most prestigious medical journals.\n\nIt had published a study involving nearly 15,000 patients, from hundreds of hospitals, given hydroxycholoroquine or the similar drug chloroquine.\n\nIt concluded the drug was not beneficial and increased the risk of irregular heart rhythms and death. That publication led to the WHO suspending its trials of the anti-malaria drug.\n\nThe data had been collected from hospitals by the little-known healthcare firm Surgisphere.\n\nConcerns were raised about the data and then some of the study's authors said they could no longer stand by their publication as Surgisphere would not allow an independent review.\n\nThen the New England Journal of Medicine retracted another paper that had data based on Surgisphere.\n\nProf Peter Horby, from the University of Oxford which runs the Recovery trial, said: \"Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have received a lot of attention and have been used very widely to treat Covid patients despite the absence of any good evidence.\n\n\"Although it is disappointing that this treatment has been shown to be ineffective, it does allow us to focus care and research on more promising drugs.\"", "Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007, then aged three\n\nIn the intervening years, a huge, costly police operation has taken place across much of Europe.\n\nMadeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, say all they have ever wanted is to find their daughter.\n\nHere is the story so far.\n\nMadeleine went missing from this apartment block at the Ocean Club. The family's apartment is on the left of the building, as seen here\n\nOn 3 May Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, is on holiday with her family at the Ocean Club in Praia da Luz, Portugal.\n\nOn 12 May, the McCanns say they \"cannot describe the anguish and despair\" they are feeling.\n\nPortuguese police say they believe Madeleine was abducted but is still alive and in Portugal.\n\nOn 26 May, police issue a description of a man seen on the night of Madeleine's disappearance, possibly carrying a child.\n\nA search took place in the areas around Praia da Luz on the Algarve\n\nIn June, a Portuguese police chief admits vital forensic clues may have been destroyed as the scene was not protected properly.\n\nIn July, British police send sniffer dogs to assist the investigation, and inspections of the McCann's apartment and rental car are conducted.\n\nBy August it is 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. Investigating officers publicly acknowledge she may not be found alive.\n\nOn 6 September, Portuguese police interview Kate McCann as a witness. On 7 September, detectives make the couple \"arguidos\" and days later, the McCanns return to the UK. Prosecutors later say there is no new evidence to justify re-questioning them.\n\nGerry McCann releases a video in November saying he believes his family was watched by \"a predator\" in the days before his daughter's disappearance.\n\nKate and Gerry McCann leave church after a service to mark the first anniversary of their daughter's disappearance\n\nOn 20 January the McCanns release sketches of a suspect, based on a description by a British holidaymaker of a \"creepy man\" seen at the resort.\n\nIn April, Portuguese police fly to the UK to sit in on interviews conducted by Leicestershire Police of the McCanns' friends they had dinner with on the night Madeleine disappeared.\n\nOn 3 May, one year since the disappearance, Mrs McCann urges people to \"pray like mad\" for her little girl.\n\nBy July Portuguese police say they have submitted their final report on the case. Weeks later, authorities shelve their investigation and lift the \"arguido\" status of the McCanns.\n\nAn image was released of how Madeleine might look at six\n\nOn 3 November, new images of how Madeleine might now look are released.\n\nIn March 2010, the McCanns criticise the release of previously unseen Portuguese police files - detailing possible sightings of Madeleine - to British newspapers.\n\nA month later, in April, Gerry McCann says it is \"incredibly frustrating\" that police in Portugal and the UK had not been actively looking for his daughter \"for a very long time\".\n\nIn November, the couple sign a publishing deal to write a book about Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThe McCanns' book, Madeleine, is released in May.\n\nPrime Minister David Cameron asks the Metropolitan Police to help investigate. A two-year review follows.\n\nDet Ch Insp Andy Redwood, the detective leading the UK review of Madeleine's disappearance, tells an April broadcast of the BBC's Panorama his team is \"seeking to bring closure to the case\".\n\nA computer-generated image of what Madeleine might look like aged nine is released, a day before Portuguese authorities say they are not reopening their investigation.\n\nIn May, UK detectives reviewing the case say they have identified \"a number of persons of interest\".\n\nBy July, Scotland Yard announces it has \"new evidence and new witnesses\" in the case and opens a formal investigation.\n\nBy October, Scotland Yard detectives say they have identified 41 potential suspects.\n\nA BBC Crimewatch appeal features e-fit images of a man seen carrying a blond-haired child of three or four in Praia da Luz at about the time Madeleine went missing.\n\nPortuguese police reopen their investigation - to run alongside Scotland Yard's - citing \"new lines of inquiry\".\n\nMet Police officers searched scrubland near where Madeleine vanished in 2014\n\nIn January British detectives fly to Portugal amid claims they are planning to make arrests.\n\nIn June searches in Praia da Luz are carried out, including an area of scrubland situated south-west of the Ocean Club complex. It yields nothing of interest.\n\nA month later, in July, four suspects are quizzed by police but no new developments emerge.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three when she went missing in 2007\n\nIn September 2015 the British government disclose that the investigation has cost more than £10m.\n\nIn April 2017 the four official suspects investigated by police are ruled out of the investigation but senior officers say they are pursuing a \"significant line of inquiry\".\n\nIn June 2019 the UK government says it will fund the Met Police inquiry, which began in 2011, until March 2020.\n\nA year later, in June 2020, police reveal that a 43-year-old German prisoner - named by German media as Christian B - has been identified as a suspect. The McCanns thank police, saying: \"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nGerman investigators have classed it as a murder inquiry and say they are assuming that Madeleine is dead.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police says it has received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nIn April 2022, a German man is declared an official suspect by Portuguese prosecutors investigating the case.\n\nChristian Brueckner, then 45, is made an \"arguido\", although Portuguese authorities do not formally reveal the suspect's name.\n\nThe McCann family mark the 16th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance on 3 May 2022, saying she is \"still very much missed\" and they \"await a breakthrough\".\n\nLater that month, a Portuguese news website reports that an area near a reservoir, about 30 miles (48km) from Praia da Luz, had been being sealed off. Police say they will begin searching the Arade dam on 23 May.\n• None In Pictures: The search for Madeleine McCann", "Dyfed-Powys Police said many of those it stopped were from England and thought lockdown restrictions were the same in Wales\n\nPolice turned away more than 1,000 cars from one beauty spot in just two days for breaching lockdown rules.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said many people officers spoke to in the Brecon Beacons were from England who said they did not know about Wales' different rules.\n\nThe force's commissioner has said the UK government \"hasn't been all that clear\" on the differences.\n\nSupt Steve Davies said fines were issued if people had \"clearly flouted the rules\".\n\nThe force said many of those stopped at the weekend claimed they thought the rules in Wales were the same as in England and came from as far afield as London and the Midlands.\n\nPolice said they were kept busy due to the volume of people trying to drive to the area around Ystradfellte, Powys, known as \"waterfall country\".\n\nThe force, which covers some of Wales' most rural areas, also said 72% of people reported for breaches of Covid-19 restrictions in Powys since 27 March had been from outside the force area.\n\nDafydd Llywelyn, Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner, told BBC Radio Wales that the \"majority\" of people had listened to advice to stay local.\n\nBut he concluded the number of people breaking the rules was \"not surprising\".\n\n\"We have people travelling from Cardiff and the valleys into the force area. We also are getting people coming across the border,\" he said.\n\n\"In the first instance the police are trying to educate those coming across the border because the message from the central government hasn't been all that clear.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said it had been \"absolutely clear\" that people should check and follow local guidance when travelling between different parts of the UK.\n\n\"Our analysis shows that this message has been received clearly and is helping to tackle coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nDafydd Llywelyn says he \"felt sorry\" for people who did not know the rules were different in Wales\n\nMr Llywelyn added he \"felt sorry\" for people who did not know the rules were different in Wales because it is often \"impossible\" for officers to do anything other than issue a fine.\n\nSupt Davies added: \"Our officers have worked hard to engage with the public at every opportunity throughout these unprecedented times by explaining what we are doing and why, and encouraging people to make the best choices to protect public health in Wales.\n\n\"But where people have clearly flouted the rules we have dealt with them appropriately and issued fines.\"\n\nHe said officers would continue to conduct stop checks throughout Powys and across the force area this weekend.\n\nWales' three national parks and all National Trust sites remain closed to the public during the lockdown, although the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority has said parts of the park will open from Monday.", "Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned from the tech firm's board and urged the company to replace him with a black candidate.\n\nThe tech entrepreneur has also pledged to use future gains on his Reddit stock to \"serve the black community.\"\n\nIn a series of tweets, he said he was doing it \"as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?'\"\n\nIt follows days of US protests against police brutality and racial inequality.\n\nMr Ohanian, who is married to black tennis champion Serena Williams, said he would be donating $1m (£800,000) to Know Your Rights Camp, a non-profit started by former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.\n\n\"I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now,\" he said in a video. \"To everyone fighting to fix our broken nation: do not stop.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Ohanian founded social media website Reddit 15 years ago with his college roommates Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman.\n\nHe stepped down from daily duties in 2018 but has retained a seat on the company's board until now.\n\nReddit promoted its first female board member, Porter Gale, last year.\n\nBut the website has come under fire for hosting forums that promote racist content. The company has banned groups like r/blackpeoplehate and alt-right r/MillionDollarExtreme. It has also \"quarantined\" a pro-Trump forum, r/TheDonald, ensuring that its content does not appear in website searches or recommendations.\n\nEarlier this week, several popular Reddit forums switched their access rights to private, or banned new posts entirely, to protest against the company's hate speech policies. Ex-chief executive Ellen K Pao also lambasted her former employer in a tweet, saying: \"You don't get to say [Black Lives Matter] when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all day long.\"", "The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has been asked to review evidence into the death of a railway worker who was reportedly spat at by a man claiming to have coronavirus.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) concluded last week Belly Mujinga's death was not linked to the incident and closed the case.\n\nMore than a million people have signed a petition in support of Ms Mujinga.\n\nBTP said it requested the review in light of the \"wider public interest\".\n\nMs Mujinga , 47, died with Covid-19 on 5 April, a few weeks after an incident at London's Victoria station.\n\nBTP interviewed a 57-year-old man but said \"there was insufficient evidence to support a prosecution based upon the allegation that the man spat deliberately on Mrs Mujinga or said that he had the virus\".\n\nThe man also gave a negative antibody test, showing he had never had the illness, and the force subsequently decided not to refer the case to the CPS.\n\nBelly Mujinga leaves behind a husband and an 11-year-old daughter\n\nIn a new statement on Friday, BTP said it had invited the CPS to conduct an independent review of the available evidence, and whether there were any further lines of inquiry.\n\nBTP said it understood the depth of feeling over the case and that there were further questions over how it was decided there was insufficient proof of a crime to justify a prosecution.\n\n\"We can assure the public that we have comprehensively reviewed all the available evidence and have not identified any offences or behaviour that meets the threshold for prosecution,\" it said.\n\nBritish Transport Police said last week it decided not to take the case further\n\nThe petition seeks justice for the family of Ms Mujinga, and her husband Lusamba thanked those who have signed it, saying they had been on a \"rollercoaster of emotions\".\n\nThe public reaction to the case being closed took the family by surprise, he said, adding it had come amid anger over the killing of George Floyd in the US.\n\nHe said: \"On Wednesday, thousands of people protested in London to cry it loud that black lives matter.\n\n\"It mattered to me, to our daughter, our friends and family, to Belly's colleagues, and now it matters to many thousands of you out there.\"\n\nAngie Doll, managing director of Southern Railway and Gatwick Express, said: \"Our hearts go out to Belly's family who we continue to offer our deepest sympathies to.\n\n\"While the conclusion of the BTP investigation found no evidence of spitting, any loss of one of our dedicated colleagues from coronavirus is one too many.\n\n\"Our absolute focus remains on keeping all of our colleagues safe, and we continue to follow all government health advice to protect them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deaths due to dementia have been higher than average during the coronavirus pandemic, Office for National Statistics analysis has found.\n\nThe ONS figures suggest almost a third of deaths above the expected level for this time of year were not registered as being related to coronavirus,\n\nBetween 7 March and 1 May, recorded deaths were more than 50% higher than the five-year average.\n\nOlder age groups had the most elevated risk of dying from non-Covid-19 causes.\n\nOf the deaths above the average level for this time of year, 12,900 (27.8%) did not involve coronavirus.\n\nDeaths from asthma and diabetes also increased between 7 March - the first week in which a death involving Covid-19 was recorded - and 24 April.\n\nThis, coupled with the fact these deaths were increasingly happening outside hospital, could suggest the rise was down to a delay in care for these conditions, the ONS said.\n\nBut it could also be down to changes in how deaths are recorded.\n\nThere is not yet enough evidence to suggest the increase in non-Covid death registrations, could be linked to \"reduced hospital capacity and increases in deaths caused by stress-related conditions,\" according to the ONS.\n\nThis kind of analysis may not be possible for several months.\n\nDeaths from coronary heart disease also increased from around mid-March.\n\nA previous ONS publication suggested these deaths were lower than average in April, but the picture has changed now more data is available.\n\nHowever, fewer people died of seasonal flu during the winter 2019-2020 than in the previous five years.\n\nThe increase in deaths unrelated to coronavirus mainly affected older age groups, and the effect increased with age.\n\nDeaths of younger people, especially people aged between 10 and 39, were lower than the five-year average between mid-March and the beginning of May.\n\nThe ONS cautioned that deaths in these age-groups often require a coroner's inquest to determine the cause meaning registration may happen several months after the date of death.\n\nThat includes deaths from suicide, injury and violence.\n\nThe biggest increase in \"excess deaths\" - those above the five-year average - were in London and the West Midlands.\n\nThe ONS stopped short of drawing a causal link, but pointed out that these are the regions with the highest proportion of people from black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, who have been disproportionately affected by the virus. These regions also had larger increases in non-Covid deaths.\n\nBut it also pointed out that some of these non-Covid deaths, particularly outside hospital, might be down a lack of testing in these settings. So some of them could be unidentified coronavirus cases.", "An estimated 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England\n\nThe postponement of tens of thousands of hospital procedures is putting the lives of people with long-term heart conditions at risk, according to the British Heart Foundation.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic has created a backlog which would only get larger as patients waited for care, it said.\n\nPeople with heart disease are at increased risk of serious illness with Covid-19, and some are shielding.\n\nIn the last two weeks, cardiology services have started again in England.\n\nThe BHF estimates that 28,000 procedures have been delayed in England since the outbreak of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nThese are planned hospital procedures, including the implanting of pacemakers or stents, widening blocked arteries to the heart, and tests to diagnose heart problems.\n\nPeople now waiting for new appointments would already have been waiting for treatment when the lockdown started, the charity said, as it urged the NHS to support people with heart conditions \"in a safe way\".\n\nSarah Miles is shielding because of her high risk of being very ill with Covid-19\n\nSarah Miles, 45, a former nurse from Somerset, has been ill for some time with heart failure, after a heart attack and cardiac arrest when she was 38.\n\nShe has had several recent appointments cancelled, including a procedure to correct abnormal heart rhythms she had already waited six months for, and an assessment for a new heart.\n\n\"It makes you feel anxious and alone,\" she says, having been shielding from the virus because of her high risk of complications.\n\nYet the last thing she wants to do is complain.\n\n\"I understand the practicalities but it's worrying me that there is no plan - no-one is keeping me informed or anything.\n\n\"Even accessing medication online is more difficult because doctors need extra time to arrange it.\"\n\nA nurse would normally come to her house, where she is sleeping in the front room, to carry out blood tests - but that hasn't happened.\n\n\"I haven't had any follow-up after being in hospital in February either,\" she says.\n\nShe is no longer able to walk very far and the hope of a heart transplant keeps her going, but that's likely to be a long way off.\n\n\"I'm just in limbo. It's the not knowing that's the worst.\"\n\nThe NHS scaled back services in many areas and redeployed staff in order to stop the health service from being overwhelmed by patients with Covid-19.\n\nThis led to drops in cancer referrals, routine operations and visits to A&E - and there were concerns that seriously ill people were being put off seeking treatment.\n\n\"People with heart and circulatory diseases are already at increased risk of dying from Covid-19, and their lives should not be put at even greater risk by missing out on treatment for their condition,\" said Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation.\n\n\"If hospital investigations and procedures are delayed too long, it can result in preventable permanent long-term complications, such as heart failure.\"\n\nThe implanting of pacemakers is one of the procedures postponed during the epidemic\n\nA survey of 1,409 adults with heart and circulatory conditions carried out by BHF with YouGov found that during the crisis, a third had struggled to get the medicines they needed and about 40% had had a planned test or procedure postponed or cancelled.\n\nSome of the most urgent heart procedures have taken place during the epidemic.\n\nBut although cardiology services have started again, it is not yet clear how long patients will have to wait to for rescheduled appointments.\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said: \"Now we are through the first peak of the virus, the NHS is safely bringing back other services, as clearly many people will have worried about seeking help during the outbreak.\"\n\nThe number of people coming to A&E for cardiac conditions is \"back to the levels we would normally expect\", he said.\n\nNHS England said it was also \"significantly increasing rehab care for everyone suffering after-effects of the virus\".", "World War II veterans whose D-Day anniversary trip to the new British Normandy Memorial was cancelled are being brought new footage of the site to mark the day.\n\nMore than 70 veterans, many in their mid-90s, were meant to make the trip for the 76th anniversary on Saturday.\n\nDue to the coronavirus outbreak, the Normandy Memorial Trust is showing them the latest construction work instead.\n\nThe memorial was meant to be officially opened on 4 September.\n\nThat ceremony will now take place in spring or early summer 2021 instead.\n\nLord Peter Ricketts, chairman of trustees at the Normandy Memorial Trust, said: \"We at the trust know how much the veterans and their families were looking forward to visiting the site around the time of the D-Day anniversary to see the memorial taking shape.\n\n\"We share their frustration that the unprecedented circumstances of the pandemic have made that impossible. But the good news is that we are pressing on with real determination to complete the construction, despite all the obstacles.\n\n\"I pay tribute to the dedication of everyone involved in this.\"\n\nAn artist's view of how the memorial will look\n\nThe new content showing the construction work is being released on the trust's website on Saturday.\n\n\"You will get a sense from these new pictures of how moving and impressive the memorial will be once it is finished in the autumn,\" added Lord Ricketts.\n\nIn the footage, people can watch letter carvers inscribing the words of Winston Churchill's speech, including the famous words \"we shall fight on the beaches\".\n\nThe stone columns of the memorial are engraved with the names of 22,442 men and women under British command who lost their lives in the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy.\n\nThere was a two-month pause in construction of the memorial due to the pandemic, but it has now restarted. Work has included the planting of hundreds of young trees, as well as 12 semi-mature oak trees at the memorial entrance.\n\nThe French memorial - recognising the sacrifice of Normandy's civilian population - has had its foundations installed and the first stone laid.\n\nAs the UK government is not providing funding for the maintenance of the memorial. the trust is also launching a support programme. The Normandy Memorial Guardian programme will see supporters recruited to look after the site in the years ahead.", "The star's sixth album was originally due out in April, but was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic\n\nLady Gaga's new album, Chromatica, has entered the UK charts at number one, after outselling the rest of the top 10 combined.\n\nThe record, which sees Gaga return to the rocket-powered pop of her debut, sold 53,000 copies, the biggest opening week of the year so far.\n\nIt is also the star's fastest-selling album since 2013's Artpop.\n\nThe album follows Gaga's performance in A Star Is Born, for which she won an Oscar for best song in 2019.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nCritics have called the record a return to form, after the country-leaning acoustics of her fifth album Joanne and the misfiring experiments of her Artpop project.\n\n\"Song for song, it's her best yet,\" wrote Variety magazine, adding: \"She sounds like she knows exactly who she is, what she wants to say and how she wants to say it.\"\n\n\"Her pop renaissance couldn't come at a better time,\" agreed Rolling Stone, while The Independent praised the star's \"anthems of self-doubt, self-reflection, self-destruction and self-reclamation\".\n\nGaga, who has suffered with chronic illness and depression, said the record was intended to be an antidote to hard times.\n\n\"I'm making a dance record again and this dance floor… it's mine, I earned it, and all that stuff that I went through,\" she told Zane Lowe in a recent interview.\n\n\"The beginning of the album really symbolises, for me, what I would call the beginning of my journey to healing,\" she added, \"and what I would hope would be an inspiration for people that are in need of healing through happiness, through dance.\"\n\nAccording to the Official Charts Company, Chromatica was the week's most popular album in every format - physical, streaming and downloads - as well as the year's fastest-seller on vinyl, with 8,500 copies sold.\n\nThree of the tracks also made it into the singles chart, led by the Ariana Grande duet Rain On Me at number two.\n\nSour Candy, a collaboration with K-pop band Blackpink, debuted at 17; while Alice, inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland, was at 29.\n\nGaga is also expected to top the US Billboard charts next week, with projected sales of 250,000.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Cardiff council has published a detailed plan of how it plans to run the city after lockdown.\n\nThe leader, Councillor Huw Thomas, said they want to \"restart, recover and renew Wales’ capital\" and make it one of the safety cities in the UK.\n\n\"I’m determined that when lockdown restrictions are lifted, our city will reopen in a way that is safe for everyone; in a way that does everything it can to safeguard thousands of jobs; and in a way which is both welcoming and confident about the future of Cardiff,\" he said.\n\nAmong the measures being considered are:\n\nWelcome Points: They will explain to visitors how the city centre works, from reaching particular destinations to where you can wash your hands\n\nOne-way pedestrian movement: Pedestrians within the city centre will need to follow signed routes to ensure social distancing\n\nQueues: There will be a queuing system outside each retail unit /shopping centre/arcade as they will only be able accept a certain number of customers\n\nSpill-out areas: The council says it recognises that businesses in the hospitality sector could be seriously affected by the need to follow social distancing. It proposes to open up spill-out areas, including the grounds inside and around the main walls of Cardiff Castle, the northern end of Churchill Way, the Hayes and Mill Lane\n\nCar Parking: Many city centre car parks will need to operate at a reduced capacity to ensure social distancing. The council is working on a network of park and ride and cycle facilities to ease traffic\n\nAccessing the city centre: An integrated transport plan will help people access the city centre via car, public transport, walking or cycling. It could see the city centre put into event mode, with road closures similar to those on rugby international days\n\nSecurity and aggressive begging: Police have offered support to manage pedestrians and any social-distancing issues. A long-term strategy to help the homeless after lockdown is lifted is being developed\n\nThe plans will go to Cardiff council’s cabinet for discussion on Thursday, 11 June.\n\nThe proposed one-way system around The Hayes Image caption: The proposed one-way system around The Hayes", "Kate and Gerry McCann pose with an image of how their daughter Madeleine, who went missing aged three, might have looked in 2012\n\nThe disappearance of Madeleine McCann in May 2007 was a shocking family tragedy. A perfect holiday became the most awful event imaginable. And 13 years on, still no answers.\n\nFor all the years that she has been missing, her parents - and a small group of British police officers who took over the case in 2011 - have not given up hope of finally discovering what happened.\n\nNow, with a potentially astonishing new lead on a known sex offender from Germany, the question is whether they are, finally, close to the truth after so many false turns.\n\nOn 3 May 2007 Madeleine was on holiday with her siblings and parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, in an apartment in the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz.\n\nHer parents were eating dinner with friends a short walk from the apartment - and when Mrs McCann went back to check on the three sleeping children, she discovered Madeleine was gone.\n\nThrough the night, local police and volunteers began to search. As the hours ticked by, more and more people gave up their holidays and time to find the little girl.\n\nBut within days, the first of a series of major wrong turns arguably hampered the investigation.\n\nHe became the centre of an erroneous police inquiry - and enormous attention from the British press.\n\nBut he had nothing to do with the disappearance - and 11 British newspapers eventually paid him £600,000 in libel damages after wrecking his life.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz\n\nAnd a month after Madeleine's disappearance, the Portuguese investigation was stalling.\n\nThere was an appeal for information on an unknown figure seen carrying a child - but a police chief admitted potentially vital forensic evidence had not been secured in the apartment.\n\nThe chance of finding fingerprints, DNA or fibres linking the scene to an abductor were lost.\n\nBy July, the local Portuguese police were at a dead end. They asked the UK to help - and a team of experienced search detectives and sniffer dogs were flown in.\n\nThe British team went back to basics with an agonisingly meticulous search, the gold standard for murder inquiries in the UK.\n\nThey did not find any leads - and in September 2007, with Madeleine's parents still in turmoil, the local police suddenly named them as suspects. There was no evidence to support that supposition, and that line of inquiry was later abandoned.\n\nNaming the parents as suspects felt to many observers at the time as a desperate clutching at straws by an investigation on the rocks. And 14 months after Madeleine McCann disappeared, the Portuguese authorities shelved its inquiry as unsolved.\n\nThe McCanns, from Rothley, Leicestershire, were convinced their daughter had been abducted.\n\nThe UK's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, experts in the trafficking of children into sexual abuse, became involved and in the following years tried to keep interest alive with artist's images of what Madeleine would now look like as she grew up.\n\nIn 2011, the McCanns lobbied then Prime Minister David Cameron to do more, and a senior Scotland Yard team were asked to review thousands of pages of evidence.\n\nThat decision may prove the crucial turning point.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police ended up with a list of 600 people they needed to find out more about and ultimately 41 potential suspects.\n\nBehind the scenes a tantalising lead began to emerge.\n\nStranger kidnaps of children are rare. They tend to involve calculating abusers who have thought carefully about how they will do it. People who have a plan and know the area where they will strike.\n\nDetectives reasoned that if Madeleine was kidnapped, the culprit could be German or Dutch - the two other predominant nationalities in the resort, along with British and Portuguese.\n\nIn 2013 the German equivalent of BBC TV's Crimewatch launched an appeal asking for any information about two German-speaking men at Praia da Luz.\n\nThat TV appeal led to a tip-off to German federal detectives, although it is not clear what it was or whether an individual was named.\n\nThe Ocean Club in Praia da Luz where the McCann family were staying\n\nThen, around the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, the German Federal Police received more information that did identify a man who set alarm bells ringing, someone whose name had been known to Scotland Yard.\n\nAccording to the German Federal Police, the man is a sex offender - they have called him a \"predator\" - who has been convicted of offences against girls and is currently in prison.\n\nHe is also known to be a burglar, with experience of breaking into apartments.\n\nBetween 1995 and 2007 he was living a transient lifestyle in the Algarve and odd-jobbing in catering. At the same time, he is believed to have burgled holiday apartments and hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThey now know that this man was close to the McCann holiday apartment at the critical time on the night she disappeared in 2007, and he received a half-hour phone call from an unknown person.\n\nHe had been using two vehicles, a VW camper van and a Jaguar, with the British-made car having been re-registered to another person the day after Madeleine disappeared.\n\nHe has also been connected to two properties, one of which German police have described as a hideaway for stolen goods. Both homes are small, villas on quiet country lanes.\n\nOne is a 10 minute drive from Praia da Luz. The other lies just over a mile away - and is, in turn, just a mile from grassy land where British police carried out an extensive search in 2014.\n\nWho is the suspect? Neither German investigators nor Scotland Yard will confirm that name, but German media have identified him as Christian B.\n\nDid this man take Madeleine McCann? Was a dangerous sexual offender effectively hiding in plain sight in the middle of a peaceful holiday town? It would not be the first time - almost everywhere in the world there are stories of predatory offenders locating themselves in resorts.\n\nAt the moment, we just don't know. But one thing is certain in the minds of the German police who may unlock this tragedy. They believe Madeleine McCann is dead.\n\nAnd while her disappearance has always been a missing person inquiry in the UK - in Germany, this is now a hunt for the final clues that could catch a murderer.", "Mr Seely said he talked to the journalist for about 35 minutes \"at a sensible distance\".\n\nA Conservative MP has admitted he failed to follow lockdown guidance when he reportedly attended a barbecue.\n\nIsle of Wight MP Bob Seely went to an evening gathering at a journalist's home in Seaview on 22 May, according to the Guardian newspaper.\n\nMr Seely said he and his girlfriend met the man for a work-related discussion and ate \"half a sausage\", but did not enter the house or have a drink.\n\nThe local Green Party said \"islanders will rightly be furious\".\n\nMr Seely apologised, saying he should have left when he saw others were there.\n\nGreen Party spokesperson Vix Lowthion said islanders would be \"furious\"\n\nCalling for the MP to consider standing down, Green Party spokesperson Vix Lowthion said: \"Thousands of his constituents have not seen their own grandchildren, parents and friends.\n\n\"Islanders will rightly be furious to read that our MP broke lockdown rules through going to a BBQ with journalists at their second home on the island on bank holiday weekend.\"\n\nAt the time people could only meet one other person from another household at a distance in a public place.\n\nMr Seely, who is leading efforts to promote the trial of the Covid-19 contact-tracing app on the island, said the journalist had wanted to discuss the project with him.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"When I arrived, I saw another couple of people there, which I was not expecting. I thought about leaving, but felt that was perhaps over-reacting.\n\n\"I apologise because, on balance, I called this wrong. It would have been better to have spoken to this person without any others nearby.\"\n\nThe MP said he talked to the journalist for about 35 minutes \"at a sensible distance\".\n\nHe added his girlfriend had accompanied him because it was \"after normal working hours\".\n\nAsked later on Isle of Wight Radio whether the event was a barbecue, he replied: \"I think I probably had half a sausage... but did not treat it as a social event because I was there for work.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it would not comment on an individual and reiterated current guidance was \"for everyone\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nCurrent rules, after lockdown was further eased on 28 May, allow groups of up to six people from different households to meet in private gardens.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clothing retailer Gap has reported a loss close to $1bn due to store closures because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe company was $932m (£740m) in the red for the three months to May, compared with a profit of $227m in the same period last year.\n\nIt comes as Gap wrote off the value of the goods it holds by more than a quarter of a billion dollars.\n\nThe firm's shares were down by more than 8% in after-hours trade.\n\nWith net sales falling 43% in the period, Gap's chief executive Sonia Syngal said they continued to reflect “material declines in May as a result of closures” but added that online demand was improving.\n\nRetailers of non-essential goods, especially clothing, have been hit hard by restrictions aimed to help slow the spread of Covid-19.\n\nShops have been shut across much of the world as retailers were forced to limit their businesses to online operations.\n\nSan Francisco-based Gap, which operates almost 2,800 stores in North America, said that more than half of its company-operated stores in the US have now reopened.\n\nSeparately, Gap is is being sued by America's largest shopping mall operator for refusing to pay rent for stores temporarily closed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nSimon Property Group said in a lawsuit filed this week that the clothing retailer owes three months of rent, totalling $65.9m.\n\nGap has more than 390 stores at Indianapolis-based Simon's malls, including its namesake brand, Old Navy and Banana Republic.\n\nSimon Property Group temporarily closed all of its properties in March after major retailers at its malls, such as Gap, Macy's and Nodstrom's, shut their stores.\n\nLarge retailers, including Gap and sports shoe seller Foot Locker, have said they wouldn't pay rent for stores that were forced to close due to the pandemic.\n\nGap did not directly mention the lawsuit during Thursday's earnings conference call but chief financial officer Katrina O'Connell said \"We're just knee-deep in landlords today.\"\n\n\"It's very hard to say how long it will take, but I do know that one of our primary objectives is to use this opportunity to partner with our landlords to come up with a better profitability for the company.\"\n• None What shape will the coronavirus recession be?", "Sending all children back to school - and freeing parents to go back to work - could trigger a second wave of coronavirus, warn researchers.\n\nUCL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine team said testing and tracing contacts of those with the virus might help prevent this.\n\nBut the current test and trace system would need to be more effective.\n\nThe study is the first to assess the extent of contact tracing that will be needed to prevent a second wave.\n\nIt used computer models to see how the virus might spread as pupils returned to the classroom and their parents were freed from childcare and able return to work or other activities.\n\nThe academics investigated the impact of the \"phased return\" strategy in England.\n\nThey analysed what happens when Reception, Year 1 and Year Six go back at the start of June; followed by all primary school pupils in July; secondary pupils in Year 10 and 12 having some contact in July and all secondary schools going back in September.\n\nThe study showed the combined effect on pupils and parents would be enough to cause a second wave without an effective test and trace programme.\n\nThis would happen around December 2020 and would be twice as big as the first peak, unless the government took other actions such as re-imposing lockdown.\n\nThe success of the scheme is dependent on how well the testing and the contact tracing goes.\n\nThe model suggested a second wave would be prevented if:\n\nModelling is not a crystal ball and there is always uncertainty around any predictions. However, researchers are concerned England is not achieving those figures.\n\nAbout 1,700 people are testing positive every day in hospitals, care homes and the wider community, while figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest there are 5,600 new infections a day in the community alone - and one Public Health England report suggests 17,000 infections per day.\n\nThere is still no official data on the number of contacts being traced, but a report by the Times (paywall) suggests it is less than 40%.\n\n\"Our concern from the data at the moment is test-trace-isolate is not reaching the coverage we think is the minimum,\" Prof Chris Bonell, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\n\"There is clearly a risk of a second pandemic wave… I'm worried. The R [rate of virus spread] is a bit below one [the point at which the number of new cases starts to take off again], but the incidence is high so it's precarious.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, from UCL, said it would have been better to wait until test and trace was fully up and running before lifting lockdown.\n\n\"Cases are not coming down as much as we wanted. I would caution against reopening schools when we are doing a lot of other interventions and we don't know the impact of them.\n\n\"Everything depends on control of transmission, there is the threat of a second pandemic wave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, researchers at the University of Warwick have also published modelling on the impact of reopening schools. It looked only at the impact of children mixing, not the society-wide effect of schools opening.\n\nIt found that halving the size of classes or focusing on getting younger children into school was less likely to push the R number above 1, the point at which the number of new cases starts to take off again.\n\nSecondary schools were deemed more risky, as older children come into contact with more people.\n\n\"If we reopen all schools it could push R above 1 in some regions,\" Dr Ed Hill said.\n\nBut he added: \"Decisions surrounding reopening of schools are a difficult trade-off between the epidemiological consequences and the needs of the children in terms of educational development.\"", "Tommy Robinson (pictured in London in May) posted a video online in which he said he was spat at in Barrow\n\nEx-English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a man he claims spat in his face.\n\nMr Robinson, 37, was detained at a protest rally at Hollywood Retail Park in Barrow, Cumbria, on Thursday.\n\nThree other men from outside the Barrow area were also arrested on suspicion of a public order offence. All four have been released on bail, police said.\n\nThe rally was about an investigation into allegations of \"sexual grooming\".\n\nCumbria Police said a one-year investigation had failed to find evidence of a grooming gang.\n\nMr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was also questioned on suspicion of a public order offence, along with a 43-year-old man from the West Midlands area, a 47-year-old man from the North Wales area and a 28-year-old man from the Bedfordshire area.\n\nIn a video filmed by Mr Robinson and shared online, he said he was speaking to people at the shopping park when a man spat in his face.\n\nThe video shows Mr Robinson telling police he \"acted in self-defence\".\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here is a look back at the search for Madeleine, who has been missing for nearly 15 years after she disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal in May 2007.", "The exercise in 2018 revealed concerns over protective gear and contract tracing\n\nAn exercise simulating a coronavirus outbreak in Scotland, which was shared with a UK government advisory group, showed a \"clear gap\" in preparedness, the BBC has learned.\n\nA report into \"Exercise Iris\" revealed frontline staff \"unease\" over personal protective equipment and \"the need for substantive progress\".\n\nThe exercise simulated an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.\n\nThe Scottish government says its findings were shared with attendees.\n\nMiddle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) is a coronavirus like SARS-Cov-2 but has different characteristics.\n\nLike the novel coronavirus, MERS-CoV causes a respiratory disease and key symptoms include fever and a cough. However, transmission rates are believed to be far lower and fatality rates are much higher.\n\nBBC News has learned an exercise was undertaken simulating an outbreak of the disease in 2018 and requested the findings under the Freedom of Information Act in April. The Scottish Government has now published a report of its findings.\n\nThe outcomes were shared with the expert committee that advises the UK government on pandemics, the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) in June 2019.\n\n\"Exercise Iris\" was a tabletop exercise which took place at a hotel in Stirling on 12 March 2018 and involved health boards, Health Protection Scotland, the Scottish Ambulance Service and NHS 24, the telephone advice service.\n\nExercise discussions revealed concerns around the availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) and underlined \"the need for substantive progress on PPE use within Scotland\", according to the report.\n\n\"Issues around PPE are not unique to a MERS-CoV outbreak\", it said.\n\nThe report conclusions also note an \"unease\" amongst frontline staff over the lack of clarity on PPE availability, training and testing.\n\n\"This is a clear gap in Scotland's preparedness for MERS-CoV and other outbreaks and needs to be addressed as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe report also warns of the demands of contact tracing.\n\nOne scenario in the exercise features \"escalating resource requirements for contact tracing and follow up\". As a result, health boards were asked to consider the impact of extensive contact tracing.\n\n\"It feels like a lost opportunity\", says Professor Devi Sridhar, chair of public health at Edinburgh University and a member of the Scottish Government COVID-19 Advisory Group.\n\n\"On the positive side it's good that these exercises were conducted, because it meant that they were thinking beyond flu, they were thinking about coronaviruses.\n\n\"But on the negative side it's surprising, it seems that SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) members were unaware or at least didn't discuss this exercise in their thinking in January or February, which would have been crucial in making steps to actually prepare for an eventual outbreak\".\n\n\"It's the whole purpose of these exercises, to learn from them\", she added.\n\nA report detailing the findings of an exercise simulating pandemic influenza called \"Exercise Cygnus\", which was run in England in October 2016, was also not published.\n\nThe report into the MERS coronavirus exercise says Public Health England held a previous exercise in 2016 \"which identified a series of actions for improvement\".\n\nAt two meetings, in June and December 2018, Nervtag asked for the report into the exercise to be circulated within the group.\n\nMinutes of a meeting from June 2019, when the report was shared, say \"most of the recommendations have now been implemented or are in the process of being implemented\" by Health Protection Scotland's resilience group.\n\nThe Scottish government said the report was shared with all attendees.\n\n\"The output from this exercise has been considered in line with wider work on health protection preparedness carried out through the Scottish Health Protection Network\", it said.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said: \"As the public would expect, we regularly test our preparedness for emergencies - allowing us to rapidly respond to this unprecedented crisis.\"", "Luxury carmaker Bentley has said it will cut 1,000 jobs in the UK, about a quarter of its workforce.\n\nThe company, which makes its cars in Crewe, has offered all staff the chance to take voluntary redundancy.\n\nThe move comes as the car industry faces a sharp drop in sales due to coronavirus. Bentley has also struggled to be profitable in recent years.\n\nBentley's boss, Adrian Hallmark, said the virus was not the cause of the cuts, but a \"hastener\".\n\nCar sales have been severely hit by the closure of car manufacturers, suppliers and showrooms due to the virus.\n\nIn a statement, Bentley which turns 101 on 10 July, said it was launching a restructuring programme which would \"redefine Bentley for the next 100 years\". The plan had been due to be announced in March, but was deferred due to the pandemic.\n\nWhile the substance of the new strategy remained the same, the company said the effects on the short-term financial outlook for the company meant that it had to \"significantly reduce the size of the organisation through a voluntary release programme\".\n\nIt said it was looking for as many as 1,000 people to accept voluntary redundancy, but it \"cannot rule out future compulsory redundancies\".\n\n\"Losing colleagues is not something we are treating lightly but this is a necessary step that we have to take to safeguard the jobs of the vast majority who will remain, and deliver a sustainable business model for the future through our Beyond100 strategy,\" said Mr Hallmark.\n\nThat strategy aims to make Bentley the \"leader in sustainable luxury mobility for the next 100 years\", with an \"accelerated journey towards electrification with every model\".\n\nLast month, Mr Hallmark said that a quarter of the company's workers had been furloughed due to the lockdown while another quarter were working from home.\n\nThe carmaker has since restarted production at its Crewe factory, but with only around half the usual number of staff.\n\nBentley, which is owned by Volkswagen, has struggled to be profitable in recent years.\n\nIt is in the middle of a turnaround plan which began in 2018. Last year, it increased its worldwide sales by 5% to 11,000 cars and it reported a record performance in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nBut now with \"considerable forecast reduction to future revenues\" due to coronavirus it has carried out a review of its cost and investment structure and \"as the last resort... the people cost and structure\".\n\nThe SMMT trade body said only 20,000 new cars were registered in the UK last month - down 89% year-on-year - the worst May performance since 1952.", "Hundreds of people have attended three all-night events in London and it's understood more are planned.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live's Investigations Unit was tipped off about raves being advertised on a private Instagram page.\n\nPolice say they attended two of the gatherings but no arrests were made.\n\nThe organisers dispute the events are raves and claim it is a community of people exercising to house music.\n\nThey say the events are not for profit and they will be implementing safety measures such as PPE for staff and taking the temperature of those attending before they are allowed in.\n\nEven with these steps in place, such events are currently not allowed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alok Sharma wiped his face several times while speaking in Parliament\n\nMr Sharma said he would like to offer \"huge thanks\" to those who have expressed their well wishes over the last 24 hours as well as the Parliamentary authorities.\n\nHe became unwell in the Commons on Wednesday, where he was seen mopping his brow several times while speaking.\n\nHe was then tested for the virus and went home to self-isolate.\n\nEarlier, the government had faced questions about whether the prime minister and chancellor would have to self-isolate, after Mr Sharma met them in Downing Street a day before falling ill.\n\nMr Sharma's condition also reignited concern over the scrapping of virtual Parliament this week, and the return of MPs to Westminster.\n\nAnnouncing the result of his negative test, Mr Sharma sent his \"grateful thanks\" to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Reading West MP was in the Commons on Wednesday for the second reading of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill, when he began to feel unwell.\n\nDuring the debate, Mr Sharma's opposite number, shadow business secretary Ed Miliband, passed him a glass of water at one point.\n\nThe House of Commons authorities said \"additional cleaning\" took place after the debate.\n\nA day earlier, Mr Sharma had a 45-minute meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak in Downing Street.\n\nNumber 10 said the meeting had been \"socially distanced\".\n\nEarlier this week, MPs voted to return to physical sittings in Parliament, after Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg scrapped online voting procedures brought in at the height of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nMeasures to allow MPs who cannot attend due to age and health issues to participate via Zoom and to vote via proxy were approved on Thursday.\n\nBut critics have said these measures do not go far enough, calling it \"irresponsible\" to return during the outbreak and saying it puts MPs, their families and their constituents at risk.\n\nReacting to the news of Mr Sharma's negative test, Lib Dem MP Daisy Cooper said it was \"good news\" but it \"should still be a wake-up call for Rees-Mogg\".\n\nShe said the government should lead by example by supporting people to work from home where they can and \"stop needlessly risking health of MPs and staff\".\n\nLabour MP Barry Sheerman said he was \"very relieved\" that Mr Sharma tested negative, but that \"doesn't mean that the reintroduction of physical presence voting is not stupid\".\n\nThe PCS union, representing about 800 of Parliament's clerks, security guards and kitchen staff, has written to the prime minister to say the decision to end virtual voting was endangering the workers.\n\n\"We believe Parliament has opened too soon and the lives of PCS members, and those of our sister unions, are being put at risk unnecessarily,\" general secretary Mark Serwotka said.\n\nEarlier, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said Parliament should \"lead by example\" and return to Westminster.\n\nHe said: \"Across the country people are going back to work. How can we look teachers in our constituency in the eye when we are asking them to go back to work and we are saying we are not willing to?\n\n\"We have to be back here delivering on the legislative programme and being held to account.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael has been granted an emergency debate on how to conduct business in the Commons during the pandemic, which will take place on Monday.\n\nThe MP for Orkney and Shetland argued that the government's insistence that MPs must be present in Parliament constituted a serious risk to health.", "What salons will look like post-lockdown\n\nHair and beauty salons have been preparing to reopen with social distancing and personal protective equipment. They have been shut in the UK since 23 March as part of the lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The government said they would be able to reopen from 4 July at the earliest but has given no fixed date. Video caption: Coronavirus: What salons will look like post-lockdown Coronavirus: What salons will look like post-lockdown Katie Godfrey, a salon owner in Barton Le Clay, Bedfordshire, said: \"We've got four nail bars, which are normally full but we're just going to limit [it] to two. \"The team have to wear visors and the clients are going to have to wear a mask. We're going to also take people's temperatures.\" The Department for Business said: \"The government has set up task forces to work with industry representatives to develop safe ways for businesses such as hairdressers to open at the earliest point at which it is safe to do so.\"", "What do different countries say about masks?\n\nWe've already reported that from 15 June, people in England will be required to wear face coverings on public transport. There's a bit of controversy, because the British Medical Association (which represents doctors in the UK) says the rule should be extended so it's compulsory to wear masks in all public places where social distancing isn't possible. That is the new guidance from the World Health Organization, which has changed its stance on fabric face masks. But what are the rules right now in other countries? In the US, legislation around masks is decided on a state-level - or even at a county-level in some cases. New York state, for example, requires people to wear masks in any public place where social distancing isn't possible. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends everyone wear masks when out in public. Things are a bit more straightforward in Germany, where mask-wearing has been mandatory on public transport and while shopping since 22 April. France brought in a rule on May 10, making face masks compulsory while out in public, ahead of the start of their lockdown easing a day later. And in Ireland, while people are advised to wear masks while out in public, it isn't actually mandatory. Meanwhile, wearing masks in crowded places was far from uncommon in parts of Asia even before the coronavirus pandemic struck, especially if people were ill.", "Following the death of George Floyd while under arrest, protests have consumed America and onlookers have wondered how one of the most powerful countries in the world could descend into such chaos.\n\nDespite being defined by race, American society does not spend much time analysing the history of our racial divisions, and America prefers to believe in the inevitable progression towards racial equality.\n\nThe election of Barack Obama in 2008 fed into this narrative of progress, but Donald Trump's presidential victory in 2016 was seen as a step backwards, coming after a campaign with a slogan that championed America's divisive past as a form of progress.\n\nFloyd's death now appears to be the tipping point for an exhausted, racially divided nation still in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic and the economic cost that followed.\n\nFloyd's cries of \"I can't breathe\" echoed the cries of Eric Garner, who was choked by police on a New York City sidewalk in 2014.\n\nFloyd's words reminded Americans of the oppressive past we work to forget regardless of whether it is six years ago, 60 years ago, the 1860s, or 1619 when some of the first slaves arrived in America.\n\nTo a large extent, America's neglect of the past and belief in progress have left many Americans unaware of the severity and scope of our racial tensions, and as a result many Americans lack the words to articulate our current turmoil. Recently, I have used the word ethnocide meaning \"the destruction of culture while keeping the people\" to describe America's past and present racial tensions, and this language also helps articulate the uniqueness of America's race problem.\n\nIn 1941, Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew and distinguished lawyer, immigrated to the United States as he fled the Nazis. While in America he implored the American government to stop the Nazis from killing his people, and as his words fell on deaf ears, he realized he needed to create a new word to describe the unique horror befalling his people. In 1944, Lemkin coined the words genocide and ethnocide.\n\nLemkin intended for the words to be interchangeable but over time they diverged. Genocide became the destruction of a people and their culture, and this word radically changed the world for the better. Ethnocide became the destruction of culture while keeping the people, and has been ignored for decades. Recently, ethnocide has been used to describe the plight of indigenous people against colonisation, but regarding America, ethnocide also pertains to the transatlantic slave trade and the founding of the nation.\n\nFrom the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, European colonisers destroyed the culture of African people, but kept their bodies in order to create the chattel slavery system that became the economic and social foundation of the United States. Colonisers prevented Africans from speaking their languages and practising their religions. Tribal and familial bonds were broken, and African people could no longer identify as Igbo, Yoruba, and Malian. Instead de-cultured names such as nigger, negro, coloured, and black were stamped upon African people.\n\nAdditionally, Europeans identified themselves as white, and in the United States the one-drop rule was created to sustain that division. One drop of black or African blood meant that a person could not be white. In America, whiteness became a zero-sum identity that was maintained by systemic racial division. Interracial marriage was still illegal in much of America until the Loving vs Virginia decision in 1967.\n\nFrom colonisation to the formation of the United States, America has created countless laws and policies to sustain the racial division between blacks and whites forged by ethnocide. These American norms, extending to housing, education, employment, healthcare, law enforcement and environmental protections including clean drinking water, have disproportionately harmed African Americans and other communities of colour in order to sustain racial division and white dominance.\n\nGeorge Floyd's murder represents a continuation of the systemic criminalisation and oppression of black life in America that has always been the American norm dating back to Jim Crow, segregation (which means apartheid), and slavery.\n\nWhen the Confederacy, the collection of American slave-holding states in the South, seceded from the United States, they launched the Civil War to defend the immoral institution of slavery. After losing the Civil War, these states were readmitted back into the United States. To this day, many Americans, and especially America hate groups, still celebrate Confederate soldiers and politicians as heroes, and there are monuments and memorials dedicated to them across America.\n\nDespite the American South losing the Civil War in 1865, American President Andrew Johnson pardoned Confederate soldiers, and soon thereafter Confederate politicians won elected office in the newly-reunited America. The influence of former slave owners and Confederates contributed to erasing the rights that African Americans won in the 1860s including citizenship and the right to vote.\n\nThe political campaign to remove African American rights was called the Redeemers movement, and it was led by former slave-owners and Confederates, who wanted to redeem the South by returning it to the norms of chattel slavery. The Redeemers and \"Make America Great Again\" derive from America's oppressive, ethnocidal school of thought.\n\nThe Redeemers were also assisted by American terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) that were made up of former Confederate soldiers. The KKK, and many other white supremacist groups, terrorised and lynched black Americans, and they also prevented them from voting to help ensure that Redeemer candidates won elected office. The terrorists became the government.\n\nProtesters attacked by police dogs during demonstrations against segregation in Alabama in 1963\n\nBy the start of the 20th Century, the Redeemers had succeeded in undoing the racial equality progress of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, and now Jim Crow segregation became the norm of the American South. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy vs Ferguson made \"separate but equal\" the new law of the land, and America again became a legal apartheid state.\n\nAccording to the Equal Justice Initiative's 2017 report Lynching in America, over 4,400 lynchings of African Americans occurred from 1877-1950. That is more than a lynching a week for 74 years.\n\nDuring Jim Crow, America could not legally deny black people their humanity, but they could deny them the services that are afforded to human beings. Black people were denied education, housing, employment, and were expected to \"know their place\" as a perpetually subjugated people. Large prisons were erected on former plantations; black people were arrested for minor crimes and given long prison sentences doing manual labour on the same land their ancestors were forced to work as enslaved people.\n\nAs a result of Jim Crow, millions of African Americans fled the neo-slavery and terror of the South during the Great Migration, and racial tensions spread as other American cities did not welcome these domestic refugees. This is the same journey as the Underground Railroad, where prior to the Civil War enslaved African Americans escaped the South and sought refuge in Canada and the Northern parts of America.\n\nThe civil rights movement of the 1960s effectively ended Jim Crow, and African Americans began reclaiming the rights, specifically voting rights and freedom of movement, they had previously won in the 1860s, but it is a long road to dismantle systemic and legalised racism and segregation.\n\nObama's election in 2008 was a monumental event in American society, but it did not magically erase the systemic racism woven into America's social fabric and the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, 17, helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement to national attention.\n\nTrayvon was shot and killed by George Zimmerman as he walked home in his own neighbourhood because Zimmerman thought he looked suspicious. Martin was unarmed. Zimmerman pled self-defence and a jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter. Trayvon was one of countless African Americans killed by America's ethnocidal society that sanctions terror from both the government and civilians.\n\nThe unjust killing of black people by the police and racist vigilantes remained the norm during Obama's presidency, but now the black community could record and document these crimes on video, and had a president who would defend them. Obama famously said: \"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.\"\n\nThe emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement and other protests under Obama occurred because black Americans were confident that the White House would listen to their cries of \"I can't breathe\" and make American society finally equitable and just. Under Trump those cries have fallen on deaf ears and tensions have escalated.\n\nAmerica has much work to do to fix our racial tensions because our divisions and inequality are forged in our ethnocidal roots. We need to reform the policing of a nation nearly the size of a continent with over 300 million people, but we also need to make our education, healthcare, and housing systems, and every facet of our democracy more equitable.\n\nAdditionally, truth and reconciliation commissions, a national apology, reparations, holding evildoers accountable, and other processes nations have used to heal after a genocide, the linguistic sibling of ethnocide, will help America change course and forge equality and justice.\n\nAlso, America has rarely criminalised white supremacist hate and terror and instead has spent centuries normalising white terrorist groups, celebrating them as heroes, and letting them decide if their actions are evil or not. This is why the Confederacy is still celebrated today. Europe did not allow fascists and Nazis to determine if their actions were good or not, but America has always given this luxury to racist slave-owners and their generational apologists and offspring. This must change.\n\nRwanda, Germany, and South Africa have reckoned with their troubled past to make a better future, but America has long preferred to ignore the past, and proclaim the inevitability of progress.\n\nAmerica today must define and confront the Original Sin of slavery, ethnocide, and the cultural destruction it has inflicted upon all Americans, past and present. Otherwise we will fail to make a better future, and will continue our regression.\n\nBarrett is a writer, journalist and filmmaker focusing on race, culture and politics", "The Met Office recently announced an upgrade to its existing supercomputer (pictured). But even more money for computing would be welcome, says Prof Palmer\n\nA top climate scientist has called for more investment in climate computing to explain the UK’s recent topsy turvy weather.\n\nProf Tim Palmer from Oxford University said there were still too many unknowns in climate forecasting.\n\nAnd in the month the SpaceX launch grabbed headlines, he said just one of the firm's billions could transform climate modelling.\n\nAnd long-term trends in rising temperatures aren’t in doubt.\n\nBut Prof Palmer says many puzzles remain unsolved: take the recent weird weather in the UK, with the wettest February on record followed by the sunniest Spring.\n\nMeteorologists were astounded by this unprecedented weather somersault – and especially by the amazing amount that May sunshine exceeded the previous record.\n\nThis year’s figure was 13% higher than the previous record – that’s like the winner of the 100 metres leaving opponents over 11 metres behind.\n\nSome place the blame on climate change, but the Met Office says, as yet, there’s no strong evidence for that.\n\nProf Palmer told BBC News: “It would be really valuable for us to have more knowledge of how climate change is affecting weather patterns like this.\n\n“Was climate change implicated in the recent weird weather? We don’t know.”\n\nThe Met Office declared February 2020 as the wettest February on record\n\nHe agrees that space observations have massively improved our understanding of the climate.\n\nBut he complains: “It is very frustrating to see space get quite so much attention when we can’t be sure what will happen to the climate on Earth.\n\n��If only we could secure one of their billions for computer modelling that would be a big help.”\n\nSo what do we know so far about recent British weather weirdness?\n\nWell, here’s what’s clear: the strong jetstream to the south-west of England through the winter locked in place the succession of Atlantic storms that drenched the UK.\n\nThe Met Office successfully predicted the wet winter in its seasonal forecast, but failed to predict the sudden leap to a dry spring when the jetstream was looped over the UK, holding the sunny weather in place.\n\nIn a global climate chicken-and-egg debate there’s the question of why the jetstream behaved this way.\n\nSome scientists believe it’s being affected by conditions in the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere on the planet, because of greenhouse gases. But this is disputed.\n\nProf Palmer said the jetstream appeared to be influenced by a climate phenomenon known as the Indian dipole – an irregular oscillating current in the Indian Ocean. This was also blamed for the wildfires in Australia.\n\nBut what’s influencing the Indian dipole? Or is it completely natural?\n\nScientists know ocean currents on the other side of the world can influence our weather – but did water round the Chagos Archipelago really prompt a “barbecue spring“ in grateful lockdown Britain?\n\n“There are very strange things going on in the tropics,” Prof Palmer added. “The question is, ‘is it natural?’ and we’re not yet sure.”\n\nScientists are now planning to re-run UK climate models over recent years and remove the heating element of CO2 emissions from the mathematical puzzle. That should offer a better understanding of British weather at least.\n\nProf Palmer admits it’s surprising this exercise wasn’t done sooner. But of all the uses of extra cash for climate research, he thinks the most useful spending on climate research might be to unlock the secret of clouds – one of the most intractable climate mysteries.\n\nIf warmer weather leads to more low-level clouds, that will bounce out radiation and cool the Earth. If it leads to more high-level clouds, that will trap in heat.\n\nIn fact, Prof Palmer said, one recent cloud modelling exercise suggested that if we’re unlucky, global temperatures may rise by 5C after CO2 levels are doubled – a level utterly inhospitable to humans. The conclusion was previously ruled out under different analysis.\n\n“We need to understand these processes better,” he says.\n\n“Normally in science you learn about the system under study by doing laboratory experiments. With Earth’s climate, there is no lab experiment you can do.\n\n“The climate model is the only tool we have to understand what future is in store for humanity as a result of climate change.\n\n“Space observations tell us what is happening now, but climate models tell us about what will happen next year, next decade, next century.”", "Eight homes were swept into the sea following a powerful landslide in June in the Norwegian town of Alta.\n\nAs drones flew overhead to capture the damage - land continued to collapse.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA trade deal with the EU based on the UK's \"very reasonable\" demands is still possible, cabinet minister Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary was speaking after the two sides admitted little progress had been made in the latest round.\n\nHe said he \"very much\" hoped a no-deal outcome to the talks could be avoided if the two sides worked together.\n\nHe was speaking after EU negotiator Michel Barnier accused the UK of \"backtracking\" on its commitments.\n\nThe French official said differences remain in four key areas - fisheries, competition rules, governance and police cooperation.\n\nGuidelines for these issues were included in the political declaration, agreed by the UK and EU last year, which set out objectives for a future relationship.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, Mr Barnier said: \"My responsibility is to speak to truth and, to tell the truth, this week there have been no significant areas of progress.\"\n\nMatt Hancock said he hoped 'no deal' could be avoided\n\nHe added: \"In all areas, the UK continues to backtrack under commitments undertaken in the political declaration, including on fisheries. We cannot and will not accept this backtracking on the political declaration.\"\n\nThis week's discussions - held online - were seen as the last chance to make progress ahead of a summit between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, expected to take place later this month.\n\nThe UK has until the end of June to ask for the \"transition period\" - during which the country stays in the single market and customs union - to be extended into next year. But Mr Johnson has ruled this out.\n\nMr Barnier said: \"We have always been open to the possibility of an extension of one or two years - as is possible under the exit agreement. And our door remains open.\"\n\nAsked about the prospect of a no-deal exit from EU rules at the UK's daily coronavirus briefing, Matt Hancock said: \"I very much hope that we avoid that because our position is very reasonable\n\n\"It's that any agreement we reach must reflect the fact that the UK is an independent sovereign state.\n\n\"And we're working very hard and will accelerate the work to make progress in talks by the end of the year so that we can put into place the vision that has already been agreed between the UK and the EU which is based within the political declaration.\"\n\n\"Plus ça change,\" you could say.\n\nRound four of EU/UK trade negotiations after Brexit comes to an end. Cue yet another dismally downbeat assessment from the EU and the UK's chief negotiators.\n\nBut I don't belong to the growing \"No deal is becoming the most likely outcome\" school of thought.\n\nOn the contrary, both sides insisting loudly that their position will not waver (on all issues linked to national sovereignty for the UK; on all issues linked to the single market for the EU) is also a way of trying to reassure audiences back home that their interests will be protected, while privately considering what compromises they're prepared to make.\n\nSift carefully through the rhetoric of EU negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nAmong his words of disappointment at the lack of progress, plus accusations that the UK is constantly \"backtracking\" on commitments, you'll find clear indications of wiggle-room in Brussels: a possible softening of EU demands on state aid rules and fishing quotas and an admission from Mr Barnier, that, if a deal were close this autumn, there would almost certainly be a \"dense\" period of last-minute negotiations.\n\nNo compromise clues from the UK yet, though.\n\nIt's not too late. But concessions will be needed from both sides for even a very narrow deal to be agreed by the UK-imposed deadline of the end of this year.\n\nA senior UK negotiating official told the BBC their side was prepared to accept some tariffs if they were needed to reach a deal with the EU.\n\nThe UK was \"committed\" to sticking to the political declaration, but the document had been designed to set out only the \"parameters\" of discussions, they added, and was not a treaty.\n\nUK chief negotiator David Frost said: \"We continue to discuss the full range of issues, including the most difficult ones. Progress remains limited but our talks have been positive in tone.\n\n\"We are now at an important moment for these talks. We are close to reaching the limits of what we can achieve through the format of remote formal rounds.\"\n\nUK officials told the BBC they would prefer to move to face-to-face talks but acknowledged that might not be possible just yet.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January. The transition period lasts until 31 December and keeps the UK bound to most EU rules.\n\nThe sides currently have until then to reach a free trade deal, needed if they want to do business without tariffs, quotas or other barriers in future.\n\nNorthern Ireland's first minister Arlene Foster said she was \"concerned\" about the current state of the talks.\n\n\"For both our sakes I hope that we get to a situation where we get a deal because that's what we need in Northern Ireland,\" she told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast.\n\n\"We need to make sure that both sides understand that it is to both sides' benefit and that's something that I think the European Union often didn't get in the negotiations from 2016 onwards.\"\n\nBusinesses - hit by the coronavirus pandemic - have raised concerns over a possible \"cliff-edge\" break to the UK's remaining access to the EU single market at the end of the year with no replacement deal.\n\nThe CBI business group called progress in the talks \"worryingly slow\", adding that this was causing \"deep concern to firms when resilience has rarely been more fragile\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have attended three all-night raves in London even though social distancing rules and government regulations clearly prohibit such events taking place.\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live's Investigations Unit was tipped off about raves being advertised on a private Instagram page.\n\nPolice say they attended two of the gatherings but no arrests were made.\n\nThe organisers say the raves are a community of people exercising to house music and social-distancing took place.\n\nIt is understood more raves are planned.\n\nPosing as a raver, a researcher asked to follow the page.\n\nOnce their request was accepted, they were invited to a secret WhatsApp group and received updates on when the next rave would be.\n\nTickets cost £15 each and once payment has been made by bank transfer, the organisers send a picture which contains the secret location for the event.\n\nAt least three raves were held last month at a former business premises in Leytonstone.\n\nThe BBC has seen video footage from some of these events. They show a large number of people inside the venue which can hold up to 300 people.\n\nThe organisers say between 70 and 100 people attended each rave, but claim only about half that number were inside at one time so people could keep apart.\n\nBut in the footage the BBC has seen, ravers are partying close together.\n\nUnder the latest guidelines for England brought in to target coronavirus, groups of up to six people from different households can meet outside as long as they remain 2m apart.\n\nA text message from organisers, seen by the BBC, admitting the event is illegal\n\nThe BBC has also seen a text message from the organisers - Kanni Events Ltd registered in Leytonstone - in which they admit the events are not legal.\n\nIn April, the same people behind the raves co-hosted a virtual event to raise money for PPE for NHS and key workers. The online poster included the government slogan: \"Stay at home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives.\"\n\nThe BBC has discovered more events are planned.\n\nJohn Cryer, the MP for Leyton and Wanstead, said organisers were putting lives at risk.\n\n\"It doesn't get much lower than this. I've just written to a constituent whose husband died of coronavirus. I wonder if the people organising the raves might appreciate reality if the lives of their own relatives were in danger,\" he said.\n\nThe organisers dispute the events are raves.\n\nThey say the events are not for profit and they will be implementing safety measures such as PPE for staff and taking the temperature of those attending before they are allowed in.\n\nEven with these steps in place, such events are currently not allowed.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police says after attending two of the raves, extra patrols were organised to ensure no further events took place.\n\nWaltham Forest Council said the venue was being illegally squatted and had now been closed down.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, police were called after hundreds of revellers held a street party in Harlesden in north-west London. And last weekend a number of people were arrested after police broke up another large street party in Clapton in east London.\n• None What are the social-distancing rules?", "The Covent Garden venue has been closed since 17 March\n\nThe BBC is to broadcast the Royal Opera House's first post-lockdown performance across TV and radio later this month.\n\nThe concert, which will take place without a live audience, is scheduled for 13 June, hosted by the venue's director of music Antonio Pappano.\n\nIt will feature a dance premiere by Wayne McGregor, resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet, as well as music by Britten, Handel and Butterworth.\n\nRadio 3 will air the show on 15 June, with TV highlights later in the month.\n\nLike all cultural venues around the UK, the Opera House closed in March, when the government banned gatherings to stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nSince then, the venue's income has dropped by 60%, chief executive Alex Beard told the BBC.\n\n\"With no box office income and limited reserves we, like theatres and performing arts organisations across the country, face unprecedented financial stress,\" he said.\n\n\"We need all our creativity and resolve to get through this, alongside a catalysing and vital investment from Government. Together we can ensure that a generation of talent is not lost to history, and the UK's creative sector can continue to play its full role in our cultural lives.\"\n\nThe venue's re-opening performance will also be free to watch on YouTube and Facebook, with subsequent concerts on 20 and 27 June available to view live and on demand for £4.99.\n\nThe BBC's coverage was announced by director general Tony Hall as part of a raft of cultural commissions.\n\nPeter Capaldi will play Ludwig van Beethoven in a new Radio 3 drama marking the 250th anniversary of the German composer's birth, while BBC Four will present a \"major new series\" about his life.\n\nA performance of his opera Fidelio, filmed at the Royal Opera House before it closed its doors, will also be broadcast.\n\nThe musical family of royal wedding cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason will feature in a new BBC One film, culminating in a lockdown concert from their home; while BBC Four will profile conductor Bernard Haitink to mark his 90th birthday earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Growing up in a very musical family\n\nAnd with the summer music season on hold, a number of performances will be made available on iPlayer from opera houses that have had to shut their doors during the lockdown.\n\nAmong them will be The Barber of Seville from Glyndebourne, The Turn of the Screw and The Marriage of Figaro from Garsington, and a performance of Opera North's La Traviata filmed from backstage.\n\nLord Hall said the BBC would also expand its Culture In Quarantine programme, with \"unique projects focused on museums and galleries\" and the release of archived concerts from the BBC's vaults.\n\nMeanwhile, BBC Children's will launch a major Shakespeare project in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, with readings and lessons from actors including Niamh Cusack and Jamie Wilkes on the educational website BBC Bitesize.\n\n\"While the weeks ahead may see many forms of retail opening again, culture will effectively remain in quarantine for some time,\" Lord Hall said in a blog post.\n\n\"Many theatres have had to face up to the fact they are unlikely to be able to produce new work until the second half of 2021. For some the consequences will be devastating.\n\n\"It has left me more convinced than ever that the BBC has an essential role to play as ringmaster and champion for the arts in this country.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Demonstrators outside of the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC\n\nThe US mass protests are raising eyebrows around the world, but China is watching with particular interest.\n\nAs anti-racism protests sweep across the US, Beijing has seized upon them to hit back at Washington for supporting last year's Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations.\n\nChinese state media have given extensive coverage to the protests, highlighting the chaotic scenes and alleged police brutality in America to claim that China enjoys greater social stability.\n\nSpeaking to an international audience, Chinese diplomats are attempting to portray Beijing as a responsible global leader, standing in solidarity with other countries in condemning the racial disparity and injustice in the US.\n\nChina's state news agency Xinhua described the US civil unrest as \"Pelosi's beautiful landscape\" - a reference to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's comment last summer that the Hong Kong protests were \"a beautiful sight to behold\".\n\nState media Global Times' chief editor Hu Xijin wrote that American politicians now can \"enjoy this sight from their own windows\".\n\nBeijing has long condemned American politicians, including Ms Pelosi, for \"glorifying violence\" coming from the Hong Kong demonstrators, who are categorised by China as \"rioters showing signs of terrorism\".\n\nProtests paralysed Hong Kong for most of last year, prompting Beijing to impose a new national security law in the territory in May, only two weeks ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.\n\nAynne Kokas, senior faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs, says that both the US and China are contending with a high level of domestic instability triggered by the global coronavirus pandemic and political events.\n\nTens of thousands marched in Hong Kong in Janaury\n\n\"Now is a key moment through which China is able to leverage the lack of stability in the US, in order to more efficiently promote its own national security goals,\" she says.\n\nChinese and Hong Kong officials have also called out the US for applying \"double standards\" in its response to civil unrest.\n\n\"You know there are riots in the United States and we see how local governments reacted,\" said Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam.\n\n\"And then in Hong Kong, when we had similar riots, we saw what position they adopted then.\"\n\nThe officials' view is shared by many Chinese social media users, who dub America \"the double standard nation\".\n\nAllegations of excessive use of police force during the US protests have been put under the spotlight by Chinese state media, to delegitimise Washington's position on upholding freedom and democracy.\n\nIn one example, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on American journalists being pepper sprayed and a freelance photographer partially blinded by a rubber bullet while covering the protests.\n\nGeorgia State University Global Communication Assistant Professor Maria Repnikova says that the scale and intensity of Chinese state media coverage on the US protests is unprecedented.\n\n\"It's powerful, because they are not making it up,\" Prof Repnikova says, but she points out that Chinese state media have cherry-picked the more peaceful pictures of Hong Kong police and the most violent ones from the US.\n\nJournalists from across the US have reported being targeted by police at protests\n\nChina itself has been heavily criticised for cracking down on press freedom, which is rarely mentioned by the government and state media.\n\nOn Weibo, many see America's freedoms and democracy as at risk, as police fired tear gas at peaceful protesters and military was deployed to quell the protests.\n\nMs Kokas says: \"Chinese state media don't have to craft a narrative, they can just talk about the objective events that have happen in Washington DC, that undermines the very principle of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.\"\n\nThe US's rhetoric about the democratic rights of Hong Kong now seems \"very hollow\"，she adds, \"when military helicopters are flying over [Washington] DC\".\n\nThe increasingly outspoken Chinese diplomats have seized the chance to spotlight the US's governing failure and promote Beijing as a more responsible global leader.\n\nMs Kokas describes this as a continuation of the country's propaganda strategy on the Covid-19 pandemic - when America fails, China is here to help.\n\nChinese diplomats on Twitter retweeted messages of UN and African Union officials, condemning racial discrimination and police brutality in the US.\n\nThe Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying tweeted \"I can't breathe\", with a screencap of the US state department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus' previous criticism over Beijing's handling in Hong Kong.\n\nBut another of Hua's messages denouncing anti-black racism backfired on Twitter, as she included \"all lives matter\", a phrase often used to undermine the \"black lives matter\" movement.\n\nMeanwhile, there are reports that African residents in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have been discriminated against and forced into quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBeijing has not officially apologised for any mishandling, only stating that there were some \"misunderstandings\".\n\nOne Weibo user expresses \"disappointment\", as the person sees \"some Chinese criticise others for racial discrimination, but when it comes to their own anti-black racism, they take it for granted\".\n\nChina is also accused of detaining hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in high-security prison camps in its far western Xinjiang region.\n\nThere's no doubt US protests have sparked heated discussion on Weibo - the topic is one of the most popular on the site this week. Related posts have earned more than 25 billion views.\n\nMany Weibo posts \"congratulate\" the US for the civil unrest and push back at its support for the Hong Kong demonstrations.\n\nOne user writes: \"The US government has been inflaming violence around the world, now the American people have finally woken up. The US government deserves this!\"\n\nAnd Beijing and its state media spread the theory that Washington was fomenting the protests in Hong Kong, calling it a \"black hand\" behind the unrest.\n\nAs US-China relations have soured due to the Hong Kong protests, trade conflicts and the pandemic, anti-America sentiment appears to be on the rise in China.\n\nThousands of Weibo comments describe the US protests as \"karma\" for Washington.\n\nBut some Chinese seem genuinely saddened by the situation.\n\n\"This is trampling on human rights! Democracy in the US came to an end at this exact moment,\" a Weibo user commented under a video showing the CNN reporter getting arrested, receiving thousands of likes.\n\nMany on Weibo also voice support for the civil rights movement. \"Nothing much has changed after generations of fights. I hope this time will yield better results,\" a comment reads.\n\nSome Chinese also reflect on the weaknesses of their country.\n\nOne Weibo user writes about being \"envious of the freedom of expression\" in the US, as anti-government protests are often forcefully cracked down in China.\n\nSome posts urge the state media to cover China's domestic police violence and injustice with the same level of dedication.\n\nBut liberal voices are often met with harsh criticism.\n\nState-affiliated yet liberal leaning newspaper Beijing News published a commentary advocating for empathy and respect for the American people, but it was quickly slammed as taking a \"pro-America\" stance and received tens of thousands of negative comments on Weibo.\n\nSocial media has always been an imperfect window to observe China's public opinion. Its echo chamber effect is exacerbated by the country's information censorship.\n\nProf Repnikova says that the relatively liberal views may become even more marginalised on Chinese social media, as cyber nationalism, a combination of bottom-up sentiments and top-down propaganda tactic, is increasingly dominant on the sites.\n\n\"The more aggressive, nationalistic and vocal voices are taking over the space,\" she says.", "Before the image of George Floyd lying under the knee of a policeman set off shock, anger and protests across the US, the arch of his life crossed crests and troughs.\n\nThere were highs, as when he, as a teenager in Houston, played American football for the 1992 Texas state champion runners-up Yates High School Lions.\n\nThere were lows, as when he was arrested for robbery in 2007 and served five years in prison.\n\nBut mostly, it would seem that Floyd, who was 46 when he died in Minneapolis on 25 May, 2020, was simply trying to live life as any other American, in search of betterment in the face of both personal and societal challenges.\n\nHis death amid a public health crisis and economic calamity that has killed more than 100,000 Americans and left over 40 million unemployed has become the latest totem of the ills that plague the country in 2020.\n\nA native of Houston, Texas, Floyd grew up in the neighbourhood at the heart of the city's black community, the Third Ward, just to the south of the city centre.\n\nBeyoncé grew up there, as did Bayou City's blues music scene. Drake, a Canadian rapper, paid homage to its musical vibrancy, and Floyd himself is thought to have 'spit bars' as part of the hip-hop group in the 1990s in Houston.\n\nBut poverty, racial division and economic inequalities mark its history, too, as with any American city. Marred by segregation in the 20th Century, the Third Ward Floyd left in recent years has seen gang violence and tensions over housing.\n\n\"Anytime I take somebody who's not from there, people actually are like 'man, oh my God, I've never seen poverty like this.\n\n\"It looks like a bomb went off, what happened?'\" Ronnie Lillard, a friend from the neighbourhood tells the BBC.\n\n\"People are still living in shot-gun shacks that were erected in the 1920s. The poverty is thorough... and being from that area, it's hard to escape,\" says Mr Lillard, a rapper who performs under the name Reconcile.\n\nFloyd was well known in the council estate housing project, Cuney Homes, he adds. \"Cuney Homes is known as 'The Bricks' and if you're from there they call you 'a brickboy'. He was a brickboy.\"\n\nGrowing up a gifted athlete standing at six feet six inches, friends who knew Floyd as a teenager described him as a \"gentle giant\" who shone on the field in two sports, basketball as well as American football.\n\n\"I was blown away, cause at 12 years old he was six-foot-two,\" Jonathan Veal, a childhood friend and former teammate, told local media. \"I had never seen anyone that tall before\".\n\nAt John Yates High School, he wore number 88 in the tight end position for the football team, and was later recruited to play basketball at South Florida State College in Avon Park, Florida, where he was a student from 1993 to 1995, according to CNN.\n\nHe returned to Texas for a school year at Texas A&M University, Kingsville, but did not complete his degree.\n\nHis life then took a different turn, with a string of arrests for theft and drug possession culminating in an armed robbery charge in 2007, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison.\n\nHe became involved in his local ministry, Resurrection Houston, after his release and was intent on making changes in himself and his neighbourhood, says Mr Lillard.\n\n\"While he was embracing his own life change, he was looking around at his community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA video of Floyd decrying gun violence, believed to be filmed in 2017, has circulated on social media, in which he implored young people to \"come home\".\n\nHis family told the Houston Chronicle he moved to Minnesota in 2018 after being encouraged by friends through a Christian work programme.\n\nChristopher Harris, a friend and former classmate, told US media Mr Floyd \"was looking to start over fresh, a new beginning\".\n\n\"He was happy with the change he was making,\" he added.\n\nThe former athlete found work as a security guard at a local Salvation Army charity, and then took on jobs as a lorry driver and dance club bouncer at Conga Latin Bistro, where he was known as \"Big Floyd.\"\n\nLike many Americans, however, he found himself laid off amid mass business closures resulting from the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nOn the day of his arrest, he was said to have been attempting to buy cigarettes with a counterfeit $20 bill.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnger over Mr Floyd's death has spurred protests across the US, with some descending into chaos and violence.\n\nOver 1,600 people have been arrested in nearly two dozen cities, and the National Guard deployed in 15 states.\n\nMr Lillard, who described his friend as a \"person of peace\", would have supported people's rights to be heard and for change, but would not have condoned the looting or the violence.\n\n\"He had a heart bent towards forgiveness, but he also was a man of the people, too,\" he said. \"Even before his death, he was aware that people were hurting.\"\n\n\"I think this thing has grown into something more than George Floyd,\" he added, speaking of the protests. \"I think you're watching frustration that America has with America [itself].\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.", "Brazil's confirmed death toll from coronavirus has surged past 34,000 to become the third-highest in the world, according to official figures.\n\nIts death rate has now surpassed Italy and only the US and UK have recorded more fatalities.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has consistently played down the outbreak, although the country has the world's second-highest number of cases.\n\nIn places like Manaus, ordinary people are taking on extraordinary roles in order to help their cities cope.", "Throughout the coronavirus crisis, we've seen the poorest communities hit the hardest.\n\nThe death rates in the most deprived areas of England are more than double those in the most affluent.\n\nNow, Public Health England says the pandemic has, in some areas, deepened existing health inequalities.\n\nOur special correspondent, Ed Thomas, has been hearing from families on Merseyside.", "Campaigners have threatened to bring legal action against the government for not providing free school meal vouchers during the summer.\n\nNormally children only get free meals from school during term-time.\n\nBut eligible pupils received food vouchers over Easter as the country coped with the Covid crisis.\n\nThe Department for Education said the scheme will not continue in the summer holidays but campaigners say children in vulnerable families will go hungry.\n\nThey have written to the Department of Education threatening to bring a judicial review of the decision.\n\nThe letter was sent by the food charity Sustain and the Good Law Project, led by the campaigning lawyer Jolyon Maugham.\n\nKath Dalmeny of Sustain said: \"I have spent hours and hours and hours of my time on Zoom meetings, on phone calls trying to get this issue noticed by all other means. That has not worked and so we must make people take this seriously.\"\n\nBut no legal challenge has yet begun, they do not yet have a court date or the funds to complete a case, and many attempted judicial reviews fail.\n\nThe voucher scheme has cost more than £129m in England already and is worth £15 per week for each eligible child.\n\nOne woman, Daisy, who has two children, said the amount and standard of food they ate would have to be cut without the vouchers. \"Having that fifteen pounds a week is a big deal,\" she told the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4.\n\nMother-of-four Aimee Smith said she relied on the money. When funds have run short in the past, she said: \"I've just had to give them plain pasta, if we haven't had anything else.\"\n\nMinisters are responding to fears that children on free school meals could go hungry\n\nShe said she often went without meals or had a piece of toast to make sure there was enough left for her children. \"That's what we will call a dinner for the night,\" she said. \"Not being able to eat, it's not a nice thought, is it?\"\n\nIn a statement, a Department for Education spokesperson said as schools opened more widely the government expected them to make food parcels available for children who are eligible for free school meals but not yet back in the classroom.\n\n\"Where this is not possible, schools can continue to offer vouchers to eligible pupils,\" the spokesperson said. \"The national voucher scheme will not run during the summer holidays.\"\n\nIn Wales, families have been promised free school meals will be provided until schools re-open or until the end of August.", "The government is being urged to ease social distancing for musicians, so more of them can get back performing and recording.\n\nMusicians' Union leader Horace Trubridge told the BBC they could play \"side by side\" to lessen the risk of spreading coronavirus.\n\nThe 2m rule was \"overkill\" at a \"bleak\" time for his members, he added.\n\nThe government said it welcomed \"creative and innovative\" ideas to help the UK's \"brilliant\" musicians.\n\nCoronavirus means theatres, pubs, clubs and other indoor music venues will be closed for the foreseeable future, while promoters have cancelled all the UK's main festivals.\n\nThe Labour-affiliated Musicians' Union is in talks with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport over \"enhanced busking\" - allowing spectators in outdoor spaces to make contactless payments for individual and group performances.\n\n\"They seem to be keen on that,\" Mr Trubridge said, adding that councils could \"relax their bylaws\" to help \"get live music back into the public's consciousness\".\n\nHe argued it was difficult to see a way of easing social distancing for audiences to make theatres and venues viable during the pandemic, but that this was not the case for performers.\n\n\"There's no finesse about the 2m rule at the moment,\" Mr Trubridge said. \"If you're in a line rather than looking at each other, then it seems to be overkill.\"\n\nParks could become venues for \"enhanced busking\", the Musicians' Union says\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends a distance of 1m between people from different households, but the UK is sticking to the 2m rule.\n\nMr Trubridge said this distance was particularly unnecessary for string instrumentalists, as opposed to singers, as they could wear masks.\n\nMany musicians had been earning £20,000 a year or less even before coronavirus, and some were missing out on furlough payments and loans, he said, adding: \"I can't see anything really significant happening this year to help them out of this hole.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokesperson said: \"These are challenging times for the UK's world-class music industry, and we are providing unprecedented support through substantial financial measures such as the Self-Employed Income Support and Bounce Back loan schemes.\"\n\nThey added: \"We welcome creative and innovative ideas on how we can support our talented musicians.\"", "Before his illness, Alex Brown sits patiently as hospital staff practise fitting a CPAP ventilator\n\nThere has been a surge of interest in becoming a medic during this pandemic, despite the fact that those on the front line run a high risk of catching the virus. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary writes about two colleagues who decided to become doctors later in life and were hit hard when they came down with Covid-19.\n\nThis has been a time when the quiet men and women staffing the NHS and care homes have stepped out of the shadows and into the spotlight. They have served their country and cared for their communities, putting their lives at risk in the process.\n\nOne million people answered the call to volunteer to help the NHS in this time of crisis. Thousands have expressed interest in becoming a nurse and many young people have contacted the Bradford Royal Infirmary to ask when our careers outreach sessions will resume.\n\nBecoming a doctor or a nurse or a health care worker has never seemed so important, and it doesn't matter how old you are or what you have been doing - it's rarely too late to follow your heart.\n\nTwo of my colleagues, consultant geriatrician Prof Alex Brown and orthopaedic registrar Ken Linton came to medicine after careers in the military and banking - Alex served as an army captain in Northern Ireland and the Falklands, while Ken was a vice-president of Lehman Brothers investment bank until a few months before it collapsed in 2008. At 61 and 54 they were at higher risk than many of developing serious symptoms if they caught Covid-19, and sure enough they eventually become patients in their own hospital.\n\nAlex Brown in uniform: The comedy MASH drew him towards medicine\n\nFor anyone who thinks that Covid is simply a flu-like illness I now point to Alex as an illustration of how it can bring a tough, stoical, ex-army man to his knees.\n\nAlex was aware of the risk he was taking, being older and male (and a bit overweight), but it didn't stop him. \"You've just got to get on and do what you've got to do,\" he says.\n\nHe also knew that there was no rapid test that would enable us to instantly determine which patients had Covid-19 and which did not. So while we divided the hospital into a \"red\" infectious zone, and a \"green\" zone for non-Covid patients we were never going to get it 100% right. (I wrote 10 days ago about Mark Winterbourne who tested positive after being admitted with what initially appeared to be gallstone problems.)\n\nAnd as Alex points out, \"The level of PPE that we wear is dependent upon what stocks are available.\"\n\nWhen PPE was scarce, Alex Brown organised this delivery of masks\n\nAlex had only missed one day's work in his life, until he caught the virus. After testing positive, he then spent seven days in quarantine in his bedroom, but at this point instead of getting better, he got worse. During a walk in the garden he started shaking and sweating, and his temperature rose to 40C. Four days later his son, who had already recovered from Covid-19, drove him to A&E.\n\nSupplied with new medication Alex went home again, to be looked after by his wife, a GP.\n\n\"It was really hard, I haven't known anything like it. I've been in some of the toughest situations imaginable but nothing like this. You feel so vulnerable. I had terrible fevers and chills - for nights this went on, and my temperature was so high.\"\n\nThis hardened ex-soldier welled up as he told me this.\n\n\"I just couldn't really move - no energy and feeling so terrible. Even now, three weeks on, I can't really climb a flight of stairs without my pulse rate going up, and I want to work. I feel so bad being away from the wards, knowing I can't be there helping my colleagues.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nKen Linton did a PhD in engineering and computer science before going into banking, when he was headhunted by Lehman Brothers and transferred to Wall Street. He was making a fortune and had bought a 37ft boat and a small plane by the time things started to go wrong for the bank in early 2008, and his department was closed.\n\nA few months later the bank collapsed altogether and the economic crash began, but Ken came out of it largely unscathed. The New York Times described him in 2009 as living \"a life of leisure\" and playing jazz trombone, though around this time he was also volunteering in New York hospitals. He contemplated becoming a chef, but instead - already in his mid-40s - he decided on medicine.\n\nAs a lifelong asthmatic, Ken was worried when Covid-19 arrived in the UK this spring. Lots of his colleagues at Bradford Royal Infirmary were getting it, and he too eventually developed the symptoms on 8 May.\n\n\"I went to bed and I was too hot - and I was like really, really too hot. And then I woke up and was absolutely freezing. And then I started being sick,\" he says.\n\n\"I called up A&E and packed a bag for everything you need at hospital - a lot of people forget the essentials. The consultant took my vital signs and I was very short of breath. I had low potassium, and my oxygen saturation was terrible. So they got me up to the ward very quickly.\"\n\nSoon he was on \"about 10 medications\" and oxygen.\n\nKen Linton, already on the mend\n\n\"It's a horrendous disease because every day after that I had a new weird symptom. I had covid toes. My kidneys shut down on the Wednesday morning. I got a dermatological condition - the arteries that supply the skin get blocked. There's a new surprise every day. The day before I went home I got this viral rash on my wrist.\"\n\nHe was in hospital for 10 days. He's now been at home for a week, but like Alex Brown, he can only manage a flight of stairs with difficulty. And he too is desperate to get back to work - in his case, orthopaedic surgery.\n\nIt would be natural for stories like this to make some people think twice about coming to work in a hospital, but the evidence suggests the opposite is happening.\n\nAlex, who is in charge of our trainee doctors and often runs weekend workshops for local comprehensive schools, thinks that the huge amount of exposure the NHS has received - not to mention the clapping for carers - will have \"opened up people's minds\" to the idea of medicine and nursing as a career.\n\nKen, the former Lehman Brothers banker, points out that \"you can't take money with you when you die\" but that as a doctor \"you can make your mark - make a difference\". He has the evidence for it in letters from patients thanking him, and other hospital staff, for taking care of them when they needed it most.", "Almost £7bn has been raised to immunise 300 million children at a virtual global vaccine summit hosted by the UK.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said up to eight million lives would be saved as a result of the funds pledged at the Gavi vaccine summit on Thursday.\n\nThe money will help immunise children against diseases like polio, diphtheria and measles over five years.\n\nMr Johnson said the triumph of humanity over disease was the \"greatest shared endeavour of our lifetimes\".\n\nThe summit raised funds for Gavi, a global alliance of public and private sector organisations promoting vaccination among the world's poorest communities.\n\nPledges by more than 50 countries and individuals like billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates saw the total surpass an initial target of $7.4bn (almost £6bn).\n\nMr Gates donated $1.6bn (£1.3bn) from his foundation and Mr Johnson pledged £1.65bn over the next five years, making the UK the organisation's biggest donor.\n\nThe summit comes as the world continues to struggle to get to grips with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Johnson also used the conference to urge world leaders to renew their \"collective resolve\" to find a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\n\"Just as we have great military alliances like Nato... where countries collaborate on building their collective military defence, so we now need that same spirit of collaboration and collective defence against the common enemy of disease,\" he said.\n\n\"It will require a new international effort to co-operate on the surveillance and the sharing of information - data is king - that can underpin a global alert system, so we can rapidly identify any future outbreak. And it will mean a radical scaling-up of our global capacity to respond.\"\n\nInternational Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan later said she believed the UK was capable of delivering a coronavirus vaccine to those who need it \"at speed\" when one becomes available.\n\nUS President Donald Trump made a surprise appearance at the virtual global vaccine summit.\n\nLast week, Mr Trump severed ties with the UN's health agency, the World Health Organization, stopping around $400m (£317m) in support, after accusing it and China of mishandling the outbreak.\n\nThere was international criticism of the decision, particularly because it was made in the middle of a global pandemic.\n\nBut at the summit, Mr Trump struck a different tone in what was a very brief and seemingly very off-the-cuff, pre-recorded message.\n\n\"As the coronavirus has shown, there are no borders, it doesn't discriminate,\" he said.\n\n\"It's mean, it's nasty but we're going to take care of it together.... We will work hard, we will work strong... good luck, let's get the answer.\"", "Drug company AstraZeneca is to start producing a potential vaccine for coronavirus, its boss has told the BBC.\n\nTrials of the drug are under way but Pascal Soriot said the firm must start making doses now so that it can meet demand if the vaccine proves effective.\n\n\"We are starting to manufacture this vaccine right now - and we have to have it ready to be used by the time we have the results,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca says it will be able supply two billion doses of the vaccine.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Soriot said manufacturing was beginning already because, \"we want to be as fast as possible\".\n\n\"Of course, with this decision comes a risk but it's a financial risk and that financial risk is the vaccine doesn't work,\" he added.\n\n\"Then all the materials, all the vaccines, we've manufactured will be wasted.\"\n\nHe said AstraZeneca would not seek to make a profit from producing the drug during the pandemic.\n\nIf it works, the company will be able to produce two billion doses after signing two new contracts on Thursday, one of which was with billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates.\n\nAstraZeneca, which is developing the vaccine with scientists at Oxford University, has agreed to supply half of the doses to low and middle-income countries.\n\nOne of the new partnerships is with the Serum Institute of India (SII), the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume. The other is a $750m (£595m) deal with two health organisations backed by Bill and Melinda Gates.\n\nThe two charities, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and GAVI vaccines alliance, will help find production facilities to produce and distribute 300 million doses of the vaccine. Delivery is expected to start by the end of the year.\n\nMr Soriot has said he expects to know by August if the AZD1222 vaccine is effective, while CEPI chief executive Richard Hatchett said there is still a possibility the vaccine may not work.\n\nAstraZeneca's licensing agreement with India's SII is to supply one billion doses for low and middle-income countries, with a commitment to provide 400 million before the end of 2020.\n\nMr Soirot said the company was building a number of supply chains across the world \"to support global access at no profit during the pandemic and has so far secured manufacturing capacity for two billion doses of the vaccine\".\n\n\"Having a vaccine is one thing but you need to produce it at scale and I can tell you that It is not an easy thing to do,\" the pharmaceutical boss told Today.\n\nHe has described the coronavirus pandemic as \"a global tragedy\" and \"a challenge for all of humanity\".\n\nAstraZeneca has already agreed to supply 300 million doses of the potential vaccine to the US and a further 100 million to the UK, with the first deliveries expected in September.\n\nGovernments around the world have pledged billions of dollars for a Covid-19 vaccine and a number of pharmaceutical firms are in a race to develop and test potential drugs.\n\n\"A vaccine must be seen as a global public good - a people's vaccine, which a growing number of world leaders are calling for,\" United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a video message on Thursday.\n• None The vaccines that work - and the others on the way", "Steve Priest (far right) with his bandmates Brian Connolly, Mick Tucker and Andy Scott in 1974\n\nSteve Priest, the bassist and co-founder of glam rock band Sweet, has died at the age of 72.\n\nHe was known for his playful humour and outrageous costumes when Sweet played hits like Blockbuster and Little Willy on Top of the Pops in the 1970s.\n\nPriest also sang the memorable lines \"there's a girl in the corner that no-one ignores, 'cos she thinks she's the passionate one,\" in Ballroom Blitz.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the band, who shared a statement from his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Sweet\n\nBandmate Andy Scott paid tribute, describing Priest as the best bass player he had ever played with. \"From that moment in the summer of 1970 when we set off on our musical odyssey the world opened up and the roller coaster ride started.\"\n\n\"I am in pieces right now,\" added the guitarist, who is now the sole surviving member of Sweet's classic line-up.\n\n\"His wife Maureen and I have kept in contact and though his health was failing I never envisaged this moment. Never. My thoughts are with his family.\"\n\nPriest was born in Hayes, West London, in 1948, and became a musician after building his own bass guitar in his teens.\n\nAfter playing in bands like The Countdowns and The Army, he formed The Sweet (then known as Sweetshop) in January 1968 with vocalist Brian Connolly, drummer Mick Tucker and guitarist Frank Torpey.\n\nFollowing a few line-up changes and a false start on Parlophone Records, the band signed to RCA in 1971 and teamed up with songwriters Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman, whose bubblegum melodies and power-pop riffs propelled them into the charts.\n\nIn total, they scored 13 Top 20 hits in the 1970s, with songs like Teenage Rampage, Hell Raiser, Wig-Wam Bam and the number one single Blockbuster.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Sweet Channel This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Sweet Channel\n\nAs the band became a regular fixture on Top of the Pops, Priest became the epitome of glam rock androgyny, known for his flamboyant outfits and heavy make-up.\n\n\"The make-up thing, I can't remember what started that,\" he told the Phoenix New Times in 2018. \"Marc Bolan, maybe? Top of the Pops was a stupid show in some ways but it was like, um, you had to outdo everyone else.\"\n\n\"I was the first one to wear hot pants on Top of the Pops,\" he added. \"A year later, Bowie did it and everyone went, 'Wow, David Bowie wore hot pants on Top of the Pops,' and totally forgot the fact that I did it the year before.\"\n\nThe band wore Native American headdresses when they played Wig-Wam Bam in the 70s\n\nBut the bassist landed himself in hot water when he appeared in German military uniform and sporting a Hitler moustache on the 1973 Christmas edition of Top of the Pops (the song they were playing, Blockbuster, was named after an Allied bomb).\n\n\"It's amazing how everyone still talks about the Nazi uniform,\" he said in 2010. \"Good old BBC wardrobe department. People always want to know if I was serious. I mean, a gay Hitler. Hello?!\"\n\nSweet parted ways with Chinn and Chapman in 1974, determined to write their own material. Influenced by The Who, their new sound was harder, and yielded hits like Fox On The Run and Action.\n\nAfter Connolly departed the group in 1978, Priest took over lead vocal duties and Sweet continued as a trio until 1981.\n\nIn recent years, there had been two competing versions of Sweet: Priest had the right to use the band's name in the US, where he lived, while guitarist Andy Scott toured the UK with an alternate line-up.\n\nTheir biggest songs continued to get radio play - while Ballroom Blitz, a song inspired by a Scottish gig where the band were bottled offstage, gaining a new lease of life in the 1990s after featuring in the movie Wayne's World.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Official Sweet Channel This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video 2 by Official Sweet Channel\n\nTributes to Priest have poured in since his death was announced, with many sharing their memories on social media.\n\n\"When Sweet were on [TV] you sat there in awe thinking, 'sod the school careers adviser that's the job for me,'\" wrote The Damned's guitarist Captain Sensible. \"And they wound your parents up something rotten too, which was a bonus. Steve Priest RIP.\"\n\nDavid Ellefson of Megadeth said that Priest was \"without parallel\".\n\nHe added that Sweet \"gave me one of my earliest memories of great hard rock on the radio as a kid and [1974's] Desolation Boulevard still holds up as one of rock's greatest albums from that period.\"\n\n\"RIP Steve Priest,\" wrote Nancy Wilson of the US rock band Heart. \"A brave glam rocker and man.\"\n\n\"As you might imagine, I am definitely a Sweet fan,\" said Dee Snider, lead singer of Twisted Sister. \"Sad that so many of the original band are now gone.\"\n\nPriest is survived by his wife, Maureen, whom he married in 1981 and their three daughters. No cause of death was given.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Wendell Baker was jailed for life in 2013 after attacking 66-year-old Hazel Backwell and locking her in a cupboard\n\nA \"dangerous\" rapist was cleared for release from prison without relatives of his late victim being informed, BBC News has learned.\n\nWendell Baker was given a life sentence in 2013 for attacking 66-year-old Hazel Backwell and locking her in a cupboard.\n\nThe Parole Board announced last month Baker was \"suitable for release\" following a hearing in April.\n\nBut, Mrs Backwell's son said he only learned about the outcome from a newspaper reporter.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice has apologised to Mr Backwell for failing to contact him and has asked the Parole Board to reconsider the decision to free Baker, claiming it was \"irrational\" and not in line with the evidence.\n\nHe was convicted in 2013 at a second trial, made possible by changes to \"double jeopardy\" laws, having been acquitted in 1999 when a judge wrongly excluded vital DNA evidence.\n\nHazel Backwell was left too afraid to live alone, following the attack\n\nMrs Backwell died in 2002, five years after Baker had broken into the pensioner's east London house where he beat and raped her and locked her in a cupboard.\n\nSentencing him to life imprisonment, Judge Peter Rook said Baker had carried out a brutal and vicious attack and was a \"dangerous man\" who would remain so for many years.\n\nBut by April, the 63-year-old had served the eight-and-a-half year minimum term of his sentence, including time spent on remand, so a parole panel held a telephone hearing to decide if he could be safely freed.\n\nThe panel took evidence from a probation officer, a forensic psychologist and Baker himself, as well as considering information in a dossier about his case.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wendell Baker was jailed after a judge ruled he should be found not guilty at his first trial, in 1999\n\nParole Board guidelines have stated the victim of a crime, or relatives if the victim has died, should be entitled to submit a statement for a parole hearing, setting out how their family had been affected.\n\nBut Mr Backwell was never contacted - until a journalist rang him after the board had announced its decision that Baker was \"suitable\" for release.\n\nHis wife Margaret said it was a \"total mess-up\" and said they felt \"sick and very, very angry\".\n\n\"We knew he was going to be released eventually, and were told in 2013 that we would be notified before he was going to be put up for release,\" she said.\n\n\"So to hear he'd already been put up and released was a total and utter shock.\"\n\nGovernment sources said in 2013 police had failed to pass on Mr Backwell's contact details to the National Probation Service (NPS), which is responsible for keeping victims updated, and although efforts were made to trace him before the parole hearing they were \"not successful\".\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said Mrs Backwell's family \"should not have found out in this way\" and that the Victims' Code would be updated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTV presenter Kate Garraway has said it is \"a miracle\" her husband is still alive after his \"extraordinary battle\" with the \"evil\" coronavirus.\n\nSpeaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Garraway confirmed her partner Derek Draper was put into an induced coma with the virus, nearly 10 weeks ago.\n\nThe broadcaster said it had felt more like 10 years, but that she was \"grateful that he's still here\".\n\nShe confirmed he is now free of the virus but in a critical condition.\n\n\"The fight with the virus has been won, but it's wreaked extraordinary damage to his body and we don't know if he can recover from that,\" she said.\n\n\"It's affected him from the top of his head to the tip of his toes.\"\n\nGarraway is the co-anchor of ITV's Good Morning Britain, as well as a presenter on Smooth Radio, while Draper is an author and former Labour political aide.\n\nShe told the ITV programme she was putting on a brave face for the sake of their two young children, Darcey and Billy, and still enjoyed \"moments of joy\" and silliness with them, as her husband would have wanted.\n\nBut she suffered a big emotional crash two weeks ago, as \"you can't stay like that forever\".\n\n\"I just have to think, I need to make them feel safe, they've lost for the time being - let's pray - their dad and he's their world, so they need to see that their mum is OK,\" said Garraway.\n\n\"The problem is I have huge hope and massive positivity and will never give up on that because Derek is the core of our lives, but at the same time I have absolute uncertainty,\" she added.\n\nTV presenter Kate Garraway's husband, Derek Draper, has been in a coma for nearly 10 weeks\n\nThe TV personality, who has appeared on I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and Strictly Come Dancing, added: \"And it's not just me by the way, it's his mum and dad and his sisters and everybody who loves him - all his friends, we're all going through that.\"\n\n\"And the doctors don't know because they've never seen this before. One doctor said to me that he's the worst-affected person that he's had to treat, who's lived.\n\n\"They talk about an evil virus, and it is.\"\n\nGarraway stressed she \"didn't want to scare people\", as the damage her husband has sustained is \"incredibly rare\".\n\nHowever, she noted how doctors and nurses - who she described as being \"extraordinary \"- were now starting to see \"completely unforeseen circumstances\" and consequences connected to the virus.\n\n\"This is a war Derek is fighting and tens of thousands of others\", she went on. \"It's an absolute miracle that he's here.\n\n\"I keep saying I know I've had a miracle but if I could just have one more, and he could just make that next step - I know I'm pushing my luck.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBack at the end of March, she said herself and Draper thought he might be suffering with sinusitis, not coronavirus, because he had no persistent cough or temperature - two of the main official symptoms of the disease. He has no underlying health conditions.\n\nHe soon developed a splitting headache and numbness in his right hand and began struggling to breathe. After consulting ITV's Dr Hilary Jones, Garraway decided to phone for an ambulance.\n\nOnce in hospital he was eventually placed in a coma, at his own request, to give his lungs a rest, as he felt he was suffocating.\n\nHe was only supposed to be in the coma for three to five days.\n\nGarraway revealed before he went under, her husband said: \"'You've saved my life'. I think he thought I persuaded the doctors to put him in the coma. But obviously I hadn't.\n\n\"He said, 'you've saved my life, and I don't just mean now, I mean everything. Being married to you and the children'.\n\n\"Then I said, 'I love you, I love you,' and the doctors said, 'he's gone, he's under,' and that was it - that was the last time I spoke to him.\"\n\nKate Garraway with her husband and children\n\nAt one stage the medics described him as being \"off the scale with infection\", she said.\n\n\"It's incredible what they've done with a disease that nobody knows how to cure,\" added Garraway.\n\nWhile the doctors are still unable to say whether Draper will recover or not - or how soon - the presenter is certain that her family's life must now begin to return to normality.\n\nBilly will return to Year 6 of school next week while Darcey will have some intensive home-schooling with her mother as teacher.\n\n\"It's about really trying to carry on with life when you don't know life is certain,\" Garraway said.\n\n\"And I know that's what a lot of people are going through.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some older people in care homes are being asked to pay more than £100 a week extra in fees to cover the costs of coronavirus.\n\nAge UK said residents who pay their own fees are facing the bills to pay for protective gear and rising staff costs.\n\nIt adds \"insult to injury\" for people who have \"been through the mill\" during the pandemic, the charity said.\n\nThe government said it provided £600m for infection control in care homes and £3.2bn for wider council services.\n\nCare home residents who fund themselves have effectively subsidised the care system for many years, paying far more for their support than those funded by their local authority.\n\nAge UK says on average these residents are charged just over £850 a week, and some are now seeing their fees rise by 15%.\n\nIt is not clear how many care homes have asked self-funding residents to pay more.\n\nThere are 400,000 people estimated to be living in care homes in England, with 167,000 believed to be self-funders and 45,000 part self-funders.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, director of Age UK, said older people and their families have \"been through the mill\" in recent months as outbreaks occurred in one in three care homes.\n\n\"It is adding insult to injury that after going through so much, some residents who pay for their own care are now facing a big extra bill - on top of already expensive fees.\"\n\nShe called for government to meet the extra costs of the pandemic, saying that otherwise there was a risk that some could fold and leave their residents homeless.\n\nDuring the pandemic, many care homes have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of protective equipment to stop the spread of Covid-19 between staff, residents and visitors.\n\nThey have also faced extra costs for agency staff when employees are off sick or isolating.\n\nIn total, the Local Government Association (LGA) and directors of adult social care estimate that providers face potential additional costs of £6.6bn between April and September.\n\n\"People living in care homes should not be penalised in this way,\" said councillor Ian Hudspeth, chairman of the LGA's community well-being board.\n\nHe said the way self-funders subsidised the system was already unfair and should be addressed as part of the long-term reform of the social care system.\n\nBut he said councils were helping care home providers with the extra costs \"to the best of their ability\".\n\nTo support their work during the pandemic, local authorities have been given £3.2bn by the government, which also announced a £600m infection control fund for care homes.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it would keep future funding needs under review, but would not confirm that it would provide more money to councils.\n\nIt said it would work with local authorities to ensure the funding is distributed fairly and reaches front line services.\n\n\"We recognise that this pandemic is creating significant challenges for care homes and that extra support is needed to care for residents,\" a spokesman said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown\n\nScientists want people to send them their wildlife experiences under the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThey are keen to hear recordings of dawn choruses, animals in unusual places, and views of the night sky without pollution.\n\nThe Earth Project is a global citizen science study co-ordinated by scientists across UK universities.\n\nIt hopes to showcase how nature has capitalised on reduced human activity during the pandemic.\n\nThe researchers want the public to help them capture a global representation of what we experienced on the ground during lockdown.\n\n\"We are hoping to create a useful shared library of baseline experiences for the public, reminding us in the future of what life and our relationship with nature could be when global public mobility and many pollution-generating activities are reduced,\" explained Phil Manning from the University of Manchester.\n\nThe team acknowledges that \"significant sacrifices\" will have to be made by everyone in order to reduce our impact on the planet's climate system, and to move towards the sustainable use of the Earth's natural resources.\n\nIt is hoped that the positive experiences many people had with nature during lockdown, and the recollection of those experiences, will help build the case for behaviour changes to help shift us towards sustainability.\n\nDuring the lockdown, wildlife reclaiming the streets of towns and cities during lockdown have made headlines around the world. For example, goats that normally keep themselves to themselves in the hills surrounding Llandudno, Wales, ventured into the town's deserted streets.\n\nPeople have also reported that they have been able to hear birdsong more clearly without the constant hum of traffic.\n\nDuring lockdown, people have had more time to connect with the natural world around them\n\nThe submissions will be collated by the Earth Project team, which consists of concerned citizens alongside scientists from multiple UK universities, including Bangor, Belfast, Durham, Manchester and Plymouth.\n\nProf Manning told BBC News that the recordings of birdsong, night skies and nature calls will be made available online for everyone to enjoy and to relive the better moments of life under lockdown.\n\n\"The survey results will help provide an overview of people's observations and thoughts on the environment before, during and after lockdown,\" he observed.\n\n\"The responses will be analysed and summarised and then made available along with the database on our website during the late Summer and Autumn of 2020.\"\n\nHe said that it was hoped that the findings of the survey could encourage behaviour change and help shape policies and strategies that could deliver greener and sustainable lifestyles.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The curious goats have been spotted eating flowers and hedges in people's gardens\n\n\"The Earth Project… has the potential to provide a snapshot of what happened to the environment and wildlife when human activity is drastically reduced or simply managed in a more sustainable way,\" Prof Manning said.\n\nAs part of the project's survey, it will ask people whether they are willing to make changes to their behaviour to help improve the world around them.\n\nProf Manning added: \"This information will be evaluated in our inclusive Earth Project think-tank and, hopefully, this could impact future behaviour and guide those who make policy decisions.\n\n\"The Earth Project has the potential to help catalyse humankind to a sustainable future.\"\n\nYou can access the Earth Project -Live website here.", "Swab tests are used to look for the presence of the virus\n\nThe number of people infected with coronavirus in homes in England has fallen to 5,600 a day, from 8,000 last week, statisticians suggest.\n\nThe estimate is based on swab tests of 19,000 people in 9,000 households by the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSome scientists have said reaching a low level of cases is key to easing the lockdown further.\n\nTest and trace programmes were introduced in England and Scotland last week to track contacts of new cases.\n\nThe ONS study of adults and children in private households suggests there are 39,000 new infections a week on average in England.\n\nIt estimates that one in 1,000 people had coronavirus in the community between 17 and 30 May, not counting those staying in hospitals or care homes.\n\nThis is down from the previous estimate of one in 400.\n\nThe figures for England are based on a small number of positive swab tests - 21 people in 15 households - so there is some margin for error.\n\nBut because everyone in the household is tested, whether they have symptoms or not, the results are thought to be a more accurate picture of how many people are currently infected by the virus.\n\nThere is a delay between changes in people's behaviour and the number of people infected, so it may take several more weeks of results to work out the real impact of lockdown measures being eased.\n\nThe 'R' number - the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to, on average - is unchanged at between 0.7 and 0.9 in the UK. When it's below 1, the epidemic is shrinking rather than growing.\n\nAt the start of the epidemic, the 'R' number was nearly three.\n\nBased on last week's ONS estimate of 8,000 daily infections, some scientists advising the government warned against relaxing lockdown measures too quickly.\n\nThey said waiting until cases fell further would make the virus easier to control, and give test and trace programmes more chance of succeeding.\n\nOn the basis of this study, \"the number of people in England testing positive has decreased in recent weeks\", the ONS says.\n\n\"The rate of infection continues to decline and is half what it was two weeks ago,\" says Prof Keith Neal, emeritus professor of the epidemiology of infectious diseases, at the University of Nottingham.\n\n\"This is highly compatible with the fall in diagnosed cases. The contact tracing service has more than enough staff to cope with the current level of infection.\n\n\"The main problem is people not getting tested for COVID-19 when they have symptoms,\" he said.\n\nThe results show that only 29% of those who tested positive for coronavirus said they had any symptoms at the time of the test.\n\nThose working outside the home were more likely to test positive for the virus than home-workers, with healthcare workers and social care workers at highest risk of being infected.\n\nAnother type of test - which looks for antibodies, which build up when the body fights infection - was carried out on 885 people in households as part of the same study.\n\nThese suggest that around 7% of people in England have previously had a coronavirus infection at some point.\n\nThis doesn't mean they are protected from the virus in the future, because it is still not clear how long immunity lasts.\n\nBut it does give an indication of what proportion of the population might have had the virus already - whether they knew it or not.", "Crowds of people have gathered in Minneapolis to pay their their respects to George Floyd at the spot where he was killed.\n\nThe BBC's Jane O'Brien talked to people there ahead of a memorial service.\n\nThe ceremony in Minneapolis was a private one. Further tributes will be held at Mr Floyd's birthplace of North Carolina on Saturday, and in his hometown of Houston on Monday.", "\"Unscrupulous\" firms are promising NHS workers big savings through tax dodging schemes that could leave them out of pocket.\n\nThe firms, which operate at the fringes of the law, target key workers drafted in to help with the coronavirus crisis, a BBC Money Box investigation found.\n\nSocial media adverts push workers toward some umbrella companies that take a hefty cut of their salaries.\n\nIn return, these companies hide a portion of their pay from the taxman.\n\nBut Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has said signing up with these firms, which it described as \"unscrupulous\", could leave key workers facing large, unexpected tax bills.\n\nOne advert on Twitter says: \"If you've been drafted in to reinforce the NHS response to the #coronavirus pandemic, we want to assist you.\"\n\nWhen operating legitimately, working through an umbrella company can make it easier to take on jobs for multiple employers at once.\n\nThe worker has their salary paid to the umbrella company, which then pays tax, National Insurance and other deductions on their behalf. After taking a fee, the umbrella company will then pay the worker what is left.\n\nBut one company told Money Box that it was possible to save thousands of pounds a year legally by hiding a large chunk of a worker's salary from the taxman.\n\nPosing as a healthcare worker on a salary of £145 a day, our reporter was told by Dark Blue Professional, a UK-registered umbrella company, that they could take home 78% of their salary, which is more than they would have made through a standard umbrella company.\n\nKay from Dark Blue Professional explained how the scheme works: \"You receive one payment which is a PAYE [pay as you earn] salary payment, that's taxed and you receive a payslip - and the residual balance is then paid as an investment payment.\"\n\n\"You receive your second amount into your account…and because it's done that way there is no tax liability on the second proportion,\" she told us.\n\nAs a result, a healthcare worker earning £725 per week would be able to pocket £60 more than if they used a standard umbrella company.\n\nBut what Kay did not say is that Dark Blue Professional would take £80 a week in fees, four times the industry standard, and that the government would be cheated out of up to half the tax that it should have received.\n\nKay insisted the scheme is tax compliant. But similar types of scheme have been challenged by HMRC in the past, which has left thousands of workers with crippling tax bills.\n\nSome even faced losing their homes, leaving their finances in tatters.\n\nResponding to the findings of Money Box investigation, Judith Freedman - professor of taxation law and policy at Oxford University - said: \"There's a strong likelihood that HMRC will challenge them [the schemes] successfully.\n\n\"Not only could the individual taxpayers be left with a big tax bill and a lot of hassle, but they have already paid relatively large fees to the promoters, so they are much worse off than they would have been doing things in a straightforward way,\" she said.\n\n\"It is distressing that people are trying to sell these schemes with…minimal explanation of the risks. Everything possible needs to be done to stop the firms doing this before ordinary taxpayers get caught up in it.\"\n\nMoney Box also spoke to a broker from Contracting Scout, which actively targets key workers with adverts on Twitter and LinkedIn.\n\n\"Tim\", from Contracting Scout, offered to sign us up with an umbrella company also offering 78% take home pay.\n\nHe explained that the umbrella companies he works with \"are taking advantage of a few tax loopholes\" and admitted that \"the government doesn't like it\".\n\n\"They [the government] do try and legislate against it, but legislation is extremely slow, so once the new legislation moves in there's a hundred different umbrellas that pop up next week with a different type of payment structure which doesn't get captivated by the law.\n\n\"So the goal posts are always moving and the providers are always trying to cater to that,\" he said.\n\nNeither of the two companies responded to the findings of our investigation.\n\nAn HMRC spokesperson told Money Box \"it is shocking that unscrupulous promoters of tax avoidance schemes are targeting returning NHS workers during this difficult time. HMRC published [advice] on 30 March warning returning workers about this very issue.\n\n\"Our advice has always been to steer well clear of such schemes, and to report them to us in confidence for investigation\".\n\nThere are more details of this story on Money Box and you can follow Anna and Money Box on Twitter.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel insists quarantine will help stop the virus' spread\n\nBritish Airways refused to attend a meeting with Home Secretary Priti Patel on Thursday to discuss the UK's new quarantine plans.\n\nThe UK's biggest airline is a fierce opponent of the plans, which will require travellers to the UK to isolate for 14 days or face a £1,000 fine.\n\nBA did not give a reason for its absence and declined further comment.\n\nBut a Whitehall source told the BBC it was clear BA was not serious about getting \"Britain moving again\".\n\nThe new quarantine rules come into force from 8 June. BA, under huge financial strain due to the pandemic, has called it \"another blow to our industry\".\n\nBA and owner IAG - which also runs Iberia and Aer Lingus - are understood to be annoyed at what they see as a lack of consultation over the quarantine's introduction.\n\nEasyJet and Virgin Atlantic, as well as the owner of Heathrow Airport, were among the aviation businesses that attended the telephone meeting with Ms Patel and junior aviation minister Kelly Tolhurst. The Home Office said 24 representatives from the aviation, maritime and rail industries were on the call.\n\nAirlines across the world have grounded aircraft as passenger numbers collapse\n\nThe home secretary told the meeting it was important for everyone in the transport sector to help \"safeguard our [economic] recovery\" and \"protect passengers and the whole country from a second wave of coronavirus\".\n\nHowever, an industry source said that BA feels \"it has not been treated professionally; that the meeting was a waste of time\".\n\nA Whitehall official hit back, telling the BBC: \"It's a shame that British Airways don't want to directly make their case to the home secretary and the aviation minister. Clearly they are not serious about working with the government to get Britain moving .\"\n\nBA has faced heavy criticism in parliament in recent days over a plan to slash jobs while accessing the government's furlough scheme.\n\nIn April, BA said it would cut 12,000 roles and weaken terms and conditions for its remaining staff, just weeks after it had put 30,000 workers on the job retention scheme which pays workers' wages.\n\nThe airline has defended the cuts as necessary, but on Wednesday Ms Tolhurst suggested BA should be held to account for what one MP called a \"breach of faith\".\n\n\"The [furlough] scheme was not designed for taxpayers to fund the wages of employees only for those companies to put the same staff on notice of redundancy during the furlough period,\" Ms Tolhurst said.\n\nAviation bosses are fuming about the quarantine. And tonight's conference call seems to have made things worse.\n\nMost were apparently unimpressed, with one person present on the call even describing it as \"a shambles\".\n\nThey feel they got no reassurances from Priti Patel that the quarantine would be reduced in any significant way soon by agreeing so-called \"air bridges\". These are safe corridors between the UK and countries with low infection rates meaning people won't have to self-isolate after they travel.\n\nThat is an interesting contradiction in tone from other government sources who insist ministers are working hard to establish a number of air bridges, especially with European countries, as soon as possible.\n\nThe fact that BA's parent company IAG didn't even attend the call is the ultimate sign that relations between the government and UK aviation are at rock bottom.\n\nThe government insists the new quarantine rules will help contain the spread of coronavirus but has faced a backlash from Conservative MPs who argue they will harm airlines and stop people taking summer holidays\n\nThe rules have also been roundly criticised by the UK's tourism industry, which has all but ground to a halt due to the pandemic.\n\nIn her opening remarks at the meeting Ms Patel said: \"Protecting lives will always be our top priority, but I am alive to the impact on your sector and I'm asking you to work with us on this.\"\n\nBut earlier on Thursday, the boss of the UK's biggest airport services company, Swissport, said on Thursday that the plan could deliver a \"killer blow\" to the tourism sector.\n\nMichael O'Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, echoed those concerns, saying the requirement to self-isolate would \"significantly reduce European visitors\".\n\n\"The safety and security of our people and our customers is always our top priority and public health must come first,\" a Virgin Atlantic spokesman said.\n\n\"However, the introduction of mandatory 14-day self-isolation for every single traveller entering the UK will reduce customer demand significantly and prevent a resumption of services at scale.\"\n\nOn Monday, a group of 200 travel companies wrote to Ms Patel asking for the plans to be scrapped.\n\nThe letter suggested travel should be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nA government source told the BBC there was a \"list\" of countries which the government was hoping to secure air bridge agreements with, which include all major European tourist destinations such as Portugal, Spain and France as well as Australia and Singapore.\n\nHowever, for now the government's official position is that the idea is \"under consideration\", not established policy.", "Airlines across the world grounded aircraft after passenger numbers collapsed\n\nBritish Airways owner IAG is considering mounting a legal challenge to quarantine rules which are due to come into effect on Monday.\n\nThe dramatic move marks another sign of a breakdown in relations between the airline and the UK government.\n\nIAG boss Willie Walsh told Sky News that airlines had not been consulted on the 14-day quarantine period for people arriving in the UK.\n\nHe said he expected other airlines to also mount legal challenges.\n\n\"We think it's irrational, we think it's disproportionate and we are giving consideration to a legal challenge to this legislation, so we're reviewing that with the lawyers later on today,\" Mr Walsh told Sky News.\n\n\"I suspect there are other airlines who are doing so, because it's important to point out there was no consultation with the industry prior to enacting this legislation and we do believe it is an irrational piece of legislation.\"\n\nAirlines and holiday firms have been arguing against a two-week quarantine period for anyone arriving in the UK that will be enforced from 8 June. Travellers to the UK will be required to isolate for 14 days or face a £1,000 fine.\n\nThe government has said that the period is needed to \"keep the transmission rate down and prevent a devastating second wave'' of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, industry body Airlines UK has said quarantine \"would effectively kill off air travel\".\n\nThe plans have caused friction between the government and British Airways. On Thursday the airline refused to attend a meeting with Home Secretary Priti Patel to discuss the quarantine rules.\n\nBritish Airways is under huge financial strain due to the pandemic, and has said it is currently burning through its cash reserves at a rate of around £1m per hour.\n\nMr Walsh told Sky News that the Bank of England has loaned it £300m, which is the \"maximum amount\" available to it.\n\n\"We have done everything that is within our power to boost the cash balance of British Airways. We're exhausting every single opportunity we can,\" he said.\n\nBA has faced heavy criticism from some MPs over a plan to slash jobs while accessing the government's furlough scheme.\n\nThe airline has been under fire for plans to cut 12,000 jobs and weaken terms and conditions for its remaining staff.\n\nIt announced the redundancies just weeks after putting 30,000 workers on the job retention scheme which pays workers' wages.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel insists quarantine will help stop the virus' spread\n\nOn Monday, a group of 200 travel companies wrote to Home Secretary Priti Patel asking for the plans to be scrapped.\n\nThe letter said travel could be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nThe so-called \"air bridges\" would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate.\n\nIt is understood that the government is working on a list of countries it is hoping to secure air bridge agreements with, which include all major European tourist destinations such as Portugal, Spain and France as well as Australia and Singapore.\n\nHowever, the government's official position is that the idea is \"under consideration\", and not established policy.", "Quote Message: Nicola Sturgeon made it clear the economic forecast is pretty grim, and any recovery may be more gradual than we anticipated or hoped. She said of course it was difficult, striking a balance between tackling the virus and restarting the economy. But if the government has to re-impose tight constraints, it would not just be bad for people socialising but would be calamitous for the economy, so she said it would be a tough call. She appealed particularly to young people not to gather indoors, telling them they are not immune to the virus. Chief constable Iain Livingstone was also asked what neighbours should do if people hold house parties. He said police would take very robust action and if people spot parties happening, they should contact the police and they will sort it out.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon made it clear the economic forecast is pretty grim, and any recovery may be more gradual than we anticipated or hoped. She said of course it was difficult, striking a balance between tackling the virus and restarting the economy. But if the government has to re-impose tight constraints, it would not just be bad for people socialising but would be calamitous for the economy, so she said it would be a tough call. She appealed particularly to young people not to gather indoors, telling them they are not immune to the virus. Chief constable Iain Livingstone was also asked what neighbours should do if people hold house parties. He said police would take very robust action and if people spot parties happening, they should contact the police and they will sort it out.\"", "The government has been criticised for handing out more than £16bn in cheap loans to well-known firms such as John Lewis and Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nOf that, £1bn was lent to a German chemicals giant, while the UK's biggest airlines have borrowed almost £2bn.\n\nBut senior Labour MP Margaret Hodge has called the loans \"a flagrant abuse of public money\".\n\nIn response, the Treasury said the loan scheme was helping to protect hundreds of thousands of jobs.\n\nThe Bank of England's Corporate Covid Financing Facility (CCFF) was set up to help large firms with a big impact on the UK economy through the crisis. It is one of a number of schemes designed to lend money to businesses affected by the pandemic.\n\nThe list of 53 firms that have used the facility includes some household names such as M&S, Asos and Nissan.\n\nAirlines Ryanair and EasyJet each borrowed £600m, while British Airways owner IAG and Wizz Air were lent £300m each.\n\nThat has prompted complaints from environmental campaigners who say the money should have been lent with conditions attached.\n\n\"Airlines have been given exactly what the chancellor, the prime minister, economists and the public said they should not be given - billions in cheap and easy loans to keep them polluting, without any commitments to reduce their emissions or even keep their workers on the payroll,\" said Fiona Nicholls from Greenpeace.\n\nBA plans to make 12,000 staff redundant, Ryanair has said it will cut 3,000 jobs and 4,500 roles could be axed at EasyJet.\n\nThe biggest single loan was handed to German company BASF, which is the world's largest chemicals producer, although it only employs around 850 people in the UK.\n\n\"We should see a lot more public benefit from all this public money,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nAt Friday's Downing Street press conference, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"I think it's very important that we hit our goal of net-zero emissions as a country.\"\n\n\"But we also do need an airline industry as we come out of this, so that people can move about.\"\n\nDame Margaret said supporting businesses to protect jobs was the right thing to do.\n\n\"But I have huge doubts on whether splashing billions of pounds of government finance on large corporations represents good value for money for hard-working taxpayers,\" she said.\n\nShe said a lot of companies that had accessed the scheme were based abroad or owned by billionaires. Others, she said, were \"shockingly\" due to hand out dividends this year.\n\nShe called the scheme \"a blatant misuse of the public purse\", adding: \"The taxpayer has been taken for a ride.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"The Corporate Covid Financing Facility is a key part of [coronavirus] support, directly protecting hundreds of thousands of jobs, supporting some of our biggest companies' cashflows and enabling then to support their suppliers.\"", "Madeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nMadeleine McCann is \"assumed\" to be dead, say German prosecutors, who are investigating the disappearance of the British girl in 2007.\n\nA 43-year-old German man is being investigated on suspicion of murder, the public prosecutor added.\n\nThe suspect, who has been named in German media as Christian B, is currently serving a prison sentence.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Portugal.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police said it had received more than 270 calls and emails since a new appeal for information was launched on Wednesday.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, from the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office in Germany, said in an update on Thursday: \"We are assuming that the girl is dead.\n\n\"With the suspect, we are talking about a sexual predator who has already been convicted of crimes against little girls and he's already serving a long sentence.\"\n\nHe said the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe McCann family's spokesman said Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry, felt the new development was \"potentially very significant\".\n\nClarence Mitchell, who has represented the family since Madeleine went missing, said that in 13 years he couldn't \"recall an instance when the police had been so specific about an individual.\n\n\"Of all the thousands of leads and potential suspects that have been mentioned in the past, there has never been something as clear cut as that from not just one, but three police forces\", he said.\n\nThe Met Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nThe man is linked to a house between Praia da Luz and Lagos, and another inland\n\nPolice released pictures showing the interior of one house believed to be linked to the suspect\n\nThe suspect has been described as white with short blond hair, and about 6ft (1.8m) tall with a slim build at the time.\n\nPolice have also released photos of two vehicles - a VW camper van and a Jaguar car - which are believed to be linked to the man, as well as a house in Portugal.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished in 2007, the suspect transferred the Jaguar to someone else's name.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz on the evening of 3 May 2007 while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is in charge of the Met investigation - known as Operation Grange - said the suspect, then aged 30, frequented the Algarve between 1995 and 2007, staying for \"days upon end\" in his camper van and living a \"transient lifestyle\".\n\nHe was in the Praia da Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 19:32, which ended at 20:02. Madeleine is believed to have disappeared between 21:10 and 22:00 that evening.\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number (+351 912 730 680) and the number which dialled him (+351 916 510 683), and said any information about these numbers could be \"critical\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said the caller was a \"key witness\" and should get in touch, while he also appealed to the public for details about the suspect.\n\nThe Ocean Club in Praia da Luz where the McCann family were staying\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared\n\nThe joint appeal from the British, German and Portuguese police includes a £20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person responsible for Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nThose with information can contact the Operation Grange incident room on 020 7321 9251.\n\nDet Ch Insp Cranwell said he wanted to thank members of the public who had already got in touch.\n\n\"We are pleased with the information coming in, and it will be assessed and prioritised,\" he said.\n\n\"We continue to urge anyone with information to come forward and speak with us.\"\n\nJim Gamble, who served as the senior child protection officer in the UK's first police investigation into Madeleine's disappearance, said it was the first time in 13 years \"when I actually dare to hope\".\n\nThe \"circumstantial evidence\" that had been shared by the police made the new suspect a \"really significant person of interest\", he said.\n\nHe said he believed the man \"came to light a number of years ago\" but was only being made public now because it was a \"painstaking\" process which began from \"a point of chaos\" after the initial investigation had been \"bungled\".\n\nIs this the breakthrough? Is this German prisoner the man who can unlock the mystery?\n\nIt certainly has the feel of a significant development - police have used those very words.\n\nEvidence, according to detectives, places the man near the scene; the re-registering of his car the next day is undoubtedly suspicious.\n\nAnd his criminal record, disclosed by the German police, is a disturbing guide as to what his motivations might have been.\n\nBut... there have been so many false trails in the case before - clues, sightings and suspects that led nowhere.\n\nThree years ago, during the last major police appeal, Scotland Yard said it was working on one final \"critical\" line of inquiry.\n\nNow, we're told there's another one. That may explain why Met detectives - who've been involved in the case for nine years - are being rather more cautious than their German counterparts.\n\nIn a statement, the McCanns, from Rothley in Leicestershire, welcomed the appeal: \"We would like to thank the police forces involved for their continued efforts in the search for Madeleine.\n\n\"All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive, but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know as we need to find peace.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the latest developments appeared to be significant and No 10's thoughts were with the McCann family \"who have had to endure so much\".\n\nPolice said the suspect was one of 600 people that detectives on the UK inquiry originally looked at, though he had not been a suspect.\n\nAfter a 10-year anniversary appeal in 2017, \"significant\" fresh information about him was provided.", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, who is the new suspect\n\nThe new suspect in the Madeleine McCann case has also been investigated over the disappearance of a German girl, according to German media reports.\n\nThe 43-year-old German man, named in reports as Christian B, is currently serving a prison sentence.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, three, went missing while on holiday in Portugal in 2007.\n\nA source told the BBC an investigation into the suspect began after a tip-off in Germany in 2017.\n\nMeanwhile, a spokesman for the McCanns said they would be \"encouraged\" by the response to the latest appeal for information.\n\nThe UK's Metropolitan Police said it had received more than 270 calls and emails since revealing details of the new suspect on Wednesday.\n\nGerman prosecutors have said they are assuming Madeleine is dead and that the suspect is being investigated on suspicion of murder.\n\nA number of German media reports said the suspect had been investigated over the disappearance of a five-year-old German girl - named only as Inga.\n\nShe went missing from a family party in Saxony-Anhalt on 2 May 2015 and has never been found.\n\nPolice have refused to confirm the investigation or comment on a report which says officers searched an area of nearby land belonging to Christian B in February 2016.\n\nA senior judicial source in Portugal has told the BBC the joint investigation into the new suspect began after a tip-off in Germany in 2017.\n\nThe source said German investigators informed their Portuguese counterparts and British officials three years ago that they received a tip-off from a friend of Christian B, after the suspect had made a \"disturbing comment\" in a bar in Germany, as they were watching TV news coverage of the 10th anniversary of Madeleine going missing.\n\nSince that time, the official said Portuguese police have been making house-to-house enquiries speaking to those that knew him between 1996 and 2007.\n\nChristian B was later extradited from Portugal to Germany on drugs charges.\n\nWhile he was in Germany, he was convicted of the rape of a 72-year-old woman which took place in Praia da Luz in 2005.\n\nThe official added that the investigation linking Christian B to the Madeleine McCann case was now reliant on the help of the public to find clear evidence.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nOn Thursday, German prosecutors said the suspect was \"a sexual predator who has already been convicted of crimes against little girls\" and was \"serving a long sentence\".\n\nHans Christian Wolters, from the Braunschweig Public Prosecutor's Office, said the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe Met Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because it does not have \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nThe suspect is linked to a house between Praia da Luz and Lagos, and another inland\n\nPolice released pictures showing the interior of one house believed to be linked to the suspect\n\nClarence Mitchell, a spokesman for Madeleine's family, said her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, from Rothley, Leicestershire, are \"trying to maintain as normal a life as possible\" and awaiting updates from police.\n\n\"Two-hundred-and-seventy calls and emails isn't a bad result, given it was 13 years ago,\" he said.\n\n\"They certainly will be encouraged to know the appeal is yielding results already and hopefully within that there will be crucial bits of information the police can act upon.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark Cranwell, who is leading the Met's investigation, known as Operation Grange, said he was \"pleased\" with information coming in after receiving more than 270 calls and emails by 16:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nThe suspect transferred the registration of this 1993 Jaguar XJR6 to someone else the day after Madeleine disappeared, police said\n\nA camper van belonging to the suspect was seen around Praia da Luz in Portugal\n\nPolice have also released photos of two vehicles - a VW camper van and a Jaguar car - which are believed to be linked to the man, as well as a house in Portugal.\n\nThe day after Madeleine vanished in 2007, the suspect transferred the Jaguar to someone else's name.\n\nHe was in the Praia da Luz area where the McCann family was staying when she disappeared and received a phone call at 19:32, which ended at 20:02. Madeleine is believed to have disappeared between 21:10 and 22:00 that evening.\n\nPolice have released details of the suspect's phone number (+351 912 730 680) and the number which dialled him (+351 916 510 683), and said any information about these numbers could be \"critical\".\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz on the evening of 3 May 2007 while her parents were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Metropolitan Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "The protest was held in Birmingham's Centenary Square\n\nThousands of demonstrators gathered in Birmingham to protest about the death of George Floyd in US police custody.\n\nMr Floyd, an African-American, died on 25 May when a white police officer continued to kneel on his neck after he pleaded he could not breathe.\n\nThousands of people marched in London on Wednesday after the death sparked global protests against racism.\n\nThe Birmingham protest started outside the library but later moved through the city to the police's headquarters.\n\nWest Midlands Police said an estimated 4,000 people took part and there were no arrests.\n\n\"The protesters were loud and passionate, and made their voices clearly heard, but there were no arrests and no disorder,\" a force spokesman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe city \"has a proud history of standing up to racism\", the council said\n\nProtest organisers UK Isn't Innocent said Britain had \"a duty to stand in solidarity with the US while exposing the inner workings of racism and police brutality in the UK\".\n\n\"We are tired and we have been tired for too long,\" lead organiser Hannah Ringane said.\n\n\"We have been taught that we won't be treated the same as everyone else, that we will be viewed as aggressors.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death has led to protests around the world\n\nThe demonstration had to be relocated to a larger square due to the number of protesters\n\nCarol Smith, who was among the demonstrators, said: \"My grandchildren were born here, they have to have a different world to the world I have.\n\n\"They have to realise they have a right to be here, and they have a right to equality, just like everyone else who don't look like them.\n\n\"I can't give you the answer to racism. I didn't create it, people who look like me didn't create it.\"\n\n\"Not just for us, but changes for the world. These are the things that are demanded now.\"\n\nCrowds took a knee as the protest moved through the city\n\nAston Villa and England defender Tyrone Mings - who was targeted with racist abuse while playing for his country against Bulgaria last year - indicated he would join demonstrators, urging his followers online to \"stand for what's right\".\n\nPeople were originally due to gather in Victoria Square outside the council house, but when it became clear the numbers would be too large it was moved to Centenary Square.\n\nAlthough it was billed as a stand-in demonstration, protesters moved on from the square and marched towards Lloyd House, the headquarters for West Midlands Police, shouting \"justice now\" and calling for an end to police brutality.\n\nThe demonstration continued into the evening\n\nDemonstrators marched on Lloyd House, the headquarters for West Midlands Police\n\nIn the past month, the Independent Office for Police Conduct has begun nine investigations into West Midlands Police connected to alleged excessive use of force on black men and two officers have been suspended.\n\nCh Insp Sarah Tambling, from the force, said she was \"really pleased with the atmosphere\" at the protest in the city.\n\nAlthough some people have begun to leave, many more are continuing to arrive. The atmosphere has been good, with whole families coming to express their solidarity with the demonstrators.\n\nA handful of police liaison officers have kept a respectful distance and the crowds have remained peaceful.\n\nThe younger generation in particular have made banners with clever slogans, while several older onlookers, especially from the Afro-Caribbean community, have been overcome with emotion when they see the size of the crowd.\n\nThe protest moved down Colmore Row after stopping outside West Midlands Police's headquarters\n\nBirmingham City Council said it supported the demonstration, but encouraged protesters to maintain social distancing.\n\n\"The city of Birmingham has a long and proud history of standing up to racism and to prejudice, and that is why today we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement,\" said Labour councillor and cabinet member for social inclusion John Cotton.\n\nFour Minneapolis police officers have been charged over 46-year-old Mr Floyd 's death, including Derek Chauvin who faces a second-degree murder charge.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "A large proportion of NHS doctors are from an ethnic minority background\n\nThe UK's human rights watchdog is to investigate racial inequalities \"laid bare\" by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission will examine \"the loss of lives and livelihoods\" of people from different ethnic minorities.\n\nThis week a report found that people from ethnic minorities are at a higher risk of dying from coronavirus.\n\nEqualities Minister Kemi Badenoch has said work is under way to find out the reasons for the greater risk.\n\nHowever, speaking in the House of Commons, she rejected claims from Labour MPs that \"systemic injustice\" in wealth, housing and jobs is the cause of ethnic minorities being more likely to die from coronavirus in England.\n\nShe also told MPs the UK was \"one of the best countries in the world to be a black person\".\n\nThe Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) says its inquiry aims to address \"serious issues that have yet to be fully answered\" and will provide evidence-based recommendations.\n\nAnnouncing the investigation, watchdog chair David Isaac said: \"Now is a once in a generation opportunity to tackle long-standing entrenched racial inequalities.\n\n\"Only by taking focused action to tackle race inequality across Britain will we become a fair country in which every individual can reach their full potential.\n\n\"This inquiry is part of our long-term strategic approach to tackle the structural inequalities that the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare.\"\n\nThe EHRC inquiry will be able to compel government departments to provide evidence to the inquiry and its terms of reference will be published in a few weeks, once race equality leaders have been consulted on the proposals.\n\nThis comes after thousands took part in marches protesting about racial inequalities.\n\nThe demonstrations were triggered by the death of George Floyd - an African-American man who died on 25 May when a white police officer continued to kneel on his neck after he pleaded he could not breathe.\n\nOn Tuesday, a Public Health England report found that the impact of coronavirus is \"disproportionate\" for Asian, Caribbean and black ethnicities.\n\nIt said if you strip out age and sex, people of Bangladeshi ethnicity have twice the risk of death than people of white British ethnicity.\n\nPeople of Chinese, Indian, Pakistani, other Asian, Caribbean and other Black ethnicity had between a 10% and 50% higher risk of death when compared to white British people.\n\nMeanwhile, Met Police data revealed that a disproportionate number of ethnic minority groups were fined for alleged breaches of the lockdown in London.\n\nShadow women and equalities Marsha de Cordova welcomed the human rights watchdog's inquiry, saying: \"The coronavirus crisis has shone a light on these inequalities, but the government has consistently failed to take action to save BAME people's lives during this pandemic.\n\n\"Now is the time to take steps to tackle systemic racism, discrimination and injustice in Britain.\"\n\nWomen and Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch is leading the next stage of the government's inquiry into disparities in coronavirus outcomes in England. with the government's racial disparities unit.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The government is committed to levelling up and spreading opportunity around this country. This will be a hugely important part of the economic and social recovery from the pandemic.\"\n\nWork is also under way to find out why an initial report by Public Health Scotland, found no racial disparity in coronavirus deaths in Scotland.", "The app was downloaded more than 55,000 times on the Isle of Wight, according to figures last month\n\nA new NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app should be in place by the end of the month, a minister has said.\n\nBusiness minister Nadhim Zahawi said the app - which was trialled in the Isle of Wight - will \"be running as soon as we think it is robust\".\n\nLast week new test and trace systems were launched in England and Scotland - but without the app due to delays.\n\nThe Guardian reported an NHS boss said the wider scheme would be imperfect at first but \"world-class\" by the autumn.\n\nThe paper said the chief operating officer of the test and trace scheme said the scheme should be fully working by September or October.\n\nThe NHS app - which will automatically alert people - began being trialled on the Isle of Wight in early May. The government said then it hoped it would be launched nationwide by the middle of May.\n\nMeanwhile, doctors have urged the government to make face coverings compulsory in all places where social distancing is not possible, not just on public transport.\n\nAll passengers on public transport in England must wear a covering from 15 June, the government said on Thursday.\n\nThe NHS app was originally planned to be part of last week's launch of England's test and trace scheme - but the app roll-out was delayed because more trials were needed.\n\nScotland also launched its tracing scheme last week while Northern Ireland already had a contact tracing programme up and running. Wales began its scheme on Monday.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Question Time on Thursday, Mr Zahawi said: \"The app, we are working flat out. We want to make sure it actually does everything it needs to do and will be in place this month.\n\n\"I can't give you an exact date, it would be wrong for me to do so.\"\n\nMr Zahawi said: \"We will make sure [the app] will be running as soon as we think it is robust.\"\n\nAsked to confirm it would be rolled out nationwide this month, he said: \"I'd like to think we'd be able to manage by this month, yes.\"\n\nHe said the pilot in the Isle of Wight showed people actually preferred to be contacted by a human being, \"which is why we've recruited 25,000 people who are track-and-tracers who can deal with about 10,000 cases a day\".\n\nContact tracers text, email or call people who test positive with coronavirus and ask who they have had contact with. Any of those contacts who could be at risk of infection are told to isolate for 14 days, even if they are not sick.\n\nThe 25,000 tracers working for England's NHS test and trace team have already started contacting people.\n\nBut some contact tracers have said they have been given very little work so far, with one telling the BBC she had worked 38 hours but had yet to make a single phone call and spent the time watching Netflix.\n\nContact tracing for coronavirus began when the UK identified its first two cases at the end of January.\n\nBut it was stopped in mid-March after England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said it was \"no longer necessary for us to identify every case\".\n\nThen in May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to have a \"world-beating\" tracing system in place from June.\n\nNHS bosses have said such a system is important to avoid a possible second surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHowever, the head of the NHS Confederation said a test, track and trace strategy should have been in place sooner.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said the new test and trace service was up and running and would save lives, adding that more than 25,000 contact tracers were now in place.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Debenhams has stores in several locations in Wales including its flagship store in Cardiff\n\nDebenhams has written to the Welsh Government asking it to take urgent action to save four of its stores and \"many hundreds of jobs\".\n\nThe retail giant collapsed into administration for the second time in a year in April after coronavirus ramped up the pressures facing the business.\n\nDeals with landlords mean 120 UK stores will reopen when lockdown eases.\n\nThe firm wants Welsh ministers to review rates. Officials said they would respond to the request \"in due course\".\n\nDebenhams has continued to trade online since entering administration again on 9 April.\n\nIt then used another insolvency process called a company voluntary arrangement to obtain rent cuts and allow it to close shops.\n\nThe company warned at the end of April that four of its Welsh stores - Newport, Cardiff, Swansea and Llandudno - were in jeopardy because of the Welsh Government's decision not to extend business rate relief to properties with a rateable value of more than £500,000.\n\nThe department store has a presence across south and north Wales\n\nSince then, Debenhams has struck deals with local councils to defer payment of the rates for those stores until March 2021.\n\nThese stores are due to reopen when the Welsh Government lifts restrictions on non-essential retailers, but the long-term future remains uncertain.\n\nLast week the chairman of Debenhams' parent company, Mark Gifford, wrote to the Welsh Government's Finance Minister Rebecca Evans asking her to give permission for an online tribunal to review the business rates.\n\n\"With your support for holding tribunals online, the administrators would be in a position to reopen all the remaining Welsh stores, saving many hundreds of jobs in Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"We urge the Welsh Government to consider this as a matter of urgency, we are ready to reopen all of our Welsh stores when trading restrictions are lifted.\"\n\nAs well at these four at-risk stores, Debenhams also has shops in Carmarthen, Llanelli, Merthyr Tydfil, Bangor and Wrexham.\n\nHowever, the company has said the Merthyr Tydfil store will not reopen when the lockdown ends, saying it was \"unable to agree appropriate terms with the landlord of the building\".\n\nMr Gifford said because Debenhams has negotiated changes to its lease arrangements, the tribunal review would result in a significant reduction in business rates and lead to earlier payments of those rates to Welsh Government.\n\nThe letter said such tribunals cannot be held at the moment because of social distancing concerns \"or unless the Welsh Government steps in and agrees that tribunals could be held online\".\n\nA Welsh Government official said: \"While we know how important Debenhams stores are to our town centres, this is a business facing its third insolvency process in 12 months.\n\n\"It is simply not credible to suggest our decisions about rate relief will cause Debenhams to fail.\n\n\"Taxpayers are already providing more than £1m in rates relief support to Debenhams across Wales.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Victoria's Secret fashion shows were cancelled in 2019 as they were branded as \"sexist\" and \"dated\"\n\nThe UK arm of Victoria's Secret has fallen into administration, putting more than 800 jobs at risk.\n\nThe chain, famous for its fashion shows, has 25 shops in the UK, all of which have been shut since the virus lockdown started in March.\n\nAdministrator Deloitte said there would be no immediate redundancies as it tries to find a buyer for the chain.\n\nRob Harding of Deloitte said it was \"yet another blow to the UK High Street\" amid the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nBut the chain had already been hit by changing consumer tastes and weakened spending.\n\nThe UK arm made an operating loss of £170m in the year to February 2019, according to the most recent filings available.\n\nLast year, its annual fashion show was cancelled, with the company blaming poor television ratings.\n\nThe show launched in 1995 and was once a major pop culture event, drawing millions of viewers each year to watch its so-called \"angels\".\n\nIn 2018 it saw its lowest ratings ever, drawing criticism that it was sexist, outdated and lacked diversity.\n\nThe brand's parent company L Brands said it was important to \"evolve\" its marketing strategy at the time.\n\nThe annual Victoria's Secret fashion show launched the careers of several supermodels\n\nThe firm had already furloughed 785 workers in the UK before appointing administrators.\n\nDeloitte described the administration as \"light touch\", meaning the management are allowed to keep running the business.\n\nIt will now attempt to find another buyer for its assets, or re-negotiate rents on its High Street stores in a bid to improve the firm's financial situation.\n\nAll its UK shops will remain shut, but none will, for the moment, be closed permanently.\n\nThe administration process also excludes its online business, which will continue trading.\n\nMr Harding added that this was a \"further example of the impact the Covid-19 pandemic is having on the entire retail industry.\"\n\n\"The effect of the lockdowns, combined with broader challenges facing bricks and mortar retailers, has resulted in a funding requirement for this business, resulting in today's administration.\"\n\nSeveral other High Street brands have been struggling in recent weeks due to lockdown measures introduced in March to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBoth fashion firms Cath Kidston and Laura Ashley, for example, have called in administrators since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nHowever, Victoria's Secret has arguably been eclipsed in recent years by brands such as Savage X Fenty, the lingerie line by singer, actress and businesswoman Rihanna, whose events showcase a range of body types.\n\nThere was also a furious response to an interview in Vogue with then chief marketing officer Ed Razek. He suggested \"transsexual\" people should not be a part of the fashion show. He later left the company.\n\nQing Wang, professor of marketing at Warwick Business School, said: \"If the UK arm of Victoria's Secret is to be saved, it needs a new start and a major overhaul of its brand and marketing strategy.\n\n\"It needs to be brought up to date to reflect the values of gender equality, sustainability, and diversity that appeal to today's shoppers and compete with the brands that have overtaken it.\n\n\"It has not kept pace with the strong values of millennials and post-millennials, who should now be the company's target customers,\" she added.", "Florence Eshalomi says the frequency of these types of mistakes was 'worrying'\n\nAn MP has revealed she has twice been mistaken for black female colleagues in Parliament in the past six months.\n\nFlorence Eshalomi became an MP for Vauxhall in south-west London following the general election in December.\n\nSince then, other colleagues had been subjected to similar mistakes, she wrote in a letter to her constituents.\n\n\"The frequency is worrying and lends itself to a lazy racist view that all black people look the same\", she continued.\n\nA House of Commons spokesperson said: \"It is clear that racism continues to blight the lives of black people in this country.\n\n\"We are truly sorry that members of our community feel that this extends into parliament, the very place where the rights of all citizens should be championed equally.\"\n\nThe Labour and Co-operative party politician's letter stated: \"On two separate occasions I have been confused for another black female MP.\n\n\"This has also happened to my black female colleagues.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince publishing the letter online, Ms Eshalomi said she and other colleagues had initially planned to write a letter to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle about the issue of misidentification, but said the coronavirus pandemic had delayed them.\n\n\"On the first occasion I was coming through Central Lobby, and an MP ran up to me and just broke into conversation,\" the Labour MP said.\n\n\"Then she stopped herself because she released I wasn't Kate. She thought I was Kate Osamor. She was so embarrassed she just literally ran away again.\n\n\"On the second occasion I was in the chamber... I was one of the last members to speak in the debate that day, and when I stood up to speak the caption had me down as Taiwo Owatemi, the MP for Coventry North West.\"\n\nMarsha de Cordova (left) was mistaken for Dawn Butler (right) on BBC Parliament\n\nMs Eshalomi said the BBC had sent an email and apologised, but said the broadcaster told her it had used the House of Commons' caption.\n\nOn a separate occasion in February, BBC Parliament wrongly captioned Labour MP Marsha de Cordova as Dawn Butler.\n\nIn its story about the mix-up, the London Evening Standard used a picture of Bell Ribeiro-Addy - wrongly depicting her as Ms de Cordova.\n\nBell Ribeiro-Addy was wrongly captioned as Marsha de Cordova in an Evening Standard story in February\n\nMs Eshalomi said she had experienced such misunderstandings before too.\n\nHaving been elected in 2016 to the London Assembly, Ms Eshalomi said she was mistaken for Kemi Badenoch, who was then a fellow member of the assembly and is now a Conservative MP.\n\nShe said: \"All those women I've referenced are individual politicians in their own right, they're women I look up to.\n\n\"They're women who fought to get elected. So they deserve to be named and not to be confused with other black women.\n\n\"This doesn't happen to some of my white female colleagues, who sometimes have their hair down, sometimes they'll have it back in a ponytail.\n\n\"So why is it, if we as black women change our hair or our appearance, you can't recognise us?\"\n\nThe Commons spokesperson added: \"We are committed to listening, learning and taking action to remove barriers and better reduce inequality for the future.\"", "Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced a two-month extension to the government's ban on evicting renters amid the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nNew evictions in England and Wales of tenants in both social and privately-rented accommodation will be suspended until 23 August.\n\n\"No-one will be evicted from their home this summer due to coronavirus,\" Mr Jenrick tweeted.\n\nBut housing charity Shelter said the announcement was \"only a stop-gap\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Robert Jenrick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe extension will run from 25 June, the end of the the three-month period originally announced as part of emergency coronavirus legislation in March.\n\nThe Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said it would benefit \"millions of renters\". Government support for renters during the pandemic was \"unprecedented\", Mr Jenrick said.\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, said: \"The government has reset the clock on the evictions ban, buying the families who were only weeks away from losing their homes a vital stay of execution.\n\nBut she said: \"The ban hasn't stopped people who've lost their jobs during this pandemic from racking up rent arrears. Even if they have a plan to pay them back, these debts will throw struggling renters straight back into the firing line of an automatic eviction as soon as the ban does lift.\n\n\"It's critical that Robert Jenrick uses this extension wisely to change the law and properly protect renters,\" she added.\n\nDame Gillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: \"Simply extending the pause of repossession is a sticking plaster not a cure. People who have fallen behind on rent arrears and those who have been furloughed or lost their jobs will need the security of proper reform to the rules governing evictions.\n\n\"We look forward to working with the government in the coming weeks on changes to make sure they keep their promise, that no renter should lose their home because of coronavirus.\"\n\nRecent research by the District Councils Network suggests more than 486,242 households are spending more than half of their income on private rented housing, which could be at risk when the evictions ban is lifted.\n\nThe network, which represents 187 local authorities in England, says single parents with children, young people and households on low incomes are particularly in danger of being tipped \"over the edge\" into homelessness.\n\nIt called for a permanent boost to housing benefits for those in private rented homes and more funding for councils to fight homelessness, build homes and create jobs.\n\nThe MHCLG said it was working on new rules \"to ensure vulnerable renters can be protected appropriately\" when the halt on evictions ended.\n\nBut the National Residential Landlords Association called for the government \"to set out its plans for the market at the end of this one-time extension.\"\n\nChief executive Ben Beadle said: \"A failure to do so will cause serious damage to the private rented sector as a whole.\"\n\nHe added: \"It will ultimately be tenants who suffer as they will find it increasingly difficult to find affordable housing if landlords do not have the confidence that they will get their properties back swiftly in legitimate circumstances.\"", "Beach-goers had to abandon social distancing when rescue helicopters landed on Durdle Door Beach to pick up injured tombstoners\n\nPre-booked parking spaces, fines for illegal parking and beach marshals are being used to prevent a repeat of last weekend's influx of visitors to the Dorset coast.\n\nThousands have flocked to the Jurassic Coast and Bournemouth beaches since lockdown restrictions were eased.\n\nCurrent government guidelines state that households can drive any distance in England to parks and beaches.\n\nThree people were badly hurt jumping from the limestone arch at Durdle Door.\n\n\"Horrendous\" amounts of litter were left as visitors descended on the Jurassic Coast Unesco World Heritage site last week.\n\nFollowing a meeting between Dorset Council, the emergency services and the landowner, a booking system for Durdle Door's car park was announced to \"monitor and limit visitor numbers\".\n\nMarshals will also be on the beach to discourage tombstoning and to prevent littering, while civil enforcement officers will fine drivers illegally parked on roadsides.\n\nIt is hoped cooler temperatures forecast for this weekend will reduce numbers heading for the coast.\n\nThousands of visitors enjoyed Bournemouth in the sunshine earlier this week\n\nDorset Police said Tuesday was one of its busiest days in recent years with 419 emergency calls received, compared to 265 on the same day last year.\n\nPolice and crime commissioner Martyn Underhill said anyone planning a trip should \"search your conscience\".\n\nHe said: \"The problem is the social distancing rule is a guideline from the government, there is no law behind it therefore the police and local authority can't enforce it - that's what's so frustrating about what happened last weekend.\"\n\nBoth Dorset councils had called on the government to impose travel restrictions, raising concerns that visitor numbers could increase Covid-19 cases in the county.\n\nWhen asked about the weekend's scenes in Dorset at Thursday's Downing Street coronavirus briefing, transport secretary Grant Shapps said: \"When we say 'stay alert' we mean literally stay 2m away from people - don't risk this spreading and the hard work we've all done.\n\n\"There are fewer lifeguards around so if you are in the sea you are putting yourself at more risk. So there are lots of sensible reasons not to go and crowd out beaches and to avoid crowded places.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A former government adviser has said he does not believe a second national lockdown would be necessary during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose advice led to the decision to go into lockdown, said he would expect to see \"targeted\" restrictions to contain outbreaks.\n\nHe told Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking the easing needed to be monitored \"very closely\".\n\nAnd the UK should \"be prepared to row back a bit\" if cases increased.\n\nThe next series of measures to ease the lockdown will take place in England on 4 July, when the 2m (6ft) social distancing rule reduces to \"one metre plus\".\n\nThis will allow some pubs, restaurants and cafes to reopen while complying with safety guidelines.\n\nNorthern Ireland has also announced it will reduce the distancing rule to 1m with restrictions from Monday.\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, the 2m distancing rule remains in place for the moment.\n\nProf Ferguson, who quit his adviser role after he breached lockdown guidance, told the BBC's Nick Robinson: \"Right now we are experimenting, frankly.\n\n\"I don't disagree with the policy changes announced this week, but I would say we need to monitor their effects very closely and be prepared to row back a bit if we start seeing increases in case numbers.\"\n\nHe said it will be like playing \"a game of Whack-A-Mole\" - a phrase frequently used by Prime Minister Boris Johnson - with \"targeted\" lockdowns to suppress local outbreaks.\n\n\"I think we just need to look around Europe at the clusters of cases popping up in different contexts to have a good understanding of what we might expect to see here after 4 July,\" Prof Ferguson, from Imperial College London, said.\n\n\"I don't expect to see a uniform, very large growth of cases across the country.\n\n\"What I do expect to see, depending on how sensible people are, how much they judge the risks themselves and reduce those risks, is clusters of cases - outbreaks in some individual facilities like food production plants, but also maybe in social contexts, particular work places and particular schools.\"\n\nHe said he believed there would be \"a bigger potential risk of more widespread community transmission\" as the UK goes into autumn and winter.\n\nProf Ferguson also said that if there is to be an inquiry into the UK government's handling of the coronavirus crisis, it should not be held until the end of the year.\n\nHe said that would be the \"appropriate\" time to look back as it would be \"highly disruptive\".\n\nAn inquiry would highlight \"how systems can work better and what structural things can be done better\", he said.\n\n\"I don't think inquiries in this context serve much purpose in attributing personal blame on individuals,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the failure to set up testing, I wouldn't lay at any individual's door, but there were clearly some structural failures which led us to being quite so slow.\"\n\nIt comes as some MPs say they will form a cross-party parliamentary group in support of an urgent inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe group, set up by campaign group March for Change, will be led by Layla Moran, who is bidding to be the next Liberal Democrat leader.\n\n\"This isn't about attributing blame, it's about working together across political parties to ensure the right lessons are learned ahead of a potential second wave,\" she said.\n\nConservative MP and group member Dan Poulter said: \"It is vital that we are not complacent during the summer months and use this time wisely to urgently learn lessons and ensure we are better prepared for the potentially dangerous winter months ahead.\"\n\nElsewhere, Bernard Jenkin, Commons Liaison Committee chairman, has said it was \"essential\" that the UK is prepared for a second wave of coronavirus later this year.\n\n\"Medics are right to call for a swift cross-party 'lessons learned' exercise to be completed by October,\" he said in response to an open letter from health profession leaders published in the British Medical Journal.\n\n\"This would not only contribute to UK's readiness for a new Covid peak but would also strengthen public confidence in the government's readiness.\"", "Kate Green has been a Labour MP since 2010\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Kate Green as his new shadow education secretary.\n\nShe replaces Rebecca Long-Bailey, who was sacked this week after sharing a story Sir Keir said contained an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.\n\nSir Keir has said he \"stands by\" his decision to sack her, following criticism.\n\nHe said he was \"delighted\" to appoint Ms Green, who has campaigned against educational inequalities.\n\nMs Green, a Labour MP since 2010, said it was a \"privilege\" to have been asked to serve in the role.\n\nShe said the coronavirus pandemic had had a \"devastating impact\" on children's education and that she was looking forward to working with teachers, unions, parents and councils to \"help ensure we get our children back in school as soon as possible\".\n\nPrior to becoming an MP, she was chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group and before that, director of the National Council for One Parent Families (now Gingerbread).\n\nIt is a return to the shadow cabinet for Ms Green, who served as shadow minister for women and equalities under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.\n\nShe resigned and went on to chair Owen Smith's failed leadership bid.\n\nSir Keir gave her the role of shadow minister for child poverty strategy in April, before elevating her to education spokeswoman.\n\nLabour MPs including Diane Abbott and former deputy Labour leader Tom Watson have welcomed Ms Green's appointment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Green's swift appointment comes after the sacking of Mrs Long-Bailey, the MP for Salford and Eccles, who retweeted an interview with actor and Labour supporter Maxine Peake.\n\nIn the article, Ms Peake discussed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, saying that the \"tactics\" US police used in kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck were \"learnt from seminars with Israeli secret services\".\n\nMaxine Peake is known for legal drama Silk, Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies and Channel 4 show Shameless\n\nThe Independent article also quoted the Israeli police denying Ms Peake's claim saying: \"There is no tactic or protocol that calls to put pressure on the neck or airway.\"\n\nMrs Long-Bailey - who was beaten to the party leadership by Sir Keir - later said she had not meant to endorse all aspects of the article.\n\nLater on Thursday, Ms Peake tweeted that she had been \"inaccurate in my assumption of American police training and its sources\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Starmer: \"I've made it my first priority to tackle anti-Semitism\"\n\nAt the time, Sir Keir said the sharing of the article was \"wrong\" because it contained \"anti-Semitic conspiracy theories\" and his \"first priority\" was to \"tackle anti-Semitism\" and rebuild trust with the Jewish community.\n\nSir Keir later defended his decision to sack shadow minister Mrs Long-Bailey after a virtual meeting with some left-wing Labour MPs who had voiced concerns about her removal.\n\nJewish groups and some MPs welcomed Sir Keir's decision but Mrs Long-Bailey's allies on the party's left said it had been an overreaction.", "Officials hope an increase in testing in recent weeks will help tackle Delhi's outbreak\n\nThe chief minister of India's capital Delhi has said the speed at which coronavirus has spread has severely challenged its health system.\n\nArvind Kejriwal said a surge in cases in early June had led to a shortage of hospital beds and rising fatalities.\n\nDelhi is now the country's worst-hit area, with about 73,000 recorded cases of Covid-19 and at least 2,500 deaths.\n\nBut Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India was \"much better placed than many other nations\" to tackle the virus.\n\nIn a virtual address, he said this was due to a strict nationwide lockdown ordered in March and various measures taken by people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Inside an ICU in Mumbai during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nMore than 500,000 Covid-19 cases have been recorded across the country. About 15,000 people have died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nBut infections in Delhi - a city of some 20 million people - have been rising much faster than in the rest of country. About of third of the total number of infections there have been reported in the past week alone.\n\nChief Minister Kejriwal said: \"The cases increased more than we would have expected and in the first week of June we witnessed a shortage of [hospital] beds.\n\n\"We were lagging behind in testing in Delhi. And because of the shortage of beds, when some people were not getting beds, the death rate also increased.\"\n\nDelhi authorities have begun mass testing to determine the extent of spread in the capital.\n\n\"The only way to put a lid on infections is early diagnosis and quarantine,\" Dr Sundeep Salvi, a leading researcher in respiratory care, told CBS News.\n\nIn early June - four months after its first recorded Covid-19 infection - India emerged from one of the world's harshest lockdowns. Most businesses were allowed to re-open.\n\nSchools also re-opened in many states, although they remain closed in Delhi.\n\nBut the easing of the lockdown led to a surge in new infections. India now has the world's fourth-highest number of confirmed cases, behind Russia, Brazil and the US.\n\nHowever, with a population of more than 1.3 billion it still has a low rate of infections per capita - fewer than 400 per million people.", "Dates:Coverage: Norwich v Manchester United live on BBC One on Saturday, 27 June (17:30 BST) - as well as Newcastle v Manchester City on Sunday, 28 June (18:30 BST).\n\nSome 114 days after Manchester United won at Derby County in the fifth round on 5 March, the FA Cup resumes on Saturday with the first of four all-Premier League quarter-finals.\n\nNorwich City's game with 12-time winners United at Carrow Road (17:30 BST) - a match you can watch live on BBC One - marks the the return of the competition, which was stopped because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is also showing Newcastle United against holders Manchester City live - one of three ties on Sunday.\n\nSo who is left in the famous competition? Which two of the remaining eight teams are seeking to win it for the first time? When is the semi-final draw and when does the final take place? Will there be replays?\n\nHere, BBC Sport tells you all you need to know as the FA Cup gets ready to return.\n• None 'We got players to kick him on purpose' - the making of Norwich's Cantwell\n• None Quiz: Can you name every FA Cup quarter-finalist this century?\n• None How to follow the FA Cup quarter-finals on the BBC\n\nWhy are the quarter-finals in June?\n\nThe draw for the quarter-finals took place on 4 March and the four ties were originally scheduled to be played on 21-22 March.\n\nThey were all postponed after football in England was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe FA announced at the end of May a provisional restart date of 27-28 June, with all of this season's remaining ties to be played behind closed doors.\n\n\"The competition has been an integral part of the English football calendar for nearly 150 years, and we'd like to thank the Premier League executive and clubs for their support in scheduling the remaining matches during this unprecedented time,\" said FA chief executive officer Mark Bullingham.\n\nWhen is the draw and where are the semi-finals and final?\n\nThe draw for the semi-finals will take place during half-time of Sunday's Newcastle v Manchester City quarter-final, which is being shown live on BBC One.\n\nFormer Newcastle striker Alan Shearer, who will be part of the BBC team at St James' Park, will conduct the draw.\n\nDue to social distancing rules, BBC guests and presenter Gary Lineker will be stationed at least two metres apart from one another, and crew members.\n\nFormer England captain Shearer will be the only person handling the balls during the draw, and all balls and equipment prior to the draw will be thoroughly disinfected.\n\nThe semi-finals, which are scheduled to be played at Wembley, will take place across the weekend 18-19 July, with the final on Saturday, 1 August at Wembley - six days after the final day of the Premier League season on 26 July.\n\nThis season's final will be renamed the Heads Up FA Cup final to raise mental health awareness.\n\nThere are no replays at this stage of the competition.\n\nIf games are level after 90 minutes, there will be an additional 30 minutes of extra time.\n\nA penalty shootout will take place to decide a winner if the game is still level at 120 minutes.\n\nSeven-hundred-and-thirty-six teams entered this season's competition, with the FA Cup starting on 9 August 2019 with the extra preliminary round.\n\nTwo non-league sides - Hartlepool United and AFC Fylde - reached the third round, while the last six non-Premier League sides were knocked out of the fifth round.\n\nNorwich City, the lowest ranked club left, and Leicester City are the only two clubs left yet to win the FA Cup, while Arsenal and Manchester United have won it 25 times between them.\n\nPosition - 20th in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 0. Last time reached quarter-finals - 1992. What happened? Norwich City reached the semi-finals for the second time in four seasons after beating Southampton in a replay, before losing to Sunderland 1-0 in a semi-final at Hillsborough.\n\nMore of a hindrance than a help? Bottom of the Premier League table with seven matches left, the Canaries are running out of time to save themselves from a quick return to the Championship. However, they are enjoying their best FA Cup run in 28 years. The last time Norwich and Manchester United met in the competition was in the fourth round in 1994, with the Red Devils winning 2-0 at Carrow Road, going on to win the trophy that season.\n\nKey stat: Norwich are winless in their last seven home FA Cup matches (D3 L4) since a 4-1 win against Burnley back in January 2012.\n\nPostition - fifth in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 12 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2019. What happened? Defender Victor Lindelof was shown a red card as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side lost 2-1 to Wolves at Molineux.\n\nA first trophy for Solskjaer? Ole Gunnar Solskjaer won the FA Cup twice as a player at United but will the Norwegian enjoy success in the competition as a manager? United have not won a major trophy since 2017 when they secured the League Cup and Europa League in the same season under Jose Mourinho.\n\nKey stat: Manchester United are participating in the FA Cup quarter-final for a sixth consecutive season, although they've only progressed to the semi-final in two of the previous five campaigns.\n\nPosition - eighth in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 4 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2014. What happened? The Blades were a League One side when they beat Charlton 2-0 to book a Wembley semi-final against Hull City, which they lost 5-3.\n\nBlades of glory? It's already been an outstanding season for the Blades on their return to the Premier League as they push for a place in Europe. Will it end with a major trophy? Sheffield United and Arsenal last played in the FA Cup back in March 2005 in a fifth-round replay. After a goalless draw, the Gunners won 4-2 on penalties at Bramall Lane.\n\nKey stat: This is Blades boss Chris Wilder's 35th match as a manager in the FA Cup proper but only his second against a Premier League side - Sheffield United lost 1-0 to Leicester City in the fifth round in 2018.\n\nPosition - ninth in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 13 times (record). Last time reached quarter-finals - 2017. What happened? Beat non-league Lincoln City 5-0 on their way to winning the competition by overcoming Chelsea in the final, via a semi-final victory over Manchester City.\n\nWill Gunners secure 14th triumph? No club has won the FA Cup more times than Arsenal. The most recent of their 13 successes came in 2017 when Aaron Ramsey hit a late winner against Chelsea to earn Arsene Wenger his seventh FA Cup triumph.\n\nKey stat: Arsenal have progressed from 13 of their past 15 FA Cup quarter-final matches.\n\nPosition - third in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 0. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2018. What happened? Lost 2-1 after extra time at home to Chelsea, who went on to win the competition.\n\nA first FA Cup final for 51 years? This has been an outstanding season for Leicester even though they have yet to win a game since returning to action earlier this month. The Foxes are well placed to qualify for the Champions League while they are two wins from reaching the FA Cup final for the first time since 1969, when they lost 1-0 to Manchester City.\n\nKey stat: Leicester City are looking to reach the FA Cup semi-final for the first time since the 1981-82 campaign - they have been eliminated in four FA Cup quarter-finals since then.\n\nPosition - fourth in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 8 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2018. What happened? Beat Leicester 2-1 after extra time on their way to winning the competition with victory over Manchester United in the final.\n\nTrophy for Lampard in his first season? Having eliminated Liverpool in the last round, Chelsea will fancy their chances of ending Frank Lampard's first season in charge with a domestic trophy. Chelsea have lost only two of their past 20 games against Leicester in all competitions (W13 D5 L2), although they are winless in four against the Foxes (D3 L1).\n\nKey stat: This is Chelsea's 18th FA Cup quarter-final in the Premier League era (since 1992-93), more than any other side. They've progressed from six of their past seven, losing the other in 2016 away at Everton.\n\nPosition - 13th in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 6 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2006. What happened? Lost 1-0 at Chelsea, the result ending captain Shearer's hopes of winning a trophy with Newcastle.\n\nThe Magpies are enjoying their best FA Cup run for 14 years and are unbeaten in three of their past four home games against Manchester City. Paraguay forward Miguel Almiron has scored more FA Cup goals than any other Premier League player this season, netting four times from just six shots on target in the competition.\n\nKey stat: Newcastle United have not reached the FA Cup semi-final since 2004-05 under Graeme Souness.\n\nPosition - second in Premier League. FA Cup winners - 6 times. Last time reached quarter-finals - 2019. What happened? Trailed Swansea 2-0 before scoring three times in 19 minutes - including an 89th minute Sergio Aguero winner - on their way to winning the competition.\n\nDomestic cup double for City? Having secured the Carabao Cup shortly before football was suspended, Manchester City are well placed to wrap a domestic cup double. But how will they cope without prolific scorer Sergio Aguero, who has undergone surgery on a knee injury?\n\nKey stat: Since losing to Wigan Athletic in the FA Cup fifth round in February 2018, Manchester City have won their last nine FA Cup matches by an aggregate score of 35-4.", "Unlicensed street parties have been held across London in recent weeks\n\nPolice are \"building relationships\" with communities after more illegal street parties were held in London, the Metropolitan Police has said.\n\nMet Commander Bas Javid said the majority of interactions with the police at events had been \"positive\".\n\nSeven people were arrested for offences including firearm and knife possession following unlicensed music events held on Friday.\n\nTwo police officers sustained injuries but did not need hospital treatment.\n\nTwo people were arrested at a party in Newham, one on suspicion of possession of a firearm and another on suspicion of having a \"Rambo-style\" knife. Both remain in police custody.\n\nElsewhere in the capital, officers broke up an event on Harrow Road, Kensal Town, on Friday following complaints from residents.\n\nA group then moved on to nearby Maida Vale and did not disperse until after midnight.\n\nThree were arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, breach of Covid-19 health regulations and racially aggravated public disorder towards officers.\n\nTwo other people were arrested at the same event, one for throwing a bar stool at an officer, who was uninjured, and the other for racially abusing an officer.\n\nObjects were thrown at officers as they tried to disperse crowds in Notting Hill\n\nPolice have been called to illegal street parties across London in the past month.\n\nOn Wednesday, more than 20 police officers were injured during clashes at an illegal street party in Brixton and on Thursday night, officers were pelted with objects while trying to disperse a party in Notting Hill.\n\nMr Javid said officers were \"doing a very good job in some difficult circumstances\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast: \"The first line is engagement and building relationships, and you don't do that by walking into every situation with riot helmets and shields.\n\n\"We need to build relationships, we need to make sure we engage effectively with communities and we're only as good or as effective as our relationship with those communities. \"\n\nMet Commander Bas Javid said it was about the impact the street parties were having on communities\n\nMr Javid added: \"We're not going to arrest our way out of the situations like this, but what I can be clear about is if these situations do descend into chaos and violence and disorder, which is completely unacceptable, we will take a much more thorough and robust position.\n\n\"It's the communities that are very, very upset by this, as much as the police are. This is much more about the impact it's having on those communities that these people live in.\"\n\nThe Met Police said unlicensed music events were organised gatherings which was covered by different legislation to people not socially distancing in parks.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said the force had a \"duty\" to stop unlawful music events during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nShe said the number of police injured was now \"heading up to 140-odd officers\" in the past three weeks, including those hurt during protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd in the US.\n\nMs Dick said: \"We have seen some large numbers of people completely flouting the health regulations, seeming not to care at all about their own or their families' health and wanting to have large parties.\n\n\"It is hot. Some people have drunk far too much. Some people are just angry and aggressive and some people are plain violent.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hailstones were about the same size as a £2 coin\n\nParts of Yorkshire were pelted with hailstones the size of a £2 coin during thunderstorms.\n\nPhotographs posted on social media showed people in Leeds and Sheffield cradling handfuls of the icy precipitation.\n\nThe \"large\" hailstones in the images appeared to be between 3 and 4 cm in size, a Met office meteorologist said.\n\nA yellow weather warning for thunderstorms and rain is in place for much of the UK until 09:00 on Saturday.\n\nHailstones are formed when drops of water freeze together in the cold upper regions of thunderstorm clouds.\n\nCraig Snell, a meteorologist with the Met Office, said those seen in winter were \"quite small\", but heat in summer months gives thunderstorms more energy.\n\nThis \"helps keep the hailstones up in the clouds for longer, they get to grow more and then fall from the sky,\" he said.\n\nExperts say hailstones are \"usually\" much smaller\n\nThe thunderstorms follow on from the heatwave on Thursday, when temperatures reached 33.4C (92.1F) at Heathrow Airport in west London.\n\nTemperatures on Friday reached a maximum of 31.2C (88.16F), recorded at Kew Gardens in west London, the Met Office said.\n\nIt warned up to 20mm of rain could fall in an hour in areas covered by the yellow warning, but said the storms were expected to clear towards the north east on Friday evening.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Peter Tatchell helped organise the first Pride in London event\n\nTwelve of the surviving activists from the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) have marched in London to celebrate its 50th anniversary.\n\nThey followed the route normally taken by Pride in London, which was cancelled this year due to the coronavirus.\n\nA separate Black Trans Lives Matters protest gathered at Hyde Park and marched through central London to celebrate black transgender people.\n\nSome marchers carried fresh flowers and banners reading \"Fight police brutality, fight racism! Fight imperialism!\" and \"Black trans lives matter\".\n\nMany of the GLF veterans are aged in their 70s and 80s\n\nHuman rights activist Peter Tatchell was joined by former GLF members to walk the Pride route, many of whom were aged in their 70s and 80s.\n\nThe GLF was formed in 1970 and has been credited as being the beginning of the modern LGBT+ movement in the UK.\n\nOrganisers said the march was not open to the wider LGBT+ community in order to comply with social distancing regulations and to protect the veterans, however a small group of people joined in to give their support.\n\nThe demonstration in Hyde Park is linked the Black Lives Matter protest\n\nDemonstrators were asked to decorate face masks with flowers for the Black Trans Lives Matter rally\n\nMr Tatchell, who helped organise the UK's first Pride march in 1972, said: \"Homophobia did not defeat us, so we're not going to let the Covid-19 pandemic stop Pride.\n\n\"We GLF veterans confronted anti-LGBT+ bigots 50 years ago. We faced down police harassment, far-right extremists and homophobic political and religious leaders.\n\n\"We are marching as Pride was planned, with face masks and social distancing.\"\n\nMr Tatchell added: \"We support Black Lives Matter and the just demands of black communities, just as we did in the early 1970s.\n\n\"GLF did not seek equal rights within a flawed, unjust status quo. It campaigned for the transformation of society to end straight supremacism and stood in solidarity with all other oppressed communities.\n\n\"This same agenda of radical social transformation is needed now as the UK faces the quadruple whammy of Covid-19, economic meltdown, endemic racism and climate destruction.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hawk jets took to the skies above Scarborough Castle\n\nThe Red Arrows have performed a flypast in Scarborough for Armed Forces Day.\n\nThe Hawk jets took to the skies above the coastal town in North Yorkshire, which had planned to host an event that was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe Queen and Prime Minister Boris Johnson led tributes to veterans and serving military personnel.\n\nThe defence secretary praised the forces' \"professionalism, commitment and versatility\" during the pandemic.\n\nNormally events are held across the country but the coronavirus lockdown has cause most celebrations to move online this year.\n\nThe armed forces have been involved in the UK's response to Covid-19, helping to repatriate British citizens from abroad, designing and distributing PPE and constructing hospitals.\n\nThe Hawk jets flew over the Army's Catterick Garrison, RAF Leeming and the town of Scarborough.\n\nThe Red Arrows passed over an Armed Forces Day flag in the castle grounds\n\nAmong the military personnel Mr Johnson spoke to ahead of the celebrations were Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Pynn, who led a team of 20 military medics supporting the London Ambulance Service transporting patients to the NHS Nightingale hospital in London, and Wing Commander Claire Collis who was involved in the repatriation of British citizens from India and Pakistan.\n\n\"Whether you're a regular, a reservist, a civilian contractor, a veteran, or the family and friends who support our military in so many ways, we as a nation salute you,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We know that - day and night, at home and abroad, at sea, on land, in the air and even in space and online - our fantastic armed forces are there for us.\"\n\nThe Queen said in a statement: \"Having had members of my family serve in each of the armed services, I know only too well of the pride service personnel take in their duty.\n\n\"As your commander-in-chief, I send my warmest best wishes to you all, your families, and the entire armed forces community.\"\n\nThe jets left a colourful smoke trail over the coastal town\n\nInstead of the usual parades, military bands will commemorate the day with performances streamed on the armed forces' Facebook and Twitter pages, where behind-the-scenes views of the Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth and the Red Arrows will also be shown.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"The armed forces community cannot celebrate in person this year, so we are doing our best to show you through social media who our people are, what they do, and how you can show your support.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also issued a statement thanking military personnel \"for the role they play both at home and abroad\".\n\nIt comes as the party launches its Labour Friends of the Armed Forces scheme in a bid to \"open up Labour again to our armed forces, their families and veterans across our country\".\n\nThe Ministry of Defence has already announced that next year's Armed Forces Day will take place in Scarborough.\n\nMeanwhile, the Royal Navy has unveiled a new uniform for its Royal Marines.\n\nIt says its commandos can rely on the uniform \"in the most hostile of environments on Earth\".\n\nIt features new branding, which includes the traditional insignia worn by commandos in World War II, and is part of a drive to change how the \"Green Berets\" operate.\n\nThe new uniforms are not just a rebranding exercise.\n\nAfter spending the past few decades fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan alongside other infantry units, the Royal Marines are returning to their more traditional and specialist roles.\n\nOne that reaffirms their links as a key element of the Royal Navy and as an elite fighting force. It's no accident that the images released makes them look more like Special Forces.\n\nAs well as the new uniform and insignia, they're seen with night vision goggles and using a Diemaco rifle as favoured by the SAS and SBS, rather than the standard issue SA80.\n\nThe Royal Marines are also looking to the past for inspiration. The new-look patches recall the daring commando raids conducted in the Second World War.\n\nIt's how they see their future, alongside skills of conducting amphibious assaults and arctic warfare.\n\nWith the defence budget under constant strain the costs of this transformation will be relatively modest.\n\nThe Royal Navy has a much harder task working out how to pay for new ships, aircraft and submarines.\n\nAnd for the Royal Marines, who pride themselves on innovation, it may help just help secure their future in any discussion about more defence cuts.", "Flowers have been left at West George Street where the attack took place\n\nThe man shot dead by police during a stabbing attack in Glasgow has been named as Badreddin Abadlla Adam. He was from Sudan.\n\nThe 28-year-old's identity is \"based on information the deceased provided to the Home Office earlier this year\", Police Scotland said.\n\nPC David Whyte, 42, was one of six people injured in the attack at the Park Inn Hotel on Friday.\n\nPolice Scotland said it was continuing to investigate the circumstances.\n\nSuspect Mr Adam died after being shot by specialist officers from the force.\n\n\"The police discharge of firearms resulting in a fatality will also continue to be fully investigated by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC),\" the force said.\n\n\"Both of these inquiries, which take place under the direction of the Lord Advocate, are ongoing and it would not be appropriate to speculate either about the events or the outcomes of these investigations.\"\n\nPC David Whyte is being treated in hospital for serious injuries\n\nPC Whyte was critically injured in the attack and described the scene as \"something I will never forget\".\n\nIn a statement from his hospital bed, he said: \"The incident myself and colleagues faced in West George Street was extremely challenging.\"\n\n\"As the first responders on scene, myself and my colleague did what all police officers are trained for to save lives,\" he added.\n\nPolice said the other five casualties remained in hospital, one of them in a critical condition.\n\nThe injured males are aged 17, 18, 20, 38 and 53.\n\nThey have been described as three asylum seekers who were staying at the hotel at the time of the attack, and two hotel staff.\n\nThe 91-room hotel is understood to have been housing about 100 asylum seekers during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel paid tribute to the police and emergency workers who attended the incident.\n\nThe home secretary paid tribute to those in the emergency services who attended the incident\n\nHowever, it has raised questions about the treatment of asylum seekers, with charities and MPs questioning the decision to place people in hotels during the pandemic.\n\nSpeaking to Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky News, Ms Patel said the matter was constantly under review, but the incident had happened at an exceptional time.\n\n\"Accommodation has been allocated in this particular way because of the Covid-19 crisis, so of course, we constantly review the methods around asylum, the accommodation, the provision, the support. All of which is in line with law.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHave you any information you are willing to share about the attack? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.\n• None Glasgow stabbings: What we know\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Customers have been flocking to supermarkets for toilet roll amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in Victoria\n\nSupermarkets in Australia have reintroduced limits on purchasing toilet roll amid a rise in panic-buying.\n\nOn Friday, Coles imposed a one-pack limit on toilet roll and paper towels nationwide, while Woolworths has a two-pack limit on toilet roll.\n\nThe rush was triggered by a spike in Covid-19 cases in the state of Victoria.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said there was no reason to panic-buy.\n\nLimits were previously imposed in March, when Australian shoppers anticipating a lockdown emptied supermarket shelves. Police were called to one store in Sydney after customers fought over toilet roll.\n\nVictoria's tally of new Covid-19 cases has been in double digits for over a week. On Thursday, 33 new cases were confirmed.\n\nImages and video posted to social media in recent days show people picking up multiple packs of toilet roll, leaving shelves nearly empty.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brooke Simmons This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe latest curbs began in Victoria on Wednesday when supermarkets announced a return to limited toilet roll sales.\n\nColes has also imposed limits on hand sanitiser and food staples like pasta and eggs in the state.\n\nWoolworths reported a big rise in toilet roll demand in Victoria, but said other states are also panic-buying again. Customers at supermarkets in New South Wales and South Australia have reported empty shelves.\n\n\"We've regrettably started to see elevated demand for toilet roll move outside Victoria in the past 24 hours,\" said Woolworths' managing director of supermarkets Claire Peters.\n\n\"While the demand is not at the same level as Victoria, we're taking preventative action now to get ahead of any excessive buying this weekend.\"\n\nThe supermarket chain has ordered an extra 650,000 packs of toilet roll - a third more than normal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAustralia has reported 7,500 coronavirus cases in total and 104 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday there was no need for customers to start panic-buying again.\n\n\"I'm sure [panic-buying] will pass, as it did last time. There's no need for it, and I think today it's important to reassure people the outbreak doesn't mean there's a problem. The response to that outbreak is strong, which means that Australians can have confidence,\" he said.\n\nMr Morrison and the country's chief medical officer said the virus remains under control, and plans to reopen Australia's economy will go ahead.", "Objects were thrown at officers as they tried to disperse crowds in Notting Hill on Thursday Image caption: Objects were thrown at officers as they tried to disperse crowds in Notting Hill on Thursday\n\nPolice are committed to \"building relationships\" with communities after more illegal street parties were held in London, says the Metropolitan Police.\n\n\"We're not going to arrest our way out of situations like this,\" Met Commander Bas Javid told BBC Breakfast.\n\nIt comes as officers broke up an event on Harrow Road, Kensal Town, on Friday night. It followed similar events in Notting Hill and Brixton on preceding nights, which saw police injured in clashes with party-goers.\n\n\"The first line is engagement and building relationships, and you don't do that by walking into every situation with riot helmets and shields,\" said Mr Javid.\n\nBut he stressed that \"if these situations do descend into chaos and violence and disorder... we will take a much more thorough and robust position\".", "Jonathan Edwards has been an MP since 2010\n\nAn MP has accepted a police caution for assault after officers were called to his home last month.\n\nJonathan Edwards, 44, was arrested on 20 May on suspicion of assault.\n\nIn a statement, the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr MP, since suspended by Plaid Cymru, said he was \"deeply sorry\" and it was \"the biggest regret\" of his life.\n\nHis wife, Emma, has also released a statement, saying she has \"accepted her husband's apology\".\n\nMr Edwards has referred himself to Plaid Cymru's internal disciplinary committee and been suspended from the party.\n\nWhen he was arrested in May, the party suspended the whip from Mr Edwards which meant he was effectively sitting as an independent MP.\n\nAccepting a caution is an admission of guilt and details will be retained in police records.\n\nAlun Ffred Jones, the chairman of Plaid Cymru, said: \"We are aware of the personal statement made by Mr Edwards, who recognises his actions fall below what is expected.\n\n\"Mr Edwards issued the statement with the support of his family and we ask that their privacy is respected.\"\n\nA personal statement released on behalf of Jonathan Edwards said: \"I am deeply sorry. It is by far the biggest regret of my life. I complied fully with the police and acted with the best interests of my wife and children as my primary motive throughout.\"\n\nHe added: \"My priority now is to work with my wife to ensure as stable a future as possible for our family.\"\n\nA statement on behalf of Emma Edwards said: \"I have accepted my husband's apology.\n\n\"Throughout the decade we have been together he has been a loving and caring husband and father.\n\n\"As far as I am concerned the matter is now closed.\"\n\nMr Edwards, an Aberystwyth University graduate, has held the Carmarthen East and Dinefwr seat since 2010. He formerly worked as an official for Plaid Cymru and for Citizen Advice Cymru.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Milton Glaser says the I love New York design \"almost never came into existence\"\n\nMilton Glaser, the influential American graphic designer who created the \"I ♥ NY\" logo, has died aged 91.\n\nMade for a 1977 tourism campaign, the logo rapidly gained recognition across the world and has been described as the most frequently imitated in history.\n\nGlaser later said he was \"flabbergasted by what happened to this little, simple nothing of an idea\".\n\nHe also created a famous poster of Bob Dylan with psychedelic hair and was a co-founder of New York magazine.\n\nThe cause of his death was a stroke, his wife Shirley told the New York Times.\n\nMilton Glaser was given the the National Medal of Arts in 2010 by then-President Barack Obama\n\nGlaser was born in the Bronx borough of New York City in 1929. He studied at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a college in Manhattan, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy.\n\nIn 1954, Glaser set up Push Pin Studios with three Cooper Union classmates and helped bring a new visual language to commercial art, seeking inspiration from everything from Art Nouveau to Chinese wash drawing, German woodcuts, and the cartoons of the 1930s.\n\nHis poster of Bob Dylan featured a silhouette of the musician based on a self-portrait by Marcel Duchamp and brightly coloured locks of hair borrowed from Islamic art. The poster was included in Dylan's 1967 album Greatest Hits, which was bought by six million fans, and adorned countless walls.\n\nThe poster for Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits was inspired by Marcel Duchamp and Islamic art\n\nIn 1968, Glaser co-founded New York magazine and was its design director for nine years.\n\n\"Around our office, of course, he will forever be one of the small team of men and women that, in the late sixties, yanked New York out of the newspaper morgue and turned it into a great American magazine,\" the magazine's obituary said.\n\nIn 1974, he established his own design firm, Milton Glaser, Inc.\n\nThree years later, he designed the \"I ♥ NY\" logo free of charge to help promote tourism in his home city, amid a crime wave and financial crisis. He came up with the idea while riding in a taxi and scribbled it in red crayon on an envelope, which is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).\n\n\"It is one of those peculiarities of your own life where you don't know the consequences of your own actions,\" he told the New York Times in 2008. \"Who in the world would have thought that this silly little bit of ephemera would become one of the most pervasive images of the 20th Century?\"\n\nAfter the 9/11 attacks, Glaser released an amended version of the logo that featured a bruised heart and read \"I ♥ NY MORE THAN EVER\".\n\nAfter the 9/11 attacks, the Daily News printed a modified version of the 'I ♥ NY' logo\n\nIn 2004, he was given a lifetime achievement award by the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2009, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for protesters who target monuments to be imprisoned.\n\nThe measure says anyone who damages a public statue must be prosecuted to the \"fullest extent of the law\".\n\nMr Trump's order also calls for withholding federal funds from local jurisdictions and police departments that fail to stop such \"mob rule\".\n\nA number of US statues have been pulled down since the police killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd.\n\nThe president issued the order on Friday evening hours after he abruptly cancelled a planned trip to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, writing on Twitter that he would stay in Washington DC to \"make sure LAW & ORDER is enforced\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe measure says: \"Many of the rioters, arsonists, and left-wing extremists who have carried out and supported these acts have explicitly identified themselves with ideologies - such as Marxism - that call for the destruction of the United States system of government.\"\n\nIt accuses the protesters of \"a deep ignorance of our history\".\n\nThe order cites the recent targeting of a San Francisco bust to Ulysses S Grant, who owned a slave before he became Union Army commander and defeated the slave-owning Confederacy during the Civil War, a statue in Madison, Wisconsin, of an abolitionist immigrant who fought for the Union, and a Boston memorial commemorating an African-American regiment that fought in the same conflict.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Four numbers that explain impact of George Floyd\n\n\"Individuals and organizations have the right to peacefully advocate for either the removal or the construction of any monument,\" the executive order says.\n\n\"But no individual or group has the right to damage, deface, or remove any monument by use of force.\"\n\nIt cites existing laws providing for up to 10 years in prison for anyone who damages federal property.\n\nThe order warns local jurisdictions that neglect to protect such monuments could face having their federal funding tied to public spaces withheld.\n\nPolice departments that have failed to guard statues from damage or vandalism could also lose such funds, the order warns.\n\nIt also states that anyone who \"damages, defaces, or destroys religious property, including by attacking, removing, or defacing depictions of Jesus or other religious figures or religious art work\" should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.\n\nThe measure appears to refer to a recent Twitter post by prominent social justice activist Shaun King who wrote that \"statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down\".\n\nThe tweet added: \"They are a form of white supremacy.\"\n\nA statue of Christopher Columbus was toppled by protesters in St Paul, Minnesota\n\nMonuments linked to the Confederacy have been especially targeted in the US amid the nationwide protests ignited by the death of Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a month ago.\n\nPresident Trump has defended Confederate symbols as a part of American heritage.\n\nStatues of Christopher Columbus, the 15th Century explorer whose voyages on behalf of Spain opened the way for the European colonisation of the Americas, have also been targeted as perceived symbols of imperialism.\n\nSome state and local leaders have themselves taken action to remove Confederate symbols.\n\nEarlier this month, Virginia's Governor Ralph Northam announced that a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee would be taken down from the state capital in Richmond.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Racism in the US: Is there a single step that can bring equality?", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nHarry Maguire scored deep into extra-time as Manchester United overcame valiant 10-man Norwich to reach the FA Cup semi-finals.\n\nThe England defender, who moments earlier had a header brilliantly saved by Tim Krul, reacted sharply to turn in the loose ball at the far post.\n\nThe game turned on the dismissal of Timm Klose in the 89th minute. Norwich were in the ascendancy after equalising and looked favourites to snatch a late winner before the Swiss was shown a straight red for pulling back Odion Ighalo.\n\nThe video assistant referee checked Jon Moss' decision and confirmed it within seconds.\n• None 'We got players to kick him on purpose' - the making of Todd Cantwell\n\nNeither side particularly impressed in attack, although both goals in normal time were of high quality.\n\nThe first was scored by Ighalo, who continued his good run in cup competitions with a flicked effort with the outside of his boot in the 51st minute.\n\nThe second goal was even better. Todd Cantwell, Norwich's best player in attack at Carrow Road, let fly from 25 yards with a low swerving shot that beat the reach of Sergio Romero.\n\nNorwich will now focus on their increasingly difficult task of beating the drop from the Premier League. As for United, this was a patchy display but they remain in contention in two cup competitions and for a top-four spot in the league.\n\nA third semi-final in the past five seasons, but perhaps this match further highlighted United's need to strengthen the squad.\n\nSolksjaer, bar one change, faithfully stuck to the XI that got United to this stage however the attacking display they produced for much of the match was, at best, tepid. Without Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford from the start, they lacked the pace and guile needed to get behind a Norwich defence that was well protected by the defensive midfield work of Alex Tettey.\n\nThe statistics read 'no shots on target' in the opening 45 minutes - six minutes after the break that became one shot on target and one goal. If Solskjaer did give a 2020 update of the 'hairdryer treatment' then it certainly worked.\n\nLeft-back Luke Shaw, one of those players below par in the opening period, drove behind the Canaries backline and fired in a cross that was played by Juan Mata into the path of Ighalo, who produced a clever finish. That was the Nigerian loan signing's fifth goal in just five cup competition matches for United.\n\nBut instead of building on that advantage, United retreated into their shell again allowing Norwich to get back into the game.\n\nThankfully for the visitors, the cup gods were smiling down on them when Klose was sent off and, having a stronger bench to call on, it seemed inevitable United would break Norwich resistance.\n\nKrul did his best to keep them at bay, saving from Paul Pogba, Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford - three of United's six substitutes - before remarkably clawing Maguire's header off the line.\n\nBut with two minutes of extra-time remaining, United finally wore their opponents down when Maguire pounced to hooked home.\n\nNorwich, like United, made changes to their XI with Farke bringing back first-team trio Emiliano Buendia, Teemu Pukki and Cantwell into the fold - the latter two who helped Norwich make that brilliant start to the season.\n\nFinn Pukki, who has now not found the net in the past nine matches, struggled again, but his 22-year-old team-mate improved as the game wore on. Cantwell's goal in the 75th minute was a delight - cutting through the ball as his shot found the bottom corner.\n\nIt was just reward for Norwich who controlled play after Ighalo's goal. However, when Klose was sent off the Canaries knew extra time would be spent trying to see the match through to penalties.\n\nNorwich City manager Daniel Farke: \"Football can be cruel sometimes and it can be the cruellest sport in the world.\n\n\"Of course it's a disappointing outcome for us. I think the lads deserved more. They left their heart out on the pitch.\n\n\"Manchester United are totally on the up and more or less on the way to finishing in the Champions League positions, they had all players available.\n\n\"To deliver this performance is good for the confidence, without any doubt. In terms of confidence and mood, it was definitely a big boost.\"\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to BBC Sport: \"It is cup football for you, the game was not the greatest spectacle but I felt we kept the ball OK but did not threaten much or create chances.\n\n\"Delighted to be in the last four and we got a good workout for many of the players. It's nice for Harry Maguire to get the winner.\n\n\"It is great to have the option to rotate. Anthony Martial came on and did brilliant but Odion Ighalo gives me a chance to rotate and he is a proven goalscorer and played his part in both goals. He is a great person to have around the dressing room too.\"\n\nNorwich travel to Arsenal in the league on Wednesday (kick-off 18:00 BST), while Manchester United head to Brighton the day before (20:15).\n• None Manchester United have reached their 30th FA Cup semi-final, more than any other team in the competition.\n• None Manchester United have won 11 of their last 13 away games at Norwich in all competitions (L2), winning each of their last four.\n• None Norwich are winless in their last eight home FA Cup matches (D3 L5) since a 4-1 win against Burnley back in January 2012.\n• None Manchester United boss Solskjaer is the first manager to make six substitutions in a competitive match in English football.\n• None Cantwell's seventh goal of the season ended United's run of 448 minutes without conceding in the FA Cup, last conceding in last season's quarter-final against Wolves.\n• None United striker Ighalo has scored in each of his last three appearances against Norwich City in all competitions, netting home and away for Watford in the 2015-16 Premier League season.\n• None Ighalo has scored in all four of his starts for Man Utd (5 goals), scoring with his first shot in this match, with what was the game's first shot on target.\n• None Norwich City defender Klose received his first red card since being sent off for Wolfsburg against Hannover in the Bundesliga in August 2013.\n• None The 10 games that defined their season\n• None Attempt blocked. Anthony Martial (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes.\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Goal! Norwich City 1, Manchester United 2. Harry Maguire (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Anthony Martial.\n• None Attempt missed. Harry Maguire (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Paul Pogba following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Paul Pogba.\n• None Attempt saved. Harry Maguire (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Noah had been missing for almost a week\n\nA body believed to be that of the missing Belfast teenager Noah Donohoe was found in a storm drain, police have said.\n\nThe 14-year-old was last seen close to the Shore Road in north Belfast last Sunday evening.\n\nA body was found at 09:45 BST on Saturday in the 1km-long drain. Specialist officers had been searching it since the teenager disappeared.\n\nSupt Muir Clark said he did not believe there was any foul play.\n\nHe added: \"While we have no official identification, we believe it is the missing teenager Noah Donohoe.\n\n\"Our thoughts and sympathies are with Noah's family and we are continuing to provide support to them at this very difficult and heartbreaking time.\n\n\"It is disappointing that I, again, need to comment about people circulating a number of rumours about Noah's disappearance which are completely without foundation.\n\n\"This type of commentary and rumour is distressing for Noah's family and unhelpful.\"\n\nA body believed to be that of missing Belfast teenager Noah Donohoe was found in a storm drain on Saturday morrning\n\nOn Friday, police found Noah's backpack, book and laptop after receiving information from the public.\n\nThe recovered items were a khaki rucksack containing a Lenovo laptop and a copy of the book 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson.\n\nPolice have previously said he might have fallen from his bicycle and sustained an injury, causing him to remove his clothing.\n\nFloral tributes left at the gates of St Malachy’s College on Saturday\n\nOn Friday, Supt Clark said it was \"still unclear\" as to why Noah, who was from south Belfast, was in that part of the city.\n\nSpecialist teams, police and community rescue services as well as hundreds of volunteers have been involved in the search for the St Malachy's College schoolboy over the past number of days.\n\nSean McCarry, from Community Search and Rescue, described the outcome as a tragedy.\n\nSpecialist teams, police, and community rescue services were involved in the search for Noah, along with hundreds of volunteers\n\n\"We have to keep going until we find somebody,\" he said, \"and the sadness of this, and I can see it in the faces of our volunteers and I am sure it is the same for the police officers but it is most definitely the same for his family and friends.\"\n\nNorth Belfast MP John Finucane said: \"This is tragic and heartbreaking news for his family and friends and all who knew him, as well as the entire community who were involved in the search for him over recent days.\"\n\nAnyone with information about Noah is urged to contact the PSNI's major incident public portal - a 24-hour online reporting platform.\n\nMeanwhile, police investigating the teenager's disappearance have charged a 26-year-old man with improper use of public electronic communications network in relation to social media posts.\n\nHe is due to appear at Belfast Magistrates' Court next month.", "Micheál Martin will lead his Fianna Fáil party into a historic coalition with Fine Gael and the Greens\n\nIreland's new taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin has said the fight against Covid-19 will be his government's first priority.\n\nThe 59-year-old Cork native was elected at a special meeting of the Irish parliament in Dublin.\n\nHe has been the leader of the Fianna Fáil party since 2011.\n\nHe will lead a three-party coalition consisting of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party.\n\nMr Martin said that to be elected to serve as taoiseach was \"one of the greatest honours which anyone can receive\".\n\nSpeaking to the Dáil (Irish lower house) as taoiseach for the first time, Mr Martin said the focus would be on the social, economic, and cultural recovery from the coronavirus.\n\nHe said would would begin immediately on preparing an investment-led jobs and recovery initiative.\n\nThese proposals would be brought before the Dáil next month.\n\nIt is the first time in history that former Civil War rivals Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have governed together.\n\nMr Martin is expected to lead the country until December 2022 before handing back over to Leo Varadkar, the Fine Gael leader.\n\nMr Martin has been a member of the Dáil (lower house of Irish parliament) for just over 30 years.\n\nHe served as cabinet minister in several Fianna Fáil governments from 1997 to 2011.\n\nAs health minister in 2004, he became the first national government minister in any part of the world to introduce a workplace smoking ban, which also banned the public from lighting up in pubs.\n\nMr Martin was elected taoiseach by members of the Dáil in a special sitting on Saturday.\n\nThe vote took place at the Convention Centre in Dublin, rather than its traditional home at Leinster House, due to Covid-19 social distancing rules.\n\nTDs gathered at the convention centre in Dublin, due to social distancing requirements\n\nA majority of 93 members of the Dáil voted in favour of him taking the role, while 63 members voted against him.\n\nMr Martin made the trip to the president's official residence, Áras an Uachtaráin to be presented with the seal of office\n\nMr Martin appointed a new cabinet on Saturday evening, dividing the roles between all three parties.\n\nFine Gael leader Leo Varadkar is now the tánaiste (deputy PM) as well as minister for enterprise, trade and employment.\n\nWriting on Twitter on Saturday evening, he said he was \"honoured\" to be appointed to the position, and that his party was \"doing what is right for the country\".\n\nGreen Party leader Eamon Ryan is minister for transport, energy and climate action.\n\nThe rest of the posts were distributed as follows:\n\nMr Varadkar has been caretaker taoiseach since the general election in February.\n\nHigher Education Minister Simon Harris (centre left), remains in the cabinet, having previously served as health minister\n\nNo party came close to winning a majority in the poll which would enable them to govern alone, but coalition talks were then halted by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFianna Fáil won the most seats, but the two larger parties needed the support of the Greens to have a working majority in the Irish parliament (the Dáil).\n\nThe party leaders and their negotiating teams reached agreement on a coalition deal earlier this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What challenges lie ahead for the new Irish government?\n\nThere have also been nominations made to the Seanad, the upper house of the Irish legislature.\n\nOf the house's 60 seats, the Taoiseach has made 11 nominations, of which there are four each for Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, with two for the Green Party.\n\nThe final nomination goes to Traveller rights activist Eileen Flynn.\n\nMicheál Martin confirmed on Saturday he would be setting up a shared island unit within the Department of the Taoiseach.\n\nThis was criticised on Twitter by Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard, who highlighted that none of the Seanad picks represented Northern Ireland.\n\nIan Marshall, a unionist from County Armagh, previously served in the Seanad from 2018 until 2020, and was supported in his original nomination by Sinn Féin.\n\nMicheál Martin was the only Fianna Fáil leader in the party's history not to have served as taoiseach, but that changed today.\n\nMicheál Martin is expected to be taoiseach (prime minister) for two and a half years\n\nHe will hold the role for 30 months before handing over to Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar.\n\nThe two parties, both centrist, Fianna Fáil slightly to the left and Fine Gael to the right, have dominated the politics of the state since its foundation.\n\nAlthough there has been little to separate them policy-wise for decades, their decision to share power in government for the first time is historic.\n\nBut it's also a political necessity for their leaders to keep Sinn Féin, the party that got the most votes in February's general election, away from government.\n\nSinn Féin has accused the two of using the Greens as a \"fig leaf\" to disguise their denial of the electorate's demand for change.\n\nThe three parties have five years to disprove those who claim the new coalition is simply a slightly greener version of business as usual in such areas as housing and dealing with climate change in a radical manner.\n\nA meeting between Mr Martin and Northern Ireland's first and deputy first ministers, Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill, is likely in the coming days.\n\nWhile there will be new faces, there will be some old problems to talk about such as Brexit and Covid-19.\n\nNot everyone supported the new taoiseach during Saturday's vote in the Convention Centre.\n\nSinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald accused Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael of conspiring to exclude them from government.\n\nMary Lou McDonald claimed Sinn Féin had been excluded from power\n\nAt February's election, Sinn Féin took 24.5% of first-preference votes, compared to 22% for Fianna Fáil and 21% for Fine Gael.\n\n\"Faced with the prospect of losing their grip on power, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have circled the wagons,\" she said, claiming the new coalition was a \"marriage of convenience\".\n\nFine Gael leader and outgoing taoiseach Leo Varadkar said his party would not make a nomination but instead would support the nomination of Micheál Martin.\n\nLeo Varadkar and Micheál Martin chat before the vote in the Convention Centre\n\nGreen Party leader Eamon Ryan also supported the nomination of Mr Martin for taoiseach, saying the Fianna Fáil leader was \"perfectly qualified to run the country\".\n\nLabour leader Alan Kelly said his party would not support the nomination of either Mr Martin or Ms McDonald.\n\nPeople Before Profit Richard Boyd Barrett did not support Mr Martin's nomination and said the coalition's programme for government was a \"re-hash and reheating of the same failed policies\".", "Liverpool fans let off flares outside the Liver Building\n\nFootball fans who gathered in Liverpool for a second night after their team netted the Premier League title have been asked to leave by police.\n\nA dispersal order was issued around the city centre after groups came out again on Friday to celebrate Liverpool's first title win in 30 years.\n\nPolice and politicians urged Liverpool fans to stay at home due to Covid-19, which was \"still a real risk\".\n\nMerseyside Police said the order will be in place until Sunday.\n\nThe force said a Section 34 Dispersal Order was issued \"following large gatherings in the area this evening\".\n\n\"We know a lot of Liverpool fans want to celebrate their Premier League win, but there is a time and a place for this - and this weekend is neither.\n\n\"Tonight we have seen masses of people flock to the Pier Head area heightening the risk of spreading Covid-19,\" it said.\n\nPolice urged people to \"act responsibly\" and abide by social distancing measures\n\nPeople took to social media to comment on how people were behaving, about flares being launched at the Liver Building and fireworks being set off.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice urged people to \"act responsibly\" and abide by social distancing measures to \"protect yourselves and each other\".\n\nMayor Joe Anderson tweeted a photo of crowds gathered at the Mersey Ferry terminal\n\nAs celebrations got under way again, 24 hours after the club's title triumph was confirmed, the mayor tweeted a photo of a large crowd gathered next to the city's Mersey Ferry terminal.\n\nHe wrote: \"Clearly too many people intoxicated and causing anti-social behaviour.\n\n\"I urge you leave the city centre now it is not safe.\"\n\nHe went on to say \"councils simply do not have the power\" to move people on or prevent them from gathering.\n\n\"If you know someone who is there, please message them and ask them to come home,\" he added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We're not saying this to be party poopers but hundreds of people have already died in our region because of coronavirus,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Until it's safe for us to come together, please celebrate at home.\"\n\nEarlier, Mr Anderson, who warned that such scenes would happen, said it was \"disappointing\" so many had ignored advice.\n\nMerseyside Police's Assistant Chief Constable Rob Carden said fans should only celebrate with \"members of your household and in your social bubble\".\n\n\"As we all know, Merseyside has been disproportionately affected by Covid-19 and we must all do what we can to prevent further cases and deaths,\" he said.\n\nOfficial figures show Liverpool registered 544 coronavirus-related deaths up to 12 June and 1,677 cases up to 25 June.\n\nAnnouncing that the city's civic buildings would be lit red for a week to celebrate the club's achievement, a council spokesman urged \"ecstatic fans to try and maintain social distancing guidance to prevent the spread of coronavirus\".\n\nCouncil chief executive Tony Reeves added that it was \"vital we don't throw away the months of hard work for a weekend of celebration\".\n\nIn April, Mr Anderson said he feared restarting the Premier League would lead to a \"farcical\" situation with fans congregating outside Anfield.\n\nThe club said at the time that they were \"disappointed\" by the mayor's comments, while supporters group Spirit of Shankly called on him to retract his statement, adding that there was \"no evidence to support the mayor's perception that supporters will break any lockdown regulations\".\n\nBoth Liverpool FC and Spirit of Shankly have been approached for comment.\n\nNo attempts were made to disperse the crowd by police officers at the ground\n\nSpeaking to BBC, Mr Anderson said he had \"warned that I was concerned about the numbers that would turn up, not just outside Anfield but in other parts of the city centre\".\n\n\"In the euphoria... people have decided to ignore advice, but it's gone, it's happened.\n\n\"We'll have to see whether there's a spike in coronavirus as a result of this.\"\n\nHe added that it was \"disappointing, in the same way it was to see the scenes on Bournemouth beach\".\n\n\"But if Chelsea or Manchester City had won the league, we would have seen the same scenes outside Stamford Bridge or the Etihad.\n\nThe city's council has already begun investigating the impact of the club's Champions League match against Atletico Madrid on 11 March, which saw more than 3,000 away fans travel to the game, even though Spain was in partial lockdown at the time.\n\nIn May, the scientist leading the UK's coronavirus tracking project, Professor Tim Spector, said allowing the game to happen had \"caused increased suffering and death\", while the family of Reds fan Richard Mawson, who died with Covid-19 after attending the game, have called for an inquiry.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nThe mother of two sisters murdered in a park said her grief had \"been taken to another place\" after two officers were suspended amid allegations they took selfies next to their bodies.\n\nNicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were stabbed to death at a park in Wembley earlier this month.\n\nMina Smallman has complained about the Met's initial response - saying she had to organise a search for her daughters.\n\nNo-one has been charged with the murders.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mrs Smallman, the former Archdeacon of Southend, said the pictures \"dehumanised\" her children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"They were nothing to them and what's worse, they sent them on to members of the public,\" she said.\n\nSenior officers from the Met and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) personally visited the family to explain what had happened after they were made aware of the alleged photographs.\n\nMrs Smallman said she was told the photos showed the girls' faces and she fears the images will appear on the internet.\n\n\"This has taken our grief to another place,\" she said.\n\n\"If ever we needed an example of how toxic it has become, those police officers felt so safe, so untouchable, that they felt they could take photographs of dead black girls and send them on.\n\n\"It speaks volumes of the ethos that runs through the Metropolitan Police.\"\n\nNicole Smallman's body was found by her boyfriend after she was reported missing\n\nThe IOPC said the pictures were allegedly \"shared with a small number of others\", adding the Met was \"handling matters involving those members of the public who may have received those images\".\n\nYesterday evening, the Met said two officers had been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office and suspended from duty.\n\nMet Commissioner Cressida Dick said she was \"disgusted\" with the allegations against the officers.\n\nMrs Smallman said she had coordinated a search operation on weekend her daughters died and it was Nicole's boyfriend, Adam, who found the sisters' bodies and the murder weapon.\n\nShe says the police were \"making assumptions\" when they didn't immediately respond when the sisters were first reported missing.\n\n\"I knew instantly why they didn't care. They didn't care because they looked at my daughter's address and thought they knew who she was.\n\nImages recovered from their phones - which were found in a pond - showed the sisters dancing with fairy lights hours before they were killed\n\nMs Smallman, 27, had been with friends celebrating Ms Henry's 46th birthday at the park on the evening of 5 June.\n\nDetectives believe they were killed by a stranger who repeatedly stabbed them in the early hours of 6 June - their bodies were not found until the following day.\n\nForensic officers have since been searching a large area of the park including a pond and have trawled through hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish that was accidently cleared from the scene.\n\nDetectives believe the killer received injuries in the attack \"which caused significant bleeding\".\n\nThe IOPC is also separately investigating how the Met handled calls from worried family and friends of the sisters after they went missing.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "PC David Whyte is being treated in hospital for serious injuries\n\nConstable David Whyte has been named as the police officer seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a Glasgow hotel.\n\nThe 42-year-old is being treated in hospital and his condition has been described as \"critical but stable\".\n\nHe was one of six people injured in the attack at the hotel, which was housing asylum seekers. The suspect was shot dead by police.\n\nChief Constable Iain Livingstone said he offered his \"personal support to all those affected\" by the incident.\n\nIn a statement published on Police Scotland's Twitter account, Mr Livingstone also paid tribute to the officers who dealt with the \"terrible incident\" that \"shocked the whole country\".\n\n\"Officers have once again run into danger to protect their fellow citizens,\" he said.\n\n\"Their professionalism as police officers was outstanding. I pay tribute to their bravery, selflessness and commitment to protect the public.\"\n\nWith coronavirus lockdown restrictions still in place, he went on to urge people not to gather in crowds in the city this weekend.\n\n\"In the context of the current health emergency, and to respect those injured today and the people of Glasgow, I ask everyone to exercise personal responsibility,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHis plea was supported by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who earlier said it had been \"the toughest of days for Glasgow\".\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone involved,\" she said. \"The injury of a police officer, of course, reminds us of the bravery of our police service. They run towards dangers as the rest of us would run away.\"\n\nBBC Scotland has learned that one of the injured being treated in Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth Hospital is a 17-year-old from Sierra Leone.\n\nThe young man is said to have sustained injuries to his foot after a struggle with the attacker. He is said to be fit enough to communicate and is continuing to receive treatment.\n\nThe other injured men in hospital are aged 18, 20, 38 and 53.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Park Inn hotel in West George Street had been used as emergency accommodation for asylum seekers during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nA police spokesman said the incident was not being treated as terrorism.\n\nA formal investigation has started into the police response to the stabbing attack. The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) will be involved in examining the action of officers.\n\nThis is normal procedure for a death involving the police.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Steve Johnson said West George Street would remain closed around the hotel as investigations continued.\n\nScottish Police Federation chairman David Hamilton has spoken of his concerns for the injured officer.\n\n\"We are hoping he pulls through from this,\" he said. \"We are making sure we are giving his family the appropriate support.\"\n\nMr Hamilton said that officers were met with \"a pretty difficult scene\" at the Park Inn hotel.\n\n\"This will be a closed-down scene for some time yet,\" he added.\n\n\"We will try to get things moving as quickly as possible, but there are a lot of inquiries and investigations to be done.\"\n\nHave you any information you are willing to share about the attack? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Fire crews extinguished a small blaze at the Liver Building after a firework was set off\n\nLiverpool FC has condemned the conduct of some fans who gathered in the city to celebrate the Premier League title win as \"wholly unacceptable\".\n\nThirty-four people were injured - three seriously - as thousands of people turned up on the city's waterfront despite restrictions on gatherings.\n\nFirefighters also extinguished a small fire at the landmark Liver Building.\n\nMayor Joe Anderson said the events \"brought Liverpool Football Club and the city of Liverpool into disrepute\".\n\nSome fans lit flares at the Pier Head waterfront\n\nThree people remain in a serious condition in hospital, the North West Ambulance Service said.\n\nAnother 24 people were also treated in hospital, while seven others were treated at the scene.\n\nA 19-year-old man from Scarisbrick, Lancashire, has been arrested on suspicion of arson after the fire at the Liver Building, thought to have been started by a firework.\n\nThe blaze caused at least £10,000 worth of damage, police said.\n\nFifteen people have been arrested for violent disorder and police officers were \"subjected to a number of violent confrontations\", Merseyside Police Chief Constable Andy Cooke said on Twitter.\n\n\"Last night, children and families were present alongside others and heavy-handed police intervention was therefore not appropriate at the time,\" he said.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Jon Roy said missiles were thrown at police, including at two officers who were trying to help the victim of an assault and make an arrest.\n\n\"Both those officers came under attack from bottles being thrown at them and were injured as a result,\" he added.\n\nIn the early hours, after most fans had left, a group of about 100 people also committed \"acts of disorder and then threw glasses and bottles at the police when they tried to intervene,\" he said.\n\nA joint statement from Liverpool FC, the city's council and Merseyside Police said: \"Our city is still in a public health crisis and this behaviour is wholly unacceptable.\n\n\"The potential danger of a second peak of Covid-19 still exists and we need to work together to make sure we don't undo everything that has been achieved as a region during lockdown.\n\n\"When it is safe to do so, we will all work together to arrange a victory parade when everyone can come together to celebrate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio Merseyside This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Anderson told BBC Radio Merseyside he was \"frustrated and angry and upset\".\n\nHe said: \"People were urinating in doorways of the Cunard building because people gathered there with cases and cases of beer.\n\n\"About 95% of fans have behaved remarkably well, brilliantly, and listened to our pleas not to gather together, and yet there are a tiny minority besmirching Liverpool Football Club's name.\"\n\nThe events overnight drew criticism from Liverpool FC and several fans\n\nFriday was the second consecutive night crowds gathered to celebrate the club's first league win in 30 years.\n\n\"On Thursday, when they gathered outside Anfield, you could argue that the passion was there and we had to accept that was inevitable,\" Mr Anderson said.\n\n\"But what we saw yesterday was pre-meditated, planned, thought through, and drink played a major part in that.\n\n\"That's no [longer] acceptable now in this city.\"\n\nBBC Radio Merseyside reporter Philip Munns, who was at the Liver Building on Saturday morning, said there were boxes, broken bottles, cans, empty gas canisters and bags \"all strewn across the area\".\n\nAfter Friday's crowds, Merseyside Police issued a dispersal order for the city centre until Sunday.\n\n\"We know a lot of Liverpool fans want to celebrate their Premier League win, but there is a time and a place for this - and this weekend is neither,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nCrowds also gathered outside Anfield on Friday\n\nMr Anderson said he would talk to police about \"why no action was taken much earlier\".\n\n\"I'm expecting Merseyside Police to come down really heavy now… it's about the safety of our city,\" he said.\n\n\"I am angry that people are not considerate to other people, their families, the NHS and the workers that have to deal with this. Covid has not gone away.\"\n\nHe said reported cases of coronavirus had fallen in the past weeks but crowds were \"putting that at risk\".\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Hank Azaria, the voice of Indian character Apu, said in January he was stepping down\n\nUS animated comedy series The Simpsons will no longer use white actors for the voices of characters from other ethnic backgrounds, the show's producers say.\n\nThe show, broadcast on Fox Network, has faced years of criticism over white actor Hank Azaria's voiceover of Indian-American character Apu.\n\nMr Azaria said earlier this year that he was stepping down from the role.\n\nThe entertainment industry has come under growing pressure to provide more opportunities for non-white performers.\n\nFriday's announcement comes in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, which were sparked by the death of African-American George Floyd in US police custody on 25 May.\n\n\"Moving forward, The Simpsons will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,\" the producers said in a short statement.\n\nIn January, Mr Azaria said he would no longer be performing the voice of Indian convenience store owner Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a role he had played since the character was created in 1990.\n\nHank Azaria said it was important to \"listen to Indian people and their experience\"\n\n\"We all made the decision together... We all agreed on it. We all feel like it's the right thing,\" he said at the time.\n\nThe show had been accused of using the character in a way that reinforced racial stereotypes.\n\nMr Azaria - who provides the voice of other characters, including black police officer Lou and the Mexican-American Bumblebee Man - said he found it \"very upsetting to me personally and professionally\" that anyone felt marginalised because of Apu.\n\nFox Network's statement on Friday did not say whether Apu or other characters would continue to feature in the show.\n\nOther white US actors to announce that they will no longer be providing voiceovers for people of colour include Mike Henry and Kristen Bell.\n\nMr Henry provided the voice of black character Cleveland Brown in the animated series Family Guy for 20 years.\n\n\"I love this character, but persons of colour should play characters of colour,\" he tweeted on Friday.\n\nMs Bell, who provided the voice of Molly, a mixed-race child, in the cartoon series Central Park, said doing so displayed \"a lack of awareness\".\n\n\"Casting a mixed race character [with a] white actress undermines the specificity of the mixed race and Black American experience,\" she added.", "Demonstrations were held in cities across the UK\n\nThousands of people gathered across England to mark the first anniversary of the death of a 12-year-old refugee girl who drowned in a river.\n\nShukri Yahye-Abdi, who came to the UK in 2017, died in Bury's River Irwell, in Greater Manchester, on 27 June 2019.\n\nAn ongoing inquest was told in February an unnamed child had confessed to threatening her to \"get in the water\".\n\nThe case has been highlighted by supporters of the Black Lives Movement, including Star Wars actor John Boyega.\n\nShukri Yahye-Abdi came to the UK in 2017\n\nMore than a million people have signed a petition calling for \"justice for Shukri\".\n\nThousands of people attended events marking the anniversary of her death, including in Manchester, London, Cardiff and Bristol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by #Justice4Shukri This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDemonstrations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement were also held in Portsmouth, Oxford, Coventry and Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nFadumo Osman, one of the organisers of the Manchester event, said: \"I myself am a black Muslim female, I can see myself with Shukri. It could have been myself, my sister.\"\n\nShe said organisers wanted to \"put pressure on the institutions involved… to be transparent\".\n\nMs Osman, who came to the UK as a Somali child refugee, said: \"A lot of underprivileged children face difficulty within schools when they first arrive in the country and I hope that something is done institutionally to prevent this happening again.\"\n\nHundreds of people marched through London on Saturday\n\nShukri grew up with her Somali family in a refugee camp in Kenya until 2017, before moving to the UK.\n\nIn February, her mother Zam Zam Ture told the coroner's inquest that Shukri had never liked swimming.\n\nThe inquest heard from witnesses who saw Shukri with other children, who cannot be named for legal reasons due to their ages, before her death.\n\nThe hearing was told that Child One confessed to her foster carer that she had said \"if you don't get in the water I'm going to kill you\" but added the comment had been made in a \"joking manner\".\n\nThe hearing was adjourned before lockdown restrictions, with the next date yet to be confirmed.\n\nMore than a million people have signed a petition over the case\n\nAfter Shukri's death, her school said it would review its anti-bullying policy amid speculation over the circumstances.\n\nIn June 2019, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said it was treating the circumstances as a \"tragic incident\", adding that it did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances.\n\nHowever, the Independent Office of Police Conduct announced an investigation in August into GMP's handling of the case, which was completed in January.\n\nIts conclusions have been shared with Shukri's family and GMP, and will be published following the inquest.\n\nGreater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said earlier this month he would \"look into the case\" after he received about 6,000 emails about it.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Justin Bieber has denied the allegations made against him\n\nJustin Bieber is suing two women for defamation after they accused him of sexual assault.\n\nLast week, two Twitter accounts tweeted claims about incidents alleged to have happened in 2014 and 2015.\n\nBieber denied the claims and vowed to speak to Twitter to urge the social media giant to take legal action.\n\nThe singer, 26, filed a $20 million (£16.2m) lawsuit in Los Angeles on Thursday which describes the allegations as \"fabricated lies\".\n\nAn account from a woman known only as Danielle claimed she was assaulted by Bieber at a hotel in Austin, Texas on 9 March 2014.\n\nShe claims that after a surprise performance in front of a crowd at a bar, Bieber invited her and two friends to a Four Seasons hotel.\n\nDanielle then claims she was taken to a private room in the hotel and assaulted.\n\nHer tweets have been deleted however screenshots have been shared on social media.\n\nResponding to the claims, Bieber shared screenshots from articles from the day the alleged assault took place, which show him with his then-girlfriend Selena Gomez.\n\nHe says they did not stay at the Four Seasons Hotel. Bieber shared a screenshot of a tweet which claimed he was spotted at restaurant inside a Four Seasons Hotel on 10 March, the day after the alleged assault.\n\n\"Even though Bieber went to the restaurant, he did NOT stay at the Four Seasons Hotel,\" the lawsuit said.\n\nAnother woman who identified herself as Kadi alleged on Twitter that she was sexually assaulted by Bieber in a New York hotel in May 2015.\n\nThe lawsuit says her accusation is false and that she had fabricated her allegation \"out of her desire for fame and attention\".\n\nIt claimed that the women were \"trying to capitalize on the climate of fear permeating the entertainment industry, Hollywood and corporate America, whereby it is open season for anyone to make any claim (no matter how vile, unsupported, and provably false) about anyone without consequence\".", "Coca-Cola said its decision did not mean it was joining the #StopHateforProfit campaign\n\nCoca-Cola will suspend advertising on social media globally for at least 30 days, as pressure builds on platforms to crack down on hate speech.\n\n\"There is no place for racism in the world and there is no place for racism on social media,\" the drinks maker's chairman and CEO James Quincey said.\n\nHe demanded \"greater accountability and transparency\" from social media firms.\n\nIt came after Facebook said it would label potentially harmful or misleading posts left up for their news value.\n\nFounder Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook would also ban advertising containing claims \"that people of a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status\" are a threat to others.\n\nThe organisers of the #StopHateforProfit campaign, which accuses Facebook of not doing enough to stop hate speech and disinformation, said the \"small number of small changes\" would not \"make a dent in the problem\".\n\nMore than 90 companies have paused advertising in support of #StopHateforProfit.\n\nAs a result of the boycott, shares in Facebook fell 8.3% on Friday, eliminating $56bn (£45bn) from the company's market value and knocking $7.2bn off Mr Zuckerberg's personal net worth, Bloomberg reported. As a result of the loss, Louis Vuitton boss Bernard Arnault replaced the Facebook founder as the world's third richest individual.\n\nCoca-Cola told CNBC its advertising suspension did not mean it was joining the campaign, despite being listed as a \"participating business\".\n\nMr Quincey said the company would use the global \"social media platform pause\" to \"reassess our advertising policies to determine whether revisions are needed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC's Simon Jack that Facebook would 'take down' coronavirus misinformation\n\nClothes maker Levi Strauss & Co also said it would be pausing advertising on Facebook following Mr Zuckerberg's announcement. Unlike Coca-Cola, it accused the social media firm of not going far enough.\n\n\"We are asking Facebook to commit to decisive change,\" CMO Jen Say said.\n\n\"We want to see meaningful progress towards ending the amplification of misinformation and hate speech and better addressing of political advertisements and content that contributes to voter suppression. While we appreciate that Facebook announced some steps in this direction today - it's simply not enough.\"\n\nThe #StopHateforProfit coalition - which includes the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) - said none of the changes would be vetted or verified.\n\n\"We have been down this road before with Facebook. They have made apologies in the past. They have taken meagre steps after each catastrophe where their platform played a part. But this has to end now,\" it added.\n\nThe campaign called on Mr Zuckerberg to take further steps, including establishing permanent civil rights infrastructure within his company; submitting to independent audits of identity-based hate and misinformation; finding and removing public and private groups publishing such content; and creating expert teams to review complaints.", "Khairi Saadallah is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man has been charged with the murder of three men who were stabbed to death in a public park in Reading.\n\nKhairi Saadallah is accused of killing James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, on 20 June. The attack in Forbury Gardens was later declared a terrorist incident.\n\nMr Saadallah, 25, has also been charged with three counts of attempted murder, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nHe will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nThe 25-year-old came to the UK from Libya in 2012. He originally claimed asylum and was given leave to remain in 2018.\n\nPost-mortem tests revealed David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong each died of a single stab wound\n\nThe three friends each died of a single stab wound, post-mortem examinations have shown.\n\nMr Furlong was head of history and government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham. His parents said their son was \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\" and \"will live in our hearts forever\".\n\nMr Ritchie-Bennett was a US citizen who moved to the UK 15 years ago. His father Robert Ritchie told US TV network CBS the family was \"heartbroken\" and said his son, who was originally from Philadelphia, was \"brilliant and loving\".\n\nAnd scientist Mr Wails was described as \"always happy\" and a person who \"always made people smile\".\n\nThree other people hurt in the attack have since left hospital.\n\nMembers of the victims' families lit candles at a vigil in Reading, which the local council streamed online.\n\nIt began at 19:00 BST, marking a week since the attack.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was among officials at the vigil in Market Place. People who took part in the virtual memorial were encouraged to light a candle and place it on their doorsteps or in their windows.\n\nFamilies of the victims came together to light candles at a vigil in Reading on Saturday\n\nThe vigil took place on a grey and windy day in Reading's centre just yards from where the attack happened in Forbury Gardens last Saturday.\n\nRepresentatives from the police, ambulance, local MPs and family sat on spaced out chairs, facing three lanterns: the three lives lost.\n\nAfter the families each lit the candles for their loved ones, they came together as a group, hugging and holding on to each other.\n\nThe crowd was silent, remembering the three men, David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong - described as honest, loving and outstanding people, whose lives were cut short.\n\nAhead of the vigil, Mr Furlong's family released a statement thanking the police for their \"remarkable bravery\" in response to the attack.\n\nThey also thanked other members of the emergency services, and members of the public \"who did all they could to help and save the lives of those who had been injured that night\".\n\nThe statement added: \"To James' colleagues and pupils at the Holt School: he spoke often of how much he loved where he worked and his passion for developing the students. He cared so much and was very proud of each and every one of you.\n\n\"James was passionate about creating a more loving and caring society. His time with us was cut far too short but the impact he made will live on, long long into the future. His family, his friends and those who have met him - he made us all a better person.\n\n\"We are so proud of him. James was, and always will be, so very much loved by us all.\"\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was among officials at the event\n\nThe family of Mr Ritchie-Bennett also released a statement, which read: \"We LOVED Joe so much and we are in such deep sorrow. We need all the prayers for Joe and the Ritchie and Bennett families.\"\n\nCouncillor David Stevens told the vigil that the attack had left Reading \"feeling a mix of horror, disbelief and immense sadness.\"\n\n\"Just one week ago, friends and families were sat in Forbury Gardens, just a few yards from here, making the most of the warm weather on a summer's evening and enjoying one another's company,\" he said.\n\n\"It was around now, the happiness and tranquillity of the evening was shattered in the cruellest and most horrific way.\"\n\nThe Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire, James Puxley, said of the three friends: \"Who knows what they would have achieved in life had they lived to an old age. Doubtless they would have achieved many good things that the community is now deprived of benefiting from.\"\n\nHe also praised members of the public who \"tore off their shirts to make bandages\" to help the victims of the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family members of James Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett lit candles at the vigil\n\nAn online book of condolence has also been opened for people to pay tribute to the three friends, who were members of the LGBT community.\n\nMartin Cooper, chief executive of Reading Pride, said he also had been friends with all three men, and they were \"great supporters\" of the community. He previously described them as \"true gentlemen\" and said each had a \"unique personality\".", "The mother of two sisters who were killed in a Wembley park earlier this month has described the moment she was told their bodies had been found.\n\nNicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry were stabbed to death. Two police officers have been suspended after allegations they took selfies next to their bodies.\n\nMina Smallman told the BBC's Martin Bashir that the pictures \"dehumanised\" her daughters.", "Restrictions on travel to some European destinations are to be lifted on 6 July, says the UK government\n\nScottish Ministers say they have not yet taken a decision on easing restrictions on holiday travel, despite an announcement from the UK government.\n\nA UK government spokesman said blanket restrictions on travel to some European countries will be relaxed from 6 July.\n\nThe UK government has powers over border controls.\n\nHowever, health protection issues on overseas travel must be supported by Scottish government regulations because health is a devolved matter.\n\nScottish Ministers said they needed to be satisfied arrangements to be put in place were \"right for Scotland and properly supported by Scottish legislation\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had expected four-nation talks to be held before any announcement was made.\n\nUnder the UK government plans, holidaymakers are expected to be allowed to travel to certain European countries without having to spend 14 days in quarantine when they return.\n\nA traffic light system will be operated - with countries classified as green, amber or red depending on virus cases.\n\nThey are thought to include Spain, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, Turkey, Germany and Norway.\n\nThe full list of travel corridors with the UK will be published next week.\n\nThe Scottish government said it had expected to be involved in talks on overseas travel\n\nBut the Scottish government said it had expected talks involving Wales and Northern Ireland and UK ministers first.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Scottish ministers have long argued for UK-wide public health measures relating to international travel as part of the wider response to this pandemic - to protect people and ensure that we limit the introduction of new chains of transmission of the virus when our own infection rates are falling.\n\n\"This is a matter for Scottish ministers - who have not yet taken a final decision.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Scottish government had anticipated a four-nations ministerial discussion before the UK government's announcement, and it is disappointing that this has not yet taken place.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said the new rules would give people \"the opportunity for a summer holiday abroad\" while also boosting the UK economy - but stressed the relaxation depended on risks staying low.\n\nHe added that the government \"wouldn't hesitate to put on the brakes\" on overseas travel if the situation changed.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw said it was \"good news\" people in Scotland could \"look forward to a summer holiday in Europe\".\n\nHe added: \"But they now need an urgent decision from the Scottish government on whether they will be able to travel from Scottish airports, or have to fly from airports in other parts of the UK.\n\n\"Decisions on quarantine need to be taken without unnecessary delay by the Scottish government so people can plan their hard-earned holidays.\"\n• None UK to open up European holidays from 6 July", "Keturah King admits it was \"really scary\" at times during her pregnancy\n\nNHS England is asking doctors and midwives to provide more checks and support to black, Asian and ethnic-minority (BAME) pregnant women because of their greater risk from coronavirus.\n\nBlack mums-to-be are eight times more likely to be admitted to hospital with Covid-19 than white pregnant women.\n\nPregnant Asian women are four times as likely to end up in hospital.\n\nMaternity services remain open and mums-to-be are urged to keep in touch with their midwives to stay safe.\n\nKeturah King recently gave birth to a little boy at Homerton University Hospital in Hackney, north-east London.\n\nShe praised the support she received there but admitted she had concerns about being pregnant during the pandemic.\n\n\"When lockdown started it was just over-70s and vulnerable people on the at-risk list; then they added pregnant women and that's when the worry kicked in,\" she said.\n\n\"When it emerged black people are... more likely to pass away it was really scary and you're thinking, please don't let it hit our doorstep.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPregnant women are no more likely to catch coronavirus than anyone else. The majority who do get it will experience only mild or moderate cold/flu-like symptoms.\n\nAs a precaution, pregnant women have been told to be particularly strict about avoiding social contact to reduce their risk of catching the disease.\n\nJazpreet Rana-Patel, 28, is 33 weeks pregnant. She said: \"I've felt physically fine. I think definitely there have been periods of anxiety just going into the hospital, though.\n\n\"There are probably a multitude of factors contributing to the statistics and in the meantime being able to understand exactly why it's occurring is so important for women and to be aware of the risks, especially when lockdown is easing.\"\n\nResearch shows that just over half of the pregnant women admitted to hospital with Covid-19 are from a BAME background, even though they account for only a quarter of the births in England and Wales.\n\nGill Walton, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), said: \"Even before this pandemic, women from black, Asian or ethnic-minority backgrounds had poorer pregnancy outcomes, and Covid-19 has sharpened this inequality further.\n\n\"We support the steps the chief midwifery officer has asked maternity units to undertake and we are calling for these actions to be implemented swiftly. \"\n\nEven though some midwifery appointments may be carried out over the phone during the pandemic, that does not mean they are less important, the RCM says.\n\nEngland's most senior midwife, Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, has written to all maternity units in the country calling on them to:\n\nMs Dunkley-Bent said: \"I want to make sure that every pregnant woman in England knows that the NHS is here for them - if you have any doubt whatsoever that something isn't right with you or your baby, contact your midwife immediately.\"", "Technology giant Amazon has banned the police from using its controversial facial recognition software for a year.\n\nIt comes after civil rights advocates raised concerns about potential racial bias in surveillance technology.\n\nThis week IBM also said it would stop offering its facial recognition software for \"mass surveillance or racial profiling\".\n\nThe decisions follow growing pressure on firms to respond to the death in police custody of George Floyd.\n\nAmazon said the suspension of law enforcement use of its Rekognition software was to give US lawmakers the opportunity to enact legislation to regulate how the technology is employed.\n\n\"We've advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge,\" Amazon said in a statement.\n\n\"We hope this one-year moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules, and we stand ready to help if requested.\"\n\nHowever, the company said that it would still allow organisations that deal with human trafficking to use the technology.\n\nLike other facial recognition products, Amazon's Rekognition can use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to very quickly compare a picture from, for example, an officer's phone camera and try to match it with mugshots held on police databases that can hold hundreds of thousands of photos.\n\nFacial recognition technology has been criticised for some time over potential bias, with studies showing that most algorithms are more likely to wrongly identify the faces of black people and other minorities than those of white people.\n\nIn the past Amazon has defended Rekognition against charges of bias, while continuing to offer it to law enforcement agencies.\n\nThe death in police custody of George Floyd, an African American man, reignited those concerns as police tactics and the use of technology for law enforcement have come under intense scrutiny.\n\nEarlier this week IBM said it would no longer offer its facial recognition technology because AI systems used in law enforcement need to be tested \"for bias\".\n\nIn a letter to Congress, IBM chief executive Arvind Krishna said the \"fight against racism is as urgent as ever\", and set out three areas where the company wanted to work with Congress: police reform, responsible use of technology, and broadening skills and educational opportunities.\n\nIn recent months Congress has been weighing possible legislation of the technology as lawmakers, companies and civil liberties activists have called for stronger regulation of surveillance software.\n\nHouse Democrats introduced a police reform bill on Monday that would prohibit federal law enforcement use of real-time facial recognition, but some activists said the measure didn't go far enough.\n\nThe American Civil Liberties Union said all use of facial recognition on police body camera footage should be banned, and that federal funding should be restricted for local law enforcement agencies that didn't restrict the technology's use in the same way.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: New measure is \"to support those who are particularly lonely as result of lockdown measures\"\n\nPeople living alone in England will be able to stay at one other household as part of a further easing of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced that, from Saturday, single adults can spend the night at another house in a \"support bubble\".\n\nNo 10 said the change aims to help combat loneliness and that people are being trusted to observe the rules.\n\nThe relaxation does not apply to those who are shielding, or other UK nations.\n\nThe PM also announced a new national \"catch-up programme\" for school pupils in England, after it was confirmed most children will not return to classrooms until September.\n\nMr Johnson told the daily Downing Street briefing the new \"support bubbles\" apply to single adult households or single parents with children under 18.\n\n\"All those in a support bubble will be able to act as if they live in the same household, meaning they can spend time together inside each others' homes and do not need to stay two metres apart,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I want to stress that support bubbles must be exclusive, meaning you can't switch the household you are in a bubble with or connect with multiple households.\n\n\"And if any member of the support bubble develops symptoms, all members of the bubble will need to follow the normal advice on household isolation.\"\n\nIn addition to the new \"support bubbles\", the PM also confirmed non-essential shops can reopen on 15 June alongside outdoor zoos, safari parks and drive-in cinemas.\n\nThe government gave examples for how the new \"support bubbles\" might work for single adults in England:\n\nNo 10 also said that if a person lives alone but their partner has a flatmate, for example, then they can form a bubble but the flatmate cannot then form their own with another household.\n\nIf anyone within a bubble develops coronavirus symptoms, everyone within the bubble must self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThere were 8.2 million people living alone in the UK last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, with just under half aged 65-and-over. There were also 2.9 million single-parent households.\n\nMr Johnson said the new rule is \"not designed for people who don't qualify to start meeting inside because that remains against the law\".\n\nOne part of the bubble has to be a single household, or be a single parent to children aged under 18.\n\nIt does not apply to grandparents who live together, people living in houses of multiple occupancy, such as flat shares, or to couples who already live together.\n\nThose who are shielding cannot be advised to form a bubble, the PM said.\n\nHe added: \"However, I want to say I know how hard it is for those of you who are shielding and we will say more next week about the arrangements that will be in place for you beyond the end of June.\"\n\nBoris Johnson is keen to emphasise the government is moving slowly in easing the lockdown.\n\nThe \"support bubble\" plan is very limited - designed to help the loneliest in England.\n\nIt's the government dipping another very tentative toe into the water when it comes to easing distancing restrictions.\n\nBut just as lockdown is eased further, questions are increasing about the decisions we've seen so far.\n\nComments from Prof Neil Ferguson on lockdown coming too late will be very uncomfortable reading for those in power, even if they can say they were acting on the advice they were getting.\n\nLikewise, England's chief medical officer saying testing could have been ramped up earlier will be seized upon by the government's critics.\n\nThe government doesn't want to talk about its early decisions yet - but many others already are.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asked why children will soon be able to go and look at lions in a zoo but may not be able to return to the classroom until September.\n\nMr Johnson said the government had wanted to get the remainder of primary pupils back before the summer holidays.\n\nBut the circulation of coronavirus was \"not quite down far enough to change the social distancing measures that we have in our schools\".\n\n\"What we'll be doing is a huge amount of catch-up for pupils over the summer months,\" he pledged, adding that Education Secretary Gavin Williamson \"will be setting out a lot more next week about the catch-up programme\".\n\nHe defended the approach on schooling by comparing England's policy to other European countries.\n\nAnd he said a return for all pupils in September depended on progress continuing in controlling the virus.\n\nEarlier, Prof Neil Ferguson, a former government science adviser, told MPs deaths in the UK would have halved had the country entered lockdown a week earlier.\n\nAsked about the comments at the government briefing alongside the PM, the UK's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty said people would have different views on when the lockdown should have been introduced.\n\nHe said there was \"very limited\" information about the virus at that stage and we now know more.\n\nThe PM said: \"It's too early to judge ourselves. We know a lot more about the virus than we did in January, February or even March.\n\n\"You have to proceed with caution, that is what we are doing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: Lockdown decisions should be assessed 'in fullness of time'\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said the R number - the number of people an infected person passes the virus on to - remains \"just below one\".\n\n\"The epidemic is shrinking, but not fast,\" he said. \"Numbers are coming down but are not yet very low.\"\n\nMr Johnson also confirmed there have been a further 245 coronavirus deaths across all settings in the UK, taking the UK death toll to 41,128.\n\nThe pandemic has, effectively, become a game of risk management - that's because, as Prof Witty says, nothing is \"risk free\".\n\nWe could continue to suppress the virus by not easing lockdown any further.\n\nThat would further reduce the spread of coronavirus - and no doubt save lives.\n\nBut it would come at a huge cost economically, socially, to children's education and also to people's health, whether it is from mental or physical illness linked to continued strict curbs.\n\nInstead, the fine line being trod by the government and its advisers is to navigate a way through this (whether they are doing a good job or not is a whole other question).\n\nThe aim is to keep the spread of the virus low, while reopening society.\n\nWhatever is done, there will be victims.\n\nIn the end it will come down to both political judgements, in terms of how quickly restrictions continue to be lifted, and also individual judgements, in terms of how quickly we each embrace the new freedoms.\n\nThat, unfortunately, is the way life is in this pandemic.\n• None What are the social distancing rules?\n• None Who can you have in your bubble?", "The League of Gentlemen was a dark, surreal comedy\n\nThe League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh are to remain on the BBC iPlayer despite being removed from Netflix amid objections about the use of blackface.\n\nThe Mighty Boosh's Spirit of Jazz and The League of Gentlemen's Papa Lazarou were both white actors in dark make-up.\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said the corporation was \"constantly assessing whether things feel appropriate\".\n\nBoth platforms have removed Little Britain. A BBC spokesman said: \"The change only affects Little Britain.\"\n\nAsked about The League of Gentlemen and Australian comedy Summer Heights High, Lord Hall told BBC Radio 4's Front Row: \"We constantly are looking at what's appropriate and reassessing, and coming to a balance between what we think people want to watch or what reflects the times [when] those pieces were made, and what feels right now.\n\n\"You are constantly assessing whether things feel appropriate for the audiences and the contexts in which we are all broadcasting.\"\n\nElsewhere, 1939 film Gone With The Wind has been removed from HBO Max but will return with a \"discussion of its historical context\".\n\nLord Hall said the context of a film or programme was \"really, really important\".\n\nHe said: \"Using art, film, comedy, whatever, to help put context on the way that people thought, the way they behaved, and make that come to light now, and help us with the issues we're currently dealing with, I think is really important.\n\n\"We all need that context and we need that history.\"\n\nThe League of Gentlemen with Reece Shearsmith as Papa Lazarou (left) in 2002\n\nThere was an outcry on social media about the removal of clips of The Inbetweeners from YouTube - but it turned out to be related to copyright and not offence.\n\nHarry Enfield: \"I definitely think there should still be a conversation about it.\"\n\nMeanwhile, comedian Harry Enfield has defended having used blackface \"several times in the past\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had portrayed his \"hero\", former South African President Nelson Mandela, as a drug dealer, \"which I thought was so wrong that it was right\".\n\nThe point was \"to show how preposterous it was to have this stereotype\" of black people, Enfield explained.\n\nHe said: \"I wouldn't do it now, but I don't think I regret it.\" He added: \"I definitely think there should still be a conversation about it.\"\n\nEnfield said he had played four past prime ministers, and if current Chancellor Rishi Sunak was to get into Number 10, he would \"find it difficult that I would not be able to play him because of the colour of his skin\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nThe first figures from the new NHS Test and Trace programme in England show two-thirds of the 8,000 people who've tested positive for Covid-19 have provided details of who they had been close to. As a result, nearly 27,000 people have been told to self-isolate. The programme has traced 31,000 contacts so far.\n\nTwo-thirds of people who tested positive provided details of their contacts\n\nPupils in England are to be offered extended catch-up sessions over the summer and beyond, to help them get back on track after school shutdowns. Downing Street said the sessions would involve all pupils, not just students from deprived backgrounds who are expected to struggle the most following closures. It comes after the government abandoned plans to bring all students back before the summer holidays.\n\nSocial distancing has put limits on the number of pupils returning to schools\n\nA report containing measures to protect ethnic minority groups from the virus has been drawn up for the government. A review, published last week, confirmed that the virus kills people from ethnic minorities at disproportionately high rates. But a senior academic has told BBC News a second report, containing safeguarding proposals to tackle this, also existed.\n\nYoung people are suffering the worst effects of the lockdown economy, according to the Office of National Statistics, which has calculated the impact on household spending for the first time. It found that people are spending 53% of their income on essentials, with higher amounts for young people, renters and people living in London, who may not be able to take payment holidays.\n\nFaced with a collapse in air travel due to the pandemic and thousands of job losses, British Airways is resorting to selling off part of its art collection. The company owns works by Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin and Bridget Riley, with the latter believed to have the highest valuation of over £1m. At least 10 pieces have been identified for sale, although it is not known which ones.\n\nA work by abstract artist Bridget Riley - thought not this one - is thought to be BA's most valuable\n\n...the rules on meeting up indoors change slightly from Saturday - read up on what the new guidelines are here.\n\nAnd there's more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and you can get the latest updates on our live page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "European food delivery app Just Eat Takeaway has agreed to buy US rival Grubhub in a $7.3bn (£5.75bn) deal.\n\nIf the takeover is completed it will create the world's biggest food delivery company outside China.\n\nThe combined firm will have more than 70 million active customers who place close to 600 million orders a year.\n\nThe announcement comes after talks between Grubhub and Uber failed as their potential merger faced competition scrutiny.\n\nJust Eat Takeaway's chief executive Jitse Groen highlighted the importance to the deal's success of his long-standing relationship with his counterpart at Grubhub Matt Maloney.\n\n\"Matt and I are the two remaining food delivery veterans in the sector, having started our respective businesses at the turn of the century, albeit on two different continents,\" he said.\n\n\"Both of us have a firm belief that only businesses with high-quality and profitable growth will sustain in our sector.\"\n\nThe deal comes amid a surge in demand for deliveries of takeaway food as people stay home because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEven before Covid-19, taken together Just Eat Takeaway and Grubhub last year reported revenues that totalled $3bn and a profit of $447m.\n\nAnalysts have said consolidation in the food delivery industry is long overdue as companies have to spend huge amounts of money to gain and retain their customers.\n\nThe deal, which still needs shareholder and regulatory approval, is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2021.\n\nChicago-based Grubhub has had on-off takeover talks for some time with larger rival Uber.\n\nBut Uber signalled on Wednesday that it was no longer pursuing a potential tie up with Grubhub.\n\n\"Like ridesharing, the food delivery industry will need consolidation in order to reach its full potential for consumers and restaurants. That doesn't mean we are interested in doing any deal, at any price, with any player,\" said Uber spokesperson Noah Edwardsen.\n\nJust Eat Takeaway was created by the merger of the UK's Just Eat and Netherlands-based Takeaway.\n\nThe $7.8bn deal was given the go ahead in April this year after an investigation by the UK's competition authority.\n\nGrubhub's shares rose by more than 4% in after hours trade in New York.", "British world heavyweight champions Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury have agreed to a two-fight deal, says promoter Eddie Hearn.\n\nTalks over a historic bout for the undisputed title began in early May.\n\nJoshua, 30, holds the WBA, IBF and WBO belts, while 31-year-old Fury is the WBC champion.\n\n\"We have a financial deal in place between the two of them for two fights in 2021\" Hearn, who is Joshua's promoter, told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger. It's two British world heavyweight champions fighting for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world.\"\n\nFury expressed his delight at the news in a social media post. He said he would fight Joshua in 2021, but would first have to overcome the \"hurdle in the road\", Deontay Wilder, in a third meeting. Fury is contracted to fight the American, from whom he won the WBC title in February.\n\nJoshua, who reclaimed his world titles in December, has to face his mandatory challenger, Bulgaria's Kubrat Pulev, when the sport fully resumes after the coronavirus shutdown.\n\nHearn added: \"They do have intermediate fights. There is Dillian Whyte as a mandatory as well, but always the most difficult part of any deal is getting two parties to agree to the financial elements of the deal.\n\n\"The aim for Anthony Joshua is to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. He holds all the belts bar one, which is owned by Tyson Fury. So, if Tyson Fury was to lose to Deontay Wilder - which I can't see happening - then we would go straight into the Deontay Wilder fight for the undisputed championship.\n\n\"But, of course, in an ideal world you've got two Britons there who are heavyweight champions. It will never happen again, it has never happened previously and it's a chance for Britain to gain all the belts in the heavyweight division.\"\n\nIn a statement, Fury's promoter, Frank Warren, said \"no contracts have been signed\".\n\n\"Obviously, we are keen to make the fight that British fans demand and will continue negotiations in order to deliver Tyson his shot at becoming the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world,\" he added.\n\n\"Things are going in the right direction and we couldn't be more happy that a potential mega fight is in reach.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Warren added: \"The only way it could not happen is if one of the guys gets beaten.\"\n\nHe added: \"Everyone wants it to happen. For me, this will be the biggest sporting event in this country with these fighters - four belts on the line, two Britons fighting for the world title, both champions. This is just mega. I think it'll be the biggest sporting event in this country since England won the World Cup in 1966.\n\n\"[Fury's] really happy. It's something he's wanted for a long, long time. It's a great fight for both of them and for fans in this country and round the world.\n\n\"It's not going to get any more competitive than this.\"", "The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has calculated , for the first time, the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on household spending.\n\nIt found that a typical household in the UK normally spent an average of £182 a week on activities, such as travel, holidays and meals out, which have been mostly curtailed during the virus outbreak.\n\nMany households have been saving that money or using it to cover any loss of income - but there remains the need for about 53% of income to be spent on essentials, such as food and housing.\n\nFor young people a greater proportion of their income goes on essentials than other groups.\n\nWith little in savings and less chance to cut spending, the under-30s are likely to be hit the hardest if their income drops.", "The news that the full test-and-trace programme might not be up and running until September has led some to think this applies to the NHS contact-tracing app, rather than the wider manual tracing effort.\n\nThe confusion is understandable - after all it's not long ago that ministers talked as if the app was the centrepiece of the programme rather than the \"cherry on top\" as Baroness Harding described it this week.\n\nMy understanding is that the app, which has indeed suffered a number of delays, should still be rolled out nationwide by late June or early July - although there is no guarantee that the timetable won't slip further.\n\nAfter a first trial with an app with very limited capabilities on the Isle of Wight, version two, which features five questions about symptoms instead of two and integrates the testing process, is undergoing testing at a secret location in London.\n\nI understand this version will then be launched as an update for Isle of Wight residents next week.\n\nBut when that local trial becomes a national rollout is not clear.\n\nSomeone close to the project says that at the beginning, the team was told to act like a tech start-up, trying things out and then changing them day by day.\n\nNow, that person says: \"Downing Street's attitude to risk has been dialled right down - they don't want it to be released until it's perfect.\"\n\nBluetooth contact tracing apps are a new idea and many countries around the world are trying them out.\n\nSo far, however, there is no clear evidence that they are effective.\n\nSingapore, which pioneered the idea, struggled to get enough people to download its app, which appeared not to work very well.\n\nNow the government there says it will roll out a wearable contact-tracing device to all its citizens instead.", "The government is preparing to announce changes to the probation system in England and Wales\n\nSome high-risk offenders in England and Wales may not have been monitored as closely as they should have been during the lockdown, a report suggests.\n\nAn internal Ministry of Justice document shows probation staff did not carry out all the planned checks in half of cases, in one four-week period.\n\nThe National Probation Service (NPS) has insisted supervision was adequate.\n\nIt comes as the government is expected to announce the NPS will take over the probation system in England and Wales.\n\nThis would end the involvement of private companies.\n\nSince the coronavirus lockdown, the state-run NPS has scaled back face-to-face supervision of thousands of sex offenders and violent criminals, to prevent infection.\n\nEmergency plans were drawn up for most offenders to be contacted by telephone or visited on their doorstep.\n\nBut, according to the MoJ document seen by BBC News, in the four weeks to May 17, only 51% of high-risk offenders under supervision had all the contact that had been planned for.\n\nThe statistics also show that during the week leading up to May 17, 18% of high-risk prisoners did not have immediate appointments with probation officers on release.\n\nThey should have had a meeting within one \"business day\" of leaving jail.\n\nHowever, the NPS disputed the significance of the figures.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"This data is partial, experimental and unreliable.\n\n\"We don't use it in isolation to judge performance and the public shouldn't do either.\n\n\"All our wider evidence in combination shows offenders are receiving the right levels and types of supervision.\"\n\nPrivate firms, known as community rehabilitation companies - which supervise low and medium-risk offenders in England - had planned contact in 61% of cases during the four weeks, according to the data.\n\nUnder government plans, outlined in May 2019, the companies would have lost their offender supervision role to the NPS - but would have been able to bid to run unpaid work schemes, drug misuse programmes and training courses.\n\nBut ministers have halted the process and are believed to have decided that the NPS should deliver rehabilitation services as well as managing the entire caseload of offenders.\n\nHowever, it is thought there will still be opportunities for voluntary groups and charities to operate specialist offending behaviour schemes.", "With the easing of Italy's lockdown, staff at the Museum of the Treasure of San Gennaro in Naples are disinfecting exhibits ahead of its reopening on Saturday Image caption: With the easing of Italy's lockdown, staff at the Museum of the Treasure of San Gennaro in Naples are disinfecting exhibits ahead of its reopening on Saturday\n\nAll Thai train services have resumed after a three-month hiatus because of the pandemic. These passengers in the province of Narathiwat were observing social distancing measures Image caption: All Thai train services have resumed after a three-month hiatus because of the pandemic. These passengers in the province of Narathiwat were observing social distancing measures\n\nNepalese police used a water cannon on protesters who gathered near the prime minister's residence in Kathmandu. The demonstrators are demanding a stronger response to the pandemic Image caption: Nepalese police used a water cannon on protesters who gathered near the prime minister's residence in Kathmandu. The demonstrators are demanding a stronger response to the pandemic\n\nWorkers at a Nissan car plant in Barcelona staged another protest after the company announced it was closing the factory with the loss of about 2,800 jobs because of the pandemic Image caption: Workers at a Nissan car plant in Barcelona staged another protest after the company announced it was closing the factory with the loss of about 2,800 jobs because of the pandemic\n\nWith growing unemployment across the US, these volunteers loaded food aid for distribution to hard-hit areas of Boston, Massachusetts Image caption: With growing unemployment across the US, these volunteers loaded food aid for distribution to hard-hit areas of Boston, Massachusetts\n\nA makeshift memorial to health workers who have died from Covid-19 has been set up in St Petersburg, Russia. The Kremlin has denied under-reporting the numbers of deaths from the virus Image caption: A makeshift memorial to health workers who have died from Covid-19 has been set up in St Petersburg, Russia. The Kremlin has denied under-reporting the numbers of deaths from the virus", "NHS Wales chief executive Dr Andrew Goodall said the 19 field hospitals established in Wales remain \"a contingency\" but discussions were being held with health boards about whether there was \"some other supportive role that could be played by those field hospitals as well\".\n\nHe said there was an exercise underway \"to actually judge what capacity we need to retain\" to deal with any future further coronavirus peak.\n\n\"I think that just having a field hospital staffed across Wales, when they're not required wouldn't make sense,\" he said.\n\nDr Goodall confirmed the temporary hospitals, such as the Dragon's Heart Hospital, inside Cardiff's Principality Stadium, had cost a total of around £160m to establish.\n\n\"That was an investment for preparation, that was an investment under the principles of investing to save lives and to protect the Welsh population, and obviously we will want to make sure that we have some further opportunity to use those going forward,\" he said.\n\n\"But those plans may adapt and change.\"\n\nCardiff's Principality Stadium has been turned into the Dragon's Heart Hospital Image caption: Cardiff's Principality Stadium has been turned into the Dragon's Heart Hospital", "George Alagiah has revealed that his bowel cancer has spread to his lungs.\n\nThe 64-year-old BBC newsreader and journalist told The Times newspaper he was given the news by doctors in April, but only told his editor.\n\nHowever, he added that his condition is not at a \"chronic\" or \"terminal\" stage.\n\nAlagiah was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2014, and announced in 2017 that the disease had returned. It has now spread to his lungs, liver and lymph nodes, he said.\n\n\"My doctors have never used the word 'chronic' or 'cure' about my cancer,\" he said.\n\n\"They've never used the word 'terminal' either. I've always said to my oncologist, 'Tell me when I need to sort my affairs out', and he's not told me that, but what he did tell me is that the cancer is now in a third organ. It is in my lungs.\"\n\nHe added: \"I said to my doctor, 'You're going to have to do the worrying for me.' I don't want to fill my mind with worry. I just know that he's a clever guy, doing everything he can.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC newsreader George Alagiah on living with coronavirus and cancer\n\nAs a result of the cancer spreading, Alagiah said his chemotherapy has increased.\n\nIn late March, the BBC newsreader revealed he had also contracted a mild case of coronavirus, but felt that dealing with cancer had helped him to get through it.\n\n\"In some ways, I think that those of us living with cancer are stronger because we kind of know what it is like to go into something where the outcomes are uncertain,\" he told his BBC News colleague Sophie Raworth, at the time.\n\nLast month, his debut novel The Burning Land, about corruption and homicide in South Africa, was shortlisted for a Society of Authors award.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shared online shows a male officer being pinned to the ground and kicked\n\nThe home secretary and the Police Federation have condemned a video which shows an officer on the ground apparently being kicked.\n\nVideo circulating on social media shows an officer struggling with a man in Frampton Park Road in Hackney, north London.\n\nThe footage was branded \"sickening\" by Priti Patel, while the federation said: \"We are not society's punch bags.\"\n\nFour people have since been arrested on suspicion of assault on police.\n\nThey include a 13-year-old boy and three men, aged 20, 32 and 34.\n\nThe officers, a man and a woman, suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment, the Met Police said.\n\nA member of the public, who had claimed to have been assaulted, flagged down the police on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nIn a statement, the Met said: \"As an officer attempted to speak with those involved, one of the men resisted and a struggle ensued. A number of other people became involved whilst the officer was on the ground.\"\n\nAn officer was filmed while he was pinned to the ground in Frampton Park Road\n\nFootage appears to show the officer trying to restrain a man but they then fall to the ground with the officer pinned underneath.\n\nPassers-by began filming and taking selfies as the officer and the suspect grappled.\n\nThe female officer attempted to keep people away from the scene and also suffered injuries before more officers arrived and the first two arrests were made.\n\nTwo police officers, presumably awaiting backup, are having to fight for control, on a London pavement, surrounded by people, seemingly hostile.\n\nAs is so often the case, phones came out of pockets as the incident developed, so the video doesn't show what happened in the minutes before.\n\nThat is crucial since officers have to justify the force they use.\n\nEven before George Floyd's death, any number of controversial arrests in recent years have demonstrated that a single video posted on social media can transform the public's opinion of an incident, and therefore their views of the police.\n\nThis investigation may be able to rely on the officer's own body-worn video cameras, increasingly vital in establishing the context.\n\nBut more generally, figures show the number of reported assaults on police officers have been rising steadily since 2014.\n\nThis, during a period when police numbers fell because of years of austerity. Fewer officers on the streets means fewer officers to respond, when their colleagues get into difficulty.\n\nKen Marsh, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said: \"Yet again this starkly shows the dangers [officers] face and the bravery they show each and every day keeping Londoners safe.\n\n\"We are not society's punch bags. We have families we want to go home to at the end of every shift, but the dangers are stark and seemingly escalating.\"\n\nSupt Martin Rolston said: \"This incident, which was captured on someone's mobile phone is truly shocking.\n\n\"My officers went to the assistance of a member of the public - who asked for their help - after stating that they had been assaulted.\n\n\"What happened next is a reminder of the risks our officers take whilst going about their duties.\"\n\n\"My thoughts are with the outstanding officers who were subject to this disgusting violent attack.\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said: \"I utterly condemn the disgraceful attack on two Metropolitan Police officers this afternoon.\n\n\"These brave officers were doing their duty and assisting the public. We owe them a debt of gratitude.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Activists angry at Brazil's response to Covid-19 have created 100 graves on Rio's Copacabana beach to remember the more than 40,000 people who have died.\n\nHowever, organisers said supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro mocked the event with one man pulling out crosses.\n\nThe president's opposition to lockdowns and his downplaying of the virus have deeply divided the nation.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest number of cases - and the third-highest number of deaths in the world.\n\nOn Thursday, deaths passed 40,000 and cases rose to above 800,000, according to the health ministry.\n\nThe symbolic graves, with black crosses, were dug before dawn opposite the Copacabana Hotel by members of the Rio de Paz group.\n\nOrganiser Antonio Carlos Costa told Reuters news agency: \"The president has not realised that this is one of the most dramatic crises in Brazil's history.\n\n\"Families are mourning thousands of dead, and there is unemployment and hunger.\"\n\nBut he said some supporters of the president had mocked the project.\n\n\"They feel such rage - and I think they're reproducing the behaviour of the person occupying the highest position in the land,\" he said.\n\nOne man went around knocking down the crosses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus\n\nOnly the US has more confirmed Covid-19 cases than Brazil figures from Johns Hopkins University show\n\nBut even as the numbers of deaths and cases continue to rise, the country's two largest cities reopened shopping malls on Thursday.", "Ant and Dec have apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway.\n\nThe duo concealed their real identities with darker make-up and prosthetics in order to pull pranks on famous people.\n\nIn a statement on Wednesday, they said they were \"sincerely sorry\" and had requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nTheir apology follows widespread Black Lives Matter protests, in the US and the UK, over the death of George Floyd.\n\n\"During past episodes of Saturday Night Takeaway we impersonated people of colour in the Undercover segment of the show,\" they wrote in a statement.\n\n\"We realise that this was wrong and want to say that we are sincerely sorry to everyone that we offended.\"\n\nThey added: \"We purposely stopped doing this several years ago and certainly would not make these sketches today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe presenting pair dressed up as two fictional Jamaican women, Patty and Bernice, during a segment in 2003, and as two Japanese girls, Suki and Keiko, the year after, adopting fake accents.\n\nIn January, Ant and Dec won their 19th consecutive presenting award, at the National Television Awards.\n\nBut it's not the first time this year that they have had to apologise for causing cultural offence on their primetime weekend show.\n\nIn March, they both wore headbands that featured the Japanese Rising Sun flag - seen by some as a symbol of Japan's imperialist past - during a martial arts inspired performance alongside pop singer Anne Marie.\n\nTheir latest apology arrives just days after the BBC removed the popular comedy Little Britain from streaming sites due to objections resurfacing regarding some of the sketch show's similarly outdated characters.\n\nOn Wednesday, BBC director general Tony Hall said creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams had agreed with the decision.\n\n\"We are constantly looking at what we have in our archive and thinking, is it still appropriate?\" Lord Hall told BBC Radio 4 Front Row.\n\n\"Times move on. Indeed I think David and Matt, who made the programme, felt that times had moved on as well. It was acknowledged by them. So we're constantly keeping this under review, and that's why the decision has been made.\"\n\nHowever, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said he would not have removed the series, which was originally broadcast between 2003-2008.\n\n\"The BBC have editorial independence, and it wouldn't have been my choice, but that's up to the BBC,\" he told ITV's Robert Peston. \"I'm not going to second-guess them all the time.\"\n\nAsked about the sketches in question last November, Walliams told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz that blacking up was acceptable at the time - but it was \"probably the right thing\" that people don't do it any more.\n\n\"It was acceptable at some point about 15 years ago because lots of other comedians were doing it at the time, and now it's become unacceptable again,\" he said.\n\n\"It was unacceptable, then it was acceptable, then it was unacceptable again, so it's quite interesting how that has shifted. I don't exactly know why, but I think it's good that people express what they want to see and what they don't want to see - it's perfectly reasonable.\"\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having made himself up as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Chemistry experiments are difficult to replicate at home\n\nGovernment plans for schooling during the pandemic \"lie in tatters\", with England's pupils set to miss six months of lessons, Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nCalling for a national task force to tackle the issue, the Labour leader said the consequences for inequality and children's education were stark.\n\nBoris Johnson defended the plan during Prime Minister's Questions, pledging extra support for vulnerable families.\n\nPlans for all primary pupils to go back this term were ditched on Tuesday.\n\nAnd although some secondary students, most of whom have been out of school since the end of March, are expected to be invited back for some face-to-face time with their teachers, their lessons are not expected to resume until September at the earliest.\n\nSpeaking during Wednesday's coronavirus briefing, Mr Johnson said the government \"fully intends\" to bring all children in England back to school in September \"provided the progress we are making continues\".\n\n\"What we'll be doing is a huge amount of catch-up for pupils over the summer months,\" he said, adding that the education secretary will announce more on a catch-up programme next week.\n\nAt PMQs, Sir Keir said Mr Johnson had announced his plan to reopen primaries on 1 June, without consulting head teachers or having convincing scientific evidence on safety.\n\nAnd he said parents had lost confidence in the government's schools plan.\n\nHe accused the prime minister of \"flailing around trying to blame others\" for what had been a completely avoidable \"mess\".\n\nMr Johnson retaliated, during a series of testy exchanges, saying Sir Keir should ask \"his friends in the left-wing trade unions\", meaning the teachers' unions, to help schools prepare.\n\nHe also accused the Labour leader of changing his mind over whether schools should be open.\n\nSir Keir said England was an \"outlier\" compared with other countries in Europe, which had re-opened some of their schools.\n\nAnd his attempts to set up a cross-party task force to tackle the issue had been ignored.\n\nOfsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman said the government's decision not to require all primary school pupils in England to return to the classroom before the summer holidays was \"disappointing\".\n\nShe told a House of Lords Committee she was \"saddened\" that people may have become \"more frightened than they actually need to be\".\n\nChildren's Commissioner Anne Longfield called for a national strategy to return pupils to classes, warning children risked being forgotten as the lockdown lifted.\n\nAnd concerns were raised at the Commons Education Committee about the impact of school closures on children's life chances.\n\nProf Lee Elliot Major, former chief executive of the Sutton Trust education equality charity, said he was \"really worried\" about the eight million children currently out of school.\n\nHe said: \"There is a tsunami of anxiety hitting schools about the one million children who are going to be taking their GCSEs and A-levels next year.\"\n\nAnd there needed to be clarity about how public exams would be handled next year, adding that he preferred a combination of exams and teacher assessment.\n\nSally Collier, chief executive of England's exams watchdog, told the committee contingency plans were being drawn up but gave no details.\n\nReports have suggested Ofqual might be considering delaying exams or using a system involving predictive grades.\n\nMs Collier suggested the government may be re-thinking the content of exams for next year and that schools would need to know at the earliest opportunity what they were going to need to teach next year.\n\nOfqual would be publishing a consultation in the coming weeks on possible measures to ameliorate the impact of educational disruption on next year's exam candidates, she told MPs.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said it was increasingly clear disruption to schooling was going to continue.\n\n\"Looking at the exams system, we could face some of this, a very similar situation, next year, we have got to learn from this year,\" he said.\n\nDr Zubaida Haque, of the Runnymede Trust, said there needed to be an urgent look at what could be done for pupils who were not going back to school this summer.\n\nShe said there were lots of venues available out of school, which could be utilised because of Covid-19 restrictions - such as football stadiums, private schools and golf fields.\n\nShe urged ministers to think creatively and urgently about how such facilities could be used, with a view to setting up summer schools to help pupils catch up and support them with pastoral and emotional needs.\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh government has published new guidance on the measures schools should consider when reopening, including outside learning, teaching in small groups and pupils eating at their desks.\n\nSchools in Wales will reopen to all age groups from 29 June but only a third of pupils will be in classes at any one time.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish schools will reopen from 11 August, using a blended model, with some continued home-learning.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers have set a target date for some pupils to go back on 17 August, with a phased return for the rest in September.", "Younger women have been hit financially by lockdown\n\nYoung people have been hardest hit by a fall in their income during lockdown as more of their money goes on essentials, official data suggests.\n\nThe youngest and oldest workers are most likely to have lost their jobs or seen income cut owing to the system of state-paid wages.\n\nWith little in savings and less chance to cut spending, the under-30s would be hit hardest by this, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nRenters have found it just as tough.\n\nThe ONS has calculated, for the first time, the effect of the coronavirus outbreak on household spending.\n\nIt found that a typical household in the UK normally spent an average of £182 a week on activities, such as travel, holidays and meals out, that have been mostly ruled out under health guidance during the virus outbreak. This is equivalent to 22% of a usual weekly budget of £831.\n\nMany households have been saving that money instead or using it to cover any loss of income.\n\nThousands of people have lost their jobs and millions have received only 80% of their usual wages as they have been furloughed - in other words, told not to work while the government covers their pay.\n\nThe latest figures show more than 7.5 million people had been furloughed in the UK by the end of May, while another 2.5 million self-employed workers have applied for grants to cover their losses.\n\nWhile many people have saved, there remains the need for about 53% of income to be spent on essentials, such as food, rent, or the mortgage.\n\nSome, but not all of this can be deferred, through so-called payment holidays, particularly credit card bills, gas and electricity charges or mortgage repayments.\n\nHowever, young people, renters and people living in London have found a greater proportion of their income goes on essentials, some of which cannot be deferred, than other groups.\n\nAs a result, they are likely to be hit the hardest if their income drops and they need to find the money for costs such as food and housing.\n\nJared Thomas has seen work fail to pick up\n\nJared Thomas, 26, from south Wales, has seen work dry up as the coronavirus outbreak means financially stretched customers have had little demand for his tree surgery services.\n\n\"Everybody's life has been turned upside down,\" he says.\n\n\"I really don't know when work will pick up. I'd be surprised if it does for the next month or two.\"\n\nHe has claimed the universal credit benefit for the first time, so he can pay the rent.\n\nThe ONS said households renting their home from a landlord spent 61% of their usual weekly budget on essentials, compared with 52% for households which owned their home outright or with a mortgage.\n\nA typical 30-year-old spent 58% of their weekly budget on essentials and normally only 19% on what has been prevented during lockdown, such as drinks in a pub, the ONS said.\n\nOn the other hand, older households of between 65 and 74 years old spent far less of their budget on essentials (43%) and considerably more (29%) on activities that have been unavailable.\n\nIn London, where property prices and rental costs are most expensive, a typical household spent 58% of its weekly budget on essentials such as food and housing costs, the highest of any region or country of the UK.\n\n\"For those who have faced an uphill battle during lockdown, it's a timely reminder of how much difference it can make to have something set aside for emergencies,\" said Sarah Coles, from investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"Nobody is pretending it is easy to put money aside when you're starting out in your adult life, but it is worth doing whatever you can afford, as soon as you can afford to do so.\"\n\nAlistair McQueen, head of savings and retirement at insurer Aviva, said: \"While it is true to say that during the coronavirus lockdown 'we are all in it together', the impact on our individual finances is not equal.\"", "The women were celebrating Bibaa Henry's (right) birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters who were found dead in a park where they had been celebrating a birthday had both been stabbed multiple times, police have said.\n\nThe bodies of Nicole Smallman, 27 and Bibaa Henry, 46, were discovered on Sunday in Fryent Country Park, Brent.\n\nThey had been among a group who had gone to celebrate Ms Henry's birthday on Friday evening. The pair were reported missing the next day.\n\nNo arrests have been made but the Met said they had several lines of inquiry.\n\nThe group had met at about 19:00 BST at a spot in the park about five minutes from the Valley Drive entrance.\n\nPeople gradually left during the evening with Ms Smallman and Ms Henry being the only ones remaining by midnight.\n\nA search began late on Saturday after they failed to return home, before they were both discovered shortly after 13:00 and pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said their families were \"devastated by their loss\".\n\nHe added that the group had met in a \"well-known spot to sit and look over London\" and appealed for anyone who noticed them or \"may have seen a person acting suspiciously in the days leading up to the attack\" to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The development would have built 1,500 new homes on Westferry Road, the Isle of Dogs\n\nLabour has urged Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick to publish all correspondence relating to his approval of a £1bn property scheme.\n\nThe call came after it emerged the developer of the scheme has since given money to the Conservative Party.\n\nRichard Desmond donated £12,000 to the party two weeks after Mr Jenrick gave planning permission for his company to build 1,500 homes in east London.\n\nThe Conservatives said policies were \"in no way influenced by donations\".\n\nLabour has criticised Mr Jenrick for \"refusing\" to answer an Urgent Question in the House of Commons on the matter.\n\nChris Pincher - a junior housing minister - is answering the question instead.\n\nSources close to Mr Jenrick say he will be taking MPs' questions on Monday, at his regular Commons question time.\n\nMr Jenrick granted planning permission on 14 January for Mr Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks site on the Isle of Dogs.\n\nIt has emerged that Mr Desmond made a personal donation to the Conservatives on 28 January.\n\nLabour said Mr Jenrick must show the process was \"fair and transparent\" and a local councillor said the donation \"raised questions\" for the minister.\n\nThe property development was approved the day before the introduction of a new council community levy which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted he did not show any bias\n\nIn giving the project the green light, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate whch said the development needed to deliver more affordable housing in London's poorest borough.\n\nThe council has since challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nLocal councillors asked the High Court last month to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nThe £12,000 figure was included in Tuesday's Electoral Commission audit of party donations for the first three months of the year and first reported by the Daily Mail.\n\nMr Jenrick has come under growing political pressure in recent weeks after it emerged he sat at the same table as Mr Desmond, the former owner of the Daily Express, at a Conservative Party fundraiser last November.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Jenrick told the Daily Mail \"the developers did raise their application, but Mr Jenrick informed them that it would not be appropriate for them to discuss the matter with him, or for him to pass comment on it\".\n\nBut Labour said Mr Jenrick must now make clear whether he told officials at his department about the meeting and disclose whether he or members of his team had any other contacts with the developer.\n\nUnless the Housing Secretary published all documents about the application and any correspondence with Mr Desmond in the run-up to the decision, the opposition said \"the public will be entitled to think it's one rule for the Conservatives and their wealthy friends, and another rule for everyone else\".\n\nMr Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\n\"Communities must have confidence that the planning process is fair and transparent, but the unanswered questions around Robert Jenrick's unlawful decision have weakened that trust,\" said Labour's shadow communities secretary Steve Reed.\n\n\"It's time for Mr Jenrick to come clean and answer these crucial questions about why he over-ruled his own inspector to grant planning permission for a billionaire Conservative Party donor to build a luxury development.\"\n\nAndrew Wood, who resigned as leader of the Conservative group on Tower Hamlets Council because of his concerns over the property deal, has called for the Cabinet Office to launch an investigation.\n\nHe told the BBC details of Mr Desmond's donation raised \"more questions about what was going on\", adding that although £12,000 was \"not a lot of money,\" it did not look good.\n\n\"The optics are terrible,\" he added.\n\nA Conservative Party spokesperson said Mr Desmond's donation was properly declared to the Electoral Commission and fully complied with the law.\n\n\"Government policy is in no way influenced by party donations - they are entirely separate,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted there was no actual bias towards Mr Desmond but said it was right for the decision to be revisited to \"ensure there was complete fairness\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that while \"we reject the suggestion there was any actual bias in the decision, we have agreed that the application will be re-determined.\"\n\nMr Desmond has, in the past, donated money to both Labour and UKIP.\n\nNorthern & Shell, of which he is the majority shareholder, sold its publishing interests in 2018 and now focuses largely on property development as well as digital ventures and the Health Lottery.\n\nFormer Labour Transport Secretary Lord Adonis has written to the Cabinet Secretary about the matter.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Lord Adonis said he would raise Mr Jenrick's \"failure to answer parliamentary questions about his conduct\" in the House of Lords.", "The American dictionary Merriam-Webster is to change its definition of the word racism after receiving an email from a young black woman.\n\nKennedy Mitchum, a recent graduate of Drake University in Iowa, suggested that the definition should include a reference to systemic oppression.\n\nAn editor then responded, later agreeing to update their definition.\n\nThe decision comes amid international anti-racism protests after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\n\nFloyd died after a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nMs Mitchum had encountered people pointing to the dictionary to prove that they were not racist because of the way they felt towards people of colour. She felt the definition needed to reflect broader issues of racial inequality in society.\n\nMs Mitchum told the BBC that she first became aware of the shortcomings of the current definition around four years ago.\n\n\"I was just speaking on my social media about racism and just about how the things I was experiencing in my own school and my own college,\" she said. \"There were a lot of things that were racist but it wasn't as blatant.\"\n\nMs Mitchum says the dictionary definition was being used by people attempting to tell her she was wrong.\n\n\"Some troll was messaging me trying to say 'You don't understand what racism truly is,'\" she said.\n\nPeople were copy-and-pasting the definition to her in an attempt to prove racism could only exist if you believe your race to be superior to another.\n\n\"They were saying: 'You're in school [university], so what do you mean? You have privileges as well'. I said it's not about that, it's about the hurdles that I had to jump over because of the colour of my skin and the systems that are in place.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Muhammad Ali: 'Why is everything white?'\n\nOn 28 May, Ms Mitchum emailed Merriam-Webster to point out that racism is \"both prejudice combined with social and institutional power. It is a system of advantage based on skin colour\".\n\nTo her surprise, she got a response the next day. After some back-and-forth, Merriam-Webster said the \"issue needed to be addressed sooner rather than later\" and that a revision would be made.\n\nMerriam-Webster's editorial manager Peter Sokolowski told the BBC that the wording of the second definition of racism will be \"even more clear in our next release\".\n\n\"It could be expanded ... to include the term systemic and it will certainly have one or two example sentences, at least,\" he said.\n\nThe people working on the new definition will be consulting the work of experts in black studies, he said, adding that the revision could be done by August.\n\nMs Mitchum said the issue of definition is vital.\n\n\"I think it's very important for people to be on the same page,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Floyd's niece: 'This is not just murder, but a hate crime'", "Centrica, the owner of British Gas, is to cut 5,000 jobs this year to \"arrest the decline\" of the company.\n\nThe company has been losing customers to rivals and, in February, blamed a big loss in 2019 on the energy price cap and falling gas prices.\n\nCentrica also said the coronavirus crisis had shown how the company could be \"agile and responsive\".\n\nNew boss Chris O'Shea said most of the cuts would fall in the UK as the energy giant seeks to slim down its business.\n\nAbout half of the jobs to go will be among the company's leadership, management and corporate staff. This will include half of the senior leadership team of 40 who will leave by the end of August.\n\nCentrica currently has about 27,000 employees, with 20,000 of these based in the UK.\n\nMr O'Shea was officially appointed as Centrica chief executive in April, having previously been the company's finance director. He took over from Iain Conn, who had said last summer that he intended to leave the role.\n\n\"Since becoming chief executive almost three months ago, I've focused on navigating the company through the Covid-19 crisis and identifying what needs to change in Centrica,\" Mr O'Shea said.\n\n\"We've learnt through the crisis that we can be agile and responsive in the most difficult conditions and put our customers at the heart of our decision making.\n\n\"I truly regret that these difficult decisions will have to be made and understand the impact on the colleagues who will leave us. However, the changes we are proposing to make are designed to arrest our decline, allow us to focus on our customers and create a sustainable company.\"\n\nThe GMB union said it would \"fight for every job\".\n\n\"A combination of the [energy price] cap and too little, too late management decisions have left a once proud brand crippled and weak,\" said spokesman Justin Bowden.\n\n\"Slashing thousands more jobs is not the answer. You cannot just cut your way out of a crisis.\"\n\nThe price cap on electricity and gas bills came into effect in January 2019 and was a flagship policy of former Prime Minister Theresa May to end what she called \"rip-off\" prices.\n\nA number of energy companies have said the policy has affected their business and profits. Centrica made a loss of £849m in the last calendar year compared with a £987m profit the year before.\n\nThe energy sector has seen a number of smaller suppliers fail, and other companies have been looking to merge.\n\nLast month, Ovo Energy - which bought SSE's retail division earlier in 2020, making it the UK's second biggest domestic gas and electricity supplier - said it was cutting 2,600 jobs.\n\nCentrica also said it would be consulting with staff on \"simplifying\" terms and conditions for employees in the UK.\n\nIt said it had 80 different employee contracts, each with multiple variants, with many of the agreements more than 35 years-old.", "British firms do not have the resilience to cope with a no-deal Brexit after the battering of the coronavirus crisis, according to the outgoing boss of industry body the CBI.\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn said a CBI member had likened a no-deal to \"setting the shed on fire\" while the house was in flames.\n\nBrexit trade negotiations have not been going well between the UK and the EU.\n\nA government spokesperson said the UK wanted to reach an agreement with the EU this year.\n\nDame Carolyn Fairbairn told the BBC that any buffers to cope with the additional cost and planning of an exit from the EU customs union and single market without a deal had been exhausted by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"The resilience of British business is absolutely on the floor,\" she said.\n\n\"Every penny of cash that had been stored up, all the stockpiles prepared have been run down.\n\n\"The firms that I speak to have not a spare moment to plan for a no trade deal Brexit at the end of the year - that is the common sense voice that needs to find its way into these negotiations.\"\n\nThose negotiations are not going well. They broke up last week with the EU's chief negotiator saying that very little progress had been made on key sticking points, including future fishing rights in UK waters, and commitments to maintain a \"level playing field\" over regulation and competition.\n\nThe devastating impact of Covid-19 and the fight for business survival has diverted management attention away from any Brexit contingency planning, according to Dame Carolyn, who worries that a political commitment to abandon the current transitional trading arrangements - come what may - will add to the burden on business at a critical moment.\n\n\"As one member put it to me - just because the house is on fire, it doesn't make it ok to set fire to the garden shed.\n\n\"If we have a political timescale that takes us to a brinksmanship deal in December that will be catastrophic for British business - they will not be ready.\n\n\"Small businesses were not ready last time there was a no-deal Brexit threat - this time they will not have had a moment to prepare for it.\"\n\nDame Carolyn's comments come as the CBI - the UK's most influential business group - confirmed she will be succeeded as director general by Tony Danker in November.\n\nMr Danker is currently chief executive of Be the Business, an organisation set up to improve the efficiency and productivity of UK businesses. A former media executive, he was also a policy adviser to the Treasury.\n\nRelations between business groups and the government have been strained ever since the campaign leading up to the EU referendum of 2016, when business groups, including the CBI, warned of economic damage to the UK economy whose biggest customer is the EU.\n\nDame Carolyn is hopeful that this crisis can help build bridges in the face of a common and deadly health and economic enemy.\n\n\"Government realises it needs business and business understands how much it needs government,\" she said.\n\nShe described the government's intervention to support workers wages during the lockdown as a \"vital way for the economy to hibernate\".\n\nBut the CBI on Thursday urged the government to focus on how the UK emerges from that hibernation.\n\nIn a letter to the Prime Minister, Dame Carolyn called on the government to make employment for young workers the government's top priority, as well as ensuring the UK emerges from the crisis with a focus on investment in environmentally sustainable industries.\n\nDame Carolyn was set to stand down this year anyway, but agreed to extend her term until the end of the year given the ongoing health and economic crisis.\n\nThis is not the swansong she would have wanted. The UK is forecast to experience the worst economic downturn of any major European economy according to figures out yesterday from the OECD.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We've been clear that we want to reach an agreement with the EU this year and we are prepared to work hard to accelerate talks. This was what both sides agreed to in the political declaration.\n\n\"If we don't negotiate a Canada-style FTA [free trade agreement], we'll leave with an Australia-style relationship. Whatever happens we will be leaving the single market and customs union at the end of this year.\n\n\"We have taken unprecedented action to support businesses through this pandemic and to ensure the UK's economic recovery is as strong and as swift as possible. Extending the transition period would simply prolong the negotiations and create more uncertainty for businesses.\"", "Prince Joachim, 28, is the nephew of the Belgian king\n\nA Belgian prince who contracted coronavirus after breaking lockdown rules in Spain has been fined €10,400 ($11,800).\n\nPrince Joachim was issued with the penalty for failing to observe a 14-day quarantine period after arriving in the country.\n\nThe prince, 28, arrived in Spain for an internship on 24 May, but attended a gathering in the southern city of Córdoba two days later.\n\nBelgian prince apologises for lockdown party in a statement after reports about the party emerged in Spanish media late last month. He added that he would \"accept the consequences\".\n\nHe has 15 days to pay the fine, in which case the amount will be reduced by half.\n\nSpain imposed a mandatory two-week quarantine for all international arrivals on 15 May.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lockdown has eased in Spain, but there are still time restrictions on when people can be outdoors\n\nPrince Joachim is a nephew of Belgium's King Philippe and 10th in line to the throne.\n\nMore than 27,000 people have died of coronavirus in Spain since the outbreak began.", "Concerns about the risks of deploying a go-it-alone UK coronavirus contact-tracing app are causing further delays.\n\nA second version of the smartphone software was due to have begun testing on the Isle of Wight on Tuesday, but the government decided to postpone the trial.\n\nMinisters are considering switching the app over to tech developed by Apple and Google.\n\nBut countries testing that model are experiencing issues of their own.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock had originally said the NHS Covid-19 app was to be launched across England - and possibly other parts of the UK - by 1 June.\n\nBut he subsequently said the government had decided it would be better to establish a network of human contact tracers first.\n\nHowever, the BBC has discovered that one of the main reasons the initiative is running behind schedule is that developers are having problems using Bluetooth as a means to estimate distance.\n\nEven so, they still believe they are better placed to tackle the challenge than counterparts overseas who are working under constraints imposed by the two US tech firms.\n\nContact-tracing apps are designed to prevent a second wave of infections by keeping a log of when two people are in close proximity to each other and for how long.\n\nIf one of the users later tests positive for the disease, the records are used to determine how likely it is they infected the other. If required, an alert is triggered to help prevent the further spread of the virus.\n\nThe UK has adopted what is known as a \"centralised\" approach, meaning that the contact-matching process is carried out on a remote computer server. One benefit is it offers epidemiologists more data to tackle the pandemic. France and India are other countries to have adopted this model.\n\nBy contrast, Apple and Google's \"decentralised\" approach carries out the matches on the handsets themselves, on the grounds this better protects users' privacy.\n\nPoland switched its app from a centralised to decentralised approach on Tuesday. Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, Italy and Latvia are among others to have adopted the tech giants' design.\n\nBoth systems rely on Bluetooth \"handshakes\" to work.\n\nNumber 10 is concerned that iPhones will not always detect each other because of a restriction Apple has imposed on apps that do not adopt its model.\n\nBut the UK team has devised a workaround and is more concerned about other limitations of using Bluetooth.\n\nSome of these issues were outlined in a study published by Trinity College Dublin last month.\n\nIt highlighted problems with using received Bluetooth signal strength as a means to estimate distance.\n\nThe report highlighted troubling results when Singapore's TraceTogether app was tested.\n\nIreland's police force is among organisations trialling a contact-tracing app ahead of a planned national rollout\n\nAn experiment within a stationary train carriage found that when users moved from a distance of 3.5m (11.5ft) to 4m, signals became stronger rather than weaker because of the way metal objects were reflecting the radio waves.\n\nA trial in a supermarket also found the received signal strength was the same whether two people were walking close together or 2m apart.\n\nFollow-up tests using Apple-Google's tech are currently under way.\n\n\"The work is ongoing, but preliminary results are broadly consistent with previous observations,\" said Dr Brendan Jennings, who has been tasked with assessing the effectiveness of Ireland's Covid-19 app.\n\nThe team behind Switzerland's SwissCovid app is carrying out tests of its own.\n\nIts Bluetooth measurement chief believes the issue can be partly addressed by taking a range of readings over a period of five minutes or more.\n\nBut he added that Apple and Google had placed curbs on what could be achieved.\n\n\"The Google and Apple API [application programming interface] limits the amount of raw information that is actually exposed to the app,\" Prof Mathias Payer told the BBC.\n\n\"For maximum utility, we would get all the different measurements, but this has privacy implications.\"\n\nSwiss MPs have given permission for the country's contact-tracing app to be launched nationwide\n\nApps using Google and Apple's tech do not get to see the actual signal strength but rather one of three values, based on calculations used to normalise the different ways Bluetooth behaves on different handsets,\n\nBy contrast, the UK team can currently obtain the measurements directly.\n\nThose responsible believe a further advantage of their centralised approach is that the data can be processed on the server involved, since it would be too taxing a task to be done on smartphones.\n\nBut part of their challenge is communicating this to Baroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace programme - and 10 Downing Street itself.\n\nA spokesman for the prime minister declined to comment.", "Recently released figures show that more than 31,000 close contacts were identified during the first week of the test and trace system in England.\n\nAn anonymous contact tracer told the BBC they felt training for the new system was inadequate and that there had been \"mass confusion\".\n\nThe government disputed the claims and said the new system is \"helping save lives\".", "Lady Antebellum - now Lady A - with the three Grammys they won in 2010\n\nChart-topping US pop group Lady Antebellum have changed their name to Lady A because Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era.\n\nThe Nashville trio have won five Grammys and had seven US top 10 albums, including three number ones.\n\nThe word antebellum is used to refer to the period and architecture in the US South before the Civil War.\n\nThey say they took the name from the architectural style, but are \"deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused\".\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, they said their eyes had been opened to \"the injustices, inequality and biases black women and men have always faced\" and \"blindspots we didn't even know existed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThey originally took their name from the antebellum style of home after taking their first band photos in front of one such house almost 14 years ago, they said.\n\n\"As musicians, it reminded us of all the music born in the South that influenced us,\" they wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But we are regretful and embarrassed to say that we did not take into account the associations that weigh down this word referring to the period of history before the Civil War, which includes slavery.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused and for anyone who has felt unsafe, unseen or unvalued. Causing pain was never our hearts' intention, but it doesn't change the fact that indeed, it did just that.\"\n\nThe group are best known for their hit Need You Now, which reached number two in the US, and the top 20 in the UK, in 2010.\n\nBjork's record label has also changed its name\n\nThey said they made the decision after \"personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest black friends and colleagues\".\n\nThey added: \"We can make no excuse for our lateness to this realisation. What we can do is acknowledge it, turn from it and take action.\"\n\nTheir move comes after British record label One Little Indian, which has released music by Bjork, Sigur Ros and Paul McCartney's side-project The Fireman, changed its name to One Little Independent.\n\nFounder Derek Birkett said he'd made the decision after a fan explained why the name - which uses an outdated term for the indigenous people of the Americas - was \"offensive\".\n\n\"The last few weeks have been a monumental learning curve,\" he wrote in a statement.\n\n\"Following the receipt of an eye-opening letter from a Crass fan that detailed precisely why the logo and label name are offensive, as well as the violent history of the terminology, I felt equally appalled and grateful to them for making me understand what must be changed.\"\n\nHe went on to explain that the label had been founded in the late 1970s, when his friends were inspired by the \"philosophies of the Indigenous People of the Americas\".\n\n\"I was naive enough at the time of founding my label to think that the name and logo was reflective of my respect and appreciation of the culture,\" he said. \"I recognise now that both contribute to racism and should have been addressed a long, long time ago.\"\n\nThe name changes come as the music industry seeks to address its complicated history with race, in the wake of George Floyd's death and Black Lives Matter protests around the world.\n\nThe term \"urban music\" has been scrapped by Republic Records, which is home to Drake and Ariana Grande, while the Grammys have announced they will stop using \"urban\" to describe music of black origin in their awards categories.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A man who repeatedly drove over his stepmother in a drunken rage at a wedding has been jailed for six years.\n\nBen Ashman, 37, went on a rampage in the car park at Bowburn Hall, near Durham, at the end of his stepbrother Connor Ashman's nuptials on 23 August.\n\nHis stepmother Kathryn Ashman suffered injuries including a fractured face and broken ribs when she was run over three times by his 4x4 Vauxhall.\n\nHe admitted five offences when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court.\n\nJudge Robert Adams said Mrs Ashman's injuries were \"appalling\" and the defendant, of Sunderland Street, Houghton-le-Spring, was \"extremely lucky\" she was not killed.\n\nProsecutor Jolyon Perks said trouble started just after midnight when Ashman's \"intoxicated and upset\" girlfriend complained of the way another man was looking at her.\n\nA fight broke out and spilled into the car park, rousing Mrs Ashman.\n\nClad in her dressing gown, she shouted at Ashman's girlfriend, prompting him to hold his stepmother on the ground by her hair.\n\nHe shouted that he would kill her and \"splat everyone here\", the court heard.\n\nThe drunk couple then got in their car, but guests tried to stop them driving away.\n\nOne woman, Jodie Young, had her arm shut in the door as she tried to grab the keys, while Ashman's brother, Kyle, threw a large rock at the windscreen, shattering it.\n\nBen Ashman went on a rampage in the car park at Bowburn Hall near Durham\n\nAshman drove at speed around the car park aiming at people, including Kyle, with whom he made minimal contact as he braked.\n\nHe then smashed into Ms Young's Nissan Juke, the court heard, which his brother had attempted to hide behind.\n\nAshman then careered into his stepmother, then reversed over her.\n\nHe pulled her along, then drove forward over her again.\n\nThe court heard he had not intended to hit her and had limited visibility due to the shattered windscreen.\n\nAshman fled southbound along the A1(M), stopping after seven miles due to the amount of damage to his car.\n\nLewis Kerr, defending, said his client was suffering \"mental health difficulties\" at the time and is full of \"remorse, sorrow and anguish\".\n\nJudge Adams said there was no indication of animosity between Ashman and his family before the wedding and it was \"truly out of character\".\n\nAshman, who had initially been charged with attempted murder, admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving, attempted grievous bodily harm, dangerous driving, common assault and criminal damage.\n\nHe was also banned from driving for five and a half years.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It is different when you're not getting that face-to-face contact\"\n\nDrug and alcohol addiction referrals have fallen by 57% during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a charity.\n\nKaleidoscope said the \"significant reduction\" came after it closed non-clinical bases and recovery hubs on 18 March.\n\nThe charity's chief executive said people who cannot access such help get \"exponentially worse\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said services had \"adapted rapidly\" during the pandemic.\n\nKaleidoscope covers the Gwent area, Powys and north Wales, with each region seeing referrals drop.\n\nComparing drug referrals from 18 March to 30 May in 2019, and the same period this year, it said:\n\nThere were similar drops in alcohol referrals.\n\nChief executive Martin Blakebrough said: \"With drugs or alcohol, if you're not coming into services those problems get exponentially worse.\"\n\nIt was not just about drug services but ancillary services like hepatitis C vaccinations, Mr Blakebrough said.\n\n\"We will see an increase in deaths if we're not careful,\" he said.\n\nKaleidoscope and other charities in Wales have changed the way they help people. Changes include video calls, online chats and more phone calls.\n\nCarol Hardy, manager of the Living Room, a charity that helps drug and alcohol addicts in Cardiff, said: \"The figures don't surprise me at all. Being dependent, especially on alcohol and drugs, requires a person to isolate themselves. It's the isolation and loneliness - that's what the addiction wants.\n\n\"It broke my heart when the lockdown came in March because this is going to be very difficult for people and that's what has happened.\n\nRachel Cook from Welshpool has had a drug problem for 20 years.\n\nThe 44-year-old has relapsed four times but has been drug and alcohol-free for a year and a half since getting help four years ago.\n\nShe said she had found not having face-to-face meetings \"very difficult\".\n\n\"It is different when you're not getting that face-to-face contact, you're not getting that cup of tea when you get in the door, when you're not sitting down in the waiting room chatting to other people in recovery,\" she said.\n\nRachel has been volunteering with Kaleidoscope for two years supporting others with their problems.\n\n\"Face-to-face is so important - you can tell so much about somebody by just looking at them,\" she said.\n\n\"It's so easy to just say I'm fine, I'm doing okay, when you're just absolutely falling apart.\"\n\nWales's drug and alcohol helpline, Dan 24/7, saw a fall in calls in the first few weeks of lockdown.\n\nIn April 2019, 439 people called. In April this year, 300 rang.\n\nHelpline services manager Luke Ogden said: \"We hear a lot on the news about how services, businesses and places of work have to cease operation, and it may be that people think this is the case with health-related services.\"\n\nHe said help was still available for anyone in Wales.\n\nDan 24/7 said during May it had experienced an increase in calls, with about 120 more than in April.\n\nExperts said the drop in referrals was worrying.\n\nRachel Cook said face-to-face contact was important in helping treat people with addictions\n\nThere were also concerns about the impact of social distancing on services.\n\nRetired clinical psychologist Richard Pates spent 25 years in the drug and alcohol field.\n\nThe former chairman of the Welsh advisory panel on substance misuse said: \"One of the things that good addiction services can offer is that trust and building up a relationship with people.\n\n\"It is very hard to build up a relationship entirely on the phone.\"\n\nSo much relied on non-verbal cues, he said.\n\n\"Those are very difficult to replicate,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duchess of Cambridge spoke to patients of addiction treatment centre\n\nDavid Nutt of Imperial College London is chairman of charity Drug Science.\n\nHe said: \"The first thing is, to be online, you've got to have access to this kind of equipment, and that's not universal.\n\n\"The second thing is, if you are in shared accommodation, it can be quite embarrassing to be having these kind of conversations with other people sitting around listening to you.\n\n\"Third, we don't know whether online interviews, online therapy, actually works.\"\n\nThere are fears that with less treatment available, and fewer people in treatment, more will go back to old habits.\n\nThat could mean more deaths.\n\nProf Nutt expected people to return to \"street use\".\n\n\"They'll have their dealers coming and they'll be slipping off the methadone back onto the heroin or even worse, the fentanyl,\" he said.\n\n\"We are going to find a lot of them will have turned to alcohol because that's easy to get, and they'll have been dampening down their withdrawal and their anxieties with alcohol.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has invested almost £53m this financial year in drug and alcohol services.\n\nServices had \"adapted rapidly\" during the pandemic, it said, with online consultations and psychological support available.\n\nIt said Wales had become the first UK nation to offer injectable slow-release buprenorphine - a treatment for opioid misuse - to reduce the need for daily supervised visits to pharmacies and clinics.\n\n\"Inpatient detox services are also returning to normal capacity,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Guidance has been developed to support substance misuse services and people working with vulnerable populations.\n\n\"The national helpline Dan 24/7 has continued to provide updates about coronavirus and details of services available.\"", "The statue of Robert Baden-Powell is being removed for \"its protection\"\n\nA statue of the man who founded the Scouts movement is to be removed from Poole Quay amid fears it is on a \"target list for attack\".\n\nFollowing police information, the 12-year-old statue of Robert Baden-Powell is to be \"temporarily\" removed to protect it, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council said.\n\nThe statue will have 24-hour security protection until it can be removed.\n\nProtesters gathered at the quayside to show support for the statue.\n\nBaden-Powell, who died aged 83 in 1941, has been criticised by campaigners who have accused him of racism, homophobia and support for Adolf Hitler.\n\nIn a statement, BCP deputy leader Mark Howell said it had made the decision \"quickly\" following the listing of the statue on a website detailing potential targets for attacks.\n\nHe said it would not be removed immediately as its foundations were deeper than first thought, but in the meantime it would be given 24-hour security protection.\n\n\"We know that local people feel proud of Lord Baden-Powell's and the Scout movement's links with Poole, and that some people feel that we would be giving in to the protesters by temporarily removing the statue. However, we feel it is responsible to protect it for future generations to enjoy and respect.\n\nHe insisted any removal would be temporary and it would be returned \"as soon as the threat level subsides\".\n\nThe authority previously said it recognised some aspects of Baden-Powell's life were considered \"less worthy of commemoration\" and it planned to involve all relevant communities and groups in discussions about its future.\n\nFormer Bournemouth East Labour parliamentary candidate Corrie Drew, said: \"We can commemorate the positive work without commemorating the man.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, she added: \"A quick look into his history shows that he was very open about his views against homosexuality and that he was a very open supporter of Hitler and of fascism and quite a strong, outspoken racist.\"\n\nMeanwhile, an online petition to \"defend Poole's Lord Baden-Powell statue\" has received more than 15,000 signatures.\n\nSir Robert Syms, Conservative MP for Poole, tweeted that he was \"opposed\" to the permanent removal of the statue.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Tobias Ellwood, Tory MP for Bournemouth East, said: \"Few historical figures comply with 21st C values. Simply expunging past connections from sight won't correct wrongs or help us better learn from our past.\"\n\nThe Tory MP for Bournemouth West, Conor Burns, also tweeted that the removal was \"a huge error of judgment\" and urged authorities to \"put it back\".\n\nThe life-sized statue was installed in 2008 and faces Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, where the Scouts began.\n\nDorset Police confirmed the statue had been identified as a \"potential target\".\n\n\"We appreciate the local council has a difficult decision taking into account the various opposing views held by members of the public,\" the force said.\n\nA spokesman for the Scout Association said it was \"resolute in its commitment to inclusion and diversity and members continually reflect and challenge ourselves in how we live our values\".\n\n\"We look forward to discussing this matter with the council to make an informed decision on what happens next,\" he said.\n\nA group of local residents gathered at the quayside to protest at the planned removal\n\nA group of local residents gathered at the quayside to show support for the statue.\n\nSharon Warne, 53, said controversial statues should have information panels installed explaining the positive and negative points about the figures they depict.\n\n\"He had a bad past but he was the founder of the Scouts which today is a great organisation and it's ridiculous to get rid of him,\" she added.\n\nRover Scout Matthew Trott, 28, who travelled from Cwmbran in Wales, said the proposal to remove the statue was \"necessary to protect it\".\n\n\"I'd rather see the statue placed in a box in a warehouse for the moment rather than at the bottom of the harbour,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday, protesters at an anti-racism demonstration in Bristol tore down a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston and dumped it in the city's harbour.\n\nA statue of slaveholder Robert Milligan has also been removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands, while in Oxford thousands of people called for the removal of a statue of British imperialist Cecil Rhodes.\n\nRobert Baden-Powell (centre right) surrounded by the members of the Scouts movement\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "All 17 members of the Garg household\n\nMukul Garg wasn’t too worried when his 57-year-old uncle developed a fever on 24 April. Then, within 48 hours, two others in his family of 17 also became ill.\n\nThe symptoms trickled in as expected - temperatures spiked and voices grew hoarse with coughing.\n\nMr Garg initially chalked it up to seasonal flu, unwilling to admit it could be coronavirus.\n\n“Five or six people often fall sick together in this house, let’s not panic,” he told himself.\n\nOver the next few days, five more people in the house showed Covid-19 symptoms. And the pit in his stomach grew.\n\nSoon, the Garg family would become its own coronavirus cluster as 11 of its 17 members tested positive.\n\n“We met nobody from the outside and no-one entered our house. But even then the coronavirus entered our home, and infected one member after the other,” Mr Garg would later write in his blog, which has since attracted hundreds of comments from readers.\n\nThe exhaustive account shows how the multi-generational family, a mainstay of Indian life, poses a unique challenge in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nThe country's stringent lockdown, which began on 25 March and lasted until this week, focused on keeping people at home, off its busy streets and out of packed public spaces.\n\nBut in India - where 40% of households comprise many generations (often three or even four living together under one roof) - home is a crowded place.\n\nIt’s also vulnerable because research shows that the virus is more likely to spread indoors.\n\n“All families under lockdown become clusters the moment someone is infected, that is almost a given,” says virologist Dr Jacob John.\n\nAnd, as the Gargs discovered, social distancing isn’t possible within large families, especially during a lockdown when you are already cut off from the outside world.\n\nThe Gargs live in a three-storey home in a packed neighbourhood in north-west Delhi.\n\nMr Garg, 33, his wife, 30, and their two children, aged six and two, live on the top floor, along with his parents and grandparents.\n\nOn the two floors below them live his uncles - his father’s brothers - and their families. Members range from a four-month-old baby to a bedridden grandfather of 90.\n\nMr Garg's uncle may have caught the virus from a vegetable vendor\n\nContrary to cramped joint family homes where many people share a room and a bathroom, the Garg home is spacious. Each floor is about 250 square metres, roughly the size of a doubles tennis court, with three bedrooms, en suite bathrooms and a kitchen.\n\nAnd yet, the virus spread quickly, travelling across floors and infecting almost all the adults in the house.\n\nThey identified patient zero - Mr Garg’s uncle - but the family is still not sure how he caught the virus.\n\n“We think it could be from a vegetable vendor or from someone at the grocery store because that was the only time anyone from the family stepped outside,” he says.\n\nBut as the virus spread, fear and shame kept them from getting tested.\n\n“We were 17 of us, but we felt so alone. We worried that if something happened to us, would anyone even come to the funeral because of the stigma associated with coronavirus?”\n\nBut in the first week of May, when his 54-year-old aunt complained of breathlessness, the family rushed her to a hospital. And, Mr Garg says, they knew they all had to get tested.\n\nAll of May was spent fighting the virus.\n\nMr Garg says he would spend hours talking to doctors over the phone, while everyone checked in on each other on WhatsApp daily.\n\n“We also kept changing the position of the members depending on symptoms, so no two people with high fever were in the same room.”\n\nSix of the 11 infected have co-morbidities - diabetes, heart disease and hypertension - which made them more vulnerable.\n\n“Overnight, our home became a Covid-19 healthcare centre with all of us taking turns to play nurse,” Mr Garg says\n\nFamilies are particularly vulnerable to widespread infection in a lockdown\n\nVirologists say large families are like any other cluster, except for the range in ages.\n\n“When you have a range of age groups sharing common spaces, the risk is disproportionately distributed, with the elderly at most risk,” says Dr Partho Sarothi Ray, a virologist.\n\nThis weighed heavily on Mr Garg, who worried about his 90-year-old grandfather.\n\nBut the virus, which continues to confound medical experts around the world, also held surprises for the Gargs.\n\nIt wasn’t unusual that he and his wife, both in their early 30s, were asymptomatic. But it was bewildering that his grandfather was also asymptomatic. And one member of the family, who had no comorbidities, was taken to hospital. The others showed typical symptoms.\n\nMr Garg says he wrote the blog because he wanted to reach out to people worried about seeking help.\n\n“In the beginning, we cared so much about what people would think. And reading the comments, it’s so nice to see people saying it's ok if you get it, it’s not something to be ashamed of.”\n\nIn the second week of May, symptoms began to vanish and the family watched as more and more negative tests rolled in, bringing relief. This was also when Mr Garg's aunt was discharged from hospital after testing negative.\n\nThey finally felt like the worst was over.\n\nBy the end of May - “the month of the disease” as Mr Garg called it - only three people, including him, were still positive.\n\nOn 1 June, they got tested for the third time and the results came back negative.\n\nIndia’s large families can be a source of support and care, but also friction and thorny property disputes. But at times like these they can also come to the rescue.\n\n“Can you imagine an elderly person in quarantine all by themselves with no-one to help? Despite the challenges, joint families benefit from the young taking care of the old,” Dr John says.\n\nCases in India have sprinted past the 250,000-mark, spurring a debate over whether the pandemic could threaten extended families, as young people worry about carrying the infection home to older relatives.\n\n“It's a system that has survived hundreds of years of an onslaught of Western values and colonisation,” says Prof Kiran Lamba Jha, who teaches sociology at Kanpur's CSJM university. “Coronavirus is not going to destroy the joint family.”\n\nBefore the virus struck, the family was thriving. It was almost reminiscent of a 90s Bollywood flick, Mr Garg says.\n\n“As a family, we had never spent so much time together than we did that first one month of the lockdown. It was also the happiest the family had ever been,\" he says, adding that it only made it harder to watch as one person after another fell sick.\n\n“We saw each other at our best and worst but we came out of it stronger,” he says.\n\n“We’re still cautious about reinfection but right now, we’re basking in the glory that we managed to beat this virus and come out on the other side.”", "The coronavirus lockdown may have led more individuals to become radicalised as they spend more time online, a police chief has warned.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police's Lucy D'Orsi said the impact of the lockdown on the terrorism threat was not yet known.\n\nShe urged the public to remain alert and vigilant as people return to crowded places closed in March.\n\nThe current UK threat level is \"substantial\" meaning an attack is likely.\n\n\"The reality is that the threat has not gone away,\" Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner D'Orsi told the BBC.\n\nThere are also concerns some of the mechanisms to spot the signs someone has been radicalised will not have been present during the pandemic.\n\nCrowded places have been a prime focus for terrorist attacks in recent years.\n\nAs lockdown eases, she is concerned terrorists will be looking to make an impact.\n\n\"My plea to the public is as lockdown eases and people return to crowded places, we need to remain alert, we need to remain vigilant,\" DAC D'Orsi, who is also national policing lead for protective security, said.\n\nThe threat level comes from individuals supporting far-right as well as jihadist ideologies.\n\nPolice have said their own ability to operate has not been affected by lockdown and they have been able to take advantage of the fact that some people under investigation are staying in one place.\n\nBut they are also aware that people are spending more time online, which carries risks as that has increasingly been a means of radicalisation.\n\nDAC D'Orsi said what that meant in terms of radicalisation was as yet unknown.\n\nSome terrorist groups have adapted their methods and messaging to the new environment, including using the coronavirus crisis.\n\n\"They are looking to change the way they deliver their propaganda,\" she said, adding that propaganda often seeks to divide communities.\n\nReferrals to the Prevent anti-radicalisation scheme, designed to spot and counter signs of radicalisation, have gone down during the pandemic.\n\nThat is because many will come from public bodies, including schools, which will have not been operating in the same way.\n\nIt leaves the possibility that a problem has been brewing beneath the surface which may now become visible.\n\nOfficers said one advantage of lockdown has been that people have undertaken an online counter-terrorism training course from home.\n\nSome 70,000 people have used the 'Action Counters Terrorism' interactive course which is designed for members of the public to help them spot and report suspicious behaviour and know what to do in the event of an attack.\n\nOverall half a million participants have responded to the call since the course was launched two years ago.\n\n\"Having more people with a basic level of awareness, and who know what to do if they see suspicious activity, is a real asset to the police,\" DAC D'Orsi said.", "The government is facing calls from Tory backbenchers to drop the 2m (6ft) social distancing rule in England.\n\nMPs, including former cabinet ministers Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Damian Green, say it is essential for the economy.\n\nThe government has said it is constantly reviewing its coronavirus lockdown guidance.\n\nIt follows the announcement of a further easing of restrictions in England, allowing single adults to stay at one other household from Saturday.\n\nNo 10 said the change aimed to help combat loneliness and that people were being trusted to observe the rules.\n\nThe relaxation does not apply to those who are shielding, or other UK nations.\n\nLatest government figures show a further 151 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, taking the country's death toll to 41,279.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused ministers of \"mismanagement\" over the reopening of schools, saying the government is putting the welfare and education of children at risk.\n\nAs the lockdown continues to be eased in England, there are fears in Westminster and the business community that keeping the 2m rule will significantly impede economic recovery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nFormer Conservative Party leader Sir Iain warned of dire economic consequences, with public transport running quieter than necessary and pubs, restaurants and cafes unable to stage a proper recovery or even open.\n\nHe has urged ministers to move to a 1m policy - in line with World Health Organization guidance already followed by countries including France, Denmark and Singapore.\n\nSir Iain described the 2m rule as \"the critical component around which everything coming out of lockdown hinges\".\n\n\"Our economy is facing a complete crash: the debts we're racking up on how we're supporting people, the fact no work or very little work is taking place,\" he said.\n\n\"If we don't get the economy moving, we will be unable to afford any of the things that we need to support public services, so getting the balance right is important.\"\n\nThis is a very tricky moment for the prime minister.\n\nMore and more MPs believe that relaxing the 2m rule would be the crucial piece of the jigsaw.\n\nAnd if 1m is deemed safe in Denmark, France, or Hong Kong, then why not here?\n\nFirst off, the disease is shrinking, but it's not disappearing fast.\n\nAnd the government's top medics have said publicly that they don't think the 2m rule should go.\n\nTo change it therefore would be to go against the advice.\n\nScience is as full of dispute as politics, even though the methods and practices are chalk and cheese.\n\nAnd ultimately the decisions about handling the crisis have been made by ministers after receiving the scientists' advice.\n\nBut the decision over 2m is looming and it's one that Boris Johnson can't ignore.\n\nMr Green told the BBC's Newsnight scrapping the 2m guidance was the \"single biggest change\" the government should make in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think that makes a huge difference to many parts of industry, particularly hospitality businesses, restaurants, pubs, and so on,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"We've seen other countries do that, actually move from 2m to 1m, without any damaging effects so far.\"\n\nTory backbenchers made similar points to Chancellor Rishi Sunak - who admitted the rule made things difficult for opening up - behind closed doors on Wednesday night, according to BBC political correspondent Nick Eardley.\n\nGreg Clark, chair of the Science and Technology Committee, who has previously called for the rule to be reconsidered, said: \"The government should have the courage to change it, if the evidence recommends it.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, local government minister Simon Clarke said: \"We all recognise how limiting 2m is. We're not blind to the very severe challenges this causes, not just for schools but for the wider economy.\"\n\nBut he said the \"best available guidance\" supported keeping the rule at the moment, adding: \"We've heard from our scientists about that literally in the last 24 hours.\"\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said the rule was being \"kept under constant review\" but added that Boris Johnson \"doesn't feel the incidence of disease is as low as he would like\".\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, told reporters: \"It is a risk-based assessment on when risk reduces and the risks are associated with distance, so risk falls after 2m,\" he said.\n\n\"It is wrong to portray this as a scientific rule that says it is 2m or nothing - that is not what the advice has been and it is not what the advice is now,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 31,000 close contacts were identified during the first week of the test and trace system in England, figures show.\n\nIt comes amid continued debate over schools reopening in England, after it was confirmed most children would not return to classrooms until September.\n\nSir Keir urged the prime minister to act now to ensure that target could be met.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he said \"creativity\" was needed to utilise empty buildings, including theatres, museums and libraries, as makeshift classrooms.\n\nMr Johnson said there would be a national \"catch-up programme\" for pupils in England, but warned a September return date for all pupils would depend on whether progress continued to be made in controlling the virus.", "Labour has urged the Conservative Party to repay a £12,000 donation it received from a developer 14 days after Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick approved a £1bn building project.\n\nShadow housing secretary Steve Reed said the decision raised concerns about \"cash for favours\".\n\nAnd the Lib Dems want an investigation into the minister's conduct.\n\nBut the government said Mr Jenrick had acted with propriety and retained the PM's \"full confidence\".\n\nOn 14 January, the housing secretary granted permission for Richard Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks site on east London's Isle of Dogs.\n\nThe businessman - a former owner of the Daily Express - made a personal donation to the Conservatives two weeks later, on 28 January.\n\nMr Jenrick's approval for the Westferry scheme came the day before the introduction of a new council community levy, which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nIt has also emerged that Mr Desmond and Mr Jenrick sat at the same table at a Conservative Party fundraising dinner last November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour asked an urgent question in the House of Commons on Thursday, but Mr Jenrick did not appear - instead junior housing minister Chris Pincher responded for the government.\n\nMr Pincher said Mr Jenrick had acted properly and with propriety over the 1,500-home project.\n\nHe told MPs he had \"no idea what Mr Desmond asked for at that dinner\" but Mr Jenrick had made it \"absolutely clear\" that \"he could not discuss planning matters, that he would not discuss that planning matter and the issue was closed\".\n\nMinisters \"do not know what donations or funds are being spent by donors on political parties,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Reed told MPs: \"This sequence of events raises grave concerns about cash for favours.\"\n\nHe later said the Conservative Party should return the £12,000 to Mr Desmond and accused Mr Jenrick of avoiding scrutiny by not going to the Commons.\n\n\"Instead of answering questions about his behaviour, Robert Jenrick sent in a junior minister to speak on his behalf while he apparently laid low in the tea room,\" said Mr Reed.\n\n\"This attempt to avoid scrutiny shows contempt for the public who are concerned about the integrity of the planning process.\"\n\nHe said the government should publish all correspondence relating to the case \"so the public can see the true reasons for his decision\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has written to the UK's top civil servant, Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill, to demand an investigation into Mr Jenrick's conduct in relation to the planning decision.\n\nHe said that, if the housing secretary was found to have broken the ministerial code, he must resign.\n\nFor the SNP, Alan Brown accused the government of \"defending the indefensible\", telling MPs: \"This is a matter that simply stinks.\"\n\nDefending Mr Jenrick's absence from the Commons chamber, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"It's appropriate for the housing minister to respond to a question on housing and planning matters.\"\n\nThe spokesman said he was \"not aware of any plans\" for an investigation into any alleged breach of the ministerial code.\n\nAnd sources close to Mr Jenrick said he would take questions from MPs during his usual Commons time slot next Monday.\n\nRichard Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\nIn approving the Isle of Dogs project, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate.\n\nTower Hamlets Council challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nMr Jenrick has insisted there was no actual bias towards Mr Desmond - a former donor to Labour and UKIP - but said it was right for the decision to be revisited to \"ensure there was complete fairness\".\n\nA Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesman said that, while \"we reject the suggestion there was any actual bias in the decision, we have agreed that the application will be re-determined.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Edward Colston's statue was removed early in the morning\n\nA statue of a slave trader that was thrown into a harbour by anti-racism protestors has been retrieved from the water.\n\nBlack Lives Matter demonstrators tore down the statue of Edward Colston during a protest in Bristol on Sunday.\n\nBristol City Council said it needed to be removed from the water because the city had a \"working harbour\".\n\nThe statue will be taken to a secure location to be hosed down before becoming a museum exhibit.\n\nIt was fished out at about 05:00 BST because the council \"didn't want anybody to get hurt if there was a crowd there or anyone looking\".\n\n\"We've had a diver down there who attached the ropes to crane it out of the water and take it away,\" Ray Barnett, head of collections and archives at Bristol City Council, said.\n\n\"The ropes that were tied around him, the spray paint added to him, is still there so we'll keep him like that.\"\n\nMr Barnett said the statue would be hosed down to remove the mud and ensure \"we preserve him as he was tipped into the dock, while the decision is made how to move on for there\".\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was pushed into the harbour after being toppled by protesters\n\nAvon and Somerset Police elected not to intervene when the statue was toppled, saying officers would have faced a violent confrontation.\n\nThe monument has been a controversial fixture in the city, with repeated calls for it to be removed.\n\nPreviously, Bristol's Mayor Marvin Rees said he \"felt no sense of loss\" at its removal.\n\nOlivette Otele, professor of the History of Slavery at the University of Bristol, said she hoped the statue would \"be studied and analysed and people will learn about this because it's still part of Bristol's history\".\n\n\"All these continents, Europe, America, Africa, Asia, these are intertwined histories. It's completely intertwined and mashed together and you can't really separate them,\" she said.\n\nOther organisations, including schools, that use the Colston name are now looking at changing their names following the protest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?\n\nSince the statue of Colston was toppled, calls have been made to remove others around the UK.\n\nThe statue of noted slaveholder Robert Milligan was removed from its place outside the Museum of London Docklands on Tuesday.\n\nThe University of Liverpool has agreed to rename a building named after former prime minister William Gladstone due to his links to the slave trade.\n\nCampaigners also want the statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College at Oxford taken down, saying the university had \"failed to address its institutional racism\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The day when most fines were handed out in the past two weeks was 30 May - when people flocked to beauty spots to enjoy warm weather\n\nMore than 17,000 fines for alleged breaches of coronavirus lockdown laws have been issued in England and Wales.\n\nPeople have been fined by the police for driving with others not from their household, holding house parties, meeting in large groups and camping.\n\nBut the number of fines has fallen as restrictions have eased.\n\nThere were 523 fines in the two weeks from 26 May to 8 June - compared with 1,171 in the previous two weeks and 4,796 in the fortnight before that.\n\nAccording to data from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), the day with the highest number of fines in the past two weeks was Saturday 30 May - when 96 fines were issued in England. That weekend, people flocked to popular beaches and beauty spots to enjoy the warmer weather.\n\nSaturday 30 May was also two days before lockdown measures were eased to allow people in England to meet in groups of up to six, and to allow people in Wales to meet one person from a different household.\n\nUp to 8 June, 15,715 fines, or Fixed Penalty Notices, have been handed out in England and 2,282 in Wales.\n\nBut generally far fewer fines have been issued since 13 May, when restrictions began to ease.\n\nThree fines have been given out by London's Metropolitan Police since 25 May, with 1,060 being issued by the force before that.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police is the force which has given out the most fines, with 1,082 handed out since lockdown began.\n\nFines have most often been given to young men aged between 18 and 24, and were more likely to be issued at weekends and during warmer weather.\n\n\"Since measures eased in England, the number of fines issued has seen a sustained fall,\" NPCC chair Martin Hewitt said.\n\nHe added that behind each fine was someone who has \"failed to listen and do the right thing\".\n\n\"A fine is issued following engagement to establish the circumstances, explanation of what the regulations are and why they're in breach of them, and encouragement to stop their activity and return home,\" he said.\n\nThe NPCC has not yet released data about how many fines have been paid.", "Applicants to university have to be told how they will be taught\n\nMore students think they are not getting good value for money from university, suggests an annual survey.\n\nIt found 31% of students thought their courses were poor or very poor value, up from 29% last year.\n\nThe survey, based on 10,000 students across the UK, was gathered in a year disrupted by Covid-19 and lecturers' strikes.\n\n\"Because of strikes and coronavirus there has been a massive gap in my learning,\" it quoted one student.\n\nThe Student Academic Experience Survey, which has been tracking student views since 2006, shows a decline in satisfaction with value for money - down from 41% to 39% - with another 30% thinking it was neither good or bad value.\n\nThe survey is published by the Higher Education Policy Institute - and its director Nick Hillman said the survey showed that with disruption to studies and anxieties about the future jobs market \"many students are worried about their own lives\".\n\nAlison Johns, chief executive of Advance HE, which co-produced the report, said it was a \"continuing and significant concern\" that ethnic minority students reported a less positive university experience than white students.\n\nThe study considers universities across the UK, and found tuition fees - charged in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - were the biggest cause for disquiet.\n\nOnly about a quarter of students felt they had been given enough information on how fees were spent.\n\nThere were also concerns about a lack of contact hours with teaching staff - which was linked to the strikes and the closure of campuses due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nIn terms of what made a positive difference, students highlighted the importance of the quality of teaching.\n\nThere were also signs that more students felt they were getting useful feedback from staff on work that had been assessed.\n\nThe survey revealed widespread worries about well-being among students, with low levels of positive responses. Only 11% agreed they had \"life satisfaction\" and 15% saw their lives as \"worthwhile\".\n\nA significant majority - 84% - believed universities should be able to contact students' parents or guardians if there were serious concerns about a student's mental health.\n\nMr Hillman said if financial pressures on universities meant cutting services, this suggested that support services for mental health \"should not be at the front of the queue for those cuts\".\n\nThe survey this year looked more closely at the experience of students who got places through the clearing system - where students are matched with empty places after exam results are published.\n\nAbout a fifth of students in the survey had gone through clearing - and only 54% of these said they would choose the same course and university again.\n\nUniversities will be preparing to reopen campuses for the autumn - and applicants will be wondering how courses will be taught, whether online or in-person or a mixture of both.\n\nThe higher education, the Office for Students, has told universities in England the information they must give to those applying - with 18 June the deadline for making a firm choice.\n\nUniversities will have to specify the balance between online and face-to-face teaching, the hours with teaching staff and access to facilities such as libraries.\n\nIf there are parts of a course that are no longer possible, such as placements or field trips, these will have to be highlighted.\n\nAnd there will have to be clarity over how much will be paid in fees and how the course will be assessed.\n\n\"These are exceptionally challenging times for both students and universities, but students must be told clearly how their courses will be taught next year,\" said Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of the Office for Students.", "More must be done to tackle racial discrimination in the UK's armed forces, the most senior military officer has said.\n\nGeneral Sir Nick Carter, chief of the defence staff, called on all personnel to see the potential in every recruit and \"refuse to allow intolerance\".\n\nThe message comes after a meeting of the heads of the services on Wednesday.\n\nThere had been \"soul searching\" about events highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement, a defence source said.\n\nIn his letter to soldiers, sailors and air force personnel, General Carter said the service chiefs agreed that these events \"have brought the issues of racism and discrimination sharply into focus\".\n\n\"We owe it to our black, Asian and minority ethnic servicemen and women, who will be feeling concerned at the moment, to try to look at this from their perspective, to listen and to continue to make change happen,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former soldier Mark de Kretser: \"People called me Apu from The Simpsons\"\n\nAll the service chiefs at Wednesday's meeting were white men.\n\nGeneral Carter described the armed forces as a rich mix of faiths, colour, gender and creeds and said people were valued for their abilities, \"not for what they look like or where they come from\".\n\nBut he said the armed forces needed to force the pace of change.\n\nBlack, Asian and ethnic minority (BAME) personnel make up just over 8% of the total armed forces - with a target to increase that proportion to 10% this year.\n\nFor the past four years the Armed Forces Ombudsman annual report has repeatedly highlighted that BAME personnel are significantly more likely to complain about bullying, harassment and discrimination than their white counterparts.", "Wales' tourism industry is on the \"brink of collapse\", say a group of Welsh tourism leaders demanding a reopening plan from the first minister.\n\nOfficial figures say £6.3bn was spent in Wales due to tourism in 2018 but attractions, shut in lockdown, say they have had \"no reopening information\".\n\nThe Welsh Association of Visitor Attractions claim government \"inaction\" may lead to \"economic disaster\".\n\nWelsh Government said reopening tourism \"is at the forefront of our minds\".\n\nTourism in Wales directly supports about 120,000 jobs - almost 10% of Wales' workforce - and contributes 6% of all Gross Value Added to the Welsh economy.\n\nPeople in Wales can currently meet others from another household outdoors but are advised to travel no more than five miles as a \"rule of thumb\" because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut with most of Wales' attractions and tourism businesses closed since last autumn - through the winter and now the coronavirus lockdown - they want \"urgent clarity\".\n\n\"We now face the real and fragmenting prospect, because of your very restrictive and separate set of pandemic lockdown policies, of a 2020 summer season that may never happen,\" the WAVA statement read.\n\n\"The result would be catastrophic for the tourism industry in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The National Botanic Garden of Wales is one of Wales' top attractions\n\n\"Whilst once being protective, the Welsh Government's policies are now, as we are in the middle of June, causing further damage unless there is urgent change.\"\n\nThe statement says Welsh Government is causing harm because of \"its continued stance of remaining closed for business and travel\" and the borders are \"effectively shut\".\n\nThe group's new plea to Mark Drakeford follows what they claim was an answered letter to the first minister last month and warns \"the Welsh tourism industry is on the brink of collapse' and \"without a clear roadmap to reopening such as those published in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, the government is causing harm\".\n\nThe seaside attracts a half of all holiday visitors to Wales\n\nThe letter is signed by more than 60 of Wales' top leisure industry bosses from a range of high profile tourist destinations including Folly Farm, Snowdon Mountain Railway, Zip World, National Showcaves Centre for Wales and the National Botanic Garden of Wales.\n\n\"This is now heading towards its obvious end result of businesses taking measures to limit their losses, even if this will cause long-term damage to the regional economy and local communities,\" the association statement continued.\n\n\"The reality is that many businesses are on the brink of collapse. The impact on direct and indirect jobs will be significant in both the immediate period but also for many years to come as the economic generators will be lost.\"\n\nTourism bosses say Wales' message that \"Wales is shut, don't come and don't plan on coming\" is the \"most incredibly damaging message\".\n\n\"Welsh tourism will be left behind not only in 2020 but for a number of years,\" added the statement.\n\nFolly Farm in Pembrokeshire is one of Wales' most visited tourist attractions\n\n\"We are supportive of the first minister's aim to protect the health of people in Wales however this aim must be in the wider context of the long-term health of individuals and the ability of the Welsh economy to recover.\n\n\"We have a major concern that a narrow focus on immediate matters will cause irreparable damage in the long term (and to future levels of investment) - this is a concern that has been addressed in other parts of the UK and Europe, and we see Wales at odds for no valid reason with these concerns.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government had previously said it \"hopes to be able to say something positive\" for the tourism industry when lockdown restrictions are reviewed in July, with 9 July a possible date for a decision.\n\n\"We don't want the sector to be in any doubt at all that the safe reopening of the tourism economy is at the forefront of our minds,\" said a Welsh Government spokesperson.\n\n\"We hear what businesses are saying and are acutely aware of the challenges they are facing but we have to be guided by the medical and scientific advice to ensure we only lift restrictions when they are safe to do so.\n\n\"It is also crucial the sector knows that together with other nations we are fiercely lobbying for additional financial support from the UK government.\"", "Global stock markets have fallen amid fears that an uptick in coronavirus cases could cause more economic damage.\n\nThe declines came after the US Federal Reserve warned that the American economy faces a long road to recovery.\n\nIn the US on Thursday, the three main share indexes saw their worst day in weeks, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down almost 7%.\n\nStock markets in Asia also fell on Friday with benchmark indexes losing ground in Japan, Hong Kong and China.\n\nThe falls followed a weeks-long rally that had helped shares recover some ground from the lows seen in March.\n\nEnergy and travel stocks were among the biggest losers, as global crude oil prices also took a hit.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, European shares also dropped, with the UK's FTSE 100, the Dax in Germany and France's CAC 40 all losing 4% or more.\n\n\"Government, companies and people would be better prepared for a second wave than for the first one,\" said Roland Kaloyan, European equity strategist at Societe Generale.\n\n\"But the problem is there is a limit to governments injecting money.\"\n\nShare prices had gained in recent weeks amid hopes that the economy would rebound as authorities loosened restrictions put in place to try to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nLast week's surprise report showing US employers had restarted hiring in May helped to push the tech-heavy Nasdaq index to new highs.\n\nBut the recovery remains tentative. On Thursday, the US Labor Department reported that another 1.5 million people had filed new unemployment claims last week. More than 30 million continue to collect the benefits, it said.\n\nUS Federal Reserve policymakers said on Wednesday that the unemployment rate could remain above 9% at the end of the year - close to the worst level of the financial crisis,\n\nAt a news conference, Fed chairman Jerome Powell warned that this assessment may prove optimistic, if coronavirus infection and hospitalisation rates rise.\n\nSeveral states that have moved to reopen, including Arizona and South Carolina, have seen an uptick in Covid-19 cases in recent days.\n\n\"It could hurt the recovery, even if you don't have a national level pandemic. Just a series of local ones, of local spikes, could have the effect of undermining people's confidence in travelling, in restaurants and in entertainment,\" he said. \"It would not be a positive development.\"\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he did not want to see a return of the lockdowns that had kept the world's largest economy frozen for weeks.\n\nBut economists have warned that people will stay at home voluntarily if they are afraid of becoming ill.", "Prof Neil Ferguson modelled the impact of the epidemic for the UK government\n\nThe number of coronavirus deaths in the UK would have been halved if lockdown had been introduced a week earlier, a former government adviser has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson, whose advice was crucial to the decision to go into lockdown, said the outbreak had been doubling in size every three or four days before measures had been taken.\n\nThe prime minister said it was still too early to make such a judgement.\n\n\"We will have to look back on all of it and learn the lessons that we can.\"\n\nBoris Johnson added: \"A lot of these things are still premature. This epidemic has a long way to go.\"\n\nChief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance said important questions about the measures taken \"still needed to be addressed\".\n\nThe UK's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, said looking back at \"how we improve on what we do\" was routine.\n\n\"Part of the problem... at that stage is that we had very limited information about this virus,\" he added.\n\nIn the UK, lockdown began on 23 March.\n\nThe number of people known to have died with coronavirus in the UK stands at 41,128.\n\nProf Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told a committee of MPs: \"Had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have reduced the final death toll by at least a half.\n\n\"So whilst I think the measures, given what we knew about this virus then, in terms of its transmission, were warranted... certainly had we introduced them earlier, we would have seen many fewer deaths.\"\n\nProf John Edmunds, another scientist who advises government, recently said the delay to go into lockdown \"cost a lot of lives\" but the data available in March had been quite poor, making it \"very hard\".\n\nProf Ferguson, who resigned as a government adviser last month after allegedly breaching lockdown rules, indicated many lives in care homes could have been saved.\n\n\"We made the rather optimistic assumption that somehow the elderly would be shielded,\" be said.\n\nBut \"that simply failed to happen\".\n\nProf Ferguson said the government's Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) had \"anticipated in theory\" the risk to people living in care homes.\n\nAnd it had been discussed in meetings as early as February.\n\nBut the \"only way you can really protect care homes is to do extensive testing to make sure it doesn't get in\".\n\nAnd more was now understood about how the virus was transmitted,\n\nCare home workers often worked at more than one facility and might be spreading infection between residences, for example.\n\nCoronavirus was growing \"exponentially\" in February and March.\n\nScientists have told BBC News an estimated 100,000 people were being infected every day in England by the time it went into lockdown.\n\nIntroducing measures a week earlier would have significantly cut that figure and in turn saved lives.\n\nWhy this did not happen is one of the major questions about the government's handling of this pandemic.\n\nIt is far easier to look back than to make the decision in the moment.\n\nThere was a lack of information and the scale of the outbreak within the UK was not clear.\n\nBut other scientists were making the case for the UK to go into lockdown weeks before it happened.\n\nDiscussing the timing of the lockdown on BBC Radio 4's More or Less programme, mathematician Kit Yates said there had been an \"overreliance\" on certain models when determining how fast the epidemic had been doubling.\n\n\"Some members of [pandemic modelling group] SPI-M have communicated their concerns to me that some of the modelling groups had more influence over the consensus decisions than others,\" he said.\n\nThis meant \"some opinions or estimates that may have been valid didn't get passed on up the chain\".\n\nOn average, about 1,600 people a day die in the UK. What is not known about the coronavirus deaths reported during the epidemic is to what extent those deaths are on top of that figure, or part of it.\n\nMost of the victims have been older or with underlying health conditions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSony has given gamers a first look at the design of its next console as well as some of the titles it will play.\n\nThe PlayStation 5 has a black core surrounded by curved white edging, and a blue glow.\n\nTwo follow-ups to bestselling PS4 releases were among the standout games announcements - Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Horizon: Forbidden West.\n\nSony's machine will launch alongside Microsoft's rival Xbox Series X before the end of the year.\n\nMiles Morales takes over the lead role from Peter Parker in the latest spin-off for Marvel's crime-fighter\n\n\"While there's still a lot of unanswered questions about the PS5, namely price and release date, I think Sony did exactly what they needed to with this reveal event,\" commented Laura Kate Dale, a freelance games critic.\n\n\"It showed off an hour of games, mixing sequels to popular titles, and new franchises from its biggest first-party studios, for a solid hour.\n\n\"People on Twitter are very split on whether they like or hate the look of the box, but overall Sony spent an hour getting people excited.\"\n\nSo many people remarked that the console looked like a \"wi-fi router\", that the term trended on Twitter shortly after the event.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two dozen new games were shown off in total.\n\nOther highlights included a first look at Sony's racing game Gran Turismo 7 and a brief look at Capcom's zombie horror game Resident Evil 8.\n\nResident Evil 8's reveal was full of dim lighting - and reflections\n\nIt was not always clear during the event which titles were PS5 exclusives and which were not.\n\nThe PlayStation 5 is set to go on sale later this year, seven years after the PS4.\n\nIn addition to being able to deliver improved visuals, the new machine also has a customised hard drive that will make it possible to radically reduce load times.\n\nSony is building a library of launch titles that will only be available on its next-generation machine. This contrasts with Microsoft's approach, which is to initially release new first-party games on both its current and next-gen consoles.\n\nSony opted to stream a pre-recorded video rather than a host a live event because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe video was broadcast at 1080p resolution, much lower than the PS5 is capable of.\n\nThe PS4 outsold the Xbox One globally by more than a 2:1 margin, although the gap was much closer in the US.\n\nIn advance of Thursday night's event, one industry insider said there were two things he was most excited about.\n\n\"The first is the new controller - the adaptive triggers offer deeper and more meaningful feedback for gameplay,\" explained Robert Karp, development director at UK developer Codemasters.\n\n\"The other is the super-fast loading. On PS5, waiting to get into the action is a thing of the past.\"\n\nHorizon: Forbidden West sees Aloy travel westwards across a far-future version of the United States\n\nThe new Spider-Man game acts as a follow-up to 2018's action-adventure game based on the Marvel superhero.\n\nBut this time round the protagonist appears to be the Afro-Latino teenager Miles Morales rather than Peter Parker. The brief trailer showed him fighting and web-slinging through New York, showing off snow and electricity particle effects that would not have been possible in such detail on the PS4.\n\nHours after the announcement, Sony executive Simon Rutter told the Telegraph that it was not, in fact, a wholly new title, but an \"an expansion and an enhancement to the previous game\".\n\n\"There's a substantial Miles Morales component-which is the expansion element-but also within the game as well there's been major enhancements to the game and the game engine, obviously deploying some of the major PlayStation 5 technology and features,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nBut that was later disputed by developer Insomniac Games, which called the new title \"the next adventure\" and a \"standalone game\".\n\nThe Spider-Man: Miles Morales teaser showed off a range of lighting and particle effects\n\nSeveral of the other reveals reintroduced familiar characters.\n\nAloy is back in the follow-up to Horizon: Zero Dawn.\n\nIn Forbidden West, the heroine was shown swimming underwater as what appeared to be a robot crocodile passed overhead, and battling against robot dinosaurs.\n\nAssassin Agent 47 returned in Hitman III, IO Interactive's stealth series. It is not due to go on sale until January 2021, however, so will miss out on launching alongside the PS5.\n\nRatchet and Clank: Rift Apart marked a return to Insomniac Games' cartoon-like third-person action franchise.\n\nRatchet and Clank return for the first time since their 2016 PS4 reboot\n\nOddworld: Soulstorm was a surprise, bringing back the former slave turned hero Abe, in a series that dates back to the original PlayStation.\n\nAnd Sackboy also returned for more platforming in A Big Adventure, a follow-up to the earlier Little Big Planet Games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Patrick O'Rourke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere was also a first look at some new intellectual property, including:\n\n\"What I found particularly great was the push on new IP,\" gaming presenter Shay Thompson told the BBC.\n\n\"Many of the protagonists featured were women or girls, which is a huge deal. That would've been a pipe dream, even 10 years ago.\"\n\nThere was no mention of any virtual reality games, however. Nor was was there any mention of a PlayStation 5 version of The Last of Us 2.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Stephen Totilo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSony also highlighted new features of the PS5's hardware including 3D Audio and a 4K Blu-ray player. It also said the the new console would be released in a version that lacked a disc drive.\n\nWhile Sony and Microsoft's next-generation consoles will battle for sales, they both face the challenge of launching at a time when the coronavirus pandemic may not be over.\n\nA new version of the 2009 classic Demons' Souls was also shown\n\nAlthough both firms have said that production is on track for winter 2020 releases, it is unclear what level of demand there will be.\n\n\"Console gaming has proven to be resilient to economic downturns because it continues to offer good per-hour entertainment value,\" Piers Harding-Rolls wrote in a research note for Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"Even so, the recession and growing unemployment in key sales territories will undermine adoption - less so at launch [but] more significantly after mid-2021.\"\n\nOne of the more unusual games was Stray, a third-person cat adventure set in a neon-lit cyber-city\n\nA confident introduction to the PlayStation 5 from Sony, letting the games do the talking, with a varied mix of big-name fan favourites and a lot of new titles from smaller studios.\n\nThe event lacked the fevered energy that a live showcase generates, but it managed to settle into a comfortable groove as games like the new Ratchet and Clank allowed us to see what the PS5's solid state drive (SSD) can do to reduce or almost eliminate load times.\n\nRather than a quantum leap, this next generation looks like it might be built around lots of smaller improvements in areas like audio, with 3D sound and improved haptic feedback in the controller.\n\nBeyond better visuals and faster loading times, what does the next generation actually mean when it comes to games though?\n\nOn this evidence more of the same: shooters, racers, third-person adventure titles and sports games. Things we already have, but graphically improved.\n\nPlayStation and Xbox have both struggled to communicate what the next-gen really has to offer.\n\nBut at least fans have now had a glimpse of some games and finally clapped eyes on the PS5's curvy physical case.\n\nIt's enough, perhaps, to whet gamers appetites for what's to come.", "There were \"tragic consequences\" of moving patients from hospitals to care homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, care chiefs in England say.\n\nAn Association of Directors of Adult Social Services report says a lack of testing in England may have sped up the spread of coronavirus in care settings.\n\nADASS also said the impact of Covid-19 meant many care providers faced financial problems.\n\nThe government said funding was being put in to local care services.\n\nAn extra £3.8 billion has also been provided to councils to fund social care, it added.\n\nThe ADASS report on the impact of the pandemic on care services is based on a survey of 146 out of the 151 directors of social care in English councils.\n\nThey point to the problems caused by the rapid discharge of patients from hospitals into care homes in the first weeks of the pandemic.\n\nMore than half of directors believe people were not tested before being discharged. They also raise concerns about a lack of checks on whether the homes people were going to had enough personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nJames Bullion, president of ADASS, said: \"Just assuming the homes could cope, and assuming that homes had the PPE to cope, wasn't the right thing to do.\n\n\"And that tells us that social care was an afterthought rather than a forethought of a whole system approach to discharge and that has had terrible consequences.\"\n\nHe said it was right to try to move people out of hospital at that time.\n\nBut he added: \"It is absolutely crucial that we learn the lesson that you can't think about the health service without thinking about social care.\"\n\nWren Hall nursing home in Nottinghamshire has seen 16 of its residents die with Covid-19.\n\nIt saw its first case on March 24, but managers do not know how the virus got into the home.\n\nWren Hall did take people discharged from hospital. Most had been tested, but sometimes that was days before they were transferred.\n\nAnita Astle, the home's managing director says it has been a deeply distressing time, emotionally and financially.\n\n\"The first thing is losing people we cared about and didn't expect to lose. Our staff teams were grieving, but at the same time we were aware that we needed to fill beds for for financial viability and job security.\n\n\"We did feel under pressure to take people from hospital, whether or not they were Covid positive, because we needed to keep the business going.\"\n\nBut she said that, if there is a second wave of coronavirus, care homes would make very different decisions.\n\n\"We won't be taking positive people from hospital. We will be consulting our staff team and families of those we're supporting and we'll create a plan that meets those people's requests and expectations.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic most directors said they were concerned about the financial viability of some of the care providers in their area.\n\nNow with the extra costs of PPE, staffing and with care home vacancies resulting from the pandemic, a quarter say they are worried about the ability of most of the companies in their area to survive.\n\nAnd 7% say they are worried about the sustainability of all local care providers.\n\nThey are calling for the government to provide more funding to help stabilise the care system.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Adult social care will continue to get all the support and resources they need to tackle the impacts of the pandemic, with £3.2bn for local authorities to help address pressures on local services, including in in adult social care, and £600m to control infections in care homes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson will hold post-Brexit trade talks with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen via video link on Monday next week.\n\nThe UK and EU have said no major progress has been made towards a deal after four rounds of talks this year.\n\nBoth sides were due to decide by the end of June whether the current deadline for negotiating a deal should be extended beyond the end of December.\n\nOn Friday, the UK formally confirmed it will not extend the transition period.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said in a tweet that he had chaired a meeting with the EU Commission's Maros Sefcovic in which he said the \"moment for extension has now passed\".\n\n\"On 1 January 2021 we will take back control and regain our political and economic independence,\" he added.\n\nA UK government spokesman said both sides had also agreed an \"intensified\" schedule of weekly talks throughout the month of July.\n\nThis will involve a mix of formal negotiating rounds and smaller group meetings in London and Brussels, if coronavirus guidelines allow, he added.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel and European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli will also take part in the video call on Monday.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said she was \"looking forward\" to the meeting, while UK chief negotiator David Frost said he was \"very pleased\" an \"intensified talks process\" had been agreed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut he said the government's policy on not extending the transition period - during which the UK stays in the single market and customs union - \"remains valid\".\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told the Commons the UK will \"under no circumstances\" accept an extension to the transition period.\n\nHe said the EU's Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier had indicated progress can be made on issues including fisheries and state aid. but some EU member states had been a \"little more reluctant\".\n\n\"I think it would be in everyone's interests, EU member states, the Commission, and of course the UK government, if Michel Barnier were able to use the flexibility that he has deployed in the past in order to secure an arrangement that would work in everyone's interests,\" he told MPs.\n\nIt comes after Mr Barnier said there had been \"no significant areas of progress\" at last week's negotiating round.\n\nLikewise his UK counterpart Mr Frost said progress \"remains limited,\" and negotiators were \"reaching the limits\" of what could be achieved in formal talks.\n\nDifferences between the two sides remain on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nSpeaking after his meeting with Michael Gove, Maros Sefcovic said it would be \"extremely useful\" if the UK could provide technical clarifications on customs IT systems at Northern Ireland ports by the end of June.\n\nHe added that he wanted to have \"the specialised committee meetings organised in the course of summer so we can, I would say, bring the momentum into these discussions\".\n\nHe added: \"We can also proceed with important conclusions in early September because time is really pressing and the clock is ticking, and I think we need tangible results in that process.\"\n• None UK on EU changing trade talks policy: It's their call", "An extended catch-up plan for England's schools is to be launched for the summer and beyond, to help pupils get back on track amid school shutdowns.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the plans would involve all pupils, not just those from poor backgrounds who are expected to fare worse during closures.\n\nIt comes after the education secretary ditched plans for all primary pupils to return to school before the break.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has been accused of \"flailing around\" over schools.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour leader Keir Starmer called for a national recovery plan for schools, saying the current plan to get pupils back to classrooms were \"lying in tatters\".\n\nMr Johnson said at Wednesday's daily briefing that the government would be doing \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\".\n\nConcerns have been raised about the potential for a lost generation of learners, whose education will have been interrupted for at least six months even if schools return as now planned in September.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the aim remained to have all pupils back in school for the start of the academic year, but gave no details about how ministers intended to achieve this.\n\nSchool capacity is severely restricted by guidelines on social distancing and separating out existing classes into smaller groups of up to 15 pupils from much larger class sizes.\n\nWhen the spokesman was asked about increasing this capacity, by creating extra classrooms or using village halls for example, he said the government was \"looking at exactly what might be required to get all children back\".\n\nThe Scottish Government, which is bringing pupils back in staggered fashion from August, has said it will be working with local councils to seek out extra community spaces and empty offices to accommodate pupils, where necessary.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokeswoman Layla Moran has called for a register to be drawn up in local areas to map out where spaces could be brought into school use.\n\nThere are few details of how the summer catch-up plans will work. A further announcement is expected next week.\n\nIt is not clear whether this catch-up work would be offered in school buildings or elsewhere, or whether teachers would be asked to staff the programme.\n\nThe general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, Paul Whiteman, said the plan was the latest in a long line of eye-catching announcements that would suffer from a lack of input from the teaching profession.\n\nHe said it was not credible to think academic catch up could be achieved over the summer, and warned that the impact of enforced isolation on young people was little understood but likely to be significant.\n\nBut he said support was clearly needed for pupils over the summer, and urged the government to fund a locally co-ordinated offer involving youth groups and charities.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, warned last week that there were just two weeks left to set such summer learning projects up.\n\nAnd the House of Commons Education Committee chairman, Robert Halfon, has called for a Nightingale Hospital style plan to get schools back to capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh government has published new guidance on the measures schools should consider when reopening, including outside learning, teaching in small groups, and pupils eating at their desks.\n\nSchools in Wales will reopen to all age groups from 29 June, but only a third of pupils will be in classes at any one time.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish schools will reopen from 11 August, but with some continued home learning.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers have set a target date for some pupils to go back on 17 August, with a phased return for the rest in September.", "The Nigel Farage Show had been on air since 2017\n\nNigel Farage is to leave his talk show on LBC radio with \"immediate effect\", the station confirmed on Thursday.\n\nThe station thanked the Brexit Party leader for his \"enormous contribution\".\n\nThe Nigel Farage Show aired five days a week. On Wednesday, he told listeners he would be back as usual on Thursday, but the schedule has now been changed.\n\n\"Nigel Farage's contract with LBC is up very shortly and, following discussions with him, Nigel is stepping down from LBC with immediate effect,\" LBC said.\n\nThe station added: \"We thank Nigel for the enormous contribution he has made to LBC and wish him well.\"\n\nThe Nigel Farage Show had been on air for three years, and offered callers the chance to sound off about political topics.\n\nOn Wednesday's show he signed off with the words: \"I'm back tomorrow at six,\" suggesting his contract situation accelerated in the last 24 hours.\n\nApparently responding to the news, fellow presenter James O'Brien tweeted: \"We got our station back.\"\n\nIn 2018, he launched a podcast called Farage Against The Machine, which caused rock band Rage Against the Machine to send a cease and desist letter telling him to stop using the name. He refused, but LBC cancelled the series.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The MEP's last sitting in the European Parliament\n\nAs former Ukip leader, Farage was influential in gathering momentum for the campaign to leave the EU.\n\nThis week the 56-year-old compared Black Lives Matters protestors to the Taliban, for demolishing statues of slaves traders.\n\nHis departure comes after the station's owners Global Radio were criticised by some presenters over its response to the protests, following the death of George Floyd.\n\nA Global spokesperson told the BBC the company had taken \"several steps in recent days\" to improve its inclusivity, \"including the formation of a BAME committee\".\n\nThey added: \"This said, we recognise there is still a lot of work to do. Global is committed to recruiting the highest level of expertise and experience, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation or disability.\n\n\"Like a lot of businesses, we are honest enough to say that we are still finding our feet and learning fast.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "What happened to the contact-tracing app?\n\nThe news that the full test-and-trace programme might not be up and running until September has led some to think this applies to the NHS contact-tracing app, rather than the wider manual tracing effort. The confusion is understandable - after all it's not long ago that ministers talked as if the app was the centrepiece of the programme rather than the \"cherry on top\" as it has been described. My understanding is that the app, which has suffered a number of delays, should still be rolled out nationwide by late June or early July - although there is no guarantee over that. After a first trial with an app with very limited capabilities on the Isle of Wight, version two, which features five questions about symptoms instead of two and integrates the testing process,is undergoing testing at a secret location in London.", "Protesters have been calling for an Oxford college's statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed\n\nIn the row over the statue of Cecil Rhodes, Oxford University's head has warned against \"hiding our history\".\n\nProtesters want to pull down Oriel College's statue of the 19th century imperialist, saying it is a symbol of racism and imperialism.\n\nBut vice-chancellor Louise Richardson said the views of the past had to be seen in the context of the time.\n\n\"We need to confront our past, we need to learn from it,\" said Prof Richardson.\n\nAfter the removal of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol attention has switched to other statues, including that of Cecil Rhodes in Oxford, commemorating the Victorian imperialist, businessman and funder of scholarships.\n\nThe statue belongs to Oriel College, rather than the university, and Prof Richardson said she did not want to give a \"binary\" view on whether to remove it.\n\nBut she gave no indication of backing protesters wanting to take down the statue, instead warning against trying to hide the past and calling for a recognition that views from the past needed to be judged in their historical context.\n\nOxford's MPs and a number of local councillors have supported calls to remove the Rhodes statue, arguing that it represented imperialist values that were no longer acceptable.\n\nThe Rhodes Must Fall campaign has called for a \"public and permanent acknowledgement\" of the university's \"role in colonial violence\".\n\nProtesters in Oxford said the statue was no longer acceptable\n\n\"My own view on this is that hiding our history is not the route to enlightenment,\" Prof Richardson told the BBC.\n\n\"We need to understand this history and understand the context in which it was made and why it was that people believed then as they did,\" she said.\n\n\"This university has been around for 900 years. For 800 of those years the people who ran the university didn't think women were worthy of an education. Should we denounce those people?\n\n\"Personally, no - I think they were wrong, but they have to be judged by the context of their time,\" said Prof Richardson.\n\nIn the era of Cecil Rhodes, support for imperialism had been the prevailing view, she said.\n\nLouise Richardson says that the views of the past need to be examined in the context of the time\n\nThe vice-chancellor said that growing up in Ireland she had seen Oliver Cromwell as a \"barbarous\" figure - but she had seen his statue in Westminster and had learned more about him.\n\n\"Cromwell to me was like Voldemort is to my children,\" she said, referencing the evil wizard in the Harry Potter novels.\n\n\"But I went about learning more about how he was perceived very differently in Britain.\"\n\nWhen looking at the attitudes and actions of the past, she asked: \"Do we use the ethics of today or do we use the morals and ethics of the time in which they lived?\"\n\nAfter a row about the statue a few years ago, there had been proposals for a plaque to be added to the Rhodes statue adding \"context\" about his life, and Prof Richardson said she regretted that this did not seem to have happened.\n\nBut she said the focus of the university was not on statues from the past, but on the experience of students in the present, adding that the number of black and ethnic minority students had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?\n\n\"I would hate to think that any black student or student of any background would think that Oxford would be an unwelcoming place.\"\n\nProf Richardson was speaking as the university was about it announce its first new college for 30 years.\n\nReuben College is to open next year as a postgraduate college and the vice-chancellor said it will be \"more problem-focused, more entrepreneurial\".\n\nThe college will focus on climate change, artificial intelligence and cellular life. It takes it name from the Reuben family whose foundation has donated £80m to support it.\n\n\"The idea is to find solutions to global problems that transcend national borders,\" said Prof Richardson, adding that the college would have a more \"egalitarian\" approach than the \"traditional formal set-up\".\n\nOxford University has been at forefront of efforts to develop a vaccine for Covid-19 and she said it showed the necessity of \"funding the research infrastructure\".\n\n\"It shows how important it is for a country like Britain to have as many first-rate research universities as possible. We're critical to the economic recovery,\" said Prof Richardson.", "A statue of Christopher Columbus was toppled by protesters in St Paul, Minnesota\n\nStatues of Confederate leaders and the explorer Christopher Columbus have been torn down in the US, as pressure grows on authorities to remove monuments connected to slavery and colonialism.\n\nA statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was toppled in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday night.\n\nStatues of Columbus in Boston, Miami and Virginia have been vandalised.\n\nThe movement has been sparked by the death in police custody of African American George Floyd.\n\nHis death in Minneapolis has led to protests in the US and internationally against police brutality and racial inequality.\n\nMemorials to the Confederacy, a group of southern states that fought to keep black people as slaves in the American Civil War of 1861-65, have been among those targeted.\n\nA number of Confederate statues on Monument Avenue in Richmond have been marked with graffiti during the protests.\n\nRichmond also saw a statue of Italian explorer Columbus pulled down, set alight and thrown into a lake earlier this week,.\n\nA three-metre tall (10ft) bronze statue of Columbus was toppled in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday.\n\nThe Columbus statue in Boston, which stands on a plinth at the heart of town, was beheaded.\n\nA city employee inspects the decapitated statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston\n\nMany people in the US celebrate the memory of Columbus, who in school textbooks is credited with discovering \"the New World\", the Americas, in the 15th Century.\n\nBut Native American activists have long objected to honouring Columbus, saying that his expeditions to the Americas led to the colonisation and genocide of their ancestors.\n\nBLM - denoting Black Lives Matter - was sprayed on a Columbus statue in Miami\n\nThe death of Mr Floyd, whose neck was kneeled on by a police officer for nearly nine minutes, has spurred global protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nMany cities and organisations have taken steps to remove Confederate symbols, which have long stirred controversy because of their association with racism.\n\nVideos show crowds cheering as a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was towed away in Richmond\n\nLast week, for example, Virginia's Governor Ralph Northam announced that a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee would be removed from Richmond.\n\nHowever, a judge has since granted a temporary injunction stopping the removal.\n\nStock-car racing organisers Nascar announced on Wednesday it was banning Confederate flags, frequently seen at races.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has meanwhile rejected calls to rename military bases named after Confederate generals, saying they remain part of America's heritage.\n\nHe tweeted: \"The United States of America trained and deployed our HEROES on these Hallowed Grounds, and won two World Wars. Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Korey O'Brien This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Trump renewed threats to take federal action against local protesters occupying public spaces.\n\nIn a pointed exchange on Twitter, Mr Trump demanded that the mayor of Seattle \"take back your city\" from protesters, whom he called anarchists and domestic terrorists.\n\nIn a tweet of her own, Mayor Jenny Durkan responded that Mr Trump could make everyone safe by going back to his White House bunker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA similar backlash against statues of slave owners has been seen in the UK since Mr Floyd's death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter demonstrators tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston and threw it into a harbour during a protest in the city of Bristol on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Edward Colston's statue was removed early in the morning\n\nOn Thursday, Bristol City Council said it had retrieved the statue, which will be taken to a secure location before becoming a museum exhibit.\n\nEarlier this week, a statue of noted slaveholder Robert Milligan was removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nAnd, during a Black Lives Matter protest in London last weekend, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was sprayed with graffiti.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Racism in the US: Is there a single step that can bring equality?", "The project at Pembroke Dock will enable technology developers to test marine energy devices\n\nA £60m marine power project has been approved for Pembrokeshire - with 1,800 jobs expected to be generated over the next 15 years.\n\nThe investment at Pembroke Dock is being backed by the private sector and supported by the local authority.\n\nThe project will enable technology developers to test marine energy devices in the Milford Haven Waterway.\n\nPembrokeshire council leader David Simpson said they were ready to \"accelerate working\" on the scheme.\n\nThe business case for the development has been backed by both the Welsh and UK governments.\n\nPembrokeshire council said the project was expected to generate £73.5m a year for the Swansea Bay City Region economy.\n\n\"The impact of Covid-19 has further heightened the importance of Pembroke Dock Marine, so the project's approval is very welcome news for Pembrokeshire's residents and businesses.\n\n\"This project will place Pembrokeshire and the City Region at the heart of a growing global industry, helping further raise the region's profile as a place to do business and invest in.\"\n\nAndy Jones, chief executive of the Port of Milford Haven, said: \"This is an exciting step - not just for Pembrokeshire and the region but also for our economy, our communities and our environment as we work towards net zero decarbonisation targets.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government's deputy minister for the economy, Lee Waters added: \"It also clearly demonstrates our commitment to the development of a Centre of Excellence for marine technology here in Wales.\"\n\nUK government minister for Wales, David TC Davies said: \"As we look to bounce back economically from the coronavirus pandemic, the development of clean energy projects will help to drive a green and resilient economic recovery and create new jobs.\"", "Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary talks to two colleagues who have lived away from home since the early days of the pandemic to avoid the risk of infecting their families. One says she fears that cases will begin to rise because members of the public, unlike medical staff, seem too eager to \"move on\".\n\nI am so humbled by the personal sacrifices that some of my colleagues have made during the pandemic. Those with young children who have sent them away to their parents to protect them from harm, like evacuees to the countryside during World War Two. Those who have retreated into lives of hermits to reduce the risk of any transmission from their work environments.\n\nHealthcare workers are five or six times more likely to be infected than the general public, so they also have a much greater risk of infecting others. Living as a civilian in a house with a healthcare worker can be bad for your health.\n\nBecky Aird is a specialist respiratory nurse and acting ward sister on our busiest Covid-19 ward. Three months ago, before we had our first patient, she made the tough decision to move out of her parents' home to protect her mother, who has MS.\n\nKirsten Sellick is a junior doctor who moved out of a family home to live in hospital accommodation. I see her on sunny days reading outside the hospital - the car park is her lockdown garden retreat.\n\nAfter lockdown I was offered the chance to move into the hotel to keep my family safe and I took it. That was 30 March. My mum is quite poorly, she's got secondary progressive MS, she's very independent and both she and my dad wanted me to stay at home; they kept thinking of ways we could live together safely but I knew it wouldn't be 100% safe. There was no way to eliminate the risk for my mum. The only option was to eliminate myself.\n\nBecky Aird with her mother and a young relative, pre-lockdown\n\nAt first I thought it was quite cool in the hotel - it was like going on a little holiday - but it quickly wore off. I've got a reasonably small room. I brought a travel fridge with me and it broke within the first week. It's just very lonely, and I mostly read. I haven't seen my friends, just one girl who I dropped a care package off to and she stood at her front door.\n\nI was very upset when one of my friends, Kelly, was admitted to my ward. I was the main nurse in charge and it really shocked me, it was such a big thing to see her fighting for breath and so ill. I was crying when I got back to the hotel - I couldn't stop thinking about her. She asked me to promise her that she wasn't going to die. Thankfully she went on to CPAP [non-invasive ventilation] and started to improve.\n\nWe are still admitting patients on to the Covid ward and I don't see much sign it's stopping. Some people tell us they haven't been social distancing - they've been with relatives, or to other houses. I definitely think it's going to get worse before it gets better, because I think people just think that it's over.\n\nThe sad fact is that there are nurses and doctors and healthcare workers struggling to work in PPE, working really hard for three months in such difficult conditions, and like me, making sacrifices - not seeing family and friends, following all the rules - and then there are people out there that aren't doing that. So that's disheartening.\n\nIt's really sad. It's funny because people did love the NHS and clapped and everything - people really cared. But then it's kind of people want to move on. I don't necessarily agree that we should be called heroes, but I think that that might have all been forgotten about now.\n\nI'm leaving soon, because soon I'll have done three months in the hotel and the bill [paid by the NHS] is mounting up. There's nowhere else I could stay to be isolated so I need to go back home - and that means stopping work on the Covid wards.\n\nI would stay if I could. Don't get me wrong, there have been some horrendous things, but this is what I'm trained for. I have the ability to help, to make a difference and if living in the hotel is the only way to do it, then I'm prepared for that. I don't have children. I don't have a partner. But I'm also really looking forward to being home, to having my own bed, to being with my parents again.\n\nI will miss the Covid ward. The team's fantastic. Everyone's been so pleasant and lovely with each other, I think that's been the best thing. I've actually seen patients get better and clapping them out is my favourite thing ever. I love that.\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nMy garden is the hospital car park and my commute is dreamy - it takes me two minutes to get from my bed into work. But it's a bit odd - I don't ever leave the hospital site.\n\nI was living with family and it made more sense not to live with them as I'm high-risk, interacting with patients who are really unwell with coronavirus. The thought of taking it home to family was just too much.\n\nIt is pretty lonely. There are two other doctors but it's difficult not being around family or people you love, and a phone call can only do so much.\n\nI've been in the flat for months now. I had to properly isolate when my flatmate had a positive test, so we couldn't even leave the flat. That was really bad. It's a hospital flat so the window has a padlock on it and only opens less than an inch so my fresh air was leaning against the window trying to breathe in some air.\n\nYou get used to having a garden, a nice kitchen and a home but now I haven't got any of that. I have found a little bit of the car park that I sit in when the sun is out.\n\nIt's been sad work, seeing young people who aren't doing as well as I'd like them to. It's hard to explain to family members - I try to get across that we are doing our best. But it's been heart-breaking speaking to them on the phone.\n\nIt was a lovely moment to see our first patient come off the ventilator and leave the ward. That makes the sacrifice worth it - knowing we can really help people.\n\nI'd love to be done, so that I could go and see my family and my partner, I'd really love to do that but I don't feel like I can yet. I'm hoping that time will come soon.\n\nBecky and Kirsten are the embodiment of the dedication of the NHS front-line workers. This is what they trained for - to care for people and to save lives. However, working on the Covid \"red\" wards has to be one of the toughest jobs, both physically and emotionally, and I worry about the impact on their physical and mental health when they are separated from their usual support networks of loving family and friends.\n\nWe will have to work hard to care for our carers.", "Andrew Goodall said people who have experience problems will be offered help first\n\nMore dental care will be available for patients from 1 July, the chief executive of NHS Wales has confirmed.\n\nAndrew Goodall said people who have experienced problems during lockdown will be offered help first.\n\n\"A wide range of care will be available at most local dental practices for patients who urgently need them,\" he said.\n\nBut Mr Goodall said the restoration of services would be \"gradual\" to protect staff and patients.\n\nIt is not expected that routine dentistry will be available until 2021.\n\nRoutine work had stopped during the pandemic because many dental procedures use tools that create spray, leading to a higher risk of transmission of the virus.\n\nRoutine dentistry is not expected to be back up and running until 2021\n\nThe Welsh Government has faced calls to reopen surgeries from dentists themselves, who warned of an impending health \"disaster\".\n\nDr Goodall told the daily Welsh Government press briefing officials are planning to restart services in three phases, with the first phase beginning in July.\n\n\"The group of people who have experienced problems during lockdown will be offered assessment and care first,\" he said.\n\n\"We will progress based on urgency and patient need until the restoration of routine check-ups in the final phase.\"\n\nFurther phases will be \"about restoring activities in different ways\", Mr Goodall said, adding he hoped routine assessments could be restored.\n\nDespite the pandemic, Dr Goodall said dentists had been open when necessary for urgent care, with 11,500 people seen and 140,000 consultations done remotely.\n\nRoutine dental procedures have been cancelled during the pandemic\n\nMeanwhile Dr Goodall reiterated that a \"cautious approach\" will be needed to easing any lockdown restrictions.\n\nThe chief executive responded to a question as to whether so-called \"social bubbles\", introduced in England, would be part of the next lockdown review.\n\nDr Goodall said: \"We'll be approaching the next phase of lockdown review through next week... and the first minister alongside the cabinet will be reviewing any opportunities to see what the next steps are for lockdown restrictions\".\n\nThe next lockdown announcement in Wales is expected on 19 July.", "The development site is opposite Neyland on the Cleddau Estuary between Hobbs Point and the ferry terminal\n\nAn investment company has pulled out of a £100m waterfront development in Pembrokeshire.\n\nConygar's annual report, released on Wednesday, said it had decided to withdraw from the Martello Quays scheme in Pembroke Dock and write off its £4.8m investment.\n\nThe original £8m estimate of constructing the marina had risen to over £17m, which made it \"not viable\".\n\nConygar said it was a \"difficult\" but \"necessary\" decision.\n\nIt included consent for pontoons with up to 260 berths, 450 houses and apartments, a hotel, cinema, gallery, pub and restaurants.\n\nThe report said: \"Having commissioned a detailed feasibility study, the results unfortunately concluded that the cost of constructing the marina would be considerably greater than our first investigation showed.\"\n\nConygar was appointed as the developer by a client group made up of Pembrokeshire council, the Welsh Government, the Crown Estate and Milford Haven Port Authority.\n\nIts contract was dependent on the marina being built by 2022.\n\nConygar said the land-based element at Pembroke Dock was still viable, and \"substantial retailers\" had been attracted which would \"improve the environment and create considerable employment.\"\n\nBut an attempt to separate the land development from the marina was refused which led to the decision to write off the total investment.\n\nA joint statement from Conygar chairman Nigel Hamway and chief executive Robert Ware said: \"This was a difficult decision but we felt that it was necessary given the problems we have faced at this site over the past year.\"\n\nPembroke Dock county councillor Brian Hall said the development would have been a \"huge asset\" for the town, but he understood it was no longer viable for Conygar.\n\nHe said major companies had shown interest in coming, which would have created 600 full and part-time jobs.\n\n\"It would have led to a massive increase in footfall which would help assist the small businesses, as well as major road and sewage improvements,\" he said.\n\nMr Hall remains optimistic that the development will happen one day.\n\n\"We'll just keep plugging away for Pembroke Dock,\" he said.", "Routine dental appointments may not happen until next year\n\nDental health in Wales faces an \"impending disaster\" unless surgeries reopen, a dentist has warned in a letter to the first minister.\n\nCardiff dentist Dr Charlie Stephanakis said his plea on behalf of about 500 Welsh colleagues reflected mounting concerns for patients.\n\nDentists in England can reopen from Monday, but in Wales a phased approach will begin in July.\n\nThe Welsh Government said reinstating services needed to be \"gradual\".\n\nRoutine appointments have been postponed since the start of lockdown, but in that time dentists in Wales have seen 11,500 people in practices for urgent care and provided 140,000 consultations over the phone or using video services.\n\nFrom July patients will be able to be assessed for urgent care at their practices, but those requiring invasive procedures such as high-speed drilling will still be referred to specialist 'Urgent Dental Care' centres.\n\nUnder the phased guidelines set out by Wales' chief dental officer, Colette Bridgman, routine assessments and care will only be reinstated between January and March 2021.\n\nBut in his open letter to Mark Drakeford, Dr Stephanakis said without action \"we are facing the long-term degradation of the oral health of the population of Wales\".\n\nThe dentist said keeping surgeries closed following the coronavirus lockdown in Wales had led to several issues, including:\n\nHe has called for urgent meetings with the Welsh Government to seek a way forward.\n\nThe British Dental Association, which represents the health sector, said there was a \"great, growing demand\" for swifter action before 2021.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We share dentists' concerns and recognise routine care cannot be postponed indefinitely.\n\n\"We have published our plan for the reinstatement of services but this needs to be a cautious and gradual approach, taking into consideration the risk of aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) on Covid-19 transmission.\n\n\"There is a need to balance the oral health needs of patients against the need to protect patients, dental teams and communities in Wales from coronavirus.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This is a very tricky moment for the prime minister.\n\nOne minister admitted the government was in a \"rough patch - everyone's a bit angry having been locked up for too long\".\n\nWhether it's the messy patchwork of the return of schools in England, mounting criticisms of the way decisions were taken at the start of the pandemic, or the dawning realisation (perhaps overdue) in Westminster that the economy is in very dire straits despite the balance sheet-busting actions the Treasury has taken.\n\nRecent polls show confidence in the government has slid down.\n\nIt's worth saying some of that is political gravity after a period of pretty astonishing levels of support that could never last.\n\nAnd, of course, we are four years from the next general election.\n\nBut poll after poll suggests the public's mood has soured, and politicians who tell you they don't pay any attention to those surveys may well have two fingers crossed behind their back.\n\nAnd there is really tangible frustration among the government's own MPs that has built over the last few weeks.\n\nOne former cabinet minister described Number 10's approach as \"lurch and retreat\", with Downing Street having \"no strategic sense of where they are going\".\n\nA less diplomatic senior MP had one more robust, and unprintable word to describe the Tories' position.\n\nThere is a growing hope though among government ministers that at least part of the way of turning the page would be to relax the two-metre keep your distance rule.\n\nThe prime minister himself has made it clear that he would like to do that if it's possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nMinisters had promised to review it, and Downing Street is taking a look, involving the government's scientists and crucially too, those charged with handling the economy.\n\nOne minister today seemed confident the rule would be changed, and told me \"very soon\".\n\nAfter all, other countries are asking their citizens to keep apart, but with smaller gaps, as my colleague David Shukman's explained here.\n\nMore and more MPs believe that relaxing the rule would be the crucial piece of the jigsaw.\n\nSchools would find it easier to reopen to many more children, bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants that simply won't be able to function as businesses might have a chance again; using public transport if you only have to be say one metre apart seems a different prospect, and the transformation of workplaces becomes less dramatic.\n\nAnd if one metre is deemed safe in Denmark, France, or Hong Kong, then why not here?\n\nFirst off, the disease is shrinking, but it's not disappearing fast.\n\nThere is still public anxiety about the infection, and that crucial R rate is only just under the danger level of one.\n\nThe risk of relaxing the rule may be small, but it does exist.\n\nAnd the government's top medics have said publicly that they don't think the two-metre rule should go.\n\nTo change it therefore would be to go against the advice - \"the science\" that ministers have so often relied on referring to in difficult moments.\n\nOf course there is no such one thing as \"the science\".\n\nScience is as full of dispute as politics, even though the methods and practices are chalk and cheese.\n\nAnd ultimately the decisions about handling the crisis have been made by ministers after receiving the scientists' advice.\n\nBut the decision over two metres is looming and it's one that Boris Johnson can't ignore.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Suffolk Police officers ask for the black couple's details \"because we can\"\n\nAn exchange in which a police officer accused a black woman of \"jumping on the bandwagon\" was \"clumsy\", a deputy chief constable said.\n\nTwo officers had asked a black couple outside their Ipswich home for their details, saying \"because we can\".\n\nWhen the woman complained, an officer said: \"You've just jumped on the bandwagon in the current climate.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable of Suffolk Police, Rachel Kearton, said it would be investigated internally.\n\nThe exchange, filmed on the woman's mobile phone, has been viewed on Twitter more than 1.5m times after it was shared by the couple's daughter, Maja Antoine.\n\nIn the video, the officers appear to want to check a driving licence because the couple had \"paid attention\" to them while they worked on an operation on the same street on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by maja This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said in her tweet: \"My parents were stopped and questioned in their own driveway for 'driving a motor vehicle on the road', and 'because they can'.\n\n\"It's suspicious to walk from your car to your house, while black. The UK is not innocent.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Suffolk, Miss Antoine said her first thought when her mother sent her the footage was \"people need to see that\".\n\n\"Everything we are fighting for is happening where we stand, to the point that it's my parents on their doorstep,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"After everything calmed down my main feeling was anger because this shouldn't have been happening.\"\n\nAsked about an official apology due to be given to her parents on Friday, she replied: \"Until we see some sort of change in bias training I don't think I'm really impressed, but the apology was welcomed.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Kearton told BBC Look East she could see the incident was upsetting\n\nFranstine Jones, the former president of the National Black Police Association, said it was \"just not professional\" to ask someone for their details \"because we can\".\n\n\"It leaves me wondering about the mindset of our officers in Suffolk going out on the street doing their policing,\" she said.\n\n\"If they think every interaction with a black person - if they are not happy about the way they are being spoken to, or the way they are being treated, or asking for an explanation - that officer is going to think 'oh here we go, they are just jumping on the bandwagon'.\n\n\"It's really disappointing. It makes me fearful.\"\n\nDCC Kearton said body-worn camera footage and the online video were being examined and the matter investigated by the force's professional standards team.\n\n\"It is an opportunity for us to have a long, hard look at how we conduct ourselves,\" she explained.\n\n\"It isn't always perfect, we do have mistakes and weaknesses, however, we do care for our communities and we do hold very close to our hearts our sense of professionalism and integrity and to do the right thing and respect all of our members of our communities to keep them safe.\n\n\"That is what was at the heart of what the police officers were trying to do, however it appears to have been carried out in a clumsy fashion which will be dealt with by the constabulary and we will do better in the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of his father falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in Haringey\n\nThe Tasering of rapper Wretch 32's father will be assessed by the police watchdog after the Met was instructed to refer it.\n\nWretch 32 posted a video on Twitter of Millard Scott falling downstairs after being Tasered by officers in Haringey, north London, in April.\n\nThe force previously said a review had found \"no indication of misconduct\".\n\nBut the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) used its powers to require the force to refer it.\n\nIt will now assess what happened to decide if it needs to be investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Millard Scott was Tasered by officers after they entered his home in April\n\nThe 35-year-old rapper, whose real name is Jermaine Scott, shared the 36-second clip on his Twitter account with the caption: \"This is how the police think they can treat a 62 year old black man in Tottenham but this 1 happens to be my dad.\"\n\nHe later spoke about the lack of progression on \"police brutality\" in the UK.\n\nHis 62-year-old father told ITV News he believed he would not have been Tasered if he were white and he was \"lucky to be alive\".\n\nThe video shows Mr Scott falling down the stairs after an officer is heard to warn: \"Police officer with a Taser. Stay where you are.\"\n\nScotland Yard said officers had gone to the property as part of \"a long-running operation to tackle drugs supply linked to serious violence\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"As officers entered the premises, a man came downstairs and started moving towards an officer suddenly.\n\n\"He was ordered to remain where he was but continued towards officers who, after several warnings, deployed a Taser.\n\n\"The man was not arrested, but was assessed by the London Ambulance Service at the scene. He did not require further medical treatment.\n\n\"Officers from the North Area Command Unit have liaised with the family to discuss any concerns they have about the incident.\n\n\"The incident, including body-worn footage, has been reviewed by the Met's directorate of professional standards and no indication of misconduct has been identified.\"\n\nPolice said a 22-year-old man found in the house was arrested and charged with encouraging another to commit an offence, while a 52-year-old woman was charged with obstructing police after being interviewed under caution at a later date.\n\nThe force said in a further statement that, following examination of the body-worn footage, it believed the incident \"does not meet the criteria for a referral to the IOPC\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The development will have a greater focus on leisure such as bars and restaurants than the previous plan\n\nA revised plan for the multi-million pound redevelopment of Milford Haven Waterfront has been submitted to Pembrokeshire County Council.\n\nA mix of shops, bars, cafes, hotels, restaurants, business units, and up to 190 flats and townhouses is planned.\n\nIt will also include up to 70 additional marina berths and replacement boat yards.\n\nThe port received outline planning permission in 2015 and has since been working on the final details.\n\nThe previous plans focused on shopping but \"as a result of market changes\" the development will focus on leisure. Instead of a supermarket they have planned for a large indoor facility which will be open all year round.\n\nArtist's impression of the marina with the floating cabin holiday lets, which should be ready for use later this year\n\nThe Port of Milford Haven claims its project will create over 700 jobs during construction and operation.\n\nWork has already started on site for a new coffee house drive-thru at the waterfront.\n\nFour floating cabins for holiday lets will be ready for use on the marina later this year with terraces overlooking the water.\n\nNeil Jenkins, development director at the Port of Milford Haven, said: \"We have worked hard on fine-tuning the plans over the past couple of years to ensure they are in line with market trends.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The development would have built 1,500 new homes on Westferry Road, the Isle of Dogs\n\nRobert Jenrick has defended his decision to approve a controversial planning application by a Conservative donor as the Metropolitan Police said they would not be taking any action.\n\nThe housing secretary told MPs he had acted in \"good faith\" and \"within the rules\" when he backed Richard Desmond's scheme for 1,500 homes in east London.\n\nHe said he had handed relevant documents to No 10's top official.\n\nLabour called for an inquiry to clear up the \"bad smell\" over the decision.\n\nMr Jenrick's decision to grant planning permission in January for Mr Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks was challenged by Tower Hamlets Council, and the secretary of state has said what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nThe application, previously rejected by Tower Hamlets Council, was approved the day before the introduction of a new council community levy which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nThe housing secretary has been under political pressure after it emerged that Mr Desmond raised the issue with him at a Conservative fundraising dinner in November and, two weeks after planning permission was granted, donated £12,000 to the Conservative Party.\n\nPressed on the issue in the House of Commons, Mr Jenrick said it was \"not unusual\" for the secretary of state to reach a different conclusion from councils or planning inspectors on the most \"contentious\" applications.\n\n\"I took that decision in good faith, with an open mind, and I am confident all the rules were followed in doing so,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe said \"all the relevant information\" relating to the decision had been handed to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, the UK's most senior civil servant, who opposition parties are demanding hold an inquiry.\n\nRequests for further documentation would be considered where appropriate, he added, bearing in mind the \"legitimate interests\" of the parties involved and the fact the application had yet to be settled.\n\nMr Jenrick rejected claims of impropriety in relation to his contacts with Mr Desmond.\n\nHe said officials were aware he had \"inadvertently\" found himself sitting next to the businessman at the November dinner and he had been clear that he could not discuss the application when Mr Desmond raised it.\n\n\"I discussed and took advice from my officials in the department at all times,\" he added.\n\nIn response to a question from the SNP's Tommy Sheppard, he also revealed that the matter had been looked into by the police following a complaint and he had been told there were \"no criminal matters to investigate\".\n\nMr Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\nThe Met confirmed it received an allegation on 27 May relating to a property development in east London.\n\nIn a statement, it said. \"The details were assessed by officers from the Special Enquiry Team who concluded the information provided did not meet the threshold for a criminal investigation.\n\n\"There will be no further police action at this time.\"\n\nIn giving the project the green light, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate which said the development needed to deliver more affordable housing in London's poorest borough.\n\nThe council subsequently challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nLocal councillors asked the High Court last month to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nLabour said Mr Jenrick must do more to reassure people about the integrity of the planning process and dispel concerns that it could be \"auctioned off\".\n\n\"The only disinfectant that can clear the bad smell hanging around this decision is honesty,\" said shadow housing secretary Steve Read.\n\n\"Mr Jenrick must immediately publish all correspondence about this case to allow full public scrutiny of what he's been up to.\"", "Three adults, including the two-year-old's mother, were taken to hospital\n\nA two-year-old boy who was shot in the head survived after the bullet missed an artery by just a millimetre, his family have revealed.\n\nThe boy's grandmother Lillian Serunkuma is appealing for information to help police catch the gunman.\n\nThe toddler was one of four people, including his mother, who were shot in Energen Close, Harlesden, on 3 June.\n\nDetectives have arrested five men in connection with the shooting but are yet to charge anyone.\n\nThe two-year-old was rushed to hospital in a critical condition and doctors told his family that the bullet missed a crucial artery, which would have resulted in a fatal injury if damaged.\n\nMs Serunkuma, whose 15-year-old son Quamari Serunkuma-Barnes was stabbed to death in 2017, said: \"My grandson is two, he has never hurt anyone. The person who did this doesn't deserve your protection or friendship.\n\n\"The gunman could clearly see that a woman and child were present in the car, and fired towards them without any regard for their safety, seriously hurting them both.\"\n\nLillian Serunkuma's son Quamari was stabbed to death in January 2017\n\nThe attacker is believed to have fired a handgun at a man before shooting into a car carrying the boy, his mother, another teenager, and two other children.\n\nDet Ch Insp Pete Wallis said the boy \"spent more than a week fighting for his life\".\n\nHe is then said to have fled the scene on a motorbike, according to the Met Police.\n\nA 20 year-old-man arrested on suspicion of four counts of attempted murder has been released under investigation, while a 19-year-old man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder has been bailed.\n\nThree other men, aged 29, 23 and 36, arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, have all been released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The memorial for PC Keith Palmer was unveiled outside Parliament in 2018\n\nA man has been jailed for urinating at the Westminster memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer.\n\nAndrew Banks, 28, of Stansted, Essex, was photographed during Saturday's right-wing protests in London.\n\nHe was sentenced to 14 days in custody, after pleading guilty to outraging public decency at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nPC Palmer, 48, was stabbed while on duty during the Westminster attack on 22 March 2017.\n\nHe was one of five people murdered by Khalid Masood.\n\nAndrew Banks had not slept the night before the incident, the court heard\n\nThe image of Banks was widely shared on social media on Saturday as violent clashes between far-right protesters and police took place in central London.\n\nBanks, a Tottenham Hotspur fan, said he had travelled to central London with other football supporters to \"protect statues\", but admitted he did not know which statues.\n\nHe was said to have drunk 16 pints during Friday night into Saturday morning, and had not been to sleep.\n\nBanks contacted police after being confronted by his father, the court heard.\n\nJailing Banks, Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said: \"I accept you were drunk and did not know where you were urinating.\n\n\"Your explanation is you had 16 pints to drink, you hadn't been to bed, and a group of football supporters were coming up to protect the monuments.\n\n\"The irony is rather than protecting the monuments, you almost urinated on one. That was more by luck than judgment.\"\n\nPC Keith Palmer was unarmed as he was attacked by Khalid Masood\n\nHis counsel Stuart Harris said his client was \"ashamed by his action\", and had mental health issues.\n\nThe act was widely condemned at the time by politicians including MP Tobias Ellwood, who gave first aid to PC Palmer as he lay dying in the grounds of Parliament.\n\nMet Police Cdr Bas Javid said: \"Keith Palmer was a brave police officer and the memorial stands testament to his courage.\n\n\"Banks' actions, in stark contrast, were unpleasant and extremely upsetting to PC Palmer's family and colleagues.\n\n\"While I note that Banks did not act with intent, I welcome the sentence handed down by the court for his thoughtless and distasteful behaviour.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bong Joon-ho directed last year's Oscar-winning film Parasite, the first non-English language film to win best picture\n\nNext year's Oscars ceremony has been pushed back by two months, the latest big celebrity event to have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Academy Awards were due to take place on 28 February next year but have now been put back until 25 April.\n\nOrganisers have also agreed to extend the eligibility window beyond 31 December 2020 to the end of February.\n\nNext year's British Academy Film Awards (Baftas) have been pushed back to 11 April, keeping in line with the Oscars.\n\nThe pandemic has already halted work on a number of films which were due to be released by the end of the year.\n\n\"This is a much needed boost for those films who may have been stalled in post-production,\" an Academy member told Variety.\n\nThe red carpet is a big draw for Oscar fans\n\nLast week, The Academy pledged to ensure greater inclusivity in its future award ceremonies, to \"level the playing field\".\n\nIt also said there would always be 10 films in the best film category rather than a fluctuating number between five and 10, potentially meaning more diverse film choices in the running.\n\nThis rule won't come into play until 2022, however.\n\nThe ceremony has been pushed back to Sunday 11 April 2021. It was due to take place on 14 February.\n\nThis keeps it in line with the Oscar changes - the Baftas traditionally take place two weeks ahead of the Academy Awards.\n\nAnd like the Oscars, Bafta has also changed its eligibility criteria.\n\nFilms that had an official release date that fell during the lockdown period will now still be eligible if they choose to debut on video on demand services.\n\nMarc Samuelson, chair of Bafta's film committee, said: \"We have pushed back by two months to give all films the best possible chance to be released and considered properly.\"\n\nThe Oscars has only been delayed three times before - due to LA flooding in 1938; after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in 1968; and following the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.\n\nIt's not yet known if the ceremony will be virtual or in person as it is too early to say.\n\nDavid Rubin, president of the Academy - the body behind the Oscars- and its CEO Dawn Hudson said: \"For over a century, movies have played an important role in comforting, inspiring, and entertaining us during the darkest of times.\n\n\"They certainly have this year. Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalised for something beyond anyone's control.\n\n\"This coming Oscars and the opening of our new museum will mark an historic moment, gathering movie fans around the world to unite through cinema.\"\n\nNominations will be announced on March 15, 2021.\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently changed its rules so films that debut on streaming or video on demand services are eligible for next year's awards.\n\nThe current rules say films can only enter if they have been shown in a Los Angeles cinema for at least a week.\n\nBut with cinemas shut during the coronavirus crisis, organisers said a \"temporary\" exception was necessary.\n\nMany film releases have been delayed, with others going straight to digital.\n\nThe Oscars is not the only big entertainment event to have been affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe prestigious Tony theatre awards were due to take place earlier this month but were postponed and a new date is yet to be announced.\n\nSome events have been cancelled, including last month's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Paul and Elaine Gait said at the time they felt \"violated\" by Sussex Police\n\nA police force has paid out £200,000 over the arrest of a couple falsely accused of causing chaos at Gatwick Airport with a drone.\n\nArmed officers stormed the home of Paul and Elaine Gait in December 2018, and held them for 36 hours after drones caused the airport to close repeatedly.\n\nThe couple were released without charge, and sued Sussex Police for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment.\n\nThe Gait's legal team said the force had agreed an out-of-court settlement.\n\nAirport chiefs said 120,000 people due to arrive or fly had not been able to travel\n\nSussex Police confirmed it has paid the couple the £55,000 owed in damages, and law firm Howard Kennedy said it has billed the force an additional £145,000 in legal costs.\n\nFlights were cancelled in droves over a three-day period, as police investigated multiple reported drone sightings.\n\nNo-one has ever been charged, and police have said that some reported drone sightings may have been Sussex Police's own craft.\n\nTwelve armed officers swooped on Mr and Mrs Gait's home, even though they did not possess any drones and had been at work during the reported sightings.\n\nIn a statement released by their legal team on Sunday, the couple said: \"We are delighted to have finally received vindication, it has been a very long fight for justice.\n\n\"It has taken lengthy legal proceedings to obtain resolution from the police and to finally have closure on this distressing time.\"\n\nAnti-drone equipment was used at Gatwick Airport after the drone stopped flights intermittently for days\n\nIn a letter to the couple, Sussex Police Assistant Chief Constable David Miller said he was \"deeply sorry\" for the \"unpleasantness\" the couple experienced, and acknowledged it would have been \"traumatic\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, when the police carry out their functions on behalf of the public, sometimes innocent people are arrested as part of necessary police investigations in the public interest.\n\n\"However, we recognise that things could have been done differently and, as a result, Sussex Police have agreed to pay you compensation and legal costs.\"\n\nThe force commissioned a \"thorough independent review\" of the drone incident last year.\n\nIt revealed 96 people \"of interest\" were identified, researched and ruled out during the investigation and the cost of the operation and subsequent investigation was £790,000.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince William spoke with Leanne whose five-year-old son Kaydyn has cystic fibrosis\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has made a surprise video call to a woman and her young son who have been shielding for the past three months.\n\nWilliam spoke with Leanne and five-year-old Kaydyn, who has cystic fibrosis, at their home in Corby, Northamptonshire.\n\nFootage of the call will feature on BBC One's The One Show on Tuesday.\n\nLeanne was shown covering her mouth with her hands in shock as the Duke called from his home in Norfolk.\n\nIt forms part of a film focusing on extremely vulnerable people being advised to remain at home as much as possible, and the challenges they are facing.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge during a previous video call, when he revealed he was a volunteer for a mental health charity's crisis helpline\n\nFrom the start of June, more than 2.2 million extremely vulnerable people shielding from coronavirus were allowed to leave their homes.\n\nSince the advice changed, Leanne and Kaydyn have been outside twice, for country walks.\n\nThe BBC said: \"Initially Kaydyn was frustrated about being forced to stay inside - now he is very nervous about leaving the house.\"\n\nThe film will also look at Shelby Lynch, a 21-year-old from Leeds, who has spinal muscular atrophy type 2 and is on a ventilator 24 hours a day.\n\nIt follows the moment she finally leaves her home for a socially distanced meeting with her boyfriend for the first time in weeks.\n\n\"He had been feeling a little down so it was nice to see his face light up,\" she said.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and volunteers at Conscious Youth during a video call\n\nLast week, the Duke of Cambridge revealed he had been anonymously volunteering on a crisis helpline during lockdown, after being trained by a mental health charity.\n\nWilliam said he had been answering messages at Shout 85258, which offers support via text message to people in personal crisis.\n\nLast month he told fellow volunteers in a video call: \"I'm going to share a little secret with you guys, but I'm actually on the platform volunteering.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess have held video calls with those helping charities in England and Wales. The Duchess has also taken part in video calls with people who are self-isolating or vulnerable.\n\nThe One Show is on BBC One every weekday at 19:00 BST", "Wicks said his online PE lessons had attracted millions of views worldwide\n\nJoe Wicks has said he is scaling back his online PE lessons to three days a week, because he needs \"a little bit of a break\".\n\nThe Body Coach has been leading free fitness classes on weekdays throughout lockdown for children and parents.\n\nDuring Monday's workout he told viewers that from next week he would be moving to a reduced timetable, with sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.\n\nWith some schools now returning, Wicks said: \"I need a little bit of a rest.\"\n\nHe said he had \"loved every minute\" of the online classes but that this would be the last full week of PE with Joe.\n\n\"I feel very proud that I've been able to bring so many people together during lockdown,\" he wrote on Instagram.\n\nWicks said his online workouts had attracted almost 70 million views worldwide, which he described as \"truly mind blowing\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAppearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on Sunday, Wicks spoke about the struggles he had faced growing up and how his life was changed by his father's heroin addiction.\n\nHe said that seeing the impact drugs had on his father meant he was never tempted to try them himself.\n\n\"I was scared of it and I got into exercise and fitness and so his mistake changed my life,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"I just don't regret anything I've gone through or anything I have been through with my mum and dad, I'm just proud of who I am,\" he added.\n\n\"He's had times when he's relapsed but today he is clean and that's the most important thing, but when I was a teenager I found it difficult.\n\n\"I didn't understand, I was angry but now as an adult I understand. I have got more empathy.\"", "More than one million people have fallen through cracks in government schemes designed to support them during the coronavirus crisis, MPs says.\n\nThe Treasury Select Committee called on ministers to plug gaps in the schemes to fulfil the government's promise of \"doing whatever it takes\".\n\nFreelancers and recent employees are among those who cannot access support, the MPs say.\n\nThe Treasury said the schemes protected millions of jobs and livelihoods.\n\nBut the committee's interim report, which was unanimously agreed by members, said it was still not enough.\n\n\"The Treasury's interventions have been welcomed by many but rolling out financial support at pace and scale has inevitably resulted in some hard edges in policy design and some critical gaps in provision,\" the committee said.\n\n\"The government must assist these people if it is to completely fulfil its promise to do whatever it takes to protect people from the economic impact of coronavirus.\"\n\nThe MPs said hundreds of thousands of people are suffering financial hardship through no fault of their own, often due to unfortunate timing in starting a new job or their employer's choice of timing in submitting payroll paperwork to the HMRC tax authority.\n\nWhen lockdown first started, the Treasury said it would cover up to 80% of the salaries of workers who were unable to do their job from home. But those who started a new job after the government's 28 February cut-off date are not covered by the scheme.\n\nAlthough this was later extended by three weeks, many have still been left behind, the committee said.\n\nThe committee also said the government is failing to help those who have become self-employed within the last year and those whose companies have annual trading profits of more than £50,000.\n\nAnother group that has fallen through the net is freelancers or those on short-term contracts. The MPs said that in industries such as television and theatre, where short-term contracts are the norm, many workers are not entitled to support under the schemes.\n\nThe report said: \"This cannot be right. The government should give this group access to financial support that equates to 80% of their average monthly income, up to a total of £2,500 per month.\"\n\nThe report comes amid growing unease about the health of the economy, which contracted by a record 20.4% in April. There are warnings of huge job losses once the furlough schemes are wound down. On Sunday, Chancellor Rishi Sunak acknowledged on the Andrew Marr show \"there is going to be hardship ahead\".\n\nTreasury Committee chairman Mel Stride said: \"The chancellor has said that he will do whatever it takes to support people and businesses from the economic impact of the pandemic. Overall, he has acted at impressive scale and pace.\n\n\"However, the committee has identified well over a million people who, through no fault of their own, have lost livelihoods while being locked down and locked out of the main support programmes.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"The swift and targeted action we've taken has protected millions of jobs and livelihoods and our interventions have been rightly welcomed by the select committee.\n\n\"Our wide-ranging support package is one of the most comprehensive in the world - with generous income support schemes, billions paid in loans and grants, tax deferrals and more than £6.5 billion injected into the welfare safety net.\n\n\"All our support is targeted to make sure we use public funds responsibly, helping those who need it most as quickly as possible, while minimising fraud risk.\"", "Scottish pupils should get back to \"normal\" schooling \"as quickly as possible\", Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nScotland's schools are due to re-open from 11 August, but will initially have a \"blended\" approach involving face-to-face teaching and at-home learning.\n\nThere has been speculation exams in 2021 could be delayed and that blended learning could last for a year.\n\nBut the first minister said pupils must be back in the classroom full-time \"as quickly as is safe and feasible\".\n\nShe said it was her government's \"firm intention\" that next year's exams would go ahead - and that there were no plans for blended learning to last a year.\n\nThe EIS union said pupils would have to be taught in \"significantly smaller\" groups and that it was unlikely that classrooms could accommodate \"even 50%\" of normal pupil numbers.\n\nScottish councils have been drawing up their proposals for how schools will operate when they return after the summer holidays.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council has told parents that only 33% of children would be in school at any time when its autumn term starts on 12 August.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this amount of classroom time was \"not good enough\".\n\n\"We have to start from a point of seeking to maximise the amount of time children will spend in a school environment having face-to-face learning with teachers,\" she said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she did not want the \"blended\" schooling model to continue any longer than necessary\n\nThe first minister said local authorities should be \"creative and innovative\" about how they use \"all the resources at their disposal\", and that the government would work to address any \"genuine issues\" which arise.\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon said education was of \"absolutely critical importance\" and was \"central to my thinking as we plan and steer our country through the emergence from lockdown\".\n\nShe said: \"It is absolutely not the case that we are planning for blended learning to last a year, or anything like it.\n\n\"On the contrary we don't want blended learning to last a single minute longer than is necessary.\n\n\"We want young people to be back having face-to-face teaching for 100% of the school week as soon as feasible.\"\n\nShe said the government would study data about transmission of coronavirus in schools and evidence from other countries, and would seek to ease restrictions where possible.\n\nShe added: \"One of the things that is inescapable right now is that we don't have a crystal ball that allows us to know with certainty how this pandemic will develop over the months ahead. We know there is a risk of the virus resurging, so we can't stand here and be absolutely clear we won't face renewed risks from the virus come the tail end of this year.\n\n\"But we will be doing everything in our power to keep it suppressed and getting it as close to elimination levels as possible.\n\nOnly a limited number of pupils can be in a classroom to comply with social distancing requirements\n\n\"Our planning assumption is to get back to normal schooling as quickly as possible, and that means firstly maximising the degree of normality by 11 August, and then as we build confidence and an evidence base and get more assurance about the risks in schools and among young people, then we can build on that as fast as possible.\n\n\"I do not want the situation to exist for a minute longer than necessary where children have anything other than a normal school experience.\"\n\nEarlier, Education Secretary John Swinney told BBC Scotland that an education recovery group had been working with local authorities to develop plans for the reopening of schools.\n\n\"We agreed to work together to maximise the amount of time that children and young people could spend in schools,\" he added.\n\n\"I've made it clear that I believe that trying to get to 50% of the time being able to be spent by a young person in school should be our objective to maximise that participation.\"\n\nAsked about Edinburgh's plans, which could see pupils in school for just one day a week, Mr Swinney replied: \"I accept that and I don't think that's strong enough.\"\n\nHe said authorities should be looking at how they could use leisure facilities or public buildings to increase the amount of classroom space.\n\nLarry Flanagan of the EIS union said most schools would need to have \"significantly smaller teaching groups to allow for physical distancing\", with other pupils learning from home.\n\nHe said: \"It is unlikely that schools will be able to accommodate even 50% of normal pupil numbers in classrooms at any one time, and certainly significantly fewer than that in smaller classrooms.\n\n\"For the rest of the school week, the expectation is that pupils will continue to learn from home as part of the blended learning approach.\"\n\nMr Flanagan said there were \"clearly challenges\" to creating temporary classrooms, including funding to pay for extra space and teachers needed, adding: \"If we are serious about minimising the damage to children's education, these costs and challenges need to be met.\"", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, a German man who is the new suspect\n\nPortuguese police say the German evidence against the new suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is \"significant\".\n\nA senior police source also told the BBC they were keen to cooperate in the investigation into the disappearance of the British girl in Portugal in 2007.\n\nThe new suspect is a 43-year-old German man, named in reports as Christian B, who is in prison in Germany.\n\nHe was revealed as the main suspect earlier this month, as German and UK police made a fresh appeal for help.\n\nThe convicted paedophile is believed to have been in the area where Madeleine, aged three, was last seen while on holiday in Portugal.\n\nA senior Portuguese police source, who has seen the German evidence against Christian B, has told the BBC it is \"very important\" and \"significant\".\n\nThe source also rejected criticism that their procedures were slow, amid reports that the German authorities have privately been critical of their Portuguese counterparts.\n\nAnother source close to the investigation said Portuguese police accepted that Christian B was now a suspect.\n\nAsked whether they had access to his previous convictions for child sexual offences at the time of Madeleine's disappearance, he said it was important not to judge the past with the benefit of hindsight, and that police systems since then had changed.\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nSome of those who knew the German suspect during his time in Portugal have criticised the investigation as \"very slow\", telling the BBC that they were only approached by police - either British or Portuguese - in the past year or two.\n\nSeveral people remembered Christian B as angry and untrustworthy, with one neighbour saying he squatted in a nearby house without paying rent, and left it \"ransacked\" in a terrible state when he departed, two years before Madeleine's disappearance.\n\nWhen German police - newcomers to the Madeleine McCann investigation - announced they had evidence that indicated the toddler was dead, it seemed to get a cautious response from their Portuguese and British counterparts.\n\nBritish police stuck to their line that it was a \"missing person inquiry\", and the impression from Portuguese media was that their own tight-lipped authorities were staying open-minded.\n\nThis first-hand confirmation from a senior Portuguese police source that the German evidence is \"very important\" and \"significant\" is a sign of how seriously this new development is being taken there.\n\nThere's been plenty of mutual recrimination between the British and Portuguese forces in the 13 years since Madeleine McCann vanished from her family's holiday apartment.\n\nNow a third country has entered the quest for answers.\n\nAwkward? Maybe. But the German evidence, it seems, is convincing enough for the Portuguese police to signal their support.\n\nAfter living for so long under the pressure of unanswered questions, they won't want to be left out of a development that might promise some answers.\n\nGerman prosecutors have previously said they have evidence that leads them to believe Christian B killed Madeleine, but it wasn't strong enough to take him to court.\n\nPolice say the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve in Portugal between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nThe suspect is currently serving a jail term in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, for drug-dealing, having been extradited from Portugal in July 2017.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the Praia da Luz area in May 2007, when Madeleine went missing while on a family holiday with her parents and siblings.\n\nIn December 2019, the man was sentenced to seven years for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, have said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because there was no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine was alive or not.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Met Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "Police have closed Water Lane in Roydon while investigations continue\n\nA man injured in a \"drive-by\" shooting after a party has died.\n\nThe victim, who was shot multiple times outside a property in Roydon, Essex, was one of three people hurt in the gun attack on Saturday.\n\nHe has since died in hospital, Essex Police said. Two women in their 20s who sustained single gunshot wounds were not seriously injured.\n\nDetectives have appealed for any information which could assist their murder investigation to come forward.\n\nAfter the shooting at about 05:00 BST, the suspects fled and drove off in the direction of Harlow, the force said.\n\nDet Insp Greg Wood said the investigation was \"progressing well\" and officers were \"beginning to build up a picture of what happened\".\n\nEssex Police said the car drove off in the direction of Harlow after the shooting\n• None Three injured in 'drive-by' shooting after party\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Free visa extensions should be given to all foreign NHS and social care workers, a group of MPs has said.\n\nIt is \"unfair\" that some of the lowest paid workers face charges of thousands of pounds to stay in the country, ministers have been told.\n\nThe Home Office has given a one-year free visa extension for some staff in the NHS and care sectors.\n\nThe government said it was \"incredibly grateful\" to health and care staff working on the frontline against Covid.\n\nBut the cross-party Commons Home Affairs Committee said all staff in the sector should be covered in the scheme.\n\nThe Home Office's visa extension list was initially limited to NHS doctors, nurses and paramedics, but in April it was extended to include more NHS staff, such as radiographers and social workers, plus some social care staff.\n\nBut the list does not include jobs such as porters and cleaners.\n\nFor those eligible, the extension covers visas which expire between 31 March and 1 October 2020. The scheme has been extended to about 3,000 key frontline health workers, the government said.\n\nBut the committee said that excluding care workers and lower-paid NHS staff from the extension scheme \"fails to recognise the scale of their contribution to the UK fight against Covid-19\".\n\n\"Many of the excluded NHS employees - who include hospital porters, cleaners and administrative staff - are providing essential services to the NHS and its patients at this most trying time,\" the committee said.\n\n\"They are also more likely to be in lower-paid job roles, meaning that the necessity of paying visa renewal fees is a much greater financial burden.\"\n\nLabour MP, Yvette Cooper, who chairs the committee, said the NHS and social care sector have relied on help during the coronavirus crisis from foreign workers.\n\n\"Excluding the care workers who hold dying residents' hands, the cleaners who scrub the door handles and floors of the Covid wards, or the porters who take patients to intensive care is just wrong,\" Ms Cooper said.\n\nShe said that she will table an amendment with cross-party backing to the government's Immigration Bill.\n\nLast month, the government scrapped the immigration health surcharge for all NHS staff and care workers.\n\nThe Home Office has also extended its bereavement scheme so families of overseas NHS support staff and care workers who have died with coronavirus can stay in the UK permanently.\n\nIn its report, the committee urged the government to make it easier for overseas health and care workers to settle in the UK.\n\n\"We believe that people who have given so much, and in many cases risked their own health, for the nations and people of the UK should be assisted to become permanent members of the society to which they have dedicated themselves,\" the report stated.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are incredibly grateful for all the hard work that health and care workers continue to do in the fight against coronavirus.\n\n\"Right across the immigration system we are supporting NHS and other eligible health and care workers.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is Solar Orbiter and what's it going to do?\n\nEurope's Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe makes its first close pass of the Sun on Monday, tracking by at a distance of just over 77 million km.\n\nSolO was launched in February and is on a mission to understand what drives our star's dynamic behaviour.\n\nThe close pass, known as a perihelion, puts the probe between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.\n\nIn the coming years, SolO will go nearer still, closing to within 43 million km of the Sun on occasions.\n\nAs it stands today, only five other missions have dived deeper into the inner Solar System: Mariner 10, Helios 1 & 2, Messenger, and Parker Solar Probe.\n\nEarth orbits 149 million km (93 million miles) on average from the Sun.\n\nSolO is a European Space Agency (Esa) craft that was assembled in the UK by the aerospace company Airbus.\n\nIt has spent the four months since launch undergoing a checkout phase. Engineers have been running the rule over all the probe's systems and commissioning its 10 scientific instruments.\n\nRoutine operations for the full suite of onboard experiments are still a year away, but SolO's magnetometer is up and running and will remain so.\n\nSitting at the end of a long boom at the back of the spacecraft, the MAG senses the magnetic fields embedded in the solar wind - the stream of charged particles billowing away from the Sun.\n\nAlready, the instrument is catching the disturbances that result from big explosions on the star called coronal mass ejections - in addition to the everyday waves and turbulence that trace the wind's structure.\n\n\"We switched on, on 24 February - we've already got over 2 billion magnetic field vectors on the ground. We've got a happy, busy science team working away at the data,\" said Prof Tim Horbury, the MAG principal investigator at Imperial College London.\n\nOne of the reasons the British group's instrument got turned on very early was so it could start to characterise the confounding magnetic fields generated by the electronics in the rest of the spacecraft. This signal is small but needs to be subtracted from the Sun measurements to finesse the detail in the data properly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Lucie Green: \"You get explosions and eruptions in the atmosphere of our star\"\n\nThe early start also gave the London team the chance to do some tandem study with the magnetometer instrument on Esa's BepiColombo mission. As chance would have it, this probe was making a return visit to Earth in April on its way to Mercury. The two missions were therefore able to do some multi-point sensing of the solar wind in relatively close proximity to each other.\n\nThe same has been true with the American Parker Solar Probe - but at a much greater separation. This US mission is in the process of making some very deep dives past the Sun (on 7 June it passed just 19 million km from the star).\n\n\"We're now just one of a constellation of spacecraft flying around the Sun,\" Prof Horbury told BBC News.\n\nThe next major event for SolO is a flyby of Venus. This occurs at the end of December and will see the probe track about 500,000 km above the planet's surface.\n\nThe full science phase of the mission is due to start in 2021 when all 10 of SolO's instruments, including its imagers, will begin regular observations.\n\n\"I was so nervous when we launched,\" said Prof Horbury. \"I guess the more you know about a project, the more you know about the things that can go wrong. But Solar Orbiter is out there, it's working and it's going to be a fantastic success.\"\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The owner has five years to stake their claim\n\nWhile many of us have left something on a train - a phone, a wallet, headphones - it's highly unlikely you've wandered onto the platform leaving a bagful of gold behind.\n\nWell, one person in Switzerland has. And the authorities would quite like to find them.\n\nEfforts are being made to track down the owner of more than 3kg of gold that was left in a carriage last October.\n\nThe hoard, worth around £152,000 ($191,000), was found on a train between St Gallen and Lucerne.\n\nThe owner has five years to stake their claim at the prosecutor's office in Lucerne, an official statement said.\n\nThe discovery is only being made public now after efforts to track down the owner were unsuccessful.\n\nIt's unclear how authorities will verify the claims of anyone who comes forward to say the gold is theirs.", "As stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors for the first time since the lockdown began, shoppers arrived early to centre:mk in Milton Keynes. Some were picking up goods they had been waiting months to buy, such as baby clothes and home furnishings. Others were here for the sales. These shoppers told us what they bought - and why.\n\n\"We bought lots of handbags for my wife, because she loves to buy bags from TK Maxx,\" says Paul Sabato, 56.\n\n\"We came today because it was the first day. After three months being closed - we knew there would be good sales and there are.\"\n\nAnd Mr Sabato and his wife Jennifer Sabato, 44, have plans to return.\n\n\"We also bought some shoes and sunglasses. We spent £570 but this would be worth more than £1,000 normally. We're going to drop these bags at home then come back and see what sales there are at Zara.\"\n\n\"We came to buy my daughter some new clothes for work because she starts a new job on Wednesday in the H&M warehouse,\" says Arlene Dela Pena, 53, out shopping with Jessica, 20.\n\n\"I'm not worried about the virus because I work in a hospital and as long as I have my mask and sanitise my hands and keep distant, then I think it will be safe.\"\n\n\"We're here to buy clothes. There are some great bargains,\" says Sophie Quantick, 27.\n\n\"I got this dress for £20. We were here at 9.30. By the time we got to Zara there was a queue. It's like a theme park, you have to have a strategy.\"\n\n\"We wanted to put on makeup and be normal and have a normal shopping experience, even though we have been buying online during the lockdown,\" says Bryony Martin, 29. \"We have a rollercoaster mindset - what's the best shop? Go there first.\"\n\n\"We wanted to buy home stuff like these cushions,\" says Ahmed Khan, 33, accompanied by wife Zainab, 28, and baby Mirha.\n\n\"We moved into our new home in January, then we went to Pakistan for my brother's wedding and when we came back in April all the shops were shut.\n\n\"We came today because it's the first day the shops are open. We were expecting sales and there have been. We could have bought online but it's not the same experience.\"\n\n\"We came to buy summer clothes for the children. We went to Primark first but the queue was never ending so we went to H&M,\" says Erika Stara, 41, standing alongside her children Rebecca and Marco.\n\n\"I wanted to come today and get out and see people, and have some retail therapy.\"\n\n\"The queue and the social distancing mean it feels different here,\" adds Rebecca, 12.\n\n\"I bought nightwear and baby clothes because Primark was open. I'm pregnant and I've been waiting to get some baby stuff,\" says Shantel Brown, 35.\n\n\"Everyone keeps their distance. They've got sanitiser at the entrance. As long as we've got our masks on, we're fine.\"\n\n\"I bought tops, shorts and summer clothes. I came because mum forced me,\" adds her daughter Tee, 16.\n\n\"I came to pick up a new watch strap,\" says Greg Dulson, 68.\n\n\"The strap on my favourite watch broke and I brought it in to the watchmaker's the day before lockdown. They said come back tomorrow but it was closed.\n\n\"So I've been sulking. But now my favourite watch is back. I've had it 10 years.\"\n\n\"I bought a jumpsuit because Primark was open and the weather's getting better again,\" says Katie Kirby, 18.\n\n\"I did go just to get some essentials like pants and socks, but I when I saw the jumpsuit I had to treat myself because the shops haven't been open for so long.\"\n\n\"We do keep our distance in the store. We thought it would be a different shopping experience but once we were in there it was just the same.\"\n\nZac Hopkins, 21, adds: \"I bought a skipping rope so I can do some exercise at home. You can't go to the gym and they're sold out in lots of shops.\"\n\n\"I came to Hugo Boss because I wanted to buy some tracksuits for my two brothers and the shops have been closed for three months,\" says Tom Hunjan, 34.\n\n\"I bought myself one too. They're similar to what I'm wearing, but in white. The shop didn't have them in though so they're ordering them for me and I'll come back in a few days. Why do I like Hugo Boss so much? It's probably just marketing.\n\n\"I also needed some new boxer shorts because yesterday I noticed an inconveniently placed hole.\"\n\nAll photographs by Phil Coomes with reporting by Vivienne Nunis.\n• None Shoppers rush to the High Street as stores reopen", "The state is moving forward with its reopening process Image caption: The state is moving forward with its reopening process\n\nNew York's death toll and total number of people sent to hospital due to Covid-19 have both fallen to the lowest points since the crisis began.\n\nOn Monday, Governor Andrew Cuomo said this weekend had the fewest deaths on a three-day average since March. The number of positive tests has also continued to decline.\n\nTwenty-five people died of the virus on Sunday and there were just over 1,600 residents requiring hospital treatment for Covid-19 over the weekend.\n\n\"The facts are that new York is on the right track,\" he said, though noted it was unlikely the numbers would hit zero. \"It's coming down to what the doctor certifies as the cause of death, many people who pass away because of Covid have other underlying conditions.\"\n\nThe report comes as parts of the state enter the third phase of reopening; gatherings of up to 25 people will be allowed, up from 10, and many businesses are back open.\n\nBut the governor also called out businesses and residents ignoring social distancing measures, saying the state had received 25,000 complaints of violations.", "US President Donald Trump said he had taken hydroxychloroquine for two weeks\n\nEmergency use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus has been withdrawn by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).\n\nThe FDA said that new evidence from clinical trials meant that it was no longer reasonable to believe that the drug would produce an antiviral effect.\n\nPresident Donald Trump later defended promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of Covid-19.\n\nIn March, the FDA granted the emergency use of the drug for some serious cases.\n\nBut on Monday, the agency said clinical studies had suggested that hydroxychloroquine was ineffective in treating the deadly virus and failed to prevent infection among those exposed to it.\n\nResponding to the FDA's decision, Mr Trump said that he had previously taken the drug preventatively with no side effects.\n\n\"I took it and I felt good about taking it,\" he told reporters on Monday, adding: \"I can't complain about it, I took it for two weeks, and I'm here, here we are.\"\n\nThe 74-year-old president said that many people had told him it had saved their lives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump said in May that he had taken the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine\n\nIn May, Mr Trump revealed that he was taking the drug after some people in the White House tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHis comments about hydroxychloroquine became the subject of widespread speculation online and controversy within the scientific community about the potential benefits and harmful effects of the drug - along with the related drug, chloroquine.\n\nTrials around the world were temporarily derailed when a study published in The Lancet claimed the drug increased fatalities and heart problems in some patients.\n\nThe results prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) and others to halt trials over safety concerns.\n\nHowever, The Lancet subsequently retracted the study when it was found to have serious shortcomings and the WHO has resumed its trials.", "From tiny traders to billion pound behemoths, the lockdown saw businesses across London plunged into a sudden deep freeze.\n\nNow the task of reviving them from hibernation begins.\n\nIt’s not as simple as flinging the doors open and welcoming a shop full of eager customers once again. There are serious questions for shops of all shapes and sizes around how to keep staff and customers safe, but also how viable they genuinely can be in this radically different trading climate.\n\nFor London’s beleaguered smaller high streets, those who survive the thaw may actually see a boost in trade. Bargain offers could whet the appetite, as long as social distancing measures convince shoppers to venture out.\n\nBut with the message to avoid public transport still ringing loud and clear, a walk down the local parade or town centre may seem a much more attractive proposition now than kitting the family in masks and dragging them to the West End for a day out.\n\nThe trick will be balance and flexibility.\n\nThe balance between the shopper experience and safety will be delicate and needs to be attractive enough to entice people in. So queuing systems, protective equipment and distancing has to be managed in a sensible way to maintain confidence and enjoyment.\n\nBut if it all starts to go wrong, those who show the flexibility to adapt and change things up quickly will have a better chance of surviving and even thriving.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will talk online with EU institution leaders including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday\n\nPsssst .. Over here! Lift the tarpaulin and dust down the jargon. Brexit is back on the political menu. Whether you voted for it or not, now is the time to start sitting up and listening again.\n\nIt starts with Monday's online meeting between UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU institution leaders (the president of the European Council, Commission and Parliament).\n\nI know you've seen countless \"make or break summits\", so many \"deadlines\" come and go, so many threats of \"no deal\" that came to nought.\n\nSo here is an attempt to try and help navigate what's spin and what you should be looking out for. More insights - including deal-making tips from a professional hostage negotiator - in my podcast here.\n\nFirst off, Brexit has, of course, \"happened\". The UK left the EU at the end of January. But we're not yet living the next chapter. The transition period we're in means that, in practical terms, little has changed. The UK is still a member of the EU's single market and customs union. The UK isn't going it alone, just yet.\n\nThe EU and UK have until the end of this month - according to the Withdrawal Agreement, aka the Brexit divorce deal - to call for an extension to transition. But the UK government has long rejected the idea. On Friday, the EU publicly accepted that UK \"no\" as definitive.\n\nSo, there are six months left to negotiate, sign and seal the parameters of the UK's future relationship with its biggest and closest trade partner.\n\nThat's six months left to compromise.\n\nBecause without compromise - on both sides - there will be no trade deal come the end of this year.\n\nThat is why it's worth keeping a closer eye on things again. The UK government promised a brighter future post-Brexit - a taking back of control over national borders, waters and immigration.\n\nThe next half-a-year is when we find out if it will keep those promises.\n\nWhat compromises, if any, will the UK government make on its Brexit pledges in order to reach a trade deal with the EU and others?\n\nAnd if the UK refuses to compromise, how might having no deal at all with the EU affect our lives?\n\nRight now, EU-UK trade negotiations are at an impasse, because of political priorities both sides of the Channel.\n\nThe government rejects EU demands on competition regulations and fishing because, it says, they fail to respect the UK's post Brexit national sovereignty.\n\nThe UK and EU have so far failed to agree on fishing and competition rules\n\nThe EU insists without agreement on fishing and competition rules, there'll be no deal at all. It wants restrictions on the UK's ability to slash costly environmental or labour regulations for example, in order to prevent UK businesses becoming more competitive than European ones in their own market. This, says the EU, is imperative to protect the \"integrity\" of the single market and what it calls \"the European project\".\n\nBut political rhetoric aside, Boris Johnson and EU leaders want a deal. It makes economic sense. This doesn't mean a deal is certain. But the UK isn't walking away from talks this month either, as it once threatened to do.\n\nInstead, after their meeting on Monday, the prime minister and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are expected to announce a timetable of intensified negotiations this summer, including some face-to-face meetings (Covid-19 permitting) in a declared attempt to break the deadlock.\n\nPrepare for the setting of more deadlines too. Plus dark mutterings from both sides (France's Europe minister was already at it on Thursday) should these deadlines not be met.\n\nThe UK says a deal must become clear before the autumn to give businesses and workers the chance to prepare. Spoiler alert: a deal is extremely unlikely to materialise by then.\n\nThe EU insists 31 October is the latest date a deal can be reached, if it is to be ratified by the end of the year (the UK's other deadline).\n\nSpoiler alert Number 2: the late October date is also quite possibly not going to be met.\n\nThe UK has so far insisted it won't extend the transition period\n\nSo, does this make no-deal now the most probable outcome?\n\nNot necessarily. A deal is there to be done by December if both sides want one and if both are willing to make concessions. A compromise could be found on fishing, if, for example, EU coastal nations give up the dream of keeping the same quotas they had to fish in UK waters when the UK was an EU member. And if the UK accepts it can't have the exact same fishing agreement Brussels has with much smaller Norway.\n\nOn competition rules - aka level playing-field regulations - the EU would need to give up its insistence that the UK mirror the bloc's evolving state aid rules forever in to the future.\n\nThe UK concession could be to sign up to not weakening labour and environmental regulations below the current level.\n\nBut that is a political decision for the UK. The EU recognises that. And it's really not sure which way the government will eventually jump. Much will depend, Brussels thinks, on whatever else is going on for Boris Johnson domestically, come the autumn.\n\nGive up some sovereignty (as trade negotiators say all deals demand, to a greater or lesser extent) and come under fire from Brexit purists, or walk away, declaring that no deal was possible with the EU, and face an outcry from many in the business community and beyond.\n\nIt's at this point in off-the-record chats that my EU contacts love to repeat the phrase they've so often directed at the UK since the 2016 referendum, that \"you can't have your cake and eat it\". Or as the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier likes to say: \"You can't have the best of both worlds.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhatever the next months may bring, negotiators from both sides privately acknowledge this summer is probably too early for big compromises.\n\nThe theory is that the \"other side\" would simply bank those summer compromises and demand more come the autumn.\n\nAnd if they're almost there but not quite, come November, the whispered wisdom in Brussels is that with all the \"clever lawyers\" in town, as they're described to me, it should be possible to find a way of fudging an extension (though for political face-saving reasons, especially in the UK, not actually calling it an extension) for a limited period beyond the end of the year, if both sides want one, and only if they are very close indeed to sealing the deal.\n\nAfter all my years EU-watching, I cannot imagine the bloc allowing a deal with close neighbour and ally UK to fall through over a deadline, if the UK government too were keen to keep talking.\n\nBut this is not an official topic of discussion in Brussels, never mind London, at this stage.\n\nMeanwhile in Berlin, Paris, Rome and elsewhere, EU leaders are still very much focussed on Covid-19 and its fallout.\n\nYet another reason Brussels predicts the bartering and compromise possibilities will only become clearer come October, with the clock ticking down to the end of the year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patrick Hutchinson: \"We did what we had to do\"\n\nThe person pictured carrying a man to safety following a clash between protest groups in London has said he and his friends \"stopped somebody from being killed\".\n\nPatrick Hutchinson was widely praised after a photo of him helping the man on Saturday went viral.\n\nDescribing the events behind the image, he told the BBC the situation \"wasn't going to end well\" without their help.\n\n\"I scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out,\" he said.\n\nA number of peaceful anti-racism protests took place in London and other cities across the UK on Saturday.\n\nBut groups including some far-right activists also congregated in the capital, and more than 100 people were arrested after violence broke out and police were attacked.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Hutchinson's \"instincts in that moment represent the best of us\".\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman added: \"The images are very moving. Nobody should have to face vile racism and abuse.\"\n\nSpeaking about the events leading up to the photo, Mr Hutchinson said he was with his friends when one of them saw an altercation at the top of the stairs by the Southbank Centre, near Waterloo.\n\n\"The guy ended up on the floor and these guys [signalling to his friends] rushed in to stop him from getting trampled,\" said Mr Hutchinson, a personal trainer and grandfather.\n\n\"In doing so, they created a barrier around him, and I was the last one to come in. I scooped him up into a fireman's carry and marched him out with the guys around me, protecting me and shielding me and protecting this guy from getting any further punishment.\"\n\nHe said people were still trying to hit the man as they were leaving the scene.\n\n\"I wasn't thinking, I was just thinking of a human being on the floor. It wasn't going to end well had we not intervened,\" Mr Hutchinson said. \"I had no other thoughts in my mind apart from getting to safety.\"\n\nHe added: \"We did what we had to do. We stopped somebody from being killed.\"\n\nThousands of people have taken to the streets in cities around the world following the death of African American man George Floyd, who died last month as a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nFour police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nMr Hutchinson told Channel 4 News in a separate interview that Mr Floyd \"would be alive today\" if the other police officers had intervened - as he and his friends did on Saturday.\n\nPierre Noah was one of those to help Mr Hutchinson during the clash between protesters.\n\nMr Noah, who works as a bodyguard, told the BBC: \"I'm saving two lives right there. I'm saving the man that's just about to get squashed up and beat up. And then I'm saving those young boys to get a life sentence.\"", "As lockdown measures are relaxed across England on Monday, high street shops have reopened with safety measures in place, including plastic screens at the tills and floor markings for social distancing.\n\nSome shoppers took protective precautions to stop the spread of Covid-19\n\nA shop worker prepares to serve customers from behind a screen in a sweet shop in York\n\nSome chose to wear face shields, like this florist in York\n\nA customer enters a Brighton gift shop - which has face coverings on display\n\nShoppers get excited as they queue to enter a Primark store in Brighton\n\nIn Southampton, shoppers mill around the high street\n\nCustomers in Loughborough - next to a sign reminding them to stay safe\n\nMonday also marked the day that zoos in England were allowed to open\n\nCustomers follow barriers to safely social distance outside the Potteries Shopping Centre in Stoke-on-Trent", "Shopper Adam Marlow said Bicester Village was \"way too overcrowded\"\n\nMore than three thousand people have signed a petition calling for Bicester Village to temporarily close after hundreds of people were pictured at the shopping complex.\n\nPictures on social media appear to show people struggling to maintain social distancing at the designer retail outlet in Bicester, Oxfordshire.\n\nThe petition is calling for it to be closed until changes are made.\n\nValue Retail, which runs the complex, has been contacted for comment.\n\nAll shops in England are now allowed to open, but with strict safety measures.\n\nLaura Wicks, who launched the petition, wrote she was \"disgusted to see hundreds of people squashed into the street like Coronavirus never happened\" and called for the complex to keep their staff safe.\n\nBicester Village reopened to the public on Monday\n\nThe complex, which has 160 shops, said on its website visitors are temperature-scanned on arrival and they should keep a two-metre distance apart.\n\nShopper Adam Galbraith said keeping two metres was fine in the shops, but it was not being enforced \"well enough\" outside the shops at the luxury retail outlet.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"It was definitely way too overcrowded to adhere to social distancing.\n\n\"For a complex of that size they should know how many people can be in this place safely and keep two metres distance, and that for me wasn't monitored at all.\n\n\"What would have been better if they had the queues to get into the village outside, and gave customers a two-hour slot to do their shopping.\"\n\nHe added queues outside the shops, which allocated a time to shoppers using an digital queuing app, were less busy.\n\nSome shops at the shopping complex had digital queues\n\nShopper Dr Tesh Amarasinghe said she had her temperature checked with a thermal scanner and social distancing within the stores was \"excellent\", but she said there were difficulties maintaining the two-metre distancing in the outdoor walkways.\n\nThe GP, from Northampton, said: \"It kind of took away the point of distancing in the shop, if you're standing in a queue up to an hour really close [to others].\"", "The production stars Bally Gill as Romeo and Karen Fishwick as Juliet\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has criticised a TV listing as \"unacceptable\" and \"abhorrent\" after it described the cast of one of its productions as \"garishly diverse\".\n\nThe piece appeared in a Sunday Times preview ahead of a showing of Macbeth on BBC Four.\n\nIt stated the play was \"less garishly diverse in casting than last Sunday's Romeo and Juliet\".\n\nThe Sunday Times has apologised for what was said to be a production error.\n\nThe 2018 Romeo and Juliet production is a modern-day interpretation of the classic love story.\n\nThe publication said the listing has been removed from its online edition\n\nThe cast includes British Asian actor Bally Gill as Romeo and Glaswegian Karen Fishwick as Juliet, while Mercutio is portrayed as a woman by Charlotte Josephine.\n\nIn a statement the RSC said it was \"shocked and appalled\" at the language.\n\nIt said: \"John Dugdale previewing Polly Findlay's 2018 RSC production of Macbeth, describes it as 'less garishly diverse in casting' than Erica Whyman's production of Romeo and Juliet the previous week.\n\n\"Such deliberate and offensive use of language demonstrates clear prejudice and devalues people, in this case specifically devaluing the work of RSC artists.\"\n\nThe theatre added it aims to reflect the nation's talent in all its diversity \"such that the audiences which we serve are all able to recognise themselves on stage\".\n\nIn a statement a Sunday Times spokesperson said: \"We are sorry that an inappropriate reference appeared in our review of Macbeth. It has been removed from our online edition.\"\n\nRSC productions have been broadcast as part of the BBC's Culture in Quarantine project which aims to bring arts and culture to people's homes during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several rare microbiological contaminants with the potential to cause serious infections were identified\n\nA report has said there were a \"series of problems\" with the design and build of a Glasgow hospital campus - but no clear evidence to link those failures to any \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nThe Queen Elizabeth University Hospital opened in 2015, but fears were raised after deaths were linked to infections.\n\nAn independent review concluded that some patients had been \"exposed to risk that could have been lower\".\n\nHowever, it found no \"sound\" evidence that there had been \"avoidable\" deaths.\n\nAnd the review team said the hospital campus now \"has in place the modern safety features and systems that we would expect\".\n\nA public inquiry is also to be held into issues at the Glasgow hospital and the long-delayed Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh, which has the same building contractor.\n\nGlasgow's £842m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital has had issues with rare microbiological contaminants since opening, linked to issues with water quality and ventilation systems.\n\nTwo people who died at the hospital were found to have contracted Cryptococcus fungal infection which can be linked to pigeon droppings.\n\nThe 10-year-old boy and 73-year-old woman died at the Govan hospital campus, which is also home to the Royal Hospital for Children (RHC), in January 2019.\n\nA third death, involving a 63-year-old patient who contracted the fungal infection Mucor, was also investigated but no link was found.\n\nMinisters commissioned an independent review to establish whether the design, construction or maintenance of the hospital was having an \"adverse impact on the risk\" of infection.\n\nDr Brian Montgomery and Dr Andrew Fraser wrote in their report that there had been a \"series of problems\" with the project.\n\nThey said: \"Undoubtedly and with hindsight the health board, groups within it and the design and build contractor could have reached different decisions and produced results that would have reduced infection risk.\"\n\nThey said some patients had been \"exposed to risk that could have been lower if the correct design, build and commissioning had taken place\", and that certain elements of the design and build of the facility \"posed challenges\" for infection prevention and control.\n\nHowever, they concluded that they had \"not established a sound evidential basis for asserting that avoidable deaths have resulted from failures in the design, build, commissioning or maintenance\" of the campus.\n\nThe report said that while pigeon droppings were found near an air inlet in the hospital, the patients who were affected by Cryptococcus did not spend much time in areas supplied by that part of the system.\n\nThe authors said the presence of pigeons within the hospital was \"not sufficient to establish a strong association or causative link\" with the infections, and that the idea they were caused by \"contaminated air\" was \"not a sound theory on its own\".\n\nJeane Freeman said patients and families were entitled to seek answers\n\nThe report concluded that patients, staff and visitors can have confidence that the combined hospitals now have \"modern safety features and systems\" and offer \"a setting for high quality healthcare\".\n\nHowever Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said patients and families would be \"understandably concerned and distressed by some of the findings\" of the review.\n\nShe said it was an important step in delivering answers to \"the many questions they are entitled to ask\".\n\n\"The report provides a wealth of information for the forthcoming public inquiry into the construction of the QEUH and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh,\" she said.\n\n\"I would like to thank the review team for their diligence in carrying out this report and the hospital staff for their focus on providing high quality care throughout this challenging time.\"\n\nMs Freeman told MSPs that the inquiry, which will be led by Lord Brodie, was \"on track to be formally launched in early August\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Mile Briggs said the \"explosive report\" was an \"utterly damning verdict on the SNP government which planned, commissioned and built this hospital\".\n\nHe added: \"It very clearly concludes that patients young and old with cancer - the same group from which people died - were placed at increased risk because of the building and design of the hospital.\n\n\"Patients and families want answers and the independent public inquiry which is to now proceed must be able to undertake that work and have full transparency and access to provide answers.\"\n\nLabour MSP Anas Sarwar said there was \"still a lot of work to do to uncover the full truth\" about \"the scale of the scandal and the catastrophic errors which took place\".\n\nDrs Montgomery and Fraser said they had focused their review on \"potentially vulnerable patients and their families and the clinical teams, management and facilities staff who support their care\".\n\nThey said: \"We judge that the hospital was not built, finished and handed over in a manner that took full account of their specific needs.\n\n\"Certain aspects of the design, build, commissioning and maintenance of the QEUH have posed challenges in creating the optimal conditions for infection prevention and control, and have increased the risk of healthcare associated infection.\"\n\nThey said the design of the hospital \"did not effectively reconcile conflicting aims of energy efficiency and meeting guidance standards for air quality\", and said there had been \"difficulties\" with the air and water systems due to \"ambiguity\" about guidance.\n\nThey said the project \"would have benefitted from greater external expertise\" in decision-making at key points, and that the level of independent scrutiny of the commissioning, design and build phases was \"not sufficient\".\n\nAnd the doctors said the effectiveness of infection prevention and control was \"undermined by problems within the leadership team\" and internal relations within the health board's staff.\n\nThe report said the \"series of problems\" with the project had had a \"multitude\" of knock-on effects, including:\n\nThe authors made a total of 63 recommendations for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, the hospital and its staff and the Scottish government, saying that \"lessons can be learned that will enhance confidence in future major projects\".\n\nAnd they said research should be carried out about air and water quality in clinical environments and the significance of \"rare microorganisms\" to inform planning in future.", "Crowds filled Trafalgar Square in London - but protests were held in many smaller towns and cities too\n\nA shocking death caught on video in the US sparked protests all over the UK and a national debate over Britain's history.\n\nBut what are some of the issues in the UK which prompted so many to react so strongly to the killing of George Floyd 4,000 miles away?\n\nIt was the \"absolute brutality\" of George Floyd's death and the fact that it was caught on video which mobilised people to come out and protest in the UK, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury, an academic at the University of Manchester and an organiser with the Racial Justice Network.\n\nAnd he says incidents are increasingly being recorded in the UK, such as the footage of Desmond Mombeyarara being Tasered in front of his five-year-old son in Manchester last month. Police are investigating the incident.\n\n\"People are starting to connect the dots with what's going on in the UK,\" says Dr Joseph-Salisbury, citing the video of rapper Wretch 32's father being Tasered at home and the death of Simeon Francis in a Devon police cell. Police are investigating the case of Mr Francis. In the case of Wretch 32's father, police say a review had found no indication of misconduct.\n\nOfficial figures show that police in England and Wales were three times more likely to arrest a black person than a white person and five times more likely to use force in 2018-19.\n\n\"The UK is not innocent\" was one of the protest's rallying cries\n\nBlack people were also more than nine times as likely to be stopped and searched.\n\nDr Joseph-Salisbury says it has sometimes been more difficult to mobilise UK protesters in the past. \"Britain likes to think of itself as being much less racist than the US,' he says.\n\nBut, he says, abuses caught on video were a powerful motivating factor. \"There's something more grassroots and more urgent to what's happening this time.\"\n\nSince 1990, there have been 1,743 people in England and Wales who have died following contact with the police, according to the charity Inquest.\n\nAs a proportion of the population in these countries, black people are more than twice as likely to die in police custody and force or restraint is more than twice as likely to be involved in their deaths.\n\nAnd for Ken Fero, a spokesman for the United Friends and Families Campaign, which represents those whose loved ones have died after contact with the police, there is increasing evidence that this history of deaths in custody is motivating protesters.\n\nThe names of British men who died in custody such as Sean Rigg appeared alongside US victims on placards\n\nNames such as Sean Rigg and Leon Patterson have appeared on placards or been chanted by protesters.\n\n\"With the young people who are protesting at the moment, and it does seem to be young people, there is a stronger sense of history and consciousness than there has been in the past,\" he says.\n\nIt has also been a feature of Black Lives Matter protests in the US to make the names of those who died due to police violence a focus of demonstrations and online activism, with the hashtag #saytheirnames.\n\n\"When ordinary people begin talking about it, tweeting about it, protesting about it, when celebrities start speaking about it, when people who have a voice and who are not politicians, speak out - that is what gives them some hope,\" Mr Fero says of the campaigning families.\n\nProtesters have said both of these \"deadly pandemics\" - racism and coronavirus - must be tackled together, as data has shown black Britons in England and Wales have been nearly twice as likely to die with the disease as white people.\n\nThe government's review into the impact of coronavirus on ethnic minority communities told a similar tale of social and economic inequalities with poverty, overcrowded housing, and being employed in lower-paid or key worker roles being put forward as factors for this disparity.\n\nRailway station worker Belly Mujinga has become a symbol of inequality during the pandemic\n\nPeople from black and ethnic minority groups have also been hit harder financially during the crisis, as research has shown they are more likely to be working in shut-down sectors or precarious jobs.\n\nBelly Mujinga, a railway ticket office clerk in London who died with coronavirus after reportedly being spat at, has become a symbol during the protests of these socio-economic divides. \"Black lives do matter. Belly's life mattered,\" placards read.\n\nMore than 1.5 million people have since signed a petition calling for \"justice\" for the 47-year-old, who was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after the British Transport Police closed her case due to insufficient evidence.\n\nAs ethnic minority groups continue to bear the brunt of the labour, health and socio-economic impact of this pandemic, many will be hoping protective measures will be brought in soon.\n\nEven before the UK had a Black Lives Matter movement, it had the Rhodes Must Fall campaign. Inspired by similar movements in South Africa, it sought to remove the statue of Oriel College's imperialist benefactor Cecil Rhodes and to reform Oxford University's curriculum to focus less on white Europeans.\n\nOn Sunday, that debate about the symbols of Britain's colonial past moved from academia to the streets, when protesters pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol city centre and threw it into the harbour.\n\nThe action recalled similar forced removals by protesters of Confederate memorials in US states such as North Carolina and Georgia.\n\nThe statue of Edward Colston was rolled through the streets on the way to the harbour\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, suggests the movement's success in increasing support from white people may have played a part in the removal of the Colston statue.\n\n\"If you look at who tore down the statue, it was predominantly white protesters. They can get away with things that we probably couldn't,\" he says.\n\n\"If you have a majority black protest tearing down a statue like that, I'm not sure what the response is - from the police, let alone the media.\"\n\nWhen Black Lives Matter started in the UK in 2016, Patrick Vernon says it was a youth-led movement that was not taken very seriously by older black people.\n\nThe movement, started in protest at police killings of black people in the US, came to Britain as a coalition of black activists opposing unjust policing and other forms of racism.\n\nOver the next two years, Mr Vernon says, older people changed their minds.\n\nFirst came the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, which led to the deaths of 72 people, many of them black and Asian, amid claims of official neglect. Then the Windrush scandal emerged in 2018, with thousands of people from Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean and Africa wrongly told they were in Britain illegally.\n\nMr Vernon, a campaigner for the Windrush victims, said people lost their homes, their jobs and were deported, having a \"traumatic effect\".\n\n\"It raises that vexed question, are we British? Are we really British? Are we valued? Is our contribution valued in this country? The whole Black Lives Matter thing crystallises that,\" he says.\n\nBlack Lives Matter has become an increasingly multi-generational protest in the UK, some say\n\nThis succession of issues affecting black communities has made people more willing to speak out and demonstrate, Mr Vernon suggests.\n\n\"They are now activists because they are fighting for their rights to stay in this country or for their compensation,\" he says.\n\n\"They want to take action because the current democratic process is not working for people.\"", "Ikea has said it is planning to repay salaries paid by governments around the world under furlough schemes.\n\nIt is set to repay nine governments, including the US and Ireland.\n\nHowever, it does not include the UK as although the furniture chain furloughed 10,000 UK workers it did not claim back their salaries from the government.\n\nOther firms are also refunding furlough pay, with Games Workshop and the Spectator magazine both saying they will repay the UK government.\n\nGovernments across the globe have set up schemes to pay workers who could not do their jobs because of the lockdowns that were designed to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn the UK, furloughed workers are being paid 80% of their pay under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.\n\nIkea said it started the lockdown by paying 90% of wages for workers it furloughed.\n\nIn the UK it said: \"We furloughed around 10,000 co-workers in the UK. At such an uncertain time, we had initially anticipated putting a number of co-workers on furlough under the job retention scheme. However, we did not claim for or accept any money under the job retention scheme, and we will not be doing so.\"\n\nNow that stores are re-opening, it says it does not plan to take any more government money from the countries where it had availed itself of government support: \"Although no one knows how things will continue to develop, or what the impact on our business or the economy will be, we are feeling more hopeful and clearer about the decisions we need to take for the future,\" Ikea said in a statement.\n\nThe countries in which it received support are Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain and the US, the Financial Times reported.\n\nOn Friday, Games Workshop - the company that makes Warhammer toy soldiers - said it would aim to repay furlough money after sales recovered by more than it had expected.\n\nEarlier this month, the Spectator magazine said the financial hit it had suffered during the coronavirus outbreak was not as bad as feared, and that it would repay the funds it had received under the furlough scheme.", "Retailers selling essentials have been able to stay open with social distancing measures\n\nNon-essential retailers in Wales could be given the green light to reopen at the next lockdown review on Friday.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was one of a \"package\" of measures being looked at, including allowing more outdoor activity.\n\nHe said retailers would be \"well-prepared\" if the Welsh Government decides to go ahead.\n\nShoppers have been queueing outside stores in England after lockdown restrictions were eased there.\n\nThe first minister is expected to announce his next steps at the end of the week.\n\nRetailers were advised at the last lockdown review to prepare to reopen safely, but a definitive opening date has not been confirmed.\n\nMr Drakeford said the sector had put in place \"new arrangements\" such as safe ways for shoppers to enter and leave stores, social distancing in shops and protection for workers.\n\nBut he warned a \"stop-start approach, where we do too much, too soon\" would be worse for the economy if a second clampdown was needed.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the Labour Welsh Government of \"dithering\", while Plaid Cymru said businesses needed more clarity.\n\nQueues were seen outside shops in England, like this Primark in Birmingham\n\nMr Drakeford told the daily Welsh Government briefing ministers were looking at a \"package of measures in three main areas\".\n\nAs well as reopening schools on 29 June, he listed \"reopening non-essential retail where businesses are able to comply\" with physical distancing, and \"relaxing further restrictions on more outdoors activity\".\n\nThe first minister said his government is \"looking and learning from the experiences of other countries around the world\".\n\nMany places have reopened cafes outside only, he said, but others have reintroduced restrictions because of cases increasing again.\n\nMr Drakeford said he was keen for the economy to reopen in Wales, but public health must come first \"as that is the best way for our economy\".\n\nCity and town centres in Wales have largely been deserted during lockdown\n\nThe Welsh Government will continue to take a \"cautious\" approach, Mr Drakeford told journalists, lifting restrictions on a \"gradual path\".\n\nBut he said it will not mean a return to a \"pre-pandemic normal\".\n\nMore than 3,000 tests are being done every day, Mr Drakeford said - with capacity for 12,300 a day - but only 30 tests came out positive in the last 24 hours.\n\n\"While the virus has receded and fewer people are becoming ill, coronavirus has not gone away - it continues to be present in Wales and there is still a risk we will face a second wave of illness later in the year,\" he said.\n\n\"This is why we will continue to need to take precautions and measures to prevent the spread of the virus as restrictions are lifted.\"\n\nHe said since ministers started to lift lockdown restrictions seven weeks ago \"the spread of the virus has continued to slow down, thanks to the actions everyone in Wales has taken\".\n\nWelsh Conservative Covid recovery spokesman Darren Millar said the longer lockdown continues, the more difficult it will be to protect jobs.\n\n\"It is time to reopen the Welsh economy,\" he said.\n\n\"As is the case in England, retailers and other businesses across Wales already have their plans in place to open safely while protecting their customers and staff, but the Welsh Government's dithering is holding them back and putting them at risk.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru economy spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones said: \"The safety and well-being of the public must come first, ahead of any further easing of restrictions. \"However, the Welsh Government must provide guidance to Welsh businesses on how they can open up safely.\n\n\"That includes detailed sectoral guidance for specific sectors including the tourism and hospitality sectors that are facing untold economic damage due to this crisis. \"Welsh businesses urgently need more clarity from government.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWales' R number - which measures the rate of transmission - is a \"sign of success\" rather than an \"inducement\" to lift an \"awful lot\" of further measures, Mr Drakeford told the press conference.\n\nThe R rate in Wales is thought to be 0.7. The UK government has given the R rate in England as between 0.8 and 1.\n\nWhen asked why the Welsh Government was lifting measures with more caution in Wales when the R rate is lower than England's, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's the way we have done things in Wales that has resulted in the R figure.\"\n\nMark Drakeford said he last spoke to Boris Johnson was two weeks ago last Thursday\n\nDuring the press conference the first minister complained of limited contact with UK ministers.\n\nMark Drakeford said he had last spoken to the prime minister two weeks ago last Thursday.\n\nHe said he had had no discussion with any UK minister, with the exception of Welsh Secretary Simon Hart, since then.\n\nThere was still discussion between officials, but he added: \"In terms of what I have wanted to see, that regular reliable rhythm of meetings with UK ministers, and the stop-start arrangements we've had, I'm afraid we've been in a stop part of that cycle for more than two weeks.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she also last spoke to the prime minister on 28 May, in the same joint call with Mr Drakeford.", "Marcus Rashford has called on the government to reverse a decision not to provide free school meal vouchers during the summer, saying that \"the system isn't built for families like mine to succeed\".\n\nThe Manchester United and England forward has raised about £20m to supply three million meals to vulnerable people while working with charity FareShare UK during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nCampaigners have threatened to bring legal action against the government for not extending the food voucher scheme into the summer holidays.\n\nIn an emotional open letter to MPs drawing on his own experiences of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up, Rashford said his story is \"all too familiar for families in England\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast about the letter, Rashford, 22, said: \"It's written from the heart and it's about how my life was at the moment - the letter is to open up and let people understand the impact on families and to know I've done the right thing.\n\n\"What families are going through now, I've once had to go through that - and it's very difficult to find a way out. It's very important for me to help people who are struggling. Whether the outcome changes or doesn't change - that's why I wrote it.\"\n\nIn England, about 1.3 million children from low income backgrounds are eligible for free school meals.\n\nTo qualify, their household must earn a maximum income of £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits. The full criteria is listed here.\n\nA child who qualifies remains eligible until 31 March 2022, whether in primary or secondary education. Children from families who meet certain criteria can also be eligible for free school meals before they start school.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government says it expects schools to continue to support eligible children in term time. This includes:\n\nThis provision included the Easter and May half-term holidays, but the voucher schemes will not run during the summer holidays.\n\nIn Wales, the government will provide free school meal vouchers until schools reopen, or at least until the end of August\n\n'This is not about politics, it's about humanity'\n\nIn the letter, Rashford wrote: \"My mum worked full-time, earning the minimum wage, to make sure we always had a good evening meal on the table, but it was not enough.\n\n\"The system was not built for families like mine to succeed, regardless of how hard my mum worked.\"\n\nRashford added his plea for the government to \"make the U-turn and make protecting the lives of some of our most vulnerable a top priority\" was \"not about politics\" but about \"humanity\".\n\nHe added that it was about \"looking at ourselves in the mirror and feeling like we did everything we could to protect those who can't, for whatever reason or circumstance, protect themselves\".\n\nThe Department for Education confirmed the scheme would not run during summer holidays: \"As schools open more widely, and their kitchens reopen, we expect schools to make food parcels available for collection or delivery for any children that are eligible for free school meals who are not yet able to return to school. Where this is not possible, schools can continue to offer vouchers to eligible pupils.\n\nThe spokesperson also pointed to the new £63m local authority welfare assistance scheme to support the most vulnerable families, and its Holiday Activities and Food programme, which offers activities and free meals in the summer holidays.\n\nFamilies claiming free school meals have been issued with either an electronic voucher or gift card - worth £15 per child, per week - to spend at supermarkets, while schools have been closed.\n\nRashford wrote: \"Political affiliations aside, can we not all agree that no child should be going to be hungry?\"\n\nThe United youth-team graduate, who is one of five children, added: \"As a black man from a low-income family in Wythenshawe, Manchester, I could have been just another statistic.\n\n\"Instead, due to the selfless actions of my mum, my family, my neighbours, and my coaches, the only stats I'm associated with are goals, appearances and caps.\n\n\"I would be doing myself, my family and my community an injustice if I didn't stand here today with my voice and my platform and ask you for help.\"\n\nAround 1.3m children in England are eligible for free school meals and a survey by the Food Foundation in May said that more than 200,000 children have had to skip meals because their family could not access enough food during lockdown.\n\n\"Ten years ago, I would have been one of those children, and you would never have heard my voice and seen my determination to become part of the solution,\" said Rashford.\n\n\"Food poverty in England is a pandemic that could span generations if we don't course correct now.\"\n\nRashford stated that the government's Universal Credit benefit system \"is simply not a short-term solution\" to the issue of food poverty, because \"I am fully aware that the majority of families applying are experiencing five-week delays\".\n\nHe is concerned that child poverty is \"only going to get worse\" when the government's furlough scheme ends.\n\nRashford added that with many children still not able to return to school and have more of their nutritional needs met \"we're encouraging this cycle of hardship to continue\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Prime Minister said Boris Johnson \"will respond to Marcus Rashford's letter as soon as he can\", adding the footballer \"has been using his profile in a positive way to highlight some important issues\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"This is such an important and moving letter. Thank you, Marcus, for all the work you are doing to support children during the coronavirus crisis.\"", "Police were present as scores of young people made their way to the Carrington area rave\n\nA 20-year-old man has died, a woman has been raped and three people have been stabbed during two illegal \"quarantine raves\" that attracted 6,000 people.\n\nThousands flocked to Daisy Nook Country Park and Carrington in Greater Manchester late on Saturday.\n\nThe man at the country park died of a suspected drug overdose and the stabbings and the attack on an 18-year-old woman took place in Carrington.\n\nPolice said the illegal raves have had tragic consequences.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Chris Sykes condemned them as a clear breach of coronavirus legislation, adding officers \"were met with violence, resulting in items being thrown and a police car being vandalised\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteers have been clearing up a \"sea of canisters\" and other litter after two illegal raves.\n\nPolice said about 4,000 people were at the Daisy Nook rave in Failsworth, Oldham, where there were no reported crimes.\n\nThere were, however, three separate stabbings at the Carrington site - one of which left an 18-year-old man with life-threatening injuries.\n\nPolice were able to find the man and give him first aid before paramedics arrived.\n\nTwo other men, aged 25 and 26, were hurt in separate stabbings and a 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon.\n\n\"We are also investigating the rape of an 18-year-old woman... and we have specialist officers supporting her and her family,\" police said.\n\nThe raves continued through the night\n\nPeople were seen congregating near the rave site\n\nStreams of young people were seen on their way to an area just off Common Lane in Carrington on Saturday evening.\n\nThere was a large police presence at both sites.\n\nImages and footage were also shared on social media showing densely-packed crowds of people dancing and singing at the outdoor raves.\n\nA large sign reading \"Quarantine Rave\" can be seen in background of one video.\n\nAnyone with footage that could help with inquiries has been asked to contact police.\n\nPolice were called to Daisy Nook Country Park after illegal raves were reported\n\nSacha Lord, who is the night-time economy adviser for the region, said those that had attended had put themselves and those they loved at risk.\n\nMr Lord tweeted: \"I've seen some of the footage. You aren't clubbers. Just selfish idiots.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sacha Lord This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe MP for Ashton-Under-Lyne, Angela Rayner, said she had joined Oldham Street Angels at the Daisy Nook site during the rave.\n\nThe group offers support and pastoral care to partygoers and others that need it during the night-time.\n\nMs Rayner tweeted that she had \"just finished my shift at Street Angels in Oldham\" and had been \"dealing with the illegal rave at Daisy Nook liaising with the police\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by 🌈 Angela Rayner 🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVolunteers spent Sunday morning clearing away rubbish left scattered across the fields at the Daisy Nook site with help from Oldham Council.\n\nVolunteers helped clear the rubbish left on the grass\n\nOldham Council leader Sean Fielding tweeted his thanks to the \"dozens of volunteers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sean Fielding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe region's deputy mayor for policing and crime, Bev Hughes, said the events industry had agreed \"to blacklist any supplier who is involved with illegal raves\".\n\nShe said \"those reckless individuals\" have \"put a needless demand on vital police time,\" and \"themselves and their communities in real danger\".\n\nBut she praised communities helping clean up, saying: \"We have seen the real Greater Manchester this morning.\"\n\nACC Sykes responded to suggestions police had been slow to act or allowed the events to go ahead in a lengthy statement on the force's website.\n\nGreater Manchester Police had seen huge demand including a 60% surge in emergency calls from 17:00 BST on Saturday to 04:00 on Sunday, he said.\n\nHe said said the gatherings were carefully monitored but \"we needed to balance the present public health emergency and our overall demand with ongoing incidents\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nShops across England will welcome back customers today for the first time in almost three months. Non-essential retailers, including clothes and book stores, have to operate with strict rules in place - you can expect staff behind screens, limits on customer numbers and no trying on. Read more here. In Northern Ireland, non-essential shops reopened last week, but there's still no date for Wales and Scotland.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's it now like shopping for clothes?\n\nThe vast majority of travellers using public transport in England now have to wear a face covering. More than 3,000 extra staff, including police officers, are being deployed at stations to enforce the new rules. Here they are in detail. The BBC has created a guide on how to make your own face covering from everyday items like T-shirts or bedding.\n\nSome secondary pupils in England due to take exams next year will start returning to school today. Virus safety guidelines only permit a quarter of the chosen year groups, Years 10 and 12, to be on site at a time - see more about how it'll work. It comes as ministers are being urged to work with teachers and councils on a national school recovery plan.\n\nMore than a million people have fallen through cracks in government schemes, including furlough, designed to support them during the crisis, according to MPs on the Treasury Select Committee. They want ministers to plug the gaps for the likes of freelancers and those who recently started a new role. Meanwhile, we meet two women who lost their jobs during the pandemic and have switched to working as fruit and veg pickers instead.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest developments via our live page.\n\nPlus, as the prime minister launches an urgent review into the two-metre social distancing rule, we look at the science..\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The memorial for PC Keith Palmer was unveiled outside Parliament in 2018\n\nA man has been charged after an individual was photographed apparently urinating at the Westminster memorial dedicated to PC Keith Palmer.\n\nThe incident is believed to have taken place on Saturday afternoon.\n\nAndrew Banks, aged 28, of Stansted, Essex has been charged with outraging public decency, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nHe will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nPC Palmer, 48, was stabbed while on duty during the Westminster terror attack on 22 March 2017. He was one of five people murdered by Khalid Masood.\n\nPC Keith Palmer was unarmed as he was attacked by Khalid Masood\n\nThe image of a man was widely shared on social media on Saturday as violent clashes between far-right protesters and police took place in central London.\n\nThe man in the photo was widely condemned by politicians including MP Tobias Ellwood, who gave first aid to PC Palmer as he lay dying after being stabbed in the grounds of Parliament by Masood in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anyone travelling on public transport in England must wear a face covering from Monday under a new rule.\n\nMore than 3,000 extra staff including police officers are being deployed at stations to make sure people comply.\n\nPassengers without a covering will be asked to wear one, or will face being refused onboard or fined £100.\n\nPeople with certain health conditions, disabled people and children under the age of 11 will be exempt from the rule.\n\nIn the coming days, hundreds of thousands of free coverings will be handed out at railway stations. The government says masks can be homemade, such as a scarf or bandana.\n\nAs well as on transport, all hospital visitors and outpatients also have to wear masks.\n\nThe UK government changed its advice on face masks to stop the spread of coronavirus earlier this month, as more people used public transport to go back to work. It is now in line with the World Health Organization's advice.\n\nThe new rules apply to England and require anyone travelling by bus, coach, train, tram, Tube, ferry or plane to cover their face while on board.\n\nThey exclude school transport, taxis and private hire vehicles - although Uber has made face coverings compulsory for passengers and drivers.\n\nThe rules apply only while travelling - not while waiting - but the rail industry has asked people to cover their face as they enter a station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The masks should be made of cotton, and even an old pair of socks can be used to cover your face\n\nThe compulsory rules do not apply in Scotland,Wales or Northern Ireland - but their governments recommend that people cover their faces in places where social distancing is difficult, including on public transport.\n\nPassenger numbers are expected to reach about 20% of capacity on the railways by early next month.\n\nAt those levels, social distancing of 2m might still be possible, says BBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge - but social distancing will not be possible if passenger numbers increase to around 50% of capacity after the summer as predicted.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said remembering to travel with a face covering should become part of people's daily routine.\n\nHe also urged people against using medical masks, saying they must be kept for clinical settings.\n\nMore than 3,000 extra staff from British Transport Police, Network Rail, train operators and Transport for London are being deployed at major stations and transport hubs.\n\nRail unions have welcomed the face masks rule - but have called for social distancing to still be followed and transport workers to be treated with respect.\n\nTransport operators will be able to refuse travel or issue fines to passengers who break the rules\n\nThe head of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA), Manuel Cortes, said: \"This must not be seen as a green light among the wider population to use public transport.\n\n\"It must remain the case that only the key workers who are keeping us safe during the pandemic continue to use public transport.\"\n\nThe government urges people to consider all other forms of transport before public transport.\n\nAll NHS hospital staff (not just medics), visitors and outpatients will also have to wear face coverings in England.\n\nThe government said people should arrive at hospital with a face covering, but if not a face mask will be provided in emergencies.\n\nHowever, the doctors' union the British Medical Association has criticised the government for not properly planning for the rules in hospitals, saying some NHS services have been left \"confused and unprepared\".\n\nThe BMA said it was inappropriate for hospitals to have to supply masks to patients and visitors who arrive without a covering, especially following shortages of some types of personal protective equipment.\n\nThe new face covering rules will \"inevitably lead to an increased demand\", the BMA said.\n\nCommon household items like cotton fabric from old T-shirts or bedding can be used to make a mask\n\nThe government said it has adequate stocks of face masks to meet demand and continues to pursue contracts for additional stock. It said more guidance for hospitals will be published on Monday to allow hospitals to get stocks and plans in place.\n\nAlso on Monday, all non-essential shops can reopen in England for the first time since the lockdown began.\n\nIt comes as a further 36 people died with the coronavirus in the UK, taking the total to 41,698, the UK government announced on Sunday.\n\nThe latest daily figure is the lowest since before lockdown began on 23 March, but there tends to be fewer deaths reported at the weekend, because of a reporting lag.\n\nMeanwhile, France is lifting a number of coronavirus restrictions on Monday. Cafes and restaurants can open, travel to other European countries is allowed.\n\nSeveral other countries in Europe including Belgium, Croatia, Switzerland and Germany are also reopening their borders between EU countries on Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAre you travelling on public transport in England today? Share your experiences and pictures by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Plans to reopen shops \"carefully\" are being considered as part of moves to ease lockdown in Wales, First Minister Mark Drakford has said.\n\nBut in Wales all retailers, apart from those deemed essential, such as supermarkets and pharmacies, have been closed since the start of lockdown in March.\n\nThe Welsh Government is due to review lockdown restrictions on Friday.\n\nMr Drakeford said reopening non-essential shops and further relaxing restrictions on outdoors activity are being considered by the Welsh Government.\n\nHe said ministers were “looking and learning from the experiences of other countries around the world”, and did not want things to reopen too soon and then have to close again.\n\nMr Drakeford said that they were making sure businesses were going to be ready to safely open, should the Welsh Government be in \"a position\" to make such an announcement on Friday.\n\n“In many countries where cafes have reopened they are opening outside only because the virus doesn’t survive for as long outdoors as it does indoors,” he said.\n\nBut other countries have reintroduced restrictions “because lockdown has led to cases of increasing”.\n\nMr Drakeford added that it would not mean a return to the pre-pandemic normal.\n\n“While the virus has receded and fewer people are becoming ill, coronavirus has not gone away – it continues to be present in Wales and there is still a risk we will face a second wave of illness later in the year,” he said.", "England striker Marcus Rashford said he would fight on after the government confirmed it would not provide free school meal vouchers during the summer.\n\nThe Manchester United player wrote an emotional open letter to MPs in which he said \"the system isn't built for families like mine to succeed\".\n\nBut the Department for Education said it would not reverse its decision.\n\nRashford, 22, responded by tweeting \"we aren't beaten yet\" and \"MPs, please #maketheUturn\".\n\nRashford has raised about £20m to supply three million meals to vulnerable people while working with charity FareShare UK during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nCampaigners have threatened to bring legal action against the government for not extending the food voucher scheme into the summer holidays.\n\nIn his letter, Rashford drew on his own experience of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up. He said his story was \"all too familiar for families in England\".\n\nSonja from Basingstoke, who has three teenage children, told BBC Radio 5 live Drive she found herself out of work because of the pandemic and does not start her new job until September. She said she was in \"real trouble\" without the vouchers in the meantime.\n\n\"I'm relying on the £60 I get every fortnight from free school meal vouchers to do my food shopping,\" she said.\n\n\"There are lots of us out there that have found ourselves on benefits through no fault of our own. We really are struggling to make ends meet and I'm not sure too many people understand how difficult it is - Marcus obviously does.\"\n\nGary Lineker told BBC Newsnight he was \"very impressed\" with Rashford's efforts.\n\nHe said he understands that \"kids wouldn't ordinarily be fed during the summer holidays\", but these are \"very, very difficult times\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Rashford said: \"It's written from the heart and it's about how my life was at the moment - the letter is to open up and let people understand the impact on families and to know I've done the right thing.\n\n\"What families are going through now, I've once had to go through that - and it's very difficult to find a way out. It's very important for me to help people who are struggling - whether the outcome changes or doesn't change, that's why I wrote it.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"As schools open more widely, and their kitchens reopen, we expect schools to make food parcels available for collection or delivery for any children that are eligible for free school meals who are not yet able to return to school.\n\n\"Where this is not possible, schools can continue to offer vouchers to eligible pupils.\"\n\nA spokesperson also pointed to the new £63m local authority welfare assistance scheme to support the most vulnerable families, and its Holiday Activities and Food programme, which offers activities and free meals in the summer holidays.\n\nFamilies claiming free school meals have been issued with either an electronic voucher or gift card - worth £15 per child, per week - to spend at supermarkets, while schools have been closed.\n\nIn England, about 1.3 million children from low-income backgrounds are eligible for free school meals.\n\nTo qualify, their household must earn a maximum income of £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits. The full criteria is listed here.\n\nA child who qualifies remains eligible until 31 March 2022, whether in primary or secondary education. Children from families who meet certain criteria can also be eligible for free school meals before they start school.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government says it expects schools to continue to support eligible children in term time. This includes:\n\nThis provision included the Easter and May half-term holidays, but the voucher schemes will not run during the summer holidays.\n\nIn Wales, the government will provide free school meal vouchers until schools reopen, or at least until the end of August.\n\nA survey by the Food Foundation in May said that more than 200,000 children in the UK have had to skip meals because their family could not access enough food during lockdown.\n\n'This is not about politics, it's about humanity'\n\nIn the letter, Rashford wrote: \"My mum worked full-time, earning the minimum wage, to make sure we always had a good evening meal on the table, but it was not enough.\n\n\"The system was not built for families like mine to succeed, regardless of how hard my mum worked.\"\n\nRashford added his plea for the government to \"make the U-turn and make protecting the lives of some of our most vulnerable a top priority\" was \"not about politics\" but about \"humanity\".\n\nHe added it was about \"looking at ourselves in the mirror and feeling like we did everything we could to protect those who can't, for whatever reason or circumstance, protect themselves\".\n\nRashford wrote: \"Political affiliations aside, can we not all agree that no child should be going to be hungry?\"\n\nThe United youth-team graduate, who is one of five children, added: \"As a black man from a low-income family in Wythenshawe, Manchester, I could have been just another statistic.\n\n\"Instead, due to the selfless actions of my mum, my family, my neighbours, and my coaches, the only stats I'm associated with are goals, appearances and caps.\n\n\"I would be doing myself, my family and my community an injustice if I didn't stand here today with my voice and my platform and ask you for help.\"\n\n\"Ten years ago, I would have been one of those children, and you would never have heard my voice and seen my determination to become part of the solution,\" added Rashford.\n\n\"Food poverty in England is a pandemic that could span generations if we don't course correct now.\"\n\nRashford stated the government's Universal Credit benefit system \"is simply not a short-term solution\" to the issue of food poverty, because \"I am fully aware that the majority of families applying are experiencing five-week delays\".\n\nHe is concerned child poverty is \"only going to get worse\" when the government's furlough scheme ends.\n\nRashford added that with many children still not able to return to school and have more of their nutritional needs met \"we're encouraging this cycle of hardship to continue\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Prime Minister said Boris Johnson \"will respond to Marcus Rashford's letter as soon as he can\", adding the footballer \"has been using his profile in a positive way to highlight some important issues\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"This is such an important and moving letter. Thank you, Marcus, for all the work you are doing to support children during the coronavirus crisis.\"", "The first jury citations have been issued since the start of lockdown ahead of the return of high court trials next month.\n\nNotices will drop through letterboxes from Monday for potential jurors with court trials due to restart in Glasgow and Edinburgh from July.\n\nA raft of anti-virus measures have been introduced to protect accused, jurors, witnesses, lawyers, staff and judiciary.\n\nLord justice clerk Lady Dorrian said: \"The courts have been working extremely hard to deliver justice in the current coronavirus circumstances.\n\n\"I am satisfied that this work will enable jury trials to take place in a way that ensures the safety and confidence of jurors and all parties, and builds trust in our ability to operate within the strict guidelines set out by Public Health Scotland.\"\n\nTrials will continue to be conducted with 15 jurors under the same legal standards and procedures as before. No new criminal jury trials have gone ahead since mid-March.", "About 6,000 people attended the two raves at Daisy Nook Country Park and Carrington at the weekend\n\nTwo illegal \"quarantine raves\" at the weekend were \"almost impossible\" to stop after venues were changed at the last minute, a chief constable said.\n\nAbout 6,000 people went to raves at Daisy Nook Country Park, Failsworth, and Carrington, Greater Manchester.\n\nA 20-year-old man died of a suspected drug overdose at the Daisy Nook rave while a woman was raped and three people stabbed in Carrington.\n\nGreater Manchester Police's Ian Hopkins said some behaviour was \"appalling\".\n\nBoth events late on Saturday were illegal under coronavirus restrictions but Greater Manchester Police restricted its involvement to what they called \"careful monitoring\".\n\nBoth events were illegal under coronavirus restrictions\n\nAn 18-year-old woman was raped and there were three separate stabbings at the Carrington site - one of which left an 18-year-old man with life-threatening injuries.\n\nThe chief constable said: \"The location was changed and that made it very difficult [to stop].\n\n\"Once these things start it is almost impossible to stop them given the number of people that were there and the number of officers available.\n\n\"It would have been very serious situation and many people, including my officers, would have been badly injured I believe.\"\n\nHe said that was why officers on the ground made the decision not to try to stop the gatherings.\n\n\"Some of the behaviour was appalling; some of this was not partying - this was people going out of their way to commit crime,\" he added.\n\nA raver at the Daisy Nook park event told BBC 5 Live he went after \"listening to guidelines for three months\".\n\nMatt, who did not give his surname, said: \"I've not been around a group of people in a long time so I thought I might as well this week.\n\n\"I just went for a good time.\"\n\nWhen asked about the Covid-19 pandemic, the 22-year-old said: \"I'm not really scared of the virus but I don't know anyone who has had it so I didn't think of that.\"\n\nVolunteers picked up between 350 to 400 bags of rubbish at site near Daisy Nook Country Park, says Mr Carroll\n\nUnder current government guidelines for England, groups of up to six people from different households can gather outside in parks or private gardens.\n\nPaul Carroll, who lives near the Failsworth site, said: \"Police were passively driving up and down and occasionally moving people on but when you have 4,000 people and 20 to 30 police it was never going to be enforcement.\n\n\"I was still awake at three o'clock in the morning with people sniffing nitrous oxide gas on the garden wall, urinating and taxis coming and going.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteers have been clearing up a \"sea of canisters\" and other litter after two illegal raves.\n\nDJ Judge Jules called for nightclubs to be reopened so people can go out in a safe environment.\n\n\"The fact is people are going to go out - let's just get the clubs and the nightlife industry open as soon as its possible because the industry is suffering immensely and the pent up demand is clearly there.\"\n\nKate Green MP for Stretford and Urmston condemned those who attended the two \"unsafe and irresponsible\" illegal raves saying it brought \"huge disruption\" to the local community, some serious injuries and was \"in complete contravention of social distancing rules\".\n• None Man dies, woman raped and three stabbed at 'raves'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath crashed into the North Sea on Monday\n\nThe pilot of a US Air Force fighter jet which crashed into the North Sea has been found dead.\n\nThe F-15C Eagle, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, crashed shortly after 09:30 BST while on a training mission.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane, thought to have crashed 74 nautical miles off the East Yorkshire coast, was found earlier.\n\nThe cause of the crash is currently unknown.\n\nCol Will Marshall of the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath said: \"The pilot of the downed F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing has been located, and confirmed deceased.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We will not release the name of the pilot until after all next of kin notifications have been completed.\n\n\"This is a tragic loss for the 48th Fighter Wing community, and our deepest condolences go out to the pilot's family and the 493rd Fighter Squadron.\"\n\nThe F15C, a single-seater air defence fighter, is a model of jet that has been used by the US Air Force since 1979.\n\nRAF Lakenheath is the largest US Air Force-operated base in England and home to its only F-15 fighter wing in Europe.\n\nMore than 4,000 US service men and women are stationed there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage this morning from the Yorkshire coast showed fog shrouding the North Sea\n\nThe 48th Fighter Wing shared an image of three jets in flight on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RAF Lakenheath This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn October 2015, US pilot Maj Taj Sareen died when his F-18 Hornet jet crashed on farmland near RAF Lakenheath.\n\nAn investigation found the 34-year-old had not reported problems with his aircraft to engineers prior to take-off, because he was concerned it would delay his colleagues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shoppers keep 2m apart as they queue outside shops in Bristol\n\nA review into the 2m social distancing rule, implemented to stop the spread of coronavirus, will be completed \"in the coming weeks\", No 10 has said.\n\nBut Health Minister Edward Argar could not say if it would be done by the time pubs and restaurants in England are due to reopen on 4 July.\n\nThe hospitality industry and some MPs have called for the rule to be relaxed.\n\nMr Argar said it was important to find the \"right balance\" between the impact of public health and on the economy.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of the industry body UKHospitality, said that with a 2m rule, outlets would be only able to make about 30% of normal revenues, whereas 1m would increase that to 60-75%.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, she said: \"We very much welcome the government's decision to conduct a review on this because it is a matter of survival or business failure as far as hospitality is concerned.\"\n\nDr Michael Tildesley, an infectious disease scientist at the University of Warwick, said studies were \"unclear\" but that there was \"an increase in risk with going down to one metre\".\n\n\"But I have to stress this is purely based upon public health, and the government has to consider economic factors before taking a decision.\"\n\nThe announcement comes as the number of people who have died after testing positive from coronavirus rose by 38 to 41,739. The number of confirmed cases has increased by 1,056 to 296,857.\n\nMeanwhile shops in England reopened for the first time since the lockdown was introduced, with long queues reported outside Primark shops in London and Birmingham.\n\nRetailers will still have to enforce strict safety measures including implementing one-way systems and abiding by the 2m social distancing rule.\n\nUnder the rule, the UK government currently advises people to stay 2m (6ft 6in) apart from others to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nThis is further than the World Health Organization's recommendation of at least 1m (just over 3ft), and some other countries like France and Denmark. But the government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nHowever, there are widespread concerns about the impact of the rule on the UK economy, which is already suffering from the pandemic.\n\nThe government's review has been broadly welcomed - but some are nervous it is a delaying tactic and that it could take a few weeks before we have a result.\n\nSome prominent Conservatives have been in the Commons urging ministers to come up with an answer by 4 July, when the hospitality industry is due to reopen in England.\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has said it the most important strategic decisions the government is facing in easing lockdown.\n\nSo far, the government hasn't committed to making its decision in the next three weeks. They are saying they will act as swiftly as possible based on the scientific - but also economic - advice.\n\nSome bars, restaurants and pubs say they will be unable to make a profit if the 2m guidance is still in place when they reopen.\n\nRelaxing the 2m rule could also allow more children to return to school. Hamid Patel, chief executive of the Star Academy Group, has said that with 2m distancing in place, no more than 50% of secondary pupils could attend, and in some schools it would be lower.\n\nOn Sunday, the government announced it would be reviewing the rule, with Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying there would be \"margin for manoeuvre\" as the number of coronavirus cases falls.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the review would look at transmission of coronavirus in different environments, incidence rates and international comparisons.\n\nIt is to be chaired by Simon Case, the No 10 permanent secretary and will take evidence from medical experts, economists as well as considering papers from SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies).\n\nDuring an urgent question in the House of Commons, a number of MPs urged the government to ease the 2m rule.\n\nConservative Tobias Ellwood said moving to a 1m limit would be \"game changing for re-opening our schools and reopening our economy\".\n\nBut another Conservative, Michael Fabricant, warned of the risk of a second spike and said \"nobody would thank us if we have to go back into lockdown\".\n\nShadow health minister Justin Madders urged the government to finish the review promptly saying the government had been \" too slow on PPE, too slow on testing, too slow on social care, we cannot afford for them to be too slow on this as well.\"\n\nMr Argar said the government wanted get the review out \"as swiftly as we can\" to allow businesses to prepare for any changes to guidance. However he added that he would not set a deadline.\n\nSo far all the nations of the UK have maintained the 2m rule.\n\nOn Monday, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was looking at \"ongoing evidence\" but added that she would not be setting a timescale for easing the rule.\n\n\"It's really important that it, or any other single aspect of trying to suppress this virus is not looked at in isolation,\" she said.\n\n\"If you reduce the distance that are other things you have to consider about like face coverings - and also the amount of time it is then safe for people to be in that kind of proximity.\"\n\nHospitality venues could begin reopening from 4 July in England and 3 July in Northern Ireland but no date has been given in Scotland or Wales.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, all shops were allowed to open from Friday. No dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland and Wales, although each country has set out its planned stages for lifting lockdown.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday evening. We'll have another update for you on Tuesday morning.\n\nManchester United and England forward Marcus Rashford has written an open letter calling on the government to reverse its decision to stop providing free school meal vouchers during the summer. The 22-year-old, who grew up in poverty and has raised £20m to feed people during the pandemic, said it was \"written from the heart\". Some families told the BBC they would be \"left with zero\" if the voucher scheme for England stopped.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Man Utd's Rashford speaks about mother's sacrifices in his bid to end food poverty\n\nDowning Street said a review into the 2m social distancing rule, amid calls from hospitality companies to reduce it, will be complete \"in the coming weeks\". But the prime minister's spokesman could not confirm it would be ready before pubs and restaurants in England are due to reopen on 4 July. The hospitality industry says it is a \"matter of survival\" but scientists say that a 1m distance carries more risk of the virus spreading.\n\nAfter another weekend of protests, rank-and-file police officers have called on the home secretary to be \"unequivocal\" that demonstrations are not allowed in England and Wales during the pandemic. John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, said the right to protest is important, but \"we are not in normal times\". Meanwhile, police in Manchester said it was \"almost impossible\" to stop thousands of people gathering at illegal raves.\n\nThe Great North Run has been cancelled after organisers said they could not find a way to go ahead in September while complying with social distancing. More than 55,000 runners were due to take part in the 40th annual half-marathon from Newcastle to South Shields. Brendan Foster, the race's founder, said the cancellation was \"devastating\" and it would have been Britain's largest mass-participation event.\n\n...it's now compulsory in England to wear a face covering on public transport and in hospitals - and recommended in the rest of the UK. Find out and about the new rules here and learn to make your own mask here.\n\nThere's more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and you can get the latest updates on our live page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Certain groups are at higher risk of serious illness\n\nFactors such as racism and social inequality may have contributed to increased risks of black, Asian and minority communities catching and dying from Covid-19, a leaked report says.\n\nHistoric racism may mean that people are less likely to seek care or to demand better personal protective equipment, it says.\n\nThe Public Health England draft, seen by the BBC, contains recommendations.\n\nOther possible factors include risks linked to occupation, it said.\n\nAnd inequalities in conditions such as diabetes may increase disease severity.\n\nThe report, the second by PHE on the subject, pointed to racism and discrimination as a root cause affecting health and the risk of both exposure to the virus and becoming seriously ill.\n\nIt said stakeholders expressed \"deep dismay, anger, loss and fear in their communities\" as data emerged suggesting Covid-19 was \"exacerbating existing inequalities\".\n\nAnd it found \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant individuals in BAME groups were less likely to seek care when needed or to speak up when they had concerns about personal protective equipment or risk.\n\nThe report concluded: \"The unequal impact of Covid-19 on BAME communities may be explained by a number of factors ranging from social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, occupational risk, inequalities in the prevalence of conditions that increase the severity of disease including obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma.\"\n\nThe draft report from Public Health England says questions remain on the role of diet and vitamin D and makes clear no work has been done to review this evidence yet.\n\nA recent review confirmed the risk of death from Covid-19 higher for ethnic minorities. PHE found that people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white Britons, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death.\n\nFor weeks and weeks people from ethnic minority communities have been wanting to know how they can better protect themselves from coronavirus.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic there had been growing evidence that they were being hit harder by the disease - and this was confirmed by the government's review into Covid-19 risk factors released last week.\n\nYet it was only after being approached by the BBC that the existence of this second report - previously unseen and still unpublished - was formally acknowledged by the government.\n\nThe draft document is clearly a work in progress and some of the issues raised, such as concerns about deep-rooted racism and discrimination in society, cannot be tackled overnight.\n\nBut against the backdrop of thousands of people protesting in the streets over what they see as social injustice, many will be wondering why it took so long for this report to come to light.\n\nAnd as the threat of coronavirus continues, people from these communities will be hoping swift action is taken soon.\n\nOn Thursday, a senior academic told the BBC that advice for the government on how to protect BAME communities from coronavirus had yet to be published.\n\nProf Raj Bhopal, a scientist who had been asked to peer-review the unpublished recommendations report, including contributions from 4,000 stakeholders, said Parliament had \"not been told the full truth\".\n\nEarlier on Saturday, the British Medical Association sent a letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, asking why pages with recommendations to safeguard BAME communities had been \"omitted\" from the first report.\n\nIn a letter, the head of the doctors' union, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, CBE, called for the recommendations to be published immediately, to tackle \"the disturbing reality that the virus is causing disproportionate serious illness and deaths in the BAME community\".\n\nIn a letter to Matt Hancock, he wrote: \"A clear response is needed as to why these pages and important recommendations were omitted from publication, especially when it is so critical that action is taken to save lives now and reduce race inequalities.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Dr Nagpaul said large numbers of BAME doctors feel let down. \"What is critical is that we must avoid further deaths and further ill-health amongst our medical workforce,\" he said.\n\nPublic Health England has said the recommendations will be published next week at the same time that the work is submitted to ministers.\n\nMeanwhile, ethnic minority doctors in the NHS have said they feel \"let down\" by delays in work to ensure they are protected from coronavirus.\n\nThe BMA said many had not received promised risk assessments and redeployment opportunities.\n\nHospital trusts and other health service bodies have been asked to prioritise risk assessments for BAME staff and other vulnerable groups. But BBC research has found that hundreds of doctors still have not had a risk assessment.", "A 16-year-old future star of the climbing world has died after falling from a cliff in south-eastern France.\n\nLuce Douady was heading to an unexplored sector of a cliff near Grenoble when she slipped and fell from the approach path, French media report.\n\nHer body has been recovered and an investigation opened, according to Le Dauphiné. The exact circumstances of her death are unclear.\n\nTributes have been paid from the world of professional sports climbing.\n\nThe sport's governing body the International Federation of Sport Climbing called her a \"young, brilliant and talented athlete\".\n\nAfter winning youth events Douady moved on to senior competition.\n\nAged just 15, she made her debut appearance on the IFSC Boulder World Cup circuit, finishing fifth.\n\nBouldering requires competitors to try to climb fixed routes within a time limit. It is one of the disciplines when sports climbing makes its debut at next year's rescheduled Tokyo Olympics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe US has said it is \"outraged\" after Russia sentenced an ex-US marine to 16 years in a high security prison on spying charges.\n\nPaul Whelan was arrested in Moscow in 2018 with a USB drive which security officers say contained state secrets.\n\nWhelan says he was set up and called the trial a \"sham\", saying that without an interpreter, he could not even understand the proceedings.\n\nUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for his immediate release.\n\n\"The United States is outraged by the decision of a Russian court today to convict US citizen Paul Whelan after a secret trial, with secret evidence, and without appropriate allowances for defence witnesses,\" he said.\n\nWhelan, 50, was found guilty of receiving classified information at Moscow City Court. His lawyers said he would appeal.\n\nAmid suggestions that Whelan could be used in a prisoner swap for high-profile Russians in US custody, a Kremlin spokesman said Whelan was not a \"political prisoner\".\n\n\"No, it is not possible. He was sentenced by a court decision, and the court decision says it all. He was charged and the charges were then proven in court and accepted by the court,\" Dmitry Peskov said.\n\nPaul Whelan had hand-written a sign for this final court hearing, pressing it to the glass of his cage in court to denounce his trial as a sham. TV cameras were banned from filming on Monday, supposedly as a coronavirus precaution.\n\nSo Whelan raised his voice to shout his innocence to the photographers instead. With two FSB [Russia's Federal Security Service] guards at his side in black balaclavas, he denounced the charges against him as fabricated and \"ridiculous\".\n\n\"They have got this so wrong, and all for political purposes,\" he told the BBC. At past hearings, he has been openly angry and frustrated - talking over the judge and accusing his interrogators of threats and coercion. On Monday, he was calm, even smiling - waving to the three ambassadors who came to court to support him, all in facemasks and gloves and carefully spaced out on the wooden benches like the press.\n\nPaul Whelan had already declared this verdict \"pre-ordained\", but when it came, no-one bothered to translate it. The American was left shrugging, appealing to the judges to tell him his fate \"po angliisky\" - in English. The panel of three ignored him, and swept out of court in their gowns.\n\nPaul Whelan is a citizen of four countries - the US, Canada, the UK and the Irish Republic.\n\nFrom Novi, Michigan, he was born in Canada to British parents and moved to the US as a child.\n\nMilitary records show he joined the US Marine Reserves in 1994, about six years after he had reportedly begun work as a police officer in Michigan.\n\nHe served two tours in Iraq, in 2004 and then 2006, before becoming a security executive. It was while serving in the marines that he made his first trip to Russia, and went on to visit the country many times.\n\nPaul Whelan was arrested in his hotel room in central Moscow in December 2018.\n\nHe says he was getting ready for a wedding when an old friend turned up unexpectedly and gave him a flash drive containing what Whelan's lawyer says his client thought were holiday photographs.\n\nMoments later, security officers burst in and arrested him for receiving state secrets.\n\nAfter Monday's verdict, his family said in a statement it was the Russian legal system which had been \"found guilty of injustice\".\n\n\"The court's decision merely completes the final piece of this broken judicial process. We had hoped that the court might show some independence but, in the end, Russian judges are political, not legal, entities,\" the statement said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Whelan describes the case against him as \"nonsense\"", "Amy Callaghan was found collapsed by her partrner\n\nAmy Callaghan, the MP for East Dunbartonshire, has undergone neurosurgery after suffering a brain haemorrhage.\n\nThe SNP MP collapsed at her home last Wednesday.\n\nA statement from her office said the 28-year-old was in a stable condition and was \"now beginning the process of recovery\".\n\nIt added that Ms Callaghan's collapse was \"related to a previously manageable medical condition\".\n\nShe has previously spoken about being diagnosed with melanoma aged 19, but has been cancer-free for six years.\n\nMs Callaghan is said to be in good spirits and able to communicate well with her family.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted her support for the MP, sending her \"lots of love and strength\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe SNP's leader at Westminster, Ian Blackford, said everyone in the party wished the MP a full and speedy recover.\n\nThe UK government's Community Secretary, Robert Jenrick, also sent his best wishes to Ms Callaghan at the beginning of Commons questions to his departmental team.\n\nMs Callaghan was elected to the House of Commons at the 2019 general election.\n\nShe unseated the then Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, with a narrow majority of 149 votes.\n\nHer office said she would now undergo \"a period of required rest and recovery\".\n\n\"It is the privilege of her life to be elected as the Member of Parliament for East Dunbartonshire,\" a statement said.\n\n\"There is absolutely no doubt that Amy will come back stronger, fitter and more determined than ever to continue in that role and serve, to the best of her ability, the people of her constituency.\"", "Sushant Singh Rajput's death was met with an outpouring of grief\n\nThe death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput on Sunday has sparked fresh discussions about mental health.\n\nThe 34-year-old actor was found dead in his Mumbai home, in what police said appeared to be a case of suicide.\n\nThe news was met with an outpouring of grief by fans and other Bollywood stars with the conversation soon turning to mental health and depression.\n\nActress Deepika Padukone, who has talked openly of battling depression, said it was important to reach out.\n\n\"Talk. Communicate. Express. Seek help,\" she wrote on her Instagram account. \"Remember, you are not alone. We are in this together. And most importantly, there is hope.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC News This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAnushka Sharma, who co-starred with Singh in the film PK wrote, \"I'm so sad and upset knowing that we lived in an environment that could not help you through any troubles you may have had.\"\n\nMany others talked about how difficult it was to talk about mental health issues in India, due to a lack of understanding about it and the taboos surrounding the topic.\n\n\"The conversation about mental health in India is miles from where it should be. Many people mourning Sushant's death today snigger and gossip when someone known to them sees a shrink,\" tweeted Rahul Sabharwal, city editor of The Indian Express newspaper.\n\nAnother social media user, Noreen Wozar said, \"Mental health really needs to become more prioritised in Indian households rather than being taboo and the - if you're depressed, \"just get over it\" mentality.\"\n\nHowever, Dr Soumitra Pathare, the director of Centre for Mental Health Law and Policy, told the BBC that while it was important to have conversations around depression and suicide, he warned against conflating the two, especially in a country like India.\n\n\"Research data says that in UK and Europe, depression accounts for about 80% of suicides. But data from places like India show that there are many other reasons that someone will take their own life,\" he said, adding that the demography for suicide in the country was also very different.\n\n\"For instance, suicide is the number one cause of death in younger women. Many are impulsive and we have found that domestic violence is a major cause. Similarly, exam pressure among children under 18 is a leading cause, and of course there are economic causes like those that cause farmers to take their own lives in rural India,\" he said.\n\nPopular for his acting in both TV and film, Rajput is perhaps best known for MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, where he played the legendary cricketer.\n\nHis funeral will be held later on Monday.\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's it now like shopping for clothes?\n\nAfter three months of hibernation, non-essential shops in England will finally be able to re-open on Monday. But it is clear Covid-19 will have a lasting impact on retail well beyond the end of lockdown.\n\nThere's socially distanced shopping, for starters. The new retail rules during this pandemic may take a bit of getting used to. It's one thing queueing for groceries, but we're going to have to be prepared to queue to get into all the other shops, too.\n\nWe're being encouraged to shop alone and to avoid touching things, where possible. You may have to forget trying clothes on as the guidance says fitting rooms should be closed wherever possible.\n\nCoronavirus is going to suck some of the fun out of one of our most popular social activities and not all of us will fancy waiting in line when we can buy what we want online.\n\nShoppers outside a reopened Ikea store: queueing when we shop will now be more common\n\nDuncan Brewer, head of the UK retail and consumer team at consultants Oliver Wyman, says people may also be more careful with their money. \"Consumers have changed their spending habits, and will be increasingly used to going without much of their discretionary shopping.\n\n\"With the inevitable recession coming, it's likely that many will continue to be careful with spending, even if they are comfortable shopping in the first place.\"\n\nThere's clearly a bit of pent-up demand, given the spectacular queues outside Ikea stores when they recently re-opened. But even if queueing becomes part of everyday life for now, it doesn't mean bumper profits for retailers. Social distancing makes it hard for many firms to trade profitably.\n\nFewer shoppers means fewer transactions which may not cover all the costs of running stores, especially when government support measures start to ebb away.\n\n\"When we do start opening up, it certainly won't be profitable, but we've got to start somewhere,\" the retail entrepreneur and businessmen Theo Paphitis told me recently as he prepared to reopen his Robert Dyas, Boux Lingerie and Ryman stores.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theo Paphitis: ‘Mrs P has been ordering online every day!’\n\nHe believes coronavirus has speeded up our changing shopping habits. Online sales have been rising steadily over the last decade but they've rocketed during the pandemic.\n\nAccording to a survey by Visa, a third of Britons bought items online for the first time during lockdown. And that is likely to be a permanent shift - just look at food shopping. According to the most recent monthly figures from Kantar, nearly one in five households ordered groceries online - 1.6 million more than this time last year.\n\nNon-food retailers have also seen a huge spike in online sales. KPMG estimates online retailing could reach 50% of the total goods we buy by 2025, five years earlier than previously anticipated.\n\n\"The necessity for many retailers to change business models, review their cost base including the amount of physical space they require, has been turbo-charged,\" says Paul Martin, head of retail at KPMG.\n\nNumbers in stores will be limited to comply with social distancing\n\nWith more done online, retailers need fewer shops. This was so long before coronavirus came along, yet the economics of store-based retailing look even more tricky now.\n\nNot all shops will open immediately. It will be a gradual re-opening for some big chains. And some shops will never re-open, although as yet it's difficult to say how many. Debenhams - in administration for the second time - has already said 17 of its stores will remain permanently closed.\n\nOthers have already failed to make it through lockdown - Cath Kidston, Oasis and Warehouse - and there will be more to come.\n\nHigh Street fashion chain Oasis has been one of the retail casualties of the lockdown\n\n\"There will continue to be business failures - but there is also opportunity for the better capitalised and more agile retailers,\" says Lisa Hooker, PWC's head of retail and consumer markets.\n\nRetailers have been able to furlough workers and save huge sums with a year-long business rates holiday, but many costs have continued leaving them with an almighty cash squeeze. Some won't be able to pay their rent for months to come.\n\nAlso, given the problems and debt burdens that many big businesses have, access to the government's bailout loan schemes is proving challenging given the strict credit worthiness tests from lenders. More debt is the last thing some retailers need as any loans will later have to be paid off alongside deferred costs such as VAT.\n\nDebenhams has already said 17 of its department stores will remain permanently closed\n\nFor weaker businesses, coronavirus has brought all their problems to a head.\n\nWatch out for Darwinism in retail over the next 18 months, says Paul Martin. \"Those with an appealing customer proposition and valid business models, that are really fit for purpose with strong balance sheets will survive. Those that have neither will fall by the wayside\"\n\nIf more shops shut, who and what will fill the gaps?\n\n\"There are so many implications for town centres,\" says Ojay McDonald, CEO of the Association of Town and Centre Management.\n\n\"Many businesses in some city locations may be unviable as organisations who use large office spaces may be more supportive of home working, which will mean a big decrease in footfall and spend in these areas.\"\n\nOver the next 12-18 months there will plenty of turmoil on Britain's High Streets\n\nBut equally, there could be a boost to towns and villages, if more people are working from home.\n\n\"Covid-19 has shone a light on the need for many big chains to accelerate store closures but the lockdown has also led us to want to shop locally - so some High Streets will flourish,\" believes Lisa Hooker.\n\nDuncan Brewer also thinks there will be opportunities for new businesses: \"Up to 25% of retail sites could be vacant. This large amount of retail space available will allow new entrants to launch new businesses without all the historic barriers to entry,\"\n\nCoronavirus could help reinvent our High Streets and town centres. But over the next 12-18 months there will plenty of turmoil, too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the EU and UK are “not actually that far apart”\n\nUK and EU leaders have said new momentum is needed in negotiations on their future relationship, after high-level talks on Monday.\n\nThe PM, who met EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen virtually, said there was a \"very good\" chance of getting a trade deal by December.\n\nHe said he saw no reason why it cannot be \"done in July\", after the sides agreed to intensify talks next month.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said they \"agreed to deliver the best deal\" for citizens.\n\nThe EU also noted the UK's decision not to extend the transition period, which ends in December.\n\nIn a joint statement issued after Monday's meeting via video conference, the UK and EU \"welcomed the constructive discussions on the future relationship that had taken place\".\n\n\"The parties agreed nevertheless that new momentum was required,\" it said.\n\nThe high-level meeting was via video link\n\nThey have agreed to intensify talks in July, and to find an \"early understanding on the principles\" underlying any deal.\n\nThe UK government has said the talks in July will involve a mix of formal negotiating rounds and smaller group meetings in London and Brussels, if coronavirus guidelines allow.\n\nMr Johnson said the EU and the UK were \"not that far apart\" with regards to the future relationship, but he added that \"a bit of oomph\" was needed in the talks.\n\nCalling on the EU to \"put a tiger in the tank\", the prime minister said the chances of getting a trade deal by the end of the year were \"very good\", provided both sides focus now and \"get on and do it\".\n\nAsked what the cut-off date would be by which the UK government will give business certainty of what they can expect, Mr Johnson said he saw no reason why it cannot be \"done in July\".\n\n\"I certainly don't want to see it going on until the Autumn/Winter as I think perhaps in Brussels they would like. I don't see any point in that so let's get it done.\"\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who joined Mrs von der Leyen on the call along with European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli, said a \"broad and ambitious agreement\" was \"in our mutual interest\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by katya adler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Mr Sassoli tweeted in Latin that \"agreements must be kept\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Sassoli This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street earlier said Mr Johnson would reiterate that the UK's ambition is for a high quality free trade agreement consistent with others the EU have agreed.\n\nMr Johnson was also due to make clear that the UK is ready to start trading on World Trade Organisation rules from 1 January if a deal cannot be reached.\n\nThis was Boris Johnson's first meeting with EU leaders since trade negotiations started back in March.\n\nSo, did we have an \"aha moment\"? A glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel of deadlocked talks?\n\nWell, not exactly. But this was always going to be a stocktaking moment, rather than high level negotiation.\n\nThe EU was buoyed to hear the prime minister express commitment to finding a deal.\n\nAnd while Brussels privately regards as unrealistic, the UK aim of having the outline of that deal in place by the end of the summer, EU insiders say negotiators will try everything to find agreement as soon as possible.\n\nYou wouldn't expect them to say anything less.\n\nBut notably absent from today's declarations was to what extent each side is willing to compromise.\n\nAnd that, of course, will be key.\n\nWithout some concessions, from both sides, today's high-level declaration of intent to reach an EU-UK deal, is rather empty.\n\nBut a French former Europe minister has said the EU is preparing itself for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMEP Nathalie Loiseau told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are ready either for an agreement or for a no-deal and we are getting prepared more actively to a no-deal considering the circumstances.\n\n\"We believe it is possible to have an agreement - it has to be ready in October so that parliaments on both sides can ratify it.\n\n\"We believe it is possible because we have the political declaration which we negotiated together, signed together and should respect together - so, yes, the framework is here.\"\n\nMonday's virtual meeting comes after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said there had been \"no significant areas of progress\" at the last negotiating round earlier this month.\n\nLikewise his UK counterpart David Frost had said progress \"remains limited,\" and negotiators were \"reaching the limits\" of what could be achieved in formal talks.\n\nDifferences between the two sides remain on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street confirmed that Mr Johnson and Emmanuel Macron will meet in London on Thursday.\n\nThe French president will travel to London to attend official commemorations of 80th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French population to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n• None UK on EU changing trade talks policy: It's their call", "Johan Lundgren said the carrier was following international guidelines\n\nThe boss of EasyJet has said he would feel \"100% safe\" flying on full planes as the airline resumed a limited number of flights after a 10-week hiatus.\n\nJohan Lundgren told the PA news agency the airline had followed international guidelines to step up hygiene ahead of a resumption of services on Monday.\n\nPassengers and crew will wear masks and planes will be deep-cleaned often.\n\nBut passengers will not have to sit 2m apart, despite calls for middle seats to remain empty for social distancing.\n\n\"That was a proposal early on from one of the regulators,\" Mr Lundgren told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"But the recommendations that have come out from international authorities… which are also supported by the different local regulators do not include social distancing measures on board the aircraft.\"\n\nThe idea of keeping middle seats empty has been strongly criticised by some airlines, with Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary calling it \"idiotic\" and warning it would make commercial flights unviable.\n\nBut Easyjet said previously it would follow the practice to encourage more people to fly, and some Asian countries have made it a rule.\n\nEasyJet has not flown passengers since late March after numerous countries brought in travel restrictions to fight coronavirus.\n\nHowever, it is now flying to a limited number of mainly domestic destinations and will offer more routes from 1 July.\n\nMr Lundgren said the airline would offer about 300 flights this week, across 22 European airports. That is a fraction of the usual number, with the carrier having had to cancel around 47,000 flights in April after lockdown began.\n\nHe said not operating a single flight since March had been \"devastating\" and he was not expecting a swift return to normal demand, blaming the UK's new quarantine rules.\n\nThese rules force travellers to the UK to isolate for 14 days - something the government argues is key to stopping a second wave of the virus in the UK.\n\nBut last week EasyJet, British Airways and Ryanair filed a formal legal challenge to the rules, arguing they would decimate the tourist industry and destroy thousands of jobs.\n\nMr Lungren told the BBC: \"I don't think people will travel to the same extent as if the quarantine was removed - we saw that in other countries where quarantines were put in place in the early phases of the crisis, there were hardly any bookings at all.\"\n\nAirlines have been hit hard by the pandemic as international travel has slowed to a trickle, prompting many to announce job cuts:\n\nHowever, gradually carriers hope to get back in the air as restrictions are eased.\n\nEasyJet plans to reopen half of its 1,022 routes by the end of next month, increasing to 75% during August.\n\nRyanair intends to restore 40% of its flights from 1 July, while British Airways is due to make a \"meaningful return\" to service next month.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margaret Ogunbanwo was going for her morning walk when she saw the swastika on her garage\n\nPolice have a released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak in connection with a swastika daubed on a black family's garage door.\n\nMargaret Ogunbanwo, from Penygroes, Caernarfon, spotted the vandalism on Saturday morning.\n\nShe decided to leave it as a reminder of why Black Lives Matters protests are happening.\n\nNorth Wales Police is treating the incident as a hate crime and has appealed for witnesses.\n\nCCTV footage shows the man police want to speak to about the vandalism\n\nInspector Jon Aspinall said: \"At a time when racism is headline news, it is unacceptable for members of our community to be targeted in this way.\n\n\"We treat all hate crime extremely seriously, and if anyone can help us identify this person, it would be greatly appreciated.\"\n\nMargaret Ogunbanwo found the offensive graffiti on her garage door\n\nSpeaking to BBC Wales on Saturday, mother-of-two Mrs Ogunbanwo, who has lived in the area for 13 years, said she believed she and her family was targeted because they are black.\n\nShe said her first thought when she saw the swastika was \"do I need to be scared?\"\n\n\"I thought 'oh no, if somebody is feeling this way, maybe I won't be safe going for a walk',\" she said.\n\nShe decided not to erase the graffiti, and believes it will serve as a reminder of \"the importance of Black Lives Matter\".\n\n\"I'm going to leave that thing up there and let my village see it,\" she said.\n\n\"If we wash it away, it's like it didn't really happen and I want people to remember it\".", "The lecterns emptied, the lights were turned off, the union flags left hanging behind the grand double doors of the Downing Street room that's staged nearly a hundred briefings in the last few torrid months.\n\nThe prime minister's announcements about how England will take a big step out of lockdown came pretty much as billed.\n\nIt promised a new phase, and Boris Johnson and his team hope, a new political era, where they can lift their heads from the intense operational struggles of managing coronavirus, to make the next set of decisions about how the country will cope with the after effects, particularly the economic consequences, of three months of extraordinary lockdown.\n\nAt that last outing in front of the cameras (at least for now) it was abundantly clear that this is not the moment to breathe a huge sigh of relief, not a moment when we can return to our lives carefree, and not a moment when the government can assume the dangers of the disease are going only in one direction.\n\nThe tensions between the political desire to move on and the scientific judgements of what's best to protect life were extremely clear. The government's top scientists and medics used almost every opportunity to urge caution and restraint.\n\nThe relaxation of the two metre rule, in particular, does not mean it's time for everyone to get close, Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty warning of the dangers of a \"distorted\" message that lets the population move on without heeding the precautions.\n\nRemember Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are taking a slower approach to England.\n\nAnd so in the coming days we enter as a country, a strange half world where the intensity of the dangers from the virus have faded, but not disappeared - not normal life, as we know it, back with comforting familiarity, but a new, ever-stranger normal where the public and our politicians must remain on guard.", "President Trump has made a tough immigration stance a key part of his campaign\n\nUS President Donald Trump has extended a pause on some green cards and suspended visas for other foreign workers until the end of 2020.\n\nHigh-skilled tech workers, non-agricultural seasonal helpers, au pairs and top executives will be affected.\n\nThe White House said the move will create jobs for Americans hurting economically due to the pandemic.\n\nBut critics say the White House is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to tighten up immigration laws.\n\nIn a briefing for reporters, the administration said the freeze, in place through the end of the year, would impact about 525,000 people.\n\nThat includes an estimated 170,000 people blocked by the decision to extend a ban on some new green cards - which grants permanent residence to foreigners. The White House first announced it was halting those visas in April, an order that had been set to expire on Monday.\n\nExisting visa holders are not expected to be affected under the new restrictions announced on Monday.\n\nThe order also applies to H-1B visas, many of which are granted to Indian tech workers. Critics say these visas have allowed Silicon Valley companies to outsource American jobs to lower-paid foreign employees. Last year, there were about 225,000 applications competing for 85,000 spots available through the H1-B visa programme.\n\nThe order will suspend mostH-2B visas for seasonal workers, including those in the hospitality industry, except those in agriculture, the food processing industry and healthcare professionals.\n\nThe order will restrict J-1 short-term exchange visas, a category that includes university students and foreign au pairs who provide childcare. Professors and scholars are not included in the order. There will be a provision to request exemptions.\n\nL visas for managers and other key employees of multinational corporations will also be suspended.\n\nTech firms were among the groups condemning the president's action.\n\nFacebook said the order \"uses the Covid-19 pandemic as justification for limiting immigration\" and warned: \"In reality, the move to keep highly skilled talent out of the US will make our country's recovery even more difficult\".\n\nOn Twitter, Apple boss Tim Cook wrote that he was \"deeply disappointed\" by the new proclamation, while Sundar Pichai, head of Alphabet - the parent company of Google and YouTube - said immigration was critical to the success of his company and the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAmazon, which received more than 3,000 H-1B visas last year - more than any other firm - called the order \"short-sighted\".\n\nThe Chamber of Commerce, a broader business lobby group, also panned the president's order, while some Canadian business leaders used the moment to tout opportunities outside the US.\n\n\"If this affects your plans, consider coming to Canada instead,\" Tobi Lutke, chief executive of Shopify, wrote on Twitter.\n\nTech companies have been at odds with the president over immigration since his first days in office, clashing with him over travel bans, as well as his crackdown on immigrants brought to the US illegally as children.\n\nBut the president, who is up for re-election in November, has made his tough stance on immigration a touchstone of his campaign. He has said the jobs at tech companies should go to Americans.", "Former chancellor Sajid Javid has warned against a return to austerity as the UK economy struggles with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIn a report by the Centre for Policy Studies, he also called for low taxes on business to aid the UK's recovery.\n\nThe conservative think tank, which was co-founded by Margaret Thatcher, said this should be based on \"a dynamic private sector and low taxes\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said there will be no return to \"austerity\".\n\nHowever, Labour has said the government should have offered more generous support during the crisis.\n\nThe report by the Centre for Policy Studies said that a quick economic bounce back from the coronavirus crisis is is unlikely.\n\nBut it said coronavirus emergency spending measures should be stopped, if possible, by April 2021.\n\nIt said that polls suggest the UK is \"not ready\" to return to austerity measures introduced by former chancellor George Osborne, \"necessary though they were\".\n\nInstead, the report calls for tax to shift away from profits and incomes and towards reformed property tax and tightening tax reliefs \"which unduly favour the wealthy\".\n\nNational insurance should be given a \"significant temporary\" reduction to make it cheaper for employers to take on staff.\n\nMr Javid, who resigned from the Treasury in February, said \"early hopes of a V-shaped recovery\" had \"proved optimistic\".\n\nHe predicted that \"some long-term damage to the economy\" had become \"unavoidable\", with as many as 2.5 million people out of work due to the Covid-19 lockdown.\n\nBut to speed up the rate of people re-entering employment, Mr Javid argued in the After The Virus report, published on Tuesday, that ministers must make it easier for businesses to hire workers.\n\n\"If we want to support and stimulate employment, then axiomatically the best option is to cut the payroll tax - employer's National Insurance,\" Mr Javid said.\n\n\"Tax employment less, and all other things being equal you will end up with more of it.\"\n\nOther recommendations made in the report include temporarily cutting VAT and bringing forward \"shovel ready\" infrastructure projects, with Mr Javid arguing that the \"only way out of this crisis is growth\".\n\nHe joins fellow former chancellor Alistair Darling in calling for an emergency VAT cut to boost consumer spending, a move undertaken by the Labour peer after the 2008 financial crisis.\n\nMr Javid said: \"If we want to secure the strongest possible recovery, it's essential that no stone is left unturned.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, in a report in March on the economic effects of coronavirus, criticised the government for acting too slowly and said it should underwrite a bigger proportion of wages for those who lose their jobs.", "Scottish pupils should get back to \"normal\" schooling \"as quickly as possible\", Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nScotland's schools are due to re-open from 11 August, but will initially have a \"blended\" approach involving face-to-face teaching and at-home learning.\n\nThere has been speculation exams in 2021 could be delayed and that blended learning could last for a year.\n\nBut the first minister said pupils must be back in the classroom full-time \"as quickly as is safe and feasible\".\n\nShe said it was her government's \"firm intention\" that next year's exams would go ahead - and that there were no plans for blended learning to last a year.\n\nThe EIS union said pupils would have to be taught in \"significantly smaller\" groups and that it was unlikely that classrooms could accommodate \"even 50%\" of normal pupil numbers.\n\nScottish councils have been drawing up their proposals for how schools will operate when they return after the summer holidays.\n\nCity of Edinburgh Council has told parents that only 33% of children would be in school at any time when its autumn term starts on 12 August.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this amount of classroom time was \"not good enough\".\n\n\"We have to start from a point of seeking to maximise the amount of time children will spend in a school environment having face-to-face learning with teachers,\" she said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she did not want the \"blended\" schooling model to continue any longer than necessary\n\nThe first minister said local authorities should be \"creative and innovative\" about how they use \"all the resources at their disposal\", and that the government would work to address any \"genuine issues\" which arise.\n\nAt her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon said education was of \"absolutely critical importance\" and was \"central to my thinking as we plan and steer our country through the emergence from lockdown\".\n\nShe said: \"It is absolutely not the case that we are planning for blended learning to last a year, or anything like it.\n\n\"On the contrary we don't want blended learning to last a single minute longer than is necessary.\n\n\"We want young people to be back having face-to-face teaching for 100% of the school week as soon as feasible.\"\n\nShe said the government would study data about transmission of coronavirus in schools and evidence from other countries, and would seek to ease restrictions where possible.\n\nShe added: \"One of the things that is inescapable right now is that we don't have a crystal ball that allows us to know with certainty how this pandemic will develop over the months ahead. We know there is a risk of the virus resurging, so we can't stand here and be absolutely clear we won't face renewed risks from the virus come the tail end of this year.\n\n\"But we will be doing everything in our power to keep it suppressed and getting it as close to elimination levels as possible.\n\nOnly a limited number of pupils can be in a classroom to comply with social distancing requirements\n\n\"Our planning assumption is to get back to normal schooling as quickly as possible, and that means firstly maximising the degree of normality by 11 August, and then as we build confidence and an evidence base and get more assurance about the risks in schools and among young people, then we can build on that as fast as possible.\n\n\"I do not want the situation to exist for a minute longer than necessary where children have anything other than a normal school experience.\"\n\nEarlier, Education Secretary John Swinney told BBC Scotland that an education recovery group had been working with local authorities to develop plans for the reopening of schools.\n\n\"We agreed to work together to maximise the amount of time that children and young people could spend in schools,\" he added.\n\n\"I've made it clear that I believe that trying to get to 50% of the time being able to be spent by a young person in school should be our objective to maximise that participation.\"\n\nAsked about Edinburgh's plans, which could see pupils in school for just one day a week, Mr Swinney replied: \"I accept that and I don't think that's strong enough.\"\n\nHe said authorities should be looking at how they could use leisure facilities or public buildings to increase the amount of classroom space.\n\nLarry Flanagan of the EIS union said most schools would need to have \"significantly smaller teaching groups to allow for physical distancing\", with other pupils learning from home.\n\nHe said: \"It is unlikely that schools will be able to accommodate even 50% of normal pupil numbers in classrooms at any one time, and certainly significantly fewer than that in smaller classrooms.\n\n\"For the rest of the school week, the expectation is that pupils will continue to learn from home as part of the blended learning approach.\"\n\nMr Flanagan said there were \"clearly challenges\" to creating temporary classrooms, including funding to pay for extra space and teachers needed, adding: \"If we are serious about minimising the damage to children's education, these costs and challenges need to be met.\"", "\"We're almost 90% open with most of our retailers trading. It's a return to almost normality,\" says James Roberts the boss of Grosvenor Shopping centre in Northampton.\n\nBut there's one big question. How many of the 50 or so retailers and food outlets will be paying any rent this week.\n\n\"Hopefully some, but we've only collected 56% in the last quarter,\" he says.\n\nUK landlords should be collecting at least £2.5bn on Wednesday for shop rents.\n\nOn the last rent day in March, no more than half the total rent was handed over and landlords will be lucky to get a quarter of what they're owed today.\n\nMost high street shops, along with pubs and restaurants, have seen sales evaporate and have either been unable or refusing to pay rent.\n\nBill Hughes says unless there's an appeal for long term investors like pension funds to invest in UK real estate, infrastructure won't get funded.\n\nBusinesses are hoarding cash to survive. But the crisis is starving landlords of much needed income, too.\n\nThe Grosvenor Shopping Centre is the kind of everyday mall you'd find in many of our towns and city centres.\n\nIt's owned by Legal & General which invests in property to fund thousands of pensions.\n\n\"It's not well known, or particularly transparent to people, but most retail properties are effectively owned by the normal person on the street in the UK,\" said Bill Hughes, Legal and General's head of real assets.\n\nRecent research by Estates Gazette, a commercial property weekly, showed that as much as 60% of all UK retail space is owned either directly or indirectly by the public, including pension funds, the public sector and individual shareholders.\n\nIt's been a secure form of income until now.\n\n\"The risk of loss of income is really important. The pension fund owners of the built environment of the UK, they rely upon the income being produced by what hitherto have been seen as being very stable assets. And that is at risk in a way that's never been there to the extent before.\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nLandlords have enjoyed the good times over the decades with long leases and upward-only rent reviews.\n\nAnd rapidly expanding retailers were happy to sign up. But in recent years with sales shifting online, it's become far harder for shops to make a profit.\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated this trend. The Government extended its ban on evictions for non-payment of rent until the autumn.\n\nOccupiers are now frantically trying to secure better deals or turning to insolvency proceedings to renegotiate their debts, including owed rent.\n\nMark Burlton, the founder of Cross Border Retail, said landlords may have to get used to the fact their properties are worth less\n\nThe traditional business model of how retail property is leased is now well and truly broken.\n\n\"It's a mess, but it's not a mess that we can't tidy up\" said Mark Burlton, the founder of Cross Border Retail, a real estate business which advises landlords and retailers.\n\n\"I do feel sorry for them (landlords) . Absolutely. They are entitled to receive income, but I don't believe they're entitled to receive the same income as they were. I think they have to understand the value of their asset. And the value of their asset is what someone is prepared to pay for it. There isn't a queue of retailers coming up behind them,\" he said.\n\nHe believes upward only rent reviews should be abolished along with the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954, the law which still underpins the leasehold system in the UK.\n\n\"It's inflexible. We need something which is much cheaper and quicker to negotiate. We should have a system of rents based on turnover, allowing retailers to pay a rent they can afford. But in order to do that, tenants have to play their part. They have to declare what they are turning over,\" said Mr Burlton.\n\nBill Hughes thinks the Government's new code of practice on rental agreements should ease the tensions.\n\n\"We're having an active conversation with tenants about can they pay, and if they can't pay, we're working hard to restructure things.\n\n\"Because it's in our interest to find a way of helping cash flow to companies that would survive beyond this very difficult, unusual crisis that Covid presents.\"\n\nLegal & General's Bill Hughes thinks the Government should take a careful look at providing some financial support to help bridge the likely shortfall in income otherwise the \"dynamic between landlords and tenants is likely to be challenging and deteriorate\".\n\nThe future prosperity of our high streets and town centres could ultimately be at stake if this crisis doesn't end well.\n\nRegeneration requires private sector investment as well as Government funding.\n\nMr Hughes says unless there's an appeal for long term investors like pension funds to invest in UK real estate, infrastructure won't get funded.\n\n\"They need a sensible and stable environment within which they can get some sort of return,\" he explains.\n\nMr Burlton says he's receiving phone calls from US private equity and venture capitalists sniffing around for opportunities to snap up some retail assets on the cheap.\n\n\"Ultimately if landlords and tenants can't agree what the actual rent should be, then a number of landlords face the very real prospect of going bust. And then we have to be careful what we wish for because the purchasers of these assets in my opinion will likely have much shorter goals than the landlords they currently have. \"\n\nThe fate of heavily indebted shopping centre owner, Intu, will be decided by Friday. It owns some of the UK's biggest and most popular malls, including the Trafford Centre and the Metrocentre in Gateshead.\n\nIf it can't secure a last minute agreement with its lenders, it will go into administration which could mean the temporary closure of its sites.", "Microsoft has decided to close its Mixer livestreaming service and is partnering with Facebook Gaming instead.\n\nMixer made headlines last year when it signed a reportedly multi-million dollar exclusivity deal with Ninja, a big star on rival platform Twitch.\n\nBut despite the investment, Microsoft says the platform will close in one month's time.\n\nNinja and other major gamers will no longer be tied to exclusivity deals.\n\nNinja had been signed to Mixer for less than a year.\n\nFrom 22 July, Mixer's website and app will redirect users to Facebook Gaming.\n\nAs part of the deal, Microsoft will work to bring its xCloud games-streaming service to Facebook.\n\n\"This seems quite ruthless, but Microsoft's strategy to reach more gamers is underpinned by its cloud business, not Mixer,\" said Piers Harding-Rolls from the consultancy Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"Clearly Facebook has significant reach globally, to expose users to xCloud.\"\n\nAll games-streamers in Mixer's partner programme will be granted partner status on Facebook Gaming if they wish to move to the platform.\n\n\"Ultimately, the success of partners and streamers on Mixer is dependent on our ability to scale the platform for them as quickly and broadly as possible,\" Mixer said in a statement.\n\n\"It became clear that the time needed to grow our own livestreaming community to scale was out of measure with the vision and experiences that Microsoft and Xbox want to deliver for gamers now, so we've decided to close the operations side of Mixer and help the community transition to a new platform.\"\n\nIn a separate blog post, Xbox chief Phil Spencer said the transition deal was part of a wider agreement between Xbox and Facebook, with Xbox aiming to introduce gaming features that work on Facebook and Instagram in the future.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThose partnered streamers who do choose to move to Facebook Gaming can begin the process by filling out a form, Mixer said that Facebook \"will honour and match all existing Partner agreements as closely as possible\".\n\nFacebook said it was \"proud to invite everyone in the Mixer community to Facebook Gaming\".\n\nThe company promised streamers: \"We'll do everything we can to make the transition as easy as possible for those who decide to make the switch.\"i", "Last updated on .From the section Burnley\n\nBurnley are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by a banner reading \"White Lives Matter Burnley\" that was towed by an aeroplane over Etihad Stadium during Monday's match against Manchester City.\n\nThe aircraft circled over the stadium just after kick-off in City's 5-0 win.\n\nBurnley and City players and staff had taken a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement moments earlier.\n\n\"Fans like that don't deserve to be around football,\" Clarets skipper Ben Mee told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It's a minority of our supporters - I know I speak for a massive part of our support who distance ourselves from anything like that.\n\n\"It definitely had a massive impact on us to see that in the sky.\n\n\"We are embarrassed that our name was in it, that they tried to attach it to our club - it doesn't belong anywhere near our club.\"\n\nIn a statement, Burnley said that the banner \"in no way represents\" what the club stands for and that they will \"work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and take appropriate action\".\n\n\"Burnley strongly condemns the actions of those responsible for the aircraft and offensive banner,\" the statement added.\n\n\"We wish to make it clear that those responsible are not welcome at Turf Moor.\n\n\"We apologise unreservedly to the Premier League, to Manchester City and to all those helping to promote Black Lives Matter.\n\n\"The club has a proud record of working with all genders, religions and faiths through its award-winning community scheme, and stands against racism of any kind.\n\n\"We are fully behind the Premier League's Black Lives Matter initiative and, in line with all other Premier League games undertaken since Project Restart, our players and football staff willingly took the knee at kick-off at Manchester City.\"\n\nBoth Burnley and City were wearing shirts with the players' names replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\nThe stunt was carried out by Air Ads, which operates out of Blackpool Airport and makes and flies banners. It has flown banners over football stadiums in the past, including a \"Moyes Out\" one at Old Trafford.\n\nWhen BBC Sport contacted the company, a man who answered refused to give his name but said he was packing away the banner.\n\nHe said as long as banners were legal and did not use coarse language, the company did not \"take sides\" and had previously done a Black Lives Matter banner. He claimed police had been informed of the banner in advance.\n\nSanjay Bhandari, chair of Kick It Out, English football's anti-racism charity: \"The point of Black Lives Matter is not to diminish the importance of other people's lives. It is to highlight that black people are being denied certain human rights simply by virtue of the colour of their skin.\n\n\"It is about equality. We shall continue to support the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for greater equality for all in football.\"\n\nPFA equalities director Iffy Onuora: \"You get that moment of deflation but then there's the positive reaction since. I thought Ben Mee was absolutely fantastic.\n\n\"You feel inspired again. These are uncomfortable conversations but in order to progress, you have to have them.\n\n\"In itself, the words themselves aren't offensive, it's the context. It's the rejection of conversations we are having at the moment and that's what it represents.\"\n\nPiara Powar, executive director of anti-discrimination body Fare: \"Set against the BLM message of equal rights, 'White Lives Matter' can only be motivated by racism and a denial of equal rights. It shows exactly why the fight for equality is so important and why the majority of people have supported it.\n\n\"The movement, the issues that are being discussed and the change that will arise is unstoppable. History will judge that this was a moment that led to change.\"\n\nSince the Premier League resumed on 17 June after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic, players and officials have been showing their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.\n\nFormer Manchester City defender Micah Richards said seeing the banner was \"disheartening\".\n\n\"After how far we've come in these last couple of weeks, it really does hurt me,\" he told Sky Sports.\n\n\"I agree everyone should have free speech but when it looked like everything was on the up there's a small fraction who want to ruin it.\"\n\nCity and England forward Raheem Sterling said it was a \"massive step\" that players took a knee in support of Black Lives Matter on the opening night of the top-flight's return.\n\nAsked about the banner, City boss Pep Guardiola said society could not overturn 400 years of racial injustice in one week but added \"we are going to change the situation\".\n\n\"We need time, the racism is still there. We have to fight every day and condemn the bad things,\" he said.", "Intu, owner of the Trafford, Braehead and Lakeside shopping centres, is warning its financial troubles could see entire sites shut.\n\nIt has lined up administrators KPMG as a \"contingency\" in case financial restructuring talks with lenders fail.\n\nIntu warns that if that happens it will have to give KPMG funds for certain services, or see the centres shut.\n\nThe company is the biggest shopping centre chain in the UK with 17 UK outlets and three in Spain.\n\nIntu has until Friday to sort out a new financial footing.\n\nThe company said: \"In the event that Intu properties plc is unable to reach a standstill, it is likely it and certain other central entities will fall into administration.\n\n\"If that happened, the various group companies would have to put money into the administrator. If the administrator is not pre-funded then there is a risk that centres may have to close for a period.\"\n\nIntu's group companies provide key services to the sites, from lighting and cleaning to health and safety systems, security and essential maintenance.\n\nIntu had been struggling before coronavirus to fill outlets within some centres sites and had heavy debts. It said in March it was in talks with lenders about new funding.\n\nOn Tuesday, Intu said \"notwithstanding the progress made\" it had appointed KPMG to plan for administration.\n\nSince the coronavirus lockdown Intu's centres have been partially shut, with only essential stores remaining open.\n\nThe company had about 60% of shopping centre staff and about 20% of head office employees on furlough.\n\nThe firm's financial woes include making a loss of £2bn in 2019, failing earlier this year to raise £1bn in new funding, and having debts of £5bn.\n\nThe collapse and contraction of High Street retailers in the face of rising costs and the seemingly ever-increasing online shopping trend had already seen retailers closing outlets, leaving a number of landlords, such as Intu, struggling to fill empty space. Many among the remainder are finding it harder to meet rent payments.\n\nRetail consultant Kate Hardcastle said the writing had been on the wall for such centres for some time. \"Intu's model is heavily dependent on big box retailers paying rent for big retail spaces, and with the rise and rise of online and consumer spending shifting to travel and experience rather than pure retail it was probably on precarious ground.\"\n\nShe added that its shopping centres had become places for \"show-rooming\", where consumers see the products they want, then go home and buy them more cheaply online.\n\nThe company is well down on normal income levels. Intu's latest update on rent collection said it had received only 40% of rental and service charge income for the first quarter of the year. It had moved from quarterly rent collection to more flexible arrangements with shop owners.\n\nIntu has been attempting to sell shopping centres to raise cash and has sold off its outlet in Zaragoza, in Spain.\n\nIntu's possible demise has been a long time foretold. The retail landlord, still better known to some by its former name, Capital Shopping Centres, has always carried a high level of debt relative to its peers, and the gradual drift away from bricks and mortar shops to the internet left it with less margin for error if a downturn came.\n\nBut the company still had an impressive list of blue-chip assets - some of the best malls in the UK, a decent defence, most thought, against the predations of online competitors. Just two and a half years ago it was still riding high. Its FTSE 100 rival Hammerson made a takeover approach at 253p a share, valuing Intu as a whole at £3.4bn. Intu shares are now at 4.5p, giving the whole company a stock market value of £60m.\n\nThat staggering fall has been caused by that steady erosion of sales away to the internet, and then the shattering blow of the coronavirus. Intu is now collecting one-third less rent at some of its flagship malls than it was a year ago. It is in breach of the conditions of agreements it made with the lenders who financed those individual properties. If it cannot reach a peace deal with those lenders, administration beckons.\n\nWhat happens next is difficult to predict. The management may be able to stitch together an agreement with lenders, in which case it will limp along until it is able to refinance. If administration comes, it could be a messy restructuring, with different lenders holding the whip hand on individual properties. As the company itself points out today, the uncertainties that come with administration could even mean that some of Britain's best-known shopping centres have to close, if only temporarily.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From 21 April 2020: The BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus in Brazil\n\nA judge in Brazil has ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a protective mask when he is in public spaces in the capital, Brasilia, and the surrounding federal district.\n\nThe far-right president has been criticised for belittling the risk posed by coronavirus.\n\nHe dismissed it as \"a little cold\" at the start of the pandemic.\n\nBrazil has the second-highest number of coronavirus cases and Covid-related fatalities in the world after the US.\n\nThere are more than 1.1m confirmed cases of coronavirus in Brazil and more than 51,000 coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nDespite these high figures, President Bolsonaro has repeatedly appeared in public without a mask while greeting his supporters.\n\nLast week, Jair Bolsonaro was seen leaving the presidential palace without a mask\n\nAt one rally, he was filmed coughing without covering his mouth and on another occasion he was seen sneezing into his hand and shaking the hand of an elderly woman immediately afterwards.\n\nThe requirement to wear masks in the federal district came into force on 30 April.\n\nThe rule was brought in by the governor of the federal district, Ibaneis Rocha, and requires people to cover their nose and mouth in all public spaces, including public transport, shops and commercial and industrial premises.\n\nOn 11 May, the rule was further tightened with those flaunting it facing fines of 2,000 reais ($387; £310) per day.\n\nFederal Judge Renato Borelli's ruling means Mr Bolsonaro is not exempt and that the president and any other public officials who do not comply with the requirement will also incur the 2,000-reais fine.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has argued from the start of the pandemic that measures taken to curb the spread of the virus could be more damaging than the pandemic itself.\n\nOn Monday, he renewed his call for the easing of lockdown measures and the reopening of shops and businesses.\n\nHe said that the way the pandemic had been handled had \"maybe been a bit over the top\".\n\nThe president's insistence that the economy should be prioritised has been deeply divisive and he has clashed with state governors who have introduced restrictions of movement and requirements to wear masks in public.", "The apprenticeship system is failing disadvantaged young people in England, warns the Social Mobility Commission.\n\nThe commission also says the Covid-19 pandemic will make things worse and will exacerbate youth unemployment.\n\nIn a report, it highlights a 36% decline in people from disadvantaged backgrounds starting apprenticeships, compared with 23% for other groups.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was \"absolutely committed to levelling up opportunity across the country\".\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission's report was published as the Education Select Committee took evidence about apprenticeships and skills at a session on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe report, Apprenticeships and social mobility: Fulfilling potential, says the introduction of an apprenticeship levy in 2017 has led to a \"collapse in overall apprenticeship starts that hit disadvantaged learners hardest\".\n\nThe apprenticeship levy takes 0.5% of the salary bill from major employers that have an annual pay bill over £3m, with the intention of using the money to improve skills and provide training.\n\nThe report finds that between 2015-16 and 2017-18, the number of apprenticeship starters from disadvantaged backgrounds fell by more than a third (36%), as opposed to 23% for other apprentices.\n\nThe commission's report also says that most of the benefits of apprenticeships are going to those from wealthier backgrounds.\n\nBut it stresses that apprenticeships are \"one of the most effective means of boosting social mobility for workers from poorer backgrounds - if they can get into and through the system\".\n\nLead report author, Alice Battiston from London Economics said: \"There is a severe disadvantage gap throughout the entire apprenticeship training journey, and this has worsened over time.\n\n\"Not only has the proportion of new starters from disadvantaged backgrounds declined over time, but they have also benefited less than their better-off peers from the shift towards higher-level programmes.\"\n\nSteven Cooper, joint deputy chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: \"The apprenticeship levy, introduced in 2017, has disproportionately funded higher-level apprenticeships for learners from more advantaged communities, rather than those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds who would benefit more.\n\n\"It is no longer credible for the government to assume that apprenticeships automatically improve social mobility and leave the system to its own devices,\" he said.\n\n\"Strategic action and direction are needed to target the system better on disadvantaged communities and improve the system's value for money.\"\n\nFollowing the coronavirus pandemic, there are concerns that disadvantaged apprentices are at further risk from an economic decline, with many employed in hard-hit sectors such as hospitality and retail.\n\n\"The pandemic is likely to have made the disadvantage gap worse. There needs to be urgent consideration of the impact of the apprenticeship levy on social mobility outcomes,\" added Ms Battiston.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said apprenticeships would be one of the building blocks of economic recovery after Covid-19.\n\n\"If the government is serious about offering an 'apprenticeship guarantee' it will heed calls from the further education sector for a post-Covid skills funding package, address the barriers to success and support employers to provide the opportunities and decent pay new apprentices need to succeed.\"\n\n\"As this report shows, many disadvantaged apprentices face significant barriers to success already, but with warnings from the FE sector that a shortage of new places and large numbers of apprentice redundancies could be on the horizon, their future may look even bleaker without urgent government action.\"\n\nA DfE spokeswoman said: \"We are absolutely committed to levelling up opportunity across the country, and continue to do all we can to make sure no-one is left behind as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"Apprenticeships are an excellent way to get into a wide range of rewarding careers and they will continue to play a vital role delivering the high-quality skills employers and our economy will need to recover.\n\n\"We are looking at how we can make sure more people and businesses can take advantage of apprenticeships in the future, including supporting employers, especially small and medium sized businesses, to take on new apprentices this year.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friend Michael Main said the victims \"were always happy\"\n\nTributes have been paid to three \"true gentlemen\" stabbed to death in a park in Reading.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were regular customers at a pub near Forbury Gardens, where Saturday's attack took place.\n\nLocal residents held silences and laid flowers around the town for the trio.\n\nPolice continue to question suspect Khairi Saadallah, 25, who came to the UK from Libya in 2012. He was arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nMr Saadallah originally claimed asylum and was given leave to remain in 2018, the BBC's Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said.\n\nHe came to the attention of MI5 last year as someone who might travel overseas, possibly for terrorism purposes, but they assessed that he was not a genuine threat or an immediate risk.\n\nA close member of his family told the BBC that he left Libya to escape the violence there, and that he had suffered from post-traumatic stress from the civil war. However, he had been thinking of trying to return.\n\nThey said his long-standing mental health problems had been exacerbated by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nNeighbours said Mr Saadallah threw a TV from his top-floor flat this year and had a mental health key worker.\n\nIn a statement, his brother, Aiman Saadallah, said: \"We are all shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless attack.\n\n\"I want to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery for all those injured.\"\n\nSpeaking in the Commons shortly after a minute's silence was held in Parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to the three victims, describing the attack as an \"act of cowardice\".\n\nOn Monday, mourners gathered for a one-minute silence outside the Blagrave Arms pub in Reading town centre, where Somewhere Over The Rainbow was played. A tribute on the door said management and staff were \"devastated\".\n\n\"Our friends were the kindest, most genuine, and most loveliest people in our community that we had the the pleasure of knowing,\" the note said.\n\nFlowers and tributes were laid outside the Blagrave Arms, near Forbury Gardens\n\nJamie Wake, a friend of the victims, called the pub a \"safe space\" for members of the LGBT+ community.\n\n\"We become so used to seeing incidents like this on the television,\" he said.\n\n\"This time, we cannot change the channel. This time, it's on our doorstep.\"\n\nPolice were called to Reading's Forbury Gardens at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWitnesses say a lone attacker with a knife shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nThree other people who were injured in the attack have since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nMartin Cooper, a friend of the three men who were killed and the chief executive of LGBT+ charity Reading Pride, described them as \"true gentlemen\".\n\n\"They were a support network for individuals, and I know they will be sorely missed by many,\" he said.\n\nMr Wails, a 49-year-old scientist, was the last victim to be named.\n\nHis parents said he was a \"kind and much loved son, brother and uncle who never hurt anyone in his life\".\n\n\"We are broken-hearted at losing him and in such a terrible way,\" they said.\n\nFriend Michael Main said he \"always made people smile\".\n\n\"We'd have a lot of banter... it's sad to know he's gone so early,\" he added.\n\nMr Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was originally from Philadelphia but had lived in the UK for 15 years, his father confirmed to US TV network CBS.\n\nRobert Ritchie said in a statement: \"I was absolutely blessed and proud to be Joe's father for 39 years and we are heartbroken by what has happened.\"\n\nHis brother-in-law, Stephen Bennett, and sister-in-law, Katy Bennett, said he was \"the most kind, caring and loving person that you could meet\" and they were \"absolutely devastated\" by his death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker said Mr Ritchie-Bennett had been married to her close friend, Ian, who died from cancer nearly six years ago.\n\nShe described him as a \"fantastic human being\" who was \"outrageously funny\".\n\n\"He was one of those unique people who on one hand could make you properly belly laugh, but, at the same time, he could show you such extraordinary kindness,\" she said.\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was a teacher and head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHis parents Gary and Janet described their son as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".\n\nJames Furlong was described as an \"inspirational\" teacher\n\nOne of Mr Furlong's former pupils, Molly Collins, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was a \"passionate and enthusiastic\" teacher who dedicated extra time to helping students progress.\n\nMore than 100 students, some holding hands, gathered at the gates of The Holt School for a two-minute silence on Monday morning, while a flag in the courtyard was lowered to half-mast.\n\nIn an open letter, former pupils and parents have asked for the school's humanities block to be renamed in Mr Furlong's memory.\n\nJackie James, a former landlady of another pub in Reading and a friend of Mr Ritchie-Bennett and Mr Furlong, said they were \"shining examples of all that is good in this world\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils and staff at The Holt School, Wokingham paid tribute to James Furlong\n\nThe suspect, Mr Saadallah, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nCounter terror police, who are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident, have said they are \"keeping an open mind as to the motive for this attack\".\n\nThey are continuing to appeal for information - and asked any drivers with relevant dashcam footage to come forward.\n\nAfter visiting Reading to lay flowers on Monday morning, Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs the threat posed by lone attackers was \"growing\".\n\nShe thanked those who responded to the incident, including student police officers - noting that a \"young, unarmed\" officer \"took down the suspect without hesitation\" while another carried out first aid.\n\n\"They showed courage, bravery and selflessness way beyond their years,\" she said.\n\nThe head of counter terrorism policing, Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, said he was proud of those who assisted the victims of Saturday's attack, describing them as \"heroes\" who have inspired others to \"step forward and play our part\".\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"heartbreaking that we are having this conversation again so soon\" after attacks at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge in November and in Streatham in February - adding that the public \"will want answers\".\n\nHe previously said that with the Ministry of Justice's budget having been cut by 40% over 10 years, the government needed to reconsider the resources available for de-radicalisation programmes in prisons, as well as monitoring, supervision and risk assessment of released prisoners.", "The babies are being kept in an isolation ward, similar to this one in Toluca, central Mexico\n\nNewborn triplets in Mexico have tested positive for coronavirus in an \"unprecedented\" case, according to local health authorities.\n\nMedical experts are investigating whether the disease could have been passed on through the mother's placenta during pregnancy.\n\nTwo of the babies, one boy and one girl, are in a stable condition in a hospital in San Luis Potosí state.\n\nBut the second boy is receiving treatment for a respiratory condition.\n\nA spokesperson for the state's Health Safety Committee said contagion in multiple births had not been detected anywhere globally and so the case would be investigated.\n\nA very small number of newborn babies have been known to pick up the virus after birth, but health officials say they do not believe this is what happened in this case.\n\nState Health Secretary Mónica Liliana Rangel Martínez said: \"It would be impossible for them to have been infected at the moment of birth.\"\n\nHowever, the parents are currently being tested, with authorities saying they may have been asymptomatic.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 185,000 coronavirus cases and 22,584 deaths since the country's first case on 28 February.\n\nThe triplets - born prematurely on 17 June in Mexico - all tested positive for coronavirus on the day of their birth.\n\nCoronavirus in newborns is unusual, but not unheard of. Babies can catch the virus after birth if they have close contact with anyone who is already infected. Coronavirus might also be passed on in the womb from mother to baby via the placenta.\n\nUS researchers from Yale School of Medicine recently reported the first known case of placental infection with coronavirus. When infection does occur, the risk to mother and baby is often low - although some reports suggest it might increase the likelihood of babies being born early.\n\nThere is no evidence that the virus causes miscarriage or affects how your baby develops in pregnancy, but, as a precaution, pregnant women are advised to be strict about avoiding close social contact to reduce their chance of getting coronavirus. If they do become infected, most mums-to-be will have mild or moderate symptoms and recover. Babies may show no signs of the illness at all. If you are caring for a baby, you can reduce their risk of getting the virus by keeping your hands clean with regular hand washing.", "Hairdressers will be allowed to reopen from 4 July - and clearly it's not a moment too soon for thousands of customers desperate for a trim.\n\n\"We've built up a waiting list of more than 2,000 people,\" said Katya Davies, who runs four Myla and Davis hairdressers in south London.\n\nAmid mounting speculation that the lockdown would be eased for large swathes of the service sector, Ms Davies opened her appointment book a couple of weeks ago.\n\nJuly is already looking full, she said, and there's now a big rush to get the salons ready in time. They will open an extra four hours each day to cope with demand.\n\n\"We can't wait to get back to work and we've planned our reopening schedule around the 2m distancing rule. We don't plan to change that, although the switch to 1m-plus will ease the burden a little,\" she said.\n\n\"Our salons will be able to work at around 65% capacity although wearing visors will be quite cumbersome and bring its own problems, especially for the comfort of our workers who will be dealing with clients back-to-back.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson anticipated the huge demand for a haircut when he announced the easing of the lockdown after more than three months\n\nHe said: \"Almost as eagerly awaited as a pint will be a haircut, particularly by me, and so we will reopen hairdressers with appropriate precautions, including the use of visors.\"\n\nThe details of the new guidelines are expected to be announced soon, but are expected to include use of protective screens and an increase in handwashing facilities.\n\n\"We've already had lots of texts and calls from customers excited to be able to return to the saloon,\" said Dale Hollinshead, who runs Hazel & Haydn, in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.\n\n\"It's been a long lockdown for all of us,\" he said. His salon has two floors, which makes social distancing a little easier to deal with, he reckons.\n\n\"We've been busy preparing the salon for opening in the last few weeks and have put plastic screens in place and have floor markings that are ready to go down.\n\n\"We have a range of plastic visors and face masks for staff and will do whatever else the guidelines require to ensure everyone is safe.\"\n\nThe salon will extend opening hours from 8am to 8pm when it reopens on 4 July, and stylists will work shifts in teams to reduce the number of people that customers come into contact with.\n\n\"We're really looking forward to getting back to business,\" Mr Hollinshead said.\n\n\"We're very pleased about the news that we can finally reopen,\" said Belle Cannan, co-founder of Salon Sloane in London's Chelsea. \"We all want to get back to work and our clients are excited to see us.\"\n\nShe had been preparing to reopen based on 2m social distancing, but welcomed the reduction to 1m, saying: \"It means we will be able to work at around 75% capacity rather than 50%.\n\n\"We've remained in contact with clients through lockdown with advice to help them avoid hair disasters. Then a couple of weeks ago we started taking provisional appointments, and the phone's been very active.\"\n\nClients will be offered face-masks while stylists will be wearing lightweight visors. Other changes will see a hand-sanitising station for clients, and the reception will be screened off.\n\nMs Cannan said: \"There are some of our usual touches that have had to go, such as offering tea, coffee or magazines to clients. They will also have to put on their own gowns and hang up their own coats.\"\n\nBut she's confident clients will adjust: \"People having been waiting so long for this that they will be happy with the new normal.\"", "Lindsey Holland does all the cooking for guests at her B&B\n\nThis year, 4 July will hold a different kind of celebration as a range of hospitality and similar firms in England are finally allowed to reopen for business.\n\nBut with government guidance still not clear, how prepared are they?\n\nThe BBC spoke to a pub, a salon and a B&B to find out how ready they are for the next phase of lockdown easing.\n\n\"I'm feeling really anxious about reopening as I just don't know what's coming.\"\n\nShe runs the business on her own and worries that reopening rules may make that impossible.\n\n\"I'm going to be really interested to see how much I'm going to be allowed to achieve by myself, when I have to switch from cooking to cleaning, for instance.\"\n\nMany B&B staples will disappear, not least the buffet breakfast.\n\n\"I've heard that breakfasts may have to be delivered to rooms, which isn't practical for me as a one-person business.\n\n\"I also can't afford to buy room service trays.\"\n\nFree magazines and the help-yourself minibar will also have to go.\n\nLindsey reckons she will be able to open up three quarters of the hotel now the social distancing rule has been lowered from 2m to 1m. At 2m, she would only have been able to run at 50% capacity.\n\nHowever, she says if bookings don't pick up then it may not be worth her while opening the doors at all in July.\n\n\"4 July is just two weeks away and we're only now getting bits of pieces of details of what the rules may be.\n\n\"Even if I do reopen and we have enough bookings, a second wave could mean the end for us.\"\n\n\"We've spent a lot of time during lockdown getting ready for the new normal.\"\n\nSimon Daws has run the Gloucester Old Spot pub in Cheltenham for a decade, but recent times have been his biggest challenge, he says.\n\n\"We've been waiting for news of when we can reopen with different dates being bandied around, which hasn't been helpful.\"\n\nHe says he would have preferred more than a couple of weeks of notice to get the right beer in and get staff back from furlough, but he is still eager to get people back into the pub.\n\nThe pub industry is desperate to reopen and cutting the social distancing rules to 1m will have a major impact, he says.\n\n\"If the distance is 1m then pubs with generous garden areas can make a go of it,\" he says.\n\nHis pub has room for 160 people outside but they've had to change things to prepare for reopening.\n\n\"We don't need plastic screens as people won't come into the pub. Instead we're switching to a continental style of service with our staff taking orders on a handheld device and using disposable menus to reduce the risk to customers,\" he says.\n\nEven then, he's not confident that reopening will be a success.\n\n\"We will be walking a tightrope. We are relying on sunny weather to make the new system work.\"\n\nHe is also worried about rumours that customers will have to book a table and supply the names of everyone on the table.\n\n\"It's just putting more hurdles in our way, which is not good news for an industry that's on its knees.\"\n\nJo Dyer runs Plymouth hairdressing salon Yoke with husband Steve, and will be able to reopen on 4 July. But the last few weeks have been nerve wracking.\n\n\"The guidelines keep changing so we don't know yet what we need to do to open safely - or what kind of protective equipment will be necessary.\"\n\nThe salon plans to reopen with half of its eight stations to ensure clients remain a safe distance from each other.\n\nOpening hours will be extended to cover 08:00-20:00 every day except for Sunday to accommodate as many customers as possible, even with half as many stations and stylists available.\n\nMeanwhile clients will only have contact with one person, with stylists washing hair instead of apprentices.\n\nNow the reopening date has been confirmed, Jo hopes to start booking in appointments - although those wanting hair colouring will have to book in for a skin test first.\n\nThey are waiting to find out what protective equipment they will need.\n\n\"We don't know what grade facemasks we've got to have or what kind of gloves we need, given we're washing our hands constantly in normal times.\n\n\"We have some cloth facemasks but they may not fit in with the guidelines.\"\n\nStaff and customer safety will be paramount, she says, which means throwaway gowns instead of their normal eco-wear.\n\n\"It goes against our ethical principles, but we're going to have to compromise to stay within the rules, it seems,\" Jo says.\n\nWill your business be reopening on 4 July? How will the easing of lockdown affect you? Share your thoughts by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Two attempts were made to 'restore' the copy of Murillo's painting\n\nAn art collector in Spain has been left stunned by the botched restoration of a copy of a painting by Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.\n\nThe Valencia-based private collector paid €1,200 ($1,355; £1,087) for it to be cleaned by a furniture restorer, according to Spain's Europa Press.\n\nBut despite two attempts to fix it, the picture of the Immaculate Conception has been left unrecognisable.\n\nThe incident has drawn comparisons with other recent \"restorations\" in Spain.\n\nIn 2012, an elderly parishioner attempted to restore a prized fresco of Jesus Christ at her local church near Zaragoza. But her paint job led to the painting being dubbed 'Monkey Christ.'\n\nLast year a 16th-Century statue of St George at a church in Navarre also caught public attention after a restoration job, with some comparing its new look to a Playmobil figure.\n\nThe St George sculpture before and after the restoration attempt\n\nThere is currently no law in Spain forbidding people from restoring artwork, even if they do so without the necessary skills.\n\nIn a statement, the country's Professional Association of Restorers and Conservators (Acre) condemned the lack of legal protections, and called the recent incident an act of \"vandalism\".\n\n\"This lack of regulation translates into an absence of protection of our heritage,\" said Acre.\n\n\"In recent years, conservation-restoration professionals have been forced to emigrate or leave their professions due to a lack of opportunities,\" it added, warning that the industry was at \"serious risk of disappearing\" in Spain.\n\nAn earlier version of this story incorrectly suggested the restoration was on the original Bartolomé Esteban Murillo artwork rather than a copy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Friend Michael Main said the victims \"were always happy\"\n\nTributes have been paid by the \"heartbroken\" families of three men who were stabbed to death in a park in Reading on Saturday.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett died in the attack.\n\nThe PM sent his \"deepest condolences\" to their families, describing the attack as \"abject cowardice\".\n\nPolice continue to question suspect Khairi Saadallah, 25, who came to the UK from Libya in 2012. He was arrested under the Terrorism Act.\n\nMr Wails, a 49-year-old scientist who specialised in clean energy, was the last victim to be named.\n\nHis parents said he was a \"kind and much loved son, brother and uncle who never hurt anyone in his life\".\n\n\"We are broken-hearted at losing him and in such a terrible way,\" they said.\n\nHis employer, metals and chemicals firm Johnson Matthey, described him as \"a gentle, thoughtful man with a dry sense of humour\" who was \"proud to use his expertise to make a positive impact on the world\".\n\nFriend Michael Main said he \"always made people smile\".\n\nMr Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was originally from Philadelphia but had lived in the UK for 15 years.\n\nHis father, Robert Ritchie, said the family were \"heartbroken\", while his brother-in-law, Stephen Bennett, and sister-in-law, Katy Bennett, said he was \"the most kind, caring and loving person that you could meet\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker said Mr Ritchie-Bennett had been married to her close friend, Ian, who died from cancer nearly six years ago.\n\nShe described him as a \"fantastic human being\" who was \"outrageously funny\".\n\nMr Furlong, 36, was a teacher and head of history, government and politics at The Holt School in Wokingham.\n\nHis parents Gary and Janet described him as \"beautiful, intelligent, honest and fun\".\n\n\"He was the best son, brother, uncle and partner you could wish for,\" they said.\n\nJames Furlong was described as an \"inspirational\" teacher\n\nSpeaking in the Commons shortly after a minute's silence was held in Parliament, Prime Minister Boris Johnson paid tribute to the three victims.\n\n\"To assault defenceless people in a park is not simply an act of wickedness but abject cowardice, and we will never yield to those who seek to destroy our way of life,\" he said.\n\nMore than 100 students, some holding hands, gathered at the gates of The Holt School for a two-minute silence on Monday morning, while a flag in the courtyard was lowered to half-mast.\n\nFormer pupils and parents have asked for the school's humanities block to be renamed in Mr Furlong's memory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pupils and staff at The Holt School, Wokingham paid tribute to James Furlong\n\nMourners also gathered for a one-minute silence outside the Blagrave Arms pub in Reading town centre, where the three men were regular customers.\n\nIt was described as a \"safe space\" for members of the LGBT+ community.\n\nA tribute on the door called them \"the kindest, most genuine, and most loveliest people\".\n\nFlowers and tributes were laid outside the Blagrave Arms, near Forbury Gardens\n\nMartin Cooper, chief executive of LGBT+ charity Reading Pride, described the three men as \"true gentlemen\".\n\n\"They were a support network for individuals, and I know they will be sorely missed by many,\" he said.\n\nPolice were called to Reading's Forbury Gardens at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nWitnesses say a lone attacker with a knife shouted \"unintelligible words\" and stabbed several people who were in a group.\n\nThree other people who were injured in the attack have since been discharged from hospital, police said.\n\nThe suspect, Mr Saadallah, was initially arrested on suspicion of murder. He was later re-arrested on Sunday under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.\n\nUnder the Act, police have the power to detain him without charge for up to 14 days.\n\nSuspect Khairi Saadallah came to the attention of MI5 last year, sources told the BBC\n\nMr Saadallah originally claimed asylum and was given leave to remain in 2018, the BBC's Home Affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford said.\n\nHe came to the attention of MI5 last year as someone who might travel overseas, possibly for terrorism purposes, but they assessed that he was not a genuine threat or an immediate risk.\n\nA close member of his family told the BBC that he left Libya to escape the violence there, and that he had suffered from post-traumatic stress from the civil war. However, he had been thinking of trying to return.\n\nThey said his long-standing mental health problems had been exacerbated by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nNeighbours said Mr Saadallah threw a TV from his top-floor flat this year and had a mental health key worker.\n\nIn a statement, his brother, Aiman Saadallah, said: \"We are all shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless attack.\n\n\"I want to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery for all those injured.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Armed police went to a block of flats in Reading following the stabbings in Forbury Gardens\n\nCounter terror police, who are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident, have said they are \"keeping an open mind as to the motive for this attack\".\n\nThey are continuing to appeal for information.\n\nAfter visiting Reading to lay flowers on Monday morning, Home Secretary Priti Patel told MPs the threat posed by lone attackers was \"growing\".\n\nShe thanked those who responded to the incident, including student police officers - noting that a \"young, unarmed\" officer \"took down the suspect without hesitation\" while another carried out first aid.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said it was \"heartbreaking that we are having this conversation again so soon\" after attacks at Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge in November and in Streatham in February - adding that the public \"will want answers\".\n\nHe previously said that with the Ministry of Justice's budget having been cut by 40% over 10 years, the government needed to reconsider the resources available for de-radicalisation programmes in prisons, as well as monitoring, supervision and risk assessment of released prisoners.", "The LIGO-Virgo collaboration runs some of the most exquisite scientific instruments ever built\n\nScientists have discovered an astronomical object that has never been observed before.\n\nIt is more massive than collapsed stars, known as \"neutron stars\", but has less mass than black holes.\n\nSuch \"black neutron stars\" were not thought possible and will mean ideas for how neutron stars and black holes form will need to be rethought.\n\nThe discovery was made by an international team using gravitational wave detectors in the US and Italy.\n\nCharlie Hoy, a PhD student from Cardiff University, UK, involved in the study, said the new discovery would transform our understanding.\n\n\"We can't rule out any possibilities,\" he told BBC News. \"We don't know what it is and this is why it is so exciting because it really does change our field.\"\n\nThis event involved an object more massive than known neutron stars but less massive than known black holes. It existed in what has become known as the \"mass gap\"\n\nMr Hoy is part of an international team working for the Ligo-Virgo Scientific Collaboration.\n\nThe international group, which has strong UK involvement backed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, has laser detectors several kilometres long that are able to detect minute ripples in space-time caused by the collision of massive objects in the Universe.\n\nThe collected data can be used to determine the mass of those objects involved.\n\nLast August, the instruments detected the collision of a black hole 23 times the mass of our Sun with an object of 2.6 solar masses.\n\nThat makes the lighter object more massive than the heaviest type of dead star, or neutron star, previously observed - of just over two solar masses. But it was also lighter than the lightest black hole previously observed - of around five solar masses.\n\nAstronomers have been searching for such objects in what they've come to call the \"mass gap\".\n\nWriting in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the research team believes that of all the possibilities, the object is most likely to be a light black hole, but they are not ruling out any other possibilities.\n\nThe labs that detect gravitational waves fire lasers down long tunnels\n\nHaving collided with the large black hole, the object no longer exists. However, there should be further opportunities to learn more about these mass-gap objects from future collisions, according to Prof Stephen Fairhurst, also at Cardiff.\n\n\"It is a challenge for us to determine what this is,\" he told BBC News. \"Is this the lightest black hole ever, or is it the heaviest neutron star ever?\"\n\nIf it is a light black hole then there is no established theory for how such an object could develop. But Prof Fairhurst's colleague, Prof Fabio Antonioni, has proposed that a solar system with three stars could lead to the formation of light black holes. His ideas are receiving increased attention following the new discovery.\n\nIf, however, this new class of object is a heavy neutron star then theories for how they form may also need to be revised, according to Prof Bernard Schutz of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany.\n\n\"We don't know a lot about the nuclear physics of neutron stars. So, people who are looking at exotic equations that explain what goes on inside them might be thinking, 'maybe this is evidence that we can get much heavier neutron stars'.\"\n\nA scientific visualisation of a gravitational waves-producing merger where one object is 9.2 times more massive than the other\n\nBoth black holes and neutron stars are thought to form when stars run out of fuel and die. If it is a very large star, it collapses to form a black hole, an object with such strong gravitational force that not even light can escape its grasp.\n\nIf the starting star is below a certain mass, one option is for it to collapse into a dense ball composed entirely of particles called neutrons, which are found inside the heart of atoms.\n\nThe material from which neutron stars are composed is so tightly packed that one teaspoonful would weigh 10 million tonnes.\n\nA neutron star also has powerful gravity pulling it together, but a force between the neutrons, caused by a quantum mechanical effect known as degeneracy pressure, pushes the particles apart, counteracting the gravitational force.\n\nCurrent theories suggest that the gravitational force would overcome the degeneracy pressure if the neutron star were much larger than two solar masses - and cause it to collapse into a black hole.\n\nAccording to Prof Nils Andersson of Southampton University, if the mystery object is a heavy neutron star then the theorists will have to rethink what goes on in these objects.\n\n\"Nuclear physics is not a precise science where we know everything,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't know how nuclear forces operate under the extreme conditions you need inside a neutron star. So, every single current theory we currently have of what goes on inside of one has some uncertainty.\"\n\nProf Sheila Rowan, director of the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR), said the discovery challenges current theoretical models.\n\n\"More cosmic observations and research will need to be undertaken to establish whether this new object is indeed something that has never been observed before or whether it may instead be the lightest black hole ever detected.\"", "Four episodes of 30 Rock in which characters appear in blackface are to be taken down, at the request of creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.\n\nIn a note seen by Vulture and Variety, Fey wrote that the episodes are \"best taken out of circulation\" and apologised \"for pain they have caused\".\n\nThe episodes will be removed from streaming services Amazon Prime and Hulu, as well as purchase platforms.\n\nThey include a live episode with guest star Jon Hamm in series six.\n\nHe appeared in a wig and blackface, part of a spoof of an old US radio and TV show titled Amos 'n' Andy.\n\nTwo episodes of the hit US series featured Jane Krakowski's character Jenna - one from series three, Believe in the Stars, and the other from series five, called Christmas Attack Zone.\n\nThe Believe in the Stars episode (2008) involved Jenna and Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) deciding to swap identities in order to determine whether black men or white women faced more challenges in society.\n\nThe fourth and final episode being pulled by the studio is the East Coast version of season five's Live Show - the first live episode of 30 Rock.\n\nThe show was based on Fey's experience of writing for Saturday Night Live\n\nPurchase platforms the episodes have been removed from include iTunes and Google Play. No re-runs will be shown on TV either.\n\n\"As we strive to do the work and do better in regards to race in America, we believe that these episodes featuring actors in race-changing make-up are best taken out of circulation,\" wrote Fey.\n\n\"I understand now that 'intent' is not a free pass for white people to use these images. I apologise for pain they have caused. Going forward, no comedy-loving kid needs to stumble on these tropes and be stung by their ugliness.\n\n\"I thank NBCUniversal for honouring this request.\"\n\nAll of the episodes will be removed by the end of the week, a source told Variety.\n\nNews of their removal comes as many content platforms are re-evaluating their offerings following mass protests against racism and police brutality after the death of George Floyd in police custody.\n\nHBO Max said they would temporarily remove Gone with the Wind, and re-add it with a new introduction putting the film in historical context.\n\nUKTV said they would do something similar with an episode of Fawlty Towers, re-adding The Germans episode with a warning about \"offensive content and language\".\n\nLeigh Francis used masks to dress up as exaggerated versions of black celebrities such as Craig David\n\nMeanwhile, Matt Lucas and David Walliams apologised for their use of blackface as two of their series, Little Britain and Come Fly With Me, were removed from circulation.\n\nLeigh Francis also apologised for using masks to dress up as black celebrities such as Trisha Goddard, Craig David and Melanie B on the Channel 4 show Bo Selecta.\n\n30 Rock originally ran from 2006 to 2013. The series, based on Fey's experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live, takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy show.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "Newport during lockdown - the area has seen 160 deaths during the pandemic\n\nDeaths involving coronavirus in Wales have dropped significantly in the most recent week's figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nThe figure of 57 registered deaths compares to 100 the week before.\n\nEight council areas, including Newport, a \"hotspot\" earlier in the pandemic, recorded no deaths at all.\n\nSo-called \"excess deaths\", which compare all registered deaths to previous years, are also now below the five-year average.\n\nThis is the first time this has been recorded since the pandemic began.\n\nOverall in Wales, the total number of deaths fell in the week ending 12 June to 574.\n\nThat is 14 deaths, or 2.4%, lower than the five-year average for that particular week.\n\nLooking at \"excess deaths\" lets us see how many deaths there are for a particular time of the year and whether the pattern is out of the ordinary.\n\nAcross the pandemic, there have been 2,003 excess deaths in Wales, making up 12.1% of all deaths.\n\nTuesday's figures show there have now been a total of 2,370 deaths of coronavirus in Wales by 12 June.\n\nThese include all confirmed and suspected cases, in hospitals, care homes and people's homes, registered up to 20 June.\n\nOf 18,541 total deaths registered by 12 June, 2,357 - or 12.7% - mentioned coronavirus on the death certificate.\n\nIn Newport, there have been 160 deaths across the pandemic, but there were none in the week to 12 June, and one the week before.\n\nAcross Aneurin Bevan health board, there have been 490 deaths involving coronavirus across the pandemic.\n\nThere were two deaths - both in care homes - in the most recent week.\n\nThe ONS figures are seen as giving a fuller picture of deaths from coronavirus than the daily \"snapshot\" figures from Public Health Wales, which only include confirmed cases, mostly in hospitals.\n\nThere are another 921 deaths for the same period, when deaths in homes, care homes and hospices are counted.", "These £50 devices are being developed in south Wales to test oxygen levels\n\nOxygen levels in suspected coronavirus cases should be monitored in the community to help hospitals cope with a second wave of cases, according to Wales' leading respiratory doctor.\n\nDr Simon Barry said early on in the pandemic it became clear reduced oxygen levels in the blood suggested a patient had Covid-19.\n\nBut flu and pneumonia will be more common in a future winter peak.\n\nThis means more community monitoring would be needed, he said.\n\nDr Barry is leading the implementation of Welsh guidelines to treat the virus, and said work was under way to conduct specific tests before coronavirus patients were admitted to hospital in future.\n\nMost people with coronavirus only have mild symptoms, and sometimes none at all.\n\nBut doctors report low blood oxygen saturation levels among those who are admitted to hospital with coronavirus.\n\nHealthy adults usually have saturation levels of between 94% and 99%, whereas those with Covid-19 can fall below 90% and require oxygen therapy and, in some cases, ventilation in intensive care.\n\nDr Barry, who has treated Covid-19 patients, has also developed a website that delivers the latest treatment guidelines to doctors in all Welsh hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"Early on there was a clear recognition that this disease caused oxygenation failure in people who presented.\n\n\"The ones who got sick (the 20% of patients who get sick) had low oxygen levels and they came into hospital with low oxygen levels.\"\n\nDr Barry has been producing online training videos for doctors\n\nDr Barry said far more patients had been treated with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device than he had anticipated.\n\nThe treatment, which involves a tight-fitting mask that delivers a continuous flow of oxygen, is given while the patient is awake and does not require them to be sedated and placed on a mechanical ventilator.\n\n\"We've learned that actually you can manage patients with quite bad oxygenation failure on the wards, using CPAP, and getting them to lie on their front,\" he said.\n\n\"And we also know that, if you go to ITU [an intensive therapy unit] and you're ventilated, you have very high mortality. It's about 70% if you're actually invasively ventilated.\"\n\nEarly intervention is key in providing the best treatment, and monitoring blood oxygen levels could prove crucial in determining whether someone has coronavirus or another respiratory illness.\n\nDr Barry, who is based at Cardiff and Vale health board, said a winter surge would mean Covid-19 mixing with flu and pneumonia cases.\n\nThat, he said, would mean it would be \"extremely difficult\" to manage patients into \"safe streams\" within hospitals, making community testing necessary.\n\n\"We are looking at a mechanism to be able to do all of these specific tests, point-of-care, in the community. Both in primary care but also using the Welsh ambulance crew, so they will be able to make a specific diagnosis within minutes.\"\n\nThe oximeter is being developed at labs at the University of South Wales\n\nEngineers at the University of South Wales have received Welsh Government funding to create a new oximeter, a £50 portable device which can accurately measure a patient's blood oxygen levels.\n\nProf Nigel Copner, who has led the programme to rapidly develop the oximeter at the laboratory in Treforest, said the devices would be ready \"in weeks\" and Welsh patients would be the first to benefit.\n\n\"Wales obviously has first call, the Welsh Government has funded the project in total. And we have contract manufacturers down in Sony that can manufacture the device and turn it around very quickly.\"\n\nProf Copner said the device had \"no issues\" with pre-existing supply chains, which have been stretched by global demand.\n\n\"We can actually manufacture and build this device very easily in south Wales, and we can turn around high volumes in a matter of weeks,\" he added.\n\nClinicians have also responded in innovative ways during the pandemic.\n\nDr Barry said a pioneering online training platform had helped Welsh doctors to provide the best treatment, as lessons were learned and best practice shared quickly with colleagues.\n\n\"Traditionally in Wales we have seven health boards that do things in seven different ways,\" he said.\n\n\"But if you stood above it and you look down, it's an enormously inefficient and ineffective way to manage cases.\n\n\"We're trying to rise above that by saying 'look, this is the national guideline'. We are getting experts within Wales who are talking about updates and talking about what should be the best practice. And that seems a logical way to proceed.\"", "The daily presentation of slides is no more\n\nThe daily Downing Street press conference on coronavirus has been stopped, the government has announced.\n\nBoris Johnson led the final regular briefing, flanked by chief advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nFrom now on televised briefings will be given on an \"ad hoc\" basis to \"coincide with significant announcements,\" Downing Street said.\n\nIt comes as the PM announced an easing of the lockdown in England.\n\nThere have been 92 briefings, and two national addresses by the prime minister.\n\nLeading the final briefing, Mr Johnson thanked Prof Whitty and Sir Patrick for their \"heroic work in presenting information to the public so clearly and so powerfully\".\n\nHe added that there will \"certainly\" be more local outbreaks and \"I don't think, therefore, that you have seen the last of us by any means but they will not be happening as often as they have been\".\n\nHe said all of the information on hospital admissions, death rates and the spread of the virus presented at the daily briefings would still be published on the government website.\n\nBut Conservative MP and former minister Tobias Ellwood criticised the move, saying regular televised briefings should continue while the UK remained in an \"enduring emergency\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said there needed to be the fullest scrutiny of government decisions at what was still \"an incredibly crucial stage\".\n\n\"It's almost like they don't want people asking questions,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe daily briefings started on 16 March, following criticism of a lack of transparency over government plans to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nAt the time, the UK death toll from Covid-19 stood at 55 and the government had yet to introduce lockdown measures.\n\nThe total number of deaths currently stands at 42,927.\n\nMr Johnson led the first briefing, flanked by the government's chief medical adviser Chris Whitty and the UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, and used it to urge the public to avoid going to pubs and non-essential travel, and work from home if they could.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM led the next four briefings, before handing over to a rotating cast of cabinet ministers, normally accompanied by scientific and medical experts.\n\nThe panel talked through slides on hospital admissions, deaths and the government's efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and then took questions from the media, via video conferencing.\n\nMr Johnson gave a televised address to the nation on the introduction of the lockdown on 23 March, and then limited his appearances at the daily briefings to major announcements.\n\nOn Sunday 24 May, he appeared at the daily briefing to defend his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, following revelations that he had driven 260 miles at the height of the lockdown.\n\nThe Saturday and Sunday briefings were scrapped shortly afterwards, due to low ratings.\n\nAt the end of April, the panel began taking two questions submitted by members of the public.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock led the most daily briefings, with 26 appearances, followed by Mr Johnson on 16.\n\nMatt Hancock holds the record for the most appearances\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab - who filled in for Mr Johnson when he was in hospital with coronavirus - led 12 briefings, with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Business Secretary Alok Sharma and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick hosting six each.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak led five briefings - the same number as Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove. Environment Secretary George Eustice, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden appeared a handful of times each.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was the only female minister to take a turn at the podium, with three appearances.\n\nPriti Patel was the only female minister to appear at the podium\n\nIn recent weeks, ministers have increasingly been appearing on their own, without scientific or medical advisers.\n\nDeputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam last appeared at a briefing on 30 May, while Dr Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, made her first appearance in more than three weeks on Monday.", "The duchesses were impressed by Stuie Delf's fundraising prowess\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has pledged to plant a sunflower in memory of a boy who was cared for by a hospice.\n\nCatherine spoke to Stuart and Carla Delf, from Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, about their nine-year-old son Fraser, who died in January.\n\nShe congratulated Fraser's 13-year-old brother Stuie, who ran a sponsored 5k every day last month to raise money for the Each hospice in Milton, Cambridge.\n\nThe duchess said the fundraising was \"amazing\".\n\nShe was joined by the Duchess of Cornwall in the video call last week to mark Children's Hospice Week.\n\nStuie Delf said his brother was his best friend\n\nFraser Delf was cared for by Each in Milton\n\nThe Delfs spent seven weeks living in the hospice with Fraser before he died as a result of Coats plus syndrome, a rare condition that affects multiple organs and causes brain abnormalities.\n\nStuie told the duchesses he had been inspired by 100-year-old NHS fundraiser Captain Sir Tom Moore.\n\nCamilla said: \"Captain Tom has done a lot for this country, hasn't he? He's inspired so many people. You must be very fit, Stuie.\"\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is patron of the East Anglia Children's Hospices\n\nFraser Delf died as a result of Coats plus syndrome\n\nThe duchesses heard that the hospice where Fraser spent his final weeks had experienced a dramatic drop in fundraising because of coronavirus.\n\nStuie set out to raise £500 to fill the gap but ended up with £18,500 in total.\n\n\"Fraser wasn't just my brother, he was my best friend,\" he said.\n\nAfter the video call, Mr Delf, 42, said: \"[Catherine] said she was going to plant a sunflower in memory of Fraser.\"\n\nThe sunflower has been adopted as the emblem of hospice care.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meira Woosnam has three sons who all go to different schools\n\nSome pupils could face problems going back to school because of inconsistencies in transport provision across Wales, a teachers' union fears.\n\nSchools reopen on 29 June but the Ucac union thinks some children may not be able to go unless there is transport.\n\nSome councils will only run for specific groups of pupils, and many have encouraged children to travel with parents or make their own way in.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it published comprehensive guidance on transport.\n\nUcac has called for children not to be disadvantaged because they do not live close enough to walk to school and their parents cannot drive, or do not own a car.\n\nIt has also highlighted Welsh-medium pupils, who it says often have to travel longer distances, particularly in rural areas.\n\nOne transport provider told BBC Radio Wales school bus drivers were concerned about catching the virus.\n\nChris Owens, managing director of Llandudno-based Alpine Travel, said: \"Our biggest concern is that the Welsh Government hasn't been clear on the use of face coverings.\n\n\"The UK government have made it very clear that they must be used on public transport whereas the Welsh Government haven't been as clear.\n\n\"Yesterday we received guidance that students would not be expected to wear face coverings when using our school coaches which to be frank is very disappointing for the safety of our staff.\"\n\nRebecca Williams, Ucac's deputy general secretary, said: \"I think the potential groups are those who don't own a car, or obviously you have parents who don't drive.\n\n\"Also, I think the Welsh medium sector will need some special consideration because the distances are that much greater.\n\n\"It may just logistically not be possible for parents to take their children there, even if they do drive.\"\n\nShe added: \"Whatever arrangements are put in place, we need to be absolutely confident that we're not discriminating against any group of pupils who would want to return.\n\n\"What we need to ensure is that there isn't too much inconsistency between local authorities. I think the stronger steer that can be given at a national level from Welsh Government, the better.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said it published comprehensive guidance on transport\n\nWhile councils across Wales have been issuing guidance regarding school transport, it varies between different authorities:\n\nCardiff council is promoting \"active travel,\" encouraging parents and pupils to \"travel to school safely on foot, by bike or by scooter,\" or by \"other means, where possible\".\n\nBut it added: \"For those eligible for free school transport and who cannot attend school without it, the council is working through plans as part of the council's comprehensive school restart planning.\"\n\nIn Newport though, there will be no mainstream transport provision, while plans are under way to provide it for \"a prioritised group of pupils with complex needs and disabilities who cannot find alternative methods of transport\".\n\nCeredigion council is still working on its plan, but has said any school transport \"should only be used when there is no other viable option available\".\n\nIn Carmarthenshire, school transport \"will only be provided to eligible pupils if absolutely necessary\".\n\nPrimary school teachers have been measuring distances inside classrooms in preparation\n\nSteve Jones, managing director of Llew Jones Coaches in Llanrwst, Conwy, said there had been \"very little\" guidance from the Welsh Government on providing transport.\n\n\"The major issue at the moment is the lack of guidance from the Welsh Government,\" he said.\n\n\"Basically, the councils and the schools have been left to try and work something out between themselves and ourselves.\n\n\"Of course, we're flexible and we'll try our very best to make it work, but some more guidance would've been helpful.\"\n\nThe company usually provides about 20 school buses per day across north Wales. Some of its longer rural routes involve trips of about 40 minutes, with its longest taking an hour each way.\n\nMr Jones said the 2m social distancing rule means a 50-seater coach will now only be able to carry eight pupils. In an eight-seater taxi, only one pupil can be carried.\n\nHe does not plan to lay on extra coaches, because it is expected there will be \"significantly less\" pupils returning to school.\n\nSteve Jones says they will have to carry fewer passengers due to social distancing rules\n\nMeira Woosnam, from Abergele, Conwy, has three boys of different ages, attending different schools.\n\nOne of them is autistic and attends an additional needs unit, usually by school taxi.\n\nHowever, she said: \"He doesn't want to go in the taxi, because he's aware that other people will be using the taxi in between school runs and he doesn't feel comfortable and safe if somebody with COVID-19 has used the taxi before him.\"\n\nAnother son usually travels by school bus, while she usually drives the third to school.\n\nMs Woosnam, who plans to drive them all herself, added: \"If the boys end up having the same days that they need to go into school, I'll have a bit of a logistic nightmare, with trying to get three of them to school at the same time.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"confused and really unsure about what to do for the best as a parent\", when it came to her children returning to school.\n\nMs Woosnam said all of her sons' schools had done an \"amazing\" job in trying to keep her informed, but said there had \"absolutely not\" been enough communication from the Welsh Government to schools.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said: \"We have published comprehensive guidance relating to the safe use of school transport and will continue to work with local authorities and transport providers to address any remaining concerns they may have.\n\n\"We've also recently announced £2m to help support local authorities to achieve active travel schemes around schools.\"", "Facebook has banned users trading in historical artefacts on the site.\n\nIt follows a campaign by academic researchers and an investigation by BBC News, exposing how items looted from Iraq and Syria were sold on Facebook.\n\nOne expert welcomed the move but said for anything to change, Facebook should invest in \"teams of experts to identify and remove networks rather than playing whack-a-mole with individual posts\".\n\nFacebook says all trade in ancient artefacts is banned on its platforms.\n\nThe changes are included in a new set of Facebook Community Standards published on Tuesday.\n\nThey ban content that \"encourages or attempts to buy, sell or trade historical artefacts\" or \"attempts to solicit historical artefacts\".\n\nItems sold in this way can include ancient scrolls, manuscripts, mummified body parts and ancient coins.\n\nThe BBC was shown private Facebook groups offering antiquities for sale in Syria and Iraq\n\nFacebook public policy manager Greg Mandel explained: \"Historical artefacts hold significant personal and cultural value for communities across the globe, but their sale often results in harmful behaviour.\n\n\"That's why we've long had rules preventing the sale of stolen artefacts.\n\n\"To keep these artefacts and our users safe, we've been working to expand our rules, and starting today we now prohibit the exchange, sale or purchase of all historical artefacts on Facebook and Instagram.\"\n\nProf Amr al-Azm, from Shawnee State University in Ohio, hailed the move as an important shift in Facebook's position but said he feared the new standards would prove worthless without adequate efforts to enforce them.\n\nThe social media giant is developing automated systems based on images and key words to identify content which violates the new policy but Prof Al-Azm told the BBC: \"Relying on user reports and Artificial Intelligence is simply not enough.\"\n\nProf Amr al-Azm says it is not enough for Facebook just to ban trading networks - they need to be identified and removed\n\nA BBC News investigation in 2019 found evidence that Roman mosaics still in the ground in Syria were being offered for sale on Facebook.\n\nWe saw groups exchange ideas on how to dig up sites and evidence of \"loot-to-order\" requests. In one case, administrators asked for Islamic-era manuscripts to be made available for purchase in Turkey.\n\nFollowing our investigation, Facebook said it had removed 49 groups - but researchers continue to unearth evidence that trade is still ongoing.\n\n\"Illicit antiquities trade on Facebook appears to have the greatest reach in the Middle East and North Africa where we are currently monitoring over 120 Facebook groups developed solely for looting and trafficking activity,\" said Prof Amr Al-Azm\n\n\"The largest group we identified had roughly 150,000 members this time last year - now it has more than 437,000. \"\n\nPart of the recent increase may be attributable to the effects of the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut this was not just a case of the impoverished selling antiquities to make a few dollars, said Prof al-Azm.\n\n\"This is also a black market that funds criminal organisations, warlords, and radical extremists, and it's happening on the same site in the same digital space that you welcome into your home and [use to] share photos of your children.\"\n\nProf al-Azm is critical of Facebook's policy of deleting posts that violate its community standards.\n\nInstead, he said, it should keep a digital archive of images, which might not exist anywhere else.\n\n\"This evidence is vital for ensuring the repatriation of these objects if they appear on the market,\" he argued.\n\nUsually, content that violates Facebook standards is permanently deleted within 90 days but data can be retained if requested by law enforcement, the BBC understands.", "It's the moment we've all been waiting for.\n\nThe government is expected to announce measures that will allow pubs, restaurants, cinemas, galleries and theatres to re-open under relaxed but still constraining rules on the 4th of July.\n\nIt's not quite social Independence Day, but the expected announcement that social distancing measures that require two metres distance in most settings will be relaxed to one metre has been welcomed by the hospitality industry as \"an important staging post\".\n\nIt's \"a helpful moment for the national psyche\", according to Kate Nicholls, head of the trade group UK Hospitality.\n\nBut the champagne is still on ice. And could yet be put back in the economic refrigerator.\n\nPubs in the UK are among hospitality businesses that have been closed for months\n\n\"We are only able to move forward this week because the vast majority of people have taken steps to control the virus,\" a number 10 spokesman told the BBC.\n\n\"But the more we open up, the more important it is that everyone follows the social distancing guidelines. We will not hesitate to reverse these steps if it is necessary to stop the virus running out of control.\"\n\nMany establishments are straining at the leash to re-open. Peter Borg-Neal, who runs 28 pubs has already provocatively said he intends to re-open on 4 July whether or not the government gives him the green light.\n\nOthers are less gung ho. Several pubs and restaurants have told me they do not see the point of re-opening even under one metre distancing rules as it will be impossible to police and the business would still lose money.\n\nThat's the supply side of the equation - the other side is demand. Most of us want to go out for a drink or a meal or a film but how many would actually step through the door?\n\nRecent polling by Ipsos Mori found that six out of 10 people would feel uncomfortable returning to a pub or restaurant.\n\nSome operators feel that the government's re-opening guidelines - that are expected to accompany tomorrow's announcement - may be counter-productive.\n• None 67%expect it will be \"months\" before going to a restaurant\n\n\"Single use menus, banning condiments, insisting on mask wearing - you are making people afraid of using a pepper pot. We have to persuade people there is nothing to fear,\" said Jonathan Downey, head of street food venue operator London Union and head of lobbying group Hospitality Union.\n\nThere are other major concerns.\n\nOnce people have had a few drinks, who will police the social distancing measures that are expected in the guidelines, even at one metre.\n\n\"To think that a young bar tender could do that is nuts\" said one pub owner.\n\nAnd what about the legal position? Could a hospitality venue owner be sued if someone contracted the virus and blamed the management for a potentially life-threatening condition?\n\nOn this point there is good and bad news for the industry, according to Kate Nicholls, head of Hospitality UK.\n\nThe bad news for venues is that no insurer will touch that risk with a barge pole.\n\nThe good news is that it will be almost impossible to establish whether the virus was in fact contracted on the premises.\n\nGoing to the pub will be entirely at the pub-goers risk. But not opening hospitality venues will represent a grave risk to the economy and up to 3 million jobs.\n\nEveryone wants the semblance of normality that a further easing of social lockdown measures will bring.\n\nBut as the government has made clear, if things don't go to plan and the virus sees another surge it may be too soon to pull up all those two metre distancing tapes on the floor and call time on this health, social and economic menace.", "As English hotels and other forms of accommodation prepare to reopen on 4 July, there is a \"frenzy\" of appetite for holidays, says one listings site.\n\nSarah and Steve Jarvis, who run the Independent Cottages website, say traffic in the past week has been 150% up on the same time last year.\n\n\"We're very excited and very busy,\" said Steve, adding that the lifting of restrictions on Tuesday was \"very welcome news\".\n\nBut he added that not all holidaymakers will get the accommodation they want.\n\n\"There will be a shortage of holiday cottages,\" he told the BBC. \"There are forward bookings to be honoured and there will be fewer properties available.\"\n\nIndependent Cottages has more than 1,800 properties on its books, with more than 1,500 of them in England.\n\nUnlike online travel agents, it does not take a percentage on bookings, but charges an annual listing fee and allows property owners to deal directly with holidaymakers.\n\nSarah and Steve Jarvis say demand for cottages is high\n\nSarah said travel industry guidelines on coronavirus allowed holiday lets to cope with back-to-back bookings.\n\nHowever, some holiday cottage owners were opting to leave two to three days between bookings to allow for thorough cleaning, further constraining the supply of accommodation.\n\n\"There's a lot to clean,\" she said. \"It's all very achievable, but some owners will feel that they want to leave a gap.\"\n\nOne issue that is still unclear is the question of accommodation for stag and hen parties and other mass gatherings.\n\nSuch occasions can bring together as many as 18 to 20 people from different households, all using shared areas.\n\n\"We're being asked about this a lot,\" said Sarah. \"The 2m rule isn't much of an issue in a self-catering cottage. but we don't know how many households are allowed.\"\n\nSelf-catering accommodation is ideal for helping people \"ease back to a new normal\" as lockdown restrictions are lifted, says another holiday provider, holidaycottages.co.uk.\n\nThe firm's chief marketing officer, James Starkey, welcomed the government's announcement, saying it gave would-be holidaymakers \"something to look forward to\".\n\n\"Self-catering accommodation by its very nature allows for natural social distancing, with people visiting holiday properties staying in self-contained units without having to use shared facilities,\" he said.\n\n\"Our owners already adhere to high standards of cleaning, but all have now been provided with additional information on cleaning best practice for before and after a stay.\"\n\nHotels, too, are busy preparing to open their doors to guests on 4 July.\n\nAccor, which operates 270 hotels in the UK, says it will be reopening them gradually. It hopes to have 90% of them back in business by the end of August.\n\nThose booking in will see plenty of changes. Restaurants and bars will be serving food and drink on a \"grab-and-go\" basis, while fridges in the rooms will not contain any mini-bar items.\n\nEvery other room will be unoccupied and rooms will be left empty for 24 hours after a guest checks out.\n\nThomas Dubaere, Accor's chief operating officer for Northern Europe, told the BBC Accor had been able to test its safety measures in other countries which had already eased lockdown.\n\nHe said guests were comfortable with the measures \"as long as we keep good service and a friendly smile\".\n\n\"They still get the service. It's just in a different way for the time being,\" he added.\n\nMr Dubaere welcomed the government's moves to allow hotels to reopen.\n\n\"We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel,\" he said.\n\nDomestic tourism will now most likely be operational in some form in all parts of the UK by 15 July - starting with self-catering in Northern Ireland from Friday.\n\nHolidaymakers will still have some concerns, not least the possibility of a local or national spike in coronavirus cases over the summer.\n\nAny new lockdown would mean a return to the refund or rebooking rights currently in place.\n\nThat gets more complicated if you are told, under the test and trace system, to self-isolate. Any refund rights would be subject to the terms and conditions when you book.\n\nThe traditional backstop of insurance (albeit less common among domestic travellers) may not help, unless you bought your policy months ago.\n\nCoronavirus is no longer an unknown event, so anyone buying travel insurance now is unlikely to be covered for any coronavirus-related delays or cancellations.\n\nSelf-catering holiday accommodation will open again on Friday in Northern Ireland, and hotels will follow on 3 July.\n\nA decision will be taken in Wales on 9 July on whether to open up the country to tourists again. If this is given the go-ahead, it's likely to take effect from 13 July.\n\nThe Scottish government has said that hotels and tourist accommodation may be able to reopen from 15 July at the earliest, if its next review of lockdown restrictions on 9 July decides that conditions are favourable.\n\nUK Hospitality, which represents hotels and accommodation as well as other areas of the hospitality sector, said it greeted the government's relaxation of the lockdown restrictions in England \"with relief and praise\".\n\n\"The government has given due recognition to how hard hospitality has been hit by this crisis,\" said UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls.\n\n\"Our sector was one of the first to be seriously affected and we are going to be one of the last to reopen.\" However, she added that government support would remain crucial.\n\n\"Many businesses have been closed for months with no revenue and are now facing substantial rent and PAYE bills,\" she said.\n\n\"We need financial help from the government, otherwise some of these businesses are going to go under right at the point at which they are allowed to open once again.\"\n\nAbta, the travel association, described the latest measures in England as \"a step in the right direction on the road to restarting travel in earnest\".\n\n\"However, the travel sector remains in a perilous state, with redundancies announced each week, and more needs to be done to help the whole sector recover,\" it added.\n\n\"We need a more comprehensive roadmap as soon as possible that includes timeframes for relaxing international travel restrictions too, so businesses and customers can plan ahead.\"\n• None Some return to work as lockdown eases in England\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Drinks giant Diageo is giving £4m to Scottish pubs struggling with the impact of coronavirus.\n\nThe company, which makes Guinness and whisky, has announced the two-year Raise the Bar programme to help premises bring back customers as lockdown continues to be relaxed.\n\nIt designed the scheme following a global survey of bar owners to identify what they need to reopen after lockdown.\n\nTheir top priorities include hygiene measures, digital support and practical equipment to transform how their outlets will work.\n\nThe programme will provide support to help pay for the physical equipment such as sanitiser dispenser units, medical-grade hand sanitiser and PPE.\n\nPubs and bars will also be helped with online reservations, cashless systems, mobile bars and outdoor equipment.", "It has now been a month since the government last announced how many individuals are being tested every day.\n\nInstead, they are only releasing numbers for the number of tests delivered.\n\nThis matters, because the number of tests data includes people who may have been swabbed twice as well as tests sent in the post but not necessarily returned.\n\nThe result is that the number of tests is far higher than the number of people tested.\n\nFor example, as of 22 May – the last date we had the statistics – the numbers showed that 3.2m tests had been done or sent out, but only 2.1m individuals had actually been tested.\n\nThe UK Statistics Authority has previously criticised the government for their use of testing statistics.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care has previously said that the release of the number was “temporarily paused\" because of problems with double counting in the data.", "Stars including Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Carrey and Sharon Stone have paid tribute to the \"wonderfully creative and heroic\" St Elmo's Fire, Flatliners and Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher.\n\nSutherland, who starred in several of Schumacher's films, said his \"joy, spirit and talent will live on\".\n\nCarrey, who appeared in Batman Forever, also remembered Schumacher fondly following his death at the age of 80.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jim Carrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Falling Down filmmaker had been ill with cancer for more than a year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Kiefer Sutherland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMinnie Driver, who appeared in Schumacher's film adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera in 2004, remembered the director as \"the funniest, chicest, most hilarious director I ever worked with\".\n\nShe recalled: \"Once, on set, an actress was complaining about me within earshot; how I was dreadfully over the top (I was) Joel barely looked up from his NYT + said 'Oh Honey, no one ever paid to see under the top.'\"\n\nMatthew McConaughey, who was given his big break by Schumacher in 1996's A Time to Kill, told Variety: \"Joel not only took a chance on me, he fought for me... I don't see how my career could have gone to the wonderful places it has if it wasn't for Joel Schumacher believing in me back then.\"\n\nCorey Feldman, who appeared in The Lost Boys, said the director was \"a beautiful soul\" who had \"sent me supportive messages tight til the end of his life\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sharon Stone This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress and presenter Padma Lakshmi described him as \"sharp, whip smart, witty and wise\", adding: \"He was kind and always had the best advice.\"\n\nFellow director Kevin Smith tweeted: \"He couldn't have been nicer or more hospitable.\"\n\nStar Trek writer and producer Bryan Fuller wrote: \"I distinctly remember feeling hopeful when I learned he was gay and out and that there may be a place for me yet.\"\n\nVariety wrote that the director \"brought his fashion background\" to directing and captured the feel of an era with his \"stylish films\".\n\nThe New York native first entered the film industry as a costume designer in the 1970s, working alongside luminaries such as Woody Allen.\n\nHe went on to write the 1976 low-budget comedy Car Wash, as well as the screenplay for a film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Wiz.\n\nBut his big break came in 1985, with his third feature film St Elmo's Fire, which he co-wrote and directed.\n\nAlongside The Breakfast Club, which came out in the same year, it became one of the seminal films of the Brat Pack era and launched Demi Moore's film career.\n\nHis follow-up, The Lost Boys - about a group of young vampires in small-town California - became a cult favourite, and his 1990 hit Flatliners saw him again team up with Kiefer Sutherland.\n\nSchumacher worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts and Michael Douglas. He directed Douglas in 1993's Falling Down, which was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palme D'Or.\n\nHe took over the reins of the Batman franchise from Tim Burton in 1995, casting Val Kilmer as the Caped Crusader and Jim Carrey as the Riddler. The film grossed more than $300m worldwide.\n\nHowever, his second outing - Batman and Robin - starring George Clooney in the lead and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze was critically panned and nearly finished off Clooney's burgeoning film career.\n\nSchumacher was noted for his ability to pick out new talent and he was fundamental in establishing the careers of A-list stars such as Sutherland, Rob Lowe and Colin Farrell. He directed Farrell in 2000's Tigerland, the actor's first leading role, and later in Phone Booth.\n\nSchumacher's style came to the fore in two memorable music videos, Seal's Kiss From a Rose and INXS's Devil Inside.\n\nHis film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Phantom of the Opera, which received three Oscar nominations despite lukewarm reviews, was among his last films.\n\nSchumacher was reportedly the composer's first choice as director, with Lord Lloyd Webber having admired his work with music on The Lost Boys.\n\nMost recently, in 2013, he took the helm on a couple of episodes of the first season of Netflix series House of Cards, before more or less retiring from working life.\n\nHe once said: \"If you love a movie, there are hundreds of people who made it lovable for you. If you don't like it, blame the director. That's what our name's there for.\"", "The recommendations of a review into the Windrush scandal will be implemented in full, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nThe report criticised the Home Office after those who came to the UK from Commonwealth countries were wrongly told they were in Britain illegally.\n\nMrs Patel also acknowledged that compensation payments to those who had suffered had been \"far too slow\".\n\nLabour accused the government of being \"too slow to right the wrongs\".\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons Mrs Patel said the Windrush Lessons Learned Review - led by Wendy Williams, an inspector of constabulary - had been \"damning\" about the conduct of the Home Office and \"unequivocal about the institutional thoughtlessness towards race and the history of the Windrush generation\".\n\nShe said her \"determination to right the wrongs and injustices suffered by the Windrush generation is undiminished\" and promised to make sure that \"more people are compensated in full\".\n\nMs Patel told MPs that so far 12,000 people had been granted documentation by the Windrush Task Force including over 5,900 grants of citizenship.\n\nShe said, as of the end of March, more than £360,000 had been awarded in compensation and that more than £1m had been offered in claims so far.\n\nMartin Forde QC, the barrister who devised the Windrush Compensation Scheme, has told the BBC that there has been one six-figure settlement, an offer of more than £100,000 and a part-payment (or interim) offer of more than £100,000, which could be on track to settle for £250,000.\n\n\"All I can say is apply, apply, apply,\" he said. \"This scheme is worth it.\"\n\nLabour's shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds accused the government of being \"slow to act\" and noted that \"just 60 people\" had been compensated so far.\n\n\"We have to see far more in the way of action from this government to get the impression that they take this issue seriously,\" he said.\n\nMrs Patel agreed that the rate of payments had been too slow but added \"I am not apologising for that at all.\"\n\n\"It is right that we treat each individual with the respect and dignity they deserve - these are complicated cases,\" she added.\n\nSNP home affairs spokeswoman Joanna Cherry urged the government to introduce a \"root and branch review\" of the hostile environment policy introduced to tackle illegal immigration.\n\nThe home secretary promised to return to the House of Commons to set out how the government would be implementing the recommendations, before the parliamentary summer break.\n\nOn Monday in honour of Windrush Day, the Prime Minister Boris Johnson met Bishop Derek Webley, co-chair the Windrush Working Group.\n\nThe newly-launched working group, which he will co-chair with Mrs Patel, will bring together stakeholders and community leaders with government officials to address the challenges faced by the Windrush generation and their descendants.\n\nBishop Webley, told the BBC: \"This is not another review, action is needed. We cannot afford for this to fail.\n\n\"Too much blood has been spilt by many for this country. So therefore they're not granting us a favour, it's an inherent right.\n\n\"They've fought for it, they've worked hard for it, and we need to help the country build a bright, prosperous future that celebrates difference.\"\n\nOne girl holds a placard at a rally celebrating the contribution of the Windrush generation\n\nThe Windrush generation is named after the ship which brought workers to the UK in 1948. An estimated 500,000 people arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971.\n\nAlthough they were granted indefinite leave to remain in 1971 thousands of their children were travelling on their parents' passports, without their own documents.\n\nIn 2012, as part of measures to tackle illegal immigration those without documents were asked for evidence in order to continue working, access services or remain in the UK.\n\nThis led to some being detained or even removed from the UK despite having live in the country for years.\n\nThe Empire Windrush bought workers to the UK in 1948", "Night falls on Dharavi, home to more than 650,000 people\n\nIn one of the world's most congested shanty towns, social distancing is not a luxury people can afford. And density is a friend of the coronavirus.\n\nImagine more than 650,000 people spread over 2.5 grubby sq km, less than a square mile. That's a population larger than Manchester living in an area smaller than Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens.\n\nEight to 10 people live together in poky 100 sq ft dwellings. About 80% of the residents use community toilets. Homes and factories coexist in single buildings lining the slum's narrow lanes. Most people are informal daily-wage workers who don't cook at home and go out to get their food.\n\nAnd yet Dharavi, a sprawling slum in the heart of Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, appears to have brought an outbreak under control - for now.\n\nSince the first case was reported on 1 April, more than 2,000 infections and 80-odd deaths have been reported here. Half of the cases have recovered.\n\nDaily reported infections dropped from a high of 43 a day in May to 19 in third week of June. The average doubling rate had gone up from 18 days in April to 78 in June.\n\nThe scale of the measures put in place - a mix of draconian containment, extensive screening and providing free food to an out-of-work population - has been extraordinary.\n\nMunicipal officials say they have traced, tracked, tested and isolated aggressively to halt the spread of infection. At the heart of this has been the screening effort, involving fever camps, doorstep initiatives and mobile vans. The early door-to-door screening by workers in sweltering personal protective gear was not sustainable when the weather turned hot and muggy.\n\nPeople who are testing positive are being taken away for quarantine\n\nSo the effort pivoted to the fever camps, where more than 360,000 people have been screened for symptoms so far.\n\nAt each camp, a team of half-a-dozen doctors and health workers in protective clothing screen up to 80 residents every day for temperature and blood oxygen levels using infrared thermometers and pulse oximeters.\n\nPeople showing flu-like symptoms are tested for the disease on spot. Those who test positive are moved to local institutional quarantine facilities, a bunch of schools, marriage halls, sports complexes. More than 10,000 people have been put into quarantine so far. If their condition deteriorates, patients are moved to public and three private hospitals in the area.\n\n\"The fever camps have really helped in checking the spread of the infection,\" Dr Amruta Bawaskar, a medical officer working in the slum, told me.\n\n\"People turn up voluntarily now, and want to get tested on any pretext. Sometimes they will inflate their age to qualify for testing for high-risk elderly people. Sometimes they will want to get tested because they sat next to someone who coughed or sneezed. There's a lot of fear and awareness.\"\n\nWith some 11,000 tests done since April, there's a possibility that the slum still has a large population of people who are infected but show no symptoms. But officials believe they have been able to contain the infection at a time when it is picking up speed elsewhere in Mumbai and other hotspot cities.\n\nThe relatively low death toll is possibly explained by the overwhelmingly young population of the slum - most infected people have been in the age group of 21 to 50 years.\n\nAnd to make sure the harsh containment worked, free meals and food rations have been provided to residents trapped at home without work and income.\n\n\"I think we have managed to break the chain of transmission without social distancing because there was no scope for that,\" Kiran Dighavkar, an assistant municipal commissioner in charge of the area, told me.\n\nDharavi is one of the world's most congested slums\n\nIt also helps that Dharavi gets a lot of media attention.\n\nThe slum drew international attention as the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. Business school researchers and city planners from around the world have studied its $1bn informal economy and urban dynamics.\n\nPrivate doctors have joined the fever camps. The cash-rich municipality, politicians, and non-profits have provided tens of thousands of free meals and rations. Bollywood actors and businessmen have donated gear, oxygen cylinders, gloves, masks, medicines and ventilators.\n\n\"Mumbai has a history of community action. They have a done a good job in helping officials containing the infection in Dharavi,\" says Dr Armida Fernandez, who's involved with a non-profit working in the slum.\n\nHowever, the economic costs of the draconian containment have been enormous.\n\nThe slum is home to thriving leather, pottery and textile stitching businesses. It has 5,000 small factories which pay taxes and some 15,000 single-room workshops. It is also Mumbai's main hub of plastic recycling.\n\nNot surprisingly Dharavi is a place where migrant low-cost skilled labour has thrived for decades. After the lockdown, an estimated 150,000 of them left the place for their native villages after their workplaces shut and earnings dried up. Residents have pawned their gold, depleted their savings and been pushed into debt.\n\n\"It was a very harsh containment. It killed the economy of Dharavi,\" says Vinod Shetty, a lawyer who runs a non-profit called Acorn India, which works in the slum.\n\n\"People are living hand to mouth. They are not getting work inside our outside the slum.\" In other words, the trade-off between lives and livelihood has been harsh.\n\nThe next challenge, agrees Mr Dighavkar, is to slowly open up the factories so that people can go back to work, and ensure that people continue to wear masks and follow all procedures.\n\nMore than 360,000 residents have been screened\n\nWill there be enough water in a slum where many buy supplies to to make sure that people can wash their hands? Will there be enough jobs left to woo workers back to the factories?\n\nHow long can the slum remain in a lockdown mode to contain future waves of infection? How long can non-profits continue to help as they start to run out of resources in what promises to be a long and weary battle?\n\n\"The war is not yet over. Not until the virus has left for good, anyway,\" Mr Dighavkar says.", "The UK car industry's trade body says one in six jobs are at risk of redundancy without help from the government in restarting production.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said emergency funding, permanent short-time working, business rate holidays, and VAT cuts are needed to stem the flow of job losses.\n\nShowrooms are reopening and production lines are restarting, it said.\n\nBut more than 6,000 jobs have been lost in the automotive sector this month.\n\nIn common with many manufacturers, carmakers have high fixed costs to pay, such as rent, during a period where sales are sharply down.\n\nAnd many workers remain furloughed as companies work out how to operate while allowing for social distancing.\n\n\"A third of our workforce remains furloughed, and we want those staff coming back to work, not into redundancy,\" said Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive.\n\n\"Government's intervention has been unprecedented,\" he added. \"But the job isn't done yet. Just as we have seen in other countries, we need a package of support to restart; to build demand, volumes and growth, and keep the UK at the forefront of the global automotive industry.\"\n\nThe lobby group estimates the impact of lockdown will cut annual car and light commercial vehicle production by one-third to 920,000 vehicles this year.\n\nAs well as assistance to restart production, the industry is anxious about securing a trade deal with the EU.\n\nMr Hawes told the BBC's Today programme that UK car manufacturers could not afford to pay import tariffs on components arriving in the UK from abroad, as the cost would be more than their profit margin.\n\nHe added: \"It is vitally important that the government achieves its ambition, which is a trade agreement before the end of the year.\"\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January, but remains in the single market and customs union until 31 December, while the two sides try to hammer out a trade agreement.\n\n\"Certainty that a full, zero-tariff deal will be in place by the end of the transition period will give businesses on both sides chance to prepare, and help drive investment into the new skills, facilities and technologies that will be integral to delivering a zero-carbon future for the UK,\" the lobby group said.\n\nBritish car manufacturing came to a screeching halt in April, down 99.7% against the same month last year.\n\nIt was the lowest output since World War Two. Just 197 premium and luxury sports vehicles rolled off factory lines, with 45 of those sent to UK customers.\n\nSome plants refocused to make 711,495 items of personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe loss of 400,000 cars that would normally have been made is expected to cost the British car industry up to £12.5bn in revenues.\n\nIn April, there were 830 new car engines made at UK plants, 781 of which were exported. This level was down 99.5% on the year before.", "Tributes have been paid to the the victims of an attack in Reading on Saturday.\n\nBBC Radio Berkshire presenter Sarah Walker has been speaking about her friend Joe Ritchie-Bennett.", "Galleries, cinemas and museums will be able to reopen from 4 July, the prime minister is expected to announce on Tuesday\n\nCinemas, museums and galleries will be able to reopen in England from 4 July, Boris Johnson is expected to announce on Tuesday as he outlines a further easing of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nVenues closed since the middle of March will be able to welcome visitors as long as safety measures are in place.\n\nThe PM is also due to set out how pubs can safely reopen following a review of the 2m distancing rule.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said on Monday the virus was \"in retreat\".\n\nMr Hancock said England was \"clearly on track\" to further ease lockdown restrictions but No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a surge in new infections.\n\nThere were fewer than 1,000 confirmed new cases announced on Monday, the lowest daily figure since the lockdown started on 23 March, while the number of people in hospital with the virus has fallen below 5,000.\n\nThe number of daily virus deaths also fell to 15, the lowest since 15 March. However, the figures often dip on Mondays due to reporting delays.\n\nOffice for National Statistics figures show the number of overall deaths in England and Wales for the week ending 12 June was back below 10,000 for the first time this year, although still not back to normal levels.\n\nThere were 9,976 deaths registered in England and Wales, down from 10,709 the previous week - 6% above the five year average.\n\nOn Monday, the prime minister discussed the changes with the Covid-19 strategy committee, attended by the UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and England's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty.\n\nHe is expected to announce the plans in Parliament at about 12:30 BST.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to say the 2m (6ft 6in) social distancing rule will be reduced to 1m (3ft 3in) from 4 July, with some mitigating measures.\n\nThis will enable many pubs, restaurants, hotels and B&Bs to reopen for the first time in more than three months.\n\nCurrent evidence suggests being 1m apart carries between two and 10 times the risk of being 2m apart, scientists advising the government say.\n\nBoris Johnson's words today will represent more than a different notch on a measuring tape, more than another kind of business being able to open its own doors in England, and more than the government moving into the final official phase of its so called roadmap set out weeks ago.\n\nCoronavirus has bestowed grief on tens of thousands of families and is bringing recession to the whole UK.\n\nAnd it has also pushed the capabilities of the Westminster government, arguably, beyond its limits - buffeting ministers' reputations and raising questions about their grip.\n\nNow with the threat to health receding, and the economic danger very real, the political calculus has moved enough to allow the next phase to begin.\n\nMinisters used to boast they were following the science. But that complicated advice was a guide, never a medical diktat.\n\nThe decisions on how and when to react to the pandemic were always for the politicians to take.\n\nThe government's ambition now is to move steadily towards a more recognisable way of life that gives a chance, ministers hope, to give them, not the virus itself, control.\n\nRead more from Laura here.\n\nThe government has come under pressure from the hospitality sector, and some Conservative MPs, to relax the 2m rule, with many saying it would be impossible to trade under the current measures.\n\nLabour said its support would depend on employees having adequate protective equipment, such as face shields, and there being an effective testing and tracing system in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nMinisters have not ruled out customers having to register when entering pubs and bars so they can easily be tracked down if they come into contact with a person infected with coronavirus.\n\nPeter Borg Neal, chief executive of pub chain Oakman Inns, told Radio 4's Today programme that 1m social distancing was \"still very problematic\" but would allow most pubs to open.\n\n\"We hope to prove very quickly to government that pubs will be a safe environment and they can ease restrictions further in due course,\" he said.\n\nAs part of the government's recovery plan, some arts and entertainment venues are also likely to be able to open their doors from 4 July but only if they follow guidance to ensure they are \"Covid secure\".\n\nThey will be expected to minimise face-to-face contact by requiring customers to pre-book tickets, to stand in spaced queues and to enter and leave through different areas.\n\nScreens could be put up to minimise the risk to staff while ventilation systems will be improved.\n\nGallery directors have said they are \"incredibly excited\" to reopen and hope the public will be hungry for culture after three months.\n\nSimon Martin, director of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex, told Today: \"I think many are going to feel quite emotional when they come. But for us we really want our visitors to feel welcome, feel safe and have an enjoyable time. We are working very hard to ensure that although we sanitise the building we don't sanitise the experience.\"\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh, said the public health community was \"very anxious\" about the pace of changes, adding that the UK still has a far higher number of cases than other European countries.\n\n\"I don't think we're in the position where we have a fully functioning track and trace [system] to give us the confidence that if we start to see cases rise again we can contain it,\" she told the BBC's Newsnight programme.\n\nNorthern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told the Today programme that the government will be issuing guidelines to businesses on how to manage safety.\n\n\"The reality is we're all going to have to get used to this new kind of normal as we go forward...where we have to take some self-responsibility to ensure the safety of ourselves, our friends, our family, and the people in our community,\" he said.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule for the hospitality industry.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked scientific advisers to review the circumstances in which it might be reduced alongside \"additional mitigations\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes are set to reopen from 3 July, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it. Schools will be able to follow 1m social distancing measures when they reopen in August.\n\nA change has also not been ruled out in Wales - where First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would support a reduction if Welsh advisers said it was safe.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the relaxation of lockdown measures and Covid-19?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Novak Djokovic said he is \"so sorry\" after becoming the latest tennis player to test positive for Covid-19.\n\nGrigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki all revealed they had coronavirus after playing at Djokovic's Adria Tour competition.\n\nDjokovic, 33, played fellow Serb Troicki in the first event in Belgrade.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Djokovic said it had been \"too soon\" to stage the tournament.\n\n\"I am so deeply sorry our tournament has caused harm,\" added Djokovic.\n\nHe said the tournament had been organised with \"a pure heart\", \"good intentions\" and a belief that they had \"met all health protocols\".\n\n\"We were wrong and it was too soon,\" Djokovic said.\n\nThe remaining Adria Tour events in Banja Luka and Sarajevo have now been cancelled Djokovic's brother Djordje, who is a director of the tournament, has confirmed.\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to all the events that happened in the last few days, we have decided that the most important thing right now is to stabilise the epidemiological situation, as well as for everyone to recover,\" he said.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray said the positive tests were a \"lesson for us\", while Australian Nick Kyrgios called playing a \"bone-headed decision\".\n\nA statement on Djokovic's website said: \"Immediately upon his arrival in Belgrade [after the second event] Novak was tested along with all members of the family and the team with whom he was in Belgrade and Zadar. He is not showing any symptoms.\"\n• None Battle of the Brits - follow live coverage as Andy and Jamie Murray feature\n\nThere have been no ATP Tour events since February because of the global pandemic and the Adria Tour, which is not an ATP Tour event, was one of the first competitions to be staged since then.\n\nThe first leg in Serbia attracted 4,000 fans, and players were later pictured dancing close together in a Belgrade nightclub.\n\nBulgaria's Dimitrov played Croatia's Coric on Saturday in the second leg in Zadar, Croatia.\n\nWith Croatia easing lockdown measures, players were not obliged to observe social distancing rules and were seen embracing at the net at the end of their matches.\n\nPictures on the tournament's social media site from Friday showed Dimitrov playing basketball with Djokovic, Alexander Zverev and Marin Cilic, while he also put his arm around Coric before their match.\n\nZverev, Cilic and Andrey Rublev, who also played in the Adria Tour, have tested negative, but suggested they will all now self-isolate for up to 14 days.\n\nThe ATP Tour season is set to restart on 14 August and the US Open will be held without fans from 31 August to 13 September, despite some players voicing concerns about travelling to New York.\n\nI am extremely sorry for each individual case - Djokovic's statement\n\nThe moment we arrived in Belgrade we went to be tested. My result is positive, just as Jelena's, while the results of our children are negative.\n\nEverything we did in the past month, we did with a pure heart and sincere intentions. Our tournament was meant to unite and share a message of solidarity and compassion throughout the region.\n\nThe Tour has been designed to help both established and up and coming tennis players from south-eastern Europe to gain access to some competitive tennis while the various tours are on hold due to Covid-19.\n\nIt was born with a philanthropic idea, to direct all raised funds towards people in need and it warmed my heart to see how everybody strongly responded.\n\nWe organised the tournament when the virus had weakened, believing the conditions for hosting the Tour had been met.\n\nUnfortunately, this virus is still present, and it is a new reality we are learning to cope and live with. I am hoping things will ease with time so we can all resume lives the way they were.\n\nI am extremely sorry for each individual case of infection. I hope it will not complicate anyone's health situation and everyone will be fine.\n\nI will remain in self-isolation for the next 14 days, and repeat the test in five days.\n\nDjokovic has been no stranger to coronavirus conspiracies throughout the pandemic. He revealed during a Facebook live in April that he opposes vaccinations. He said he \"wouldn't want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine\", should that be necessary to travel and compete in tournaments.\n\nHis comments fed into conspiracy theories about mandatory vaccinations that have been circulating on Facebook groups in recent weeks. That includes in one called \"Collective Action Against Bill Gates. We Wont Be Vaccinated!!\" - with over 160,000 members. The group, which promotes conspiracies about Bill Gates, praised Djokovic's comments and used them to justify false claims about vaccinations.\n\nA few days later, a video promoting conspiracy theories about 5G and coronavirus was shared by Djokovic's wife, Jelena. It was labelled by Instagram as false information.", "PC Andrew Harper died after his ankles became lassoed in straps attached to a car\n\nA police officer was killed in \"truly shocking circumstances\" when he was dragged for more than a mile by a car on a country road, a court heard.\n\nPC Andrew Harper was \"swung from side to side like a pendulum\" after his ankles got caught in a strap trailing behind a vehicle driven by 19-year-old Henry Long in Berkshire in August 2019.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard his uniform was \"ripped and stripped from his body\".\n\nMr Long and passengers Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, both 18, deny murder.\n\nThe prosecution case was opened to a new jury after a trial, which started in March, could not be finished due to the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nJonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting, said PC Harper, 28, from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was left with the \"most appalling of injuries... and he died there on the road\" after he became entangled in the tow rope.\n\n\"It was a senseless killing of a young police officer in the line of duty; a young man who was doing no more than his job,\" he told jurors.\n\nHenry Long and his passengers, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, (l-r) deny murder\n\nOn the night of 15 August, Peter Wallis called police to report the theft of a quad bike from the drive outside his home in Bradfield Southend.\n\nThe court heard PC Harper was due to finish his shift for Thames Valley Police's roads policing unit, but he and a colleague responded to the call.\n\n\"It was going beyond the call of duty, as it were, and it cost Andrew Harper his life,\" Mr Laidlaw added.\n\nThe court heard the officers came face-to-face with the Seat Toledo in Admoor Lane, which was driven by Mr Long. Mr Bowers was in the front passenger seat and Mr Cole was riding the quad bike, the prosecution said, which was being towed from behind with a strap.\n\nAs the police car edged toward the Seat, Mr Long began to drive around the vehicle as Mr Cole, who had lifted the loop of strapping from the bike's handlebars, dived into the moving car, Mr Laidlaw said.\n\nMr Laidlaw said as Mr Cole had attempted to get into the Seat to escape, PC Harper got out of his vehicle to intercept him.\n\n\"The loop of strapping was now on the ground and being dragged behind the Seat,\" Mr Laidlaw said.\n\n\"PC Harper must have quite unwittingly stepped, with both feet, into the loop made on the road.\"\n\nMr Laidlaw said Mr Long then \"sped off\" and PC Harper was \"lassoed\" around his ankles.\n\nPC Harper's colleague, PC Andrew Shaw, described it \"as if he had lost his footing while water skiing\" with his feet \"being whipped forward and his body being thrown back\".\n\nMr Laidlaw said while none of the defendants could have \"possibly intended that that should happen\" it \"must have been very quickly clear to Henry Long... that the vehicle was now dragging somebody\".\n\nThe court heard the Seat travelled for more than a mile before PC Harper became detached from the strap.\n\nMr Long, from Mortimer, Reading, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter but, along with Mr Bowers and Mr Cole, denies murder.\n\nMr Cole, of Paices Hill near Reading, Mr Bowers, of Moat Close, Bramley, and Mr Long have all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThe trial, expected to last five weeks, continues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has announced pubs and restaurants in England would be allowed to offer table service inside from next month, but they must take contact details of customers.\n\nHe also said hairdressers, hotels, campsites, outdoors gyms, theme parks and libraries were on the list of venues that could reopen from 4 July.\n\nBut the prime minister said nightclubs, soft play areas, indoor gyms and swimming pools “will need to stay closed for now”.", "Emergency services were seen at a stretch of the river in Cookham\n\nPolice are searching for a man who is feared to have drowned in the River Thames.\n\nEmergency services, including the air ambulance, were called to a stretch of the river in Cookham, Berkshire, at about 18:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThames Valley Police said it was reported that a man had entered the water.\n\n\"Officers are working to locate the man, who was not seen to get out of the water,\" the force said in a tweet.\n\nPictures from the scene appear to show rescue workers, including fire crew rescue teams, in boats on the river.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TVP Maidenhead This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, South Central Ambulance Service tweeted to say that \"reports of three boys having drowned in this incident are not correct\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Payne has climbed the equivalent of Highland mountain Suilven - 731m (2,398ft) - with trips upstairs at her Sutherland home.\n\nHer challenge started on 12 April and took almost 300 trips to complete. She has raised more than £347,000 for the NHS, Highland Hospice and RNLI.\n\nMrs Payne, from Ardvar, first climbed Suilven, in the west of Sutherland when she was aged 15 in 1944.\n\nHer stair climbing was inspired by the fundraising efforts of Captain Tom Moore.\n\nThe war veteran raised more than £32m for NHS charities by completing 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday in April.", "Boris Johnson will announce his plans in Parliament on Tuesday\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to announce on Tuesday if the hospitality sector can reopen on 4 July, and that the 2m distancing rule in England will be relaxed, with some conditions.\n\nNon-essential shops have reopened in England already, with retail resuming in Wales from today.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said England is \"clearly on track\" to further ease lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut No 10 warned the moves would be reversed if they led to a virus surge.\n\nThe PM discussed England's approach to the changes with the Covid-19 Strategy Committee on Monday, ahead of an announcement in Parliament on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson is also expected to announce a reduction in the 2m social distancing rule to 1m, with some mitigating measures.\n\nThe change to the rule, which follows a government review, is expected to come into effect on 4 July.\n\nMinisters are also expected to bring forward legislation this week aiming to help businesses cope with social distancing requirements.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the Business and Planning Bill would help firms \"adjust to new ways of working, and help them capitalise on the summer months\".\n\nLabour MPs have called for ministers to be transparent on the findings of the 2m rule review.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has said the party's support would depend on mitigations being introduced on face-shielding, and testing and tracing.\n\nEarlier Security Minister James Brokenshire said the 2m rule review would be informed by scientific evidence but also \"experience around the world as well\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was also important to recognise the importance of other factors on safety, such as whether people are indoors or outside, or whether they are wearing face coverings.\n\nHe added that the review would also take into account the latest understanding of how the virus is transmitted, which \"has evolved over the last number of weeks\".\n\nMr Hancock has suggested that customers may have to register when entering pubs and bars so they can easily be traced if they come into contact with a coronavirus case.\n\nAsked on Sunday about plans for registration and ordering drinks through smartphone apps, he said: \"I wouldn't rule it out. It isn't a decision we've taken yet, but there are other countries in the world that take that approach.\"\n\nHe added that he \"very much hoped\" the 2m rule can be lowered, with \"mitigations\" to cut the risk of transmission.\n\nThe government has come under pressure from the hospitality sector to lower the rule, with many saying it would be impossible to trade under the current restrictions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nSome Tory MPs and members of the hospitality sector have been appealing to the government to lower the 2m rule to 1m, as many venues say they would be unable to open otherwise.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that distance carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThe other nations of the UK are yet to announce any plans to change the 2m distance rule.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has asked scientific advisors to review the circumstances in which it might be reduced alongside \"additional mitigations\".\n\nIn Northern Ireland, where hotels, bars, restaurants and cafes are set to reopen from 3 July, Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA change has also not been ruled out in Wales - where First Minister Mark Drakeford said he would support a reduction if Welsh advisers said it was safe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson said the government was \"sticking like glue\" to its roadmap\n\nIn his speech on Tuesday, the PM is expected to warn the public they must continue to follow social distancing guidelines to \"keep the coronavirus under control\".\n\nHe will also reiterate pledges to use the NHS Test and Trace system to detect and control local outbreaks through \"targeted lockdowns\".\n\nA No 10 spokesman said: \"The reason we are able to move forward this week is because the vast majority of people have taken steps to contain the virus.\n\n\"The more we open up, the more important it is that everyone follows the social distancing rules.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to put the handbrake on to stop the virus running out of control.\"", "Anthony McHugh spent a total of four weeks in hospital with Covid-19\n\nTens of thousands of people will need to be recalled to hospital after a serious Covid-19 infection to check if they have been left with permanent lung damage, doctors have told the BBC.\n\nExperts are concerned a significant proportion could be left with lung scarring, known as pulmonary fibrosis.\n\nThe condition is irreversible and symptoms can include severe shortness of breath, coughing and fatigue.\n\nNHS England said it was opening specialist rehabilitation centres.\n\nRetired taxi driver Anthony McHugh, 68, was admitted to hospital on 6 March with coronavirus symptoms. His condition deteriorated and he was transferred to intensive care and placed on a ventilator for 13 days.\n\n\"I was feeling breathless, then I just remember being rushed into ICU, and after that it was all just a blank,\" he said.\n\nMr McHugh, from Hertfordshire, spent a total of four weeks in hospital and another two in an NHS rehabilitation unit. He returned home in mid-April but still suffers from breathing difficulties two months later.\n\n\"It's little things like walking up the stairs or watering the flowers outside. I start bending down and I have to stop,\" he said.\n\nCT scans taken while he was in hospital showed a white mist, or \"ground glass\", pattern in both lungs - a characteristic sign of coronavirus\n\nIn serious cases it's thought coronavirus can trigger an exaggerated immune response causing mucus, fluid and other cells to fill the air sacs, or alveoli. When this happens, pneumonia can set in, making it difficult to breathe without assistance.\n\nAn X-ray of Mr McHugh's lungs taken six weeks after he left hospital showed thin white lines, known as reticular shadowing, that could indicate the early signs of scarring or pulmonary fibrosis.\n\n\"With all these cases, we can't say for certain at the moment,\" said Dr Sam Hare, an executive committee member of the British Society of Thoracic Imaging and advisor to the Royal College of Radiologists.\n\n\"But usually with a virus or infection at six weeks, you would expect the scan to have returned to normal. It hasn't and that's the worry.\"\n\nLike other Covid-19 patients who have been discharged from hospital, Mr McHugh will need another scan at 12 weeks to see if the suspected scarring on his lungs has deteriorated.\n\nResearch into the prevalence of lung damage caused by Covid-19 is still at a very early stage.\n\nIt's thought those with a mild form of the disease are unlikely to suffer permanent damage. But those in hospital, and particularly those in intensive care or with a severe infection, are more vulnerable to complications.\n\nIn a study from China, published in March, 66 of 70 patients still had some level of lung damage after being discharged from hospital.\n\nRadiologists in the UK say, based on the early results of follow-up scans, they are concerned about the long term-effects of a serious infection.\n\n\"In the six-week scans we're seeing, so far I would say between 20% and 30% of patients who have been in hospital appear to show some early signs of lung scarring,\" says Dr Hare, who helped draw up NHS radiology protocols to diagnose Covid-19.\n\nOther UK radiologists have told the BBC they were noticing a similar pattern.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Radiologist Dr Sam Hare uses a plastic cup to demonstrate how Covid-19 can leave lung damage\n\nMore detailed data from two other earlier coronavirus outbreaks, Sars and Mers, found between 20% and 60% of patients experienced some form of health problem consistent with pulmonary fibrosis.\n\nWhereas those earlier outbreaks were contained relatively successfully, the virus that causes Covid-19 has spread across the world, with more than eight million confirmed infections to date.\n\nMore than 100,000 patients have needed hospital care for Covid-19 in England since the pandemic started in February, according to NHS figures.\n\n\"My concern with Covid-19 is because so much of the population has been infected,\" said Dr Hare.\n\n\"I'm worried about the sheer volume of patients that we're going to have to treat, simply because so many more people have had the virus.\"\n\nLung fibrosis cannot be cured because scarring in the lung tissue is permanent. But new drugs can slow down the progression of the disease and even stop it completely if detected in time.\n\n\"We now need to understand how big the problem is and when we should intervene with treatment,\" said Prof Gisli Jenkins, of the National Institute for Health Research, who is running assessment clinics for those discharged from hospital with Covid-19.\n\nProf Jenkins, who is based in Nottingham, said: \"My real concern is that never before in our lifetime have so many people been subject to the same lung injury at the same time.\"\n\nNHS England has said it is planning to open a number of specialist Covid-19 rehabilitation centres to help patients recover from long-term effects, including possible lung damage.\n\nIn Scotland and Wales the plan is to adapt existing services and provide more community rehabilitation.", "Ron Jeremy is facing up to 90 years behind bars\n\nAdult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth, prosecutors say.\n\nHe is accused of attacking the women between 2014 and 2019. The alleged victims were aged between 25 and 46.\n\nThe 67-year-old is one of the biggest names in pornography and has featured in more than 2,000 films dating back to the 1970s.\n\nIf convicted, he faces up to 90 years behind bars. He denies the charges.\n\nMr Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, stands accused of raping a 25-year-old woman at a house in West Hollywood, according to a statement from Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey.\n\nHe allegedly sexually assaulted two women, ages 33 and 46, on separate occasions at a West Hollywood bar in 2017, the district attorney said. He also is accused of raping a 30-year-old woman at the same bar in July 2019.\n\nA separate case from 2016 was dropped due to insufficient evidence.\n\nMr Jeremy's attorney Stuart Goldfarb told AFP news agency the charges were a \"surprise\". \"He is not a rapist,\" he said.\n\n\"Ron - over the years, because of who he is - has essentially been a paramour to over 4,000 women,\" he said.\n\n\"And to allege that he is a rapist is beyond... I mean, women throw themselves at him.\"\n\nMr Jeremy appeared in court Tuesday, wearing handcuffs and a face mask, but did not enter a plea.\n\nA judge delayed his arraignment until Friday and set his bail at $6.6 million (£5.27 million).\n\nDante Rusciolelli, Mr Jeremy's manager, told US media he was dropping the actor as a client.\n\nIn 2017, Rolling Stone reported that more than a dozen women had accused Mr Jeremy of sexual misconduct, including groping, inappropriate touching, non-consensual digital penetration, and sexual assault.\n\nHe told the magazine he had \"never and would never rape anyone\".\n\nMr Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for \"Most Appearances in Adult Films\" and was the subject of the 2001 documentary Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy.\n\nHe has also made numerous cameo appearances in computer games, Hollywood films and music videos, including for Moby, Guns N' Roses, Armin Van Buuren and LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It.", "The centre of the earthquake was in the coastal state of Oaxaca but shock waves were felt as far away as Mexico city.\n\nThe mayor of Oaxaca sad that that one person is known to have died. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urged people to stay on their guard in case of further tremors.", "Boris Johnson gave the first of the daily updates on 16 March. It feels like a different era.\n\nThe prime minister had already warned that some people would lose loved ones before their time. It’s unlikely he was anticipating being in ICU himself the following month.\n\nBut now just as the nation \"emerges from hibernation\", government ministers are withdrawing from daily public view, although \"significant announcements\" will still be subject to media scrutiny.\n\nToday, the scientists seemed absolutely determined not to go out on a high.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance stressed infections were not down to zero. The virus has not gone away – and most of the nation is still susceptible to it.\n\nChris Whitty still advised people to stay 2m apart in England, where possible, and reminded us we could be living with the virus until this time next year, so some restrictions may have to return.\n\nAnd this is the political risk for the prime minister. Boris Johnson said today he takes responsibility for his decisions.\n\nWhile he will get plaudits for restarting the economy, if, subsequently, he does \"have to apply the handbrake and reverse\" (and just imagine the screeching noise your car would make if you did that) his handling of the pandemic will come under even greater scrutiny.", "Last updated on .From the section Burnley\n\nBlackpool Airport has suspended banner flights from its base after the message 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was towed by an aeroplane over Etihad Stadium on Monday night.\n\nThe banner was flown over the stadium during Manchester City's 5-0 win over Burnley.\n\nIn a statement, manager Stephen Smith said the airport and Blackpool Council are \"outraged by this incident\".\n\nBurnley say they are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by the banner.\n\nBlackpool Airport says the incident was reported to police and the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nChief superintendent Russ Procter said Lancashire Police had investigated the incident but \"concluded that there are no criminal offences that have been disclosed at this time\".\n\nRichard Moriarty, chief executive of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, said his organisation condemned the incident.\n\nBlackpool airport statement read: \"We stand against racism of any kind and absolutely do not condone the activity, the message was offensive and the action reprehensible. The decision to fly the banner was taken entirely by the banner flying company without the knowledge or approval of the airport or Blackpool Council.\n\n\"Due to the nature of the activity, banners are not checked before take-off and the content is at the operator's discretion.\n\n\"Following an emergency review this morning, Blackpool Airport will suspend all banner towing operations at the airport with immediate effect and we would suggest that other airports should also consider this approach in light of what has happened at Blackpool.\"\n\nBurnley and City players and staff had taken a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement moments before the aircraft circled over the stadium.\n\n\"Fans like that don't deserve to be around football,\" Clarets skipper Ben Mee told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We're ashamed, we're embarrassed. It's a minority of our supporters - I know I speak for a massive part of our support who distance ourselves from anything like that.\"\n\nIn a statement, Burnley said that the banner \"in no way represents\" what the club stands for and that they will \"work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and take appropriate action\".\n\nBoth Burnley and City were wearing shirts with the players' names replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\nIt is understood that the stunt was carried out by Air Ads, which operates out of Blackpool Airport and runs a one-stop shop where they make the banners and fly them. They have flown over football stadiums in the past, including a 'Moyes Out' one at Old Trafford.\n\nWhen BBC Sport contacted the company, a man who answered refused to give his name but said he was packing away the banner.\n\nHe said as long as banners were legal and did not use coarse language, the company did not 'take sides' and had previously done a Black Lives Matter banner. He claimed police had been informed of the banner in advance.\n\nThe Premier League resumed on 17 June after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic; players and officials have been showing their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.", "Job losses at one of Wales' biggest food companies would have a \"serious impact\" on the local economy, says the leader of Carmarthenshire council.\n\nCastell Howell Foods is considering job losses as the firm said weekly sales were down by 65% and it fears trade is \"unlikely\" to recover until 2021.\n\nThe Carmarthenshire wholesaler and processing company has entered into a period of consultation with employees, citing the drop in hospitality trade during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nCouncil leader Emlyn Dole said: \"It's going to be a huge blow for us, there's no doubt about that. The food, drink and visitor sector is worth about £170m to the Camarthenshire economy, so it's bound to have a serious impact.\n\n\"We've been working side by side with the company for years, and especially during the pandemic... we will continue to support the company, because it's not just the economic impact we're concerned about, but also the personal impact on many families that depend on the company for income.\n\n\"We have a responsibility to look after them.\"\n\nOpposition leader Rob James said he was \"saddened\" to hear about possible job losses.\n\n\"Castell Howell is a significant employer in the county and is essential to our local economy. Our fear is that this announcement may be the first of many as the UK government alters their furloughing scheme and risks a large rise in unemployment.\n\n\"We need a back to work budget from the UK government to protect jobs at a crucial phase of the coronavirus recovery. In the meantime, we will be lobbying on behalf of Castell Howell and the wholesale sector for financial support to weather the storm.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What will a socially-distanced bar look like?\n\nFormer Chancellor Sajid Javid says the UK should lower taxes on business, rather than focus on austerity, as it deals with the huge hole in public finances made by the crisis. In a report by the Centre for Policy Studies, he backed tightening tax reliefs \"which unduly favour the wealthy\" and cutting national insurance for employers. It comes as the UK car industry's trade body said one in six jobs were at risk without government help.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How are we going to pay for the coronavirus crisis?\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney will explain today how schools will be able to reopen in Scotland after the summer break. Pupils are due to return from 11 August, but will initially have a \"blended\" approach involving face-to-face teaching and at-home learning. There has been speculation exams in 2021 could be delayed and that blended learning could last for a year.\n\nMen who've had coronavirus are being urged to donate plasma from their blood to help with research into treatments. Their plasma could be more useful for saving lives because men are more likely to become seriously ill with the disease, and therefore they produce higher levels of antibodies than women. Read more from our medical correspondent Fergus Walsh on the latest coronavirus treatment breakthroughs.\n\nDonating takes about 45 minutes, as the blood is filtered through a machine to remove the plasma\n\nA UK-led team has launched an initiative to study the impact of the \"anthropause\" - the global, temporary slowdown in human activity due to lockdown - on wildlife. The researchers say it's likely to have had a profound effect on other species and measuring that will reveal ways in which we can \"share our increasingly crowded planet\".\n\nBio-logging devices could be used to track changes in the behaviour of creatures like whales\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest via our live page.\n\nPlus, hundreds of workers have tested positive for coronavirus at meat processing plants and abattoirs in the UK and elsewhere in the world. Why are the outbreaks happening?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Scotland will not immediately follow England in cutting the 2m social distance rule, the country's first minister has said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she would give an update on Wednesday on the country's lockdown easing restrictions.\n\nBut she said there would be no decision on whether or not to reduce the 2m rule until her Scientific Advisory Group has examined the evidence.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would be done by 2 July at the latest.\n\nThe first minister was speaking as Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifted an array of coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nMr Johnson said the \"long national hibernation\" was coming to an end as he announced that pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers can open from 4 July in England.\n\nThe 2m social distancing rule will also be eased from that date, although a \"one metre plus\" rule will be introduced.\n\nThe new guidelines in England will see people encouraged to use \"mitigation\" such as face coverings and not sitting face-to-face when within 2m of each other, and \"where it is possible to keep 2m apart, people should\".\n\nThe prime minister said it was each nation's own responsibility to make their own lockdown restrictions, but that all parts of the UK were now \"travelling in the same direction\".\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing in Edinburgh that she would be \"very interested\" to see the scientific evidence upon which the UK government had based its decision.\n\nThe first minister, like Mr Johnson, has been under pressure from the tourism and hospitality sector, as well as many other businesses, to relax the distancing rules to make it easier for them to reopen.\n\nIt would also make it easier for pupils to return to the classroom without the need for part-time \"blended learning\".\n\nMs Sturgeon will outline further details of the lockdown easing plans on Wednesday\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was under no illusions about the potential economic benefits - but stressed that easing the rules also brought a greater risk of the virus spreading.\n\nShe added: \"The Scottish government is clear that the advice and evidence we have right now supports physical distancing at 2m in order to reduce the risk of virus transmission.\n\n\"But we have asked in what settings, what circumstances and with what additional mitigation it might be possible to accept the risk of people not keeping to a 2m distance.\n\n\"That advice will be available by the 2nd of July. Until then the position here in Scotland remains the same, we are advising people to maintain 2m physical distancing.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw accused Ms Sturgeon of following a \"go-slow\" approach that risked leaving Scotland behind both economically and socially.\n\nHe added: \"It will be very difficult for people here to look on as England, and indeed the rest of Europe, begins a return to normal.\n\n\"It will also be very costly for businesses, industries like tourism and hospitality, and the mental health of the nation.\"\n\nLast Thursday, Scotland formally moved to the second phase of its four-phase plan aimed at ending the three-month lockdown while continuing to suppress the virus that has been linked to the deaths of more than 4,000 people across the country.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the briefing she will announce more details on easing lockdown restrictions tomorrow, which she said was earlier than she had originally planned to do so.\n\nThis acceleration of the plans was possible because of the progress that had been made during what had been the \"most challenging\" three month period in the lifetime of most Scots, she added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Hospital admissions which at one point were at 200 a day are currently in single figures every day.\n\n\"The number of people in intensive care has fallen by 90% and while it is the case that one person dying from this virus is one too many, we've also seen a very significant and sustained decline in the number of those deaths.\"\n\nThe NHS did not \"come close\" to being overwhelmed, Ms Sturgeon said, crediting the efforts of the Scottish people for the progress made in suppressing the virus.\n\nBut she said the \"sorrow\" over those who have died - about half of them in care homes - would \"live with me forever\".", "The first minister said she does not expect to see Scots going to UK holiday resorts yet\n\nNicola Sturgeon has warned Scots against taking holidays in other parts of the UK even as lockdown restrictions are being eased south of the border.\n\nThe first minister said the Scottish government's five-mile advisory limit on travelling for leisure and recreation remained in place for now.\n\nShe also said people should still not plan overnight stays away from home.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she hoped the tourism industry would be \"back up and running\" by next month.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers can open from 4 July in England, when social distancing rules will be eased.\n\nTwo households in England will also be able to meet indoors and stay overnight - with social distancing.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she expected to receive expert guidance on whether it was possible to amend the 2m distance by next Thursday in Scotland.\n\nSpeaking at her daily briefing, the first minister said she did not expect to see people from Scotland travelling to other parts of the UK on holiday at this time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus in Scotland: Scots not yet able to travel within UK for a holiday\n\nShe said: \"We hope we will see that lifted in the coming weeks and see our tourist industry back up and running by the middle of July.\n\n\"At that point, assuming all the evidence is still pointing in the right direction, I will be delighted to encourage people to have staycations in Scotland and in all the beautiful parts of our country.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her advice to everyone was to follow the guidance \"in the part of the UK you are in\".\n\nShe said: \"If there are differences in infection rates in different parts of the UK, and even in different parts of Scotland, then we may see more localised measures to minimise transmission between different areas.\n\n\"My advice is, if you live in Scotland or are visiting Scotland, you should follow the advice of the Scottish government.\n\n\"If you are Scottish and visiting England, you should follow the advice of the UK government for England.\"", "Bio-logging devices are trackers fitted to animals, like this Alpine ibex, that record their movements\n\nResearchers have launched an initiative to track wildlife before, during and after the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe UK-led team's aim is to study what they have called the \"anthropause\" - the global-scale, temporary slowdown in human activity, which is likely to have a profound impact on other species.\n\nMeasuring that impact, they say, will reveal ways in which we can \"share our increasingly crowded planet\".\n\nThey outline the mission in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.\n\nAll over the world, some animals have been tracked throughout lockdown\n\nThey outline \"urgent steps\" to allow scientists to learn as much as possible from the sudden absence of humans in many landscapes - including ensuring that researchers have access and permission to carry out their work, and can gain access to information about human movement, as well as animal-tracking data.\n\nProf Christian Rutz from the University of St Andrews is president of the International Bio-logging Society.\n\nHe pointed out that bio-loggers - small tracking devices fitted to animals in order to record their movements and other behaviour - have been collecting information in habitats all over the world throughout the pandemic.\n\nTracking whales could also reveal the impact that the \"anthropause\" has had on ocean wildlife\n\n\"There is a really valuable research opportunity here, one that's been brought about by the most tragic circumstances, but it's one we think we can't afford to miss,\" he told BBC News.\n\nUsually, studies which try to examine the impact of human presence and activity on wild animals are limited to comparing protected habitats to unprotected areas, or studying landscapes in the wake of a natural disaster.\n\nDisasters like the one in Chernobyl can become tragic \"natural experiments\"\n\n\"But during lockdown we have this replicated around the globe - in different localities and for habitats where some species have been fitted with tracking devices the whole time,\" said Prof Rutz.\n\nThere have been many accounts on social media of wildlife apparently making the most of our absence - moving freely through surprisingly urban settings. In some places though, the lack of human activity appears to have been detrimental - increases in poaching driven by poverty, and the absence of ecotourism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"No one's saying that humans should stay in lockdown permanently,\" added Prof Rutz.\n\n\"But what if we see major impacts of our changes in road use, for example? We could use that to make small changes to our transport network that could have major benefits.\"\n\nProf Jim Smith from the University of Portsmouth has been part of what might be considered the first anthropause study - a long-term investigation into the changes in the abandoned landscape around the damaged Chernobyl nuclear power plant.\n\nChernobyl's wolves returned in the wake of the abandonment of the Exclusion Zone\n\n\"Just a few years after the evacuation of the Exclusion Zone, Belarussian and Ukrainian researchers found species associated with humans - like pigeons and rats - were disappearing, but wild animals - wild boar, deer and wolf - were multiplying,\" he said.\n\n\"Still abandoned more than 30 years later, the zone has become an iconic example of accidental rewilding.\"\n\n\"At great economic and human cost, Covid and Chernobyl forced us to push the pause button on our environmental damage,\" Prof Smith continued.\n\n\"Stopping some of those impacts altogether will be hard, but will be helped by what we can learn from these extreme events.\"\n\nProf Rutz and his team pointed out in their paper: \"Scientific knowledge gained during this devastating crisis will allow us to develop innovative strategies for sharing space on this increasingly crowded planet, with benefits for both wildlife and humans.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Victoria Gill looks at the wildlife species enjoying lockdown", "Tim Cook said it was a \"historic day for the Mac\"\n\nApple has confirmed it will transition its Mac laptop and desktop computers to its own ARM-based processors.\n\nThe move means that Macs will run on the same type of chips as the firm's iPhones and iPads, rather than Intel's.\n\nIntel had faced problems manufacturing its own designs, leading it to issue a public apology to computer-makers.\n\nApple's challenge will be to carry off the transition smoothly and convince third-party developers to update their apps accordingly.\n\n\"We expect to ship our first Mac with Apple silicon by the end of the year,\" said chief executive Tim Cook, adding that it would likely be two years before its full product line had made the jump.\n\nThe firm said the move would allow it to offer new features and improved performance as well as making it easier for developers to \"write and optimise software for the entire Apple ecosystem\".\n\nThe announcement was made at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).\n\n\"Apple's motivations for doing this include reducing its dependence on Intel, maximizing its silicon investment, boosting performance and giving itself more flexibility and agility when it comes to future products,\" commented Geoff Blaber from the consultancy CCS Insight.\n\n\"Embracing ARM and making its hardware more consistent across the iPhone, iPad and Mac ranges is a strategic necessity, but there will be inevitable bumps along the road.\"\n\nMacOS was shown running on the current iPad Pro chip, but the new computers will have processors of their own\n\nApple said it had already developed native versions of several of its own apps, including Final Cut Pro X and Logic Pro. iPhone and iPad apps will also be able to be run on the computers.\n\nApple said that Microsoft was working on an optimised version of Office, and Adobe was developing a version of Photoshop.\n\nOther developers should be able to recompile their apps to get a version running \"in just a matter of days,\" said the company's software chief Craig Federighi. He added that old apps would automatically be translated at point of installation to run, although they would not work as well.\n\nTo mark the significance of the move, MacOS will move to version 11. Since 2001, it had only moved from 10.0 to 10.15.\n\nApple successfully made the switch from IBM-Motorola's PowerPC processors to Intel's x86 family in 2006.\n\nHowever, some software was never updated and cannot easily be run on today's Mac computers. Apple dropped support for running older software under emulation in the 2011 release of its Mac operating system.\n\nMicrosoft already allows Windows 10 to be run on both Intel and ARM-based processors and looks set to continue supporting both chip architectures.\n\nApple has not stated how long it will do the same.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ian Fogg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs a result, some people considering buying one of its laptop or desktop computers may decide to postpone a purchase until its first ARM-based computers go on sale.\n\nThis could hit sales both at Apple and the development studios that make software for the platform.\n\nARM-based chips are based on the designs of the UK-based company, which is headquartered in Cambridge. Other companies then adapt these to add capabilities of their own.\n\nSamsung, Qualcomm and Huawei are among the many other companies to do so.\n\nApple is the fourth-largest PC vendor, according to market research firm Gartner, coming behind Lenovo, HP, and Dell.\n\nThe company has said that it has more than 100 million active Mac users. Back in June 2005, when it first announced the move to Intel chips, the figure was about 12.5 million.\n\n\"Apple is approximately 4.5% of the laptop market and 2.6% of the desktop market, so the financial impact to Intel will not be significant,\" commented Gartner's Jon Erensen.\n\n\"However, this transition... could give momentum to Microsoft's current efforts to run Windows on Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors.\"\n\nThe new version of MacOS, \"Big Sur\", was shown off with design tweaks\n\nExisting Mac owners will see changes to the next MacOS operating system - called Big Sur - which Apple said marked its biggest redesign to date.\n\nThe best way to describe a processor is the brain of the computer.\n\nHardly surprising then that the processor in your computer is kind of important. Changing it is no small thing - and Apple hasn't decided this lightly.\n\nThe big question though - and the one that if you're reading this you're probably more interested in - is what will this do for Macs in general?\n\nThe prevailing view in Silicon Valley is moving to Apple silicon will make for more powerful Macs.\n\nBringing it in-house could create cheaper processors - so in theory you could have cheaper Macs (that's if Apple wanted to pass on savings to the consumer).\n\nThe first is that Apple still has Intel-based Macs yet to come out. Will people simply wait for Apple's new processor to go live before choosing to buy a new computer?\n\nAnd - considering how well Mac products sell there will be a nervousness about changing a formula that has worked very well for Apple for the last 15 years.\n\nOther announcements at WWDC included the ability to use an iPhone as a substitute for a car key by transmitting an NFC (near-field communication) signal to unlock doors and start the engine.\n\nThis will initially be limited to some new BMWs, but the firm said it intended to expand to other models in time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Carolina Milanesi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne of the biggest changes to the iPhone's iOS14 operating system will be a shake-up of the home screen.\n\nApps can now be automatically organised into folders containing:\n\nIn addition, the firm is updating its \"widgets\" - blocks that display a stripped-down, small app window - so that they can be placed among the icons for other programs. Examples included weather forecasts, news briefings, and calendar meetings. Android already has something similar.\n\nAnother Android-like new feature is the introduction of App Clips, which allow part of a program to be downloaded quickly. These must be less than 10 megabytes in size and will be able to be triggered via an NFC-transmission or by scanning a QR code.\n\nSuggested uses included the ability to order a drink in a cafe or to pay for a car-parking space.\n\n\"App Clips\" are lightweight apps that can be launched easily, without installing, for immediate functionality\n\nApple is also releasing a new app called Translate that carries out language translations offline, offering an alternative to Google Translate.\n\nIt will support 11 languages to begin with including English, Mandarin, French, German, and Arabic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wayne Lam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor the first time, users will be able to set third-party email and web browser apps as the default in iOS, rather than Apple's own software.\n\nThe UK and Ireland will be among countries given access to an overhauled version of its Maps app, which provides more detailed views of roads and paths than before - as well as new cycling directions and routes for electric cars that pass charging stations.\n\nAnd its MeMoji cartoon-like characters now feature new styling options, including the addition of protective face masks.\n\nApple's tablet operating system iPadOS will also benefit from several enhancements to its Pencil stylus.\n\nThe next version of WatchOS adds sleep-tracking functionality to the firm's smartwatch - which will be based on a user's movements in bed.\n\nIt also adds the ability to determine when the owner is washing their hands, in order to confirm whether they have done so for long enough to help protect against Covid-19.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn addition, the wearable will allow third-party \"curated\" watch faces to be shared and installed. The Activity app - which is now renamed Fitness - will track calories used for various dance styles.\n\nApple Watch receives new customisation options - and the ability to share customised watch faces\n\nApple's AirPod Pro earphones will gain spatial audio to recreate a cinema-style surround sound experience. They will also automatically switch between a user's Apple devices as the owner moves from one to another.\n\nAnd the firm's Apple TV set-top box will soon allow compatible third-party video doorbells to live-stream footage of visitors to television screens, while iOS 14 will make it possible to use facial recognition to identify them.\n\nThe company said Homekit-compatible security cameras will now offer facial recognition when viewed on an Apple TV\n\nThis will only work with members of the owner's family and friends, who need to be tagged in advance.\n\nIt has also emerged that Apple TV's YouTube app will play clips in 4K for the first time, ending a stand-off with Google over the video-encoding technology involved.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nTottenham picked up their first victory in eight games to leave West Ham with a battle to stay in the Premier League.\n\nCzech midfielder Tomas Soucek inadvertently converted into his own net following Giovani lo Celso's corner and Harry Kane broke clear to stroke in his 18th goal of the season.\n\nWith seven games remaining, the loss leaves the Hammers outside the relegation zone but only on goal difference with Bournemouth, Aston Villa and Norwich - who lie in the bottom three - all now having a game in hand over David Moyes' side.\n\nThe hosts punished toothless West Ham, who threatened little but saw Jarrod Bowen strike a post as they pushed in vain for an equaliser before Kane struck.\n\nSpurs boss Jose Mourinho will be delighted with a victory that takes them just six points off the Champions League places and with Kane's goal, which was taken with his usual aplomb after he was put clear. It was also a sign of his increasing assurance in only his second match since a hamstring injury on 1 January.\n\nTop four 'still within reach' for Spurs\n\nThis was not a classic but Mourinho's 300th victory in English football will have left him very satisfied as they have now picked up four points from two home games against Manchester United and West Ham United.\n\nIt was solid if not spectacular and he will have taken particular pleasure in Kane's superbly taken second goal, after the manager had to answer suggestions from former Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson that the striker would not flourish under him.\n\nSpurs still face an uphill struggle to reach the top four but Mourinho will maintain belief and it is still within their reach.\n\nWest Ham have had two games since the Premier League resumed and both have produced grim results and performances that simply confirmed they will face a fight to stay up.\n\nThis is a sterile side and the question is whether Moyes can summon up the inspiration from somewhere to keep the Hammers up.\n\nWest Ham will feel real injustice about the first Spurs goal, which deflected off Davinson Sanchez on to Soucek, which under the current video assistant referee rules should surely have been disallowed. However, it is clear Moyes and his players now have real problems.\n\n'Who is on VAR? Not very good...' - what the managers said\n\nSpurs boss Jose Mourinho to Sky Sports: \"I am happy with the result, the clean sheet, it means the team is more solid, the players have less doubts. We played against a team with a coach with a lot of experience that organises teams in a very difficult way. I could predict that but they made it difficult for us.\n\n\"Our bench was rich, that helped me. To be honest, I don't think it's fair for West Ham to come here with 24 hours less to prepare than us. At the moment it is not nice.\"\n\nWest Ham manager David Moyes to Sky Sports: \"I've only just seen it [the opening goal] and I can't believe they've ruled that as a goal. Any handball is disallowed? That's the rule. Who is on VAR tonight? Not very good eh?\n\n\"Those are the rules, it's not a particularly good rule but I can't believe it. We had a goal disallowed at Sheffield United for the same rule.\n\n\"I thought the team worked really hard, we made it difficult for Tottenham, there were a lot of good things I can take from the game but it's the points we needed.\n\nTottenham travel to Sheffield United on 2 July (kick-off 18:00 BST), while West Ham host Chelsea on 1 July (20:15).\n• None Spurs have won their first Premier League home game since 2 February v Manchester City\n• None West Ham have lost seven consecutive away games in the Premier League for the first time since December 2006\n• None Spurs have completed the league double over West Ham for the first time since 2012-13\n• None Spurs boss Jose Mourinho has never lost against David Moyes in their 14 meetings (W9 D5) in all competitions - this is Mourinho's best record against any manager\n• None West Ham's Mark Noble has received 11 yellow cards against Spurs in the Premier League; the most by a player for a team against a specific opponent in the competition\n• None Harry Kane's strike was his 30th goal in Premier League London derbies (48 appearances), meaning only Teddy Sheringham (32), Frank Lampard (32) and Thierry Henry (43) have netted more often in such matches in the competition's history\n• None Kane has now scored 137 goals in 200 appearances for Spurs in the Premier League - the only player in the competition's history to have scored more after 200 games for a club is Sergio Aguero (138).\n• None Attempt missed. Steven Bergwijn (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Giovani Lo Celso following a fast break.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Michail Antonio tries a through ball, but Jarrod Bowen is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Jarrod Bowen with a cross.\n• None Goal! Tottenham Hotspur 2, West Ham United 0. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Son Heung-Min with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Jarrod Bowen (West Ham United) hits the left post with a left footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Felipe Anderson following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt saved. Michail Antonio (West Ham United) header from very close range is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Aaron Cresswell with a cross.\n• None Michail Antonio (West Ham United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Felipe Anderson (West Ham United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Aaron Cresswell following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Up to 1.4 million Renault and Nissan vehicles sold in Britain could be equipped with illegal defeat devices, according to a lawsuit being launched today.\n\nThey include a petrol-powered version of one of the UK's best-selling family cars, the Nissan Qashqai.\n\nThe law firm behind the case, Harcus Parker, claims that some cars produced up to 15 times the legal level of nitrogen oxides when used on the road.\n\nHarcus Parker says it has seen independent test data which suggests that 1.3 million diesel cars built by Nissan and its French partner Renault may have been fitted with defeat devices.\n\nThese are systems which turn emissions controls on when the vehicle is being tested, but switches them off when it is being used on the road - in order to improve their performance, reliability or both.\n\nBut it also claims that up to 100,000 petrol powered cars may have been affected as well. These are Nissan Qashqais fitted with a 1.2 litre engine.\n\nEmissions from diesel vehicles have come under heavy scrutiny since 2015, following a major scandal involving the German giant Volkswagen.\n\nVolkswagen has paid out more than €30bn (£27bn) in fines, compensation and buyback schemes as a result. It is continuing to fight a number of consumer lawsuits, including one in the UK involving some 90,000 car owners.\n\nThe Nissan Qashqai is made at the company's plant in Sunderland\n\nPetrol cars, however, generally produce lower quantities of nitrogen oxides (NOx) than diesels, and have not previously been shown to have been involved in emissions cheating - although there have been some claims to the contrary.\n\nHarcus Parker claims that the 1.2l Qashqai produces many times the legal level of NOx when used in real world driving conditions.\n\nIt says that tests carried out by the Department for Transport (DfT) in 2017 confirmed that this was the case.\n\nThe DfT subsequently asked Nissan if it could modify the design to reduce emissions - but this never happened.\n\n\"For the first time, we have seen evidence that car manufacturers may be cheating emissions tests of petrol, as well as diesel vehicles\", says Damon Parker, senior partner at the law firm.\n\n\"The data suggests to me these vehicles much like some VWs and Mercedes cars, know when they are being tested - and are on their best behaviour then and only then\".\n\nHarcus Parker claims this means customers overpaid for their vehicles, and should be entitled to some £5,000 each in compensation.\n\n\"All Groupe Renault vehicles are, and always have been, type-approved in accordance with the laws and regulations for all the countries in which they are sold and are not fitted with 'defeat devices'\", Renault said in a statement.\n\nNissan said the following in response to the planned lawsuit:\n\n\"Nissan strongly refutes these claims. Nissan has not and does not employ defeat devices in any of the cars that we make, and all Nissan vehicles fully comply with applicable emissions legislation.\"\n\nNissan said the 2017 report showed variances for most brands involved. and that it said that the Nissan vehicle tested complied \"with all required regulatory limits.\"\n\nEmissions Analytics, an independent firm which specialises in emissions testing carried out in 'real world' conditions, agrees that the petrol Qashqai does produce very high levels of NOx.\n\n\"We tested this same engine some time ago\", says founder Nick Molden.\n\n\"We found it produced about 16 times more NOx in real world conditions than the official level\".\n\nNissan, however, insists that \"emissions standards have evolved since 2017, and we have introduced a new range of powertrains to meet them\".", "Asian marriage website, Shaadi.com, has removed a skin tone filter following pressure from users.\n\nHetal Lakhani from Dallas, USA, started an online petition against the option, which led to the company removing it.\n\nShe started it after speaking to another user, who questioned the filter in light of anti-racism protests.\n\nShaadi.com says the filter \"was not serving any purpose\" and was a \"product debris we missed removing\".\n\nWhen users joined the site they were asked to select how dark or light their skin is under the 'skin tone' option.\n\nUsers could search for potential partners by the skin tone they'd selected, but Shaadi.com claims this filter didn't work and searches would show all matches of all skin tones.\n\nThe website is unique to other dating sites because it replaces south Asian tradition of a matchmaker and helps people intending to get married find a spouse.\n\nMeghan Nagpal was using the website to find a potential life partner who would also be of Indian origin.\n\n\"I emailed them (shaadi.com) and one representative said this is a filter required by most parents,\" she tells BBC Asian Network.\n\nShe discussed the complexion filter on a Facebook group, where Hetal is also a member.\n\n\"When Meghan shared this on our group I was really shocked because a company usually has a social responsibility,\" says Hetal.\n\n\"I wanted to tackle this in a way that could make a difference so I started a petition.\n\n\"And it just took off like wildfire. Within 14 hours we had over 1,500 signatures. People were so glad we were raising the issue.\"\n\nThe petition was shared with Shaadi.com by a blogger knows as Miss Roshni who runs an entertainment website, Urban Asian. She challenged the company for their response to Meghan and described the skin tone filter as \"disrespectful\" and \"disgusting\".\n\nShaadi.com claimed it was \"blindspot\" they had missed on their site and the filter was removed overnight.\n\n\"It's just one small step in an ultimate goal of promoting equality within the south Asian community on a global level,\" said Meghan.\n\nHetal added: \"I have my bachelors, I have my masters. But if a skin tone can take that away from me - that would be the worst.\"\n\nColourism in South Asia has come under the spotlight following global anti-racism protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nIndian film actors have also been criticised\n\n\"Bollywood stars were on one hand endorsing fairness creams but on the other hand were supporting the Black Lives Matter movement,\" said Meghan.\n\n\"So a part of me was thinking there is obviously a mindset within the south Asian culture about fair skin being better, and that's spilling over into matrimonial websites.\n\n\"You hear it more when older people in our community are commenting about women rather than men; saying 'she is so fair, she is so beautiful' and I think it's more of an unconscious bias.\"\n\nHetal says a company with international reach should be more responsible.\n\n\"People have their biases. But a company should not inculcate that culture.\"\n\nThe Director of Marketing at Shaadi.com told BBC Asian Network: \"We truly believe that love comes in all shapes and shades.\n\n\"And we are proud to represent a cross-section of India - that's something very few companies in India can boast about.\"\n\nPriya (name has been changed) found her husband on the site after being rejected by others for her skin colour.\n\n\"I am dark-skinned and saw the skin colour question on there (shaadi.com) and answered it the best I could,\" she tells BBC Asian Network.\n\n\"My mother-in-law was dead against our marriage because I was a lot darker than her fair skinned, handsome son. Her generation view beauty in shades, which I have hated my entire life.\n\n\"I can't change my skin tone and it hurts.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The two metre rule on social distancing is to be relaxed to \"one metre plus\" where 2m is not possible from 4 July, the prime minister has said.\n\nIt is part of a series of measures being announced to ease the lockdown in England.", "Elizabeth Hurley and Bill Clinton have paid tribute to Steve Bing, the Hollywood producer and political donor who has died at the age of 55.\n\nActress Hurley, who had a son Damian with Bing in 2002, wrote on Instagram that he was a \"sweet, kind man\" and \"our time together was very happy\".\n\nFormer US President Clinton said he \"loved Steve Bing very much\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Los Angeles Times and TMZ reported that Bing fell to his death from a high-rise building on Monday.\n\nLA police and the LA County coroner said a man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene in Culver City.\n\nIn Hollywood, Bing was known for co-writing the 2003 film Kangaroo Jack; financing 2004's The Polar Express, voiced by Tom Hanks; and producing the 2000 remake of Get Carter starring Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light.\n\nHe also hit the headlines in the early 2000s for his 18-month relationship with Hurley.\n\nTheir son Damien, who turned 18 in April, was at the centre of a high-profile paternity case after Bing cast doubt on whether he was the father. That was confirmed after DNA results were revealed at London's High Court in 2002.\n\nDamian Hurley said he was \"immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Hurley said she had reconciled with Bing in recent months. \"I am saddened beyond belief that my ex Steve is no longer with us. It is a terrible end,\" she wrote on social media.\n\n\"Our time together was very happy and I'm posting these pictures because although we went through some tough times, it's the good, wonderful memories of a sweet, kind man that matter.\n\n\"In the past year we had become close again. We last spoke on our son's 18th birthday. This is devastating news and I thank everyone for their lovely messages.\"\n\nDamian Hurley posted on Instagram: \"Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that has reached out following the devastating news.\n\n\"I'm trying to reply to as many of you as I can, but please know I will always remember your kindness. This is a very strange and confusing time and I'm immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends.\"\n\nBing sued the Daily Mirror in the wake of the court case after the paper dubbed him \"Bing Laden\" and printed his phone number so readers could insult him.\n\nThe paper's apology read: \"Our readers should know that Mr Bing is not the ignominious character that has been depicted in the media. He is a philanthropist and humanitarian who has dedicated himself to helping causes impacting children and their families.\"\n\nBing inherited a $600m (£481m) real estate fortune from his grandfather Leo Bing at the age of 18.\n\nHe was a big supporter of Mr Clinton, having donated at least $10m (£8.03m) to his foundation and paid for the former president's trip to North Korea in 2009 to negotiate for the release of two US journalists.\n\nMr Clinton wrote that Bing \"had a big heart, and he was willing to do anything he could for the people and causes he believed in\".\n\nIn another headline-grabbing court case, Bing sued MGM studio boss Kirk Kerkorian in 2002, claiming he enlisted infamous private eye Anthony Pellicano to take dental floss out of his rubbish to get DNA to prove Bing fathered a child with Kerkorian's ex-wife.\n\nA paternity test proved that Bing was indeed the father of tennis player Lisa Bonder's daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The death of a former Wales international footballer may have been linked to heading a football and could be regarded as an \"industrial disease,\" a coroner has said.\n\nAlan Jarvis played for Everton and Hull City in the 1960s and 1970s, winning three caps for his country.\n\nThe 76-year-old, who was thought to have dementia, died at a nursing home in Mold, Flintshire, in December.\n\nCoroner John Gittins has opened his inquest at Ruthin.\n\nHe said neuropathology had been undertaken and that Mr Jarvis' death and a possible link to heading a football would be explored further at a full hearing.\n\nMr Jarvis, a midfielder, played for Wales against England's 1966 World Cup winning squad, earning his other caps against Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nHis daughter, Sarah Jarvis, of Northop, Flintshire, said his family had arranged to have his brain donated to researchers at the University of Glasgow after his death.\n\nMs Jarvis said Dr Willie Stewart, who is studying the possible link between heading a football and brain damage, examined it in January and passed his report to the coroner.\n\nShe said she believed heading had been to blame for the difficulties her father faced in later life - including the loss of his speech.\n\nMs Jarvis said the family hoped his inquest would increase \"knowledge\" and that, while heading has been banned for children under 12 during training, changes in the adult game might not be necessary.\n\n\"My family loves watching football, so it's nothing I would want to change, it's more awareness,\" she said.\n\n\"The only thing I want to come out of it, is to look after these players.\n\n\"I know they say the football was heavy back then, but now it's lighter and faster, so who's to say there's not still going to be the same amount of people coming through with dementia.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Stewart's research featured in the 2018 BBC documentary Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me.\n\nIn 2019, a study he led found former professional footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die of dementia than people of the same age range in the general population.\n\nThe study began after claims former West Bromwich Albion striker Jeff Astle died because of repeated head trauma.\n\nThere remains, however, no definitive evidence that heading a ball causes dementia.\n\nFootball authorities have said more research is needed, with the FA saying it is \"committed to doing all it can\" to help provide greater understanding of the issue.", "The Queen has been photographed riding in the grounds of Windsor Castle - the first time she has been seen outside since the coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nThe 94-year-old monarch was pictured on a 14-year-old Fell Pony called Balmoral Fern over the weekend.\n\nShe regularly rides in the grounds of Windsor, which is said to be her favourite royal residence.\n\nThe Queen has been isolating there with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, and a small number of staff.\n\nThe last public picture of the Queen was taken as she was driven away from Buckingham Palace to her Berkshire home on 19 March.\n\nOne of her two Dorgis - named Candy and Vulcan - could be seen next to her as they both looked out of the car window.\n\nA Dorgi is a cross between a Corgi and a Dachshund.\n\nThe Queen travelled to Windsor Castle a week earlier than she normally would at this time of year to socially distance herself during the pandemic\n\nThe Queen carried out official duties the day before her planned departure, but held her weekly face-to-face audience with Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the phone instead.\n\nThe monarch is a passionate horse lover and breeder of thoroughbred racehorses.\n\nWearing a colourful headscarf and smartly dressed in a tweed jacket, jodhpurs, white gloves and boots, the Queen can be seen in the new photographs taken by the Press Association riding during the weekend's sunny weather.\n\nThe Queen has made two rare televised addresses to the nation during the lockdown.\n\nIn the first, she said the UK \"will succeed\" in its fight against the virus and thanked people for following government rules to stay at home.\n\nIt came less than a week after her son, the Prince of Wales, came out of self-isolation, following his coronavirus diagnosis.\n\nIn the second, she gave a poignant address to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, praising Britain's response to the coronavirus epidemic that has filled empty streets with \"love\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are still a nation those brave soldiers, sailors and airmen would recognise and admire\"\n\nMembers of Royal Family have also been sending messages of thanks and support to key workers and the public during the lockdown.\n\nThe Queen and senior royals - including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - video-called healthcare workers around the world to mark International Nurses Day.\n\nSenior royals spoke to medics on International Nurses Day in May\n\nThe monarch spent her birthday on 21 April in lockdown with Prince Philip.\n\nA number of annual events that mark the occasion had to be cancelled due to the pandemic - including Trooping the Colour, which celebrates the monarch's official birthday in June.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family, including the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, telephoned and video-called the monarch to deliver their birthday wishes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behnken (L) and Hurley (R) in front row join the ISS's existing crew\n\nUS astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have docked with, and entered, the International Space Station (ISS).\n\nTheir Dragon capsule - supplied and operated by the private SpaceX company - attached to the bow section of the orbiting lab 422km above China.\n\nAfter a wait for leak, pressure and temperature checks, the pair disembarked to join the Russian and American crew already on the ISS.\n\nHurley and Behnken launched from Florida on Saturday.\n\nTheirs is the first crew outing launched from American soil to orbit since the retirement of the US space agency (Nasa) shuttles nine years ago.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NASA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe mission marks the beginning of a new era in which Nasa will be purchasing transport services from the commercial sector. No more will it own and operate the American vehicles that run to and from the station.\n\nThis will be done exclusively by firms such as SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, which is led by tech billionaire Elon Musk.\n\nConfirmation of the Dragon's attachment at the ISS came at 14:16 GMT (15:16 BST) on Sunday, 19 hours after leaving the Kennedy Space Center atop a Falcon rocket also provided by SpaceX.\n\nThe docking was a fully automated process; Hurley and Behnken had no need to get involved - although they had practised some manual flying on approach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the first time in nine years that US astronauts have launched from US soil\n\nThe doors between Dragon and the ISS were opened at 17:02 GMT (18:02 BST). When Hurley and Behnken floated through, they were met by ISS Commander and fellow Nasa astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner.\n\n\"We're just happy to be here and Chris is going to put us work. And hopefully we will fit in and not mess too many things up,\" said Doug Hurley as he nursed a bruise picked up on his forehead.\n\nBob Behnken said the pair were well rested and ready for the tasks ahead.\n\n\"We did get probably a good seven hours or so (of sleep),\" he said in a radio link with mission control in Houston, Texas. \"The first night is always a little bit of a challenge, but the Dragon was a slick vehicle, and we had good air flow and so we had an excellent evening. (We're) just excited to be back in low-Earth orbit again.\"\n\nNasa Administrator Jim Bridenstine congratulated the duo on a job well done: \"The whole world saw this mission and we are so, so proud of everything you've done for our country and, in fact, to inspire the world.\"\n\nHurley (far) and Behnken (near) were hands-off for the docking\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Go Nasa, go SpaceX. God speed Bob and Doug\"\n\nSpaceX flew a first demonstration of its new crew vehicle last year, but that had only a dummy aboard. This sortie is the first to carry humans.\n\nHurley's and Behnken's job on the mission is to test all onboard systems and to give their feedback to engineers.\n\nSpaceX and Nasa need a clean crewed demonstration so they can move swiftly to the next phase of the company's $2.6bn (£2.1bn) contract, which will encompass six astronaut \"taxi\" flights, with the first of these likely to occur at the end of August.\n\nHurley's and Behnken's arrival at the ISS means they get to claim a Stars and Stripes flag placed on the platform by the members of the very last space shuttle mission in 2011.\n\nThe Atlantis orbiter's crew left this flag as an incentive to all those that came after them. The flag, which also flew on the very first shuttle flight in 1981, will now be returned to Earth to be given to the mission that next goes beyond Earth orbit.\n\nEarlier, Hurley and Behnken named their Dragon ship in the time-honoured tradition of US spacefarers. They called it \"Endeavour\", in part to celebrate the new course being set by Nasa and its commercial partners, but also to acknowledge the past contribution to American space efforts by Shuttle Endeavour, on which both Hurley and Behnken served in the late 2000s.\n\nIt's somewhat uncertain how long Hurley and Behnken will stay at the ISS, but perhaps as much as four months.\n\nIn that time, they will become members of the current ISS Expedition 63 crew, taking part in the platform's everyday science and maintenance activities.\n\nChris Cassidy joked that because his new crewmates arrived on a Sunday, they had missed the cleaning chores that normally take place on a Saturday. \"We'll catch up next weekend,\" the commander said.\n\nBehnken (far) and Hurley (near) both flew on Shuttle Eandeavour as well\n\nCEO Elon Musk's SpaceX company is the first to offer a commercial crew transport service\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. But it has been suffering an unprecedented fuel crisis due to widespread shortages at petrol stations.\n\nThe government blames international sanctions. But it is just the latest episode of the country’s economic collapse that has caused millions to leave and led to international bodies, such as the UN, calling it one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis for a country not in conflict.\n\nThe fuel crisis has been so acute that even funeral homes are struggling to transport bodies to the cemetery.", "Emergency crews were called to Durdle Door at about 16:00 BST on Saturday\n\nTombstoning has continued on Dorset's Jurassic Coast less than 24 hours after three people were seriously hurt jumping 70ft (21m) from a cliff.\n\nThe casualties were taken to hospital after jumping from Durdle Door at about 16:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nThe coastguard and police have warned against leaping from the \"dangerous\" landmark arch into the sea.\n\nHowever, despite warnings and advice to stay away, police said on Sunday some \"still saw fit\" to attempt it.\n\nDorset Council had closed the roads around the scene for safety reasons but hundreds of people still travelled to the area, police said.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Poole Police This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Facebook cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nA spokesperson for the force said that \"despite national coverage\" of the incident on Saturday \"some still saw fit to repeat the 'tombstoning' that... inconvenienced thousands\".\n\nThe force added that on this occasion no-one suffered any serious injuries.\n\nOn Saturday, one of the casualties had to be pulled from the sea bed, the coastguard said. Another jumped from the arch, which is 200ft (60m) at its highest point, but managed to stagger back to friends before falling \"very unwell\".\n\nBoth were airlifted to the major trauma centre in Southampton.\n\nA third person had serious injuries to their body and was taken by ambulance to Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester.\n\nThe ages and gender of those involved have not been disclosed.\n\nLulworth Coastguard Rescue Team said: \"We understand that four individuals jumped from Durdle Door (some 70ft) yesterday, encouraged by the crowds on the beach.\n\n\"Upsetting scenes like we and many others witnessed yesterday illustrate how very dangerous tombstoning is.\"\n\nTombstoning is the act of jumping into water from a high platform, such as a cliff, bridge or harbour edge in a straight, upright vertical posture, resembling a tombstone.\n\nAlona Lapinska described the incident as \"shocking and devastating\"\n\nDaytripper Alona Lapinska, from London, said she saw several people jump from the arch, while people on the beach \"clapped\" and \"encouraged it\".\n\nDescribing one jumper she said: \"It was really shocking how he landed. He landed on his stomach. He didn't land very well and he disappeared in the water.\n\n\"For about five minutes he disappeared in the water completely. One guy managed to get him out. It was a shocking and devastating picture we saw.\"\n\nJames Weld, who owns Durdle Door, said he hoped the casualties recovered\n\nJames Weld, owner of Durdle Door, which is part of Lulworth Estate, said he hoped the casualties recovered.\n\nHe said: \"It does illustrate, not to put too fine a point on it, the stupidity of some people to climb up on the Door, which is fairly high and quite dangerous...\n\n\"I hope the publicity about those injuries will stop people doing it or make them think about it before they do it.\"\n\nMr Weld added: \"As for trying to prevent it over the years we have put up all sorts of fencing, notices... Most of the fencing gets ripped down, the notices get removed and it's virtually impossible to stop those who are determined to do it...\"\n\nDorset Council said it had closed the roads to Lulworth and Durdle Door on safety grounds.\n\nThe road to West Bexington in West Dorset had also been closed due to \"health and safety issues\".\n\nBut thousands of vehicles were parked in the car parks at Durdle Door on Sunday morning.\n\nMany visitors were tourists and day trippers from London. BBC South reporter Laurence Herdman described seeing a huge number of visitors.\n\nMr Weld said he was not legally allowed to close the beach, and his car parks remained open as closing them would not stop day trippers coming and they would park on the road.\n\nPeople had travelled to the beach on Sunday morning at Durdle Door\n\nThousands of cars were parked at Durdle Door on Sunday morning\n\nDorset Council's corporate director, Jonathan Mair, said: \"We would ask people to please think twice before visiting Dorset's beaches as they are becoming overcrowded, and maintaining social distancing is becoming difficult.\"\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan encouraged people to avoid busy areas and to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nHe said: \"The images circulated from Durdle Door yesterday show that too many people made the decision to go to the beach rather than going elsewhere.\n\n\"The critical incident that occurred in this area demonstrates how important it is to act responsibly and not to overcrowd our beaches.\"\n\nThe area has seen large numbers of visitors during the recent hot weather after lockdown restrictions were eased.\n• None Three seriously hurt 'jumping off cliff into sea'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First Minister Arlene Foster addressed the daily news conference at Stormont Image caption: First Minister Arlene Foster addressed the daily news conference at Stormont\n\nVulnerable people in Northern Ireland who were urged to shield during the coronavirus pandemic may be allowed to go outside again from next week, leaders at Stormont have announced.\n\nAdvice to the 80,000 shielding will change from next Monday if the transmission rate of the virus remains below one.\n\nAs is currently the situation in England, those shielding will be able to go outside with people from their own household, or one person from another household, providing social distancing is observed.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said changes to shielding advice would be a \"reasonable and proportionate first step\".\n\n\"If the rate of transmission continues on a downward trend - and of course we all hope that it does - then, in consultation with our scientific and medical advisers, we will consider further relaxations for those who are shielding,\" she said.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill stressed that the safest place for those shielding was still at home.\n\n\"It is crucially important that you are very strict about maintaining social distancing,\" she said.", "Latest figures show about 44 patients in critical care with coronavirus in hospitals in Wales\n\nA few months ago, NHS England's medical director, Stephen Powis, stated: \"If we can keep deaths below 20,000, we will have done very well in this epidemic.\"\n\nAt the time of writing this article, the figure stands at more than 37,000 people.\n\nAs a palliative care doctor, I have treated a number of people with Covid-19, some of whom have died, and I have also lost colleagues.\n\nWe have written and rewritten a huge amount of guidance and procedures, ranging from how best to manage agitation and breathlessness in Covid-19, to how best to prepare people for the worst and help them discuss treatment options.\n\nWhat makes this time so difficult is that many of the usual rules of societal norm and behaviour have been thrown out of the proverbial window, due to the high risk that transmission of this virus has created.\n\nWe have had many discussions in hospitals, community and hospice settings, about how compassion can be combined with strict visiting rules, for instance. As caring health and social care professionals, it is against our nature to prevent loved-ones from coming in to support their seriously ill relatives.\n\nDr Mark Taubert works at Velindre NHS Trust and also teaches at Cardiff University\n\nPeople have pleaded to be with their dying partner, even offering to find their own personal protective equipment (PPE) and accepting the risk should they contract the virus. Others have been understandably afraid of the very real transmission risks and have stayed away, with a broken heart.\n\nThe grief process can be complex enough in normal times, but we are guaranteed to see huge emotional fallout from this horrendous time in the coming months and years.\n\nSo it is important that we find ways of communicating well and perhaps putting on not just physical PPE in our response to this pandemic, but also to look at ways of seeking \"emotional and cognitive protection\".\n\nSuch preparation and responsiveness is under-prioritised at everyone's peril, because preparing for difficult conversations and understanding grief and its stages can help, in order to support ourselves and those around us.\n\nA coronavirus patient in Milan speaking to a relative on a tablet\n\nOne of the early lessons we took from Italy, where the European part of the pandemic had hit very hard in advance of the UK becoming affected, was the high number of patients who were dying alone in hospitals.\n\nFamily members and loved ones had to stay away, due to the clear risk of contracting coronavirus themselves and causing further spread.\n\nColleagues from Italy warned us to have video messaging software and computers ready, so that families and friends could at the very least be \"with someone\" remotely.\n\nWe did this and were ready, and many patients took heart from the fact that they could see their loved ones from a hospital bed, some even taking part in normal life events like dinner, with family members who had set up the laptop in their home kitchen. It is often not the complex stuff we crave when we are really ill, but the day-to-day basics.\n\nHospitals have been helping patients communicate with relatives who cannot visit them\n\nKnowing what to say when you, as a supporting relative, are zoomed into a hospital room can seem daunting, but we have found that it is the presence that matters most, not the perfect phrase of what best to say to the seriously ill friend or relative.\n\nOnline versus the real world, there are many new challenges. How on earth do you behave in an online-streamed funeral and what should and shouldn't you say. I'd state that similar rules apply for online, as they do for the real-life events.\n\nMany religious organisations have quickly adapted and most funeral homes can now give advice on not only physical but also online attendance. This may go some way to reassure people, but a recent survey suggested many are still afraid of saying the wrong thing.\n\nIn my experience, people's grief is worsened by the absence of people's offers of help, rather than by attempts to say the right or wrong thing.\n\nSo the fundamental thing is to show our readiness to provide a listening ear at any time, and that can be via video-messaging, in person or even by WhatsApp. Know what your friend or relative will respond to best and then send them a message. Less is not necessarily more when it comes to grief.\n\nI see my recent forays into video consultations as an example to illustrate this: For me and my team, some of the previously held notions have been severely challenged: before Covid-19, I would never have dreamed of communicating bad news, such as progression of cancer on a scan, or the death of a loved one, by telephone or video messaging.\n\nBut I have had to adapt. And so have many of my colleagues, patients and those close to them. I have shared the key lessons with students and postgraduate doctors. But some of them are relevant to many aspects of life, where perhaps bad news may have to be shared via video-message. Imagine you need to break the bad news that someone in your family has died.\n\nOr perhaps you want to express your heartfelt condolences to someone via video. How exactly do you get this right? Perhaps there is no perfect way, but there are some tips I can share.\n\nIt is important to be in a quiet, undisturbed room. Consider warning those nearby that you are about to have a serious conversation.\n\nRegarding the bad news, how much does the person suspect already? Have a plan for what to do next, before making the call, for instance if you can, you may wish to tell the person you are talking to that you will be in touch again tomorrow.\n\nA good tip to maintain your \"emotional PPE\", is to take breaks: If I've had multiple difficult phone or video conversations in a short time I take a break in between, as I would with real-life conversations.\n\nSo should you, if you are conveying information of the death of a beloved family member to the wider family and/or community, one by one. Perhaps someone you trust can help you do this, so that you are not the only one.\n\nI've also made the classic error of not taking a toilet break prior to such a difficult call, so do consider the length of time you may be.\n\nIs it OK or even safe for them to talk right now? People pick up their smartphone in all sorts of situations and you may have to state that you will call back when they have stopped their car. Are they alone or is there anyone around who can potentially support later?\n\nThese sorts of conversations are never easy. Neither is grief. Grief for a lost loved one, or the grief of realising that a cancer has spread and that time will be short\n\nI tend to give a warning shot of what may be coming: I nearly always preface that I have some difficult news. I might say something like: \"I am sorry, but there is some news that is not good, and I wanted to let you know about this.\"\n\nIf someone asks me to stop there, I do so, and offer a further phone or video call later on. They are not ready yet, but will probably feel a need to speak later. They need time to prepare.\n\nTell the news: Give a summary of what you know. I do this with compassion, but also go in without too much prelude (apart from a warning shot) or hesitation. People want to know now, in my experience, so it is best not to make them wait, with too many platitudes. I once heard a healthcare professional talk about how great the weather was, before giving the bad news.\n\nWhat I often do is intersperse the news with occasional questions, checking what the person I am talking to already knows, or if they need a break, but then I try to align this with the newest information. I often find that people have already suspected and thought about the different bad news scenarios. \"Yes, doctor, this is what I was fearing all long.\"\n\nDon't use jargon, be as clear as you can be.\n\nIn closing these conversations, I try to bring people back into the now and the next few days. What will you do now? Shall we make a plan together? Are there other people you need to tell? Who is there to support you? I often phone back sooner if there aren't many people to support. I also try to ask the person to summarise a bit about what was talked about. It allows for questions, but we can also sometimes state how hard this all is.\n\nSometimes, the white noise that breaks into our brains after a sentence like: \"Your cancer has spread\" or \"Malcolm has just died\", is so intense, that nothing beyond that is heard or understood. So I never assume that any other points I have tried to cover will be remembered, but a summary at the end can allow the person to come back with questions that are important to them and help clarify things.\n\nIn Corsica, a nurse writes down a family message to be placed in a coffin\n\nIn closing, I often make a point of sharing my own sadness about this situation and it sometimes helps people to know how much we care, and that we are all human. It can be a way to help people verbalise their own feelings, if they are perhaps less used to doing so.\n\n\"Yes, this is all so strange and sad, and I wish we were not in this terrible situation\", can open up an important discussion about regrets and fears.\n\nThese sorts of conversations are never easy. Neither is grief. Grief for a lost loved one, or the grief of realising that a cancer has spread and that time will be short.\n\nOn balance, we all appreciate the ability to have conversations, rather than none at all, so I suspect video and audio conversations are here to stay, even for condolence messages.\n\nTo get the best emotional and cognitive PPE, we need to understand ourselves and we need to understand grief itself, as hard as that may sound.", "Here's what the situation on the ground looked like across some major US cities on Tuesday:\n\nThousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd Image caption: Thousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd\n\nIn Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen Image caption: In Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen\n\nOne man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena Image caption: One man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena\n\nAnd in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House Image caption: And in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House", "Some children in England have gone back to school for the first time since the coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nMany schools have opened their doors to children in Reception and Years 1 and 6.\n\nOn arrival parents and children were kept 2m apart as they queued to enter school.\n\nParents said goodbye at the door, as children headed inside to see what their socially distant classrooms were like.\n\nAt this school in Mortlake, south-west London, each child was assigned their own desk, which were spaced around the classroom.\n\nSome of the older pupils shared larger desks, but were still seated apart.\n\nAt this school in Watlington, in Oxfordshire, a reduced number of children were allowed into each classroom so they could maintain social distancing.\n\nPupils are told to wash their hands regularly.\n\nAt this school in Bristol a one way system is marked out on the floor.\n\nEven in the playground, the children are told to keep their distance.", "There were fewer chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments during the epidemic\n\nAbout 2.4 million people in the UK are waiting for cancer screening, treatment or tests, as a result of disruption to the NHS during the past 10 weeks, according to Cancer Research UK.\n\nIt estimates 2.1 million have missed out on screening, while 290,000 people with suspected symptoms have not been referred for hospital tests.\n\nMore than 23,000 cancers could have gone undiagnosed during lockdown.\n\nCancer services are starting to reopen across the UK.\n\nCancer Research UK's figures are based on data for England and estimated for the whole of the UK.\n\nDuring lockdown, the health service focused on the care and treatment of patients with Covid-19, while other services, such as cancer care, were scaled back.\n\nPeople were still encouraged to seek medical help when they needed it - but there were fewer cancer operations and many chemotherapy and radiotherapy appointments were postponed.\n\nScreening programmes that detect early signs of bowel, breast and cervical cancer were paused in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, although not officially stopped in England.\n\nAnd an estimated 2.1 million people who would normally have had routine screening missed out, Cancer Research UK says.\n\nBreast screening is just one of many ways of detecting cancers\n\nThe charity says urgent referrals, when patients with suspected cancer symptoms are referred to hospitals by their GP, fell by up to 75% in the first four weeks of lockdown, although these figures have since improved.\n\nPatients receiving treatments for cancer also fell, with 6,000 fewer people receiving chemotherapy and 2,800 fewer receiving radiotherapy over the past 10 weeks.\n\nAnd there were only 60% - 12,800 fewer - of the usual number of operations to remove tumours, Cancer Research UK estimates.\n\nChief executive Michelle Mitchell said Covid-19 has placed an \"enormous strain on cancer services\".\n\n\"The NHS has had to make very hard decisions to balance risk,\" she said.\n\n\"And there have been some difficult discussions with patients about their safety and ability to continue treatment during this time,\" she said.\n\n\"Prompt diagnosis and treatment remain crucial to give people with cancer the greatest chances of survival and prevent the pandemic taking even more lives.\"\n\nTo ensure no-one is put at risk from the virus now that cancer care is returning, Cancer Research UK said \"frequent testing of NHS staff and patients, including those without symptoms\" was vital.\n\nIt estimates that up to 37,000 tests for the virus would need to be carried out each day for this purpose if the NHS was back running as normal.\n\nThis is happening at different speeds in the four nations of the UK, with the setting up of safe Covid-free spaces in hospitals key to addressing the backlog of patients.\n\nNHS England said coronavirus \"has turned millions of lives upside down\" but cancer services were now largely \"open, ready and able to receive all patients who need care\".\n\nAnyone concerned about cancer symptoms should contact their GP.\n\nThe Welsh and Scottish governments said cancer screening programmes would resume when safe, based on clinical advice.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, there are plans for urgent cancer surgery and treatment to resume, along with routine screening.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support recently warned of a potential \"ticking cancer timebomb\" due to disrupted cancer services. It said urgent action was needed to make sure cancer does not become the forgotten 'C' during the pandemic.\n\n\"We continue to urge the government to set out exactly how it will support the NHS to rapidly rebuild cancer services, including how people will be protected from infection by ensuring there is enough staff, regular testing, plentiful supplies of PPE and... social distancing,\" Sara Bainbridge, head of policy, said.\n\nHave you or a loved one missed cancer screening, treatment or tests in the past 10 weeks? How has the lockdown affected your cancer treatment? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The coronavirus lockdown has created a \"perfect storm\" for many children isolated with their abusers, ex-home secretary Sajid Javid has said.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, he said this will contribute to a \"surge\" in cases.\n\nHe said he will lead a new \"no holds barred\" inquiry into child sex abuse in the UK with the Centre for Social Justice think tank.\n\nThe inquiry will examine organised child sexual exploitation and the abuse of children online.\n\nIt comes as the NSPCC says its helpline for adults has responded to more than 10,000 \"child welfare contacts\", including calls and emails, since the start of the UK's lockdown in March.\n\nMeanwhile, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced last month that the government will publish a paper \"later this year\" on research into group-based child sexual exploitation, which was commissioned by Mr Javid when he was home secretary in 2018.\n\nMr Javid told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that something that \"weighed the most heavily on him\" during his time as home secretary in 2018 and 2019 was child sexual abuse and its \"true scale\".\n\nHe said he was \"particularly concerned\" about lockdown because \"children are left to isolate alongside their abuser and they will therefore suffer severe long-term damage and this kind of thing isn't reflected in statistics just yet, but it will be, and I'm very concerned about that\".\n\nThe former chancellor said the investigation into will look at organised child sexual exploitation, including gangs and on-street grooming.\n\nThe second part of the inquiry will examine how child sexual abuse \"happens today\", with a focus on online abuse and live streaming.\n\nOf the gang-based exploitation, Mr Javid said: \"We know that of all these high profile cases when there have been convictions, a disproportionate number of people are from Asian heritage, particularly Pakistani heritage, my own heritage and that both saddens and angers me.\n\n\"People from my heritage, many of them disproportionately responsible for what we've seen and I want to know know why.\"\n\nHe said in the past there had been an \"ignorance\" of this in some authorities.\n\nSajid Javid is leading an inquiry into child sex abuse in the UK\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, Mr Javid said: \"The surge in child sexual abuse happening right now won't be reflected in statistics until later this year.\n\n\"As appalling as those numbers will be, however, they'll still only scrape the surface of what's been occurring under our noses for decades.\"\n\nAndy Cook, chief executive of the Centre for Social Justice think tank, said it was \"highly courageous\" of Mr Javid to \"speak out on the issue, which has been difficult to confront and too often neglected\".\n\nAnna Edmundson, the NSPCC's head of policy and public affairs, said children were the \"hidden victims of the crisis\".\n\n\"They have been exposed to increased risks of abuse while having limited access to those who can keep them safe because so much of life has been behind closed doors,\" she said.\n\n\"Abusers have also been grasping an unprecedented opportunity to target children online since tech firms have had to scale back on moderators and young people have been spending more time on the internet, with many feeling increasingly isolated and lonely.\"\n\nShe said the \"true scale\" of abuse will not be known \"until later down the line\" and any concerns can be reported to the NSPCC's helpline.\n\nBarnardo's chief executive Javed Khan said the charity had \"consistently warned\" that the coronavirus lockdown was \"putting children at increased risk of sexual abuse and exploitation\" and so the investigation was \"very welcome\".\n\n\"Few of us can imagine what it feels like for victims trapped in an unsafe home, isolated from support systems, school and friends, and unable to get any respite from their abuser. But this is the experience for many children today and over the last few weeks,\" he said.\n\n\"With both children and abusers spending more time online during the lockdown, they are also at increased risk of being targeted by strangers through social media, apps and gaming.\n\n\"This investigation should shed light on children who have been 'hidden' from professionals during the lockdown, and explore how they can be identified and access the support they need.\"\n\nIn 2018, in his role as home secretary, Mr Javid ordered research into the \"characteristics and contexts\" of gangs abusing children, arguing that ignoring issues such as ethnicity is more likely to fuel the far-right.\n\nHe said he wanted officials researching the causes of gang-based exploitation to leave \"no stone unturned\".\n\nThe review came after grooming gangs were convicted in Huddersfield, Oxford, and Rotherham.\n\nDue to be published later this year, the paper on this review \"will outline the insights gained\" and will \"focus on how agencies can learn lessons from the past to tackle group-based offending and safeguard vulnerable children\".\n\nInformation and support: If you or someone you know needs support for anyone affected by sexual abuse, these organisations may be able to help.\n• None Grooming gang petition set to be debated by MPs", "Christo with his artwork The London Mastaba, built on the Serpentine in Hyde Park in 2018\n\nBulgarian-born artist Christo, best known for wrapping buildings and famous landmarks in fabric or plastic, has died at his home in New York, aged 84.\n\nHe passed away of natural causes on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the artist's official Facebook page.\n\nChristo, who always worked with his wife Jeanne-Claude, famously covered the Reichstag in Berlin and the Pont-Neuf in Paris with reams of cloth.\n\nHis artworks \"brought people together\" around the world, the statement says.\n\n\"Christo lived his life to the fullest, not only dreaming up what seemed impossible, but realising it,\" it reads, adding that the couple's art \"lives on in our hearts and memories\".\n\nChristo at the presentation of his installation The Floating Piers in Sulzano, Italy, in 2016\n\nVisitors walking along The Floating Piers, an installation consisting of 100,000 sq m of yellow fabric\n\nA 2016 installation entitled The Floating Piers consisted of 100,000 sq m of bright yellow fabric floating on polyethylene cubes on Lake Iseo, in Sulzano, Italy.\n\nShakespeare told us 'all the world's a stage', Christo showed us all the world's an art gallery. The Bulgarian-born artist wasn't interested in the sterile white walls of the modern museum where objects exist apart from everyday life.\n\nHe wanted to turn everyday life into art, to make people look again and think again about their surroundings. He did this by way of intervention - either by wrapping a building such as the Reichstag in Berlin in blue material, or a section of the Australian coastline in one million square feet of fabric - in both cases turning cold, hard structures into sensuous, fragile sculptures.\n\nHe worked in collaboration with his wife Jeanne-Claude, whom he met in Paris in 1958. They made their first major outdoor work three years later in Germany, covering oil barrels stacked in Cologne harbour with material. Jeanne-Claude died in 2009 leaving Christo to continue alone, which he did, with a plan to wrap the L'Arc de Triomphe in Paris next year - a project that will probably still be realised.\n\nIn 2018, a Christo artwork - his first major outdoor piece to appear in the UK - was unveiled at the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park. The London Mastaba was a colourful sculpture in the shape of a trapezoid and made from more than 7,500 200-litre barrels stacked together, displayed on a floating platform.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: How we wrapped the Reichstag\n\nBorn Christo Vladimirov Javacheff in Gabrovo, Bulgaria, in 1935, he spent time in Austria and Switzerland before moving to France, where he met Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon in Paris.\n\nAlong with transforming large-scale landmarks, the couple also created monumental environmental works of art together in natural settings, before Jeanne-Claude's death in 2009, aged 74.\n\nChristo's works were produced with his wife Jeanne-Claude, seen here in 1997\n\nAn unfinished project in Paris entitled L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped is planned to be completed and exhibited in September 2021, in accordance with Christo's wishes.\n\n\"We borrow space and create gentle disturbances for a few days,\" Christo once said.\n\nSunday's statement concludes: \"In a 1958 letter Christo wrote, 'Beauty, science and art will always triumph'. We hold those words closely today.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands marched from Trafalgar Square to the US embassy in South London\n\nThousands of people have gathered across central London to protest against the killing of an unarmed black man by police in the US.\n\nThey held up signs saying \"Justice for George Floyd\", who died in police custody while an officer kneeled on his neck to pin him down.\n\nDerek Chauvin has been charged with his murder in Minneapolis. The white police officer has been sacked from his job.\n\nDuring the protests Met Police officers arrested five people.\n\nThe protests have been held at Trafalgar Square and outside the US Embassy in Battersea.\n\nElsewhere in the UK, hundreds marched through Manchester city centre chanting \"Black Lives Matter\".\n\nAnd a similar protest also took place in Cardiff.\n\nThe protesters chanted \"black lives matter\" and \"say my name, George Floyd\"\n\nLondon protesters held up placards saying \"racism has no place\", and \"I can't breathe\" - a reference to Mr Floyd's words during his arrest.\n\nThe Met Police said officers were present and were engaging with those in attendance, adding an \"appropriate policing plan is in place\".\n\nPolice arrested five people aged between 17 and 25 outside the US Embassy.\n\nThree of the arrests were for breaching Covid-19 legislation and two were for assaulting police.\n\nThose arrested remain in police custody for questioning.\n\nSome protesters did not appear to follow social distancing guidelines\n\nA white ex-police officer has been charged with Mr Floyd's murder\n\nReverend Sally Hitchiner, associate vicar at St Martin-in-the-Fields church on Trafalgar Square, said she could see hundreds gathered for the protest from her workplace.\n\n\"I'm very sympathetic to the issue but also surprised to see the strength of emotion that has gathered people together,\" she said.\n\n\"Clearly they're not following lockdown and social distancing, but I think there's a huge amount of passion there and that's overriding their concerns.\n\n\"It's an issue that requires passion but at the same time there's a huge amount of risk in what they're doing.\"\n\nShe said police appeared to be moving the crowd on from the square by early afternoon.\n\nThe protest moved on to the US Embassy in Nine Elms\n\nThe road to the US Embassy was blocked\n\nProtesters made their way to the embassy by marching along roads near the River Thames.\n\nTraffic was stopped in several places and protesters were applauded by onlookers.\n\nThe Met said \"an appropriate policing plan was in place\"\n\nProtesters linked arms by the US Embassy\n\nA large portion of the crowd stopped under a railway bridge outside Battersea Park Station.\n\nFour men climbed on top of a bus stop before getting down on one knee and with their right arms in salute in silence, leading the gathered crowd to do the same.\n\nIt is a stance made famous by Tommie Smith, the US sprinter who famously raised his fist in protest against racial discrimination during his gold medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics.\n\nAmerican football player Colin Kaepernick caused outrage when he held the pose during the US anthem as a protest against racial injustice.\n\nDemonstrators encouraged the crowd into a moment of silence, while holding their right arms in the air\n\nTens of thousands of people have joined nightly protests across the US since the death, with at least 1,600 people arrested in 22 cities as some demonstrations descended into violence.\n\nHundreds of people marched through Peckham in south London on Saturday in protest against police brutality.\n\nIt comes as the US has been rocked by protests over the past five days, many of which turned into violence with cars and buildings set alight and riot police using tear gas and rubber bullets.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon urges people to stick to the rules\n\nScotland's coronavirus guidelines could be enforced by new laws if \"even a minority\" continue to flout them, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe first minister relaxed restrictions north of the border on Friday, allowing more people to meet up while outdoors.\n\nShe said the \"vast majority\" had complied with recommendations not to travel and to keep gatherings small.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said it was clear that not everyone had complied, with police dispersing more than 2,000 gatherings.\n\nPolice Scotland said there had been 1,391 \"compliant dispersals\" of groups of people over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with another 650 where groups broke up \"after a police warning\".\n\nAnd with car traffic trebling at some beauty spots, the first minister said she would not hesitate to put restrictions on group size and travel distance into law.\n\nScotland took its first step on the government's \"routemap\" out of lockdown over the weekend, with people from two different households allowed to meet up outdoors in groups of no more than eight.\n\nPeople are also allowed to travel within their local area for recreation and exercise, although the government \"strongly recommends\" they do not travel more than five miles.\n\nBeaches at Loch Lomond were busy over the weekend\n\nMs Sturgeon said she wanted to thank \"the vast majority\" of people for sticking to the rules.\n\nBut she said it was clear that not everybody was heeding the advice, with police having to move on hundreds of people for not complying with regulations.\n\nShe said the 797 dispersals carried out by police on Saturday was five times the number seen a week previously, and that traffic volumes had risen sharply.\n\nTraffic around beauty spots like Loch Lomond and Glen Coe was \"about three times higher\" than it was the previous weekend, with Ms Sturgeon saying it was \"hard to see how that was caused by local residents\".\n\nShe said ministers had \"deliberately allowed some flexibility\" and \"left some room for discretion\" when setting out the new guidelines, because they trusted the majority to follow the rules.\n\nBut she said: \"It's worth being clear that if there is continued evidence of even a minority not abiding by these guidelines and travelling unnecessarily, or meeting up in larger groups, we will have to put these restrictions on group size and travel distance into law.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to do that if it is necessary for the collective wellbeing of society.\"\n\nPolice said more than 2,000 gatherings had been broke up in total over the weekend.\n\nA total of 16 fixed penalty notice fines were issued, but there were no arrests related to breaches of coronavirus legislation.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said the \"increase in people out and about following the relaxing of some of the restrictions has seen a rise in crime levels\", with increasing demands on police.\n\nHe added: \"We all want to enjoy our outdoor spaces safely and, whilst our officers will continue to robustly tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, please take reasonable steps to keep yourself safe and act responsibly.\"\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in Scotland continues to fall, with just 27 now in intensive care wards.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that the progress which had been made was \"fragile\".\n\n\"The virus is being suppressed, but it has not gone away and it is still extremely dangerous,\" she said.\n\n\"The progress we have made so far is simply not guaranteed and is not irreversible. Cases could increase again, it would not take much for that to happen, and that would result in more loss of life.\n\n\"If all of that happens, then restrictions will have to be re-imposed rather than being further relaxed.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"To the minority that flout all of this, it's not just the virus running out of control you're risking - it's taking flexibility away from people who are abiding by the rules.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's message remains that people should \"stay at home\" as much as possible\n\nMs Sturgeon said the issue had been brought home to her after one of her own friends had been diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nShe said: \"Until this weekend, I didn't know anybody personally, within my own family or friends network, who had had this virus in a significant way. That changed this weekend.\n\n\"Why am I telling you that? Because it's still there. Even with these numbers going down, there are still people testing positive for this virus.\n\n\"It's still there - it's ready to pounce, and jump across any bridges we offer it. If we want to stop that, we must, must stick to these guidelines.\n\n\"I'm saying this as a citizen as much as as a first minister - please do that, and together we will continue to make this progress.\"", "Protests have taken a violent turn in Washington DC as demonstrators continue to march against the death of African-American George Floyd.\n\nRiot police clashed with crowds gathered near the White House, firing tear gas and other projectiles.\n\nVehicles were set on fire by some demonstrators on Sunday night, the sixth night of protests that have spread across several cities in the US.\n\nRead more: Violence erupts across US on sixth day of protests", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Jenrick: \"The small changes... will have a huge impact on people's mental health\"\n\nThe government is taking \"modest\" steps in easing lockdown restrictions, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nHe said he was \"reasonably confident\" the measures would be \"manageable\", but the room for manoeuvre was limited.\n\nFrom Monday in England primary schools will start to reopen and people can meet in groups of up to six.\n\nAnd vulnerable people in England and Wales will be able to go outdoors for the first time in months.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has exceeded its target to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May.\n\nMr Jenrick's comments come after some scientific advisers voiced concerns about the timing of the changes.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing, he confirmed the updated guidance on shielding which will mean that people who have been advised to stay home since the lockdown began will now be able to go outside either with members of their household or to meet someone from another household.\n\nBut Mr Jenrick said people in this group should only do what they are comfortable with, adding that the advice would be tightened again if conditions became \"less favourable\".\n\nSome patients' groups have expressed concern at the pace of the changes, and have called for the evidence behind them to be published.\n\nConfirmation of the changes to the restrictions came as it was announced another 113 people have died in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nIt takes the total number of people who have died to 38,489.\n\nOn Saturday, Professor John Edmunds, a member of Sage - the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies which advises the government - said the levels of coronavirus were still \"very high\", adding that it was a \"political decision\" to ease measures.\n\nBut Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab defended the decision to ease lockdown.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the government had \"taken evidence from scientists\" and had met the five tests it said were needed to relax restrictions.\n\n\"Because we have made that progress, steadily, slowly, surely - week in, week out - we can very gradually, very carefully, take the steps that we are taking tomorrow,\" Mr Raab said.\n\nFrom Monday, a number of changes will come into effect across England:\n\nIn Wales, people from two different households will be able to meet each other outdoors from Monday.\n\nGroups of four to six people who are not in the same household can meet outdoors in Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd in Scotland members of two different households are already allowed to meet outdoors.\n\nA UK cancer charity chief has told the BBC he was concerned about the new guidance allowing those who were previously shielding to go outdoors.\n\n\"It's not helpful to bring changes really quickly that we don't know the evidence behind,\" said Alasdair Rankin, Blood Cancer UK's director of research and policy. \"We'd like to see the evidence the decision is based on and for the government to be really transparent.\"\n\nAnd Phil Anderson, head of policy at the MS Society, said people would \"rightly want to hear a lot more about the scientific evidence showing this will be safe for them\".\n\nMeanwhile, the UK has exceeded its target to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May, with 205,634 tests available on Saturday.\n\nWidespread testing forms a central part of the government's strategy to control the virus, as it aims to ease blanket lockdown in favour of more targeted measures.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock described it as \"an important milestone on our journey to control the spread of the virus\".\n\nWhile capacity for testing is over 200,000, a little more than 115,000 tests were carried out in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nFor several days, the government has been unable to give figures on the exact number of people who were tested.\n\nThe UK's R value - the number of people each infected person passes the virus on to, on average - is currently between 0.7 and 0.9.\n\nIf it goes above 1.0 the number of cases will increase exponentially, but if it stays below then the disease will eventually peter out.\n\nMr Jenrick said the government would not go ahead with some of the plans to further ease lockdown if R rose above one \"or dangerously close to it\".\n\n\"We're going to be doing this in a cautious and data-driven way in the days and weeks ahead,\" he said.\n\nElsewhere during the briefing, Mr Jenrick said:", "Crowds gathered by the River Wharfe in Ilkley\n\nCrowds of visitors have left mounds of litter including used toilet roll and nappies at Yorkshire beauty spots, angry residents have said.\n\nHundreds of people flocked outdoors to enjoy the weather with concerns social distancing guidance was being flouted.\n\nIn Ilkley, West Yorkshire, toilet roll and dirty nappies were left dumped behind bushes and trees.\n\nCouncillor Anne Hawkesworth said: \"What we've seen has been deplorable. It seems people have just run riot.\"\n\nOn Saturday, groups gathered on the banks of the town's River Wharfe with people jumping off the bridge into the water.\n\nBins have been left overflowing in the town\n\nResident Andrew Dobson, 46, said the area was left an \"eyesore\" with barbecues dumped and the grass scorched.\n\n\"There were people jumping off the bridge, toilet paper behind bushes and trees and dirty nappies.\n\n\"You want people to come to this area - I am very lucky to live here, but when you go down there and see the state of it, just take your stuff home with you.\"\n\nResidents in Burnsall said driveways and pavements had been blocked by an influx of cars\n\nResident Christine Neasham, whose mother recently died in a care home in the town with Covid-19, said she found the crowds extremely distressing.\n\nShe added: \"It could be someone else's parent, grandparent or sibling as a result of this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in Burnsall in the Yorkshire Dales, cars have been double parked on the narrow streets and litter dumped by visitors.\n\nResidents have pleaded with people to take their rubbish when they leave\n\nResident Mark Fox said: \"This past week there has been a perfect storm of nonsensical parking and a disrespect to the villagers trying to carry out their normal life.\n\n\"Everyone seems to have landed here and caused complete and utter disruption.\"\n\nPolice, Fire and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan said: \"I would say if you are going somewhere and you see a crowd just turn around and go somewhere else.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands flocked to the Jurassic Coast to enjoy the sunny weather at the weekend\n\nCoronavirus guidelines on travel should be changed to \"stay local\", Dorset's two council leaders have urged.\n\nThousands of people flocked to Durdle Door beach on the Jurassic Coast at the weekend and Bournemouth beach was also packed.\n\nDorset and Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole (BCP) councils warned crowds could lead to a rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nCurrent rules state that households can drive any distance in England to destinations such as parks and beaches.\n\nIn a statement, Dorset Council leader Spencer Flower said there had been \"extremely disappointing behaviour\" by members of the public at beaches in the county.\n\nOn Saturday three people were airlifted to hospital after tombstoning from the limestone arch at Durdle Door Beach.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of people flocked to Bournemouth beach on Sunday\n\nMr Flower said: \"My plea to the government is to review the unrestricted travel guidelines currently in place and require people instead to 'stay local'\".\n\n\"The current guidelines have a disproportionately negative effect on areas like ours which are popular with visitors but do not have the infrastructure to cope right now.\n\n\"I am worried that we will see a second wave of infection here in Dorset as a result of the high number of visitors to the area over recent days.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by bournemouth_official This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis counterpart at BCP Vikki Slade said she had witnessed a number of cases of \"people failing to adhere to social distancing rules and of illegal parking, widespread barbecues and council staff being abused when going about their work\".\n\nShe said local MPS should press for a five-mile travel limit for non-work purposes, or risk fines.\n\nBournemouth's official tourist board posted a picture on social media of a crowded beach, with the words: \"Too many people, too little respect... Have some humanity... Stay away.\"⁠\n\nIt follows Brighton City Council arguing for more powers from government to implement its own lockdown, after huge crowds have filled its parks and beaches.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That is the end of today's live updates on the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.\n\nToday saw some of the lockdown restrictions eased, with people in Wales from two different households now able to meet outdoors, if they stay in their local area and remain two metres apart.\n\nThose who have been \"shielding\" at home can also leave their homes if they wish - but should not go shopping or go to work.\n\nMeanwhile, Public Health Wales reported five more deaths, taking the total to 1,347.\n\nHere is a recap of today's coronavirus news stories in Wales:\n• Coronavirus lockdown in Wales: What are the new rules?\n• The shielders told they can venture out\n• Coronavirus safety worries have led to calls for the Welsh Government to delay its ban on single-use plastics\n\nWe will be back tomorrow morning with more live updates from 07:00 BST.", "Dating and hook-up app Grindr says it will remove the \"ethnicity filter\" from the next version of its app, following years of criticism from its users.\n\nThe app currently lets people filter potential matches according to their age, height, weight and ethnicity.\n\nBut critics say the ethnicity filter fuels discrimination and that the app does too little to tackle racism.\n\nAnnouncing the change, Grindr said it had a \"zero-tolerance policy for racism and hate speech\" on its platform.\n\nGrindr specialises in dating for gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people.\n\nFor years, LGBT people of colour have flagged the ethnicity filter as an issue - but they received no response from Grindr. Many even got blocked by the company.\n\nBut some are angry that it has only happened as a result of white people speaking up on social media. Indeed, the most-shared social media posts written to shame Grindr into action were posted by white gay men.\n\nThere are also LGBT people of colour who are disappointed that this change is happening at all.\n\nSome have told me that they used the ethnicity filter to find people like themselves, perhaps not to date but for shared experiences and cultural understanding.\n\nIn some cases it was needed. In February, at a queer club night for Black and Asian people, one party-goer showed me how black men did not appear on his Grindr until the white men had been filtered out.\n\nGrindr is not the only LGBT dating app to allow filtering by race. The spotlight will now move to others that have yet to take a similar stance.\n\nOn 29 May, Grindr had tweeted \"Demand justice. #BlackLivesMatter\", with a link to further information. This had prompted several users to accuse the company of hypocrisy.\n\nOne message saying \"remove the ethnicity filter\" was retweeted 1,000 times.\n\nGrindr later deleted its own tweet and on 1 June posted a new message explaining its change of position.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Grindr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral companies have posted messages of their own featuring the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter following six consecutive days of protests across the United States. The events were sparked by the killing of George Floyd - a black man who died after a white officer continued kneeling on is neck even after he had pleaded that he could not breathe.\n\nWhile some Grindr users welcomed the removal of the filter, others said the company had taken too long to implement the change, and had done the \"bare minimum\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by J Æ IA-02 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Primark is planning to reopen all of its 153 stores in England on 15 June when lockdown restrictions are lifted, its owner AB Foods has said.\n\nDuring lockdown the clothing chain has built up almost £2bn-worth of stock to sell, double its normal stockholding.\n\nHowever, bargain-hunters will be left disappointed after the firm said there would be no \"special discounting\".\n\n\"The stock will be sold in the normal course of business, albeit at a later date,\" it said.\n\nThe company said it had £1.5bn of stock on hand plus a commitment to suppliers to buy another £400m-worth. It normally holds stock worth £900m.\n\nThe excess stock mainly comprises non-fashion and non-seasonal ranges plus some excess spring-summer goods, it said.\n\nSome of the latter will be held back until spring 2021 while the rest will be sold \"in the normal course of business\".\n\nPrimark's 37 shops in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales will re-open in late June pending \"further guidance\".\n\nIt has also pulled forward the opening of a new store in the Trafford Centre, Manchester to 15 June. It was originally planned to open in the third quarter of the year.\n\nThe company has already reopened more than 100 stores across Europe including 32 in Germany, 25 in Spain and 20 in the Netherlands.\n\nIt said it had learned lessons from the openings that would be carried forward to UK openings.\n\n\"Social distancing protocols, hand sanitiser stations, perspex screens at tills and additional cleaning of high frequency touch points in the store are among the measures we are implementing,\" it said.\n\nPrimark has opened stores in Europe, including this shop in Berlin\n\nPersonal protection, including masks and gloves, are being made available to all employees, the company added.\n\n\"These measures are designed to safeguard the health and wellbeing of everyone in store and to instil confidence in the store environment.\"\n\nIt said it has received positive feedback from customers and employees in areas where stores are already open.\n\nIn other retail news, Ted Baker has said it plans to raise £95m to slash debt and to help pay for a transformation plan.\n\nThe announcement came as the fashion chain reported a loss of £79.9m for the year to 25 January 2020, compared to a profit of £30.7m the previous year.\n\nThe fashion brand blamed the loss on £84.6m of non-underlying expenses, including £45.8m of inventory charges after an investigation found that it had overstated the value of its stock.\n\nIn the 14 weeks since January, to 2 May, revenue has slumped 36%, although online sales have jumped by 50%.\n\nTo turn things around the retailer has announced a new strategy it calls \"Ted's Growth Formula\", which will involve \"stabilising the foundations, driving growth, and enhancing operational excellence\".\n\nTed Baker has started to gradually reopen stores, primarily in Europe, and is planning for further re-openings as governments relax lockdown rules.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate - and highest proportion of positive cases in Wales\n\nCoronavirus has exposed \"the stark nature of inequalities\" in the UK, according to the first minister.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales, Mark Drakeford said: \"It is stark, and it is depressing, but it's not surprising.\"\n\nMr Drakeford said some local authority areas in Wales were being worse affected by the virus than others.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate in Wales, according to latest figures.\n\nMr Drakeford said some areas have \"older populations, populations with underlying health conditions, populations who live near each other because of their local geographies\".\n\n\"We have some local authorities in Wales that have all those characteristics and where you would expect, independent of testing variable, there will be a bigger impact of the virus.\"\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has recorded 98.89 deaths per 100,000 compared with 8.22 deaths in Ceredigion and 22.87 in Anglesey.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil has had 98.03 deaths per 100,000 while Cardiff, where the highest number of deaths have been recorded (329) there have been 90.32 deaths per 100,000 people.\n\nFrom Monday, some restrictions are being eased with people from two households allowed to meet and allowed to travel about five miles from home.Asked on the Sunday Supplement programme why the Welsh Government had decided not to relax the rules on non-contact sport, like tennis, Mr Drakeford said that advice suggested the gap between \"where the R number is and where it would begin to get out of control was very narrow\" and so the Welsh Government should \"take one main measure\".\n\n\"We have focussed in Wales on allowing families and friends to get together again in the open air,\" he said.\n\n\"We did that because all of the messages we have had back from people in Wales have been that while we are willing to put up with a huge amount in order to make the great collective effort we've made, the one thing they missed the most is seeing family and friends.\n\n\"In my post bag and in the post bag of my colleagues, the number of people who have written in about tennis is pretty small and the number of people who have written in saying I really miss being abele to sit face to face with, and then they name the person who's closest to them, has grown and grown significantly,\" he added.", "A group of 200 travel companies has written to Home Secretary Priti Patel asking for current quarantine plans for people entering the UK to be scrapped.\n\nIt follows calls last week from MPs and travel bosses to reconsider the rules.\n\nFrom 8 June, people entering the UK from abroad will be told to isolate for 14 days or face a fine.\n\nThe government insists the new rules will help keep the transmission rate of the virus down.\n\nThe letter suggests travel should be possible for people - without quarantine - between destinations \"deemed safe from coronavirus\".\n\nSo-called air bridges would allow visitors from countries where coronavirus infection rates are low into the UK, without having to self-isolate for two weeks.\n\nThe lead author of the letter, George Morgan-Grenville, boss of tour operator Red Savannah, said: \"This is not just a group of company bosses complaining, but employees from bottom to top calling for the quarantine plans to be quashed.\"\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"These cross Government public health measures are designed to keep the transmission rate down, stop new cases being brought in from abroad and help prevent a devastating second wave of coronavirus. All of our decisions have been based on the latest scientific evidence.\n\nThe quarantine hasn't even taken effect, but from the word go, this policy has been under fire on several fronts.\n\nTravel firms face bankruptcy. It could be the final nail in the coffin for some smaller firms.\n\nUK aviation is shedding jobs and if the sector can't rebound to some extent this summer, the economic misery will only be compounded.\n\nSenior figures within the Conservative party, like the former shadow home secretary David Davis, are vehemently opposed.\n\nI'm told that the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, is not a fan either.\n\nBut Number 10 and the Home Office argue that as the prevalence of the virus falls in the UK, the effectiveness of a quarantine, to stop cases being imported, rises.\n\n\"Air bridges\" - where two countries with relatively low infection rates agree to waive the quarantine measures - are possible.\n\nReports in the Portuguese media suggest an air bridge with Portugal is on the cards.\n\nBut when it comes to controlling the virus, the United Kingdom is behind other countries in Europe and so, in negotiations, the ball might not be in the UK's court.\n\nThe quarantine might prove irrelevant in some cases if governments such as those in Greece and Spain, as they have indicated, do not let British tourists in.\n\nOther firms and travel bosses who have signed include hotelier Sir Rocco Forte, hotels The Ritz, The Connaught and Mandarin Oriental, and upmarket travel agent Kuoni.\n\nLast month, in a letter to the prime minister, bosses of airlines such as EasyJet, Tui, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic, as well as industry bodies Airlines UK, the British Chambers of Commerce, UK Hospitality and manufacturing association Make UK said that while they fully support the government's commitment to public health, they have \"serious reservations\" about a \"blanket approach\" to all arrivals into Britain.\n\nSome travel firms have come under fire for their treatment of customers owed refunds as flights and holidays were cancelled amid the UK's lockdown.\n\nThe aviation watchdog last month warned airlines that they are legally required to provide refunds to customers who had their flights cancelled because of the coronavirus.\n\nBy law, plane operators must refund customers within seven days if their flight is cancelled.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said it could take action against airlines.\n\nAirlines including Easyjet, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Ryanair have all announced thousands of job cuts.\n\nPassengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days. There is a £100 penalty for anyone found to have not filled in this ''contact locator'' form.\n\nSurprise visits will be used to check they are following the rules. Those in England could be fined up to £1,000 if they fail to self-isolate, while governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can also impose penalties.\n\nPassengers will be asked to drive in their own car to their destination, where possible. If they do not provide an address, the government will arrange accommodation.\n\nThey must then not go to work, school, or public areas, or use public transport or taxis. They should also not have any visitors unless they are providing essential support, and should not go out to buy food or other essentials where they can rely on others.\n\nThe Home Office added: \"The list of exemptions has been agreed by all government departments in consultation with their stakeholders which will ensure critical supplies and services can continue and will be kept under review.\n\n\"People coming into the UK will be required to provide contact and travel information, including those who are exempt. We will set out further detail shortly including on how we will take action against those who flout the rules.\"", "Prince Joachim of Belgium is said to have mild coronavirus symptoms\n\nA Belgian prince who contracted coronavirus after attending a party during lockdown in Spain has apologised and \"will accept the consequences\".\n\n\"I deeply regret my actions,\" he said in a statement on Sunday.\n\nPrince Joachim, 28, travelled from Belgium to Spain for an internship on 26 May, but went to a party two days later in the southern city of Córdoba.\n\nSpanish reports suggest the prince, a nephew of Belgium's King Philippe, was among 27 people at the party.\n\n\"I apologise for not respecting all quarantine measures during my trip,\" his statement reads, adding: \"In these difficult times I did not want to offend anyone.\"\n\nCórdoba's lockdown rules permit no more than 15 people at gatherings.\n\nSpanish police have launched an investigation into the party. Those found to have flouted lockdown rules could be fined up to €10,000 (£9,000; $11,100).\n\nEveryone who attended the party is said to be in quarantine. Prince Joachim, the youngest son of Princess Astrid and 10th in line to the Belgian throne, is said to have mild coronavirus symptoms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The lockdown has eased in Spain, but there are still time restrictions on when people can be outdoors\n\nSpain is in the process of emerging from one of the strictest lockdowns in Europe. It outlined a four-stage plan on 4 May to start easing the lockdown, which saw children under the age of 14 confined to their homes for six weeks.\n\nThe country said it was moving to a second phase from 1 June for 70% of Spaniards, leaving only major cities under tighter restrictions.\n\nSpain has among the highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world. As of Sunday, the country had 239,479 infections and 27,127 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Floyd's brother: 'That's not bringing him back'\n\nGeorge Floyd, the African-American man whose death has sparked civil unrest, died from asphyxia (lack of oxygen), a private post-mortem examination found.\n\nHe died due to compression on his neck and back by Minneapolis police officers, medical examiners hired by the Floyd family said.\n\nThe findings differ from an official preliminary examination carried out by the county medical examiner.\n\nIt did not find evidence of \"traumatic asphyxia or strangulation\".\n\nThe official examination also said underlying health conditions played a role in Mr Floyd's death.\n\nBut the two doctors hired by the Floyd family found the death was a homicide, a statement from its legal team said.\n\n\"The cause of death in my opinion is asphyxia, due to compression to the neck - which can interfere with oxygen going to the brain - and compression to the back, which interferes with breathing,\" Dr Michael Baden, a former New York City medical examiner and one of the pair, said at a news conference.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is pain right here' - Washington DC protests turn violent\n\nA video showing a white police officer continuing to kneel on George Floyd's neck even after he pleaded he could not breathe sparked outrage when it emerged a week ago.\n\nIt has led to six consecutive days of protests around the United States and a level of civil unrest not seen this widely across the country in decades.\n\nBenjamin Crump, a lawyer for the Floyd family, told Monday's news conference: \"Beyond doubt he would be alive today if not for the pressure applied to his neck by officer Derek Chauvin and the strain on his body by two other officers.\"\n\nHe added: \"The ambulance was his hearse.\"\n\nDr Baden said there was \"no other health issue that could cause or contribute to the death\".\n\nA memorial has sprung up in Minneapolis at the spot where George Floyd was arrested by police\n\nThe findings contradict those of a preliminary post-mortem examination that was included in the criminal complaint against Mr Chauvin, who has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.\n\nThe medical examiner noted in that report that Mr Floyd had underlying heart conditions and said the combination of these, \"potential intoxicants in his system\" and being restrained by the officers \"likely contributed to his death\".\n\nThe full official death examination is yet to be released by the office of the Hennepin County Medical Examiner. It says it is awaiting more results from laboratory studies.\n\nThere have been protests in several European cities, including this one in Barcelona\n\nThe Floyd family and their lawyers say the charge against Mr Chauvin should be increased to first-degree murder. They say the private post-mortem examination proves two other officers filmed kneeling on his back also contributed to his death.\n\nMore than 75 cities have seen protests over what happened to George Floyd, with streets only days ago deserted because of coronavirus full of demonstrators marching shoulder to shoulder.\n\nThe case has reignited deep-seated anger over police killings of black Americans and racism. It follows the high-profile cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in New York and others that have driven the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nOn Sunday, mostly peaceful demonstrations once again gave way to violence in many cities, with clashes erupting between police and protesters.\n\nPolice cars were burned, buildings were torched and shops looted in several places. Dozens of cities imposed curfews but they were defied.\n\nProtesters staged a \"die-in\" in New York City's Times Square on Monday\n\nOn Monday, President Trump told state governors they had been \"weak\" and had to get \"much tougher\", and utilise troops from the National Guard, thousands of whom have already been activated in two dozen states.\n\n\"You've got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you'll never see this stuff again,\" Mr Trump said in a video conference call, according to US media.\n\nThere have been scenes of violence in Washington DC in recent nights, including near the White House.\n\nDemonstrators lit fire to buildings including a historic church known as the church of the presidents overnight on Sunday.\n\nMany videos shared on social media from across the US appeared to show riot police responding disproportionately to demonstrators. Dozens of attacks targeting journalists have been reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A tanker has been driven at protesters in Minneapolis\n\nThe curfew in Washington DC has been extended for another two nights and will start at 19:00 on Monday. A curfew starting at 23:00 had been in effect on Sunday.\n\nNew York City is also imposing a citywide curfew on Monday from 23:00 until 05:00 on Tuesday.\n\n\"The violence and the looting has been bad for the city, the state and this entire national movement, undermining and distracting from this righteous cause,\" said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.", "The air ambulance took the man's wife to hospital\n\nA man has died after being attacked by a herd of cows while walking in the Yorkshire Dales, police have said.\n\nThe man, 82, from Foulridge, Pendle, was out walking with his wife at Ivescar, Ingleton on Saturday at around 13:45 BST.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police said emergency services were called but the man died at the scene.\n\nHis wife, aged 78, was badly bruised and taken by air ambulance to Lancaster Royal Infirmary.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Neil and his wife Susanne run a towel and bedding stall in Barnsley outdoor market\n\n\"It's been hard financially, but our business can now get cracking,\" says Neil Conway, who runs a towel and bedding stall at Barnsley outdoor market with his wife Susanne.\n\nOpen air markets and car showrooms will be allowed to re-open in England on Monday, with coronavirus-related measures in place.\n\nAs with garden centres (which re-opened in May across the UK), the government says the risk of transmission of Covid-19 \"is lower in these outdoor and more open spaces\".\n\nTo try to keep their customers safe, Neil and Susanne have overhauled how they work.\n\nThe pair have printed new signs to encourage shoppers to keep a two-metre distance, as well as introducing contactless payments and designated payment and \"pick-up\" points for orders.\n\n\"We're hoping we can provide a good example of how things can work, and hopefully others will follow,\" says Susanne.\n\nShe says that it's been a \"funny few months\" not trading during lockdown, having started work at the market when she was 12-years-old.\n\n\"We have wanted to know when we were coming back, and we were questioning if it was ever going to happen.\"\n\n\"But now we're really looking forward to getting started, and helping get the economy back on its feet, safety-first of course,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough their market stall might benefit from lockdown measures gradually being lifted, Neil anticipates it might take some time for trade - and customer confidence - to return.\n\n\"I don't think we'll take a great deal of money at first, but we've got to get into the swing of working again,\" Neil says.\n\nOne trade body says that those who've carried on selling essential items like food during lockdown have shown that trading can be done safely. But they told the BBC they believe only a fraction of outdoor markets will resume straight away.\n\nJoe Harrison, chief executive of the National Market Traders Federation said: \"It will take a lot of time for markets to get back to their full potential, with the correct equipment in place.\"\n\nCar showrooms have also been working to put measures in place to ensure the safety of staff and customers ahead of re-opening, said Sue Robinson, director of the National Franchised Dealers Association.\n\nShe said they include one-way systems, hand sanitising stations, protective screens and more frequent cleaning for each car.\n\nAt Sytner, the UK's largest car dealer, customers will have to test drive cars by themselves. Boss Darren Edwards told the BBC's Today programme customers were unlikely to buy cars they had not driven, and that the firm would do \"due diligence\" to ensure it was safe.\n\nHe said he was hopeful that demand would pick up from current low levels but that the future remained uncertain.\n\n\"Clearly once the government's furlough scheme finishes in October we don't know what that is going to do to the economy and general consumer confidence. That's a bit of an unknown.\"\n\nOther retailers in England have also been pressing ahead with their coronavirus-secure re-opening plans.\n\nIkea, for example, could have stayed open during lockdown. But it chose to shut, and will only re-open in England and Northern Ireland from Monday.\n\nOne store manager told the BBC that \"wardens\" will be working in-store, reminding customers of social distancing guidelines.\n\nOther shops classed as non-essential in England, however, won't be able to re-open until 15 June. No firm dates have been set for the reopening of non-essential shops in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but each country has plans in place.\n\nThis includes shops selling things like clothes, toys, books and electronics, as well as tailors, auction houses, photography studios, and indoor markets.\n\nTony Symons, owner of Roger's Menswear in Kent, has already been gearing-up to start trading again.\n\nHe says that he has ordered a Perspex screen for the till area, and will introduce shorter openings hours and a cap on the number of customers allowed in his shop at one time.\n\nBut like Neil the market trader, Tony only expects a trickle of trade initially.\n\n\"To be optimistic, I would say customers will come flocking through the door. Unfortunately, I don't think that will be the case.\"\n\nAs an independent retailer without an online sales platform, Tony is relying on customer visits, and hopes that footfall will build up over time.\n\n\"I'd like to think everyone is like me and wants to get out there and do things, but we shall see.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nThe sun shone in Newcastle on Monday but as Zodiakos passed the post a neck ahead of stablemate Al Ozzdi to win a thrilling opening race shortly after 13:00 BST, there was nothing but an eerie silence.\n\nAfter 76 days without horse racing in Britain, this was how it returned - with a behind-closed-doors victory for a 22-1 chance, ridden by Jimmy Sullivan and trained by Roger Fell, in the Welcome Back British Racing Handicap.\n\nThose involved with the sport were glad to be back, although there was sadness too: December Second - trained by Philip Kirby - died after suffering a fall in the 17:05 race.\n\nThe news cast a shadow over a significant day. Preparations for the all-weather meeting at Gosforth Park had been meticulous as elite sport in England made its return after the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe car park at the track was empty, with racegoers, owners, bookmakers and most of the media kept behind a ring of temporary wire fencing encircling the racecourse.\n\nEach of the 10 races were limited to 12 runners and apart from jockeys, the course was only open to a few people: trainers' representatives, stable staff, officials and a small number of media.\n\nThose allowed in had to complete a three-stage screening process, including medical checks before departure and on arrival.\n\nMasks were also required by jockeys and stalls handlers, with the heat adding to feelings of unfamiliarity and discomfort.\n\n\"Riding in the mask, it is very warm and after pulling up I pulled it down a little just to get a few breaths in,\" said Sullivan after his win.\n\n\"It wasn't too bad, though. It's manageable and it's the sort of thing that, in a week, you won't even notice.\"\n\nSocial distancing measures were strictly enforced at the course, with markers on the floor, two-metre warnings on the walls and a one-way system in place.\n• None Horse racing's return: Five viewpoints on the sport's comeback\n• None Patience and unity key to easing restrictions, says Sport Wales boss\n\nWith no bars and restaurants open, it was packed lunches in paper bags for those who needed to be fed.\n\nIn the paddock, the horses still made their way around the parade ring, but jockeys had to follow a set route in and markings showed where they and the trainers' representatives could stand.\n\nRiders also had to use a different weighing room to normal, because of its size, and at the end of the race, only the winner returned to the paddock while all the others had to unsaddle in a dedicated area near the racecourse stables.\n\nWith no on-course bookies and high street shops closed until 15 June, online and telephone betting were the options open for those who wanted to put their money on the day's events.\n\nOne bookmaker said turnover had been 50% higher than anticipated.\n\nWith another meeting at Gosforth Park on Tuesday, plus a card at Kempton as racing builds up to Saturday's 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, the pressure was on Newcastle to deliver.\n\n\"It is vital we got this right,\" said Martin Cruddace, chief executive of racecourse owner Arena Racing Company.\n\n\"We are trailblazers for the sport and there is an incredible pressure, but it is a privilege as well and we are delighted it falls on us.\n\n\"It has been an amazing effort by everyone.\"\n\nThe course's efforts earned praise from the British Horseracing Authority's chief regulatory officer Brant Dunshea.\n\n\"We have had a few teething problems with some IT issues which were ironed out,\" he said. \"But the racecourse has done a fantastic job in how it has laid out the course. It is a very well-secured site and we are very impressed with the facilities.\n\n\"It is important we learn from each day. In the current climate, we can't be too careful.\"\n\nThere was, though, pause to reflect on the death of December Second. The BHA, expressing its sadness, said: \"Equine welfare has been an important consideration in our planning to return - for example, there have been limits placed on field sizes as part of the sport's resumption of racing strategy.\n\n\"Racehorses have been able to continue to train and exercise during the lockdown and have been able to maintain their normal level of fitness, looked after by dedicated staff.\n\n\"Their safety has been an important consideration in our planning for return but it is impossible to remove risk altogether.\"\n• None What impact has coronavirus had on racing?\n\n'Just to get playing again is a relief' - snooker returns\n\nAs racing resumed at a near-deserted venue, there was the same eerie feeling in Milton Keynes as snooker returned behind closed doors.\n\nThe Championship League was the first sports event in the UK to be shown on free-to-air TV since the easing of restrictions - with an on-site hotel at the Marshall Arena allowing players to isolate before play.\n\nWorld champion Judd Trump had to isolate for 18 hours after being given a Covid-19 test at 16:00 BST on Sunday. With Trump - along with the tournament's seven other players and 35 staff working at the venue - returning a negative result, play began on Monday.\n\nTrump, who progressed as winner of his group, had to wear a face mask and adhere to social distancing guidelines - with players sitting two metres apart and barred from sharing equipment, such as rests and cue extensions.\n\nThe event was broadcast on ITV4, with presenter Jill Douglas and the pundits all working from home.\n\nWorld number one Trump - and the rest of the snooker circuit - is getting used to a rejigged calendar; the season would normally end in May, at the conclusion of the World Championship, which is now set to start on 31 July.\n\nTrump told BBC Sport: \"In an ideal scenario, I would be on holiday somewhere now with another world crown. But for me, the last month was starting to get quite difficult, being stuck inside all the time.\n\n\"Nothing is ideal and it is changing week on week - but just to be able to get to some kind of normality in playing snooker again is a nice relief.\n\n\"When you are playing out there, it takes your mind of things for a couple of hours and you can forget about anything else that is going on.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three men jumped into the sea near Dorset's Durdle Door arch\n\nA paddleboarder who retrieved a stricken man who had jumped 70ft (21m) into the sea said he thought he was going to drown in the rescue.\n\nMike Wiley, 31, found the man unconscious on the seabed after he had tombstoned from Durdle Door arch in Dorset on Saturday.\n\nHe described \"swimming through the pain\" as he hauled the man back to the surface.\n\nThe beach later had to be cleared to allow air ambulances to land.\n\nThousands of people flocked to Durdle Door Beach on the Jurassic Coast on Saturday following the easing of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nMr Wiley, from Southampton, said he had been paddleboarding at the beauty spot when he saw three men jump from the arch over the course of an hour.\n\nHe described frantic attempts by him and other swimmers to find a fourth man who failed to resurface after he leapt into the sea.\n\nEmergency crews were called to Durdle Door on Saturday afternoon\n\n\"He hit the water so hard he didn't even come up to the surface, he went straight down,\" Mr Wiley said.\n\n\"I could see a white body on the seafloor, but it was so deep none of us could get to him. Everyone was in a state of panic.\"\n\nHe said it took five attempts to reach the victim.\n\n\"When I got to him he was just laid on some seaweed and I grabbed his hand and kept swimming to the surface.\n\n\"I thought I was going to let go of him as I didn't think I'd make it to the surface myself. I'd exhaled all the air in my lungs.\n\n\"I swum through the pain and the fact I thought I was going to drown - dragging a body through the water was hard.\"\n\nMike Wiley, 31, pulled the stricken tombstoner to the surface\n\nFour \"incredible ladies\" on the beach then performed CPR to get the man breathing again before medics arrived and he was flown to hospital.\n\n\"I honestly thought he wasn't going to make it - he was down there for about four minutes,\" Mr Wiley said.\n\n\"I'm replaying it over in my head. I can't explain how hard it was.\"\n\nMr Wiley said the man had no protective clothing.\n\n\"People don't know their limitations, they think the water is soft. When you are jumping from that height it's incredibly dangerous. The cold water shock alone will take the breath out of your lungs.\"\n\nIn total three jumpers were seriously hurt and taken to hospital.\n\nWhile helicopters landed on the beach, thousands of people had to crowd together, breaking social distancing rules.\n\nCrowds of people have flocked to the popular beauty spot since lockdown restrictions were eased\n\nA Public Health Dorset spokesperson said: \"People who are or were unable to social distance effectively are advised to self-isolate if they have symptoms of COVID-19 and arrange a test through the online booking system.\n\n\"It is important that good hygiene measures are followed with frequent hand washing.\n\n\"Where social distancing isn't possible people should wear face coverings especially where they will come into contact with people they do not normally meet.\"\n\nDespite the coastguard and police warning people not to leap from the landmark on Saturday, officers said others \"still saw fit\" to attempt it on Sunday.\n\nRoads around the beauty spot, which is part of the privately owned Lulworth Estate, were closed but hundreds of people still travelled to the area, police said.\n\nCrowds still flocked to Durdle Door on Sunday, despite local roads near the landmark being closed\n\nIn a statement, the estate's owner, James Weld, insisted opening the car parks \"did not attract visitors\".\n\n\"These were opening to relieve the pressure on the local road network and the local community, although the publicity surrounding the opening of the car parks undoubtedly added to the visitor numbers,\" he said.\n\n\"It is clear that the restriction of travel should have been limited to local journeys only which would not have resulted in the huge pressures suddenly being foisted on sites such as Durdle Door.\"\n\nHe said staff were \"physically and legally\" unable to prevent people from accessing the coast.\n\nThe estate re-opened its Durdle Door car park on 16 May after restrictions were eased, earlier than other car parks along the coast owned by the National Trust and Dorset Council.\n\nConservative South Dorset MP Richard Drax said he would be discussing issues from the weekend with the council, police and Mr Weld.\n\n\"Personal responsibility is what people are meant to be adopting. Sadly they were not adopting [that],\" he added.\n\nCoastguard crews maintained patrols at the beach on Sunday\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Head teacher Debbie Whiting set up a food bank to support families in poverty (photo taken before lockdown)\n\nThe government has told schools to reopen for certain year groups from 1 June. But what does it mean in practical terms for schools - and how are they getting ready? We spoke to one head teacher to find out.\n\n\"It's like doing a jigsaw puzzle where all the pieces are green.\"\n\nThat is how Debbie Whiting, head teacher of North Denes Primary School in Norfolk, describes the task in front of her - remodelling her school during a pandemic so that three classes can return next month.\n\n\"The more you look at things, the more there is to think about,\" she says.\n\nClassrooms have been stripped out, new signage put up around the school and year groups divided into small \"bubbles\" to keep pupils away from each other and - it is hoped - minimise the risk of coronavirus spreading.\n\nThe school in Great Yarmouth already knows it will not be ready to reopen for Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 classes on 1 June, and is instead working to a deadline of 8 June.\n\nThis summer the school should have been preparing to move into its new £9m buildings, but construction delays mean all focus is now on making the existing school safe for returning pupils.\n\n\"The 1 June date might be convenient for being after half-term but it's not given us anything like the time we need to put things in place,\" says Mrs Whiting.\n\n\"It's really difficult. You just keep thinking, have we caught everything?\"\n\nChildren will have to keep their distance from friends and others in their bubble (image from before lockdown)\n\nParents have been asked whether they will send their children back - but only half have responded, making planning difficult. So far, one-third of those who have replied say their children will return.\n\nMrs Whiting estimates she can make her plans work if about 40% of the 180 children return. If they all came back, she would need an extra 12 classrooms at the school.\n\nThe school hopes to make social distancing as natural as possible for children by breaking classes into smaller \"bubbles\" of about seven pupils and two teachers. But without knowing the intentions of the other families, the plans could be useless.\n\nMrs Whiting has left the decision up to parents, but wrote to them recently to warn them \"school will be a very different place\".\n\n\"Until we have those numbers, planning to keep everyone safe in bubbles is really tricky,\" she said.\n\n\"My concern is that they've heard that schools are reopening and on 1 June they just arrive.\"\n\nNo more than eight people will be in each teaching bubble\n\nFor the rest of term, all school life will take place within the bubbles.\n\nIn those groups pupils will learn, eat and play, with each bubble using a nominated classroom and set of toilets to prevent cross-infection.\n\nChildren will not be allowed to take bags to school, and will work in a new exercise book and their teacher will not take them home to mark.\n\nUniform policy will be scrapped as children will need to wear clean clothes every day \"and many will have outgrown it anyway\".\n\n\"If they've got different clothes on every day you'll know that they've actually changed,\" said Mrs Whiting.\n\nThe school has gained experience from teaching the children of key workers over the past weeks, and the numbers have steadily risen from eight pupils to 20.\n\n\"Parents will expect us to social-distance their children, and we intend to do that,\" says Mrs Whiting.\n\nThe Year 1 classroom has been decluttered for socially-distanced teaching\n\nThe school day will be re-organised, with staggered starts and a lunchtime finish once children have been given their food.\n\nIn the morning, children in each bubble will arrive at 15-minute intervals, and line up in the playground two metres (6ft 6ins) apart before being led into their classrooms.\n\nOnly one parent will be allowed to drop off and collect each child, with no gathering by the school gates, though Mrs Whiting acknowledges getting several children to school at different times is \"likely to cause problems\" in single-parent households.\n\nBubbles will be kept separate at break times and when they are given lunch, with each being given their own area of the playground to use.\n\nEven before coronavirus, the school was without its kitchen because of building works, and could only use half of its main hall.\n\nNorth Denes Primary serves one of the most deprived boroughs in the country\n\nPupils' movements around the school will be restricted mainly to their bubbles, but the way they use the communal areas will change.\n\nEach year will have a separate entrance to the buildings, and school corridors will operate a one-way system so people can maintain their distance.\n\nDoors will be left propped open and handles cleaned regularly.\n\n\"It's about controlling all movement,\" says Mrs Whiting.\n\n\"We also started careful hand washing before the lockdown and the children have been pretty good at that.\"\n\nHand dryers in the toilets have been switched off on official advice, and replaced with paper towels, while the school has ordered pedal bins for every classroom so that PPE - which will be used for first aid or personal care - can be disposed of safely and without contact.\n\nPupils will be forbidden from sharing pens or pencils to stop cross-contamination\n\nClassrooms will also look different, with the need for distancing reducing capacity to about eight desks.\n\nAll rooms have now been decluttered and non-essential items removed, filling the school's storage spaces.\n\nIn the younger age groups' classrooms, soft furnishings, rugs and toys have been removed - anything remaining will have to be washed at the end of each day.\n\nCleaning routines have been stepped up and surfaces will be disinfected regularly.\n\nPupils will be asked to bring their own stationery, and forbidden from sharing.\n\nIn a letter to parents, Mrs Whiting had previously warned \"there is no such thing as social distancing in a school - we can try but we certainly cannot guarantee it\".\n\nThe logistics of preparing the school come on top of the everyday challenges of leading a school in one of the most deprived boroughs in the country.\n\n\"The government line is to get children in school so that they don't fall behind, and in disadvantaged areas that is important,\" says Mrs Whiting.\n\n\"But a lot of those who want to return are not those who are in that group.\"\n\nThe Department for Education says it wants children back in schools \"for their education and wellbeing\", and the phased return is based on scientific and medical advice.\n\nFor head teachers, the last few weeks have been \"wearing\", says Mrs Whiting, as they juggle pressures from government, parents who want their children to be kept at home, and those who want them back at school.\n\nUnderpinning all the preparations, her focus has been on keeping the children as safe as possible.\n\n\"This is something I've never ever had to deal with,\" she said. \"And you do wonder what happens if someone gets it and, heaven forbid, there's a fatality?\n\n\"But I can't hold myself responsible for that, because I'm not the one who is asking them to come back.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "George Floyd repeatedly told the police officers who detained him that he could not breathe\n\nThe US has been convulsed by nationwide protests over the death of an African-American man in police custody.\n\nGeorge Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\n\nFootage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.\n\nMr Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.\n\nTranscripts of police bodycam footage show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained by the officers.\n\nThe key events that led to Mr Floyd's death happened within just 30 minutes. Based on accounts from witnesses, video footage and official statements, here's what we know so far.\n\nIt began with a report of a fake $20 (£16.20) bill.\n\nA report was made on the evening of 25 May, when Mr Floyd bought a pack of cigarettes from Cup Foods, a grocery store.\n\nBelieving the $20 bill he used to be counterfeit, a store employee reported it to police.\n\nMr Floyd had been living in Minneapolis for several years after moving there from his native Houston, Texas. He had recently been working as a bouncer in the city but, like millions of other Americans, was left jobless by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Floyd was a regular at Cup Foods. He was a friendly face, a pleasant customer who never caused any trouble, the store owner Mike Abumayyaleh told NBC.\n\nBut Mr Abumayyaleh was not at work on the day of the incident. In reporting the suspicious bill, his teenage employee was just following protocol.\n\nIn a call to 911, made at 20:01, the employee told the operator he had demanded the cigarettes back but \"he [Floyd] doesn't want to do that\", according to a transcript released by authorities.\n\nThe employee said the man appeared \"drunk\" and \"not in control of himself\", the transcript says.\n\nShortly after the call, at around 20:08, two police officers arrived. Mr Floyd was sitting with two other people in a car parked around the corner.\n\nAfter approaching the car, one of the officers, Thomas Lane, pulled out his gun and ordered Mr Floyd to show his hands. In an account of the incident, prosecutors do not explain why Mr Lane thought it necessary to draw his gun.\n\nMr Lane, prosecutors said, \"put his hands on Mr Floyd, and pulled him out of the car\". Then Mr Floyd \"actively resisted being handcuffed\".\n\nOnce handcuffed, though, Mr Floyd became compliant while Mr Lane explained he was being arrested for \"passing counterfeit currency\".\n\nCourt transcripts from police body cameras show Mr Floyd appears co-operative at the beginning of the arrest, repeatedly apologising to the officers after they approach his parked car.\n\nMr Lane asks Mr Floyd to show his hands at least 10 times before ordering him to get out of the vehicle.\n\nIt was when officers tried to put Mr Floyd in their squad car that a struggle ensued.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Minnesota governor on George Floyd death: 'Thank God a young person had a camera to video it'\n\nAt about 20:14, Mr Floyd \"stiffened up, fell to the ground, and told the officers he was claustrophobic\", according to the report.\n\nMr Chauvin arrived at the scene. He and other officers were involved in a further attempt to put Mr Floyd in the police car.\n\nDuring this attempt, at 20:19, Mr Chauvin pulled Mr Floyd away from the passenger side, causing him to fall to the ground, the report said.\n\nHe lay there, face down, still in handcuffs.\n\nThat's when witnesses started to film Mr Floyd, who appeared to be in a distressed state. These moments, captured on multiple mobile phones and shared widely on social media, would prove to be Mr Floyd's last.\n\nMr Floyd was restrained by officers, while Mr Chauvin placed his left knee between his head and neck.\n\nFor more than nine minutes, Mr Chauvin kept his knee on Mr Floyd's neck, the prosecutors say. The duration was initially given as eight minutes and 46 seconds but Minnesota prosecutors have since revised the time.\n\nThe transcripts of bodycam footage from officers Lane and J Alexander Kueng show Mr Floyd said more than 20 times he could not breathe as he was restrained. He was also pleading for his mother and begging \"please, please, please\".\n\nAt one point, Mr Floyd gasps: \"You're going to kill me, man.\"\n\nDerek Chauvin is charged with second degree murder\n\nOfficer Chauvin replies: \"Then stop talking, stop yelling. It takes heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.\"\n\nMr Floyd says: \"Can't believe this, man. Mom, love you. Love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead.\"\n\nA female bystander told the police: \"His nose is bleeding, come on now.\"\n\nAbout six minutes into that period, Mr Floyd became non-responsive. In videos of the incident, this was when Mr Floyd fell silent, as bystanders urged the officers to check his pulse.\n\nOfficer Kueng did just that, checking Mr Floyd's right wrist, but \"couldn't find one\". Yet the other officers did not move.\n\nAt 20:27, Mr Chauvin removed his knee from Mr Floyd's neck. Motionless, Mr Floyd was rolled on to a gurney and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Center in an ambulance.\n\nHe was pronounced dead about an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In June Panorama spoke to local people to piece together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death\n\nOn the night before his death, Mr Floyd had spoken to one of his closest friends, Christopher Harris. He had advised Mr Floyd to contact a temporary jobs agency.\n\nForgery, he said, was out of character for Mr Floyd.\n\n\"The way he died was senseless,\" Harris said. \"He begged for his life. He pleaded for his life. When you try so hard to put faith in this system, a system that you know isn't designed for you, when you constantly seek justice by lawful means and you can't get it, you begin to take the law into your own hands.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd dies after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Footage shows a white officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for several minutes while he is pinned to the floor. Mr Floyd is heard repeatedly saying \"I can’t breathe\". He is pronounced dead later in hospital. Four officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd are fired. Protests begin as the video of the arrest is shared widely on social media. Hundreds of demonstrators take to the streets of Minneapolis and vandalise police cars and the police station with graffiti. Protesters lie on the streets in Portland, Oregon Protests spread to other cities including Memphis and Los Angeles. In some places, like Portland, Oregon, protesters lie in the road, chanting \"I can’t breathe\". Demonstrators again gather around the police station in Minneapolis where the officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest were based and set fire to it. The building is evacuated and police retreat. President Trump blames the violence on a lack of leadership in Minneapolis and threatens to send in the National Guard in a tweet. He follows it up in a second tweet with a warning \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\". The second tweet is hidden by Twitter for \"glorifying violence\". Members of a CNN crew are arrested at a protest A CNN reporter, Omar Jimenez, is arrested while covering the Minneapolis protest. Mr Jimenez was reporting live when police officers handcuffed him. A few minutes later several of his colleagues are also arrested. They are all later released once they are confirmed to be members of the media. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin after being charged over the death of George Floyd Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, 44, is charged with murder and manslaughter. The charges carry a combined maximum 35-year sentence. Demonstrators set fire to rubbish in New York Violence spreads across the US on the sixth night of protests. A total of at least five people are reported killed in protests from Indianapolis to Chicago. More than 75 cities have seen protests. At least 4,400 people have been arrested. Curfews are imposed across the US to try to stem the unrest. President Trump threatens to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest. He says if cities and states fail to control the protests and \"defend their residents\" he will deploy the army and \"quickly solve the problem for them\". Mr Trump poses in front of a damaged church shortly after police used tear gas to disperse peaceful protesters nearby. Tens of thousands of protesters again take to the streets. One of the biggest protests is in George Floyd’s hometown of Houston, Texas. Many defy curfews in several cities, but the demonstrations are largely peaceful. A memorial service for George Floyd is held in Minneapolis. Those gathered in tribute stand in silence for eight minutes, 46 seconds, the amount of time Mr Floyd is alleged to have been on the ground under arrest. Hundreds attended the service, which heard a eulogy from civil rights activist Rev Al Sharpton. As the US saw another weekend of protests, with tens of thousands marching in Washington DC, anti-racism demonstrations were held around the world. In Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians. There were also demonstrations in France, Germany, Spain and the UK. In Bristol, protesters tore down the statue of a 17th century slave trader and threw it into the harbour. Pallbearers bring the coffin into the church A funeral service for George Floyd is held in Houston, Mr Floyd’s home town. Just over two weeks after his death in Minneapolis and worldwide anti-racism protests, about 500 guests invited by the Floyd family are in attendance at the Fountain of Praise Church. Many more gather outside to show their support.\n• None Why is a US city in flames?", "There were long queues in Manchester\n\nThousands of shoppers have queued for hours to get into Ikea stores after the furniture giant reopened 19 shops in England and Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThey had been warned that only a limited number of shoppers would be welcomed with only one adult and one child from a household allowed in.\n\nBut Ikea was forced to shut car parks at some stores to help ease pressure.\n\nIn Warrington, people arrived at 05:40 to start queuing for the Ikea store to reopen at 09;00.\n\nThe company praised shoppers for their patience.\n\n\"Where we've seen strong demand we've taken appropriate decisions to open early for browsing and to temporarily close our car parks to help ease pressure and reduce waiting times,\" Ikea said.\n\n\"We're incredibly grateful to the public in playing their part to help keep everyone safe.\"\n\nIn Warrington, a line of more than 1,000 people snaked around the car park with similar scenes at Ikea's Wembley store.\n\nOn Twitter, shoppers complained of \"five-mile queues\" in Croydon, Wembley and outside of London.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kiran Bhullar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLaw student Alexi Norris visited Wembley to buy a desk but was shocked at the long waits and tweeted that she went home.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Alexi Norris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWest Midlands police took to Twitter to warn people of large queues at Ikea's Wednesbury branch. The police urged: \"Please consider if you need to go there today as you may be in for a very long wait.\"\n\nThere were long queues outside the Belfast branch, noted BBC reporter Mark Simpson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Manchester one shopper (who didn't want to be named) told the BBC that despite queues outside, inside the shop it was easy to maintain social-distancing.\n\n\"It's very busy with every entrance manned by staff with walkie talkies who were managing the long queues that had formed,\" the shopper said.\n\n\"We arrived just after 11:00 and had to queue for about an hour and a half before we were allowed into the store.\n\n\"However, once inside though the store was much emptier than usual, so it was very easy to stay a safe distance from the other shoppers.\"\n\nBut some criticized the long queues as a sign of runaway consumerism.\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"Don't understand how a person sees this Ikea queue and actually joins it, rather than… heading home for a beer.\"\n\nOthers warned that people queuing were risking catching coronavirus.\n\nOne said: \"People shopping at Ikea moaning about the people in the queue at Ikea today. It's the 'it's not me, it's everyone else' attitude that will cause the inevitable second wave.\n\n\"Wear a mask and only go out if you have to. It's not that hard, surely?\"\n\nAn Ikea spokesperson said: \"The health and safety of our customers and co-workers remains our top priority, which is why we put extensive and enhanced measures in place to create a safe and comfortable experience.\"\n\nThe measures include limiting numbers of customers in stores, a staggered entry system, screens in key areas and social-distancing wardens. All play areas and the restaurants have remained closed.\n\n\"We ask that these measures are respected at all times,\" Ikea said.\n\nIt had asked customers to \"come prepared with ready-made lists and their own bags to help ease waiting times\". It also pleaded with customers wishing to return items, \"to do so at a later date\".\n\n\"While frustrating, these planned measures are in place to ensure everyone's safety,\" Ikea said.\n\n\"To avoid queues, we'd ask those purely wishing to browse, to visit us in the coming weeks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new footfall data from retail analyst Springboard has shown a sharp rise in the number of shoppers as a result of lockdown restrictions in England being eased.\n\nOverall, shopper numbers were up 36% on last week's Bank Holiday Monday and 21% on the week before that. High Streets saw the largest increase, with footfall up 44% on last week and 24% on the week before.\n\nThe increases have come despite only limited reopening allowed in England.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have not yet allowed similar shops to open again.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nLiverpool players took a knee around the centre circle at Anfield in a message of support following the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis.\n\nThe picture, featuring 29 Reds players, was posted with the caption \"Unity is strength. #BlackLivesMatter\".\n\nPlayers reportedly requested the picture during training on Monday.\n\nManchester United players Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford added their voices to worldwide protests against racism.\n\nProtests have been held after Floyd, an unarmed black man, died on 25 May after being restrained by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who kneeled on his neck for almost nine minutes to pin him down.\n\nChauvin has since been charged with his murder and sacked.\n• None The last 30 minutes of George Floyd's life\n\nFormer San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick first protested against racial injustice and police brutality by kneeling down during the American national anthem in the summer of 2016. That gesture has since become symbolic to the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nUnited midfielder Pogba said in a passionate Instagram post that he felt \"felt anger, pity, hatred, indignation, pain and sadness\".\n\nThe French World Cup winner added: \"Sadness for George and for all black people who suffer from racism EVERY DAY! Whether in football, at work, at school, ANYWHERE! This has to stop, once and for all. Not tomorrow or the next day, it has to end TODAY!\n\n\"Violent acts of racism can no longer be tolerated. I can't tolerate, I won't tolerate, WE WON'T TOLERATE.\n\n\"Racism is ignorance, LOVE is intelligence, STOP the silence, STOP racism.\"\n\nUnited team-mate Rashford said he had been \"trying to process what is going on in the world\".\n\nThe England striker added: \"At a time I've been asking people to come together, work together and be united, we appear to be more divided than ever.\n\n\"People are hurting and people need answers. Black lives matter. Black culture matters. Black communities matter. We matter.\"\n\nNumerous Liverpool players tweeted the picture of themselves kneeling at Anfield, including defenders Virgil van Dijk,Joe Gomez, Andrew Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold, and midfielders Georginio Wijnaldum and James Milner.\n\nIn Germany, Jadon Sancho and Achraf Hakimi of Borussia Dortmund, Weston McKennie of Schalke, and Marcus Thuram of Borussia Monchengladbach made on-field protests at the weekend\n\nThe four players are being investigated by the German Football Association (DFB) for breaching rules over making political statements on the field of play.\n\nBut DFB president Fritz Keller said he felt \"respect and understanding\" for them\n\nHe said: \"I have great respect for players who have an attitude and show their solidarity. I wish for such mature players and I am proud of them.\n\n\"Morally, I can absolutely understand the actions. What happened in the USA can leave anyone cold.\n\n\"When people are discriminated against because of the colour of their skin, this is intolerable. If they die because of their skin colour, then I am deeply shocked. The victims of racism need solidarity from us all.\n\n\"The DFB and German football as a whole, through their broad commitment, show time and again and in many forms, events and facets their clear NO to racism, discrimination and all forms of violence.\"\n\nIn relation to the investigation, DFB vice-president Rainer Koch said: \"The rule is the immediate phase of the game should be kept free of political statements. It remains to be seen whether sanctions are necessary in the cases.\"\n\n'We have had enough'\n\nBritish sprinter Dina Asher-Smith, Liverpool striker Rhian Brewster and tennis stars Serena Williams, Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka were among the sportspeople to speak out about Floyd's death.\n\nAnd basketball legend Michael Jordan said he was \"deeply saddened, truly pained and plain angry\".\n\n\"I see and feel everyone's pain, outrage and frustration,\" he added. \"I stand with those calling out the ingrained racism and violence toward people of colour in our country.\n\n\"We have had enough.\"\n\nVanessa Bryant, widow of basketball legend Kobe, shared an image of her late husband wearing an \"I Can't Breathe\" T-shirt.\n\n\"My husband wore this shirt years ago and yet here we are again,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Life is so fragile. Life is so unpredictable. Life is too short.\"\n\nFormula 1 drivers Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz, George Russell and Daniel Ricciardo all issued anti-racism messages on social media after world champion Lewis Hamilton criticised those in his industry for not speaking out.\n\n\"I'm one of the only people of colour and yet I stand alone,\" the Briton, who is the only black F1 driver, wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"I would have thought by now you would see why this happens and say something about it but you can't stand alongside us.\"\n\nLeclerc said he had been \"completely wrong\" not to speak out previously, saying he had not done so because he felt \"out of place and uncomfortable\".\n\nHamilton's Mercedes team said in a statement they \"stand with Lewis\" and were \"deeply saddened by the recent developments and hope to see a de-escalation soon\".\n\nThey added: \"Tolerance is an elementary principle of our team and we are enriched by diversity in all its forms. We welcome and encourage people from all races, cultures, religions, philosophies and lifestyles.\n\n\"We condemn every form of discrimination as we work together to drive change forward.\"", "Thousands of people are continuing to protest against the death of George Floyd. The 46-year-old man, who was unarmed, died in the US city of Minneapolis after a white police officer used his knee to pin him to the ground.\n\nBBC Minute’s Nabihah Parkar has been speaking to young African-Americans in the city, who say they are scared for their safety.", "Protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd in Minneapolis have spread across the US and to other countries. They've been documented in videos, images and posts on social media.\n\nBut some of these aren't what they claim to be. The BBC's anti-disinformation team has been tracking misleading videos and conspiracy theories about the protests, which have been circulating online.\n\nSo, here's what to look out for - and avoid - on your social media feeds.\n\nRumours that the protests have been set up with potential projectiles handed out to agitators have gained traction, with thousands of posts referencing \"bricks\" on social media.\n\nSeveral videos that show piles of bricks along with claims that they were planted by police or the government have been watched by millions of people.\n\nOther posts pin the blame on Antifa - the left-wing group President Trump has accused of promoting the disturbances.\n\nHowever, there's no evidence so far to suggest foul play, nor that the protests have been somehow pre-planned.\n\nMost of the videos and images we've seen don't look particularly suspicious - it's not uncommon to see piles of bricks near building sites.\n\nResponding to a video suggesting bricks had been deliberately placed to escalate protests, San Francisco police said on Twitter \"pallets are affiliated with a construction site and (we) have contacted the contractor to have them removed.\"\n\nOne police department in Boston hit back at misleading claims about a viral video of its officers unloading bricks from a van.\n\nSuggestions had been made on social media that the officers were unloading bricks from a vehicle \"to use them as an excuse\" against protesters.\n\nHowever, Boston's Northeastern University Police Department has tweeted that the officers had collected them \"from a damaged brick sidewalk\" and taken them back to the station as they were posing a safety hazard to pedestrians.\n\nAnother viral video from Fayetteville, North Carolina that has racked up over a million views shows a pile of bricks in the vicinity of protests as a man says there is \"no construction\" site in the area.\n\nWe've been able to geolocate the video and found images from 24 May with the same pile of bricks in the same place, long before any protests took place.\n\nIn other cases, old images of piles of bricks have been re-shared of previous demonstrations elsewhere, such as from the protests in Hong Kong last year.\n\nWe've seen lots of examples of old video surfacing in recent days.\n\nAmong many genuine videos of brutal arrests, one that went viral yesterday was not what it seemed. The dramatic video shows a man being arrested then released by police once they'd checked his ID.\n\nA post claiming the man in the video is an \"FBI agent\" has been viewed over 4 million times on Twitter. This claim was repeated on Facebook and Instagram by others sharing the video, where it racked up millions more views.\n\nIn response, Rochester Minnesota Police Department put out a statement clarifying that the man is not a Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent. The incident took place in June last year, when he was mistaken for a wanted man.\n\nThe original post of the video on Instagram includes a caption which stated the video was from the year before, and contains no mention of the FBI.\n\nA video of a teenager being violently arrested by a US police officer has generated almost 10 million views in the last few days.\n\nBut the incident happened back in April - in Rancho Cordova, a city in Northern California. This wasn't made clear in the latest post that has been retweeted more than 100,000 times. It also wrongly identifies the teenager as female.\n\nThe clip attracted widespread criticism at the time.\n\nMeanwhile, there is footage from the current protests which has led to allegations of police brutality.\n\nVideo from the US shows police using batons and tear gas on protesters and journalists seemingly unprovoked.\n\nThis video claims to show a US police building on fire and was posted on 28 May.\n\nIt's not only old - it's from 2015 - it was filmed in another country. It shows an explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin.\n\nSo, why are people sharing old videos?\n\n\"The videos may be compounding the anger they are feeling and could be driven by attempts to sow division or get clicks,\" says Marianna Spring, BBC Specialist Disinformation and Social Media reporter.\n\nSpeculation about who's behind the protests have been circulating online.\n\nSome claims are unsubstantiated, others totally false.\n\nFirst up, posts that have gone viral about George Soros.\n\nSome influential right-wing figures have made unfounded claims that the Hungarian-American billionaire is \"funding\" the demonstrations.\n\nSupporters of QAnon - a conspiracy theory about a \"deep state\" secret coup against Donald Trump - have shared similar claims.\n\nMore than a million posts and memes online have repeated allegations about Mr Soros paying agitators.\n\nMr Soros, whose Open Society Foundations provide financial support to a number of civil society groups and progressive projects around the world, has been a bogeyman of some on the right for a long time.\n\nHis organisation has responded to the latest posts, tweeting that \"Mr. Soros and the Open Society Foundations oppose all violence and do not pay people to protest\".\n\nClaims have circulated online about Russia's involvement in the protests.\n\nViral tweets with thousands of shares suggest that Russia was involved in George Floyd's death - as part of a military operation or an elaborate plot. There is no evidence to support these claims.\n\nThis isn't to rule out the idea that Russia or other countries - either through state media outlets or networks of fake accounts - could be involved in stoking tensions online.\n\nInvestigations into Russian interference during the 2016 US Presidential election revealed that Russia was involved in a misinformation campaign, infiltrating groups and pages run by US activists - and that included Black Lives Matter groups.", "Parents dropping off children at St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School in west London\n\nAt St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School in West London, head teacher Helen Frostick has spent the last couple of weeks redesigning classrooms, reconfiguring timetables and totally rethinking school policy on everything from PE to uniform.\n\nBy the time she welcomed back pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6, every classroom looked very different.\n\nIt's particularly striking for the youngest pupils:.\n\n\"They've got their own little tables,\" says teaching assistant, Clare Gordon. \"Obviously they're used to spending a lot of time on the carpet,\"\n\nEach table is separate, with its own tray of equipment so that the children don't need to get out of their seats so much.\n\nReception children sit at their own little desks rather than on the carpet\n\nOn arrival the parents queue with their children in the playground, which has been marked into two-metre sections, and each year group has been asked to arrive at a different time.\n\nThey don't have to wait long.\n\n\"You look like you've grown, Arthur,\" says teacher Catherine Hughes to a Reception pupil who hasn't been in school since March.\n\nHead teacher Helen Frostick thinks many parents are biding their time before sending their children back to school\n\n\"Are you excited to be back?\" Ms Frostick asks another.\n\nShe was expecting to welcome 70 pupils, who were last in school in late March, alongside 15 children of key workers who have been coming in throughout the lockdown - but in the end just 32 turned up.\n\nMs Frostick is not too surprised, given ongoing concerns about the health impact of reopening schools.\n\nShe believes many parents are waiting to see how it goes - so numbers may pick up in coming days.\n\nThese primary school classrooms now look a little like they might have done in the 1950s with all the desks facing forward in rows, instead of being pushed together into big tables.\n\nFor Year 6 pupils, it's a foretaste of the discipline they might expect when they start secondary school in September.\n\n\"I'm excited to see my friends and see everyone but not excited for the work,\" says 11-year-old Sean.\n\nHe says he has kept up with the home schooling \"but it's nowhere near the amount we normally do\".\n\nSean and Ruby are Year 6 pupils at St Mary Magdalen's\n\nHis classmate Ruby, also 11, quite likes the new desk arrangement as it gives her a bit more personal space.\n\n\"It could be better because sometimes people can be annoying.\"\n\nSean agrees it will be better for concentration but says \"partner work\" will now be impossible.\n\nThe school has split each class into two separate \"bubbles\" with one half in on Monday and Tuesday and the other on Thursday and Friday, which allows for a deep clean on Wednesdays.\n\nRuby says she will miss some of the people in the other group. School will be \"way different\", she says.\n\nDora, who is not due in until Thursday, is quite disappointed.\n\n\"I was looking forward to seeing all my friends again; it's been over two months since I last saw them at school.\n\n\"And then I found out I was only going to see three of my friends because the rest of them are put together in the other group.\n\n\"It isn't long until the end of primary school and I'm worried I wont be able to see my friends before we're all sent off to different secondary schools.\"\n\nDesks are in rows facing the front\n\nOne thing is for sure - hand washing is going to play a far larger part in the school day than ever before.\n\nEvery classroom has its own supply of hand-sanitiser and anti-microbial wipes - and the windows are wide open to let in as much fresh air as possible to keep the virus at bay.\n\nSophia is one of the parents who decided to bring her children to school.\n\n\"It really is best for the family,\" she says.\n\nShe has managed to do some home schooling with her sons Nico, nearly five, and Alessio, 6, but it hasn't always been easy.\n\nSophia who sent both her children back to school says it's best for her family\n\nJulia, has come to the same conclusion about her six-year-old son Max.\n\n\"I was 10% worried but 90% thinking it was the right thing to do,\" she says of her decision to send him to school.\n\n\"The main thing is for normality and for his mental health. He needs the interaction with his friends. He's been begging to come back.\"\n\nRuby and Sean agree they have definitely missed being taught by professional teachers rather than mums and dads.\n\n\"I call my mum over and she says: 'What is this?'\" says Sean - while his dad can sometimes be a bit confusing when he comes up with \"an easier way\" of doing the maths.\n\nSchool governor and parent Serena, whose son is also in Year 6, says she too struggled with home education as her two sons have to share a single computer.\n\nShe says she is confident that the school has done a very stringent risk assessment and says her boy needs more structure in his life in the run-up to secondary school.\n\nBut preparing to reopen has been challenging, as it was one thing deciding to send her own child back but far tougher to make decisions on behalf of the wider school community.\n\n\"The virus is such an unknown. It's been quite stressful. I feel a great deal of responsibility,\" says Serena.", "A home was left partially suspended over the cliff edge\n\nA cliff fall that led to 20 homes being evacuated has worsened with a large section of ground giving way.\n\nA house in Surf Crescent, Eastchurch, Kent, is partially suspended over the edge, while a car and garage fell down the cliff face on Sunday morning.\n\nThe family left the property after a smaller collapse on Friday.\n\n\"They are just waiting for the house to fall,\" said neighbour Malcolm Newell, who has been told it is not safe to return to his home two doors away.\n\nThe second cliff fall left the home at \"increased risk of collapse,\" the fire service said\n\nA car and garage have slipped down the cliff face\n\nA swimming pool in the property's back garden is also at risk, Mr Newell said, adding: \"If that goes it could take a lot more with it.\"\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said it was called at 07:00 BST to the landfall involving a \"significant section of the cliff\", leaving the house \"structurally unsafe and at increased risk of collapse\".\n\nIt said a \"small number\" of households had \"self-evacuated\" and were being looked after by Swale Borough Council at a community centre.\n\nAll but two of the households evacuated on Friday were told they could return to their homes on Saturday morning.\n\nA \"significant section of the cliff\" collapsed on Sunday, Kent Fire and Rescue Service said\n\nIt is unclear how many are affected by the second cliff fall, but Mr Newell estimated eight households have been told they can not return.\n\n\"I'm out. I can't go back,\" he said. \"Apparently there are more cracks appearing along the front.\"\n\nMr Newell, a parish councillor in Eastchurch, said he first warned authorities in 2015 that action was needed to prevent further erosion.\n\n\"This should have been dealt with a long time ago,\" he said. \"It's not right to have people's home, their livelihoods, falling into the sea.\"\n\nA section of road collapsed leading to 20 homes being evacuated on Saturday\n\nA larger landfall overnight took a car and a garage over the cliff edge on Sunday morning\n\nIn a statement, Swale Borough Council said it was opposed to the Environment Agency's existing shoreline management plan, which includes \"no active intervention to defend this area\".\n\nHowever, the Environment Agency said: \"The shoreline management plan, which indicates which areas justify continued protection or not, was written in full consultation with Swale Borough Council and other partners.\n\n\"These are always difficult decisions, and the plan sets out no further intervention for this area, however we continue to work closely with Swale Borough Council.\"\n\nThe agency described the area as \"mainly rural though includes a small number of houses and caravan parks at risk from ongoing significant erosion\".\n\nIn 2015 the agency said it had considered a coastal defence scheme, but the number of properties in the area did not justify the cost.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Modest crowds gathered in the capital Tokyo to watch the five-minute show\n\nFireworks have lit up skies across Japan in surprise displays to lift spirits during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe shows were held at secret locations, each lasting five minutes from 20:00 local time (12:00 BST).\n\nOrganisers set a time limit for the displays to avoid crowds gathering.\n\nInitially, they said the time and date of the event would not be revealed but later reversed course, deciding a sudden pyrotechnics show could cause distress to some.\n\nFilling the skies with a burst of light, the fireworks lasted long enough for people who did not know about it in advance to view them from the street or their homes.\n\nThe displays were held simultaneously on Monday night\n\nYet, the fireworks still drew modest crowds in places. In the capital Tokyo, people were seen watching the displays near the Tama River, before dispersing when they were over.\n\n\"I had a hunch, so I came here,\" one of the spectators, Yukiji Kushiro, told Japanese newspaper the Mainichi Shimbun. \"Even though they say it's a secret, there are only so many places they can launch fireworks.\"\n\nDozens of firework-makers nationwide were involved in organising the synchronised displays, a project called \"Cheer up Hanabi\".\n\nThe event was brief to prevent crowds from gathering\n\nThey are struggling to keep their businesses afloat because many traditional festivals have been cancelled or postponed due to the pandemic.\n\nThe postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics was a major blow for the industry, leaving craftsmen unable to sell fireworks they had spent months making.\n\nOne of the craftsmen, 38-year-old Kouhei Ogatsu, said the pyrotechnics industry had been discussing ways to cheer up a society \"changed so much by the coronavirus\".\n\n\"Historically fireworks in Japan have been launched to pray for the eradication of plagues and to console the spirits of the deceased,\" he told the AFP news agency.\n\nFirework-makers have been struggling for business during the pandemic\n\nWritten messages praying for the end of the pandemic were attached to some of Mr Ogsatu's fireworks.\n\nHis company launched nearly 100 fireworks from four locations across eastern Japan.\"Of course I don't think the coronavirus will disappear with our fireworks. But we wanted to do this and hope something good will come out of it,\" he said.\n\nSome fireworks had messages praying for an end to the pandemic attached to them\n\nLast month, Japan lifted its state of emergency after a marked fall in new coronavirus cases.\n\nPrime Minister Shinzo Abe urged people to \"remain vigilant\" and adopt a \"new lifestyle\" to prevent a second wave of infections.\n\nJapan faced early criticism for its handling of the virus, but appears now to have avoided a epidemic on the scale of that seen in the US, Russia or the UK.\n\nThe country has recorded 16,787 infections and 899 deaths so far, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.", "British soldiers who have been accused of committing war crimes in Iraq are unlikely to face criminal prosecution.\n\nIndependent investigators were asked to look at thousands of allegations made against the British military after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.\n\nBut the director of the Service Prosecution Authority (SPA) said just one remaining case was being examined.\n\nAndrew Cayley said the \"low level\" of offending and lack of credible evidence had led most cases to be dismissed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Law in Action programme, Mr Cayley said most of those cases were sifted out at a very early stage because of the lack of credible evidence or because the offending was \"at such a very low level\".\n\nMore than 1,000 cases were made by former lawyer Phil Shiner and his firm Public Interest Lawyers (PIL). In 2017 he was struck off as a solicitor after a tribunal found him guilty of misconduct and dishonesty, including false accounts about the actions of UK soldiers.\n\nMr Cayley said seven remaining cases had been referred to the SPA, but in six of those cases it was concluded that no charges should be brought.\n\nOne case is still being considered, but Mr Cayley admitted that it is now \"quite possible\" that none of the original allegations will lead to a prosecution.\n\nMr Cayley also said he is confident a separate investigation being conducted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague will conclude this year without further action being taken.\n\nIn 2014, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda re-opened a preliminary examination of cases involving alleged British abuses in Iraq.\n\nMr Cayley said he was \"convinced\" that examination would soon be completed without any further action.\n\nHe said: \"My sense is these matters are coming to a conclusion; she will close the preliminary examination this year in respect of Iraq and the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe cloud hanging over British service personnel accused of wrongdoing has already left a bitter taste and contributed to political pressure to do more to protect soldiers on the battlefield from criminal and civil prosecution for alleged actions which took place years ago.\n\nEarlier this year the government presented a bill promising to curb historic allegations and tackle what it calls \"vexatious claims\" against armed forces deployed overseas.\n\nThe bill proposes a five-year time limit on any criminal prosecution unless compelling new evidence is brought to light.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Defence said it was strongly opposed to service personnel and veterans being subjected to the threat of repeated investigations and potential prosecutions.\n\nVeterans minister Johnny Mercer said the bill was introduced \"to reduce the uncertainty currently faced by service personnel and veterans in relation to historic allegations\" - and aimed to make sure \"that we never end up in a situation like this again\".\n\nBut human rights groups and some lawyers have already expressed concern - saying the legislation could place the military above the law, and undermine existing international conventions.\n\nDavid Greene, vice-president of the Law Society, said a balance must be struck to ensure charges are only brought when warranted.\n\nBut he added: \"The argument behind time limits for British service personnel deployed overseas is that there has been a rise in historic prosecutions. Based on Andrew Cayley's comments the evidence for such an assertion is lacking.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Data on how the coronavirus can spread between aircraft passengers is in short supply\n\nAir passengers should have restricted access to toilets on flights as part of wide-ranging coronavirus safety recommendations, a UN agency has said.\n\nThe International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) guidelines also include limiting or suspending food and drink services on short-haul flights.\n\nThe new guidelines are designed to protect air passengers and workers from the Covid-19 virus as lockdown eases.\n\nAirlines could see revenues plunge £314bn in 2020, the ICAO added.\n\nThe aviation industry has been struggling as lockdown measures around the world have limited flights and passenger numbers.\n\nAs those travel restrictions begin to ease, the ICAO has issued guidelines for governments, with the aim of airlines and airports having a unified response when trying to keep passengers and staff safe from coronavirus.\n\nThe ICAO stopped short of saying that passengers must be socially-distanced on planes, but it did say they should be seated separately \"when occupancy allows it\".\n\nPassengers should travel as lightly as possible, with small hand luggage stowed under their seat. Newspapers and magazines should be removed, and duty free sales should be temporarily limited, the UN's civil aviation body said.\n\nShort-haul food and drinks services should be limited or suspended, or be sold in sealed, pre-packaged containers.\n\nAccess to toilets should also be restricted, the ICAO said. Where possible, one toilet should be set aside for use by cabin crew, and passengers should use a designated lavatory based on which seat they have.\n\nThe new recommendations cover airports, aircraft, crew and cargo.\n\nIn general, face masks should be worn in line with public health guidelines, and social distancing should be made possible where it is feasible, the UN body said.\n\nAreas should be routinely cleaned, and passengers should be checked for signs of coronavirus, by screening temperatures, for example. Contact tracing methods should also be explored.\n\nAt airports, staff should have adequate personal protective equipment, which \"could include gloves, medical masks, goggles or a face shield, and gowns or aprons,\" the guidelines said.\n\nPassengers should be encouraged to check-in before getting to the airport, and to use mobile boarding passes.\n\nAirports should also use contactless technology, including facial and iris scanning, for \"self-service bag drops, various queue access, boarding gates and retail and duty-free outlets\", the guidelines say.\n\n\"This will eliminate or greatly reduce the need for contact with travel documents between staff and passengers,\" the UN agency added.\n\nThe recommendations are extensive and detailed - a blueprint for aviation in the Covid-19 era; and one fact stands out. Flying, for a while at least, is not going to be a whole lot of fun.\n\nFrom the moment you arrive at the terminal building, armed with your pre-printed boarding pass and luggage tags, human contact will be limited, social distancing the norm. Masks will be obligatory, and supplies of hand sanitiser everywhere.\n\nIf you don't like potentially intrusive technology, tough - ICAO suggests that \"contactless biometrics such as facial or iris recognition \" should be used wherever possible, to reduce physical contact between staff and passengers.\n\nAnd it continues on board the plane: there are instructions to \"limit interaction on board\" - so no striking up a conversation with your neighbour - to reduce or suspend food and drink services, and to restrict lavatory access.\n\nWhat ICAO is trying to do here is create a common and consistent framework for the industry to follow around the world - allowing people to travel, while placating even the strictest health authorities.\n\nIt insists the new measures should be temporary.\n\nBut for the moment, anything that was left of the once-lauded romance of flying looks set to disappear in a pungent cloud of disinfectant.\n\nAirlines and aerospace firms have been struggling amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAt the beginning of May, Virgin Atlantic said it would axe 3,000 jobs and quit Gatwick. Later in the month, engine-maker Rolls Royce said it would cut 9,000 jobs.\n\nThere has been a huge reduction in air travel, with daily flights down about 80% since the start of the year.\n\nBut now carriers are making plans to get airborne again, with plans to reintroduce some schedules.", "Some people were complying with social distancing in The Meadows, Edinburgh, today and some were not Image caption: Some people were complying with social distancing in The Meadows, Edinburgh, today and some were not\n\nBritain and Scotland are moving in the right direction in fighting Covid-19 and easing the lockdown but it needs compliance to prevent another surge in the virus, health experts warn.\n\nNathalie MacDermott, a paediatric infectious disease specialist at King's College London and who worked in Liberia during the Ebola outbreak, tells BBC Radio Scotland that the new lockdown measures do not mean \"we can meet with anyone we want without social distancing\".\n\n\"The reproduction number is sitting at just under one at the moment and, if you have a reproduction number of one, you essentially have what is essentially a grumbling epidemic,\" she explains. \"Since we are just under one and are too bold in reducing our lockdown measures, or if we don't comply with what the government is asking us to do, we will see the virus get a foothold in the population again.\"\n\nLinda Bauld, professor of public health at Edinburgh University, says: \"All the numbers are going in the right direction. In terms of the R number, we know from the London School of Hygiene it might be around 0.8 in Scotland, so it is very close to one.\"\n\nRemarking on reports of police fines and lockdown non-compliance, she adds: \"The Scottish government's decision to move slowly should be welcomed, but as we have seen from the scenes at the weekend, the people are very frustrated.\"", "The US city of Minneapolis has endured a third night of clashes between police and protesters.\n\nThe unrest follows the death of an unarmed black man in police custody in the city on Monday.\n\nVideo of the death shows George Floyd, 46, groaning \"I can't breathe\" and \"don't kill me\" as a white policeman kneels on his neck.\n\nOn Thursday, police officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse a crowd outside the 3rd Precinct police station, the epicentre of the unrest.\n\nBut the cordon around the police station was eventually breached by protesters, who set fire to it and two other nearby buildings, as officers withdrew.\n\nThe Minneapolis Police Department said in a statement that the 3rd Precinct had been evacuated shortly after 22:00 \"in the interest of the safety of our personnel\".\n\nThe unrest continued despite the governor of Minnesota ordering the deployment of hundreds of members of the National Guard to restore order.\n\nThere have also been protests in Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles, California; and Memphis, Tennessee.", "Seven former UK foreign secretaries have urged Boris Johnson to form a global alliance to co-ordinate the response to the China-Hong Kong crisis.\n\nChina is facing mounting criticism over a planned security law for Hong Kong which would make it a crime to undermine Beijing's authority.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said the UK would not turn a blind eye.\n\nHong Kong was handed back to China from British control in 1997 but under a unique agreement.\n\nThe former British colony enjoys some freedoms not seen in mainland China - and these are set out in a mini-constitution called the Basic Law.\n\nBut there are fears the proposed law, which has sparked protests in Hong Kong, could compromise some of the freedoms guaranteed by the Basic Law.\n\nIn their letter to the prime minister, the cross-party group of former cabinet ministers says the UK government must be seen to lead the international response, as many countries take their cue from Britain over its former colony.\n\nJeremy Hunt, David Miliband, Jack Straw, William Hague, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen and Margaret Beckett all expressed their concern at what they call China's \"flagrant breach\" of Sino-British agreements by imposing tough national security laws on Hong Kong.\n\nThey urged Mr Johnson to set up an \"international contact group\" of allies to coordinate any joint action, similar to that set up in 1994 to try to end the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman insisted the government was already playing a leading role with international partners in urging China to think again.\n\nMr Raab said the new security legislation \"very clearly violates\" the autonomy that is guaranteed under Chinese law as well as that in the 1997 agreement.\n\nHe confirmed the UK will allow those who hold British National (Overseas) (BNO) passports to come to the UK and apply to study and work for an extendable 12-month period.\n\nThis will in turn \"provide a path to citizenship\", he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.\n\nBNO passports were granted to Hong Kong citizens born before the Chinese handover in 1997 and while they allow the holder some protection from the UK foreign service they do not give the right to live or work in Britain.\n\nMr Raab said up to three million people registered as a British national (overseas) in Hong Kong could be eligible for UK citizenship if China presses ahead with the law.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of Commons foreign affairs committee, Tom Tugendhat, said the government must realise that China has a \"very, very authoritarian system of government\" and should rethink the partnership between the two.", "Simon Waddup said he \"kept hearing this voice telling me to buy a lottery ticket\" before playing online\n\nAn electrician who has been unable to work for a year through ill health has won £1m on the Euromillions lottery.\n\nSimon Waddup, 31, of Coventry, said he hoped the win meant he could realise his \"dream\" of buying and doing up old properties.\n\nHe said a rare blood disorder and faulty heart valve had \"constantly held me back\".\n\nMr Waddup added his daughter, 10, hoped the win meant she could go on holiday abroad for the first time.\n\n\"For as long as I can remember I have wanted to buy old properties, do them up and build my own portfolio,\" he said.\n\n\"Friends and family laughed at my dream, especially when I was a teenager.\"\n\nHe studied Design Technology, worked on building sites and trained to become an electrician with this ambition in mind.\n\nHowever, he said ill health had meant he had \"been in and out of hospital a lot over the last few years\" and had been unable to work since last summer.\n\nMr Waddup said he had played the Euromillions game for the first time this month and had been in \"a bit of a daze\" since the win.\n\n\"Due to coronavirus, I can't celebrate with my family and I can't wait to see people and talk about the win - I will definitely be treating my family,\" he said.\n\n\"I will also get a passport for my daughter and, when we can, take a trip abroad - she has already told me that she wants to go to Spain.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oxfam has asked people to call ahead before donating goods, because storage space at its network of charity shops might be limited.\n\nOxfam stores will begin reopening in England from 15 June.\n\nThe charity said it could not yet confirm which stores would open in the first phase, nor how many of them.\n\nHowever, it said there would be space for social distancing, while staff and volunteers would have the necessary personal protective equipment.\n\nAll surfaces, doors and equipment will be regularly cleaned and donated items will be isolated for 72 hours.\n\nOxfam GB chief executive Danny Sriskandarajah said it was aware that many people had been \"busy decluttering under lockdown\" and the charity was excited about receiving the resulting donations.\n\nHowever, the charity also pointed out that with the need to quarantine donated items, storage space could be restricted, so it asked people to call ahead to check beforehand.\n\nAll Oxfam shops have been closed since 21 March in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe move to start reopening them comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that non-essential retailers would be able to reopen in England.\n\nOxfam shops in Scotland and Wales will remain closed at this stage, as no dates have yet been set for retailers to reopen there.\n\nOxfam has the third-largest network of charity shops in the UK, with 595 High Street outlets around the country.\n\nOther charities, including British Heart Foundation and Barnardo's, have already announced their own plans to resume operations at a limited number of shops.\n\nOxfam said it would take time to reopen all English branches, as they varied in size and shape. Arrangements to curb the spread of the virus had to be made on a completely individual, shop-by-shop basis, it said.\n\nMr Sriskandarajah said: \"Our shops are a much-loved part of their communities and, at this difficult time, we can't wait to reopen our doors and reconnect with our supporters and shoppers.\n\n\"Our shop staff and volunteers are working hard to make sure we can welcome the public back into Oxfam stores safely.\"\n\nThe charity also said it was appealing for volunteers to help shops get back to business over the summer. Each shop typically has a team of 30 dedicated volunteers and one or two staff, with more than 20,000 volunteers required in all.\n\nThe UK's 11,000 charity shops help raise almost £300m for good causes each year and the people who run them are expecting a surge of donations when they open their doors again,\n\nRobin Osterley, chief executive of the Charity Retail Association, said that shops were expecting to be \"full to bursting\".", "Low water levels can be seen in Llwyn-on reservoir in Taf Fawr valley, Wales\n\nMay was the sunniest calendar month on record, and spring was the sunniest spring, the Met Office has said.\n\nThe UK enjoyed 266 hours of sunshine in May - surpassing the previous record of 265 hours in June 1957.\n\nAnd it is even more extraordinary following a drenching winter, with record rain in February.\n\nMeteorologists say they are amazed at the sudden switch from extreme wet to extreme dry – it is not \"British\" weather.\n\nOn average the UK gets 436 hours of sunshine between March and the end of May.\n\nSince 1929, only 10 years have had more than 500 hours. And none has got more than 555 hours.\n\nScientists say the recent weather in the UK has been unprecedented and astounding.\n\nThis year we've bathed in an extraordinary 626 hours - smashing the previous record by a “staggering” amount, one Met Office worker said.\n\nIt is because the jet stream has locked the fine weather in place, just as it locked the previous winter rainfall in place.\n\nThe Met Office declared February 2020 as the wettest February on record\n\nProfessor Liz Bentley, chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, told BBC News: “We’ve swung from a really unsettled spell with weather systems coming in off the Atlantic to a very, very settled spell.\n\n“It’s unprecedented to see such a swing from one extreme to the other in such a short space of time. That’s what concerns me. We don’t see these things normally happening with our seasons.\n\n“It’s part of a pattern where we’re experiencing increasingly extreme weather as the climate changes.”\n\nMark McCarthy, from the Met Office, said: “If we look at the difference in rainfall that’s fallen over the winter compared to spring it is the largest difference in rainfall amount in our national series from 1862.\n\n“The stand out is by how much sunshine has broken the previous record - set in 1948. There’s been more sunshine than most of our past summer seasons. It's quite remarkable.\"\n\nOne of his colleagues described the figures as \"absolutely staggering\".\n\nCrowds flocked to the beach at Bournemouth, to enjoy the soaring temperatures on bank holiday Monday last month\n\nThe Met Office says this year is not an indicator of the future, because the jet stream might behave differently.\n\nScientists suspect man-made climate change may be implicated, but it is too soon to tell.\n\nSome of them believe the rapid man-made heating of the Arctic, which has led to record temperatures and wildfires in Siberia, may be influencing the jet stream, although that is not proven.\n\nProfessor Joe Smith, chief executive of the Royal Geographical Society, told BBC News: \"For many people, the recent long sunny spell is simply 'nice weather'.\n\n\"In a wider context it’s a signal of the increasing unpredictability of the UK’s climate. Planning for the growing season is starting to resemble a night at the gambling tables.\n\n“The fact remains that bold early actions to slash emissions can still cut the larger risks associated with climate change in the UK and around the world”.", "Journalists from across the US have reported being targeted by police at protests this weekend\n\nDozens of journalists covering anti-racism protests that have rocked the US have reported being targeted by security forces using tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray.\n\nIn many cases, they said it was despite showing clear press credentials.\n\nSuch attacks \"are an unacceptable attempt to intimidate [reporters]\", said the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based group.\n\nAttacks on journalists carried out by protesters have also been reported.\n\nThe arrest of a CNN news crew live on air on Friday in Minneapolis, where unarmed black man George Floyd died at the hands of police, first drew global attention to how law enforcement authorities in the city were treating reporters covering protests that have descended into riots.\n\nOn Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked his embassy in Washington to investigate the use of force by police against an Australian news crew as officers dispersed protesters there the previous day.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Thuman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after dozens of attacks on journalists and media crews across the country over the weekend were reported on social media. In total the US Press Freedom Tracker, a non-profit project, says it is investigating more than 100 \"press freedom violations\" at protests. About 90 cases involve attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday night, two members of a TV crew from Reuters news agency were shot at with rubber bullets while police dispersed protesters in Minneapolis defying an 20:00 curfew.\n\n\"A police officer that I'm filming turns around points his rubber-bullet rifle straight at me,\" cameraman Julio-Cesar Chavez said. Reuters said the Minneapolis Police Department had not commented despite being provided with video footage.\n\nReuters said police appeared to fire directly at their cameraman as he filmed them\n\nIn Washington DC, near the White House, a riot police officer charged his shield at a BBC cameraman on Sunday evening.\n\nThe cameraman was \"clearly identifiable as a member of the media\", said the BBC's Americas bureau chief Paul Danahar. \"The team had been following all directions from the police as they covered the protests in front of the White House. The assault took place even before the curfew had been imposed and happened without warning or provocation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC cameraman was charged by a police officer at a Washington DC protest\n\nOn the same day, on the other side of the country in Long Beach, California, radio reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez said he had been shot in the throat with a rubber bullet by a police officer. The city's police chief told reporters on Monday that he wanted to investigate what happened, adding: \"I do not want anyone from the media to get hurt.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOvernight on Friday, a Fox News crew were chased and hit by a mob of masked protesters near the White House. \"It's the most scared I've been since being caught in a mob that turned on us in Tahrir Square [in the Egyptian capital Cairo],\" veteran Fox correspondent Leland Vittert said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker\n\nOn Saturday, Vice News journalist Michael Anthony Adams said he was pepper-sprayed in the face at a petrol station by Minneapolis police despite holding his press card in the air and yelling \"Press!\"\n\nVideo posted by another Vice journalist supports his account of what happened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Roberto Daza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday night, Linda Tirado, a freelance photojournalist and activist, was struck in her left eye by a projectile that appeared to come from the direction of police in Minneapolis. She has been permanently blinded in that eye.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linda Tirado told BBC World News that she wouldn't let the injury stop her from telling people's stories\n\nThat same night a reporter from local news station Wave 3 in Louisville, Kentucky was hit by pepper balls fired by a police officer aiming directly at her as she reported live on television. \"I'm getting shot! I'm getting shot!\" she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Louisville police said on Saturday that they were trying to identify which officer was involved. \"Targeting the media is not our intention,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nA reporter from Germany's international news broadcaster Deutsche Welle was also shot with projectiles by police in Minneapolis this weekend while preparing to go live on air. He was wearing a vest emblazoned with the word \"PRESS\" and was also threatened with arrest, a video showed.\n\n\"Those policemen are under a lot of stress doing their job but of course they should have let us work and do our job,\" Stefan Simons, the reporter, said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by DW News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, Minnesota's governor apologised to those who had been detained in his state.\n\n\"I want to once again extend my deepest apologies, to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation who were inadvertently, but nevertheless, detained - to them personally and to the news organisations and to journalists everywhere,\" Tim Walz said.\n\nThe incidents come as President Donald Trump continues to attack the media. On Sunday he tweeted: \"The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy.\" He said journalists were \"truly bad people with a sick agenda\".\n\nSeveral press freedom organisation have condemned the attacks.\n\n\"The numerous, targeted attacks that journalists reporting on protests across the country have faced from law enforcement over the last two nights are both reprehensible and clear violations of the First Amendment,\" the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said.\n\nCourtney Radsch, advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists, told the BBC that the group was calling on authorities to \"instruct police to cease targeting journalists and ensure that they are able to do their jobs safely and without fear of injury\".", "'My son can go to school but my daughter cannot'\n\nDanielle Nott, from Tyne and Wear, said she's decided to keep her son at home because it would be \"unfair\" on her daughter, who cannot go back because of capacity issues. Ms Nott's son is in nursery and her daughter is in Year 1. \"There is no sound play, carpet time or book corner for him even if he did go,\" she said. \"I would have to drag my daughter to school to drop him off and then take her home.\" \"She is really upset; I am really struggling to get her to do her school work,\" Ms Nott added. She said her children's school were bringing students back \"in order of age\" with the youngest returning first. \"All the younger ones are just playing; at least if my daughter went back, she would be learning,\" she said. \"There is still a lot of learning that we can’t do at home.\"", "Spain's tourism minister has cast doubt on the prospect of an early return by UK holidaymakers to Spanish beaches.\n\nMaría Reyes Maroto said British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before Spain could receive tourists from the UK.\n\nLast week, the Spanish government said foreign visitors would no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July.\n\nBut Ms Reyes Maroto said tourist activity would be resumed \"gradually\".\n\n\"For Spain, it is very important that the first tourists are tourists who are in the same epidemiological situation as us, and that they are able to fly safely,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Regarding the United Kingdom, there have been talks with tour operators but British data still have to improve, because it's important to ensure that the person comes well and then returns well.\"\n\nThe tourism minister said that as soon as conditions improved in the UK, Spain would be ready to receive British citizens \"with the same hospitality as ever\".\n\nSpain normally attracts 80 million tourists a year, with the sector providing more than 12% of the country's GDP.\n\nOpening up the holiday market again before the summer season is over is seen as crucial to the Spanish economy.\n\nHowever, just as Spain prepares to end its quarantine policy, the UK is set to impose a 14-day quarantine of its own for arrivals from 8 June, including returning holidaymakers.\n\nThat would mean that any tourists coming home after taking holidays in most foreign destinations would have to spend two weeks in self-isolation.\n\nOther tourist destinations are also beginning to open up, with Greece announcing that flights to Athens and Thessaloniki airports will resume on 15 June - but only from those parts of Europe that have escaped the worst of the pandemic.\n\nOther Greek airports are due to reopen on 1 July.\n\nAt the same time, tourism authorities in the Algarve region of Portugal have said its beaches will be open for tourists on 6 June, with flights resuming to the region's international airport, Faro, from the UK and Ireland.\n\nHowever, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against all non-essential foreign travel.\n\nHave you planned to travel to Spain this year? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Early in the Covid-19 outbreak, the Shetland Islands were one of the worst-hit areas of the UK by head of population. Now, no new cases have been detected there for six weeks. Some experts say it offers the rest of the country a route map out of lockdown - but for the first family on the islands to test positive, it hasn't been easy.\n\nIt was a clear, bright Tuesday in early March when the plane began its descent. The Shetland archipelago stretched out ahead of the tiny twin-propeller aircraft. Iain Malcolmson looked through his passenger-seat window at the sprawl of islands, aware of how far north he'd just travelled.\n\nIain, 53, an architect, was on his way home. He and his wife, Suzanne, had spent a long weekend in the Italian city of Naples with four friends. They'd hesitated before setting off on 28 February - news bulletins were full of alarming footage of the Covid-19 cluster in Lombardy, 500 miles to the north of where they were staying.\n\nBut official travel advice at that point was clear - it was safe to visit the south of the country - so they'd gone as planned. All the same, Iain recalled spending the trip fastidiously wiping down restaurant tables and washing his hands.\n\nNow, after an overnight stop in Edinburgh, Iain would soon be back at the house in the tiny settlement of Nesting, about 12 miles north of the islands' capital, Lerwick. Locals call this leg of the journey the \"white-knuckle express\"; in strong winds, the plane has to take off and land at Sumburgh Airport sideways, like a crab. Normally, Iain preferred the 14-hour overnight ferry from Aberdeen. But on this occasion everything seemed calm.\n\nDuring the first week of March 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic that had raged out of Wuhan still seemed far away. Here in the tiny aeroplane, Scotland's mainland was 110 miles to the south, Norway was 190 miles to the east. It was still possible to conceive that Shetland might be spared.\n\n\"You have to understand what Shetland is like,\" says Iain. \"We're pretty isolated, and I think most people thought it would be something that would happen to other people. It wouldn't have come to Shetland.\"\n\nThen, two days after he landed, on the evening of Thursday 5 March, Iain noticed he had a headache.\n\nFrom Sumburgh Head in the south to Out Stack, the northernmost point in the British Isles, Shetland has 567 sq miles of land and 1,679 miles of coastline. Of its 100-odd islands, 16 are inhabited, and about half the 23,000 population, like Iain and his family, live close to Lerwick. In the summer, days are up to 19 hours long; in the winter, if you're lucky, you can see the Northern Lights.\n\nThe islands were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468, and the Norn language - a form of Old Norse spoken on the islands - died out in the mid-19th Century. The Scandinavian influence is still strong, from the Nordic-derived placenames - Burravoe, Grutness, Mavis Grind - to the brightly coloured timber-clad houses dotted across the landscape, and the annual Up Helly Aa fire festivals, which conclude with the torching of a Viking galley.\n\nBut despite this Shetlanders don't want the rest of Scotland to forget about them. A 2018 law introduced by the islands' Member of the Scottish Parliament banned public bodies from producing maps that depict Shetland, for reasons of cartographical convenience, in a box in the Moray Firth or east of Orkney rather than its true geographical location.\n\nIain was raised as a Shetlander. He left to study architecture in Edinburgh, where he met Suzanne, but two decades later, after starting a family, they decided to open a practice back on Shetland. It had been their dream for a long time.\n\n\"It's just the freedom that you have,\" he says. \"You've got family, friends and that sort of thing. It's a very friendly, positive sort of place.\" He's a well-known figure in Shetland - he sits on the local community council, is a keen Up Helly Aa participant and has played guitar in local bands. The property he and Suzanne designed for their family to the dimensions of a Norse longhouse was featured on the BBC's Scotland's Home of the Year programme.\n\nShetland might be remote, but it is no backwater.\n\nThanks in part to the discovery of North Sea oil in the late 20th Century, its per capita GDP is among the highest of all Scotland's local authority areas. In the 1970s, the local council drove an extraordinarily hard bargain with the energy companies who wanted to operate the terminal at Sullum Voe. Compensation payments were invested in a charitable trust that ensures the islands have exceptionally good public services. \"The facilities up here are second to none,\" says Iain. \"Every little community has its own leisure centre or pool.\"\n\nWhen he woke on the morning of Friday 6 March, Iain still didn't feel well. For the past two days he'd gone in to work, but now he clearly wasn't up to it. One of the friends he'd travelled to Naples with, a Glasgow resident, wasn't feeling great either and had been advised by the NHS to get tested; so Iain and Suzanne arranged to be tested too.\n\nNurses arrived at the couple's house. They stripped off on the porch and, before stepping inside, changed into full PPE - visors, protective suits - before taking swabs from the Malcomsons' noses and the backs of their throats.\n\n\"It was like something off the telly,\" Iain says. The whole scenario was unnerving, but the staff were reassuring. \"They were saying: 'You'll be fine, the chances of you having it where you've been are almost zero. So don't worry about it.'\" He says he and Suzanne stayed indoors that weekend anyway.\n\nThere was a delay while the samples were tested - Iain was told they had to be flown down to Aberdeen and then taken to Glasgow. On Sunday evening the results came through: Shetland had its first confirmed cases of Covid-19.\n\n\"Everybody was gobsmacked,\" says Iain. \"And it all kicked off from there.\"\n\nAt least one person on Shetland wasn't surprised by the arrival of the virus. His name is Michael Dickson.\n\nNot long before, as NHS Shetland's chief executive, he'd been summoned to the mainland for a presentation on the likely impact of the pandemic. \"I can honestly say when I came out of the government briefing, it was without a doubt the worst day of my entire career,\" he says. \"To go back to Shetland and have to share that with the people of Shetland was incredibly difficult.\"\n\nHe also knew that Shetland's geographical isolation would make treating the virus there especially challenging. \"Lovely as it is,\" he says, Lerwick's Gilbert Bain Hospital \"was never built for this.\" There is no intensive care unit anywhere on the islands. At that stage, any patients who became critically unwell would need to be flown to Aberdeen or elsewhere on the mainland in an enormous RAF Atlas military transport aircraft.\n\nBut Shetland would have advantages, too. Standing at his front door, \"I can cast my eye out and see no-one\", he says. \"There's houses but I'm not going to see anyone walking down the street. If I go for a five-mile run I might run into three or four people. It's just a completely different place to socially distance.\"\n\nAlso, an outbreak of measles on the Aberdeen ferry meant NHS Shetland had very recent experience of carrying out contact tracing. \"That was hugely useful,\" he says. \"The fact is, knowing the geography of Shetland, the different communities, makes a huge difference.\"\n\nThis was crucial, Dickson says, after the first positive test results came in. \"When that call went out from the Public Health teams to say we need to do this now, there wasn't a debate. People came in on their Sundays and said 'Right, let's start, let's get on with this.'\"\n\nThe nurses in visors and PPE suits who came to test the Malcolmsons took the names of everyone they had come in contact with and tested them too.\n\nAccording to Dr Susan Laidlaw, NHS Shetland's public health consultant, staff from other NHS departments were drafted in to phone contacts. \"We had a week of very long hours and intense work following up the contacts, identifying new cases and getting them tested and isolated,\" she says. \"Although difficult at the time, this did help to contain the initial outbreak.\"\n\n\"Everybody at our work got it,\" Iain says. \"And everyone from our work's family ended up getting it.\" Some had diarrhoea, others lost all sense of smell and taste. Others fared worse - Iain says the father of one of his employees had to be airlifted to Aberdeen. He would later make a full recovery.\n\nWhile the contact tracers scrambled to identify how far the virus had spread, Iain's condition was getting worse. Suzanne's symptoms were cold-like, but his were more like the flu - a high temperature, shivering. There was talk of flying Iain, too, to Aberdeen. The prospect terrified him. \"I really didn't want to go off the island,\" he says.\n\nAfter a few days, Iain's symptoms began to improve. But the knowledge he might have given the virus to others in less robust health weighed heavily on him. He was terrified he'd given it to his parents, both in their 80s. \"That stress was there, knowing that you could have given it to people who weren't going to be as lucky as you.\"\n\nAnd while he'd been feeling unwell, Iain hadn't felt much like looking at social media. He hadn't yet seen the rumours about him.\n\nThe virus spread quickly on Shetland. On 12 March, four days after Iain and Suzanne's test results came back, the number of confirmed cases announced in the local press rose from two to six; five days later, they stood at 15; by 19 March, they had risen again to 24.\n\nThese were not enormous numbers, but they were enough to ensure that Shetland had the highest number of Covid-19 patients in Scotland relative to its population, and one of the highest in the UK. \"I think we were top of the graph possibly in the world at one point,\" says Dickson.\n\nAs Dickson sees it, this early spike was, in part, testament to the efficiency of the contact tracing teams. A dedicated Covid ward had already been set aside at the hospital. But compared to Orkney and the Western Isles, which had largely been unaffected at that point, Shetland stood out - and Shetlanders were understandably anxious.\n\nDickson believes this was a crucial factor in containing the outbreak; it meant islanders were already taking social distancing seriously before controls on movements were enforced.\n\n\"It's a difficult thing to say, but I think having those cases early on enabled us to move possibly more quickly than had we not had cases until later on in the pandemic,\" he says.\n\n\"My family live down in Brighton and if you went down to the beach there a week before the lockdown occurred you wouldn't have known anything was different. In Shetland, things have been different pretty much from day one.\"\n\nAs early as 11 and 12 March, two Up Helly Aa fire festivals - hugely important events in Shetland's social calendar - were called off, in response to appeals from the health board. The following day, while the Cheltenham Gold Cup was going ahead as planned 700 miles away, it was announced that nearly all Shetland's schools would close from 16 March - a week before the rest of the country.\n\nCafes, bars, restaurants and leisure centres were already shutting down across the islands long before the Scottish and Westminster government imposed their lockdowns, says Maggie Sandison, chief executive of the Shetland Islands Council.\n\n\"I think there's a really strong sense of community in Shetland,\" says Sandison. Naturally, islanders were anxious to do the right thing by their neighbours. But also, because such a high proportion of the population knew each other, \"people were aware that they may have come into contact with somebody who then became a positive case\" - and this in turn meant they knew to self-isolate.\n\nSandison says the early decision to close schools was taken in part because some teachers had been part of the contact tracing teams and were advised to stay home after coming into face-to-face contact with people who had tested positive. On a sparsely populated group of islands, this was enough to put a strain on staffing levels. At the same time, \"there was quite heightened anxiety from parents\" some of whom were keeping their children at home already.\n\nFerry operators also began preventing tourists and non-residents from travelling to the islands before nationwide restrictions were brought in. \"Because the transport links with the mainland were reduced early on, and the transport operators are only taking people who have essential reasons for travel, this has to some extent isolated the islands,\" says Laidlaw.\n\nA weekly Covid-19 Facebook livestream hosted by Dickson would attract as many as 600 viewers at a time. And Shetland's community spirit wasn't just about locking down and staying vigilant.\n\nWhen laundry staff at the hospital found they had a shortage of scrubs, a sewing pattern was posted on Facebook along with an appeal to turn any unwanted bedsheets into medical clothing. \"We had bags and bags of finished scrubs within days,\" says a personal assistant working for NHS Shetland, 38-year-old Lisa Grey, who oversaw the Shetland Scrubs project.\n\nAs well as bringing extra colour to the wards, superhero patterns on erstwhile children's duvet covers proved especially popular with medical staff.\n\n\"You can see it when you're flicking through Facebook - folk saying, 'If anyone needs shopping, I'm off tomorrow.' If anyone needs help, there will always be someone that'll help,\" Grey says.\n\nWith the rest of Scotland and the UK soon following Shetland's example in locking down, and many other Covid-19 clusters emerging around the UK, the islands felt less like an outlier. But as March turned to April the archipelago's cases kept rising, and before long it would report its first death.\n\nWord had spread quickly around the islands that the Malcolmsons had been the first to test positive; Iain had never expected otherwise. \"One thing about Shetland is you have absolutely no anonymity,\" he says. \"People know you're the person that's brought it in.\"\n\nTo Iain, it was understandable, in a perverse way, when rumours about his family began to circulate on social media. Their names hadn't been officially released, and \"in the absence of fact, people just make stuff up\", he says. \"That's never going to change. There's always a few idiots out there.\" As he hadn't been looking at Facebook, it was news to him when friends got in touch to say the family was \"getting a serious amount of flak\".\n\nAccording to the gossip, on the weekend he and his wife had been tested, \"we were everywhere - we were out on pub crawls, we were out at concerts,\" says Iain. \"That weekend we did everything in Shetland that everyone else was doing. And I don't know why, but they were totally convinced that they'd seen us there.\"\n\nIt was bad enough when it was confined to Facebook. Then tabloid journalists began calling the house. Iain's friends and family were feeling the pressure. They urged him to go on Facebook and correct the record.\n\nIain really didn't want to do it. He wasn't a big social media person. What if it backfired? Might this not antagonise people further?\n\nBut something needed to be said. Late one evening, Iain sat down at his computer and began typing.\n\n\"After some of the hardest few days we have ever experienced, and it is only getting harder, it is with a heavy heart that Suzanne and I feel it is necessary to put straight some of the more vicious rumours that are circulating about us on social media in Shetland,\" he wrote. After being told they were to be tested and advised to self-isolate, \"we have not left the house since and have not been out partying, or socialising of any kind\".\n\nThe response was overwhelmingly positive. The post was shared over 1,000 times; friends and neighbours backed up their account; the record was duly corrected. Iain didn't bear a grudge - this was what happened in the absence of reliable information. \"It showed you the good side and the bad side of social media.\"\n\nAccording to National Records of Scotland (NRS), the first death of a person in Shetland with Covid-19 took place some time between 30 March and 5 April. Five more came the following week; a sixth the week after that. On 6 May, another death was announced; there have been no more since then. Tragically, five of the seven were in a single care home.\n\nShetland has good reason to hope it has seen its last coronavirus death of the current peak. The last time a resident of the islands tested positive was 20 April - since then, the total number of confirmed cases has stood still at 54. Nine days afterwards, Dickson told Shetland's local media that the outbreak there may have \"plateaued\".\n\n\"They've obviously managed to control the virus by doing an early lockdown,\" says Hugh Pennington, emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, who has advised the Scottish and UK governments. \"Full marks to them, really. Whatever they did worked.\"\n\nShetland's isolation and lack of new cases makes it, along with Orkney, effectively \"a very small-scale New Zealand\", says Prof Pennington - and like New Zealand, he says, the islands could in theory lift their lockdowns by strictly controlling who comes and goes.\n\nBut the islands' authorities are cool on the idea of a New Zealand-style quarantine. Dickson notes how many patients have to travel to Aberdeen for routine, non-Covid medical treatment: \"So are we saying those people aren't able to go to the mainland because we've closed our borders?\" It's also necessary for the fishing and oil industries for some people to have the ability to travel in and out.\n\nLynn Johnson says her business depends on tourism\n\nIt's not just winter and spring events like the Up Helly Aa festivals that have been postponed though, as a result of the lockdown. In 2020 the long summer days will pass on the islands without sheepdog trials, the accordion and fiddle festival, Shetland Wool Week. And there's no end in sight - the first fire festival of 2021 has already been cancelled.\n\nThe absence of tourists is also being keenly felt.\n\n\"My business wouldn't exist without tourism,\" says Lynn Johnson, who runs the Cake Fridge tea room on a single-track road between Voe and Aith on West Shetland Mainland's northern coast.\n\nTo keep it going, she needs both the lockdown to be lifted and travel to resume. \"We really, really need that spring, summer, along with the big tourism boost that our islands get, to see us through the winter. And we're not going to have that at all.\"\n\nBut for now, the lockdown is holding.\n\nShetland is ready to resume contact tracing - which was halted in late March, as in the rest of the UK - and Laidlaw says the islands are well prepared for the next phase. Since late April, Shetland has had its own Covid-19 testing equipment, meaning samples no longer have to be sent to the mainland. And two small planes - like the one Iain flew back from holiday on - have been converted into air ambulances.\n\nIn spite of the apparent success of Shetland's track-and-trace operation, no-one may ever know how the virus arrived there. Iain and his wife may have been the first people on Shetland to have tested positive, but that doesn't mean they were the first to bring it.\n\n\"Obviously I know about the contact tracing, the Malcomsons and their experience,\" says Dickson. \"We picked up those people who were diagnosed and got a positive result. I always say, those are the ones we know about. Shetland is a small community but we do have people who come in and out of the islands frequently.\"\n\nThe couple most likely travelled in with the virus, but \"what we can't guarantee is they were the only people\". And there is no guarantee the Malcolmsons caught the virus in Italy either, as it is thought to have been circulating in Edinburgh, where they changed flights, since February.\n\nIain knows better than most the importance of social distancing. And he knows he's fortunate to being doing so in Shetland, where keeping apart from others is easier.\n\n\"It's absolutely beautiful,\" he says. \"You feel like you're on holiday. You have to be pretty disciplined about actually working. But this could be our summer, so you have to make hay while the sun shines.\"", "Anita Pointer (far left) said the family was devastated by the death of Bonnie (second left)\n\nShe and her sisters rose to fame as the Grammy award-winning Pointer Sisters, who were best known for the hits Jump (For My Love) and I'm So Excited.\n\n\"Our family is devastated,\" her sister Anita told the Associated Press on Monday.\n\n\"On behalf of my siblings and I and the entire Pointer family, we ask for your prayers at this time.\"\n\nBonnie and her sister June Pointer originally performed as a duet and were later joined by their sisters Anita and Ruth.\n\nThe Pointer Sisters became popular in the 1970s and won the first of their three Grammy Awards for the song Fairytale in 1975.\n\nBonnie left the group to pursue a solo career two years later but the Pointer Sisters' success continued into the 1980s and they were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.\n\nEarlier this year, Anita and Bonnie Pointer released a single in memory of their sister June, who died in 2006.\n\nTheir sister Ruth is the only sibling still performing in the Pointer Sisters, joined by her daughter and granddaughter.", "Lockdowns have saved more than three million lives from coronavirus in Europe, a study estimates.\n\nThe team at Imperial College London said the \"death toll would have been huge\" without lockdown.\n\nBut they warned that only a small proportion of people had been infected and we were still only \"at the beginning of the pandemic\".\n\nAnother study argued global lockdowns had \"saved more lives, in a shorter period of time, than ever before\".\n\nThe Imperial study assessed the impact of restrictions in 11 European countries - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK - up to the beginning of May.\n\nBy that time, around 130,000 people had died from coronavirus in those countries.\n\nThe researchers used disease modelling to predict how many deaths there would have been if lockdown had not happened. And the work comes from the same group that guided the UK's decision to go into lockdown.\n\nThey estimated 3.2 million people would have died by 4 May if not for measures such as closing businesses and telling people to stay at home.\n\nThat meant lockdown saved around 3.1 million lives, including 470,000 in the UK, 690,000 in France and 630,000 in Italy, the report in the journal Nature shows.\n\n\"Lockdown averted millions of deaths, those deaths would have been a tragedy,\" said Dr Seth Flaxman, from Imperial.\n\nTheir equations made several assumptions, which will affect the figures.\n\nThey assume nobody would have changed their behaviour in response to the Covid threat without a lockdown - and that hospitals would not be overwhelmed resulting in a surge in deaths, which nearly happened in some countries.\n\nThe study also does not take into account the health consequences of lockdowns that may take years to fully uncover.\n\nThe model also predicted that the outbreak would be nearly over by now without lockdown, as so many people would have been infected.\n\nMore than seven in 10 people in the UK would have had Covid, leading to herd immunity and the virus no longer spreading.\n\nInstead, the researchers estimate that up to 15 million people across Europe had been infected by the beginning of May.\n\nThe researchers say at most, 4% of the population in those countries had been infected.\n\n\"Claims this is all over can be firmly rejected. We are only at the beginning of this pandemic,\" said Dr Flaxman.\n\nAnd it means that as lockdowns start to lift, there is the risk the virus could start to spread again.\n\n\"There is a very real risk if mobility goes back up there could be a second wave coming reasonably soon, in the next month or two,\" said Dr Samir Bhatt.\n\nMeanwhile, a separate study by University of California, Berkeley, analysed the impact of lockdowns in China, South Korea, Iran, France and the US.\n\nTheir report, also in Nature, says lockdown prevented 530 million infections in those countries.\n\nJust before lockdowns were introduced, they said cases were doubling every two days.\n\nDr Solomon Hsiang, one of the researchers, said coronavirus had been a \"real human tragedy\" but the global action to stop the spread of the virus had \"saved more lives, in a shorter period of time, than ever before\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A maximum of a third of pupils will be in school at any one time under the plans\n\nWales' education minister is facing calls to drop her plans to reopen schools at the end of this month.\n\nIn a letter seen by BBC Wales, teaching union UCAC urged Kirsty Williams to keep schools closed until September.\n\nAs plans to reopen primary schools in England were changed, the union said schools faced \"mind-boggling\" challenges.\n\nBut the Welsh Government said the change of policy in England would not affect their plans.\n\nA spokesman confirmed the guidance on how schools in Wales should reopen on 29 June will be published on Wednesday as planned.\n\nMost unions criticised last week's announcement that schools in Wales would reopen for all age groups for limited periods during the week.\n\nWelsh Government officials pointed to comments by England's children's commissioner, who has called on the UK government and unions to \"stop squabbling and agree a plan\" to reopen schools in England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chris Lawrence says there is too much uncertainty to send children back to the classroom\n\nBefore the meeting, UCAC wrote to Mrs Williams saying schools were being asked to prepare for children to return \"without knowing what arrangements will be in place to ensure their safety\".\n\nOpening in September \"would be the wisest option\" UCAC said, but allowing Years 6, 10 and 12 to return before the summer \"could be workable\".\n\n\"Under the current circumstances, the practical, logistical considerations involved in seeking to give every pupil the opportunity to return to school before the summer are mind-boggling,\" it said.\n\n\"UCAC believes that the risks the government is asking the school workforce to take are unacceptably high.\"\n\nThe union called for reassurance on a range of points, including the supply of personal protective equipment and coronavirus testing for pupils and staff.\n\nMeanwhile, teaching union NASUWT said the guidance being published on Wednesday would be too late and was \"not firm enough\" in directing schools and local authorities to adopt safe working practices.\n\n\"This guidance should have gone out when the minister made the statement regarding return to schools last Wednesday,\" said the union.\n\n\"In the last week some local authorities have been putting together plans that may now be in conflict with the Welsh Government guidance.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach.\n\nThe firm was alerted to the problem after one of its users discovered he had been given access to dozens of video recordings of other patients' consultations.\n\nA follow-up check by Babylon revealed a small number of further UK users could also see others' sessions.\n\nThe firm said it had since fixed the issue and notified regulators.\n\nBabylon allows its members to speak to a doctor, therapist or other health specialist via a smartphone video call and, when appropriate, sends an electronic prescription to a nearby pharmacy. It has more than 2.3 million registered users in the UK.\n\nLeeds-based Rory Glover had access to the service via his membership of a private health insurance plan with Bupa, one of Babylon's partners.\n\nOn Tuesday morning, when he went to check a prescription, he noticed he had about 50 videos in the Consultation Replays section of the app that did not belong to him.\n\nClicking on one revealed that the file contained footage of another person's appointment.\n\n\"I was shocked,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"You don't expect to see anything like that when you're using a trusted app. It's shocking to see such a monumental error has been made.\"\n\nMr Glover said he alerted a work colleague to the fact, who used to work for Babylon. He in turn flagged the issue to the company's compliance department.\n\nMr Glover discovered dozens of replay videos in his app that he should not have had access to\n\nShortly afterwards, Mr Glover's access to the clips was rescinded.\n\nBabylon, which has its headquarters in London, has since confirmed the breach.\n\n\"On the afternoon of Tuesday 9 June we identified and resolved an issue within two hours whereby one patient accessed the introduction of another patient's consultation recording,\" it said in statement.\n\n\"Our investigation showed that three patients, who had booked and had appointments today, were incorrectly presented with, but did not view, recordings of other patients' consultations through a subsection of the user's profile within the Babylon app.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the firm amended its statement to make clear that it meant two patients in addition to Mr Glover - who had in fact viewed a recording - to make the total of three.\n\n\"This was the result of a software error rather than a malicious attack,\" it continued.\n\n\"The problem was identified and resolved quickly.\n\n\"Of course we take any security issue, however small, very seriously and have contacted the patients affected to update, apologise to and support where required.\"\n\nA spokesman said that Babylon's engineering team was already aware of the issue before it was contacted by Mr Glover's workmate.\n\nHe said the problem had been accidentally introduced via a new feature that lets users switch from audio to video-based consultations part way through a call.\n\nAnd he said that Babylon had informed the Information Commissioner's Office of the matter.\n\n\"Affected users were in the UK only and this did not impact our international operations,\" he added.\n\nHowever, Mr Glover said he still had concerns and did not intend to use the service again.\n\n\"It's an issue of doctor-patient confidentiality,\" he said.\n\n\"You expect anything you say to be private, not for it to be shared with a stranger.\"\n\nThe Information Commissioner's Office has confirmed that it had been contacted by Babylon and that it was now waiting to receive the company's breach report.\n\n\"People's medical data is highly sensitive information, not only do people expect it to be handled carefully and securely, organisations also have a responsibility under the law,\" said a spokeswoman.\n\n\"When a data incident occurs, we would expect an organisation to consider whether it is appropriate to contact the people affected, and to consider whether there are steps that can be taken to protect them from any potential adverse effects.\"\n\nBabylon told the BBC it had already been in touch with everyone involved to inform them and apologise.", "The UK has recorded its lowest daily rise in the number of coronavirus deaths since before lockdown on 23 March, latest government figures show.\n\nA further 55 people died after testing positive with the virus as of 17:00 BST on Sunday, taking the total to 40,597.\n\nThis included no new deaths announced in both Scotland and Northern Ireland for the second consecutive day.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Mondays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend.\n\nThe number of new UK cases on Monday - 1,205 - is also the lowest number since the start of lockdown.\n\nOn the day lockdown began, 23 March, there was a rise of 74 deaths.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US - to pass the milestone of 40,000 deaths.\n\nThe welcome drop in deaths being announced is encouraging news.\n\nBut they come with a big caveat - there are always delays recording fatalities over the weekend.\n\nLast Monday there were just over 100 new deaths announced, but other days last week topped 300.\n\nNonetheless, it does show that progress is being made. Two Mondays ago there were more than 120 deaths and in the week before that there were 160.\n\nDuring the peak of the virus there were more than 1,000 deaths a day.\n\nThe challenge now will be making sure the figures stay low as restrictions are eased.\n\nAnother difficulty facing the government is that, even with the extra testing in place, not all infections appear to be getting picked up.\n\nMonday's data shows there were 1,205 new infections diagnosed, but surveillance suggests the true figure may be five times higher.\n\nSome of these will be asymptomatic cases - people who do not show symptoms - but the concern remains that some people are simply not coming forward.\n\nIdentifying these will be crucial to keep on top of the virus.\n\nThere were no new deaths reported from London hospitals for the second day in a row. However, NHS England said it was aware of a \"small number\" of people who had died over the weekend and they would be included in figures in the next few days.\n\nIn Wales, three more deaths were announced.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that the R number - the rate at which the virus reproduces - remained below one in every region of the country but said that while the figure was the lowest since lockdown, 55 deaths was \"55 too many\".\n\n\"So, there are encouraging trends on all of these critical measures, coronavirus is in retreat across the land, our plan is working and these downward trends mean we can proceed with our plans. But we do so putting caution and safety first,\" he said.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for the government to proceed with caution but said \"many now fear that the prime minister is starting to throw caution to the wind\".\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing Mr Hancock said data was \"pointing in the right direction\" and showed \"we are winning the battle with this disease but have further to go\".\n\nHe said the government was ready to take action in response to local outbreaks of the virus if the R number was seen to rise.\n\n\"This will mean, for instance, action in particular hospitals or particular care homes to make sure there is control of those outbreaks,\" he said.\n\nMr Hancock also announced the launch of a national Covid-19 social care support taskforce, led by David Pearson, a former chief of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.\n\nAll staff and residents at 6,000 care homes for adults with disabilities in England will receive coronavirus tests, Mr Hancock said, following on from his claim on Sunday that the government had hit its target of testing staff and residents homes for the over-65s.\n\nThe final batches were delivered to 9,000 homes last week.\n\nThe health secretary also denied there was a trade-off between the economy and health, amid reports the government is considering further easing measures, and said a \"second spike would be hugely damaging to the economy\".\n\nOn average, a total of about 1,600 people a day die of all causes in the UK. What is not known about the coronavirus deaths being reported is to what extent those deaths are in addition to that average figure, or whether they form part of it.\n\nMany of the victims are old and frail people with underlying health conditions, who therefore are at the highest risk of dying.\n\nExperts predict there will be significant overlap between the coronavirus deaths and those that would normally be expected to die.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which counts death certificates mentioning the virus, suggests those deaths had reached more than 48,000 by 22 May.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Angharad Paget Jones said she and her dog Tudor have been \"yelled at\" in shops\n\nPeople with sight loss say they have been abused and abandoned during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMany say they are struggling to access services during the lockdown.\n\nSome have been verbally abused because they find it hard to follow social distancing rules.\n\nThe Fight for Sight charity is calling for health services and retailers to ensure that people who are visually impaired can get the help they need and \"are not excluded\".\n\nA survey it carried out of 325 people with sight loss found one in four find it difficult to follow social distancing.\n\nMore than half of respondents said their access to food and other services had become worse during the lockdown period.\n\nAngharad Paget Jones says her guide dog Tudor is her eyes on four paws - she's only confident leaving her home in Port Talbot with him by her side.\n\nBut during lockdown, she has found people are far less tolerant of her disability, making a trip to the shops a scary experience.\n\n\"I've been yelled at in stores for being too close to people when they can see I've got the dog - I can't see them,\" she said.\n\n\"Tudor is trained to find the door of a supermarket - I don't know there's a queue because he's shown me where the door is and I've been yelled at for not queuing.\n\n\"I'm lucky I'm quite thick-skinned, but if someone just told me they were there or told me 'sorry actually, there's a queue', it doesn't take two seconds to let me know.\n\n\"I have a lot of help - I have friends and family around me. But some people don't have that help and they do have to go to these places alone and if their confidence is knocked, they won't want to go outside.\"\n\nSherine Krause, chief executive of Fight for Sight, said there needed to be more advice given to retailers on social distancing measures \"to ensure the needs of people with poor vision are not excluded\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The education secretary said he was \"working to bring all children back to school in September\" and that exams would take place next year.\n\nGavin Williamson said a \"cautious phased return” was the “most sensible approach to take” for schools across England.\n\nAnd he confirmed the government was “not able to welcome all primary children back for a full month before the summer”.", "President Donald Trump talks about imposing law and order, and his hardline approach towards the protesters this week is helping to shore up his base of supporters. But what do the parts of the US that propelled him to victory in 2016 think of his aggressive strategy?\n\nShirley Hartman, an artist who works in watercolour and acrylics, moved to Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, years ago because she wanted to feel safe. She had been robbed in Philadelphia, a city about 60 miles away, and she was looking for a place where she did not have to worry about violence.\n\nWith protests unfolding across the US, she says that she is again concerned about her safety and is glad that the president acted forcefully, threatening to deploy the military. The demonstrators went too far, she says, and he responded appropriately.\n\n\"It's gotten out of hand,\" says Ms Hartman. \"They've gone to extremes, and sometimes it's necessary to go to extremes, too, to respond.\"\n\nThe protests have continued for more than a week, with tens of thousands taking to the streets across the US. The demonstrations were largely peaceful, however, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll suggests most people in the US disapprove of the president's hardline approach.\n\nStill a significant number of people, one-third of those who were surveyed, support the president and his actions.\n\nMany of them are like Ms Hartman - they live in suburban areas of the country and are concerned about security. Their views will play a significant role in the November election.\n\nMs Hartman lives in a swing district in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, which Mr Trump won in 2016 and is widely viewed as crucial to his chances again this time around.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nFor that reason, political operatives, scholars and others are watching closely to see how the president's law-and-order message plays in key states across the country.\n\nIn a week of more than 20 interviews in Pennsylvania, Missouri and North Carolina - three states Trump won in 2016 - most people echoed the views of Ms Hartman and agreed that the president's tough rhetoric was necessary and say they will support him in November.\n\nSome said they supported the protesters and their goals, but were concerned about those who had become violent.\n\n\"I understand how people feel about George Floyd and I agree that something needs to change. But burning a church, looting, turning over cars - I don't agree with that. I don't agree with burning a town to the ground,\" says Brian Bufka, 47, who lives in Warrenton, Missouri, and runs a printing company.\n\n\"I support our president - I think his heart is in the right place, and I will vote for him again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump voters think of his handling of the virus outbreak\n\nLyle Updike, who is 75 and lives in Kearney, Missouri, says: \"I'm strong on law and order. I don't tolerate this violence - this rioting. I'd like to see the president tighten the screws better.\" He added: \"The mayors and governors won't do it, so he needs to.\"\n\nRosella Roberts, who works for a musical theatre company in Steelville, Missouri, says she is concerned about the violence: \"I'm not saying that all of the people who are protesting are evil. But when you shoot at a policeman - that's just evil.\"\n\nThe election is still five months away, and the fortunes of the candidates and their political parties may change dramatically. One of the factors is the economy.\n\nFor many conservatives, the Trump presidency has been a blessing - spiritually as well as financially. Brian Watts, 45, from Kearney, Missouri, says that he loves the image of the president holding a bible while walking near the White House: \"It shows he's for the church.\"\n\nBrian Watts, who lives in Missouri, says the president has \"got to have security\"\n\nMr Watts' radio station has survived the financial problems brought about by the pandemic, and he is confident that Mr Trump will pull the country out of its malaise.\n\nThis upbeat view could play a crucial role in the election. As Matthew Mackowiak, a Texas-based political consultant, points out, most elections hinge on economic concerns, not social issues.\n\n\"In the end the president's law-and-order mandate probably won't contribute much to the election,\" says Mr Mackowiak. \"But coronavirus and the economy will.\"\n\nEconomists are predicting an uptick in the coming months, a trend that is likely to help Mr Trump. The monthly job numbers this week were better than expected but it's unclear how the pandemic - and possible new infection spikes - will affect the economic recovery.\n\nOthers the BBC spoke to said they have been energised by the protests and horrified by the White House response. They fear the president's language would embolden aggressive police officers.\n\n\"People have been turned off by the president's behaviour,\" says Lauren Arthur, 32, a Democratic state senator in Missouri's 17th district, which includes parts of suburban Kansas City. She won in 2018 and believes that progressive women, disturbed by the president's actions, will vote in large numbers: \"They're saying: 'We are going to show up in full force.'\"\n\nIn Durham, North Carolina, an important battleground state, Gemynii, a 35-year-old poet, wasn't happy to see Mr Trump hold a bible in front of a church near the White House after peaceful protesters were cleared out of the way.\n\nGemynii at a beauty-supply store in North Carolina: \"He's definitely not my president\"\n\n\"Yeah, it definitely feels like a nightmare,\" says Gemynii of the president's efforts to impose order. \"I can understand how other countries look at us and don't have respect because of what's going on.\"\n\nThe experience of watching the president in news clips this week has made Gemynii and her friends in Durham even more determined to change the country's leadership. She was distressed when Mr Trump was elected, and his recent actions have reinforced her mission: \"It's another wake-up call for America.\"\n\nThe dismay among Democrats is near-universal, and many of those who have felt lukewarm about Mr Biden, who has centrist roots, now have a different view. They are focused on getting the president out of the White House.\n\nSays Peggy Wilson, 68, a retired schoolteacher in Kansas City: \"I don't care who is it - it could be anybody. Just someone to replace him.\"\n\nShirley Hartman says that she's had her ups and downs as an artist in Philadelphia, New York and most recently in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and voted for Democrats in some elections. She chose Mr Trump last time. Afterwards, she says, her business \"slowly went up, year after year\". She has been happy with him as president.\n\nWith the onset of the pandemic, business has dropped off again, and she is spending time at home with her cats, Darma and Peanut. She takes walks in the park, \"sketching and doing pastels in the grass\", and is hoping for a speedy economic recovery. This variable, one that is still unknown, is likely to decide her vote.", "How much coronavirus transmission comes from people with no symptoms is still a \"big unknown\", a World Health Organization scientist has clarified.\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove said on Monday it was \"very rare\" for asymptomatic people to pass the disease on.\n\nBut she has now stressed this observation was based on a relatively small set of studies.\n\nEvidence suggests people with symptoms are most infectious, but the disease can be passed on before they develop.\n\nAlthough a proportion of people test positive with no symptoms, it is not known how many of these people go on to infect others.\n\nDr Van Kerkhove said the evidence she had been discussing came from countries that had carried out \"detailed contact tracing\",\n\nLooking at investigations of clusters of infections from various countries, she said that where an asymptomatic case had been followed up it was \"very rare\" to find secondary infections among their contacts.\n\nBut she it was still a \"big open question\" as to whether the same was true globally.\n\nThe uncertainties involved emphasise the importance of lockdown measures in \"massively reduc[ing] the numbers of people infected,\" said Prof Liam Smeeth, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by the WHO statement but had not seen the data it was based on.\n\nDirector of the WHO's health emergencies programme, Dr Michael Ryan, said he was \"absolutely convinced\" asymptomatic transmission was occurring, \"the question is how much\".\n\nDr Van Kerkhove, the WHO's head of emerging diseases, made the distinction between three categories:\n\nSome reports distinguish between these categories while others do not and she said this, along with the relatively small groups of people studied, make it difficult to draw firm conclusions.\n\nBut Dr Van Kerkhove said the weight of evidence suggested people who never develop symptoms did not play a significant role in passing on the virus in the locations studied.\n\nStudies which tested samples of the population to find asymptomatic cases, and then traced their contacts, found far fewer secondary infections than in the contacts of people who'd had symptoms.\n\nThis led the WHO, in guidance on wearing masks published at the weekend, to conclude: \"The available evidence from contact tracing reported by member states suggests that asymptomatically-infected individuals are much less likely to transmit the virus than those who develop symptoms\"\n\nIn England, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been regularly testing a sample of the population.\n\nIt has found that, of those who have so far tested positive for Covid-19, only 29% reported \"any evidence of symptoms\" at the time they were tested, or at the previous or following visits.\n\nContact-tracing studies from a number of countries suggest that while \"true\" asymptomatic cases \"rarely transmit\" infection, transmission can occur before or on the day symptoms first appear when they may be very mild, according to Prof Babak Javid, an infectious diseases consultant at the University of Cambridge.\n\nPeople can have detectable amounts of the virus in their system roughly three days before developing symptoms and appear to be capable to passing it on during this period, especially the day before or on the day symptoms begin.\n\nPre-symptomatic transmission has \"important implications\" for track, trace and isolation measures, Prof Javid said.\n\nUnder the terms of the contact-tracing schemes now operational across the UK, someone who passed on the infection while pre-symptomatic could still have their contacts traced once they developed symptoms. Someone who never experienced symptoms wouldn't trigger the same process.\n\nWhile people without symptoms do seem to be capable of infecting others, current evidence still suggests people with symptoms are the highest risk.\n\nA positive result alone doesn't tell you how much of the virus someone has in their system. And this - what is known as the viral load - along with whether an infected person is sneezing and coughing and what kind of contact they are having with other people, influences how likely they are to pass the illness on.\n\nDr Van Kerkhove pointed out since coronavirus mainly \"passes through infectious droplets\", it is when people are coughing or sneezing that they are most able to transmit the disease.", "Tens of thousands of people around the world have been protesting against the death of George Floyd. For many it’s reminded them of the issues they face in their own countries, including their own personal experiences of racism.\n\nBBC Minute’s Kash Jones has been speaking to protesters from New Zealand to France to find out why they’re taking to the streets.", "Rachel Adedeji has appeared in more than 200 episodes of Hollyoaks\n\nHollyoaks has launched an investigation after Rachel Adedeji alleged she witnessed racism on the soap.\n\nThe actress said a senior producer referred to black cast members using a racial slur and claimed black actresses were told to change their hair.\n\nIn a statement on Tuesday, Hollyoaks' producers said they were \"deeply shocked and saddened\" by the issues that had come to light.\n\nThey said they have \"zero tolerance on racism\" but \"have further work to do\".\n\nOn Saturday, Adedeji tweeted several claims about her experiences on the Channel 4 soap, which is produced by Lime Pictures.\n\nThe actress said she was told \"You're all the same\" by a make-up artist, and said black actresses on the show were \"forced to drastically change their hair\" after being told viewers wouldn't be able to tell them apart.\n\nAdedeji, has appeared in more than 200 episodes of the show, but said in her four years on the soap she had only worked with one black director.\n\n\"Working at Hollyoaks is mostly positive, but the experiences I have encountered are a constant reminder of how difficult it is being a black woman in the industry,\" Adedeji said. \"I am no longer standing for it.\"\n\nAdedeji's co-star Kéllé Bryan said the show was launching a series of podcasts about racism\n\nIn their statement on Tuesday, Lime Pictures said: \"We must stamp out implicit bias which means calling out racism wherever and whenever we see it.\n\n\"We will continue to add to our action plan as we continue and broaden our dialogue with cast and staff.\"\n\nThe action plan includes the following measures:\n\nFormer Hollyoaks star Amanda Clapham supported Adedeji on Twitter, saying she witnessed \"micro-aggressions\" towards BAME staff on the show.\n\nClapham alleged one male black cast member was \"disproportionately told off\" for talking and messing around during filming, when a whole group of actors had been involved.\n\nAndrea Ali, who plays Celeste Faroe, supported Adedeji but praised the soap's efforts on representation.\n\n\"I am beyond blessed to be a part of a team as diverse and as inclusive as Hollyoaks,\" Ali said.\n\n\"Celeste Faroe is a powerhouse and that representation of black women is not only one that I am proud of, but one that matters.\"\n\nLast week, Hollyoaks announced it would address the Black Lives Matter movement by recording a series of special podcasts about racism.\n\nAt the time, actress Kéllé Bryan said: \"We've been busy behind the scenes having lots of highly important conversations and we'll be kick-starting with a podcast all about racism - how we tackle it, how we face it and, most importantly, how we overcome it.\"\n\nBut in her statement, Adedeji said: \"Putting out a podcast and asking your black cast members to teach you how to tackle these issues is the bare minimum. Do better.\"\n\nOn Monday's Loose Women, Bryan addressed the backlash she'd received from the podcast announcement, but said there was no bad blood between herself and Adedeji.\n\n\"Myself and Rachel have spoken and we have shared our feelings... I'm supporting her and she's reached out to me also. We'll just work through this, hopefully, internally.\n\n\"She meant no harm in her post in terms of me personally.\"\n\nHollyoaks is set to resume production in Liverpool this week, with the cast expected back on set in July.\n\nAdedeji first shot to fame as an X Factor finalist in 2009, finishing in ninth place. She joined Hollyoaks in 2016.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The ONS found people in Wales were most likely to stay in gardens if they could\n\nFour out of five people in Wales are stressed, anxious or worried about the future because of coronavirus, a survey has found.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) has looked into the social impact of the virus around the UK during the lockdown in April.\n\nIt found anxiety was only higher in the north east of England.\n\nMeanwhile, one in five people reported their their household income has fallen as a result of the virus.\n\nThe survey looked at a number of aspects about how the lockdown has impacted people's lives.\n\nThe biggest concern (23%) was about health, wellbeing or access to care, followed by worries over work, school or university (19%).\n\nJust over 12% were worried about not being able to make plans, while 11% were worried about access to essentials and transport.\n\nMore than one in three people (37.8%) also reported that the struggled to get groceries and toiletries.\n\nBut the survey also found that the Welsh public were most likely to stay in their gardens and least likely to visit a park or public green space.\n\nJames P Harris, ONS cities statistician, said: \"This is the first time we have analysed the country and regional differences in our regular research into how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting people's lives.\n\n\"Levels of worry and concern are high across all countries and regions, with many of us keeping in touch with families and friends, but we also find differences in how lockdown has affected people around Great Britain.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A picture has emerged of Christian B, a German man who is the new suspect\n\nGerman prosecutors say they may have to drop the investigation into a convicted paedophile suspected of killing Madeleine McCann if they do not receive more information from the public.\n\nInvestigators told the BBC they have substantial evidence that Madeleine is dead - but this is not enough to take the suspect to court.\n\nThe three-year-old disappeared while on holiday in Portugal in 2007.\n\nThe suspect, 43, has been named by German media as Christian B.\n\nHans Christian Wolters, a prosecutor in the northern city of Braunschweig - where detectives are leading the investigation - told the BBC: \"We have evidence against the accused which leads us to believe that he really killed Madeleine but this evidence is not strong enough at the moment to take him to court.\"\n\nThe evidence is \"strong enough to say that the girl is dead and strong enough to accuse a specific individual of murder - that strong,\" he said.\n\nHowever he added: \"One has to be honest and remain open to the possibility that our investigation could end without a charge, that it ends like the others have.\n\n\"We are optimistic it will be different for us but for that we need more information.\"\n\nMadeleine McCann was three years old when she went missing in 2007\n\nThe suspect, a German man, is currently serving a jail term in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, for drug-dealing, having been extradited from Portugal in July 2017.\n\nHe is believed to have been in the Praia da Luz area in 2007, when Madeleine went missing. She had been there on a family holiday with her parents and siblings.\n\nIn December 2019, the man was sentenced to seven years for raping a 72-year-old American woman in the same Portuguese resort in 2005.\n\nThe rape conviction is currently under review in the German courts, according to German n-tv news.\n\nGerman media say Christian B has also been investigated over the disappearance of a five-year-old German girl, named only as Inga. She went missing from a family party in Saxony-Anhalt on 2 May 2015 and has never been found.\n\nPolice say the suspect was regularly living in the Algarve in Portugal between 1995 and 2007 and had jobs in the area, including in catering, but also committed burglaries in hotels and dealt drugs.\n\nA senior judicial source in Portugal told the BBC the joint investigation into the new suspect began after a tip-off in Germany in 2017.\n\nInvestigators were told by a friend of Christian B that the suspect had made a \"disturbing comment\" in a German bar, as they were watching news coverage of the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, according to the source.\n\nGerman prosecutors have previously said they are assuming Madeleine is dead.\n\nHowever, the Metropolitan Police, who are working with their German and Portuguese counterparts, said the case remained a \"missing persons\" investigation in the UK because there is no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine is alive or not.\n\nMadeleine went missing shortly before her fourth birthday from an apartment in Praia da Luz, while her parents, Kate and Gerry, were with friends at a nearby tapas bar.\n\nHer disappearance sparked a huge and costly police hunt across much of Europe - the most recent Met Police investigation, which began in 2011, has cost more than £11m.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe League One and League Two seasons have both been ended early after a formal vote by clubs on Tuesday.\n\nBoth tables will be settled on points per game, while promotion, relegation and the play-offs all remain.\n\nCoventry and Rotherham go up from League One, while Wycombe replace Peterborough in the play-off places.\n\nSwindon are League Two champions, but \"ongoing disciplinary matters\" mean it is not yet certain who will drop out of the EFL and into the National League.\n\nStevenage are bottom, but they could yet be reprieved after Macclesfield Town were handed a fresh EFL misconduct charge on 1 June.\n\nThe Silkmen, who are three points above Stevenage, have already had 11 points deducted for previous rule breaches this season and have a further suspended two-point penalty hanging over them if they transgress again.\n\nBoth votes were passed by an \"overwhelming majority\", according to the EFL, who also confirmed that the League Two play-off final would be held at Wembley on 29 June.\n\nNo dates have yet been confirmed for the League One play-offs.\n\nElite football in England has been suspended since 13 March because of coronavirus, with only the Premier League and Championship so far committing to resuming their seasons later this month.\n• None Peterborough have been cheated - director of football Fry\n• None There should be consequences for Macclesfield - Stevenage chairman\n• None How might the League One 'final table' have looked?\n• None How would League Two have finished?\n\nWho is set to go up & down from League One?\n\nClubs in League One had previously been divided over whether or not to bring the season to an early conclusion.\n\nInitial talks stalled after at least six sides, including Sunderland, Portsmouth and Ipswich Town, said they wanted to continue the campaign.\n\nHowever, the new regulations - proposed by the EFL board and approved by the 71 member clubs earlier on Tuesday - meant just 51% of teams in any given division needed to agree on ending a season early.\n\nThe points-per-game system does throw up one significant change to the League One table, with eighth-placed Wycombe Wanderers replacing sixth-placed Peterborough United in the play-offs.\n\nWycombe will move up to third because they have at least one game in hand on each of their play-off rivals.\n\nWhat's the situation in League Two?\n\nWhile the top half of League Two is largely unaffected, Swindon Town have been named champions after leapfrogging Crewe Alexandra because the Robins have a game in hand.\n\nThe situation at the bottom has been complicated by the Macclesfield charge, however, which relates to late payment of wages in March and for \"failing to act with utmost good faith in respect of matters with the EFL and for breaching an order, requirement, direction or instruction of the league\".\n\nIn a statement, the EFL said \"due to ongoing disciplinary matters, the final placings cannot yet be confirmed\".\n\nAs it stands, this is how promotion, relegation and the play-offs will finish:\n\nFollowing Tuesday's vote, it was announced that the League Two play-off semi-finals are to begin on Thursday, 18 June - two days before the Championship season is set to resume.\n\nThe final, which will take place on Monday, 29 June, is to be held at Wembley as originally planned. All games will be held behind closed doors.\n\nTimeline: How did we get to this point?\n• None 10 March - Last games played in Leagues One & Two\n• None EFL suspended until at least 3 April\n• None Season 'can be finished in 56 days'\n• None League Two sides want to end season, League One undecided\n• None 9 June - League One & League Two clubs formally vote to end season", "A preliminary post-mortem examination on Simeon Francis did not find a cause of death\n\nAn investigation has begun into the death of a man in police custody in Devon, the police watchdog has said.\n\nSimeon Francis, 35, who was black, died in a cell in Torquay police station on 20 May after being arrested in Exeter, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said.\n\nA preliminary post-mortem examination did not find a cause of death, it said.\n\nDevon and Cornwall Police said it was \"co-operating fully\" with the independent inquiry.\n\nMr Francis was arrested at about 00:45 BST on 20 May in Cowley Bridge Road in Exeter. He was transported by van to Torquay before being booked into custody at about 03:00, the IOPC said.\n\nMr Francis was found unresponsive in a cell at Torquay police station\n\nPolice said paramedics were called after he was found \"seriously unwell\" in his cell in the afternoon. The IOPC said an ambulance crew pronounced him dead at about 18:00.\n\nThe investigation followed a mandatory referral from the Devon and Cornwall force, which officers announced the day after the death.\n\nRegional IOPC director Catrin Evans said: \"Our thoughts are with Mr Francis's family and friends following his death.\"\n\nShe said investigators were gathering evidence and statements from officers and \"analysing a considerable amount of CCTV footage from the custody suite\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at the level of care provided during the period of detention, including the frequency and adequacy of checks carried out.\"\n\nFurther tests were also to be carried out on Mr Francis's body, she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof Heneghan said the data showed it was best to get coronavirus under the age of 45 Image caption: Prof Heneghan said the data showed it was best to get coronavirus under the age of 45\n\nSociety will need to have \"rational debates\" about when is the least risky age to be infected with coronavirus if a vaccine does not materialise, an expert has said.\n\nCarl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, said Covid-19 is behaving in a way similar to seasonal flu in its disproportionate impact on the elderly.\n\nHe told a Science Media Centre briefing: \"It matters when you get infections in relation to your risk - I think that's incredibly important.\n\n\"So we will start to have some rational debates, because many infections, we know if you get them when you're very young you actually do very well, for instance chickenpox, you get that when you're young and you confer immunity.\n\n\"So, if you took away the concept that there were no vaccinations, let's park that aside and this becomes a circulating endemic infection, we will start to have to have a debate around when is it better to get this infection?\n\n\"If you look at the data, it is when you're under 45. As you get older then it's worse for you.\"", "Honda has said it is dealing with a cyber-attack that is impacting its operations around the world.\n\n\"Honda can confirm that a cyber-attack has taken place on the Honda network,\" the Japanese car-maker said in a statement.\n\nIt added that the problem was affecting its ability to access its computer servers, use email and otherwise make use of its internal systems.\n\n\"There is also an impact on production systems outside of Japan,\" it added.\n\n\"Work is being undertaken to minimise the impact and to restore full functionality of production, sales and development activities.\"\n\nThe firm - which makes motorcycles, cars, generators and lawn mowers, among other products - said one of its internal servers was attacked externally.\n\nIt added that \"the virus had spread\" throughout its network, but did not provide further details.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHonda currently runs a factory in Swindon, where it makes its Civic cars, which is due to close in 2021.\n\nThe company has confirmed that work at the UK plant has been halted alongside a suspension of other operations in North America, Turkey, Italy and Japan.\n\nHowever, it added that it hoped some of the affected sites would go back online this afternoon or later this week.\n\nSome cyber-security experts have said it looks like a ransomware attack, which means that hackers might have encrypted data or locked Honda out of some of its IT systems.\n\n'It looks like a case of Ekans ransomware being used,' said Morgan Wright, chief security advisor at security firm Sentinel One. 'Ekans, or Snake ransomware, is designed to attack industrial control systems networks. The fact that Honda has put production on hold and sent factory workers home points to disruption of their manufacturing systems.'\n\nThe company has insisted no data has been breached and added that \"at this point, we see minimal business impact\".\n\nHonda employs nearly 220,000 people worldwide across more than 400 group affiliate companies.\n\nIt is not known how the criminals infiltrated Honda's computer system but research suggests that ransomware attacks are on the rise with hackers using Covid-19 related lures to trick victims into downloading booby-trapped documents and files.\n\nInsurer Beazley says its seen a 25% spike in clients being hit by ransomware in the first quarter of 2020 compared to last year.\n\nKatherine Keefe, from the firm said: \"Cyber criminals are preying on people's heightened anxiety during this pandemic, tricking them into clicking and sharing links that steal information.\n\n\"Organisations must ensure their security systems and protocols are up to date and ensure that colleagues working from home are extra vigilant.\"", "Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson: Accused of spreading hate without breaking hate laws\n\nThe government's adviser on extremism is investigating whether it's possible to ban behaviour that leads people to hate each other.\n\nThe Commission for Countering Extremism says there may be gaps in the law, allowing extremists to sow divisions.\n\nThe former head of counter-terrorism, Sir Mark Rowley, will lead the review into the complex area of law.\n\nSuccessive governments have tried and failed to come up with an agreed criminal definition of extremism.\n\nThe commission, set up by the Home Office but operating independently of ministers, says it has gathered widespread evidence of people falling victim to hate that leaves them living in fear - but is short of a crime.\n\nIncidents include sectarian campaigns between communities, far-right street and Islamist protests that encourage hostility to other groups, and online abuse that makes violence more likely.\n\nIn each case it says victims can feel let down by the authorities who are powerless to stop subtle attacks that are not crimes under terrorism legislation or hate laws.\n\nAnjem Choudary: Radical preacher evaded prosecution for years because he did not directly advocate violence\n\nLast year, the commission concluded in a report that government should focus on \"hateful extremism\" - meaning activity that amplifies hate and pitches communities against each other - potentially leading to violence.\n\nNow it has asked Sir Mark Rowley to examine the existing laws and how they are used to see if there are gaps that may need filling.\n\nSara Khan, head of the commission, said: \"Hateful extremism threatens our ability to live well together. Yet despite this, our ability to counter repeat and persistent offenders is inconsistent and often ineffective.\n\n\"When extremists engage in terrorist activity, they are often caught by robust counter-terrorism legislation. But when they incite hatred, engage in persistent hatred or justify violence against others, extremists know they will not cross over into the threshold of terrorism.\n\n\"As a result, many extremist actors and organisations, whether far-right, Islamist or other continue to operate with impunity in our country both online and offline.\"\n\nSir Mark Rowley said: \"Extremism, hate crime and terrorism have all been increasing challenges for our communities and society as a whole.\n\n\"While I was in post as head of counter-terrorism policing for four years, I knew that we had strong counter-terrorism system, resources and laws in place. However, I increasingly realised that nationally we are less experienced and ready to address the growing threats from hateful extremists.\"\n\nTheresa May, when she was Home Secretary, pledged to introduce new powers to act against extremist groups which could not be outlawed under terrorism legislation - but the 2016 plan was abandoned.\n\nSir Mark said: \"When Sara asked me to look... at whether the existing legal framework has gaps that allow extremist to flourish, I was initially cautious - not least because successive governments have tried to tackle this very problem, by proposing new legislation, and failed.\n\n\"However, after some initial scoping I am convinced that the Commission's clarity of focus on 'hateful extremism' can help identify the gaps that exist at the boundaries of current laws, such as hate crime and terrorism, which are being exploited daily by extremists.\"\n\nHe will report his findings later in the year.", "Model Munroe Bergdorf has rejoined L'Oreal Paris after she was sacked by the brand in 2017 for posting about \"the racial violence of white people\".\n\nLast week, she criticised L'Oreal after it posted a support message for Black Lives Matter, saying the brand \"threw me to the wolves\" when it fired her.\n\nBergdorf said the brand's new president Delphine Viguier had apologised for the way the situation was handled.\n\nShe will now join the company's UK diversity and inclusion advisory board.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 1 June, the transgender model and activist tweeted: \"You dropped me from a campaign in 2017 and threw me to the wolves for speaking out about racism and white supremacy. With no duty of care, without a second thought.\n\n\"I had to fend for myself being torn apart by the world's press because YOU didn't want to talk about racism. You do NOT get to do this. This is NOT okay, not even in the slightest.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Viguier, she wrote that she believes in \"accountability and progress, not cancellation and grudges\".\n\nShe said: \"While what happened three years ago was extremely traumatic for me personally and professionally, sitting on a board to provide a voice and a champion for black, trans and queer voices in the beauty industry is important for me.\n\n\"It feels good to finally have closure on this matter and I look forward to new beginnings with the L'Oreal team.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn L'Oreal Paris's Instagram page, Viguier said she had had \"an honest, transparent and vulnerable conversation\" with Bergdorf.\n\n\"Here is what I heard from her: Three years ago, Munroe felt silenced by a brand, L'Oreal Paris, that had the power to amplify her voice.\n\n\"While we both agree today that negative labels should not be used to define all individuals in any group, I understand much better the pain and trauma that were behind Munroe's words back then and the urgency she felt to speak in defence of the black community against systemic racism.\n\n\"I regret the lack of dialogue and support the company showed Munroe around the time of the termination. We should have also done more to create a conversation for change as we are now doing.\n\n\"We support Munroe's fight against systemic racism and as a company we are committed to work to dismantle such systems.\"\n\nViguier said L'Oreal would also donate to causes that support social justice.", "UK Border Force officers will face violent attacks after the government told them to take the fingerprints of migrants who try to board Eurotunnel trains, a trade union has said.\n\nThe Home Office order was made to staff at the terminal in Coquelles, near Calais, after a spike in small boat crossings to the UK by migrants.\n\nTrade union ISU said both staff and migrants will get hurt.\n\nBut the Home Office said effective risk assessments were made to minimise harm.\n\nBBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme spoke to some of the hundreds of migrants living rough in Calais during the coronavirus lockdown, who said unbearable conditions were driving them to attempt to cross the Channel in small boats.\n\nSince the lockdown began in March, more than 1,000 migrants have reportedly crossed to the UK on small boats.\n\nA record 166 migrants attempted to reach the UK on small boats in a single day last week.\n\nThe total for this year is already estimated to have exceeded the number who reached the UK in the whole of 2019, despite a pledge made last year by Home Secretary Priti Patel to ensure small boat crossings become an \"infrequent phenomenon by spring 2020\".\n\nNow the home secretary has ordered UK border control officers, working at the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles, in the \"pas de Calais\" area, to take fingerprints of migrants they find trying to board trains illegally.\n\nThe Home Office said registering fingerprints may assist in returning people to France - via an EU law called the Dublin Regulation - should they later make a successful crossing into the UK.\n\nBut Lucy Moreton, of the ISU, a union representing front-line officers, said the move would spark violence as migrants try to avoid being registered in France.\n\n\"That is quite a challenge, particularly if they really don't want to have their fingerprints taken,\" she said.\n\n\"We don't have digital fingerprint recorders, we only have wet ink. So you have literally got to hold their hands and roll their fingers from side to side to get a print.\n\n\"That's quite a lot of avenue to fight back if that's what they want to do. I'm very concerned about the levels of violence that will result and the fact that there will be, eventually, staff and migrants injured.\"\n\nMigrants used to have their fingerprints taken by UK Border Force officers at the port in Calais, but the practice was stopped in 2010 and was also later abandoned at Coquelles.\n\nMs Moreton said: \"All it resulted in was a lot of physical violence and individuals - both our staff and migrants being injured. And migrants deliberately harming themselves in order to damage their fingertips so that their fingerprints can't be taken.\n\n\"That's not something that anyone wants to be forced to do.\"\n\nThe Home Office told the BBC people fleeing persecution should stay in the first safe country they entered and there was \"no reason why they need to make an often dangerous trip\" to claim asylum.\n\nIt added the Border Force has robust risk assessments in place to minimise the risk of harm to both migrants and officers.\n\nFile on 4's The Perfect Storm is on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 9 June at 20:00 BST and available afterwards on BBC Sounds.", "The economic downturn in the US triggered by the pandemic has been officially declared a recession.\n\nThe National Bureau of Economic Research made the designation on Tuesday, citing the scale and severity of the current contraction.\n\nIt said activity and employment hit a \"clear\" and \"well-defined\" peak in February, before falling.\n\nThe ruling puts a formal end to what had been more than a decade of economic expansion - the longest in US history.\n\nMeanwhile, US markets continued their rebound on Monday, as investors remained optimistic that the downturn will be short-lived.\n\nA recession was expected after the US economy contracted 5% in the first three months of the year.\n\nEmployers also reported cutting roughly 22 million jobs in March and April, as restrictions on activity intended to help control the virus forced many businesses to close.\n\nSome economists are hopeful that the job losses have now stopped, and a rebound has begun. In May, US employers added 2.5 million jobs, as states started reopening.\n\nThe National Bureau of Economic Research, a private research organisation, said it viewed the scale of the decline that started in February as more significant than its duration.\n\n\"The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production, and its broad reach across the entire economy, warrants the designation of this episode as a recession, even if it turns out to be briefer than earlier contractions,\" it said.\n\nThe bureau typically defines a recession as an economic contraction that lasts \"more than a few months\".\n\nIt has declared 12 recessions since 1948, the longest of which was the Great Recession, which lasted 18 months, from December 2007 to June 2009.\n\nUS financial markets, which tumbled in February amid signs of the economic collapse, have been on the upswing since March, due to investor hopes that economic damage will be limited, thanks to emergency relief from Congress and the central bank.\n\nOn Monday, the Nasdaq index closed at 9,924.7, gaining 1.1% to top its pre-pandemic record.\n\nEmployees screened by healthcare workers before entering the New York Stock Exchange, which partially reopened in late May\n\nThe S&P 500 rose 1.2% to close at 3.232.3 - returning to where it started the year - while the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.7% to 27,572.4. The two indexes are now less than 10% lower than their pre-pandemic peaks.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has celebrated the rebound.\n\n\"Big day for Stock Market. Smart money, and the World, know that we are heading in the right direction. Jobs are coming back FAST. Next year will be our greatest ever,\" he wrote on Twitter on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany economists have warned that the economic pain is likely to linger, even if the worst has passed.\n\nThe World Bank on Monday said it expected the global economy to shrink by 5.2% this year, in the deepest recession since World War Two.\n\nIt said it expected the US economy to contract by 6.1% and the Euro area to shrink by 9.1%.\n\nWhile global growth of 4.2% is expected to return next year, the bank warned that the outlook is \"highly uncertain and downside risks are predominant, including the possibility of a more protracted pandemic, financial upheaval and retreat from global trade and supply linkages\".", "Less than a fifth of UK deaths in the last week of May were linked to coronavirus, figures show.\n\nAcross the UK, 2,000 (18%) of deaths mentioned coronavirus on the death certificate, compared to 38% at the peak in April.\n\nThe data shows trends in both overall excess deaths and those involving Covid-19 are falling.\n\nBut they also show that just under 64,000 more people had died by the end of May than would be seen on average.\n\nThe figures, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) and National Records Scotland (NRS) data cover all deaths in hospitals, care homes and private homes.\n\nIn comparison, the figure issued daily by the government is the number of deaths of people who tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThese figures, for the week up to 29 May, show just over 11,000 deaths occurred that week, around 1,800 above normal.\n\nIn total, the ONS suggests there have been more than 50,000 deaths where coronavirus is mentioned by the end of May, compared to the government's current figure of 40,597\n\nNick Stripe, head of health analysis at the ONS, said some deaths involving coronavirus in care homes \"will have brought forward deaths that might otherwise have happened relatively soon\".\n\nHe added in a tweet: \"We might expect deaths not involving Covid in care homes to fall below the five-year average in the next few weeks.\"\n\nThe north east region saw the highest proportion of deaths involving coronavirus at 25%.", "London Zoo had said it faced an \"uncertain future\"\n\nZoos, safari parks and drive-in cinemas are set to reopen in England from Monday, the PM has said.\n\nSpeaking at Wednesday's daily briefing, Boris Johnson outlined the latest steps in the easing of the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nHe said the outdoor attractions can reopen as long as they follow social distancing rules.\n\nSome zoos, including Chester Zoo and London Zoo, have reported financial struggles during the pandemic.\n\nA number of Tory MPs have been calling for zoos to reopen to ensure they survive the crisis.\n\nThe move will pave the way for zoos to reopen in England alongside non-essential shops, which can also open from 15 June.\n\nBut Mr Johnson faced criticism from the Labour leader at Prime Minister's Questions, after the plan for the reopening of all primary schools in England by the summer was ditched by the government.\n\nSir Keir Starmer said the government's plan for getting children back to school in England was \"in tatters\", blaming the situation on a lack of leadership from Mr Johnson.\n\nHe called for a \"national taskforce\" to be set up, to find a way forward.\n\nMr Johnson said Sir Keir had previously said school reopenings were happening too quickly and accused him of trying to have it both ways.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg at the daily briefing why children could go to the zoo but not school, the prime minister said he had wanted all children to return before the summer holidays but the \"continued prevalence\" of the disease meant it wasn't possible.\n\nHe said the government would be doing \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\" and the education secretary would be setting out further details.\n\nHe defended the government's policy on reopening schools saying: \"We're very much in line or slightly ahead of some other European countries.\"\n\nThe chair of the education select committee, Conservative MP Robert Halfon, has called on the PM to \"set out a national plan on how we get schools opening again and a catch up programme for left-behind pupils whose life chances are being damaged by being off school for 40% of school year\".\n\nEarlier this week Chester Zoo - which has been closed since 21 March - said its future was \"on a knife edge\", despite a government pledge to provide financial support.\n\nAnd last month London Zoo - closed since 20 March - said it faced an \"uncertain future\" without immediate support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large zoo says it needs government grants as it has no visitors or income\n\nSpeaking at the daily press conference, the prime minister said outdoor attractions where visitors remain in their cars can reopen because the risk of spreading the disease is lower outside.\n\nHe said zoos would be able to reopen \"provided visitor numbers are managed and safeguards are put in place - that includes keeping indoor places such as reptile houses closed\".\n\nZoos must also ensure amenities including cafes are take-away only.\n\nDowning Street continues to emphasise that the UK government wants to move forward carefully in further easing the lockdown.\n\nWednesday's announcement on zoos reflects the belief the risk of transmission is lower outdoors and is based on social distancing rules being followed.\n\nWe also know non-essential shops in England and Northern Ireland will reopen in the coming days (though we don't know when this will happen in Scotland and Wales). Small parts of normal life are returning, even if they will likely feel quite different.\n\nBut while steps to reopen the economy are being taken, the slow progress on schools shows that coming out of lockdown is not always easy and not always in the hands of ministers.\n\nThe delay in getting primary school pupils back to classrooms in England is a reminder that practicalities - and in some cases public reluctance - are important too.\n\nThe government says it has already provided a £14m support fund for zoos.\n\nThey have also been eligible to apply for a \"range of support schemes\", including business rate relief, during the pandemic.\n\nAndrew Hall, spokesperson for Biaza - British and Irish Association for Zoos and Aquariums - said he was \"delighted\" with the announcement, but added the sector was \"not out of the woods\".\n\n\"Aquariums are still closed, and zoos and safari parks have taken a real hit,\" he said.\n\n\"For some zoos, particularly those reliant on tourism, reopening isn't going to be financially viable for them.\"\n\nHe said the announcement was \"not the full answer\" and government support would still be required, especially with limited entry.\n\nHe added: \"Zoos and aquariums in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will still be facing significant challenges and we will be working hard to achieve positive outcomes in these nations.\"", "A bill introducing \"no-fault\" divorces in England and Wales has been backed by MPs.\n\nIt passed its first hurdle in the Commons by 231 votes to 16 against, following a debate.\n\nCurrently, in order to start divorce proceedings immediately, one spouse has to allege adultery, unreasonable behaviour or desertion has taken place.\n\nUnder the proposed law, they will only have to state that the marriage has broken down irretrievably.\n\nThe Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill - which has been passed by the House of Lords - also removes the possibility of contesting the decision to divorce.\n\nAt the moment, someone wishing to obtain a divorce without the consent of their spouse must live apart from them for five years.\n\nDivorce proceedings will still be challengeable on certain grounds including fraud and coercion. Currently fewer than 2% of divorce cases are contested.\n\nThe bill also introduces a new option, allowing couples to jointly apply for a divorce, where the decision to separate is a mutual one.\n\nAnd it replaces the terms \"decree nisi\" and \"decree absolute\" with \"conditional order\" and \"final order\". \"Petitioners\" will also become \"applicants\".\n\nUnder the proposals, there must be a minimum six-month period between the lodging of a petition to the divorce being made final.\n\nOpening the debate, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the bill will seek to make separation \"less traumatic\".\n\nHe told MPs: \"No-one sets out thinking that their marriage is going to end, no-one wants their marriage to break down, none of us are therefore indifferent when a couple's lifelong commitment has sadly deteriorated.\n\n\"It is a very sad circumstance but the law, I believe, should reduce conflict when it arises.\n\n\"Where divorce is inevitable, this bill seeks to make the legal process less painful.\"\n\nConservative MP Jonathan Gullis said he had to put the blame on his partner during his own divorce, saying: \"I would have preferred to have had a no-fault divorce.\n\nBut, raising concerns about the bill, the DUP's Jim Shannon said: \"More funding must be allocated to counselling services to provide trained help for those in marriage difficulties and to prioritise saving a marriage.\"\n\nMr Buckland replied: \"It is, I think, the sad experience that by the time a decision to issue a divorce petition has been made then matters have sadly gone beyond that.\"\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary David Lammy says his party welcomed the bill as it offers a \"common-sense approach\" and respects the institution of marriage and civil partnerships.\n\nHe said the new law \"will promote conciliations and compromise\" and it will reduce legal costs which can reach \"eye-watering sums quite unnecessarily\".\n\nTini Owens was refused a divorce by the courts\n\nThe bill cleared its first hurdle - its second reading - in the House of Commons; despite some Conservatives expressing opposition.\n\nIn a letter to the Telegraph, MPs including Sir Desmond Swayne, Sir John Hayes and Fiona Bruce urged the government to focus on helping couples reconcile instead of \"undermining the commitment of marriage\".\n\nThey said the bill was badly-timed, arguing that many \"otherwise durable\" marriages were under \"intense Covid-related strain\".\n\nThe move to change divorce laws was partly prompted by the case of Tini Owens - a woman from Worcestershire who wanted to divorce her husband of 40 years.\n\nHowever, because her husband contested the split, the law stated she could only obtain a divorce by living apart from him for five years.\n\nMrs Owens said she was \"desperately unhappy\" in the marriage but Mr Owens disagreed and said the couple still had a \"few years\" to enjoy.\n\nIn 2018, her case was heard and rejected by Supreme Court justices - one of whom said, they had ruled against Mrs Owens with \"no enthusiasm whatsoever\" and that it was up to Parliament to change the law.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesman said: \"We will always uphold the institution of marriage. But when divorce cannot be avoided, the law must not create conflict between couples that so often harms the children involved.\n\n\"Our reforms remove the needless 'blame game', while ensuring there is a minimum six-month time frame to allow for reflection and the opportunity to turn back.\"", "An Amazon worker has issued a desperate plea to customers after accidentally losing her engagement ring while packing parcels.\n\nJasmine Paget, 18, was left in tears after finishing her shift in the packaging department at the Swansea depot and discovering the silver band was missing.\n\nShe got engaged to fiancé Josh Mannings, 20, on Valentine's Day.\n\nThe ring has a central diamond and smaller rocks around the main gem.\n\nJasmine believes she dropped the ring into one of hundreds of parcels she packed on Saturday.\n\nOn arriving at her Swansea home, she shared her story on Facebook, prompting thousands of people to share her post.\n\n\"I reckon I lost the ring in the last hour of my shift as I do tend to glance down to admire it now and then and when I looked down this time, it was just gone,\" she said.\n\nJasmine Paget got engaged to fiancé Josh Mannings on Valentine's Day\n\nThe ring vanished at about 17:50 BST, \"right at the end of my shift,\" she said.\n\n\"I was so gutted. I felt my heart in my stomach, I started crying and just went to my managers to find out if there was any way they could find it.\n\n\"It definitely went into a parcel, we just can't tell what one, which is so frustrating!\n\n\"I roughly pack 160 packages an hour and I package up such a wide variety of parcels, so it could be in any type.\"\n\nJasmine said her husband-to-be had been \"so understanding.\"\n\n\"He's just made a big joke out of it to keep my hopes up,\" she added.\n\n\"The response on social media has been incredible and we're just trying to stay positive and hope that somebody finds it.\"\n\nJasmine Paget hopes a customer will find the ring and return it\n\nShe is asking people to check their parcels in case it is inside one and the couple have their fingers crossed someone will return the ring.\n\nAmazon Swansea general manager, Chris Law, said: \"As soon as we heard Jasmine had lost her engagement ring we immediately mounted an extensive search of the fulfilment centre and also appealed to customers to check the packaging of their items.\"", "Coronavirus may have been spreading in Scotland before the first cases were confirmed at the start of March, the chief medical officer has said.\n\nDr Gregor Smith said scientists had identified early cases of the virus which had no clear link to travel.\n\nHe said this suggested that coronavirus was likely to have been spreading in the community in February.\n\nBut he stressed that these cases were likely to have been \"very few in number\".", "School governors want ministers to drop plans for all primary pupils in England to return before the summer holidays.\n\nThe first wave of children is due back from Monday but the government wants all primary pupils in class for the last four weeks of term.\n\nThis ambition piles pressure on schools \"when actually it wouldn't be safe\", said Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association.\n\nMinisters say the return of all pupils will depend on updated safety advice.\n\nLast week the schools minister Nick Gibb told MPs any decision on whether all pupils should return would be led by the science, and no decision had as yet been made.\n\nMany schools have been open to the children of key workers and vulnerable children throughout the lockdown, with all the others attempting to follow the primary curriculum at home.\n\nFrom Monday, the government wants all pupils in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 to return to their classrooms, with no more than 15 pupils per class.\n\nThis means every class of 30 would have to be spread across two classrooms.\n\nUnder these rules, if all year groups went back, there would not be enough classrooms in the vast majority of primary schools.\n\nMs Knights has written to the education secretary, Gavin Williamson, \"asking him to review and to drop\" the expectation that all primary pupils should be back at school for the last four weeks of term.\n\n\"Unless something dramatic changes very soon in terms of the government's scientific and medical advice, it will simply not be possible for primary schools to invite all pupils back for a whole month of education before the summer holidays,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Indeed many of them won't be able to invite all pupils back at all before the summer holidays...\n\n\"It is adding to uncertainty for parents, but also extra pressure on school leaders and governing boards who think that they need to try and do this when actually it wouldn't be safe.\"\n\nMr Williamson has not as yet responded to the letter.\n\nKerry Hill, head teacher at Eyres Monsell primary school in Leicestershire, told BBC Breakfast that her school would not reopen until the middle of June.\n\nShe said that even then, it will be closed one day a week to all pupils apart from the children of key workers for deep cleaning. A one-way system will be put in place and any non-essential items that could potentially spread the virus, such as toys and soft furnishings, are being removed.\n\n\"In our classrooms we can't even fit 15 in and still observe social distancing,\" she said. \"In terms of the logistics, rearranging the entire school and having the available staff to come in and take all of those groups has been incredibly challenging - as well as the logistics of how are we going to do regular cleaning across the day.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is not just about the safety of minimising risks. We know parents are scared, anxious, and our staff a worried, so we're really trying to put in place measures that help keep that trust and confidence.\"\n\nJust over 2,350 governors shared their plans for the return of pupils with the BBC.\n\nMany say, even with the limited numbers due to return in the first phase, they are already having to ask pupils to attend part-time, due to space constraints and the need for deep cleaning to keep the virus at bay.\n\nIf schools have to spread out classes, how will all year groups be able to return?\n\nOf the governors who answered a BBC snapshot questionnaire:\n\nAbout four in five said they were able to accept pupils from all the eligible year groups.\n\nAbout a third of the schools are planning rota systems, for example with one half of pupils attending school for two days at the start of the week, and the other half for two days at the end, with a day for deep cleaning in between.\n\nThere are wide variations in the numbers of parents who have committed to sending their children to school from Monday, with some schools expecting almost everyone, and others just a handful.\n\nOf the 2,350 governors asked whether it would be possible to have all pupils back for the last four weeks of term, 1,682 said this was unlikely or very unlikely.\n\n\"It would be physically impossible to bring all pupils back with reduced class sizes - we do not have the extra classrooms or staff to accommodate them safely,\" one governor wrote.\n\n\"It is going to be challenging enough to get Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 pupils back into school, respecting all of the social distancing and also providing spaces for key worker and vulnerable children. This will take up all the classroom space in the school and use up all of the staff who are available,\" wrote another.\n\nHowever, another expressed frustration at being unable to welcome all children back to school immediately, saying parents \"need a break and the children are getting feral\".\n\nOverall, governors expressed concerns about the pressure placed on themselves and on headteachers by the pandemic.\n\n\"I can only say that the professionalism of our team has shone through and for everyone's sake we hope the advice is right and that safe and effective learning returns for some and continued remote learning carries on for others,\" said Nick Horslen, chair of governors at Kings Wood Primary and Nursery School in High Wycombe.\n\n\"The situation is a long way from ideal but the creativity and determination to help children is the constant priority.\"\n\nSchools in Wales do not have a date for returning and schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland are going back in August.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Medics face similar challenges to soldiers in war zones, Help for Heroes says\n\nFront-line medics need support similar to that received by soldiers, an armed forces charity has said.\n\nHelp for Heroes said NHS staff dealing with the coronavirus pandemic had faced mental challenges comparable to service personnel.\n\nThese include challenging environments, putting themselves at risk and, in some cases, losing colleagues.\n\nMore than 100 NHS and care staff have died after being infected with the virus.\n\n\"I think when you're in the thick of it, you just turn up and you get the work done. You can't process it too much,\" said Dr Ami Jones, a critical care consultant for Aneurin Bevan health board.\n\nDr Jones also works for the Emergency Medical Retrieval and Transfer Service (EMRTS) with Wales Air Ambulance.\n\nShe said the \"most distressing\" part was not being able to talk to relatives face to face and having to break bad news over the phone.\n\n\"I'd never thought that would be the worst bit, but it you know it really, really was,\" she said.\n\n\"I think until you experience it, you're never quite sure what it is that's going to kind of push the button and kind of break somebody and upset them.\"\n\nDr Jones is also an Army reservist and has served two tours of Afghanistan, based in the medical emergency response teams in Camp Bastion, where she would fly by helicopter to treat injured soldiers on the front line.\n\nShe said the intensive therapy unit (ITU) at the hospital where she works reached about \"two-and-a-half, three times their usual capacity\" and felt like a war zone at times.\n\n\"It did all feel a little bit fraught at times. We had lots and lots of sick people to deal with,\" she said.\n\n\"You felt like that patient in front of you could be you.\n\n\"A lot of these patients were young, fit patients. Certainly with the military, they are young, fit patients that are wearing your uniform, so I think that vulnerability is definitely a crossover.\"\n\nTim Penney, of Help for Heroes, says early intervention is key to tackling traumatic experiences\n\nA Help for Heroes' Field Guide to Self Care was originally created for those who had experienced traumatic events or been affected by working in high-intensity situations in the armed forces.\n\nHowever, due to the coronavirus pandemic, they chose to make the resource available to support health workers.\n\nTim Penney, the charity's veterans clinical liaison nurse, said early intervention was \"very much the key\" when it comes to mental health after a traumatic experience.\n\n\"We could see that the struggles that the key workers have in the NHS and on the care home side are very similar to those frustrations and huge difficulties many of our veterans have had to cope with,\" he said.\n\n\"We thought passing these skills and knowledge on would be hugely beneficial.\n\n\"I don't think that people on the front line in the NHS will have been expecting to work in an environment where they could see some of their colleagues both very seriously ill and perhaps in some cases passing away, no-one would have expected that.\n\n\"It's obviously an incredible emotive time for people on the front line out there.\"\n\nMatthew Gravelle has starred in Keeping Faith, Doctor Who and Hinterland\n\nKeeping Faith and Broadchurch actor Matthew Gravelle voiced part of the resource in both English and Welsh.\n\n\"I can't personally provide any physical help, as much as I'd like to, so being able to just provide a voice, and to help to guide people through something that can hopefully achieve relaxation, from a place of stress or anxiety, at least I feel like I'm providing something in some way.\"\n\nThe Army has also played an active role in supporting the NHS during the crisis.\n\nMaj Dominic Pascoe of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Welsh, is the Shenkin Company's commanding officer.\n\nSince March, the regiment has been driving and decontaminating ambulances, unloading PPE air-delivered into Cardiff Airport and assisting with management of test sites.\n\n\"This regiment is just over 300 years old and we've never ever in our history been able to serve our communities. It's an honour to be able to do that,\" he said.\n\nMaj Dominic Pascoe said medical staff he had been working with were \"inspirational\"\n\n\"For a front-line soldier, it's the experiences of trauma and probably seeing things that you really shouldn't have to see in your in your lifetime.\n\n\"For front-line medics, it's exactly the same thing. It still has the same impact and effect on you, whether you're a soldier, a nurse or a doctor.\n\n\"The one difference is though is for a soldier, at the end of your tour, you can go home, whereas for a nurse that's every day of the week those shifts keep on going, year after year after year.\"", "The spill now threatens a huge, pristine area of Arctic wilderness\n\nDiesel oil from a huge spill in Russia's Arctic north has polluted a large freshwater lake and there is a risk it could spread into the Arctic Ocean, a senior Russian official says.\n\nEmergency teams are trying to contain the oil, which has now travelled about 20km (12 miles) north of Norilsk from a collapsed fuel tank.\n\nIt is the worst accident of its kind in modern times in Russia's Arctic region, environmentalists and officials say.\n\nThe oil started leaking on 29 May.\n\nSo far about 21,000 tonnes have contaminated the Ambarnaya river and surrounding subsoil.\n\nInvestigators believe the storage tank near Norilsk sank because of melting permafrost, which weakened its supports. The Arctic has had weeks of unusually warm weather, probably a symptom of global warming.\n\nThe power plant where it happened is run by a subsidiary of Norilsk Nickel, the world's leading nickel and palladium producer.\n\nLake Pyasino serves as the basin for the Pyasina river, which flows to the Kara Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean. From October to June that river is usually ice-bound.\n\n\"The fuel has got into Lake Pyasino,\" said Alexander Uss, governor of Krasnoyarsk region.\n\n\"This is a beautiful lake about 70km [45 miles] long. Naturally, it has both fish and a good biosphere,\" Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.\n\n\"Now it's important to prevent it from getting into the Pyasina river, which flows north. That should be possible.\"\n\nOfficials say booms have not prevented the oil drifting\n\nClean-up teams have removed about 23,000 cubic metres (812,000 cubic feet) of contaminated soil, Ria Novosti news reports.\n\nThe pollution \"will have a negative effect on the water resources, on the animals that drink that water, on the plants growing on the banks\", said Vasily Yablokov of Greenpeace Russia.\n\nGreenpeace has compared it to the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.\n\nRussian prosecutors have ordered checks at \"particularly dangerous installations\" built on permafrost.\n\nDelays over reporting the collapse angered President Vladimir Putin and the power plant's director, Vyacheslav Starostin, has been taken into custody.\n\nThe Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case over pollution and alleged negligence.\n\nThe term is used for ground that is frozen continuously for two or more years.\n\nSome 55% of Russia's territory, predominantly Siberia, is permafrost and home to its main oil and gas fields.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 2017 report to the Arctic Council, an international forum which includes Russia, warned that because of global warming and melting ice, foundations in permafrost regions could no longer support the loads they did as recently as the 1980s.\n\nA recent report by Bloomberg news agency points out that Russia's newer oil infrastructure takes account of the changing climate: storage tanks on the Yamal Peninsula, for instance, are mounted on piles.\n\nThe leaked oil turned long stretches of the Ambarnaya river crimson red.\n\nExperts have warned that the clean-up operation poses huge challenges\n\nIn a statement, Norilsk Nickel said the incident had been reported in a \"timely and proper\" way. The company has pledged to pay for the clean-up, estimated so far at $146m.\n\nNorilsk is already a well-known pollution hotspot, because of contamination from the industry that dominates the city.\n\nIn 2016, Norilsk Nickel admitted that an accident at one of its plants was responsible for turning a nearby river red.\n\nYulia Gumenyuk, deputy environment minister for Krasnoyarsk region, said booms had so far failed to stop the oil spreading downriver.\n\n\"We can see a large concentration of diluted oil products beyond the booms,\" she said.", "North Korea has said it will cut off all inter-Korean communication lines with the South, including a hotline between the two nations' leaders.\n\nThe North said this was the first in a series of actions, describing South Korea as \"the enemy\".\n\nDaily calls, which have been made to a liaison office located in the North Korean border city of Kaesong, will cease from Tuesday.\n\nThe two states had set up the office to reduce tensions after talks in 2018.\n\nNorth and South Korea are technically still at war because no peace agreement was reached when the Korean War ended in 1953.\n\nNorth Korea \"will completely cut off and shut down the liaison line between the authorities of the North and the South, which has been maintained through the North-South joint liaison office... from 12:00 on 9 June 2020,\" the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report said.\n\nMilitary communication channels will also be cut, North Korea said.\n\nWhen the liaison office was temporarily closed in January because of Covid-19 restrictions, contact between the two states was maintained by phone.\n\nThe two Koreas made two phone calls a day through the office, at 09:00 and 17:00. On Monday, the South said that for the first time in 21 months, its morning call had gone unanswered, although contact was made in the afternoon.\n\n\"We have reached a conclusion that there is no need to sit face-to-face with the south Korean authorities and there is no issue to discuss with them, as they have only aroused our dismay,\" KNCA said.\n\nKim Yo-jong, the North Korean leader's sister, threatened last week to close the office unless South Korea stopped defector groups from sending leaflets into the North.\n\nShe said the leaflet campaign was a hostile act that violated the peace agreements made during the 2018 Panmunjom summit between the South's Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un.\n\nIt's likely that this shut down isn't just about sending leaflets over the border - but instead, all part of a grander plan by Pyongyang.\n\nNorth Korea may be creating a crisis in order to use the tension as leverage in later talks. In short, it could be simply spoiling for a fight to get attention and ask for more from its neighbour.\n\nThey've played this particular game before in 2013 to try to win more concessions from South Korea.\n\nIt's also a good distraction domestically. Kim Jong-un is failing to deliver the economic prosperity he keeps promising and rumours continue to circulate that Covid-19 is affecting parts of the country. Giving the nation a common enemy helps rally his people back around a cause.\n\nIt's worth noting one of the two signatures on this policy. Kim's sister, Kim Yo-Jong gave the order to sever ties with Seoul. This gives her a platform and the spotlight and will fuel more speculation that she is being groomed as a potential leader.\n\nBut how disappointing this must be for the Moon administration. Two years ago in a wave of optimism, the country cheered as the two leaders met and agreed to keep the phone lines open. Now all calls to the North are not being picked up.\n\nAnd the question is, if this is just the start of Pyongyang's plan, what comes next?\n\nNorth Korean defectors occasionally send balloons carrying leaflets critical of the communist region into the North, sometimes with supplies to entice North Koreans to pick them up.\n\nNorth Koreans can only get news from state-controlled media, and most do not have access to the internet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTies between the North and South appeared to improve in 2018, when the leaders of both countries met three times. Such high-level meetings had not taken place in over a decade.\n\nBut Pyongyang largely cut off contact with Seoul following the collapse of a summit between Kim and US president Donald Trump in Hanoi last year that left nuclear talks at a standstill.\n\nThe two Koreas remain technically at war because the 1950-1953 Korean war ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.\n• None What the North Korean 'leaflet bombs' say", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going\n\nA self-described Ku Klux Klan leader has been arrested for allegedly driving his car into a group of Black Lives Matters protesters gathered on Sunday in the US state of Virginia.\n\nProsecutors say that Harry Rogers, 36, drove \"recklessly\" towards a protest in Henrico County, and \"revved the engine\" before driving into protesters.\n\nMr Rogers appeared in Henrico court on the outskirts of Richmond on Monday, facing charges of assault and battery.\n\nHarry Rogers may face hate crime charges after allegedly driving his car into a group of protesters\n\nOne protester was injured and treated at the scene, authorities said, but was not seriously hurt.\n\nIn a separate incident on Sunday night, a man drove at a crowd of protesters in Seattle, and brandished a gun at them. The suspect is now in custody, while a 27-year-old man who was shot at the scene was taken to hospital, local authorities said.\n\nAnti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd are entering their third week. Mr Floyd died while being restrained by a Minnesota police officer last month. Large rallies and protests have been held in several US cities, including Richmond, New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.\n\nThough some protests have involved rioting or looting, and violent clashes between participants and police, an overwhelming majority have been peaceful.\n\n\"An attack on peaceful protesters is heinous and despicable and we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law,\" Henrico Country Commonwealth's Attorney Shannon Taylor said in a statement.\n\nMr Rogers told officers he was president of the Virginia KKK, the highest-ranking member of the white supremacist group not in prison, US media report.\n\n\"The accused, by his own admission and by a cursory glance at social media, is an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan and a propagandist for Confederate ideology,\" Ms Taylor said. \"This egregious criminal act will not go unpunished. Hate has no place here under my watch.\"\n\nThe Virginia governor has ordered a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee to be removed amid protests against racial injustice\n\nMr Rogers is expected back in court in August.\n\nVirginia has long been a locus for racial tensions in the US.\n\nHeated debate around Confederate symbols in the state, and the statue of Confederate general Robert Lee sparked the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, about 80 miles from Henrico.\n\nAt that rally, a man drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a woman. He was found guilty of murder.\n\nMr Rogers was also pictured at that white nationalist rally, according to the Guardian.\n\nLast week, amid Black Lives Matters protests over the killing of Mr Floyd, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced that a statue of Lee would be removed from the state capital and \"immediately\" put into storage.", "A mural dedicated to George Floyd in Brooklyn, New York.\n\nHere's a timeline of major incidents since 2014 involving police officers which resulted in the deaths of black Americans.\n\nA protest over the death of Eric Garner at the hands of New York police\n\nEric Garner died after he was wrestled to the ground by a New York police officer on suspicion of illegally selling cigarettes.\n\nWhile in a choke hold, Mr Garner uttered the words \"I can't breathe\" 11 times.\n\nThe incident - filmed by a bystander - led to protests across the country. The police officer involved was later fired, but was never prosecuted.\n\nIt came a year after the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response to the acquittal of the man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida.\n\nThe killing of Michael Brown led to violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri\n\nMichael Brown, 18, was killed by a police officer, in Ferguson, Missouri, who was responding to reports that Brown had stolen a box of cigars.\n\nThe officer, Darren Wilson, stopped his car in front of Brown.\n\nBrown reached into the car and punched Wilson, and in the struggle that followed, he tried to grab the police officer's gun, according to a report by the Department of Justice (DOJ), which was based on forensic evidence and interviews with dozens of witnesses.\n\nOne shot was fired and Brown ran off, pursued by Wilson. When he turned back and moved towards Wilson, the fatal shots were fired, according to witnesses.\n\nAlthough the police officer was cleared of wrongdoing, the DOJ report was scathing about systemic problems in the Ferguson police and racial disparities in the justice system.\n\nThe incident led to multiple waves of protests and civil unrest in Ferguson, boosting the Black Lives Matter movement further.\n\nA solitary toy is left as a memorial near where Tamir Rice died\n\nTamir Rice, a boy of 12, was shot dead in Cleveland, Ohio by a police officer after reports of a male who was \"probably a juvenile\" pointing a gun that was \"probably fake\" at passers by.\n\nPolice claimed that they told Rice to drop the weapon - but instead of dropping it he pointed it at police.\n\nThe police confirmed that the gun was a toy after Rice had been shot dead.\n\nThe police officer who fired the fatal shots was sacked three years later for lying on his job application form.\n\nIn December 2020, the Justice Department said it was closing its investigation into the case as there was not enough evidence to bring federal criminal charges.\n\nWalter Scott was shot in the back five times by a white police officer, who was later fired and eventually sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\nMr Scott had been pulled over for having a defective light on his car in North Charleston, South Carolina, and ran away from the police officer after a brief scuffle.\n\nThe killing sparked protests in North Charleston, with chants of \"No justice, no peace\".\n\nAlton Sterling's death led to days of protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mr Sterling was killed after police responded to reports of a disturbance outside a shop.\n\nThe incident was caught on mobile phone footage and spread online.\n\nThe two officers involved did not face criminal charges, but one was dismissed and the other suspended from the police.\n\nPhilando Castile was killed while out driving with his girlfriend in St Paul, Minnesota.\n\nHe was pulled over by the police during a routine check, and told them he was licensed to carry a weapon, and had one in his possession.\n\nHe was shot as he was reaching for his licence, according to his girlfriend.\n\nShe live-streamed the encounter on Facebook. The officer involved was cleared of murder charges.\n\nStephon Clark died after being shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California, by police who were investigating a nearby break-in.\n\nOnly a mobile phone was found at the scene, and Mr Clark was unarmed.\n\nThe release of a police video of the incident sparked major protests in the city.\n\nIn March 2019, the authorities announced that the two officers involved would not face criminal prosecution as the officers had feared for their lives, believing Mr Clark had a gun.\n\nBreonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician, was shot eight times when officers raided her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky.\n\nLouisville police said they returned fire after one officer was shot at and wounded.\n\nBreonna Taylor's family filed a lawsuit, and in September 2020 reached a settlement of $12m (£9.4m) with the city authorities.\n\nThe lawsuit stated that Ms Taylor's partner - who was with her at the time - had fired in self-defence because the police did not identify themselves, and he thought the apartment was being burgled.\n\nA grand jury charged one police officer not with Ms Taylor's death, but with \"wanton endangerment\" for firing into a neighbouring apartment.\n\nThree officers involved in the raid have now been dismissed from the police force.\n\nProtests and demonstrations in Minneapolis as the trial of Derek Chauvin gets underway\n\nGeorge Floyd died after being arrested in Minneapolis and held down by police officers, one of whom had his knee on Mr Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes.\n\nHe pleaded that he couldn't breathe, and after his death, protests broke out across the US, and there were demonstrations in other parts of the world.\n\nFormer police officer Derek Chauvin - who had knelt on Mr Floyd - was convicted on charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter after a three-week trial.\n\nThree other officers who were involved in the incident will be tried later this year accused of aiding and abetting Mr Chauvin.\n\nClashes erupted following Daunte Wright's killing, which occurred during the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin\n\nDaunte Wright was shot and killed in Brooklyn Center, just north of Minneapolis.\n\nAfter being pulled over for a traffic violation, the police told Mr Wright he was being arrested for an outstanding warrant.\n\nHe broke free and tried to re-enter his car, at which point an officer is heard shouting \"Taser\" several times before firing a shot.\n\nLocal police said the killing appeared to be accidental, and the officer, Kim Potter, had meant to use her Taser and not her handgun.\n\nThe family has rejected that explanation, and protests over the shooting have continued.\n\nMrs Potter has resigned from the police, and been charged with second-degree manslaughter.", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton has urged countries around the world to remove \"racist symbols\" after the toppling of the statue of a slave trader in Bristol.\n\nThe world champion saluted anti-racism protesters for tearing down a monument to the 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston at a demonstration on Sunday.\n\nHamilton said governments around the world should \"implement the peaceful removal of these racist symbols\".\n\nHe has made a series of statements amid global anti-racism protests.\n• None Hamilton 'overcome with rage' at events in US\n\nThese have occurred in a number of countries following the death of George Floyd in the US last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died in police custody in Minneapolis after an officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.\n\nHamilton said last week that he was \"completely overcome with rage\" at events following Floyd's death.\n\nAnd on Monday he said the Colston statue should not be recovered after demonstrators threw it into a river.\n\n\"If those people hadn't taken down that statue, honouring a racist slave trader, it would never have been removed,\" he said on Instagram.\n\n\"There's talks of it going into a museum. That man's statue should stay in the river just like the 20,000 African souls who died on the journey here and thrown into the sea, with no burial or memorial. He stole them from their families, country and he must not be celebrated!\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter shortly afterwards, Hamilton made a pointed reference to US President Donald Trump's response to the protests that have swept America.\n\nThe 35-year-old posted a picture of the slogan \"Black Lives Matter\" painted on the road leading to the White House and wrote: \"And don't you forget it.\"", "Here's a practical maths conundrum, rather than a political question, about the plan to reopen schools in England.\n\nAnd as a spoiler - the Department for Education says it will need to issue new guidance to sort it out.\n\nThe government announced that to keep children and teachers safe there should be no more than 15 pupils per class - so in effect, every class of 30 would have to be spread over two classrooms.\n\nThis might work for the phased return of the first few year groups. But the government is also aiming, if the safety advice permits, for all primary year groups to be back in school for a month before the end of term.\n\nThe complication is that if each class is occupying two or more classrooms, how could all the year groups be back full time at the same time? There wouldn't be enough classrooms or teachers.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, says the sums don't add up: \"It seems to us a non-starter.\"\n\n\"It is impossible to reconcile this ambition with the current guidance about limiting class sizes to 15 and keeping groups in 'bubbles' to reduce mixing,\" says Mr Barton.\n\nIt's an example of how the plan to reopen schools is being road-tested against reality - before the final decision is taken, on or before 28 May, on whether to go ahead with reopening schools.\n\nA Department for Education spokesman says new safety guidance will be provided if it's decided all primary pupils are going back: \"We'll revisit the advice when the science indicates it is safe to invite more children back to schools and colleges.\"\n\nPrimary schools are going to have to be adapted in many other ways.\n\nSecondary schools will be closed for most year groups until September\n\nThey're designed to be welcoming, family-friendly places, with lots of shared play areas. But now they will need a safety-first environment.\n\nIt's goodbye to the soft toys and anything which might be hard to clean and might spread infection. Instead there will be marked out spaces, gaps between desks, one-way systems and a routine of frequent hand washing.\n\nThere's a big encouragement on fresh air and ventilation - with the safety guidance urging outdoor classes where possible and doors and windows to be kept open.\n\nAnything that can be touched will have to be frequently cleaned - light switches, books, tables, chairs, bannisters.\n\nBringing books or anything else between school and home is discouraged - and in school there shouldn't be a sharing of pencil and paper, and libraries will be closed.\n\nBut it's not about masks or social distancing - with the guidelines accepting that a two-metre exclusion zone is not realistic between young children.\n\nInstead the safety guidance is based on keeping children in closed groups of no more than 15, which stay separate from the rest of the school, and so minimise the risk of spreading infection.\n\nThese small groups will have one teacher and will learn, play and eat separately, arriving and leaving school at a different time from other small groups of pupils - each group staying two metres apart from any other.\n\nIt's a system that's followed Denmark's \"protective bubble\" approach - and teachers there suggest that pupils adapt surprisingly quickly and seem to enjoy seeing their friends again.\n\nSteve Chalke, founder of the Oasis academy trust which runs 35 primary schools, says it is very hard to have a catch-all set of national guidelines - because every school will have different buildings and circumstances.\n\nAccess to outside spaces, the design and size of rooms, the layout of schools and corridors will be different. Every building will need a \"bespoke plan\", he says.\n\nMr Chalke, who supports reopening schools, says the pressure on space from class sizes of 15 will mean that schools are likely to need rota systems, such as different classes having morning and afternoon shifts.\n\nIf schools have to spread out classes, how will all year groups be able to return?\n\nThat might raise childcare questions for parents, if they have to work around part-time school timetables.\n\nMr Chalke says while there are political debates going on between the government and teachers' unions, the key demographic to persuade over reopening schools will be parents.\n\n\"If I'm a mum or a dad, am I going to send my child?\"\n\nHe expects at first there might be relatively few arriving. \"I'm guessing it's going to be a trickle,\" he says.\n\nBut he thinks if schools can show that schools are safe and children are glad to be back, the numbers will start increasing.\n\nSchools were closed in a rush more than eight weeks ago - reopening them could prove a more complicated process.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Patients recovering from being critically ill with Covid-19 'have a long road ahead'\n\nA critical care consultant at Wales' largest hospital said it was a week away from being overrun by coronavirus.\n\nDr Chris Hingston said as people heeded \"stay at home\" advice, Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales just avoided breaching its critical care capacity at the pandemic's peak.\n\nThe Intensive Care Unit is now gearing up for a second wave of infections.\n\nDr Hingston said \"the really big fear\" was that it may struggle to deal with a bigger peak.\n\n\"We were very much on the verge of not coping,\" he added.\n\nBBC Wales' health correspondent Owain Clarke was given rare access to the unit, at the hospital where 755 patients who have tested positive for the outbreak have been admitted and 228 have died.\n\nWhile 477 patients have been discharged, the road to recovery can still be a long one.\n\nDr Chris Hingston said the \"stay at home\" advice helped his unit to cope\n\nGeoff Bodman, 56, from Tremorfa in Cardiff, spent eight-and-a-half weeks on the hospital's intensive care unit.\n\nHe is now undergoing intensive rehabilitation therapy on the hospital's step-down ward, re-learning basic skills such as walking and brushing his teeth, before going home to his family.\n\n\"I was on a ventilator. My brother thought I was a goner, bless him.\n\n\"I find it difficult to recall a lot of it and I find it quite embarrassing sometimes that I'm trying to recall information that I should know.\n\n\"The other day I wanted to write my name and I couldn't even do that. I know they say it's a long way to go and it's going to take a hell of a journey.\"\n\nGeoff Bodman believes he may have caught coronavirus at the Cheltenham Festival\n\nMr Bodman, who runs his own painting and decorating business, said his illness affected his memory and he cannot remember being admitted to hospital.\n\n\"My last memory was going to Cheltenham races. I probably caught the damn thing there.\n\n\"That was the last memory I had, up until then it's pretty much wiped.\n\n\"And that in itself is upsetting and frightening because those are memories that I'm going to have to try to claw back.\"\n\nEmma Thomas described the heartbreak of seeing patients die with their families unable to be with them\n\nEmma Thomas, a critical care research nurse who has been helping with some of the hospital's most gravely ill patients, said the worst thing was seeing patients dying without their families by their side.\n\n\"I can't say that any nurse hasn't cried here.\n\n\"The worst thing is patients dying without families and knowing that [their] family's at home longing to be with their dying relative and just not being allowed that.\n\n\"The only thing we have to fight the virus with at the moment is lockdown, there is no vaccine, that is our only defence.\n\n\"You can deal with something when you know what the plan is, there is no plan with Covid-19, it's a brand new unprecedented virus that we just don't know if it'll end and when it'll end.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Women often cannot claim legal aid because there is equity in homes they co-own with their ex-partners\n\nA woman is challenging rules which deprived her of legal aid for action to protect her from her former partner.\n\n\"Claire\" gets universal credit but not legal aid because there is equity in the home she owns with her ex-partner.\n\nAbout one in five women who suffer domestic violence cannot access legal aid because they are deemed to have \"capital\" - even if they cannot access it - lawyers say.\n\nA review of these rules, promised by government, has not yet been completed.\n\nClaire, who asked not to use her real name, lives with her two children in the home she co-owns with her ex-partner.\n\nShe says he subjected her to physical, emotional and psychological abuse, so she went to court to obtain a non-molestation order to stop the abuse and an occupation order to remove him from the home.\n\nHowever, even though she receives universal credit, she was not entitled to legal aid because she owns some of the equity in the home.\n\nClaire cannot sell the home because that would make her and her children homeless, meaning her equity is \"trapped\".\n\nIn any event, whether the house should be sold is itself subject to proceedings for which she needs legal aid.\n\nShe cannot borrow against its value because she would require her ex-partner's consent.\n\n\"My ex-partner has all the money, controlled all the money. I didn't have any of it. He has to agree to everything because the mortgage is joint. He wouldn't agree to anything.\n\n\"Selling would also mean that me and my children were homeless. So we are basically fighting for our safety, and we would be made homeless because we were being forced to sell our house to get any legal support and advice,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClaire had no option but to represent herself in court.\n\nShe describes the experience as \"horrendous, because I had to speak for myself\".\n\n\"I was in a really vulnerable position. I had to speak against his barrister who was a top barrister. He could afford to have a barrister and I couldn't.\"\n\nDespite that, she succeeded in getting the non-molestation and occupation orders.\n\nClaire returned to court for a second hearing four weeks later, but this time her ex was present.\n\n\"It was the first time I saw him after he'd been removed from the home. So I knew he was extremely angry. I was terrified and I didn't have any legal advice or help. When I heard his voice it made me physically vomit in court.\n\n\"The judge told him and his barrister to leave, they got some people to help me to get rid of the vomit and give me some water.\"\n\nClaire is challenging the rules at the High Court\n\nClaire needs legal aid for proceedings about arrangements for her children and to respond to her ex's application to force a sale of their home.\n\nHer application has been refused by the Legal Aid Agency, and she is challenging the decision at the High Court.\n\nShe is being supported by the rights group Public Law Project (PLP), which sees contradiction and unfairness in the Department for Work and Pensions not taking into account the equity in a main home in calculating benefits, while the Legal Aid Agency does take it into account for assessing eligibility for legal aid.\n\n\"It means that the same person can be destitute enough to get Universal Credit but not destitute enough, even if they are a victim of domestic violence, to get legal aid to protect them from their abuser,\" says PLP lawyer Katy Watts, who is representing Claire.\n\nMs Watts also points out such equity is often \"dead\" for domestic violence victims, in that \"even though they may have equity on paper, this is trapped capital. They often have no way of accessing it. Selling will involve getting permission from the person who has been abusing them\".\n\nIn 2012 the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO) made large cuts to legal aid in England and Wales, removing many areas of civil and family law from its scope.\n\nThe only route to getting legal aid for a private family law matter is if a person is a victim of domestic violence - but this is still subject to a means test of both income and capital.\n\nIn February 2019, the Ministry of Justice promised to conduct a review to \"assess the effectiveness with which the means-testing arrangements appropriately protect access to justice, particularly with respect to those who are vulnerable\".\n\nThe review would include a look at capital thresholds for domestic violence victims, the MoJ promised.\n\nThe review has not yet concluded 15 months later.\n\n\"Sadly I am having to turn cases like Claire's away every single day,\" says her solicitor Jenny Beck, whose firm Beck Fitzgerald is working \"pro bono\" for her.\n\n\"The current rules mean that one in five women who are living on benefits and suffering abuse will not get legal aid, and will face the terrifying task of representing themselves.\n\n\"The justice system should be accessible to all, and this undermines both access to justice and the rule of law.\"\n\nMany family lawyers believe that with the reported incidence of domestic violence and deaths resulting from it rising during lockdown the need for non-means tested legal aid for victims, is urgent and overwhelming.\n\nThe Legal Aid Agency says it cannot comment on ongoing proceedings.", "There would usually be lifeguard patrols on 240 beaches across the UK and Channel Islands\n\nThe RNLI is planning summer lifeguard cover at more beaches after saying staff were only to be at 70 in the UK.\n\nIt paused its roll-out programme in March amid measures to control the spread of coronavirus, and said in May it would not be at its usual 240 sites.\n\nThe charity said it was now planning a \"more comprehensive\" service but did not confirm at how many beaches.\n\nPlans also depend on no further virus spikes or \"reintroduction of [lockdown] restrictions\", bosses said.\n\nThe charity has been facing calls to increase cover in the UK and Channel Islands after several incidents during the recent sunny weather, including two people dying in incidents in Cornwall.\n\nChief Executive Mark Dowie said at that time, restarting the full service in a pandemic was not simple as staff needed \"time to train and prepare for ever-changing medical directions about what we can and can't do on the beach\".\n\nThe RNLI said it was now \"planning to maximise the number of beaches we can put lifeguards on in the fastest possible time\" and \"provide a more comprehensive lifeguard service this summer safely, despite the continuing challenges created by the pandemic\".\n\nIt said it had been testing \"new ways of operating\" and was reassuring everyone that \"we can accelerate and expand our plans.\"\n\nRNLI lifeguards have already started working on an additional beach in Cornwall.\n\nThey were due to be patrolling only seven beaches in the county, starting on 30 May, but increased it to eight.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Most pupils in returning year groups still at home\n\nThe government said children in nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 could start going back to school from last Monday. According to the data 659,000 children did so by last Thursday. But is that a big number? We know from the data it includes thousands of vulnerable pupils as well as 284,000 children of key workers in all years, who have been allowed to go school throughout the lockdown. According to last year's school census there are more than two million children in the year groups that were eligible to return, if their schools were able to open and their families wanted to send them. So while the government data doesn't show exactly how many children were in the returning year groups, we do know that most of those pupils were still at home. About half of schools with nursery, Reception, Year 1 or Year 6 pupils were open to at least one of these year groups by last Thursday and the government expects this to increase as some schools reported they'd be able to open from yesterday.", "Little Britain has been removed from BBC iPlayer, Netflix and BritBox as objections resurfaced to some of the sketch show's characters.\n\nNetflix pulled the Matt Lucas and David Walliams series on Friday, along with their other comedy Come Fly With Me.\n\nThe BBC and Britbox took Little Britain off on Monday. Both outlets said \"times have changed\" since it first aired.\n\nBoth shows include scenes where the comedians portray characters from different ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"There's a lot of historical programming available on BBC iPlayer, which we regularly review,\" a BBC spokesperson said.\n\n\"Times have changed since Little Britain first aired so it is not currently available on BBC iPlayer.\"\n\nNetflix has not commented on the reasons for the removal, but has said recent reports that it was in negotiations with Walliams and Lucas to make a new series were false.\n\n\"We were not in active conversations about reviving the show,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe removal angered some fans, with one viewer saying people should be able to make their \"own choices\".\n\nBut others have expressed unease about watching sketches which featured the comedians wearing make up to portray different races.\n\nIn 2017, Lucas said: \"If I could go back and do Little Britain again, I wouldn't make those jokes about transvestites. I wouldn't play black characters.\n\n\"Basically, I wouldn't make that show now. It would upset people. We made a more cruel kind of comedy than I'd do now.\"\n\nWalliams has also said he would \"definitely do it differently\" in today's cultural landscape.\n\nEarlier this year, Lucas said the pair would \"love to bring it back in some way and at some point\", and that they had had a conversation with Netflix.\n\nHe suggested a Little Britain stage show could be one option, adding: \"It will come back in some form, we're just still figuring out what that will be.\"\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis apologised for portraying black celebrities on sketch show Bo' Selecta.\n\nIt comes as certain parts of life have come under scrutiny in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd.\n\nCome Fly With Me came off Britbox around November, and has not been available to view on iPlayer since it was first broadcast in 2010 and 2011.\n\nLittle Britain first aired in 2003 and ran for four series until 2008. There have also been a handful of specials, including a sketch on the BBC One coronavirus charity fundraiser The Big Night In this April.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here are some coal-fired power stations being demolished over the years\n\nBritain is about to pass a significant landmark - at midnight on Wednesday it will have gone two full months without burning coal to generate power.\n\nA decade ago about 40% of the country's electricity came from coal; coronavirus is part of the story, but far from all.\n\nWhen Britain went into lockdown, electricity demand plummeted; the National Grid responded by taking power plants off the network.\n\nThe four remaining coal-fired plants were among the first to be shut down.\n\nThe last coal generator came off the system at midnight on 9 April. No coal has been burnt for electricity since.\n\nThe current coal-free period smashes the previous record of 18 days, 6 hours and 10 minutes which was set in June last year.\n\nThe figures apply to Britain only, as Northern Ireland is not on the National Grid.\n\nBut it reveals just how dramatic the transformation of our energy system has been in the last decade.\n\nThat the country does not need to use the fuel that used to be the backbone of the grid is thanks to a massive investment in renewable energy over the last decade.\n\nTwo examples illustrate just how much the UK's energy networks have changed.\n\nA decade ago just 3% of the country's electricity came from wind and solar, which many people saw as a costly distraction.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could coronavirus be the environment's big moment?\n\nNow the UK has the biggest offshore wind industry in the world, as well as the largest single wind farm, completed off the coast of Yorkshire last year.\n\nAt the same time Drax, the country's biggest power plant, has been taking a different path to renewable energy.\n\nThe plant, which is also in Yorkshire, generates 5% of the country's electricity.\n\nA decade ago, it was the biggest consumer of coal in the UK but has been switching to compressed wood pellets. Drax plans to phase out coal entirely by March next year.\n\nDrax power station in Yorkshire has been switching from coal to wood pellets\n\n\"We here at Drax decided that coal was no longer the future,\" explains Will Gardiner, the chief executive of the power group.\n\n\"It has been a massive undertaking and then the result of all that is we've reduced our CO2 emissions from more than 20 million tonnes a year to almost zero.\"\n\nThat is a controversial claim. Environmental activists point out that wood actually produces more carbon dioxide per unit of power generated than coal when it is burnt to generate electricity.\n\nThey also say it will take many years for the trees in US forests where Drax sources the seven million tonnes of wood pellets it now burns each year to absorb the CO2 the power plant and its wood processing operations produce each year.\n\nAnd it is not just coal that is being eclipsed by renewables.\n\nSo far this year, renewables have generated more power than all fossil fuels put together.\n\nBreaking it down, renewables were responsible for 37% of electricity supplied to the network versus 35% for fossil fuels.\n\nNuclear accounted for about 18% and imports for the remaining 10% or so, according to figures from the online environmental journal, Carbon Brief.\n\n\"So far this year renewables have generated more electricity than fossil fuels and that's never happened before\", says Dr Simon Evans of Carbon Brief.\n\n\"With gas also in decline, there's a real chance that renewables will overtake fossil fuels in 2020 as a whole.\"\n\nSetting the figures for this year context shows just how quickly this turnaround has happened.\n\nThe first day when renewable power out-generated fossil fuels was in December 2016.\n\nBefore this year, there had been a total of 154 days when the combined power created from renewable sources exceeded those from fossil fuels.\n\nCarbon Brief says that 91 of those days occurred in 2019.\n\nThe decline in the role of fossil fuels in general and coal in particular looks set to continue.\n\nThe remaining three coal plants in the UK will be shut down within five years.\n\nThen the fuel that sparked the industrial revolution here in Britain almost two centuries ago will be a thing of the past.", "Victoria Rogers says children need some degree of normality\n\nRelief that children will be kept away from school for another few months, or despair that they are losing out on education and time with their friends?\n\nWhat do parents make of the government's ditching of a plan for all primary school years in England to go back to school for four weeks before the end of term?\n\nJonathan Wills a parent from Barnton Primary in Northwich in Cheshire says families need to get back to some sort of routine.\n\n\"I think it's going to be extremely difficult for kids and some families, because it's a long time to try to recreate the structure that schools give you.\n\n\"And I think without that structure, a lot of schools and kids will struggle, particularly with the stresses of financial problems and then all the types of psychological problems.\n\n\"I think the kids that were struggling before will be struggling even more now.\"\n\nMother-of-two Victoria Rogers agrees: \"I do think children should start coming back to school, as we need to get back to some form of normality.\"\n\nJonathan Wills says many families are struggling\n\nBut elsewhere, mother-of-one Molly told the BBC she is relieved that not all primary years will be returning this term, as she would not have been prepared to send her daughter back to school.\n\n\"Until it is safe for parliament to sit next to each other and until it's 'safe' to cuddle your own blood mother, then how is it deemed safe to mix your children with numerous other households?\n\n\"But our children can be placed into school with numerous other households' children. Even at small groups of 15, how is that safe? When we are only allowed to meet up in groups of six?\n\n\"It's either dangerous to us all or it's not as dangerous as what they are making out.\n\n\"As much as my daughter needs to go back to school and the lockdown has taken its toll with her, I will not be sending her back.\n\n\"If it's this big killer, keeping us away from blood relatives, then it's not safe.\"\n\nFor some families, there is a difference of opinion even within the family.\n\nOne mother-of-three - who was expecting two of hers to return to school before the summer - told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that her children had opposing views on the matter.\n\n\"I know that one of them is going to be really disappointed at the prospect of not seeing her friends.\n\n\"That's been something she's really counting down to, even though we knew it was uncertain.\n\n\"But the boy in Year 5 will be absolutely delighted!\"\n\nAs for her, she remains ambivalent on it all: \"I feel sort of resigned to it really. I just feel sad for them that they're not going to see their friends for such a long time now.\"\n\nNigel Rowlands says his daughter is happier now she is back to school\n\nAnother mother told Today said she was \"unsurprised\" but \"incredibly disappointed\" by the news.\n\n\"I feel really sad for my son. I've got one son in year two, and another one in reception.\n\n\"My child in reception's gone back, albeit only four days a week, every other week.\n\n\"And my older son, who is just about to turn seven, is desperate to go back, can't understand, thinks it's so unfair - which it is.\n\n\"He and the school are going to have to put up with my rather inadequate home schooling, while I'm stuck at home, also with a one-and-a-half year old, trying to juggle a business and everything else.\"\n\nBut another mother, with two children aged eight and six, told Today she thought a return before the summer was too early.\n\n\"I'm actually relieved if schools don't go back until September because I think it's too soon.\n\n\"They don't socially distance at that age. I don't think there's enough protective equipment available in school.\"\n\nHowever, for Nigel Rowlands, the past few weeks have been very difficult and he is glad to have his daughter back in school.\n\n\"It's been difficult - we've been through a lot. There's no structure, learning at home is entirely different to learning at school,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I've been working from home. So we've just spent a huge amount of time together, confined within four walls with not a lot of other places to go to.\n\n\"We try to get out and do a daily walk, but that's not the same as spending all day in school with other people.\n\n\"Having her back in school now has given some of that structure back and that's reflected in her being connected with other children and you can see that in that her demeanour is completely different since she's been back in school.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Personal finance expert Martin Lewis says he wants an end to 'furlough shaming' online\n\nSome 8.9 million workers are now covered by the government's furlough scheme, the Treasury has said.\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK workforce is now being supported by it and the cost so far has reached £19.6bn.\n\nThe scheme, brought in to mitigate the effects of coronavirus, allows employees to receive 80% of their monthly salary up to £2,500.\n\nA similar programme for self-employed workers has seen 2.6 million claims made worth £7.5bn.\n\nKnown as the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS), it differs from the furlough scheme because it is a grant paid out in a single instalment covering three months and amounting to 80% of average profit.\n\nSelf-employed workers can continue to apply for the first SEISS grant until 13 July. Applications for a second grant will open in August.\n\nThe latest Treasury figures for both schemes cover all claims made by midnight on 7 June.\n\nThe furlough scheme, officially called the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, was originally intended to last until the end of July, but has now been extended until the end of October.\n\nFrom July, businesses using the scheme will be able to bring furloughed employees back part-time. Even if they do not, the government will continue to pay 80% of staff salaries during June and July.\n\nFrom August to October, workers on furlough will continue to receive 80% of their salary, but the amount paid by the state will be reduced each month. Employers will be expected to make up the rest.\n\nRecent figures from the government's independent economic forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), indicate that the cost of the government's efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic is expected to hit £123.2bn.\n\nThe OBR expects annual borrowing to equal 15.2% of the UK economy, which would be the highest since the 22.1% seen at the end of World War Two.\n\nIn another development, personal finance expert Martin Lewis has spoken out against what he called a \"dangerous trend\" of \"furlough shaming\" online by people who objected to furloughed workers pursuing leisure activities.\n\nMr Lewis, who runs the MoneySavingExpert website, told BBC Radio 5 live: \"It is not flouting the furlough scheme to be in a park, to be sunbathing, to be reading a book, to be taking time off.\n\n\"It is actually the definition of the rules of the furlough scheme, which says you cannot work.\"\n\nMr Lewis added: \"It is the employer who decides whether people are furloughed, not the individual, and they are not allowed to work.\"", "There are estimated to be 700,000 young carers in England.\n\nTwelve-year-old Finlay cares for his mum, while 15-year-old Danielle helps her mum look after her siblings while her step-dad works long hours.\n\nThey describe how their lives have changed during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe young carers are supported by a group in Salford run by the charities: Gaddum, The Lowry and the Who Cares Campaign.", "Subscribers to Vodafone's UK mobile network have had problems making and receiving calls.\n\nWhile the issue prevented voice calls connecting, customers were still able to text and use mobile data.\n\nAccording to Downdetector, the problem began shortly after 17:00 BST and affected people across the country.\n\nA spokeswoman for Vodafone said a fix had been made at 18:10 BST and that its operations had \"started recovering\" shortly afterwards.\n\nShe added that not all Vodafone's users had been affected.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier the firm had told the BBC that the incident had impacted \"a large number of customers\".\n\n\"I understand it's particularly inconvenient, especially in a lockdown situation,\" a spokesman added.\n\nThe company said the problem had been caused by a change it had made to block a range of telephone numbers used to make spam calls.\n\n\"Somehow that had a knock-on effect to the voice platform,\" it explained.", "The Duke of York has \"sought to falsely portray himself\" as eager to cooperate with an inquiry into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the US prosecutor in charge of the investigation has said.\n\nUS attorney Geoffrey Berman said Prince Andrew \"has repeatedly declined our request\" to schedule an interview.\n\nThe duke's lawyers previously rejected claims he had not co-operated, saying he offered to help three times.\n\nHe will not be extradited, the US government's chief lawyer has said.\n\nUS Attorney General William Barr told Fox News: \"I don't think it's a question of handing him over. I think it's just a question of having him provide some evidence.\"\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties last year after an interview he gave to the BBC about his relationship with Epstein.\n\nEpstein took his own life in a US jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nThe duke has been heavily scrutinised for his friendship with Epstein, but he has said he did not witness any suspicious behaviour during visits to the US financier's homes.\n\nMr Berman, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, has criticised the duke in the past. In January he accused him of providing \"zero co-operation\" and in March he said Prince Andrew had \"completely shut the door\" on helping investigators.\n\nOn Monday, the duke's lawyers responded for the first time and hit back at the claims as \"inaccurate\".\n\nMr Berman then issued a statement, deepening the row. He said: \"Today, Prince Andrew yet again sought to falsely portray himself to the public as eager and willing to co-operate with an ongoing federal criminal investigation into sex trafficking and related offences committed by Jeffrey Epstein and his associates.\"\n\nHe said the duke \"has not given an interview to federal authorities, has repeatedly declined our request to schedule such an interview, and nearly four months ago informed us unequivocally - through the very same counsel who issued today's release - that he would not come in for such an interview\".\n\n\"If Prince Andrew is, in fact, serious about co-operating with the ongoing federal investigation, our doors remain open, and we await word of when we should expect him.\"\n\nIn the BBC interview last year, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein\n\nThe duke's lawyers declined to comment further. But a source said: \"This is the third time Berman has breached his own confidentiality rules, further diminishing our trust in the DoJ's willingness to play a straight bat. It's frankly bewildering.\"\n\nEarlier, the legal team said: \"As the public record indicates the DoJ has been actively investigating Mr Epstein and other targets for more than 16 years, yet the first time they requested the duke's help was on 2 January 2020.\n\n\"Importantly, the DoJ advised us that the duke is not and has never been a 'target' of their criminal investigations into Epstein and that they sought his confidential, voluntary co-operation.\"\n\nLawyer Gloria Allred, who represents some of Epstein's victims, told BBC Breakfast she thinks Prince Andrew has \"very little credibility\".\n\n\"I have a lot of suspicion about what he is saying through his representatives,\" she said, adding that she did not feel the same way towards Mr Berman.\n\nShe added that the victims are in pain and \"deserve the truth\".\n\n\"Questioning the motives of the prosecutors, I just think that's meaningless in this situation,\" she said.\n\n\"Let him step up to the bar of justice, take the oath and just tell the truth.\"\n\nThe duke's lawyers said they had asked US prosecutors to confirm the cooperation would remain confidential, adding: \"We were given an unequivocal assurance that our discussions and the interview process would remain confidential.\"\n\nThey added: \"The Duke of York has on at least three occasions this year offered his assistance as a witness to the DoJ.\n\n\"Unfortunately, the DoJ has reacted to the first two offers by breaching their own confidentiality rules and claiming that the duke has offered zero co-operation. In doing so, they are perhaps seeking publicity rather than accepting the assistance proffered.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of York said he would testify under oath\n\nThe legal team added: \"It is a matter of regret that the DoJ has seen fit to breach its own rules of confidentiality, not least as they are designed to encourage witness co-operation.\n\n\"Far from our client acting above the law, as has been implied by press briefings in the US, he is being treated by a lower standard than might reasonably be expected for any other citizen. Further, those same breaches of confidentiality by the DoJ have given the global media - and, therefore, the worldwide audience - an entirely misleading account of our discussions with them.\"\n\nThe DoJ has made a formal request to speak to the prince as part of its Epstein inquiry, by submitting a mutual legal assistance (MLA) request to the UK Home Office.\n\nUnder the terms of a MLA request if Prince Andrew does not voluntarily respond, he can be called to a UK court to answer questions.\n\nThe duke's lawyers described the request as \"disappointing\" because the Duke of York was \"not a target of the DoJ investigation and has recently repeated his willingness to provide a witness statement\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC's Newsnight programme in November 2019, the duke said he did not regret his friendship with Epstein - which led to Epstein attending events at Windsor Castle and Sandringham - because it had \"some seriously beneficial outcomes\".\n\nHowever, he admitted it was wrong of him to visit Epstein at his home in 2010, after his conviction.\n\nHe also denied having sex with Virginia Giuffre, when she was a teenager, who said she was trafficked by Epstein when she was 17 and forced to have sex with Prince Andrew.\n\nThe duke emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with her and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting the woman, who was previously known as Virginia Roberts.\n\nShortly after the interview was broadcast, Prince Andrew said he was \"willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Charity Commission has ruled that Prince Andrew's trust, which supported his charitable work, was in breach of rules over payments of more than £355,000 to a former trustee.\n\nThe duke's charitable body allowed the former trustee, who was an employee of Prince Andrew's household, to work as a director for a fee for three of its subsidiary companies - in breach of charity law.\n\nThe duke's household was then reimbursed £355,297 for a proportion of this employee's time by the subsidiaries, the Charity Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.\n\n\"Trustees cannot be paid to act as directors of a subsidiary company, unless there is authority from the charity's governing document or the payments are authorised by the Commission or the court, none of which were in place at the charity,\" the statement read.\n\nHis household has since paid back the money to the Prince Andrew Charitable Trust (PACT).\n\nThe trust has also notified the commission of its intention to wind up, with the remaining funds being distributed to other charities.\n\nA statement from the current trustees said former trustees who were in post at the time had \"inadvertently breached charity law\".\n\n\"The current trustees of PACT are grateful to the Charity Commission for its support in bringing this matter to a satisfactory conclusion with the payment of funds by HRH The Duke of York's office to the Trust,\" the statement said.", "Alice Cutter and Mark Jones were jailed at Birmingham Crown Court\n\nA \"Miss Hitler\" beauty pageant entrant and her ex-partner have been jailed for being members of the banned far-right terrorist group National Action.\n\nAlice Cutter, 23, and Mark Jones, 25, were convicted of membership of a terrorist group in March, alongside co-accused Garry Jack and Connor Scothern.\n\nNational Action, founded in 2013, was outlawed in 2016 after it celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.\n\nCutter was jailed for three years and Jones for five and a half years.\n\nAt Birmingham Crown Court, Jack, 24, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and Scothern, 19, was detained for 18 months.\n\nJudge Paul Farrer QC told Jones he had played \"a significant role in the continuation of the organisation\" after its ban in December 2016.\n\nThe judge told Cutter she \"never held an organisational or leadership role\" but said she was a \"trusted confidante\" of one the group's leaders, as well as being in a \"committed relationship\" with Jones.\n\nCutter and Jones, both of Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax in West Yorkshire, were convicted along with Jack and Scothern at a trial in March.\n\nThe court heard Cutter had entered the Miss Hitler beauty pageant under the name Miss Buchenwald - a reference to the World War Two death camp.\n\nShe denied being a member of National Action, despite attending the group's rallies, in which banners reading \"Hitler was right\" were raised.\n\nJurors were also shown messages in which Cutter joked about gassing synagogues, and using a Jew's head as a football.\n\nJones and Cutter were described as key members of National Action\n\nJones, the group's London regional organiser who later moved to Yorkshire, acknowledged posing for a photograph delivering a Nazi-style salute and holding a National Action flag in Buchenwald's execution room during a trip to Germany in 2016.\n\nCutter was described at the sentencing as \"an active member\" of National Action by prosecuting barrister Barnaby Jameson.\n\nHe said frustration with a lack activism in her native Yorkshire led her to join their Midlands sub-group, whose membership was \"determined to defy the ban\".\n\nJack, of Heathland Avenue in Shard End, Birmingham, appeared via video-link for the sentencing and was described by Mr Jameson as turning up to \"almost every Midlands meet-up\".\n\nHe had previously been given a suspended jail term for plastering Birmingham's Aston University campus with racially-aggravating National Action stickers in July 2016, some of which read: \"Britain is ours, the rest must go.\"\n\nJack wrote a letter to the judge stating: \"I have turned my back on the far right.\"\n\n(L-R) Garry Jack, Connor Scothern and Daniel Ward were also convicted or pleaded guilty to being National Action members\n\nMr Jameson told the court Scothern, of Bagnall Avenue in Nottingham, was \"one of the most active members of the group\" who was \"considered future leadership material\".\n\nAnother leading member once observed how Scothern had \"driven himself into poverty\" travelling to member meetings and self-funding 1,500 stickers, calling for a \"Final Solution\" - in reference to the Nazi's genocide of Jewish people.\n\nGerard Hillman, defending Scothern, described him as vulnerable and \"under the influence of others\".\n\nA fifth man, Daniel Ward, 28 from Bartley Green in Birmingham, pleaded guilty to being a member of National Action last year and was jailed for three years.\n\nMax Hill QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, said the group were \"diehards in the way that they think\".\n\n\"They hark back to the days of not just anti-Semitism but the Holocaust, the Third Reich in Germany, and they take their mindset from those extreme Nazi groups and latterly neo-Nazi groups in Germany,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The statue of Robert Milligan was removed by the Canal and River Trust to \"recognise the wishes of the community\"\n\nA statue of noted slaveholder Robert Milligan has been removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nSadiq Khan earlier announced a review of all of London's statues and street names, saying any with links to slavery \"should be taken down\".\n\nOn Sunday, anti-racism protesters in Bristol tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston.\n\nMilligan's monument was removed to \"recognise the wishes of the community\" said the Canal and River Trust.\n\nThere were cheers and clapping as the monument was lifted from its plinth using a crane.\n\nThe Museum of London Docklands said the statue of the prominent British slave trader, who owned two sugar plantations and 526 slaves in Jamaica, had \"stood uncomfortably\" outside its premises \"for a long time\".\n\n\"The Museum of London recognises that the monument is part of the ongoing problematic regime of white-washing history, which disregards the pain of those who are still wrestling with the remnants of the crimes Milligan committed against humanity,\" they added.\n\nThe Canal and River Trust said it had worked with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, the museum and partners in Canary Wharf to have it removed.\n\nAs the Milligan statue was lowered from its plinth, thousands of people gathered outside an Oxford college to demand the removal of a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes.\n\nMilligan was a noted slaveholder and founder of London's global trade hub, West India Docks\n\nMr Khan said London had to face \"an uncomfortable truth\" with its historical links to slavery.\n\nThe Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm will review the city's landmarks - including murals, street art, street names, statues and other memorials - and consider which legacies should be celebrated before making recommendations.\n\nMr Khan said London was \"one of the most diverse cities in the world\", but said recent Black Lives Matter protests had highlighted that the city's statues, plaques and street names largely reflect Victorian Britain.\n\n\"It is an uncomfortable truth that our nation and city owes a large part of its wealth to its role in the slave trade,\" he said.\n\n\"While this is reflected in our public realm, the contribution of many of our communities to life in our capital has been wilfully ignored.\"\n\nDuring a Black Lives Matter protest in central London on Sunday, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was sprayed with graffiti.\n\nBut Mr Khan said he did not consider statues of the likes of Churchill to be included in the review.\n\nHe said pupils needed to be educated about famous figures \"warts and all\" and that \"nobody was perfect\", including the likes of Churchill, Gandhi and Malcolm X.\n\nThe statue of Robert Milligan was covered with fabric and Black Lives Matter sign before being removed\n\nMr Khan told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he did not have ownership of the statues and the land they are on.\n\nHe also said it would be \"inappropriate\" to single out which statues and street names he thinks should go.\n\nInstead a number of new memorials in the capital have been pledged by Mr Khan, including ones for Stephen Lawrence, the Windrush generation, a National Slavery Museum or memorial and a National Sikh War Memorial.\n\nA statue of Sir Winston Churchill was sprayed with graffiti during a Black Lives Matter protest\n\nThe Local Government Association's (LGA) Labour group has also announced that Labour councils across England and Wales are to review \"the appropriateness\" of monuments and statues in their towns and cities.\n\nCampaigns calling for the removal or amendment of monuments celebrating controversial figures have increased in volume around the UK in recent days.\n\nIn Oxford, 26 councillors and an MP have called for a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes to be removed from an Oxford University college.\n\nA plaque is to be added to a Henry Dundas monument in Edinburgh to \"reflect\" the city's links with slavery, while the leader of Cardiff Council said he would support the removal of a statue of slave-owner Sir Thomas Picton from the city's civic building.", "Marta Kauffman says she would do things differently now\n\nFriends co-creator Marta Kauffman has admitted she \"didn't do enough\" to promote racial diversity in her shows.\n\nKauffman, who also co-created Grace and Frankie, was asked on a virtual panel interview what she wished she knew when she started out.\n\n\"I just wish I knew then what I know now. I would've made very different decisions,\" she said.\n\nDespite its success, Friends has been criticised in recent years for its lack of diversity, even by its cast members.\n\nKauffman added during the 2020 ATX TV Festival: \"I mean we've always encouraged people of diversity in our company, but I didn't do enough and now all I can think about is, what can I do?\n\n\"What can I do differently? How can I run my show in a new way? And that's something I not only wish I knew when I started showrunning, but I wish I knew all the way up through last year.\"\n\nA Friends special unscripted reunion is set to show on HBO Max\n\nIn an interview earlier this year, David Schwimmer - who played Ross in the sitcom - proposed a more diverse remake.\n\n\"Maybe there should be an all-black Friends or an all-Asian Friends,\" he said. \"But I was well aware of the lack of diversity and I campaigned for years to have Ross date women of colour.\n\n\"One of the first girlfriends I had on the show was an Asian American woman, and later I dated African American women. That was a very conscious push on my part.\"\n\nLisa Kudrow, who played Phoebe, was recently asked what a modern-day reboot of Friends would look like and told The Sunday Times: \"Well, it would not be an all-white cast, for sure.\"\n\nHowever she added that the show was of its time: \"I'm not sure what else, but to me, it should be looked at as a time capsule, not for what they did wrong.\"\n\nFriends was arguably one of the most popular sitcoms in TV history, running for 10 seasons between 1994 and 2004. It has since gained a whole new young audience.\n\nThe cast of Friends is also set to reunite for a one-off unscripted special, which will be shown on the HBO Max streaming service.\n\nThey will be seen reminiscing about their time on the series. However, production has been delayed due to the coronavirus.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The holiday firm behind Hoseasons and Cottages.com has agreed to give customers refunds for trips which have been cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority said Vacation Rentals had changed its policy after action by the regulator.\n\nThe CMA said a \"significant proportion\" of complaints it received about holiday lettings were about Vacation Rentals.\n\nHowever, the firm said it had been offering refunds since 30 April.\n\nThis date is when the CMA published guidance to travel firms on consumer rights and refunds, a Vacation Rentals spokesman said.\n\n\"We believe we have acted fairly and responsibly at all times,\" the spokesman said. \"We responded and adapted to the evolving issues caused by the Covid-19 pandemic whenever new guidelines from the government were made available.\"\n\nVacation Rentals runs 22 brands offering holiday lets in the UK, as well as Italy, France and Ireland. Its other sites include Blue Chip Holidays and Welcome Cottages.\n\nThe competition watchdog said Vacation Rentals voluntarily changed its policy after originally failing to offer refunds to all customers whose trips were cancelled.\n\nThe company has now given a formal commitment that customers will have the option of a full refund if a booking has been cancelled because of restrictions associated with the coronavirus outbreak, the CMA said.\n\nIn a statement, the CMA said: \"The CMA's Covid-19 Taskforce has so far received around 4,500 reports about UK holiday rental companies, with complaints about Vacation Rentals making up a significant proportion of those reports.\"\n\nHowever, Vacation Rentals maintains it had been offering refunds for some time.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Following the CMA's statement on 30 April clarifying its view on the law on cancellations of consumer contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic, we acted immediately and expanded the options available to any customers who were due to travel during the government imposed lockdown period to include a full cash refund.\n\n\"By the time the CMA's investigation into our business commenced, we were already acting in line with the CMA's guidance.\"\n\nThe CMA is hoping that by trumpeting its success with one holiday let provider, it can push the others into paying full refunds.\n\nThere are plenty of others which have been reluctant to pay full refunds, in some cases arguing that they are simply the agents and should not be liable.\n\nIt is important that people who have been fobbed off with vouchers can now go back and demand their money, even if they accepted them.\n\nCompanies may now decide there is no point in holding out against the CMA if they are going to have to re-open previous cases as well.\n\nThe CMA said other holiday companies face \"further scrutiny\" because, despite consumer law on refunds being clear, some firms are still refusing to offer customers their money back. Legal action was a possibility, the CMA said.\n\nAndrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA, said: \"Our Covid-19 Taskforce is working hard to ensure that consumers get what they are entitled to, so it's good news that Vacation Rentals has agreed to offer people the refunds they are due. We welcome this step and other holiday lets firms must now follow suit.\"\n\nHe acknowledged that some firms faced financial challenges, \"but it's not right that people are being left hundreds or even thousands of pounds out of pocket - on top of having to sacrifice their holidays.\n\n\"Consumer protection law exists for a reason; businesses must observe the law or face the possibility of enforcement action.\"\n\nThe CMA said that common complaints it had received included companies refusing to provide full refunds at all or offering only vouchers instead of cash refunds.\n\nThe holiday lettings business is just one area where consumers are complaining about refunds. Airlines have also faced a barrage of criticism from disgruntled customers.\n\nRory Boland, travel editor at the consumer group Which?, said: \"While it is positive to see some firms changing their policy on refunds, there are still many customers struggling to get their money back for cancelled holiday accommodation and package travel bookings.\n\n\"The CMA must continue to investigate these sectors and come down strongly on any firms found to be flouting the law.\"\n\nAre you a Vacation Rentals customer? Have you been affected? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were photographed in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle\n\nBuckingham Palace has released a new photograph of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to mark the duke's 99th birthday.\n\nPrince Philip, who celebrates his birthday on Wednesday, has been shielding with the Queen at Windsor Castle during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe photo was taken in the castle's grounds during sunny weather last week.\n\nIt is the first public photo of the duke since he was seen leaving hospital in London on 24 December last year.\n\nPrince Philip spent four nights in the private King Edward VII's Hospital in relation to a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nIn the picture, which was taken by a Press Association photographer, the duke is wearing a Household Division tie.\n\nThe Queen is wearing a heart-shaped 18.8 carat diamond brooch called Cullinan V, which she has worn many times, including for her granddaughter Princess Eugenie's wedding and London Fashion Week.\n\nIt follows another photograph last week that showed the Queen, 94, riding a pony called Balmoral Fern in Windsor Home Park.\n\nThe Queen was seen outside for the first time since lockdown began riding a 14-year-old Fell pony\n\nPrince Philip, who has been married to the Queen for 72 years, has rarely been seen in public since he retired from royal duties in 2017.\n\nHe is the longest-serving consort in British history and the oldest serving partner of a reigning monarch.\n\nThe duke issued a rare statement in April thanking key workers who were keeping essential services running during the pandemic.\n\nIt followed the Queen's own message on television, watched by about 24 million viewers.\n\nMeanwhile the Duke of Cambridge said he was worried about Prince Philip and the Queen during the coronavirus outbreak, but said his grandparents were doing everything they could to ensure they were protected and isolated.\n\n\"Obviously I think very carefully about my grandparents who are the age they're at - we're doing everything we can to make sure that they're isolated away and protected from this,\" said Prince William.\n\nPrince Philip was last seen in public leaving hospital in time for Christmas last year\n\nThe Queen cut short her official duties because of the coronavirus in mid-March.\n\nPrince Philip, who had been staying at the Sandringham estate, was flown by helicopter to join the Queen at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe government's rules for the lockdown identified groups of \"clinically vulnerable\" people who should take particular care to minimise contact with anyone outside their household.\n\nThey included those aged 70 or over, \"regardless of medical conditions\".\n\nThe managing editor of Majesty magazine, Joe Little, said the royal couple's time in lockdown together was \"an opportunity for them in their later years to reconnect... It is the perfect royal cocooning\".\n\nHe added: \"They will make a fuss of him on Wednesday as much as you can make a fuss of the Duke of Edinburgh.\"", "Mark Redfern said the head was \"saved by the people of Ashbourne\"\n\nA figure of a black man's head has been removed from a pub sign amid a row over racism.\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council said on Monday the 18th Century iron and wood feature in Ashbourne would be \"removed with immediate effect\".\n\nAbout 150 residents gathered to take down the figure, vowing to return it, before the council could act.\n\nA petition to remove the head, launched on Friday, has gathered more than 40,000 signatures.\n\nThe district council said permanent removal of the head would need listed building consent and consultation with Historic England\n\nAshbourne resident Mark Redfern said the head, which is part of the Grade II*-listed sign for The Green Man & Black's Head Royal Hotel in St John Street, \"will be restored while on the ground and returned to its position at a later date\".\n\nHe said local councillors witnessed the removal.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mr Redfern said the head would be given \"a lick of black paint\", and claimed the move was to save it from vandalism.\n\nHis son, 17-year-old Shaun Redfern, has gathered more than 4,000 signatures on a petition calling for the head to remain for historical reasons.\n\nThe district council said it intended to remove the sign as it was a public safety concern and the issue required urgent discussion\n\nResident Darren Waring, who said he was involved in taking down the feature, said: \"People are making these racist overtures without knowing the facts.\"\n\nHe said the figure is a head of a Turkish man who came to Ashbourne hundreds of years ago and traded coffee.\n\n\"He brought prosperity. He was a well-respected and well-loved Turkish man so in his honour they put his head up. It has nothing to do with slavery,\" he said.\n\nHe added in the 1980s, he went up to the sign to restore it with his father.\n\n\"The sign was actually dark brown,\" he said. \"My dad explained to me this is a Turkish man, not a black man. It was painted brown then something has gone wrong in the restoration.\"\n\nA 19-year-old student from the town said: \"Having it in the middle of the street in a small town is so unwelcoming\"\n\nDerbyshire Dales District Council's decision to remove the head followed the statue of a slave trader in Bristol being torn down during demonstrations on Sunday.\n\nA council spokesman said a councillor spoke to the group, explaining the council needed to take down the figure temporarily in the interests of public safety ahead of a consultation.\n\nHe said: \"The group, who had ladders, then decided they would remove the figure themselves for safe keeping and, not wanting to create a confrontation, in the circumstances we did not object.\n\n\"We expect to have possession of the head figure later today.\"\n\nHistoric England said: \"As the government's adviser on heritage, we will be ready to advise the council on next steps if they need it.\"\n\nOne 20-year-old anthropology student from the town - who did not want to be named - said the sign resembled a gollywog, a 19th Century rag doll which is largely considered racist.\n\n\"I think people are ashamed of it,\" she said.\n\nMatthew Holt, a 19-year-old international relations student from Ashbourne, said: \"It should be in a museum where we can learn about it with a description to contextualise it.\"\n\nCouncillor Barry Lewis, Derbyshire's County Council leader, said the figure should not be taken down, although it was \"clearly culturally insensitive and racist\".\n\nHe added: \"Cultural heritage is there to challenge us sometimes, to make us uncomfortable.\"\n\nThe district council said it was gifted the sign a number of years ago\n\nA Derbyshire Police spokesman said officers attended from 21:00 until 23:00 BST to \"monitor the situation and ensure there were no breaches of the peace\".\n\n\"There were no arrests,\" he said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new leader and the end of Brexit as an election issue will not be enough for Labour to win back power, a review of the party's 2019 defeat has warned.\n\nThe Labour Together project says the party has a \"mountain to climb\" after slumping to its lowest number of seats since 1935 in December's poll.\n\nIt says the historic defeat had been a \"long time coming\" and deep-seated changes were needed.\n\nLabour will have been out of power for 14 years by the next election in 2024.\n\nThe Conservatives won December's election with a majority of 80, while Labour lost 59 seats and saw its vote share fall by eight points.\n\nLabour's defeat led to the resignation of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. He was replaced in April by Sir Keir Starmer.\n\nThe Labour Together report, which was largely compiled before the coronavirus pandemic, warned that \"disunity and division within our party over time has badly damaged our electoral fortunes\".\n\nAnd the commissioners of the review agreed it would \"be a mistake to believe that a different leader, with Brexit no longer the defining issue, would in itself be sufficient to change Labour's electoral fortunes\".\n\nThe organisation, which describes itself as a network of activists from all Labour traditions, surveyed 11,000 members, held in-depth interviews with former MPs and party candidates, and spoke to polling experts and academics.\n\nIt identified a manifesto viewed as \"undeliverable\" by many voters, concerns about Mr Corbyn's leadership and the party's position on Brexit as the \"interlinked and indivisible\" factors behind the 2019 defeat.\n\nBut it says the party's problems run far deeper and its failure to properly analyse previous defeats \"sowed the seeds for our failure in 2019\".\n\nMr Corbyn has said Labour \"won the argument\" at last year's election but blamed media bias for the party's defeat and the fact that the campaign was dominated by Brexit.\n\nThe report paints a portrait of a party riven by \"factionalism\", \"internal arguments\" and \"division\".\n\nBut it issues a stark warning to those who believe that a change in both the party leadership and in the political landscape will necessarily bring Labour much closer to power.\n\nThe report says: \"It would be a mistake to believe that a different leader, with Brexit no longer the defining issue, would in itself be sufficient to change Labour's electoral fortunes.\"\n\nAnd this is perhaps the true value of the report for the new leadership - it serves as both a reality check for activists and an opportunity for the new regime to argue that a break for the past is necessary.\n\nIt declares that Labour has \"a mountain to climb\" - and the authors are clearly thinking of K2 rather than a Scottish munro.\n\nThe Labour Together review was headed by MP Lucy Powell - who ran Ed Miliband's unsuccessful 2015 election campaign, leading the party to win more seats than Mr Corbyn in 2019, but with a slightly lower vote share.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, she said Labour needed to address a long-standing \"disconnect\" with working-class voters to win again.\n\nThe \"red wall\" of seats in the party's traditional strongholds, she said, had \"been crumbling for twenty years\".\n\nShe said there was \"no sign yet that long-term decline is in any way abating,\" adding it could put a number of Labour MPs in formerly safe seats at risk in future.\n\nMr Miliband, who has returned to the shadow cabinet under Sir Keir and was a member of the Labour Together panel, said winning the next election would be a \"Herculean task\".\n\nWriting for the Guardian, he said the party's \"new core vote\" of younger graduates in big cities are \"not enough on their own to win us the election\".\n\nBut he said the party needed to maintain a commitment for \"economic transformation,\" adding this was desired by both Leave and Remain voters.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would stand down after the 2019 election loss\n\nThe report said responsibility for the defeat did not rest \"wholly with one side or part of our movement\".\n\nBut it said Mr Corbyn's low poll ratings going into the election could not \"easily be disentangled from the handling of issues like Brexit, party disunity and anti-Semitism\".\n\nMomentum, the campaign group formed out of Mr Corbyn's successful 2015 leadership bid, called the report a \"much needed contribution\" to the debate over Labour's future election strategy.\n\nA spokesperson said the party needed to \"professionalise the party machine,\" and better engage party members through \"community organising\".\n\nThey added the group was happy to offer its \"expertise\" in digital campaigning to help the party reach more voters online.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the report included:\n\nIn its recommendations, the report warned Labour could \"could fall further, unless it faces up to the disconnect between the party and the public and is realistic about the scale of the political and organisational task ahead\".\n\nIt said the party needed to \"build a winning coalition of voters which spans generations, geographies and outlooks\", while holding onto Labour's existing supporters and \"inspiring more younger voters\".", "The UK's coronavirus alert level has been downgraded from four to three, its chief medical officers have said.\n\nUnder level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nPreviously transmission was considered to be \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the change was \"a big moment for the country\" and showed that the government's plan was working.\n\nThe decision to reduce the alert level followed a recommendation by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said.\n\n\"There has been a steady decrease in cases we have seen in all four nations, and this continues,\" the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nBut they warned it \"does not mean that the pandemic is over\" and that \"localised outbreaks are likely to occur\".\n\nThe daily UK update provided by the government showed there were 173 coronavirus deaths recorded across the UK on 18 June, taking the total to 42,461.\n\n\"We have made progress against the virus thanks to the efforts of the public and we need the public to continue to follow the guidelines carefully to ensure this progress continues,\" they said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care for England said the alert level would be used by government to inform its decision on \"the continuing easing of lockdown\", but a spokesperson added the two were \"not contingent on each other\".\n\nThe alert level is telling us what we already know - the virus is still here, but at much lower levels.\n\nIt combines all the data on coronavirus in the UK to give a single, clear message about the current threat.\n\nBut how closely it is tied to government decisions is debatable.\n\nBoris Johnson announced the relaxation of a range of measures - including the reopening of shops in England - while we were still at Level 4.\n\nAlthough the decision - by the UK's chief medical officers - would make any decisions to relax the 2m rule or open pubs and restaurants politically easier.\n\nHowever, it doesn't mean that we can all relax and stop social distancing and practising good hygiene. Remember the alert level can go up as well as down.\n\nThere are five coronavirus alert levels in total.\n\nIn determining the UK's alert level, the four chief medical officers considered a number of factors including:\n\nMr Hancock said recent progress in these factors showed \"a real testament to the British people's determination to beat this virus\".\n\n\"Infection rates are rapidly falling, we have protected the NHS and, thanks to the hard work of millions in our health and social care services, we are getting the country back on her feet,\" he added.\n\nThe government is now publishing \"growth rates\" alongside the R number, which indicates how fast cases are rising or falling.\n\nAcross the UK, the growth rate is estimated at between -2% and -4% per day. The growth rate is thought to be negative in every region of England, meaning cases are falling.\n\nThe R number for the UK is currently between 0.7 and 0.9. Anything below 1.0 means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nThe move to level 3 comes weeks after some restrictions were first eased in each UK nation.\n\nAt the end of May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs that \"we're coming down the Covid alert system from level four to level three tomorrow, we hope, we're going to be taking a decision tomorrow\".\n\nBut the next day, the government decided instead not to lower the alert level and it remained at four until now.\n\nWhen the government first announced the alert system in early May, it also published a three-step plan to ease restrictions.\n\nStep one, the first easing of lockdown, involved allowing people to take unlimited exercise and spend more time outdoors.\n\nStep two permitted the gradual opening of schools and non-essential retail, which is the current situation.\n\nThe third step in the government's published plan, which it said was to take place \"no earlier than 4 July\", includes opening further non-essential services like hairdressers and beauty salons, restaurants, pubs and leisure facilities.\n\nMoving to alert level three signals there could be a \"gradual relaxing of restrictions and social distancing measures\", according to the government's original plan.\n\nA review is also currently taking place into reducing social distancing guidance from 2m (6ft 6) to 1m (3ft 3).\n\nIt is understood the review will aim to report back by 4 July, the earliest date that pubs and restaurants can open in England.\n\nOn Friday the prime minister said. \"On the social distancing measures, watch this space. We will be putting in further changes, as the science allows.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a primary school, he said he hoped there would be more guidance published \"very very shortly\" in the run up to July 4th to help businesses.\n\nWhen the review was announced, Mr Johnson said: \"As we get the numbers down, so it becomes one in 1,000, one in 1,600, maybe even fewer, your chances of being two metres, or one metre, or even a foot away from somebody who has the virus is obviously going down statistically, so you start to build some more margin for manoeuvre.\"", "A Conservative activist has been suspended after tweeting a British Muslim MP should \"go back to Pakistan\".\n\nThe party said they were investigating the comments made by Theodora Dickinson on Twitter about Labour's Naz Shah.\n\nResponding to a GIF of the MP talking about her experience of poverty while growing up in Yorkshire, she wrote if Ms Shah \"hates this country so much why doesn't she go back to Pakistan\".\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain said such \"blatant racism\" was unacceptable.\n\nThe group - which has previously accused the Conservatives of turning a blind eye to Islamophobia - said it showed there was still a \"serious problem\" within the party.\n\nFormer party chair Baroness Warsi has also suggested the Conservatives are in denial about the extent of Islamophobia within its ranks.\n\nThe Conservatives have launched an inquiry into all forms of prejudice within the party.\n\nBut critics have said it is not independent and would not specifically address anti-Muslim racism.\n\nMs Dickinson posted the tweet in response to a clip from a speech the MP made in a Commons debate on free school meals.\n\nMs Shah accused ministers of having \"no real understanding, care or emotion\" about the extent of child poverty in the UK.\n\nIn the clip, the Labour politician - who was born in Bradford and now represents the city - spoke of her experience, being \"palmed off\" to social services when she was a child, separated from her family and taken on trips to Scarborough, adding \"that is what poverty is\".\n\nMs Dickinson's comments, which were first reported by the Huffington Post, have since been deleted.\n\nOn her Twitter handle, Ms Dickinson describes herself as a political communications and social media consultant. She is understood to have worked for the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nLabour MP Naz Shah was born in Bradford and now represents the city\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain claimed the party activist had previously shared an Islamophobic conspiracy theory in response to the 2019 terror attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, but no action had been taken against her.\n\nIn a statement, the group said: \"Will this latest blatant racism elicit action? The party must reflect and consider why it chooses to ignore widespread concerns about its institutional Islamophobia.\n\n\"If a truly independent inquiry is not enacted with its recommendations implemented, there will be a drip-feed of these stories for a long time to come.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said: \"Theodora Dickinson has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.\"", "A £1bn fund to help England's children catch up on what they have missed while schools have been closed has been announced by the prime minister.\n\nThe most disadvantaged pupils will have access to tutors through a £350m programme over the year from September.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools will be given £650m to spend on one-to-one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it.\n\nHead teachers welcomed the funds, but said more details were needed.\n\nLabour said ministers should convene a taskforce - involving trade unions and scientific and health experts - to help all pupils return to school safely as soon as possible.\n\nShadow education secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the plans \"lack detail and appear to be a tiny fraction of the support\" needed and called for a \"detailed national education plan to get children's education and health back on track\".\n\nHowever, Boris Johnson said the fund would help head teachers provide what pupils need.\n\nHe thanked teachers, childcare workers and support staff for their efforts during the pandemic, and said he was \"determined to do everything\" he could to get all children back in school from September.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “We have got to start thinking of a world in which we are less apprehensive.\"\n\n\"We will bring forward plans on how this will happen as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nAnd during a visit to a school on Friday, Mr Johnson suggested there may be change in the rules on social distancing, with more guidance due \"very, very shortly\", adding: \"Watch this space.\"\n\nIt comes as the Covid-19 alert level has been downgraded, bringing with it a possible relaxation of the rules that have kept many pupils out of school.\n\nThe Scottish Government said it is also looking at social distancing rules in schools, after Northern Ireland decided to reduce its two-metre rule to one metre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she wanted schools to open safely as soon as possible.\n\nThe announcement comes a week after Mr Johnson said the government was planning \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\".\n\nBut the announcement did not include any specific push towards catch-up activities running through the summer break except a expectation that usual summer clubs would be running.\n\nInstead there is a strong push for head teachers to target catch-up help via tutoring from September.\n\nHowever, schools minister Nick Gibb told the BBC there was lee-way for heads to set up summer schemes if they so wished.\n\nBut he said: \"If you want children to catch up, it can't just be done over the month of August - it has to be longer term over the academic year\".\n\nResearch by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests the £650m pot represents about £80 extra for each student.\n\nThat is a rise of about 1% but would leave total spending still 3% below 2010 levels in real terms.\n\nEarly years providers and colleges for 16 to 19-year-olds are not included in the plans.\n\nBill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said it would be \"entirely unjustifiable\" to exclude sixth form students from the package.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said the government's decision not to include pre-schoolers \"beggars belief\".\n\nBut Mr Gibb said that older age groups had \"fared better with remote education than other age groups\" which is why the government was focused on helping younger pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSchools were shut across the UK on 20 March. Apart from the children of key workers, most children have not been to school since then and will not enter a classroom until after the summer holidays.\n\nChildren in nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 have begun returning to primary schools in England, and some Year 10 and 12 pupils returned to secondary schools and colleges this week.\n\nSchools in Wales are reopening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time, while in Scotland, schools are preparing to reopen on 11 August.\n\nSocial distancing in schools has been halved to 1m (just over 3ft) in Northern Ireland, where ministers are aiming for a full reopening of schools on 24 August.\n\nHowever, head teachers have warned that parts of the Northern Ireland plan are \"unrealistic and undeliverable\".\n\nPlans for the subsidised National Tutoring Programme have been developed with a group of social mobility organisations and academics led by the charity Education Endowment Fund (EEF).\n\nThe EEF has said that until now, access to tutoring has been the preserve of wealthy families - but this would no longer be the case as schools would be able to seek subsidised tutoring.\n\nHowever, individual schools would be expected to pay 25% of the tutoring costs in the first year, or from their share of the £650m in extra funding being made available to them as part of this package.\n\nThe tutors themselves will be provided by organisations approved by the National Tutoring Programme. Many of them will be students or graduates trained by tutoring groups.\n\nTheir modelling suggests between 550,000 and 650,000 courses, featuring three pupils to one tutor, would run for an hour a week over 15 weeks.\n\n\"Tutoring is the catch-up approach supported by the strongest evidence,\" said the EEF's chief executive, Prof Becky Francis.\n\nShe said the programme hoped to reach more than a million pupils, calling it a tremendous opportunity to create long-lasting change.\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton welcomed the investment, saying it would help support the work schools are already undertaking on pupil catch-up.\n\nBut he noted that the investment was expected to be spent on tutoring, rather than being left to head teachers to decide.\n\n\"As ever, we suspect the devil will be in the detail and we await further information,\" he said.\n\nHe was also concerned that there was no investment for sixth forms.\n\nDavid Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, criticised the decision not to include colleges for 16 to 19-year-olds in the plans.\n\nHe said teenage college students deserved as much catch-up support as every other age group and it was \"indefensible\" to overlook them.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said he was pleased ministers had listened to calls for a longer-term response, rather than short-term fixes.\n\n\"This is a considerable sum of money,\" said Mr Whiteman, but he also warned there were many details still to be worked through.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Malala Yousafzai said her current plans were 'Netflix, reading and sleep'\n\nHuman rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai has expressed her \"joy and gratitude\" after finishing her final exams at Oxford University.\n\nThe 22-year-old, who survived a shot to the head by Taliban soldiers, studied politics, philosophy, and economics.\n\nTweeting earlier, she said: \"I don't know what's ahead. For now, it will be Netflix, reading and sleep.\"\n\nMs Yousafzai was attacked for saying girls should be allowed to stay in education.\n\nShe was shot in the head, neck and shoulder while travelling home from school after writing an anonymous diary about life under the extremists.\n\nAfter recovering from her near-fatal injuries, she and her family relocated to Birmingham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Malala This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2014, she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, at the age of 17. Three years later she accepted a place to study at Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford.\n\nMs Yousafzai tweeted two pictures as she announced the news that she completed her degree. In one, she is celebrating with her family in front of a graduation cake.\n\nThe other was taken after a \"trashing\", a tradition at the university where students are covered with food and confetti after completing their exams.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK retail sales partly recovered in May, driven by DIY stores and garden centres reopening amid the lockdown.\n\nThe amount of goods sold last month increased by 12%, in comparison with record falls seen in April, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSales were boosted by a 42% rise at household goods stores, such as hardware, furniture and paint shops.\n\nDespite the rebound seen in May, retail sales still remain well below pre-lockdown levels.\n\nNon-essential retailers in England and Northern Ireland have, however, since been allowed to reopen.\n\nMost shops in Scotland are to reopen from 29 June. Non-essential retailers in Wales will be told they can reopen from Monday, the first minister is expected to announce on Friday.\n\nNon-food stores saw the biggest increase in sales last month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, with DIY sales providing a bright spot.\n\n\"According to retailers in this sector, consumers appeared to be carrying out home improvements while spending more time than usual in their homes,\" the ONS said.\n\nHowever, despite the May boost, sales overall were still down by 13.1% compared with February, before the coronavirus lockdown measures were introduced.\n\nIn the three months to May, sales fell by 12.8% compared with the previous three months, the fastest quarterly decline since records began in 1996.\n\nSamuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, cautioned that the \"overall consumer picture remains bleak\".\n\n\"May's recovery in retail sales should not be interpreted as a sign that the economy is embarking on a healthy V-shaped recovery from Covid-19,\" he said.\n\n\"Naturally, spending on goods will recover faster than on services, which usually require human contact and remain largely unavailable.\"\n\nMay's retail sales were always going to be better than the off-the-charts collapse in April, when the full force of the lockdown was underway.\n\nThe decline is now reversing. But it's far from clear when retail sales will return to pre-Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen non-essential shops re-opened in England on Monday, with lots of queues for some of the most popular stores, footfall was still far lower than normal. And with social distancing in place, retailers will have to limit customer numbers where necessary.\n\nFewer customers will mean fewer sales. With unemployment set to rise and the various government support schemes starting to ebb away, many people's finances will start to come under real pressure.\n\nOnline sales rose to their highest proportion on record in May while consumers stayed at home. They accounted for 33.4% of total spending, compared with 30.8% in April, the ONS added.\n\nLynda Petherick, head of retail for Accenture UK and Ireland, said: \"Given the wholesale shifts in consumer behaviour these last few months, it would be optimistic to assume shopping habits will return to normal in the immediate future.\n\n\"As the proportion of shoppers buying online continues to soar, the individual retailers who best recover in this new environment will be those who can quickly adapt to accelerating trends, such as the shift to ecommerce,\" she added.\n\nPeter Cowgill, executive chairman of JD Sports, told the BBC's Today programme that the chain's online sales had \"gained a lot of momentum\" in April and May.\n\nHe added that he hoped to see the same \"kickback\" in stores after non-essential retailers in England were allowed to reopen on 15 June.\n\n\"I think that as consumer confidence continues to grow though, that the level of footfall will grow with it,\" Mr Cowgill added.\n\nOn Monday, stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors for the first time since the lockdown began.\n\nShoppers arrived early to centre:mk in Milton Keynes. Some were picking up goods they had been waiting months to buy, such as baby clothes and home furnishings. Others were there for the sales. These shoppers told us what they bought - and why.\n\nAction Fraud warned on Friday that customers should take additional care when shopping online during lockdown.\n\nSince shops were forced to close due on 23 March, the UK's reporting centre for fraud has received reports of online shopping fraud totalling £16.6m in losses.\n\nHowever, separate research suggests that shoppers might be feeling anxious about their return to the High Street.\n\nMore than half of UK customers expect they will now go shopping less often over the next one or two years, according to a survey of more than 1,000 people by accountancy giant EY.\n\nSilvia Rindone, partner in consumer product and retail at EY, said that retailers \"must do all they can to help alleviate customers' concerns\".\n\n\"People need to know the shopping environment and communal space is safe and that the brand is taking health and safety as seriously as they are.\"\n• None The first thing I bought when the shops reopened", "Parents will be waiting to find out if schools will have all pupils back in September\n\nThe billion pound school catch-up plan for England aims to drag the return-to-school policy out of a quagmire of indecision.\n\nParents have been increasingly baffled by how few pupils have returned to school this term, confused by what would be offered over the summer and downright horrified at the idea that schools might not even go back full-time in September.\n\nA parent emailed the BBC this week to say she wanted to burst into tears when she got a letter from her school to say pupils were only likely to go back half-time in the autumn.\n\nAnd head teachers' leader Geoff Barton said it was like operating in an \"information black hole\".\n\nSo has this juggernaut of cash put the show back on the road?\n\nIt's a lot of money - but it has to tackle massive disruption to almost nine million children in primary and secondary schools.\n\nAnd every family will want to know what will be done for their children, with many expected to be out of school for almost six months.\n\nFirst of all, there's no mention of extra summer activities. And nothing yet to explain how pupils might all go back in September.\n\nThe big focus is on private tutoring - and for schools, there is no such thing as a free launch.\n\nSecondary schools are back, but pupils are only attending part time\n\nThe £350m for tutoring will fund discounts - it's not added to school budgets. So schools will have to spend their own money to take advantage of the subsidy.\n\nIt's still not entirely clear how much schools will have to pay - but at the most generous, the discount will be 75%. So, based on £50 per session, it would cost schools £12.50 per pupil per session.\n\nBut there is financial support for this, in a £650m one-off payment to schools, otherwise the tutoring scheme would have actually cost schools money.\n\nTutoring businesses and charities can apply to join the new tutoring service, with the criteria for selection not yet published.\n\nHow much tuition will the funding deliver?\n\nThe programme is scheduled to start in the \"autumn\", paid for by the Department for Education and with extra cash from the KPMG Foundation.\n\nLuke Sibieta of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says the funding represents a 1% increase in school budgets and will be worth, on average, about £80 per pupil per year.\n\nTo put the £650m in context, the annual pupil premium supplement to schools to help disadvantaged pupils is about £2.4bn per year.\n\nHead teachers and many education researchers are supportive of the idea of providing one-to-one tuition to pupils - to give more pupils the type of help already accessed by many better-off families.\n\nSo how much tutoring will this buy?\n\nIf the total £650m was spent on tutoring, and schools accessed all of the £350m available in subsidies, the IFS says it would mean about £2,400 available per class of 30 for the year.\n\nThis could give one hour each week to about five pupils in a class of 30.\n\nOn average, there are about five pupils eligible for free school meals in each class - so it would provide a real opportunity for them to catch-up, not just on missed school, but also to narrow the wealth related gap in educational attainment.\n\nHead teachers' leaders are supportive - and even with a nervous glance at the funding model, they're backing the idea of subsidised extra lessons.\n\nThere are schools already using their pupil premium money to buy private tutors and the Education Endowment Foundation (which test drives ideas for improving achievement) says there is evidence that such extra tuition works.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute is less impressed.\n\nDavid Laws, chair of the think tank and a former education minister, said the new funding was \"poorly targeted\".\n\nHe disagrees with schools in affluent areas getting the same share as the poorest - and there's no requirement to spend the money on disadvantaged pupils.\n\nBut here's the big question: Is it really a summer catch-up programme at all?\n\nIt might be a positive example of \"never let a crisis go to waste\" - in that it's an opportunity to launch a national tutoring scheme that could make a big difference to those most in need of help.\n\nBut it's not the type of summer educational recovery programme that parents might have been expecting. And there's nothing for early years, sixth forms or further education.\n\nIt might give a few children extra lessons, but what about the rest of the class, including those worrying about exams next year, those who have had only patchy access to online lessons and, well, everybody else who has been out of school for so long?\n\nParents might already feel they've had contradictory messages over schools, with confusion over who was going back and uncertainty about what to expect from lessons at home.\n\nAnd the catch-up plans might not stop them looking anxiously at the clock, ticking away to the autumn term.", "Lee Waters is the Welsh deputy minister for transport and economy\n\nThe UK government has \"given-up\" on a \"science-led approach\" to coronavirus, a Welsh Labour minister has claimed.\n\nLee Waters said London-based ministers have made announcements at their daily press conferences without thinking them through.\n\nIt is some of the strongest criticism of the UK government's strategy from the Welsh Government.\n\nA UK government spokesman said it continues \"to be guided by the science\".\n\nMeanwhile Conservative Welsh Secretary Simon Hart has called for \"action\" to help the tourism industry in Wales.\n\nFollowing calls for further lockdown easing from Labour-led Flintshire council, international relations minister Eluned Morgan said her colleagues are \"intensely aware\" of the pressure on the tourism sector.\n\nMr Waters said he hoped the Welsh Government could ease the lockdown rules on Friday in a way that \"helps the tourism industry\" and small firms, but does so in \"a way that does not risk all the sacrifices we have made\".\n\nUnder the laws being used to enforce lockdown, rules in England are set by the Conservative UK government, while the lockdown in Wales is the responsibility of the Labour-led Welsh Government.\n\nThe latter's cabinet is due to discuss its next steps, with an announcement due Friday. First Minister Mark Drakeford has said it could include news for non-essential retail.\n\nNon-essential retailers have been allowed to reopen in England\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Waters said: \"It is clear… the UK government is departing from the advice of SAGE, it has given up [on] a science-led approach.\"\n\nHe suggested some UK government announcements, such as its original plans for schools, \"unravel before they come in\".\n\nThe deputy transport minister said the government led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson tends \"to make an announcement that is driven by a 5pm press conference without thinking it through\".\n\n\"A lot of this is about the air war, the PR war, which they have tried to be too clever with I think they have been too clever by half.\n\n\"We are not going to make the same mistakes as them, no matter what the pressure we are under.\"\n\nMr Waters said he felt the UK government was making decisions \"based on London\".\n\nThey are pulling England out of lockdown at a time to suit the R number in London,\" he said.\n\n\"Actually the R rate in Wales is different because the virus is moving from east to west.\"\n\nThe R figure is the average number of people that one infected person will pass the virus on to.\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart called for \"action\" for the tourism secto\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"There are far more similarities than differences in the approaches of the nations of the UK to the pandemic.\n\n\"We entered this fight as one United Kingdom and we will come out of it equally united.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain committed to a UK-wide approach and continue to be guided by the science. Each of the four nations agrees that there should only be differences in approach when the scientific evidence supports it.\"\n\nIn a letter to members of the Senedd, UK government Welsh Secretary Simon Hart said \"action is needed\" to help the tourism sector.\n\nHe asked them to \"do everything in your power this week to encourage the Welsh Government to set out a roadmap for the tourism and hospitality industries in Wales\".\n\nMr Hart said he was more sympathetic to First Minister Mark Drakeford's predicament \"than perhaps has been reported\".\n\nBut he added he need not \"rehearse the value of the tourism and hospitality industries to our country, which employ hundreds of thousands of individuals\".\n\n\"Losing these jobs risks plunging communities into deprivation,\" he said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We thank Mr Hart for his advice, but the first minister makes decisions based on safety and science rather than lobbying efforts by UK government ministers.\"\n\nEluned Morgan said ministers are \"intensely aware\" of the pressure on the tourism sector\n\nDeeside.com reported that Labour-run Flintshire Council had also written to the Welsh Government calling for a lifting of lockdown measures on the \"retail and tourism sectors who are at great risk.\"\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government is \"intensely aware\" of the pressure on the tourism sector, according to the international relations minister.\n\nShe said the government will be \"putting guidance in place that we've worked up with the industry\" but the support of local communities was also needed.\n\n\"We've made it very clear that shops should have been preparing during this period, but we will of course, look at that as part of the next review.\n\n\"Just to make it clear in relation to tourism we are intensely aware of the pressure that is on a sector, which is fundamental to the Welsh economy.\n\nThe first minister will announce the outcome of the fourth lockdown review on Friday.\n• None Reopening shops on table at next lockdown review", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nStaff at England's only children's NHS gender clinic say concerns about patient welfare were shut down, leaked documents reveal.\n\nClinicians reported worries that some patients were referred onto a gender transitioning pathway too quickly.\n\nBBC Newsnight has seen transcripts of staff interviews from a review into the Gender Identity Development Service.\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, which runs the service, defended the review and its practices.\n\nThe review was published in Spring 2019 after the Trust asked its medical director, Dr Dinesh Sinha, to investigate serious concerns about children's welfare raised by staff in an internal report.\n\nBBC Newsnight has read transcripts of some of the interviews conducted with staff as part of the review.\n\nThe Trust said it had not identified any immediate issues in relation to patient safety or the overall approach taken by the gender identity service (GIDS), yet in the transcripts clinicians claim child protection and safeguarding concerns were \"shut down\".\n\nIn the transcripts, staff are damning in their assessment of some parts of the service\n\n\"Let's pray that I am wrong because if I am not wrong, very many vulnerable children have been very poorly treated and will be left with, potentially, a lifetime of damage here,\" one says.\n\n\"The reality is, by not doing anything, children are potentially still being medically mismanaged.\"\n\nThe Tavistock - like other NHS organisations - has a named person clinicians can turn to discuss specific safety concerns.\n\nBut staff allege they were discouraged by GIDS Director Polly Carmichael from going to see the Trust's safeguarding lead, and from referring cases to social services.\n\nDr Polly Carmichael was interviewed on the BBC's The Victoria Derbyshire Show earlier this year\n\nAccording to the transcripts, these included cases where staff feared a child had suffered sexual abuse or trauma.\n\n\"In all of my previous work, if you had a concern, you refer them on,\" it's claimed.\n\n\"And that did not happen.\"\n\nThe Trust said a safeguarding lead was created specifically for GIDS in August 2018 to reflect the growth in the service.\n\nBut in their interviews, staff didn't view this as adequate and argued there was wide variation in practice at GIDS.\n\n\"There was a very clear message from senior management about being really cautious about how we talk to the safeguarding team at the Tavi[stock], and specifically [the Trust's safeguarding lead].\"\n\n\"I would say that perhaps that's why more than 40 clinicians decided to leave the service within three years,\" one, who left GIDS last year, told the BBC.\n\nThe review acknowledges staff had raised concerns over a period of years. But staff claim in the transcripts that when they did so, they were seen as the problem.\n\n\"People who raise concerns are seen as trouble making and difficult,\" one staff member argued.\n\n\"When I raised concerns I was told that I had to toe the line or I would never progress in my career,\" another said.\n\nIt's unlikely all staff will have been as critical of GIDS as the ones whose interviews were read by Newsnight.\n\nBut the number of transcripts seen by Newsnight amount to a sizeable proportion - albeit a minority - of the total number of frontline GIDS staff interviewed for the review.\n\nThe Tavistock and Portman Trust said it \"stands by\" the 2019 review of GIDS and is \"confident that it fairly addressed the issues raised\".\n\n\"Safeguarding is of the utmost importance to the Trust,\" it added.\n\nThe transcripts detail a range of worries about the service.\n\nHomophobia in families attending GIDS is mentioned in all the transcripts Newsnight has seen.\n\nAs well as seeing young people struggling with their sexuality, staff say some parents appeared to prefer their children to be transgender and straight, rather than gay.\n\nIn one example, a GIDS clinician describes a young person who had come out as a lesbian and faced homophobic bullying, \"within the family and quite openly in school\".\n\n\"Suddenly the young person changed their mind and they started identifying as trans.\"\n\nIn some of these cases, clinicians thought that it wouldn't be appropriate for the patient to be referred for puberty blockers, with one child apparently saying: \"My mum wants the hormone more than I do.\"\n\nBut staff could be overruled by GIDS director Polly Carmichael, the transcripts suggest.\n\nRecently updated NHS guidance on puberty blockers acknowledges that little is known about their long-term effects, or what impact they might have on children's brains and bones\n\nNHS England says young people should only be referred for this treatment after a minimum of three sessions.\n\nRead more: What are puberty blockers?\n\nHowever, the review heard from several staff that one member of the GIDS leadership, Sarah Davidson, would sometimes refer children for treatment after only one or two appointments.\n\n\"Absolutely it should never happen because this is a pathway that will lead to huge, huge changes for this young person, potentially, infertility,\" one GIDS clinician said.\n\nSuch a quick referral, staff claim, could risk putting young people on potentially life-changing medicines who may have been struggling with issues such as their mental health and sexuality.\n\nThe Tavistock Trust said \"there are many pathways for patients using the service\" and many would not be referred on for consideration for hormone blocking drugs.\n\n\"GIDS is a safe and caring service which supports a wide range of children,' it said. \"[We] strongly refute the allegations put to us by Newsnight,\" it added.\n\nNewsnight showed some of the transcripts to the Children's Commissioner for England and contacted the healthcare regulator, the CQC.\n\nBoth were interested in speaking to the people involved.\n\nThe CQC encouraged anyone with specific concerns about safety or safeguarding at the trust to contact them directly. It had been due to inspect GIDS, though routine inspections are currently paused because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two weekdays at 22:45 BST or on iPlayer. Subscribe to the programme on YouTube or follow on Twitter.", "Dr Meirion Evans has worked as a consultant epidemiologist for Public Health Wales\n\nThe five-mile travel guidance in Wales should be \"reviewed\" according to a Welsh Government coronavirus adviser.\n\nDr Meirion Evans, who advises Wales' chief medical officer, said that \"the purpose of the journey rather than the distance\" should be considered.\n\nHe told the BBC that journeys such as visiting family members are \"important for society\".\n\nA minister suggested a further decision on the issue may be made on Friday.\n\nBut a Welsh Government spokesperson said changes would only be made \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nOpposition politicians say that people need to travel greater distances than five miles in rural areas.\n\nMore than 14,000 people have signed a petition calling on ministers to relax the guidance, introduced at the end of May.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said that the limit is a \"general rule\" rather than law - with Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford suggesting last week that there were \"no immediate plans to lift the stay-local message in Wales.\"\n\nIn England, unlimited travel is allowed, although scientific advisors to the Conservative UK government have expressed concern at the speed lockdown is being eased in England.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Newyddion programme, on S4C, Dr Evans said: \"I'd like to see the rule on how far you can travel being reviewed.\n\n\"I think it's more important that we consider the purpose of the journey rather than the distance… That it is essential.\n\n\"For example going to see family is important for society.\"\n\nDuring the pandemic governments across the UK have recommended businesses and individuals maintain a 'social distance' of two metres.\n\nThe two-metre rule is currently being reviewed for England. In Wales, it has been part of lockdown legislation since the beginning.\n\nDr Evans also said that the risk in reducing the two-metre distancing rule to one metre \"isn't very big\".\n\n\"The difference in risk between being within a metre, or more than two metres away, isn't very big,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a matter of deciding whether there's more risk in being closer to someone else, that it's worth taking that risk in order to be able to do far more in terms of opening shops, schools and so on.\"\n\nLockdown has been in force since March\n\nThe International Relations Minister, Eluned Morgan told a press conference there is a \"degree of flexibility\" around the five-mile guidance for people living in rural areas.\n\nShe said: \"We absolutely understand that local in a rural area means something very different from local in an urban area, and that's why we have provided that degree of flexibility.\"\n\nMs Morgan said that the Welsh Government would be making some further decisions on the matter on Friday, when the outcome of the next lockdown review is expected to be announced.\n\nThe minister said the Welsh Government is closely monitoring the impact of lifting coronavirus lockdown measures on mainland Europe.\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth called for the Welsh Government to \"move forward as quickly as possible as long as they can show that it is safe\".\n\n\"We need real clarity about what the government's vision is, what it plans as the roadmap ahead, because that lack of certainty is causing real problems for businesses and huge frustration for the population at large.\"\n\nHe said people are finding the five-mile restriction difficult, \"though staying local makes sense still\".\n\nAdvisors of the Welsh Government have said that releasing lockdown measures in many European countries has not resulted in a rapid rise in the Covid reproduction rate - the R rate.\n\nMs Morgan said in most countries the R rate had stayed below one, \"but there are some strong hints from France, which suggest as more measures are eased, R may be rising\".\n\n\"The experience from Europe would tell us a cautious approach to further unlocking measures - that's what would be prudent\".\n\nThe R rate is the average number of people a sick person could pass the virus on to.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said in response to Dr Evans: \"The coronavirus lockdown measures in Wales are in place to help limit the spread of the virus.\n\n\"Ministers review all the restrictions in place at each review period - and then decide what, if anything, can be changed.\n\n\"Changes will only be made when it is safe to do so. Our focus is on helping to save lives.\"\n\nThe first minister is due to announce the outcome of the latest lockdown review in Wales on Friday.", "Nina Ambrose works in another unit from her father and has to change completely before seeing him\n\nA woman furloughed from her job has been volunteering at a care home in order to see her father.\n\nNina Ambrose, from Writtle in Essex, usually works at a cosmetics company.\n\nRoger Ambrose, 76, moved into a care home in January and she was unable to see him for the first five weeks of the lockdown.\n\nMrs Ambrose, a former Butlins Red Coat, became an activities team volunteer at the home, and said she felt \"so, so lucky\" to have spent time with him.\n\nThe former Butlins Red Coat is helping organise an Aloha party for residents\n\nRetired lorry driver Mr Ambrose was diagnosed with Alzheimer's six years ago and his daughter was used to seeing him several times a week.\n\nSo when she was furloughed at the beginning of April, Mrs Ambrose offered her services to Manor Lodge in Chelmsford, where he lives.\n\nShe has been visiting the home three or four times a week, helping to organise events and activities.\n\nThe 49-year-old said she had to take eight exams, including tests for wellbeing, health and safety and hygiene, as well as having a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check, before she could start.\n\nMusic was a big part of Roger Ambrose's life and he played in soft rock and country music bands\n\nMrs Ambrose, who normally works in culture and communications for Benefit, said: \"I help on a separate unit from my dad and it's been lovely to get to know other residents.\n\n\"I end each session by paying him a visit - once I've changed my clothes and shoes - and we are strict about staying at a social distance.\n\n\"We'll sing together or sometimes just sit in silence.\n\n\"People say 'what you're doing is great' but I'm doing it for selfish reasons - I feel so, so lucky to be able to spend this time with him.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he does not think the song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot should be banned after the Rugby Football Union announced it would review its use.\n\nThe RFU said many people were not aware of the song's links with slavery.\n\nBut the PM said people should focus less on symbols and more on the substance of racism.\n\nMr Johnson said he did not think there should be \"any sort of prohibition\" on singing the song.\n\nHe added: \"Frankly I think what people need to do is focus less on the symbols of discrimination... all these issues that people are now raising to do with statues and songs and so on - I can see why they're very emotive, I understand that.\n\n\"But what I want to focus on is the substance of the issue.\"\n\nHe added that he \"certainly didn't think there should be any sort of prohibition on singing [Swing Low, Sweet Chariot]\".\n\n\"Nobody, as far as I'm concerned, seems to know the words,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Before we start complaining about Swing Low, Sweet Chariot I'd like to know what the rest of the words are.\"\n\nFormer rugby league and union wing Martin Offiah, who was playing during the song's first known use at Twickenham in 1987, has welcomed the RFU review but does not want it banned either.\n\nOffiah told Radio 5 live: \"The song is not really what the issue is here - the issue is about diversity and inclusion.\n\n\"I think this is the first step as we progress towards change.\"\n\nThe song is believed to have been sung at rugby clubs since the 1960s but came to prominence at Twickenham in 1987, when Offiah played in the Middlesex Sevens tournament.\n\nIt is thought Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was written in the mid-19th century by Wallace Willis, who was a black slave.\n\n\"It's definitely an emotional piece of music, very emotive, it stirs up feelings and that's probably something to do with its history,\" Offiah said.\n\n\"That history is probably not that well known by a lot of people in the UK. I champion the RFU reviewing it, I wouldn't support the banning of such a song. When you do try to ban things like that it just makes the song more divisive.\n\n\"If this review leads to the RFU putting a positive spin on this song, engaging with ethnic communities, looking at the rooms where decisions are made in the RFU and addressing those issues, that's what we actually want.\"\n\nFormer England captain Maxine Edwards believes the RFU has bigger issues to face than fans' use of the song.\n\nEdwards said: \"I think it is interesting that the RFU has decided to review this song and have discussions about its appropriateness, as part of their bigger process of reviewing their approach to the representation of people of BAME backgrounds within their organisational structure at all levels and taking part in their sport.\n\n\"I would, however, ask why this is the first thing that they have on their list to review as part of this review process?\n\n\"It is complicated, but it is really by no means the biggest issue that the RFU needs to address.\"\n\nEngland's Maro Itoje, who spoke about rugby and race on the Rugby Union Weekly podcast, recently said the song had a \"complicated\" background .\n\nLast week World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi - the only black person on the RFU council - said that the death of George Floyd in the United States had led to \"powerful conversations\".\n\nRFU chief executive Bill Sweeney has promised to increase diversity in the organisation, saying: \"We have undertaken some very good initiatives at the grassroots level to encourage more diverse participation. However, that in itself is not enough.\n\n\"We need to do more to achieve diversity across all areas of the game, including administration.\"\n• Football Daily: When will the Champions League restart?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SA Brain chief executive Alistair Darby: \"The industry is running out of time rapidly\"\n\nMany Welsh pubs will go bust - putting thousands of jobs at risk - unless social distancing measures are relaxed, the boss of Wales' biggest brewery has said.\n\nPubs and bars have been closed since the start of lockdown in March.\n\nNow the boss of Brains has said even if they are allowed to reopen this summer, many will not be able to due to the two-metre social distancing rule.\n\nThe Welsh Government said lockdown would only be eased when it is safe to.\n\nPubs, bars and restaurants across the UK were told to close on 20 March, as social distancing rules came into force to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Wales, there is currently no date for them to reopen, while in England the UK government has suggested they will reopen \"no earlier than 4 July\", if Covid-19 safety guidelines could be met.\n\nThe Welsh Government is due to make an announcement on lockdown measures on Friday.\n\nBut Alistair Darby, the CEO of Brains, Wales largest domestic pub chain, said many brewers, caterers and landlords had depleted their reserves and time was now running out to save the industry.\n\nThe Duke of Wellington pub is one of Brains' many pubs in Cardiff\n\nBrains, which employs 1,400 people in Wales, is initially planning to reopen only 40 of its 104 Welsh pubs, with it predicting demand to be at about a third of what it was before the pandemic.\n\nSocial distancing rules, in place since the start of the pandemic, mean people must remain two metres (6ft) apart in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nIn Wales, employers are required by law to make sure employees can maintain social distancing while at work, and can be fined if not.\n\nBut Mr Darby said this rule needed to be eased to one metre if pubs were to survive, while another pub landlord in Swansea said enforcing the distance would be a \"logistical nightmare\".\n\nMr Darby said: \"The industry is running out of time rapidly, you can't choke off an industry's turnover and expect it to be able to survive, even with substantial government support.\n\n\"All business needs certainty and we aren't getting that at the moment, and the longer the uncertainty continues the more people are going to lose their jobs.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Brains announced the closure of 40 of its pubs, with staff told their jobs could be at risk and the company blaming economic uncertainty - partly caused by Brexit, for the closures.\n\nJD Wetherspoon said all 50 of its pubs in Wales would open on the first day they were allowed to\n\nIn 2019, the number of UK pubs and bars increased for the first time in a decade after years of concerns about closures, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBut a survey in April by the British Beer and Pub Association [BBPA] found that 40% of pubs in the UK now said they would not survive until September, due to lockdown.\n\nAccording to the BBPA, the beer and pub industry employs 42,000 people in Wales and is worth £950m to the economy.\n\nEmma McClarkin, chief executive of the BBPA, said businesses were \"burning through cash\" during lockdown and many would not be able to reopen.\n\nSocial distancing will mean pubs not being able to sit as many customers as usual\n\nDavid Morgan has owned the Cross Inn pub in Maesteg for 28 years and started brewing a decade ago.\n\nAfter having to furlough four staff, he is now running the brewery with his wife to try and keep the business afloat.\n\nMr Morgan said if social distancing rules were not relaxed he would only be able to have 12 people in the Cross Inn at one time, which he said would not make it viable to reopen.\n\n\"You see beaches are chock-a-block in England, and these protests, there's no social distancing,\" Mr Morgan said.\n\n\"It's time for people to take responsibility for their own safety. Valley towns, in general, were starting to get the high street back on its feet and now it's going to be devastated.\"\n\nGreen King, which manages the Claude, said it had plans for opening its 30 pubs across Wales\n\nSara John, owns BOSS Brewery in Swansea, which sells 80% of its beer to pubs, and also runs a pub in the city.\n\nThe lockdown has meant furloughing most staff, but Ms John said they had been doing everything they could to make sales through a new online shop.\n\n\"Retailers have seen a surge in beer sales so that's ticked over nicely and we've started to work with beer subscription companies,\" said Ms John.\n\nShe said the beer only had a three-week shelf life and the Welsh Government needed to give a firm date for the reopening of pubs so they can plan production.\n\nMs John added that opening the pub would not be feasible, and enforcing social distancing would be a \"logistical nightmare\" when people had been drinking.\n\n\"We estimate 25 people, though there is talk of some pubs using beer garden and street access. But if we see strict queuing rules like in supermarkets we will serve less people,\" she said.\n\n\"And if the public is not feeling safe they won't show up. So better to stay closed then opening to people who won't come.\"", "Sir Ian was Oscar-nominated for Chariots of Fire\n\nStage and film actor Sir Ian Holm, who played Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings films, has died aged 88.\n\nSir Ian, Oscar-nominated as Olympic running coach Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire, also played the android Ash in 1979's Alien.\n\n\"It is with great sadness we can confirm that the actor Sir Ian Holm CBE passed away this morning at the age of 88,\" his agent said in a statement.\n\n\"He died peacefully in hospital with his family and carer,\" he added.\n\nThe actor, pictured last year, began his career in the theatre\n\nHis illness was Parkinson's-related, his agent confirmed.\n\nHolm, who also played Dr Willis in The Madness of King George, was classically trained and put in memorable performances in numerous plays.\n\nThe National Theatre remembered him as an \"extraordinary actor\" whose performance as King Lear in 1997 created \"wonderful memories\".\n\nSamuel West, whose father Timothy played Gloucester in the production, recalled on Twitter that the older cast members were all asked to grow beards.\n\nWhen they came together for a read-through, he remembered, \"[director] Richard Eyre said it looked like a garden gnome convention\".\n\nSir Ian originated the role of Lenny in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming in 1965, reprising his performance on film eight years later.\n\nHolm starred with Judi Dench in a RSC production of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard\n\nHowever, his stage career was cut short after he developed acute stage fright during a production of The Iceman Cometh in 1976.\n\nHe went on to work primarily in film, thanks to roles in such high-profile movies as The Fifth Element and the Lord of the Rings series.\n\nIt was 1981's Chariots of Fire that saw him receive his best supporting actor Oscar nomination.\n\nThe same film won him a Bafta, as did his supporting performance in The Bofors Gun in 1968.\n\nSir Ian played Bilbo in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, having played Frodo Baggins for BBC radio in 1981.\n\nDiminutive in stature, he was similarly well-cast as Pod in 1992 children's series The Borrowers.\n\n\"I'm never the same twice,\" he told the Los Angeles Times in 2000, \"and I'm not a movie star-type, so people don't demand that I'm always the same.\"\n\nHe received a knighthood in 1998 for his contribution to drama following the CBE he received in 1989.\n\nHe returned to the stage to play King Lear at the National in 1997\n\nComedian Eddie Izzard remembered Sir Ian as \"a wonderful actor\", adding: \"It's so sad to see him go.\"\n\nDirector Edgar Wright also paid tribute, calling him \"a genius actor who brought considerable presence to parts funny, heartbreaking and terrifying\".\n\n\"What an actor,\" tweeted League of Gentleman star Reece Shearsmith. \"A lifetime of incredible performances.\"\n\nPeep Show star Robert Webb was among many others to express respect for \"a splendid actor\" who \"could be very funny too\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In a major U-turn, the UK is ditching the way its current coronavirus-tracing app works and shifting to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google.\n\nThe Apple-Google design has been promoted as being more privacy-focused.\n\nHowever, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data.\n\nThe government now intends to launch an app in the autumn, however it says the product may not involve contact tracing at that point.\n\nInstead the software may be limited to enabling users to report their symptoms and order a test.\n\nBaroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace programme - will only give the green light to actually deploying the Apple-Google technology if she judges it to be fit for purpose, which she does not believe is the case at present. It is possible this may never happen.\n\nGermany, Italy and Denmark are among other countries to have switched from a so-called \"centralised\" approach to a \"decentralised\" one.\n\nThe NHS has been testing both systems against each other, over the course of the past month.\n\nThe centralised version trialled on the Isle of Wight worked well at assessing the distance between two users, but was poor at recognising Apple's iPhones.\n\nSpecifically, the software registered about 75% of nearby Android handsets but only 4% of iPhones.\n\nBy contrast, the Apple-Google model logged 99% of both Android mobiles and iPhones. But its distance calculations were weaker.\n\nIn some instances, it could not differentiate between a phone in a user's pocket 1m (3.3ft) away and a phone in a user's hand 3m (9.8ft) away.\n\nAt the Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock suggested the original plan might have worked had it not been for Apple's restrictions on third-party apps' use of Bluetooth.\n\nMr Hancock said he would not recommend use of a contact-tracing app \"unless I'm confident in it\"\n\n\"Apple software prevents iPhones being used effectively for contact tracing unless you're using Apple's own technology,\" he said.\n\n\"Our app won't work because Apple won't change that system... and their app can't measure distance well enough to a standard that we are satisfied with.\n\n\"What matters is what works. Because what works will save lives.\"\n\nBaroness Harding added: \"What we've done in really rigorously testing both our own Covid-19 app and the Google-Apple version is demonstrate that none of them are working sufficiently well enough to be actually reliable to determine whether any of us should self-isolate for two weeks [and] that's true across the world.\"\n\nIn response, Google noted that it and Apple had developed an application programming interface - a set of functions and procedures for others to build on - rather than a fully-fledged app.\n\n\"We have developed an Exposure Notification API with Apple based on consultation with public health experts around the world, including in the UK, to ensure that our efforts are useful to authorities as they build their own apps to limit the spread of Covid-19, while ensuring privacy and security are central to the design,\" added a spokeswoman.\n\nThe latest developments come a day after the BBC revealed that a former Apple executive, Simon Thompson, was taking charge of the late-running project as part of Baroness Harding's team.\n\nContact-tracing apps are designed to help prevent a second wave of the coronavirus.\n\nThey work by logging when two people have been in close proximity to each other for a substantial period of time.\n\nIf one of the users is later diagnosed as having the disease, an alert can be sent to others they have recently been close to, telling them that they should also get tested and/or self-isolate.\n\nThe UK's previous \"centralised\" design carried out the contact-matches on a remote server.\n\nThe Apple-Google model carries the process out on the handsets themselves, making it more difficult for the authorities or potentially hackers to de-anonymise the records and use them for other means.\n\nOne advantage of the switch - if deployed - is that the NHS Covid-19 app would be able to overcome a limitation of iPhones and carry out Bluetooth \"handshakes\" when the software is running in the background.\n\nAnother is that it should be easier to make the app compatible with other countries' counterparts, which are based on the same system - including the Republic of Ireland and Germany.\n\nEarlier in the week, the European Commission said that France - which had adopted a centralised app - would face challenges in this regard.\n\n\"This is a welcome, if a heavily and unnecessarily delayed, move,\" commented Dr Michael Veale from the DP3T group, which promotes the decentralised model.\n\n\"The Google-Apple system in a way is home-grown: originating with research at a large consortium of universities led by Switzerland and including UCL in the UK.\"\n\nHe added that developers should be able to adapt code already being used by Germany and Switzerland if required.\n\nIf Baroness Harding decides the Apple-Google tech is never good enough to roll out, then another alternative might be a system based on wearable tech.\n\nSingapore recently ordered 300,000 dongles to test as an alternative. Rather than uploading data over the internet, users will physically hand them over if they test positive for the virus, allowing recent contacts to be flagged.\n\nBaroness Harding's team is monitoring it and other innovations, but for now intends to focus on manual contact tracing carried out by humans.\n\nWhile the government is still set to launch an app of some kind across England, health is a devolved issue.\n\nAs a consequence, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales have still to commit to the initiative.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the UK government to gather the information we need on data integration, technical information and overall timescales before making any decisions on whether or not to support its use,\" a spokesman for the Scottish government told the BBC.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Northern Ireland Executive added: \"People in Northern Ireland already have access to a symptom checker and advice app called Covid-19 NI, which more than 50,000 have downloaded and use regularly. This helps people to improve access to information, particularly when they have been advised to self-isolate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n• None What is contact tracing and how does it work? Video, 00:03:37What is contact tracing and how does it work?", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nSchools in Anglesey will not reopen as planned, after an outbreak of coronavirus at a meat processing factory.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters chicken factory, in Llangefni are self-isolating after 61 workers tested positive.\n\nClassrooms across Wales are due to reopen on Monday 29 June, for pupils to check in with their teachers.\n\nBut the council said the safety of children and teachers was its priority.\n\nIt comes after Public Health Wales statistics showed a growing number of positive cases of Covid-19 on Anglesey in recent days.\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said health and safety was the top priority\n\nAnglesey council leader Llinos Medi said the increasing number of cases and the outbreak at the factory had caused a \"great deal of uncertainty and concern on the island\". \"It is, of course, possible that we could see an increase in community transmission of the virus,\" she said.\n\n\"I am not, at present, willing to see classrooms reopened to Anglesey children.\" \"Given the current uncertainty, I believe that this is the right course of action, and the best decision in respect of the safety of our children, all school staff and wider communities.\"\n\nShe earlier told BBC Radio Wales the island may not be ready to reopen to visitors on 6 July - the date the Welsh Government has indicated the \"stay local\" restrictions will be lifted.\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and produces about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\nPublic Health Wales said staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, had been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and all staff would be contacted by the company for testing.\n\nMark Drakeford has said the outbreak at the factory may be to do with the \"challenges of maintaining social distance\".\n\nMeanwhile in Wrexham, 38 staff have tested positive at Rowan Foods, which supplies supermarkets.\n\nThe company, which employs 1,500 people, said 38 staff were \"absent due to testing positive for Covid-19\", but said there was \"no clear evidence to suggest that there is a spread of the virus within the site\".\n\nPublic Health Wales said an outbreak \"has not been declared at the site\", and investigations were ongoing as to the \"possible cause of the cluster, and no firm conclusions can be reached at this early stage\".\n\nAn army testing unit is being set up in Wrexham to help test workers for Covid-19.\n\nStaff at Rowan Foods in Wrexham, which makes ready meals, have also tested positive\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said the virus at the Anglesey factory was down to its internal organisation, but it had been brought into the Wrexham factory.\n\n2 Sisters said it had no agency workers at the Llangefni plant, and \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business.\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"\n\nMr Drakeford told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"What we're being told is that there's a different explanation in Wrexham and a different explanation on the island of Anglesey.\n\n\"On Anglesey, we think it may be to do with the internal organisation of the factory and the challenges of maintaining social distance.\n\n\"In Wrexham, so far the science is saying that wasn't the cause, it's not internal to the factory. It's just that the disease was brought in by people who would become infected outside the factory so there's not just one explanation for both.\"\n\nHe said ministers did not believe the Wrexham factory had found social distancing a challenge.\n\nIn Wales, employers are required by law to do everything they can to make sure workers can socially distance while in the workplace, or face a fine of up to £120.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said it was \"very unlikely you can catch coronavirus from food\" as the virus is a respiratory illness.\n\nVirginia Crosbie won the seat of Anglesey in December's general election\n\nAnglesey MP Virginia Crosbie said she was \"hugely concerned\" by what had happened at 2 Sisters.\n\n\"This situation highlights the risks faced by people working in this sector and we should all be hugely grateful for the contribution that the 2 Sisters employees have made, and the courage that they have demonstrated, in supporting the fight against Covid-19,\" she said.\n\nShe said she was liaising with the management at the plant to ensure that \"none of the workers are left without pay during the duration of the plant's closure\".\n\nAnywhere cold, damp and indoors is an ideal environment for the coronavirus to thrive.\n\nIt survives best on cool surfaces, especially if there's no dry breeze to get rid of the moisture or any ultraviolet light from the sun to kill it off.\n\nAdd to that the challenges of social distancing on a busy production line, together with loud machinery forcing staff to raise their voices.\n\nResearchers know that situations where people sing - or have to shout - increases the chances of them projecting the virus to others nearby.\n\nAccording to Prof Calum Semple, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Liverpool, and an adviser to the government, meat processing plants can be \"a perfect environment for the virus to persist on surfaces and in the air.\"", "Companies that benefited from slavery must go further than apologising, the chairman of the Caribbean Reparations Commission has said.\n\nMany British and European firms and their predecessors \"drank from the well of Caribbean slavery\", said Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles in a Reuters interview.\n\nThe comments came as several financial institutions apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nHe called on British firms to fund development projects in the Caribbean.\n\n\"Unfortunately, one cannot go back and remake the history but you can make atonement: it is not enough to make your apology as a public spectacle, it is not enough to present it as public relations exercise,\" said Prof. Beckles, who is vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies.\n\nThe historian added that British institutions should sit down with Caribbean nations to fund development projects. Alternatively, they could consider a type of \"Marshall Plan\" - a reference to the US aid given to Europe after World War Two.\n\n\"All the institutions that created this mess really have to come and help in practical ways to clean it up,\" he said.\n\nThe Bank of England and the Church of England have apologised for the role that some of their senior figures played in the slave trade. The Daily Telegraph, which first reported the news, said the Church called its links a \"source of shame\".\n\nThe Bank said it would ensure that images of former governors who were involved in the slave trade are not displayed in its buildings.\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\n\"Racism - the ideology used to justify slavery - is a legacy that still shapes the life chances for people of African and Caribbean heritage in the UK,\" said Dr Katie Donington, a senior lecturer in history at the London South Bank University.\n\n\"It is an important step that firms with historical links to trans-Atlantic slavery are now beginning the process of acknowledging the past.\"\n\nIn 2006, the Church voted to apologise to the descendants of victims of the slave trade.\n\nIts missionary arm, the Society for the Propagation of the Christian Religion in Foreign Parts (SPG), inherited three sugar estates in the Caribbean.\n\nThe plantation was run for the Church by professional planters, but its profits went to the missionary group. Slaves working on the estate were branded on their chests with the word \"society\".\n\nAnd now, the Telegraph has reported that nearly 100 clergymen also benefitted individually from slavery.\n\n\"While we recognise the leading role clergy and active members of the Church of England played in securing the abolition of slavery, it is a source of shame that others within the Church actively perpetrated slavery and profited from it,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nWhen slavery was abolished in 1833, the UK government raised huge amounts for compensation. However, that money was not paid to those who had been enslaved, but was given instead to slave-owners for their \"loss of human property\".\n\nA database compiled by University College London shows that at least 11 former Bank governors and 16 early directors either benefitted from those payments or had links to the slave trade.\n\n\"There can be no doubt that the 18th and 19th Century slave trade was an unacceptable part of English history,\" a Bank spokeswoman said.\n\n\"As an institution, the Bank of England was never itself directly involved in the slave trade, but is aware of some inexcusable connections involving former governors and directors and apologises for them.\"\n\nShe said the Bank had started a \"thorough review\" of its image collection to ensure no pictures of anyone involved in the slave trade remained on display.\n\nPressure has been growing on companies around the world to address links to slavery and tackle racial inequality following the death of George Floyd in the US last month while in police custody.\n\nVideos showed Mr Floyd, who was unarmed and in handcuffs, dying after a white policeman knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nOn Wednesday, pub chain Greene King and insurance market Lloyd's of London also apologised for their historical links to the slave trade.\n\nOne of Greene King's founders owned a number of plantations in the Caribbean, while the maritime insurance business, which centred around Lloyd's, thrived on the trans-Atlantic slave trade.", "The furlough scheme means the government is paying the wages of more than 6.3 million people\n\nThe UK's debt is now worth more than its economy after the government borrowed a record amount in May.\n\nThe £55.2bn figure was nine times higher than in May last year and the highest since records began in 1993.\n\nThe borrowing splurge sent total government debt surging to £1.95trn, exceeding the size of the economy for the first time in more than 50 years.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures confirmed the severe impact the virus was having on public finances.\n\n\"The best way to restore our public finances to a more sustainable footing is to safely reopen our economy so people can return to work.\n\n\"We've set out our plan to do this in a gradual and safe fashion, including reopening high streets across the country this week, as we kickstart our economic recovery,\" he added.\n\nIncome from tax, National Insurance and VAT all dived in May amid the coronavirus lockdown as spending on support measures soared.\n\nThis is the first time debt has been larger than the size of the economy since 1963, but it is not as high as the post-war peak of 258% in 1946-47.\n\nThe deficit - the difference between spending and tax income - for the first two months of the financial year (April and May) is now estimated to have been £103.7bn, £87bn more than in the same period last year, another record.\n\nBut the ONS estimates borrowing for the 2020-21 financial year will dwarf that at £298bn. That would be the largest deficit since World War Two.\n\nIt cautioned that due to the coronavirus, its official estimates were subject to greater than usual uncertainty.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics had previously said that April's borrowing figure was the highest since records began in 1993, but it subsequently revised the figure down to £48.5bn from £62bn.\n\nThe revision was due to higher than expected income from taxes and national insurance, as well as the spending on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme being lower than originally estimated.\n\nAlex Tuckett, senior economist at consultants PwC, pointed to the 46% fall in the amount of VAT collected in the month, although it said the biggest issue for the government's finances was the £29bn it spent on the various support schemes for the economy.\n\n\"In the near term, there are signs the economy is recovering as the country re-opens, and this should boost tax receipts.\n\n\"However, these figures remind us that Chancellor Rishi Sunak faces a difficult backdrop to any summer fiscal event.\"\n\nSamuel Tombs at Pantheon Economics said the emergency support measures had placed a \"colossal burden\" on the public finances.\n\nIn a release packed with striking figures, he singled out the fact the government had needed to raise more cash in the first two months of this fiscal year than in total in any prior 10 fiscal years.\n\nBusting the overdraft, with a borrowing figure nine times as high as a year ago is not an easy thing for any government to swallow. In his first full year as Chancellor, Rishi Sunak is on track for the biggest public sector deficit since World War Two,\n\nBut it is, he reckons, a price worth paying to prevent a bigger cost to the economy, in terms of lost jobs and output. Billions have been pumped into supporting millions of jobs, and many businesses, while, on the other side, tax receipts have plunged. Those lifelines will be wound down in the coming months, and the government can borrow cheaply on financial markets to fund them.\n\nBut what happens next? As lockdown is eased, the Treasury is watching closely, knowing the recovery may need extra support - perhaps tax cuts or more spending. That will present the government with more bills - but failing to provide more help risks an even higher cost.\n\nThe chancellor is to present some sort of statement before Parliament ceases for the summer in July - that won't be a full Budget but may contain some measures to boost the recovery. The tough choices aren't over yet.", "Outbreak accelerating 'in many parts of world' - WHO\n\nHere’s a little more on the news we brought you earlier that the World Health Organization is warning that the pandemic is entering a “new and dangerous” phase. Maria van Kerkhove, technical lead of the WHO’s Covid-19 response, told a press conference the pandemic is “accelerating in many parts of the world”. “While we have seen countries have some success in suppressing transmission and bringing transition down to a low level, every country must remain ready,” she said. Mike Ryan, the head of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme, said that some countries had managed to flatten the peak of infections without bringing them down to a very low level. \"You can see a situation in some countries where they could get a second peak now, because the disease has not been brought under control,\" he said. “The disease will then go away and reduce to a low level, and they could then get a second wave again in the autumn or later in the year.”", "Anglesey Sea Zoo and the Welsh Ape and Monkey Sanctuary have thanked people who sent donations\n\n\"You can't furlough fish\" is the reaction of one owner to help given to Wales' 30 licensed zoos since lockdown.\n\nFrankie Hobro said her frustration was when the public recognised the plight of her Anglesey Sea Zoo and fundraised to save it, but the Welsh government failed to offer specific help.\n\nA government spokesman said a \"generous package\" meant more money was available than if a special scheme was created.\n\nHe pointed to eight attractions already having accessed £350,000.\n\nBut Ms Hobro said: \"The Anglesey Sea Zoo is in a particularly untenable position, with high running costs, staffing costs and the pressure of maintaining ultimate animal welfare, with absolutely no income during closure and currently no promise of when we will be allowed to reopen for our income to return.\"\n\nMajor zoo attractions opened earlier this week in England with reports of \"unprecedented\" ticket sales, but there is still no indication when this may happen in Wales.\n\nAnglesey Sea Zoo has 40 tanks with marine life such as octopus, lobsters, seahorses, conger eels and jellyfish with running costs of £20,000 a month whether it is open or closed.\n\nAnglesey Sea Zoo has research programmes for endangered native species such as seahorses\n\nMs Hobro said it was not possible to reduce costs, as the Welsh government suggested, without \"cutting corners\" and \"sacrificing the quality of care\".\n\nMoney from a special Economic Resilience Fund (ERF) has helped it get back on track after three months of closure, and Ms Hobro described a Development Bank of Wales bounceback loan of £50,000 as a \"lifeline\".\n\nBut she accused the government of \"a total failure to appreciate the unworkable challenges we are currently facing on a daily basis\".\n\n\"We had exciting plans for the Anglesey Sea Zoo in 2020, with several fundamental changes planned across the site and the prospect of an exciting expansion project on the horizon,\" she added.\n\n\"Sadly, as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, instead we have been faced with a fight for survival.\"\n\nMs Hobro has run the Anglesey Sea Zoo for 14 years, housing species from around Britain's coast\n\nHer views were echoed by Jan Garen of the Wales Ape and Monkey Sanctuary in Abercrave, Powys, who described an \"utterly irresponsible\" and \"frankly insulting\" attitude to zoos.\n\nWhile she was able to access £10,000 from the ERF, Mrs Garen believes there has been a failure to recognise the unique challenges faced by the industry.\n\n\"It assumes all businesses are in the same boat. We have no income but our overheads are the same,\" she said.\n\n\"There should have been special funds recognising that we have to stay functioning even though we are closed.\n\n\"A cafe or pub, for example, doesn't need to be buying food and drink or pay their staff. It's not the same thing.\"\n\nThe sanctuary has 200 animals to feed and care for.\n\nThe sanctuary has mainly monkeys and apes, but also has horses, goats, pigs, wolf dogs and racoons\n\nWhile two part-time reception staff were furloughed at the start of the pandemic, the other four employees stayed on to look after the animals.\n\nShe blasted the Welsh government for sending a letter suggesting cost-cutting or collaboration work, saying mowing lawns was the only work they could stop and the individual zoos had enough on their plates to be able to help each other.\n\nAlthough the sanctuary lost £30,000 in net sales in April alone, Mrs Garen praised supporters.\n\nMore than £7,440 was raised in a raffle for which 100 prizes were donated and people have donated online.\n\nThe owner of the sanctuary said \"no animal has wanted for anything\" after the community rallied around\n\nOwners of attractions in north Wales have joined together to help raise funds for the Welsh Mountain Zoo in Colwyn Bay - which has animals including Sumatran Tigers and Snow Leopards.\n\nDenbighshire Leisure is giving free Ninja TAG games - an obstacle course on Rhyl promenade - to everyone making a donation to its official recovery fund.\n\nThe zoo's Marcia Azevedo Moreira said: \"It is incredible to see another popular attraction in the area putting something together that will help us push our plight further.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Zoos and other animal attractions in Wales have been able to access a more generous package of support through our ERF than they would have had through a sector specific scheme and several weeks before England announced their fund on 4 May.\"\n\nHe urged those that had not applied to do so and said ministers looked at the possibility of lifting restrictions during each review - the latest set to be announced on Friday.\n\nThe spokesman also pointed out Scotland and Northern Ireland have no specific fund either, and like in Wales, officials are working with zoos to identify key difficulties.", "A child who died at Sheffield Children's Hospital on Monday tested positive for Covid-19\n\nA 13-day-old baby with no known underlying health conditions has died with Covid-19, NHS England has said.\n\nThe baby is thought to be the youngest to die with the disease in the UK.\n\nIt comes as Sheffield Children's Hospital confirmed a child died on Monday after being admitted in a critical condition.\n\nThe hospital, which has not confirmed the child's age, said the victim tested positive for Covid, but the cause of death was yet to be determined.\n\nEarlier it was announced a further 62 people aged between 13 days and 96 years, who tested positive for coronavirus, had died in hospitals in England.\n\nThe 13-day-old baby was the only person under 20 years of age recorded as dying.\n\nIn a statement, Sheffield Children's Hospital, said: \"Sadly on Monday June 15, a child passed away... having been brought in to the hospital in a critical condition. Attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.\n\n\"The cause of death is not yet known. Tests have confirmed that the child had Covid-19, but it isn't yet clear if it was a contributing factor.\"\n\nPreviously, the youngest person to have died with the virus in the UK with no pre-existing health problems was Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab who was 13 and from Brixton in south London.\n\nIn May, a six-week-old child who did have underlying health conditions died.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron viewed documents and artefacts relating to General Charles de Gaulle\n\nBoris Johnson has met French President Emmanuel Macron in Downing Street to mark the 80th anniversary of a famous wartime broadcast.\n\nIn 1940, French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle used the BBC to send a radio message to Nazi-occupied France, urging people not to give up the struggle against Hitler.\n\nMr Johnson praised the \"courage and sacrifice\" of those who fought on.\n\nThe Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall welcomed Mr Macron to the UK.\n\nAnd the Red Arrows and their French counterparts, La Patrouille, performed a flypast above London to mark the occasion.\n\nDuring their meeting, Mr Johnson and Mr Macron discussed post-Brexit trade arrangements between the UK and EU, with No 10 saying the prime minister \"welcomed the agreement to intensify talks in July\".\n\nThe air display flew directly over Westminster and the recently-uncovered Winston Churchill statue\n\nA spokesperson added that he had restated that the UK \"does not believe it makes sense for there to be prolonged negotiations into the autumn\". The \"transition period\" - during which the UK remains in the EU single market and customs union - is due to finish at the end of the year.\n\nThe two leaders also talked about easing the 14-day coronavirus quarantine measures in place for visitors to - and UK citizens returning to - the UK.\n\nMr Macron was exempt from the requirements, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nThe Red Arrows and La Patrouille flew over Buckingham Palace\n\nIt was earlier announced that four surviving French Resistance fighters are to be appointed honorary MBEs.\n\nEdgard Tupet-Thome, 100, Daniel Bouyjou-Cordier, 99, Hubert Germain, 99, and Pierre Simonet, 98, are already members of the Order of Liberation, an honour given by France to those who played an outstanding role in freeing the country from its four-year wartime occupation.\n\nMr Macron's visit also comes after it was announced that Dame Vera Lynn, the singer dubbed the \"forces' sweetheart\" for her morale-boosting performances during World War Two, has died aged 103.\n\nSocial distancing was maintained during the French president's visit to London\n\nThe two leaders viewed artefacts and letters from General de Gaulle's time in London and from his partnership with the UK's wartime prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill.\n\nMr Johnson presented Mr Macron with a framed montage of a telegram sent from General de Gaulle to Sir Winston on VE Day, in 1945, and Sir Winston's reply.\n\nHe also gave him a model of Sir Winston's open-top Land Rover and a photograph of General de Gaulle in Paris, shortly after the city's liberation from German forces in 1944.\n\nIt was 80 years ago that General Charles de Gaulle broadcast a historic message from London to his fellow countrymen imploring them not to give up the fight against Hitler.\n\nFrance was on its knees at the time, German troops having entered Paris four days earlier, and on the verge of agreeing an armistice confirming its formal military surrender.\n\nIn the message, broadcast in French, De Gaulle said: \"Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.\"\n\nTransmitted on the BBC's French Service, the broadcast was not recorded and relatively few people in France heard it.\n\nBut a similar broadcast four days later on the same network reached a wider audience and went a long way to establishing de Gaulle as his country's leader in-exile.\n\nThe 18th June 1940 remains one of the most important dates in UK-French history and still has enormous resonance on both sides of the channel.\n\nAfter the fall of France, General de Gaulle made a speech from London 18 June 1940. Known as the \"Appel\", or appeal, it rallied the country in support of the Resistance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When she was 21, Olivia Jordan found herself driving French resistance leader Charles de Gaulle around London\n\nMr Macron, speaking next to General de Gaulle's statue in Carlton Gardens, in central London, said: \"This is where de Gaulle was able to call on the French people to join the Resistance, the soldiers of the shadows.\n\n\"Because 80 years ago today, on June 18 1940, the United Kingdom gave Free France its first weapon, a BBC microphone.\"\n\nEmmanuel Macron laid a wreath at the statue of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother\n\nMr Johnson said General de Gaulle had arrived in 1940 knowing that Britain and France's shared values of \"freedom, tolerance and democracy\" were under threat and pledging to defend them.\n\n\"The struggles we face today are different to those we confronted together 80 years ago. But I have no doubt that - working side by side - the UK and France will continue to rise to every new challenge and seize every opportunity that lies ahead,\" he said.", "A large proportion of NHS doctors are from an ethnic minority background\n\nSouth Asian people are the most likely to die from coronavirus after being admitted to hospital in Great Britain, major analysis shows.\n\nIt is the only ethnic group to have a raised risk of death in hospital and is partly due to high levels of diabetes.\n\nThe study is hugely significant as it assessed data from four-in-10 of all hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe researchers said policies such as protecting people at work and who gets a vaccine may now need to change.\n\nTwenty-seven institutions across the UK, including universities and public health bodies, as well as 260 hospitals, were involved in the study.\n\nThe findings have been made public online ahead of being formally published in a medical journal.\n\nHowever, the results were passed onto the UK government's scientific advisory group - Sage - more than a month ago.\n\nThe study tells us only what happens once somebody is admitted to hospital, not whether they were more likely to catch the virus.\n\nIt looked at nearly 35,000 Covid-19 patients in 260 hospitals across England, Scotland and Wales up until the middle of May.\n\n\"South Asians are definitely more likely to die from Covid-19 in hospital, but we don't see a strong effect in the black group,\" Prof Ewen Harrison, from the University of Edinburgh, told the BBC.\n\nPeople from South Asian backgrounds were 20% more likely to die than white people. Other minority ethnic groups did not have a higher death rate.\n\nThe study, the largest of its type in the world, shows:\n\nThe study also reveals profound differences in who is needing hospital care based on ethnicity.\n\n\"The South Asian population in hospital looks completely different to the white population,\" Prof Harrison said.\n\nHe added: \"They're 12 years younger on average, that's a massive difference, and they tend not to have dementia, obesity or lung disease, but very high levels of diabetes.\"\n\nAround 40% of South Asian patients had either type 1 or type 2 diabetes compared with 25% of white groups.\n\nDiabetes has a dual effect of increasing the risk of infection and damaging the body's organs, which may affect the ability to survive a coronavirus infection.\n\nThis is thought to be a major factor in increasing the death rate in people of South Asian ethnicity, but the full picture has not yet been uncovered.\n\nOther explanations could include poverty or subtle genetic differences that increase the risk of serious infection, the researchers say.\n\nThe report says ethnicity may now need to be considered alongside age and other health issues when deciding who gets a vaccine if one becomes available. The same issue crops up in deciding who should be shielding and whether some people need extra protection in the workplace.\n\n\"It does have far-reaching implications that are difficult to grapple with,\" Prof Harrison told the BBC.\n\n\"Should there be a different policy for a frontline South Asian nurse to a white nurse - that's what's really tricky.\"\n\nThe study showed all ethnic minorities were more likely to need intensive care than people from white backgrounds.\n\nThis may be partly due to the disease becoming more severe. However, another factor is white people were older and sicker so ventilation in intensive care may not be an option.\n\nThe differences, however, were not about access to healthcare.\n\nThe report showed that all ethnicities arrived in hospital in roughly the same stage of Covid-19 suggesting there is no delay in getting help between ethnicities.\n\nEarlier work by Public Health England showed people of Bangladeshi heritage were dying at twice the rate of white people, while other black, Asian and minority ethnic groups had between 10% and 50% higher risk of death. Although that did not account for other factors such as occupation, health problems and obesity.\n\nMeanwhile, work by Queen Mary University of London has suggested heart disease and vitamin D levels do not explain the increased risk of coronavirus in black, Asian and minority ethnic people.\n\nBoth had been suggested as potential explanations for the greater risk in some groups.\n\nThe researchers used data from the UK Biobank study. It is following people throughout their lives, including during the pandemic, and has detailed personal and medical information on people taking part.\n\nIt did not look at deaths, rather who was testing positive for the virus in hospital.\n\nTheir study, published in the Journal of Public Health, showed weight, poverty and crowded homes all contributed to a higher chance of having the virus.\n\nResearchers Dr Zahra Raisi-Estabragh and Prof Steffen Petersen told the BBC: \"Although some of the factors we studied appeared important, none of them adequately explained the ethnicity differences.\"\n\nEven after taking them into account, people from ethnic minorities were still 59% more likely to test positive than those from white backgrounds and the reason remains unknown.\n\nDr Raisi-Estabragh and Prof Petersen added: \"This is a really important question and one that we need to address urgently.\n\n\"There are a wide range of possible explanations including sociological, economic, occupational and other biological factors such as different genetic susceptibilities that need to be considered.\"", "Apple said it did not know about a proposed \"hybrid\" version of the contact-tracing app announced by Matt Hancock\n\nApple says it did not know the UK was working on a \"hybrid\" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google.\n\nThe firm took the unusual step of saying it was also unaware of an issue regarding distance-measuring, which was flagged by Health Secretary Matt Hancock in Thursday's daily briefing.\n\nApple said it was \"difficult to understand\" the claims.\n\nDowning Street said the government had \"worked closely with Apple and Google\".\n\nIn tests carried out in the UK, there were occasions when software tools developed by Apple and Google could not differentiate between a phone in a user's pocket 1m (3.3ft) away and a phone in a user's hand 3m (9.8ft) away.\n\nDuring the briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"Measuring distance is clearly mission critical to any contact-tracing app.\"\n\nHowever, speaking to the Times, Apple said: \"It is difficult to understand what these claims are as they haven't spoken to us.\"\n\nThe firm also pointed out that the tech was already either in use or intended for use in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Ireland.\n\nThe tech giant also expressed surprise that the UK was working on a new version of the contact-tracing app which incorporated the Apple-Google software tool.\n\n\"We've agreed to join forces with Google and Apple, to bring the best bits of both systems together,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\nHowever, Apple said: \"We don't know what they mean by this hybrid model. They haven't spoken to us about it.\"\n\nIt told the BBC it had nothing further to add.\n\nOn Friday, the Department of Health said the NHS's digital innovation unit had indeed discussed its ambitions with Apple.\n\n\"NHSX has been working with Google and Apple extensively since their API [application programming interface ] was made available,\" it told the BBC.\n\n\"Over the last few weeks, senior representatives from NHSX and Apple have had productive meetings to discuss both products and future direction.\n\n\"There is a commitment between the teams to work together to improve the distance measurement technology, which is integral to have a fully functioning contract-tracing app.\"\n\nThe original NHS app has now been abandoned\n\nGoogle said yesterday that it welcomed the government's announcement.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the government continued to work closely with both Apple and Google on the app, and had done so since development began.\n\n\"We've agreed with them to take forward our work on estimating distance through the app that we've developed and work to incorporate that into their app,\" he said.\n\nApple and Google have not created an app.\n\nWhat they have built is a software tool which enables contact-tracing apps to work more smoothly with both iPhones and Android devices, but which does not store any data centrally.\n\nThe UK wanted to store the data as it argued it would be useful for scientists tracking the spread of Covid-19.\n\nDr David Bonsall from Oxford University, who is an adviser to the NHS app developers, told the BBC the tech giant had made a choice not to support the UK's original model.\n\n\"Ultimately, a decision was taken by Apple to not support the centralised system that had been in development by the UK from March, and six weeks before they announced their own system under a decentralised model,\" he said.\n\n\"And that has got to be considered in our reflection on the situation that the UK now faces.\"\n\nThe now-abandoned NHS app was tested on the Isle of Wight where it was downloaded more than 50,000 times.\n\nHowever, it registered only about 4% of the iPhones that were nearby.\n\nIslanders have now been asked to delete it.\n\nIt's not the first time the government has clashed with Apple over an app - in 2018 an app built to help EU citizens apply to remain in the UK after Brexit was also found to not work properly on iPhones.\n\nOn that occasion Apple did eventually agree to make the necessary changes to its system.", "The Queen and Dame Vera, pictured in 1992, were both key UK figures during World War Two\n\nThe Queen, Prince Charles and Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney are among those who have paid respects to Dame Vera Lynn, who has died aged 103.\n\nForces' Sweetheart Dame Vera, whose songs helped raise morale in World War Two, was best known for her wartime anthem We'll Meet Again.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the Queen will send private condolences to the singer's family.\n\nVirginia Lewis-Jones said during a BBC One special on Thursday evening: \"We as a family are very sad that my mother is no longer with us and this programme is a tribute to her wonderful life and her fantastic career.\n\n\"She touched so many people's lives and we are very, very proud of her.\"\n\nSir Paul tweeted after the programme to describe Dame Vera as \"strong and inspiring\".\n\n\"I am so sad to hear of her passing but at the same time so glad to have met her and experienced first-hand her warm, fun-loving personality. Her voice will sing in my heart forever,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nClarence House shared images of the singer meeting Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall and receiving her honour at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Clarence House This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Queen previously echoed Dame Vera's famous WW2 anthem during a speech to Britons who were separated from families and friends during the coronavirus lockdown in April.\n\nShe told the nation: \"We will be with our friends again, we will be with our families again, we will meet again.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said Dame Vera's \"charm and magical voice entranced and uplifted our country in some of our darkest hours\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said: \"Her songs still speak to the nation in 2020 just as they did in 1940.\"\n\nBBC director general Lord Hall said: \"What sad news. Not only was she dear to many, she was a symbol of hope during the war and is a part of our national story.\n\n\"She demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times. Something that will resonate with many people today.\"\n\nDame Vera's family said they were \"deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain's best-loved entertainers\".\n\nIn a statement, they confirmed she died on Thursday morning surrounded by her close relatives.\n\nWW2 veteran Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised more than £32m for NHS charities during the coronavirus lockdown, said: \"I really thought Vera Lynn would live longer, she's been speaking so well on TV recently.\n\n\"She had a huge impact on me in Burma and remained important to me throughout my life.\"\n\nSir Cliff Richard, who performed with her on the 50th anniversary of VE Day in 1995, said she was \"a great singer, a patriotic woman and a genuine icon\".\n\nHe recalled his \"best, and favourite, memory\" of sharing a stage with her in front of Buckingham Palace that year.\n\n\"We walked to the stage through a crowd of survivors of that war, and they were reaching out to touch and get a smile from Vera,\" he remembered.\n\n\"I heard the words... 'God bless you' ... 'Thank you' ... 'We love you' for their very own Forces' Sweetheart! A great singer, a patriotic woman and a genuine icon.\n\nKatherine Jenkins, whose virtual duet was seen on the recent 75th VE Day anniversary, said Dame Vera's voice \"brought comfort to millions\".\n\n\"It was she who chose the sentiments of her songs - she knew instinctively what people needed to hear, how to rally the morale and her spirit and strength created the soundtrack of a generation,\" she added.\n\nMichael Ball said she was \"an inspiration to us all\", adding: \"We shall never see her like again.\"\n\nHe wrote that \"her talent was so very rare and special\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michael Ball OBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlfie Boe, one of the younger generation of singers who appeared on an album released for Dame Vera's 100th birthday in 2017, said: \"It was a real pleasure to sing with her - an honour I will treasure forever.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Alfie Boe OBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAled Jones, who also appeared on that album, echoed those sentiments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by Aled Jones This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActress and singer Sheridan Smith, who performed Dame Vera's anthem We'll Meet Again for the 75th anniversary of D-Day last year, told BBC Radio 5 Live her music is \"so relevant today, just as it was back then\".\n\n\"She boosted morale with her music and brought the nation together though music, and it's been very relevant recently. A lot of people have been using it again at this strange time,\" Smith said. \"She'll never be forgotten. Her music lives on.\"\n\nDame Vera was able to \"move everybody in the country\", Lesley Garrett said\n\nLesley Garrett told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that Dame Vera was \"still able to stir us\" until late in life.\n\n\"She had the ability to communicate to an extraordinary degree, and there was nobody who she didn't touch,\" she said.\n\n\"She had the ability to move everybody in the country - royalty, politicians, you name it, she was an inspiration to them.\"\n\nLyricist Sir Tim Rice also paid tribute, saying: \"Dame Vera Lynn was one of the greatest ever British popular singers, not just because of her immaculate voice, warm, sincere, instantly recognisable and musically flawless.\n\n\"She will be remembered just as affectionately for her vital work in the Second World War and for her own Charitable Foundations in the 75 years since. A link with more certain times has been irrevocably broken.\"\n\nBBC director general Tony Hall said she \"demonstrated how music and entertainment can bring joy in the most challenging times\".\n\nBBC Radio 2 will repeat a special edition of The People's Songs about We'll Meet Again at 21:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nurses' leaders want all healthcare employers - including the NHS - to \"care for those who have been caring\" during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is calling for better risk assessments; working patterns and mental health care for those on the front line.\n\nIt warns many may be suffering from exhaustion, anxiety and other psychological problems.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said support was a \"top priority\".\n\nThe RCN has released an eight-point plan of commitments it wants to see enforced to mark the 100 days since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic.\n\nAmongst its suggestions are a better Covid-19 testing regime for healthcare workers and more attention paid to the risks posed to ethnic minority nurses.\n\nIt says employers and ministers \"must tackle the underlying causes which have contributed to worse outcomes for Bame staff\".\n\nThe RCN also wants a commitment that no nurses will be pressured into working if they do not feel they have the right personal protective equipment for their jobs.\n\nAnd it wants more done too to avoid long shifts and excess hours as well as measures to protect annual leave and work breaks.\n\nAbove all, the union is asking for proper funding for the mental health counselling that may be needed to support staff who've had traumatic experiences on Covid-19 wards and in care homes.\n\nIt points out even those who work in other areas may be affected by work-related stress as backlogs from disrupted services mount up.\n\nLast month, an Icon/ King's College London survey of members of the nursing and midwifery workforce found that 88% continue to worry about risks to family members during the pandemic.\n\nRespondents also reported ongoing depression, anxiety, stress and emerging signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, the RCN's general secretary, said: \"The weekly clapping may have stopped, but the practical measures needed to fully support our health care staff are only just beginning.\n\n\"It is vital that our governments and employers, including the NHS, take steps now to protect our health and social care services and staff, who have done such remarkable work at a time of crisis.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said the whole country recognised the \"bravery of everyone working on the frontline of this unprecedented global pandemic\" and it would \"continue to do everything we can to support them, including ensuring that their mental health and wellbeing is a top priority\".\n\nIt said all NHS staff have free access to helplines and wellbeing apps, and urged anyone struggling to call them, or speak to a colleague or their occupational health team.\n\nDuring the peak of the epidemic in the UK, many commentators said there should be a \"never again\" approach to the health service and social care sector - similar to the founding of the welfare state following WW2.\n\nBut the medical professional bodies worry that society will return normal without the support they say is crucial for healthcare staff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A series of drive-in concerts have been announced to take place across the UK this summer.\n\nGary Numan is among the acts announced by Live Nation, presumably so he can belt out his hit 'Cars' to a crowd full of them.\n\nWhat will the experience be like for those driving up to watch acts like Beverly Knight, Sigala, and Jack Savoretti?\n\nDrive-in concerts have already been tried out in Denmark, Germany and the US.", "A 90-year-old woman is on the verge of completing a two-month fundraising effort for NHS charities by climbing the equivalent of Highland mountain Suilven - 731m (2,398ft) - on her stairs.\n\nMargaret Payne said on Friday she has seven of the 282 trips upstairs at her Sutherland home remaining.\n\n\"I hope to do two more today, and I average between two and four a day as a rule,\" she told BBC Radio Scotland.\n\nInspired by Army veteran Captain Tom Moore's 100 laps of his garden, she began her own mission on Easter Sunday, 12 April, and has so far raised around £418,000 , including gift aid.\n\nMrs Payne, from Ardvar, first climbed Suilven, in the west of Sutherland, aged 15, in 1944, and said it is the only mountain she has climbed to the top of.\n\nHer daughter, Nicola, said her mother's effort was \"absolutely amazing\".\n\n\"Mum has got fitter, she is sleeping and eating well, and she has stuck at it,\" she added. \"The whole family is really proud.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC revisits Lombardy, the site of Europe's first major outbreak of coronavirus, to ask what went wrong\n\nItalian scientists say sewage water from two cities contained coronavirus traces in December, long before the country's first confirmed cases.\n\nThe National Institute of Health (ISS) said water from Milan and Turin showed genetic virus traces on 18 December.\n\nIt adds to evidence from other countries that the virus may have been circulating much earlier than thought.\n\nChinese officials confirmed the first cases at the end of December. Italy's first case was in mid-February.\n\nIn May French scientists said tests on samples showed a patient treated for suspected pneumonia near Paris on 27 December actually had the coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile in Spain a study found virus traces in waste water collected in mid-January in Barcelona, some 40 days before the first local case was discovered.\n\nIn their study, ISS scientists examined 40 sewage samples collected from wastewater treatment plants in northern Italy between last October and February.\n\nSamples from October and November came back negative, showing that the virus had not yet arrived, ISS water quality expert Giuseppina La Rosa said. Waste water from Bologna began showing traces of the virus in January.\n\nThe findings could help scientists understand how the virus began spreading in Italy, Ms La Rosa said.\n\nHowever she said the research did not \"automatically imply that the main transmission chains that led to the development of the epidemic in our country originated from these very first cases\".\n\nItaly's first known non-imported virus case was a patient in the town of Codogno in the Lombardy region. The town was closed off and declared a \"red zone\" on 21 February. Nine other towns in Lombardy and neighbouring Veneto followed and the entire country went into lockdown in early March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Italian grandad urging tourists to visit his beach\n\nThe ISS said the results confirmed the \"strategic importance\" of sewage water as an early detection tool because it can signal the virus's presence before cases are clinically confirmed. Many countries are now using the technique.\n\nThe institute says it aims to begin a pilot project monitoring waste water at tourist resorts in July with a view to setting up a nationwide waste water monitoring network later this year.\n\nNearly 35,000 people have died with Covid-19 in Italy, a tally from Johns Hopkins University shows.", "Controversial commentator Katie Hopkins has been permanently suspended from Twitter for violating its hateful conduct policy, the social media giant said.\n\nMs Hopkins, who had more than one million followers, was previously suspended in January for a week.\n\nBut Twitter said her latest ban is permanent.\n\nThe social network did not, however, say which tweets Ms Hopkins had posted, to result in the ban.\n\n\"Keeping Twitter safe is a top priority for us - abuse and hateful conduct have no place on our service and we will continue to take action when our rules are broken,\" it said.\n\nThe cited hateful conduct policy bans promotion of violence or direct written attacks and threats on other people, based on a wide range of personal characteristics such as race, gender or sexual orientation.\n\nMs Hopkins is well-known for both her media appearances and controversial right-wing viewpoints.\n\nShe has been re-tweeted by US President Donald Trump on several occasions.\n\nTwitter has recently taken a firmer line against Mr Trump himself over tweets it says break its policies.\n\nThe US President has seen warnings placed on some of his tweets and others hidden from general view, although they remain online.\n\nBut leaving such tweets up in the public interest is an exception Twitter makes for world leaders - other accounts like Ms Hopkins' risk being suspended when they break Twitter's rules.", "A policeman involved in the killing of an African-American woman in the US state of Kentucky will be fired, Louisville city officials have said.\n\nBreonna Taylor, 26, was shot when officers entered her flat on 13 March during a drugs investigation.\n\nMayor Greg Fischer said Brett Hankison, one of three officers involved, would lose his badge. The others have been placed on administrative leave.\n\nMs Taylor's name has become a rallying cry at global anti-racism protests.\n\nMayor Fischer did not provide more details regarding the decision to fire Mr Hankison.\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to a provision in state law that I very much would like to see changed, both the Chief and I are precluded from talking about what brought us to this moment, or even the timing of this decision,\" he said.\n\nBrett Hankison will be fired, officials say\n\nPolice suspected Ms Taylor's flat was being used to receive drugs by a gang based at a different address 10 miles (16km) away. One of the suspects was an ex-boyfriend of Ms Taylor.\n\nShe was one of three people named on the warrant, according to Louisville NBC affiliate Wave 3.\n\nBut Ms Taylor was not the main subject of the investigation, the city's Courier-Journal newspaper reports.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Hankison published by the Courier-Journal, Louisville Police interim chief Robert Schroeder wrote that his conduct was \"a shock to the conscience\" that \"demands your termination\".\n\nMr Hankison is accused of \"blindly\" firing 10 rounds into Ms Taylor's apartment, displaying \"an extreme indifference to the value of human life\".\n\n\"I am alarmed and stunned you used deadly force in this fashion,\" Mr Schroeder added.\n\n\"The result of your action seriously impedes the department's goal of providing the citizens of our city with the most professional law enforcement agency possible. I cannot tolerate this type of conduct by any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department.\"\n\nAttorneys for Ms Taylor's family said they want to see the other officers fired as well.\n\n\"We also look forward to these officers being prosecuted for their roles in her untimely death.\"\n\nShortly after midnight on 13 March, Mr Hankison, along with officers Jon Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, entered Ms Taylor's apartment by executing a no-knock search warrant - a court document that authorises police to enter a home without permission. Ms Taylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were reportedly asleep as the commotion began.\n\nPolice said they knocked before using a battering ram to enter the home, though this account has been disputed by Ms Taylor's family and a neighbour.\n\nThe officers exchanged fire with Mr Walker, a licensed gun owner who called 911 in the belief that the drug raid was a burglary. The officers - who fired more than 25 bullets - said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded.\n\nDuring the exchange, Ms Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was shot eight times. She died on her hallway floor.\n\nMr Walker surrendered and was arrested on charges of attempted murder of a police officer.\n\nA lawsuit filed by Ms Taylor's family accuses the officers of battery, wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence.\n\nNo drugs were found in the property. The lawsuit also says the officers were not looking for her or her partner, but for an unrelated suspect who did not live in the complex.\n\nLast week, Louisville's city council voted unanimously in favour of banning no-knock warrants. Similar legislation that would ban the warrants nationwide was introduced in the US Congress.\n\nOn Sunday, pop star Beyoncé urged the Kentucky Attorney General to bring charges against the three officers involved.\n\nMs Taylor's killing was propelled into the spotlight again with the death of unarmed African-American man George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last month.", "Some primary school pupils in England began returning to classrooms at the beginning of June\n\nAll pupils in all year groups in England will go back to school full-time in September, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced.\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing, he said the government was \"signed up... to bring every child back, in every year group, in every school\".\n\nGuidance on safety measures will be published in the next fortnight.\n\nIt comes after the prime minister announced a £1bn fund to help England's pupils catch up with learning.\n\nMr Williamson also said class size limits - or \"bubbles\" - imposed to curb the spread of the virus could be increased to allow every child to return to school.\n\nUnder current rules imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, class sizes are limited to a maximum of 15 pupils, but the education secretary said ministers were looking at \"expanding those bubbles to include the whole class\".\n\nClass sizes vary in England, but this could be around 30 pupils.\n\nTeachers' unions say the proposals have not been thought through.\n\n\"There is no social distancing if you've got 30 children in one classroom,\" Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), told the BBC.\n\n\"But then you're going to ask them to abide by social distancing when they go out, I think that won't work and that will mean children aren't looking at social distancing at all.\"\n\nSchools closed to everyone except vulnerable children and those with a parent identified as a key worker on 20 March, in response to the pandemic.\n\nAs the lockdown measures started easing at the beginning of this month, children in nursery, reception, Year 1 and Year 6 were encouraged to return to primary schools in England, albeit in smaller class sizes.\n\nSome Year 10 and 12 pupils - selected because they are sitting GCSEs and A-levels respectively next summer - returned to secondary schools and colleges this week.\n\nMinisters now want all pupils in England to return to classrooms full-time in the autumn, ending a near six-month absence for many pupils.\n\n\"We have already been very clear that we want to see all children in all classes returning full-time to school in September. That's what we are working towards,\" Mr Williamson told reporters.\n\nIt is a promise that many parents will have been waiting to hear.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has committed to all school pupils in all year groups going back full-time in September.\n\nThe part-time, online, often not-really-anytime lessons will be over.\n\nBut the much trickier question will be how to deliver this.\n\nEven if social distancing is reduced - and class size \"bubbles\" of 15 pupils can be increased - there will still be massive logistical challenges.\n\nHead teachers have warned any social distancing, even 1m, will require additional classrooms and teachers.\n\nAnd they have been exasperated at time ticking away without any clear plan - with heads' leader Geoff Barton complaining schools are working in an \"information black hole\".\n\nWhen the government had to U-turn on bringing back all primary pupils it was because nobody listened to similar warnings about lack of space.\n\nBut a September deadline is now in place - and there will be high political stakes if there is another failure to deliver.\n\nThe education secretary said signs that the spread of coronavirus was reducing meant that ministers could now look at \"making sure that every child returns to school\".\n\nHe said he understood \"there is anxiety still among parents\" about their children going back to school, but stressed: \"I want to assure you that the well-being of your children is the absolute top priority for every single one of us.\"\n\nThe government will publish guidance for schools within the next two weeks on how to bring children back \"so that schools have the maximum amount of time to prepare for the next phase\", Mr Williamson said.\n\nHowever, there was no confirmation of whether the government's 2m social distancing rule was going to be relaxed in schools.\n\nMr Williamson reiterated that a review of the measure is under way, and added that could not provide an exact date for a decision.\n\nCurrent Department for Education (DfE) guidance states that primary school classes should be split in half and contain no fewer than 15 pupils, desks should be spaced as far apart as possible and lunch, break, drop-off and pick-up times should be staggered.\n\nSchools should also consider introducing one-way circulation, or placing a divider down the middle of the corridor, to keep young people apart, it adds.\n\nMr Williamson was speaking after the coronavirus alert level for the UK was downgraded from four to three, paving the way for a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nAt level four, transmission of the virus was thought to be \"high or rising exponentially\"; at three, it is thought be \"in general circulation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “We have got to start thinking of a world in which we are less apprehensive.\"\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"determined to do everything\" he could to get all children back in school from September.\n\n\"We will bring forward plans on how this will happen as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister's pledge prompted teachers' unions to call for further clarity on the proposals.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said schools and colleges were trying to prepare for September amid an \"information black hole\" from the government.\n\nMr Barton said school and college leaders were preparing for two scenarios for the autumn - using rotas to stagger the return of pupils or bringing students back full-time - amid an \"absence of information\".\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said: \"The desire to bring everyone back is correct but we need to know what the government is thinking and the scenarios they are planning for.\n\n\"This will give school communities what they need to get through this term and plan for the new academic year in September.\"\n\nMr Courtney, of the NEU, said earlier: \"The prime minister's hopes are not enough.\"\n\n\"If the requirements of social distancing - in order to stop a second peak - are reduced even to 1m, then most schools could not have 30 children in a classroom,\" he added.\n\nThe £1bn fund to help England's children catch up will see the most disadvantaged pupils gain access to tutors through a £350m programme in the year from September.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools will be given £650m to spend on one-to-one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nSchools in Wales are reopening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time, while in Scotland, schools are preparing to reopen on 11 August.\n\nSocial distancing in schools has been halved to 1m (just over 3ft) in Northern Ireland, where ministers are aiming for a full reopening of schools on 24 August.\n\nHowever, head teachers have warned that parts of the Northern Ireland plan are \"unrealistic and undeliverable\".", "Trump supporters have begun camping outside the arena\n\nOklahoma's Supreme Court has ruled that President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday in Tulsa, his first since March, can go ahead.\n\nA lawsuit to stop the 20 June event over concerns that it could increase the spread of Covid-19 in the community was filed this week.\n\nVirus cases are rising in Oklahoma, and local health officials have expressed concerns over hosting the rally.\n\nThe Trump campaign says they received over 1m ticket requests for the event.\n\nThe queue for the event at the Bank of Oklahoma Center - which seats 19,000 people - began forming earlier this week.\n\nFacing tough re-election prospects in November, the Republican president is hoping to reboot his campaign after a rocky week that has seen news of sinking opinion poll numbers, twin US Supreme Court defeats, two damning tell-all memoirs and a resurgence in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe lawsuit to cancel his rally was filed by John Hope Franklin for Reconciliation, a nonprofit organisation that promotes racial equality, and a commercial real estate company, the Greenwood Centre.\n\nThey argued the venue should mandate social distancing guidelines in accordance with US public health officials' recommendations, or cancel the event.\n\nBut the Supreme Court said that as the state had begun to reopen, the regulations left social distancing decisions up to individual business owners. Oklahoma has seen a recent spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIn response to safety concerns, the Trump campaign has said they will check attendees' temperatures and offer hand sanitiser and masks.\n\nBut people buying tickets for the Tulsa rally online also have to click on a waiver confirming they \"voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to Covid-19\" and will not hold the president's campaign responsible for \"any illness or injury\".\n\nSome of the president's supporters gathering in Tulsa have been seen wearing masks\n\nThe president himself has pushed back against guidance around masks, calling them a personal choice.\n\nIn an interview with political news outlet Axios released on Friday night, he was asked if he recommended rally attendees wear facial coverings.\n\n\"I recommend people do what they want,\" he replied.\n\nMr Trump also said: \"We're going to have a wild evening tomorrow night at Oklahoma.\"\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has said attendees will be given masks, but they will not be instructed to wear them - and told reporters on Friday that she will not be wearing one either.\n\nTulsa's health department director Dr Bruce Dart told the Tulsa World paper: \"I wish we could postpone this to a time when the virus isn't as large a concern as it is today.\"\n\nTulsa's mayor imposed a curfew on Thursday around the venue, declaring a civil emergency, but the president says the city leader has assured him the measure will not apply to the rally itself.\n\nMayor GT Bynum, a Republican, cited recent \"civil unrest\" and potential opposition protests as he slapped an exclusion zone on a six-block radius near the arena.\n\nBut on Friday afternoon, Mr Bynum said that the Secret Service had asked the city to lift the curfew.\n\n\"Last night, I enacted a curfew at the request of Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin, following consultation with the United States Secret Service based on intelligence they had received,\" the mayor said in a statement.\n\n\"Today, we were told the curfew is no longer necessary so I am rescinding it.\"\n\nThe mayor also said law enforcement had intelligence that \"individuals from organised groups who have been involved in destructive and violent behaviour in other states are planning to travel to the city of Tulsa for purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally\".\n\nMeanwhile, a high metal fence was put up to barricade the Trump rally venue.\n\nEarlier on Friday, President Trump posted a warning on Twitter to demonstrators.\n\n\"Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,\" the president tweeted.\n\n\"It will be a much different scene!\"\n\nMr Trump originally planned to hold the rally on Friday, but changed the date last week after learning it fell on Juneteenth, the celebration of the end of US slavery.\n\nThe president told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that a black Secret Service agent had told him the meaning of the anniversary.\n\nOn Friday, Ms McEnany said the president \"routinely commemorated\" the day and \"he did not just learn about Juneteenth this week\".\n\nTulsa was the site of one of the worst racial massacres in US history.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'A celebration of life. A celebration of freedom': What you need to know about Juneteenth", "Victoria Rogers says children need some degree of normality\n\nRelief that children will be kept away from school for another few months, or despair that they are losing out on education and time with their friends?\n\nWhat do parents make of the government's ditching of a plan for all primary school years in England to go back to school for four weeks before the end of term?\n\nJonathan Wills a parent from Barnton Primary in Northwich in Cheshire says families need to get back to some sort of routine.\n\n\"I think it's going to be extremely difficult for kids and some families, because it's a long time to try to recreate the structure that schools give you.\n\n\"And I think without that structure, a lot of schools and kids will struggle, particularly with the stresses of financial problems and then all the types of psychological problems.\n\n\"I think the kids that were struggling before will be struggling even more now.\"\n\nMother-of-two Victoria Rogers agrees: \"I do think children should start coming back to school, as we need to get back to some form of normality.\"\n\nJonathan Wills says many families are struggling\n\nBut elsewhere, mother-of-one Molly told the BBC she is relieved that not all primary years will be returning this term, as she would not have been prepared to send her daughter back to school.\n\n\"Until it is safe for parliament to sit next to each other and until it's 'safe' to cuddle your own blood mother, then how is it deemed safe to mix your children with numerous other households?\n\n\"But our children can be placed into school with numerous other households' children. Even at small groups of 15, how is that safe? When we are only allowed to meet up in groups of six?\n\n\"It's either dangerous to us all or it's not as dangerous as what they are making out.\n\n\"As much as my daughter needs to go back to school and the lockdown has taken its toll with her, I will not be sending her back.\n\n\"If it's this big killer, keeping us away from blood relatives, then it's not safe.\"\n\nFor some families, there is a difference of opinion even within the family.\n\nOne mother-of-three - who was expecting two of hers to return to school before the summer - told BBC Radio Four's Today programme that her children had opposing views on the matter.\n\n\"I know that one of them is going to be really disappointed at the prospect of not seeing her friends.\n\n\"That's been something she's really counting down to, even though we knew it was uncertain.\n\n\"But the boy in Year 5 will be absolutely delighted!\"\n\nAs for her, she remains ambivalent on it all: \"I feel sort of resigned to it really. I just feel sad for them that they're not going to see their friends for such a long time now.\"\n\nNigel Rowlands says his daughter is happier now she is back to school\n\nAnother mother told Today said she was \"unsurprised\" but \"incredibly disappointed\" by the news.\n\n\"I feel really sad for my son. I've got one son in year two, and another one in reception.\n\n\"My child in reception's gone back, albeit only four days a week, every other week.\n\n\"And my older son, who is just about to turn seven, is desperate to go back, can't understand, thinks it's so unfair - which it is.\n\n\"He and the school are going to have to put up with my rather inadequate home schooling, while I'm stuck at home, also with a one-and-a-half year old, trying to juggle a business and everything else.\"\n\nBut another mother, with two children aged eight and six, told Today she thought a return before the summer was too early.\n\n\"I'm actually relieved if schools don't go back until September because I think it's too soon.\n\n\"They don't socially distance at that age. I don't think there's enough protective equipment available in school.\"\n\nHowever, for Nigel Rowlands, the past few weeks have been very difficult and he is glad to have his daughter back in school.\n\n\"It's been difficult - we've been through a lot. There's no structure, learning at home is entirely different to learning at school,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I've been working from home. So we've just spent a huge amount of time together, confined within four walls with not a lot of other places to go to.\n\n\"We try to get out and do a daily walk, but that's not the same as spending all day in school with other people.\n\n\"Having her back in school now has given some of that structure back and that's reflected in her being connected with other children and you can see that in that her demeanour is completely different since she's been back in school.\"", "Education Minister Peter Weir has published new guidance setting out how schools should plan to reopen.\n\nThe New School Day guidance has been designed by the Department of Education, school leaders and partners.\n\nAmong the plans is a possible \"no bell\" strategy with flexible class times to cut pupil flow in busier schools.\n\nOn Thursday, Mr Weir announced that the 2m social distancing rule would be reduced to 1m between pupils, when schools reopen in September.\n\nThe minister said this was to allow \"full classes\" to attend school as lockdown restrictions are eased.\n\nMr Weir said his ambition remained for all pupils to resume classroom-based learning \"as soon as it is safely possible to do so\". He told BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback programme the direct threat to young people from coronavirus was extremely low, while their continued absence from school was damaging.\n\nHe said he appreciated the stresses felt by teachers, parents and pupils during a time of disruption and uncertainty.\n\n\"Although our overall approach to managing the Covid-19 virus must rightly remain cautious, today is a positive step forward in providing a road map to plan for the reopening of schools in two months' time,\" he said.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said expectations needed to be managed about the reopening of schools.\n\nIts vice president, Graham Gault, said comments by First Minister Arlene Foster on Thursday - that the executive wanted \"to get everybody back to school in September\" - were unrealistic and undeliverable.\n\nGraham Gault said he did not have the teaching staff to take pupils to neighbouring non-school buildings\n\nMr Gault the principal of Maghaberry Primary School, said this would need \"very drastic changes\", as even with the 1m distancing rule his classrooms would only be able to cater for 15 pupils at one time rather than the usual 30.\n\nAlthough great progress had been made in talks between trade unions and the education department on how to manage school numbers safely, Mr Gault rejected the first minister's suggestion that schools should use extra spaces, such as assembly and dining halls, for teaching - saying these comments \"stopped (him) from sleeping last night\".\n\nMeanwhile, Nicola Sturgeon said the Scottish government was looking carefully at Northern Ireland's decision to reduce physical distancing in schools, saying she had been advised 2m distancing was required to inhibit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe Scottish government's current plan is for all schools to reopen on 11 August, but with elements of remote learning.\n\nMany pupils in only part-time, and staggered start and finishes to the school day.\n\nOne way corridors, small group 'bubbles, maybe even no schoolbags or school bells.\n\nWhen children return in September their experience of school is set to be very different.\n\nBut the Department of Education wants to get as many pupils as possible back in class for as much time as possible, an aspiration shared by school leaders and their staff.\n\nThe guidance will help, but many difficult decisions will still be left at the door of principals.\n\nSome schools may be able to get all pupils in full-time, but many won't and that will lead to headaches for parents.\n\nAnd specific guidance on the complex tasks of opening special schools - and how to provide school meals and school transport - has yet to be published.\n\nJulie Thomas, principal of Clandeboye Primary School in Bangor, welcomed the reduction in the social distancing guidelines but said it was important not to over-promise parents what schools might be able to deliver in the new academic year.\n\nMethodist College Belfast Principal Scott Naismith echoed that sentiment, saying Mr Weir had been overly optimistic.\n\nWhile favourable pupil-staff ratios and accommodation meant Methody's preparatory school could get all the pupils back full-time from August, complexities in the senior school meant only half its pupils could be safely accommodated at one time.", "The founder of the pub chain Oakman Inns has vowed to reopen all of its sites on 4 July even if the government has not relaxed restrictions.\n\n\"We cannot wait for the government to make a decision,\" Peter Borg-Neal wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe government has said pubs would not be able to reopen until July at the earliest under lockdown measures.\n\nBut it has not yet given a definitive date for reopening pubs, despite pressure from the industry.\n\nMr Borg-Neal's vow came as the British pubs' trade body demanded a definitive date so that staff could prepare.\n\nBut some health experts fear that opening venues such as pubs or restaurants too early could increase the number of coronavirus cases, especially as outbreaks reoccur in countries such as China.\n\n\"To open without proper forward planning would also be wrong,\" Mr Borg-Neal wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Borg-Neal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe later told the BBC: \"I'm not trying to be some reckless rebel.\n\n\"We need to plan ahead, get staff off furlough, remove furniture, install hand-washing stations, change layouts in pubs,\" he said. \"You can't just give us a couple of days' notice and expect us to open safely.\"\n\nHe added: \"We would not open unless we thought it was 100%-safe to do so.\"\n\nOakman Inns told the BBC that it had not yet received a response from the government following the announcement.\n\n\"If they wanted to stop us, they could threaten a licensing review, in which they would need to show that we have broken licensing laws. I do intend to seek legal advice on this,\" Mr Borg-Neal said.\n\n\"In a conflict situation we might not open all of our pubs immediately, I could just open one or two to see what they do.\"\n\nOn 21 March, the government brought in regulations requiring pubs, cafes and restaurants to stop serving customers food and drink for consumption on the premises.\n\nMr Borg-Neal said he would have no choice but to open regardless in July, whether the regulations were still in force or not.\n\n\"We can hang around and definitely go bust, or open and see if they destroy us,\" he said.\n\nOakman Inns and Restaurants has 25 pubs spread over the south of England and the Midlands, with plans to open three more.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has not responded to a request for comment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A pub near Milton Keynes has been testing a possible post-lockdown system\n\nOn Thursday, the British Beer and Pub Association set out demands in a letter calling for a definitive opening date from the government by Friday.\n\n\"Without this certainty by the end of this week, many businesses in the sector will be forced to cut costs to ensure their survival through the extended period of financial uncertainty,\" it said.\n\n\"This could result in hundreds of thousands of job losses and permanent pub closures.\"\n\nIt said that pubs and beer businesses are \"burning through £100m every month in cash while they remain closed\".\n\n\"These costs... could tip many pubs over the edge unless they are given clarity and confidence on when exactly they can reopen,\" it said.\n\nOther pub bosses also joined in the call for clarity.\n\nMark Davies, chief executive of the Hawthorn Leisure chain, said: \"Our pubs are part of the social fabric of their communities, but there's so much our partners need to do to get ready for reopening, from bringing staff off furlough, to adopting new health and hygiene protocols and implementing social distance measures, not to mention getting beer into their pubs from suppliers.\n\n\"If we're to stand any chance of getting the Great British pub open by 4 July, it's imperative that the government provides clear guidance by Friday at the absolute latest.\"", "Lord Carloway said he would not contemplate any measure that might compromise the basic principle of a fair trial\n\nScotland's most senior judge has called for new legislation to help address the growing backlog of court cases.\n\nThe Lord President, Lord Carloway, said measures proposed so far had simply been \"tinkering at the edges\" of a major problem.\n\nHe warned that if things continued as they had been, there could be a backlog of 3,000 jury trials in the high and sheriff courts by next March.\n\nSome cases have now resumed but social distancing has reduced capacity to 30%.\n\nThe Scottish government said a working group had been set up to consider the practical and operational requirements needed to resume jury trials and that it was working to explore options.\n\nIn a strongly-worded statement, Lord Carloway paid tribute to the court service for the speed at which it had developed digitally-based techniques of working, but he said new legislation was needed.\n\nHe said that while progress had been made in conducting civil cases and non-jury trials remotely, proceedings that required a jury had proved more difficult.\n\n\"This is not the time for a defence of tradition,\" he said. \"The cry of 'it's aye been' cannot prevail. We have to seize the momentum and opportunity to respond to the particular challenge.\"\n\nThe first jury citations since March have now been issued, but jurors will have to sit in more than one courtroom to observe the proceedings.\n\nLord Carloway said this would reduce trial capacity to 30% of normal,\n\n\"We need to stop thinking about tinkering at the edges,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a keenness across the justice sector to find ways to address the serious backlog of solemn cases. I have been absolutely clear that I will not contemplate any measure to aid recovery which might compromise the basic principle of a fair trial.\n\n\"The fact remains, however, that the requirements, for physical distancing and self-isolation in order to protect public health, are extraordinary inhibitors on the conduct of all kinds of court business.\"\n\nVideo technology is expected to be used increasingly in Scottish courts\n\nHe said he had \"no doubt\" that legislation would be needed to address some of the technical constraints.\n\n\"None of the measures proposed by others have so far come close to offering practical answers to what are real difficulties,\" he said.\n\n\"They are simply tinkering at the margins of a major problem which, as long as social distancing and self-isolation are in place, requires a political solution.\"\n\nLady Dorrian, the Lord Justice Clerk, is currently leading a working group on restarting jury trials.\n\nOne option being considered is reducing the size of juries from 15 people in order to enable social distancing.\n\nMargaret Mitchell, chairwoman of Holyrood's justice committee, said: \"In such unprecedented times it is important that we continue to be open minded to innovative suggestions and not limit ourselves to bitesize change.\n\n\"This will require looking more broadly at the system, with the aim of ensuring justice is carried out swiftly and effectively and of course with the necessary safety measures in place.\n\n\"The committee stands ready to play its role in this whether through legislation or other options such as the use of other appropriate venues for trials.\"\n\nThe Scottish government said: \"The difficult but necessary decisions taken by the courts in order to protect public health have inevitably led to a backlog of cases.\n\n\"As the Lord President makes clear, we must aim to remain dynamic and agile, and continue to embrace new technologies for the longer term, for a resilient, modern justice system.\n\n\"A judicial-led working group, chaired by the Lord Justice Clerk, is reviewing the practical and operational requirements for resuming jury trials while complying with physical distancing rules.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We welcome the pragmatic approach taken by all partners and we are currently considering operational and legislative options, such as sentencing powers for sheriffs, which can be agreed to help to address the backlog and mitigate its impacts.\"", "A woman whose hospital bed appeal for others to obey lockdown rules went viral has given birth.\n\nKaren Mannering, from Herne Bay, Kent, was six months pregnant when she contracted Covid-19. She was hospitalised and developed pneumonia in both lungs.\n\nNow recovered, Ms Mannering told the BBC: \"I just wanted everyone to know it's not a joke, take it seriously\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba returned to action for first time since 26 December to win the late penalty that earned Manchester United a crucial point at Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nPogba, who had not played for almost six months because of an ankle injury that needed surgery, emerged as a second-half substitute and demonstrated he has the creativity to make a difference as United battle for a place in the top four.\n\nUnited keeper David de Gea was badly at fault when he failed to stop Steven Bergwijn's powerful 27th-minute drive, so there was relief all-round for the visitors when Pogba surged into the area before he was hauled down clumsily by Eric Dier.\n\nIn the cavernous spaces of the deserted Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - as the match was played behind closed doors - Fernandes equalised with an emphatic penalty.\n\nSpurs survived a last-minute scare as referee Jon Moss pointed to the spot again when Dier collided with Fernandes but the video assistant referee correctly reversed a poor decision.\n\nDe Gea made a measure of amends with a superb save from Son Heung-min shortly after his error, while Hugo Lloris made a magnificent flying save from Anthony Martial as United chased an equaliser.\n\nIt finally arrived via that Fernandes spot-kick nine minutes from time to leave United in fifth place, four points ahead of Spurs.\n• None De Gea and Maguire 'should get taxi back to Manchester'\n• None Relive the draw between Tottenham and Manchester United\n• None How you rated the players\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer kept faith with the side that went 11 games unbeaten in all competitions as their season restarted here in north London - which meant no place for Pogba, despite his recovery from injury.\n\nIt was no surprise, however, when he was called into action just after the hour to inject some zest into what had been a lifeless United performance up to that point.\n\nPogba was right in the fray, having a shot instantly - but he made his most significant contribution when he tricked Dier in the area and drew a foul from the Spurs defender to win that point-saving penalty.\n\nIt was a timely reminder to Solskjaer, should he even need one, of the rare talent he has at his disposal if Pogba could only show consistency and put the speculation about his future behind him.\n\nDe Gea did not have such a good night. There were already questions about his form before this game and he produced another error here - all with Dean Henderson's reputation growing in his loan spell at Sheffield United.\n\nSpurs will be bitterly disappointed to concede a goal so late on, and in such needless fashion, although it could have been worse when referee Moss erroneously awarded that second penalty - before VAR put matters right.\n\nLloris had produced that outstanding save from Martial but Spurs were hardly under siege and manager Jose Mourinho, who stalked the touchline in fury when United were originally awarded that injury-time penalty, will feel an important two points have been cast aside.\n\nMourinho will take some solace in the return of Harry Kane after hamstring surgery and Son after he broke his arm, as well as goalscorer Bergwijn.\n\nSpurs, however, need wins, and this result leaves them in eighth place, six points behind fourth-placed Chelsea in the chase for Champions League places.\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Radio 5 live: \"I think difficult to find the word, I have to try to find a nice word - a strange penalty because the team was so compact, so well organised.\n\n\"The players did fantastic work defensively - they had two dangerous shots that Hugo Lloris saved and nothing else. Everything else was under control. I have to admit for the last 15 minutes I would love to have had Lucas Moura here, Dele Alli here. The last 15 minutes were difficult for us.\n\n\"Lucas and Dele are players we need and we could feel that today. when you look to their bench and then to ours the difference in attacking options. Hopefully they will be back for West Ham because in this moment it is very, very important to change players.\n\nOn the penalty for Manchester United: \"Paul Pogba did his job. That is it. I think Jonathan Moss was also trying to do his job the best he could. I think the VAR is a different situation.\"\n\nManchester United on the spot again - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in 12 games in all competitions (W8 D4), scoring 30 goals and conceding just three in that run.\n• None Steven Bergwijn became only the second player to score in his first three home Premier League appearances for Spurs, after Rafael van der Vaart in 2010.\n• None Since the start of last season, Manchester United have both taken (23) and scored (16) more penalties than any other Premier League side.\n• None Only Trent Alexander-Arnold (14) has more assists among Premier League defenders in all competitions than Spurs full-back Serge Aurier this season (eight).\n• None Jose Mourinho has won none of his past six matches against his former clubs in all competitions (D2 L4), taking just one point from four Premier League matches against Chelsea and Man Utd this season (D1 L3).\n• None Spurs are winless in seven games in all competitions (D3 L4), their worst run since November 2016 (also seven without a win).\n\nTottenham host West Ham in the Premier League on Tuesday, 23 June (20:15 BST) while Manchester United are at home to Sheffield United on Wednesday, 24 June (18:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Odion Ighalo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Winks.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Harry Maguire tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "After months of work, the UK has ditched the way its coronavirus-tracing app works, prompting a blame game between the government and two of the world's biggest tech firms. So what went wrong?\n\nAt the end of March, I got a text from a senior figure in the UK's technology industry. This person said they were helping the NHS \"on a very substantial project that will launch in days and potentially save hundreds of thousands of British lives.\"\n\nThat was the first I knew of the plan to build a contact tracing app, a project that soon appeared to be at the very centre of the government's strategy to beat coronavirus and help us all emerge from lockdown.\n\nThe tech luminary had somehow assumed that I could be an adviser to the project - I made it clear that could not be my role but I was very interested in following its progress.\n\nNow, nearly three months on, after missing deadline after deadline, there has been a radical change in direction. The app that has been developed so far is being scrapped, and a new approach will be tried based on a system created by Apple and Google.\n\nBut there is no guarantee when, if ever, this will be rolled out. So what went wrong?\n\nWhen the team from the NHSX digital division was assembled they were told they were engaged on a vital mission. According to a presentation the team was shown the Covid-19 app would have four aims:\n\nOnce installed on a user's phone, the app would use Bluetooth to keep a record of other people with whom they came into close contact - as long as they too had installed the app. Then when someone tested positive for the virus, alerts would be sent to their close contacts of recent days telling them to go into quarantine.\n\nThe epidemiological expertise was provided by a team of Oxford scientists who had argued that there was an urgent need to identify people who were spreading the virus without knowing. \"Very fast contact tracing was likely to be essential,\" says one of the Oxford team, Dr David Bonsall. \"And smartphones have the technological capability to speed up that process.\"\n\nBut using the Bluetooth connection on smartphones to detect contacts was untested technology. Still, the team was inspired by Singapore, which had released its Trace Together app using that system.\n\nHeath Secretary Matt Hancock announces the development of \"a new NHS app for contact tracing\". The app is launched on the Isle of Wight. It is downloaded by 60,000 people, under half the population of the island, over the following 10 days. Mr Hancock tells BBC Breakfast that if the trial on the Isle of Wight is successful, the app will be rolled out nationwide by the middle of May. He also says the public would have a \"duty\" to download the app and that 60% of people in the country would have to do so for the system to function. PM says test, track and trace will be ‘world-beating’ Boris Johnson says the system will be in place by 1 June Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells Parliament: \"We will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world-beating and yes it will be in place by 1 June.\" He also says there will be 25,000 trackers who \"will be able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day\". Contact-tracing system is launched without a nationwide app. Anybody who has been in close contact with someone who has tested positive will have to self-isolate for 14 days. According to government figures, in the first week tracers contact 5,407 people with the virus. Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi says the app tested on the Isle of Wight will \"be running as soon as we think it is robust\". Speaking on BBC Question Time, the minister says: \"I can't give you an exact date, it would be wrong for me to do so.\" Asked to confirm it would be rolled out nationwide this month, he says: \"I'd like to think we'd be able to manage by this month, yes.\" Minister says the app ‘isn’t the priority’ Lord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, says the app \"isn’t the priority\". Answering a question about the app from the Science and Technology Committee, the minister says: \"We are seeking to get something going for the winter, but it isn't the priority for us at the moment.\" He declines to offer a launch date for the app. In a major U-turn, the UK ditches its version and shifts to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google. The Apple-Google design is promoted as being more privacy-focused. However, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data.\n\nBut it soon became clear that using Bluetooth was tricky. Reports from Singapore suggested people were reluctant to download the app because it had to be kept open on the phone all the time, draining the battery.\n\nThen on 10 April came a surprising announcement from Google and Apple. The two tech giants - on whose software virtually all the world's smartphones depend - said they were going to develop a system that would help Bluetooth contact-tracing apps work smoothly. But there was a catch - only privacy-focused apps would be allowed to use the platform.\n\nApple and Google favoured decentralised apps, where the matching between infected people and their list of contacts happened between their phones. The alternative was for the matching to be done on a central computer, owned by a health authority, which would end up storing lots of very sensitive information.\n\nThe app the NHS was developing was based on a centralised model, which the Oxford scientists felt was vital if the health service was to be able to monitor virus outbreaks properly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said Isle of Wight residents using the app \"will be saving lives\"\n\nTwo days later, with quite a fanfare, Health Secretary Matt Hancock unveiled the plans for the Covid-19 app, promising \"all data will be handled according to the highest ethical and security standards, and would only be used for NHS care and research\".\n\nBut immediately privacy campaigners, politicians and technology experts raised concerns. \"I recognise the overwhelming force of the public health arguments for a centralised system, but I also have 25 years' experience of the NHS being incompetent at developing systems and repeatedly breaking their privacy promises,\" said Cambridge University's Prof Ross Anderson.\n\nYet the project was still gathering pace with the first trial of the app at RAF Leeming, in Yorkshire. The trial was held under artificial conditions, with servicemen and women placing phones adjacent to each other on tables to see what happened.\n\nMeanwhile, privacy-conscious Germany became the latest country to switch its app to the decentralised model, using the Apple and Google system. It seemed that Apple had made it clear that it would not cooperate with a centralised app.\n\nMichael Veale, a British academic working with a consortium developing decentralised apps, warned that the NHS app was on the wrong path, asking on Twitter \"will the UK push ahead with an app that will not work on iPhones - which has devastated adoption in Singapore?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nBut the UK pushed ahead with a trial in the Isle of Wight. As it got underway Mr Hancock told the public they had a \"duty\" to download the app when it became available and that it would be crucial in getting \"our liberty back\" as the lockdown was eased.\n\nFirst sight of the app showed it was very simple, asking users whether they had a fever or a continuous cough. But any symptom alerts sent out to contacts merely echoed the standard \"stay alert\" advice - test results couldn't be entered into the app at this stage. It left many residents confused.\n\nStill, the fact that the app was quickly downloaded by more than half of the island's smartphone users saw the government branding the trial a success.\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Times revealed that the government had hired a Swiss software developer to build a second app, using the Apple and Google technology. NHS insiders were quick to downplay the significance of this move - although one admitted \"Downing Street is getting nervous\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nWork continued on a second, more sophisticated version of the original app, which was again going to be tested in the Isle of Wight before a national rollout - though the original deadline of mid-May had been missed.\n\nOn 20 May, however, it became clear that the government's focus was switching to manual-contact tracing. The prime minister announced that a \"world beating\" tracing system would be in place by the beginning of June, though Number 10 stressed that the app's contribution to the system would come a bit later.\n\nAs May drew to a close the boss of the wider test and trace programme, Baroness Dido Harding, said the app would be the \"cherry on the cake\" of the project. It was no longer the cake itself.\n\nBy early June, more deadlines for the national release of the app had come and gone. Three weeks into the Isle of Wight trial residents were getting restless, with very little information on how it was going or when an updated version of the app was coming.\n\nFrance launched its centralised Stop-Covid app, which had drawn heavy criticism from privacy campaigners, and digital minister Cedric O said 600,000 downloads in the first few hours was \"a good start\".\n\nOn 4 June, Business Minister Nadhim Zadhawi was coaxed into saying the app should be ready by the end of the month, but that was the last firm deadline that would be promised.\n\nSingapore, which had continued to struggle to make its contact tracing app work, announced plans to give all citizens a wearable device in the hope that this would do a better job than a smartphone.\n\nOn 14 June, Germany became the biggest country to launch a decentralised app on the Apple/Google platform. It quickly outstripped France in terms of downloads with something approaching 10% of the population installing it.\n\nBy now the silence from the UK government about the NHS app was deafening. What was going on?\n\nAround lunchtime on 18 June all became clear. The BBC broke the story that the government was abandoning the centralised app and moving to something based on Google and Apple's technology. Despite all the spin, the Isle of Wight trial had highlighted a disastrous flaw in the app - it failed to detect 96% of contacts with Apple iPhones.\n\nThe blame game has already begun. Mr Hancock and some of the scientists working with the NHS believe Apple should have been more cooperative. Technology experts and privacy campaigners say they warned months ago how this story would end.\n\nApple says it did not know the UK was working on a \"hybrid\" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google.\n\nMeanwhile, there is scant proof from anywhere around the world that smartphone apps using Bluetooth are an effective method of contact tracing. Back in March, it seemed that the hugely powerful devices most of us carry with us might help us emerge from this health crisis. Now it looks as though a human being on the end of a phone is a far better option.", "Hospitals are now the target of state hackers\n\nThe Covid crisis has reshaped the cyber-threat landscape around the globe.\n\nThere may not have been a significant increase in the volume of cyber-attacks, but countries have pursued new targets, pushed boundaries and taken advantage of their adversaries working from home, according to cyber-security experts.\n\nUnderstanding the crisis is the highest priority for almost every government - vital to their security, and in some cases their political survival at home.\n\nFrom January, states began urgently tasking their cyber-security teams with gathering information.\n\nIntelligence analysts say some of the normally less active states have begun using cyber-espionage more aggressively and they have seen allies target each other for information for the first time. \"It's a free-for-all out there - and with good reason - you don't want to be the intelligence agency that doesn't have a good answer for what's going on,\" says John Hultquist, director of threat analysis at Mandiant.\n\nIn an era of controlled borders and lockdowns, spy agencies have found it harder to use human assets and so relied even more on cyber-spies and pushed them to do more.\n\nThose involved in responding to the crisis have become a prime target. The World Health Organization has been targeted by Russian, Iranian and South Korean hackers, among others.\n\nAnd according to one Western intelligence official, \"everyone\" is targeting the Wuhan Institute, probably to see if there is any evidence to back up the allegations that the virus could somehow have escaped from there. Western spies have been told that discovering any evidence of a cover-up in China is a top priority.\n\nSome countries are asking cyber-spies to investigate the Wuhan Institute of Virology\n\nMany of the new targets - like local authorities and the health sector - were not used to being in the sights of high-end threat actors.\n\nIn the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre moved to protect areas which were overnight suddenly considered part of the critical national infrastructure. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has drawn up a list of all of those involved in Covid-19 response, including purchasing organisations which supply vital equipment.\n\nOne of the complexities has been that foreign pharmaceutical companies may end up being vital to the US, making protecting a broader global health supply chain a new challenge.\n\nAnd ransomware, usually motivated by crime, has also become a greater worry for defenders, since a localised incident at a hospital or a city can be more serious when under strain from the virus.\n\nThere was particular concern when Fresenius, a German-based major provider of medical equipment and healthcare services, was taken down by an attack with wider knock-on effects.\n\nState-based cyber-espionage teams have not necessarily grown in size. \"Spinning up a new programme can take a bit of time\", Adam Meyers of CrowdStrike says, and most are not able to work from home. \"A lot of it requires them working on government facilities.\"\n\nBut diverting a new team to a new target is easy, argues John Hultquist. \"This is a capability you can pivot on a dime - you can, say, get into Wuhan tomorrow, and you can start looking for emails and spear-phishing,\" he says.\n\nRansomware attacks are more dangerous when healthcare and cities are already under strain\n\nUK intelligence officials talk of a change of focus - from looking at Chinese actors targeting the energy sector to looking at the health sector, including vaccine research. But China is not the only country active in this space. \"Others are in the game too. It is a very active space,\" says one US cyber-security official.\n\n\"China's own cyber-teams had to work from home at the beginning of the year and that affected productivity - there was relatively limited activity over the winter months, to include the traditionally slow Chinese New Year, but then pushed back in the spring,\" says Dmitri Alperovitch, who co-founded CrowdStrike.\n\n\"And they are now also doing more information operations as well as espionage - they are really learning from the Russian playbook in that matter, such as getting better at setting up fake personas in support of China's propaganda, that look more realistic and Western.\"\n\nAnd the new normal of working from home is adding to the problem for cyber-spies. \"Russia has realised that intelligence communities are functioning with one hand behind their back as they are not letting everyone go into work, and trying to take advantage of that situation to infiltrate the networks of defence contractors and governments,\" says Mr Alperovitch.\n\nMany organisations managed the shift by adopting temporary security fixes, which may be hard to sustain.\n\nThe crisis has also increased the challenges for defenders, argues Nadav Zafrir, a former commander of Israel's Unit 8200 military cyber-agency, and now a founding partner of Team8.\n\nUsing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to understand normal behaviour and then look for deviations is a common tool which has struggled to adapt. \"The workforce is so dispersed that trying to understand what is an anomaly right now is almost impossible,\" Mr Zafrir says. \"There is no normal, no baseline.\"\n\nWorking from home has added a new complexity for organisations wanting to protect themselves against cyber-attack\n\nThat view is echoed by Mike Rogers, a former head of the US National Security Agency, and now a senior adviser to Team8. \"AI takes time and data to work so when you have significant disruption as we are just experiencing now, you need time and you need data from this new normal to get a sense of what's anomalous…and that time lag tends to favour attackers.\"\n\nOne of the hardest threats to spot can be insiders within a company or organisation who provide access to networks. The economic and psychological stresses of the current crisis - including the sense of detachment from the normal office and colleagues - could heighten those dangers.\n\n\"The sad reality is human beings under stress for extended periods of time will sometimes make bad choices,\" argues Mr Rogers.\n\nAs with other areas of life, it is not yet clear what a return to normal in cyber-space will look like or when it will happen. But one key lesson, he believes, is that all organisations will need to ensure they have more resilience, ready for whatever the next crisis may be.", "LGBT groups from the UK political parties have expressed \"disappointment and anger\" over potential changes to laws affecting trans people.\n\nLeaders of the groups representing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members directly addressed the minister for women and equalities in a letter.\n\nThey fear leaked plans show it could be harder for trans people to transition.\n\nThe government said it will publish its response to a consultation on the Gender Recognition Act in the summer.\n\nThe LGBT groups featured in the letter to Liz Truss, seen by the BBC, are from the Conservatives, Labour, Scottish National Party, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, Greens and Alliance parties.\n\nThe groups are concerned the potential plans will see the government amend laws to make it more complicated for trans people to transition and access facilities such as toilets and changing rooms.\n\nThe leak, first reported by the Sunday Times, stated that ministers have \"ditched\" plans developed under Prime Minister Theresa May to allow trans people to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis, and that \"safeguards\" will be put in place to \"protect safe spaces for women,\" with amendments to the Equality Act.\n\nCurrently, the Gender Recognition Act requires trans people to go through a long process in order to change their birth certificates.\n\nFor this reason, many do not, and instead rely on the protection afforded by the Equality Act 2010. Gender reassignment is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act - to safeguard transgender people against discrimination and that can be based on self-identification alone.\n\nThe 2010 act says: \"A person has the protected characteristic of gender reassignment if the person is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning the person's sex by changing physiological or other attributes of sex.\"\n\nThe Equality Act also effectively permits service providers not to allow a trans person to access separate-sex or single-sex services—on a case-by-case basis, where exclusion is \"a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim\".\n\nThe government has not yet commented on the leak or its accuracy but should the plans go ahead as reported, the group warns it will be a \"step backwards\" for LGBT rights.\n\nColm Howard Lloyd, chair of LGBT+ Conservatives, says the current \"toxic atmosphere\" is leading to trans people fearing for their safety and future.\n\nHe said: \"The minister for equalities has said that all trans adults should be free to live their lives as they wish without fear of persecution. The LGBT groups of all major UK parties call on the government to back that with action.\"\n\nIn 2018 the government launched a public consultation in order to understand gender in more detail and explore ways in which the system could be improved.\n\nIt acknowledged that many trans people find the current requirements \"too bureaucratic, expensive and intrusive\".\n\nA response was promised \"by spring 2019\", and then \"before Parliament's summer recess\" in 2019, but now an update is expected by the end of July.\n\nA spokesman for the Government Equalities Office said: \"We will publish our response to our consultation on the Gender Recognition Act this summer.\"\n\nThe cross-party letter says a \"rollback on trans rights\" could repeat \"past mistakes\" and requests of Ms Truss:\n\nMelantha Chittenden and Heather Peto, co-chairs of LGBT+ Labour, told the BBC they are prepared to work with colleagues from across the political spectrum to protect trans rights and they will fight the government's plans \"every step of the way.\"\n\n\"It is a disgrace that we have waited two years for the government to announce long promised changes to the Gender Recognition Act only for them to go back on their word,\" they said.\n\nThe group has written to Equalities Minister Liz Truss\n\nThe group say they hope that their cross-party coalition will stop this potential \"reversal of LGBT rights\".\n\n\"This is unique,\" say Benali Hamdache and Chandler Wilson, co-chairs of the LGBTIQA+ Greens, \"it really shows the breadth of the political support for trans rights. We'd urge this matter to rise above party politics.\"\n\nThey added: \"Trans people deserve respect and dignity, not harassment, marginalisation and vilification. Please Liz, do the right thing.\"\n\nJosh Aaron Mennie of the SNP's LGBT wing, Out for Independence, added: \"These are reforms backed by the LGBT affiliate organisations from every main political party in the country, I urge Boris Johnson to listen to us.\"\n\nCurrently to change their legal sex a person has to show they have lived in their new gender for two years and will continue to do so as well as getting a diagnosis of gender dysphoria from two doctors, she said.\n\nJoan Smith, feminist writer and human rights activist, said: \"'No-one has proposed to take away rights and protection from trans men and women - the situation is exactly as it was last week. It looks as though ministers intend to maintain the current system of regulation for the process of getting a new birth certificate, which is one of many processes regulated by the state.\n\n\"In April, Liz Truss talked about the importance of single-sex spaces, but that might simply mean clarifying the exemptions that already exist under the 2010 Equality Act. Many women welcome that as well, and I think its important to base this discussion on what's actually happened, instead of a very emotional species of speculation.\"\n\nClarification 22nd June 2020: This article has been amended to clarify the terms of the Equality Act 2010.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Neomi Bennett: \"I was just sitting in a car, minding my own business...it scared the life out of me\"\n\nA nurse pulled over by police who drove in front of her in a \"hard stop\" operation, says she was targeted because of her race.\n\nPolice officers stopped Neomi Bennett in 2019 because, they said, her front windows were tinted too dark.\n\nShe was convicted of obstructing a police officer, but prosecutors later decided not to challenge her appeal.\n\nMs Bennett, who was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to nursing, is now taking legal action.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was \"assessing a complaint in relation to this incident\".\n\nMs Bennett said the officers carried out a hard stop, meaning they pulled a car up in front of her to box her in, on the evening of 4 April 2019, and she refused to get out of the vehicle.\n\nShe said the manner in which she was pulled over \"scared the life out of\" her and, had they taken a different approach, she she might have got out of her car, but instead opted to stay inside.\n\nAt first Ms Bennett, from Wandsworth in south-west London, thought it was \"some kind of hijack\" because she could only see an officer in plain clothing.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I believe I was racially profiled and certainly don't think this would have happened if I were white.\"\n\nThe nurse, who invented the Neo-slip device to help patients with deep vein thrombosis, said she was \"locked up\" even though nothing illegal was found in her car and she was a \"stone's throw away\" from her home and family.\n\nMs Bennett was left \"traumatised\" by her encounter with police\n\nHer lawyer Ann Tayo told BBC News the arrest left Ms Bennett traumatised, and her encounter with the police was a \"genuine case of a woman being bewildered\" before officers made \"all manner of allegations\".\n\nShe added this was an example of what a \"disproportionate number of black British citizens\" have to go through.\n\nMs Bennett was eventually convicted of obstructing a police officer and said the criminal record meant she lost out on some opportunities.\n\nThe 47-year-old said: \"When the police approached me, I think my experience as a black person is very different to that of a white person and the fear it invokes is tremendous.\n\n\"I can't even describe the fear that I experienced on that night.\"\n\nMs Bennett said she has since appealed against and overturned her conviction, but added that many people in her community had experienced similar encounters with police.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met said: \"The South West Basic Command Unit Professional Standards (SWBCU) team is currently assessing a complaint in relation to this incident.\n\n\"Due to the complaint, we cannot go into any more detail at this time, however, Sally Benatar, SWBCU Commander, has recently been in contact with Neomi Bennett and has put her in touch with the local Independent Advisory Group chair to discuss her experiences with police.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "NHS trusts were not consulted before the government announced changes to the use of face coverings and visitor policy in English hospitals, the chief executive of NHS Providers has said.\n\nChris Hopson said trust leaders felt \"completely in the dark\" about the \"significant and complex\" changes.\n\nFrom 15 June, hospital visitors and outpatients must wear face coverings and staff must use surgical masks.\n\nThe Department of Health says masks can be provided by the hospital if needed.\n\nA spokeswoman said that, while the public were \"strongly urged\" to wear a face covering while inside hospitals, no-one would be denied care.\n\nSeparately, NHS England has lifted the national suspension on hospital visiting with new guidance for NHS trusts.\n\nThe guidance, which states visiting will be subject to the discretion of individual trusts and other NHS bodies, advises measures to support visiting, such as:\n\nThe Department of Health said trusts had all of next week to implement the changes and that it had made NHS England aware of the announcement before it was made public.\n\nBut Mr Hopson said the announcement by Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Friday was \"rushed out\" with \"absolutely no notice or consultation\" of NHS trust leaders.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's the latest in a long line of announcements that have had a major impact on the way the NHS operates, in which frontline organisations feel they've been left completely in the dark, and they're then expected to make significant and complex operational changes either immediately or with very little notice.\"\n\nHe said trust leaders were worried there was not enough strategy or planning and that it felt like \"last minute decisions are being made on the hoof that seem overly influenced by politics and that need to fill the space of the Downing Street press conferences\".\n\nThe announcement had left many unanswered questions, such as when it was appropriate for staff to wear face masks, the numbers of masks needed and how they would be distributed, he added.\n\nMr Hopson called for a \"proper, sensible forward plan and forward strategy of what we are trying to do, where trusts are given the time and space they need to do complex and difficult things\".\n\nMeanwhile, 40,465 people have now died with the virus, an increase of 204, according to the latest government figures.\n\nA further 10 people have died of coronavirus in Wales, while there were six deaths registered in Scotland and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier, NHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery said trusts were also nervous about the imminent lifting of some patient visiting restrictions.\n\nShe said they needed time to \"put in place processes and guidance to ensure that patients can receive visitors safely and while adhering to social distancing and infection control measures\".\n\nMr Hopson's criticism was echoed by the British Medical Association (BMA), which warned there was \"little detail\" on how the policy would be implemented, where the masks would come from or how outpatients and visitors would be given them.\n\nConsultants committee chairman Dr Rob Harwood said: \"Given the lack of PPE supplies throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, it is absolutely crucial that the government ensures there are enough supplies of face masks for staff, and adequate provision of face coverings for outpatients and the public by the 15 June.\"\n\nIt comes as the UK's death toll passed 40,000 on Friday according to government figures.\n\nThe UK is only the second country - after the US with 108,000 deaths - to pass the milestone.\n\nAlso at the Downing Street briefing, Mr Hancock appealed to people not to attend large demonstrations with more than six people, saying he was \"appalled\" by the killing of George Floyd in the US but \"coronavirus remains a real threat\".\n\nThousands ignored his plea to take part in the protests across the UK, with the majority of those at the London gathering wearing face coverings.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice on face masks, saying they should be worn by the general public in situations where social distancing is difficult, eg on public transport, in shops - particularly for over 60s and those with underlying health conditions", "Throughout the coronavirus crisis, we've seen the poorest communities hit the hardest.\n\nThe death rates in the most deprived areas of England are more than double those in the most affluent.\n\nNow, Public Health England says the pandemic has, in some areas, deepened existing health inequalities.\n\nOur special correspondent, Ed Thomas, has been hearing from families on Merseyside.", "The mayor of Bristol says those taking part in Black Lives Matter protests this weekend should think about the possible health consequences of large rallies and demonstrations.\n\nMarvin Rees says he agrees with the aims of the campaign but says there were other ways to protest - and suggested people follow the lead of the American footballer Colin Kaepernick who in 2016 started the practice of dropping to one knee during the national anthem to protest against racism.\n\n\"Covid is with us. We don't have a vaccine. And it's not the demonstration I have a problem with, it's any form of demonstration that requires a mass gathering,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Because my fear is a second wave will lead to a disproportionate loss of black and brown lives and any consequence of a further lockdown we know is also disproportionately impacting black and brown people - the lost jobs, the lost wages, the lost businesses, which, again, will have a health consequence.\"", "The government is being urged to ease social distancing for musicians, so more of them can get back performing and recording.\n\nMusicians' Union leader Horace Trubridge told the BBC they could play \"side by side\" to lessen the risk of spreading coronavirus.\n\nThe 2m rule was \"overkill\" at a \"bleak\" time for his members, he added.\n\nThe government said it welcomed \"creative and innovative\" ideas to help the UK's \"brilliant\" musicians.\n\nCoronavirus means theatres, pubs, clubs and other indoor music venues will be closed for the foreseeable future, while promoters have cancelled all the UK's main festivals.\n\nThe Labour-affiliated Musicians' Union is in talks with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport over \"enhanced busking\" - allowing spectators in outdoor spaces to make contactless payments for individual and group performances.\n\n\"They seem to be keen on that,\" Mr Trubridge said, adding that councils could \"relax their bylaws\" to help \"get live music back into the public's consciousness\".\n\nHe argued it was difficult to see a way of easing social distancing for audiences to make theatres and venues viable during the pandemic, but that this was not the case for performers.\n\n\"There's no finesse about the 2m rule at the moment,\" Mr Trubridge said. \"If you're in a line rather than looking at each other, then it seems to be overkill.\"\n\nParks could become venues for \"enhanced busking\", the Musicians' Union says\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends a distance of 1m between people from different households, but the UK is sticking to the 2m rule.\n\nMr Trubridge said this distance was particularly unnecessary for string instrumentalists, as opposed to singers, as they could wear masks.\n\nMany musicians had been earning £20,000 a year or less even before coronavirus, and some were missing out on furlough payments and loans, he said, adding: \"I can't see anything really significant happening this year to help them out of this hole.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Department for Culture, Media and Sport spokesperson said: \"These are challenging times for the UK's world-class music industry, and we are providing unprecedented support through substantial financial measures such as the Self-Employed Income Support and Bounce Back loan schemes.\"\n\nThey added: \"We welcome creative and innovative ideas on how we can support our talented musicians.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters in Australia are also highlighting the mistreatment of Aboriginal people\n\nTens of thousands of people have protested across Australia in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRallies were held despite warnings from officials over the coronavirus.\n\nA ban in Sydney was lifted only at the last minute and some organisers have been fined for breaking health rules.\n\nThe marches were inspired by the death of African American George Floyd in police custody but also highlighted the mistreatment and marginalisation of Australia's Aboriginal people.\n\nRallies were organised in Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and elsewhere.\n\nThey were held in high spirits with no reports of major unrest.\n\nThere were a few tense scenes later in the evening at Sydney's Central Station, with police using pepper spray, but there were only three arrests in the city overall, among a total of 20,000 protesters, police said.\n\nAlthough the rallies were sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, many in Australia were also protesting against the treatment of its indigenous population by police.\n\nBanners reading \"I can't breathe\" remembered the words of Floyd before his death, while another said: \"Same story, different soil.\"\n\nThousands protest in Sydney. Organisers urged attendees to try to observe social distancing\n\nThere were massive crowds too in Brisbane\n\nThe Sydney protest had been ruled unlawful on Friday by the New South Wales Supreme Court under coronavirus social distancing rules.\n\nNSW Police Minister David Elliott had said: \"Freedom of speech isn't as free as we would like it to be at the moment. Rules at the moment are clear.\"\n\nBut organisers took the case to the state court of appeal and it overturned the ban on Saturday afternoon, just 15 minutes before the scheduled start.\n\nThe protest was authorised for 5,000 people. Health ministry directions would normally prohibit public gatherings of more than 10 people.\n\nI've covered so many protests in my home city in the past decade. Outside of climate change rallies at the start of the year, I can't recall a larger turnout, particularly for a rally about race.\n\nThey turned up even when it was initially illegal and despite the health fears. They were angry, they were passionate, they knew there were risks but they donned masks and carried signs anyway.\n\nThis is a resounding success for indigenous Australia.\n\nBack in January people were struggling to breathe due to smoke from the bushfires. Today they were chanting \"I can't breathe\" - the choked words of George Floyd, but also David Dungay- an Aboriginal man who was fatally pinned down by five police officers in 2015.\n\nFor many Australians, the US protests have ignited fierce introspection of their country's own record of black deaths in custody. Aboriginal people remain the most incarcerated in the world by percentage of population - they make up just 3% of the nation's people but almost 30% of those in jail.\n\nThis has been the rate for decades - in fact it's become worse - but only now does there appear to be a large demand in the mainstream for change.\n\nOrganisers across Australia encouraged those attending rallies to use hand sanitisers and observe social distancing.\n\nImages showed that although the majority of demonstrators have been wearing face coverings, many of the protesters have been close together.\n\nThe chief health official in the state of Victoria said it was \"not the time to be having large gatherings\".\n\nVictoria police said on Saturday they would be fining organisers A$1,652 ($1,150; £900) each for breaking health rules. It was unclear if Melbourne's attending protesters would be fined.\n\nProtesters chanted: \"Always was, always will be Aboriginal land\" and \"Too many coppers not enough justice\".\n\nLeon Saunders, 77, demonstrating in Sydney, said: \"The raw deal Aborigines have been getting in this country for my lifetime and many lifetimes before that is just not right.\n\n\"We can look at America and say what terrible things are happening over there but, right here on our home soil, there are just as bad things happening and they need to be improved.\"\n\nA 1991 inquiry reported on 99 deaths of Aboriginal people in police custody, but a Guardian study found that at least 432 had died in custody since then.\n\nAnother protester in Sydney, Sarah Keating, said: \"I thought Australians were resting on their laurels - just because we're not as bad as America doesn't mean we're good enough... 432 Aboriginal deaths in custody is atrocious. That number should never have gotten that high. It should just be zero.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNo police officer has ever been held criminally responsible for an Aboriginal death in custody.\n\nMany of the demonstrators in Brisbane were wrapped in indigenous flags.", "Masks must be worn on public transport in England from 15 June\n\nWearing face coverings to protect against coronavirus \"seems reasonable\", a senior figure in Public Health Wales (PHW) has said.\n\nChristopher Williams said there \"should be\" an effect on transmission if a lot of people wore them in \"appropriate settings\".\n\nIn England, face coverings will become compulsory on public transport from 15 June.\n\nThe Welsh Government will make an announcement early next week.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has previously said there is only a \"marginal public health case\" for face coverings.\n\nDeputy minister Lee Waters said there was a worry masks give \"a false sense of security\".\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has changed its advice, saying masks should now be worn where social distancing is not possible.\n\nIt had previously argued there was not enough evidence to say that healthy people should wear masks.\n\nOn Friday, the British Medical Association said it wanted ministers in Wales to change position.\n\n\"I think in general in public health there's a good principle that things done by lots of people in lots of settings, even if they have a small individual effect, are able to have a large population effect,\" Dr Williams told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"I think this is some of the thinking behind the use of face coverings.\n\nPassengers in Wales are being asked by train operators to wear masks from 15 June\n\n\"If a lot of people use them in the appropriate settings there may be, there should be, an effect on transmission.\n\n\"Obviously it's quite difficult to quantify, and the evidence is not 100%, but it seems reasonable to add them in as an additional level of protection in the same way that staying away two metres from someone else is also a way of avoiding transmission.\"\n\nThe Conservatives said the Welsh Government was \"playing catch-up\" and face coverings should be worn where social distancing is not possible.\n\nPlaid Cymru said the use of face coverings should be \"actively encouraged\" by the Welsh Government.\n\nBut Brexit Party Senedd leader Mark Reckless said: \"Any requirement should be strictly temporary and on a UK-wide basis.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaigners have renamed some streets in central Glasgow as part of the Black Lives Matters demonstrations Image caption: Campaigners have renamed some streets in central Glasgow as part of the Black Lives Matters demonstrations Anti-racism campaigners in Glasgow have temporarily renamed streets in the city centre with the names of black activists and those believed to have been victims of racism, including Rosa Parks and George Floyd. Cochrane Street - named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-Century tobacco lord - has been renamed Sheku Bayoh Street after a man who died in police custody in Fife, Scotland. But his sister - a nurse - said her family would not attend the Black Lives Matters demonstration this weekend because the danger of spreading coronavirus is \"still too great\". Kadi Johnson joined Scotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf and Labour MSP Anas Sarwar to issue a statement urging demonstrators to keep any protest virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic. The statement highlighted the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on the BAME community. \"As a staff nurse I know the deadly impact of the virus, and I would worry about social distancing and the lives of family and others being put at risk,\" Ms Johnson wrote separately. Sheku Bayoh died in 2015, aged 32, after he was restrained by police officers responding to a call in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He was found to have suffered 23 separate injuries. The officers involved have always denied any wrongdoing. No prosecutions were made and Mr Bayoh's death is to be the subject of a public inquiry. Ms Johnson told the BBC that younger members of her family were angry too. \"When they saw George Floyd's video they were angry and hurt, remembering their uncle and how he died.", "The pandemic has been catastrophic for Bike Park Wales, its director says\n\nThe furlough scheme must be extended beyond October to stop adventure tourism businesses \"disappearing off the map\" in Wales, a Conservative MP has said.\n\nFormer Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb called for the UK government to provide \"extra support\" for the sector.\n\nMore than 9% of the workforce in Wales is now employed in tourism.\n\nThe Treasury said it had extended the scheme until October and would continue to \"support businesses\".\n\nA million employers have used the UK government's Job Retention Scheme to furlough their workers, paying 80% of their wages up to £2,500 per month.\n\nThe Treasury extended the scheme until October, and have asked employers to start contributing to furloughed workers' wages from August.\n\nBut adventure firms in Wales have called for more support, saying their businesses will struggle to make a profit so long as social distancing is in place.\n\nMartin Astley, the director of Bike Park Wales in Merthyr Tydfil, said the coronavirus lockdown had been \"catastrophic\" for the company.\n\n\"It's hit us at a very bad time as well - a lot of outdoor providers in Wales had a really hard winter, the weather was horrendous, Storm Dennis caused tens of thousands of damage on our site, we were still in midst of fixing that when lockdown came,\" he said.\n\nMr Astley said part of his operation saw customers taken to the top of a mountain in minibuses, which was \"very difficult\" to run with social distancing in place.\n\n\"Our businesses are completely un-financially viable under social distancing. We can't even come close to breaking even let alone turn a profit.\"\n\nMr Astley said the furlough scheme needed to become \"more focused\" to help businesses like his avoid redundancies.\n\n\"What concerns me is I'm fairly confident the furlough scheme will end before social distancing measures are no longer required, which puts us in a very difficult position - best case 50% down on our revenue and that only really leads in one direction unfortunately.\"\n\nJet Moore runs kayaking trips in west Wales, including on the River Teifi\n\nJet Moore runs an adventure tourism business called Adventure Beyond in west Wales.\n\nIt would usually be taking groups out kayaking or coasteering at this time of year.\n\nHe said the recent hot weather should have meant a \"bumper season\" for the industry - but that income has been lost.\n\n\"For the adventure tourism sector, it's like three winters in a row.\n\n\"We've had the winter, we've now got the summer with no work which is like a winter, and we're going straight back into a winter by the time it maybe gets going again.\"\n\nHe believes bespoke financial support packages are needed to help businesses survive through the winter, after the Job Retention Scheme ends.\n\n\"It's really hard but if they want the tourism industry to survive there's going to have to be something through the winter - but also allow people to continue working while getting that support.\n\n\"Because our winter time would be spent prepping for the season and we'd usually pay for that with our summer money.\"\n\nStephen Crabb, the Preseli Pembrokeshire MP, said such businesses in his constituency would face redundancies without more support.\n\n\"All are saying to me, realistically with social distancing in place, it becomes very difficult to run a viable operation with need for instructors.\n\n\"There is a need I think for an ongoing financial package for this sector and tourism across Wales generally.\n\n\"Tourism is probably the industry in Wales most economically impacted by coronavirus.\"\n\nStephen Crabb said he had spoken to firms that run dolphin boat tours, rock climbing trips and coasteering excursions\n\nMr Crabb is chair of the Welsh Affairs Committee in Parliament, which launched an inquiry in April into the impact of the coronavirus on the Welsh economy.\n\n\"My fear is unless the government provide some lifeline now and extend furlough scheme in a creative way then I think the inevitable will be many tourism businesses making their employees redundant and many of those businesses disappearing off the map of Wales altogether.\"\n\nThe Treasury said the retention scheme had \"protected 8.7 million jobs across the UK\".\n\n\"We have extended it until October - meaning it will have been open for eight months and will continue to support businesses as the economy reopens and people return to work,\" a spokesman added.", "Anti-racism campaigners in Glasgow have temporarily renamed streets in the city centre with the names of black activists and those believed to have been victims of racism, including Rosa Parks and George Floyd.\n\nCochrane Street - named after Andrew Cochrane, an 18th-Century tobacco lord - has been renamed Sheku Bayoh Street after a man who died in police custody in Fife.\n\nBut his sister - a nurse - said her family would not attend the Black Lives Matter demonstration this weekend - in Glasgow Green and Edinburgh's Holyrood Park on Sunday - because the danger of spreading coronavirus is \"still too great\".\n\nKadi Johnson joined Scotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf and Labour MSP Anas Sarwar to issue a statement urging demonstrators to keep any protest virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe statement highlighted the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on the BAME community.\n\n\"As a staff nurse I know the deadly impact of the virus, and I would worry about social distancing and the lives of family and others being put at risk,\" Ms Johnson wrote separately.\n\nSheku Bayoh died in 2015, aged 32, after he was restrained by police officers responding to a call in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He was found to have suffered 23 separate injuries.\n\nThe officers involved have always denied any wrongdoing. No prosecutions were made and Mr Bayoh's death is to be the subject of a public inquiry.", "Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has resigned from the tech firm's board and urged the company to replace him with a black candidate.\n\nThe tech entrepreneur has also pledged to use future gains on his Reddit stock to \"serve the black community.\"\n\nIn a series of tweets, he said he was doing it \"as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: 'What did you do?'\"\n\nIt follows days of US protests against police brutality and racial inequality.\n\nMr Ohanian, who is married to black tennis champion Serena Williams, said he would be donating $1m (£800,000) to Know Your Rights Camp, a non-profit started by former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.\n\n\"I believe resignation can actually be an act of leadership from people in power right now,\" he said in a video. \"To everyone fighting to fix our broken nation: do not stop.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🚀 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Ohanian founded social media website Reddit 15 years ago with his college roommates Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman.\n\nHe stepped down from daily duties in 2018 but has retained a seat on the company's board until now.\n\nReddit promoted its first female board member, Porter Gale, last year.\n\nBut the website has come under fire for hosting forums that promote racist content. The company has banned groups like r/blackpeoplehate and alt-right r/MillionDollarExtreme. It has also \"quarantined\" a pro-Trump forum, r/TheDonald, ensuring that its content does not appear in website searches or recommendations.\n\nEarlier this week, several popular Reddit forums switched their access rights to private, or banned new posts entirely, to protest against the company's hate speech policies. Ex-chief executive Ellen K Pao also lambasted her former employer in a tweet, saying: \"You don't get to say [Black Lives Matter] when reddit nurtures and monetizes white supremacy and hate all day long.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormer Commons Speaker John Bercow has told the BBC he is \"sorry\" that he has not been granted a peerage.\n\nPrevious outgoing Speakers have been given a seat in the House of Lords, but the government has not put forward Mr Bercow's name for consideration.\n\nThe ex-Conservative MP has been accused of bullying by his former colleagues but denies the claims.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions he had \"made a lot of enemies\" during his 10-year stint in the Commons.\n\nMr Bercow accepted he was \"periodically irascible\" and \"wouldn't take no for an answer\", but insisted: \"I don't think I bullied anyone, anywhere, in any way, at any time.\"\n\nHe stepped down as Speaker in October after a decade in the post, during which time he faced accusations of bias over Brexit, as well as questions over his own behaviour towards colleagues.\n\nThe Speaker is in charge of what goes on within the House of Commons.\n\nBy tradition, the Speaker is above politics and is supposed to represent only the rules and conventions of Parliament. Once elected to the post, the Speaker no longer represents any political party.\n\nMr Bercow told BBC political correspondent Chris Mason that serving as Speaker had been \"my enormous privilege\".\n\n\"I did my best - I had some successes, I had some failures. I endured controversies. I made friends, I incurred enemies as well,\" he added.\n\nHe said, despite \"a long-standing convention\" of giving peerages to former Speakers, the matter was \"best decided by other people\".\n\n\"I am not going to sit awake at night worrying about it.\n\n\"There are people who have got grievances and agendas of their own who think I just don't fit.\"\n\nHe would not comment on reports that he was under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards over allegations of bullying, saying only \"in due course people will know what the truth is\".\n\nMr Bercow has been proposed for a peerage by the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, amid suggestions by the opposition that the ex-Speaker is being denied a seat for his hostility to the UK leaving the EU.\n\nDuring his time in the role, Mr Bercow gave unprecedented powers to backbenchers to hold ministers to account and made controversial and far-reaching procedural decisions at key stages of the Brexit process.\n\nIn February, he told the BBC there was a \"conspiracy\" to keep him out of the House of Lords.\n\nHe named no names, but said it was \"blindingly obvious\" that there was a \"concerted campaign\" to prevent him from being given a peerage.\n\nCabinet minister Robert Jenrick said there was \"no obligation\" on the prime minister to give Mr Bercow a peerage and the allegations against him need to be investigated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Bercow is asked in the Commons about bullying allegations against him\n\nMr Bercow is facing at least one formal complaint regarding his behaviour in the Speaker's chair.\n\nHe has dismissed claims there was a pattern of bullying towards his subordinates, and maintains that the \"vast majority\" of his relationships with colleagues both inside and outside Parliament were constructive.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4 he was upset not to have been given the opportunity to take a seat in the House of Lords.\n\n\"I am not going to pretend it doesn't matter,\" he said, adding that he would like \"to make a contribution\".\n\nMr Bercow added: \"I am just going to go on doing what I think is right, standing up for good causes [and] celebrating important principles.\"", "Harry Billinge had planned to be in Normandy for the 76th anniversary of D-Day, visiting a new British memorial with other veterans.\n\nThe 94-year-old raised tens of thousands of pounds for the memorial - and he was even made an MBE for his efforts.\n\nBut the trip was cancelled due to coronavirus. So BBC Breakfast surprised with a face from the past.\n\nRead more: Memorial 'brought to veterans' for D-Day", "The death of unarmed black man George Floyd in police custody in the US has sparked some of the largest protests against racism, inequality and police brutality since the 1960s.\n\nRallies were organised globally to express solidarity with US protesters.\n\nThousands marched in the UK, France and Australia chanting \"no justice, no peace\" and \"black lives matter\".\n\nMany protests have evolved as people express anger at killings and systemic injustice in their own countries.\n\nConcerns about the spread of coronavirus prompted many to wear face masks, and government officials in some cities asked residents not to attend large gatherings.\n\nThe police chief in Washington DC said he expected Saturday's demonstrations to be the largest ever in the capital.\n\nPeople took to the streets for the 12th day running in Washington DC\n\nAround 20,000 members of the US National Guard have been posted to police protests in Washington DC, where Mayor Muriel Bowser has requested their removal, saying their presence is \"unnecessary\"\n\nPeople marched on the newly-named Black Lives Matter plaza in the US capital\n\nIn New York City, healthcare workers joined protests, holding placards reading \"do no harm\" and \"racism is a public health crisis\"\n\nIn Australia, there were major protests in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane that focused on the treatment of indigenous Australians\n\nIn France, protests have re-ignited a campaign for justice for Adama Traoré, a 24-year-old black man who died in police custody in 2016\n\nIn London, protesters walked in the cold and rain and, outside the US embassy, they dropped to one knee and raised their fists in the air chanting \"colour is not a crime\". Police in riot gear clashed briefly with crowds\n\nSome drew attention to the death of black train station worker Belly Mujinga with Covid-19 in April. A man who claimed he had coronavirus reportedly spat at her before she fell ill\n\nA silent vigil was held for George Floyd in Berlin's Alexanderplatz square. Also in Germany, Bundesliga footballers warmed up wearing shirts reading \"Red card to racism #BlackLivesMatter\" and took a knee prior to kick-off\n\nIn the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, hundreds of people gathered, and some held banners calling for justice for Claudia Simões, a woman who was assaulted by police", "Scientists are warning that we have created \"a perfect storm\" for diseases from wildlife to spill over into humans and spread quickly around the world.\n\nAs part of a global effort to study how and where new diseases emerge, scientists at the University of Liverpool have led the development of a pattern-recognition system to predict which wildlife diseases pose the most risk to humans.", "World War II veterans whose D-Day anniversary trip to the new British Normandy Memorial was cancelled are being brought new footage of the site to mark the day.\n\nMore than 70 veterans, many in their mid-90s, were meant to make the trip for the 76th anniversary on Saturday.\n\nDue to the coronavirus outbreak, the Normandy Memorial Trust is showing them the latest construction work instead.\n\nThe memorial was meant to be officially opened on 4 September.\n\nThat ceremony will now take place in spring or early summer 2021 instead.\n\nLord Peter Ricketts, chairman of trustees at the Normandy Memorial Trust, said: \"We at the trust know how much the veterans and their families were looking forward to visiting the site around the time of the D-Day anniversary to see the memorial taking shape.\n\n\"We share their frustration that the unprecedented circumstances of the pandemic have made that impossible. But the good news is that we are pressing on with real determination to complete the construction, despite all the obstacles.\n\n\"I pay tribute to the dedication of everyone involved in this.\"\n\nAn artist's view of how the memorial will look\n\nThe new content showing the construction work is being released on the trust's website on Saturday.\n\n\"You will get a sense from these new pictures of how moving and impressive the memorial will be once it is finished in the autumn,\" added Lord Ricketts.\n\nIn the footage, people can watch letter carvers inscribing the words of Winston Churchill's speech, including the famous words \"we shall fight on the beaches\".\n\nThe stone columns of the memorial are engraved with the names of 22,442 men and women under British command who lost their lives in the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy.\n\nThere was a two-month pause in construction of the memorial due to the pandemic, but it has now restarted. Work has included the planting of hundreds of young trees, as well as 12 semi-mature oak trees at the memorial entrance.\n\nThe French memorial - recognising the sacrifice of Normandy's civilian population - has had its foundations installed and the first stone laid.\n\nAs the UK government is not providing funding for the maintenance of the memorial. the trust is also launching a support programme. The Normandy Memorial Guardian programme will see supporters recruited to look after the site in the years ahead.", "The pop star was taken to hospital after falling off the Thames towpath (file picture)\n\nSophie Ellis-Bextor has said she is recovering at home with a \"newly glued forehead\" following a bike crash in London.\n\nThe pop star said on Instagram she had not broken any bones after falling from her bike while cycling along the Thames with her husband on Tuesday.\n\nEllis-Bextor, who had said she had \"some impressive bruises\", added that she was being \"well looked after\".\n\nThe 41-year-old posted a photo from A&E on Tuesday of her injuries.\n\nSharing an image of a bouquet of flowers on Friday, Ellis-Bextor updated fans on Instagram, saying: \"Hello all. Just to let you know I'm doing ok. I've been so well looked after at home and am currently laid up on a sofa surrounded by my 3 smallest boys.\n\n\"I've got some impressive bruises and a swollen and newly glued forehead which I'm completely fascinated by.\n\n\"If I hurt myself, I'm always satisfied by a spectacular healing process and my puffy face has not disappointed.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sophieellisbextor This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe thanked fans for their kind messages. \"Quite overwhelming really, and almost worth falling off my bike for,\" she added.\n\nShe said she felt \"incredibly lucky\" to have not broken anything and was fortunate to have so much support.\n\nThe singer was taken to West Middlesex Hospital in West London following the accident.\n\nEllis-Bextor, whose hit songs include Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) and Murder On The Dancefloor, made it to the final of the 11th series of Strictly Come Dancing in 2013, securing fourth place.\n\nDuring lockdown she has been entertaining fans by hosting \"kitchen discos\" from her house every Friday night, usually wearing sparkly outfits and accompanied by her husband and five children.\n\nShe told fans in her latest post: \"Have a boogie for me. I'll be dancing with you again in no time.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nAndrew Balding's Kameko stunned unbeaten favourite Pinatubo to win the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket, the first British Classic of the year.\n\nOisin Murphy guided the 10-1 shot through the centre on good to firm ground for a famous victory by a neck.\n\nKameko's win set a new track record at 1min 34.72 secs, beating Mister Baileys's time in 1994.\n\nThe Aidan O'Brien-trained Wichita (15-2), ridden by Frankie Dettori, took second.\n\nPinatubo (5-6) was on the inside rail but finished third in a field of 15, one and a quarter lengths back.\n\nKameko, beaten by a neck over the same course and distance last September, won by three and a quarter lengths last time out in November.\n\nPinatubo beat Arizona by two lengths on soft ground over seven furlongs in the Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket last time out in October, when Wichita was third.\n\nBut on a blustery, showery day behind closed doors at the Suffolk track, the favourite was unable to find an extra gear in his seventh race.\n\nCelebrating his first British Classic, Murphy said: \"It means the absolute world to me. It's the stuff of dreams.\n\n\"Around four furlongs he got a little bit lost but he came home really well.\n\n\"It was a gutsy performance. He hardly blew a candle out afterwards - he must have a tremendous amount of ability.\"\n\nHaving given Balding a first Guineas triumph, Kameko is now favourite for the Derby at Epsom on 4 July.\n\nBalding, who won the Oaks with Casual Look in 2003, said: \"To me it looks the obvious choice. There would be a stamina doubt but there's only one way to find out.\"\n\nPinatubo's trainer Charlie Appleby, who won the Group One Coronation Cup with Ghaiyyath on Friday, said: \"Pinatubo travelled well into the race when he had Frankie's horse as his target, but when he made his move he got up to their girths and just didn't go any further forward.\"", "Some older people in care homes are being asked to pay more than £100 a week extra in fees to cover the costs of coronavirus.\n\nAge UK said residents who pay their own fees are facing the bills to pay for protective gear and rising staff costs.\n\nIt adds \"insult to injury\" for people who have \"been through the mill\" during the pandemic, the charity said.\n\nThe government said it provided £600m for infection control in care homes and £3.2bn for wider council services.\n\nCare home residents who fund themselves have effectively subsidised the care system for many years, paying far more for their support than those funded by their local authority.\n\nAge UK says on average these residents are charged just over £850 a week, and some are now seeing their fees rise by 15%.\n\nIt is not clear how many care homes have asked self-funding residents to pay more.\n\nThere are 400,000 people estimated to be living in care homes in England, with 167,000 believed to be self-funders and 45,000 part self-funders.\n\nCaroline Abrahams, director of Age UK, said older people and their families have \"been through the mill\" in recent months as outbreaks occurred in one in three care homes.\n\n\"It is adding insult to injury that after going through so much, some residents who pay for their own care are now facing a big extra bill - on top of already expensive fees.\"\n\nShe called for government to meet the extra costs of the pandemic, saying that otherwise there was a risk that some could fold and leave their residents homeless.\n\nDuring the pandemic, many care homes have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of protective equipment to stop the spread of Covid-19 between staff, residents and visitors.\n\nThey have also faced extra costs for agency staff when employees are off sick or isolating.\n\nIn total, the Local Government Association (LGA) and directors of adult social care estimate that providers face potential additional costs of £6.6bn between April and September.\n\n\"People living in care homes should not be penalised in this way,\" said councillor Ian Hudspeth, chairman of the LGA's community well-being board.\n\nHe said the way self-funders subsidised the system was already unfair and should be addressed as part of the long-term reform of the social care system.\n\nBut he said councils were helping care home providers with the extra costs \"to the best of their ability\".\n\nTo support their work during the pandemic, local authorities have been given £3.2bn by the government, which also announced a £600m infection control fund for care homes.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said it would keep future funding needs under review, but would not confirm that it would provide more money to councils.\n\nIt said it would work with local authorities to ensure the funding is distributed fairly and reaches front line services.\n\n\"We recognise that this pandemic is creating significant challenges for care homes and that extra support is needed to care for residents,\" a spokesman said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people gathered at an anti-racism rally in Manchester\n\nThousands of people have gathered for a rally in Manchester over the death of George Floyd, despite warnings not to assemble due to concerns that coronavirus is spreading again.\n\nCampaigners attended the protest in Piccadilly Gardens, while another one is planned for Sunday.\n\nAnti-racism rallies are being held worldwide after Mr Floyd's death in US police custody on 25 May.\n\nAndy Burnham has urged people to show support \"in different ways\"\n\nScientists have raised concerns the R number - the average number of people who can catch a virus from an infected person - is creeping up again nationwide.\n\nMr Burnham said: \"While I understand people's wish go to protest against what's been happening in the USA and send that message of solidarity, that can be done in different ways.\n\n\"It is not at all ideal... to be gathering in these circumstances when we still face a very high risk.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death has sparked protests against police brutality and racism in the US and Europe, including one held in Manchester last Sunday.\n\nThe unarmed black man who was put in handcuffs in the street died while a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe officer, Derek Chauvin, has been charged with murder while three colleagues stand accused of aiding and abetting.\n\nA Black Lives Matter protest is also planned for St Peter's Square on Sunday.\n\n\"I would normally want to go and show my support but I won't be doing that for precisely this reason, so I would ask people to think about that and show their support in another way,\" said Mr Burnham.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock also issued a warning against the protests, which are being held in several British cities.\n\nCurrent government rules restrict public gatherings to no more than six people in England.\n\nIn a statement, Greater Manchester Police said: \"We stand alongside all those who are appalled and horrified by the way George Floyd lost his life - justice and accountability should follow.\n\n\"We know people want their voices heard and the right to peaceful protest is a key part of democracy, which UK police uphold.\n\n\"Our officers will monitor the situation to maintain the safety of all involved. A top priority for us will be striking the balance and ensuring any response is both proportionate and fair.\"\n\nDr Sarah Jarvis told BBC Breakfast that demonstrators should stay distant from one another.\n\n\"Coronavirus is no respecter of the good cause for which you are going out,\" she said.\n\n\"If you are protesting, please be sensible. I know you feel strongly about it, but please socially distance - but actually if you can't socially distance even outside, please wear a face covering.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted the march organisers for a comment.", "This is Joe Biden's third attempt to win the presidency\n\nJoe Biden has formally won the Democratic Party nomination to take on Donald Trump in November's presidential election.\n\nHe said on Twitter that he had secured the 1,991 delegates needed and would fight to \"win the battle for the soul of the nation\".\n\nHe had been the effective nominee since Bernie Sanders withdrew in April.\n\nCoronavirus - and its effect on the economy - and the recent civil unrest are sure to dominate the election.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Biden, who served as Barack Obama's vice-president, began the primary campaign in faltering style in Iowa and New Hampshire, but then built momentum with a convincing victory in South Carolina.\n\nHe then dominated the so-called Super Tuesday contests, taking 10 of the 14 states.\n\nMr Biden said: \"It was an honour to compete alongside one of the most talented groups of candidates the Democratic party has ever fielded and I am proud to say that we are going into this general election a united party.\"\n\nMr Biden, 77, secured the nomination officially after seven states and the District of Columbia held presidential primaries on Tuesday.\n\nIt is his third bid for the presidency.\n\nAssociated Press puts his tally at 1,995 delegates, with eight states and three US territories still to vote.\n\nMr Obama endorsed Mr Biden in April, saying in a video that Mr Biden had \"all the qualities we need in a president right now\".\n\n\"This is a difficult time in America's history,\" Mr Biden said. \"And Donald Trump's angry, divisive politics is no answer. The country is crying out for leadership. Leadership that can unite us. Leadership that can bring us together.\"\n\nMr Trump has indicated he is eager to take the fight to Mr Biden who he derides as \"Sleepy Joe\", and the Democrat has faced a number of difficulties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The biggest myth about the \"black vote\"\n\nHe was forced into damage limitation mode after saying African Americans \"ain't black\" if they even considered voting for President Trump, later apologising for the \"cavalier\" comment.\n\nMr Biden has also faced accusations of inappropriate contact with women. He has described himself as a \"tactile politician\" and apologised for how people might react. Former staff assistant Tara Reade has accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1993, which he denies.\n\nThe US is facing major civil unrest over the death of an unarmed African American man, George Floyd, in police custody, at the same time as unemployment has reached levels unseen since the Great Depression amid the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Biden have already clashed on these issues, which look set to dominate the polls in November.", "Group worship will still be banned by lockdown regulations over fears that the virus could spread\n\nPlaces of worship will be allowed to open for private individual prayer under government plans to be announced next week.\n\nThese are not expected to include weddings of any size, or full services - which will come at a later date.\n\nThe prime minister is set to outline measures which will come into effect in England on 15 June.\n\nNorthern Ireland has already allowed private worship but Scotland and Wales have not yet done so.\n\nBoris Johnson is expected to update his cabinet on the plans on Tuesday.\n\nMinisters have been working with faith leaders on guidance for how places of worship can re-open safely with social distancing measures in place.\n\nIndividual churches, mosques, synagogues and temples will have to manage the number worshippers attending.\n\nDowning Street says any changes are contingent on the government's five tests for easing lockdown continuing to be met.\n\nFaith leaders have called for churches, mosques, synagogues and temples to be allowed to reopen as other lockdown measures have been lifted.\n\nCardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster and the most senior Roman Catholic in England and Wales, thanked the government and said the move was the \"first, measured step in restoring\" church services.\n\nHe said it was important that \"every care is taken to ensure that the guidance given for this limited opening is fully observed, not least by those entering our churches\".\n\nBut he added that \"not every Catholic church will be open on 15 June\".\n\n\"Local decisions and provision have to lead this process,\" he said.\n\nWhile the burden of the lockdown has fallen evenly across the population, religious groups have been forced to sacrifice major festivals that punctuate their practice over the year.\n\nChristians were unable to attend Holy Week services, Muslims have experienced Ramadan without communal Iftar meals each day.\n\nThe Jewish community experienced Passover without extended Seders and Sikhs were unable to mark the festival of Vaisakhi.\n\nAlthough places of worship will reopen solely for private prayer, it seems the government was persuaded that if the public is ready to re-engage in retail therapy then people of faith ought to be allowed to enter places of worship.\n\nAll the major religious groups are preparing new hygiene protocols, doors are likely to be opened only for limited periods, numbers attending will be carefully controlled and there will be no communal worship.\n\nBut at a time of widespread grief and anxiety about the future, this will be a welcome opportunity to seek comfort and consolation in sacred spaces around the country.\n\nA No 10 spokesperson said Mr Johnson recognised the importance of people being able to have space to \"reflect and pray, to connect with their faith, and to be able to mourn for their loved ones\" during the unprecedented time.\n\n\"We plan to open up places of worship for individual prayer in a safe, Covid-secure way that does not risk further transmission.\"\n\nCommunities Secretary Robert Jenrick said ensuring places of worship could reopen was a priority as their \"contribution to the common good of our country is clear\".\n\nHe said: \"People of all faiths have shown enormous patience and forbearance, unable to mark Easter, Passover, Ramadan or Vaisakhi with friends and family in the traditional way.\n\n\"As we control the virus, we are now able to move forwards with a limited but important return to houses of worship.\"\n\nPlaces of worship have been closed for almost two months, and in some cases even longer, after closing their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Jenrick has warned that large gatherings will be difficult to manage for some time, particularly with the demographics in some religions and rituals such as singing which may lead to the virus. spreading more freely", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Unscrupulous\" firms are promising NHS workers big savings through tax dodging schemes that could leave them out of pocket.\n\nThe firms, which operate at the fringes of the law, target key workers drafted in to help with the coronavirus crisis, a BBC Money Box investigation found.\n\nSocial media adverts push workers toward some umbrella companies that take a hefty cut of their salaries.\n\nIn return, these companies hide a portion of their pay from the taxman.\n\nBut Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has said signing up with these firms, which it described as \"unscrupulous\", could leave key workers facing large, unexpected tax bills.\n\nOne advert on Twitter says: \"If you've been drafted in to reinforce the NHS response to the #coronavirus pandemic, we want to assist you.\"\n\nWhen operating legitimately, working through an umbrella company can make it easier to take on jobs for multiple employers at once.\n\nThe worker has their salary paid to the umbrella company, which then pays tax, National Insurance and other deductions on their behalf. After taking a fee, the umbrella company will then pay the worker what is left.\n\nBut one company told Money Box that it was possible to save thousands of pounds a year legally by hiding a large chunk of a worker's salary from the taxman.\n\nPosing as a healthcare worker on a salary of £145 a day, our reporter was told by Dark Blue Professional, a UK-registered umbrella company, that they could take home 78% of their salary, which is more than they would have made through a standard umbrella company.\n\nKay from Dark Blue Professional explained how the scheme works: \"You receive one payment which is a PAYE [pay as you earn] salary payment, that's taxed and you receive a payslip - and the residual balance is then paid as an investment payment.\"\n\n\"You receive your second amount into your account…and because it's done that way there is no tax liability on the second proportion,\" she told us.\n\nAs a result, a healthcare worker earning £725 per week would be able to pocket £60 more than if they used a standard umbrella company.\n\nBut what Kay did not say is that Dark Blue Professional would take £80 a week in fees, four times the industry standard, and that the government would be cheated out of up to half the tax that it should have received.\n\nKay insisted the scheme is tax compliant. But similar types of scheme have been challenged by HMRC in the past, which has left thousands of workers with crippling tax bills.\n\nSome even faced losing their homes, leaving their finances in tatters.\n\nResponding to the findings of Money Box investigation, Judith Freedman - professor of taxation law and policy at Oxford University - said: \"There's a strong likelihood that HMRC will challenge them [the schemes] successfully.\n\n\"Not only could the individual taxpayers be left with a big tax bill and a lot of hassle, but they have already paid relatively large fees to the promoters, so they are much worse off than they would have been doing things in a straightforward way,\" she said.\n\n\"It is distressing that people are trying to sell these schemes with…minimal explanation of the risks. Everything possible needs to be done to stop the firms doing this before ordinary taxpayers get caught up in it.\"\n\nMoney Box also spoke to a broker from Contracting Scout, which actively targets key workers with adverts on Twitter and LinkedIn.\n\n\"Tim\", from Contracting Scout, offered to sign us up with an umbrella company also offering 78% take home pay.\n\nHe explained that the umbrella companies he works with \"are taking advantage of a few tax loopholes\" and admitted that \"the government doesn't like it\".\n\n\"They [the government] do try and legislate against it, but legislation is extremely slow, so once the new legislation moves in there's a hundred different umbrellas that pop up next week with a different type of payment structure which doesn't get captivated by the law.\n\n\"So the goal posts are always moving and the providers are always trying to cater to that,\" he said.\n\nNeither of the two companies responded to the findings of our investigation.\n\nAn HMRC spokesperson told Money Box \"it is shocking that unscrupulous promoters of tax avoidance schemes are targeting returning NHS workers during this difficult time. HMRC published [advice] on 30 March warning returning workers about this very issue.\n\n\"Our advice has always been to steer well clear of such schemes, and to report them to us in confidence for investigation\".\n\nThere are more details of this story on Money Box and you can follow Anna and Money Box on Twitter.", "Sending all children back to school - and freeing parents to go back to work - could trigger a second wave of coronavirus, warn researchers.\n\nUCL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine team said testing and tracing contacts of those with the virus might help prevent this.\n\nBut the current test and trace system would need to be more effective.\n\nThe study is the first to assess the extent of contact tracing that will be needed to prevent a second wave.\n\nIt used computer models to see how the virus might spread as pupils returned to the classroom and their parents were freed from childcare and able return to work or other activities.\n\nThe academics investigated the impact of the \"phased return\" strategy in England.\n\nThey analysed what happens when Reception, Year 1 and Year Six go back at the start of June; followed by all primary school pupils in July; secondary pupils in Year 10 and 12 having some contact in July and all secondary schools going back in September.\n\nThe study showed the combined effect on pupils and parents would be enough to cause a second wave without an effective test and trace programme.\n\nThis would happen around December 2020 and would be twice as big as the first peak, unless the government took other actions such as re-imposing lockdown.\n\nThe success of the scheme is dependent on how well the testing and the contact tracing goes.\n\nThe model suggested a second wave would be prevented if:\n\nModelling is not a crystal ball and there is always uncertainty around any predictions. However, researchers are concerned England is not achieving those figures.\n\nAbout 1,700 people are testing positive every day in hospitals, care homes and the wider community, while figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest there are 5,600 new infections a day in the community alone - and one Public Health England report suggests 17,000 infections per day.\n\nThere is still no official data on the number of contacts being traced, but a report by the Times (paywall) suggests it is less than 40%.\n\n\"Our concern from the data at the moment is test-trace-isolate is not reaching the coverage we think is the minimum,\" Prof Chris Bonell, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\n\"There is clearly a risk of a second pandemic wave… I'm worried. The R [rate of virus spread] is a bit below one [the point at which the number of new cases starts to take off again], but the incidence is high so it's precarious.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths, from UCL, said it would have been better to wait until test and trace was fully up and running before lifting lockdown.\n\n\"Cases are not coming down as much as we wanted. I would caution against reopening schools when we are doing a lot of other interventions and we don't know the impact of them.\n\n\"Everything depends on control of transmission, there is the threat of a second pandemic wave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, researchers at the University of Warwick have also published modelling on the impact of reopening schools. It looked only at the impact of children mixing, not the society-wide effect of schools opening.\n\nIt found that halving the size of classes or focusing on getting younger children into school was less likely to push the R number above 1, the point at which the number of new cases starts to take off again.\n\nSecondary schools were deemed more risky, as older children come into contact with more people.\n\n\"If we reopen all schools it could push R above 1 in some regions,\" Dr Ed Hill said.\n\nBut he added: \"Decisions surrounding reopening of schools are a difficult trade-off between the epidemiological consequences and the needs of the children in terms of educational development.\"", "The family have become custodians of the Roman fort while it is shut to the public\n\nA family spending lockdown living in a Roman Fort have described it as a \"surreal experience\".\n\nAs the UK went into lockdown Sonya and Colin Galloway, who both work for the trust that runs Vindolanda Fort, left their home in Hexham to live there.\n\nThe couple thought they and their sons Oliver, 15, and Luke, 13, would only be there for three or four weeks.\n\nBut they have remained for 11 weeks, sweeping bathhouses and protecting artefacts from wind and badger damage.\n\nLuke Galloway collected two buckets full of coins from a dried up well during lockdown life that has been like a \"permanent history lesson\"\n\nUsually this would be the busiest time of the year at the fort near Hadrian's Wall, with hundreds of visitors and would-be archaeologists booked in to take part in digs.\n\nBut, like tourist attractions across the UK, it has been closed because of the coronavirus crisis and communications manager Mrs Galloway said the site would have lost an estimate £600,000 in income by the end of July.\n\nMost of the site's 40 staff have been furloughed and she and her husband, deputy CEO at the Vindolanda Trust, took the decision to decamp the family as well as pet labradoodle Eric and cat Bramble to live in accommodation on site where volunteer diggers would usually stay.\n\nThey arrived soon after lockdown began in March, fearing a travel ban would leave the site empty.\n\nThe family has been able to appreciate super moons and sunsets with the fort as a backdrop\n\nSonya Galloway hopes her lockdown photos will inspire visitors to come when the fort begins a phased reopening on 15 June\n\nMrs Galloway said: \"We've been working 24/7 and there are worse places to be.\n\n\"We've been making sure the buildings are secure, repairing any minor damage caused by the weather or animals and inside checking our artefacts, maintaining the right humidity.\n\n\"My two boys have been locked in a permanent history lesson and it's been unforgettable for them.\n\n\"My youngest Luke has helped to sweep the pre-Hadrianic bathhouse, collect coins from a dried up well on the site and he was most impressed to get two buckets full of coins - only worth about £20 though.\n\n\"One highlight has been seeing a deer give birth to twins in the ground on a hot bank Holiday Monday - ordinarily animals wouldn't come that close but with no visitors she felt safe.\n\n\"Luckily for her the Roman Army with their love of hunting have long since left\".\n\nThe family has been able to enjoy a deer up-close having her fawns at the fort\n\nEric the labradoodle has been acting as Roman fort guard dog\n\nThe Vindolanda Trust had to apply for emergency funding and successfully obtained grants from the Arts Council England and Northumberland County Council.\n\nMrs Galloway said it has also had to take out a £300,000 bank loan to bridge some of the immediate funding gap and the financial costs of the pandemic would be felt for years.\n\nThe trust has launched a survival appeal and has raised just over a fifth of its £100,000 target.\n\nThe family has been running the Vindolanda online shop sending orders out all over the world.\n\nThey have also created a home learning section of the website to support parents with Roman-themed activities.\n\nTrust deputy CEO Colin Galloway created a home learning section on the site tested out by sons Luke and Oliver\n\n\"Personally for me it's been great,\" Mrs Galloway said. \"I love photography so have captured some wonderful images during lockdown, at all times of the day and night.\n\n\"I hope that those images inspire people to make a visit to the site once life returns to normal.\n\n\"Our downtime has been quite magical, from super moons to super sunsets and sunshine.\n\n\"We are, however, ready now to move back home and will be doing so in the next couple of weeks.\n\n\"We know there are many people out there who would have relished the opportunity to have been locked down at Vindolanda and we feel, actually, very fortunate to have played our part in caring for it while everyone has been away.\"\n\nVindolanda Fort is due to begin a phased reopening on 15 June.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nRose Paterson, the chairman of Aintree Racecourse, has been found dead near her Shropshire home aged 63.\n\nShe was married to Conservative MP and former cabinet minister Owen Paterson.\n\nIn a statement, he said the loss of his wife had come as a \"terrible shock\" to the family. A cause of death has not been given.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that I must inform you that my wife, Rose, has been found dead at our family home in Shropshire,\" he said.\n\n\"Rose and I were married for 40 happy years. She was a wonderful, caring wife, mother and grandmother.\n\n\"Her death has come as a terrible shock to us all. I would ask the media to respect the privacy of myself and my family at this extremely difficult time.\"\n\nThe couple married in 1980 and had two sons and a daughter.\n\nA minute's silence was held before racing at Haydock on Wednesday in her memory and that of Grand National-winning jockey Liam Treadwell, whose death was announced on Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement West Mercia Police said: \"We can confirm the body of a woman has been found in woodland near Pant Lane in Sodylt in Ellesmere. The death is currently being treated as unexplained. However at this stage, there is believed to be no third-party involvement.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has offered his condolences to Mr Paterson and his family.\n\n\"The PM heard the news this morning and has written to Owen,\" said a Downing Street spokesman.\n\n\"His thoughts and every sympathy are with Owen, his children and grandchildren at this difficult time.\"\n\n'She will be missed greatly'\n\nPaterson, the daughter of the fourth Viscount Ridley, was on the main board of stewards at the Jockey Club, which owns Aintree Racecourse, home of the Grand National, and other leading tracks including Cheltenham.\n\nShe was appointed chairman of Aintree in 2014, having been a racecourse committee director there since 2005.\n\nSandy Dudgeon, senior steward of the Jockey Club, said: \"This is tragic news and our thoughts go out to Rose's husband, Owen, and all members of her family.\n\n\"Rose was a wonderful person and involved in so many aspects of our sport. She was a skilled chairman at Aintree, a valued member of our board of stewards and headed up our horse welfare group. She also enjoyed participating at grassroots level over many years.\n\n\"We appreciated her contribution very much and my fellow stewards and I looked forward to hearing her sound views on a subject, where she was always sensitive to the best course of action for racing. She will be missed greatly for the person she was.\"\n\nHer husband is MP for North Shropshire and a former Northern Ireland secretary.\n\n\"Owen rang me this morning to inform me that Rose had been found passed away at home,\" said Steve Charmley, the chair of North Shropshire Conservative Association.\n\n\"Obviously, Owen is very devastated and asked to be left in peace to come to terms with the situation. Rose was a very well-liked person. \"\n\nIn 2011, Rose joined her husband in a nine-day 1,000km (621-mile) race across Mongolia on horseback following a trail blazed by Genghis Khan.\n\nThey endured extreme weather, being set on by a pack of dogs, and she also survived two tumbles but raised more than £100,000 for charity.\n\nBritish Horseracing Authority chief executive Nick Rust said he was \"extremely saddened\" by her death.\n\n\"Rose was one of those people who always seemed to see the bigger picture, do her best for the wider good and work tirelessly and selflessly towards achieving results,\" he said.\n\n\"She also had the knack of being able to say the right words at the right time.\"", "Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick was in close contact with the businessman behind a controversial planning case while preparing to decide whether to approve it, official documents show.\n\nPrivate messages show Mr Jenrick texted Richard Desmond before giving the go ahead for a housing development against advice from officials.\n\nLabour said it showed \"discrepancies\" in Mr Jenrick's account of events.\n\nBut Downing Street said Boris Johnson now considered the matter \"closed\".\n\nThe documents were released after Labour claimed Mr Jenrick's approval of a massive housing development on the site of the former Westferry Print Works in east London raised suggestions of \"cash for favours\".\n\nMr Desmond made a personal donation of £12,000 to the Conservative Party 12 days after the minister overruled government planning inspectors to approve the development.\n\nThe decision to approve the development was later challenged by Tower Hamlets Council, forcing the secretary of state to say what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\". It is now being handled by another minister.\n\nThe housing secretary insists he had no knowledge of Mr Desmond's donation and that his decision to overrule the inspectors was \"not unusual\", motivated by a desire to see more homes built.\n\nA billionaire with a planning problem finds himself sitting next to the cabinet minister responsible for planning, at a Conservative fundraising dinner.\n\nThe two later exchange texts and planning permission is granted in the nick of time, just before the developer would have found himself on the hook for a whopping tax bill.\n\nThe billionaire then makes a donation - albeit a small one - to the Conservative Party.\n\nLittle wonder this has caused Labour and others to ask loads of questions about what on earth was going on.\n\nIt looks bad. That's not my judgement - but that of Robert Jenrick.\n\nMr Jenrick changed his mind and rescinded the planning permission, as it was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nThe minister insists he wasn't biased, he declined to visit the proposed building site, and he has always been committed to and driven by ensuring more houses are built.\n\nOh, and there is still no permission for the building work to start.\n\nNotably, Labour is not calling for Robert Jenrick to resign and the prime minister says the case is closed.\n\nSo, for now at least, Mr Jenrick appears safe.\n\nIt is clear from the emails and letters released on Wednesday evening that Mr Jenrick supported the housing project - in the face of opposition from his officials - and was keen to make rapid progress with the decision.\n\nThe papers include personal correspondence between the minister and Mr Desmond, owner of property developers Northern & Shell, in the run-up to the planning permission being granted on 14 January.\n\nMr Desmond, the former owner of Express newspapers, had been lobbying for the proposed 1,500-home development to be approved before the local council, Tower Hamlets, introduced a new Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) to pay for local services.\n\nIn a text message to Mr Jenrick in November 2019, with an apparent reference to the Labour council, Mr Desmond wrote: \"...we appreciate the speed as we don't want to give Marxists a load of doe [sic] for nothing!\"\n\nIn one of the papers, a civil servant wrote, \"On timing, my understanding is that the SoS is/was insistent that the decision issued this week i.e. tomorrow - as next week the viability of the scheme is impacted by the change in London CIL.\"\n\nMr Jenrick approved the scheme on 14 January, by which Mr Desmond avoided paying £40m for the levy.\n\nThe planned development is in London's Docklands area\n\nBusiness Minister Nahim Zahawi told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"Getting stuff built is important to Robert Jenrick, that was his motivation.\n\n\"But when there was a perception of bias, he pulled back on this, pulled the plug on it and will now allow a different minister to decide the scheme.\n\nDocuments show Mr Jenrick tried to set up a meeting with Mr Desmond\n\nThe papers also show Mr Jenrick asked a member of his staff to arrange a meeting with Mr Desmond the day after he sat next to him at a Tory fundraising dinner, at which the businessman showed him a video of the planned development on his phone.\n\nBut on the following day, Mr Jenrick said by text that they should not meet again to avoid \"any appearance of being influenced\".\n\nThe arranged meeting appears to have been cancelled nearly a month later because Mr Jenrick had to be in Parliament for the Queen's Speech.\n\nThe opposition said Mr Jenrick also overruled his advisers to reduce the amount of affordable housing required in the development, potentially saving Mr Desmond a further £106m.\n\nLabour's shadow communities secretary, Steve Reed, said he was \"far from satisfied\" with Mr Jenrick's explanation of events, claiming the text exchanges with Mr Desmond were \"highly inappropriate\" and \"not in the spirit of the ministerial code of conduct\".\n\n\"The housing secretary needs to explain these discrepancies as a matter of urgency: the public must be reassured that there is not one rule for the Conservatives and their wealthy donors and another rule for everyone else,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's top civil servant Sir Mark Sedwill has rejected opposition calls for an investigation into Mr Jenrick's conduct - and whether he had broken the ministerial code - saying he had given a \"full and factual account\" of his actions.\n\nUnder the code, ministers must \"declare and resolve any relationships\", report any social contact with interested parties and \"take decisions impartially, fairly and on merit, using the best evidence and without discrimination or bias\".\n\nJohn Biggs, Labour Mayor of Tower Hamlets, said: ''The revelations about the Westferry Print Works decision have blown apart confidence in our planning system under Mr Jenrick.\n\n\"The documents he was forced to release are damning and it looks like he rushed through the decision to help save the developer money and short-change my residents.\n\n''The minister referred to our borough as 'rotten', and messages from the developer called our council 'Marxist'. This name calling says more about them and their disregard for my residents whose borough it is, and who rightly want much needed affordable homes and money for local services.''\n\nThe 15 acre site is in the shadow of Canary Wharf\n\nIt is the timing of the decision to approve the development which is the greatest cause for concern among those living close to the east London site.\n\nIt came the day before a new community infrastructure levy was introduced, saving the developer an estimated £40m that could have been spent on schools, transport, hospitals and sports facilities.\n\n\"I really feel that I've been a bit cheated to be honest with you,\" says local resident Ruth Bravery, who runs a charity that helps the destitute in East London.\n\n\"That meant that the local people are really going to lose out as a result.\"\n\nSpeaking in the Commons before the documents were released, Mr Jenrick said the accusations were \"not simply wrong but actually outrageous\", adding the decision had been made on its merits after a thorough process.\n\nBut he admitted \"things could and should have been done differently\", saying: \"On reflection, I should have handled the communication differently.\"\n\nConservative backbencher Sir Bernard Jenkin backed Mr Jenrick to stay in his job and told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while there had been a mistake there was \"no sign of actual maladministration\".", "\"We're almost 90% open with most of our retailers trading. It's a return to almost normality,\" says James Roberts the boss of Grosvenor Shopping centre in Northampton.\n\nBut there's one big question. How many of the 50 or so retailers and food outlets will be paying any rent this week.\n\n\"Hopefully some, but we've only collected 56% in the last quarter,\" he says.\n\nUK landlords should be collecting at least £2.5bn on Wednesday for shop rents.\n\nOn the last rent day in March, no more than half the total rent was handed over and landlords will be lucky to get a quarter of what they're owed today.\n\nMost high street shops, along with pubs and restaurants, have seen sales evaporate and have either been unable or refusing to pay rent.\n\nBill Hughes says unless there's an appeal for long term investors like pension funds to invest in UK real estate, infrastructure won't get funded.\n\nBusinesses are hoarding cash to survive. But the crisis is starving landlords of much needed income, too.\n\nThe Grosvenor Shopping Centre is the kind of everyday mall you'd find in many of our towns and city centres.\n\nIt's owned by Legal & General which invests in property to fund thousands of pensions.\n\n\"It's not well known, or particularly transparent to people, but most retail properties are effectively owned by the normal person on the street in the UK,\" said Bill Hughes, Legal and General's head of real assets.\n\nRecent research by Estates Gazette, a commercial property weekly, showed that as much as 60% of all UK retail space is owned either directly or indirectly by the public, including pension funds, the public sector and individual shareholders.\n\nIt's been a secure form of income until now.\n\n\"The risk of loss of income is really important. The pension fund owners of the built environment of the UK, they rely upon the income being produced by what hitherto have been seen as being very stable assets. And that is at risk in a way that's never been there to the extent before.\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nLandlords have enjoyed the good times over the decades with long leases and upward-only rent reviews.\n\nAnd rapidly expanding retailers were happy to sign up. But in recent years with sales shifting online, it's become far harder for shops to make a profit.\n\nThe pandemic has accelerated this trend. The Government extended its ban on evictions for non-payment of rent until the autumn.\n\nOccupiers are now frantically trying to secure better deals or turning to insolvency proceedings to renegotiate their debts, including owed rent.\n\nMark Burlton, the founder of Cross Border Retail, said landlords may have to get used to the fact their properties are worth less\n\nThe traditional business model of how retail property is leased is now well and truly broken.\n\n\"It's a mess, but it's not a mess that we can't tidy up\" said Mark Burlton, the founder of Cross Border Retail, a real estate business which advises landlords and retailers.\n\n\"I do feel sorry for them (landlords) . Absolutely. They are entitled to receive income, but I don't believe they're entitled to receive the same income as they were. I think they have to understand the value of their asset. And the value of their asset is what someone is prepared to pay for it. There isn't a queue of retailers coming up behind them,\" he said.\n\nHe believes upward only rent reviews should be abolished along with the Landlord and Tenant Act of 1954, the law which still underpins the leasehold system in the UK.\n\n\"It's inflexible. We need something which is much cheaper and quicker to negotiate. We should have a system of rents based on turnover, allowing retailers to pay a rent they can afford. But in order to do that, tenants have to play their part. They have to declare what they are turning over,\" said Mr Burlton.\n\nBill Hughes thinks the Government's new code of practice on rental agreements should ease the tensions.\n\n\"We're having an active conversation with tenants about can they pay, and if they can't pay, we're working hard to restructure things.\n\n\"Because it's in our interest to find a way of helping cash flow to companies that would survive beyond this very difficult, unusual crisis that Covid presents.\"\n\nLegal & General's Bill Hughes thinks the Government should take a careful look at providing some financial support to help bridge the likely shortfall in income otherwise the \"dynamic between landlords and tenants is likely to be challenging and deteriorate\".\n\nThe future prosperity of our high streets and town centres could ultimately be at stake if this crisis doesn't end well.\n\nRegeneration requires private sector investment as well as Government funding.\n\nMr Hughes says unless there's an appeal for long term investors like pension funds to invest in UK real estate, infrastructure won't get funded.\n\n\"They need a sensible and stable environment within which they can get some sort of return,\" he explains.\n\nMr Burlton says he's receiving phone calls from US private equity and venture capitalists sniffing around for opportunities to snap up some retail assets on the cheap.\n\n\"Ultimately if landlords and tenants can't agree what the actual rent should be, then a number of landlords face the very real prospect of going bust. And then we have to be careful what we wish for because the purchasers of these assets in my opinion will likely have much shorter goals than the landlords they currently have. \"\n\nThe fate of heavily indebted shopping centre owner, Intu, will be decided by Friday. It owns some of the UK's biggest and most popular malls, including the Trafford Centre and the Metrocentre in Gateshead.\n\nIf it can't secure a last minute agreement with its lenders, it will go into administration which could mean the temporary closure of its sites.", "Segway is ending production of its original two-wheeler, which was popular with city tour guides and some police forces - but not the public.\n\nLaunched in 2001, the much-hyped self-balancing vehicle promised to revolutionise personal transport.\n\nThe Segway, invented by US engineer Dean Kamen, debuted with much fanfare, but struggled to make a profit.\n\nAccidents didn't help with the Segway's popularity, and the company was bought by Chinese rival Ninebot in 2015.\n\nMade at a factory in New Hampshire, in the US, production of the Segway Personal Transporter will end on 15 July.\n\nAnnouncing the news, Segway president Judy Cai said: \"Within its first decade, the Segway PT became a staple in security and law enforcement, viewed as an effective and efficient personal vehicle.\"\n\nHowever, in the vehicle's almost two decade-long history it has also been the subject of mockery and high-profile collisions as well as a tragic death.\n\nThen-US President George W. Bush was pictured falling off a Segway in 2003\n\nIn 2003, then-US President George W Bush took a tumble off a Segway at his parents' summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine.\n\nThe incident followed Vice President Dick Cheney's use of a Segway to ride around his office when his Achilles tendon was playing up.\n\nThe Segway also served as a, quite literally, comedy vehicle in the 2009 Hollywood movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop.\n\nIn the film, actor and comedian Kevin James played a security guard who patrolled a shopping mall on a Segway to much comic effect.\n\nSprinter Usain Bolt collided with a cameraman on a Segway in 2015\n\nIn 2015, as he celebrated his fourth consecutive world 200 metres title, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt was knocked over by a cameraman on a Segway.\n\nNo serious harm was done, and the legendary athlete quickly got to his feet and continued his victory lap.\n\nIn January this year Segway's prototype wheelchair crashed during a demonstration at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) exhibition in Las Vegas.\n\nThe S-Pod - a self-balancing electric wheelchair - was being tested by a journalist at the time. The rider had accelerated the vehicle before accidently crashing into a wall.\n\nThe Segway was also at the centre of a tragic incident when the self-made millionaire owner of the company died after falling from a cliff in the UK while riding one of his firm's motorised scooters.\n\nJimi Heselden crashed into the River Wharfe while using his Segway on his estate, in West Yorkshire, just 10 months after buying the firm in 2009.\n\nThe inquest into Mr Heselden's death heard that he died due to an \"act of courtesy\" as he tried to make way for a dog walker.", "The apprenticeship system is failing disadvantaged young people in England, warns the Social Mobility Commission.\n\nThe commission also says the Covid-19 pandemic will make things worse and will exacerbate youth unemployment.\n\nIn a report, it highlights a 36% decline in people from disadvantaged backgrounds starting apprenticeships, compared with 23% for other groups.\n\nThe Department for Education said it was \"absolutely committed to levelling up opportunity across the country\".\n\nThe Social Mobility Commission's report was published as the Education Select Committee took evidence about apprenticeships and skills at a session on Wednesday morning.\n\nThe report, Apprenticeships and social mobility: Fulfilling potential, says the introduction of an apprenticeship levy in 2017 has led to a \"collapse in overall apprenticeship starts that hit disadvantaged learners hardest\".\n\nThe apprenticeship levy takes 0.5% of the salary bill from major employers that have an annual pay bill over £3m, with the intention of using the money to improve skills and provide training.\n\nThe report finds that between 2015-16 and 2017-18, the number of apprenticeship starters from disadvantaged backgrounds fell by more than a third (36%), as opposed to 23% for other apprentices.\n\nThe commission's report also says that most of the benefits of apprenticeships are going to those from wealthier backgrounds.\n\nBut it stresses that apprenticeships are \"one of the most effective means of boosting social mobility for workers from poorer backgrounds - if they can get into and through the system\".\n\nLead report author, Alice Battiston from London Economics said: \"There is a severe disadvantage gap throughout the entire apprenticeship training journey, and this has worsened over time.\n\n\"Not only has the proportion of new starters from disadvantaged backgrounds declined over time, but they have also benefited less than their better-off peers from the shift towards higher-level programmes.\"\n\nSteven Cooper, joint deputy chair of the Social Mobility Commission, said: \"The apprenticeship levy, introduced in 2017, has disproportionately funded higher-level apprenticeships for learners from more advantaged communities, rather than those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds who would benefit more.\n\n\"It is no longer credible for the government to assume that apprenticeships automatically improve social mobility and leave the system to its own devices,\" he said.\n\n\"Strategic action and direction are needed to target the system better on disadvantaged communities and improve the system's value for money.\"\n\nFollowing the coronavirus pandemic, there are concerns that disadvantaged apprentices are at further risk from an economic decline, with many employed in hard-hit sectors such as hospitality and retail.\n\n\"The pandemic is likely to have made the disadvantage gap worse. There needs to be urgent consideration of the impact of the apprenticeship levy on social mobility outcomes,\" added Ms Battiston.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said apprenticeships would be one of the building blocks of economic recovery after Covid-19.\n\n\"If the government is serious about offering an 'apprenticeship guarantee' it will heed calls from the further education sector for a post-Covid skills funding package, address the barriers to success and support employers to provide the opportunities and decent pay new apprentices need to succeed.\"\n\n\"As this report shows, many disadvantaged apprentices face significant barriers to success already, but with warnings from the FE sector that a shortage of new places and large numbers of apprentice redundancies could be on the horizon, their future may look even bleaker without urgent government action.\"\n\nA DfE spokeswoman said: \"We are absolutely committed to levelling up opportunity across the country, and continue to do all we can to make sure no-one is left behind as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"Apprenticeships are an excellent way to get into a wide range of rewarding careers and they will continue to play a vital role delivering the high-quality skills employers and our economy will need to recover.\n\n\"We are looking at how we can make sure more people and businesses can take advantage of apprenticeships in the future, including supporting employers, especially small and medium sized businesses, to take on new apprentices this year.\"", "Ben and Jerry's has joined a growing list of firms pulling advertising from Facebook platforms throughout July.\n\nIt's part of the Stop Hate For Profit campaign, which calls on Facebook to have stricter measures against racist and hateful content.\n\nBen and Jerry's Tweeted that it \"will pause all paid advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the US\".\n\nFacebook has said it is committed to \"advancing equity and racial justice\".\n\nEarlier this week outdoor brands The North Face, Patagonia and REI joined the campaign.\n\nBen and Jerry's said it is standing with the campaign and \"all those calling for Facebook to take stronger action to stop its platforms from being used to divide our nation, suppress voters, foment and fan the flames of racism and violence, and undermine our democracy.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben & Jerry's This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter George Floyd's death in police custody, Ben and Jerry's chief executive Matthew McCarthy said \"business should be held accountable\" as he set out plans to increase diversity.\n\nGeorge Floyd died in Minneapolis in May as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe final moments were filmed on phones. Four police officers involved have been sacked and charged over his death.\n\nEarlier this week the freelance job listing platform Upwork and the open-source software developer Mozilla also joined the campaign.\n\n\"We're taking steps to review our policies, ensure diversity and transparency when making decisions on how we apply our policies, and advance racial justice and voter engagement on our platform,\" Facebook said on Sunday.\n\nThe statement also pointed to the company's Community Standards, which include the recognition of the platform's importance as a \"place where people feel empowered to communicate, and we take seriously our role in keeping abuse off our service\".\n\nA European Commission report this month found Facebook removed 86% of hate speech last year, up from 82.6%.\n\nThe social network, says almost all of the content which violates its policies is automatically detected by its systems and removed before it is reported.\n\nThe Stop Hate for Profit campaign was launched last week by advocacy groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Color Of Change.\n\nThe movement has said it is a \"response to Facebook's long history of allowing racist, violent and verifiably false content to run rampant on its platform\".\n\nStop Hate for Profit has called on advertisers to pressure the company to adopt stricter measures against racist and hateful content on its platforms by stopping all spending on advertising with it throughout July.\n\nLast year the social network attracted advertising revenue of almost $70bn (£56bn).\n\nFacebook, and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, have often been criticised for the handling of controversial subjects.\n\nThis month the company's staff spoke out against the tech giant's decision not to remove or flag a post by US President Donald Trump.\n\nThe same message was shared on Twitter, where it was hidden behind a warning label on the grounds that it \"glorified violence\".\n\nUnilever, the parent company of Ben and Jerry's, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the BBC.", "Hairdressers will be allowed to reopen from 4 July - and clearly it's not a moment too soon for thousands of customers desperate for a trim.\n\n\"We've built up a waiting list of more than 2,000 people,\" said Katya Davies, who runs four Myla and Davis hairdressers in south London.\n\nAmid mounting speculation that the lockdown would be eased for large swathes of the service sector, Ms Davies opened her appointment book a couple of weeks ago.\n\nJuly is already looking full, she said, and there's now a big rush to get the salons ready in time. They will open an extra four hours each day to cope with demand.\n\n\"We can't wait to get back to work and we've planned our reopening schedule around the 2m distancing rule. We don't plan to change that, although the switch to 1m-plus will ease the burden a little,\" she said.\n\n\"Our salons will be able to work at around 65% capacity although wearing visors will be quite cumbersome and bring its own problems, especially for the comfort of our workers who will be dealing with clients back-to-back.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson anticipated the huge demand for a haircut when he announced the easing of the lockdown after more than three months\n\nHe said: \"Almost as eagerly awaited as a pint will be a haircut, particularly by me, and so we will reopen hairdressers with appropriate precautions, including the use of visors.\"\n\nThe details of the new guidelines are expected to be announced soon, but are expected to include use of protective screens and an increase in handwashing facilities.\n\n\"We've already had lots of texts and calls from customers excited to be able to return to the saloon,\" said Dale Hollinshead, who runs Hazel & Haydn, in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.\n\n\"It's been a long lockdown for all of us,\" he said. His salon has two floors, which makes social distancing a little easier to deal with, he reckons.\n\n\"We've been busy preparing the salon for opening in the last few weeks and have put plastic screens in place and have floor markings that are ready to go down.\n\n\"We have a range of plastic visors and face masks for staff and will do whatever else the guidelines require to ensure everyone is safe.\"\n\nThe salon will extend opening hours from 8am to 8pm when it reopens on 4 July, and stylists will work shifts in teams to reduce the number of people that customers come into contact with.\n\n\"We're really looking forward to getting back to business,\" Mr Hollinshead said.\n\n\"We're very pleased about the news that we can finally reopen,\" said Belle Cannan, co-founder of Salon Sloane in London's Chelsea. \"We all want to get back to work and our clients are excited to see us.\"\n\nShe had been preparing to reopen based on 2m social distancing, but welcomed the reduction to 1m, saying: \"It means we will be able to work at around 75% capacity rather than 50%.\n\n\"We've remained in contact with clients through lockdown with advice to help them avoid hair disasters. Then a couple of weeks ago we started taking provisional appointments, and the phone's been very active.\"\n\nClients will be offered face-masks while stylists will be wearing lightweight visors. Other changes will see a hand-sanitising station for clients, and the reception will be screened off.\n\nMs Cannan said: \"There are some of our usual touches that have had to go, such as offering tea, coffee or magazines to clients. They will also have to put on their own gowns and hang up their own coats.\"\n\nBut she's confident clients will adjust: \"People having been waiting so long for this that they will be happy with the new normal.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I want to come back to change in Wales\"\n\nAt only 24 years of age, Chizi Phiri, has an impressive CV.\n\nA graduate of Swansea University, she was Women's Officer at NUS Wales where she ran a nationwide campaign on period poverty.\n\nAfter that, she completed a mentoring scheme to help her break into public life in Wales.\n\nA good start for an articulate and confident young person whose ultimate goal is to become a politician.\n\nThe only problem? Ms Phiri says she hit a dead end in Wales and had to leave.\n\n\"We all know the statistics,\" she says.\n\n\"Black and Asian graduates have to send 80% more applications than their white counterparts. That's definitely something I experienced.\n\n\"And public life and politics is really not representative of the Wales we're living in today. As a young black woman, you want to see other people that look like you to give you confidence, and it really wasn't there in Wales.\"\n\nMs Phiri wants to see change.\n\n\"I think a lot of people pay lip service and I hear a lot of these conversations. You know I've seen countless reports and consultations. What I'm not seeing is actions,\" she said.\n\n\"How many black people are you employing in higher executive levels? What are you paying your black staff? Is it equal to their white counterparts? And what are you doing to elevate them further into higher roles?\"\n\nShe is not the only person of colour who said she had to leave Wales to develop their career.\n\nDr Constantino Dumangane Jr would like to work in Wales in the future\n\nDr Constantino Dumangane Jr is an academic whose research specialism is race and diversity.\n\nOriginally from the USA, he has lived in Cardiff for 14 years.\n\nHe says it was a battle to get Welsh academia to take race seriously as a research subject.\n\n\"In Wales, it's class or it's gender and race is always the last thing on the list, and that's extremely problematic,\" he said.\n\nDr Dumangane went to work at the University of York, where he now researches and teaches on issues of race and ethnicity, despite still living in Cardiff.\n\nRecently, the impact of Coronavirus on BAME people and the Black Lives Matter movement have sharpened the focus on systemic racism.\n\nThe first minister has spoken about the \"lack of BAME representation in decision-making processes\" and a recent review of the appointments the Welsh Government makes to public bodies has suggested changes.\n\nIn 2018-19, 3% of appointments were of BAME people despite them making up 5% of the population.\n\nEqualities Minister Jane Hutt insists some progress has been made over the 20 years that Welsh Labour has been in power in Cardiff Bay but admits there is \"a huge deficit in terms of representation particularly of BAME people and also disabled people, though we've made more progress on women\".\n\nShe added: \"We know it's no good just going on the same way we've been doing.\"\n\nBoth Dr Dumangane and Ms Phiri would like to work in Wales, but only when they feel there is a place for them.\n\n\"I love it and I think it's an incredible country,\" says Ms Phiri.\n\n\"But I want to come back and see diversity. I would love to come back, but things really, really need to change.\"", "Four children were killed between 2014 and 2019 by a parent given access to them by a court, BBC research found\n\nDomestic abuse victims will get greater protections in an \"overhaul of how the family courts deal with the horrific crime\", the government has announced.\n\nUnder new plans, more victims will have access to separate courtroom entrances, waiting rooms and protective screens to shield them from their alleged abuser.\n\nA number of reforms will be included in the upcoming Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nIt comes after an expert-led review of the family courts' handling domestic abuse, following a BBC investigation.\n\nResearch by the Victoria Derbyshire programme found that within five years at least four children were killed by a parent with a known history of domestic abuse after a family court granted access.\n\nThe BBC also learned of cases where a parent with convictions for serious crimes relating to domestic abuse - including rape and serious violent offences - were granted unsupervised access to their child.\n\nThe government review, led by experts from charities, the judiciary, family law practitioners and academia, took the views of more than 1,200 organisations and individuals, including parents and children with experience of the family courts.\n\nIt heard concerns about a \"pro-contact culture\", in which courts placed undue priority on ensuring contact with the non-resident parent, resulting in \"systemic minimisation of allegations of domestic abuse\".\n\nThe panel heard evidence about potential long-term harm to children as a result of courts ordering continued contact with an abusive parent.\n\nIt also found that an \"adversarial system\" in the family courts, including in cases involving child sexual abuse, often worsened conflict between parents and could re-traumatise victims and their children.\n\n\"Sweeping reforms\" of the system aimed to better protect domestic abuse victims in the family courts, the Ministry of Justice said.\n\nJustice minister Alex Chalk said the family courts see some of the most vulnerable in society and the government had a duty \"to ensure they are protected and not put in danger\".\n\n\"This report lays bare many hard truths about long-standing failings, but we are determined to drive the fundamental change necessary to keep victims and their children safe,\" he said.\n\nNicki Norman, Acting CEO at the charity Women's Aid, who was a member of the expert panel, said the report marked \"a major step forward\".\n\nShe said that \"all too often, survivors and their children experience the family courts as failing to effectively protect them\".\n\n\"This welcome report must now deliver change.\"\n\nDomestic Abuse Commissioner Nicole Jacobs and Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales Dame Vera Baird QC also welcomed the reforms.\n\n\"This panel of experts has dug deep to understand, and address, the serious harm to domestic abuse victims and their children caused over many years by the presumption of contact, and the intensely adversarial process present in the family courts,\" Dame Vera said.\n\nTop family court judge in England and Wales, Sir Andrew McFarlance, President of the Family Division, praised the review, and said he hoped parliament would be able to allocate the resources necessary to implement the proposals.\n\nThe Domestic Abuse Bill is currently at the report stage in the House of Commons. Other measures include prohibiting perpetrators of abuse from cross-examining their victims in person in the family courts in England and Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prof Pennington said the decision to reduce the distance is a political one Image caption: Prof Pennington said the decision to reduce the distance is a political one\n\nThe decision over the two-metre social distancing rule in Scotland is one of \"personality and politics\", a scientist has claimed.\n\nProf Hugh Pennington said the decision to reduce the distance is a political one, given how new Covid-19 is and the fact advice being given to both administrations will be \"largely the same\".\n\nWriting in the Scottish Daily Mail , Prof Pennington said should there be a localised outbreak - in a place such as a bar - when the rule is relaxed then it could simply be shut down and the rest of the population will not be impacted.\n\nThe first minister has said she has asked her scientific advisers to look into reducing the amount of social distancing in certain measures, with a report expected by 2 July.\n\nProf Pennington said there is \"every reason\" Scotland should also reduce the social distancing rule.\n\nHe wrote: \"But in my view there is absolutely no need for (Nicola Sturgeon's) caution.\n\n\"There is no reason we should not be following England and reducing the social distancing limit to one metre and every reason we should be in order to get the economy and education system going again.\n\n\"If we do see a localised outbreak of Covid, for example if there is an outbreak linked to a particularly busy pub, we can step in and close it down again.\n\n\"The whole country does not need to go back into lockdown.\"\n\nHe added: \"What we are seeing now is not about the science, it's about the personality and the politics.\"", "The hoods are made of a mesh-type fabric and are placed over an individual's head to prevent them biting or spitting at officers\n\nAmnesty International has called on the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to suspend the use of spit hoods after \"an admission they provide no protection from Covid-19\".\n\nThe organisation said there were implications for other UK police forces which have the same make of equipment.\n\nThe PSNI has said it is reviewing the position as more information emerges.\n\nThe PSNI began using the hoods during lockdown, after incidents where suspects coughed or spat at officers.\n\nAmnesty claimed the pandemic had been used \"as cover\" to roll out their use.\n\nThe human rights body has long had serious reservations about the use of the hoods.\n\nThey are made of a mesh-type fabric, and are placed over an individual's head to prevent them biting or spitting at officers.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Policing Board approved their limited introduction at the end of March, after previously withholding consent.\n\nOther UK police forces started using them long before the pandemic.\n\nThe PSNI wrote to Amnesty two weeks ago in response to concerns they raised.\n\nThe police letter states the manufacturers have informed them the hoods are \"not designed to stop airborne pathogens or respiratory droplets etc (i.e. Covid-19)\".\n\nBut the PSNI added they could \"counter the virus\" if contained in saliva or blood when spitting or biting.\n\nThe PSNI said the spit hoods had been used 29 times between the end of March and 23 June.\n\nAs is procedure, the Police Ombudsman has been informed about each incident.\n\n\"The police have issued spit and bite guards as a temporary measure for use during the Covid-19 pandemic,\" said Ch Supt Sam Donaldson.\n\n\"We will continue to review this position in light of all available information.\"\n\nSpit guards or hoods aren't in universal use by all British police.\n\nThe basic rule is that they should only be placed on a suspect who's already spat or bitten, or it's clear they're about to.\n\nAnd in England and Wales, the combined police chiefs haven't pronounced that they should be deployed to protect officers from the coronavirus.\n\nSome campaigners say the guards are degrading and dangerous - although the Metropolitan Police's medically-supervised tests found they presented no risk to a suspect's breathing.\n\nThe Police Federation of England and Wales - representing front-line officers - believes they're a defence against the \"weaponising\" of Covid by dangerous offenders.\n\nIt believes there's no evidence to suggest using spit guards increases the risk of infection to officers.\n\nThat's because by the time a constable deploys the covering on a suspect, they will almost certainly already have been subjected to a grim assault, with all the disease dangers that come with it.\n\nAmnesty International's Patrick Corrigan said: \"The pandemic has been used as cover to roll out these controversial restraint devices in Northern Ireland in the face of the scientific evidence.\"\n\nThe organisation added that with other UK forces using identical kit, police chiefs should \"make it crystal clear to officers\" that the hoods \"do not offer any protection\" from Covid-19.\n\n\"Police forces across the UK should now withdraw them from use in possible or suspected cases of COVID,\" it said.\n\nChief Superintendent Sam Donaldson from Operational Support Department said: \"The Police Service of Northern Ireland has issued Spit and Bite Guards as a temporary measure for use during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will continue to review this position in light of all available information.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHousing Secretary Robert Jenrick is facing fresh questions from Labour after the release of documents relating to a controversial planning decision.\n\nMr Jenrick released the papers to hit back at Labour allegations of \"cash for favours\", saying they would kill off the party's \"wild allegations\".\n\nThey relate to a decision to grant planning permission to a developer who later gave money to the Tory Party.\n\nBut Labour said Mr Jenrick must clear up \"discrepancies\" in his account.\n\nIn a point of order in the Commons following the documents' release, Labour's Steve Reed said: \"There appear to be significant discrepancies between what the secretary of state told the house and what is in the documents.\n\n\"He did not immediately notify officials following his dinner with the applicant Richard Desmond, that rather than closing discussion down with the developer as the secretary of state implies, he instead initiated contact with him the next day by text.\n\n\"And the letters confirm that he rushed through the decisions deliberately to help the developer avoid a £30m to £50m levy payable to Tower Hamlets council.\"\n\nBut Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, the top civil servant in No 10, said the prime minister \"considered the matter closed\" following the publication of the documents.\n\nThe documents include letters and emails between Mr Jenrick and his officials, and representatives of developer Richard Desmond's Northern and Shell company, as well as the minister's correspondence with senior MPs.\n\nThey detail attempts by Mr Desmond's representatives to set up a meeting, and a site visit, with Mr Jenrick - something the minister said did not happen, after advice from officials.\n\nDocuments show Mr Jenrick tried to set up a meeting with Mr Desmond\n\nThe documents also include email discussions between Mr Jenrick's officials on how to explain his decision to overrule the government's own planning inspectors to give the go-ahead to the development.\n\nIn one document, a civil servant said the secretary of state wanted the development signed off the following day so that Northern and Shell would avoid a new community infrastructure levy.\n\n\"On timing, my understanding is that SoS is/was insistent that decision issued this week ie tomorrow - as next week the viability of the scheme is impacted by a change in the London CIL regime.\"\n\nEarlier in the Commons, Mr Jenrick took the opposition by surprise by announcing he would publish all \"relevant\" documents relating to the case.\n\nHe said the accusations made against him were \"not simply wrong but actually outrageous\", but he admitted \"things could and should have been done differently\".\n\n\"On reflection, I should have handled the communication differently,\" he said.\n\nLabour had tabled a motion seeking to force the government to release all documents relating to the controversy, something the minister had previously refused to do.\n\nOpening a Commons debate on the matter, shadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it had \"blown apart\" public confidence in the planning system - and the only way to put that right was to publish the papers.\n\nLabour's Steve Reed was pushing for the publication of documents\n\nMr Jenrick said the material would kill off \"all the wild accusations and the baseless innuendo\" coming from the Labour Party.\n\n\"This was a decision taken with an open mind on the merits of the case after a thorough decision-making process,\" he told MPs.\n\nMr Jenrick denied claims by Labour's Toby Perkins that he would not have published the documents without pressure from Labour and that they had been \"dragged out of him\".\n\nHe said the material had taken time to pull together in response to a call from Labour MP Clive Betts, chairman of the communities and local government select committee.\n\nThe planned development is in London's Docklands area\n\n\"Transparency matters, openness matters and settling this matter because I certainly don't want to be the subject of the innuendo and the false accusations that the Opposition are choosing to peddle,\" he said.\n\nHe added that it was \"not unusual\" for ministers to \"come to a different conclusion to that of a local authority\" and to overrule the government's planning inspectors.\n\n\"I stand by the decision I made. I believe passionately that Britain needs to build houses.\"\n\nThe row centres around a 1,500 home development at the former Westferry printing works on the Isle of Dogs, in East London.\n\nThe developer, former Daily Express owner Richard Desmond, personally gave the Conservative Party £12,000 two weeks after the scheme was approved, in January.\n\nIt later emerged Mr Jenrick had sat next to Mr Desmond, and three Northern and Shell executives, at a Conservative Party fundraising dinner in November 2019.\n\nLabour says Mr Jenrick also overruled his advisers to reduce the amount of affordable housing required in the development, potentially saving Mr Desmond a further £106m.\n\nMr Jenrick's decision was challenged by Tower Hamlets Council, forcing the secretary of state to back down and say what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nCouncillors asked the High Court to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nMr Jenrick said Mr Desmond had tried to raise the scheme with him during the dinner, and had invited him on a site visit, but that he had told the businessman he could not discuss it and declined the site visit, on the advice of his officials.\n\nMr Desmond told The Sunday Times last weekend that he had shown Mr Jenrick a promotional video for the scheme on his mobile phone during the fundraiser at the Savoy Hotel.\n\nWhen pressed by the SNP's communities spokesman David Linden about Mr Desmond's claims, Mr Jenrick said: \"He did bring out his iPhone and show me some images of the development.\"\n\nBut the minister said he had told Mr Desomond \"it was not appropriate to discuss the matter and I couldn't comment on it\".", "The LIGO-Virgo collaboration runs some of the most exquisite scientific instruments ever built\n\nScientists have discovered an astronomical object that has never been observed before.\n\nIt is more massive than collapsed stars, known as \"neutron stars\", but has less mass than black holes.\n\nSuch \"black neutron stars\" were not thought possible and will mean ideas for how neutron stars and black holes form will need to be rethought.\n\nThe discovery was made by an international team using gravitational wave detectors in the US and Italy.\n\nCharlie Hoy, a PhD student from Cardiff University, UK, involved in the study, said the new discovery would transform our understanding.\n\n\"We can't rule out any possibilities,\" he told BBC News. \"We don't know what it is and this is why it is so exciting because it really does change our field.\"\n\nThis event involved an object more massive than known neutron stars but less massive than known black holes. It existed in what has become known as the \"mass gap\"\n\nMr Hoy is part of an international team working for the Ligo-Virgo Scientific Collaboration.\n\nThe international group, which has strong UK involvement backed by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, has laser detectors several kilometres long that are able to detect minute ripples in space-time caused by the collision of massive objects in the Universe.\n\nThe collected data can be used to determine the mass of those objects involved.\n\nLast August, the instruments detected the collision of a black hole 23 times the mass of our Sun with an object of 2.6 solar masses.\n\nThat makes the lighter object more massive than the heaviest type of dead star, or neutron star, previously observed - of just over two solar masses. But it was also lighter than the lightest black hole previously observed - of around five solar masses.\n\nAstronomers have been searching for such objects in what they've come to call the \"mass gap\".\n\nWriting in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the research team believes that of all the possibilities, the object is most likely to be a light black hole, but they are not ruling out any other possibilities.\n\nThe labs that detect gravitational waves fire lasers down long tunnels\n\nHaving collided with the large black hole, the object no longer exists. However, there should be further opportunities to learn more about these mass-gap objects from future collisions, according to Prof Stephen Fairhurst, also at Cardiff.\n\n\"It is a challenge for us to determine what this is,\" he told BBC News. \"Is this the lightest black hole ever, or is it the heaviest neutron star ever?\"\n\nIf it is a light black hole then there is no established theory for how such an object could develop. But Prof Fairhurst's colleague, Prof Fabio Antonioni, has proposed that a solar system with three stars could lead to the formation of light black holes. His ideas are receiving increased attention following the new discovery.\n\nIf, however, this new class of object is a heavy neutron star then theories for how they form may also need to be revised, according to Prof Bernard Schutz of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany.\n\n\"We don't know a lot about the nuclear physics of neutron stars. So, people who are looking at exotic equations that explain what goes on inside them might be thinking, 'maybe this is evidence that we can get much heavier neutron stars'.\"\n\nA scientific visualisation of a gravitational waves-producing merger where one object is 9.2 times more massive than the other\n\nBoth black holes and neutron stars are thought to form when stars run out of fuel and die. If it is a very large star, it collapses to form a black hole, an object with such strong gravitational force that not even light can escape its grasp.\n\nIf the starting star is below a certain mass, one option is for it to collapse into a dense ball composed entirely of particles called neutrons, which are found inside the heart of atoms.\n\nThe material from which neutron stars are composed is so tightly packed that one teaspoonful would weigh 10 million tonnes.\n\nA neutron star also has powerful gravity pulling it together, but a force between the neutrons, caused by a quantum mechanical effect known as degeneracy pressure, pushes the particles apart, counteracting the gravitational force.\n\nCurrent theories suggest that the gravitational force would overcome the degeneracy pressure if the neutron star were much larger than two solar masses - and cause it to collapse into a black hole.\n\nAccording to Prof Nils Andersson of Southampton University, if the mystery object is a heavy neutron star then the theorists will have to rethink what goes on in these objects.\n\n\"Nuclear physics is not a precise science where we know everything,\" he said.\n\n\"We don't know how nuclear forces operate under the extreme conditions you need inside a neutron star. So, every single current theory we currently have of what goes on inside of one has some uncertainty.\"\n\nProf Sheila Rowan, director of the University of Glasgow's Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR), said the discovery challenges current theoretical models.\n\n\"More cosmic observations and research will need to be undertaken to establish whether this new object is indeed something that has never been observed before or whether it may instead be the lightest black hole ever detected.\"", "Large crowds headed to the beach in Bournemouth to bask in the hot weather\n\nWednesday is officially the hottest day of the year so far, with people flocking to beaches and beauty spots.\n\nThe Met Office said the temperature hit 32.6C at Heathrow Airport at 14:26 BST on Wednesday, beating the previous record of 28.9C set at the end of May.\n\nA level three heat-health alert has been set for parts of England, with advice to take extra care in the sun.\n\nThe heatwave is set to break from Thursday evening, with a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms in the UK.\n\nThe Met Office warning covers parts of the UK, including Wales, Northern Ireland and areas of Scotland.\n\nA separate yellow weather warning for thunderstorms across most of the UK is in place from 12:00 BST on Friday to 06:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nFamilies relax on the Merseyside's Crosby Beach, where lifeguards put out signs warning of strong currents\n\nPeople enjoy the hot weather by Three Shires Head on the River Dane, where Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have been slightly cooler, with a high of 26.9C recorded in Charterhall in Berwickshire, and 21.8C in Derrylin, County Fermanagh. In Wales, meanwhile, temperatures peaked at 30C in Cardiff.\n\nTuesday missed out on being the UK's hottest day this year, with a temperature of 28.6C recorded at Heathrow Airport and Kew Gardens.\n\nGroups enjoy the hot weather at Durdle Door in Dorset\n\nThe highest UK maximum temperature recorded in June is currently 35.6C, set at Mayflower Park, Southampton on 28 June 1976.\n\nPeople have been taking advantage of the heatwave by heading to beaches and beauty spots, with crowds of sunbathers pictured on beaches in Brighton and Bournemouth.\n\nHowever, council leader Vikki Slade warned Dorset wasn't ready for visitors yet, tweeting \"please do not come\" in response to a video showing crowds of people arriving at Bournemouth train station.\n\nShe added: \"Your visit will be much more enjoyable if you come after 4 July when we will be fully prepared for your visit.\"\n\nThat date is when businesses such as hotels, museums and restaurants will be able to reopen after Boris Johnson announced sweeping changes to England's lockdown.\n\nDaytrippers soaked up the sun and took a swim on Brighton Beach\n\nCrowds flocked to the beach in Scarborough on Wednesday\n\nThe Met Office raised the level of its heat-health alert to three for the West Midlands and East Midlands on Wednesday, as health officials advised the most vulnerable - many of whom have been shielding during the lockdown - to protect themselves amid the \"exceptionally hot weather forecast this week\".\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said older people, those with underlying health conditions, and very young children were all more at risk from the higher temperatures.\n\nSt John Ambulance advised shoppers to be aware they could be forced to spend extra time in the sun as a result of social distancing measures and to be prepared.\n\nWarnings have been also issued about UV levels, which are going to be \"exceptionally high\" over the next couple of days.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Burkill said these will reach eight across many places and nine across parts of Devon and Cornwall on Thursday.\n\n\"That's about as high as it gets really in the UK.\"\n\nMeanwhile, NHS Property Services warned that hand sanitiser should not be left in hot cars, as it can catch fire in high temperatures.\n\nHowever the organisation later clarified saying it now understood that risks associated with hand sanitisers in cars \"only become apparent when in contact with a spark\".\n\nPaddleboarders on the Grand Union Canal in Little Venice, London\n\nHow are you experiencing the heatwave? Share your pictures by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "'I really don't get why we can't open'\n\nWhile pubs and hairdressers in England have been given the all clear by government to reopen on 4 July, many businesses have been told to remain doors closed for now. Beautician Tara Williamson is frustrated by what she sees as a double standard from government, with hairdressers allowed to reopen but beauty salons staying closed. She runs The Beauty, Skin and Eyelash Lounge in Epping and had planned to open on 4 July. \"I don't really get it. I don't see a reason why we couldn't open and it will obviously be a big blow,\" she says. \"We've put screens in place, we've done a one-way system in the salon, we've prepared everything for the two metre distancing, we've staggered appointments, we've got sanitising stations,\" she says. \"It just seems crazy that we have no guidelines of when we can open and what is going to be happening.\"", "Kathy is one of the first volunteers taking part in a trial to find a vaccine for coronavirus.\n\nAbout 300 people will be immunised in the coming weeks in the Imperial College London trial.", "The daily presentation of slides is no more\n\nThe daily Downing Street press conference on coronavirus has been stopped, the government has announced.\n\nBoris Johnson led the final regular briefing, flanked by chief advisers Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nFrom now on televised briefings will be given on an \"ad hoc\" basis to \"coincide with significant announcements,\" Downing Street said.\n\nIt comes as the PM announced an easing of the lockdown in England.\n\nThere have been 92 briefings, and two national addresses by the prime minister.\n\nLeading the final briefing, Mr Johnson thanked Prof Whitty and Sir Patrick for their \"heroic work in presenting information to the public so clearly and so powerfully\".\n\nHe added that there will \"certainly\" be more local outbreaks and \"I don't think, therefore, that you have seen the last of us by any means but they will not be happening as often as they have been\".\n\nHe said all of the information on hospital admissions, death rates and the spread of the virus presented at the daily briefings would still be published on the government website.\n\nBut Conservative MP and former minister Tobias Ellwood criticised the move, saying regular televised briefings should continue while the UK remained in an \"enduring emergency\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey said there needed to be the fullest scrutiny of government decisions at what was still \"an incredibly crucial stage\".\n\n\"It's almost like they don't want people asking questions,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe daily briefings started on 16 March, following criticism of a lack of transparency over government plans to stem the spread of the virus.\n\nAt the time, the UK death toll from Covid-19 stood at 55 and the government had yet to introduce lockdown measures.\n\nThe total number of deaths currently stands at 42,927.\n\nMr Johnson led the first briefing, flanked by the government's chief medical adviser Chris Whitty and the UK's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, and used it to urge the public to avoid going to pubs and non-essential travel, and work from home if they could.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM led the next four briefings, before handing over to a rotating cast of cabinet ministers, normally accompanied by scientific and medical experts.\n\nThe panel talked through slides on hospital admissions, deaths and the government's efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and then took questions from the media, via video conferencing.\n\nMr Johnson gave a televised address to the nation on the introduction of the lockdown on 23 March, and then limited his appearances at the daily briefings to major announcements.\n\nOn Sunday 24 May, he appeared at the daily briefing to defend his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, following revelations that he had driven 260 miles at the height of the lockdown.\n\nThe Saturday and Sunday briefings were scrapped shortly afterwards, due to low ratings.\n\nAt the end of April, the panel began taking two questions submitted by members of the public.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock led the most daily briefings, with 26 appearances, followed by Mr Johnson on 16.\n\nMatt Hancock holds the record for the most appearances\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab - who filled in for Mr Johnson when he was in hospital with coronavirus - led 12 briefings, with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, Business Secretary Alok Sharma and Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick hosting six each.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak led five briefings - the same number as Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove. Environment Secretary George Eustice, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden appeared a handful of times each.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel was the only female minister to take a turn at the podium, with three appearances.\n\nPriti Patel was the only female minister to appear at the podium\n\nIn recent weeks, ministers have increasingly been appearing on their own, without scientific or medical advisers.\n\nDeputy chief medical officer Prof Jonathan Van-Tam last appeared at a briefing on 30 May, while Dr Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, made her first appearance in more than three weeks on Monday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"A plume of dust and smoke blew up\"\n\nOne woman and two children have been seriously injured after a house was destroyed in an explosion in south Wales.\n\nNeighbouring properties and vehicles have been damaged in the blast at Seven Sisters in Neath Port Talbot.\n\nFourteen properties were evacuated following the incident on Church Road.\n\nBoth children were flown by air ambulance to Southmead Hospital, Bristol and the woman was taken to Morriston Hospital, Swansea.\n\nSouth Wales Police said all three have suffered serious injuries.\n\nThe house has been destroyed by the blast, and neighbouring properties badly damaged\n\nA former firefighter was one of the first to get into the remains of the house and pulled the adult free.\n\nJeff Davies said he was one of \"three or four\" people who scrambled to remove rubble and debris to reach those inside.\n\n\"I could hear the woman screaming, I entered the property then and started moving debris out then to remove her.\n\n\"I actually pulled the woman out of the property.\n\n\"The house was demolished, flattened, the house wasn't safe.\n\n\"You don't think of that, you just think of someone trapped in there.\"\n\nHe said he understood the children were rescued from the front of the house.\n\nMr Davies said there was a small fire in the house as he began freeing the trapped woman.\n\n\"It is a bit surreal, I didn't stop to think about it,\" he added\n\n\"The young lady, the mother was trapped, I could see her.\n\nThe rescuer said the entire community had been shocked by the explosion and have been rallying around those forced to evacuate.\n\nA spokeswoman for South Wales Police said the cause of the explosion was being investigated.\n\n\"The road will remain closed overnight and diversions are being put in place.\n\n\"Around 14 properties have been evacuated and Neath Port Talbot council have opened a rest centre with full support for these residents,\" the police said.\n\nCommunity councillor Gary James said: \"We live further up in the village and all we hear is this massive bang and what happened then was a plume of dust and smoke blew up but then we were concerned personally whether people were in it.\"\n\nKirsten Alison Williams, who was visiting family nearby, said the explosion made their conservatory shake.\n\n\"My father-in-law rushed up the drive and saw people running across the road,\" she said.\n\n\"What shook me the most was a small, baby teddy bear was there laying on top of the car roof.\"\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to the scene at 14:05 BST.\n\nUtility company Wales and West Utilities said it sent emergency engineers to assist.\n\n\"We are working with the emergency services to make the area safe and to investigate the cause of the explosion,\" said gas emergency service manager Sarah Burgess.\n\nNeath Port Talbot council leader Rob Jones thanked the emergency services for their swift response and said the council \"stands ready to offer whatever support is required\".\n\n\"My thoughts and those of my council colleagues are with those who were injured in the explosion,\" he said.\n\n\"I know that Seven Sisters is a close-knit community, and that many will be feeling a mixture of shock and sadness at this time.\"\n\nAir ambulances were sent to the scene after two children and an adult were hurt\n• None House roof destroyed after being hit by lightning", "West Bengal was going to ease its lockdown on 30 June Image caption: West Bengal was going to ease its lockdown on 30 June\n\nThe Indian state of West Bengal has extended its lockdown until 31 July to stem the spread of Covid-19 after a spike in infections nationwide.\n\nThe lockdown in the eastern state was supposed to expire on 30 June.\n\nBut as new infections continue to rise across the country, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, said it was necessary to keep restrictions in place to \"help the entire nation\".\n\nSchools, colleges and universities would remain shut as part of the continued curbs, but some relaxations would go ahead, the minister said.\n\nIndia's infections jumped by almost 16,000 to more than 456,000 on Wednesday, the highest daily rise in the country. The death toll stands at more than 14,000.\n\nThere have been 14,728 confirmed cases and 580 deaths in West Bengal.\n\nIn the capital Delhi, which reported a record daily increase on Wednesday with 3,788 new cases, soldiers have been deployed to assist medics in treating Covid-19 patients.\n\nMeanwhile, our India correspondent Soutik Biswas has looked into how Asia's biggest slum contained the coronavirus.", "The mothers say they are struggling to provide for their children\n\nFour single mothers have told the government they are seeking a judicial review into unpaid child maintenance.\n\nThe women said they wanted to \"challenge the persistent failure\" of the Child Maintenance Service.\n\nLatest figures show £354m is owed by absent parents, but less than 10% of that has been clawed back.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), which runs the service, said anyone \"abusing the system at this difficult time\" could face prosecution.\n\nThe women, from Yorkshire, London, Surrey and the North West, said they were owed payments of between £2,000 and £8,000 dating back a number of years.\n\nThey have notified the DWP that they intend to seek a judicial review after they were left in \"financial difficulty and, in some cases, in poverty\".\n\nThe mothers are being supported by the charity Gingerbread and parenting website Mumsnet\n\nThey have told how they have to use food banks, take on credit card debt and rely on other people's generosity in order to keep their children clothed and fed.\n\nOne mother, who lives near Selby in North Yorkshire, said: \"My children go without every single day because their father absolutely refuses to put his hand in his pocket and the Child Maintenance Service, despite having a huge raft of powers at its disposal, does nothing meaningful to force him to cough up.\n\n\"Birthday money sent to my boys by relatives is saved up and spent on necessities like school shoes, instead of them being able to have a little treat of their choosing.\n\n\"I go without so my children don't. I never go out, I never spend money on myself - I'd rather use the little we have so they can go on things like school trips. I don't want my boys to be stigmatised.\"\n\nOne mother says she is owed more than £8,000\n\nGingerbread, a charity which works with single parent families, said it was supporting the women in their legal action.\n\nAccording to the charity, the Child Maintenance Service has collected little over £30m through enforcement actions, which is less than 10% of what is owed to single parents across the UK.\n\nCharity chief executive Victoria Benson said: \"It is a child's legal right to be supported by both parents, and yet the service designed to protect this right is failing them.\n\n\"It simply cannot be right that a government service is responsible for leaving children of single parents in poverty.\"\n\nAccording to Gingerbread, there are about 1.8 million single-parent households. and about 90% of single parents are women.\n\nA spokesperson for the DWP said: \"No-one will get away with giving false information to avoid paying what they owe and all decisions carry rights of appeal, so either parent can dispute a decision.\n\n\"Those found to be abusing the system at this difficult time will find themselves subject to the full extent of our enforcement powers - including prosecution through the courts.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of Covid-related deaths recorded by National Records of Scotland (NRS) has declined for the eighth consecutive week.\n\nIn the period 15-21 June, 49 deaths were registered where the disease was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nMore than half of Scotland's local authority areas recorded no Covid-related death.\n\nDeaths from all causes in Scotland are now close to the five-year average for the same week of the year.\n\nThe total of 1,058 for the week is 39 above average.\n\nFor the first time in several weeks, a lower proportion of coronavirus deaths have taken place in care homes (41%) compared with hospitals (57%).\n\nAt the height of the Covid-19 crisis, care homes accounted for up to 60% of deaths.\n\nThe National Records of Scotland figures show that, as at 21 June, there had been a total of 4,119 deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned.\n\nNRS said most of the deaths were of older people, although the weekly death rate from all causes has returned to \"close to average\" in all age groups.\n\nSince 16 March, there have been 2,131 more deaths of people over the age of 85 than would have been expected in an average year.\n\nIn the age group 75-85, excess deaths were 1,629.\n\nThere has been no overall increase in the death rate for children under 14.\n\nThe local authorities with no Covid-related deaths in latest weekly figures are:\n\nSince the coronavirus outbreak began, the proportion of deaths associated with the virus has risen to a peak of 36%, before falling back to 5% in the most recent figures.\n\nCare homes have seen a total of 2,463 excess deaths.\n\nBut in hospitals, after an early peak, excess deaths have fallen significantly and are currently only 133 above the average for the three months from the middle of March.\n\nOutwith hospitals and care homes, there have been 2,329 excess deaths.\n\nNRS said cancer, circulatory deaths, and deaths from other causes were the most significant factors in these non-institutional settings.\n• None Covid death rates twice as high in deprived areas", "Terry Crews hosts America's Got Talent as well as starring in Brooklyn Nine-Nine\n\nBrooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews has said four new episodes of the police comedy were thrown \"in the trash\" in the wake of the death of George Floyd.\n\nCrews said the show would \"start over\" in light of the anti-racism protests.\n\nHe said: \"We've had a lot of sombre talks about it and deep conversations and we hope through this we're going to make something that will be truly groundbreaking this year.\n\n\"We have an opportunity and we plan to use it in the best way possible.\"\n\nCo-creator Dan Goor had four episodes \"all ready to go\" before Mr Floyd's death a month ago prompted widespread Black Lives Matter protests as well as soul-searching in society in the US and beyond, Crews said.\n\n\"They just threw them in the trash,\" he told Access Hollywood. \"We have to start over. Right now we don't know which direction it's going to go in.\"\n\nCrews (second right) with the rest of the cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine\n\nBrooklyn Nine-Nine follows the exploits of a team of detectives in the fictional 99th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. In 2014 it won two Golden Globe Awards, including best TV comedy series.\n\nCrews did not give details of the content of the four scrapped episodes.\n\nThe actor and America's Got Talent presenter also recounted his own dealings with the police, saying police officers had pointed guns at him, mistakenly, before he became a well-known face.\n\n\"It's something that every black man has been through and it's hard to really try to get other people to understand,\" he said.\n\nThe 51-year-old said the momentum for change made it \"Black America's Me Too movement\".\n\n\"We always knew this was happening, but now white people are understanding,\" he said.\n\nEarlier this month, Goor and the cast made a $100,000 (£79,000) donation to the National Bail Fund Network to support \"the many people who are protesting police brutality\".\n\nActor Kendrick Sampson spoke at a Black Lives Matter protest in Los Angeles earlier this month\n\nMeanwhile, more than 300 black artists and executives - including Michael B Jordan, Idris Elba and Viola Davis - have signed an open letter calling on Hollywood to invest in black communities and stop the \"glorification of police corruption\" on screen.\n\nThe letter, published by Variety, was written by Insecure actor Kendrick Sampson, who was hit with police batons and shot with rubber bullets during the recent protests.\n\n\"The way that Hollywood and mainstream media have contributed to the criminalisation of black people, the misrepresentation of the legal system, and the glorification of police corruption and violence has had dire consequences on Black lives,\" it read.\n\nIt also demanded greater opportunities for black creatives off-camera and in senior management roles, as well as guaranteeing that marketing budgets were no longer slashed due to \"myths of limited international sales and lack of universality of Black-led stories\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The stars of Queen & Slim both say they can relate to the film's story of police brutality and race\n\nThe letter noted how \"distribution and marketing processes are often marred, filtered, and manipulated by the white gaze\".\n\nThe open call comes in the same week that, in the UK, the BBC committed to investing £100m of its TV budget over a three year period to produce \"diverse and inclusive content\".\n\nTerry said the worldwide movement is a chance for deep and meaningful change.\n\n\"This is an opportunity right now for us all to unite and get together and understand what this is and that we have to battle this together,\" he said.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Car taxes should be increased to help fund the battle against climate change, government advisers say.\n\nThey say ministers should bring forward the date for ending sales of new conventional cars from 2035 to 2032.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says the chancellor should also consider increasing the tax on gas for home heating.\n\nIt says the changes should be made as the UK looks to recover from the Covid-19 crisis by creating jobs.\n\nThe CCC also recommends the country aim to cut carbon emissions as part of a “green recovery“.\n\nIt says the government has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change society for the better.\n\nA government spokesperson said that tackling climate change should be at the heart of the UK's economic recovery.\n\nBut the committee insists that ministers must send the right economic messages to consumers.\n\nThe CCC chair, Lord Deben, says it makes sense to raises fuel prices when the cost of oil is low - and use the proceeds to subsidise low-emissions vehicles.\n\nHe said: “It seems perfectly clear that we should increase the tax on the very low oil prices we have at the moment. We need to make people who choose the right way to do so cheaper than those who choose the wrong way.”\n\nThe committee was more cautious about increasing the price of heating gas, and Lord Deben said the poor must be protected from high prices.\n\nBut it said the Treasury’s forthcoming review of climate policies must tackle the issue, as home heating must shift from gas towards low-carbon alternatives.\n\nAnother sector in urgent need of investment is the cooling of people’s homes, the report says.\n\nAs much of the UK swelters, the CCC warns that elderly and sick people are vulnerable to overheating, with hospitals, care homes, prisons, and flats in the south of England particularly at risk.\n\nIt projects that annual heat-related deaths could more than double by 2050 to 5,000 – that’s even if emissions targets are achieved.\n\nIt says refurbishing homes would improve lives and reduce emissions whilst also creating thousands of “green” jobs.\n\nVentilation could be improved, sun-shading could be fixed to windows, and trees could be planted to cool the air and provide shade.\n\nThe report warns that the government will need to exceed its manifesto commitments on homes.\n\nIt also says the post-Covid-19 changes will require what’s known as a just transition’ for workers who’ll need to be re-trained from high-carbon to low-carbon jobs.\n\nThe report warns ministers against protecting jobs in polluting industries because that will lock in higher emissions in the long term.\n\nBaroness Brown of Cambridge, chair of the CCC’s adaptation committee, said: “Covid-19 has shown that planning for systemic risks is unavoidable.\n\n“We have warned repeatedly that the UK is poorly prepared for the very serious impacts of climate change, including flooding, overheating and water shortages. Now is the moment to get our house in order.”\n\nA Government spokesperson said: \"We agree that tackling climate change should be at the heart of our economic recovery.\n\n\"We were the first major economy to commit to achieving net zero emissions by 2050.\n\n\"We believe that the actions we need to achieve that target can help to deliver a stronger, cleaner, more sustainable and more resilient economy after this pandemic.\"\n\nThe CCC has been one of many organisations urging a green recovery. Some of them think help should be refused to struggling high-carbon industries such as aviation unless “green strings” are attached.\n\nAmong the voices is the employers’ organisation, the CBI, which said: “The need to act urgently on climate change will remain just as important as before the outbreak of coronavirus.”\n\nA report from the green think-tank ECIU said investing in low-carbon jobs can help to ”level up” the UK to benefit the so-called “Red Wall“ constituencies that proved pivotal in the 2019 General Election.\n\nAnd an overwhelming majority (79%) of Climate Assembly UK members – from many different backgrounds - said the government should support changes which help meet the UK’s net zero emissions target.\n\nThe prime minister has said he wants to invest in a greener UK and he’s expected to to offer some policy details in coming weeks.\n\nBenny Peiser, from the libertarian group the Global Warming Policy Forum, doubts that he’ll fully follow the committee’s advice.\n\nHe told BBC News: “Any policy that prioritises climate change policy over a rapid economic recovery would be suicidal for both the UK economy and the government. While Boris may talk the talk, he is unlikely to walk the walk.”\n\nThe committee is also criticised – from the opposite direction - by the authors of a report in the journal Climate Policy.\n\nResearchers concluded that planned UK emissions cuts are less than half as rigorous as needed for the country to contribute fairly towards restricting global climate heating to less than 2C.\n\nCo-author Prof Kevin Anderson told me: “The trouble is that the committee isn’t looking at what needs to be done – it’s looking at what it can say without being politically ignored. That’s very different.”", "As English hotels and other forms of accommodation prepare to reopen on 4 July, there is a \"frenzy\" of appetite for holidays, says one listings site.\n\nSarah and Steve Jarvis, who run the Independent Cottages website, say traffic in the past week has been 150% up on the same time last year.\n\n\"We're very excited and very busy,\" said Steve, adding that the lifting of restrictions on Tuesday was \"very welcome news\".\n\nBut he added that not all holidaymakers will get the accommodation they want.\n\n\"There will be a shortage of holiday cottages,\" he told the BBC. \"There are forward bookings to be honoured and there will be fewer properties available.\"\n\nIndependent Cottages has more than 1,800 properties on its books, with more than 1,500 of them in England.\n\nUnlike online travel agents, it does not take a percentage on bookings, but charges an annual listing fee and allows property owners to deal directly with holidaymakers.\n\nSarah and Steve Jarvis say demand for cottages is high\n\nSarah said travel industry guidelines on coronavirus allowed holiday lets to cope with back-to-back bookings.\n\nHowever, some holiday cottage owners were opting to leave two to three days between bookings to allow for thorough cleaning, further constraining the supply of accommodation.\n\n\"There's a lot to clean,\" she said. \"It's all very achievable, but some owners will feel that they want to leave a gap.\"\n\nOne issue that is still unclear is the question of accommodation for stag and hen parties and other mass gatherings.\n\nSuch occasions can bring together as many as 18 to 20 people from different households, all using shared areas.\n\n\"We're being asked about this a lot,\" said Sarah. \"The 2m rule isn't much of an issue in a self-catering cottage. but we don't know how many households are allowed.\"\n\nSelf-catering accommodation is ideal for helping people \"ease back to a new normal\" as lockdown restrictions are lifted, says another holiday provider, holidaycottages.co.uk.\n\nThe firm's chief marketing officer, James Starkey, welcomed the government's announcement, saying it gave would-be holidaymakers \"something to look forward to\".\n\n\"Self-catering accommodation by its very nature allows for natural social distancing, with people visiting holiday properties staying in self-contained units without having to use shared facilities,\" he said.\n\n\"Our owners already adhere to high standards of cleaning, but all have now been provided with additional information on cleaning best practice for before and after a stay.\"\n\nHotels, too, are busy preparing to open their doors to guests on 4 July.\n\nAccor, which operates 270 hotels in the UK, says it will be reopening them gradually. It hopes to have 90% of them back in business by the end of August.\n\nThose booking in will see plenty of changes. Restaurants and bars will be serving food and drink on a \"grab-and-go\" basis, while fridges in the rooms will not contain any mini-bar items.\n\nEvery other room will be unoccupied and rooms will be left empty for 24 hours after a guest checks out.\n\nThomas Dubaere, Accor's chief operating officer for Northern Europe, told the BBC Accor had been able to test its safety measures in other countries which had already eased lockdown.\n\nHe said guests were comfortable with the measures \"as long as we keep good service and a friendly smile\".\n\n\"They still get the service. It's just in a different way for the time being,\" he added.\n\nMr Dubaere welcomed the government's moves to allow hotels to reopen.\n\n\"We're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel,\" he said.\n\nDomestic tourism will now most likely be operational in some form in all parts of the UK by 15 July - starting with self-catering in Northern Ireland from Friday.\n\nHolidaymakers will still have some concerns, not least the possibility of a local or national spike in coronavirus cases over the summer.\n\nAny new lockdown would mean a return to the refund or rebooking rights currently in place.\n\nThat gets more complicated if you are told, under the test and trace system, to self-isolate. Any refund rights would be subject to the terms and conditions when you book.\n\nThe traditional backstop of insurance (albeit less common among domestic travellers) may not help, unless you bought your policy months ago.\n\nCoronavirus is no longer an unknown event, so anyone buying travel insurance now is unlikely to be covered for any coronavirus-related delays or cancellations.\n\nSelf-catering holiday accommodation will open again on Friday in Northern Ireland, and hotels will follow on 3 July.\n\nA decision will be taken in Wales on 9 July on whether to open up the country to tourists again. If this is given the go-ahead, it's likely to take effect from 13 July.\n\nThe Scottish government has said that hotels and tourist accommodation may be able to reopen from 15 July at the earliest, if its next review of lockdown restrictions on 9 July decides that conditions are favourable.\n\nUK Hospitality, which represents hotels and accommodation as well as other areas of the hospitality sector, said it greeted the government's relaxation of the lockdown restrictions in England \"with relief and praise\".\n\n\"The government has given due recognition to how hard hospitality has been hit by this crisis,\" said UK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls.\n\n\"Our sector was one of the first to be seriously affected and we are going to be one of the last to reopen.\" However, she added that government support would remain crucial.\n\n\"Many businesses have been closed for months with no revenue and are now facing substantial rent and PAYE bills,\" she said.\n\n\"We need financial help from the government, otherwise some of these businesses are going to go under right at the point at which they are allowed to open once again.\"\n\nAbta, the travel association, described the latest measures in England as \"a step in the right direction on the road to restarting travel in earnest\".\n\n\"However, the travel sector remains in a perilous state, with redundancies announced each week, and more needs to be done to help the whole sector recover,\" it added.\n\n\"We need a more comprehensive roadmap as soon as possible that includes timeframes for relaxing international travel restrictions too, so businesses and customers can plan ahead.\"\n• None Some return to work as lockdown eases in England\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister and Labour leader clashed over coronavirus contact tracing apps – and the fact that England does not have one yet.\n\nBoris Johnson said: “I wonder whether [he] can name a single country in the world that has a functional contact tracing app, because there isn’t one.”\n\nGermany’s public health body, the Robert Koch Institute, has tweeted to say the app has been downloaded 12.6m times since then.\n\nBut we haven't yet seen figures from the German government on how well it is performing and how many people have received an alert as a result.\n\nTwo million people downloaded it (although 460,000 have uninstalled it since) – according to figures from the French government.\n\nBut just 68 people used it to say they had Covid-19 and only 14 people have been traced and warned they are at risk of infection.\n\nA number of other countries around the world have also launched apps.\n\nYou can read more about manual contact tracing here.", "The US Defense Department has determined that 20 top Chinese firms, including Huawei, are either owned by or backed by the Chinese military.\n\nThe list, seen by US media, features video surveillance firm Hikvision, China Telecoms, China Mobile and AVIC.\n\nThe determination could lay the groundwork for new US financial sanctions against the firms.\n\nIt comes as the US has pressured other countries, including the UK, to bar Huawei for national security reasons.\n\nThe BBC understands that the list has been published in order to inform congressional committees, US businesses, investors and other potential partners of Chinese firms about the role such firms may play in transferring sensitive technology to the Chinese military. The list is also likely to grow.\n\nUnder US law, the Defense Department is required to track firms \"owned or controlled\" by China's People's Liberation Army that are active in the US.\n\nThe Pentagon has been under pressure in recent months from lawmakers of both the Democrats and Republican parties to publish and update the list.\n\nIn November, US senators Tom Cotton and Chuck Schumer wrote a letter to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, asking for an update on reviews of US policy that are mandated by the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 and the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act.\n\nSenators Chuck Schumer and Tom Cotton have called on the Commerce Department to investigate whether China has been stealing US technology with military applications\n\nIn the letter, the senators emphasised their concerns about the danger of exporting critical US technologies to companies with Chinese ties.\n\nThey also questioned why the Commerce Department had been slow to complete export-control reviews mandated by the two acts.\n\nThe senators stressed that reviews should be conducted to assess whether the Chinese Communist Party had been stealing US technology with military applications, as well as whether it had been enlisting Chinese corporations to harness emerging civilian technologies for military purposes.\n\n\"What is the status of this review and implementation of the results? Will this review determine specific sectors of the US economy that the Chinese are targeting for espionage and forced technology-transfer efforts? Will you modify the scope of controls for military end uses and end-users in China? Will you make the results of this review public?,\" wrote Mr Cotton and Mr Schumer.\n\n\"We urge you to conduct these mandatory reviews as quickly and thoroughly as possible. Thank you for your time and attention to this important matter of national security.\"\n\nThe White House already taken several steps against Huawei and other Chinese firms, including barring US companies from selling them certain technology without permission. The administration has also said its trade war with China, which resulted in billions of dollars worth of tariffs, was a response to theft of US trade secrets.\n\nBut it has faced calls by some in Washington to act more aggressively.\n\nHuawei has contested US claims against it as \"unsubstantiated allegations\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fire destroyed the roof of the house after the lightning strike\n\nA house has been set on fire after being hit by lighting.\n\nEmergency crews were called to the property on Porth Y Waun, Gowerton, Swansea, just after 18:00 BST.\n\nFirefighters from Gorseinon, Sketty and Swansea have been fighting the blaze.\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said the roof of the house was \"well alight\", but everyone in the building had been accounted for and there were no causalities.\n\nNeighbour Stuart Roberts said: \"My little girl went to the window and said there was smoke coming from a house down the road.\n\n\"It was horrific - it looked like it hit the TV aerial - one in a million that happening, it was a terrible shame.\"\n\nThe alarm was raised just after 18:00\n\nNo-one was hurt in the fire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 24-year-old man who was paralysed after being Tasered by police last month has told the BBC he believes he was targeted because he is black.\n\nJordan Walker-Brown fell from a wall while being pursued by two officers.\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer is under criminal investigation by the police watchdog over the incident in London.\n\nIt will examine what role ethnicity played in decisions that day amid concerns about the disproportionate use of Tasers on black men.\n\nMr Walker-Brown has been told by doctors he will never walk again after being paralysed from the chest down during the incident on 4 May.\n\nHe was Tasered by a police officer as he fled and jumped onto a wall in Haringey in north London.\n\nHe fell from a height of around 2m (6.5ft) and landed on a concrete canal towpath, close to the water.\n\n\"I do not pretend to be anyone other than myself,\" Mr Walker-Brown told the BBC from hospital in a statement released through his lawyer.\n\n\"I ran from the police because I had a small amount of cannabis in my possession for personal use - and I had fresh in my mind the memory of a similar encounter with TSG [Territorial Support Group] officers only the previous day when I was mistreated, arrested and charged for possession of a similar amount of cannabis.\"\n\nHe said he believed he was targeted by police because he is black.\n\n\"I know that I would not have been the subject of police attention, on either day, if I had not been a young black man,\" he added in the statement.\n\n\"And I know, from my own personal experience as a young black man, that I always have to be very fearful of being alone with police officers in a police van: that is an experience to be avoided if at all possible for the sake of my own safety, as most black men know from their encounters with the police.\"\n\nJordan Walker-Brown has been told he will never walk again\n\nAccording to the Independent Office for Police Conduct's (IOPC) summary of events, seen by the BBC, Mr Walker-Brown was being followed by a police van when two officers got out and he started to run.\n\nThe officers chased him and both drew their Tasers and Mr Walker-Brown jumped onto a wall.\n\nOne officer discharged the weapon which fires two small dart-like electric probes to deliver a high-voltage electric shock.\n\nMr Walker-Brown fell over the wall and landed on a canal towpath, adjacent to the water.\n\nThe IOPC said this summary represents the information presently available. It added the veracity and accuracy of the information will be considered as part of the investigation.\n\nThe Home Office has previously said that Tasers \"are an important tactical option for officers facing violent situations\".\n\nMr Walker-Brown said in his statement that he recognises the law allowed the police to chase him as he tried to run away.\n\n\"But what they are not entitled to do is use a Taser on me when they knew that I did not pose any threat to them whatsoever. I was running away from them,\" he said.\n\nMr Walker-Brown has told his sister, Sharn, that he was handcuffed as he lay on the concrete and that officers were trying to make him stand up as he complained that he couldn't feel his legs or body.\n\nThe most recent figures for England and Wales showed, in the year up to March 2019, a black person was involved in nearly 20% of the incidents where a Taser was used. Black, African, Caribbean and black British people represent 3.5% of England's population, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe use of Tasers in the England and Wales data covers incidents where they are discharged and not discharged - a Taser can be drawn or aimed, for example, and no electricity is discharged.\n\nLast month, the director general of the IOPC, Michael Lockwood, called for greater scrutiny of Taser use and spoke of the growing concern about its disproportionate use against black men and those with mental health conditions.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Police Chiefs' Council is commissioning independent academic research to look at the issue.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We know that trust in the police is lower among some communities. We are listening to the national debate and we are reflecting carefully on our place in it.\n\n\"We are now also working towards developing a national plan of action to address wider concerns. This will be delivered with the help of all parts of the police service, and with the support and challenge of our communities - particularly from people of colour with lived experiences.\"\n\nTasers fire two small dart-like probes before delivering an electric charge\n\nThe IOPC investigation in the Jordan Walker-Brown case will examine, among other issues, whether his ethnicity influenced the officers' decision to stop, pursue and Taser him as well as the aftercare they provided.\n\nHis solicitor, Raju Bhatt, believes the watchdog should have carried out a longer investigation into other officers at the scene. He says he has been told they are now being treated as witnesses.\n\nThe IOPC said: \"It is standard practice to treat officers as witnesses. The evidence which emerges during the investigation may or may not change this.\"\n\nWith other members of the family Sharn, 28, now has to make future plans for her paraplegic brother and is contemplating the \"long road\" ahead.\n\nThey have been unable to visit Mr Walker-Brown in person due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"We're going to have to find suitable accommodation, all those things,\" she said.\n\nMr Walker-Brown added: \"I have been told that I shall not be able to walk again because of what the police did to me, but I am determined to prove them wrong, just as I am determined to prove that the police are not above the law.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trevaile Wyse: \"I would not have been Tasered if I was white\"", "Nurseries are warning of \"mass closures\" which could leave parents struggling to find childcare when they return to work as the lockdown eases.\n\nEngland's early years providers have been operating at 37% of their capacity since early June when they were able to re-open, data analysts Ceeda has said.\n\nProviders will face huge losses if this continues at this rate, it said, and called for the government to step in.\n\nThe government said it protected early years staff with job retention scheme.\n\nChildcare providers were ordered closed during lockdown until 1 June.\n\nCeeda data, published by nursery sector body the Early Years Alliance, suggests nurseries are set to lose more than half their funding (55%) for every government subsidised three- and four-year-old place.\n\nFor every two-year-old place, they stand to lose 68%.\n\nAnd modelling suggests problems will continue even if parents start to send their children back in greater numbers.\n\nThere are predicted to be significant shortfalls even if occupancy rates rise to 65%.\n\nNurseries, pre-schools and childminders have been allowed to open to all children since 1 June.\n\nBut due to the lockdown, they have had significantly reduced parental demand.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said the situation was \"simply not sustainable\".\n\nHe said: \"Even in areas where parental demand for childcare places remains high, providers are currently restricted on how many children they can care for under government guidance, which is going to place even more financial pressure on them over the coming months.\n\n\"The early years sector is at a crunch point, and unless urgent action is taken, we are going to see many, many more settings forced to close their doors over the coming months.\n\n\"This could mean chaos for parents - and particularly mothers - trying to access childcare in order to return to work at a time when the government is desperately trying to restart the economy.\"\n\nCeeda managing director, Jo Verrill, said there was much rhetoric on the importance of early education, adding: \"Now more than ever, this must be matched by investment, if we are to protect the country's vital early years infrastructure.\"", "Filmmaker Steve Bing took his own life, a coroner in Los Angeles has confirmed.\n\nBing, who had a son with actress Elizabeth Hurley, was found dead on Monday at the age of 55.\n\nThe LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner's Office listed his cause of death as \"multiple blunt trauma\" and said the manner was suicide. The case is now closed, the coroner added.\n\nHurley has paid tribute to him, as have former US president Bill Clinton and Rolling Stones singer Sir Mick Jagger.\n\nIn Hollywood, Bing was known for co-writing the 2003 film Kangaroo Jack; financing 2004's The Polar Express, voiced by Tom Hanks; and producing the 2000 remake of Get Carter starring Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light.\n\nSir Mick, said it was \"so sad to hear of Steve Bing's passing\".\n\nThe star wrote: \"He was such a kind and generous friend and supported so many good and just causes. I will miss him very much.\"\n\nHurley remembered the producer and philanthropist as a \"sweet, kind man\".\n\nShe wrote on Instagram: \"I am saddened beyond belief that my ex Steve is no longer with us. It is a terrible end.\"\n\nTheir son, Damian, 18, added: \"Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that has reached out following the devastating news.\n\n\"I'm trying to reply to as many of you as I can, but please know I will always remember your kindness. This is a very strange and confusing time and I'm immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends.\"\n\nAt the age of 18, Steve Bing inherited a $600m property fortune from his grandfather Leo Bing.\n\nHe was a big supporter of Clinton, having donated at least $10m to his foundation and paid for the former president's trip to North Korea in 2009 to negotiate for the release of two US journalists.\n\n\"I loved Steve Bing very much,\" the former president said.\n\n\"He had a big heart, and he was willing to do anything he could for the people and causes he believed in. I will miss him and his enthusiasm more than I can say, and I hope he's finally found peace.\"\n\nFor information and support on mental health and suicide, access the BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nWorld number one Novak Djokovic said he is \"so sorry\" after becoming the latest tennis player to test positive for Covid-19.\n\nGrigor Dimitrov, Borna Coric and Viktor Troicki all revealed they had coronavirus after playing at Djokovic's Adria Tour competition.\n\nDjokovic, 33, played fellow Serb Troicki in the first event in Belgrade.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, Djokovic said it had been \"too soon\" to stage the tournament.\n\n\"I am so deeply sorry our tournament has caused harm,\" added Djokovic.\n\nHe said the tournament had been organised with \"a pure heart\", \"good intentions\" and a belief that they had \"met all health protocols\".\n\n\"We were wrong and it was too soon,\" Djokovic said.\n\nThe remaining Adria Tour events in Banja Luka and Sarajevo have now been cancelled Djokovic's brother Djordje, who is a director of the tournament, has confirmed.\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to all the events that happened in the last few days, we have decided that the most important thing right now is to stabilise the epidemiological situation, as well as for everyone to recover,\" he said.\n\nBritain's Andy Murray said the positive tests were a \"lesson for us\", while Australian Nick Kyrgios called playing a \"bone-headed decision\".\n\nA statement on Djokovic's website said: \"Immediately upon his arrival in Belgrade [after the second event] Novak was tested along with all members of the family and the team with whom he was in Belgrade and Zadar. He is not showing any symptoms.\"\n• None Battle of the Brits - follow live coverage as Andy and Jamie Murray feature\n\nThere have been no ATP Tour events since February because of the global pandemic and the Adria Tour, which is not an ATP Tour event, was one of the first competitions to be staged since then.\n\nThe first leg in Serbia attracted 4,000 fans, and players were later pictured dancing close together in a Belgrade nightclub.\n\nBulgaria's Dimitrov played Croatia's Coric on Saturday in the second leg in Zadar, Croatia.\n\nWith Croatia easing lockdown measures, players were not obliged to observe social distancing rules and were seen embracing at the net at the end of their matches.\n\nPictures on the tournament's social media site from Friday showed Dimitrov playing basketball with Djokovic, Alexander Zverev and Marin Cilic, while he also put his arm around Coric before their match.\n\nZverev, Cilic and Andrey Rublev, who also played in the Adria Tour, have tested negative, but suggested they will all now self-isolate for up to 14 days.\n\nThe ATP Tour season is set to restart on 14 August and the US Open will be held without fans from 31 August to 13 September, despite some players voicing concerns about travelling to New York.\n\nI am extremely sorry for each individual case - Djokovic's statement\n\nThe moment we arrived in Belgrade we went to be tested. My result is positive, just as Jelena's, while the results of our children are negative.\n\nEverything we did in the past month, we did with a pure heart and sincere intentions. Our tournament was meant to unite and share a message of solidarity and compassion throughout the region.\n\nThe Tour has been designed to help both established and up and coming tennis players from south-eastern Europe to gain access to some competitive tennis while the various tours are on hold due to Covid-19.\n\nIt was born with a philanthropic idea, to direct all raised funds towards people in need and it warmed my heart to see how everybody strongly responded.\n\nWe organised the tournament when the virus had weakened, believing the conditions for hosting the Tour had been met.\n\nUnfortunately, this virus is still present, and it is a new reality we are learning to cope and live with. I am hoping things will ease with time so we can all resume lives the way they were.\n\nI am extremely sorry for each individual case of infection. I hope it will not complicate anyone's health situation and everyone will be fine.\n\nI will remain in self-isolation for the next 14 days, and repeat the test in five days.\n\nDjokovic has been no stranger to coronavirus conspiracies throughout the pandemic. He revealed during a Facebook live in April that he opposes vaccinations. He said he \"wouldn't want to be forced by someone to take a vaccine\", should that be necessary to travel and compete in tournaments.\n\nHis comments fed into conspiracy theories about mandatory vaccinations that have been circulating on Facebook groups in recent weeks. That includes in one called \"Collective Action Against Bill Gates. We Wont Be Vaccinated!!\" - with over 160,000 members. The group, which promotes conspiracies about Bill Gates, praised Djokovic's comments and used them to justify false claims about vaccinations.\n\nA few days later, a video promoting conspiracy theories about 5G and coronavirus was shared by Djokovic's wife, Jelena. It was labelled by Instagram as false information.", "Oti Mabuse and Kelvin Fletcher were crowned the winners of the 2019 series\n\nStrictly Come Dancing will return to BBC One this autumn, but the 2020 series will be \"slightly\" shorter than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe BBC said adjustments would be made \"to ensure we deliver the high standards audiences know and love\".\n\n\"The safety of our cast and crew is of the utmost importance to us,\" it said, promising updates \"in due course\".\n\nThe announcement follows news that this year's series of The Apprentice has been called off.\n\nThe BBC has not announced how long the 2020 series of Strictly will be and how many celebrities will take part. Strictly normally begins in September, and ends in mid-December.\n\nKevin Clifton and AJ Pritchard are leaving, but the line-up of professional dancers will otherwise remain the same.\n\nThey are set to start rehearsing remotely at the end of July and could be isolated along with key production members.\n\nHowever, it is not certain whether Bruno Tonioli will be able to combine his judging role with his duties on Strictly's US sister show Dancing with the Stars.\n\nThe two shows' shooting schedules typically coincide, necessitating numerous Transatlantic flights for the ebullient Italian.\n\nFormer Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher won last year's final, having entered as a last-minute replacement for Made In Chelsea's Jamie Laing.\n\nFletcher's victory alongside professional dancer Oti Mabuse marked the latter's first grand final triumph since joining the show in 2015.\n\nLaing may return to compete in this year's series, alongside such other rumoured contenders as former BBC Radio 1 presenter Maya Jama.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Israel could begin the annexation process next week\n\nMore than 1,000 parliamentarians from across Europe have signed a letter strongly opposing plans by Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.\n\nThe letter raises \"serious concerns\" about the proposals and calls for \"commensurate consequences\".\n\nMore than 240 signatories are legislators in Britain. The Israeli embassy in London declined to comment.\n\nThe publication of the letter in several newspapers comes a week before the annexation process could begin.\n\nAccording to a power-sharing deal which led to the formation of the current Israeli government last month, annexation can be put to a vote from 1 July.\n\nThe project is being led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is seeking to extend Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank containing Jewish settlements.\n\nIf passed, the move could incorporate up to 30% of the territory - land claimed by Palestinians for a future independent state of their own.\n\nIsrael's incorporation of the settlements was given the green light under US President Donald Trump's Vision for Peace - a plan for ending the decades old Israel-Palestinian conflict unveiled in January.\n\nThe letter, sent to European foreign ministries, warns that unilateral annexation of West Bank territory could be \"fatal to the prospects of Israeli-Palestinian peace and will challenge the most basic norms guiding international relations\".\n\nIt is a sign of growing international pressure over the proposals which stem from President Trump's plan for the region, says the BBC's Tom Bateman in Jerusalem.\n\nThe letter, signed by 1,080 parliamentarians from 25 countries, warns of the \"destabilising potential\" for the region.\n\nIts British signatories include the Conservative Party's former leader Lord Howard, former EU commissioner Lord Patten and Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, a former counter-terrorism minister who previously chaired the UK's Joint Intelligence Committee.\n\nIt is also signed by 35 members of Labour's current front bench, including shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy.\n\nThe former Labour leader Lord Kinnock is a signatory, as is former defence secretary and Nato chief Lord Robertson, as well as the Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge who campaigned against anti-Semitism in the party.\n\nEuropean names on the list include France's security subcommittee chair, Nathalie Loiseau, Vice-President of the European Parliament Fabio Massimo Castaldo, and Ireland's next Prime Minister, Míchéal Martin.\n\nThe letter was organised by a former speaker of the Israeli parliament, Avraham Burg, along with three other public figures in Israel among those who have traditionally supported the so-called two-state solution of a Palestinian state in the West Bank alongside Israel.\n\nIt says President Trump's plan promotes \"effectively permanent Israeli control over a fragmented Palestinian territory, leaving Palestinians with no sovereignty and giving a green light to Israel to unilaterally annex significant parts of the West Bank\".\n\nIt warns that allowing annexation to pass \"unchallenged\" would encourage other states with territorial claims to \"disregard basic principles of international law\". It stops short of explicitly calling for sanctions against Israel if the move takes place.\n\nIsrael's ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer wrote on Friday that Israel \"plans to extend sovereignty to territories that will remain part of Israel in any realistic peace agreement\".\n\nHe said Israel would not include territory the Trump plan designates for a future Palestinian state and would commit not to build settlements in those areas in the coming years.\n\nIsrael and the US describe the plan as a \"realistic\" two-state solution.\n\nMr Dermer added: \"We hope it will convince the Palestinians that another century of rejectionism is a losing strategy and that the Jewish state is here to stay.\"\n\nThe Palestinians oppose the Trump plan outright and have boycotted diplomatic relations with the US.\n\nSome 430,000 Jews live in over 130 settlements (and scores of smaller \"outposts\") built since Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war.\n\nThe settlements are widely considered illegal under international law, though Israel - and the US under the Trump administration - denies this.", "A crewless \"drone\" version of a boat that could help operations including search-and-rescue and drug raids has been launched by the Royal Navy.\n\nMore than £3m is being invested in the crewless Pacific 24 boat and other self-operated craft.\n\nBoats could be sent on individual missions or in groups, reaching speeds of up to 38 knots (nearly 44mph).\n\nThe Pacific 24 has been used in sea boat operations from Royal Navy warships for more than 25 years.\n\nIt is fundamental to a wide range of operations including life-saving, search operations, and the more mundane task of ferrying personnel and stores between ships or from ship to shore.\n\nHowever the new \"drone\" version of the Pacific 24 could provide a more streamlined way of carrying out these operations - and even open up some new types of missions.\n\nThe boats will be controlled from a parent ship, such as a frigate or destroyer.\n\nDefence Minister Jeremy Quin said: \"Commencing the trials of the crewless Pacific 24 boat is an important stepping stone in the Royal Navy's development of its autonomous capability to ensure our fleet remains at the forefront of military innovation and technology, ready to meet the evolving threats of modern warfare.\"\n\nThe crewless Pacific 24 is sponsored by NavyX, the specialist wing of the Royal Navy which trials cutting-edge technology for use on the front line.\n\nThe team has worked in partnership with BAE Systems, which builds the Pacific 24 in Portsmouth.\n\nIts potential will be tested when it begins trials with a Royal Navy warship later this year. This will determine whether the UK invests in a whole fleet, or just a few for specific missions.\n\nLt Cdr Rob Manson, of the NavyX team, said the autonomous Pacific 24 \"ensures the Navy remains at the forefront of technological improvement and innovation\".", "Emergency services were seen at a stretch of the river in Cookham\n\nPolice are searching for a man who is feared to have drowned in the River Thames.\n\nEmergency services, including the air ambulance, were called to a stretch of the river in Cookham, Berkshire, at about 18:30 BST on Tuesday.\n\nThames Valley Police said it was reported that a man had entered the water.\n\n\"Officers are working to locate the man, who was not seen to get out of the water,\" the force said in a tweet.\n\nPictures from the scene appear to show rescue workers, including fire crew rescue teams, in boats on the river.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier, South Central Ambulance Service tweeted to say that \"reports of three boys having drowned in this incident are not correct\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Swissport is set to cut more than half of its UK workforce as air companies struggle with the effects of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe firm said it was consulting on cutting up to 4,556 jobs.\n\nChief executive Jason Holt said the company had to reduce the size of its workforce to survive.\n\nSwissport operates at airports across the UK, including Heathrow and Gatwick, which are among those badly hit by the crisis.\n\nAir travel collapsed around the world after governments imposed travel restrictions during coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nWhile some airlines are making plans to start flying some routes again as lockdowns lift, Swissport has said its revenue is forecast to be almost 50% lower than last year due to the crisis.\n\nMr Holt said in a message to staff: \"We must do this to secure the lifeline of funding from lenders and investors to protect as many jobs as possible in the UK and Ireland.\n\n\"It's true that we've seen tough times before - volcanic cloud, 9/11, the financial crisis - and we've weathered these. But this time it's different. We have never seen anything like Covid-19 in our lifetimes.\n\n\"We are now facing a long period of uncertainty and reduced flight numbers, along with significant changes taking place to the way people travel and the way goods move around the world.\n\n\"There is no escaping the fact that the industry is now smaller than it was, and it will remain so for some time to come.\"\n\nSwissport employs about 8,500 workers at airports, including baggage handlers and check-in staff.\n\nThe GMB union said the announcement was \"devastating news\", with jobs set to be lost that were essential for regional economies.\n\nUnions are warning that the government needs to step in to prevent the air travel industry from collapsing\n\nNadine Houghton, national officer of the GMB, said: \"With Swissport now considering job cuts on this scale, we have deep concerns about the viability of many of our regional airports and the benefits for regional connectivity that they bring.\"\n\nOliver Richardson, national officer of Unite, said: \"We can't wait any longer, the UK government needs to urgently intervene with a bespoke financial package and an extension of the 80% furlough scheme for the aviation industry.\"\n\nThe Unite union in Ireland confirmed that 287 workers at Belfast City Airport and Belfast International Airport face redundancy.\n\n\"This will be devastating news for these workers and their families. It is also entirely unnecessary - the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme remains in place - these workers could continue to be furloughed. There is no need for any job-losses at this time. This is a disgraceful move solely rooted in the need to secure corporate profits,\" said George Brash, Unite Regional Officer for Swissport workers in Belfast.\n\n\"It is now absolutely imperative that we see urgent action in both Stormont and Westminster to safeguard our aviation sector, its workforce and the future of regional airports.\"\n\nStaff at Swissport handle luggage after it's checked-in. They also de-ice and refuel planes and manage freight.\n\nThe company provides essential services for most UK airports and airlines.\n\nBack in April Swissport UK warned it would have to slash thousands of jobs if more government support for the aviation sector was not forthcoming.\n\nThis latest announcement demonstrates how the deep the damage to the aviation sector is.\n\nThe pandemic has hit aviation hard and airlines and airports have already announced plans to scrap tens of thousands of jobs.\n\nThe Department for Transport has consistently said that while the aviation sector is important to the UK economy, all firms, including aviation companies, should first explore existing government schemes and try to raise capital from investors before the government will consider the situation of individual firms.\n\nIndustry association Airlines UK responded to Swissport's announcement by repeating its call for targeted government assistance for the sector.\n\n\"The need for a stimulus package of measures for the industry is now even more vital,\" said chief executive Tim Alderslade.\n\nNext Monday, the government is expected to make an announcement on international travel corridors, which would allow people from the UK to visit selected countries without having to face a 14-day quarantine on their return.\n\nMr Alderslade welcomed that prospect, but added: \"The government needs to do much, much more to help a sector very much on its knees.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nCouncils in England will be given an extra £105m to support rough sleepers put up during lockdown.\n\nThousands of rough sleepers were housed in hotels and B&Bs as coronavirus hit.\n\nBut councils and charities had called for help to ensure people did not have to return to the streets when hotels reopen on 4 July.\n\nDame Louise Casey, who leads the government's rough sleeping taskforce, said the funding meant nobody would need to return to rough sleeping.\n\nMore funds for drug and alcohol support services will also be brought forward.\n\nHowever the funding is not a long-term solution to homelessness. It is to act as a stopgap until longer term policies can be worked out later in the year.\n\nAt the start of lockdown, English councils were given days to move thousands of homeless people off the streets and out of shelters into self-contained rooms, many in hotels.\n\nThe government estimates that 14,500 people have been helped so far under the scheme that became known as 'Everyone In'.\n\nLast week, the BBC's The Next Episode podcast revealed that three quarters of homeless people in 17 areas were still in temporary accommodation, with some already sleeping rough again.\n\nCouncils and charities warned that more would soon join them if a proper solution wasn't found before hotels were allowed to reopen to the public from 4 July.\n\nThe government's rough sleeping taskforce said the new funding meant nobody needed to return to the streets\n\nNow, councils will be given a further £105m to support rough sleepers, for example by extending existing contracts with hotels, or starting new ones with other providers like universities or youth hostels.\n\nMost of this is new funding, with £20m taken from existing government homelessness budgets. It will be up to individual authorities to decide how to use that money.\n\nA further £16m of planned spending on drug and alcohol support for homeless people is being brought forward to this year.\n\nThe devolved governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will also receive extra money under the Barnett formula.\n\nCommunities secretary Robert Jenrick said the new funding would give homeless people \"access to the accommodation and support they need now while we continue with plans to deliver thousands of long-term homes in the coming months.\"\n\nThe efforts so far had created an \"extraordinary opportunity\" to end rough sleeping, said Louise Casey, chair of the Covid-19 rough sleeping taskforce.\n\n\"I am clear that there can now be no going back to the streets as people begin to move on from the emergency accommodation that has been put in place,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Amanda, who was put up in a hotel, told 5 Live: \"We’re finding our own identities again now.\"\n\nBefore the announcements, several charities had warned of the urgent need for further support.\n\nPetra Salva, the director of rough sleeping services at homelessness charity St Mungos said \"conversations are starting to happen around exit planning - we've got weeks, at best some months to find alternative solutions.\"\n\nCllr David Renard, the Local Government Association's housing spokesman, said councils were pleased at the extra funding.\n\n\"Councils want to take this opportunity to change the lives of our most vulnerable residents and have already been working up plans to support people to move on from emergency accommodation.\"\n\nHowever, he said councils also wanted those rough sleepers with no recourse to public funds to be allowed to access welfare benefits, to ease the pressure on homelessness.", "\"Knowing he was taken from us in such a brutal way has left us devastated,\" say Cheriff Tall's family\n\nA man shot dead at a lockdown party had lobbied MPs on youth violence, a youth worker has said.\n\nCheriff Tall, 21, was one of two men killed by a lone gunman at the \"unplanned\" event in Manchester.\n\nAkemia Minott, who had known Mr Tall since he was six, said he had recently lost a close friend in a violent attack.\n\nThe experience had inspired him to travel to London to raise the issue, she said.\n\nMs Minott, a youth worker in Moss Side, where Sunday's event was held, said she felt \"extremely privileged\" to have known Mr Tall for 15 years.\n\nShe described him as being from a \"loving family\" and known to friends as the \"joker in the pack\".\n\nHe had \"been through so much in recent years\", she said.\n\n\"He's been to the Houses of Parliament with us, challenged MPs on what they're going to do about youth violence and how they are going to address situations,\" she said.\n\n\"Which is obviously incredibly sad when you look at what's happened.\"\n\nMr Tall's parents also paid tribute, describing him as a \"model son\" whose brutal death had left them devastated.\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"Cheriff was loved and respected by his brothers and sisters and to say they are broken is an understatement.\"\n\nRelatives said he was \"popular and well-liked\" with a \"strong sense of loyalty\" and \"would always try to help anyone who needed it\".\n\nHis parents said they were grateful for all messages of condolences and support but they had \"a long road ahead\" to try to come to terms with the death of their son.\n\nLola Ajose said her husband was an \"amazing man\" and \"an amazing father\"\n\nAbayomi Ajose, 36, was also gunned down at the event.\n\nHis widow Lola Ajose described her husband as \"the best man\" and an \"amazing father\".\n\nFather-of-three Mr Ajose, who was also known as Abi or Junior, worked for children's services at Manchester City Council.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is a rare and welcome moment to be able to say something positive about the treatment of Covid-19.\n\nUntil this week there was no medicine proven to save lives. Now we have dexamethasone, which cuts the risk of death for patients on a ventilator by a third, and for those on oxygen by a fifth.\n\nI seldom use the term \"breakthrough\", but it is worth it here.\n\nIt came about due to the persistence and single-mindedness of a small team at Oxford University, the co-operation of hospitals across the UK and the agreement of thousands of patients and their families.\n\nThe study that dexamethasone is part of is called Recovery - Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy. Clinical trials usually take months, even years to get under way and involve a few hundred patients. The Recovery trial was set up in nine days, and has recruited 11,500 Covid patients in 175 hospitals across the UK.\n\nSpeed was vital in order to catch the rising wave of hospital admissions here and to do so before doctors were overwhelmed.\n\nThe UK has had Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak with a terrible death toll. But that has also meant there were sufficient patient numbers here to create what is the world's biggest trial of Covid-19 treatments.\n\nThe trial is led by Prof Peter Horby, who had spent recent years looking at how best to prepare for and respond to disease X, an unknown pathogen that could cause a pandemic.\n\nHe told me he'd been frustrated that, during the last pandemic, of H1N1 swine flu, there was a \"massive failure to do proper drug trials\" and they emerged from it with \"zero evidence\" about whether any treatments actually worked.\n\nHorby and fellow lead investigator Prof Martin Landray were determined that would not happen with coronavirus.\n\nThey decided to keep the trial simple. They would test a small number of repurposed or experimental drugs and ask one question - do they cut the risk of death?\n\nOne of those drugs under evaluation in the randomised trial was low-dose dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory steroid which has been in use since the early 1960s.\n\nThis was considered risky. At the start of the pandemic, most international guidelines strongly discouraged the use of steroids for Covid-19.\n\nSteroids had been tried during outbreaks of two other deadly coronaviruses, Sars and Mers, with mixed results.\n\nDexamethasone is an immunosuppressive drug and there were fears it could make the illness worse, prolonging the infection, and increasing the likelihood of patients needing a ventilator.\n\n\"We had some senior doctors writing to us saying, 'You really shouldn't be doing this,' and that dampening down the immune system in patients trying to fight an infection was probably not a wise thing to do,\" says Landray. \"The reality was that nobody knew whether dexamethasone would be helpful or harmful.\"\n\nWhat was missing, until now, was a randomised trial which was big enough to reach firm conclusions. This meant that some of the patients received dexamethasone, and their life or death outcomes were compared to those who did not.\n\nAs the BBC's medical correspondent, I have reported on global disease threats such as bird flu, swine flu, Sars and Mers - both coronaviruses - and Ebola. You could say I've been waiting much of my career for a global pandemic. And yet when Covid-19 came along, the world was not as ready as it could have been. Sadly, we may have to live with coronavirus indefinitely. Here, I will be reflecting on that.\n\nThe Recovery team was not expecting to release any results until July. But a week ago the data on dexamethasone came through.\n\nThe findings were so good that they spent the next few days trying to break them. Did they really stack up? Was the data robust? Only when convinced the results were genuine did they rush out the findings.\n\nThere are two distinct phases in coronavirus infection. Most people only undergo the first, where the virus invades the body and the immune system mounts an effective response.\n\nBut for a minority, the disease alters about a week after infection. The immune system begins to overreact and cause inflammation. At this point it is not the virus, but the body's own response to infection which causes damage in the lungs and beyond.\n\nFor some Covid patients the immune system can overreact and damage the lungs\n\nThe trial found that dexamethasone helped only those hospital patients who needed oxygen or were on a ventilator. It appears to dampen the immune response, giving the lungs a better chance to recover\n\nIt is not a magic bullet. On the Covid trial, 40 out of every 100 ventilated patients died. These were intensive care patients who were sedated and put on invasive ventilation, a machine that takes over your breathing for you. Dexamethasone reduced that number to 28, saving one life for every eight patients treated.\n\nFor those on oxygen 25 out of every 100 patients died, but the drug cut that to about 20 in a 100.\n\nThat is still a very high death toll. But it is a start and it will give hope to doctors, patients and their families. Better medicines may follow as a result.\n\nOvernight the drug became the standard of care and was given to all NHS Covid patients on oxygen or a ventilator. The World Health Organization called it a \"lifesaving scientific breakthrough\", not least because the drug is extremely cheap and used across the world for a range of conditions.\n\nThe results were greeted with some scepticism in the US, where several experts said they would only accept them once all the data had been published and peer reviewed.\n\nIn truth, top-line results of trials are often released at medical conferences, with full disclosure later. The Oxford team say they will publish the results within the next few weeks.\n\nSo far, the only other drug proven to be effective against Covid-19 is the antiviral remdesivir. It has been shown to cut the duration of symptoms by about four days. In a trial of about 1,000 patients, those who received it had a slightly lower risk of dying, but it was not statistically significant.\n\nRemdesivir, which was developed by the US pharma company Gilead Sciences, has been in short supply. It was excluded from the Recovery trial as there were not enough doses available.\n\nAlthough Gilead is donating millions of doses during the pandemic, at one point it will need to set a price for the drug. One thing is sure, it won't be as cheap or as widely available as dexamethasone.\n\nThe Recovery trial is also looking at another anti-inflammatory, as well as an HIV treatment, an antibiotic, and convalescent plasma from donors who've recovered from Covid-19.\n\nLast week the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was removed from Recovery after it showed no evidence of benefit. The WHO also halted its trials.\n\nProfessors Horby and Landray are keen to stress that the Recovery trial is a team effort, involving about 20 staff in Oxford. Add to them the 3,500 doctors, nurses, research and admin staff across the UK who made the trial happen, and finally, the patients, without whom no medical progress would ever be made. Those who were well enough were asked to give their consent, and only after this did they find out whether or not they'd be getting a drug. In most cases it was their families who had to make that decision. With no hospital visits allowed, this was a leap of faith made by loved ones at a time of maximum stress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was put on the drug trial\n\n\"I say to everyone involved that they should have a warm feeling about the results we are producing because this is how we advance medicine,\" says Prof Landray.\n\nThe NHS is uniquely well placed to conduct large randomised trials, not just during pandemics but across all chronic diseases. So there are lessons to be learned here that could ultimately help patients with heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and a host of other conditions. Faster, bigger and simpler sometimes is the way to go.", "The missing man is believed to have got into difficulty in a stretch of water called Lulle Brook\n\nA body has been found in the search for a swimmer feared drowned in the River Thames.\n\nThe man went missing on Tuesday in a stretch of water called Lulle Brook in Cookham, Berkshire.\n\nThe body of a man in his 30s was discovered at about 16:50 BST on Wednesday, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nThe death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious, the force said. Formal identification has not taken place.\n\nA second man in his 30s was pulled to safety and taken to hospital\n\nEmergency services were called on Tuesday after reports that two men swimming in the water had got into difficulty.\n\nA second man in his 30s was pulled to safety and taken to hospital where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nPolice said a third man who entered the water to help was unharmed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lola Ajose said her husband was a \"kind man\" and \"an amazing father\"\n\nA father-of-three was \"trying to keep the peace\" when he was shot dead with another man at a lockdown party in Manchester, his family have said.\n\nAbayomi Ajose, 36, and a 21-year-old were killed by a lone gunman in Caythorpe Street, Moss Side, on Sunday.\n\nMr Ajose, known as Abi or Junior, was at the party, attended by \"hundreds\" of people including a DJ, looking after a friend, his family said.\n\nPolice and community workers have appealed for help to catch the killer.\n\nLekan Oyekanmi said there had been a community event for children earlier in the day which his brother-in-law Mr Ajose attended with his family.\n\n\"Everyone had such a good time and wanted it to continue for the adults in the evening,\" he said.\n\n\"He [Mr Ajose] stayed on and was looking out for his friend who wasn't in the right frame of mind.\"\n\nLekan Oyekanmi said the shootings were a big shock\n\nMr Oyekanmi said the gunfire caused a stampede and after the second shot he saw two men on the floor, one of whom was his brother-in-law.\n\n\"I thought he was looking for his friend but whatever must have been going on - I know he was trying to keep the peace,\" he added.\n\n\"He was the peacemaker of everything.\"\n\nMr Ajose, who worked for children's services at Manchester City Council, was described by his family as a \"go-to\" person for people who needed help in the community.\n\nHis widow Lola said: \"He was a kind man, everyone loved him. He worked in children's services and was passionate about it.\n\n\"I couldn't do the job he does - he is just a natural. It takes a strong person to deal with vulnerable children like that.\"\n\nShe described her husband as \"the best man\" and an \"amazing father\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage showed hundreds of people at the party before the shootings at about 01:00 BST\n\nYouth worker Akemia Minott said the deaths brought a \"new layer of devastation\" to the Moss Side community but bringing the killer to justice would be \"part of the healing process\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police previously said finding the killer was \"our absolute top priority\".\n\nThe force said it did not break the party up because of \"public disorder\" fears.\n\nCandles and flowers were left at the scene in memory of the victims\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson announced further easing of lockdown measures on Tuesday\n\nHealth leaders are calling for an urgent review to determine whether the UK is properly prepared for the \"real risk\" of a second wave of coronavirus.\n\nIn an open letter published in the British Medical Journal, ministers were warned that urgent action would be needed to prevent further loss of life.\n\nThe presidents of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Nursing, Physicians, and GPs all signed the letter.\n\nIt comes after Boris Johnson announced sweeping changes to England's lockdown.\n\nThe Department of Health said it would continue to be guided by the latest scientific advice and would give the NHS \"whatever it needs\".\n\nMeanwhile, the latest figures show a further 154 people have died with coronavirus in the UK, across all settings, taking the total to 43,081.\n\nOn Tuesday, the prime minister said pubs, restaurants, cinemas and hairdressers will be able to reopen from 4 July.\n\nThe 2m social-distancing rule will be replaced with a \"one-metre plus\" rule, meaning people should stay at least 2m apart where possible, but otherwise should remain at least 1m apart while taking steps to reduce the risk of transmission, such as wearing face coverings.\n\nThe 2m rule will remain in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, however.\n\nBoth the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance and the chief medical officer for England Professor Chris Whitty stressed Mr Johnson's plan was not \"risk-free\" at Tuesday's final daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing.\n\nFollowing the announcement, health leaders called for a \"rapid and forward-looking assessment\" of how prepared the UK would be for a new outbreak.\n\n\"While the future shape of the pandemic in the UK is hard to predict, the available evidence indicates that local flare-ups are increasingly likely and a second wave a real risk,\" they wrote.\n\n\"Many elements of the infrastructure needed to contain the virus are beginning to be put in place, but substantial challenges remain.\"\n\nThe authors of the letter, also signed by the chair of the British Medical Association, urged ministers to set up a cross-party group with a \"constructive, non-partisan, four nations approach\", tasked with developing recommendations.\n\n\"The review should not be about looking back or attributing blame,\" they said, and instead should focus on \"areas of weakness where action is needed urgently to prevent further loss of life and restore the economy as fully and as quickly as possible\".\n\nConservative MP Bernard Jenkin, chairman of the liaison committee, told BBC Two's Politics Live he supported a \"lessons learned\" enquiry and had broached the subject with the government following the BMJ letter.\n\nHe said it wasn't a \"full-blooded inquiry but \"about setting up a process that learns lessons\".\n\nHe said: \"If you look at the papers the Cabinet Office had going into this [pandemic], there was nothing about massive PPE procurement; there was nothing about massive tracking and tracing and testing; there was nothing about a lockdown.\n\n\"This has turned out to be a massively different pandemic than the government was prepared for.\"\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt told BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett that he did not think it was the right time for a public inquiry, which would take up a lot of ministerial time. But he thought there was a \"very real risk\" of a second wave.\n\nPointing to an outbreak at a meat processing plant in Germany and South Korea having to trace 1,700 contacts after an incident at a nightclub, he said: \"In the places which are the best in the world they are dealing with these spikes and we have to recognise there is a very real risk of that here too.\"\n\nTalk of a dreaded second wave will dominate the coming weeks and months.\n\nThe UK will need to be prepared for one. But as the health leaders acknowledge, it's not possible to predict for sure if one will actually happen.\n\nWhat is certainly a given, is there will be local flare-ups where we see clusters of infections in places. This has already happened in Leicester, Anglesey and Cleckheaton.\n\nBut what is important to recognise is that the UK is in a completely different position to where it was in March when the first wave hit.\n\nTesting capacity has gone from a few thousand a day to 200,000 to identify those infected. There is a network of contact tracers to find those that might be infected.\n\nThere are still weaknesses - some tests take too long to turn around, while the tracing system is still bedding in and the app is not ready.\n\nBut there is a realistic chance if these continue to improve and, importantly, the public keeps playing its part by both continuing to adhere to social distancing and complying with requests to self-isolate if they test positive or are identified as a close contact of an infected person, that the virus will be largely kept at bay.\n\nRead more analysis from Nick here.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"Thanks to the dedication of NHS staff, hospitals have not been overwhelmed and intensive care capacity continues to meet the needs of patients.\n\n\"Effective local management of any outbreak is the first line of protection against a second wave. In the event the local response is not sufficient to contain outbreaks, the government would reintroduce measures if necessary to contain the virus and stop it spreading to the wider population.\"\n\nIn the Commons on Tuesday, Mr Johnson said he did not believe there was \"a risk of a second peak of infections that might overwhelm the NHS\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson is cheered as he announces English pubs can reopen from 4 July\n\nAnnouncing the biggest easing of lockdown yet, he said two households in England would be able to meet indoors and stay overnight - with social distancing.\n\nHe warned all the steps were \"reversible\" but confirmed the following venues could reopen:\n\nSome other venues will remain closed by law, including nightclubs, casinos, indoor play areas, nail bars and beauty salons, swimming pools and indoor gyms.\n\nThose businesses set to reopen in 10 days' time have been given government guidance on how they can operate as safely as possible during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What factors determine a potential second wave of Covid-19 infections?\n\nIt comes as struggling retailers must pay their quarterly rent to landlords on Wednesday.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced an updated route map for leaving lockdown with five-mile travel restrictions to end on 3 July and the reopening of self-catering accommodation.\n\nFrom 6 July outdoor hospitality areas such as beer gardens will be able to open. People will be able to meet indoors from 10 July.\n\nProfessor John Edmunds, who attends Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) meetings, said the switch to \"one metre-plus\" restrictions, plus the reopening of pubs and restaurants, meant a risk \"transmission will take off again\" and the Test and Trace system had to be \"working well\" to stamp out infections.\n\nBoth Labour and Mr Hunt are calling for NHS staff to be tested every week for coronavirus so that patient waiting list backlogs can be safely cleared.\n\nWhat questions do you have about the relaxation of lockdown measures and Covid-19?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Several hosts said they had found gas cannisters, used for taking laughing gas, in their properties\n\nLockdown parties hosted in properties booked via online sites, including Airbnb and Booking.com, are putting \"communities at risk\", the Bed and Breakfast Association has said.\n\nHosts and residents have complained of groups of up to 30 breaking social-distancing rules and taking drugs.\n\nBBC News has been told of several such parties in the past month.\n\nAirbnb said it had gone further than its rivals to protect public health during the pandemic.\n\nHowever, last week a man was stabbed at a party in a south London property police believe had been rented out via the platform.\n\nFollowing a previous BBC News investigation into \"coronavirus retreats\", Airbnb had told users they could make bookings only if they were key workers or required “essential stays”.\n\nBut that restriction is to be lifted, in line with local rules on hotels and self-catering accommodation, in:\n\nRival platform Booking.com does not currently flag such limits.\n\nEvidence of drug taking was found at one property\n\n“While B&Bs and guest houses have been closed since 23 March, it seems these giant platforms have allowed bookings to be made and enabled the so-called 'lockdown parties', which have put guests, hosts, neighbours and communities at risk,” Bed and Breakfast Association chairman David Weston said.\n\n“It is about time these global platforms took some responsibility for the safety of their guests, their accommodation and showed some respect for local communities.”\n\nAlthough the BBC saw evidence that some of the bookings involved were made via Airbnb, the hosts involved asked that their details not be shared with the company.\n\nAs a result, the platform said it had seen no evidence to connect the incidents with its business.\n\n\"We have zero tolerance for illegal activity and Airbnb is the only platform to limit all UK bookings to essential travel for key workers until restrictions are lifted,\" the company said.\n\n\"We also explicitly ban party houses and our neighbourhood support tool enables anyone to contact us with concerns about a listing in their community, and we take action on issues brought to our attention.\"\n\nBooking.com did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nDarya Simanovich, who runs Chelsea Creperie but rents out a property on both Airbnb and Booking.com for extra income, said it had been “trashed” many times since lockdown began, at the end of March, by guests posing as key workers, who had turned out to be organising illegal parties.\n\n“I wasn’t able to meet the guest because of restrictions,\" she said of one instance.\n\n“But because I live above the property, I saw lots of people going in, with music playing.\n\n\"So I had to ask them to leave.\n\nMs Simanovich said she had found the detritus left behind by some guests\n\n“Letting out your home is all about trust.\n\n“It’s hard to think people are breaking the rules, especially when hosts have lost income.\n\n“I don’t think the new guidelines will change anything.\n\n\"People will still bend the rules.”\n\nDanial Abbas, who also hosts a flat on both platforms, said a group of more than 10 people held a party there until 04:00 BST last week.\n\n“I’ve had no problems at all until lockdown,” he said.\n\n“It’s disappointing that people would flout the rules and create disruption at a time when people are already feeling unnerved.\n\nAnother host, who asked to remain anonymous, had a group of younger adults partying in her property.\n\n“They’re less at risk,\" she said.\n\n\"They feel hard done by, as lockdown measures are largely for older people.\n\n“They feel like they’re missing out, so don’t care if they break the rules.”\n\nNext month, people in England are allowed to meet indoors in groups of up to two households.\n\nBut there is concern this will be difficult to enforce in short-term lets.\n\n“The guidance as it stands is unenforceable,” Holiday Home Association chief executive Martin Sach said.\n\n“It’s too complicated and not law.\n\n\"So self-catering owners aren’t able to police this.\n\n\"You can’t verify the relationship of your guests.”\n\nMerilee Karr, who chairs the UK Short Term Accommodation Association, which represents short-term rental businesses, including Airbnb, said people should have made bookings only if they had legitimate reasons to do so, such as being a key worker or needing hospital treatment.\n\n“We have been vigilant and very strict about taking bookings during lockdown and have openly opposed anyone breaching the guidelines,\" she said.\n\n\"We totally disapprove of anyone that has falsely booked accommodation to hold an activity that falls outside of the government guidelines and take action where this would be discovered.”\n\nA neighbour to a rental property, who asked to remain anonymous, told BBC News: \"I live in a quiet area in London.\n\n\"But since the lockdown, and in the last four weeks, there have been four parties in my street.\n\n\"You can spot them right away.\n\n\"They only stay for one night, arrive in groups of up to 20 people, coming in and out of the house.\n\n\"I’ve been kept up all night by the loud music that has played until 05:00.\n\n\"And you can see and smell evidence of drug-taking.\n\n\"When it happens, I’ve wanted to knock on the door and confront them.\n\n\"But I have no idea who these people are, which can be scary and threatening, especially when we aren’t meant to be in crowds.\n\n\"It’s happening because people don’t have anywhere else to go at the moment.\n\n\"And they want to drink and socialise.\n\n\"Action needs to be taken.\n\n\"It’s not right to have a party house in the middle of a residential area, especially during a pandemic.\"", "Scientist David Wails, 49, US citizen Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and history teacher James Furlong, 36, were killed in the knife attack\n\nA parliamentary assistant tried to save the lives of three men who were stabbed to death in a park in Reading.\n\nJames Furlong, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were killed in the knife attack in Reading's Forbury Gardens on Saturday.\n\nJames Antell, who works for West Dorset Conservative MP Chris Loder, used his shirt in an effort to stem their bleeding.\n\nHe said he had been \"shaken\" by the attack which was \"all a bit of a blur\".\n\nPolice are continuing to question Khairi Saadallah, 25, who has been arrested under the Terrorism Act. He came to the UK from Libya in 2012.\n\nJames Antell has been praised for his \"remarkable and extraordinary effort\"\n\nMr Antell said: \"I tried my very best to identify where the injuries were and took my shirt and tried to apply pressure.\n\n\"It was certainly a big relief when the police did arrive to those of us that were with the victims.\"\n\nHe said he still felt \"a little bit shaken\" by the \"hideous and callous\" attack, but added his overriding thoughts were with the victims, including three people who needed hospital treatment for injuries, and their families.\n\n\"It's all a bit of a blur - I was concerned for my safety and for the safety of others around,\" Mr Antell said.\n\n\"As much as this is a story of terror and violence and hate, it also exemplifies the bravery and resilience of the public.\n\n\"Looking back I was heartened by the response from members of the public and the emergency services and the wider Reading community who in the hours afterwards were providing sanctuary and doing all that they could to help.\"\n\nMr Loder said in the Commons that he was \"extremely proud\" of his parliamentary assistant for his \"remarkable and extraordinary effort\".\n\nHe told MPs Mr Antell \"ran courageously towards danger, his only focus to help the injured\".\n\nReading Borough Council has announced it plans to create a permanent memorial in Forbury Gardens to 49-year-old scientist Mr Wails, US citizen Mr Ritchie-Bennett, 39, and 36-year-old history teacher Mr Furlong.\n\nThe authority said it would work with the victims' families and the community to create a memorial \"where people can pay their respects to those who lost their lives, and everyone affected by the tragic events\".\n\nIt added it would share its plans \"over the coming days and weeks\".", "The CrossFit fitness plan was developed by Greg Glassman\n\nCrossFit owner Greg Glassman has sold his fitness company, after stepping down as chief following outcry over remarks he made about George Floyd.\n\nThe comments, in which he asked why he should mourn for Mr Floyd, had prompted athletes, gyms and sportswear firms to cut ties with the business.\n\nIncoming owner Eric Roza, a tech executive and co-founder of a successful CrossFit gym, said he would be \"working hard to rebuild bridges\".\n\nTerms of the deal were not disclosed.\n\nThe value of the Crossfit business, which is based on a branded exercise regimen focused on high intensity workouts, has previously been estimated at about $4bn (£3.1bn). It is affiliated with about 13,000 gyms in 158 countries worldwide.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Eric Roza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"In the past weeks, divisive statements and allegations have left many members of our community struggling to reconcile our transformative experiences in the local box with what we've been reading online,\" said Mr Roza, a former Oracle executive who is now working for US venture capitalists General Catalyst.\n\n\"My view is simple: Racism and sexism are abhorrent and will not be tolerated in CrossFit.\"\n\nIn early June, Mr Glassman had courted controversy by responding to a public health body on Twitter that was saying racism was a public health issue.\n\nMr Glassman tweeted: \"It's FLOYD-19\", an apparent reference to the coronavirus.\n\nHe followed it up with a second tweet saying: \"Your failed model quarantined us and now you're going to model a solution to racism? George Floyd's brutal murder sparked riots nationally.\"\n\nHe also called an affiliate \"delusional\" for questioning why CrossFit had been silent on the killing in Minneapolis.\n\nHours before posting the fateful tweets, Mr Glassman had told gym owners on a private Zoom call that was leaked to reporters: \"We're not mourning for George Floyd - I don't think me or any of my staff are.\n\n\"Can you tell me why I should mourn for him? Other than that it's the white thing to do.\"\n\nThe comments prompted affiliate gyms to drop CrossFit branding and were rebuked by athletes, as well as Adidas-owned Reebok, which said it was ending its partnership with the brand. The backlash set off further reports that alleged incidents of sexism at the firm.\n\nIn a statement this month announcing his retirement, Mr Glassman acknowledged that he had \"created a rift in the CrossFit community and unintentionally hurt many of its members\".\n\nHe added: \"I cannot let my behaviour stand in the way of HQ's or affiliates' missions. They are too important to jeopardise.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, in its announcement of the new owner, CrossFit shared a statement from Mr Glassman, which said it was \"time\" for him to move on.\n\n\"The world has changed but the magnificent human machine, the proven benefits of CrossFit, and its market opportunity remain unchanged,\" he said.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Glassman's retirement was the latest corporate fallout from the protests set off by George Floyd's death in the hands of police, which have reignited discussions of racism and prompted many firms to speak out.", "Screens between customers are among the safety measures suggested for hairdressers\n\nMusic should be kept quiet and customers encouraged to order through apps, under updated guidance for businesses reopening from 4 July.\n\nPubs, restaurants, cinemas and hairdressers are among the venues which will be allowed to reopen in England.\n\nThere is also advice to reconfigure seating, minimise self-service, cancel live acts and stagger arrivals.\n\nIt comes after Boris Johnson announced sweeping changes to England's lockdown, including a relaxing of the 2m rule.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest figures show a further 154 people have died with coronavirus in the UK, across all settings, taking the total to 43,081.\n\nThe updated government guidance includes some general advice for all businesses as well as guidance for specific sectors.\n\nIt says businesses should carry out a Covid-19 risk assessment to ensure the safety of their workplace, which should be shared on their website, and also develop cleaning and hygiene procedures.\n\nGuidance for close contact services such as hairdressers says employees should wear a visor where it is not possible to maintain distance and customers could also be separated from each other by screens.\n\nPlaces like pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers are asked to keep a temporary record of customers and visitors for 21 days, to support the test and trace system.\n\nPubs and restaurants should keep music at a low volume to avoid people needing to shout, which increases the risk of transmission from tiny droplets in the air, known as aerosols.\n\nCustomers will be encouraged to book in advance and order food and drink direct to their tables through a smartphone app.\n\nPubs are among the venues which will be allowed to open in England from 4 July\n\nBusiness Secretary Alok Sharma said he expected people to continue to use \"common sense\" and follow government guidelines.\n\nBut he said there was a \"legal duty\" for businesses to keep their employees safe and the Health and Safety Executive could take action if not.\n\nFrances O'Grady, general secretary of trade union body the TUC, said the more the government relaxes lockdown \"the tougher it needs to get on health and safety at work\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it should be a legal requirement for employers to publish risk assessments on their website, adding too many companies were \"not doing the right thing\".\n\nAdam Regan, who runs the Hare and Hounds pub in Birmingham, said the guidelines were \"very, very difficult to navigate safely\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live extra staff would be needed to monitor entrances and serve tables, while some customers might not be comfortable giving their contact details on arrival.\n\nMr Regan said another concern was that people would become more relaxed and less conscious of social distancing after drinking alcohol.\n\nMike Cherry, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said while there was \"a lot to welcome\" in the guidance, \"ideally, small firms would have been given weeks rather than days to prepare for their reopenings\".\n\nHe said the new measures would also bring extra costs for companies and called for government support to help businesses which could not afford to reconfigure their premises.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said that while he supported the easing of the lockdown, a more effective test and trace system was needed for the plan to work safely.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson is cheered as he announces English pubs can reopen from 4 July\n\nIn the biggest easing of lockdown yet, Mr Johnson also said the 2m social-distancing rule would be replaced with a \"one-metre plus\" rule in England.\n\nThis means people should stay at least 2m (6ft) apart where possible, but otherwise should remain at least 1m apart while taking steps to reduce the risk of transmission, such as wearing face coverings.\n\nThe 2m rule will remain in Scotland and Wales. In Northern Ireland, ministers have said social distancing of 1m is \"safe and appropriate\" for children at school.\n\nAnnouncing the changes on Tuesday, Mr Johnson said the following venues would be able to reopen from 4 July:\n\nSome other venues will remain closed by law, including nightclubs, casinos, indoor play areas, nail bars and beauty salons, swimming pools and indoor gyms.\n\nIt comes as struggling retailers must pay their quarterly rent to landlords on Wednesday.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said in a tweet that the government's \"aspiration\" was to reopen gyms and leisure facilities in England in mid-July.\n\nHowever, Mark Sesnan, chief executive of Greenwich Leisure, which runs leisure centres for councils across the country, said he was \"shocked and disappointed\" that such sites would not be allowed to reopen on 4 July.\n\n\"We had been led to believe that we would be,\" he told the BBC, adding that the company had \"incurred quite a lot of expense\" getting facilities ready.\n\nHe said most swimming pools and sports halls were \"very large spaces\", making social distancing easier. Scientists also say chlorinated water should kill the virus.\n\nThe Betting and Gaming Council said it was \"inconsistent and frankly nonsensical\" that casinos were not able to reopen along with other parts of the hospitality industry.\n\n\"Casinos have done everything that they were asked to do by the government and they have pulled out all the stops to ensure they are able to open their doors safely for both staff and customers from 4 July,\" chief executive Michael Dugher said.\n\nMr Sharma said he understood the \"frustration\" of businesses that were not yet allowed to reopen but \"the proximity that you have to someone in some of these closer settings\" posed \"a greater risk\".\n\nIn Scotland, outdoor hospitality areas such as beer gardens will be able to open on 6 July, while shopping centres, holiday accommodation, hairdressers, pubs and restaurants will be able to reopen on 15 July.\n\nThere is not yet a date for when pubs and restaurants might reopen in Wales, although the government has said discussions on a potential phased reopening will be held in July.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, hotels, pubs and restaurants can reopen from 3 July.", "Ron Jeremy is facing up to 90 years behind bars\n\nAdult film star Ron Jeremy has been charged with raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth, prosecutors say.\n\nHe is accused of attacking the women between 2014 and 2019. The alleged victims were aged between 25 and 46.\n\nThe 67-year-old is one of the biggest names in pornography and has featured in more than 2,000 films dating back to the 1970s.\n\nIf convicted, he faces up to 90 years behind bars. He denies the charges.\n\nMr Jeremy, whose real name is Ronald Jeremy Hyatt, stands accused of raping a 25-year-old woman at a house in West Hollywood, according to a statement from Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey.\n\nHe allegedly sexually assaulted two women, ages 33 and 46, on separate occasions at a West Hollywood bar in 2017, the district attorney said. He also is accused of raping a 30-year-old woman at the same bar in July 2019.\n\nA separate case from 2016 was dropped due to insufficient evidence.\n\nMr Jeremy's attorney Stuart Goldfarb told AFP news agency the charges were a \"surprise\". \"He is not a rapist,\" he said.\n\n\"Ron - over the years, because of who he is - has essentially been a paramour to over 4,000 women,\" he said.\n\n\"And to allege that he is a rapist is beyond... I mean, women throw themselves at him.\"\n\nMr Jeremy appeared in court Tuesday, wearing handcuffs and a face mask, but did not enter a plea.\n\nA judge delayed his arraignment until Friday and set his bail at $6.6 million (£5.27 million).\n\nDante Rusciolelli, Mr Jeremy's manager, told US media he was dropping the actor as a client.\n\nIn 2017, Rolling Stone reported that more than a dozen women had accused Mr Jeremy of sexual misconduct, including groping, inappropriate touching, non-consensual digital penetration, and sexual assault.\n\nHe told the magazine he had \"never and would never rape anyone\".\n\nMr Jeremy is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for \"Most Appearances in Adult Films\" and was the subject of the 2001 documentary Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy.\n\nHe has also made numerous cameo appearances in computer games, Hollywood films and music videos, including for Moby, Guns N' Roses, Armin Van Buuren and LMFAO's Sexy and I Know It.", "The centre of the earthquake was in the coastal state of Oaxaca but shock waves were felt as far away as Mexico city.\n\nThe mayor of Oaxaca sad that that one person is known to have died. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urged people to stay on their guard in case of further tremors.", "Last updated on .From the section Burnley\n\nBlackpool Airport has suspended banner flights from its base after the message 'White Lives Matter Burnley' was towed by an aeroplane over Etihad Stadium on Monday night.\n\nThe banner was flown over the stadium during Manchester City's 5-0 win over Burnley.\n\nIn a statement, manager Stephen Smith said the airport and Blackpool Council are \"outraged by this incident\".\n\nBurnley say they are \"ashamed and embarrassed\" by the banner.\n\nBlackpool Airport says the incident was reported to police and the Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nChief superintendent Russ Procter said Lancashire Police had investigated the incident but \"concluded that there are no criminal offences that have been disclosed at this time\".\n\nRichard Moriarty, chief executive of the UK Civil Aviation Authority, said his organisation condemned the incident.\n\nBlackpool airport statement read: \"We stand against racism of any kind and absolutely do not condone the activity, the message was offensive and the action reprehensible. The decision to fly the banner was taken entirely by the banner flying company without the knowledge or approval of the airport or Blackpool Council.\n\n\"Due to the nature of the activity, banners are not checked before take-off and the content is at the operator's discretion.\n\n\"Following an emergency review this morning, Blackpool Airport will suspend all banner towing operations at the airport with immediate effect and we would suggest that other airports should also consider this approach in light of what has happened at Blackpool.\"\n\nBurnley and City players and staff had taken a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement moments before the aircraft circled over the stadium.\n\n\"Fans like that don't deserve to be around football,\" Clarets skipper Ben Mee told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"We're ashamed, we're embarrassed. It's a minority of our supporters - I know I speak for a massive part of our support who distance ourselves from anything like that.\"\n\nIn a statement, Burnley said that the banner \"in no way represents\" what the club stands for and that they will \"work fully with the authorities to identify those responsible and take appropriate action\".\n\nBoth Burnley and City were wearing shirts with the players' names replaced with 'Black Lives Matter'.\n\nIt is understood that the stunt was carried out by Air Ads, which operates out of Blackpool Airport and runs a one-stop shop where they make the banners and fly them. They have flown over football stadiums in the past, including a 'Moyes Out' one at Old Trafford.\n\nWhen BBC Sport contacted the company, a man who answered refused to give his name but said he was packing away the banner.\n\nHe said as long as banners were legal and did not use coarse language, the company did not 'take sides' and had previously done a Black Lives Matter banner. He claimed police had been informed of the banner in advance.\n\nThe Premier League resumed on 17 June after a 100-day hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic; players and officials have been showing their support for the movement for racial equality following the death of George Floyd in the United States last month.\n\nFloyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man, died as a white police officer held a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes. His death sparked protests around the world.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eyewitnesses said a garage door was sent flying across the street in the explosion\n\nA man has died in an explosion at a garage in a \"quiet\" residential street in south Wales.\n\nGwent Police said it received reports of an explosion at a garage in the Coed Camlas area of Pontypool, Torfaen, at about 11:10 BST on Monday.\n\nOfficers have confirmed that a man was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nA police cordon around the area has been extended, with fire and ambulance teams also at the scene. Engineers have already ruled out a gas explosion.\n\nIn a statement Gwent Police said the cause of death and formal identity were still being established.\n\n\"At this moment in time it is too early to confirm whether the death is suspicious,\" said a force official.\n\n\"Emergency services including South Wales Fire and Rescue and South Wales Ambulance are currently on the scene and will remain for the rest of the day.\n\n\"As there has been significant damage caused to the premises, a cordon is still in place.\"\n\nInvestigations into the cause of the explosion are ongoing\n\nWitnesses described the garage doors being \"blown off\" and drain pipes meltin\n\nOne eyewitness described \"a boom\" and said the \"garage was gone\".\n\n\"I heard a loud noise, first it was a bang and then it was a boom, then the house sort of shook,\" said neighbour Pauline McKane.\n\n\"It was just ablaze, it was unbelievable. Within minutes, the garage had gone.\"\n\nAnother resident said the garage door at the property had been blown across the street.\n\nNeighbour Annette Jackson was at home in the street when the explosion happened\n\nNeighbour Annette Jackson said it was a quiet street with most people working when she heard the blast.\n\n\"I was at the back of the house in the garden and I heard a loud explosion and I came running out,\" she said.\n\n\"You could see the flames coming out of the garage - about 5ft high in the air - and lots of black smoke.\"\n\nOne couple, who did not want to be named, said the explosion had damaged their son's property, next door to where the garage explosion happened.\n\nPolice have cordoned off part of Coed Camlas after the explosion\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service has sent an additional engine and an aerial platform to the incident.\n\nAn official at Wales & West Utilities said they had also sent an engineer to the scene.\n\n\"The explosion was not related to the mains gas network,\" said Steve Williams, the gas emergency services manager for the utility firm.", "Scotland will not immediately follow England in cutting the 2m social distance rule, the country's first minister has said.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she would give an update on Wednesday on the country's lockdown easing restrictions.\n\nBut she said there would be no decision on whether or not to reduce the 2m rule until her Scientific Advisory Group has examined the evidence.\n\nMs Sturgeon said this would be done by 2 July at the latest.\n\nThe first minister was speaking as Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifted an array of coronavirus restrictions in England.\n\nMr Johnson said the \"long national hibernation\" was coming to an end as he announced that pubs, restaurants, hotels and hairdressers can open from 4 July in England.\n\nThe 2m social distancing rule will also be eased from that date, although a \"one metre plus\" rule will be introduced.\n\nThe new guidelines in England will see people encouraged to use \"mitigation\" such as face coverings and not sitting face-to-face when within 2m of each other, and \"where it is possible to keep 2m apart, people should\".\n\nThe prime minister said it was each nation's own responsibility to make their own lockdown restrictions, but that all parts of the UK were now \"travelling in the same direction\".\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing in Edinburgh that she would be \"very interested\" to see the scientific evidence upon which the UK government had based its decision.\n\nThe first minister, like Mr Johnson, has been under pressure from the tourism and hospitality sector, as well as many other businesses, to relax the distancing rules to make it easier for them to reopen.\n\nIt would also make it easier for pupils to return to the classroom without the need for part-time \"blended learning\".\n\nMs Sturgeon will outline further details of the lockdown easing plans on Wednesday\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was under no illusions about the potential economic benefits - but stressed that easing the rules also brought a greater risk of the virus spreading.\n\nShe added: \"The Scottish government is clear that the advice and evidence we have right now supports physical distancing at 2m in order to reduce the risk of virus transmission.\n\n\"But we have asked in what settings, what circumstances and with what additional mitigation it might be possible to accept the risk of people not keeping to a 2m distance.\n\n\"That advice will be available by the 2nd of July. Until then the position here in Scotland remains the same, we are advising people to maintain 2m physical distancing.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw accused Ms Sturgeon of following a \"go-slow\" approach that risked leaving Scotland behind both economically and socially.\n\nHe added: \"It will be very difficult for people here to look on as England, and indeed the rest of Europe, begins a return to normal.\n\n\"It will also be very costly for businesses, industries like tourism and hospitality, and the mental health of the nation.\"\n\nLast Thursday, Scotland formally moved to the second phase of its four-phase plan aimed at ending the three-month lockdown while continuing to suppress the virus that has been linked to the deaths of more than 4,000 people across the country.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the briefing she will announce more details on easing lockdown restrictions tomorrow, which she said was earlier than she had originally planned to do so.\n\nThis acceleration of the plans was possible because of the progress that had been made during what had been the \"most challenging\" three month period in the lifetime of most Scots, she added.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Hospital admissions which at one point were at 200 a day are currently in single figures every day.\n\n\"The number of people in intensive care has fallen by 90% and while it is the case that one person dying from this virus is one too many, we've also seen a very significant and sustained decline in the number of those deaths.\"\n\nThe NHS did not \"come close\" to being overwhelmed, Ms Sturgeon said, crediting the efforts of the Scottish people for the progress made in suppressing the virus.\n\nBut she said the \"sorrow\" over those who have died - about half of them in care homes - would \"live with me forever\".", "Karren Brady, Lord Sugar and Claude Littner will not pick an apprentice this year\n\nThis year's series of The Apprentice has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the BBC has said.\n\nThe show, which sees Sir Alan Sugar pick a business partner, has been broadcast every year since 2005, and normally starts in October.\n\nBut series 16 has been put on hold in the interests of \"production safety and the wellbeing of everyone involved\".\n\nInstead, highlights of previous boardroom highs and lows will be broadcast later this year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Apprentice\n\nLord Sugar has previously said the series could be pushed back to next spring or by a whole year.\n\nLast week, the businessman was criticised for appearing to downplay the impact of the virus, saying lockdown restrictions should be lifted faster, as he had seen happen in the US.\n\nSpeaking on Jeremy Vine's Channel 5 show from his home in Florida, the 73-year-old said: \"I just, logically, say, 'Well hold on, six weeks when we've come out of this so-called lockdown, who's dead?'\n\n\"I'm not. I'm still alive. My wife, thank God, is still alive. So's everybody else I know. No-one else has caught anything.\"\n\nSome TV shows, like EastEnders and Coronation Street, have recently resumed filming under new Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nBut others, like Love Island, have been cancelled, while there are question marks over how other autumn and winter ratings winners like The Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here will go ahead.\n\nLast year's series of The Apprentice ended in December, when it was won by Carina Lepore.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nHealth leaders are calling for an urgent review to determine whether the UK is properly prepared for the \"real risk\" of a second wave of infections. The presidents of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, Nursing, Physicians and GPs urged the government to examine \"areas of weakness where action is needed urgently to prevent further loss of life\". Is a second wave inevitable? Our health correspondent James Gallagher looks closely. The warning comes after the prime minister announced a wholesale easing of lockdown in England from 4 July - here's all you need to know on that.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What factors determine a potential second wave of Covid-19 infections?\n\nBusinesses told they can reopen in 10 days' time are looking at detailed guidance on the measures they must put in place - for example, around requiring customers to provide contact details. Not all sectors of the economy received good news, though. Hear from some of those left disappointed. Rent day has also arrived for struggling retailers, adding even greater pressure. In Scotland, more detail on dates for lockdown easing will be announced later.\n\nGym manager Rob Ward was prepared for reopening, but has been left dismayed\n\nWhatever happens next we won't be told about it in a daily government press conference - they're being scrapped. From now on televised briefings will be given on an \"ad hoc\" basis to \"coincide with significant announcements,\" Downing Street says. Conservative MP and former minister Tobias Ellwood criticised the move during an \"enduring emergency\", as did acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tobias Ellwood MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHundreds of thousands of university students who've missed out on learning during lockdown are being asked to sign up for a \"mass action\". The National Union of Students (NUS) wants debt relief and compensation for students, but England's universities minister says students should complain to their individual universities. Student life will likely look quite different next academic year too, of course - find out more.\n\nAdults are spending a quarter of their waking day online during lockdown, according to Ofcom. The pandemic has radically changed the nature of online behaviour too, the regulator says, with people seeking new ways to keep connected, informed, entertained and fit during lockdown.\n\nVideo-conferencing has proved one of the biggest hits of lockdown\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest from our live page.\n\nPlus, a lot of us will be hoping the latest announcements pave the way for a holiday this summer. Find out where things stand right now.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool moved to within touching distance of their first title in 30 years as Crystal Palace were brutally dismissed behind closed doors at Anfield.\n\nManchester City must now win at Chelsea on Thursday to further delay the inevitability of Liverpool's coronation as Premier League champions.\n\nAfter the goalless Merseyside derby at Everton on Sunday, they shook off the cobwebs in their first home game since the campaign was halted because of the coronavirus pandemic to beat Palace with almost embarrassing ease.\n\nAnfield may have been home to only around 300 people but Liverpool played with familiar intensity, although Palace's cause was hardly helped by the early loss of Wilfried Zaha to injury.\n\nTrent Alexander-Arnold was on target with a superb free-kick after 22 minutes and Mohamed Salah effectively settled the contest with a cool finish from Fabinho's brilliant pass just before the break.\n\nAnd Fabinho produced something even more special in the 54th minute when he drilled a magnificent rising right-foot finish past Wayne Hennessey from more than 30 yards.\n\nSalah turned provider after 69 minutes with a slide-rule pass to Sadio Mane, who finished with precision as Liverpool's superiority was stamped all over this game.\n• None How you rated the players\n• None When can Liverpool win the league?\n\nLiverpool's world-class attacking trio of Roberto Firmino, Sadio Mane and Salah take most of the headlines - but no-one should underestimate the influence of Brazilian Fabinho.\n\nThe languid midfield man is the complete operator and showed all sides of his game in what turned into a stroll.\n\nHe ran midfield while demonstrating his class as a creator and goalscorer to simply underline the role he has played in Liverpool's romp to the Premier League this season.\n\nFabinho's pass to pick out Salah for Liverpool's second goal was a masterpiece of touch and vision, while he again showed his potency from long range by flashing that stunning goal past the helpless Hennessey in front of a Kop populated by flags on what might be their last game before clinching the title.\n\nLiverpool's season has been a complete team performance and Fabinho, understated but hugely influential, has played his full part despite a lengthy absence through injury in the middle of the campaign.\n\nCrystal Palace arrived at Anfield accompanied by talk of European qualification after a very solid showing under manager Roy Hodgson this season and their very impressive first 'Project Restart' win at Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nPalace had put together four straight Premier League wins but this was a harrowing night, not helped by losing Zaha, their most dangerous player, early on to an injury he appeared to pick up in the warm-up.\n\nFor all the good work Palace have done this term, they simply had no answer to Liverpool as they were ripped apart at regular intervals.\n\nTaken in full context, this has still been a fine season for Palace, as they reside comfortably in the top 10.\n\nLiverpool were in the mood and that's what Jurgen Klopp wanted to see.\n\nA match behind closed doors at Anfield is just a surreal experience. Football is not meant to be like this. You'd be forgiven for thinking this was played out in front of a full and raucous Anfield, though - Liverpool played some fantastic football.\n\nFabinho has been a good signing - it can take foreign players a while to settle. I can't remember Jurgen Klopp buying anyone that hasn't really done it apart from Loris Karius.\n\n'We do not want to wait' - what they said\n\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp told Sky Sports: \"Imagine how this stadium would have been full today and all the people could have experienced it live.\n\n\"I don't think the game could have been better because my boys played like everybody was in the stadium. The atmosphere on the pitch was incredible. That was the best counter-pressing game I have ever seen.\n\n\"The boys are in good shape and in a good mood and it was important we showed our supporters we are still here and we do not want to wait.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson told Sky Sports: \"We didn't need to make any excuses really, but it's a Liverpool team in incredible form. They were so aggressive, so good in winning the ball back, we had no opportunities to put our foot on the ball and ask them some questions.\"\n\nGoals, goals, goals - best of the stats\n• None This was Liverpool's 20th win at Anfield in all competitions this season (23rd home match), making them the first club in Europe's big-five leagues to win 20 home matches in 2019-20\n• None Under Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool have now won more Premier League games against Crystal Palace (eight) than they have against any other opponent\n• None Having kept four consecutive clean sheets prior to this defeat, Crystal Palace conceded as many goals against Liverpool in this game as they had in their previous six Premier League games combined\n• None Liverpool extended their top-flight record to 23 consecutive home victories; the Reds have scored 67 goals in those 23 wins while conceding just 15 in reply\n• None Liverpool have now scored 100+ goals in all competitions for a third consecutive season, the first time they have done so since 1986-87 (eight in a row)\n• None Alexander-Arnold's free-kick was his 30th Premier League goal involvement (five goals, 25 assists); since his debut in December 2016, this is more than any other defender in the competition\n• None Mane became the 10th player to score in six consecutive Premier League appearances against a single opponent, and the second to do so for Liverpool after Mohamed Salah v Bournemouth.\n• None Fabinho celebrated his 41st victory in what was his 50th Premier League appearance; only Didier Drogba, Arjen Robben, Ederson (all 42) and Aymeric Laporte (43) won more of their opening 50 games in the competition.\n\nLiverpool could travel to Manchester City as champions on Thursday, 2 July (20:15 BST kick-off). Meanwhile, Crystal Palace host Burnley on Monday, 29 June (20:00 kick-off).\n• None Crouchy is joined by former boss Sean Dyche\n• None Apologising to an ex in lockdown: 'I know that I crossed a bunch of lines'\n• None Attempt saved. Neco Williams (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Neco Williams (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Joel Ward (Crystal Palace) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Two metre social distancing is enshrined in law in Wales\n\nThe original recommendation to stay 2m apart from others remains the \"safe way to behave\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said the original social distancing advice is staying in place in Wales.\n\nThe UK government has eased it in England, allowing parts of the hospitality sector including pubs to reopen from 4 July.\n\nWelsh Conservatives have called for a \"similar lifeline\" for firms in Wales.\n\nEarlier Mr Drakeford's colleague, Health Minister Vaughan Gething, said he could not see how the measures being eased in England were consistent with scientific advice.\n\nPubs, restaurants, cinemas and hairdressers will be able to reopen in England from 4 July.\n\nConcerns have been raised of the risk of a second wave. The UK government said it would continue to be guided by the latest scientific advice.\n\nDates in Wales have not been given for the hospitality sector, including pubs and restaurants, to reopen, although the Welsh Government has promised \"detailed discussions\" on a phased reopening.\n\nIn England a \"one metre plus\" rule has been introduced where two metres is not possible, taking steps to reduce transmission\n\nBut in Wales the 2m advice is enshrined in law and workplaces are expected to follow it as much as they can, risking fines otherwise.\n\nPubs in Wales are yet to have a date for reopening\n\nAt a virtual session of the Senedd Paul Davies, leader of the Welsh Conservative group, said it was \"right\" to reassess the regulations as infection rates fall.\n\nHe put it to Mr Drakeford that Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer had welcomed the prime minister's statement on Tuesday \"overall\" and believed \"the UK government is trying to do the right thing\".\n\nIn response, the first minister said: \"In Wales, the message remains. Stay two metres apart. That is the safe way to behave.\"\n\nHe said the science of the UK government's scientific advisory group SAGE said \"if you halve the distance the risk increases somewhere between two and five times greater than if you stay within a two metre distance\".\n\nBut Mr Drakeford did not totally rule out easing the advice.\n\n\"If it is possible, always using public health as our primary test, to reduce the two metre rule by exception then we will see what we are able to do in Wales, but we will do it by looking at the evidence first.\"\n\nEvidence for the England decision had been promised by the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, the first minister said.\n\n\"That evidence had not arrived by the end of yesterday but we certainly hope to see it today.\"\n\nMr Drakeford faced calls from Paul Davies to provide a \"strategy\" for Welsh tourism for how it will support it in the short and long term, and for \"immediate action\" to help the hospitality sector.\n\nHe said last week's statement on lockdown in Wales, which said self-contained tourist accommodation could take bookings from 13 July, \"resulted in more questions than answers\".\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said \"none of us know how this disease will progress as we move through the summer and into autumn\".\n\n\"We do our best to provide forward guidance to sectors in Wales, but to ask us to provide clarity where none is possible, would be to provide a false prospectus to those industries.\"\n\nVaughan Gething said he was concerned at the number of measures being eased in Wales\n\nCoronavirus travel restrictions are among the measures still in place in Wales, with people expected to stay local at least until 6 July.\n\nVaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers the lockdown changes in England were \"a lot of measures to undertake on one day\".\n\n\"I don't think you'd see that same appetite for risk here,\" he added.\n\nHe said Welsh Government officials are in contact with their counterparts in the UK government \"trying to get sight of the evidence\".\n\n\"And as soon as [we see it] we'll consider it, and it will inform choices that we make here in Wales.\"\n\nMr Gething claimed that the \"overwhelming majority of people in Wales support the approach\" taken by the Welsh Government - which has eased lockdown more cautiously than in England.\n\n\"Some people are thirsty for a much more rapid unlocking of the country but, actually, that isn't the overwhelming view of people,\" he said.\n\nDarren Millar, Welsh Conservative Covid recovery spokesman, said that the UK government's measures are \"safe and sensible\" and will \"come as a huge relief to those parts of society and the economy which would otherwise be unable to function and it is great to see them attracting cross-party support\".\n\n\"We encourage the Welsh Government to urgently review the restrictions here as soon as possible in order that a similar lifeline can be thrown to people and businesses across Wales.\"", "Jet2 and Eurostar have announced that they will be cancelling some summer flights and trains in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nEurostar is cutting direct services to three French cities due to lack of demand and difficulties implementing protection measures on long journeys.\n\nSeparately, pilots union Balpa has said that airline Jet2 is to make 102 pilots redundant.\n\nThe airline will be reducing its flying programme for 2020 and 2021.\n\nEurostar said: \"As we restart our service, we are focusing our timetable on our routes between capital cities, which have the highest demand from customers at the moment and shorter journey times.\"\n\nThe company said its services were operating with restrictions on food service, the compulsory wearing of masks, significantly increased hygiene measures and high-frequency cleaning.\n\nHowever, these standards were \"more challenging to maintain on long distance routes\".\n\nEurostar's direct summer services to Lyon, Avignon and Marseilles, which were meant to start in May, will no longer be run at all in 2020 or 2021.\n\nInstead, the rail company will focus on its main routes between London, Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam.\n\nA spokesman for Jet2 said that the airline was facing \"complicated\" challenges relating to the coronavirus crisis and \"changes on an almost daily basis\", which had resulted in the need to reduce its flying programme.\n\n\"Sadly, the overall effect of these reductions has been the need to propose a number of colleague redundancies across our business.\"\n\nHe said the company had \"every confidence\" that it would \"bounce back from the unprecedented demands currently placed on the company\" but it did have to make \"difficult decisions in the current climate\".\n\nJet2, which has bases at airports in Leeds, Birmingham, Stansted, Newcastle, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast, is the latest airline to issue formal notice of redundancy and start a consultation process with its workforce.\n\nIn May, Virgin Atlantic announced that it would be slashing more than 3,000 jobs in the UK across its business and would end its operation at Gatwick airport, as a result of the pandemic.\n\nThe airline said it had to apply for emergency loans from the government in order to avoid collapse.\n\nBritish Airways has proposed to make 12,000 of its 45,000 staff redundant\n\nAnd in June, German airline Lufthansa said it would cut 22,000 jobs and have 100 fewer aircraft, just weeks after the German government injected €9bn to prevent it from going bust.\n\nRyanair and EasyJet have also announced that they will be cutting between 15-30% of their workforces, while British Airways is proposing to make 12,000 of its 45,000 staff redundant.\n\nBalpa general secretary Brian Strutton said he was concerned about the \"knee-jerk\" way in which airlines like Jet2 had been responded to falling customer numbers due to the pandemic.\n\n\"Many of the pilots whose jobs are on the line in Jet2 have just recently moved there after having lost their jobs at Thomas Cook - these pilots have been through the mill already,\" he said.\n\nMr Strutton said Jet2 played an \"extremely important role\" at airports in the north of the UK, and it was important that it did not collapse:\n\n\"Once again, I reiterate my call for the government to step in, call for a job cuts moratorium, and work on a strategic support package to help this industry get through this crisis.\"", "The Pitsmoor Hotel in Sheffield has been issued with a prohibition order by the police and council\n\nA pub has been stripped of its licence after police found drinkers hiding in cupboards during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe Pitsmoor Hotel in Sheffield was raided by police on 24 April after reports it was still serving customers.\n\nThe Staffordshire Arms, also licensed to Paul Greasby, has had its licence removed too.\n\nThe decision was made at the council's licensing committee meeting on Tuesday.\n\nIn March, the government ordered that pubs, restaurants and other businesses must close in an attempt to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus, and the legislation said owners could be given a prohibition notice and fined if they opened their establishments.\n\nIf they broke the prohibition notice then magistrates could impose potentially unlimited fines.\n\nThe Staffordshire Arms in Burngreave was also told it must close\n\nThe Pitsmoor Hotel was forced to shut after the raid on 24 April, with South Yorkshire Police and Sheffield City Council issuing the pub with a prohibition order.\n\nBut when police returned the next day, following reports from the public it was still serving customers, officers found people were on the roof \"to make it look like no-one was inside\", a report to the council licensing committee said.\n\nThe licence holder, Mr Greasby, had also been served a prohibition notice for The Staffordshire Arms in Burngreave,\n\nAnd in January - before lockdown - the Pitsmoor Hotel licence was suspended because fees had not been paid.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Video-conferencing has proved one of the biggest hits of lockdown\n\nUK adults spent a quarter of their waking day online during lockdown - a record high, according to Ofcom.\n\nDuring April, adults spent an average of four hours a day online, up from three-and-a-half in September 2019, the communications watchdog said.\n\nAnd seven in 10 people made video calls at least once a week during lockdown, with millions turning to Zoom for the first time.\n\nThe pandemic has radically changed online behaviour, said Ofcom.\n\nThe regulator's Online Nation report found that people are seeking new ways to keep connected, informed, entertained and fit during lockdown.\n\nTwitch, the livestreaming platform for gamers, saw visitors increase from 2.3 million in January to 4.2 million in April.\n\nTikTok, which allows users to create and share short videos, reached 12.9 million UK visitors in April, up from 5.4 million in January.\n\nMuch of Ofcom's report focused on people's online habits in September 2019, before the coronavirus struck.\n\nAt that point, nine in 10 adults and almost all children spent time on platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Instagram, according to the study.\n\nAnd nearly half of adults watch videos on such platforms several times a day, rising to 73% for children aged eight to 15.\n\nPeople are no longer just passive consumers, with two in five adults uploading videos to TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat or Instagram.\n\nVideo conferencing app Zoom has proved the big hit of lockdown - up from 659,000 users in January to 13 million in April as the nation turned to it to chat to family and friends, and take part in quizzes and games.\n\nThe app has not been without controversy, with questions about how secure it was, with some people falling victim to zoom-bombing, where an uninvited guest joins a call to cause mischief or share unpleasant or hateful material.\n\nPeople have turned online to entertain themselves and even to exercise\n\nEven before the pandemic, people were moving away from landline calls and text messages in favour of WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, the report indicates.\n\nLockdown seems to have accelerated the adoption of such services. Nearly half of UK adults used WhatsApp to make video calls at least weekly, with Facebook Messenger not far behind on 41% and Apple's FaceTime being used by 30%.\n\nOfcom's director of strategy and research Yih-Choung Teh said: \"Lockdown may leave a lasting digital legacy. Coronavirus has radically changed the way we live, work and communicate online, with millions of people using online video services for the first time.\"\n\nPeople remain wary about online safety though, with 87% of adults saying that they had concerns over children using video-sharing websites and other apps.", "Antibody tests are carried out in other countries, such as Russia\n\nHealth and care staff will be the first to receive antibody tests to check if a person has had coronavirus, after the government agreed a deal with a large pharmaceutical company.\n\nThe tests will be available on the NHS for \"those who need them\", No 10 said.\n\nAt the moment, the only testing available are swab tests to check if someone currently has Covid-19.\n\nThe UK-wide antibody tests will help scientists with virus research, BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle said.\n\nIt comes as the government announced on Thursday a further 338 people had died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nThe deal follows talks between the government and Swiss firm Roche.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The tests will be free for people who need them, as you would expect. NHS and care workers will be prioritised for the tests.\"\n\nThe Health Secretary Matt Hancock is expected to give more details this evening.\n\nThe coronavirus tests already available to all adults and children aged over five on the NHS involve taking a swab up the nose or from the back of the throat. These tests tell you if you currently have Covid-19.\n\nThe antibody test is a blood test that looks for antibodies in the blood to see whether a person has had the virus. Antibodies are made by our immune system as it learns to fight an infection.\n\nHowever, having antibodies does not automatically mean you cannot get sick or harbour the virus and pass it on to others, says BBC health correspondent James Gallagher.\n\nThe World Health Organization says there is no evidence people who have antibodies are protected from being infected again.\n\nAntibody testing attracts huge attention. But this development needs to be kept in context.\n\nWe still do not know how strong any antibody response is and therefore the potential for long-term immunity.\n\nSo the logic in offering it to health and care workers is to help with that research.\n\nThey will not suddenly be casting aside their PPE at work.\n\nInstead, officials will be keeping an eye on whether those who have antibodies are at lower risk of re-infection.\n\nThe test may also help with surveillance in time.\n\nA large sample of the population could be tested to look for signs of antibodies.\n\nOne of the great unknowns is just how many people have been infected but have not developed symptoms.\n\nIt comes after NHS England's medical director Prof Stephen Powis cautioned people against using antibody tests which are being sold by some retailers.\n\nOn Wednesday, Superdrug became the latest business - and first High Street retailer - to offer the antibody test. The kit costs £69 and buyers need to take a blood sample at home, which is sent off to a lab for testing.\n\nAs warm weather continues in some parts of the country, people have been sunbathing at Brighton beach\n\nA group of friends from different households observed social distancing measures in Belfast\n\nPublic Health England approved Roche's antibody test last week, calling it a \"very positive development\".\n\nThe government previously spent a reported £16m buying antibody tests which later proved to be ineffective.\n\nPublic Health England said experts at the government's Porton Down facility had evaluated the Roche test.\n\nRoche found that if someone had been infected, it gave the correct result 100% of the time.\n\nIf someone had not caught coronavirus then it gave the correct result more than 99.8% of the time.\n\nIt means fewer than two in 1,000 healthy people would be incorrectly told they had previously caught the coronavirus.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar previously said the tests would mainly be used on those in the NHS and social care settings to begin with.\n\nIt comes as the NHS Confederation, which represents health service trusts, warned that time was running out to finish a test, track and trace strategy. It warned a contact tracing system was critical to prevent a second wave of the virus.\n\nIn England, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said 25,000 contact tracers, able to track 10,000 new cases a day, would be in place by 1 June.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nContact tracing identifies those who may have come into contact with an infected person and warns them via phone, email or an app.\n\nMeanwhile, lockdown restrictions in Scotland are likely to be relaxed slightly from next Thursday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the first phase will include allowing people to meet outside with people from one other household.\n\nBut schools - which are planned to begin a phased reopening from 1 June in England - will not reopen until the school new year begins on 11 August.\n\nContent available only in the UK", "Demand for Naked Wines and Premier Foods home cooking ingredients soared during lockdown, the firms have said.\n\nThe online wine seller said revenue surged 81% in April and May, after many shops were forced to shut on 28 March.\n\nNaked Wines temporarily halted new orders last month after a huge jump in business as customers stockpiled.\n\nMr Kipling-owner Premier Foods saw a 20% sales rise in the run-up to lockdown, with strong demand for cooking products continuing afterwards.\n\nShoppers began to stock up on alcohol in April to drink at home as the coronavirus pandemic spread. Food stockpiling began in March, when the shelves of some shops were cleared.\n\nIn a statement, Naked Wines said: \"We entered the new financial year with good momentum as Covid-19 has influenced customer shopping behaviour and driven increased demand for the Naked Wines offer.\"\n\nThe company stopped short of providing guidance for the rest of the year's trading due to the possibility of a consumer downturn in the second half of the year and ongoing uncertainties about the economy due to the pandemic.\n\nIn a separate announcement Naked Wines, best known as the online business developed by Majestic Wine before the chain was sold last year, said its current finance chief James Crawford will leave the position to be appointed as the managing director of Naked Wines' UK business.\n\nMeanwhile, Premier Foods said demand for its pre-made Loyd Grossman pasta sauces, Bisto and Oxo gravy, and Sharwoods curry condiments had soared.\n\n\"One of the most prevalent trends we have seen during the lockdown is that Britain has got cooking again, with particularly high levels of demand for items relating to meal preparation, including cooking sauces, gravy and baking ingredients,\" chief executive Alex Whitehouse said.\n\nIts biggest brand, Mr Kipling, achieved its highest ever annual sales - but that was before the lockdown. During the crisis, cake sales were flat, a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Hurley and Bill Clinton have paid tribute to Steve Bing, the Hollywood producer and political donor who has died at the age of 55.\n\nActress Hurley, who had a son Damian with Bing in 2002, wrote on Instagram that he was a \"sweet, kind man\" and \"our time together was very happy\".\n\nFormer US President Clinton said he \"loved Steve Bing very much\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bill Clinton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Los Angeles Times and TMZ reported that Bing fell to his death from a high-rise building on Monday.\n\nLA police and the LA County coroner said a man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene in Culver City.\n\nIn Hollywood, Bing was known for co-writing the 2003 film Kangaroo Jack; financing 2004's The Polar Express, voiced by Tom Hanks; and producing the 2000 remake of Get Carter starring Sylvester Stallone and Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light.\n\nHe also hit the headlines in the early 2000s for his 18-month relationship with Hurley.\n\nTheir son Damien, who turned 18 in April, was at the centre of a high-profile paternity case after Bing cast doubt on whether he was the father. That was confirmed after DNA results were revealed at London's High Court in 2002.\n\nDamian Hurley said he was \"immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Hurley said she had reconciled with Bing in recent months. \"I am saddened beyond belief that my ex Steve is no longer with us. It is a terrible end,\" she wrote on social media.\n\n\"Our time together was very happy and I'm posting these pictures because although we went through some tough times, it's the good, wonderful memories of a sweet, kind man that matter.\n\n\"In the past year we had become close again. We last spoke on our son's 18th birthday. This is devastating news and I thank everyone for their lovely messages.\"\n\nDamian Hurley posted on Instagram: \"Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone that has reached out following the devastating news.\n\n\"I'm trying to reply to as many of you as I can, but please know I will always remember your kindness. This is a very strange and confusing time and I'm immensely grateful to be surrounded by my phenomenal family and friends.\"\n\nBing sued the Daily Mirror in the wake of the court case after the paper dubbed him \"Bing Laden\" and printed his phone number so readers could insult him.\n\nThe paper's apology read: \"Our readers should know that Mr Bing is not the ignominious character that has been depicted in the media. He is a philanthropist and humanitarian who has dedicated himself to helping causes impacting children and their families.\"\n\nBing inherited a $600m (£481m) real estate fortune from his grandfather Leo Bing at the age of 18.\n\nHe was a big supporter of Mr Clinton, having donated at least $10m (£8.03m) to his foundation and paid for the former president's trip to North Korea in 2009 to negotiate for the release of two US journalists.\n\nMr Clinton wrote that Bing \"had a big heart, and he was willing to do anything he could for the people and causes he believed in\".\n\nIn another headline-grabbing court case, Bing sued MGM studio boss Kirk Kerkorian in 2002, claiming he enlisted infamous private eye Anthony Pellicano to take dental floss out of his rubbish to get DNA to prove Bing fathered a child with Kerkorian's ex-wife.\n\nA paternity test proved that Bing was indeed the father of tennis player Lisa Bonder's daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Officials have appealed for help in identifying further victims (file photo)\n\nA man in California has been charged with poisoning eight homeless people with a substance described as \"twice as strong\" as pepper spray.\n\nWilliam Robert Cable, 38, is accused of giving at least eight people food laced with oleoresin capsicum and filming them as they became ill.\n\nSeveral of the alleged victims were hospitalised and authorities believe the suspect could have targeted others.\n\nMr Cable faces up to 19 years in prison if convicted.\n\n\"These human beings were preyed upon because they are vulnerable,\" Orange County's district attorney Todd Spitzer said.\n\n\"They were exploited and poisoned as part of a twisted form of entertainment, and their pain was recorded so that it could be relived by their attacker over and over again.\"\n\nAccording to the Orange County District Attorney's Office, the suspect approached vulnerable homeless people in the Huntington Beach area in May and offered them food laced with a substance \"twice as strong\" as the pepper spray used by police.\n\nOleoresin capsicum is derived from chilli plants and is the main active ingredient used in pepper spray. The strength of each spray varies between manufacturers.\n\nSome of the victims were told they would be taking part in a \"spicy food challenge\" and were given beer to encourage them to take part, while others were unaware the food had been tampered with.\n\nUpon eating the food, they suffered reactions including seizure-like symptoms, difficulty breathing and vomiting, the District Attorney's Office said.\n\nCable, who is being held on $500,000 bail, was arrested last month and faces eight charges of poisoning, as well as a further count because one of the victims was elderly. He has also been charged with involving a minor in the attacks.\n\nOfficials in Orange County have appealed for the public to help identify any further victims or suspects.\n\nLast year a Spanish YouTuber was sentenced to 15 months in prison after tricking a homeless man into eating an Oreo biscuit filled with toothpaste.", "Pupils in England will not be going back to school full time in September if the 2m social distancing rule is still in place, academy leaders say.\n\nHamid Patel, chief executive of the Star Academy group, is calling for an urgent recognition that schools will not have capacity for a full return.\n\nHe says schools need a decision on social distancing to be able to start making plans.\n\nThe government has said it wants all schools and pupils back for the autumn.\n\nMr Patel, who is also on the board of the education watchdog Ofsted, says that with 2m distancing in place, no more than 50% of secondary pupils could attend, and in some schools it would be lower.\n\nPrimary pupils are being kept in \"protective bubbles\" of no more than 15 pupils and for secondary schools going back in September, the guidance calls for a distancing of 2m.\n\nThe lack of space in primary schools, because of small groups needing more classrooms, has already stopped primary schools bringing back all year groups.\n\nIf the ambition is \"genuinely for all schools to reopen in September, open and honest discussions are needed\" about what \"workable solutions\" could be achieved, says Mr Patel.\n\nMr Patel, whose schools include some at the top of the league tables, says a choice will have to be made about social distancing measures and the practical capacity available to schools.\n\nHe believes the suggestion to put pupils unable to fit in school in other nearby empty spaces, such as sports centres, is a \"red herring\" with too many practical problems, such as a lack of extra staff and the difficulties in converting accommodation into classrooms.\n\nThe academy head warns this has become a \"distraction\" while the \"clock ticks inexorably onwards\".\n\nHe wants a national plan to be put in place as a matter of urgency.\n\nAnother academy leader, Sir Jon Coles, head of United Learning, also rejects the plausibility of relying on nearby empty buildings.\n\nHe says, to create these extra classrooms, while maintaining the current groups of 15 pupils, will require another 250,000 teachers, which is not realistic.\n\n\"The reality is we will not be able to open schools fully to all pupils until the public health advice is that it is safe to teach in groups of up to 30. That is what schools have the space and staffing to do,\" he posted on Twitter.\n\nMr Patel says if the social distancing rule is reduced to 1m, that in some schools, with staggered lunchtimes and one-way systems, it will be possible to bring back all or most pupils.\n\nBut Steve Chalke, head of the Oasis Trust school group, says that even with 1m many schools will struggle to get pupils back together.\n\nMr Chalke was much more positive about the possibility of using other buildings, including churches and hotels.\n\n\"You have to think of a school as a community, not a building,\" he said.\n\nHowever, there needed to be a recognition that it would still mean rotas for school attendance in the autumn, he added.\n\nThis could be improved so that pupils would focus on group activities when in school and could be given homework to cover the days at home.\n\n\"But in September we're not going to be in a perfect world. We're not going back to normal, whether it's 1m or 2m,\" he said.\n\nMr Chalke says school leaders were keen to get involved in finding a plan for the return, and wanted a strategy, but warned schools did not want to be left \"waiting until mid-August\".\n\nThe leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, Paul Whiteman, says the government needs to \"get off the podium\" and engage with school leaders about the practicalities of the return in September.\n\n\"Let's look at the art of the possible,\" he said.\n\nWhen there is already a \"recruitment crisis\" for teachers, he casts doubt on the feasibility of hiring thousands more teachers for new temporary classrooms in 10 weeks.\n\nMr Whiteman recognised the difficulty for the government in knowing how high infection rates will be in the autumn, but he suggested that schools could at least be given a series of scenarios to plan around, saying that preparations have to start \"as soon as possible\".\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Being in school is vital for children's education and their well-being, which is why we're working to get all pupils back into classrooms by September.\n\n\"We know that young children cannot be expected to follow social distancing in schools, and our guidance is clear schools should implement a range of protective measures, including reducing the size of classes and keeping children in small groups.\"\n• None Many primary pupils not back until September", "Hair salons in Ireland may be allowed to reopen earlier than previously planned Image caption: Hair salons in Ireland may be allowed to reopen earlier than previously planned\n\nHairdressers say they are having to employ \"complete guesswork\" as they try to work out when they might be able to open again.\n\n\"The most important thing for us would be for clients to return to the salon,\" says Mark McCune of the National Hair & Beauty Federation. \"We don't really have a business without them.\"\n\nThe industry contributes £600m annually to Scotland's economy and is desperate for guidance from the government so they can prepare properly.\n\nRiccardo Corvi, a director of one of Rainbow Room's 20 salons in Scotland, says the company has protective equipment and screens in place and are \"good to go\".\n\nWhat they need most, he says, is a definite date to work towards - the industry is part of phase three of lockdown easing, so anticipates a possible return in mid-July - and guidance on the square footage per client required.\n\nHe says with clients needing to be spaced out, salons will need to extend opening hours.\n\nQuote Message: I do realise the difficulties faced by industries like hairdressing with social distancing and it will probably be beyond phase four in terms of being able to reopen. We do publish detailed guidance before asking any sector to reopen.\" from Kate Forbes Finance Secretary I do realise the difficulties faced by industries like hairdressing with social distancing and it will probably be beyond phase four in terms of being able to reopen. We do publish detailed guidance before asking any sector to reopen.\"", "Most BA aircraft have been grounded since the lockdown\n\nBritish Airways' treatment of staff during the coronavirus crisis \"is a national disgrace\", MPs have claimed.\n\nA Transport Select Committee report accuses the airline of a \"calculated attempt to take advantage\" of the pandemic by cutting thousands of jobs and downgrading terms and conditions.\n\nBA said it was doing all it could to keep \"the maximum number of jobs\".\n\nBut the MPs said the airline's actions fell \"well below the standards we would expect from any employer\".\n\nThe aviation industry has been one of the hardest-hit since the pandemic forced a lockdown. Airlines including EasyJet, Ryanair, and Virgin Atlantic, and suppliers Rolls-Royce and Airbus, have announced thousands of job cuts.\n\nBA plans a major restructuring, which could mean up to 12,000 redundancies and changes to the terms and conditions of remaining staff.\n\nThe airline warned unions that if it could not reach an agreement over the proposals it would push through the issue by giving staff notice and offering them new contracts.\n\nUnite and the GMB are not engaging in talks with BA. Pilots' union Balpa has had discussions with the airline over the possibility of voluntary redundancies but said consultations were \"hanging by a thread\".\n\nThe MPs acknowledged that job losses in the sector \"may sadly be inevitable\" due to the collapse in air travel. But it urged UK-based employers not to \"proceed hastily\" by making large numbers of people redundant while the government's furlough scheme was in place.\n\nUnions told the committee that BA had threatened a \"fire and rehire\" approach by giving redundancy notices to most of its 42,000 workers with the intention of offering jobs to a proportion of them under diminished terms and conditions.\n\nThe Transport Committee found that BA had received nearly £35m from the government as of 14 May by furloughing 22,000 staff. The MPs also noted that at the end of 2019, the airline recorded profits after tax of £1.1bn and had cash reserves of £2.6bn.\n\nThe committee's report said: \"The behaviour of British Airways and its parent company towards its employees is a national disgrace. It falls well below the standards we would expect from any employer, especially in [the] light of the scale of taxpayer subsidy, at this time of national crisis.\"\n\nBA insists it will do all it can to protect jobs but says the airline industry is in a \"new reality\".\n\nThere have been calls from MPs and unions for BA to be stripped of some of its lucrative take-off and landing slots at Heathrow Airport as punishment for the treatment of its staff.\n\nTory MP Huw Merriman, who chairs the committee, said: \"We will continue to bring pressure where we can, including the airport slot allocation process. This wanton destruction of a loyal workforce cannot appear to go without sanction by government, parliamentarians or paying passengers, who may choose differently in future. We view it as a national disgrace.\"\n\nBalpa said the committee was \"absolutely right\" about BA. Brian Strutton, the union's general secretary, said: \"Any company using the cover of Covid to slash jobs and terms and conditions like they have needs to be called out.\n\n\"I have described consultation talks between Balpa and BA as hanging by a thread due to BA's decision to issue a 'fire and rehire' threat. That remains the case.\"\n\nThe airline said in a statement: \"We find ourselves in the deepest crisis ever faced by the airline industry - a crisis not of our making but one which we must address.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to ensure that British Airways can survive and sustain the maximum number of jobs consistent with the new reality of a changed airline industry in a severely weakened global economy.\"\n\nBA is already embroiled in a bitter fight with its unions and a row with the government. Now MPs have weighed in against the company as well.\n\nIt's a remarkable situation for BA. It was once seen as a flag carrier for British values, a national champion, with the closest of links to the government - and a place where staff were delighted to work.\n\nSo what's gone wrong? The Covid-19 crisis has scythed through the airline industry, leaving previously strong companies teetering. Carriers around the world are shedding jobs, as they prepare for a bleak few years.\n\nBA is far from unique in wanting to make deep cuts. But there's more to it than that. BA has spent the past decade trying to streamline its business, in order to compete with low-cost upstarts like Ryanair and EasyJet.\n\nThat has sometimes caused conflict with its employees - and seemingly created a legacy of mistrust and resentment, in particular among cabin crew.\n\nNow, during a crisis, those feelings are bubbling up. At times, the company looks as though it is under siege.\n\nThe MPs' report also urged the government to abandon its 14-day quarantine rule at the end of June.\n\nIt called for a \"more targeted and nuanced border control policy\", allowing people travelling from countries where the infection rate of Covid-19 is relatively low to enter the UK on a less restrictive basis.\n\nOn Friday, BA, EasyJet and Ryanair launched legal action against the \"flawed\" quarantine policy. The airlines are asking for a judicial review to be heard \"as soon as possible\", claiming the measures introduced this week will have a \"devastating effect on British tourism and the wider economy\".\n\nThey said they have seen no evidence of when proposed \"air bridges\" between the UK and other countries will be implemented. Instead, they want the government to re-adopt the policy it introduced on 10 March, which required passengers from countries deemed at high risk of coronavirus infection to self-isolate on arrival in the UK.\n\nBut Home Secretary Priti Patel has insisted that the policy can \"help stop a devastating second wave\" of the disease.\n\nAre you a BA staff member who has been affected by the issues raised in this story? Email us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Mr Trump has come under fire for his handling of the protests in the US\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said the controversial chokehold method for restraining some suspects should \"generally speaking\" be ended.\n\nSome US police forces have moved to ban chokeholds since the outbreak of anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, an African American.\n\nMr Floyd died after a white officer knelt on his neck for nine minutes.\n\nMr Trump said it would be a \"very good thing\" to ban chokeholds but they may still be needed in some situations.\n\nThe president's comments come with Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress trying to hammer out the details of a police reform bill - the proposed Justice in Policing Act of 2020.\n\nMr Trump told Fox News that chokeholds sounded \"so innocent, so perfect\" but that if you get two-on-one, \"it's a different story\".\n\nBut he continued: \"If a police officer is in a bad scuffle and he's got somebody... you have to be careful.\n\n\"With that being said, it would be, I think, a very good thing that generally speaking it should be ended,\" he said, adding that he might make \"very strong recommendations\" to local authorities.\n\nThe police officer who knelt on Mr Floyd's neck has been sacked and charged with second-degree murder.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history of police violence in the US\n\nMr Trump - who has faced criticism for his responses to the outbreak of the protests against racism and police brutality - said he wanted to \"see really compassionate but strong law enforcement\", adding \"toughness is sometimes the most compassionate\".\n\nChallenged by interviewer Harris Faulkner to explain his tweet last month that \"when the looting starts, the shooting starts\", which was censored by Twitter for glorifying violence, the president said: \"When the looting starts, it oftentimes means there's going to be... sure, there's going to be death, there's going to be killing. And, it's a bad thing.\"\n\nThe Justice in Policing Act was proposed by the opposition Democrats who control the House of Representatives but in order to pass it must win the support of Mr Trump's Republicans who control the Senate.\n\nThere is potential for the two parties to reach agreement on banning chokeholds and no-knock warrants, like the one in the Breonna Taylor shooting.\n\nMeanwhile, the city council in Minneapolis, where Mr Floyd died, passed a resolution on Friday to replace its police department with a community-led public safety system.\n\nIt comes days after the council voted to disband the police department.\n\nAccording to the resolution, the city council will begin a year-long process of engaging \"with every willing community member in Minneapolis\" to come up with a new public safety model.\n\nIn New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered police departments to undertake major reforms, in response to the demonstrations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Cuomo said he would stop financing local authorities that failed to adopt reforms addressing excess use of force and bias in their police departments by next April.\n\nHe said he would sign an executive order for municipalities to \"reinvent and modernize\" their police departments to battle racism. Police disciplinary records would be publicly released and chokeholds would become a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.\n\n\"That should be done in every police agency in this country,\" Mr Cuomo was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\nSitting alongside the governor at the news conference were Gwen Carr and Valerie Bell, the mothers of Eric Garner and Sean Bell, two unarmed black men who died in incidents with police.\n\nMr Garner died when a white police officer used a chokehold on him while making an arrest in 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Keep pushing\": Washington DC protesters on keeping the momentum going", "The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall will be the first Royal Family members to hold a major event during the coronavirus lockdown when they welcome the French president to the UK.\n\nCharles and Camilla will meet Emmanuel Macron at their London home on 18 June.\n\nThey will mark the 80th anniversary of a famous speech by Charles de Gaulle.\n\nMr Macron will be exempt from a 14-day quarantine imposed on most people who travel to the UK, as a \"representative of a foreign country on business\".\n\nA Clarence House spokeswoman said government guidelines on social distancing would be followed.\n\nThe royal couple will travel from Birkhall in Aberdeenshire, where they have been staying for almost three months, to Clarence House in London to attend the meeting.\n\nBoth had to self-isolate in March after Charles, 71, contracted coronavirus.\n\nThey have been carrying out royal engagements remotely - via video calls or recorded messages - and are said to be \"pleased\" to be welcoming Mr Macron to the country.\n\nDuring the height of lockdown, to curb the spread of coronavirus in France, residents there had to to provide a travel permit to justify any outdoor trips.\n\nRestrictions began to ease on 11 May, and phase two of the easing began on 2 June. Nearly all of France is now in a so-called \"green zone\" where, for example, bars and restaurants can reopen.\n\nAsked if the French president would be subject to quarantine rules for UK arrivals, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"No, he won't.\"\n\n\"As we set out in the guidelines when they were published, the French delegation will fall within the exempted category of representatives of a foreign country or territory travelling to undertake business in the UK.\"\n\nFrance's coronavirus death toll rose to 29,374 on Friday, while the UK's rose to 41,481.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nClarence House said the royal couple would formally receive Mr Macron, with a guard of honour, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of World War Two resistance leader General Charles de Gaulle's \"Appel\" to the French population.\n\nOn 18 June 1940, de Gaulle used a BBC broadcast to urge people to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n\n\"I call upon all Frenchmen who want to remain free to listen to my voice and follow me,\" he said.", "Young people's brains continue to develop and change during adolescence\n\nReduced face-to-face contact among teenagers and their friends during the pandemic could have damaging long-term consequences, neuroscientists say.\n\nAt a sensitive time in life, their brain development, behaviour and mental health could suffer.\n\nUsing social media might make up for some negative effects of social distancing, they write in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health.\n\nBut they call for schools to reopen for young people as a priority when safe.\n\nAdolescence - defined by the scientists as between 10 and 24 - is a vulnerable stage, when young people want to spend more time with their friends than their family, as they prepare for adult life.\n\nCombined with major hormonal and biological changes, it's a key time for the development of the brain.\n\nIt's also the period in life when mental-health problems are mostly likely to develop.\n\nBut the arrival of coronavirus has disrupted all that, says Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, from the department of psychology at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the opinion piece.\n\n\"Owing to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many young people around the world currently have substantially fewer opportunities to interact face-to-face with peers in their social network at a time in their lives when this is crucial for their development,\" she says.\n\n\"Even if physical distancing measures are temporary, several months represents a large proportion of a young person's life.\n\n\"We would urge policymakers to give urgent consideration to the well-being of young people at this time.\"\n\nMore than two-thirds of young British adolescents, aged 12-15, have a social-media profile\n\nThe Viewpoint article, written with Amy Orben, research fellow at Cambridge, and Livia Tomova, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, calls for more research to be carried out to understand the effects of \"social deprivation\" on adolescents.\n\nAt present, research on animals is all they have to go on - and it suggests that non-human primates and rodents experience a rise in anxious behaviour and a decrease in brain functions related to learning and memory when social contact is taken away.\n\nThis is likely to be due to the lack of experiences for social learning, they say.\n\nBut with 69% of younger adolescents in the UK, aged 12-15, having a social-media profile, social connection is still possible - via anything from Instagram to online gaming.\n\nThe question is how much and what kinds of digital communication help to lessen the effects of physical distancing, says Dr Orben.\n\n\"Some studies have shown that active social-media use, such as messaging or posting directly on another person's profile, increases well-being and helps maintain personal relationships.\n\n\"However, it has been suggested that passive uses of social media, such as scrolling through newsfeeds, negatively influence wellbeing.\"\n\nLockdown rules brought in to stop the spread of the virus have meant schools in the UK have been closed to most children since 20 March.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.", "Mark Drakeford said he would not risk letting the \"deadly virus\" rise again\n\nWales' first minister has said he will not shift from his cautious approach to easing coronavirus restrictions \"however loud the demands\".\n\nPeople in Wales are restricted to journeys of five miles for leisure and non-essential shops remain closed.\n\nIn England, there is no travel limit and shops are reopening on Monday.\n\nThe next review of the rules in Wales is due in a week's time, but Mark Drakeford said he was resisting calls to make changes sooner.\n\nThe tourism industry warned this week it was \"on the brink of collapse\" due to the restrictions.\n\nCases have been falling in Wales, with the R number - the average number of people infected by each person who gets the virus - now down from 0.8 to 0.7, the first minister told the Welsh Government's daily news conference.\n\nThere are 32 people in critical care for coronavirus, the lowest figure since 25 March.\n\n\"We can chose a path in which we regain our freedoms gradually, carefully and safely, using the headroom we have made together - but never taking steps which would knowingly undermine everything we have achieved,\" he said.\n\n\"Or we could throw it all away, lift the restrictions in a rush and run the real risk that this deadly virus would be on the rise again in Wales.\n\n\"I want you to know that whatever happens elsewhere and however loud the demands to do things differently may be, we will stick to the path we have chosen.\"\n\nTesting capacity had increased, he said, with Wales now having the ability to carry out 12,300 tests a day - although the figure of actual tests in the past 24 hours was 3,300.\n\nA new drive-through test centre opened in Deeside on Thursday, he said, with another due to open in Abergavenny next week.\n\nConversations within government about the further easing of lockdown restrictions started the Saturday after the last review.\n\nThere was a further conversation on Thursday and another on Friday, with a set of options to be presented ahead of the cabinet meeting of ministers on Wednesday of next week.\n\nThe demands on ministers to lift restrictions are coming from all directions - zoos, restaurateurs, pub landlords, car showrooms and people wanting to see family members not living locally.\n\nThe impression I get is that the intention is to continue with the strategy to date: pick one big change or a couple of small ones to fit the headroom ministers have to work with, in the hope that it does not cause an increase in transmission.\n\nAlso, don't forget that with schools set to reopen for all year groups on 29 June they have already announced one big change that will overlap with the next three-week cycle, and - from the conversations I have had - there seems to be some uncertainty as to the possible ramifications of that change on the spread of the virus.\n\nSo, a flurry of immediate changes is unlikely to be announced next week - but we could get, as the first minister suggested, the sketch of a plan for the easing of restrictions over the following weeks.\n\nBut, as one source said, there is a feeling that despite relatively positive polling for the Welsh Government's strategy, maybe \"people's tolerance is starting to wear thin\".\n\nA promise to test every care home resident in Wales was \"nearing completion\", Mr Drakeford said - despite a pledge it would be done by now.\n\nMr Drakeford previously said all residents would be tested by June 12.\n\n\"We are nearing completion of testing every single care home resident and staff member in Wales, and from next week, we will continue to offer weekly tests for staff in care homes for the next four weeks,\" he added.\n\n\"As the position has improved, we have been able to help care homes plan for additional visits to residents from family and friends, provided these can be done safely and in line with the guidance.\"\n\nThree-quarters of care homes in Wales have had no cases of the virus, he added.\n\nOn Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), he said there was now a stockpile of 78 million items, with 14 million items having been supplied to other parts of the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Debbie Noland wears full PPE when seeing patients and cleans the examination room between patients\n\nCovid-19 has transformed how GPs work - from having to wear full PPE instead of ordinary clothes, to seeing a huge decline in the number of patients they are seeing. Here's how one practice in Liverpool has adapted.\n\nDr Debbie Noland is living with a new reality.\n\nA few months ago, the Liverpool GP would have dressed relatively casually for a day seeing patients at the Ropewalks Practice in the city centre.\n\nNow she is in medical scrubs and full protective clothing - face mask, visor, gloves and apron.\n\n\"Now we are completely clinical, I look like I did when I was a medical student working in the hospital in surgery,\" says Dr Noland.\n\n\"It's definitely far more challenging - and the job is challenging enough without the extra stress.\n\n\"Having to go home and put your scrubs into a 60-degree wash, so you don't pass it on to your family. It's a completely different world than pre-Covid, that's for sure.\"\n\nEven when she is seeing patients with no Covid symptoms, Dr Noland needs to balance the risk of infection while, simultaneously, being able to check out potentially dangerous conditions.\n\n\"If you need to listen to somebody's chest or you need to listen to somebody's heart - you need to do that.\n\n\"I feel like I am as covered and protected as I possibly can be. I would much prefer to make sure that I am doing things properly than miss something.\"\n\nPatients are assessed in advance over the phone, including questions on whether or not they have coronavirus symptoms.\n\nBut since chest pain is exactly the type of thing that might indicate the development of another serious condition, some patients have to attend the surgery for an examination.\n\nIn between each appointment, Dr Noland must clean the room and change her personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\n\"When the patient has left, I'll clean down the room before anyone else comes in and change all my(PPE) so it is as safe as it possible can be. It may not be as approachable, but we are doing our best to make sure everyone can feel safe coming into a GP surgery.\"\n\nAll this means a much slower trickle of patients.\n\nThis time last year the surgery was seeing around 130 patients a day for GP appointments, blood tests or just to pick up a prescription.\n\nBut on the day we visited, just 24 patients attended the surgery, all by appointment only.\n\nThe surgery had previously introduced an online booking and assessment system last September, so most patients were accustomed to a more remote way of working.\n\nBut still, the change is stark: a normally busy waiting room now has just one patient at a time.\n\nDr Noland has to wipe down the consultation room between patients\n\nSome patients are happy to come to the surgery. But Dr Noland says there are growing fears over those who are too worried about the risk of infection to come in.\n\n\"The amount of people I have spoken to on the phone with anxiety and depression... They were probably keeping it together, but it's the last straw that broke the camel's back.\n\n\"They can't cope now. It has been a massive impact.\n\n\"People are still having heart attacks, they are still having strokes, they are still having cancer, unfortunately.\n\n\"And there are a lot of other people that are dying of other things that seem to have been forgotten a little bit.\n\n\"It's a massive hidden cost of lockdown and that is really worrying for all of us - because we think there is an epidemic [of non-Covid illnesses] and we are just waiting for it to come.\".\"\n\nThe surgery is divided into two zones, with Dr Noland seeing her Covid-free patients in the 'green zone' on the first floor of the building.\n\nDownstairs is the 'red zone, for those patients who are displaying Covid-19 symptoms, with a separate entrance to the rest of the surgery.\n\nThe receptionist, as well as the GP, wears full PPE.\n\nTina Atkins, the practice management partner, says the whole idea is to minimise exposure to infected patients.\n\n\"We don't have anything other than an examination couch and a chair - we don't use any of the IT equipment.\n\n\"We also say to patients if they arrive early: 'please stay in your car outside' because the slots are timed, so we don't cross-contaminate patients.\"\n\nRopewalks is a \"hub\" for nine practices in Liverpool. Each one directs coronavirus patients to the Ropewalks General Practice so the surrounding practices can maintain a Covid-free environment.\n\nAt the height of the pandemic, the surgery saw around 5-8 cases a day, but on the day we visited, no-one needed to be seen.\n\nPhone consultations are part of the new norm, especially when checking up on those who are shielding.\n\nPractice nurse Moira Cain says: \"With not going out at all, you're worried about people's mental health and their wellbeing. So the fact they're getting a phone call from someone who cares must be some reassurance.\n\n\"It's reassuring for us to know that they are eating, they are having food taken into them, they are sleeping ok - they haven't got any other symptoms.\"\n\nBut she adds: \"What we have found is the footfall to primary care, as well as A&E, is really reduced.\n\n\"Are people sitting at home with chest pain? With shortness of breath? Have they got swollen ankles? Because if they have, they should really come in.\"\n\nSocial distancing, PPE, the fear of infection - all are making an already tough job more challenging.\n\nBut GPs want their patients to know that, despite appearances - the empty waiting rooms, the 'red zone', they are still very much open for business.", "Vivien Wong, who runs Little Moons, said lockdown didn't come as a great surprise\n\nThe scale of the UK's economic troubles have been laid bare by the latest GDP figures.\n\nWill the recovery be V-shaped, L-shaped, U-shaped, or is it far too early to tell?\n\nDespite the uncertainties, however, some British companies are nothing if not positive.\n\nHere, the owners of three firms that went into lockdown in March tell the BBC why they can see light at the end of the tunnel.\n\nThe lockdown hit just as Little Moons was enjoying its best month of trading.\n\nThe business, which makes the Japanese ice cream confection mochi for restaurants and supermarkets, shut down overnight.\n\nCo-founder Vivien Wong said lockdown didn't come as a great surprise. \"We'd followed what was happening in China and Hong Kong,\" she said.\n\nMore than 50% of revenues came from restaurants, money that dried up immediately. \"We were weren't sure what was going to happen with supermarkets, but we knew immediately we had to go into cash preservation mode.\"\n\nLuckily, Little Moons struck a deal with its landlord, which eased cash flow. \"We cancelled marketing and all unnecessary spending. Basically, we just hunkered down,\" Ms Wong said.\n\nThe London-based company trades throughout Europe, which has helped Little Moons to get back to business.\n\nMs Wong said: \"Europe opened up a little earlier, so from about mid-May we started getting orders from supermarkets.\n\n\"We started un-furloughing a few members of our team, and have just started cranking up production again.\"\n\nBut a return to the record trading Little Moons saw in March could be a long way off. Ms Wong said: \"We have halved the number of people on the production floor and changed shift patterns.\n\n\"It means we are not as efficient as before. That's really affected us financially.\" Little Moons is employing more cleaners, and the cost of face masks and other food hygiene equipment has soared.\n\nThe firm's future is tied up with the restaurant sector, which she worries may never fully recover. That said, supermarket orders are rising, which Ms Wong puts down to people wanting comfort food.\n\n\"It was pretty catastrophic\" is how Adam Redhouse describes the first few days of lockdown. Sales and lettings at his London estate agents firm disappeared virtually overnight.\n\n\"We furloughed sales staff immediately, and closed all the offices,\" he said. \"We lost over 50% of the sales pipeline over the first few days as people cancelled.\"\n\nAnd yet, over the following weeks the business continued to get what Mr Redhouse said were \"a fair few inquiries. That was a massive surprise. But if you can't do viewings, you can't sell properties.\"\n\nStill, even though Squire Estates did very few transactions, the continuing customer interest at least gave him hope that business would pick up once the lockdown eased.\n\nIt was only in mid-May that estate agents began re-opening for business, but Mr Redhouse has been amazed at the pace of recovery. \"It sounds crazy, given how much business we lost,\" he said.\n\n\"It was on a Tuesday night that the government said we could re-open, and on the Wednesday morning we un-furloughed all the sales staff. There was a lot of pent up demand for transactions and viewings,\" he said.\n\nIt helped, Mr Redhouse believes, that he and his partner made a special effort to keep in touch with clients and potential clients during the lockdown.\n\nBusiness continues to pick up, but will it get back to normal? \"I like to think so. The amount of demand that we are seeing shows that people want to move. I feel positive,\" he said.\n\nSophie Lawler's 17 health clubs remain closed to their 100,000 members in the north of England and Wales. And like the rest of the fitness sector, she has no idea when she might get the green light to re-open.\n\n\"The whole sector has struggled financially, and may do so for years to come,\" she said. \"The industry is shouldering quite some rental burden, costs we still incur even while we're closed.\"\n\nFurloughing has been vital. \"It's given us a great deal of oxygen to keep the business going,\" she said.\n\nStaff wages are the biggest fixed costs after property rents and rates.\n\nAs soon as Total Fitness is given the go-ahead to re-open Ms Lawler plans to bring all the staff back from furlough. \"We will need all our people, maybe even more.\"\n\nShe'd like to see the government do more to help, perhaps with some VAT exemptions and support for landlords to let them ease the burden on leaseholders.\n\nDespite the uncertainties, however, she says the fitness industry \"has an exceptionally bright future if we can weather this storm\".\n\nMs Lawler said the sector has proved particularly resilient to recessions in the past, and will do so again. She expects to see a uptick in customers who recognise the importance of fitness and exercise in the fight to stay healthy against viruses.\n\n\"It terms of demand, we will do pretty well when we get through to the other side of this,\" she said.\n\nThe trouble is, she has no idea when that might be. \"Our single biggest challenge is that there is just no guidance on re-opening.\"", "The availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health and care staff both before and during the Covid-19 pandemic has become one of the most intensely debated issues of the crisis.\n\nDoctors, nurses and care staff in many settings warned that supplies were running low and they were concerned about their safety.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) has now published the first official assessment of the supply and distribution of PPE in England by government organisations.\n\nIt highlights shortcomings in the system, though the Department of Health and Social Care has said that parts of the report are \"misleading\".\n\nThe NAO report, on the preparedness of the NHS and social care in England, states that the only stockpile available to meet increased demand for PPE in the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak was the one built up in anticipation of a pandemic flu crisis.\n\nCrucially it did not contain gowns or visors. According to the NAO, the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) recommended stockpiling gowns in June 2019.\n\nThe Department of Health told the NAO that \"procurement of gowns was planned for early 2020\".\n\nThe NAO report looks at the assumptions in Whitehall modelling for PPE requirements in a \"worst case scenario\".\n\nBetween mid March and early May, it says, the amount of face masks and clinical waste bags for use in health settings distributed from central stocks exceeded the modelled requirement but for all other items such as gowns, eye protectors and aprons it was lower.\n\nFor social care, the items distributed were all less than the modelled requirement, and with gloves and eye protectors it was below 10%.\n\nThe NAO adds that feedback from local providers revealed a large majority reporting that the PPE issue was having \"a high or significant disruptive impact in their area across health and social care services\".\n\nThe Department of Health's argument to the NAO was that NHS and social care organisations could purchase their own PPE to top up what was sent out from central stocks.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"We have delivered over 1.7 billion pieces of PPE and we continue to ensure supplies reach the frontline.\n\n\"The modelled PPE requirements presented in this report are theoretical worst case estimates - it is misleading to compare them to figures on centrally procured PPE which do not account for equipment supplied through other routes or existing local stocks.\"\n\nThe report paints a picture of confusion over the extent to which local NHS and care organisations were responsible for securing their own supplies of PPE at a time of global shortages in an unprecedented pandemic.\n\nCentral government opened up a dedicated central supply route in early April but for a while officials struggled to secure adequate stocks.\n\nOn May 1, the Department of Health wrote to NHS trusts saying PPE was being centrally managed and that hospitals should only do their own sourcing from new local suppliers.\n\nBy the middle of that month, says the NAO, central supplies of PPE were meeting demand from the health and care sectors.\n\nPublic Accounts Committee chair Meg Hiller said the government had \"squandered the last opportunity to add to the central PPE stockpile, even after the NHS had gone to the highest level of alert.\"\n\nShe added: \"Care homes were at the back of the queue for both PPE and testing so only got a small fraction of what they needed from central government. Residents and staff were an afterthought yet again: out of sight and out of mind, with devastating consequences.\"\n\nThe PPE debate wont go away.\n\nThe BBC's recent Panorama investigation highlighted some of the issues considered in the NAO report.\n\nIt may take a while for the full story to emerge including an assessment of how the UK authorities handled PPE procurement at a time when every leading healthcare system was struggling to acquire supplies. The NAO report is certainly an interesting early contribution to that debate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA boy has finally been reunited with his seaman father who he had longed to see while his boat was moored near their house during lockdown.\n\nFour-year-old Euan Gordon had only been able to wave to his dad Alasdair when the vessel docked just 100m (328ft) from their home in Oban.\n\nBut now Alasdair has finished his stint at sea and returned to his family.\n\nMum Seonaid Russell said it had been like Christmas Day when her son was reunited with his father.\n\nShe said Euan had woken up at 05:00 with \"excitement\" and anticipation.\n\nAlasdair Gordon, 41, is in charge of the deck on the Pharos, which is responsible for the operation of Scottish lighthouses.\n\nUnder normal circumstances, when the boat is moored near his home he can spend the night with his family.\n\nBut since the lockdown began, Alasdair and his crew have been instructed to stay on the ship when it is tied up in dock.\n\nHowever, he has now finished his latest stint at sea and been allowed to go home for 28 days.\n\nSeonaid, 34, said Euan had been counting down the days and knew his dad would be allowed off the ship on Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"Euan was very excited and woke up particularly early because he he was so looking forward to seeing his dad. It was like Christmas for him.\n\n\"It was so lovely to see the smile on Euan's face.\"\n\nThe family live in a cabin in the grounds of Seonaid's mother's house.\n\n\"Euan loves baking and his granny had promised she would bake a cake with him in the morning for his dad,\" Seonaid said.\n\n\"So he ran through the garden to his granny's house at 06:00 and baked a beautiful cake for Alasdair's welcome home.\"\n\nSeonaid and Euan then went to the pier for the reunion.\n\n\"Euan was so excited but he waited patiently until his dad came through the gates,\" she said.\n\n\"I also felt excited, and was so happy to see Euan so happy to see his dad again.\n\n\"Euan wanted confirmation his dad would now be staying with us for a while and he was delighted when we said yes.\"\n\nThey went back to the house for cake, then Alasdair took his son cycling in the park.\n\nSeonaid said: \"They spent time together to reacquaint themselves with each other.\n\n\"It's so lovely to see them back together.\"\n\nSeonaid added that she was grateful that the Northern Lighthouse Board had stuck to the guidelines, and understood why it had done so.\n\nAlasdair said he was happy to be back with his family.\n\n\"I'm delighted to be home after a month at sea,\" he said. \"I can finally spend the summer with my family.\"\n• None Boy yearns to see seaman dad who is moored outside house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The day when most fines were handed out in the past two weeks was 30 May - when people flocked to beauty spots to enjoy warm weather\n\nMore than 17,000 fines for alleged breaches of coronavirus lockdown laws have been issued in England and Wales.\n\nPeople have been fined by the police for driving with others not from their household, holding house parties, meeting in large groups and camping.\n\nBut the number of fines has fallen as restrictions have eased.\n\nThere were 523 fines in the two weeks from 26 May to 8 June - compared with 1,171 in the previous two weeks and 4,796 in the fortnight before that.\n\nAccording to data from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), the day with the highest number of fines in the past two weeks was Saturday 30 May - when 96 fines were issued in England. That weekend, people flocked to popular beaches and beauty spots to enjoy the warmer weather.\n\nSaturday 30 May was also two days before lockdown measures were eased to allow people in England to meet in groups of up to six, and to allow people in Wales to meet one person from a different household.\n\nUp to 8 June, 15,715 fines, or Fixed Penalty Notices, have been handed out in England and 2,282 in Wales.\n\nBut generally far fewer fines have been issued since 13 May, when restrictions began to ease.\n\nThree fines have been given out by London's Metropolitan Police since 25 May, with 1,060 being issued by the force before that.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police is the force which has given out the most fines, with 1,082 handed out since lockdown began.\n\nFines have most often been given to young men aged between 18 and 24, and were more likely to be issued at weekends and during warmer weather.\n\n\"Since measures eased in England, the number of fines issued has seen a sustained fall,\" NPCC chair Martin Hewitt said.\n\nHe added that behind each fine was someone who has \"failed to listen and do the right thing\".\n\n\"A fine is issued following engagement to establish the circumstances, explanation of what the regulations are and why they're in breach of them, and encouragement to stop their activity and return home,\" he said.\n\nThe NPCC has not yet released data about how many fines have been paid.", "Mr Jack warned that many businesses would not survive unless the 2m rule is relaxed\n\nA UK cabinet minister has called for the 2m (6ft) social distancing rules to be relaxed as quickly as possible.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said he believed the distance should be cut to 1m as soon as is it safe to do so\n\nMr Jack said the move was needed to ensure the tourism and hospitality sector were financially viable.\n\nHis call was echoed by economist and former SNP MSP Andrew Wilson, who wrote the party's growth commission report.\n\nMr Wilson said reducing the distance was \"mission critical\" for many businesses across Scotland.\n\nThe World Health Organisation recommends that people keep at least 1m apart to help reduce the risk of transmitting Covid-19.\n\nBoth the UK and Scottish governments have said the current 2m rule is best of the best-available scientific evidence, and is needed to ensure the virus continues to be suppressed\n\nBut the tourism industry, pubs, restaurants and other businesses say they will be unable to reopen unless the distance is cut, as has already happened in several other countries around the world.\n\nAnd Downing Street has been facing calls from Tory backbenchers to cut the social distancing rule in England.\n\nPeople across the UK must currently keep at least two metres apart\n\nMr Jack told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that the tourism and hospitality sector was \"effectively going to face three winters\" unless it can be restarted this summer.\n\nHe said: \"As soon as it is possible to do so with the R number suppressed, I would like to see it move to 1m to get back to something near normal in the way that we conduct our lives and our businesses as we see the virus recede\n\n\"We've seen this happen without any bad consequences in other European countries.\n\n\"For a lot of hospitality businesses they need 2m to become 1m when it is safe to do so to be economically viable.\"\n\nAsked when the UK government would change the rule, Mr Jack said the prime minister had an \"open mind\".\n\nHe also said he would have preferred for Scotland's tourism industry to reopen on 1 July that than 15 July, as is currently the plan.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Wilson told the same programme that he agreed many businesses would not be viable unless the social distancing rules were relaxed.\n\nHe said: \"The evidence from around the world is that it is possible, and I think it is mission critical for so many businesses.\"\n\nScotland's finance secretary, Kate Forbes, joined the Podlitical team for a discussion about how coronavirus could have a \"disproportionate\" impact on Scotland's economy, the \"acute hardship\" facing firms and how to persuade people to return to shops and restaurants.\n\nMr Wilson said Scotland, where the economy relies on tourism and the oil sector more than other parts of the UK, would be among the hardest hit.\n\nHe added: \"The tidal wave of unemployment, the cost of business failures, the cost to people who lose their income, that will be more damaging to their health and wellbeing and their mental health than the current Covid impact.\n\n\"It's not either/or. They are both part of the same problem.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that infection rates and cases were falling in Scotland due to a \"careful and orderly plan\".\n\nShe added: \"The more we suppress - and hopefully eradicate Covid-19 - the more normality we can restore to the economy. Sustainability of recovery matters.\n\n\"If we can effectively eradicate Covid-19 and then control through Test and Protect and policies to mitigate against cases coming into country - we can restore much greater degree of normality.\n\n\"Decisions then about, eg, 2m v 1m are more possible. But first we must suppress/eradicate.\"", "Immigrants 'could become homeless' without support\n\nCouncils are calling for the government to allow people with a temporary immigration status to receive public funds amid fears they will be forced into homelessness during the pandemic. Increasing numbers of people who are not eligible to support from UK taxpayers are approaching local authorities for support during the coronavirus pandemic, the Local Government Association (LGA) said. People with a temporary immigration status are given the condition called \"no recourse to public funds\" by the Home Office, meaning they cannot access welfare benefits. But the LGA fears that, without this support and as people lose their jobs, they could become homeless. Councillor David Renard, the LGA's housing spokesman, said: \"As the economy recovers, local outbreaks may mean there still may be a need to be able to access safe and suitable accommodation and financial support to allow for self-isolation, particularly for single adults without care needs who are not usually eligible for social services' support.\" A government spokeswoman said: \"Families with leave under family and human rights routes can apply, free of charge, to have no recourse to public funds conditions lifted and we encourage anyone eligible to submit an application.\"", "Post-Brexit transition border checks could cause fresh food supply problems, an industry body has warned.\n\nShoppers will notice the supply issues next January unless there is a \"massive upgrade\" in border facilities, the British Retail Consortium said.\n\nThe warning came after cabinet minister Michael Gove said that border checks are \"inevitable\" after the Brexit transition period ends on 31 December.\n\nOfficials said firms have enough time to prepare for the changes.\n\nBorder checks could quickly cause hold-ups at Channel ports of thousands of trucks, including those carrying fresh food, the BRC said.\n\nThe government will have to \"move fast\" to put in place the necessary border infrastructure and staff to cope with those checks by the end of the year, it said.\n\nIf it doesn't, \"consumers in the UK will see significant disruption, particularly in the availability of fresh fruit and vegetables\" the BRC's director of food and sustainability Andrew Opie warned.\n\n\"If you think this is going to hit us in January, that's our peak import season for things like fresh fruit and vegetables. Customers are really going to see the problems on supermarket shelves unless we get that infrastructure,\" he said.\n\n\"So, you've got enormous bureaucracy, enormous change, but crucially you've got a problem with the infrastructure at the key ports around the Channel, which currently really act as an extension of the motorway for our supply chain, where you will be holding thousands of vehicles every day.\"\n\n\"I don't know if you've been to Dover recently, but there isn't an enormous amount of room to hold that infrastructure,\" he added.\n\nThe warning came after Mr Gove told a Border Delivery Group event on Monday: \"The UK will be outside the single market and outside the customs union, so we will have to be ready for the customs procedures and regulatory checks that will inevitably follow.\"\n\nThe Brexit transition period is due to end at 11pm on 31 December this year.\n\nFrom then, there will be import checks at the UK border, and traders in the EU and UK will have extra paperwork, the government said.\n\nFrom next January, all traders will have to fill out customs declarations and be liable to customs checks on goods for cross-channel trade.\n\nIf no trade deal is reached with the EU, taxes such as tariffs will also need to be charged and collected.\n\nMichael Gove said businesses must be ready for 'customs procedures and regulatory checks'\n\nFacilities such as the Channel Tunnel have been designed for minimal border checks.\n\nNew customs infrastructure, facilities and systems as well as staff, agents and vets will have to be in place by the end of this year.\n\nBut Mr Gove told the conference there would be light touch administration of trade across the Irish Sea.\n\nHowever, last week it emerged that Stena Line, the biggest operator of ferries in the Irish Sea, is preparing for trade checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nIt was quietly confirmed in a speech. Some might argue it has been inevitable since the election.\n\nBut the change in the way the UK trade border functions with our biggest trade partner is one of the single biggest changes to the way the UK economy functions.\n\nPut simply, many industries rely on the frictionless free flow of goods between the UK and the continent.\n\nThe unequivocal message from Michael Gove is that businesses should prepare for the the end of that as 2020 draws to a close.\n\nWhereas the impact of all this in the Irish Sea has garnered considerable attention, the new trading arrangements between Dover and Calais and along the Channel Tunnel will have a bigger effect on the economy.\n\nBy getting businesses to take the prospect seriously, the government's hope is that more will be prepared and so delays and disruption can be limited.\n\nBut we are dealing with parts of the border that are designed to run without checks.\n\nThere will need to be more customs officers, thousands more customs agents, mass recruitment of vets, and new customs posts.\n\nAlmost every independent economic analysis - and the government's own until now - has shown that extra trade friction with what is currently our biggest market will be an overall hit to the economy.\n\nPreparation can help alleviate some of that hit, but not all.\n\nBusinesses also said they face extra costs from checks. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said that for many businesses, border delays would incur higher costs than tariffs.\n\nAdam Marshall, the BCC director general, said: \"Additional friction will equal higher costs for a lot of our business, and while the discussion over the past few months has focussed a lot on tariffs, it's actually these border costs... that really is the biggest source of cost for most.\"\n\nEU trade will not be waved through with zero checks, which would have been the case under a no-deal Brexit.\n\nTraders will not be able to use special arrangements to lodge new paperwork after a grace period at a later date.\n\nIndustries from car manufacturers to food distributors, which rely on the frictionless free flow of goods with the continent, say they face extra costs, delays and red tape from what are known as non-tariff barriers.\n\nProducts of animal origin will need export certificates from a registered vet.", "Toilet roll was not the only thing to disappear from supermarket shelves at the start of lockdown. Buy-one-get-one-free deals were pulled too.\n\nThere was a 15% fall in the frequency of promotions during the first month of lockdown, research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found.\n\nThis, in part, led to a 2.4% rise in the price of groceries in one month.\n\nResearchers said this was the equivalent of price increases expected for a whole year.\n\nThere was also an 8% fall in the variety of grocery products on the shelves during lockdown, according to the research funded by the Nuffield Foundation, which campaigns on social policy.\n\n\"This, independently of price rises, will have a negative impact on consumers,\" the authors of the report said.\n\nShoppers bulk bought various essentials just prior to, and at the start of, lockdown.\n\nIt prompted a number of retailers to put limits on the number of items being bought, ranging from individual products such as toilet roll and pasta to the entire basket of items available via supermarket websites.\n\nMajor supermarkets introduced limits on the number of in-demand items people could buy, such as toilet paper\n\nThe IFS research tracked price data of groceries such as food, drink, toiletries, cleaning products and pet food.\n\nIt found prices were 2.4% higher in the first month of lockdown, a rate more than 10 times higher than in preceding months and unprecedented in recent years.\n\nSince then, prices had fallen slightly, but they still remained more than 2% higher than before lockdown, the report said.\n\n\"There was more grocery inflation in one month than we often see in a year,\" said Martin O'Connell, co-author of the report.\n\n\"Higher prices and reduced variety have persisted in the following weeks. At a time when many households are subject to reductions in their income, higher prices for food, drinks and household goods will further feed into squeezed household budgets.\"\n\nHalf of this increase was the result of fewer promotions, such as buy-one-get-one-free deals and money off discounts. The IFS said was not recorded in official inflation figures, to be updated next week.\n\nThe fall in promotions was different to during last recession, when consumers bought more goods that were on sale as their own finances were squeezed.\n\nThis time, almost all households saw their grocery bills increase.\n\nThe researchers also said that investors would have expected the coronavirus crisis to lead to prices falling, rather than rising.\n\n\"At a time when financial markets expect the Covid-19 pandemic to be a disinflationary shock, this increase in the price of groceries, which was experienced by almost all households and in almost all product categories, suggests policymakers nonetheless should remain vigilant about the prospect of higher inflation, at least for some goods and services,\" said co-author Xavier Jaravel.", "Boarding around the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was erected overnight\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill and the Cenotaph in central London have been boarded up ahead of planned protests.\n\nMonuments were targeted during last week's anti-racism protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in the USA.\n\nA Black Lives Matter protest planned for Saturday in Hyde Park has been brought forward to Friday, over fears of clashes with far-right groups.\n\nThe Mayor of London has called on protesters to \"stay at home\" to avoid further disorder.\n\n\"Key statues\", including one of Nelson Mandela, will be covered for protection, Sadiq Khan said.\n\nDuring protests last weekend a statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was defaced, while in Bristol an effigy of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down.\n\nVideo shared online also appeared to show a protester climb the Cenotaph, the memorial to Britain's war dead on Whitehall, and attempt to set a union jack flag alight.\n\nBy Friday morning the statue of Churchill was fully encased\n\nMore protests are taking place over the weekend.\n\nA Black Lives Matter protest planned for Saturday in Hyde Park has been brought forward to Friday, over fears it would be hijacked by counter-protests.\n\nFar-right groups have called on supporters to travel to London to protect monuments from being damaged.\n\nImages appeared to show a protester climb the Cenotaph and attempt to set a flag alight\n\nMr Khan said: \"I'm extremely concerned that further protests in central London not only risk spreading Covid-19, but could lead to disorder, vandalism and violence.\n\n\"Extreme far-right groups who advocate hatred and division are planning counter-protests, which means that the risk of disorder is high.\n\n\"Staying home and ignoring them is the best response this weekend.\"\n\nViolent protesters could be jailed within 24 hours under plans to fast-track arrests linked to protest.\n\nThe BBC understands that opening hours at magistrates courts are to be extended to process anybody caught vandalising, causing criminal damage or assaulting police officers.\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill in London was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nChurchill is lauded for leading Britain to victory in World War Two.\n\nHe is described on the UK government website as \"an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader\", and was voted the greatest ever Briton in a 2002 BBC poll.\n\nBut for some he remains a controversial figure, in part because of his views on race.\n\nAnti-racism protest have been taking place across the country sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the US\n\nFollowing last weekend's protests, campaigns to have monuments to controversial historical figures taken down have gained pace.\n\nOn Tuesday, a statue of slave owner Robert Milligan was removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nGuy's and St Thomas' hospitals in London have said they will remove two statues linked to slavery in response to anti-racism protests.\n\nThe NHS foundation trust which runs the hospitals said monuments of Thomas Guy and Sir Robert Clayton will be moved out of public view.", "The London Coliseum, the largest theatre in the West End, is closed along with the rest of the UK capital's theatre district Image caption: The London Coliseum, the largest theatre in the West End, is closed along with the rest of the UK capital's theatre district\n\nTheatres are \"running out\" of time and need urgent help from the UK government to stop the industry collapsing, says shadow culture secretary Jo Stevens.\n\nThe Labour MP has written to Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden asking for sector specific support, warning venues \"are going under\".\n\nTheatres, gig and comedy venues were ordered to shut in mid-March. Stevens says many cannot afford to reopen when restrictions are eased because of social distancing measures.\n\nShe also says many actors, comedians and musicians have been excluded from Treasury support schemes, warning the prospect of no further income \"means large scale redundancies\".\n\nIn response, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said many organisations have \"already benefited\" from government support.\n\n\"The UK government is providing unprecedented financial support for the arts and culture through the job retention scheme, a years' business rates holiday and more than £200m emergency public funding,\" a DCMS spokesperson told BBC News.\n\nThe DCMS added it is committed to opening arts and cultural institutions \"as soon as it is safe to do so\". Earlier this week, Dowden said he would not \"stand by and see our world-leading position in arts and culture destroyed\".", "Global stock markets have fallen amid fears that an uptick in coronavirus cases could cause more economic damage.\n\nThe declines came after the US Federal Reserve warned that the American economy faces a long road to recovery.\n\nIn the US on Thursday, the three main share indexes saw their worst day in weeks, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down almost 7%.\n\nStock markets in Asia also fell on Friday with benchmark indexes losing ground in Japan, Hong Kong and China.\n\nThe falls followed a weeks-long rally that had helped shares recover some ground from the lows seen in March.\n\nEnergy and travel stocks were among the biggest losers, as global crude oil prices also took a hit.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, European shares also dropped, with the UK's FTSE 100, the Dax in Germany and France's CAC 40 all losing 4% or more.\n\n\"Government, companies and people would be better prepared for a second wave than for the first one,\" said Roland Kaloyan, European equity strategist at Societe Generale.\n\n\"But the problem is there is a limit to governments injecting money.\"\n\nShare prices had gained in recent weeks amid hopes that the economy would rebound as authorities loosened restrictions put in place to try to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nLast week's surprise report showing US employers had restarted hiring in May helped to push the tech-heavy Nasdaq index to new highs.\n\nBut the recovery remains tentative. On Thursday, the US Labor Department reported that another 1.5 million people had filed new unemployment claims last week. More than 30 million continue to collect the benefits, it said.\n\nUS Federal Reserve policymakers said on Wednesday that the unemployment rate could remain above 9% at the end of the year - close to the worst level of the financial crisis,\n\nAt a news conference, Fed chairman Jerome Powell warned that this assessment may prove optimistic, if coronavirus infection and hospitalisation rates rise.\n\nSeveral states that have moved to reopen, including Arizona and South Carolina, have seen an uptick in Covid-19 cases in recent days.\n\n\"It could hurt the recovery, even if you don't have a national level pandemic. Just a series of local ones, of local spikes, could have the effect of undermining people's confidence in travelling, in restaurants and in entertainment,\" he said. \"It would not be a positive development.\"\n\nUS Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he did not want to see a return of the lockdowns that had kept the world's largest economy frozen for weeks.\n\nBut economists have warned that people will stay at home voluntarily if they are afraid of becoming ill.", "India’s capital Delhi could have more than half a million coronavirus cases by the end of July, according to officials.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of Covid-19 cases in the country’s worst-affected city, Mumbai, has surpassed Wuhan in China, where the virus first appeared.\n\nHospitals in the country are struggling to cope with the number of patients they’re getting. Many are dying without getting the treatment they need.", "Ricky Valance's single Tell Laura I Love Her sold more than a million copies in 1960\n\nWelsh singer Ricky Valance has died at the age of 84, his agent has confirmed.\n\nValance, who was born David Spencer, became the first Welshman to have a solo UK Number One hit with the song Tell Laura I Love Her in 1960.\n\nThe singer was born in Ynysddu, now in Caerphilly county, and joined the RAF aged 17 before going into the music business.\n\nHis agent said he had been diagnosed with dementia and had been in hospital since before the start of lockdown.\n\nValance was lead soprano in his local church choir as a child, before joining the air force, where he saw active service in north Africa before returning three years later.\n\nIt was then he started performing in clubs in the north of England, before being signed and recording Tell Laura I Love Her.\n\nThe song tells the tragic story of a boy called Tommy and his love for a girl called Laura.\n\nIt was controversial at the time and reportedly banned from airplay by the BBC, but went on to be a number one single, selling more than a million copies.\n\nIt spent 16 weeks in the chart, three of those at number one, but was to prove his only big hit in the UK.\n\nNevertheless, fans have taken to social media to express their sadness at his death.\n\nHyder Ali Pirwany tweeted: \"Ricky Valance, RIP. Great singer from Wales. His \"Tell Laura I love her\" song was tear jerking.\"\n\nWhile another fan wrote: \"Another one gone. RIP. Hope Laura is waiting for you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hyder Ali Pirwany This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2015, Valance was given an award at a St David's Day concert at the Wales Millennium Centre for being the first Welshman to have a UK Number One hit.\n\nIn 2017, he released a final single, called Welcome Home, to raise money for the Royal Air Force Museum and RAF Association.\n\nValance and his wife Evelyn were living in Skegness, Lincolnshire, at the time of his death.\n• None Final song for first Welsh number one", "Airlines across the world have grounded aircraft amid the pandemic\n\nBritish Airways, Ryanair and EasyJet have filed a formal legal challenge to the government's quarantine policy.\n\nThe airlines say the policy will have \"a devastating effect on British tourism and the wider economy\" and destroy thousands of jobs.\n\nThey have applied for a judicial review at the High Court.\n\nThe challenge claims that the quarantine rules for travellers are more stringent than those applied to people who actually have Covid-19.\n\nThe new rules came into force this week. They require most inbound travellers to self isolate for 14 days, although there are more than 40 categories of incomers, largely pertaining to certain workers, who are exempt. Rules for those actually infected with the virus require self isolation for seven days.\n\nThe airlines state that there was no consultation and no scientific evidence provided to support the policy; that weekly commuters from France or Germany can be exempted; and that the government is preventing people from travelling to and from countries with lower infection rates than the UK.\n\nHowever, the government has said the quarantine period is a \"proportionate and time-limited approach\" to protect public health.\n\nIn a statement, the three airlines said they had not seen any evidence on how and when so-called \"air bridges\", allowing quarantine-free travel between the UK and other countries with low infection rates, could be implemented.\n\nThey have called on the government instead to re-adopt a previous policy, where quarantine was limited to travellers from high risk countries.\n\nThe air industry has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus outbreak, which has all but stopped their activities. Mass job cuts are under way:\n\nFriday's legal move marks another sign of a breakdown in relations between airlines and the UK government.\n\nWillie Walsh, the boss of IAG, which owns BA, Iberia and Aer Lingus, has called the quarantine policy \"irrational\", while Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary said the policy was a \"stunt\" and would not be enforceable.\n\nIndustry body Airlines UK has said quarantine \"would effectively kill off air travel\".\n\nThe BBC has approached the Home Office for a comment.", "Holly King-Mand says \"every child deserves the opportunity to engage with English for the sheer joy of it, and not just as a subject to study in school\"\n\nAn English teacher whose online lessons have reached thousands of children across the world during lockdown said it had been an \"incredible\" experience.\n\nHolly King-Mand, 36, has provided English Live lessons every weekday since 23 March but they finish on Friday in favour of a weekly vlog.\n\nStarting with just 74 Facebook followers, Mrs King-Mand, from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, now has 54,000 across three social media platforms.\n\n\"In truth, I need a rest,\" she said.\n\nIn March, having just finished maternity leave and decided not to return to school, she began hosting free 30-minute lessons on Facebook, aimed at Key Stage Two and Three levels (ages seven to 14) to support parents home-schooling their children.\n\nMoving to YouTube, she now has more than 9,000 subscribers there, plus 2,000 more on Instagram.\n\n\"It has honestly been one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I've learnt far more than I've taught, and I've got to 'virtually' know some of the most hardworking and talented children of my entire career,\" the former secondary school teacher said.\n\n\"I have learnt a whole new way of teaching as I had never considered how I would teach without having the learner in front of me to bounce off.\"\n\n\"Some of the learners have said 'Because of you, I want to be an English teacher' - I've inadvertently become a bit of a role model,\" said Mrs King-Mand\n\nBut she said she now needed to create \"something valuable with longevity out of this experience\".\n\nHer weekly Spellathon will continue until the end of the summer term, but from Monday, she will present Chapter and Verse, a weekly video magazine aimed at children aged six to 16.\n\nShe has also been asked to create content for online schools and is collaborating on a podcast.\n\n\"I'm just trying to build a bit of a brand and then see where it takes me,\" she said.\n\n\"It kind of feels like finishing school or university; you look back at all the great memories and how much you've learnt and you have a glowing sense of pride and achievement, ready to head out into the world.\n\n\"I've been brought to tears by heartbreaking and beautiful messages telling me of the difference I've made... it all shows that out of awful times, good things can happen.\"\n\nThe teacher receives fan mail from around the world\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The road signs on Penny Lane were attacked overnight on Thursday\n\nRoad signs on Penny Lane in Liverpool have been defaced over claims they are linked to slave merchant James Penny.\n\nThe markers had the word Penny blacked out and the word racist written above them on Thursday night.\n\nThe city's International Slavery Museum said it was not certain whether the street, which was immortalised in a song by The Beatles in 1967, was named after the 18th Century slave merchant.\n\nA spokeswoman said \"more research is needed\" to clarify the name's origin.\n\nCity tour guide Jackie Spencer, who runs Blue Badge Tour Guides, said she was \"absolutely livid\".\n\n\"It's pure ignorance,\" she said.\n\n\"We've researched it and it has nothing to do with slavery. James Penny was a slave trader, but he had nothing to do with the Penny Lane area.\"\n\nLocal resident Emmett O'Neill, who has helped clean the paint from the signs, said he thought it was \"an idiotic act\".\n\n\"If you want something removed, there's ways and means,\" he said.\n\n\"Defacing Penny Lane signs isn't going to change a lot [and] it's the wrong way to go about things.\"\n\nSeveral of the road's signs already had a large amount of graffiti on them, much of it Beatles-related, with one even bearing the signature of Sir Paul McCartney.\n\nLiverpool's International Slavery Museum said the link to James Penny was \"not conclusive\"\n\nLiverpool City Council was criticised by historian Laurence Westgaph on Monday for \"not doing enough\" to acknowledge the city's links with slavery.\n\nMr Westgaph said he understood the actions, but added residents should \"talk to the council and demand certain things that should have been changed years ago\".\n\nThe city's mayor, Joe Anderson, said he was \"frustrated\" by the \"defacement of our street signs\".\n\n\"[It] does nothing to further advance the argument and the debate around Black Lives Matter here in Liverpool,\" he said.\n\n\"It isn't just about the artefacts and street names, it's also about how we change the fundamental things that are causing disadvantage and inequality within our city.\"\n\nLiverpool was Europe's most used slave port by 1740 and many of its streets have names linked to slavery.\n\nHowever, the International Slavery Museum, which includes Penny Lane in its display of street names linked to slavery, said the evidence linking Penny Lane to James Penny was \"not conclusive\".\n\n\"We are actively carrying out research on this particular question and will re-evaluate our display and change if required,\" a spokeswoman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "John Cleese, who plays Basil Fawlty, has said the move is \"stupid\"\n\nJohn Cleese has laid into the \"cowardly and gutless\" BBC after an episode of Fawlty Towers was temporarily removed from a BBC-owned streaming platform.\n\nA 1975 episode titled The Germans was taken off UKTV's streaming service because it contains \"racial slurs\".\n\nIn it, the Major uses highly offensive language, and Cleese's Basil Fawlty declares \"don't mention the war\".\n\nUKTV said it expected to reinstate the show with \"extra guidance\" in \"the coming days\".\n\nCleese wrote on Twitter: \"The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats.\"\n\nHe added: \"I would have hoped that someone at the BBC would understand that there are two ways of making fun of human behaviour.\n\n\"One is to attack it directly. The other is to have someone who is patently a figure of fun, speak up on behalf of that behaviour.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Cleese This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe went on to compare the situation with that of Alf Garnett, the racist character in sitcoms Till Death Us Do Part and In Sickness and in Health.\n\n\"We laughed at Alf's reactionary views. Thus we discredited them, by laughing at him,\" Cleese wrote.\n\n\"Of course, there were people - very stupid people - who said 'Thank God someone is saying these things at last'. We laughed at these people too. Now they're taking decisions about BBC comedy.\"\n\nHe continued: \"But it's not just stupidity. The BBC is now run by a mixture of marketing people and petty bureaucrats. It used to have a large sprinkling of people who'd actually made programmes. Not any more.\n\n\"So BBC decisions are made by persons whose main concern is not losing their jobs... That's why they're so cowardly and gutless and contemptible. I rest my case.\"\n\nUKTV also operates channels including Gold, and many of its channels and its digital player were taken over by the BBC's commercial arm BBC Studios last year. A BBC spokesman declined to comment.\n\nA UKTV statement said it would update the episode with guidance and contextual information in line with similar warnings on other classic comedy titles.\n\n\"We will reinstate Fawlty Towers once that extra guidance has been added, which we expect will be in the coming days,\" it added.\n\n\"We will continue to look at what content is on offer as we always have done.\"\n\nThe Germans is still available to view on Britbox, which is part-owned by the BBC, with a message saying it \"contains some offensive racial language of the time and upsetting scenes\". It is also on Netflix, carrying a warning about \"language, [and] discrimination\".\n\nJournalist and broadcaster Carl Anka described the removal as \"a waste of time\", noting many people would prefer it if UKTV and other companies simply \"committed to hiring black creatives\" instead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2013, it was reported that Cleese agreed for the offending lines to be edited out when it was repeated on TV.\n\n\"We are very proud of Fawlty Towers and its contribution to British television comedy,\" a BBC spokesman told the Daily Mail at the time.\n\n\"But public attitudes have changed significantly since it was made and it was decided to make some minor changes, with the consent of John Cleese's management, to allow the episode to transmit to a family audience at 7.30pm on BBC Two.\"\n\nThis week, many channels and comedy figures have been making moves to reassess what is acceptable in today's society, following mass Black Lives Matter protests after the death of George Floyd.\n\nHBO Max temporarily removed Gone With The Wind because of its \"racial depictions\", and Little Britain was removed from the BBC iPlayer and Britbox because \"times have changed\".\n\nNetflix has also removed Little Britain plus David Walliams and Matt Lucas's Come Fly With Me, and The League of Gentlemen and The Mighty Boosh.\n\nMeanwhile, Ant and Dec apologised for impersonating \"people of colour\" on Saturday Night Takeaway, and requested ITV remove the 2003 and 2004 sketches from its catch-up service.\n\nLast week, comedian Leigh Francis issued an emotional apology for having dressed as black celebrities in the noughties impression show Bo' Selecta.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "People living at Skyline Central 1 tower block (left) in Manchester said they were given no option but to take out \"life-changing\" loans\n\nMPs have urged the government to take over residential tower blocks if owners fail to remove dangerous cladding.\n\nThe housing committee says it's \"deeply shocking and completely unacceptable\" that about 2,000 buildings in England are still potentially at risk nearly three years after the Grenfell fire.\n\nThe committee wants the work finished by December 2021 but says the budget is only a third of what is needed.\n\nThe government said it was providing £1.6bn to remove dangerous cladding.\n\nA spokesperson added that ministers were bringing in the biggest legislative changes in a generation to ensure residents' safety.\n\nAccording to the latest official figures 246 buildings still had Aluminium Composite Material cladding, the type which fuelled the Grenfell fire.\n\nHowever, there are also concerns about an estimated 1,700 buildings with other dangerous materials, including high pressure laminate boards which are made from paper and resin.\n\nThe government is trying to offer funding to ensure the materials are removed, because some freeholders, who own the buildings have taken no action to make their properties safe.\n\nHowever, the report by the Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee finds that while the owners do have a legal duty to ensure the work is done, they usually do not have a duty to pay for it, \"regardless of how we feel about the morality of the situation\".\n\nAs a result, leaseholder residents living in the buildings are facing \"life-changing\" bills.\n\nMPs say that if the owners will not act, the government should buy the buildings, do the work, and hand them over to their residents to run.\n\nThey want a national body to oversee the process.\n\n\"Any residential building where works have not commenced by December 2020 should be subject to a compulsory purchase order,\" the MPs propose.\n\n\"The national body would step in where overburdened local authorities are unable or unwilling to act.\n\n\"Once remediated, buildings should be converted to commonhold and returned to leaseholders,\" the MPs argue.\n\nBy their calculation, the government fund will only pay for a third of the work needed and more funding will be required.\n\n\"The government is clearly trying to find ways to fit a £3bn liability into a £1bn funding pot,\" the report says.\n\nBut the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said its fund now stands at £1.6bn and ministers do not expect public money to be the only means of making buildings safe, with owners expected to pay a \"significant proportion\".\n\nSome residents say they have been \"utterly broken\" by the crisis, according to a survey published on Thursday by the UK Cladding Action Group.\n\nSome have been forced to take huge loans to pay thousands of pounds towards repairs or for bigger insurance premiums and service charges.\n\nOthers are in buildings not eligible for funding.\n\nThe uncertainty has meant many owners cannot sell their flats, causing big problems for young families.\n\nThey are also aware they are living in blocks which could pose a major fire hazard, with \"Waking Watch\" patrols introduced to warn of fires, sometimes funded by residents.\n\nOf 550 leaseholders who responded to the survey: :\n\nThe group says leaseholders had bought properties in good faith and had no idea the buildings posed a fire risk.", "The Sun said it had not intended to \"glorify\" domestic violence in its interview with JK Rowling's former husband Jorge Arantes\n\nThe Sun newspaper has faced a backlash from domestic abuse charities for an article in which JK Rowling's ex said \"I'm not sorry\" for slapping her.\n\nAs part of a blog addressing criticism of her comments on transgender people, the Harry Potter author said her first marriage had been \"violent\".\n\nJorge Arantes told the Sun he slapped Rowling when she left him - but added \"there was not sustained abuse\".\n\nThe newspaper said it had not intended to \"enable or glorify\" domestic abuse.\n\nCritics have accused the author of being transphobic for her response to an article about \"people who menstruate\".\n\nRowling said her personal experience of domestic abuse and sexual assault, and her concerns about protecting safe spaces for women, were some reasons why she spoke out about transgender issues.\n\nThe Sun's front page headline on Friday was: \"I slapped JK and I'm not sorry\".\n\nMr Arantes, who shares a daughter with Rowling from their marriage, told the paper: \"Yes. It is true I slapped her. But I didn't abuse her.\" When asked about his response to her claims - which included that the relationship was violent - he said: \"If she says that, that's up to her. It's not true I hit her.\"\n\nNicole Jacobs, England's domestic abuse commissioner, wrote to the newspaper to say she was \"deeply concerned\" about the story.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that the Sun has chosen to repeat and magnify the voice of someone who openly admits to violence against a partner,\" she said.\n\nThe charity Women's Aid said the newspaper's front page had a \"negative impact\", and added it was in conversation with the Sun about reflecting the voices of survivors of domestic abuse.\n\nSome 20 anti-domestic abuse campaigners - including the chief executive of Women's Aid - wrote an open letter calling on the paper to apologise.\n\n\"Responding to a woman disclosing her experiences of domestic abuse and sexual assault by giving a platform to her perpetrator to trivialise the abuse he subjected her to is irresponsible and dangerous,\" the letter said.\n\nPress regulator Ipso said it had received more than 500 complaints about the Sun article.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Sun said: \"It was certainly not our intention to 'enable' or 'glorify' domestic abuse, our intention was to expose a perpetrator's total lack of remorse. Our sympathies are always with the victims.\"\n\nThe spokeswoman added that the tabloid had a \"long history of standing up for abused women\", and \"over the we have empowered countless victims to come forward and seek help\".\n\nPoliticians have also criticised the Sun's coverage. The Liberal Democrats called on the Sun to donate the revenue made from Friday's newspaper to Refuge - while Labour's shadow minister for domestic abuse and safeguarding, Jess Phillips, said \"doubt and disbelief\" benefited perpetrators of abuse.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Phillips MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Gillian Martin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe row about Rowling's comments on transgender issues began last weekend, after she responded to a headline on an online article discussing \"people who menstruate\" by writing in a tweet: \"I'm sure there used to be a word for those people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud?\"\n\nHarry Potter actor Rupert Grint is the latest star to voice his support for the trans community, following Rowling's comments.\n\nHis co-stars, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson, are among others who have already spoken out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn her blog defending her comments, Rowling said: \"I've been in the public eye now for over 20 years and have never talked publicly about being a domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who've been slurred as bigots for having concerns around single-sex spaces.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by domestic abuse or violence, the following organisations may be able to help. If you have been affected by gender identity issues, a list of organisations offering support and information can be found here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSony has given gamers a first look at the design of its next console as well as some of the titles it will play.\n\nThe PlayStation 5 has a black core surrounded by curved white edging, and a blue glow.\n\nTwo follow-ups to bestselling PS4 releases were among the standout games announcements - Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Horizon: Forbidden West.\n\nSony's machine will launch alongside Microsoft's rival Xbox Series X before the end of the year.\n\nMiles Morales takes over the lead role from Peter Parker in the latest spin-off for Marvel's crime-fighter\n\n\"While there's still a lot of unanswered questions about the PS5, namely price and release date, I think Sony did exactly what they needed to with this reveal event,\" commented Laura Kate Dale, a freelance games critic.\n\n\"It showed off an hour of games, mixing sequels to popular titles, and new franchises from its biggest first-party studios, for a solid hour.\n\n\"People on Twitter are very split on whether they like or hate the look of the box, but overall Sony spent an hour getting people excited.\"\n\nSo many people remarked that the console looked like a \"wi-fi router\", that the term trended on Twitter shortly after the event.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two dozen new games were shown off in total.\n\nOther highlights included a first look at Sony's racing game Gran Turismo 7 and a brief look at Capcom's zombie horror game Resident Evil 8.\n\nResident Evil 8's reveal was full of dim lighting - and reflections\n\nIt was not always clear during the event which titles were PS5 exclusives and which were not.\n\nThe PlayStation 5 is set to go on sale later this year, seven years after the PS4.\n\nIn addition to being able to deliver improved visuals, the new machine also has a customised hard drive that will make it possible to radically reduce load times.\n\nSony is building a library of launch titles that will only be available on its next-generation machine. This contrasts with Microsoft's approach, which is to initially release new first-party games on both its current and next-gen consoles.\n\nSony opted to stream a pre-recorded video rather than a host a live event because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe video was broadcast at 1080p resolution, much lower than the PS5 is capable of.\n\nThe PS4 outsold the Xbox One globally by more than a 2:1 margin, although the gap was much closer in the US.\n\nIn advance of Thursday night's event, one industry insider said there were two things he was most excited about.\n\n\"The first is the new controller - the adaptive triggers offer deeper and more meaningful feedback for gameplay,\" explained Robert Karp, development director at UK developer Codemasters.\n\n\"The other is the super-fast loading. On PS5, waiting to get into the action is a thing of the past.\"\n\nHorizon: Forbidden West sees Aloy travel westwards across a far-future version of the United States\n\nThe new Spider-Man game acts as a follow-up to 2018's action-adventure game based on the Marvel superhero.\n\nBut this time round the protagonist appears to be the Afro-Latino teenager Miles Morales rather than Peter Parker. The brief trailer showed him fighting and web-slinging through New York, showing off snow and electricity particle effects that would not have been possible in such detail on the PS4.\n\nHours after the announcement, Sony executive Simon Rutter told the Telegraph that it was not, in fact, a wholly new title, but an \"an expansion and an enhancement to the previous game\".\n\n\"There's a substantial Miles Morales component-which is the expansion element-but also within the game as well there's been major enhancements to the game and the game engine, obviously deploying some of the major PlayStation 5 technology and features,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nBut that was later disputed by developer Insomniac Games, which called the new title \"the next adventure\" and a \"standalone game\".\n\nThe Spider-Man: Miles Morales teaser showed off a range of lighting and particle effects\n\nSeveral of the other reveals reintroduced familiar characters.\n\nAloy is back in the follow-up to Horizon: Zero Dawn.\n\nIn Forbidden West, the heroine was shown swimming underwater as what appeared to be a robot crocodile passed overhead, and battling against robot dinosaurs.\n\nAssassin Agent 47 returned in Hitman III, IO Interactive's stealth series. It is not due to go on sale until January 2021, however, so will miss out on launching alongside the PS5.\n\nRatchet and Clank: Rift Apart marked a return to Insomniac Games' cartoon-like third-person action franchise.\n\nRatchet and Clank return for the first time since their 2016 PS4 reboot\n\nOddworld: Soulstorm was a surprise, bringing back the former slave turned hero Abe, in a series that dates back to the original PlayStation.\n\nAnd Sackboy also returned for more platforming in A Big Adventure, a follow-up to the earlier Little Big Planet Games.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Patrick O'Rourke This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere was also a first look at some new intellectual property, including:\n\n\"What I found particularly great was the push on new IP,\" gaming presenter Shay Thompson told the BBC.\n\n\"Many of the protagonists featured were women or girls, which is a huge deal. That would've been a pipe dream, even 10 years ago.\"\n\nThere was no mention of any virtual reality games, however. Nor was was there any mention of a PlayStation 5 version of The Last of Us 2.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Stephen Totilo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSony also highlighted new features of the PS5's hardware including 3D Audio and a 4K Blu-ray player. It also said the the new console would be released in a version that lacked a disc drive.\n\nWhile Sony and Microsoft's next-generation consoles will battle for sales, they both face the challenge of launching at a time when the coronavirus pandemic may not be over.\n\nA new version of the 2009 classic Demons' Souls was also shown\n\nAlthough both firms have said that production is on track for winter 2020 releases, it is unclear what level of demand there will be.\n\n\"Console gaming has proven to be resilient to economic downturns because it continues to offer good per-hour entertainment value,\" Piers Harding-Rolls wrote in a research note for Ampere Analysis.\n\n\"Even so, the recession and growing unemployment in key sales territories will undermine adoption - less so at launch [but] more significantly after mid-2021.\"\n\nOne of the more unusual games was Stray, a third-person cat adventure set in a neon-lit cyber-city\n\nA confident introduction to the PlayStation 5 from Sony, letting the games do the talking, with a varied mix of big-name fan favourites and a lot of new titles from smaller studios.\n\nThe event lacked the fevered energy that a live showcase generates, but it managed to settle into a comfortable groove as games like the new Ratchet and Clank allowed us to see what the PS5's solid state drive (SSD) can do to reduce or almost eliminate load times.\n\nRather than a quantum leap, this next generation looks like it might be built around lots of smaller improvements in areas like audio, with 3D sound and improved haptic feedback in the controller.\n\nBeyond better visuals and faster loading times, what does the next generation actually mean when it comes to games though?\n\nOn this evidence more of the same: shooters, racers, third-person adventure titles and sports games. Things we already have, but graphically improved.\n\nPlayStation and Xbox have both struggled to communicate what the next-gen really has to offer.\n\nBut at least fans have now had a glimpse of some games and finally clapped eyes on the PS5's curvy physical case.\n\nIt's enough, perhaps, to whet gamers appetites for what's to come.", "Dr Cathy Gardner with her father Michael Gibson who died in a care home in Oxfordshire in April\n\nA woman who said goodbye to her dying father through a care home window is suing the government over his death.\n\nDr Cathy Gardner's father, Michael Gibson, 88, died of probable Covid-19 related causes on 3 April.\n\nHer case, which accuses the government of unlawfully exposing thousands of care home residents to serious harm, will be filed at the High Court today.\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it could not comment on ongoing legal proceedings.\n\nDr Gardner, from Sidmouth, Devon, said her father's death was part of a \"national disgrace\".\n\nShe added her case was about everybody, including care home residents, staff and the family members of those who had been put at risk or died.\n\nMore than 14,000 people have died from coronavirus in England and Wales care homes since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe government has faced criticism for policies allowing patients to be discharged from hospitals into care homes without being tested for Covid-19.\n\nLawyers representing Dr Gardner sent a pre-action letter to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, NHS England and Public Health England on 2 June, demanding they admit those policies were unlawful.\n\nThe government has until Tuesday to respond but lawyer Paul Conrathe, representing Dr Gardner, said the case needed to be lodged on Friday before receiving a reply due to time limits.\n\n\"Legally the state is required to protect its citizens, protect their right to life,\" he said.\n\n\"Our view is not only did they not protect them but they actively exposed them to harm.\"\n\nMr Gibson, who had Alzheimer's, was a resident at the Cherwood House Care Centre, near Bicester, Oxfordshire.\n\nDr Gardner, who praised the care he was given there, was able to see him through a window the night before he died.\n\nShe said: \"This was heart-breaking, it's not how I imagined his last days would be.\"\n\nHis cause of death was recorded as probable Covid-19-related but he had not been tested.\n\nDr Gardner's lawyers claim that prior to his death the care home had been pressured into taking a hospital patient who had tested positive for Covid-19 but \"had not had a temperature for about 72 hours\".\n\nMore than 14,000 care home residents with coronavirus have died in England and Wales\n\nDr Gardner, a microbiologist with a PhD in virology, said: \"Somebody needed to take the lead and I thought ... I can so I should.\n\n\"It is a national disgrace and it needs to be held up as such and not just brushed under the carpet.\"\n\nDr Gardner, who is also chair of East Devon District Council, is crowdfunding to help cover legal fees and has so far raised £10,000.\n• None Help me hold the government to account for Covid-19 care home deaths The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Recently released figures show that more than 31,000 close contacts were identified during the first week of the test and trace system in England.\n\nAn anonymous contact tracer told the BBC they felt training for the new system was inadequate and that there had been \"mass confusion\".\n\nThe government disputed the claims and said the new system is \"helping save lives\".", "Shintaro Tsuji has been at the helm of Sanrio for more than six decades\n\nThe founder of the Japanese company that created Hello Kitty has announced he is stepping down as CEO aged 92.\n\nShintaro Tsuji said he would hand over control of Sanrio to his 31-year-old grandson, Tomokuni Tsuji.\n\nIt marks the first change in leadership in the company's six-decade history.\n\nHello Kitty, a mouthless cartoon adorned with a trademark hair bow, has generated billions of dollars since its inception almost 50 years ago.\n\nThe simple line-drawn image has appeared on merchandise including clothing, toys and stationery. It is targeted mostly at young children, but in recent years it has also proved popular with adults.\n\nMr Tsuji will formally leave his role on 1 July.\n\nShintaro Tsuji started a gift company in the 1960s and quickly realised that the products featuring \"cute\" designs were his bestsellers.\n\nThat led to the creation of Hello Kitty, who has since become an iconic Japanese character.\n\nBut Kitty has competition: sales have been dropping inside Japan for years and Sanrio now depends on its increasingly fragile global business.\n\nSo, Mr Tsuji's decision to step aside comes at a turning point for the company.\n\nIn Japanese tradition, CEO founders strive to pass on their positions to family members. Mr Tsuji's son died of a heart attack in 2013, and so this is why his grandson is taking over.\n\nTomokuni Tsuji has already pledged to transform the company and to drop outdated ideas. Let's hope he's not referring to Hello Kitty, who is older than the company's new leader.\n\nTomokuni Tsuji, who is currently a senior managing director at Sanrio, will become the youngest CEO of a company listed on the Topix share index.\n\nHe coincidentally shares a birthday with Hello Kitty on 1 November, according to the AFP news agency. But he is 14 years younger than the character itself.\n\n\"I want to transform the company to better respond to today's rapidly changing business environment,\" he told a press conference on Friday.\n\nHello Kitty-branded products are sold around the world and its image has even featured on a bullet train\n\nThere is even a Hello Kitty theme park in China\n\nSanrio, whose business has been declining for several years, has been badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAnnual net profits fell by 95% in the 2019/2020 fiscal year, according to figures published on Friday. Sales were also down 6.5 % on the previous year.\n\nHello Kitty-branded products are sold in 130 countries worldwide, with the range extending from prosecco to plimsolls.\n\nIt is also licensed for amusement parks and cafés, while last year a Japanese railway firm splashed the image on its bullet train, painted in pink and white.\n\nAlthough the brand typifies the Japanese trend for \"kawaii\" or cuteness, the character itself is identified as British because when she was created in the 1970s British culture was fashionable in Japan.", "It is not yet known whether the statue has been permanently damaged\n\nA statue of a Jamaican poet, playwright and actor has been covered with what appears to be a corrosive substance.\n\nThe monument to Alfred Fagon in St Pauls, Bristol, was erected in 1987 on the first anniversary of his death.\n\nMr Fagon was the first black person to have a statue erected in their honour in the city.\n\nIt was reported on Thursday to police, who said it was being investigated as criminal damage and inquiries were continuing.\n\nThe statue was erected in green space off Grosvenor Road on the first anniversary of Alfred Fagon's death in 1987\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said it was liaising with Bristol City Council to establish ownership of the statue and to determine if it had suffered any permanent damage.\n\nIt comes after Black Lives Matter anti-racism protesters tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol on Sunday.\n\nSince that statue was toppled several other statues around the UK of people linked to the slave trade have been removed, or it has been announced that they may be taken down.\n\nMr Fagon's sister-in-law, Judy Malone-Fagon, said if it was vandalism, it was \"ignorant and idiotic\".\n\n\"It's the only statue to a black person in Bristol, who would do something like that?\" she said.\n\n\"It's shocking. Alfred didn't do anything to anyone but he would definitely have laughed at it, he was so much bigger and better than that.\"\n\nAnton Phillips, an actor and friend of Mr Fagon, said following the \"dumping\" of the Colston statue it \"doesn't surprise me\".\n\n\"My memory of Alfred is he quite liked to laugh at things,\" he said.\n\n\"So I don't think he would have been angry, he would have laughed his head off about the absurdity of it and might have written something about it.\"\n\nHe was born in Jamaica in 1937, the third of nine brothers and two sisters.\n\nAt the age of 18 he came to England to work on the railways before joining the army before moving to Bristol to work as a welder in the 1960s.\n\nOne of his first plays, No Soldiers in St Pauls, explored the social tension between the police and the black community in 1970s Bristol.\n\nHis final role was in the BBC's Fighting Back, set in St Pauls.\n\nHe died suddenly from a heart attack on 28 August 1986 outside his flat in Camberwell, London.\n\nAt the time police claimed they were unable to identify him and he was given a pauper's funeral.\n\nThe annual Alfred Fagon Award was named after him and is for playwrights of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the UK.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There were \"tragic consequences\" of moving patients from hospitals to care homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, care chiefs in England say.\n\nAn Association of Directors of Adult Social Services report says a lack of testing in England may have sped up the spread of coronavirus in care settings.\n\nADASS also said the impact of Covid-19 meant many care providers faced financial problems.\n\nThe government said funding was being put in to local care services.\n\nAn extra £3.8 billion has also been provided to councils to fund social care, it added.\n\nThe ADASS report on the impact of the pandemic on care services is based on a survey of 146 out of the 151 directors of social care in English councils.\n\nThey point to the problems caused by the rapid discharge of patients from hospitals into care homes in the first weeks of the pandemic.\n\nMore than half of directors believe people were not tested before being discharged. They also raise concerns about a lack of checks on whether the homes people were going to had enough personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nJames Bullion, president of ADASS, said: \"Just assuming the homes could cope, and assuming that homes had the PPE to cope, wasn't the right thing to do.\n\n\"And that tells us that social care was an afterthought rather than a forethought of a whole system approach to discharge and that has had terrible consequences.\"\n\nHe said it was right to try to move people out of hospital at that time.\n\nBut he added: \"It is absolutely crucial that we learn the lesson that you can't think about the health service without thinking about social care.\"\n\nWren Hall nursing home in Nottinghamshire has seen 16 of its residents die with Covid-19.\n\nIt saw its first case on March 24, but managers do not know how the virus got into the home.\n\nWren Hall did take people discharged from hospital. Most had been tested, but sometimes that was days before they were transferred.\n\nAnita Astle, the home's managing director says it has been a deeply distressing time, emotionally and financially.\n\n\"The first thing is losing people we cared about and didn't expect to lose. Our staff teams were grieving, but at the same time we were aware that we needed to fill beds for for financial viability and job security.\n\n\"We did feel under pressure to take people from hospital, whether or not they were Covid positive, because we needed to keep the business going.\"\n\nBut she said that, if there is a second wave of coronavirus, care homes would make very different decisions.\n\n\"We won't be taking positive people from hospital. We will be consulting our staff team and families of those we're supporting and we'll create a plan that meets those people's requests and expectations.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic most directors said they were concerned about the financial viability of some of the care providers in their area.\n\nNow with the extra costs of PPE, staffing and with care home vacancies resulting from the pandemic, a quarter say they are worried about the ability of most of the companies in their area to survive.\n\nAnd 7% say they are worried about the sustainability of all local care providers.\n\nThey are calling for the government to provide more funding to help stabilise the care system.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Adult social care will continue to get all the support and resources they need to tackle the impacts of the pandemic, with £3.2bn for local authorities to help address pressures on local services, including in in adult social care, and £600m to control infections in care homes.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lady Antebellum - now Lady A - with the three Grammys they won in 2010\n\nChart-topping US pop group Lady Antebellum have changed their name to Lady A because Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era.\n\nThe Nashville trio have won five Grammys and had seven US top 10 albums, including three number ones.\n\nThe word antebellum is used to refer to the period and architecture in the US South before the Civil War.\n\nThey say they took the name from the architectural style, but are \"deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused\".\n\nIn a statement on Twitter, they said their eyes had been opened to \"the injustices, inequality and biases black women and men have always faced\" and \"blindspots we didn't even know existed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThey originally took their name from the antebellum style of home after taking their first band photos in front of one such house almost 14 years ago, they said.\n\n\"As musicians, it reminded us of all the music born in the South that influenced us,\" they wrote.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"But we are regretful and embarrassed to say that we did not take into account the associations that weigh down this word referring to the period of history before the Civil War, which includes slavery.\n\n\"We are deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused and for anyone who has felt unsafe, unseen or unvalued. Causing pain was never our hearts' intention, but it doesn't change the fact that indeed, it did just that.\"\n\nThe group are best known for their hit Need You Now, which reached number two in the US, and the top 20 in the UK, in 2010.\n\nBjork's record label has also changed its name\n\nThey said they made the decision after \"personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest black friends and colleagues\".\n\nThey added: \"We can make no excuse for our lateness to this realisation. What we can do is acknowledge it, turn from it and take action.\"\n\nTheir move comes after British record label One Little Indian, which has released music by Bjork, Sigur Ros and Paul McCartney's side-project The Fireman, changed its name to One Little Independent.\n\nFounder Derek Birkett said he'd made the decision after a fan explained why the name - which uses an outdated term for the indigenous people of the Americas - was \"offensive\".\n\n\"The last few weeks have been a monumental learning curve,\" he wrote in a statement.\n\n\"Following the receipt of an eye-opening letter from a Crass fan that detailed precisely why the logo and label name are offensive, as well as the violent history of the terminology, I felt equally appalled and grateful to them for making me understand what must be changed.\"\n\nHe went on to explain that the label had been founded in the late 1970s, when his friends were inspired by the \"philosophies of the Indigenous People of the Americas\".\n\n\"I was naive enough at the time of founding my label to think that the name and logo was reflective of my respect and appreciation of the culture,\" he said. \"I recognise now that both contribute to racism and should have been addressed a long, long time ago.\"\n\nThe name changes come as the music industry seeks to address its complicated history with race, in the wake of George Floyd's death and Black Lives Matter protests around the world.\n\nThe term \"urban music\" has been scrapped by Republic Records, which is home to Drake and Ariana Grande, while the Grammys have announced they will stop using \"urban\" to describe music of black origin in their awards categories.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Activists angry at Brazil's response to Covid-19 have created 100 graves on Rio's Copacabana beach to remember the more than 40,000 people who have died.\n\nHowever, organisers said supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro mocked the event with one man pulling out crosses.\n\nThe president's opposition to lockdowns and his downplaying of the virus have deeply divided the nation.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest number of cases - and the third-highest number of deaths in the world.\n\nOn Thursday, deaths passed 40,000 and cases rose to above 800,000, according to the health ministry.\n\nThe symbolic graves, with black crosses, were dug before dawn opposite the Copacabana Hotel by members of the Rio de Paz group.\n\nOrganiser Antonio Carlos Costa told Reuters news agency: \"The president has not realised that this is one of the most dramatic crises in Brazil's history.\n\n\"Families are mourning thousands of dead, and there is unemployment and hunger.\"\n\nBut he said some supporters of the president had mocked the project.\n\n\"They feel such rage - and I think they're reproducing the behaviour of the person occupying the highest position in the land,\" he said.\n\nOne man went around knocking down the crosses.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Katy Watson looks at how Bolsonaro has responded to the virus\n\nOnly the US has more confirmed Covid-19 cases than Brazil figures from Johns Hopkins University show\n\nBut even as the numbers of deaths and cases continue to rise, the country's two largest cities reopened shopping malls on Thursday.", "Boris Johnson will hold post-Brexit trade talks with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen via video link on Monday next week.\n\nThe UK and EU have said no major progress has been made towards a deal after four rounds of talks this year.\n\nBoth sides were due to decide by the end of June whether the current deadline for negotiating a deal should be extended beyond the end of December.\n\nOn Friday, the UK formally confirmed it will not extend the transition period.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove said in a tweet that he had chaired a meeting with the EU Commission's Maros Sefcovic in which he said the \"moment for extension has now passed\".\n\n\"On 1 January 2021 we will take back control and regain our political and economic independence,\" he added.\n\nA UK government spokesman said both sides had also agreed an \"intensified\" schedule of weekly talks throughout the month of July.\n\nThis will involve a mix of formal negotiating rounds and smaller group meetings in London and Brussels, if coronavirus guidelines allow, he added.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel and European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli will also take part in the video call on Monday.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said she was \"looking forward\" to the meeting, while UK chief negotiator David Frost said he was \"very pleased\" an \"intensified talks process\" had been agreed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut he said the government's policy on not extending the transition period - during which the UK stays in the single market and customs union - \"remains valid\".\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told the Commons the UK will \"under no circumstances\" accept an extension to the transition period.\n\nHe said the EU's Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier had indicated progress can be made on issues including fisheries and state aid. but some EU member states had been a \"little more reluctant\".\n\n\"I think it would be in everyone's interests, EU member states, the Commission, and of course the UK government, if Michel Barnier were able to use the flexibility that he has deployed in the past in order to secure an arrangement that would work in everyone's interests,\" he told MPs.\n\nIt comes after Mr Barnier said there had been \"no significant areas of progress\" at last week's negotiating round.\n\nLikewise his UK counterpart Mr Frost said progress \"remains limited,\" and negotiators were \"reaching the limits\" of what could be achieved in formal talks.\n\nDifferences between the two sides remain on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nSpeaking after his meeting with Michael Gove, Maros Sefcovic said it would be \"extremely useful\" if the UK could provide technical clarifications on customs IT systems at Northern Ireland ports by the end of June.\n\nHe added that he wanted to have \"the specialised committee meetings organised in the course of summer so we can, I would say, bring the momentum into these discussions\".\n\nHe added: \"We can also proceed with important conclusions in early September because time is really pressing and the clock is ticking, and I think we need tangible results in that process.\"\n• None UK on EU changing trade talks policy: It's their call", "St Athan is one of two sites listed for the lithium ion battery plant\n\nThe firm behind a proposed battery factory which could create 4,000 jobs has listed a site in Wales as its \"preferred option\".\n\nBritishvolt, which wants to produce batteries for electric vehicles, said it will build its factory in St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, or Coventry.\n\nThe Welsh town is already home to an Aston Martin electric car plant, which opened fully in December 2019.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was \"very pleased\" St Athan was shortlisted.\n\nBritishvolt's chief operating officer, Orral Nadjari, who studied at Cardiff University for seven years, said St Athan was a \"very good location\" for the factory, which would bring £1.2bn of investment.\n\nBritishvolt COO Orral Nadjari said St Athan was the \"preferred destination\" of the factory\n\nHe said: \"We're looking to build a 'gigaplant' that is roughly 1km long, 500m wide and 30m high, so it's a huge undertaking, and something as big as that doesn't really just fit anywhere.\n\n\"The direct dialogue that we've had with the Welsh Government has been going on now for a couple of weeks, and the readiness and preparedness that they've shown us has been extremely interesting, hence now why they're in the running for our site location.\"\n\nBritishvolt said it was offering between 3,500 and 4,000 direct jobs at the site, but denied it was marketing itself to the highest bidder in order to get more funding.\n\n\"I am being very honest and open about the fact that Wales is the kind of preferred option,\" Mr Nadjari added.\n\n\"We are not marketing or trying to sell to the highest bidder because the Welsh Government is doing an exceptional job and they are the preferred destination.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We have been working with Britishvolt on this project for a significant period of time and we are very pleased they have shortlisted Bro Tathan as a location for its landmark gigafactory.\n\n\"We firmly believe that Bro Tathan provides a compelling case, particularly for a company looking to become one of the greenest battery producers worldwide.\"\n\nTim Williams, from the Welsh Automotive Industry, said the proposal was \"excellent news for Wales\".\n\n\"If this comes off, and hopefully it will, then we're talking about 3,500 new jobs directly and probably a multiplier of two in the supply chain,\" he said.\n\n\"The Welsh Government need to be as bold as they possibly can be. This is such a huge investment, such a big number of jobs and the Welsh Government over many years has had a very, very successful record in bringing in large projects.\"\n\nWelsh Secretary Simon Hart said it was \"fantastic that we can talk about Wales as being a leading contender\" for the UK's first gigafactory.\n• None Welcome to St Athan - Please drive carefully © Jaggery -- Geograph Britain and Ireland The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Suffolk Police officers ask for the black couple's details \"because we can\"\n\nAn exchange in which a police officer accused a black woman of \"jumping on the bandwagon\" was \"clumsy\", a deputy chief constable said.\n\nTwo officers had asked a black couple outside their Ipswich home for their details, saying \"because we can\".\n\nWhen the woman complained, an officer said: \"You've just jumped on the bandwagon in the current climate.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable of Suffolk Police, Rachel Kearton, said it would be investigated internally.\n\nThe exchange, filmed on the woman's mobile phone, has been viewed on Twitter more than 1.5m times after it was shared by the couple's daughter, Maja Antoine.\n\nIn the video, the officers appear to want to check a driving licence because the couple had \"paid attention\" to them while they worked on an operation on the same street on Wednesday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by maja This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said in her tweet: \"My parents were stopped and questioned in their own driveway for 'driving a motor vehicle on the road', and 'because they can'.\n\n\"It's suspicious to walk from your car to your house, while black. The UK is not innocent.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Suffolk, Miss Antoine said her first thought when her mother sent her the footage was \"people need to see that\".\n\n\"Everything we are fighting for is happening where we stand, to the point that it's my parents on their doorstep,\" she added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"After everything calmed down my main feeling was anger because this shouldn't have been happening.\"\n\nAsked about an official apology due to be given to her parents on Friday, she replied: \"Until we see some sort of change in bias training I don't think I'm really impressed, but the apology was welcomed.\"\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Rachel Kearton told BBC Look East she could see the incident was upsetting\n\nFranstine Jones, the former president of the National Black Police Association, said it was \"just not professional\" to ask someone for their details \"because we can\".\n\n\"It leaves me wondering about the mindset of our officers in Suffolk going out on the street doing their policing,\" she said.\n\n\"If they think every interaction with a black person - if they are not happy about the way they are being spoken to, or the way they are being treated, or asking for an explanation - that officer is going to think 'oh here we go, they are just jumping on the bandwagon'.\n\n\"It's really disappointing. It makes me fearful.\"\n\nDCC Kearton said body-worn camera footage and the online video were being examined and the matter investigated by the force's professional standards team.\n\n\"It is an opportunity for us to have a long, hard look at how we conduct ourselves,\" she explained.\n\n\"It isn't always perfect, we do have mistakes and weaknesses, however, we do care for our communities and we do hold very close to our hearts our sense of professionalism and integrity and to do the right thing and respect all of our members of our communities to keep them safe.\n\n\"That is what was at the heart of what the police officers were trying to do, however it appears to have been carried out in a clumsy fashion which will be dealt with by the constabulary and we will do better in the future.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme was created less than three months ago, but has already grown into perhaps the most expensive intervention by a British government to support the jobs market.\n\nJust under nine million jobs are currently having their wages paid by the taxpayer through the pandemic shutdown, and for the first time, the HMRC has produced breakdowns of precisely where and which employers are using the scheme.\n\nShops and their suppliers are the biggest users of the scheme, claiming £3.3bn of £17.5bn total to furlough 1.6m workers.\n\nThen it's hotels and restaurants, claiming £2.6bn to park a further 1.4m workers.\n\nThat is followed by manufacturers whose factories have been shut claiming £2.1bn for 831,000 workers.\n\nEverything from mining to education, health, waste, and estate agents are represented.\n\nBy region, the pattern is of course the more employees, the greater the use of the scheme.\n\nTwo million jobs in London and the South East, and 628,000 in Scotland, have been funded by the scheme.\n\nPerhaps the most fascinating data is the breakdown by council and parliamentary constituency.\n\nAlmost all of the 650 MPs in the UK have more than 10,000 constituents who have been furloughed.\n\nIt is an average of 13,000. But within that there are considerable variations.\n\nMainly London constituencies with larger populations of employed people top the list, with West Ham having 29,300 furloughed jobs.\n\nSome very interesting patterns emerge if this data is compared with the number of jobs in the constituency.\n\nNearly half of jobs in Brent Central in North West London - 45.4% - are furloughed, paid for by the taxpayer.\n\nFeltham and Crawley, close to Heathrow and Gatwick Airports, are in the top 10 too.\n\nBut Glasgow East, Blackpool South and Westmorland and Lonsdale in Cumbria are also in the top 10.\n\nThese figures show just how far spread is the reach of this scheme, and perhaps, just why it had to be extended by the chancellor into the autumn.", "The number of people testing positive for coronavirus in England is continuing to fall, according to estimates from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAround one in 1,700 people were infected between 25 May and 7 June, or 33,000 individuals, compared to one in 1,000 before then.\n\nThe figures are based on 20,000 tests on people in private households.\n\nEveryone in the study was tested whether they had symptoms or not.\n\nThe ONS figures are thought to give a good picture of the proportion of people infected with the virus in the community - but they do not include infections in hospitals and care homes.\n\nHowever, there are wide margins of error around the figures because they are based on small numbers of people testing positive.\n\nAs of 11 June, there were 202 more deaths reported in the UK, taking the total number of deaths with a positive test for Covid-19 to 41,481 since the epidemic began.\n\nIn this analysis, 19,933 people from 9,179 households carried out their own swab tests of their throat and nose, which look for the presence of the virus.\n\nJust 11 individuals from eight households tested positive for coronavirus, allowing statisticians to come up with estimates for the whole population.\n\nAt the end of April, the percentage of the population in England testing positive was 0.4% - now it's less than 0.1%, the ONS says.\n\nThat means an average of 31,600 new infections occurring per week in private households, or 4,500 per day.\n\nThe ONS analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the general population with researchers from the University of Oxford, the University of Manchester and Public Health England.\n\nThe NHS test and trace scheme in England identified 31,000 close contacts from 8,000 people testing positive during its first week of operation, up to 3 June.\n\nBut only two-thirds of cases shared details of their close contacts so they could be followed up and asked to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nThere is no new data on how many people have already had the virus, using antibody tests of blood samples from people in households.\n\nThis is estimated to be around 7% in England as of 24 May.", "Vaughan Gething said it was a \"real issue\" having a prime minister who used \"offensive language\" in the past\n\nBoris Johnson's previous remarks about about black and ethnic minority people were \"deeply offensive\", Wales' health minister has said.\n\nLabour's Vaughan Gething said it was an \"issue\" having a prime minister who had used terms such as \"watermelon smiles\".\n\nMr Johnson has previously apologised for the comments made when he was a journalist back in 2002.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said he judged Mr Johnson on his actions as an elected politician.\n\nDuring the BBC's Question Time, Mr Gething said the prime minister's comments, made in an article he wrote for the Daily Telegraph, were \"deeply offensive\".\n\nWriting in 2002, before then-Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Democratic Republic of Congo, Mr Johnson said: \"What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies.\"\n\nIn the article, he added: \"No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.\"\n\nMr Johnson apologised for the comments in 2008, during his successful campaign to be mayor of London.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: 'I will not support those who flout the rules on social distancing'\n\nMr Gething also criticised Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price's comments, \"comparing the experience of Wales with colonialism\", when he called for reparations last year.\n\n\"It is a real issue. For people who look like me, having a prime minister who used language like watermelon smiles and piccaninnies, it mattered,\" he said.\n\n\"Just as someone comparing the experience of Wales to colonialism and the African American experience, it matters and it's offensive\".\n\nMr Buckland said he judged Mr Johnson on his actions as an elected politician, not on something he wrote 15 years ago.\n\nThe Conservative MP said: \"I would say that journalists write lots of things, write lots of polemic and lots of things they would later come to regret or later choose to regret.\n\n\"I can't speak for him about something that might have been written 15 or so years ago. I've got to judge a person on his actions as an elected politician.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price says he wants \"economic justice\" from Westminster\n\nAt a party conference in October 2019, Mr Price said Wales was owed \"reparation for a century of neglect that has left a country, rich in its resources, a bitter legacy of poverty, sickness, blighted lives and broken dreams\".\n\nHe was criticised and the issue came up again in a later interview during the general election campaign, when Mr Price said Wales had an \"extractive economy\" and \"political power centre outside of our nation\".\n\n\"For most people that is analogous, if not identical, to the experience of colonialism,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We have faced racial prejudice in Wales'\n\nPlaid Cymru later conceded Mr Price was \"wrong\" to call for reparations for Wales without referring to the country's role in empire.\n\nResponding to Mr Gething's comments, Plaid MP Liz Saville Roberts said: \"When we are looking at the real big issues in the UK, one of the petty things we do is bring it down to personalities.\"\n\nShe said Mr Price had called for an \"independent inquiry into structural racism in Wales\" and was leading calls for a Welsh BAME museum.", "An extended catch-up plan for England's schools is to be launched for the summer and beyond, to help pupils get back on track amid school shutdowns.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the plans would involve all pupils, not just those from poor backgrounds who are expected to fare worse during closures.\n\nIt comes after the education secretary ditched plans for all primary pupils to return to school before the break.\n\nPM Boris Johnson has been accused of \"flailing around\" over schools.\n\nOn Wednesday, Labour leader Keir Starmer called for a national recovery plan for schools, saying the current plan to get pupils back to classrooms were \"lying in tatters\".\n\nMr Johnson said at Wednesday's daily briefing that the government would be doing \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\".\n\nConcerns have been raised about the potential for a lost generation of learners, whose education will have been interrupted for at least six months even if schools return as now planned in September.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said the aim remained to have all pupils back in school for the start of the academic year, but gave no details about how ministers intended to achieve this.\n\nSchool capacity is severely restricted by guidelines on social distancing and separating out existing classes into smaller groups of up to 15 pupils from much larger class sizes.\n\nWhen the spokesman was asked about increasing this capacity, by creating extra classrooms or using village halls for example, he said the government was \"looking at exactly what might be required to get all children back\".\n\nThe Scottish Government, which is bringing pupils back in staggered fashion from August, has said it will be working with local councils to seek out extra community spaces and empty offices to accommodate pupils, where necessary.\n\nLiberal Democrat education spokeswoman Layla Moran has called for a register to be drawn up in local areas to map out where spaces could be brought into school use.\n\nThere are few details of how the summer catch-up plans will work. A further announcement is expected next week.\n\nIt is not clear whether this catch-up work would be offered in school buildings or elsewhere, or whether teachers would be asked to staff the programme.\n\nThe general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, Paul Whiteman, said the plan was the latest in a long line of eye-catching announcements that would suffer from a lack of input from the teaching profession.\n\nHe said it was not credible to think academic catch up could be achieved over the summer, and warned that the impact of enforced isolation on young people was little understood but likely to be significant.\n\nBut he said support was clearly needed for pupils over the summer, and urged the government to fund a locally co-ordinated offer involving youth groups and charities.\n\nThe Children's Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, warned last week that there were just two weeks left to set such summer learning projects up.\n\nAnd the House of Commons Education Committee chairman, Robert Halfon, has called for a Nightingale Hospital style plan to get schools back to capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh government has published new guidance on the measures schools should consider when reopening, including outside learning, teaching in small groups, and pupils eating at their desks.\n\nSchools in Wales will reopen to all age groups from 29 June, but only a third of pupils will be in classes at any one time.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish schools will reopen from 11 August, but with some continued home learning.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, ministers have set a target date for some pupils to go back on 17 August, with a phased return for the rest in September.", "Face coverings will also be compulsory on public transport in England from Monday\n\nRide-sharing giant Uber is to make it mandatory for passengers and drivers to wear face coverings from Monday in the UK.\n\nThe minicab app firm said it was taking measures \"to help everyone stay safe\" and had introduced measures to give drivers access to protective equipment.\n\nFace coverings will become compulsory on public transport and in hospitals in England from Monday.\n\nIt comes after a study suggested masks could cut Covid-19 spread by up to 40%.\n\nUber drivers in London will have to submit a picture of themselves to verify they are following the new rules before they can begin working.\n\nOther measures include trialling in-car partitions in Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, distributing more than two million masks to drivers and sending out 54,000 units of cleaning spray and hand sanitiser.\n\nUber's regional general manager for northern and eastern Europe, Jamie Heywood, said: \"For months we've been urging people to stay home, for their safety and the safety of drivers who make essential trips.\n\n\"Now, as cities begin to reopen and people start moving again, we're taking measures to help everyone stay safe and healthy every time they use Uber.\"\n\nResearch on face coverings has been described as \"slim\" by many authorities, and for health professionals there's always been the fear of a rush to snap up medical-grade masks.\n\nBut studies in laboratories have shown not only how far droplets can be spread by coughs but also how various kinds of materials can dramatically reduce how many of those droplets do get through.\n\nA homemade mask will not do a great job of protecting you but may reduce the chances of you infecting others.\n\nAnd if enough people follow that advice, the risks of the infection spreading are brought down.\n\nThere have been passionate disagreements over this within the world of science.\n\nAnd even advocates would agree that the public wearing masks will not defeat the virus on its own; but it's a potentially useful extra tool as we come out of lockdown.\n\nFrom Monday, face coverings will be compulsory on public transport in England.\n\nScotland already recommends wearing coverings in shops and on public transport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople in Wales are asked to wear three-layer face coverings on public transport and other situations where social distancing is not possible.\n\nFace coverings on public transport are also recommended in Northern Ireland.\n\nAccording to government figures, the average person in England made 10 taxi or private hire vehicle trips last year with an average duration of 20 minutes per trip.\n\nMore than a third of all licensed vehicles in England are registered in London. Uber said its platform was used to complete 10 billion trips worldwide in 2018.", "The most deprived parts of England and Wales have been hit twice as hard by coronavirus as wealthier areas, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nAnd London had significantly more deaths from coronavirus per 100,000 people than any other region.\n\nMortality rates are \"normally higher in more deprived areas\" and coronavirus appeared to be \"increasing this effect\", an ONS statistician said.\n\nIn England, once you adjust for the age of population, there were 128 deaths involving Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the population in the most deprived areas.\n\nThe least deprived areas saw less than half that rate (60 deaths per 100,000) in March, April and May.\n\nHow many deaths involving coronavirus have there been in your neighbourhood? Privacy notice\n\nThe BBC uses the postcode you enter here to provide the data on coronavirus deaths for your neighbourhood. We do not process any other data and as such, the limited information you provide will not identify you. The map and data on deaths are provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Neither the BBC nor the ONS store this postcode data or any other personal information from this map.\n\n\n\nThe full ONS Privacy Policy is here, although all cookies and data collection for analytics mentioned in that policy have been stripped from this map. If you have any questions about how the BBC processes data, please read our Privacy and Cookies Policy.\n\n\n\nMap notes\n\n1. Points on the map are placed at the centre of the local area they represent and do not show the actual location of deaths. The size of the circle is proportional to the number of deaths\n\n2. To protect confidentiality, a small number of deaths have been reallocated between neighbouring areas\n\n3. Deaths occurring between 1 March 2020 and 31 May 2020 and registered by 6 June 2020\n\n4. Figures exclude death of non-residents and are based on May 2020 boundaries\n\n5. Coronavirus (COVID-19) was the underlying cause or was mentioned on the death certificate as a contributory factor (ICD-10 codes U07.1 and U07.2)\n\n6. Locally adopted MSOA names are provided by House of Commons Library. While these names are not officially supported for National Statistics they are provided here to help local users\n\n7. Figures are provisional.\n\nIf you can't see the map click here. For more details on the map scroll to the bottom of this page or see the full ONS release here.\n\nIn Wales a similar pattern was seen, with a rate of 110 coronavirus deaths per 100,000 in the most deprived areas - nearly double the rate of 58 deaths per 100,000 in the wealthiest areas.\n\nThere was also a clear link between coronavirus mortality and how densely populated an area is.\n\nBetween March and May, the most built-up areas, classified as a \"urban major conurbations\", like Greater Manchester and the West Midlands, experienced 124 Covid-19 deaths per 100,000 people.\n\nIn contrast, across \"urban cities or towns\", like Preston and Brighton, there were 74 Covid deaths per 100,000 people.\n\nThis shrank to 48 in rural villages and 23 per 100,000 in the most sparsely populated areas of England and Wales.\n\nBroadly, the more people who come into contact with each other in a given area, the better infection spreads.\n\nThere may also be some overlap with the deprivation effect.\n\nAt the daily Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Friday, the national medical director of NHS England said many of the risk factors that can heighten the risk of Covid-19 - such as diabetes, obesity and lung disease - are seen \"more frequently in more deprived areas\".\n\nProf Stephen Powis added: \"It is absolutely crucial that we narrow the gap in health inequalities.\"\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told the briefing that the government was \"dedicated\" to tackling health - and other - inequalities.\n\nNine out of the 10 local authorities with the highest mortality rate from coronavirus, adjusted for age, were in London.\n\nBy May the outbreak had shifted away from London and the region with the highest age-adjusted Covid-19 mortality rate was the north east.\n\n\"General mortality rates are normally higher in more deprived areas, but Covid-19 appears to be increasing this effect,\" says Sarah Caul, the ONS's head of mortality analysis.\n\n\"Although London had some of the highest Covid-19 mortality rates in the country during March and April, it is now experiencing lower mortality rates compared with most areas.\"", "Former chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne is to stand down from his role as editor of London's Evening Standard newspaper.\n\nOsborne took on the job in March 2017, after having held the nation's purse-strings from 2010-2016.\n\nHis replacement is Emily Sheffield, a columnist on the newspaper, BBC Media Editor Amol Rajan confirmed.\n\nOsborne is moving to the more managerial role of the newspaper's editor-in-chief.\n\nEmily Sheffield [L] is the sister of Samantha Cameron, the wife of ex-prime minister David\n\nRajan said the print title will continue for now but is in \"desperate financial trouble\".\n\nIn response, the incoming editor tweeted that the newspaper \"remains a core element to this outstanding legacy news organisation.\n\n\"It has survived this crisis and it will survive many more,\" added Sheffield.\n\nThe newspaper's owner, Evgeny Lebedev, said he was \"delighted\" Sheffield was taking the helm at the newspaper and was \"very pleased\" Osborne would be editor-in-chief.\n\nOsborne thanked his colleagues at the newspaper and said of his replacement: \"She will bring creativity, commitment and experience to the job - and take the Standard, online and in print, through the next exciting chapter in its long history.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amol Rajan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOsborne is also chair of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and holds a £650,000-a-year post advising the investment fund BlackRock.\n\nLast year he was made chairman of a panel of advisers to Exor, which owns the Italian football club Juventus and has major stakes in Ferrari and Fiat Chrysler cars.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Emily Sheffield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOsborne left government in 2016 after the Brexit referendum and he stood down as MP for Tatton in Cheshire in 2017.\n\nAccording to The Guardian, prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, the Evening Standard's circulation was about 800,000 daily copies in the capital, but it was struggling due to an industry-wide decline in advertising revenues.\n\nDue to its reliance on readers using public transport, the Evening Standard was reported to have distributed just over 423,000 copies a day in April, after the nation went into lockdown.\n\nOsborne's replacement, Sheffield, will remain director of a female news brand she launched called This Much I Know, and will be \"tasked with making it a digital first operation\" added Rajan.\n\n\"That's a extremely difficult challenge for a title so heavily dependent on print for its income,\" he tweeted.\n\n\"As an ad-funded title reliant on footfall, the Standard has been devastated by the pandemic.\"\n\nLast month the industry's auditor said newspapers will no longer have their sales figures automatically published.\n\nThe Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), which records and audits sales, usually publishes figures every month.\n\nBut ABC said publishers were growing concerned about a \"negative narrative of decline\" in newspaper sales.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The shipping industry is drawing up plans for EU border checks in Britain for trade bound for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has learned that freight could be diverted through ports with space for inspections such as Liverpool and Stranraer, despite the government denying checks will be necessary.\n\nCustoms staff at the relevant ports could include EU representatives, under the details of the new withdrawal deal.\n\nThe government said it has secured a \"great new deal.\"\n\nThere is also a proposal for smaller \"pop up labs\" at ports - mobile testing labs for health checks on food exports.\n\nThere has been at least one meeting this month between officials and shippers to discuss suitable ports.\n\nOne key issue is the diversion of freight to ports with enough capacity to process the freight traffic and carry out the necessary checks required by the Brexit deal.\n\nThe Port of Liverpool has an existing Border Inspection Point for exports outside of the EU. Stranraer could be used to process checks for ships using the nearby Cairnryan port, which has limited space.\n\nIndustry figures spoke to the BBC after leaks from within Whitehall clearly listed \"facilities for high levels of checks and controls\" as one of \"a number of challenges\" with delivering the PM's Brexit deal by December 2020.\n\nDespite claims by Boris Johnson that there will not be any checks on trade from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, the industry is planning for them on the basis of the detail of the deal secured with the EU in October.\n\nOne senior industry figure said that there was an \"implicit understanding\" that such checks for food products would be in Great Britain, partly because of sensitivities about new infrastructure representing a form of trade barrier within the UK.\n\nThe BBC also understands that EU officials suggested that the checks should be in Great Britain, to avoid having to send back foodstuffs not compliant with EU single market rules.\n\nThe precise nature of the border checks depends on how aligned the UK remains with the EU, the decisions of the Joint Committee of the EU and the UK to be set up after Brexit, and whether UK authorities are willing to accept security and revenue risks in order to keep trade flowing. Technology could also help alleviate some of the checks.\n\nOn Sunday the prime minister said there was \"no question\" NI/GB checks\n\nPaperwork and some checks will be required for agrifood imports into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, on the regulatory compliance of goods with the single market, and for trade tariffs for goods deemed to be at risk of being taken to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nGoods remaining in Northern Ireland should have their tariffs repaid by the UK government, but a system for this is yet to be implemented.\n\nThe prime minister has also argued that only goods destined for the EU would face checks, but the industry says even verifying that would mean checking some intra-UK trade.\n\nBoth the leaked memo from DExEU - the Department for Exiting the European Union - and a similar Treasury note last week confirm scepticism that the necessary changes to infrastructure are possible within the PM's self-imposed deadline of December 2020.\n\nThe leaked DExEU memo suggests that work would have to start before negotiations on a future deal finish.\n\n\"The Prime Minister has been clear that the great new deal he has struck will not introduce new checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain,\" the Conservative Party said in an email.\n\n\"We have struck a great new deal which will take the whole UK - including Northern Ireland - out of the EU and the EU's Customs Union. As we leave we will strengthen our union and ensure all parts of our country benefit from the opportunities that Brexit offers.\"", "Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry had been celebrating Ms Henry's birthday before they were reported missing\n\nTwo sisters found dead in a park after a party nearly a week ago were murdered by a stranger, police say.\n\nNicole Smallman, 27, and Bibaa Henry, 46, were stabbed to death in Fryent Country Park off Slough Lane in Wembley, north-west London.\n\nThey had met friends in the park at about 19:00 BST last Friday to celebrate Ms Henry's birthday.\n\nA pond and tonnes of rubbish, which may contain vital evidence, are being searched by police.\n\nThe sisters' bodies were found shortly after 13:00 on Sunday and post-mortem tests revealed they both died from multiple stab wounds.\n\nInvestigators are searching a large area, including a pond, in the park\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Harding said on Friday: \"We can now say with some certainty that Nicole and Bibaa were murdered by someone who was unknown to them.\"\n\nHe said investigators were searching a large area, including a pond, and trawling through hundreds of thousands of tonnes of rubbish which may contain evidence that was accidentally cleared from the scene.\n\n\"We believe the suspect received injuries during the incident which have caused significant bleeding,\" he said.\n\n\"Do you know anyone who has been wounded in the last week who is unable to account for their injuries?\"\n\nPolice believe the killer left the park via the Valley Drive entrance.\n\nThe sisters and their friends had been in part of a park which was about a five-minute walk from the Valley Drive entrance to the park.\n\nMr Harding also urged anyone who was in the park on Friday evening through to Sunday lunchtime and saw the group or noticed anything suspicious to come forward.\n\nExtra resources have been brought in to help the investigation from across the Met, including additional detectives.\n\nA 36-year-old man arrested in south London on suspicion of murder was released with no further action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA trade deal with the EU based on the UK's \"very reasonable\" demands is still possible, cabinet minister Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary was speaking after the two sides admitted little progress had been made in the latest round.\n\nHe said he \"very much\" hoped a no-deal outcome to the talks could be avoided if the two sides worked together.\n\nHe was speaking after EU negotiator Michel Barnier accused the UK of \"backtracking\" on its commitments.\n\nThe French official said differences remain in four key areas - fisheries, competition rules, governance and police cooperation.\n\nGuidelines for these issues were included in the political declaration, agreed by the UK and EU last year, which set out objectives for a future relationship.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, Mr Barnier said: \"My responsibility is to speak to truth and, to tell the truth, this week there have been no significant areas of progress.\"\n\nMatt Hancock said he hoped 'no deal' could be avoided\n\nHe added: \"In all areas, the UK continues to backtrack under commitments undertaken in the political declaration, including on fisheries. We cannot and will not accept this backtracking on the political declaration.\"\n\nThis week's discussions - held online - were seen as the last chance to make progress ahead of a summit between Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, expected to take place later this month.\n\nThe UK has until the end of June to ask for the \"transition period\" - during which the country stays in the single market and customs union - to be extended into next year. But Mr Johnson has ruled this out.\n\nMr Barnier said: \"We have always been open to the possibility of an extension of one or two years - as is possible under the exit agreement. And our door remains open.\"\n\nAsked about the prospect of a no-deal exit from EU rules at the UK's daily coronavirus briefing, Matt Hancock said: \"I very much hope that we avoid that because our position is very reasonable\n\n\"It's that any agreement we reach must reflect the fact that the UK is an independent sovereign state.\n\n\"And we're working very hard and will accelerate the work to make progress in talks by the end of the year so that we can put into place the vision that has already been agreed between the UK and the EU which is based within the political declaration.\"\n\n\"Plus ça change,\" you could say.\n\nRound four of EU/UK trade negotiations after Brexit comes to an end. Cue yet another dismally downbeat assessment from the EU and the UK's chief negotiators.\n\nBut I don't belong to the growing \"No deal is becoming the most likely outcome\" school of thought.\n\nOn the contrary, both sides insisting loudly that their position will not waver (on all issues linked to national sovereignty for the UK; on all issues linked to the single market for the EU) is also a way of trying to reassure audiences back home that their interests will be protected, while privately considering what compromises they're prepared to make.\n\nSift carefully through the rhetoric of EU negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nAmong his words of disappointment at the lack of progress, plus accusations that the UK is constantly \"backtracking\" on commitments, you'll find clear indications of wiggle-room in Brussels: a possible softening of EU demands on state aid rules and fishing quotas and an admission from Mr Barnier, that, if a deal were close this autumn, there would almost certainly be a \"dense\" period of last-minute negotiations.\n\nNo compromise clues from the UK yet, though.\n\nIt's not too late. But concessions will be needed from both sides for even a very narrow deal to be agreed by the UK-imposed deadline of the end of this year.\n\nA senior UK negotiating official told the BBC their side was prepared to accept some tariffs if they were needed to reach a deal with the EU.\n\nThe UK was \"committed\" to sticking to the political declaration, but the document had been designed to set out only the \"parameters\" of discussions, they added, and was not a treaty.\n\nUK chief negotiator David Frost said: \"We continue to discuss the full range of issues, including the most difficult ones. Progress remains limited but our talks have been positive in tone.\n\n\"We are now at an important moment for these talks. We are close to reaching the limits of what we can achieve through the format of remote formal rounds.\"\n\nUK officials told the BBC they would prefer to move to face-to-face talks but acknowledged that might not be possible just yet.\n\nThe UK left the EU on 31 January. The transition period lasts until 31 December and keeps the UK bound to most EU rules.\n\nThe sides currently have until then to reach a free trade deal, needed if they want to do business without tariffs, quotas or other barriers in future.\n\nNorthern Ireland's first minister Arlene Foster said she was \"concerned\" about the current state of the talks.\n\n\"For both our sakes I hope that we get to a situation where we get a deal because that's what we need in Northern Ireland,\" she told Nick Robinson's Political Thinking podcast.\n\n\"We need to make sure that both sides understand that it is to both sides' benefit and that's something that I think the European Union often didn't get in the negotiations from 2016 onwards.\"\n\nBusinesses - hit by the coronavirus pandemic - have raised concerns over a possible \"cliff-edge\" break to the UK's remaining access to the EU single market at the end of the year with no replacement deal.\n\nThe CBI business group called progress in the talks \"worryingly slow\", adding that this was causing \"deep concern to firms when resilience has rarely been more fragile\".", "Jamie Brown (left), whose father, Tony, died of Covid-19 in March, wants an urgent public inquiry\n\nRelatives of 450 people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic are demanding an immediate public inquiry.\n\nThe families want an urgent review of \"life and death\" steps needed to minimise the continuing effects of the virus and a guarantee that documents relating to the crisis will be kept.\n\nA full inquiry would take place later, says lawyer, Elkan Abrahamson, who is representing the families.\n\nThe government has said its current focus is on dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut the Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group say immediate lessons need to be learned to prevent more deaths, and that waiting for ministers to launch an inquiry will cost lives.\n\nThe call for an inquiry comes as a report from the National Audit Office - assessing the readiness of the NHS and social care in England for the pandemic - has shown it is not known how many of the 25,000 people discharged from hospitals into care homes at the peak of the outbreak were infected with coronavirus.\n\nHealth and Social Care Select Committee chairman Jeremy Hunt said it seemed \"extraordinary that no one appeared to consider\" the risk.\n\nThe Department of Health says it took the \"right decisions at the right time\".\n\nMinisters have insisted throughout that their response to the pandemic has been based on scientific advice.\n\nBut for Jamie Brown, whose father, Tony, died of Covid-19 in Colchester General Hospital on 29 March, two-and-a-half weeks after travelling into central London by train, the government's decision to lock down on 23 March came too late.\n\nJamie, 28, who said his father made the journey once a week at most, believes his death was preventable.\n\n\"I can't help but believe that if we'd entered lockdown sooner he wouldn't have been exposed in the way he was,\" he said.\n\nTony Brown, 65, became ill with a dry cough and a temperature on 17 March. He was bedridden but was adamant he would \"wait out\" the illness at home.\n\nHe appeared to be getting better but on 28 March he developed chest pains.\n\nBy the following morning his family were so concerned they called an ambulance, and soon after Tony reached hospital he had a cardiac arrest - caused by respiratory failure - and died.\n\nJamie said government advice to \"stay at home\" meant his 65-year-old father did not seek medical help early enough.\n\n\"He was trying to wait it out and if you wait too long it turns out it kills you really quickly,\" he said.\n\nHe added that a detailed public inquiry into the broader handling of the crisis in the UK must eventually take place, but right now he believes it is crucial that a limited inquiry starts as soon as possible.\n\n\"We need to learn the lessons immediately from what has gone wrong to get us to this point,\" he said.\n\nThe group of families, which has 450 members and is expected to grow further, is supported by the Liverpool-based law firm Broudie Jackson Canter that acted for the Hillsborough families.\n\nTheir lawyer Mr Abrahamson has backed their call for an early phase to any inquiry, with full proceedings taking place once the pandemic is over.\n\n\"What we need to look at straightaway are the issues which are life-and-death decisions,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"We expect there will be a second spike. We want to know what the government is going to do when that happens.\"\n\nMr Abrahamson said an early phase to a public inquiry would also help clarify government plans for fully reopening schools and easing the lockdown and lay out the science behind these decisions more clearly.\n\nThe government has rejected calls for an early start to any public inquiry.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"At some point in the future there will be an opportunity for us to look back, to reflect and to learn some profound lessons.\n\n\"But at the moment, the most important thing to do is to focus on responding to the current situation.\"\n\nThe National Audit Office's report into the readiness of the NHS and social care in England for the pandemic said 25,000 people were discharged from hospitals into care homes between 17 March and 15 April. That was 10,000 fewer than the same period last year.\n\n\"It is not known how many had Covid-19 at the point of discharge,\" said the report.\n\nIt said NHS England and NHS Improvement advice at the time was to urgently discharge from hospital \"all patients medically fit to leave\" in order to free up bed space for coronavirus patients.\n\nThe advice was changed on 15 April but the NAO noted that, as of 17 May, one in three care homes had declared a coronavirus outbreak, with more than 1,000 homes dealing with positive cases during the peak of infections in April.\n\nIt follows a separate report by care chiefs in England, who said there were \"tragic consequences\" of moving patients from hospitals to care homes at the start of the pandemic.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said 60% of all care homes had avoided outbreaks entirely.\n\nMr Hunt, a Conservative MP and former health secretary, said: \"It seems extraordinary that no-one appeared to consider the clinical risk to care homes despite widespread knowledge that the virus could be carried asymptomatically.\n\n\"Places like Germany and Hong Kong took measures to protect their care homes that we did not over a critical four-week period.\"\n\nLatest government figures show another 151 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, taking the country's death toll to 41,279.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Premier League players' names will be replaced on the back of their shirts with 'Black Lives Matter' for the first 12 matches of the restarted season.\n\nThe Premier League will also support any player who chooses to 'take a knee' before or during matches.\n\nPlayers in Germany have made gestures of solidarity with people protesting about the death of George Floyd.\n\n\"We, the players, stand together with the singular objective of eradicating racial prejudice,\" read a statement.\n\nIn a joint message from all 20 clubs, players added that they were committed to \"a global society of inclusion, respect, and equal opportunities for all, regardless of their colour or creed\".\n\nA Black Lives Matter badge will feature on all playing shirts for the rest of the season alongside a badge thanking NHS staff for their work during the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nBBC Sport has learned that Watford captain Troy Deeney played a pivotal role in the discussions between club captains and the Premier League, alongside Leicester City's Wes Morgan.\n\nDeeney's girlfriend, Alisha Hosannah, has designed the Black Lives Matter badge that will be used on the players' shirts.\n\nSeveral Premier League squads have already 'taken a knee' in training-ground images shared on social media, and anti-racism charity Kick It Out had asked that players feel free to do so on the pitch.\n\nThe Football Association has said it will take a \"common sense approach\" to such protests.\n\nFour players, including Borussia Dortmund's England forward Jadon Sancho, were initially investigated by the Bundesliga authorities for making clear their support for anti-racism demonstrations in the wake of the death of 46-year-old Floyd in police custody in the United States last month.\n\nNone was subsequently punished and the German Football Association said it would continue to allow such displays of support over the coming weeks.\n\nThe Premier League resumes behind closed doors on 17 June after a three-month suspension caused by the pandemic.\n\n'It's a great start, but I then want to see something tangible'\n\nFormer England, Newcastle and Spurs midfielder Jermaine Jenas, who made 280 Premier League appearances between 2002 and 2013, hopes the campaign for change continues beyond those first 12 games.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, he said: \"It's brilliant that all the clubs and the players have come together and said that this is what they want. I think it's a great message because the Premier League is one of the most powerful businesses in the world.\n\n\"I'm all for it in terms of the representation and for each club and player to be doing it. But I think the question on most people's lips is: what next?\n\n\"What about the week after? Does it just fade out and it's 'OK, we did our little bit and it's gone now'. Or are we actually going to see some real change within our game, our own house?\n\n\"There's been huge conversations about the lack of opportunities for black coaches. We need to quash all of that by starting to implement [diversity] at the hiring level of management, at the top clubs and within the FA.\"", "Protecting a statue of Winston Churchill from potential vandalism by boarding it up is \"absurd and shameful\", the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said the war-time leader expressed opinions that were \"unacceptable to us today\" but remained a hero for saving the country from \"fascist and racist tyranny\".\n\nProtesters daubed \"was a racist\" on the Parliament Square tribute last weekend.\n\nLabour said the PM should address the concerns of those demonstrating.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told the BBC he wanted to hear that Mr Johnson \"understands the deep hurt and anger that black people in our country feel\".\n\nIn a series of tweets, Mr Johnson said monuments like Churchill's were put up by previous generations as he urged people to \"stay away\" from demonstrations amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"We cannot try to edit or censor our past,\" he wrote of moves to remove tributes to historical figures. \"We cannot pretend to have a different history.\"\n\nThe statue in London's Parliament Square was boxed up ahead of a Friday evening Black Lives Matter protest in Westminster.\n\nA demonstration planned for Saturday was brought forward by a day because of fears there could be violent clashes with far-right groups.\n\nLeaders of the march urged those in attendance to keep the demonstration \"peaceful\" and not to join any anti-racism rallies planned for the weekend.\n\nHundreds protested at Trafalgar Square in London on Friday evening\n\nHundreds of campaigners surrounded Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square after walking from Hyde Park, as around two dozen police officers watched on.\n\nOther monuments have been removed ahead of separate protests planned over the weekend, while the Cenotaph war memorial, in nearby Whitehall, has also been covered.\n\nIn Poole, Dorset, a statue of Scouts movement founder Robert Baden-Powell is to be cladded instead of removed.\n\nA statue of Winston Churchill in London was spray-painted with the words \"was a racist\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said other \"key statues\", including one of Nelson Mandela, would be protected.\n\nIt comes after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was thrown into the river in Bristol during a Black Lives Matter protest on Sunday.\n\nDemonstrations have been taking place across the world following the death in police custody of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM Boris Johnson says it is \"absurd and wrong\" that statues must be covered to protect them\n\nMr Johnson said that, while he understood \"legitimate feelings of outrage\" at Mr Floyd's death, the \"only responsible course of action\" was to \"stay away from these protests\".\n\nThe prime minister said the demonstrations had been \"hijacked by extremists intent on violence\".\n\nMr Johnson added that whatever people's feelings about the cause they should not support a demonstration which \"in all probability\" would \"end in deliberate and calculated violence\".\n\nBoarding around the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was erected overnight\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it was ready to tackle violence directed at officers or property following disorder at anti-racism protests last weekend.\n\nCommander Bas Javid said both Black Lives Matter protestors and right-wing groups would be dealt with using the same tactics but urged all parties to stay at home and make their voices heard in other ways.\n\nHe added it was accepted \"a very, very small minority\" were intent on engaging in violence last weekend but the force \"absolutely don't condone... violence of any kind\".\n\nImages appeared to show a protester climb the Cenotaph and attempt to set a flag alight\n\nWhile Churchill is credited with helping lead the Allies to victory in World War Two, some critics accuse him of racism because of comments he made about Indians.\n\nThe Grade-II listed bronze tribute to the former home secretary and prime minister was installed in 1973 at the north-east corner of Parliament Square, opposite the Carriage Gates entrance to the Palace of Westminster.\n\n\"It shows Churchill as a powerful, stocky, figure in a naval overcoat leaning informally on a stick and gazing, somewhat defiantly, towards the Houses of Parliament,\" according to Historic England.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Britain’s wartime leader divided opinion in his own lifetime, and remains a divisive figure today\n\nWinston Churchill, who lived between 30 November 1874 and 24 January 1965, is often named among Britain's greatest-ever people but for some he remains an intensely controversial figure.\n\nDespite his leading the country through the darkest hours of World War Two and being prime minister twice, critics point to his comments on race and some of his actions during both world wars.\n\nChurchill told the Palestine Royal Commission that he did not admit wrong had been done to Native Americans or aboriginal Australians as \"a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place\".\n\nHis supporters argue that he was by no means the only person to hold these sorts of views during the period.\n\nHe also advocated the use of chemical weapons, \"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes,\" he wrote in a memo.\n\nAnother criticism is for his part in the Bengal famine in India in 1943, during which at least three million people are believed to have died after Allied forces halted the movement of food in the region - including through British-run India - following the Japanese occupation of Burma.\n\nOn Tuesday, a statue of slave owner Robert Milligan was removed from outside the Museum of London Docklands.\n\nA petition to remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Leicester received nearly 5,000 signatures.\n\nThe National Trust confirmed a \"degrading\" statue of a black man has been removed from the grounds of Dunham Massey Hall in Greater Manchester.\n\nAnd the NHS trust which runs Guy's and St Thomas' hospitals in London has said it will remove statues of Thomas Guy and Sir Robert Clayton - both linked to slavery - from public view.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do we do with the UK's symbols of slavery?", "The new rules will apply to goods coming into the UK from the European Union\n\nChecks on EU goods coming into the UK will be phased in next year to give firms \"time to adjust\", as ministers formally ruled out extending the Brexit transition period beyond 31 December.\n\nThe UK had committed to introduce full import controls on EU goods in January.\n\nBut coronavirus has forced a rethink, with firms able to defer customs forms and tariff payments for six months and some physical checks delayed to July.\n\nBusiness welcomed what ministers said was a \"pragmatic and flexible\" step.\n\nBut, in response, the EU said it would implement full checks on UK exports at the start of 2021.\n\nThe BBC's Europe editor Katya Adler said the EU would not see the UK's move as a \"concession but rather a pragmatic move by a country that's not ready to implement full checks by then\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe UK left the European Union at the end of January, but the transition period - during which existing trading rules and membership of the single market and customs union apply - lasts until the end of the year.\n\nOpposition MPs have been pushing for it to be extended, with the Scottish and Welsh first ministers warning that exiting the current trading arrangements in just over six months time would be \"extraordinarily reckless\" given the economic damage and uncertainty caused by the coronavirus epidemic.\n\nMinisters from the two devolved administrations withdrew from a scheduled conference call with UK ministers on Friday evening in protest at their decision to rule out a delay, saying their views had been \"dismissed\".\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said he had \"formally confirmed\" to the EU that the transition period will not be extended, adding that the \"moment\" for such a move had \"now passed\".\n\nHowever, there will be an about turn, in the short term at least, on the checks carried out on imports.\n\nIn February, Mr Gove said full import controls were \"necessary\" from 1 January to keep UK borders \"safe and secure\" and to collect the appropriate taxes.\n\nUnder the revised plan, checks on goods entering Britain will be phased-in in three stages up to the summer of 2021, regardless of whether a deal is done with the EU or not.\n\nNew border facilities will be built in order to process the required checks either at ports, or where there is not enough space, at \"inland sites\".\n\nMinisters said they would consult with ports about what new infrastructure was needed and where it should be located.\n\nThe proposals only apply to rules on imports, with checks on exports to the EU being determined by Brussels.\n\nMr Gove said the arrangements would be introduced in a way that gives businesses affected by coronavirus \"time to adjust\" but conceded \"more work\" was needed to ensure the UK was ready.\n\n\"From 1 January we will be outside the customs union and outside the single market so it's appropriate we have checks on goods coming in to the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"But it also appropriate that we take account of what's happening with the coronavirus. And we want to make sure business has an opportunity to adjust in a pragmatic and flexible way.\"\n\nFirms are expected to have to fill in 200 million extra customs declarations every year and industry experts have said an extra 50,000 customs officials will need to be hired to deal with the extra paperwork.\n\nMinisters have announced £50m in extra funding to support the new customs infrastructure, for IT systems and for recruiting and training new customs brokers and freight forwarders.\n\nMichael Gove was a prominent figure in the Leave campaign, and in charge of preparations for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nIt was no surprise, then, that he announced in February that full border controls would be implemented at the end of the transition period.\n\nBut now the new system will be \"phased in\" - with some companies having up to six months to complete customs declarations.\n\nThe government maintains that this is a \"pragmatic\" way to help businesses which have struggled under the coronavirus yoke.\n\nBut his critics say that it is a sign of Mr Gove's dogmatism, not pragmatism - that he is determined to end, rather than extend, the transition period.\n\nCritics in his own party are far more concerned about what they see as a lack of preparedness. Only today did the government commit to building new border facilities.\n\nThat, in itself, may be a further sign that trade talks with the EU are not making good progress.\n\nA leading figure involved in the negotiations last week conceded that a completely tariff-free deal may elude them.\n\nAnd some say the government, practically rather than philosophically, isn't yet fully prepared for the reality of life outside the EU.\n\nThe Freight Transport Association said ministers had listened to its \"concerns\" while business lobby group, the CBI, said the move was \"pragmatic and sensible\".\n\n\"It will be welcomed by Britain's manufacturing and food businesses, which simply aren't ready for chaotic changes with our biggest trading partner at the end of the year,\" said its deputy director general Josh Hardie.\n\nThe CBI also welcomed news that Boris Johnson will meet the presidents of the European Commission, Council and Parliament remotely on Monday, as attempts to secure a trade deal with the EU are stepped up.\n\nThe negotiating teams have also agreed to \"an intensified timetable\" for July after the fourth round of negotiations last week failed to reach a breakthrough.", "The development would have built 1,500 new homes on Westferry Road, the Isle of Dogs\n\nRobert Jenrick has defended his decision to approve a controversial planning application by a Conservative donor as the Metropolitan Police said they would not be taking any action.\n\nThe housing secretary told MPs he had acted in \"good faith\" and \"within the rules\" when he backed Richard Desmond's scheme for 1,500 homes in east London.\n\nHe said he had handed relevant documents to No 10's top official.\n\nLabour called for an inquiry to clear up the \"bad smell\" over the decision.\n\nMr Jenrick's decision to grant planning permission in January for Mr Desmond's company Northern & Shell to build on the Westferry Printworks was challenged by Tower Hamlets Council, and the secretary of state has said what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nThe application, previously rejected by Tower Hamlets Council, was approved the day before the introduction of a new council community levy which would have meant the company paying an additional £40m.\n\nThe housing secretary has been under political pressure after it emerged that Mr Desmond raised the issue with him at a Conservative fundraising dinner in November and, two weeks after planning permission was granted, donated £12,000 to the Conservative Party.\n\nPressed on the issue in the House of Commons, Mr Jenrick said it was \"not unusual\" for the secretary of state to reach a different conclusion from councils or planning inspectors on the most \"contentious\" applications.\n\n\"I took that decision in good faith, with an open mind, and I am confident all the rules were followed in doing so,\" he told MPs.\n\nHe said \"all the relevant information\" relating to the decision had been handed to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, the UK's most senior civil servant, who opposition parties are demanding hold an inquiry.\n\nRequests for further documentation would be considered where appropriate, he added, bearing in mind the \"legitimate interests\" of the parties involved and the fact the application had yet to be settled.\n\nMr Jenrick rejected claims of impropriety in relation to his contacts with Mr Desmond.\n\nHe said officials were aware he had \"inadvertently\" found himself sitting next to the businessman at the November dinner and he had been clear that he could not discuss the application when Mr Desmond raised it.\n\n\"I discussed and took advice from my officials in the department at all times,\" he added.\n\nIn response to a question from the SNP's Tommy Sheppard, he also revealed that the matter had been looked into by the police following a complaint and he had been told there were \"no criminal matters to investigate\".\n\nMr Desmond is one of the UK's most high-profile businessmen\n\nThe Met confirmed it received an allegation on 27 May relating to a property development in east London.\n\nIn a statement, it said. \"The details were assessed by officers from the Special Enquiry Team who concluded the information provided did not meet the threshold for a criminal investigation.\n\n\"There will be no further police action at this time.\"\n\nIn giving the project the green light, Mr Jenrick overruled the government's planning inspectorate which said the development needed to deliver more affordable housing in London's poorest borough.\n\nThe council subsequently challenged the decision, forcing the secretary of state to back down and to admit what he did was \"unlawful by reason of apparent bias\".\n\nLocal councillors asked the High Court last month to order the government to disclose emails and memos around the deal.\n\nRather than doing this, Mr Jenrick's lawyers conceded the timing of his decision \"would lead the fair-minded and informed observer to conclude that there was a real possibility\" that he had been biased.\n\nLabour said Mr Jenrick must do more to reassure people about the integrity of the planning process and dispel concerns that it could be \"auctioned off\".\n\n\"The only disinfectant that can clear the bad smell hanging around this decision is honesty,\" said shadow housing secretary Steve Read.\n\n\"Mr Jenrick must immediately publish all correspondence about this case to allow full public scrutiny of what he's been up to.\"", "Della Morgan spotted this twister just north of Brecon in Powys\n\nTornadoes have been spotted across two counties - as parts of Wales were hit by thunderstorms.\n\nEyewitnesses glimpsed the first just five miles north of Brecon in Powys on late Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThen 40 miles away at Bont Goch, east of Talybont in Ceredigion, another twister was caught on camera.\n\nRebecca Charnock said she stopped her car to grab a quick shot, before the swirling clouds \"fizzled away\".\n\nRebecca Charnock was stopped in her tracks by this twister in Ceredigion\n\n\"I did start to wonder what it was - and then thought 'crikey - I need a picture',\" said Ms Charnock.\n\n\"It was coming towards me, and I thought 'I wonder where it is going to go?\n\n\"But then it just fizzled out and it was gone.\"\n\nMoving away - the Brecon tornado on the horizon\n\nThe Brecon sightings were captured by Della Morgan and her husband.\n\n\"I said quick, quick, come outside,\" said Mrs Morgan\n\n\"We watched it descend, it moved around and then dissipated.\"\n\nThe tornado can be clearly seen making its way across the ridge above farmland.\n\nThe weather events were captured following a day of warnings for thunderstorms across much of Wales.\n\nFurther alerts have also been issued for Wednesday between 12:00 and 21:00 BST for more storms.\n\nThe yellow warning from the Met Office covers all but far western tips of Wales, with a small risk of flooding and lighting strikes.", "Bong Joon-ho directed last year's Oscar-winning film Parasite, the first non-English language film to win best picture\n\nNext year's Oscars ceremony has been pushed back by two months, the latest big celebrity event to have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak.\n\nThe Academy Awards were due to take place on 28 February next year but have now been put back until 25 April.\n\nOrganisers have also agreed to extend the eligibility window beyond 31 December 2020 to the end of February.\n\nNext year's British Academy Film Awards (Baftas) have been pushed back to 11 April, keeping in line with the Oscars.\n\nThe pandemic has already halted work on a number of films which were due to be released by the end of the year.\n\n\"This is a much needed boost for those films who may have been stalled in post-production,\" an Academy member told Variety.\n\nThe red carpet is a big draw for Oscar fans\n\nLast week, The Academy pledged to ensure greater inclusivity in its future award ceremonies, to \"level the playing field\".\n\nIt also said there would always be 10 films in the best film category rather than a fluctuating number between five and 10, potentially meaning more diverse film choices in the running.\n\nThis rule won't come into play until 2022, however.\n\nThe ceremony has been pushed back to Sunday 11 April 2021. It was due to take place on 14 February.\n\nThis keeps it in line with the Oscar changes - the Baftas traditionally take place two weeks ahead of the Academy Awards.\n\nAnd like the Oscars, Bafta has also changed its eligibility criteria.\n\nFilms that had an official release date that fell during the lockdown period will now still be eligible if they choose to debut on video on demand services.\n\nMarc Samuelson, chair of Bafta's film committee, said: \"We have pushed back by two months to give all films the best possible chance to be released and considered properly.\"\n\nThe Oscars has only been delayed three times before - due to LA flooding in 1938; after the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr in 1968; and following the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981.\n\nIt's not yet known if the ceremony will be virtual or in person as it is too early to say.\n\nDavid Rubin, president of the Academy - the body behind the Oscars- and its CEO Dawn Hudson said: \"For over a century, movies have played an important role in comforting, inspiring, and entertaining us during the darkest of times.\n\n\"They certainly have this year. Our hope, in extending the eligibility period and our awards date, is to provide the flexibility filmmakers need to finish and release their films without being penalised for something beyond anyone's control.\n\n\"This coming Oscars and the opening of our new museum will mark an historic moment, gathering movie fans around the world to unite through cinema.\"\n\nNominations will be announced on March 15, 2021.\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recently changed its rules so films that debut on streaming or video on demand services are eligible for next year's awards.\n\nThe current rules say films can only enter if they have been shown in a Los Angeles cinema for at least a week.\n\nBut with cinemas shut during the coronavirus crisis, organisers said a \"temporary\" exception was necessary.\n\nMany film releases have been delayed, with others going straight to digital.\n\nThe Oscars is not the only big entertainment event to have been affected by Covid-19.\n\nThe prestigious Tony theatre awards were due to take place earlier this month but were postponed and a new date is yet to be announced.\n\nSome events have been cancelled, including last month's Eurovision Song Contest.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The first symptoms appeared in Callum O'Dwyer on 23 March, the day the UK went into lockdown\n\nTwelve weeks after his first Covid-19 symptoms, 28-year-old Callum O'Dwyer is still not better.\n\nA fit and healthy young man, he had no underlying health conditions before he caught the virus.\n\nBut after five weeks fighting off the main symptoms, he could no longer look after himself and had to move in with his parents.\n\nRecovery has taken much longer than he imagined and his ongoing symptoms mean he still can't live on his own or work.\n\nDoctors have told Callum he has post-viral fatigue, a hangover from coronavirus which is affecting many survivors.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was just hours away from announcing lockdown in Scotland on 23 March when Callum first felt ill.\n\nCallum O'Dwyer reached a stage where he felt he could not look after himself, even though the virus was gone\n\nHe told BBC Scotland's Drivetime with Fiona Stalker: \"I had actually just picked up stuff for my home office to start working from home.\n\n\"I felt really fatigued and then nausea and then hour-by-hour it was like an advent calendar of new symptoms - a fever started to develop and then more things kicked off.\"\n\nHe added: \"For 10 days I was off my feet with what felt like a really really bad flu. I had never been as sick as that and it was very full-on. Early on, I suspected it was likely to be Covid.\"\n\nAnother thing Callum developed was a persistent shortness of breath and on two occasions he had to call 111 because he was struggling to breathe.\n\nAfter two weeks most of his symptoms went away and he was left with shortness of breath, fatigue and muscle weakness. They were severe and his doctor said he had hit a post-viral phase in his recovery.\n\nCallum said: \"I was resting in my bed for six to eight hours a day and I was struggling to pick things up. I am a 28-year-old guy and not long ago I was running races.\n\n\"I had a one litre water bottle and I was struggling to pick that up at arms' length, I was that weak.\"\n\nCallum, from Aberdeen, is still suffering severe fatigue twelve weeks after first showing symptoms\n\nHe was rationing his energy to do the things he had to - washing dishes, washing clothes. He was struggling to have phone conversations without feeling pain in his abdomen from talking. And mentally not being able to speak to anyone left him in \"a bad place\" .\n\nHe said: \"I was unwell in my flat by myself. It constantly felt like I was seeing false summits, thinking I was getting better, I could get over this, but then it got worse again, then it got better and then worse again.\n\n\"I made a decision after five weeks that I physically couldn't look after myself anymore.\"\n\nFree from the virus, he moved into his parents' house a few miles away.\n\nHe said: \"I was deeply depressed. I moved back into my parents' to effectively get care.\n\n\"The first day I got here I was struggling and in pain to get up the stairs.\"\n\nCallum has improved but now, 12 weeks later he still feels shortness of breath, triggered by any exertion.\n\nHe said: \"It's so frustrating. I am at 12 weeks and there has been so much false hope. I currently can't live independently and I can't work and that's a very difficult circumstance.\n\n\"When we talk about Covid we talk about life and death and there is no conversation about people being affected months later. I think we should put support measures in place for people.\"\n\nDr Geraldine McGroarty was in hospital with coronavirus at the same time as the prime minister\n\nScottish surgeon Geraldine McGroarty has had a similar experience. She caught Covid-19 at the same time as Boris Johnson at the end of March.\n\nShe too was looked after in intensive care in London. But like Callum O'Dwyer, she is still struggling daily.\n\nShe said: \"I'm doing okay. I was hit quite badly with post-viral symptoms which was surprising considering how well I felt when I came out of hospital.\n\n\"The last couple of weeks have been a real struggle. Particularly with fatigue. Having very low energy and difficulty forming thoughts and having conversations. It has been very unexpected.\"\n\nThe newness of the Covid-19 virus means that no one has yet been able to study how long it might take to recover from it, and what the long-term implications could be.\n\nDr McGroarty said: \"Certainly looking at research those who have had a more severe Covid, especially those who have been hospitalised in critical care, tend to be more susceptible to having the post-viral condition, the most common symptom being fatigue.\n\n\"And looking at the studies in countries affected before ours, we can expect it to last up to about six months in some cases with a very slow recovery.\"", "When Valentina Blackhorse tested positive for coronavirus, she texted her sister and told her not to worry.\n\nA former pageant queen, Valentina was known for her love of her Native American Navajo heritage, her passion for helping others and her playful sense of humour. She doted on her one-year-old daughter, Poet, and worked as a government administrator, with dreams of leading her people some day as Navajo president.\n\nWhen coronavirus reached the reservation on which she lived, Valentina warned her family to stay indoors and take precautions. Weeks later her boyfriend Bobby fell ill and she tended to him at their home in Kayenta, a small town near the sandstone buttes of Arizona's Monument Valley.\n\nShe'd lived with rheumatoid arthritis her whole life, but soon her joint pain started to feel different, and breathing wasn't so easy. She took herself for a test and the results came back a week later, confirming her fears. The next day, when Valentina's breathing got worse, Bobby rushed her to a health clinic. She died hours later, aged 28.\n\n\"She overcame a lot of things in her life,\" said her sister, Vanielle. \"I thought she was strong enough to pull through.\"\n\n\"If we had better resources, maybe Valentina would still be alive\"\n\nValentina was one of the youngest victims of coronavirus in the Navajo Nation, a Native American reservation grappling with what is America's worst outbreak.\n\nSince Covid-19 was first reported in the Nation on 15 March, infection rates per capita have become the highest in the country when compared with any individual state.\n\nAs of 14 June, 6,611 cases have been confirmed. More than 300 people have died after contracting the virus as well - a toll higher than 15 states.\n\nThe Navajo Nation is the largest reservation of its kind, in both size and population. More than 173,000 people live within its borders, in pockets of communities spread across the deserts and canyons of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. If it were a state, the Nation would be larger than 10 others.\n\nThe Navajo - or Diné, as they call themselves - have lived in the region for centuries, but the Navajo Nation is an American construct. After US expansion forced thousands of Navajo to leave their homes, America carved out a stretch of land where they could maintain some sovereignty. In return, the federal government pledged to support its people with funding for education, healthcare and other services. The Navajo have contributed much to America's development. Perhaps most famously, Navajo soldiers invented a military code, based on their language, that kept American communications secure during World War Two.\n\nBut as coronavirus has swept through the reservation, it has underscored many of the social and economic inequalities that continue to affect the tribe - all contributing to one another, and all making the outbreak worse.\n\n\"If we had better resources, maybe [Valentina] would still be alive,\" said Vanielle.\n\nThe Navajo Nation's vast scale has made it difficult for residents to access resources during the outbreak\n\nMany residents struggle with money. The reservation's unemployment rate is approximately 40%, and a similar number live below the poverty line, earning less than $12,760 (£10,191) a year.\n\nThese factors exacerbate health problems among the Navajo and a third of the population suffers from diabetes, heart conditions and lung disease. In some cases, people have fallen ill after years of radiation exposure from hundreds of abandoned uranium mines dotted around the desert.\n\nSeverely limited access to healthy food also plays a role. The Navajo Nation spans 71,000 sq km (27,413 sq miles) but has only 13 grocery stores, forcing many residents to drive for hours to towns outside the reservation with better facilities. It is common for people from different households to travel in one vehicle during these excursions because they are unable to afford petrol, further heightening their risk of catching coronavirus.\n\nRelief efforts have been hampered by limited healthcare resources, too. The reservation's dozen medical facilities hold just 200 hospital beds - approximately one bed for every 900 residents, and a third the national rate. As a result, some coronavirus patients have been moved to makeshift quarantine facilities, while others have been transferred to hospitals outside the reservation.\n\nMany homes are multi-generational as well, making it easier for the virus to spread to elderly and vulnerable residents. A third of households have no access to running water or electricity either, making it hard for thousands of people to wash their hands regularly and to stave off infection.\n\n\"This is something that is year-round, it's been going on since we were put on reservations,\" says Emma Robbins, head of DigDeep, a charity that's delivering bottled water and improving access to running water in the Nation.\n\nMiss Navajo Nation Shaandiin P. Parrish is one of the volunteers who have helped distribute food and water\n\nMs Robbins was born on the reservation. She now lives nearly 600km (373 miles) away in Los Angeles, California, but is unable to return due to travel restrictions.\n\n\"I fear for my family and I fear for my friends,\" she told the BBC, tearfully. \"Hearing these stories and not being able to go home is really hard and I feel so hopeless.\"\n\nBut despite their hardship, Ms Robbins says she feels frustrated by the tone of victimhood that often colours discussions about her tribe.\n\n\"It's really trendy to do things surrounding the Navajo Nation in terms of 'Oh look how bad it is here,' but I don't think people highlight enough of the amazing efforts on the ground and the positivity,\" she adds.\n\nAbout a third of households on the reservation have no running water\n\nIn response to the outbreak, the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs told the BBC it had taken \"unprecedented actions to support Indian Country,\" providing the Navajo with protective equipment, contamination trailers, and other technical assistance.\n\nThe Navajo Nation has also received $600m under the CARES Act, a $2tn economic stimulus package to shore up local economies and communities during the pandemic. But local authorities only received the money a month after the bill was signed into law. In the meantime, the Navajo and 10 other tribes successfully sued the US Treasury over funding disparities in the CARES Act for Native American groups.\n\nIn the midst of federal funding delays, the Navajo Nation had to rely on donations and its own resources in the crucial early weeks of the outbreak. Navajo President Jonathan Nez has co-ordinated the distribution of food and medical supplies to local residents, and introduced some of the strictest lockdown measures in the US - imposing a series of 57-hour weekend curfew.\n\nLocals are stepping in to help as well. More than $5.1m has been raised for the 'Navajo & Hopi Families Covid-19 Relief Fund' - a crowdfunding campaign started by former Navajo attorney general Ethel Branch. In an unusual twist, thousands of dollars have come from donors in Ireland - many paying respect to Choctaw Indians who, in 1847, donated $170 towards relief efforts in Ireland during the Great Hunger. With help from volunteers, Ms Branch has used the donations to deliver food, water and hand sanitiser to thousands of residents. But poor infrastructure has presented a challenge at times.\n\n\"There's one community that's really isolated and we're trying to figure out how to get food there,\" she told the BBC. \"The easiest way would be to go directly, but it's all dirt road, and if we stick to the pavement, that adds on another hour and a half.\"\n\nNavajo President Jonathan Nez (L): \"There's still much uncertainty right now, but I'm hopeful.\"\n\nLanguage barriers have also been a deciding factor in the Navajo Nation's response to the outbreak.\n\nAs with all public communications, it shares coronavirus updates in the Navajo language as well as English. This is driven by desires to maintain cultural heritage, but is a practical step as well because some residents speak only Navajo, or have limited English skills. In Navajo, coronavirus is translated as Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19, or Big Cough-19. But several residents have told the BBC they believe this translation downplays the severity of coronavirus.\n\nAmong them is Agnes Attakai, a Navajo Nation native and a director at the University of Arizona's School of Public Health. She said a renaming should be explored in consultation with traditional Navajo healers.\n\n\"You have to be respectful of using the language and not invite the negativity of that particular illness,\" said Ms Attakai. \"Once you start respecting and addressing it appropriately… people will be engaged more to change their behaviours rather than linking it up with cough and pneumonia.\"\n\nBut Navajo President Jonathan Nez said it was \"unfair\" to suggest the translation did not adequately convey the dangers.\n\n\"That's an excuse being played out there,\" he told the BBC. \"We're respecting our elders and our traditional teaching by avoiding utilising the word death and anything that would bring negativity or hardship on our people.\"\n\nLooking ahead, as surrounding states begin easing lockdown measures, many residents are concerned about a possible second wave of infections hitting the reservation.\n\n\"There's still much uncertainty right now, but I'm hopeful,\" said President Nez. \"You've got to be hopeful to be the leader of the Navajo people.\"", "A school cover of I'm Still Standing by Elton John found its way to the singer, who sent pupils a personal message to say it had \"really cheered me up\".\n\nThe video of the students' performance has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook.\n\nIn the video message, Sir Elton said: \"I watched it three times in a row because I couldn't believe how good you sang and played it.\n\n\"You did something brilliant and made a brilliant version of I'm Still Standing.\"\n\nHe also promises the students from Telford Priory School, in Shropshire, will be guests at a future show in the UK.", "At the height of the coronavirus pandemic in April, the BBC reported on the devastating effect the crisis was having on organ transplants in the UK.\n\nA shortage of donors and space in intensive care units meant the transplant programme was struggling to continue, only the most urgent cases were going ahead and even they were under threat.\n\nIn April, the BBC spoke to Ana-Rose Thorpe who desperately needed a liver transplant. As a baby she had been infected with two strains of hepatitis which attacked her liver function. A few weeks after the report, Ana fell seriously ill, but then received some good news and a life-changing operation.\n\nThe BBC's health correspondent Dominic Hughes has been catching up with Ana-Rose’s story.", "As stores across England selling non-essential goods opened their doors for the first time since the lockdown began, shoppers arrived early to centre:mk in Milton Keynes. Some were picking up goods they had been waiting months to buy, such as baby clothes and home furnishings. Others were here for the sales. These shoppers told us what they bought - and why.\n\n\"We bought lots of handbags for my wife, because she loves to buy bags from TK Maxx,\" says Paul Sabato, 56.\n\n\"We came today because it was the first day. After three months being closed - we knew there would be good sales and there are.\"\n\nAnd Mr Sabato and his wife Jennifer Sabato, 44, have plans to return.\n\n\"We also bought some shoes and sunglasses. We spent £570 but this would be worth more than £1,000 normally. We're going to drop these bags at home then come back and see what sales there are at Zara.\"\n\n\"We came to buy my daughter some new clothes for work because she starts a new job on Wednesday in the H&M warehouse,\" says Arlene Dela Pena, 53, out shopping with Jessica, 20.\n\n\"I'm not worried about the virus because I work in a hospital and as long as I have my mask and sanitise my hands and keep distant, then I think it will be safe.\"\n\n\"We're here to buy clothes. There are some great bargains,\" says Sophie Quantick, 27.\n\n\"I got this dress for £20. We were here at 9.30. By the time we got to Zara there was a queue. It's like a theme park, you have to have a strategy.\"\n\n\"We wanted to put on makeup and be normal and have a normal shopping experience, even though we have been buying online during the lockdown,\" says Bryony Martin, 29. \"We have a rollercoaster mindset - what's the best shop? Go there first.\"\n\n\"We wanted to buy home stuff like these cushions,\" says Ahmed Khan, 33, accompanied by wife Zainab, 28, and baby Mirha.\n\n\"We moved into our new home in January, then we went to Pakistan for my brother's wedding and when we came back in April all the shops were shut.\n\n\"We came today because it's the first day the shops are open. We were expecting sales and there have been. We could have bought online but it's not the same experience.\"\n\n\"We came to buy summer clothes for the children. We went to Primark first but the queue was never ending so we went to H&M,\" says Erika Stara, 41, standing alongside her children Rebecca and Marco.\n\n\"I wanted to come today and get out and see people, and have some retail therapy.\"\n\n\"The queue and the social distancing mean it feels different here,\" adds Rebecca, 12.\n\n\"I bought nightwear and baby clothes because Primark was open. I'm pregnant and I've been waiting to get some baby stuff,\" says Shantel Brown, 35.\n\n\"Everyone keeps their distance. They've got sanitiser at the entrance. As long as we've got our masks on, we're fine.\"\n\n\"I bought tops, shorts and summer clothes. I came because mum forced me,\" adds her daughter Tee, 16.\n\n\"I came to pick up a new watch strap,\" says Greg Dulson, 68.\n\n\"The strap on my favourite watch broke and I brought it in to the watchmaker's the day before lockdown. They said come back tomorrow but it was closed.\n\n\"So I've been sulking. But now my favourite watch is back. I've had it 10 years.\"\n\n\"I bought a jumpsuit because Primark was open and the weather's getting better again,\" says Katie Kirby, 18.\n\n\"I did go just to get some essentials like pants and socks, but I when I saw the jumpsuit I had to treat myself because the shops haven't been open for so long.\"\n\n\"We do keep our distance in the store. We thought it would be a different shopping experience but once we were in there it was just the same.\"\n\nZac Hopkins, 21, adds: \"I bought a skipping rope so I can do some exercise at home. You can't go to the gym and they're sold out in lots of shops.\"\n\n\"I came to Hugo Boss because I wanted to buy some tracksuits for my two brothers and the shops have been closed for three months,\" says Tom Hunjan, 34.\n\n\"I bought myself one too. They're similar to what I'm wearing, but in white. The shop didn't have them in though so they're ordering them for me and I'll come back in a few days. Why do I like Hugo Boss so much? It's probably just marketing.\n\n\"I also needed some new boxer shorts because yesterday I noticed an inconveniently placed hole.\"\n\nAll photographs by Phil Coomes with reporting by Vivienne Nunis.\n• None Shoppers rush to the High Street as stores reopen", "Ken Skates made the announcement at the Welsh Government's daily news briefing\n\nEveryone aged over 16 in Wales will be offered help to find work, self-employment, education or training to help with the job losses expected in the coming months, a minister has said.\n\nFigures show the numbers claiming benefits in Wales have doubled compared with this time last year.\n\nEconomy Minister Ken Skates said the support scheme would use £40m from the Economic Resilience Fund.\n\nThe aim was to bring \"hope\" to people fearing losing their job, he said.\n\nAccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures there were 118,600 claimants in the middle of May, equivalent to 6.2% of 16 to 64-year-olds.\n\nMr Skates told the Welsh Government's daily news conference on Tuesday, coronavirus \"will have a huge impact on our labour market\".\n\n\"We've given hope to businesses that have faced a perilous situation and now we are preparing to deliver hope to people who question whether the virus will steal them of livelihoods,\" he said.\n\n\"We will make sure everyone over 16 in Wales gets the offer of support and advice to find work, to pursue self-employment or to find a place in education or training.\n\n\"Over and above existing skills and employment support, we are preparing to use an additional £40m from our Economic Resilience Fund to deliver this commitment.\"\n\nMr Skates said the plan was part of the Welsh Government's Covid commitment to the people of Wales.\n\nPlaid Cymru economy spokeswoman Helen Mary Jones called on UK and Welsh ministers to \"work closely to respond to the coming crisis\".\n\n\"Of course reflection is needed as we consider what building back better means, but when it comes to responding to the immediate crisis it is time for action,\" she said.\n\n\"We can't sit around discussing what might be needed when tens of thousands of people face falling off an economic cliff edge in August.\"\n\nMr Skates' news conference came after more than 70 mid Wales tourism businesses signed an open letter to the first minister calling for \"clear guidance and timescales\" on when tourism in Wales can be reopened.\n\nThey said the continued lockdown in Wales was \"out of step\" with the rest of the UK, and the \"stay away\" message was causing \"long-term\" damage to the industry.\n\nTourism in Wales directly supports about 120,000 jobs - almost 10% of Wales' workforce\n\nClwyd West Conservative MP David Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast there was \"certainty\" of bankruptcies, business failures and redundancies if the industry failed to reopen this summer.\n\nLast week, a group of Welsh tourism leaders warned the industry was on the \"brink of collapse\".\n\nAt the lunchtime news conference, Mr Skates said this season's prospects were looking \"much better\".\n\n\"My primary concern has been to ensure the industry is sustainable for the future,\" he told journalists.\n\n\"The prospects of having a 2020 tourism season are looking much better.\n\nBut he added: \"We will not just select an arbitrary date and say 'this is when we hope you will be able to open'.\n\n\"We need to make sure when we declare a date we are able to commit to that date.\"\n\nLast week, Mr Skates singled out 9 July as a possible day for when the Welsh Government \"hopes to be able to say something positive\" for the tourism industry.", "Snowdonia remains out of bounds to visitors, unless they are local\n\nFor the last three months large swathes of one of Britain's national park crown jewels has been shut to the public.\n\nWalkers have been barred from Snowdon and popular peaks, such as Tryfan or Cader Idris.\n\nOnce flowing with visitors, summits remain forlorn, only viewed from afar by those lucky enough to live nearby.\n\nNow, those tasked with caring for the park are looking at how they can reopen. For others, it is a time to ask - can we reopen differently?\n\nThey want to avoid the scenes that heralded lockdown back in March, when on the final weekend of the month, as coronavirus began to spread across the UK, roads to Snowdon and surrounding villages were crammed with cars, as visitors flocked to the beauty spots that make the park so special.\n\nThere will be no Snowdonia Marathon in 2020 - it has been moved to next year\n\nBBC Wales has been told that organisers of events planned across the 823 sq miles (2,176 sq km) of park have been asked to postpone until 2021.\n\nThe Snowdonia Marathon has already announced its race will be moved to next year.\n\nLockdown has meant fewer visitors - and fines for those who breach the rules to travel to the region.\n\nIt has also meant real pain for those relying on the park and tourism for a living - with cafes, B&Bs, hotels, restaurants and non-essential shops shut.\n\nReady to go: Emlyn Roberts is eager to reopen his bistro in Beddgelert\n\nBut coming out of lockdown too soon carries its own risks as Emlyn Roberts, owner of Bistro Hebog in Beddgelert, acknowledged: \"We've got everything in place, we're ready to go, our staff are eager.\n\n\"I'm also cautious that opening the gates to Wales too soon, too fast, could jeopardise everything.\n\n\"But I'm really keen to move on and, after all, it's a great place to do business. The business is there, it's just a matter of waiting to see when.\"\n\nElin Aaron runs the Gallt y Glyn hostel in Llanberis, a popular spot for hikers and locals.\n\n\"There's the conflict between wanting my business to be successful and to be here after the restrictions open, but also wanting to keep the community and my family safe - I've grown up in the area,\" she said.\n\n\"The balance of getting everything right - I don't envy whoever has to make the decision about when we can open, but it'd be nice to know so I can plan.\"\n\nHostel and restaurant owner Elin Aaron says there needs to be a balance for business and the area\n\nParts of Wales' two other national parks - the Pembrokeshire Coast and the Brecon Beacons - have already reopened to locals. As they look to the future, could the Snowdonia National Park Authority look at a different, more low-impact, model of tourism?\n\nJohn Harold thinks so. He is the director of the Snowdonia Society, a key partner of the park authority, established in 1967 by Esme Kirby and her husband Peter to protect the fragile mountain environment.\n\n\"This break, this time of people really rethinking things, gives us a chance to reset expectations,\" he said.\n\n\"Our expectations of what visitors will do and how they will behave when they're here, and visitors' expectations of what their experience will be - and that could be a positive change.\n\n\"It's a massive challenge of communication. We need to get the message out as widely as possible that - with a national park that's under pressure, doesn't have massive resources - we need everyone to play their part, be respectful and tread lightly.\"\n\nStill shut - the paths to the summit of Snowdon are closed to the public\n\nGwynedd council has confirmed to BBC Wales that they have asked event organisers in the area to postpone all events until next year.\n\nIn a statement, the council said: \"Due to the unprecedented situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Gwynedd Safety Advisory Group have sent letters to all event organisers in the county.\n\n\"The message makes it clear that Gwynedd welcomes and supports events in the county, but under current conditions are encouraging organisers to postpone events which are due to take place in the next few months to ensure the safety and wellbeing of participants and local communities, as well as to avoid expenditure by event organisers during such an uncertain time.\n\n\"This is based on the current medical evidence and the likelihood that restrictions will remain in place for some time - especially regarding crowd events.\"\n\nThe Snowdonia National Park Authority has already indicated it will adopt a cautious approach to reopening the area.\n\nExpect only \"minor changes\" to lockdown rules in coming weeks, aimed at the local populations. Access to internationally famous locations will be some time off.\n\nPark officials said reopening Snowdonia would be \"cautious and measured and will be phased\".\n\n\"Our utmost priority has been, and remains, to protect our local communities and health services,\" it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shopper Adam Marlow said Bicester Village was \"way too overcrowded\"\n\nMore than three thousand people have signed a petition calling for Bicester Village to temporarily close after hundreds of people were pictured at the shopping complex.\n\nPictures on social media appear to show people struggling to maintain social distancing at the designer retail outlet in Bicester, Oxfordshire.\n\nThe petition is calling for it to be closed until changes are made.\n\nValue Retail, which runs the complex, has been contacted for comment.\n\nAll shops in England are now allowed to open, but with strict safety measures.\n\nLaura Wicks, who launched the petition, wrote she was \"disgusted to see hundreds of people squashed into the street like Coronavirus never happened\" and called for the complex to keep their staff safe.\n\nBicester Village reopened to the public on Monday\n\nThe complex, which has 160 shops, said on its website visitors are temperature-scanned on arrival and they should keep a two-metre distance apart.\n\nShopper Adam Galbraith said keeping two metres was fine in the shops, but it was not being enforced \"well enough\" outside the shops at the luxury retail outlet.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, he said: \"It was definitely way too overcrowded to adhere to social distancing.\n\n\"For a complex of that size they should know how many people can be in this place safely and keep two metres distance, and that for me wasn't monitored at all.\n\n\"What would have been better if they had the queues to get into the village outside, and gave customers a two-hour slot to do their shopping.\"\n\nHe added queues outside the shops, which allocated a time to shoppers using an digital queuing app, were less busy.\n\nSome shops at the shopping complex had digital queues\n\nShopper Dr Tesh Amarasinghe said she had her temperature checked with a thermal scanner and social distancing within the stores was \"excellent\", but she said there were difficulties maintaining the two-metre distancing in the outdoor walkways.\n\nThe GP, from Northampton, said: \"It kind of took away the point of distancing in the shop, if you're standing in a queue up to an hour really close [to others].\"", "Experts warn remdesivir shouldn't be seen as a \"magic bullet\"\n\nA drug treatment called remdesivir that appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus is being made available on the NHS.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of coronavirus since the crisis began.\n\nRemdesivir is an anti-viral medicine that has been used against Ebola.\n\nUK regulators say there is enough evidence to approve its use in selected Covid-19 hospital patients.\n\nFor the time being and due to limited supplies, it will go to those most likely to benefit.\n\nThe US and Japan have already made similar urgent arrangements to provide early access to the medicine before they have a marketing agreement.\n\nThe drug is currently undergoing clinical trials around the world, including in the UK.\n\nEarly data suggests it can cut recovery time by about four days, but there is no evidence yet that it will save more lives.\n\nIt is not clear how much stock pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences has available to treat UK patients.\n\nAllocation of the intravenous drug will be based on the advice of doctors.\n\nMinister for Innovation Lord Bethell said: \"This shows fantastic progress. As we navigate this unprecedented period, we must be on the front foot of the latest medical advancements, while always ensuring patient safety remains a top priority.\n\n\"The latest, expert scientific advice is at the heart of every decision we make, and we will continue to monitor remdesivir's success in clinical trials across the country to ensure the best results for UK patients.\"\n\nDr Stephen Griffin from the University of Leeds Medical School, said it was perhaps the most promising anti-viral for coronavirus so far.\n\nHe said patients with the most severe disease would be likely to receive it first. \"Whilst this is clearly the most ethically sound approach, it also means that we ought not to expect the drug to immediately act as a magic bullet.\n\n\"We can instead hope for improved recovery rates and a reduction in patient mortality, which we hope will benefit as many patients as possible.\"\n\nOther drugs being investigated for coronavirus include those for malaria and HIV.\n\nTesting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has been halted in some trials because of safety fears.\n\nThe World Health Organization says the temporary suspension is a precaution, after a recent medical study found the drug might increase the risk of death and heart rhythm complications.\n\nIn the UK, the Recovery trial looking at using this drug in patients remains open, but another one, using it in frontline NHS staff to prevent rather than treat infections, has paused recruiting more volunteers.", "The report examined why black and Asian people faced the greatest risks from coronavirus\n\nDoctors have called for the recommendations of a report into the impact of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic people to be implemented immediately.\n\nThe British Medical Association said it was \"critical\" to carry out risk assessments of vulnerable groups and protect them at work.\n\nRacism could contribute to increased risks for BAME groups, the report said.\n\nCommissioned by Public Health England, it has seven recommendations.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, who chairs the council of the British Medical Association, told the BBC: \"It's important we now move forward and deliver those changes because it's the fair and right thing to do for our population.\"\n\nHe said more than 90% of doctors who had died during the pandemic were from BAME backgrounds. Doctors from these communities were also three times as likely to say they had felt pressured to work without sufficient protective equipment, he added.\n\nDr Nagpaul said the recommendation for risk assessments would mean workers at the greatest risk - in healthcare and other key worker roles - could be redeployed into safer roles, such as tackling the backlog of non-coronavirus illness in the NHS.\n\nThe daughter of care home worker Joyce Davis, who continued working until she died with coronavirus aged 79, has told the BBC she feels let down.\n\nDenise Davis said: \"She was in the frontline, there was no protocols in place for them, for the people working in the home and she did feel exposed.\n\n\"We know that these are the lower end of the scale, lower paid, lower everything and these are where you'll find most black and ethnic minority people - why is that?\"\n\nThe report, the second by PHE on Covid-19 inequalities and previously seen by the BBC in draft, said \"historic racism and poorer experiences of healthcare or at work\" meant black and Asian people were less likely to seek care when they needed or speak up if they had concerns about risk in the workplace.\n\nSome people from ethnic minority communities feared being deported if they went to hospital for treatment, the report said.\n\nIt was prompted by data showing that black and Asian groups had the highest death rates from coronavirus. People of Bangladeshi ethnicity had twice the risk of death than people of white British ethnicity, accounting for age and sex.\n\nThe report said the unequal impact may be explained by social and economic inequalities, racism, discrimination and stigma, differing risks at work and inequalities in the prevalence of conditions such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension and asthma, which can increase the severity of Covid-19.\n\nThe existence of this second report was revealed by Prof Raj Bhopal from Edinburgh University, following criticism that an earlier review contained no recommendations. Prof Bhopal said it had initially been \"suppressed\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One programme that the recommendations were \"absolutely excellent\" and could make England \"probably the world leader\" in addressing Covid-19 inequalities.\n\nProf Bhopal said it was particularly important to provide public health information in languages other than English and called for the daily Downing Street briefing to to be translated.\n\n\"Currently the messages are going out for a largely white middle-class British population,\" he added.\n\nSir Michael Marmot, an expert health inequalities from University College London, said much of the increased risk to black and Asian people was caused by social and economic deprivation.\n\n\"It's systematic. It's related to to overcrowding, it's related to occupation, and those in turn are related to life chances,\" Sir Michael said.\n\nHe said black, Asian and minority ethnic groups were more likely to have lost their jobs in the pandemic or to be working in public-facing roles where they were exposed to the virus. \"One way of describing that is racism,\" he said.\n\nHow has being black, Asian or from another ethnic minority impacted on your experience of the pandemic? Please tell us by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk - you can choose to be anonymous if you wish.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "A woman who survived Covid-19 after taking part in a drug trial feels \"eternally grateful\" and believes she would have died without it.\n\nKatherine Millbank was given dexamethasone, a cheap and widely available steroid treatment which UK experts believe is a major breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus.\n\nMrs Millbank, from Buckinghamshire, left hospital on her 55th birthday and is now able to go for short walks and cycle rides with her husband Paul Millbank.", "Transport For New Homes highlighted existing developments near the sites of the planned garden villages that were based on car use\n\nEngland’s new garden villages and towns risk becoming car-dependent commuter estates, a report has warned.\n\nThe government promised the sites would be thriving communities - with jobs, shops and recreational facilities.\n\nBut research has suggested the garden villages may be little better than the reviled edge-of town estates they were supposed to supersede.\n\nThe government said the report was unfair because the settlements were still in their early stages.\n\nBut the researchers said they believed the 20 garden communities they assessed - still in various stages of the planning process - would create up to 200,000 households dependent on driving.\n\nThe report has come from Transport for New Homes, a group promoting alternatives to the car.\n\nIt has been supported by the RAC Foundation, which said most drivers did not want to need a car to visit the corner shop.\n\nWalking routes that abruptly end are highlighted as features of developments that make car use more likely\n\nThe garden village concept was devised to overcome problems of local resistance to housing estates bolted on to small towns.\n\nThe government's prospectus said these should be largely self-sustaining and genuinely mixed-use, with public transport, walking and cycling enabling access to jobs, education and services.\n\nBut the report found that:\n\nOne author, Jenny Raggett, said: “Garden villages were put forward as an alternative to characterless estates – but they may well end up with more tarmac than garden.”\n\nShe said this was especially regrettable as the coronavirus outbreak had prompted more people to walk and cycle – a move that was being encouraged by the government.\n\nWalking and cycling would be easier on well-designed and maintained routes and paths\n\nSteve Gooding, RAC Foundation director, said: \"The vision is laudable but is at grave risk of being missed. The reality looks set to ingrain car dependence.\n\n“Many of us will still wish to own and use our cars… but we don’t want to be forced to get behind the wheel for every trip we make.”\n\nThe report’s authors singled out Long Marston, a proposed 3,500-home Garden Village in Warwickshire. As a former airfield it was categorised as a “brownfield” site, which would help secure planning approval.\n\nThe developers’ prospectus said: “Long Marston Airfield will provide opportunities to live, work and socialise, all within 10 minutes of historic Stratford.\"\n\nThe report’s authors agreed the trip to Stratford was indeed 10 minutes – so long as you had a car.\n\nThey said there was no evidence the village would create employment, and they believed it would not be big enough to support a full range of facilities.\n\nMike Emett from Cala Homes told BBC News: \"It’s on a brownfield site in the countryside, so by definition it’s not near any town.\n\n“We are having a debate ourselves whether the settlement will be big enough to support higher facilities such as a secondary school”.\n\nA government spokesperson said: “Many of these settlements are in their early stages and we are continuing to work with local partners to get the right infrastructure in place.”\n\nHe said the majority of new garden communities on green field sites would have more than 40% of their area given over to green space accessible to all by foot and cycle.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wales' first minister wants to create a National Forest running the length of the country\n\nWales is falling behind the rest of the UK in planting trees to tackle climate change, official statistics show.\n\nAbout 80 hectares of new woodland were planted in 2019-20, the lowest number for a decade.\n\nForestry experts said the figure - which amounts to just 4% of the Welsh Government's target of 2,000 hectares a year - was \"clearly disappointing\".\n\nThe government said it was taking \"significant steps\" to increase tree cover.\n\nAcross the UK, 13,460 hectares of new woodland were created in 2019-20, according to provisional figures compiled by government-backed forestry organisations.\n\nThis breaks down to 10,860 in Scotland, 2,330 in England, 200 in Northern Ireland and 80 in Wales.\n\nMore than 80% of the new planting occurred in Scotland, heralded as \"outstanding\" by the Scottish Government though it too missed its annual target.\n\nIn recent years, Welsh ministers have made several attempts to boost tree-planting rates here - including the launch of a new woodland strategy in 2018.\n\nThe latest goal - a personal ambition of the First Minister Mark Drakeford - is to create a National Forest, running the length and breadth of the country.\n\nMeanwhile, advisers at the Committee on Climate Change and charities such as the Woodland Trust urged increasing planting targets to beyond 5,000 hectares a year.\n\nThese latest figures underline the scale of the challenge, according to Rory Francis of the Woodland Trust in Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There are more than three billion trees in UK woods\n\n\"(They're) clearly disappointing, but we do understand that the Welsh Government has recently outlined ambitious plans for a Welsh National Forest and doubled the funding for Glastir Woodland Creation grants, both of which we hope will make a real difference.\"\n\nHe also said a \"new land-use policy… supporting tree planting in the right places\" was needed.\n\nPlans to replace the EU's agricultural subsidies with a new scheme that will include paying farmers to plant trees is set to be phased in from 2021 - though it is yet to be finalised.\n\nAnthony Geddes, National Manager for Wales at CONFOR - which represents the forestry industry - added the figures were \"disappointing\" but represent \"the mistakes of the past not the opportunities of the future\".\n\nWoodlands are a common sight in some of the mountainous areas such as Snowdonia and the Brecon Beacons\n\n\"We know there is high demand out there to plant trees and, thanks to hard work from all parties, the funding and the processes are falling into place to respond to that demand and get planting,\" he said.\n\nMr Geddes pointed to the fact the Welsh Government received applications for more than 7,000 hectares of new planting in 2019 and, in response, ministers committed £8m to the Glastir woodland creation scheme - which gives grants for managing land.\n\nHe said forestry and timber already contribute 10,000 jobs and bring in £0.5bn to the economy annually.\n\nAbout 150,000 native trees will be planted at Gnoll Country Park over the next five years, creating a woodland the same size as about 100 rugby pitches\n\nA spokesman for the Welsh Government said due to \"the timing of Rural Development Programme funding, funds made available last year will support tree planting in the upcoming planting season this winter\".\n\n\"Last year we funded the planting of 1,500 hectares of trees to re-stock existing woodland,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman said the government had also \"launched a new window of the Glastir Woodland Creation scheme, with a fourfold increase in the budget to £8m, which could significantly contribute to funding for 2,000 hectares of new planting\".\n\n\"Work has also begun to establish a National Forest across Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week we launched a new scheme to create new woodlands near local communities. We will run a number of demonstration projects this year, including a £2.1m community woodland scheme launched earlier this month.\"", "An F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath crashed into the North Sea on Monday\n\nThe pilot of a US Air Force fighter jet which crashed into the North Sea has been found dead.\n\nThe F-15C Eagle, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, crashed shortly after 09:30 BST while on a training mission.\n\nThe wreckage of the plane, thought to have crashed 74 nautical miles off the East Yorkshire coast, was found earlier.\n\nThe cause of the crash is currently unknown.\n\nCol Will Marshall of the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath said: \"The pilot of the downed F-15C Eagle from the 48th Fighter Wing has been located, and confirmed deceased.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We will not release the name of the pilot until after all next of kin notifications have been completed.\n\n\"This is a tragic loss for the 48th Fighter Wing community, and our deepest condolences go out to the pilot's family and the 493rd Fighter Squadron.\"\n\nThe F15C, a single-seater air defence fighter, is a model of jet that has been used by the US Air Force since 1979.\n\nRAF Lakenheath is the largest US Air Force-operated base in England and home to its only F-15 fighter wing in Europe.\n\nMore than 4,000 US service men and women are stationed there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage this morning from the Yorkshire coast showed fog shrouding the North Sea\n\nThe 48th Fighter Wing shared an image of three jets in flight on Monday morning.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RAF Lakenheath This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn October 2015, US pilot Maj Taj Sareen died when his F-18 Hornet jet crashed on farmland near RAF Lakenheath.\n\nAn investigation found the 34-year-old had not reported problems with his aircraft to engineers prior to take-off, because he was concerned it would delay his colleagues.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A donation of £250,000 to help fund women's football in Scotland will be a weight off a lot of people's minds, according to Scotland midfielder Leanne Crichton.\n\nEdinburgh philanthropist James Anderson gave the cash after his £3m contribution to the men’s game last week.\n\nThe money will go to the Scottish Football Partnership Trust to help sustain the women’s game during the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nQuote Message: At the top end of the game we have fought this hard to get there and to stay there is the most difficult part. But there are so many young girls missing football, missing their friends and facing uncertainty with their clubs and resources. I just hope the focus will be on keeping the top end of our game alive but also more importantly making sure exactly what was there for the younger generation will still be there when we get back at it again. from Leanne Crichton Scotland midfielder At the top end of the game we have fought this hard to get there and to stay there is the most difficult part. But there are so many young girls missing football, missing their friends and facing uncertainty with their clubs and resources. I just hope the focus will be on keeping the top end of our game alive but also more importantly making sure exactly what was there for the younger generation will still be there when we get back at it again.", "Fans can expect more live events, some related to the game and others about music and film\n\nGamers in a virtual queue to join a much-anticipated live Fortnite event were left disappointed as servers hit capacity one minute after fans had been asked to join.\n\nThere were some 12 million in-game players, and a further 8.4 million watched via Twitch or YouTube.\n\nThe event marked the end of Season 2 and the beginning of Season 3 for the Battle Royale game.\n\nLarge events like this are likely to become the norm, thinks one expert.\n\nFortnite is one of the world's most popular online multiplayer games, with 350 million registered players according to developer Epic Games.\n\nThe event - dubbed The Device - began with players gathered around The Agency, a central building on the island the game is set on. Players were transported to a not-seen-before office, and the event ended with the island surrounded by walls of water.\n\nSeason 3, which has been delayed, is due out on June 17 at 07:00 BST.\n\nThe much-anticipated Doomsday event had come with a warning from Epic that servers might reach capacity quickly and, when they did, it recommended gamers watch the event via Twitch or YouTube.\n\nAfterwards the firm tweeted: \"We were overwhelmed by the response to The Device. At 12 million players in-game we capped participation for stability while 8.4 million more watched live on Twitch and YouTube. As we push the edge of what live events can be, we're improving systems so more of you can experience them in-game.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Fortnite This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLockdowns around the world have seen more and more people flocking to gaming, and Fortnite has seen a surge in virtual meet-ups during the pandemic as it bids to become a destination rather than just a game.\n\nNearly 28 million watched a virtual Fortnite concert by rapper Travis Scott, and in May it aired a trailer for a forthcoming movie, Tenet. Another live concert featured Dillon Francis, Steve Aoki and deadmau5.\n\nResearch firm Ampere Analysis's gaming expert Piers Harding-Rolls told the BBC such events would become \"more numerous as Epic tests ways to expand the game into a social interactive platform for content, or artists that reside outside of the game\".\n\nNot all fans will want the in-game experience, but for those who do he thinks it is \"unrealistic for Epic to lay on lots of new servers to deal with a spike in demand\".\n\nEpic Games, which also owns the popular chat app Houseparty, now has a valuation of about $17bn (£13.4bn), according to Bloomberg.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to the sounds of honeybee queens \"tooting\" and \"quacking\"\n\nScientists using highly sensitive vibration detectors have decoded honeybee queens' \"tooting and quacking\" duets in the hive.\n\nWorker bees make new queens by sealing eggs inside special cells with wax and feeding them royal jelly.\n\nThe queens quack when ready to emerge - but if two are free at the same time, they will fight to the death.\n\nSo when one hatches, its quacks turn to toots, telling the workers to keep the others - still quacking - captive.\n\nThe findings are published in the journal Scientific Reports.\n\nDr Martin Bencsik, from Nottingham Trent University, who led this study, described the tooting and quacking of these \"wonderful animals\" as \"extraordinary\".\n\n\"You can hear the queens responding to each other,\" he said.\n\n\"It has been assumed that the queens were talking to other queens - possibly sizing one another up vocally to see who is strongest.\n\n\"But we now have proof for the alternative explanation.\"\n\nTooting, the researchers found, is a queen moving around the colony - announcing her presence to the workers.\n\nThe quacking is from queens that are ready to come out but are still captive inside their cells.\n\nThe queens are not talking to each other, explained Dr Bencsik, \"it's communication between the queen and the worker bees - an entire society of tens of thousands of bees trying to release one queen at a time.\n\n\"Quacking queens are purposefully kept captive by the worker bees - they will not release the quacking queens because they can hear the tooting.\n\n\"When the tooting stops, that means the queen would have swarmed [split the colony and set out to find a new nest] and this triggers the colony to release a new queen.\"\n\nDr Bencsik said bee society was \"absolutely splendid\" to observe.\n\n\"All decisions are group decisions,\" he said.\n\n\"It's the worker bees that decide if they want a new queen or not.\"\n\nPollinating insects face numerous threats, including from pesticides, habitat loss and climate change. And Dr Bencsik pointed out that beekeepers - and the hives they provide - are crucial for honeybee survival in the UK.\n\nThe researchers hope this eavesdropping exercise will help beekeepers avoid interfering with this delicate collective decision-making and to predict when their own colonies might be about to swarm.", "There have been concerns that disadvantaged families are losing out when lessons are being taught online\n\nFree internet access is being offered for six months to help some disadvantaged youngsters study online.\n\nThe scheme will provide 10,000 families in England with vouchers for internet access, funded by BT and distributed by the Department for Education.\n\nMost primary and secondary pupils are still out of school and learning online.\n\nBut there have been concerns about a \"digital divide\" with poorer pupils missing out.\n\nSchool Standards Minister Nick Gibb said everything possible would be done to \"make sure no child, whatever their background, falls behind as a result of coronavirus\".\n\nBut there have been warnings that a much greater number of poorer families do not have computer equipment or adequate internet access - and that a social divide in education is being made wider.\n\nLabour MP Siobhan McDonagh, leading a campaign for fairer online access, says there are 700,000 disadvantaged children without the technology needed to study online at home.\n\nWayne Norrie, chief executive of the Greenwood Academies Trust, has warned that many families in his schools rely on mobile phone data for an internet connection.\n\nThis is \"not realistic\" for online learning, he told the BBC when schools were switching online in the weeks after the lockdown.\n\n\"Many don't have broadband contracts,\" said Mr Norrie.\n\nThe scheme between BT and the Department for Education will give vouchers for free access to five million wi-fi hotspots.\n\nLocal authorities and academies will be asked to bid for vouchers for families in their schools without internet access or who cannot afford data and the Department for Education will decide the allocations.\n\nA scheme launched in April promised to lend laptops to disadvantaged youngsters - with 100,000 so far delivered out of an intended 200,000.\n\nMarc Allera of BT said the free wi-fi scheme would allow thousands of children \"to keep up with their important digital learning and online schoolwork for the rest of term and over the summer holidays as well as into the autumn\".\n• None 'Digital poverty' in schools where few have laptops", "Prince William spoke with Leanne whose five-year-old son Kaydyn has cystic fibrosis\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has made a surprise video call to a woman and her young son who have been shielding for the past three months.\n\nWilliam spoke with Leanne and five-year-old Kaydyn, who has cystic fibrosis, at their home in Corby, Northamptonshire.\n\nFootage of the call will feature on BBC One's The One Show on Tuesday.\n\nLeanne was shown covering her mouth with her hands in shock as the Duke called from his home in Norfolk.\n\nIt forms part of a film focusing on extremely vulnerable people being advised to remain at home as much as possible, and the challenges they are facing.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge during a previous video call, when he revealed he was a volunteer for a mental health charity's crisis helpline\n\nFrom the start of June, more than 2.2 million extremely vulnerable people shielding from coronavirus were allowed to leave their homes.\n\nSince the advice changed, Leanne and Kaydyn have been outside twice, for country walks.\n\nThe BBC said: \"Initially Kaydyn was frustrated about being forced to stay inside - now he is very nervous about leaving the house.\"\n\nThe film will also look at Shelby Lynch, a 21-year-old from Leeds, who has spinal muscular atrophy type 2 and is on a ventilator 24 hours a day.\n\nIt follows the moment she finally leaves her home for a socially distanced meeting with her boyfriend for the first time in weeks.\n\n\"He had been feeling a little down so it was nice to see his face light up,\" she said.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and volunteers at Conscious Youth during a video call\n\nLast week, the Duke of Cambridge revealed he had been anonymously volunteering on a crisis helpline during lockdown, after being trained by a mental health charity.\n\nWilliam said he had been answering messages at Shout 85258, which offers support via text message to people in personal crisis.\n\nLast month he told fellow volunteers in a video call: \"I'm going to share a little secret with you guys, but I'm actually on the platform volunteering.\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess have held video calls with those helping charities in England and Wales. The Duchess has also taken part in video calls with people who are self-isolating or vulnerable.\n\nThe One Show is on BBC One every weekday at 19:00 BST", "Wicks said his online PE lessons had attracted millions of views worldwide\n\nJoe Wicks has said he is scaling back his online PE lessons to three days a week, because he needs \"a little bit of a break\".\n\nThe Body Coach has been leading free fitness classes on weekdays throughout lockdown for children and parents.\n\nDuring Monday's workout he told viewers that from next week he would be moving to a reduced timetable, with sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.\n\nWith some schools now returning, Wicks said: \"I need a little bit of a rest.\"\n\nHe said he had \"loved every minute\" of the online classes but that this would be the last full week of PE with Joe.\n\n\"I feel very proud that I've been able to bring so many people together during lockdown,\" he wrote on Instagram.\n\nWicks said his online workouts had attracted almost 70 million views worldwide, which he described as \"truly mind blowing\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAppearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs on Sunday, Wicks spoke about the struggles he had faced growing up and how his life was changed by his father's heroin addiction.\n\nHe said that seeing the impact drugs had on his father meant he was never tempted to try them himself.\n\n\"I was scared of it and I got into exercise and fitness and so his mistake changed my life,\" he told the programme.\n\n\"I just don't regret anything I've gone through or anything I have been through with my mum and dad, I'm just proud of who I am,\" he added.\n\n\"He's had times when he's relapsed but today he is clean and that's the most important thing, but when I was a teenager I found it difficult.\n\n\"I didn't understand, I was angry but now as an adult I understand. I have got more empathy.\"", "Marcus Rashford's plea to the government to reverse its decision not to continue funding free school meals over the long summer break, has struck a chord with parents who have been relying on food vouchers to feed their families during lockdown.\n\nOn Monday, in response to the footballer's letter, the government confirmed that its voucher scheme in England would \"not run during the summer holidays\".\n\nBut families have told the BBC it will prove very difficult for them when food vouchers, worth £15 per child per week, stop at the end of term.\n\nIn Leicester, 15-year-old Dev says he and his 13-year-old brother would be eating poorer quality food without the vouchers.\n\nHis parents would have to rely on \"cheap, cheap meals - the type that make you full for about an hour\", he says.\n\n\"Unfortunately unhealthy food is the cheapest - food that you shouldn't really be feeding kids.\"\n\nDev, 15, from Leicester says the vouchers mean he and his younger brother eat more healthily\n\nDev is a member of the Bite Back youth campaign for better nutrition for young people whose petition to extend free school meal vouchers over the summer has more than 250,000 signatures.\n\nHe argues that if the UK wants to fight inequality and help his generation achieve their best for the country, all children - whether rich or poor - need access to nutritious food.\n\nIn Brent, north London, Susan Bleau, is considering sending her 11-year-old daughter to stay with her ex-partner's family in Birmingham, if there are no free school meals vouchers over the summer.\n\nHer daughter's primary school has helped her access vouchers from the government scheme and the school has been delivering food parcels every Friday.\n\nSusan has just returned to her part-time job having been furloughed since March - but the knock-on effect of a 20% cut in income under furlough has left her finances stretched.\n\nIf the food voucher scheme isn't extended over the summer, she says: \"I would have to get some form of help\".\n\nFortunately she and her daughter get on well with their extended family, who can support them.\n\n\"They're better off than me - but I need to check what their plans are for the summer,\" says Susan.\n\nHairdresser Jane Keen-Smith has been unable to work during the lockdown because of health issues in the family\n\nIn Pershore, Worcestershire, Jane Keen-Smith, a mother of four boys and a self-employed hairdresser has seen her livelihood collapse during the lockdown.\n\nUnderlying health conditions in the family - one son is severely disabled - mean she will be unable to work even once hairdressers are allowed to return next month.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that having the vouchers continue over the summer would be \"a huge help\".\n\nBoth women struggled at first to redeem the vouchers - but the scheme is currently working well, they say.\n\n\"I get the £60 a week for them... It makes a massive difference,\" says Jane.\n\nUnless the government changes its plans, the prospect of not being able to work and not having the vouchers throughout the summer is daunting.\n\n\"I'll have no income and we'll have no free school meal vouchers so it's going to make us stuck really because we're in a position that we've never been in before,\" says Jane.\n\n\"And so then we're left with zero, so we don't know what we're going to do.\"\n\nShe has had some help from friends and family during lockdown but teenage boys are \"bottomless hunger pits\" she says - so her budget is extremely tight.\n\n\"We're basically struggling with everything.\"\n\n\"We're stuck in this position and we don't know how long it's going to be for,\" Jane says.\n\nThe continuation of the scheme over the Easter holiday and half term was an enormous help, she says, but is worried at the prospect of being without it over the six-week summer break.\n\n\"It's going to be very difficult,\" she says.", "US President Donald Trump said he had taken hydroxychloroquine for two weeks\n\nEmergency use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus has been withdrawn by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).\n\nThe FDA said that new evidence from clinical trials meant that it was no longer reasonable to believe that the drug would produce an antiviral effect.\n\nPresident Donald Trump later defended promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of Covid-19.\n\nIn March, the FDA granted the emergency use of the drug for some serious cases.\n\nBut on Monday, the agency said clinical studies had suggested that hydroxychloroquine was ineffective in treating the deadly virus and failed to prevent infection among those exposed to it.\n\nResponding to the FDA's decision, Mr Trump said that he had previously taken the drug preventatively with no side effects.\n\n\"I took it and I felt good about taking it,\" he told reporters on Monday, adding: \"I can't complain about it, I took it for two weeks, and I'm here, here we are.\"\n\nThe 74-year-old president said that many people had told him it had saved their lives.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump said in May that he had taken the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine\n\nIn May, Mr Trump revealed that he was taking the drug after some people in the White House tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHis comments about hydroxychloroquine became the subject of widespread speculation online and controversy within the scientific community about the potential benefits and harmful effects of the drug - along with the related drug, chloroquine.\n\nTrials around the world were temporarily derailed when a study published in The Lancet claimed the drug increased fatalities and heart problems in some patients.\n\nThe results prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) and others to halt trials over safety concerns.\n\nHowever, The Lancet subsequently retracted the study when it was found to have serious shortcomings and the WHO has resumed its trials.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nFigures just published show the number of people on UK payrolls fell by more than 600,000 between March and May as lockdown hit Britain's labour market. According to the Office for National Statistics the total number of hours worked fell by a record 94 million. It's worth bearing in mind these figures don't paint a complete picture of the employment landscape, especially because they don't take into account people furloughed as they're still counted as being employed. Kayleigh Rennix is just one of the millions struggling to find work during the UK's worst economic slump on record.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Restaurant chain owner: 'It's the worst news you can give as an employer'\n\nMinisters are facing increasing pressure to back a call by Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford to extend free school meals in England into the summer holidays. The government has insisted it won't do so, but Rashford has vowed to keep fighting. MPs, including some Conservatives, have supported his campaign. See more on the row and hear from families affected. Provision will also stop in Northern Ireland at the end of term, but is set to continue in Scotland and Wales.\n\nMarcus Rashford has raised about £20m to supply three million meals to vulnerable people during lockdown\n\nChildren are studying for an average of 2.5 hours a day during lockdown, according to a survey of teachers and school leaders. That's only about half the time indicated by previous research. About a third are not engaging with set work at all. Limited access to technology and lower parental engagement mean already disadvantaged children are worst hit. The government says it has committed more than £100m to help home learning, and plans to provide 10,000 families in England with vouchers for internet access.\n\nFlat racing's biggest meeting, Royal Ascot, gets going today behind closed doors with jockeys wearing face masks. The Queen is missing the event for the first time in her 68-year reign. There'll be plenty of action though, with an expanded programme including six additional races over five days. It comes, of course, ahead of the return of the Premier League on Wednesday - see more on the changes fans can expect.\n\nThe pandemic has had a devastating effect on organ transplants in the UK with a shortage of donors and NHS resources diverted elsewhere. As things slowly begin ramping back up, the BBC revisited Ana-Rose Thorpe. She desperately needed a liver transplant and has now received that life-changing operation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ana-Rose Thorpe became seriously ill after needing a liver transplant\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get all the latest in our live page.\n\nPlus, remember the five tests the government says are key to easing lockdown? Well, find out whether we're meeting them right now.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Mohammad Asghar was first elected to the Senedd in 2007\n\nThe Conservative Senedd member for South Wales East, Mohammad Asghar, has died at the age of 74 after being taken to hospital.\n\nThe Welsh Ambulance Service said it had received \"reports of a medical emergency\" on Tuesday morning.\n\nMr Asghar, who lived in Newport, was the first ethnic minority member of the Senedd and had represented the region since 2007.\n\n\"Our friend and colleague Mohammad Asghar has served the people of South Wales East in the Senedd with distinction for more than 13 years,\" he said.\n\n\"I am sure that everyone will join me in sending condolences to his family.\"\n\nMr Asghar's daughter Natasha tweeted: \"Today, by far, has been the worst day of my life.\n\n\"I lost the first man I ever loved forever. The man who taught me to walk, crack terrible jokes, do whatever I had to to achieve my goals & do anything for ones family.\n\n\"I cannot imagine life without you. I love you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Y Llywydd This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford said he was \"saddened to hear\" of his death.\n\n\"My thoughts are with his family and friends today,\" he said.\n\n\"His presence in the Senedd will be missed.\"\n\nFollowing his election in 2007 - then as a Plaid Cymru assembly member- Mohammad Asghar became the first Muslim AM.\n\nMohammad Asghar with then-Tory group leader Nick Bourne, after announcing his 2009 defection from Plaid Cymru\n\nTwo years later, in December 2009, he was also the first member in Cardiff Bay to leave one party for another when he joined the Tories.\n\nThe move was announced with a flourish by the Conservative group leader then, Nick Bourne, at a hastily arranged news conference.\n\nExplaining the shock defection at the time, Mr Asghar said he had \"fallen out of tune with the views and policies of Plaid Cymru\".\n\nAt the time of his death Mr Asghar was a member of the Senedd's Public Accounts Committee, and Economy, Infrastructure and Skills Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Peshawar in what is now Pakistan in 1945, Mr Asghar moved to England and then Wales to complete an accountancy course in Newport.\n\nIn 2004 he was elected to the city's council.\n\nA keen sportsman, Mr Asghar ran with the Olympic torch in 1964 and campaigned for Wales to have its own cricket team.\n\nHe was a qualified pilot and spoke Urdu, Hindi and Punjabi fluently.\n\nMohammad Asghar's religious faith was a central part of his life\n\nThe UK government's Welsh Secretary Simon Hart described him as \"an extremely significant figure in Welsh politics, someone who contributed so much to his community\".\n\n\"More than that, he was a renowned family man and a good friend to many,\" he said.\n\n\"He will be fondly remembered.\"\n\nThe chairman of the Welsh Conservatives, Lord Byron Davies of Gower, said: \"I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my good friend and former Senedd colleague, Mohammad Asghar who was affectionately known as Oscar.\n\n\"He was a valued and very active member of the Welsh Conservative family and my heartfelt condolences go to his wife Firdaus and daughter Natasha.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by David Melding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenedd Presiding Officer Elin Jones said she was \"so saddened by the sudden death of our dear colleague, Mohammad Asghar\".\n\n\"He will be missed by all in our Senedd. He was a friend to all across parties and was a true champion of his region and his country.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"On behalf of myself and Plaid Cymru I send sincere condolences to the family and friends of Mohammad Asghar.\n\n\"We remember Oscar for his dedication to the people of South Wales East and his long service in the Senedd.\"\n\nTributes have been paid across political parties in Cardiff Bay and Westminster\n\nMohammad Asghar was well-liked by Senedd colleagues across the chamber for his unassuming clubbable personality and diligent work on Senedd committees.\n\nThe very opposite of a political firebrand, Mr Ashgar was only a moderate public speaker and preferred asking questions to speech-making.\n\nAs the first minority-ethnic and Muslim member of the Senedd he frequently brought new perspectives to debates, although he always fought attempts to define him either by his religion or ethnicity, insisting that he represented all the voters of his region.", "What are the rules about funerals?\n\nBoris Johnson was asked whether the rules on attendance at funerals in England would be relaxed. At the moment the only mourners allowed to attend are members of the deceased person’s household and close family members or close friends if family members are unable to attend. Numbers must be kept low enough to allow everybody to stay two metres apart. Someone to conduct the service, a funeral director and other staff may also attend. The guidance for England says that mourners who are self-isolating for 14 days but do not have symptoms should be helped to attend, as should those in vulnerable groups who are shielding. Anyone showing symptoms of coronavirus should not attend. In Scotland the advice is slightly different, with those self-isolating or shielding encouraged to seriously consider not attending. In Wales, those allowed to attend the funeral are the person organising it, people who have been invited and any carers, with numbers again limited by the requirements of social distancing. The guidance for Northern Ireland includes a limit of 10 mourners and stresses that those who are self-isolating should not mix with other people attending.", "Marcus Rashford has renewed his calls for the school meal voucher scheme to be extended in England.\n\nThe footballer asked others to think about struggling parents who have had their \"water turned off\" in lockdown, and whose children have gone hungry.\n\nWork and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has been criticised for replying that \"water cannot be disconnected\".\n\nThe Manchester United forward, 22, urged MPs to \"put rivalries aside\" in a Parliament debate on the subject later.\n\nLabour described Ms Coffey's comment as \"snarky\" while the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives questioned why the government has not yet U-turned on the plans.\n\nFamilies whose children qualify for free meals have received vouchers or parcels in lockdown.\n\nWhile provision is to continue through the summer in Scotland and Wales, it will stop at the end of term in England and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlmost 1.3 million school children in England - accounting for 15.4% of state-educated pupils - were eligible for and claiming free school meals according to the latest available data.\n\nOfficial figures for 2019 showed the need was greatest in parts of London, the north and Midlands where between a quarter and a third of all pupils were getting the free meals.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen Ms Coffey replied to Mr Rashford's Twitter thread on the scheme, he said he was \"concerned\" she had only acknowledged his tweet about water being turned off.\n\nHe urged her to help \"make a difference\".\n\nLabour deputy leader Angela Rayner tweeted: \"We often couldn't afford hot water when I was growing up, I don't know if you've ever experienced poverty and being unable to pay the bills but as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions I would have expected better from you.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, an MSP and the former leader of the Scottish Conservatives, said she was \"baffled\" that the government had not already backtracked on the plans.\n\n\"Food security during the holidays so important. It's basic. Feed the kids,\" she said on Twitter.\n\nThe government says £63m is available to councils to help families.\n\nMr Rashford urged Therese Coffey to help \"make a difference\" as work and pensions secretary\n\nIn an emotional open letter to MPs posted on Monday, Mr Rashford drew on his own experience of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up.\n\nMr Rashford, who grew up in Manchester, said his story was \"all too familiar for families in England\".\n\nThe Department for Education said it would not reverse its decision - but the England international said he would fight on, tweeting \"we aren't beaten yet\" and \"MPs, please #maketheUturn\".\n\nHairdresser Jane Keen-Smith says she struggled to redeem the vouchers\n\nJane Keen-Smith, a mother of four boys and a self-employed hairdresser, has seen her livelihood collapse during the lockdown.\n\nUnderlying health conditions in the family - one son is severely disabled - mean she will be unable to work even once hairdressers are allowed to return next month.\n\nShe told the BBC the £60 vouchers she receives each week make a \"massive difference\", saying the family will be \"stuck\" when they stop and she has no income.\n\nThe mother from Pershore, Worcestershire, said she has had some help from friends and family - but teenage boys are \"bottomless hunger pits\" and her budget is extremely tight.\n\n\"We're basically struggling with everything\", she said, adding that having the vouchers over the summer would be \"a huge help\".\n\nDuring the Commons debate on the issue later, Labour will say it would be \"callous\" not to take what it will call a \"small step\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said on Twitter that Conservatives have an opportunity to \"do the right thing\" to make sure \"children don't go hungry this summer\".\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps insisted the government is \"not turning a blind eye\" to child poverty during the crisis, and defended its decision not to extend the voucher scheme.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the government had been \"wrapping its arms around people in communities\" to do \"everything it possibly can\" to support them, including the £20bn spent on its furlough scheme and payments to local government bodies.\n\nHe said No 10 had given an extra £63m to local authorities to help children during the pandemic, as well as a £129m investment \"that's already gone to families and schools as part of the process of helping children\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShadow education secretary Ms Long-Bailey said it was \"only right\" for the government to continue the scheme over the summer, so children don't go hungry and are in a position to start \"learning properly\" in September.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, she asked ministers to \"just continue the free school meal voucher programme\" and pointing to Scotland and Wales, added: \"They are going to do this over the summer holidays for their children, so why can't the government in England do the same?\"\n\nLast week, three Conservative MPs signed a cross-party letter calling for an extension of the scheme - worth £15 for each child per week in England - into the summer holidays in England.\n\nDavid Simmonds, the Conservative MP and a member of the education select committee, said Mr Rashford's letter was \"incredibly powerful\" but the free school meals scheme, although \"popular\", is a \"very blunt instrument\" and it doesn't always get to the most vulnerable children.\n\nCiting figures from the Local Government Association that show a £3bn shortfall in the children's social care sector, he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that pressure is \"building\" in the system and that there has been a \"massive increase\" in the number of children coming into care whose needs \"must come first\".\n\nHe said the government needed to address the \"significant pressure\" on the system \"so the most vulnerable children in this country - of whom there are tens of thousands - are not left behind\".\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker also gave his support to Mr Rashford, saying he was a credit to the sport and his family.\n\nHe told BBC Newsnight: \"He shouldn't really be the one having to do this, but... he's doing a great job.\"\n\nThe former England striker said he understood \"kids wouldn't ordinarily be fed during the summer holidays\", but these are \"very difficult times\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Lineker: Marcus Rashford credit to his sport and his family\n\nConservative MPs will have a chance to register their unease during the Commons debate, said Newsnight's Nicholas Watt.\n\nOne Tory backbencher forecast an eventual government U-turn, he added.\n\nMinisters, who say free school meals are not usually continued into the summer holidays, are planning to amend the Labour motion to highlight the steps the government has taken to help pupils from poorer backgrounds.\n\nThis includes the £63m for local authorities to help people struggling financially as a result of coronavirus and the Holiday Activities and Food programme, which offers activities and free meals in the summer.\n\nHave you made use of school meal vouchers? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say.\n\nThe drug is part of the world's biggest trial testing existing treatments to see if they also work for coronavirus.\n\nIt cut the risk of death by a third for patients on ventilators. For those on oxygen, it cut deaths by a fifth.\n\nHad the drug had been used to treat patients in the UK from the start of the pandemic, up to 5,000 lives could have been saved, researchers say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Katherine Millbank spent 15 days in hospital and was put on the drug trial\n\nAnd it could be of huge benefit in poorer countries with high numbers of Covid-19 patients.\n\nThe UK government has 200,000 courses of the drug in its stockpile and says the NHS will make dexamethasone available to patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there was a genuine case to celebrate \"a remarkable British scientific achievement\", adding: \"We have taken steps to ensure we have enough supplies, even in the event of a second peak.\"\n\nChief Medical Officer for England Prof Chris Whitty said it would save lives around the world.\n\nAbout 19 out of 20 patients with coronavirus recover without being admitted to hospital.\n\nOf those who are admitted, most also recover but some may need oxygen or mechanical ventilation.\n\nAnd these are the high-risk patients dexamethasone appears to help.\n\nThe drug is already used to reduce inflammation in a range of other conditions, including arthritis, asthma and some skin conditions.\n\nAnd it appears to help stop some of the damage that can happen when the body's immune system goes into overdrive as it tries to fight off coronavirus.\n\nThis over-reaction, a cytokine storm, can be deadly.\n\nIn the trial, led by a team from Oxford University, about 2,000 hospital patients were given dexamethasone and compared with more than 4,000 who were not.\n\nFor patients on ventilators, it cut the risk of death from 40% to 28%.\n\nFor patients needing oxygen, it cut the risk of death from 25% to 20%.\n\nChief investigator Prof Peter Horby said: \"This is the only drug so far that has been shown to reduce mortality - and it reduces it significantly. It's a major breakthrough.\"\n\nLead researcher Prof Martin Landray said the findings suggested one life could be saved for:\n\n\"There is a clear, clear benefit,\" he said.\n\n\"The treatment is up to 10 days of dexamethasone and it costs about £5 per patient.\n\n\"So essentially it costs £35 to save a life.\n\n\"This is a drug that is globally available.\"\n\nWhen appropriate, hospital patients should now be given it without delay, Prof Landray said.\n\nBut people should not go out and buy it to take at home.\n\nDexamethasone does not appear to help people with milder symptoms of coronavirus who do not need help with their breathing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Professor Chris Whitty This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Recovery Trial, running since March, also looked at the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has subsequently been ditched amid concerns it increases fatalities and heart problems.\n\nThe antiviral drug remdesivir, meanwhile, which appears to shorten recovery time for people with coronavirus, is already being made available on the NHS.\n\nThe first drug proven to cut deaths from Covid-19 is not some new, expensive medicine but an old, cheap-as-chips steroid.\n\nThat is something to celebrate because it means patients across the world could benefit immediately.\n\nAnd that is why the top-line results of this trial have been rushed out - because the implications are so huge globally.\n\nDexamethasone has been used since the early 1960s to treat a wide range of conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and asthma.\n\nHalf of all Covid patients who require a ventilator do not survive, so cutting that risk by a third would have a huge impact.\n\nThe drug is given intravenously in intensive care and in tablet form for less seriously ill patients.\n\nSo far, the only other drug proven to benefit Covid patients is remdesivir, which has been used for Ebola.\n\nThat has been shown to reduce the duration of coronavirus symptoms from 15 days to 11.\n\nBut the evidence was not strong enough to show whether it reduced mortality.\n\nUnlike dexamethasone, remdesivir is a new drug with limited supplies and a price has yet to be announced.\n• None Effect of Dexamethasone in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19- Preliminary Report - medRxiv The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A supermarket worker, who wishes to remain anonymous, emailed us to say she had witnessed some customers paying for alcohol with free school meals vouchers.\n\nShe said: \"I appreciate there are so many families in need of food but looking at just how many [vouchers] we have received through the tills and you look at what the customer has bought, very rarely is it what you would class as essential food staples.\n\n\"Their trolleys are packed with clothes, alcohol, toys and electronics and they are using the school meal vouchers to pay for this.\"\n\n\"There is no block on what items they can purchase and we are not allowed to judge them or question their purchases,\" she said.\n\n\"They can purchase what ever items they like and the vouchers will scan.\"\n\nA statement from the Department for Education said: \"We are still fine-tuning details on how to ensure vouchers will be restricted to food provision. We'll set out details in due course.\"\n\nYou can send us your views via email or twitter.", "Flushing the toilet with the lid up creates a cloud of spray that can be breathed in and may spread infection, such as coronavirus, say researchers.\n\nChinese scientists calculate that flushing can propel a plume of spray up and out of the toilet bowl, reaching head height and beyond.\n\nDroplets can travel up to 3ft - or 91cm - from ground level, according to the computer model used by the scientists from Yangzhou University.\n\nShutting the lid would avoid this.\n\nThe work is published in the journal Physics of Fluids.\n\nCoronavirus is spread through airborne droplets from coughs and sneezes, or objects that are contaminated with them.\n\nPeople who are infected can also have traces of the virus in their faeces, although it is not yet clear whether this might be another way to pass the disease on to others.\n\nScientists around the world are testing sewage and wastewater to determine how some people might have become infected with coronavirus.\n\nOther viruses can be spread by poor toilet hygiene, known as faecal-oral transmission.\n\nAs water pours into the toilet bowl during a flush, it strikes the side, creating turbulence and droplets. The droplets are so small they typically float in the air for more than a minute, according to study author Ji-Xiang Wang and colleagues from Yangzhou University, China.\n\nDr Bryan Bzdek, from the Bristol Aerosol Research Centre at the University of Bristol, said although there was no clear evidence that coronavirus might spread in this way, it made sense to take precautions.\n\n\"The study authors suggest that, whenever possible, we should keep the toilet seat down when we flush, clean the toilet seat and any other contact areas frequently, and wash our hands after using the toilet.\n\n\"While this study is unable to demonstrate that these measures will reduce transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many other viruses are transmitted though the faecal-oral route, so these are good hygiene practices to have anyway.\"\n• None How can I tell if I've got Covid?", "There have been six books about James Bowen and his companion Bob to date\n\nA pet that inspired the book A Street Cat Named Bob has died aged 14.\n\nJames Bowen met Bob in 2007 during his battle with drug addiction when he found the cat abandoned and injured and decided to look after him.\n\nHe began taking the ginger cat with him when busking or selling The Big Issue in London.\n\nBowen eventually wrote a book about their relationship which became a smash hit and was made into a film, featuring Bob, in 2016.\n\nA Street Cat Named Bob: And How He Saved My Life was published in 2012, and there have since been five further books released in more than forty different languages.\n\nA second film, A Gift from Bob, which also features the eponymous feline, is due to be released later this year.\n\nBob accompanied his owner on the red carpet for the premiere of his film\n\nBowen credits his scarf-wearing companion with aiding his own recovery.\n\nIn a statement on the official Facebook page for his books, the author said Bob had saved his life.\n\n\"It's as simple as that. He gave me so much more than companionship. With him at my side, I found a direction and purpose that I'd been missing.\"\n\n\"He's met thousands of people, touched millions of lives. \"There's never been a cat like him. And never will again.\n\n\"I feel like the light has gone out in my life. I will never forget him.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jo Cox was killed as she arrived at a constituency surgery in June 2016\n\nJo Cox's sister has urged people to \"pull together with compassion and kindness\" on the fourth anniversary of the MP's murder.\n\nThe Labour MP for Batley and Spen was shot and stabbed by a far-right extremist.\n\nHe shouted \"Britain first\" in the attack, which took place a week before the EU referendum vote.\n\nKim Leadbeater said it was time for people to be more tolerant and listen to the point of view of others.\n\nShe said: \"How can we still be living in a world where people are abused, attacked and killed because of the colour of their skin?\n\nKim Leadbeater said her older sister Jo was always the shy one\n\n\"How can we still be living in a world where we are supposedly better connected than ever yet so many people feel lonely?\"\n\n\"I know that I have still got a huge amount of work to do in terms of dealing with the senseless murder of my sister.\n\n\"But I sometimes feel that I can't even begin to deal with the grieving process while there is still so much work to be done on the issues Jo cared about during her life.\"\n\nMs Leadbeater added: \"Four years on since Jo's murder... I do continue to be inspired by how, when faced with tragedy and crisis, people often also show the best of humanity.\"\n\nShe was speaking ahead of the fourth Great Get Together, which began in 2017 to reinforce the Mrs Cox's Commons speech saying we \"have far more in common than that which divides us\".\n\nThis year's event - which runs from 19-21 June - will comprise events which comply with social distancing rules.\n\nThey include a street bingo evening in Llantwit, Vale of Glamorgan, and a project to send letters and cards to care homes in Harleston, Norfolk.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The economy minister says there is “very little gap” between Wales and England in the way businesses are reopening.\n\nNon-essential shops re-opened yesterday in England but a date has not been set for them to do so in Wales.\n\nHe said First Minister Mark Drakeford would give more detail on Friday about plans for re-opening non-essential retail, the housing market and “outdoor economic activity” such as markets and car sales.\n\nHe said: “We do not wish to be in a position where we have to u-turn and renege on our promises here in Wales because businesses need certainty and they need to know, to have confidence in government to know that when we declare that part of the economy can reopen that will indeed happen.\n\n“I'm confident that when we give the go-ahead for businesses to reopen we do so knowing that businesses will be able to carry out reopening in a very safe and orderly way.\n\n“We've published guidance to enable that to happen.\n\n“We're working with sector bodies, we're working with employer groups, to ensure that the reopening of businesses in Wales does not put at severe risk the hard work that we have all contributed to in reducing that R number and limiting infection rates.”", "About 1.3 million children will be eligible for free school meal vouchers during the holidays, after a campaign by footballer Marcus Rashford.\n\nThe Manchester United player spoke to Boris Johnson over the phone on Tuesday morning.\n\nMarcus told BBC Breakfast's Sally Nugent about his call with the prime minister.\n\nYou can watch the full interview on BBC Breakfast on BBC One on 17 June.", "Twenty-six people have been charged with historical child sex offences.\n\nThe offences relate to several young people who West Midlands Police say suffered physical and emotional abuse between 2008 and 2016.\n\nFourteen men and 12 women, mainly from the Walsall area and aged between 20 and 69, are those charged.\n\nOthers are from West Bromwich; Wolverhampton; Bilston; and Redcar on Teesside. They will appear before magistrates at a later date.\n\nCharges include sexual assault of a child under 13, conspiracy to cause or incite children to engage in sexual activity, conspiracy to cause children to watch sexual acts, cruelty to a person under 16 and the rape of a child under 13, police said.\n\nCh Insp Jo Floyd said: \"This is a complex investigation involving several young people who have suffered physical and emotional abuse.\n\n\"We understand that this investigation will cause concern in the local community and I would like to reassure anyone affected by it that we take all reports of abuse seriously, no matter how long ago it happened.\"\n\nThe group are due to appear at Birmingham Magistrates' Court on 22 and 23 June.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis has sparked the biggest protest about racism in the US for a generation.\n\nWith the help of people in the neighbourhood, Panorama has pieced together the moments leading up to George Floyd's death.\n\nYou can watch B Panorama - George Floyd- A Killing That Shook the World in full on BBC iplayer in the UK.", "Reni Eddo-Lodge has become the first black British author to top UK's best-seller list since the official book chart was launched in 1998.\n\nLast week, Eddo-Lodge's book Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race topped the paperback non-fiction chart, following protests about racism.\n\nThe 2017 work has now become the best-selling title in the UK overall, according to Nielsen BookScan.\n\nThe author said it felt \"absolutely wild to have broken this record\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reni Eddo-Lodge This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"My work stands on the shoulders of so many Black British literary giants,\" Eddo-Lodge wrote on Twitter. \"Bernadine Evaristo, Benjamin Zephaniah, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Stella Dadzie, Stuart Hall, Linton K Johnson, Jackie Kay, Gary Younge - to name a few.\"\n\nFellow author Nikesh Shukla congratulated her, adding: \"Bewildering it's taken so long for this to happen but it couldn't happen to a better writer and person.\"\n\nAfter she topped the paperback non-fiction chart last week, Eddo-Lodge criticised the UK publishing industry for the fact it had taken so long for a black author to achieve the feat.\n\nShe said she was \"dismayed\" that the achievement only came about under \"tragic circumstances\" - referring to the death of George Floyd.\n\nRenewed interest in the title was sparked following protests around the death of Mr Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.\n\nAfter her book topped the non-fiction chart, Eddo-Lodge said: \"The fact that it's 2020 and I'm the first. Let's be honest. Reader demand aside, that it took this long is a horrible indictment of the publishing industry.\"\n\nSince 1998, only one other black author, former US first lady Michelle Obama, has scored the overall best-selling book in the UK, with her 2018 memoir Becoming.\n\nEddo-Lodge's book explores the links between gender, class and race in the UK and around the world.\n\nLast month, the writer posted online that she had noticed an upsurge in sales, which she found unsettling.\n\n\"This book financially transformed my life and I really don't like the idea of personally profiting every time a video of a black person's death goes viral,\" she wrote, urging readers to offer a donation to the Minnesota Freedom Fund.\n\nOn Monday, the newly-formed Black Writers' Guild sent an open letter to publishers raising concerns that the companies were \"raising awareness of racial inequality without significantly addressing their own\".\n\nThe letter was signed by authors including Evaristo, Zephaniah and Malorie Blackman.\n\nLast week, fellow author Dorothy Koomson posted an open letter to the publishing industry, in which she called it an \"extremely damaging\" environment for black authors.\n\nAlso last week, Evaristo became the first female writer of colour to top the mass market fiction chart with Girl, Woman, Other.\n\nHer novel jointly won the Booker Prize last year, together with Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None ‘Britain is in denial about race’", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the EU and UK are “not actually that far apart”\n\nUK and EU leaders have said new momentum is needed in negotiations on their future relationship, after high-level talks on Monday.\n\nThe PM, who met EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen virtually, said there was a \"very good\" chance of getting a trade deal by December.\n\nHe said he saw no reason why it cannot be \"done in July\", after the sides agreed to intensify talks next month.\n\nMrs von der Leyen said they \"agreed to deliver the best deal\" for citizens.\n\nThe EU also noted the UK's decision not to extend the transition period, which ends in December.\n\nIn a joint statement issued after Monday's meeting via video conference, the UK and EU \"welcomed the constructive discussions on the future relationship that had taken place\".\n\n\"The parties agreed nevertheless that new momentum was required,\" it said.\n\nThe high-level meeting was via video link\n\nThey have agreed to intensify talks in July, and to find an \"early understanding on the principles\" underlying any deal.\n\nThe UK government has said the talks in July will involve a mix of formal negotiating rounds and smaller group meetings in London and Brussels, if coronavirus guidelines allow.\n\nMr Johnson said the EU and the UK were \"not that far apart\" with regards to the future relationship, but he added that \"a bit of oomph\" was needed in the talks.\n\nCalling on the EU to \"put a tiger in the tank\", the prime minister said the chances of getting a trade deal by the end of the year were \"very good\", provided both sides focus now and \"get on and do it\".\n\nAsked what the cut-off date would be by which the UK government will give business certainty of what they can expect, Mr Johnson said he saw no reason why it cannot be \"done in July\".\n\n\"I certainly don't want to see it going on until the Autumn/Winter as I think perhaps in Brussels they would like. I don't see any point in that so let's get it done.\"\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who joined Mrs von der Leyen on the call along with European Parliament President David-Maria Sassoli, said a \"broad and ambitious agreement\" was \"in our mutual interest\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by katya adler This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd Mr Sassoli tweeted in Latin that \"agreements must be kept\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Sassoli This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street earlier said Mr Johnson would reiterate that the UK's ambition is for a high quality free trade agreement consistent with others the EU have agreed.\n\nMr Johnson was also due to make clear that the UK is ready to start trading on World Trade Organisation rules from 1 January if a deal cannot be reached.\n\nThis was Boris Johnson's first meeting with EU leaders since trade negotiations started back in March.\n\nSo, did we have an \"aha moment\"? A glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel of deadlocked talks?\n\nWell, not exactly. But this was always going to be a stocktaking moment, rather than high level negotiation.\n\nThe EU was buoyed to hear the prime minister express commitment to finding a deal.\n\nAnd while Brussels privately regards as unrealistic, the UK aim of having the outline of that deal in place by the end of the summer, EU insiders say negotiators will try everything to find agreement as soon as possible.\n\nYou wouldn't expect them to say anything less.\n\nBut notably absent from today's declarations was to what extent each side is willing to compromise.\n\nAnd that, of course, will be key.\n\nWithout some concessions, from both sides, today's high-level declaration of intent to reach an EU-UK deal, is rather empty.\n\nBut a French former Europe minister has said the EU is preparing itself for a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMEP Nathalie Loiseau told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are ready either for an agreement or for a no-deal and we are getting prepared more actively to a no-deal considering the circumstances.\n\n\"We believe it is possible to have an agreement - it has to be ready in October so that parliaments on both sides can ratify it.\n\n\"We believe it is possible because we have the political declaration which we negotiated together, signed together and should respect together - so, yes, the framework is here.\"\n\nMonday's virtual meeting comes after EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said there had been \"no significant areas of progress\" at the last negotiating round earlier this month.\n\nLikewise his UK counterpart David Frost had said progress \"remains limited,\" and negotiators were \"reaching the limits\" of what could be achieved in formal talks.\n\nDifferences between the two sides remain on fisheries, competition rules, police co-operation, and how a deal would be enforced.\n\nMeanwhile, Downing Street confirmed that Mr Johnson and Emmanuel Macron will meet in London on Thursday.\n\nThe French president will travel to London to attend official commemorations of 80th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French population to resist the German occupation of France during the Second World War.\n• None UK on EU changing trade talks policy: It's their call", "Photo-sharing app Instagram is set to overtake Twitter as a news source, research suggests.\n\nThe 2020 Reuters Institute Digital News report found the use of Instagram for news had doubled since 2018.\n\nThe trend is strongest among young people. It said nearly a quarter of UK 18-24-year-olds used Instagram as a source of news about coronavirus.\n\nBut social media platforms were also among the least-trusted sources.\n\nJust 26% of people said they trusted social media as a source of information about the virus. A similar percentage said they trusted news that had been shared via chat apps such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.\n\nNational governments and news organisations, by contrast, were both trusted by about 59% of respondents.\n\nInstagram is now used by more than a third of all people who answered the survey, and two-thirds of under-25s. And 11% use it for news, putting it just one point behind Twitter.\n\n\"Instagram's become very popular with younger people\", said Nic Newman, lead author of the report. \"They really respond well to stories that are told simply and well with visual images\".\n\nStand-out visual stories in recent months have helped - climate change, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the coronavirus have all seen massive engagement on the platform.\n\n\"It's not that one necessarily replaces the other,\" Mr Newman said. \"They might use Facebook and Instagram, or might use Twitter and Instagram.\"\n\nInstagram is owned by Facebook, which now reaches 85% of people each week. The company's dominance in how stories are being told \"remains incredibly important\", he added. The firm also owns WhatsApp.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic also seems to have offered a temporary reprieve to a downward trend in how much news organisations are trusted.\n\nOnly 38% of people said they trusted the news most of the time. Less than half - 46% - said they trusted their favoured news source.\n\nIn total, 40 countries were surveyed. Only in six of them did a majority say they could trust \"most of the news most of the time\".\n\nThe case was particularly poor in the UK, where only 28% of respondents backed the statement. That figure was 12 percentage points lower than the nation's response in the 2019 report.\n\nThat plummet in confidence was only matched by Chile and Hong Kong, which have both seen violent street protests - and still rank more highly than the UK, on 30% each.\n\nBut things changed substantially once the coronavirus crisis hit.\n\nA slightly differently worded question in April - about the level of trust in information about the coronavirus - saw news organisations surge to a 59% trust rating, on a par with national governments.\n\nThe report's authors speculate the identical levels of trust as a result of news organisations amplifying public health advice.\n\nBut that sudden high has already started to fall.\n\nTrust is a precious commodity for journalists which, like all social goods, is easily destroyed, but not easily created. Maintaining trust in the era of social media gets harder every day, as conspiracy theories go viral, accuracy is too often sacrificed at the altar of virality, and the very idea of truth is so contested.\n\nThis report shows a curious paradox in relation to trust. It is true that trust in what is sometimes disparagingly referred to as mainstream journalism is falling; yet the huge audiences for those outlets at the start of the pandemic are nothing if not a verdict on the public appetite for reliable, trustworthy news. In Britain, with its regulated broadcasting, there is still a lot of it about.\n\nThe deeper question is whether a young audience will consume it.\n\nReuters show the remarkable growth of Instagram as a news source, which makes Facebook's purchase of it look ever more like one of the greatest bargains in history. If, as the authors predict, Instagram overtakes Twitter next year, that might be the moment for journalists to finally realise that the latter, though their favoured platform, resembles public opinion less and less.\n\n\"What we're seeing is relatively high levels of trust - at the time of the lockdowns - in the media and national governments. But we have some polling since then, which shows that trust in the media fell 11 percentage points between April and May,\" Mr Newman said.\n\nWhile not officially part of the report, that recent polling suggests that the \"moment of national unity\" may have passed.\n\nAmid all this analysis of trust issues, most people - what the report calls the \"silent majority\" - prefer what they consider \"objective\" news.\n\nThe authors of the report had not asked this question since 2013, since when the use of opinion and open stances on news reporting has grown.\n\nIn nine countries where this was explored, all said they preferred news from sources with \"no point of view\".\n\nThe strongest preference was in Germany, Japan, the UK and Denmark. These are \"all countries with strong and independent public broadcasters\", the report noted.\n\nIn contrast, the US - \"where both politics and the media have become increasingly partisan over the years\" - many more people said they prefer news which shares their point of view.\n\nBBC News, which contributed data to the study, remained the most trusted news brand in the UK, with 64% trust.\n\n\"Despite the fact that the BBC has come under a lot of criticism, what we find consistently is the BBC remains, with most people, highly trusted,\" Mr Newman said. \"[It], along with broadcasters like ITV, tends to be the most trusted.\n\n\"But obviously, we have seen that eroding - particularly with a particularly vocal minority on both left and right, that in the last few years have trusted the BBC less.\"\n\nThe decline is particularly marked in those on the political left. Since the 2019 election, the left saw their confidence in the news dive to just 15%, the report found.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Couples are asking when they will be allowed to marry again\n\nCoronavirus restrictions should be eased for \"small weddings\" in Wales, say a couple who have already postponed their big day.\n\nIan Choi and Elizabeth Facer are just one of hundreds of couples who have had to pause their plans.\n\nThe engaged couple said it was \"frustrating\" trying to plan when nobody knows when weddings will be allowed to take place.\n\nThe Welsh Government said \"changes will only be made when it is safe to do so\".\n\n\"I think sometimes in society it's seen as a bit of a party, and that's one of the things that's difficult to communicate is that we're not asking for a party, we're asking to be able to get married,\" said 22-year-old Ms Facer.\n\nShe has started a petition with her 23-year-old fiancé calling for small weddings to be allowed to take place, after they scrapped their original plans for a wedding with 300 guests - including family flying in from Hong Kong.\n\nWaiting for their big day - Elizabeth Facer and Ian Choi have been forced to delay their marriage due to coronavirus rules in Wales\n\nThe Cardiff couple said their Christian faith means they want to get married as soon as they can, and hope to proceed with a small ceremony with just a registrar, pastor and witnesses.\n\nThey have delayed the wedding day for another week, in the hope the Welsh Government's next review on Friday will relax the rules.\n\nUntil then, the only weddings to take place are under exceptional circumstances, such as when a partner is terminally ill.\n\nFor Ms Facer, if the small ceremony goes ahead it will still mean her father will not be able to walk her down the aisle. And for Mr Choi, it means his parents will have to watch their son marry on the internet.\n\n\"When we think about the people that won't be able to be there, it is quite sad,\" she said.\n\n\"But I think at this point we've just got to take what we can and be grateful for that.\"\n\nIn Newport, plans for a much bigger wedding are also on hold.\n\nSarema Mustafa, 24, was hoping to have tied the knot in July.\n\nShe and her fiancé are Muslim, and their wedding celebrations were due to span a month, with the largest event hosting 1,200 guests.\n\nShe said her parents had invested \"thousands of pounds\" in the wedding, even extending their family home to accommodate guests from Pakistan.\n\n\"My parents were really excited to have all their friends and family from all over the world, all over the country, come to celebrate this wedding,\" said Ms Mustafa.\n\n\"Now, that is so far from what's going to happen.\"\n\nCovid restrictions mean a year \"without income\", says wedding supplier Lynne Morgan\n\nWedding supplier and one of the founders of the Wedding Guild of Wales, Lynne Morgan, said the current climate has been difficult for the wedding industry in Wales, and across the UK.\n\nShe has had 140 weddings she was working on cancelled: \"Most weddings have now been postponed to next year, which means that we're not having any real income this year that we'd forecasted for.\n\n\"And next year, it's going to have the impact that we can't take on as many new bookings as we would normally. So we are going to have a year without income.\"\n\nResponding, a Welsh Government official said: \"The coronavirus lockdown measures in Wales are in place to help limit the spread of the virus. Ministers review all the restrictions in place at each review period - and then decide what, if anything, can be changed.\"\n\nWedding days could look very different when Covid-19 rules are eased\n\nHowever, when weddings do return - small or large - they may look very different.\n\nMost councils in Wales said there is personal protective equipment ready to be used by registrars, while ceremony rooms have been rearranged to allow for social distancing.\n\nMeanwhile, Cardiff, Newport, Caerphilly, Pembrokeshire and Gwynedd councils have said they are looking into how ceremonies at register offices could eventually be streamed online.", "The production stars Bally Gill as Romeo and Karen Fishwick as Juliet\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has criticised a TV listing as \"unacceptable\" and \"abhorrent\" after it described the cast of one of its productions as \"garishly diverse\".\n\nThe piece appeared in a Sunday Times preview ahead of a showing of Macbeth on BBC Four.\n\nIt stated the play was \"less garishly diverse in casting than last Sunday's Romeo and Juliet\".\n\nThe Sunday Times has apologised for what was said to be a production error.\n\nThe 2018 Romeo and Juliet production is a modern-day interpretation of the classic love story.\n\nThe publication said the listing has been removed from its online edition\n\nThe cast includes British Asian actor Bally Gill as Romeo and Glaswegian Karen Fishwick as Juliet, while Mercutio is portrayed as a woman by Charlotte Josephine.\n\nIn a statement the RSC said it was \"shocked and appalled\" at the language.\n\nIt said: \"John Dugdale previewing Polly Findlay's 2018 RSC production of Macbeth, describes it as 'less garishly diverse in casting' than Erica Whyman's production of Romeo and Juliet the previous week.\n\n\"Such deliberate and offensive use of language demonstrates clear prejudice and devalues people, in this case specifically devaluing the work of RSC artists.\"\n\nThe theatre added it aims to reflect the nation's talent in all its diversity \"such that the audiences which we serve are all able to recognise themselves on stage\".\n\nIn a statement a Sunday Times spokesperson said: \"We are sorry that an inappropriate reference appeared in our review of Macbeth. It has been removed from our online edition.\"\n\nRSC productions have been broadcast as part of the BBC's Culture in Quarantine project which aims to bring arts and culture to people's homes during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Apple faces two European Commission probes into whether it has broken competition rules.\n\nOne investigation centres on iPad and iPhones being limited to installing apps from Apple's own App Store, among other restrictions imposed on third-party developers.\n\nThe other involves Apple Pay, with one issue being that other services cannot use the iPhone's tap-and-go facility.\n\nApple said it was \"disappointing\" the EU was \"advancing baseless complaints\".\n\nAnd it accused companies that had raised allegations against it of wanting a \"free ride\".\n\n\"Our goal is simple: for our customers to have access to the best app or service of their choice, in a safe and secure environment.\"\n\nApple is also under scrutiny in the US where the House Judiciary Committee is reported to have asked for its chief executive Tim Cook to appear alongside other tech leaders to answer questions about anti-trust concerns.\n\nAmazon has said that its chief executive Jeff Bezos is willing to testify, so long as Mr Cook and his counterparts at Facebook and Google also give evidence.\n\nThe latest development comes days before Apple holds its annual developers conference.\n\nThe investigation into Apple's App Store stems from a complaint raised by the music streaming service Spotify.\n\nUnlike Android, iOS does not offer a way to easily \"sideload\" apps that are not distributed via the official store\n\nLast year, it raised two specific concerns:\n\nApple typically charges apps a 30% cut of any sales, although that rate falls to 15% for the second and later years of any subscription.\n\nPublishers often sell media and other digital goods at a lower price when bought outside of their apps, but consumers can be unaware of the fact.\n\nSince Apple only allows apps to be downloaded from its own store, and has repeatedly updated its mobile operating system to prevent \"jailbreaks\" that circumvent this rule, it is argued that third-parties have little option but to comply with its conditions.\n\nThe only alternative is to offer their products as web-based services, which can limit their functionality.\n\nThe Financial Times has reported that Rakuten's online bookstore Kobo recently contacted the European Commission with similar concerns.\n\n\"Apple's anti-competitive behaviour has intentionally disadvantaged competitors, created an unlevel playing field, and deprived consumers of meaningful choice for far too long,\" said Spotify in response to the latest development.\n\n\"We welcome the European Commission's decision to formally investigate Apple, and hope they'll act with urgency to ensure fair competition on the iOS platform for all participants in the digital economy.\"\n\nThe Apple Pay investigation centres on a technology that allows iPhones and Apple Watches to make tap-and-go payments. It also lets users buy goods via an app or website without having to give their payment card details to the seller.\n\nApple Pay allows iPhone owners to transfer funds from their bank to a store without using a physical card\n\nThe European Commission has concerns about the conditions imposed on services that have added the facility.\n\nIt also has reservations that alternative payment tech cannot make use of the near field communication (NFC) chips in Apple's products to work with contactless payment terminals.\n\nBy contrast, Samsung phones - for example - let their NFC chips be used for both Samsung Pay and Google Pay.\n\n\"It is important that Apple's measures do not deny consumers the benefit of new payment technologies, including better choice, quality, innovation and competitive prices,\" said Margrethe Vestager, the EU's Competition Commissioner and Executive Vice President.\n\nThe commissioner added that she had not set a deadline for the investigations to be completed.\n\nWhat today's move is about is the huge power over prices and innovation that control of a platform gives to a tech giant.\n\nEver tried to buy a Kindle book via Amazon's iPhone apps? You can't because Amazon doesn't want to see Apple walk away with a 30% cut of the purchase price.\n\nApp developers big and small have protested over the years about what they see as Apple's abuse of its position as a gatekeeper to its iOS platform.\n\nSimilarly, the tech giant's strict controls on the way NFC works on its phones has sparked complaints that Apple Pay has huge advantages over what could be more innovative payment systems.\n\nComplaints about this behaviour aren't limited to Europe, but once again Margrethe Vestager has shown that she wants to set the pace in pushing back against the power of the big tech platforms.\n\nAnd another American behemoth may be about to feel the heat - all the signs are that Ms Vestager is about to determine the outcome of an existing probe into how Amazon controls its online retailing platform.\n\nThe twin inquiries follow an earlier case in which Brussels ordered Apple to pay 13bn euros ($14.4bn; £11.4bn) after claims that Ireland had given the company illegal state aid by failing to tax it properly. The Irish government and Apple have appealed the ruling.\n\nThe latest probes are likely to cast a shadow over the firm's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which begins on Monday.\n\nApple is holding a virtual event for WWDC this year because of the coronavirus pandemic\n\nApple has already claimed its app ecosystem generated more than half a trillion dollars in sales and other billings last year, saying the vast majority of that was not subject to it taking a commission.\n\nBut its relationships with some developers have become strained.\n\nIn recent days, one has called on Apple to reduce its standard cut from 30% to 20% while another has accused the firm of operating a \"capricious and inconsistent review process\" that can cause delays to the release of even minor app updates.\n\nIn an interview pegged to last year's WWDC, Mr Cook said that he thought that scrutiny of the firm was fair but added that regulators should bear in mind it does not have a monopoly of any market.", "A man was shot in the leg by police after a lorry was stolen at gunpoint\n\nA man has been shot by police after a lorry was stolen in an armed robbery.\n\nOfficers were called to the Rivermead Industrial Estate in Westlea, Swindon, at 17:00 BST after the vehicle was stolen by a man with a gun.\n\nPolice intercepted the lorry in Ridge Green and a man in his 50s was shot in the leg. He has been airlifted to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nWiltshire Police referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nSupt Phil Staynings said: \"I want to reassure the community that this incident was dealt with swiftly. Nobody else was injured and the incident is now contained.\n\n\"However, people living in the area will have seen a heavy police presence, which will continue throughout the evening.\n\n\"Due to the fact that a police firearm was discharged, we have automatically referred the incident to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.\"\n\nIn video circulating on social media officers can be repeatedly heard shouting \"put the gun down\".\n\nResidents living nearby told the BBC they heard \"at least one gunshot\".\n\nA spokesman for the IOPC, which has launched an independent investigation into the shooting, said: \"We understand, at this time, that officers from Wiltshire Police were called to a disturbance shortly after 5pm today following reports of an armed robbery in Rivermead Industrial Estate, Westlea.\n\n\"We have sent investigators to the scene and to the post-incident procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The final closing time: General manager Jackie Cunliffe stacks chairs in the Beresford Hotel dining room\n\nThree months after lockdown shut down large parts of the UK economy, job losses are beginning to bite - nowhere more so than in the Cornish town of Newquay where more than half of those employed work in the badly affected sectors such as tourism and hospitality.\n\nStanding in the dining room, amid a sea of upturned chair legs, piled on once bustling tables, Jackie Cunliffe reflects on the 30 years she spent working in Newquay's Beresford Hotel.\n\n\"It belonged to Shearings holidays, but actually it didn't. It belonged to us.\n\n\"We managed it, we owned it, we cared for it.\"\n\nThe 63-year-old general manager is widely respected and held in great affection by the 50 staff who lost their jobs when the hotel closed in May, after Shearings' parent company went into administration.\n\n\"We should have 200 people in here, having their breakfast, going out on tours all around Cornwall.\n\n\"We have diaries full of people asking for tables-for-two, specific rooms. All of it has just gone.\"\n\nSome of the staff had gathered in the hotel ballroom to join a conference call on 22 May, when the chief executive of Shearings' parent company, Specialist Leisure Group (SLG), told nearly 2,500 employees across the UK that efforts to save the group had failed.\n\nJust three years after reporting record sales and profits, the group - owned by American private equity firm Lone Star Funds - called in administrators, bringing to an end a company whose origins can be traced back 117 years.\n\nRemembering happier times - Caroline Tansley was a key member of the Beresford team\n\nAmong those in tears at the news was Caroline Tansley, who worked at The Beresford for 20 years - primarily as a receptionist, though she often pitched in with the entertainment: singing, dancing, bingo, comedy, and as 'Mother Christmas', handing out presents to guests.\n\nAs well as losing her job, Caroline is losing her accommodation and is obliged to move out by 3 July.\n\n\"Normally at this time of year, with the lovely weather we've been having, it would be heaving.\n\n\"To the see the hotel standing empty is just heart-breaking,\" she says.\n\nHer partner, Darren Philips, is in the same boat.\n\nA part-time assistant manager at the hotel, he says the company were brilliant when he lost the sight in his left eye 10 years ago, and even developed a role specially for him.\n\nThe hotel's part-time assistant manger, Darren Philips, fears he will not work again\n\nThe sight in his right eye isn't great either, and he fears he may not work again.\n\n\"I can't use computers. Anything that needs me to see really, I struggle with.\n\n\"I've worked here for so long, I know the building like the back of my hand. I'd struggle if I went to a different building, with steps. I'd end up falling down.\"\n\nThe 107-room Beresford Hotel is one of two hotels in Newquay that have been forced to close due to SLG's demise.\n\nA few yards along the same road, the 52 rooms of the Marina Hotel are empty too, the front doors directing any questions to the administrators in Wigan.\n\nTwo other hotels owned by the group in Cornwall have also shut - some 150 jobs are estimated to have been lost.\n\nNewquay has seen at least two hotels close this year\n\nWhile Covid-19 has been less of a health crisis in the south west of England than many had feared, the pandemic is predicted to hammer the local economy.\n\nCornwall Council will consider a report on Wednesday that indicates as many as 72,800 jobs - 27% of all jobs in the county - are at risk due to the ongoing lockdown.\n\nIt calculates that the all-important tourism sector will lose £630m by the end of June.\n\nData released last month showed a 61% increase in applications for Universal Credit across Cornwall; the rise in applications between March and April in Bodmin, Bude, Penzance and Newquay was over 1000%.\n\nAnd a report in April from think tank, the Centre for Towns predicts Newquay will suffer the greatest economic hit of any town in England and Wales.\n\nNo surprise then, that hopes of finding a new job quickly are not high among the Beresford's former employees.\n\nSome are being told they are competing with up to 500 people for jobs in local supermarkets - an intimidating prospect for the many staff who have not faced a job interview in decades.\n\nHead chef Phillip Milne says he is losing his pride\n\nHead chef Phillip Milne, who spent 18 years at the hotel and took great pride in teaching culinary skills to the many international staff who passed through, says the past few weeks have been demoralising.\n\n\"To have no security, and no jobs in the area, is very hard to swallow.\n\n\"You feel as though your pride's been taken away a bit.\n\n\"You're up at 6 o'clock in the morning because your pattern is still the same, and you're on the internet going through every single website looking for work.\"\n\nPhillip led a kitchen team that could serve 190 covers in around 90 minutes on a busy day.\n\nThe hotel mainly catered for older visitors, who often returned year after year for the comfort and familiarity which The Beresford offered.\n\nAt the height of the summer, Shearings could bring 1,000 people to Cornwall every week.\n\nFormer head housekeeper Katie Korvisia has been offered work cleaning holiday homes\n\nThere is hope, if the lockdown is further eased next month and tourists begin to return, that some jobs will open up.\n\nKatie Kovisia, the hotel's former head housekeeper, has been offered a cleaning job at a holiday park for the summer, or she could clean holiday cottages on a self-employed basis.\n\nNeither prospect is particularly appealing for the 15-year veteran of the Beresford, but she realises she may not have many options: \"Here I was part of a family. It's been my life. It's very sad.\"", "The so-called \"rough sex gone wrong\" defence will be outlawed in new domestic abuse legislation, a justice minister has told MPs.\n\nAlex Chalk said it was \"unconscionable\" that the defence can be used in court to justify or excuse the death of a woman \"simply because she consented\".\n\nHe said it would be made \"crystal clear\" in the Domestic Abuse Bill that it was not acceptable.\n\nThe bill, for England and Wales, is due to become law later this year.\n\nJess Phillips, Labour's shadow minister for domestic violence and safeguarding, spoke on an amendment proposed by Labour MP Harriet Harman and Conservative MP Mark Garnier to the legislation, to prevent lawyers from using the defence, but withdrew it following assurances from Mr Chalk.\n\nThe campaign group We Can't Consent To This, which wants the defence outlawed, said the minister's response was \"a big step forward\".\n\nThe group says the \"rough sex\" defence can result in a lesser sentence.\n\nCampaigners want to make it the expectation that murder charges are brought against those suspected of killing a person during sex.\n\nAs it stands, if someone kills another person during sexual activity they could be charged with manslaughter alone. To murder someone, there needs to have been an intention to kill that person or to cause them grievous bodily harm (GBH).\n\nWe Can't Consent To This has collated 60 examples of women \"who were killed during so-called 'sex games gone wrong'\" in the UK, since 1972.\n\nThe group claims that 45% of these cases ended in a \"lesser charge of manslaughter, a lighter sentence or the death not being investigated as a crime at all\".\n\nThere are also 115 people - all but one of whom were women - who have had to attend court where it is claimed they consented to violent injury, the group has said.\n\nThe violence used in the non-fatal assaults included waterboarding, wounding, strangulation, beating and asphyxiation.\n\nSpeaking to MPs at the Commons' Public Bill Committee, Jess Phillips said: \"The law should be clear to all - you cannot consent to serious injury or death, but the case law is not up to the task.\"\n\nShe said when a woman is dead \"she can't speak for herself\" but any man charged with killing a woman or a current or former partner could \"simply say she wanted it\".\n\n\"This is why we must change the law,\" she said.\n\nAlex Chalk, replying for the government, said: \"It is unconscionable for defendants to suggest that the death of a woman is justified, excusable or legally defensible because that woman had engaged in violent and harmful sexual activity which resulted in her death, simply because she consented.\"\n\nHe said that would be made \"crystal clear\" in the Domestic Abuse Bill but he was concerned the wording of the amendment would allow defence lawyers \"wiggle room\".\n\nHe said the government's approach would be set out by the report stage - the next stage in the bill's progression through Parliament. Ms Phillips said she was satisfied with this assurance.\n\nThe We Can't Consent to This campaign group said what had happened in Parliament \"was genuinely a big step forward\", adding: \"We should know within weeks what their proposals are and if they've gone far enough.\"\n\nEarlier this month at Prime Minister's Questions, Conservative MP Laura Farris said the government had taken a lead on tackling domestic abuse, but said there was \"an ugly dimension that remains unresolved\" on the issue of the rough sex defence.\n\nIn response, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are committed to ensuring that the law is made clear and that defence is inexcusable.\"", "Nicola Sturgeon has warned against any \"reckless\" move to ease lockdown in Scotland despite a growing \"economic crisis\" and rising unemployment.\n\nThe first minister spoke after the release of the latest jobless figures.\n\nThe unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in Scotland between February and April, compared with a UK-wide rate of 3.9%.\n\nMs Sturgeon said easing the lockdown \"too quickly\" would risk a resurgence of the virus which would cost lives and economic productivity.\n\nShe said the progress made in suppressing Covid-19 so far could help build a \"sustainable economy recovery\".\n\nAnd she called on the UK government to extend the job retention \"furlough\" scheme, saying it was \"almost certain\" to be needed beyond October.\n\nScotland is expected to move to the second phase of the government's \"route map\" towards lifting lockdown on Thursday, which could see a \"safe re-opening\" of more shops and workplaces.\n\nThe latest data from the Office for National Statistics suggested that unemployment in Scotland had risen by 30,000 to 127,000 between February and April, covering the period when lockdown first hit the labour market.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was important to be \"cautious\" about drawing conclusions from the data.\n\nShe said the protection of the furlough scheme \"means these figures are likely to be an underestimate of the full impact of Covid-19 on business activity\".\n\nHowever, she said it \"undoubtedly\" showed that \"dealing with the public health crisis of Covid has created an economic crisis that demands our full focus and attention\".\n\nShe said: \"These kinds of statistics and generally increasing economic anxiety will lead some to argue for a quicker than planned exit from lockdown.\n\n\"But difficult though all this is, we must guard against a reckless relaxation of lockdown. If we ease restrictions too quickly and allow the virus to run out of control again, that would be economically unproductive and would cost more lives.\n\n\"The progress we have made is an essential foundation for the sustainable economic recovery we want - the more we can suppress this virus now, the more normality we can restore as we do open up the economy and society.\"\n\nThe latest review of Scotland's lockdown is to be held on Thursday, with the first minister saying she would \"hope and expect\" that Scotland could move to the second phase of her government's \"route map\".\n\nMeasures included in phase two include letting people meet in larger groups outdoors, and with another household indoors. It could also see factories, warehouses, laboratories and small shops re-open and the construction industry begin to re-start.\n\nMs Sturgeon said: \"Not all major changes will happen overnight, but I do hope in the coming weeks that further important restrictions will be lifted so workers can return to factories, with strict hygiene and physical distancing measures in place, so the construction industry can continue its restart plan, and non-essential shops have a date for safe re-opening.\n\n\"None of this will restore the economy immediately to full health but will be a sustainable improvement on our current position.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has identified four phases for easing the restrictions:\n\nPhase 1: Virus not yet contained but cases are falling. From 28 May you should be able to meet another household outside in small numbers. Sunbathing is allowed, along with some outdoor activities like golf and fishing. Garden centres and drive-through takeaways can reopen, some outdoor work can resume, and childminding services can begin.\n\nPhase 2: Virus controlled. You can meet larger groups outdoors, and meet another household indoors. Construction, factories, warehouses, laboratories and small shops can resume work. Playgrounds and sports courts can reopen, and professional sport can begin again.\n\nPhase 3: Virus suppressed. You can meet people from more than one household indoors. Non-essential offices would reopen, along with gyms, museums, libraries, cinemas, larger shops, pubs, restaurants, hairdressers and dentists. Live events could take place with restricted numbers and physical distancing restrictions. Schools should reopen from 11 August.\n\nPhase 4: Virus no longer a significant threat. University and college campuses can reopen in full, mass gatherings are allowed. All workplaces open and public transport is back at full capacity.\n\nThe first minister said she had \"zero interest in keeping any part of the country in lockdown any longer than is necessary\", but said \"patience will pay dividends in the future\".\n\nShe said: \"A gradual re-emergence is crucial - it allows our businesses to start to operate and make money again, but we know that because this re-emergence is by necessity gradual it must be accompanied by continued support for business.\n\n\"We have welcomed assistance from the UK government such as the job retention scheme, but it's essential this is extended if that proves necessary - which I think is almost certain.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said the UK government was providing \"comprehensive coronavirus support packages\" and that the furlough scheme and a similar system for the self-employed had \"saved nearly 800,000 jobs across Scotland\".\n\nMore than a quarter of the UK's workforce is now covered by the furlough scheme, which is due to run until the end of October - although the amount of money firms have to contribute is to increase each month.\n\nMs Sturgeon also resisted calls to relax the 2m (6ft) physical distancing rule, saying it would hit businesses harder if the virus were to start spreading out of control again.\n\nThe Scottish Chambers of Commerce said it was \"essential\" this rule be relaxed \"to prevent wholesale economic collapse\" of the retail, hotel and restaurant sectors.\n\nThe Scottish Beer and Pub Association said the limit \"simply does not make financial sense\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the rule would be kept under review, but said it was better to re-open the economy \"sustainably\" than to \"run the risk of having to shut it again weeks or months later\" because of a resurgence of the virus.", "A lack of personal interaction with teachers is one of the many ways children are missing out\n\nThe vast majority of teachers (90%) say their pupils are doing less or much less work than they would normally at this time of the year, a study finds.\n\nThe report by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) says head teachers believe around a third of pupils are not engaging with set work.\n\nLimited or no access to technology was a problem for around a quarter (23%) of pupils, school leaders told the NFER.\n\nThe government says it has committed over £100m to help home learning.\n\nThe NFER report is based on findings from a survey of 1,233 school leaders and 1,821 teachers in England's state schools, carried out between 7 and 17 May.\n\nIt raises particular concern about the impact of school closures, due to Covid 19, on the learning of pupils from the most disadvantaged areas, saying pupil engagement is lower in schools with the highest levels of deprivation.\n\nSecondary schools with the highest number of children eligible for free school meals reported that 48% of pupils were engaged with learning activities, compared with 66% and 77% of pupils at schools in the middle and lowest brackets.\n\nTeachers told researchers the following pupils were finding it particularly difficult to engage in remote learning, compared to their peers:\n\nTeachers say just over half (55%) of their pupils' parents are engaged with their children's home learning, according to the report.\n\nBut teachers from the most deprived schools report a lower parental engagement, at 41%, than those from the least deprived schools, at 62%.\n\nThere is concern that many young people are disengaging without the school routine\n\nNFER chief executive Carole Willis said: \"There are considerable differences in the levels of pupil engagement in remote learning, particularly amongst the most disadvantaged pupils.\"\n\nThere is a risk that the attainment gap will widen as a result of the pandemic, she added, calling for a \"comprehensive and long-term plan to address this issue\".\n\nJosh Hillman, director of education at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the research, said: \"The shift to remote learning during lockdown has made the implications of children and young people's unequal access to IT equipment and connectivity even more stark.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the heads' union ASCL, backed a national plan \"to help these children to catch up\".\n\n\"This analysis shows that children who already face the greatest challenges have suffered the worst impact to their learning during the lockdown, and that the digital divide is largely to blame.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"We will do whatever we can to make sure no child, whatever their background, falls behind as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"We are also considering, with a range of partner organisations, what more is required to support all pupils who have been affected by school closures.\"\n\nThe NFER study comes as a research paper from University College London's Institute of Education finds pupils across the UK are studying for an average of 2.5 hours a day during lockdown.\n\nThis figure is about half that indicated by a previous survey by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, suggesting that learning losses could be much greater than previously thought.\n\nThe UCL research, which examined data from a UK household longitudinal study covering 4,559 children, says one fifth of pupils (around two million children in the UK) did no schoolwork or less than an hour a day at home, while 17% put in more than four hours a day.\n\nIt finds that the variability in the amount of schoolwork being done at home is adding to existing regional and socioeconomic inequalities, with pupils in London, the South East of England and Northern Ireland receiving more offline schoolwork, such as assignments, worksheets and watching videos, than elsewhere in the UK.\n\nIn the South East, for example, 28% of children were receiving four or more pieces of offline schoolwork per day, compared with the countrywide average of 20%.\n\nThe report also says children eligible for free school meals \"appear to be additionally disadvantaged during lockdown\", with 15% receiving four or more pieces of offline schoolwork compared with 21% of children not eligible for free meals.\n\nProf Francis Green, who led the research, said it \"painted a gloomy picture of lost schooling and low amounts of schoolwork at home\".\n\n\"The closure of schools, and their only-partial re-opening, constitute a potential threat to the educational development of a generation of children.\n\n\"Everyone is losing out in this generation, some much more than others.\n\n\"Better home schoolwork provision, and better still an early safe return to school for as many as possible, should now become a top priority for government.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nCoverage: Tue-Fri: Radio 5 Live Sports Extra 14:55-16:20 including three race commentaries; further coverage on Radio 5 Live on Saturday; Daily live text updates on BBC Sport website.\n\nWhen a jubilant Frankie Dettori and his mount Stradivarius were saluted by a 70,000 crowd at Royal Ascot a year ago, life was very different.\n\nCovid-19 and social distancing were unheard of. Now flat racing's biggest meeting is set to take place behind closed doors with jockeys wearing face masks.\n\nOn Tuesday, there will be no Queen, Royal procession or much of the glitz and glamour so associated with one of Britain's most famous sporting occasions, but there will be elite sport and plenty of it.\n\nAn expanded programme sees six additional races for a total of 36 contests over five days.\n\nStill Royal - but no procession\n\nFor the first time in her 68-year reign, the Queen will not be present at her favourite meeting.\n\nWhile the fixture retains its regal title and branding, it is out with the top hats and in with the temperature checks as numbers at the meeting are restricted to the hundreds.\n\n\"The attention of the world is on the biggest sporting event globally to take place since sport resumed,\" says Ascot director of racing Nick Smith.\n\n\"That is a heavy responsibility for us but it is a statement that racing is back. We must put on the best show we can.\"\n\nThe fixture will retain an international feel - horses can travel from the United States, France and the Republic of Ireland even if there are restrictions keeping their trainers away.\n\nTelevision coverage is on ITV and Sky, with pictures broadcast in 120 countries, including the United States, Australia and India, and countries in the Middle East and the Caribbean.\n\nLike other racehorse owners, the Queen is expected to follow from home - in her case down the road at Windsor Castle.\n\nOwners will be able to follow horses in the parade ring with a live 360-degree camera feed, while some trainers and jockeys are expected to give post-race debriefs by Facetime video calls.\n\nPunters are being urged to wear a hat and dress up at home as part of the racecourse's #StyledWithThanks initiative which will benefit four frontline charities.\n\n\"It's going to be strange behind closed doors but will still be a great meeting with high-quality racing,\" says jockey Jim Crowley.\n\nHe is back to one meal a day after the \"novelty\" of three daily during the 76-day suspension of racing before the sport returned on 1 June.\n\n\"I put on about half a stone - it was lovely being able to have a fry-up in the morning,\" adds Crowley, whose racing weight is 8st 10lb.\n\nThe 2016 champion jockey, who grew up just a furlong or two from Ascot, admits it has been strange adhering to the new safety protocols.\n\n\"It's different wearing masks in a race, and sometimes your goggles steam up. You can't have showers which can be a bit uncomfortable if you've had six or seven rides, but it's good to be back,\" he tells BBC Sport.\n\nThe lack of a big crowd could suit his mount, Battaash, odds-on favourite for Tuesday's King's Stand Stakes, one of eight top-level Group One races at the meeting which are part of the British Champions Series.\n\n\"I think it will be a positive as it should help him in the preliminaries. The first year he ran at York, he was close to the crowd and he boiled over,\" said Crowley.\n\nA quieter atmosphere could help the horse settle, and Blue Point - who beat him into second twice at Royal Ascot - is not around this time.\n\n\"When Battaash does win, it's explosive. He's put in some monster performances. If he's on his A game, nothing can beat him, \" said Crowley.\n\nThe going at the track was described as good to soft on Tuesday morning after 10mm of rain overnight.\n• Tuesday - Circus Maximus, trained by Aidan O'Brien, bids for a second straight Royal Ascot win - this time in the Queen Anne Stakes but Terrebulum looks a big danger under Dettori.\n• Wednesday - Japan, Headman and Barney Roy head the runners in the Prince of Wales's Stakes while Hollie Doyle will bid to become only the third female jockey to win at the meeting when she partners Win 'O 'Clock in the King George V Stakes.\n• Thursday - Dettori, who clocked up a historic four-timer on this day last year, seeks a third consecutive Gold Cup win on Stradivarius, trained by John Gosden.\n• Friday - American trainer Wesley Ward aims for an 11th Royal Ascot win, with Kimari his big hope in the Commonwealth Cup for three-year-old sprinters.\n• Saturday - The Coronation Stakes, with US runner Sharing and home hope Quadrilateral among the entries, heads a Group One triple-header. The 2,000 Guineas runner-up Wichita and third Pinatubo face off again in the St James's Palace Stakes while bargain buy Sceptical, snapped up by his Irish owners for just £2,800, competes for a first prize of £150,000 in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We tolerate a risk of our left and right hands working independently\".\n\nThe government department responsible for overseas aid is to be merged with the Foreign Office (FCO), the PM has announced.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs abolishing the separate Department for International Development (DfID) would mean aid spending better reflected UK aims.\n\nHe said the \"long overdue reform\" would ensure \"maximum value\" for taxpayers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the move would weaken UK influence, and he would re-establish DfID if elected PM.\n\nThree former prime ministers - Conservative David Cameron, and Labour's Gordon Brown and Tony Blair - have also criticised the move.\n\nMr Cameron said it would mean \"less expertise, less voice for development at the top table and ultimately less respect for the UK overseas\".\n\nMinisters are aiming to set up the new joint department - called the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office - by September.\n\nThe move to combine the two, which have a previous history of being merged and split up again, has long been mooted in Conservative circles.\n\nAnnouncing the plan in the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new joint department would lend \"extra throw-weight and kilowattage\" to the UK's aims overseas.\n\nHe added that it was \"outdated\" to keep the departments separate, with other developed countries already running aid as part of their foreign ministries.\n\nFor too long, he said, UK aid spending had \"been treated as some giant cashpoint in the sky that arrives without any reference to UK interests\".\n\nHowever he pledged DfID's budget - which at £15bn last year dwarfed the £2.4bn spent by the FCO - would be maintained, with the UK committed to continuing to spend 0.7% of national income on aid projects.\n\nBoris Johnson has wanted to merge the Foreign Office and Department for International Development for years.\n\nHe believes that it is wrong to have two arms of UK foreign policy acting independently, and wants more coherence so the UK can speak with one voice on overseas matters.\n\nBut critics within the aid sector fear this merger may see more of the money focused on UK national interests and less on poverty reduction. As such, this is a politically controversial move.\n\nSome will see it as a sensible reordering of Whitehall, to ensure joined up policy and more effective aid spending, helping the most vulnerable while also promoting Britain abroad.\n\nOthers will see it as a bureaucratic distraction that will potentially weaken the UK's global reputation as an aid superpower.\n\nIn response, Sir Keir said there was \"no rationale\" for the merger, which he said was being made now to \"deflect attention\" from the government's handling of the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nHe said DfID had proved one of the UK's \"best performing departments,\" and abolishing it represented \"the tactics of pure distraction\".\n\n\"Abolishing DfID diminishes Britain's place in the world,\" he told MPs.\n\nAsked later on Tuesday whether he would undo the merger if elected PM, he replied: \"Yes, we introduced DfID for a reason.\n\n\"This was cross-party consensus for many many years that DfID did good work. Of course it should be reinstated.\"\n\nTory MP Andrew Mitchell, who was in charge of DfID between 2010 and 2012, said abolishing the department would be a \"quite extraordinary mistake\".\n\nBut fellow Conservative Jeremy Hunt, who said he had \"wrested with this issue\" as a former foreign secretary, said the merger was the \"right thing to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOxfam, which has delivered development projects using money from DfID, said the merger would harm the fight to reduce global poverty.\n\nThe charity's chief executive Danny Sriskandarajah said the move was \"scarcely believable\" at a time when the world was focused on fighting coronavirus.\n\n\"This decision puts politics above the needs of the poorest people and will mean more people around the world will die unnecessarily from hunger and disease.\"\n\n\"The Foreign Office may be excellent at diplomacy, but it has a patchy record of aid delivery and is not as transparent as DfID\", he said.\n\nFormer Labour PM Tony Blair - who carved DfID out of the Foreign Office during his time in Downing Street - also called the move \"wrong and regressive\".\n\n\"The strategic aims of alignment with diplomacy and focus on new areas of strategic interest to Britain could be accomplished without its abolition,\" he said.\n\nHis successor Gordon Brown said the decision to axe DfID was \"sad,\" adding it had been \"one of the UK's great international assets.\"\n\nSNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford said the move represented the UK \"turning its back on the world and to those most in need\".\n\nActing Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said that \"confusing\" aid objectives with foreign policy decisions was a \"massive step backwards\".\n\nThe department now known as DfID began life under Harold Wilson's Labour government in 1964 as the Ministry of Overseas Development (ODM).\n\nIt was later merged with the Foreign Office under Ted Heath's Conservative government in 1970, but was re-established as a separate ministry by Mr Wilson after his return to Downing Street in 1974.\n\nIt was re-merged with the Foreign Office again however after the election of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979.\n\nIt obtained its current name of the Department for International Development (DfID) in 1997 after the carve-out under Mr Blair.", "Young people can feel isolated from friends despite the presence of social media\n\nThe delay in getting children and adolescents back to schools is a \"national disaster\" that is putting their mental health at risk, say leading psychologists.\n\nIn an open letter to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, they say the isolation of lockdown is harming already vulnerable young people.\n\nHighlighting the low risk to children of Covid-19, they call for social distancing measures to be minimised.\n\nAnd for a return to normal life.\n\nIn the letter, signed by more than 100 specialists in psychology, mental health and neuroscience, and published in The Sunday Times, they write: \"As experts working across disciplines, we are united as we urge you to reconsider your decision and to release children and young people from lockdown.\n\n\"Allow them to play together and continue their education by returning to preschool, school, college and university, and enjoy extra-curricular activities including sport and music as normally, and as soon, as possible.\"\n\nIt comes after an opinion piece in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health warned of the damaging long-term consequences of a lack of face-to-face contact among young people and their peers.\n\nProf Ellen Townsend, professor of psychology at the University of Nottingham, who organised the letter, said mental health problems such as anxiety were already rising in young people before lockdown.\n\nShe told the BBC there was evidence that growing feelings of loneliness and social isolation as a result of school closures during the pandemic could be making that worse, especially among teenagers.\n\nAnd she described hearing some \"heart-breaking stories\" of children struggling.\n\nThe letter also points to evidence that children are at low risk from Covid-19.\n\n\"Suicide is already the leading cause of death in 5-19 year olds in England and the second leading cause of death in young people globally; thankfully, Covid-19 will never claim this many young lives,\" it says.\n\nThe letter goes on to say that children are being \"neglected in this crisis\" and \"their futures must now be given priority\".\n\nSchools were shut across the UK on 20 March in order to reduce the spread of coronavirus. Apart from the children of key workers, most children have not been to school since then and will not enter a classroom until after the summer holidays.\n\nA small number of primary school children have returned in England, but only in small groups.\n\nSignatories to the letter include Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge, Prof Rory O'Connor, chair in health psychology at Glasgow University, broadcaster and author Prof Tanya Byron and Prof Uta Frith, from the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.\n\nFrom now on, young people must be included in making decisions involving them, they say.\n\n\"We need to recognise the sacrifice that children have already made for others and we should not ask for that sacrifice to continue.\n\n\"When many of this cohort enter adulthood, we will be deep in recession, so they will need mental resilience and educational preparedness.\n\n\"Instead we are damaging both, with lifelong consequences for them and society,\" the letter ends.", "Prince Charles has still not fully regained his sense of smell and taste after having coronavirus in March, he revealed on a visit to NHS staff.\n\nThe prince discussed his personal experience with the virus as he met workers at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital - at a 2m distance.\n\nHe was accompanied by his wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, who said the staff had showed \"Britain at its best\".\n\nIt was the couple's first face-to-face public engagement since lockdown began.\n\nThey met front-line staff and key workers from several NHS trusts, including consultants, nurses and cleaners, at the hospital near Prince Charles's Highgrove estate.\n\nSocial distancing rules were observed, with those waiting to meet them standing on yellow dots to ensure they were 2m apart.\n\nPrince Charles greeted some of those he met with a \"namaste\" - clasping his hands together - instead of a handshake.\n\nJeff Mills, 47, a healthcare assistant from Cheltenham General Hospital, said: \"He did speak of his personal experience, so first-hand experience for him.\n\n\"He also spoke about his loss of smell and taste and, sort of, still felt he's still got it now.\"\n\nThey're never the most natural of meetings. Even at the best of times, royal visits can be a touch artificial. It's all that protocol: what do you call them; must one bow/curtsey; what does one talk about?\n\nAnd now it's become ever so slightly more complicated thanks to the requirements of social distancing.\n\nWhen Charles and Camilla turned up at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital they were greeted by staff who looked as though they were taking part in a military parade… they were formed up in impeccably well-presented ranks, each person 2m from each other.\n\nEveryone understood and the royal guests joked about taking a salute or telling everyone to \"fall out\".\n\nBut the important thing was that it didn't interfere with the essential message of the occasion.\n\nPrince William too had resumed face to face royal visits, meeting first responders at an ambulance station in Norfolk.\n\nConversations may not be at their most relaxed when the speakers are standing apart but no amount of protocol or \"distancing\" can dilute the underlying message of gratitude to all those who've been in the coronavirus front line.\n\nThe 71-year-old prince was diagnosed with Covid-19 near the start of the outbreak, after suffering mild symptoms. A loss of smell is thought to be one of the key symptoms.\n\nHe later said he had \"got away with it quite lightly\".\n\nAsked if the country's appreciation of the NHS had changed for good, the duchess said: \"I think it has, you can tell by all the people coming out every week to clap - they've done the most remarkable things.\n\n\"The way they've looked after people, the way they've sort of kept control of the whole thing... it's a question of not panicking and getting on with it and I think they are Britain at its best.\"\n\nShe also revealed the couple had their first socially-distanced reunion with their grandchildren last weekend, saying it had been a \"great treat\", even though they were not able to hug them.\n\nWith lockdown restrictions being eased, the Royal Family have chosen to take a step towards a return to normality - with a series of face-to-face public engagements.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge visited King's Lynn Ambulance Station in Norfolk - the first time he had met members of the public in person since coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nPrince William's visit to the King's Lynn Ambulance Station was also socially distanced\n\nPrince William joked about how he was looking forward to having a pint in the pub, as he praised staff for \"all your hard work\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone appreciates the NHS, we have an amazing system, it's a great health service and many countries around the world envy what we have.\n\n\"It's not until you have a big crisis, a pandemic, and everyone realises we have to really make sure we value and we show our appreciation.\"\n\nHe also joked: \"I'm worried about the waistline of the nation as well, with all the chocolate and cakes. I've done a lot of baking at home.\"\n\nThe prince recently revealed he had been volunteering for crisis helpline Shout 85258 during the lockdown.", "Drugs giant AstraZeneca has announced it is ready to provide a potential new coronavirus vaccine from September.\n\nThe firm said it had concluded deals to deliver at least 400 million doses of the vaccine, which it is developing with Oxford University.\n\nAstraZeneca said it was capable of producing one billion doses of the AZD1222 vaccine this year and next.\n\nInitial trials are under way and AstraZeneca said it recognised that the vaccine might not work.\n\nBut the company said it was committed to advancing the clinical programme.\n\nScientists have warned that a coronavirus vaccine, if developed, might not confer full immunity, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a vaccine might never be found.\n\nDespite these reservations, intensive research continues, with about 80 groups around the world working on possible vaccines.\n\nAstraZeneca indicated that production would take place in more than one country. It thanked the UK and US governments for \"substantial support to accelerate the development and production of the vaccine\".\n\nIt also said it was in discussions with the Serum Institute of India and other potential partners to increase production and distribution.\n\nSpecifically, it said it had received support of more than $1bn from the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for the development, production and delivery of the vaccine,\n\nAstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot described the coronavirus pandemic as \"a global tragedy\" and \"a challenge for all of humanity\".\n\n\"We need to defeat the virus together or it will continue to inflict huge personal suffering and leave long-lasting economic and social scars in every country around the world,\" he said.\n\n\"We are so proud to be collaborating with Oxford University to turn their ground-breaking work into a medicine that can be produced on a global scale.\"", "What is happening with the great majority of children who are missing out on school in England?\n\nThat's not a random question - and, more puzzlingly, it's not one with an answer - because at the moment no-one really knows.\n\nSome parents might see their children learning from a dazzlingly digital, interactive version of the school day, while others will see their children putting in a long hard day on Netflix, with their schoolwork a fast-receding memory.\n\nThere is no consistent approach or anyone even monitoring what's offered for the more than 90% of pupils who are not back in school.\n\nDisquiet about that is rising, not least among parents considering the time lost before important exams.\n\nIt feels as though the changed world of Covid-19 has become semi-permanent, but the approach for schools seems stuck in the makeshift approaches of the first lockdown days in March.\n\nIf schools have to spread out classes, how will all year groups be able to return in the autumn?\n\nThat worked for a while - an online academy was rapidly put together, laptops were promised for the disadvantaged and teachers put in long hours and worked through their holidays to teach pupils online and keep schools open for key workers.\n\nBut speaking privately, school leaders say they felt excluded from big decisions, such as how schools would begin to return.\n\nThe date 1 June had been in discussion for many weeks for a phased return, but when it was also announced that all primary years would return by the end of term, many head teachers immediately warned that with social distancing that it was never going to happen.\n\nIt felt as though political announcements and the realities of classroom capacity had parted ways - and things began to drift.\n\nInstead of taking common ownership of a shared plan, teachers' and head teachers' union leaders found themselves uncertain whether there even was a plan.\n\nThe ditching of proposals to bring back all primary children this week suddenly cast a hard cold light on how long most pupils would be out of school.\n\nThe government has been performing its own balancing act - on the one hand accused by teachers' unions of risking safety by going back to school too soon, while also being under pressure from some parents and employers for not going back quickly enough.\n\nNext week it will try to extricate itself with a promise of summer clubs and catch-up classes. But no matter how big the back of the envelope on which these ideas will be written, it will still be about looking after and supporting children in a temporary way, and not regular lessons with their own teachers.\n\nHow will pupils catch up on lost time for next summer's exams?\n\nBut the really big decision and the most difficult question for schools is what happens in September - will pupils be able to go back in any way that resembles a regular school day?\n\nThis is only 10 weeks away - less time than since the lockdown started - and there are already warnings that if schools are going to have any chance to get ready, decisions will have to be made very soon.\n\nAnd many parents will be worried at the prospect of more temporary timetables and online lessons stretching over the horizon.\n\nIf the 2m social distance is still in place in September, perhaps only half of pupils could return at any one time, maybe not even that many.\n\nThe lack of space that derailed the return of primary classes would apply to secondary years too.\n\nThat would mean rotas and part-time lessons into the autumn, with all the disruption to learning and to parents wanting to get back to work.\n\nWill the return to school still be part-time in September?\n\nEven if the 2m rule is lowered to 1m, some schools warn they will struggle to accommodate all their children.\n\nThere has been talk of taking over church halls and empty buildings close to schools - and it might work in some instances - but many would struggle with the safety issues of creating instant classrooms in nearby sites for hundreds of children each day.\n\nA heads' leader says it's hard enough finding teachers in regular times, so how would they hire an entire parallel staff in a few weeks?\n\nAnd that's before the challenges of deciding what to do about A-levels and GCSEs when such a large chunk of the year has been missed.\n\nA change on social distancing could make a difference to how many could be taught.\n\nBut schools are clamouring for a strategy, and one they can help to shape rather than hearing it announced on television, that would allow them to get ready for a return to school, in whatever form that now might take.\n\nParents brought home their children in March in a great moment of collective uncertainty. Three months later they need much clearer answers about what happens next.", "The lack of routine means many teenagers are sleeping in\n\n\"I'm worried about a lack of motivation - he's not getting up until one o'clock.\"\n\nMany parents across the UK will empathise with mother-of three Louise, who is worried her teenage son is becoming disengaged from his studies, as schools remain closed due to Covid-19.\n\n\"It's hard enough motivating a lazy 17-year-old boy who doesn't really care much about school in normal times,\" says Louise.\n\nWhen schools were closed two weeks before the Easter holidays, few parents were expecting the home school scenario to go on for more than a few weeks.\n\nWhile there is a possibility that some, if not all, primary school year groups in England may go back before the long summer holidays, this is unlikely to be the case in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAnd it's becoming clear that secondary schools (apart from \"some face-to-face contact\" with teachers for Year 10 and 12 pupils in England) will remain shut until September or even later - but nobody really knows.\n\nLouise, who did not want us to use her full name, says she's worried that not being in school for such a long time will mean some pupils lose interest and give up.\n\n\"These children, they're losing any motivation, so when they do go back to school, I don't think they're really going to care.\n\n\"They need the interaction with the teacher, a bit more more than, 'Here's a worksheet'.\n\n\"I'm worried my son's not going to bother doing any work now before his A-levels next year and frankly, he's having a nice time, he's exercising lots, playing video games, so why would he start working again?\"\n\n\"It's very difficult for parents to get their children to knuckle down sometimes,\" says Rebecca Poole, head teacher of Hampton High in south-west London.\n\n\"But it's important not to panic. I would say that if it's creating unbearable conflict at home, don't force it.\n\n\"As teachers, we will do our best to repair the damage to learning, the important thing is children's wellbeing and safety.\n\n\"Families should hear that, they shouldn't tie themselves in knots - we're in this for a long schlep.\"\n\nCarl Ward, head teacher of Haywood Academy in Stoke-on-Trent, says parents should never feel reluctant to contact the school if learning at home is not going well.\n\n\"My number one piece of advice would be to contact the school, speak to the staff and then students' needs can be looked at.\n\n\"Invoke your right as a parent and ask the school for more work, less work, better work or advice - they're there to help you.\"\n\nHe also says schools are sharing best practice and are working hard to improve the online delivery of lessons.\n\nBut it's not just the educational side of schools being closed that is having an impact on children and young people, the social side of growing up is also curtailed.\n\nMother-of-four Trish Jones told the BBC that her three secondary-school-age children are keen to get back to school and see their friends.\n\n\"They thought there was a glimmer of hope they'd go back to school before the summer, but when they realised that that wasn't going to be happening, they were gutted, really gutted.\n\n\"For them it was the chance to be back with their friends, back to the usual routine in the company of their friends.\"\n\nTrish's school-age girls are keen to see their school friends\n\nTrish also worries that teenagers aren't getting the freedom and privacy they need to develop their independence.\n\n\"It's unbelievable really that we've got all these teenagers stuck at home.\"\n\nLouise says her 17-year-old is losing out on the positive aspects of mingling with his peers.\n\n\"He's decided that he doesn't want to go to university, which may have happened anyway, but I think if he was at school surrounded by his peers, who are clever boys, he'd be pulled along by them.\n\n\"But because he's isolated at home, he's not getting his peer influence - he's got clever, motivated friends who're a good influence, but now he's not seeing them.\"\n\nProf Chris Boyle, educational psychologist at Exeter University's Graduate School of Education, says all is not lost because young people are highly connected online.\n\n\"They're not totally disconnected because they're continually connected online, so it might strengthen their friendships because they can interact in a different way.\"\n\nMissing friends is one of the challenges of the current situation\n\nProf Boyle suggests children and young people try to \"enjoy the space\" that school closures bring and use it as a period of reflection.\n\n\"We could consider this as an opportunity for teenagers to reflect where they're at - with their friends, where they're going in life, what they want from life, what their priorities are.\n\n\"There is hope, there's potential for society to reset itself, for example, in terms of the environment, in terms of looking out for our neighbours.\"\n\nHead teacher Carl Ward, who's been a teacher for 27 years, says it's important never to underestimate the ability of children and young people to recover from difficulties.\n\n\"I'm always astounded by children's ability to bounce back,\" he says.\n\n\"The quicker we can get them back into the normal swing of things, the better, but it's not the end of the world that they've lost some time.\n\n\"They'll be guided and pushed by teachers when they're back in school to make up for that lost time.\"", "The hospitality industry has been badly affected, with restaurants bars and cafes required to close for all but takeaways and deliveries\n\nThe boss of the UK's largest recruitment firm, Reed, has said he fears current trends suggest far more people are going to lose their jobs because of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nJames Reed predicted the unemployment rate could reach 15%, meaning five million people could be out of work.\n\nHe said recent job cuts by firms were \"perhaps just the tip of the iceberg\".\n\nReed has seen job advertisements drop by two-thirds, while applications per job are rising.\n\nThis week Bentley, Aston Martin, car dealership Lookers and engineering giant Rolls-Royce have all announced job cuts.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Today programme, Mr Reed said more losses could be on the way since small businesses do not have to give advance notice of lay offs, as big companies do.\n\n\"My concern is that the data that we're seeing, which is that the number of jobs advertised is down two-thirds and has been consistently for two months now, suggests that there could be a lot more job losses to come,\" he said.\n\nHe predicts unemployment will rise sharply in the autumn, when the government's furlough scheme comes to an end.\n\nMr Reed said some people had predicted unemployment could reach levels not seen since the 1980s, when the jobless rate reached 11.9%.\n\n\"I fear it could be a lot worse than that, it might be more like the 1930s,\" he said.\n\nCurrently, 8.7 million UK workers are receiving payments on the Job Retention Scheme.\n\nThe government has confirmed the scheme will run to the end of October, but by then employers will be paying a fifth of workers' salaries.\n\n\"It's very difficult for those businesses to re-employ all the people they've got furloughed,\" Mr Reed said. \"So I'm dreading this day of reckoning where they decide they're not going to do that and a lot more people will become unemployed.\"\n\nMr Reed said some industries were seeing a rise in recruitment, particularly in health and logistics, but huge sectors of the economy, such as leisure and tourism, remained completely shut down.\n\nHe added it was important for the economy to get going again in the next two or three months, or it would be hard for some firms to recover, and he called for clarity soon on how businesses can reopen.\n\nIn the early weeks of lockdown, claims for universal credit, the benefit for working-age people, hit a record monthly level of 1.5 million claims.", "As lockdown measures are relaxed across England on Monday, high street shops have reopened with safety measures in place, including plastic screens at the tills and floor markings for social distancing.\n\nSome shoppers took protective precautions to stop the spread of Covid-19\n\nA shop worker prepares to serve customers from behind a screen in a sweet shop in York\n\nSome chose to wear face shields, like this florist in York\n\nA customer enters a Brighton gift shop - which has face coverings on display\n\nShoppers get excited as they queue to enter a Primark store in Brighton\n\nIn Southampton, shoppers mill around the high street\n\nCustomers in Loughborough - next to a sign reminding them to stay safe\n\nMonday also marked the day that zoos in England were allowed to open\n\nCustomers follow barriers to safely social distance outside the Potteries Shopping Centre in Stoke-on-Trent", "Ex-Tory Leader William Hague says lockdown is an \"economic catastrophe\" and is calling for the two-metre distancing rule to be scrapped.\n\nWriting in the Telegraph, Lord Hague said lockdown was increasing inequality, social tension and debt.\n\nThe hospitality industry, and some MPs and scientists, have called for the 2m (6ft) rule to be relaxed in England.\n\nNo 10 has said a review into the rule will be completed \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nAnd Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has said the government would not amend the restriction until 4 July at the earliest.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast the public would be \"rightly very unforgiving\" if the UK experienced a second spike of coronavirus caused by \"rushing\" a change in restrictions.\n\nSo far England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all maintained the two-metre rule.\n\nIt comes as official figures suggest the number of workers on UK payrolls dived more than 600,000 between March and May - reflecting the impact of about six weeks in lockdown.\n\nBut economists say the full impact on employment will not be felt until wage support schemes end in October.\n\nIn his article, Lord Hague said the lockdown had been so \"destructive\" that it could \"only ever be allowed to happen once\".\n\nHe urged the government to scrap the quarantine on international arrivals - which requires all people arriving in the UK to self-isolate for 14 days - and the 2m social distancing rule.\n\n\"We can now see that it is not necessary to have a two-metre separation between people to keep the virus in retreat where it is already at a low level,\" he writes.\n\n\"We know this from the experience of countries such as Denmark, France and Germany where the recommended distance is shorter, and we should not have to spend weeks agonising over it.\"\n\nHe said lockdown was \"like Dunkirk - a heroic operation in itself but the result of a massive failure\".\n\nAnd this was a failure \"at multiple levels\" he said, adding: \"A failure by the whole world to prevent the trading of wild animals for consumption; by China to report the initial outbreak openly; by our and many other countries to prepare for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nHe said \"crucial lessons\" had also been learnt, including that some countries - including Germany and South Korea - \"have escaped a good deal of the brutal costs of having to pursue a tight lockdown\" after they were \"much more ambitious about testing\".\n\nFormer Tory Leader Iain Duncan-Smith has warned MPs that they were \"in danger of losing sight of what will happen, probably to the poorest in society\".\n\nEx-defence minister Tobias Ellwood has told the Commons that halving social distancing to 1m would be \"game-changing\" and should be done now.\n\nAnd, in a joint article for the Telegraph, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Oxford said there was no evidence for the 2m rule.\n\nThey said it was \"seriously impacting schools, pubs, restaurants and our ability to go about our daily lives\".\n\n\"Handwashing and encouragement are what we need, not formalised rules.\"\n\nBut Mr Shapps told BBC Breakfast: \"People will be, I think rightly very unforgiving about a second spike caused by rushing from two metres to one metre, or what have you.\n\n\"So, what we're doing is - right now, properly reviewing all of the evidence and we're aware that other countries have come to different conclusions.\"\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the UK's chief scientific adviser, has said: \"It is a risk-based assessment on when risk reduces and the risks are associated with distance, so risk falls after 2m.\n\n\"It is wrong to portray this as a scientific rule that says it is 2m or nothing - that is not what the advice has been and it is not what the advice is now.\"", "New Zealand has confirmed two new cases of coronavirus, ending a 24-day run of no new infections in the country.\n\nThe cases relate to two women from the same family, both of whom had travelled from the UK and were given special permission to visit a dying parent.\n\nHealth Minister David Clark said the necessary checks had not taken place and he was suspending compassionate exemptions to the quarantine rules.\n\nLast week New Zealand declared that the country was coronavirus-free.\n\nIt lifted all domestic restrictions. However, strict border restrictions remained in place - with only citizens and essential workers allowed in.\n\nAll arrivals are supposed to be tested for Covid-19 and have to go through a 14-day period of isolation.\n\nExemptions can be granted and Dr Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand's director-general of health, said that in this case there had been an \"agreed plan in place as part of the approval process [including] the travel arrangements\".\n\nIt's not known if the patients are citizens of the UK, New Zealand, or elsewhere.\n\nThe women - one in her 30s and one in her 40s - arrived in New Zealand from the UK on the 7 June, via Doha and Brisbane, and entered quarantine.\n\nThey stayed in a managed isolation hotel in Auckland and on 12 June applied for an exemption to visit their dying parent - who died later that night.\n\nThey were granted permission to travel to Wellington on 13 June.\n\nOne of the women had \"mild symptoms\", but put this down to a pre-existing condition.\n\nThey travelled to Wellington in a private vehicle and did not use any public facilities during this journey, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, director-general of health, said on Tuesday,\n\nThey stayed with a single family member in Wellington. That family member has now been placed in self-isolation.\n\nThe women were tested on Monday and the results were confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nDr Bloomfield added that going forward, he had asked for \"anyone being released for compassionate exemption [to be] tested and [have] a negative result\" before they are released.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I did a little dance': Smiling Ardern confirming New Zealand is free of Covid-19 in early June\n\nMr Clark told New Zealand media that he expected all new arrivals in quarantine to be tested for the virus at three days and again at 12 days.\n\nAnnouncing that he was suspending exemptions to the quarantine rules, he said: \"Compassionate exemptions should be rare and rigorous and it appears that this case did not include the checks that we expected to be happening. That's not acceptable.\"\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was clear that checks had not been not adequate in this case.\n\nLate last Monday, New Zealand moved into the lowest tier of its four-tier alert system - making it one of the few countries in the world to return to pre-pandemic normality.\n\nUnder this, social distancing is not required and there are no limits on public gatherings.\n\nMs Ardern celebrated the move but warned the country would \"certainly see cases again\", adding that \"elimination is not a point in time, it is a sustained effort\".\n\nNew Zealand has been lauded at a success story for its handling of the virus - it was quick to close its borders and implement a strict nationwide lockdown.\n\nThe newest cases bring New Zealand's total number of cases since the outbreak began to 1,506. The death toll remains unchanged at 22.", "Many of Pret's stores have already reopened with stores adapted for social distancing\n\nBosses at restaurant and food chains including Wagamama and Pizza Hut have warned the prime minister the sector faces mass job cuts without more help.\n\nIn a letter to Boris Johnson backed by 90 firms, they say that if social distancing remains they will need action on tax, rents and other support.\n\nWithout more help, the sector faces \"grave damage\", the firms say.\n\nDeliveroo organised the letter, signed by its partner restaurants including Itsu and Pret A Manger.\n\nThe companies, which together represent more than 1,000 outlets, praised government measures already introduced, but said more \"swift action\" was needed while two-metre separation requirements remained in place.\n\nThe government has commissioned a comprehensive review into the two-metre rule, which the prime minister's official spokesman said on Monday would \"look at evidence around transmission of the virus in different environments, incidence rates and international comparisons\". Ministers have said the review will be completed \"in the coming weeks\".\n\nIn the letter, the bosses write: \"Without government support to help restaurants to generate revenue and cover costs, tens of thousands of restaurants may be forced to permanently close their doors in the coming months.\n\n\"This crisis is far from over and the potential consequences are deeply concerning. A huge number of restaurants across the country are facing the prospect of bankruptcy.\"\n\nThe firms own outlets across the UK, but are likely to reopen them at different times. In Northern Ireland, restaurants and cafes can reopen from 3 July, and in England the day after. The Scottish government has outlined a phased approach to pubs and restaurants reopening but there is no date. Nor is there a date for Wales.\n\nThe action called for includes slashing VAT on restaurant food and maintaining the Job Retention Scheme for restaurants while social distancing measures are in place.\n\nThe chains also want \"mortgage holidays\" for landlords, so that this can be passed on in the form of lower rents, and an extension of the moratorium on evictions for as long as social distancing measures prevent restaurants from operating at full capacity.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We are working closely with the hospitality sector to develop safe ways for restaurants, bars and cafes to reopen as soon as we can from July.\n\n\"These businesses can continue to access our extensive package of support, including our job retention scheme which has been extended until October - meaning it will have been open for eight months and will continue to support businesses as the economy reopens and people return to work.\"\n\nThe spokesperson also pointed out that this was in addition to 100% business rates holidays, loans and tax deferrals.\n\nMany restaurant chains were in trouble before the coronavirus lockdown, which has only exacerbated the pressures. Last week, the owner of Frankie and Benny's, The Restaurant Group, became the latest big name to restructure, announcing 3,000 job cuts and 125 closures.\n\nA recent survey by Deliveroo found more than half of small and independent restaurants said they would have to close within three months without further support.\n\n\"Without government support to help restaurants to generate revenue and cover costs, tens of thousands of restaurants may be forced to permanently close their doors in the coming months,\" it said.\n\nThe signatories pointed out that last year, customers spent £40bn in restaurants, supporting one million employees.\n\nKate Nicholls, chief executive of industry trade body UK Hospitality, said: \"Household name brands on every High Street have been closed and many will be operating at well below capacity once lockdown ends.\n\n\"As these proposals from Deliveroo and their partner restaurants show, restaurants need urgent support from the government so that they can help rebuild economies and give people some much-needed enjoyment. Without it, some will close permanently and people's jobs will be lost.\"", "The Suffolk air base has more than 8,000 US and British military and civilian personnel\n\nThe pilot of a US Air Force fighter jet which crashed into the North Sea has been named as 1st Lt Kenneth Allen.\n\nLt Allen, from the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, crashed off the East Yorkshire coast on Monday while on a training mission.\n\nHe had been stationed at the base since February and is survived by his wife and parents, the US Air Force said.\n\nIn a tribute on Facebook, Lt Allen's wife Hannah said he was \"perfect\" and her \"absolute best friend\".\n\nMrs Allen said she felt \"beyond blessed to have loved him\" but felt \"shattered\" by her loss.\n\nCol Will Marshall said the whole unit was \"deeply saddened\" by Lt Allen's death.\n\n\"The tremendous outpouring of love and support from our communities has been a ray of light in this time of darkness,\" the commander of 48th Fighter Wing added.\n\nMrs Allen remains in the United States, where the couple recently married, and is being supported by family and the US Air Force, Col Marshall said.\n\nLt Allen, known as Kage, was the assistant chief of weapons and tactics for the 493rd Fighter Squadron.\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of facebook post by Follow the Flag - North Ogden\n\nCol Marshall told the BBC that a formal investigation into the cause of the crash had begun but it would \"take some amount of time\" before the results would be known.\n\nRadio data, the wreckage and information from other pilots would form the basis of the investigation, he said.\n\nLt Allen, who had just completed upgraded training for the F-15C Eagle, was on a training exercise with 11 other aircraft when his plane went into the sea 74 nautical miles (85 miles) off the East Yorkshire coast.\n\nThe Coastguard and RNLI lifeboat crews from Bridlington and Scarborough were among those who took part in the search after the plane was reported missing at about 09:30 BST.\n\nThe plane crashed off the coast at Flamborough Head at about 09:30 BST on Monday\n\nWreckage was located before Lt Allen was found dead.\n\nCol Marshall thanked HM Coastguard and the RNLI teams who helped coordinate the search and recovery of Lt Allen \"despite bad weather\".\n\nThe F-15C, a single-seater air defence fighter, is a model of jet that has been used by the US Air Force since 1979.\n\nRAF Lakenheath is the largest US Air Force-operated base in England and home to its only F-15 fighter wing in Europe.\n\nMore than 4,000 US service men and women are stationed there.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England striker Marcus Rashford said he would fight on after the government confirmed it would not provide free school meal vouchers during the summer.\n\nThe Manchester United player wrote an emotional open letter to MPs in which he said \"the system isn't built for families like mine to succeed\".\n\nBut the Department for Education said it would not reverse its decision.\n\nRashford, 22, responded by tweeting \"we aren't beaten yet\" and \"MPs, please #maketheUturn\".\n\nRashford has raised about £20m to supply three million meals to vulnerable people while working with charity FareShare UK during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nCampaigners have threatened to bring legal action against the government for not extending the food voucher scheme into the summer holidays.\n\nIn his letter, Rashford drew on his own experience of relying on free school meals and food banks growing up. He said his story was \"all too familiar for families in England\".\n\nSonja from Basingstoke, who has three teenage children, told BBC Radio 5 live Drive she found herself out of work because of the pandemic and does not start her new job until September. She said she was in \"real trouble\" without the vouchers in the meantime.\n\n\"I'm relying on the £60 I get every fortnight from free school meal vouchers to do my food shopping,\" she said.\n\n\"There are lots of us out there that have found ourselves on benefits through no fault of our own. We really are struggling to make ends meet and I'm not sure too many people understand how difficult it is - Marcus obviously does.\"\n\nGary Lineker told BBC Newsnight he was \"very impressed\" with Rashford's efforts.\n\nHe said he understands that \"kids wouldn't ordinarily be fed during the summer holidays\", but these are \"very, very difficult times\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Rashford said: \"It's written from the heart and it's about how my life was at the moment - the letter is to open up and let people understand the impact on families and to know I've done the right thing.\n\n\"What families are going through now, I've once had to go through that - and it's very difficult to find a way out. It's very important for me to help people who are struggling - whether the outcome changes or doesn't change, that's why I wrote it.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"As schools open more widely, and their kitchens reopen, we expect schools to make food parcels available for collection or delivery for any children that are eligible for free school meals who are not yet able to return to school.\n\n\"Where this is not possible, schools can continue to offer vouchers to eligible pupils.\"\n\nA spokesperson also pointed to the new £63m local authority welfare assistance scheme to support the most vulnerable families, and its Holiday Activities and Food programme, which offers activities and free meals in the summer holidays.\n\nFamilies claiming free school meals have been issued with either an electronic voucher or gift card - worth £15 per child, per week - to spend at supermarkets, while schools have been closed.\n\nIn England, about 1.3 million children from low-income backgrounds are eligible for free school meals.\n\nTo qualify, their household must earn a maximum income of £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits. The full criteria is listed here.\n\nA child who qualifies remains eligible until 31 March 2022, whether in primary or secondary education. Children from families who meet certain criteria can also be eligible for free school meals before they start school.\n\nDuring the pandemic, the government says it expects schools to continue to support eligible children in term time. This includes:\n\nThis provision included the Easter and May half-term holidays, but the voucher schemes will not run during the summer holidays.\n\nIn Wales, the government will provide free school meal vouchers until schools reopen, or at least until the end of August.\n\nA survey by the Food Foundation in May said that more than 200,000 children in the UK have had to skip meals because their family could not access enough food during lockdown.\n\n'This is not about politics, it's about humanity'\n\nIn the letter, Rashford wrote: \"My mum worked full-time, earning the minimum wage, to make sure we always had a good evening meal on the table, but it was not enough.\n\n\"The system was not built for families like mine to succeed, regardless of how hard my mum worked.\"\n\nRashford added his plea for the government to \"make the U-turn and make protecting the lives of some of our most vulnerable a top priority\" was \"not about politics\" but about \"humanity\".\n\nHe added it was about \"looking at ourselves in the mirror and feeling like we did everything we could to protect those who can't, for whatever reason or circumstance, protect themselves\".\n\nRashford wrote: \"Political affiliations aside, can we not all agree that no child should be going to be hungry?\"\n\nThe United youth-team graduate, who is one of five children, added: \"As a black man from a low-income family in Wythenshawe, Manchester, I could have been just another statistic.\n\n\"Instead, due to the selfless actions of my mum, my family, my neighbours, and my coaches, the only stats I'm associated with are goals, appearances and caps.\n\n\"I would be doing myself, my family and my community an injustice if I didn't stand here today with my voice and my platform and ask you for help.\"\n\n\"Ten years ago, I would have been one of those children, and you would never have heard my voice and seen my determination to become part of the solution,\" added Rashford.\n\n\"Food poverty in England is a pandemic that could span generations if we don't course correct now.\"\n\nRashford stated the government's Universal Credit benefit system \"is simply not a short-term solution\" to the issue of food poverty, because \"I am fully aware that the majority of families applying are experiencing five-week delays\".\n\nHe is concerned child poverty is \"only going to get worse\" when the government's furlough scheme ends.\n\nRashford added that with many children still not able to return to school and have more of their nutritional needs met \"we're encouraging this cycle of hardship to continue\".\n\nA spokesperson for the Prime Minister said Boris Johnson \"will respond to Marcus Rashford's letter as soon as he can\", adding the footballer \"has been using his profile in a positive way to highlight some important issues\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"This is such an important and moving letter. Thank you, Marcus, for all the work you are doing to support children during the coronavirus crisis.\"", "Greggs is to open about 800 shops for takeaways on Thursday after temporary closures during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThe bakery chain, which has more than 2,050 outlets, said it planned to reopen all its remaining shops from early July.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, Cineworld said it would reopen UK cinemas with social distancing measures from 10 July.\n\nShops and businesses are beginning to to restart as coronavirus restrictions ease.\n\nThe UK government has been gradually easing lockdown measures, and Monday this week saw non-essential High Street shops reopening in England.\n\nLockdown measures in England are due to be eased further from 4 July, when pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, hotels and cinemas could reopen.\n\nFast food restaurants initially closed their doors during the coronavirus crisis, before some started to tentatively reopen.\n\nIn May, McDonald's saw huge queues outside its restaurants as it started to reopen some of its UK drive-through outlets, while rival KFC had started to reopen restaurants for delivery in April.\n\nGreggs began to reopen shops during the coronavirus lockdown in May with a trial of 20 in the Newcastle area.\n\nAfter initially saying it would allow customers into the shops, it then backtracked and said the reopenings would be behind closed doors.\n\nIn April, it said it hoped to reopen 700 stores from 8 June, including 150 franchise shops, and have all stores open again by 1 July, when the government's job retention scheme was due to end. That scheme was subsequently extended to the end of October.\n\nIn its latest update, Greggs said it would now reopen 800 outlets on Thursday. The chain said there would be floor markings in the shops to help people maintain social distancing with protective screens at the counters, PPE equipment for staff, additional cleaning and more hand sanitiser. Customers would be encouraged to make contactless payments, it added.\n\nGreggs chief executive Roger Whiteside said: \"Looking forward, although great uncertainty remains, we are excited to be resuming our service for many customers this week.\"\n\nGreggs has temporarily suspended its new shop opening programme except for shops where it is legally committed or expects strong customer traffic. It said it would open about 60 shops and close about 50 this year.\n\nIt is approaching landlords to make rent reductions, and has speeded up plans for delivery and click and collect services.\n\nUK cinema group Cineworld said that with \"several blockbuster movies including Tenet and Mulan now confirmed for release in the coming weeks\" it planned to reopen in the UK and the US from 10 July.\n\nAlthough Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have different plans to England for easing lockdown restrictions, a Cineworld spokesman said the current plan was to reopen most cinemas across the UK, with delays in a few smaller outlets to make sure they can comply with social distancing expectations.\n\nIts chief executive Mooky Greidinger said: \"We are thrilled to be back and encouraged by recent surveys that show that many people have missed going to the movie theatre.\"\n\nHe added that a \"strong slate\" had been confirmed for the coming weeks, including \"A Quiet Place Part II, Wonder Women 1984, Black Widow, Bond, Soul, [and] Top Gun Maverick\".\n\nAmong other measures, Cineworld said it had \"adapted our daily movie schedules to manage queues and avoid the build-up of crowds in our lobbies and enhanced our cleanliness and sanitation procedures across all of our sites\".\n\nRivals Vue Cinemas said in May that it hoped to reopen in mid-July.\n\nCineworld, which operates about 9,000 screens globally, abandoned a $1.65bn (£1.3bn) deal to buy Canada's Cineplex last week.", "Some 300,000 more UK workers have been furloughed in the past week, raising the total to 8.7 million since the start of the coronavirus crisis.\n\nThat means more than a quarter of the workforce is now being supported by the £14bn-a-month scheme.\n\nAnother 200,000 self-employed have taken up government grants, meaning 2.5 million have been handed out.\n\nMeanwhile businesses have borrowed more than £31bn in government-backed loans to help survive the crisis.\n\nLast week, the schemes were extended to October by Chancellor Rishi Sunak.\n\nThe jobs retention scheme was introduced in March to mitigate the effects of coronavirus.\n\nIt allows employees to receive 80% of their monthly salary up to £2,500.\n\nSome £17.5bn has now been claimed by more than a million firms under the scheme, up from £15bn last week, government figures show.\n\nLast Friday, the government confirmed that furloughed workers would continue to get 80% of their pay until the end of October, but by then a fifth of their salary will have to be met by employers.\n\n\"Then, after eight months of this extraordinary intervention of the government stepping in to help pay people's wages, the scheme will close,\" Rishi Sunak said.\n\nThe scheme is expected to have cost a total of about £80bn by the time it is shut down.\n\nBut Labour's shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds warned last week about job losses when the government support schemes end.\n\n\"It is concerning that there is no commitment within these plans for support to only be scaled back in step with the removal of lockdown,\" she said.\n\nThe Self-Employed Income Support Scheme pays a one-off grant of up to £7,500 amounting to 80% of average three-month profits.\n\nThe 200,000 additional claims for that in the past seven days has cost the government £400m, to bring the total paid out to £7.2bn.\n\nLast week, the government confirmed that eligible self-employed workers would receive a second three-month payment under the scheme.\n\nHowever, it is slightly less generous, covering 70% of the applicant's average monthly trading profits.\n\nIt will also be made in a single payment, covering three months and capped at £2,190 a month, or £6,570 in total.\n\nPeople whose work has been affected by coronavirus will still be able to apply for the lump sum until 13 July.\n\nNearly 750,000 businesses have been approved for loans from coronavirus programmes worth more than £31.3bn, government figures show.\n\nLow interest bounce-back loans of up to £50,000 guaranteed by the government account for the majority.\n\nAlmost 700,000 companies have been approved for £21.3bn-worth of bounce-back loans.\n\nThere were an extra 91,000 granted in the past week, with a total value of £2.8bn.\n\nMeanwhile more than £8.9bn has been lent to nearly 46,000 companies under the coronavirus business interruption loan scheme (CBILS).\n\nIn the last seven days almost 3,000 CBILS worth a total £770m were approved.\n\nSome £1.1billion has been lent to 191 companies through a similar scheme aimed at larger businesses, called CLBILS.\n\nIn the last week around £300m was borrowed under the scheme by 37 bigger businesses.", "Lee Longlands built the art-deco store on Broad Street in Birmingham in 1932\n\nAn historic furniture company has gone into administration due to coronavirus after almost 120 years in business.\n\nLee Longlands was established in 1902 and opened its flagship store in Birmingham 30 years later.\n\nThe family-run business said it had been forced into administration as a result of the \"the devastating impact of the coronavirus lockdown\".\n\nThe firm has a number of showrooms across the Midlands and was described as \"a household name\" in the region.\n\nThe company's shops have not been able to trade for three months because of lockdown\n\nIts shops in Birmingham, Leamington Spa, Kidderminster, Abingdon, Derby and Cheltenham were closed for three months and have only just re-opened as lockdown restrictions eased.\n\nRobert Lee is the fourth generation to run the business, which was established by Robert Lee and George Longland.\n\n\"For almost 120 years our family business and our employees have put our customers at the heart of everything we do,\" he said, adding that the company would be working to fulfil orders \"to restore our short term finances\".\n\nThe company's founders were pioneers - in 1907 they became the first store outside of London to install window display lighting after closing time.\n\nIts flagship store in Birmingham was used to store food rations during the Second World War, and the company also contributed to the war effort by producing \"blackout fabric\" to cover windows, making it harder for enemy bombers to identify targets.\n\n\"Lee Longlands is a household name across the Midlands,\" Matt Ingram, from administrator Duff and Phelps said.\n\n\"The fact that the appointment of administrators has been necessary, demonstrates the devastating financial impact that this pandemic will leave in its wake.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg talks about how she has spent lockdown in Sweden\n\nGreta Thunberg says the world needs to learn the lessons of coronavirus and treat climate change with similar urgency.\n\nThat means the world acting \"with necessary force\", the Swedish climate activist says in an exclusive interview with BBC News.\n\nShe doesn't think any \"green recovery plan\" will solve the crisis alone.\n\nAnd she says the world is now passing a \"social tipping point\" on climate and issues such as Black Lives Matter.\n\n\"People are starting to realise that we cannot keep looking away from these things\", says Ms Thunberg, \"we cannot keep sweeping these injustices under the carpet\".\n\nShe says lockdown has given her time to relax and reflect away from the public gaze.\n\nMs Thunberg has shared with the BBC the text of a deeply personal programme she has made for Swedish Radio.\n\nIn the radio programme, which goes online this morning, Greta looks back on the year in which she became one of the world's most high-profile celebrities.\n\nThe then 16-year-old took a sabbatical from school to spend a tumultuous year campaigning on the climate.\n\nShe sailed across the Atlantic on a racing yacht to address a special UN Climate Action summit in New York in September.\n\nShe describes world leaders queuing to get pictures with her, with Angela Merkel asking whether it was okay to post her photo on social media.\n\nThe climate activist is sceptical of some world leaders' motives\n\nThe climate campaigner is sceptical of their motives. \"Perhaps it makes them forget the shame of their generation letting all future generations down\", she says. \"I guess maybe it helps them to sleep at night.\"\n\nIt was in the UN that she delivered her famous \"how dare you\" speech. \"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words\", she told the world leaders gathered in the UN Assembly.\n\nShe appeared on the verge of tears as she continued. \"People are dying,\" she said, \"and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you?\"\n\nShe knew it was a \"lifetime moment\" and decided not to hold anything back, she says now.\n\n\"I am going to let my emotions take control and to really make something big out of this because I won't be able to do this again\".\n\nShe describes travelling back from the UN to her hotel on the subway and seeing people watching the speech on their phones, but says she felt no urge to celebrate.\n\n\"All that is left are empty words\", she says.\n\nThe phrase reflects her deep cynicism about the motives of most world leaders.\n\n\"The level of knowledge and understanding even among people in power is very, very low, much lower than you would think,\" she told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta sailed to New York on a zero-emissions yacht in 2019\n\nShe says the only way to reduce emissions on the scale that is necessary is to make fundamental changes to our lifestyles, starting in developed countries. But she doesn't believe any leaders have the nerve to do that.\n\nInstead, she says, they \"simply refrain from reporting the emissions, or move them somewhere else\".\n\nShe claims the UK, Sweden and other countries do this by failing to account for the emissions from ships and aircraft and by choosing not to count the emissions from goods produced in factories abroad.\n\nAs a result, she says in her radio programme, the whole language of debate has been degraded.\n\n\"Words like green, sustainable, 'net-zero', 'environmentally friendly', 'organic', 'climate-neutral' and 'fossil-free' are today so misused and watered down that they have pretty much lost all their meaning. They can imply everything from deforestation to aviation, meat and car industries,\" she said.\n\nMs Thunberg says the only positive that could come out of the coronavirus pandemic would be if it changes how we deal with global crises: \"It shows that in a crisis, you act, and you act with necessary force.\"\n\nShe says she is encouraged that politicians are now stressing the importance of listening to scientists and experts.\n\n\"Suddenly people in power are saying they will do whatever it takes since you cannot put a price on human life.\"\n\nShe hopes that will open up a discussion about the urgency of taking action to help the people who die from illnesses related to climate change and environmental degradation right now as well as in the future.\n\nBut she remains deeply pessimistic about our ability to keep any temperature increases within safe boundaries.\n\nShe says that, even if countries actually deliver the carbon reductions they've promised, we'll still be heading for a \"catastrophic\" global temperature rise of 3-4 degrees.\n\nThe teenager believes the only way to avoid a climate crisis is to tear up contracts and abandon existing deals and agreements that companies and countries have signed up to.\n\n\"The climate and ecological crisis cannot be solved within today's political and economic systems\", the Swedish climate activist argues. \"That isn't an opinion. That's a fact.\"\n\nThunberg talks movingly of a road-trip she and her father took through North America in an electric car borrowed from Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Hollywood actor turned politician and climate campaigner.\n\nShe visited the charred remains of Paradise, the Californian town destroyed by a wildfire in November 2018.\n\nShe is shocked by the carbon-intensive lifestyles she saw in the US. \"Apart from a few wind power plants and solar panels,\" she says, \"there are no signs whatsoever of any sustainable transition, despite this being the richest country in the world.\"\n\nBut the social inequities struck her just as forcefully.\n\n\"It was very shocking to hear people talk about that they can't afford to put food on the table\", she explained.\n\nYet Greta Thunberg says she has been inspired by the way people have been responding to these injustices, particularly the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd in May.\n\nShe believes society has \"passed a social tipping point, we can no longer look away from what our society has been ignoring for so long whether it is equality, justice or sustainability\".\n\nShe describes signs of what she calls an \"awakening\" in which \"people are starting to find their voice, to sort of understand that they can actually have an impact\".\n\nThat is why Greta Thunberg says she still has hope.\n\n\"Humanity has not yet failed\", she argues.\n\nShe concludes her radio documentary in powerful form.\n\n\"Nature does not bargain and you cannot compromise with the laws of physics,\" the teenager asserts.\n\n\"Doing our best is no longer good enough. We must now do the seemingly impossible. And that is up to you and me. Because no one else will do it for us.\"\n\nA longer version of Justin Rowlatt's interview with Greta Thunberg will be available next week. You can listen to the English language version of Greta Thunberg's programme for Swedish Radio here.", "The UK's coronavirus alert level has been downgraded from four to three, its chief medical officers have said.\n\nUnder level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nPreviously transmission was considered to be \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the change was \"a big moment for the country\" and showed that the government's plan was working.\n\nThe decision to reduce the alert level followed a recommendation by the Joint Biosecurity Centre, the chief medical officers for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland said.\n\n\"There has been a steady decrease in cases we have seen in all four nations, and this continues,\" the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nBut they warned it \"does not mean that the pandemic is over\" and that \"localised outbreaks are likely to occur\".\n\nThe daily UK update provided by the government showed there were 173 coronavirus deaths recorded across the UK on 18 June, taking the total to 42,461.\n\n\"We have made progress against the virus thanks to the efforts of the public and we need the public to continue to follow the guidelines carefully to ensure this progress continues,\" they said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care for England said the alert level would be used by government to inform its decision on \"the continuing easing of lockdown\", but a spokesperson added the two were \"not contingent on each other\".\n\nThe alert level is telling us what we already know - the virus is still here, but at much lower levels.\n\nIt combines all the data on coronavirus in the UK to give a single, clear message about the current threat.\n\nBut how closely it is tied to government decisions is debatable.\n\nBoris Johnson announced the relaxation of a range of measures - including the reopening of shops in England - while we were still at Level 4.\n\nAlthough the decision - by the UK's chief medical officers - would make any decisions to relax the 2m rule or open pubs and restaurants politically easier.\n\nHowever, it doesn't mean that we can all relax and stop social distancing and practising good hygiene. Remember the alert level can go up as well as down.\n\nThere are five coronavirus alert levels in total.\n\nIn determining the UK's alert level, the four chief medical officers considered a number of factors including:\n\nMr Hancock said recent progress in these factors showed \"a real testament to the British people's determination to beat this virus\".\n\n\"Infection rates are rapidly falling, we have protected the NHS and, thanks to the hard work of millions in our health and social care services, we are getting the country back on her feet,\" he added.\n\nThe government is now publishing \"growth rates\" alongside the R number, which indicates how fast cases are rising or falling.\n\nAcross the UK, the growth rate is estimated at between -2% and -4% per day. The growth rate is thought to be negative in every region of England, meaning cases are falling.\n\nThe R number for the UK is currently between 0.7 and 0.9. Anything below 1.0 means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nThe move to level 3 comes weeks after some restrictions were first eased in each UK nation.\n\nAt the end of May, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told MPs that \"we're coming down the Covid alert system from level four to level three tomorrow, we hope, we're going to be taking a decision tomorrow\".\n\nBut the next day, the government decided instead not to lower the alert level and it remained at four until now.\n\nWhen the government first announced the alert system in early May, it also published a three-step plan to ease restrictions.\n\nStep one, the first easing of lockdown, involved allowing people to take unlimited exercise and spend more time outdoors.\n\nStep two permitted the gradual opening of schools and non-essential retail, which is the current situation.\n\nThe third step in the government's published plan, which it said was to take place \"no earlier than 4 July\", includes opening further non-essential services like hairdressers and beauty salons, restaurants, pubs and leisure facilities.\n\nMoving to alert level three signals there could be a \"gradual relaxing of restrictions and social distancing measures\", according to the government's original plan.\n\nA review is also currently taking place into reducing social distancing guidance from 2m (6ft 6) to 1m (3ft 3).\n\nIt is understood the review will aim to report back by 4 July, the earliest date that pubs and restaurants can open in England.\n\nOn Friday the prime minister said. \"On the social distancing measures, watch this space. We will be putting in further changes, as the science allows.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to a primary school, he said he hoped there would be more guidance published \"very very shortly\" in the run up to July 4th to help businesses.\n\nWhen the review was announced, Mr Johnson said: \"As we get the numbers down, so it becomes one in 1,000, one in 1,600, maybe even fewer, your chances of being two metres, or one metre, or even a foot away from somebody who has the virus is obviously going down statistically, so you start to build some more margin for manoeuvre.\"", "A Conservative activist has been suspended after tweeting a British Muslim MP should \"go back to Pakistan\".\n\nThe party said they were investigating the comments made by Theodora Dickinson on Twitter about Labour's Naz Shah.\n\nResponding to a GIF of the MP talking about her experience of poverty while growing up in Yorkshire, she wrote if Ms Shah \"hates this country so much why doesn't she go back to Pakistan\".\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain said such \"blatant racism\" was unacceptable.\n\nThe group - which has previously accused the Conservatives of turning a blind eye to Islamophobia - said it showed there was still a \"serious problem\" within the party.\n\nFormer party chair Baroness Warsi has also suggested the Conservatives are in denial about the extent of Islamophobia within its ranks.\n\nThe Conservatives have launched an inquiry into all forms of prejudice within the party.\n\nBut critics have said it is not independent and would not specifically address anti-Muslim racism.\n\nMs Dickinson posted the tweet in response to a clip from a speech the MP made in a Commons debate on free school meals.\n\nMs Shah accused ministers of having \"no real understanding, care or emotion\" about the extent of child poverty in the UK.\n\nIn the clip, the Labour politician - who was born in Bradford and now represents the city - spoke of her experience, being \"palmed off\" to social services when she was a child, separated from her family and taken on trips to Scarborough, adding \"that is what poverty is\".\n\nMs Dickinson's comments, which were first reported by the Huffington Post, have since been deleted.\n\nOn her Twitter handle, Ms Dickinson describes herself as a political communications and social media consultant. She is understood to have worked for the Vote Leave campaign during the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nLabour MP Naz Shah was born in Bradford and now represents the city\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain claimed the party activist had previously shared an Islamophobic conspiracy theory in response to the 2019 terror attack on a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, but no action had been taken against her.\n\nIn a statement, the group said: \"Will this latest blatant racism elicit action? The party must reflect and consider why it chooses to ignore widespread concerns about its institutional Islamophobia.\n\n\"If a truly independent inquiry is not enacted with its recommendations implemented, there will be a drip-feed of these stories for a long time to come.\"\n\nA Conservative Party spokesman said: \"Theodora Dickinson has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.\"", "A £1bn fund to help England's children catch up on what they have missed while schools have been closed has been announced by the prime minister.\n\nThe most disadvantaged pupils will have access to tutors through a £350m programme over the year from September.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools will be given £650m to spend on one-to-one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it.\n\nHead teachers welcomed the funds, but said more details were needed.\n\nLabour said ministers should convene a taskforce - involving trade unions and scientific and health experts - to help all pupils return to school safely as soon as possible.\n\nShadow education secretary Rebecca Long Bailey said the plans \"lack detail and appear to be a tiny fraction of the support\" needed and called for a \"detailed national education plan to get children's education and health back on track\".\n\nHowever, Boris Johnson said the fund would help head teachers provide what pupils need.\n\nHe thanked teachers, childcare workers and support staff for their efforts during the pandemic, and said he was \"determined to do everything\" he could to get all children back in school from September.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “We have got to start thinking of a world in which we are less apprehensive.\"\n\n\"We will bring forward plans on how this will happen as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nAnd during a visit to a school on Friday, Mr Johnson suggested there may be change in the rules on social distancing, with more guidance due \"very, very shortly\", adding: \"Watch this space.\"\n\nIt comes as the Covid-19 alert level has been downgraded, bringing with it a possible relaxation of the rules that have kept many pupils out of school.\n\nThe Scottish Government said it is also looking at social distancing rules in schools, after Northern Ireland decided to reduce its two-metre rule to one metre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she wanted schools to open safely as soon as possible.\n\nThe announcement comes a week after Mr Johnson said the government was planning \"a huge amount of catch up for pupils over the summer\".\n\nBut the announcement did not include any specific push towards catch-up activities running through the summer break except a expectation that usual summer clubs would be running.\n\nInstead there is a strong push for head teachers to target catch-up help via tutoring from September.\n\nHowever, schools minister Nick Gibb told the BBC there was lee-way for heads to set up summer schemes if they so wished.\n\nBut he said: \"If you want children to catch up, it can't just be done over the month of August - it has to be longer term over the academic year\".\n\nResearch by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests the £650m pot represents about £80 extra for each student.\n\nThat is a rise of about 1% but would leave total spending still 3% below 2010 levels in real terms.\n\nEarly years providers and colleges for 16 to 19-year-olds are not included in the plans.\n\nBill Watkin, chief executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said it would be \"entirely unjustifiable\" to exclude sixth form students from the package.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said the government's decision not to include pre-schoolers \"beggars belief\".\n\nBut Mr Gibb said that older age groups had \"fared better with remote education than other age groups\" which is why the government was focused on helping younger pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSchools were shut across the UK on 20 March. Apart from the children of key workers, most children have not been to school since then and will not enter a classroom until after the summer holidays.\n\nChildren in nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 have begun returning to primary schools in England, and some Year 10 and 12 pupils returned to secondary schools and colleges this week.\n\nSchools in Wales are reopening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time, while in Scotland, schools are preparing to reopen on 11 August.\n\nSocial distancing in schools has been halved to 1m (just over 3ft) in Northern Ireland, where ministers are aiming for a full reopening of schools on 24 August.\n\nHowever, head teachers have warned that parts of the Northern Ireland plan are \"unrealistic and undeliverable\".\n\nPlans for the subsidised National Tutoring Programme have been developed with a group of social mobility organisations and academics led by the charity Education Endowment Fund (EEF).\n\nThe EEF has said that until now, access to tutoring has been the preserve of wealthy families - but this would no longer be the case as schools would be able to seek subsidised tutoring.\n\nHowever, individual schools would be expected to pay 25% of the tutoring costs in the first year, or from their share of the £650m in extra funding being made available to them as part of this package.\n\nThe tutors themselves will be provided by organisations approved by the National Tutoring Programme. Many of them will be students or graduates trained by tutoring groups.\n\nTheir modelling suggests between 550,000 and 650,000 courses, featuring three pupils to one tutor, would run for an hour a week over 15 weeks.\n\n\"Tutoring is the catch-up approach supported by the strongest evidence,\" said the EEF's chief executive, Prof Becky Francis.\n\nShe said the programme hoped to reach more than a million pupils, calling it a tremendous opportunity to create long-lasting change.\n\nAssociation of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton welcomed the investment, saying it would help support the work schools are already undertaking on pupil catch-up.\n\nBut he noted that the investment was expected to be spent on tutoring, rather than being left to head teachers to decide.\n\n\"As ever, we suspect the devil will be in the detail and we await further information,\" he said.\n\nHe was also concerned that there was no investment for sixth forms.\n\nDavid Hughes, chief executive of the Association of Colleges, criticised the decision not to include colleges for 16 to 19-year-olds in the plans.\n\nHe said teenage college students deserved as much catch-up support as every other age group and it was \"indefensible\" to overlook them.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said he was pleased ministers had listened to calls for a longer-term response, rather than short-term fixes.\n\n\"This is a considerable sum of money,\" said Mr Whiteman, but he also warned there were many details still to be worked through.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues in this story? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist.", "Some construction firms still can’t be trusted to make buildings that are safe from fire, the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has warned.\n\nIts safety head Nick Coombe said some building firms had barely improved since the Grenfell disaster in 2017.\n\nThe Federation of Master Builders, which represents small contractors, said it was trying to create a safer industry, with licensed firms.\n\nBuild UK, which represents the wider industry, declined to comment.\n\nThe National Fire Chiefs Council said the construction industry was “broken” and couldn’t be trusted to follow rules.\n\nMr Coombe said many reforms were needed, especially to building regulations, which allow builders to choose an inspector to certify their building safety.\n\nThe current inspection system was devised by the government in the 1980s to speed up the timetable for buildings.\n\nMinisters were concerned that local council inspectors were delaying projects, so they allowed private inspectors to compete on speed of approval and cost.\n\nThe builder effectively employs the safety inspector: critics say it’s like students choosing who they’ll pay to mark their exams – except people’s lives are risk.\n\nMr Coombe said: “This doesn't drive standards up. It means the developer controls the amount of visits from a building inspector. We have had people shopping around for building controllers who would accept their work.\n\n“If you build a house extension the local authority are all over you. If you build a tower block or a shopping centre there’s a free-for-all.”\n\nIn that document the fire council warn: “It is our opinion that some within the wider industry are not acting responsibly when designing and approving buildings.\n\n“Banning things [such as flammable cladding] is no guarantee that people will follow the rules, and it is our view that much of the combustible cladding on the side of buildings is already banned under the current regime.\n\n“To date, there is little evidence of a culture change [since Grenfell]. There is much more to be done to ensure the safety of building occupants, now and in the future.\n\n“NFCC advocates that the current building control system is overhauled to ensure that it is robust, independent of client and market influence, and has sufficient teeth to enforce appropriate fire safety standards as necessary.”\n\nThe response to the horrific Grenfell fire has had some side-effects. Some building firms report huge delays to construction, while developers, architects and builders argue over liability for safety.\n\nThe Grenfell effect has also deterred architects from designing buildings with wood in the wall construction.\n\nGovernments in the USA, Canada and Europe are promoting the use of timber in buildings to help combat climate change, because it locks in CO2 that trees have taken from the atmosphere.\n\nThe USA, for instance, has certified 17-storey wood framed buildings after extensive fire testing.\n\nMeanwhile in the UK the government proposes that the maximum height of buildings with wood in the walls to be no more than four storeys.\n\nMr Coombe said the NFCC didn’t want to block the use of wood in buildings, but insisted that fire safety tests should be done in the UK to prove the safety of design.\n\nA government spokesperson said: “The Grenfell Tower fire was a devastating tragedy and we are as determined as ever to ensure this can never happen again.\n\n“Safety is paramount – that’s why we’ve announced the biggest changes to building safety in a generation which will deliver meaningful and lasting change for residents.\n\n“We are carefully considering the responses to our consultation and will respond in due course.”\n\nBrian Berry from the Federation of Master Builders said: “Our members, the vast majority of whom work in domestic repair and maintenance or are small house builders, know that quality and safety must be at the heart of building projects.\n\n“We are leading moves to create a more professionalised industry and advocate licensing of all UK construction companies.”\n\nBuildUK has a very broad membership across the industry and on some issues its members find it difficult to reach a consensus.", "People are being warned to be on their guard against scammers posing as NHS contact tracers.\n\nLocal councils in England and Wales have issued alerts following reports of bogus calls and messages asking for money to cover the cost of coronavirus testing kits.\n\nThe councils include Hampshire, Bath and North East Somerset, and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.\n\nOfficial tracers will never ask for payment of any kind or bank details.\n\nThe test and trace system is part of the government's efforts to reduce the spread of coronavirus, with contact tracers getting in touch with those who have had recent close contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHowever, a number of fraudsters are using this to their advantage and posing as contact tracers to deceive people into parting with money or personal details.\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) said the \"ruthless scam\" was \"another worrying and sickening attempt to trick people out of their money by preying on the public's fears\".\n\nA recent survey by Citizens Advice found more than one in three people in the UK have been targeted in various scams since lockdown began.\n\nChairman of the LGA's safer and stronger communities board, Simon Blackburn, said the latest scam to come to light undermined \"vital work to save lives by exploiting people who want to do the right thing and stop the spread of the virus\".\n\nIn the scam, a message or phone call claiming to be from the NHS test and trace service informs somebody they have come into contact with coronavirus and need to self-isolate and take a test.\n\nThe scammers ask them to confirm their address so a testing kit can be sent to them. Bank card details are then requested - purportedly to cover the cost of the testing kit.\n\nIn a genuine call, contact tracers will never:\n\nAnyone receiving a call they suspect is not genuine should report the call to Action Fraud.", "Parents will be waiting to find out if schools will have all pupils back in September\n\nThe billion pound school catch-up plan for England aims to drag the return-to-school policy out of a quagmire of indecision.\n\nParents have been increasingly baffled by how few pupils have returned to school this term, confused by what would be offered over the summer and downright horrified at the idea that schools might not even go back full-time in September.\n\nA parent emailed the BBC this week to say she wanted to burst into tears when she got a letter from her school to say pupils were only likely to go back half-time in the autumn.\n\nAnd head teachers' leader Geoff Barton said it was like operating in an \"information black hole\".\n\nSo has this juggernaut of cash put the show back on the road?\n\nIt's a lot of money - but it has to tackle massive disruption to almost nine million children in primary and secondary schools.\n\nAnd every family will want to know what will be done for their children, with many expected to be out of school for almost six months.\n\nFirst of all, there's no mention of extra summer activities. And nothing yet to explain how pupils might all go back in September.\n\nThe big focus is on private tutoring - and for schools, there is no such thing as a free launch.\n\nSecondary schools are back, but pupils are only attending part time\n\nThe £350m for tutoring will fund discounts - it's not added to school budgets. So schools will have to spend their own money to take advantage of the subsidy.\n\nIt's still not entirely clear how much schools will have to pay - but at the most generous, the discount will be 75%. So, based on £50 per session, it would cost schools £12.50 per pupil per session.\n\nBut there is financial support for this, in a £650m one-off payment to schools, otherwise the tutoring scheme would have actually cost schools money.\n\nTutoring businesses and charities can apply to join the new tutoring service, with the criteria for selection not yet published.\n\nHow much tuition will the funding deliver?\n\nThe programme is scheduled to start in the \"autumn\", paid for by the Department for Education and with extra cash from the KPMG Foundation.\n\nLuke Sibieta of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) says the funding represents a 1% increase in school budgets and will be worth, on average, about £80 per pupil per year.\n\nTo put the £650m in context, the annual pupil premium supplement to schools to help disadvantaged pupils is about £2.4bn per year.\n\nHead teachers and many education researchers are supportive of the idea of providing one-to-one tuition to pupils - to give more pupils the type of help already accessed by many better-off families.\n\nSo how much tutoring will this buy?\n\nIf the total £650m was spent on tutoring, and schools accessed all of the £350m available in subsidies, the IFS says it would mean about £2,400 available per class of 30 for the year.\n\nThis could give one hour each week to about five pupils in a class of 30.\n\nOn average, there are about five pupils eligible for free school meals in each class - so it would provide a real opportunity for them to catch-up, not just on missed school, but also to narrow the wealth related gap in educational attainment.\n\nHead teachers' leaders are supportive - and even with a nervous glance at the funding model, they're backing the idea of subsidised extra lessons.\n\nThere are schools already using their pupil premium money to buy private tutors and the Education Endowment Foundation (which test drives ideas for improving achievement) says there is evidence that such extra tuition works.\n\nThe Education Policy Institute is less impressed.\n\nDavid Laws, chair of the think tank and a former education minister, said the new funding was \"poorly targeted\".\n\nHe disagrees with schools in affluent areas getting the same share as the poorest - and there's no requirement to spend the money on disadvantaged pupils.\n\nBut here's the big question: Is it really a summer catch-up programme at all?\n\nIt might be a positive example of \"never let a crisis go to waste\" - in that it's an opportunity to launch a national tutoring scheme that could make a big difference to those most in need of help.\n\nBut it's not the type of summer educational recovery programme that parents might have been expecting. And there's nothing for early years, sixth forms or further education.\n\nIt might give a few children extra lessons, but what about the rest of the class, including those worrying about exams next year, those who have had only patchy access to online lessons and, well, everybody else who has been out of school for so long?\n\nParents might already feel they've had contradictory messages over schools, with confusion over who was going back and uncertainty about what to expect from lessons at home.\n\nAnd the catch-up plans might not stop them looking anxiously at the clock, ticking away to the autumn term.", "Three people have died and three others were seriously injured in a multiple stabbing at a public park in Reading.\n\nEmergency services were called to Forbury Gardens in the town at about 19:00 BST on Saturday.\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed landing at another park nearby to ferry the injured to hospital.\n\nArmed police officers raided a block of flats in the town hours after the attack and large parts of the town remain cordoned off.\n\nA 25-year-old man from the town, arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday, has been now been re-arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000, Counter Terrorism Policing South East said.\n\nHere are some images of the developments.\n\nBlue tents have been erected in the park after the incident on Saturday evening\n\nAnd forensics police were seen in Forbury Gardens on Sunday\n\nFloral tributes have been placed at the park railings\n\nA number of police cordons remained in place around Reading on Sunday\n\nThames Valley Police's chief constable John Campbell delivered a statement to the media at the entrance to Forbury Gardens on Sunday afternoon\n\nThames Valley Police launched its response after receiving calls at about 19:00 BST on Saturday\n\nTwo air ambulances were photographed at King's Meadow in Reading, a short distance from Forbury Gardens\n\nParts of Reading town centre were condoned off by Thames Valley Police\n\nArmed police officers were later seen at a block of flats off Basingstoke Road in Reading\n\nPolice officers were stationed at all entrances to the park on Saturday night\n\nAll pictures are subject to copyright.\n• None Three people dead after multiple stabbings in park", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya: \"British visitors can arrive freely and without the need for quarantine\"\n\nUK tourists will be able to visit Spain without having to quarantine on arrival from Sunday, Spanish officials say.\n\nSpain's foreign affairs minister has told the BBC that British citizens will be allowed to enter the country freely, without the need to self-isolate.\n\nShe said the decision had been made \"out of respect\" for the 400,000 Britons who have second homes in Spain.\n\nBut current rules state that anyone returning to - or entering - the UK still has to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nIt is understood the UK's quarantine restrictions will be reviewed on 29 June.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office is still warning against all but essential international travel.\n\nSpain's foreign affairs minister Arancha González Laya said UK visitors will go through a \"triple check\" upon arrival to Spain.\n\nThey will be asked for their country of origin and to register \"so we know we have a contact point to trace them\", she said. They will also undergo a temperature check.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we welcome visitors, but we want to do this in safety and security for them, as well as for the Spaniards,\" she said.\n\nMs González Laya said discussions were continuing with the government about exempting Spanish visitors from the UK's current quarantine travel rules.\n\n\"We do hope that [the British authorities] will be sensitive to the 250,000 Spaniards that are also living in the UK and would very much like to enter the UK without quarantine,\" she said.\n\nBut she added: \"We also respect that countries look at entry or exit restrictions on the basis of their own data.\"\n\nSpanish officials are also identifying locations in each of the country's regions where travellers \"will be isolated and treated\" should they require hospital treatment, according to Ms González Laya.\n\nMany Britons have homes in Spain - and it is also popular with tourists\n\nSince 8 June, people arriving in the UK have been required to self-isolate for 14 days to help slow the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe government is now planning to relax its travel quarantine rules for some countries in early July.\n\nUK officials are talking to their counterparts in Portugal, France, Italy, Greece and Spain, and ministers are hoping to make an announcement on 29 June that the government has secured a number of \"travel corridors\".\n\nThe government had previously said that the quarantine would be reviewed every three weeks and 29 June marks the end of the first three-week period.\n\nHowever, one leading British scientist has called on ministers to drop the policy \"as soon as possible\".\n\nProf Peter Piot, who is renowned for his work on Ebola and HIV, said the policy \"only would have made sense\" at the start of the outbreak when there were fewer cases.\n\n\"Today that is not going to contribute much and the damage it causes to the country, to the economy, is going to be enormous,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"Let's hope that rule is dropped as soon as possible and let's concentrate on what works.\"\n\nHis comments follow earlier criticism of the move by UK airlines. British Airways, Ryanair and EasyJet have filed a formal legal challenge to the government's policy.\n\nSpain's latest announcement follows confusion earlier in the week over the country's plans for allowing UK travellers to visit.\n\nSpanish officials had said on Monday that travellers from the UK would not have to quarantine on arrival from Sunday.\n\nBut Spain's foreign affairs minister then suggested the country would impose a two-week quarantine on Britons, if the UK maintained its current travel rules.\n\nThe mixed messages began after Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez announced last weekend that Spain's borders would reopen to travellers from all EU countries on Sunday 21 June - with the exception of Portugal.\n\nA spokeswoman for the government said the UK's quarantine system was \"informed by science, backed by the public and designed to help prevent a devastating second wave of this disease\".\n\n\"We are supporting tourism businesses through one of the most generous economic packages in the world, and continue to look at options to increase international travel, when it is safe to do so,\" she added.", "The daily testing figures refer to tests carried out in health and social care laboratories\n\nFor the first time since lockdown began, Northern Ireland's coronavirus dashboard has recorded a full 24-hour period without any new Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe dashboard covers tests carried out daily in health trust labs, but it does not include tests on national testing sites as part of NHS-wide initiatives.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann described it as \"significant progress in forcing the virus into retreat\".\n\nThe chief medical officer said NI had \"made important strides forward\".\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned that coronavirus remained a \"very real threat\".\n\nA total of 995 tests were completed between Thursday evening and Friday evening and none had a positive result.\n\nOne further coronavirus-related death was recorded within the same 24-hour accounting period.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths reported by Northern Ireland's Department of Health to 545, but this figure refers mainly to hospital deaths.\n\nMore comprehensive data collated by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (Nisra) showed the coronavirus-related death toll recently passed 800.\n\nOn Saturday, the UK Department for Health and Social Care announced a further 128 people had died after testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the UK total to 42,589.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, two further deaths were confirmed on Saturday and one previously reported Covid-19 death was removed from the official death toll.\n\nIt means there have now been 1,715 coronavirus-related deaths in the Republic of Ireland since the outbreak began.\n\nAfter the latest testing statistics were released on Saturday, Northern Ireland's health minister and chief medical officer both welcomed the fact there had been no new cases over a 24-hour period.\n\n\"We continue to make significant progress in forcing the virus into retreat,\" Mr Swann said.\n\n\"This is due to a massive collective effort by people across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is vital that we all maintain this progress and keep following public health advice on social distancing and washing our hands.\"\n\nRobin Swann warned that people must continue to follow public health advice\n\nDr McBride said: \"We have undoubtedly made important strides forward and the people of Northern Ireland deserve great praise for the sacrifices they have made in our response to this virus.\n\n\"Covid-19 remains a very real threat and now is not the time to drop guard.\n\n\"I urge everyone to keep doing the right thing in terms of hand hygiene and social distancing. Please stay safe and save lives.\"\n\nAt the end of each working week, Nisra releases data on the number of deaths in Northern Ireland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nNisra's most recent statistics show that by Friday 12 June, there had been 802 deaths where coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate.\n\nThe Department of Health's death toll refers to patients who have died with 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19, whether or no the infection was the cause of their death.", "Singer Alexandra Burke has spoken out about her experiences of racism in the music industry, revealing she was asked to bleach her skin \"to look whiter\".\n\nAfter winning X Factor, Burke said she was told she would \"have to work 10 times harder than a white artist, because of the colour of your skin\".\n\nIn a 15-minute Instagram video, she recalls being told: \"You can't have braids, you can't have an afro.\n\n\"You have to have hair... that appeals to white people.\"\n\nThe 31-year-old star, who won the TV talent show in 2008 at the age of 19, described the experiences as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nBurke, who refused to bleach her skin, said she was inspired to tell her story by fellow X Factor contestant Misha B, who recently spoke out about \"being devalued\" at the hands of the music industry.\n\nMisha B claimed the X Factor projected \"this angry black girl narrative\", using words such as \"feisty\" and \"bully\" to describe her after one live performance on the show. The 2011 contestant said it left her feeling suicidal.\n\n\"I could have spoken up much earlier, but was too scared to,\" said Burke, whose Instagram post has attracted a lot of attention, and sympathy, on social media.\n\nThe music star revealed the micro-aggressions she experienced at the hands of record labels, being told regularly that she \"comes across aggressive\".\n\nShe said she was told: \"You can't release this kind of music, because white people don't understand that\", and added: \"I am so upset with myself that I allowed that.\"\n\nBurke, whose hit singles Hallelujah, Bad Boys and All Night Long were all nominated for Brit Awards, also played the lead in the critically acclaimed West End musical The Bodyguard.\n\nThe singer said was told: \"Because you're a black girl, you won't make it that far in the industry... if you were white, you would be bigger than what you are now, you could sell more records, you'd be a Brit Award-winner\".\n\nBurke went on to become a runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017\n\nShe was raised in north London by her mother, Soul II Soul singer Melissa Bell, who died in August 2017 - just before Burke was due to take part in Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nShe recalled how one journalist accused her of \"being a diva\" when she asked not to do any publicity on the show's red carpet, which happened to be taking place on the same day as her mother died.\n\n\"That was the image they had of me, because of the papers.\" she said. \"I was so scared on that show. So many trolls, telling me all kinds of stuff.\n\n\"I have no idea how I got through it. I don't even like thinking about that experience. It's simply because of me being a black, strong woman.\n\n\"I can speak up for myself because that's how I've been taught. But I would never do it in a way that offends people or hurts anyone.\"\n\nShe said the Black Lives Matter movement had persuaded her to share her experiences because \"the truth is all we've got\".\n\n\"I just feel like people need to not see colour,\" said Burke. \"My mum always raised me to never see colour. I will continue that way because that's what makes me happy.\n\n\"People are people. We are all human, we all have feelings. So be kind.\"", "Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the United States of America and falls on 19 June.\n\nEvents to commemorate the day this year saw hundreds of protesters gather in several states to topple statues associated with slavery.\n\nOne was as high as 75-feet tall, and another was set on fire.", "This is how schools will look with social distancing operating in place\n\nChildren in some Welsh counties will return to classrooms for only three weeks when they go back to school after the coronavirus lockdown on 29 June.\n\nThe Welsh Government wanted to extend the summer term by a week but unions were concerned a 27 July finish would cause problems for staff contracts.\n\nSo far Cardiff, Newport, Monmouthshire, Caerphilly, Wrexham and Blaenau Gwent have said their schools will finish on the original end of term 17 July date.\n\nSchools in Anglesey, however, will not reopen as planned after a coronavirus outbreak temporarily shut down a meat processing factory.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"While we continue to recommend four weeks of check in, catch up and prepare, we acknowledge that ultimately this is a decision for local authorities, who are the employers of school staff.\"\n\nThe difference in end-of-term dates follows a disagreement between the Welsh Government and unions and talks are continuing.\n\nBut some councils have made a final decision now, with Wrexham council saying it could not be left \"until the last minute\".\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams wanted the summer term to be extended to 27 July to allow a month of school before the summer holidays.\n\nSome unions questioned the safety and practicality of the proposal and have warned there may not be sufficient numbers of cleaners and teaching assistants to enable schools to open for an extra week.\n\nUnions representing support staff have said they cannot be required to work as their contracts only cover standard term times.\n\nTeachers' unions are also believed to have had concerns about the proposal.\n\nIn a staggered return, a maximum of a third of pupils will be going back at any one time\n\nWrexham council said it put \"schools and the council in a very tough position\".\n\n\"There's no contractual obligation for staff to work the extra week - putting the onus on individual head teachers and staff, which is unfair,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It could also lead to inconsistency and confusion, with some schools able to open for the fourth week, and some not.\n\n\"We know that many parents will be feeling anxious and uncertain about sending their children back to school, and need to know exactly what's happening so they can make arrangements and feel confident.\n\n\"So this isn't something that can be left until the last minute, and it's only fair - to staff, parents and pupils - that we make a decision for the whole of Wrexham now. Not tomorrow, or next week, but today.\"\n\nIn a staggered return, a maximum of a third of pupils will be going back at any one time for \"catch ups\" a for one or two days of the summer term.\n\nThe Welsh Government had said it believed the additional week would be \"hugely important in helping schools take a phased approach in supporting all children and young people\".", "A man was seen with a knife in Mirfield Street\n\nTwo men and a woman have been injured in a stabbing in Liverpool.\n\nPolice were called to Mirfield Street at about 09:30 BST following reports of a man with a knife.\n\nParamedics later found a man with stab wounds to his abdomen and he was taken to hospital. Another man and a woman were found with head injuries, which are not thought to be serious.\n\nA 27-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, both from Liverpool, have been arrested on suspicion of assault.\n\nAnother man, aged 32, and a 30-year-old woman have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated burglary.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A rave is planned at a remote Black Country location, police said\n\nAn illegal rave has been planned in a remote location on Saturday night, police said, as revellers were reminded they could face prosecution.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it had intelligence to suggest a rave was being planned in the Black Country.\n\nIt follows an event that attracted thousands of people to Carrington, Greater Manchester, last weekend.\n\nThe force said it had launched a dedicated operation to disperse anyone planning to attend Saturday's event.\n\nThousands flocked to Daisy Nook Country Park and Carrington in Greater Manchester, last week\n\nRaves like this are \"unacceptable at any time but even more so during a pandemic,\" West Midlands Police Supt Nick Rowe, said.\n\n\"There is virtually no distancing at all,\" David Jamieson, the force's police and crime commissioner added.\n\n\"I fully understand - and I think it is expected - an upsurge among young people wanting to burst out of being at home,\" he said, but attending gatherings risked not only their families' wellbeing, but also prosecution, he added.\n\nPolice warned the raves \"are not safe\" after a man died and three were stabbed in Greater Manchester\n\nThe location for Saturday night's event is believed to be close to the Staffordshire border, so the West Midlands force is working with its counterpart in the county to \"minimise the risk of any anti-social behaviour\".\n\nDrones and dog units will be deployed to the area, Supt Rowe said.\n\nA 20-year-old man died following a suspected drug overdose and three others were stabbed at last week's lockdown rave in Carrington.\n\nBrookhay Woods was left strewn with litter after an illegal rave in Lichfield on 13 June\n\nMore than 1,000 people also gathered in Lichfield, Staffordshire, until the crowd was dispersed by police.\n\n\"These are not safe events,\" Supt Rowe said, and in a direct appeal to parents, he urged them to \"actively deter their children from attending\".\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Fiona Gibson and her younger brothers Philip (left) and Alexander (right) died at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nThree children have died and their mother is critically ill after a fire at their flat in Paisley.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 21:00 on Friday after the blaze broke out in the upper cottage flat in Renfrew Road.\n\nFiona Gibson, 12, and her brothers Alexander, eight, and Philip, five, died at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.\n\nThe children's 39-year-old mother was taken to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley in a critical condition.\n\nAlex Gibson, their father, wrote on Facebook: \"may u rest in peace little angels\".\n\nHe later added: \"how I miss them already, now I know what it feels like when ur world comes crashing down\".\n\nA police spokesman said: \"An investigation is under way to establish the exact circumstances of this incident.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said six fire crews were met with a \"well developed\" blaze.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact officers.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"No words are enough. It's just heartbreaking. My thoughts are with all who loved these poor children. Fiona, Alexander and Philip - may you rest in peace.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Before and after: Aerial shots show how lockdown changed the use of roads and public spaces\n\nTraffic on Britain's roads is now at a similar level to that seen in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the AA says.\n\nIt slumped to between 35% and 40% of the pre-coronavirus volume at the beginning of lockdown but has since doubled to around 75%.\n\nAA head of roads policy Jack Cousens told the BBC that traffic could return to normal \"by the end of July\".\n\nBut Friends of the Earth said pollution should not be allowed to \"creep\" back to the pre-pandemic level.\n\nTraffic has gradually increased since early April, as travel restrictions have eased and hundreds of thousands of people have returned to work.\n\nThe government is discouraging people from using public transport if it is avoidable, and has told passengers to wear masks, in an effort to limit the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThe AA monitors traffic levels on a daily basis - the rolling seven-day average level is denoted by the blue line\n\nMr Cousens said: \"The message to avoid public transport is certainly resonating as, week by week, more people have ventured out in their cars.\"\n\nHe added that \"due to the disappearance of the night-time economy\" there was still \"very little traffic\" after 19:00, while weekends were quieter than usual because of the cancellation of mass events.\n\n\"As shops re-open, while hairdressers and other up-close occupations prepare to return in early July, traffic could reach pre-lockdown levels by the end of July,\" Mr Cousens said.\n\nUK carbon emissions reportedly fell by 31% in April, but have increased since.\n\nMike Childs, head of science at Friends of the Earth, said: \"Any decline in emissions during enforced lockdown will be for nought if levels ramp back up.\n\n\"By saying that people should get behind the wheel now, the government themselves are contributing to increased pollution from road use.\"\n\nThe UK government has pledged £250m for improvements in cycling and walking infrastructure and many towns and cities are making more road space available for pedestrians and those on bikes.", "Three people have died after they were stabbed in a park in Reading in southern England. Three more were injured.\n\nEyewitness Lawrence Wort told the BBC he saw a man stab several people in Forbury Gardens in the town.", "Passengers arriving at UK airports could soon be able to have the same type of saliva swab test used by the NHS to screen for the coronavirus.\n\nCompanies planning a trial of the scheme hope a negative result will allow early release from the government's 14-day travel quarantine.\n\nPeople will have to pay around £140 for a test booked online before travel.\n\nThe government said the quarantine system aims to keep the transmission rate down and prevent a second wave.\n\nBBC News has been told that a trial is expected to begin in a couple of weeks at a major UK airport.\n\nThe aim is to initially test 500 passengers a day.\n\nUnder the proposals, passengers would visit an airport clinic after immigration to take a test and self-isolate at home until they received the result.\n\nA negative result could take as little as five hours. However, the aim will be to notify every participant within 24 hours.\n\nJason Holt, boss of ground-handling firm Swissport UK, which is one of two companies involved, described the scheme as a \"win-win\".\n\n\"We accept that the quarantine is in place,\" he said. \"This will complement it and help put UK aviation back on its feet.\n\n\"If they [the passenger] were Covid-negative we would ask the government to consider them to be free from the quarantine and they would have 13 days plus avoiding the quarantine.\"\n\nThe Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) swab test being used is the type in operation at NHS facilities across the UK.\n\nNurses will carry out the airport swab tests at clinics run by medical firm Collinson.\n\nThe company says the trial is about \"modifying\" the quarantine.\n\n\"People will be able to go on holiday again,\" said Dr Simon Worrell, Collinson's Global Medical Director.\n\nGreece is among the countries to introduce swab testing for passengers arriving at its airports\n\nDr Worrell hopes it will bring \"a degree of normality\" back and show people \"that we've really turned the corner\".\n\nThe two companies are in discussions with several UK airports and the government.\n\nHowever ministers have yet to confirm people who receive a \"negative\" result won't have to self-isolate for the remainder of their two weeks.\n\n\"The critical thing is to get government approval\", said Scott Sunderman, managing director of medical and security assistance at Collinson.\n\nThe Department for Transport said all passengers arriving in the UK - including UK nationals - are being asked to provide an address where they will self-isolate for 14 days.\n\n\"As the Home Secretary made clear when she announced these measures, they will be kept under review and informed by science to keep us all safe,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nCollinson said the testing could be scaled-up after the pilot. It believes it could, at some point in the future, potentially test \"hundreds of thousands\" of people a day arriving into the UK.\n\nSwab tests for passengers are already in place at other airports abroad like Hong Kong and Vienna.\n\nAnother trial began at Jersey airport earlier this month.\n\nThe UK's 14-day quarantine policy, to be enforced with surprise visits and fines of up to £1,000 in England, has been described by some aviation industry bosses as a \"stunt\" and \"unenforceable\".\n\nThe government has said it plans to announce wider exemptions to the quarantine by the end of June.\n\nOfficials are negotiating a number of \"travel corridors\" with countries that have low infection rates.\n\nThey would allow passengers travelling in both directions between the UK and certain countries to avoid having to self-isolate after each journey.\n• None UK set to relax quarantine rule for some countries", "The family are next heading for the Everest Base Camp\n\nA family from Aberdeen have been told they can continue their round-the-world trip after having to spend three months in lockdown in a remote town in Nepal.\n\nKris and Julie Smith and their two children - nine-year-old Erihn and four-year-old Jacob - can now resume their journey to Everest Base Camp.\n\nThey left Aberdeen in almost exactly a year ago to fulfil a \"big crazy dream\" of travelling around the globe.\n\nHowever, coronavirus lockdown measures came into force in March.\n\nSince then, they have been in a hotel next to an airport runway in Lukla - a small town in the Solukhumbu region - thousands of miles from home.\n\nOn Facebook the family wrote: \"After much running about by our friend Kevin Sherpa to achieve many signatures from many authorities we have been given the green light to start walking.\n\n\"After leaving Kathmandu on the 18th March we only managed a 7 day trek before lockdown arrived. A little break in between of 3 months and off we go again\n\n\"Cannot express how excited and grateful we all are that we can continue our walk and our dream to walk onto Sagarmatha National Park and witness the worlds tallest mountain with our own eyes.\"\n\nBefore reaching Nepal, they had been to 18 countries including India, Jordan, Albania, Serbia and Hungary.\n\nMr Smith, 41, had told BBC Scotland this month that conditions in Lukla were \"quite basic\" and they only had a stove in the living-room to keep warm at night.\n\nVietnam and Sri Lanka are among locations the family still hope to reach, added Mrs Smith, 46.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: \"We're going to get our lives back to normal slowly, and it will be a new normal\"\n\nMinisters will announce in the coming week whether the 2m social distancing rule in England will be relaxed, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe government has been reviewing the advice, amid warnings many businesses will not survive under current rules.\n\nMr Sunak said the outcome of the review will \"make an enormous difference\" to businesses \"keen to see a change\".\n\nThe government has said it hopes to reopen pubs, restaurants and hotels from the beginning of July, if safe.\n\nIt has yet to give a definitive date for the hospitality sector, but ministers are preparing to ease more coronavirus lockdown restrictions on 4 July.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to shops in North Yorkshire, the chancellor said although the review was yet to be completed, it was \"something that will make an enormous difference, I think, to many businesses who are keen to see a change\".\n\nThe government has faced pressure from leaders of the hospitality sector and its own MPs to lessen the 2m rule, with widespread concerns around the impact it would have on the UK economy.\n\nMr Sunak said he was \"very understanding of the calls for action on that, particularly for our hospitality industry, for our pubs, for our restaurants\".\n\nHis comments came after a raft of measures reported in the Times revealed how parts of the hospitality sector could look significantly different compared to pre-lockdown.\n\nPubs could be patrolled and people could be encouraged to use apps to order drinks, according to the newspaper.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department for Health and Social Care announced a further 128 people had died after testing positive for Covid-19, bringing the UK total to 42,589.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak toured several shops in North Yorkshire on Saturday\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson commissioned the review on 14 June, saying there was \"margin for manoeuvre\" in the 2m social distancing rule as the number of coronavirus cases falls.\n\nThe other nations of the UK have not announced any plans to change the 2m distance.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said she is looking at the evidence, and Northern Ireland's Economy Minister Diane Dodds has said she is open to changing it.\n\nA coronavirus adviser to the Welsh government said the risk in reducing the distance \"isn't very big\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One and two metre social distancing - what does it look like?\n\nEarlier, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that the government's review of the 2m rule will be \"concluding shortly, within the coming days\".\n\nOther new measures for the hospitality sector reported in the Times include:\n\nKate Nicholls, CEO of UK Hospitality, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the guidelines seen by the industry involve businesses carrying out their own risk assessments, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach for \"everything from a burger van in a park to the Fat Duck in Bray\".\n\nMs Nicholls said a third of pubs and restaurants could not reopen with the 2m rule in place, although all hotels could. But reducing it to 1m meant rather than generating 30% of normal revenue and losing money, businesses could break even at 70% of normal revenue.\n\n\"Every day we have delay and uncertainty about that opening date, the industry is haemorrhaging cash and jobs and livelihoods are at risk,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe UK government currently advises people to stay 2m (6ft 6in) apart from others to avoid spreading coronavirus.\n\nThe World Health Organization recommends a distance of at least 1m (just over 3ft), but the UK government's scientific advisers say that being 1m apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being 2m apart.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A pub near Milton Keynes has been testing a possible post-lockdown system\n\nProf Calum Semple at the University of Liverpool, a member of the government's Sage scientific advisory group, said he had changed his personal view on the need for social distancing because there were now \"low levels, and sustained low levels, of transmission throughout the country\".\n\nHe said 2m was still safer than 1m, but it was \"now a reasonable political decision to relax these rules\" and to open businesses where the 2m rule is harder to maintain, as long as there are other precautions in place.\n\nIf the UK faces a second wave of infections, Prof Semple said it might consider imposing social distancing rules on a regional basis, with different requirements for London compared to Carlisle, for example.\n\nSome bars, restaurants and pubs say they will be unable to make a profit if the 2m guidance is still in place when they reopen.\n\nTourism firms have also warned of tens of thousands of job losses unless the distance is shortened.\n\nThe coronavirus alert level was downgraded from four to three on Friday. Under level three, the virus is considered to be \"in general circulation\" and there could be a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\" - whereas in level four transmission was considered to be \"high or rising exponentially\".\n\nOn the day, the government announced that all pupils in all year groups in England will go back to school full-time in September, alongside a £1bn fund to help England's pupils catch up with learning.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.", "2 Sisters produces a third of all poultry products consumed in the UK\n\nMore workers have tested positive for coronavirus after an outbreak at a chicken factory on Anglesey.\n\nAll staff at the 2 Sisters meat processing plant in Llangefni are self-isolating after a number of workers were confirmed to have the virus on Thursday.\n\nOn Saturday the number had risen to 75, Public Health Wales confirmed.\n\nHealth officials said the number of cases was expected to rise and samples have been taken from about 350 staff.\n\nTesting sites were set up at Llangefni and Holyhead, and at an existing facility in Bangor, following the outbreak.\n\nAll staff and contractors working at the processing plant, which has 560 workers, have been asked to self-isolate for 14 days, and are being contacted for testing.\n\nPHW, who are responding to the outbreak, said the process of taking samples from all workers was \"nearly concluded\" and \"testing was underway\".\n\n\"What's clear is that the system is working as it should - we are actively screening employees at the facility and this is helping us to identify contacts of individuals who have tested positive for Covid-19,\" said Dr Christopher Johnson from Public Health Wales.\n\n\"The advice for these contacts is to self-isolate to prevent further spread. The aim of the testing is to identify more cases and we're likely to see an increase in overall cases in the coming days.\"\n\n2 Sisters is one of the largest food producers in the UK and processes about a third of all the poultry products eaten each day from its sites across Britain.\n\nIt has suspended production and closed the factory, which supplies local authorities, hospitals, restaurants and small businesses, following the outbreak.\n\nAnglesey council has also confirmed schools will not reopen as planned on 29 June following the outbreak.\n\n2 Sisters had said \"the health, safety and well-being of our colleagues is ultimately the thing that matters most at our business\".\n\nIt added: \"We will not tolerate any unnecessary risks - however small - for our existing loyal workforce at the facility.\"", "The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said \"people are united in their grief\" following the terror attack in Reading.\n\n\"This was a horrific incident, our thoughts and our hearts go out to all those affected, particularly the family and friends of those who tragically died,\" he said.\n\n\"I think across Reading, across the country, people are united in their grief at this incident.”\n\n\"It’s very important that the investigation runs its course, but I will want to work with the government in response to this, to look at whether there’s lessons that can be learned, whether there need to be changes to the law.\n\n\"This is not a time for party politics.\"", "Beyoncé has been vocal throughout the the anti-racism protests that arose from the death of George Floyd\n\nBeyoncé has released a surprise new song, Black Parade, hours after announcing a new initiative to support black-owned businesses.\n\nThe track includes powerful lyrics about black history, police brutality and the George Floyd protests.\n\n\"Put your fists up in the air, show black love,\" sings the star. \"Need peace and reparation for my people.\"\n\nThe song was released on Juneteenth, a holiday marking the official end of slavery in the US.\n\nThe celebration originated in Beyoncé's home state of Texas but is now celebrated annually on 19 June throughout the US, with varying degrees of official recognition, sometimes under the names Emancipation Day or Black Independence Day.\n\nBlack Parade is Beyoncé's first solo release since last year's Homecoming, a live album and documentary covering her blockbuster performance at Coachella in 2018; and The Lion King: The Gift, which accompanied Disney's live action remake of its classic animation.\n\n\"I'm going back to the South, where my roots ain't watered down,\" she sings as the song opens.\n\nThe lyrics go on to reference the Covid-19 pandemic (\"Fly on the runway in my hazmat\"), police brutality (\"Rubber bullets bouncing off me\") and Tamika Mallory, a prominent activist in the Women's March and Black Lives Matter movements.\n\nWarning: The following song contains explicit language.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Beyoncé - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe track appeared on streaming services shortly after the star launched Black Parade Route, an online directory of black-owned businesses selling everything from fashion and beauty products to home furnishings and coffee.\n\n\"Being Black is your activism. Black excellence is a form of protest. Black joy is your right,\" wrote the singer on a tagline on her website.\n\nAccording to the site, the initiative will benefit the star's BeyGOOD's Black Business Impact Fund, which \"support[s] Black-owned small businesses in need.\"\n\n\"Happy Juneteenth Weekend! I hope we continue to share joy and celebrate each other, even in the midst of struggle,\" said the star in an Instagram post announcing the launch.\n\n\"Please continue to remember our beauty, strength and power.\"\n\nBeyoncé has been vocal throughout the the anti-racism protests sparked in May by the death of George Floyd.\n\nIn a video on her Instagram, she said she felt \"broken and disgusted\" and demanded justice for Mr Floyd, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\n\"No more senseless killings of human beings,\" she said. \"No more seeing people of colour as less than human. We can no longer look away.\"\n\n\"Continue to pray for peace and compassion and healing for our country.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Gemma Combellack says she was refused a mortgage after criminals stole her identity\n\n\"It just seemed to go on and on, it's just been really upsetting.\" Gemma Combellack, 30, is talking about her six month fight to reclaim her identity after it was stolen by criminals last year.\n\nShe discovered she'd become a victim of ID theft when she was refused a mortgage over a payday loan in her name that she knew nothing about.\n\nA bank account had also been opened by fraudsters using her identity.\n\n\"I've been in tears at my desk at work in terms of the impact it's had on me and my stress levels.\n\n\"At the time it made me so angry, the fact that we were having to go through all this trauma and stress and no one could give me answer.\n\n\"It's just that it was so out of our control and that's the most frustrating thing about it.\"\n\nGemma's not alone. Last year ID theft happened more than 223,000 times, up 18% on the year before, according to Cifas, the counter fraud organisation which runs the National Fraud Database and works with police and financial institutions to try to tackle fraud.\n\nIts chief executive, Mike Haley, says there are a number of factors fuelling that rise.\n\n\"Criminals are using more sophisticated methods, more of us are doing more things online and we're all using cash less which is something fraudsters are able to exploit.\n\n\"Criminals are targeting ID fraud as a lucrative business model and they're getting sophisticated in their use of social engineering [on the phone, text messages or on social media] which involves persuading people to give up personal information,\" Mr Haley said.\n\nCombined with large scale data breaches and data theft from companies and organisations, \"and you have the raw ingredients [for ID theft],\" he added.\n\nVery often criminals carrying out these attacks on people in the UK aren't even based here. \"This can all be done at a distance,\" he said. \"Now you can sit behind a computer anywhere in the world and commit crime on a vast scale.\"\n\nAlso, there is very little risk of getting caught as \"criminals are able to use the anonymity of the internet,\" he said.\n\nFor Gemma, the personal cost of having her identity stolen ran into thousands of pounds. \"In terms of the financial implications we weren't able to get a mortgage and therefore had to continue to pay rent on our property for six months.\n\n\"We'd also instructed a solicitor and had the flat valued so, overall, the costs are looking at the £10,000 mark.\n\n\"It just feels like I haven't progressed in nine months. It feels like we've just been really financially hit by something that was completely out of our hands, and it just seems really unfair.\"\n\nGemma says it took her months of stress and anxiety before she was able to reclaim her identity\n\nGemma's also worried about her financial future.\n\n\"If it can happen once it can happen again,\" she said. \"It's made me really, really nervous about it happening again because there are no signs, you don't know it's happening to you.\"\n\nMike Haley says he expects the number of ID thefts to be even higher this year and next as criminals look to exploit people's vulnerabilities during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"During this period criminals haven't taken a holiday, they've been using this time to harvest information.\n\n\"They've been upping their activity to capitalise on the crisis, we all have our guard down because, understandably, we're all worried about other things.\n\nThe advice from experts is always avoid clicking on links or replying to text messages and phone calls that come out of the blue.\n\nThere is also a national campaign trying to raise awareness of fraud and advice for people on how they can try to help themselves to avoid becoming a victim.\n\nYou can hear more on BBC Radio 4's Money Box programme by listening again here.", "Controversial commentator Katie Hopkins has been permanently suspended from Twitter for violating its hateful conduct policy, the social media giant said.\n\nMs Hopkins, who had more than one million followers, was previously suspended in January for a week.\n\nBut Twitter said her latest ban is permanent.\n\nThe social network did not, however, say which tweets Ms Hopkins had posted, to result in the ban.\n\n\"Keeping Twitter safe is a top priority for us - abuse and hateful conduct have no place on our service and we will continue to take action when our rules are broken,\" it said.\n\nThe cited hateful conduct policy bans promotion of violence or direct written attacks and threats on other people, based on a wide range of personal characteristics such as race, gender or sexual orientation.\n\nMs Hopkins is well-known for both her media appearances and controversial right-wing viewpoints.\n\nShe has been re-tweeted by US President Donald Trump on several occasions.\n\nTwitter has recently taken a firmer line against Mr Trump himself over tweets it says break its policies.\n\nThe US President has seen warnings placed on some of his tweets and others hidden from general view, although they remain online.\n\nBut leaving such tweets up in the public interest is an exception Twitter makes for world leaders - other accounts like Ms Hopkins' risk being suspended when they break Twitter's rules.", "A policeman involved in the killing of an African-American woman in the US state of Kentucky will be fired, Louisville city officials have said.\n\nBreonna Taylor, 26, was shot when officers entered her flat on 13 March during a drugs investigation.\n\nMayor Greg Fischer said Brett Hankison, one of three officers involved, would lose his badge. The others have been placed on administrative leave.\n\nMs Taylor's name has become a rallying cry at global anti-racism protests.\n\nMayor Fischer did not provide more details regarding the decision to fire Mr Hankison.\n\n\"Unfortunately, due to a provision in state law that I very much would like to see changed, both the Chief and I are precluded from talking about what brought us to this moment, or even the timing of this decision,\" he said.\n\nBrett Hankison will be fired, officials say\n\nPolice suspected Ms Taylor's flat was being used to receive drugs by a gang based at a different address 10 miles (16km) away. One of the suspects was an ex-boyfriend of Ms Taylor.\n\nShe was one of three people named on the warrant, according to Louisville NBC affiliate Wave 3.\n\nBut Ms Taylor was not the main subject of the investigation, the city's Courier-Journal newspaper reports.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Hankison published by the Courier-Journal, Louisville Police interim chief Robert Schroeder wrote that his conduct was \"a shock to the conscience\" that \"demands your termination\".\n\nMr Hankison is accused of \"blindly\" firing 10 rounds into Ms Taylor's apartment, displaying \"an extreme indifference to the value of human life\".\n\n\"I am alarmed and stunned you used deadly force in this fashion,\" Mr Schroeder added.\n\n\"The result of your action seriously impedes the department's goal of providing the citizens of our city with the most professional law enforcement agency possible. I cannot tolerate this type of conduct by any member of the Louisville Metro Police Department.\"\n\nAttorneys for Ms Taylor's family said they want to see the other officers fired as well.\n\n\"We also look forward to these officers being prosecuted for their roles in her untimely death.\"\n\nShortly after midnight on 13 March, Mr Hankison, along with officers Jon Mattingly and Myles Cosgrove, entered Ms Taylor's apartment by executing a no-knock search warrant - a court document that authorises police to enter a home without permission. Ms Taylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were reportedly asleep as the commotion began.\n\nPolice said they knocked before using a battering ram to enter the home, though this account has been disputed by Ms Taylor's family and a neighbour.\n\nThe officers exchanged fire with Mr Walker, a licensed gun owner who called 911 in the belief that the drug raid was a burglary. The officers - who fired more than 25 bullets - said they returned fire after one officer was shot and wounded.\n\nDuring the exchange, Ms Taylor, an emergency medical technician, was shot eight times. She died on her hallway floor.\n\nMr Walker surrendered and was arrested on charges of attempted murder of a police officer.\n\nA lawsuit filed by Ms Taylor's family accuses the officers of battery, wrongful death, excessive force and gross negligence.\n\nNo drugs were found in the property. The lawsuit also says the officers were not looking for her or her partner, but for an unrelated suspect who did not live in the complex.\n\nLast week, Louisville's city council voted unanimously in favour of banning no-knock warrants. Similar legislation that would ban the warrants nationwide was introduced in the US Congress.\n\nOn Sunday, pop star Beyoncé urged the Kentucky Attorney General to bring charges against the three officers involved.\n\nMs Taylor's killing was propelled into the spotlight again with the death of unarmed African-American man George Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota, last month.", "Michael's mother said he would have believed he was meeting his friends\n\nTwo teenagers have been jailed for murdering a \"vulnerable\" 15-year-old boy who was stabbed to death over rumours he had molested a girl.\n\nMichael Irving was lured into a \"Trojan horse\" trap by the boys he thought were his friends, the Old Bailey was told.\n\nThe court heard the teens, now aged 17 and 16, attacked Michael after they heard he had sexually assaulted the older defendant's sister.\n\nMichael had always denied it and nothing was reported to the police.\n\nThe court heard the defendants had arranged to meet Michael outside Westfield Stratford on 3 September last year. They then led him to a residential block 15 minutes away.\n\nProsecutor Hugh Davies QC said: \"The defendants had clearly set Michael up on a friendly but false basis to meet them. It was a Trojan Horse meeting.\"\n\nMichael was fatally stabbed in the heart and had four other injuries.\n\nAfter the defendants ran off, a passer-by stopped, held Michael's hand and comforted him as he died in the street.\n\nJudge Martin Edmunds QC said both defendants had \"murder in mind\", adding: \"No motive could justify such a cold-blooded plan.\"\n\nThe younger defendant admitted murder and was detained for a minimum of 10 years and six months.\n\nThe older boy was found guilty of murder following a trial and was detained for at least 14 years and six months.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, Michael's mother Leisa Irving said his murder had left a \"large void in all our lives\".\n\n\"My life and all the lives of my family have not been the same since. The constant feeling that something is missing - that something is Michael.\"\n\nMs Irving said her son was vulnerable because of his learning difficulties, which meant that he thought everybody was his friend.\n\nShe said: \"The hardest part was that he believed these people were his friends and he was going to Stratford to be with his friends.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trump supporters have begun camping outside the arena\n\nOklahoma's Supreme Court has ruled that President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday in Tulsa, his first since March, can go ahead.\n\nA lawsuit to stop the 20 June event over concerns that it could increase the spread of Covid-19 in the community was filed this week.\n\nVirus cases are rising in Oklahoma, and local health officials have expressed concerns over hosting the rally.\n\nThe Trump campaign says they received over 1m ticket requests for the event.\n\nThe queue for the event at the Bank of Oklahoma Center - which seats 19,000 people - began forming earlier this week.\n\nFacing tough re-election prospects in November, the Republican president is hoping to reboot his campaign after a rocky week that has seen news of sinking opinion poll numbers, twin US Supreme Court defeats, two damning tell-all memoirs and a resurgence in coronavirus cases.\n\nThe lawsuit to cancel his rally was filed by John Hope Franklin for Reconciliation, a nonprofit organisation that promotes racial equality, and a commercial real estate company, the Greenwood Centre.\n\nThey argued the venue should mandate social distancing guidelines in accordance with US public health officials' recommendations, or cancel the event.\n\nBut the Supreme Court said that as the state had begun to reopen, the regulations left social distancing decisions up to individual business owners. Oklahoma has seen a recent spike in coronavirus cases.\n\nIn response to safety concerns, the Trump campaign has said they will check attendees' temperatures and offer hand sanitiser and masks.\n\nBut people buying tickets for the Tulsa rally online also have to click on a waiver confirming they \"voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to Covid-19\" and will not hold the president's campaign responsible for \"any illness or injury\".\n\nSome of the president's supporters gathering in Tulsa have been seen wearing masks\n\nThe president himself has pushed back against guidance around masks, calling them a personal choice.\n\nIn an interview with political news outlet Axios released on Friday night, he was asked if he recommended rally attendees wear facial coverings.\n\n\"I recommend people do what they want,\" he replied.\n\nMr Trump also said: \"We're going to have a wild evening tomorrow night at Oklahoma.\"\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has said attendees will be given masks, but they will not be instructed to wear them - and told reporters on Friday that she will not be wearing one either.\n\nTulsa's health department director Dr Bruce Dart told the Tulsa World paper: \"I wish we could postpone this to a time when the virus isn't as large a concern as it is today.\"\n\nTulsa's mayor imposed a curfew on Thursday around the venue, declaring a civil emergency, but the president says the city leader has assured him the measure will not apply to the rally itself.\n\nMayor GT Bynum, a Republican, cited recent \"civil unrest\" and potential opposition protests as he slapped an exclusion zone on a six-block radius near the arena.\n\nBut on Friday afternoon, Mr Bynum said that the Secret Service had asked the city to lift the curfew.\n\n\"Last night, I enacted a curfew at the request of Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin, following consultation with the United States Secret Service based on intelligence they had received,\" the mayor said in a statement.\n\n\"Today, we were told the curfew is no longer necessary so I am rescinding it.\"\n\nThe mayor also said law enforcement had intelligence that \"individuals from organised groups who have been involved in destructive and violent behaviour in other states are planning to travel to the city of Tulsa for purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally\".\n\nMeanwhile, a high metal fence was put up to barricade the Trump rally venue.\n\nEarlier on Friday, President Trump posted a warning on Twitter to demonstrators.\n\n\"Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis,\" the president tweeted.\n\n\"It will be a much different scene!\"\n\nMr Trump originally planned to hold the rally on Friday, but changed the date last week after learning it fell on Juneteenth, the celebration of the end of US slavery.\n\nThe president told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that a black Secret Service agent had told him the meaning of the anniversary.\n\nOn Friday, Ms McEnany said the president \"routinely commemorated\" the day and \"he did not just learn about Juneteenth this week\".\n\nTulsa was the site of one of the worst racial massacres in US history.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'A celebration of life. A celebration of freedom': What you need to know about Juneteenth", "Hundreds of people have staged an anti-racism rally in Glasgow city centre despite appeals to stay away because of lockdown restrictions.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf, the city council and Police Scotland had called on the public not to gather for the Say No To Racism demonstration.\n\nThere was a heavy police presence following violent scenes from a far-right group on Wednesday, but there have been no reports of any trouble.\n\nA group of around 50 loyalists who went to the Cenotaph were kept apart from the main crowd, while a group of protesters from the Green Brigade - a group who follow Celtic Football Club - were hemmed in by police in the centre of the square.\n\nIn Edinburgh's St Andrew Square, a protest was held at the statue of Henry Dundas, who delayed the abolition of the slave trade.\n\nMeanwhile, the Loyalist Defence League has been staging a \"protect the statues\" demonstration at the Paisley War Memorial.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people staged an anti-racism rally in Glasgow city centre despite appeals to stay away due to the lockdown restrictions.\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf, the city council and Police Scotland had called on the public not to gather for the Say No To Racism demonstration.\n\nThere was a heavy police presence in the square following violent scenes from a far-right group on Wednesday.\n\nOfficers later confirmed one man was arrested in the nearby Gallowgate area.\n\nA second man, aged 62, was arrested in Edinburgh for threatening and abusive behaviour.\n\nThat arrest is believed to be in connection with a separate protest in the capital.\n\nMany protesters wore masks to attend the event\n\nAt about midday a group of protesters from the Green Brigade - a group of ultras who follow Celtic football club - were hemmed in by police in the centre of Glasgow's George Square.\n\nAnti-racism activists outside the cordon chanted: \"Let them go.\"\n\nCh Supt Alan Murray, said: \"We identified a group as football risk supporters, who we believed posed a threat to public safety.\n\n\"We spoke with this group and, at their request, escorted them to the Gallowgate area of the city where they dispersed.\"\n\nLoyalists and members of a far-right group announced online on Friday night that they planned to head to the square to \"protect statues\".\n\nA small group gathered at the war memorial during the rally as lines of riot police separated the two.\n\nPolice officers separated the rally from a small group of loyalists who also gathered in George Square.\n\nMore than 500 people attended the rally, with stewards asking them to stick to social distancing guidelines by following markings on the square.\n\nSupporters include Stand Up To Racism, Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees, Positive Action in Housing, Afghan Human Rights Foundation and unions.\n\nThey had also been asked to wear masks and not to travel farther than public health advice allows.At the start of the rally, the crowd took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nLater, names of people who died in police custody were read out and attendees chanted \"no justice, no peace, no racist police\".\n\nSpeakers said they \"didn't come here for a fight\" and spoke of securing greater rights for refugees and asylum seekers.They added \"no-one welcomes\" the far-right group and called on police to \"do their job\".\n\nThere were some minor scuffles as police controlled people arriving and leaving but the rally was peaceful.\n\nChief Supt Murray said: \"Significant police resources were deployed at George Square to prevent the disgraceful scenes of violence and disorder witnessed in recent days.\n\n\"Those who turned up to protest were facilitated with an appropriate policing response and I would like to thank all officers involved for their professionalism in preventing trouble and maintaining public safety.\"\n\n\"Our robust response will continue across the country and anyone intent on causing violence and disorder should expect arrest.\"\n\nCharlotte Ahmed, of Stand Up to Racism, Scotland said: \"Today's demonstration was a magnificent expression of the unity, the anti-racism and the anti-fascism of the people of Glasgow.\n\n\"Here, in George Square, the very place where thousands of us welcomed Nelson Mandela to Scotland, we have made it clear: refugees are welcome here, Black Lives Matter, no racists in Glasgow.\"\n\nElsewhere, a protest was held at the statue of Henry Dundas, who delayed the abolition of the slave trade, at St Andrew Square, Edinburgh.\n\nAnd the Loyalist Defence League staged a \"protect the statues\" demonstration at the Paisley War Memorial.\n\nOn Friday, Ch Supt Hazel Hendren, divisional commander, said: \"Please do not come to George Square.\"\n\nShe said: \"The lockdown restrictions remain in place and people should leave their homes only for very limited purposes.\n\n\"Anyone who wants to protest should find another way of doing so that keeps everyone safe.\"\n\nAt least six people were arrested on Wednesday following scenes labelled \"disgraceful\" by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nFar-right loyalists targeted a rally in the city's George Square which was calling for improved living conditions for refugees.\n\nThe organisers vowed the rally would \"send a positive anti-racist message from Glasgow's George Square to the world\".", "Some primary school pupils in England began returning to classrooms at the beginning of June\n\nAll pupils in all year groups in England will go back to school full-time in September, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced.\n\nAt the daily coronavirus briefing, he said the government was \"signed up... to bring every child back, in every year group, in every school\".\n\nGuidance on safety measures will be published in the next fortnight.\n\nIt comes after the prime minister announced a £1bn fund to help England's pupils catch up with learning.\n\nMr Williamson also said class size limits - or \"bubbles\" - imposed to curb the spread of the virus could be increased to allow every child to return to school.\n\nUnder current rules imposed during the coronavirus pandemic, class sizes are limited to a maximum of 15 pupils, but the education secretary said ministers were looking at \"expanding those bubbles to include the whole class\".\n\nClass sizes vary in England, but this could be around 30 pupils.\n\nTeachers' unions say the proposals have not been thought through.\n\n\"There is no social distancing if you've got 30 children in one classroom,\" Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU), told the BBC.\n\n\"But then you're going to ask them to abide by social distancing when they go out, I think that won't work and that will mean children aren't looking at social distancing at all.\"\n\nSchools closed to everyone except vulnerable children and those with a parent identified as a key worker on 20 March, in response to the pandemic.\n\nAs the lockdown measures started easing at the beginning of this month, children in nursery, reception, Year 1 and Year 6 were encouraged to return to primary schools in England, albeit in smaller class sizes.\n\nSome Year 10 and 12 pupils - selected because they are sitting GCSEs and A-levels respectively next summer - returned to secondary schools and colleges this week.\n\nMinisters now want all pupils in England to return to classrooms full-time in the autumn, ending a near six-month absence for many pupils.\n\n\"We have already been very clear that we want to see all children in all classes returning full-time to school in September. That's what we are working towards,\" Mr Williamson told reporters.\n\nIt is a promise that many parents will have been waiting to hear.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has committed to all school pupils in all year groups going back full-time in September.\n\nThe part-time, online, often not-really-anytime lessons will be over.\n\nBut the much trickier question will be how to deliver this.\n\nEven if social distancing is reduced - and class size \"bubbles\" of 15 pupils can be increased - there will still be massive logistical challenges.\n\nHead teachers have warned any social distancing, even 1m, will require additional classrooms and teachers.\n\nAnd they have been exasperated at time ticking away without any clear plan - with heads' leader Geoff Barton complaining schools are working in an \"information black hole\".\n\nWhen the government had to U-turn on bringing back all primary pupils it was because nobody listened to similar warnings about lack of space.\n\nBut a September deadline is now in place - and there will be high political stakes if there is another failure to deliver.\n\nThe education secretary said signs that the spread of coronavirus was reducing meant that ministers could now look at \"making sure that every child returns to school\".\n\nHe said he understood \"there is anxiety still among parents\" about their children going back to school, but stressed: \"I want to assure you that the well-being of your children is the absolute top priority for every single one of us.\"\n\nThe government will publish guidance for schools within the next two weeks on how to bring children back \"so that schools have the maximum amount of time to prepare for the next phase\", Mr Williamson said.\n\nHowever, there was no confirmation of whether the government's 2m social distancing rule was going to be relaxed in schools.\n\nMr Williamson reiterated that a review of the measure is under way, and added that could not provide an exact date for a decision.\n\nCurrent Department for Education (DfE) guidance states that primary school classes should be split in half and contain no fewer than 15 pupils, desks should be spaced as far apart as possible and lunch, break, drop-off and pick-up times should be staggered.\n\nSchools should also consider introducing one-way circulation, or placing a divider down the middle of the corridor, to keep young people apart, it adds.\n\nMr Williamson was speaking after the coronavirus alert level for the UK was downgraded from four to three, paving the way for a \"gradual relaxation of restrictions\".\n\nAt level four, transmission of the virus was thought to be \"high or rising exponentially\"; at three, it is thought be \"in general circulation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “We have got to start thinking of a world in which we are less apprehensive.\"\n\nEarlier, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"determined to do everything\" he could to get all children back in school from September.\n\n\"We will bring forward plans on how this will happen as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nThe prime minister's pledge prompted teachers' unions to call for further clarity on the proposals.\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said schools and colleges were trying to prepare for September amid an \"information black hole\" from the government.\n\nMr Barton said school and college leaders were preparing for two scenarios for the autumn - using rotas to stagger the return of pupils or bringing students back full-time - amid an \"absence of information\".\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said: \"The desire to bring everyone back is correct but we need to know what the government is thinking and the scenarios they are planning for.\n\n\"This will give school communities what they need to get through this term and plan for the new academic year in September.\"\n\nMr Courtney, of the NEU, said earlier: \"The prime minister's hopes are not enough.\"\n\n\"If the requirements of social distancing - in order to stop a second peak - are reduced even to 1m, then most schools could not have 30 children in a classroom,\" he added.\n\nThe £1bn fund to help England's children catch up will see the most disadvantaged pupils gain access to tutors through a £350m programme in the year from September.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools will be given £650m to spend on one-to-one or group tuition for any pupils they think need it.\n\nThere are separate rules for managing the threat of coronavirus in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nSchools in Wales are reopening at the end of June, with only a third of pupils in class at any time, while in Scotland, schools are preparing to reopen on 11 August.\n\nSocial distancing in schools has been halved to 1m (just over 3ft) in Northern Ireland, where ministers are aiming for a full reopening of schools on 24 August.\n\nHowever, head teachers have warned that parts of the Northern Ireland plan are \"unrealistic and undeliverable\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba returned to action for first time since 26 December to win the late penalty that earned Manchester United a crucial point at Tottenham Hotspur.\n\nPogba, who had not played for almost six months because of an ankle injury that needed surgery, emerged as a second-half substitute and demonstrated he has the creativity to make a difference as United battle for a place in the top four.\n\nUnited keeper David de Gea was badly at fault when he failed to stop Steven Bergwijn's powerful 27th-minute drive, so there was relief all-round for the visitors when Pogba surged into the area before he was hauled down clumsily by Eric Dier.\n\nIn the cavernous spaces of the deserted Tottenham Hotspur Stadium - as the match was played behind closed doors - Fernandes equalised with an emphatic penalty.\n\nSpurs survived a last-minute scare as referee Jon Moss pointed to the spot again when Dier collided with Fernandes but the video assistant referee correctly reversed a poor decision.\n\nDe Gea made a measure of amends with a superb save from Son Heung-min shortly after his error, while Hugo Lloris made a magnificent flying save from Anthony Martial as United chased an equaliser.\n\nIt finally arrived via that Fernandes spot-kick nine minutes from time to leave United in fifth place, four points ahead of Spurs.\n• None De Gea and Maguire 'should get taxi back to Manchester'\n• None Relive the draw between Tottenham and Manchester United\n• None How you rated the players\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer kept faith with the side that went 11 games unbeaten in all competitions as their season restarted here in north London - which meant no place for Pogba, despite his recovery from injury.\n\nIt was no surprise, however, when he was called into action just after the hour to inject some zest into what had been a lifeless United performance up to that point.\n\nPogba was right in the fray, having a shot instantly - but he made his most significant contribution when he tricked Dier in the area and drew a foul from the Spurs defender to win that point-saving penalty.\n\nIt was a timely reminder to Solskjaer, should he even need one, of the rare talent he has at his disposal if Pogba could only show consistency and put the speculation about his future behind him.\n\nDe Gea did not have such a good night. There were already questions about his form before this game and he produced another error here - all with Dean Henderson's reputation growing in his loan spell at Sheffield United.\n\nSpurs will be bitterly disappointed to concede a goal so late on, and in such needless fashion, although it could have been worse when referee Moss erroneously awarded that second penalty - before VAR put matters right.\n\nLloris had produced that outstanding save from Martial but Spurs were hardly under siege and manager Jose Mourinho, who stalked the touchline in fury when United were originally awarded that injury-time penalty, will feel an important two points have been cast aside.\n\nMourinho will take some solace in the return of Harry Kane after hamstring surgery and Son after he broke his arm, as well as goalscorer Bergwijn.\n\nSpurs, however, need wins, and this result leaves them in eighth place, six points behind fourth-placed Chelsea in the chase for Champions League places.\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Radio 5 live: \"I think difficult to find the word, I have to try to find a nice word - a strange penalty because the team was so compact, so well organised.\n\n\"The players did fantastic work defensively - they had two dangerous shots that Hugo Lloris saved and nothing else. Everything else was under control. I have to admit for the last 15 minutes I would love to have had Lucas Moura here, Dele Alli here. The last 15 minutes were difficult for us.\n\n\"Lucas and Dele are players we need and we could feel that today. when you look to their bench and then to ours the difference in attacking options. Hopefully they will be back for West Ham because in this moment it is very, very important to change players.\n\nOn the penalty for Manchester United: \"Paul Pogba did his job. That is it. I think Jonathan Moss was also trying to do his job the best he could. I think the VAR is a different situation.\"\n\nManchester United on the spot again - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in 12 games in all competitions (W8 D4), scoring 30 goals and conceding just three in that run.\n• None Steven Bergwijn became only the second player to score in his first three home Premier League appearances for Spurs, after Rafael van der Vaart in 2010.\n• None Since the start of last season, Manchester United have both taken (23) and scored (16) more penalties than any other Premier League side.\n• None Only Trent Alexander-Arnold (14) has more assists among Premier League defenders in all competitions than Spurs full-back Serge Aurier this season (eight).\n• None Jose Mourinho has won none of his past six matches against his former clubs in all competitions (D2 L4), taking just one point from four Premier League matches against Chelsea and Man Utd this season (D1 L3).\n• None Spurs are winless in seven games in all competitions (D3 L4), their worst run since November 2016 (also seven without a win).\n\nTottenham host West Ham in the Premier League on Tuesday, 23 June (20:15 BST) while Manchester United are at home to Sheffield United on Wednesday, 24 June (18:00 BST).\n• None Attempt missed. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Odion Ighalo.\n• None Attempt blocked. Gedson Fernandes (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Winks.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Harry Maguire tries a through ball, but Odion Ighalo is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The science of social distancing is pretty straightforward - the further away you are, the lower the risk. So two metres IS safer than one.\n\nThe virus is transmitted through droplets from coughing, sneezing or even speaking - so the further back you stand, the more likely those droplets will have fallen to the ground before they can reach you.\n\nBased on that, the government's scientific advisers say that being one metre apart carries up to 10 times the risk of being two metres apart.\n\nBut, with background infection levels now much lower, the chances of a face-to-face encounter with someone who has the virus are small. And other measures - ones that many shops and restaurants could operate with - reduce the risk, too.\n\nLimiting the time people spend face to face, being outside, screens, even keeping noise levels low, so no-one has to shout - all these things help prevent droplets passing from person to person.\n\nBut while coronavirus is still around, we will all have to factor it into the choices we make because there is no such thing as zero risk.", "There has been a \"rise in the extent\" that limits are broken during lockdown despite a big drop in the number of fines, according to GoSafe\n\nMotorists have been caught driving at speeds of almost 140mph on Wales' roads during lockdown, police figures show.\n\nWhile there has been a 72% drop in the number of people caught speeding, there has been a \"rise in the extent\" that limits are broken, according to GoSafe.\n\nThe road safety partnership said such behaviour risked putting more pressure on the NHS during the pandemic.\n\nThere were 9,447 fines sent out between 24 March and 24 May, compared to 33,796 for the same period last year.\n\nThe reduction corresponds to a 70% drop in the volume of traffic on Welsh roads, but that is not the whole story, according to GoSafe manager Teresa Ciano.\n\nTravel restrictions which allow people to travel no further than five miles (8km) will not be lifted earlier than 6 July, First Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday.\n\n\"Whilst the offending rate is similar, we have seen a rise in the extent that speed limits have been broken,\" she said.\n\n\"This minority of motorists have been putting themselves and others at risk of serious injury or death at a time when we all need to play our part in reducing road collisions to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nPolice have set up new speed checks where concerns have been raised locally, said GoSafe manager Teresa Ciano\n\nThe highest speeds have been recorded on the M4 near Newport and the A55 in Denbighshire.\n\nIndividual fines issued between 24 March - the day after lockdown was announced - and 25 May include:\n\nThe number of speeding fines issued in the South Wales Police, Gwent Police and Dyfed-Powys Police force areas dropped from 24,371 last year to 6,446 this year - a 73% reduction overall.\n\nThe North Wales Police force area saw a slightly smaller drop of 68% - from 9,425 last year to 3,001 this year.\n\nThe M4 eastbound, between junctions 27 and 26 near Newport, is one of the worst areas for speeding during lockdown, figures suggest\n\nMs Ciano said continued enforcement was having an impact during lockdown.\n\n\"Our casualty reduction officers have been out enforcing the roads of Wales to keep all road users safe and to encourage compliance with the speed limits.\n\n\"Despite the high level of speeding seen on some of our roads, we have seen a number of sites record zero offences, which is a clear indication of enforcement working at its best.\"\n\nShe added that police had set up new speed checks where concerns have been raised locally.", "A Covid-19 tracing software tool has appeared in the settings of both Android phones and iPhones as part of an update of their operating systems.\n\nThe \"exposure notification\" tool is switched off by default, and is not a tracing app itself.\n\nIt enables an app to run in the background while still using Bluetooth.\n\nThis lets the app measure the distance between two handsets - and then alert the phone owner if someone near them later tests positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn the UK there is currently no available contact-tracing app.\n\nThe update has caused some confusion, with people querying the new addition to their handsets on social media.\n\n\"This is not a new app but is an extra element added to the phones' operating systems to enable approved developers to build apps that can potentially warn of proximity to infected individuals,\" said computer scientist Prof Alan Woodward, of Surrey University.\n\n\"Only apps approved by Google and Apple will be included in their app stores where they try to make use of this facility.\"\n\nThe tools (Apple on the left, Android on the right) have appeared in the phone settings\n\nOn iPhones it's found in the settings app, via the privacy menu and then health sub-section. On Android phones it's in the Google (services and preferences) section of the settings menu.\n\nIt does not work with the popular Covid Symptom Study app, which has been downloaded more than 3m times.\n\nA team of NHS developers had built a contact-tracing app and trialled it on the Isle of Wight but the UK government is now planning to incorporate software developed by Apple and Google.\n\nThis tool is part of that collaboration between the tech giants.\n\nIt enables handsets to exchange data and alert people if they have been near someone who is found to have coronavirus.\n\nHowever that data is not stored anywhere centrally - which was what the UK initially wanted to do.", "After months of work, the UK has ditched the way its coronavirus-tracing app works, prompting a blame game between the government and two of the world's biggest tech firms. So what went wrong?\n\nAt the end of March, I got a text from a senior figure in the UK's technology industry. This person said they were helping the NHS \"on a very substantial project that will launch in days and potentially save hundreds of thousands of British lives.\"\n\nThat was the first I knew of the plan to build a contact tracing app, a project that soon appeared to be at the very centre of the government's strategy to beat coronavirus and help us all emerge from lockdown.\n\nThe tech luminary had somehow assumed that I could be an adviser to the project - I made it clear that could not be my role but I was very interested in following its progress.\n\nNow, nearly three months on, after missing deadline after deadline, there has been a radical change in direction. The app that has been developed so far is being scrapped, and a new approach will be tried based on a system created by Apple and Google.\n\nBut there is no guarantee when, if ever, this will be rolled out. So what went wrong?\n\nWhen the team from the NHSX digital division was assembled they were told they were engaged on a vital mission. According to a presentation the team was shown the Covid-19 app would have four aims:\n\nOnce installed on a user's phone, the app would use Bluetooth to keep a record of other people with whom they came into close contact - as long as they too had installed the app. Then when someone tested positive for the virus, alerts would be sent to their close contacts of recent days telling them to go into quarantine.\n\nThe epidemiological expertise was provided by a team of Oxford scientists who had argued that there was an urgent need to identify people who were spreading the virus without knowing. \"Very fast contact tracing was likely to be essential,\" says one of the Oxford team, Dr David Bonsall. \"And smartphones have the technological capability to speed up that process.\"\n\nBut using the Bluetooth connection on smartphones to detect contacts was untested technology. Still, the team was inspired by Singapore, which had released its Trace Together app using that system.\n\nHeath Secretary Matt Hancock announces the development of \"a new NHS app for contact tracing\". The app is launched on the Isle of Wight. It is downloaded by 60,000 people, under half the population of the island, over the following 10 days. Mr Hancock tells BBC Breakfast that if the trial on the Isle of Wight is successful, the app will be rolled out nationwide by the middle of May. He also says the public would have a \"duty\" to download the app and that 60% of people in the country would have to do so for the system to function. PM says test, track and trace will be ‘world-beating’ Boris Johnson says the system will be in place by 1 June Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells Parliament: \"We will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world-beating and yes it will be in place by 1 June.\" He also says there will be 25,000 trackers who \"will be able to cope with 10,000 new cases a day\". Contact-tracing system is launched without a nationwide app. Anybody who has been in close contact with someone who has tested positive will have to self-isolate for 14 days. According to government figures, in the first week tracers contact 5,407 people with the virus. Business Minister Nadhim Zahawi says the app tested on the Isle of Wight will \"be running as soon as we think it is robust\". Speaking on BBC Question Time, the minister says: \"I can't give you an exact date, it would be wrong for me to do so.\" Asked to confirm it would be rolled out nationwide this month, he says: \"I'd like to think we'd be able to manage by this month, yes.\" Minister says the app ‘isn’t the priority’ Lord Bethell, the Minister for Innovation at the Department of Health and Social Care, says the app \"isn’t the priority\". Answering a question about the app from the Science and Technology Committee, the minister says: \"We are seeking to get something going for the winter, but it isn't the priority for us at the moment.\" He declines to offer a launch date for the app. In a major U-turn, the UK ditches its version and shifts to a model based on technology provided by Apple and Google. The Apple-Google design is promoted as being more privacy-focused. However, it means epidemiologists will have access to less data.\n\nBut it soon became clear that using Bluetooth was tricky. Reports from Singapore suggested people were reluctant to download the app because it had to be kept open on the phone all the time, draining the battery.\n\nThen on 10 April came a surprising announcement from Google and Apple. The two tech giants - on whose software virtually all the world's smartphones depend - said they were going to develop a system that would help Bluetooth contact-tracing apps work smoothly. But there was a catch - only privacy-focused apps would be allowed to use the platform.\n\nApple and Google favoured decentralised apps, where the matching between infected people and their list of contacts happened between their phones. The alternative was for the matching to be done on a central computer, owned by a health authority, which would end up storing lots of very sensitive information.\n\nThe app the NHS was developing was based on a centralised model, which the Oxford scientists felt was vital if the health service was to be able to monitor virus outbreaks properly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said Isle of Wight residents using the app \"will be saving lives\"\n\nTwo days later, with quite a fanfare, Health Secretary Matt Hancock unveiled the plans for the Covid-19 app, promising \"all data will be handled according to the highest ethical and security standards, and would only be used for NHS care and research\".\n\nBut immediately privacy campaigners, politicians and technology experts raised concerns. \"I recognise the overwhelming force of the public health arguments for a centralised system, but I also have 25 years' experience of the NHS being incompetent at developing systems and repeatedly breaking their privacy promises,\" said Cambridge University's Prof Ross Anderson.\n\nYet the project was still gathering pace with the first trial of the app at RAF Leeming, in Yorkshire. The trial was held under artificial conditions, with servicemen and women placing phones adjacent to each other on tables to see what happened.\n\nMeanwhile, privacy-conscious Germany became the latest country to switch its app to the decentralised model, using the Apple and Google system. It seemed that Apple had made it clear that it would not cooperate with a centralised app.\n\nMichael Veale, a British academic working with a consortium developing decentralised apps, warned that the NHS app was on the wrong path, asking on Twitter \"will the UK push ahead with an app that will not work on iPhones - which has devastated adoption in Singapore?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: What is contact tracing and how does it work?\n\nBut the UK pushed ahead with a trial in the Isle of Wight. As it got underway Mr Hancock told the public they had a \"duty\" to download the app when it became available and that it would be crucial in getting \"our liberty back\" as the lockdown was eased.\n\nFirst sight of the app showed it was very simple, asking users whether they had a fever or a continuous cough. But any symptom alerts sent out to contacts merely echoed the standard \"stay alert\" advice - test results couldn't be entered into the app at this stage. It left many residents confused.\n\nStill, the fact that the app was quickly downloaded by more than half of the island's smartphone users saw the government branding the trial a success.\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Times revealed that the government had hired a Swiss software developer to build a second app, using the Apple and Google technology. NHS insiders were quick to downplay the significance of this move - although one admitted \"Downing Street is getting nervous\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"Test, track and trace system in place in the UK by June 1\"\n\nWork continued on a second, more sophisticated version of the original app, which was again going to be tested in the Isle of Wight before a national rollout - though the original deadline of mid-May had been missed.\n\nOn 20 May, however, it became clear that the government's focus was switching to manual-contact tracing. The prime minister announced that a \"world beating\" tracing system would be in place by the beginning of June, though Number 10 stressed that the app's contribution to the system would come a bit later.\n\nAs May drew to a close the boss of the wider test and trace programme, Baroness Dido Harding, said the app would be the \"cherry on the cake\" of the project. It was no longer the cake itself.\n\nBy early June, more deadlines for the national release of the app had come and gone. Three weeks into the Isle of Wight trial residents were getting restless, with very little information on how it was going or when an updated version of the app was coming.\n\nFrance launched its centralised Stop-Covid app, which had drawn heavy criticism from privacy campaigners, and digital minister Cedric O said 600,000 downloads in the first few hours was \"a good start\".\n\nOn 4 June, Business Minister Nadhim Zadhawi was coaxed into saying the app should be ready by the end of the month, but that was the last firm deadline that would be promised.\n\nSingapore, which had continued to struggle to make its contact tracing app work, announced plans to give all citizens a wearable device in the hope that this would do a better job than a smartphone.\n\nOn 14 June, Germany became the biggest country to launch a decentralised app on the Apple/Google platform. It quickly outstripped France in terms of downloads with something approaching 10% of the population installing it.\n\nBy now the silence from the UK government about the NHS app was deafening. What was going on?\n\nAround lunchtime on 18 June all became clear. The BBC broke the story that the government was abandoning the centralised app and moving to something based on Google and Apple's technology. Despite all the spin, the Isle of Wight trial had highlighted a disastrous flaw in the app - it failed to detect 96% of contacts with Apple iPhones.\n\nThe blame game has already begun. Mr Hancock and some of the scientists working with the NHS believe Apple should have been more cooperative. Technology experts and privacy campaigners say they warned months ago how this story would end.\n\nApple says it did not know the UK was working on a \"hybrid\" version of the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app using tech it developed with Google.\n\nMeanwhile, there is scant proof from anywhere around the world that smartphone apps using Bluetooth are an effective method of contact tracing. Back in March, it seemed that the hugely powerful devices most of us carry with us might help us emerge from this health crisis. Now it looks as though a human being on the end of a phone is a far better option.", "The death of a former Wales international footballer may have been linked to heading a football and could be regarded as an \"industrial disease,\" a coroner has said.\n\nAlan Jarvis played for Everton and Hull City in the 1960s and 1970s, winning three caps for his country.\n\nThe 76-year-old, who was thought to have dementia, died at a nursing home in Mold, Flintshire, in December.\n\nCoroner John Gittins has opened his inquest at Ruthin.\n\nHe said neuropathology had been undertaken and that Mr Jarvis' death and a possible link to heading a football would be explored further at a full hearing.\n\nMr Jarvis, a midfielder, played for Wales against England's 1966 World Cup winning squad, earning his other caps against Scotland and Northern Ireland.\n\nHis daughter, Sarah Jarvis, of Northop, Flintshire, said his family had arranged to have his brain donated to researchers at the University of Glasgow after his death.\n\nMs Jarvis said Dr Willie Stewart, who is studying the possible link between heading a football and brain damage, examined it in January and passed his report to the coroner.\n\nShe said she believed heading had been to blame for the difficulties her father faced in later life - including the loss of his speech.\n\nMs Jarvis said the family hoped his inquest would increase \"knowledge\" and that, while heading has been banned for children under 12 during training, changes in the adult game might not be necessary.\n\n\"My family loves watching football, so it's nothing I would want to change, it's more awareness,\" she said.\n\n\"The only thing I want to come out of it, is to look after these players.\n\n\"I know they say the football was heavy back then, but now it's lighter and faster, so who's to say there's not still going to be the same amount of people coming through with dementia.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Stewart's research featured in the 2018 BBC documentary Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me.\n\nIn 2019, a study he led found former professional footballers were three-and-a-half times more likely to die of dementia than people of the same age range in the general population.\n\nThe study began after claims former West Bromwich Albion striker Jeff Astle died because of repeated head trauma.\n\nThere remains, however, no definitive evidence that heading a ball causes dementia.\n\nFootball authorities have said more research is needed, with the FA saying it is \"committed to doing all it can\" to help provide greater understanding of the issue.", "There is no judgement more important right now than gauging the trade-off between reopening the economy and the measures limiting the spread of coronavirus.\n\nBut the BBC understands that all four chief medical officers of the UK nations, including England's Professor Chris Whitty, opposed the prime minister's hopes of lowering the Covid-19 alert level last week.\n\nLess than a month ago, Boris Johnson announced that any easing of the lockdown would be conditional on a lower alert level, alongside \"five tests\" on the spread of infection being met.\n\nIndeed, when the prime minister promised on 10 May to ease the lockdown around open air markets and primary schools, as happened on Monday, he issued an important caveat: \"If the alert level won't allow it, we will simply wait and go on until we have got it right.\"\n\nThe next day, the government's \"Plan to Rebuild\" said that the changes to the lockdown \"must be warranted by the current alert level\".\n\nAt that time the alert level was 4, indicating that \"transmission is high or rising exponentially\".\n\nAt level 3, transmission is no longer considered \"high\" but a Covid-19 epidemic is in general circulation. Level 3 justifies \"gradual relaxing of restrictions and social distancing measures\".\n\nOn Wednesday last week, the prime minister told parliament's Liaison Committee that \"we're coming down the Covid alert system from level 4 to Level 3 tomorrow, we hope, we're going to be taking a decision tomorrow\".\n\nThat was in reply to a question from the Northern Ireland Select Committee chair Simon Hoare about the PM's adviser Dominic Cummings.\n\nBut the next day, the government decided instead not to lower the alert level.\n\nThere were two other important meetings that day. One was between the four nations' chief medical officers. The other was between the devolved governments and the PM, and easing the alert level across the UK was expected to be discussed.\n\nChief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has made a point of saying that the number of cases \"remain high - it's not a low number\"\n\n\"It was clear that government wanted to change it and scientists and the chief medical officer didn't,\" said one political source involved.\n\nThis account was later confirmed to me by a scientist involved in pandemic planning, and sources in three governments said that all four chief medical officers from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland did not back the hoped-for move to alert level 3.\n\nThe government itself has not confirmed or denied this account, only suggested that it was \"always clear\" that the alert level was not the primary reason for easing lockdown.\n\nBut the doubts harboured by the country's most senior medical adviser, and other scientists, about lowering the alert level do matter.\n\nThe government pressed on with the modest easing of the lockdown, even after the PM's promise last month that any relaxation would be conditional on a lowering of the alert level.\n\nIn early May measures such as reopening primary schools and markets were promised \"no earlier\" than 1 June.\n\nNHS Medical Director Professor Stephen Powis said the Joint Biosecurity Centre was \"currently under development setting itself up\"\n\nLast week, ministers were left describing how the alert level was \"transitioning to 3\" to justify going ahead with easing the lockdown, even as the level technically remained at 4.\n\nBut at the government's daily coronavirus briefing last Thursday, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance made a point of saying that the number of cases \"remain high - it's not a low number\" and that in some places the transmission rate, or R-value, remained \"close to 1\".\n\nHe added that the UK remained in a \"fragile state\" and should be prepared to re-impose measures if necessary.\n\nOver the weekend, a series of senior members of the Sage advisory committee announced that the easing of lockdown was premature.\n\nThen there is a more significant question about who actually decides the alert level. The prime minister had said last month that it should be the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC).\n\nWhen I asked at last Friday's government briefing what the centre had said, NHS medical director Prof Stephen Powis replied that the JBC was \"currently under development setting itself up\" and \"feeding information into the four chief medical officers who have to think about alert levels\".\n\nBut on Tuesday, Number 10 confirmed that this would no longer be the case, and it was \"ultimately\" the UK chief medical officers' job to set the alert level using analysis from the JBC which has now \"begun operating\".\n\nAnd that raises another key concern.\n\nIt is my understanding that there are some tensions between administrations, and some of this spilt out into the teleconference last Thursday. The Joint Biosecurity Centre has not been signed off by the devolved administrations.\n\nSome expressed disappointment that the government's Cobra civil contingencies committee had not met in the three-week period before the latest round of lockdown easing was confirmed in Westminster.\n\nThe prime minister pointed to what he saw as particular problems in Scottish care homes, and also mentioned north Wales as a Covid-19 hotspot, although scientists say that this is due to a change in measurement.\n\nThe Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the prime minister \"locked horns\" on the care home issue, I'm told. Another source says the half hour call \"was supposed to be about the alert level, but the doctors and scientists had already killed off the move\".\n\nEven if the medics had agreed, it is quite plausible that the Scottish and Welsh governments would have refused to lower the alert level.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove is expected to make an effort to keep Welsh and Scottish administrations onside.\n\nOther experts point out that applying a terror alert-style system to pandemics simply might not work, as the government's own decisions have a significant direct impact on transmission rates, unlike terrorism.\n\nThe terror alert system also has no transition state between its levels. And there are questions about whether this new system is meant to replace the Sage experts, and why exactly that is happening.\n\nThe fear is that this vital new policy development, designed to clearly communicate risk levels across the nations of the UK to workers, businesses, parents and pensioners has more than just teething problems.\n\nThe government is now downplaying the importance of the system to lifting lockdown. The concern is that the system, explained in some detail by the PM in an address to the nation, now risks being dead on arrival.\n• None UK alert level raised to four - what does that mean?", "The NHS has introduced a test and trace schemes to help the UK lift lockdown measures and stop the spread of coronavirus.\n\nThousands of contact tracers have been recruited to notify people - by email, text or by phone - if they've come into contact with someone with Covid-19.\n\nWales launched their system on 1 June and England, Scotland and Northern Ireland have systems up and running.\n\nThe UK's test and trace app is currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight but isn't ready yet to be rolled out elsewhere.\n\nBBC Health and Science correspondent, Laura Foster, explains what is meant by track and trace, how it works and how it can keep the R number low.", "As lockdown measures begin to ease in the UK, families have taken the opportunity to see loved ones again - at a safe distance.\n\nCate Searle took this photo of her children with their grandmother in Hampshire.\n\n\"My mum is over 70 and has been shielding. It was the first time she saw the boys since February,\" says Cate.\n\nIn Derbyshire, 80-year-old Sheila also saw her grandchildren again for the first time in 10 weeks.\n\nIn Aberdeenshire, the Wilkie and Stephen families wore face masks when they got together.\n\nMargaret Stephen says: \"Eighty-six-year-old Nanny hadn't seen all her grandchildren for 11 weeks\".\n\nWhile there were grandparents who had not seen their grandchildren for some time, there were others who had never seen their new grandchildren.\n\nJamie Riley in Buckinghamshire introduced six-week-old baby Eden to her grandparents.\n\nIn Edinburgh, grandparents Fergus and Judy Gilmour met their four-week-old grandson, Brodie, for the first time.\n\nIn Leicester, baby Luna who was born on 15 April, finally met her grandparents.\n\nAs lockdown restrictions are relaxed, the government continues to reinforce the importance of social distancing.\n\nThe government's advice remains that a person should \"stay two metres apart from anyone outside of [one's] household\".\n• None Lockdown easing to allow groups of six to meet\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock said the advice was \"the same as to everybody but with more emphasis\"\n\nPeople from ethnic minorities are at a higher risk of dying from coronavirus, a report by Public Health England says.\n\nIt shows age remains the biggest risk factor, while being male is another.\n\nThe impact of Covid-19 is also \"disproportionate\" for other Asian, Caribbean and black ethnicities. But it remains unclear why.\n\nA trade union for doctors said the report was a \"missed opportunity\" for \"action\" to be taken to protect health workers who are from ethnic minorities.\n\nThe health secretary said the \"troubling\" report was \"timely\" because \"right across the world people are angry about racial injustice\".\n\nOn Monday night, the Department of Health and Social Care denied reports the delay was down to official concerns of potential civil unrest linked to global anger over the death of African-American George Floyd.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons the public was \"understandably angry about injustices\" and that he felt a \"deep responsibility because this pandemic has exposed huge disparities in the health of our nation\".\n\n\"Black lives matter, as do those of the poorest areas of our country which have worse health outcomes and we need to make sure all of these considerations are taken into account, and action is taken to level-up the health outcomes of people across this country,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking at the daily coronavirus briefing in Downing Street, Mr Hancock said \"much more work\" needed to be done to understand \"what's driving these disparities\".\n\n\"We are absolutely determined to get to the bottom of this and find ways of closing this gap,\" he said, adding that he has asked equalities minister Kemi Badenoch to continue working on the issue alongside Public Health England (PHE).\n\nThe BBC's Rianna Croxford pressed Mr Hancock on whether there were any specific recommendations for people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nHe said everyone in \"the different high risk categories\" highlighted in the report should follow social distancing guidelines \"very stringently\".\n\nProf John Newton said although the virus was having a worse impact on black and minority ethnic people, \"that is not necessarily because of their ethnicity\" and could instead be related to their job, for example.\n\nHe said the report's findings needed to be \"widely discussed before deciding exactly what needs to be done\".\n\n\"The report if nothing else emphasises the complexity of what we're seeing, so really we're urging people not to jump to conclusions and institute measures which are not really justified by the data,\" he added.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said \"lives depend on\" finding out why the virus disproportionately impacts black and minority ethnic people, and what actions the government was taking to stop it.\n\nDavida Wilkins, a 38-year-old district nurse in the West Midlands, told the BBC she felt \"even more anxious\" about doing her job following the report's publication.\n\nShe said she felt \"obligated\" to continue her front-line role but added she cannot minimise the risks posed to her by the virus because \"it's the colour that I am and I can't change it\".\n\nA large proportion of NHS doctors are from an ethnic minority background\n\nThe rapid review was launched when it became clear that some people were getting more sick with coronavirus than others.\n\nPHE reviewed thousands of existing health records and other virus data to look at disparities by:\n\nIt is not possible to combine all of these factors together to judge an individual's risk because of the way the source data is recorded, but the data does reveal clear inequalities.\n\nThe analysis on ethnicity and risk did not consider a person's occupation or obesity, even though both are known risk factors for getting seriously ill with coronavirus.\n\nThe government had been under pressure to publish the findings of this inquiry. It was due to be released by the end of May.\n\nNow it's here, it's not clear why there was a delay. The main findings reinforce what we already know - that belonging to an ethnic minority group is a major risk factor.\n\nIt doesn't move us forward in answering why, though.\n\nThe report acknowledges an important flaw in the analysis - it couldn't factor in important risks, such as a person's job and underlying health conditions, that increase the chance of dying with coronavirus. Where you live and how much you earn are important considerations too.\n\nDeath rates for people living in the most deprived areas of England were more than double the least deprived areas.\n\nThe report says coronavirus has replicated and in some cases increased existing health inequalities. It doesn't mention how to address those to save more lives.\n\nIt acknowledges that more work is needed to understand and advise people about the risks.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the report for not providing recommendations for at-risk groups, adding that the virus \"thrives on inequality\" and \"inequality thrives on inaction\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour MP for Battersea Marsha de Cordova said the report was \"notably silent\" on how risks amplified by \"racial and health inequalities\" could be reduced.\n\nShe said the government \"must act immediately\" to mitigate the risks \"so that no more lives are lost\".\n\nWhile Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy said families \"are living in fear\" and the government \"must take urgent action to protect at-risk groups\".\n\nGill Walton, chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, said while the report's conclusions were \"helpful... it does nothing to protect people\". She said \"clear guidance and support\" from the government should be given to help the NHS tackle the risk to workers.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing pointed out that health care staff from black and ethnic minority groups faced an increased risk from the virus and that \"swift and comprehensive action\" was needed to protect workers.\n\nWhile the council chair of the BMA, the doctors' trade union, said the report was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\n\"The BMA and the wider community were hoping for a clear action plan to tackle the issues, not a re-iteration of what we already know. We need practical guidance,\" Dr Chaand Nagpaul said.\n\nThe equality watchdog says the government should produce a \"comprehensive race equality strategy\" in response to the report.\n\nRebecca Hilsenrath, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: \"People are more than statistics, and we cannot afford to ignore the broader context of entrenched race inequality across all areas of life. Only a comprehensive race equality strategy will address these issues.\"\n\nLatest government figures show 39,369 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, with an increase of 324 deaths on Monday's figures. There were 1,613 new positive cases recorded in the past day.\n• None Why are more BAME people dying from coronavirus?", "Here's what the situation on the ground looked like across some major US cities on Tuesday:\n\nThousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd Image caption: Thousands of people across New York turned out as protests continued over the death of George Floyd\n\nIn Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen Image caption: In Los Angeles, placards with the phrase Black Lives Matter - a movement in protest against police killings of black people - were seen\n\nOne man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena Image caption: One man and his one-year-old daughter were among protesters in the Californian city of Pasadena\n\nAnd in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House Image caption: And in Washington DC, police in riot gear were seen through the metal fence in front of the White House", "The company says the decision was made with \"huge sadness\"\n\nThe Royal Shakespeare Company has postponed or cancelled planned performances and events due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nSummer season plays including The Winter's Tale were called off as well as shows planned for autumn and winter.\n\nThe RSC said the decision had been made with \"huge sadness\" and the box office would be contacting ticket holders.\n\nBut it is looking at a possible earlier reopening of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\n\"The ability to stage the productions in the autumn is dependent on government advice on social distancing and whether it is financially viable for the Company to open its theatres and perform to audiences,\" it said.\n\nIf possible it would re-schedule The Winter's Tale and The Comedy of Errors at the RST, where they were due to open in the spring.\n\nMeanwhile it is moving its planned winter season to next year.\n\nThe RSC was looking into whether its main Stratford theatre could reopen sooner\n\nMany theatres and concert halls are struggling after closing their doors during lockdown, with no clear indication of when shows might resume.\n\nThe RSC said it terminated contracts and furloughed 90% of employees while seeking income from government schemes.\n\nIt has made 17 productions available to watch online, including Richard II with David Tennant, Hamlet and Othello. It has also provided home learning resources.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dr Grog This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Company's artistic director Gregory Doran and executive director Catherine Mallyon said in a joint statement: \"These are the most difficult times for all theatres and arts venues, whether big or small.\n\n\"It is incredibly sad to see our theatres and those of our partner theatres around the country closed at this time.\n\n\"We continue to do everything we can to bring them back to life as soon as possible, so we can welcome back our audiences to share the experience of live theatre with them.\"\n\nThey added: \"Theatre and the arts give strength to people in difficult times, they lift the spirits and bring a sense of community, which is desperately needed right now.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The queue to vote in the House of Commons stretched into Westminster Hall\n\nMPs who cannot attend Parliament for age or medical reasons will be able to question the government remotely but not vote, says Jacob Rees-Mogg.\n\nIt came as MPs trooped through the Commons in socially-distanced lines to vote for an end to voting from home.\n\nCommons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said another vote will be held on Wednesday to allow those who cannot attend in person to take part in debates.\n\nBut critics say not allowing that group to vote remotely is \"discriminatory\".\n\nMPs have been using a \"hybrid\" system, with some in the Commons chamber, and some appearing via video link, since mid-April and some votes had been held remotely for the first time in Parliament's history.\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg has scrapped that system, saying it does not allow MPs to properly hold the government to account and they must attend Parliament in person.\n\nUnder the new plan, in place until 7 July, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has had to come up with a physical voting method that respects coronavirus guidance from Public Health England.\n\nIt has been strongly criticised by MPs from all sides of the House, who warn it will exclude vulnerable MPs and those with caring responsibilities.\n\nA number of Scottish MPs also said they worried that making the long journey to and from Westminster risked endangering their families and constituents.\n\nBut Mr Rees-Mogg said: \"This House plays a invaluable role in holding the government to account and debating legislation which can only properly be fulfilled when members are here in person.\"\n\nA bid by procedure Committee chairwoman Karen Bradley to allow remote voting to be allowed to continue failed to pass by 57 votes.\n\nMPs then voted on the government's plan, which passed by 261 votes to 163.\n\nThirty-one Conservative MPs voted against the government, including Ms Bradley and other select committee chairs such as Tom Tugendhat and Greg Clark, and former ministers such as Tracey Crouch and John Redwood.\n\nDuring the votes, MPs had to queue up outside the Commons chamber to observe social distancing, before walking to the Speaker's chair to say their name and which way they were voting.\n\nThe vote on Ms Bradley's amendment took 46 minutes - compared to the usual time of around 15 minutes before social distancing measures were brought in.\n\nThe vote on the government's plan took 36 minutes.\n\nSome MPs posted pictures of the queue outside the building or in Portcullis House - a building opposite the Houses of Parliament where many MPs' offices are located.\n\nLabour MP Alex Davies-Jones said the way the vote took place had made her \"angry\", telling the BBC: \"The whole voting system has completely fallen apart. It's ridiculous, dangerous and unsafe.\n\n\"If I haven't already had Covid then I'm now resigned to the fact that I definitely will.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ruth Edwards MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jonathan Reynolds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government's motion - set to be voted on on Wednesday - states that only MPs who have \"self-certified that they are unable to attend Westminster for medical or public health reasons\" will be able to take part remotely in some proceedings. They won't be allowed to vote.\n\nLabour MP Chris Bryant raised further concerns about the government's plans in the chamber, saying many MPs were \"deeply concerned\" that shielding MPs would have to \"justify\" why they were at home, and that parents dealing with childcare problems \"shouldn't have to claim medical reasons\".\n\nThe so-called hybrid proceedings have been in place since mid-April, enabling MPs to join proceedings over Zoom via screens in the chamber, and to take part in votes online.\n\nThe measures were initially due to end on 12 May, but MPs agreed to a motion from the government to extend them until 21 May - the start of the Whitsun recess.\n\nSome MPs welcomed Mr Rees-Mogg's concession allowing some MPs to take part in debates remotely - but many said it did not go far enough.\n\nShe added: \"I don't know if the leader is living in another universe but the pandemic is still going on. It is not right, or just, or fair.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: \"The government's official line was if you could work from home then you should.\n\n\"Well, we can work from home, we should work from home, because that's the right thing to do - not just for Parliament, but for our family, our colleagues and our constituents.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier, Tory MP Robert Halfon, who has been shielding at home, told BBC News that scrapping virtual proceedings was \"democratically unjust\" for MPs who could not return to Parliament, leaving them as \"parliamentary eunuchs\".\n\nHe added: \"This stern and unbending attitude of the powers that be is unfortunately why many people sometimes have problems with the Conservative Party.\"", "Deaths of people with learning disabilities in England have increased by 134% during the coronavirus pandemic, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has said.\n\nBetween 10 April and 15 May there were 386 deaths, half of them confirmed or suspected Covid-19 cases.\n\nThe CQC said that during the same period in 2019, there were 165 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, the government said it was looking at how to \"protect those most at risk\".\n\nThe \"targeted\" analysis by the CQC looked at deaths of people with a learning disability and/or autism that it was notified of via care providers, and also those where a learning disability was indicated on the death notification form.\n\nIt found there had been a 134% increase in deaths, with 53% related to coronavirus.\n\nAdam Brown died in hospital in April at the age of 30\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics for the same time period show Covid-related deaths within the general population in England at 34%.\n\nAdam Brown, 30, died on 29 April in East Surrey Hospital after contracting coronavirus.\n\nHe had learning disabilities and lived in supported living.\n\nWhen he became ill he had a very high temperature but was not tested until he was admitted to hospital where he later died.\n\nHis sister Ruth said: \"He must have felt confused and abandoned. He was having to see new faces, people in gowns and masks, that he doesn't even know.\"\n\nHis other sister, Naomi, added: \"All we wanted to do was see his face or just to hold his hand or to be with him in his last moments.\n\n\"We need awareness for these people, those that don't have voices.\"\n\nKate Terroni of the CQC said: \"We already know that people with a learning disability are at an increased risk of respiratory illnesses, meaning that access to testing could be key to reducing infection and saving lives.\"\n\nTests are currently prioritised for homes that specialise in caring for older people and those living with dementia, but not those with learning disabilities or autism.\n\nIn a statement, the Department of Health said: \"We are working to improve our understanding of how different groups may be affected by the virus, including those with learning disabilities or autism, to ensure we can provide the best support and protect those most at risk.\"\n\nThe CQC said its figures did come with \"limitations\", such as it not being mandatory for providers to inform them the deceased had a learning disability, and added that if both the NHS and care provider reported the same death, duplicates would arise.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of visitors flocked to Durdle Door at the weekend, leaving litter scattered on the beach\n\nThe Jurassic Coast has been treated with \"shocking\" disrespect by visitors since lockdown restrictions were eased, conservation groups have said.\n\nThe Unesco World Heritage site has been deluged with crowds in recent days.\n\nThe Jurassic Coast Trust said many were \"determined to arrive at any cost\" and volunteers described \"horrendous\" amounts of litter being abandoned.\n\nCurrent rules state that households can drive any distance in England to destinations such as parks and beaches.\n\nThe Jurassic Coast Unesco World Heritage Site covers 95 miles (150km) of coastline from Devon to Dorset, and features \"rocks and fossils which record 185 million years of Earth's history\".\n\nThe Clean Jurassic Coast group said waste had been buried in the sand, and washed into the sea and caves along the coast.\n\nVolunteers with Clean Jurassic Coast have been collecting waste left by beach-goers\n\nVolunteer Anna Taylor said: \"I was picking things up that I really shouldn't have to pick up.\n\n\"I had litter thrown at me, I had bags and bags of rubbish dumped near me to deal with.\n\n\"I've had people shouting at me when I asked them nicely to take their litter with them.\"\n\nJurassic Coast Trust chief executive Lucy Culkin said it had been a \"difficult and challenging\" weekend.\n\nOn Saturday three people were airlifted to hospital after tombstoning from the limestone arch at Durdle Door Beach.\n\nMs Culkin said the trust received hundreds of complaints about \"appalling\" volumes of litter on beaches, as well as human waste, sanitary items and disposable barbecues on footpaths in dry, hot conditions.\n\n\"It was clear to see that some had all but forgotten the guidelines of social distancing or welfare for themselves and others, or indeed any respect for the natural environment they were visiting,\" she said.\n\n\"To witness the disregard with which Durdle Door, our beaches and coast paths have been treated is shocking.\"\n\nMs Culkin said the trust supported Dorset Council's plea to the prime minister to review unlimited travel guidelines.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"Over the course of the pandemic people across the country have made huge sacrifices, and thanks to the efforts of the public the government's five tests are being met and we can begin slowly moving towards the next phase of lifting the lockdown.\n\n\"But we all still need to play our part by staying alert, and continuing to follow social distancing guidelines.\n\n\"The overwhelming majority of the public are following the rules, and we expect the police to use their discretion, judgment and experience in enforcing them.\"\n\nThousands flocked to the Jurassic Coast during the weekend sunny weather\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is \"insane\" to make MPs return to the House of Commons to vote, a public health expert claims.\n\nThere has been a \"hybrid\" virtual system since mid-April, but MPs today passed a motion to return to a physical parliament and develop a physical voting method that respects health and safety guidance from Public Health England.\n\nCritics say the move would still be \"discriminatory\" against those unable to attend.\n\nAnd Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, says: \"I thought that was a really insane idea to require people to go back into Westminster, in terms of infection controls.\"\n\nShe adds that the science is evolving but \"it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility that immediately occupying the same space as somebody who's been speaking could be a risk\".\n\nCommenting on some MPs touching the despatch box as they stepped forward to vote, she adds: \"If it was a university environment, we'd be cleaning the podium before the next lecturer came to do their lecture.\"", "Tree loss in Bolivia increased hugely in 2019 because of fires that spread out of control\n\nOlder, carbon-rich tropical forests continue to be lost at a frightening rate, according to satellite data.\n\nIn 2019, an area of primary forest the size of a football pitch was lost every six seconds, the University of Maryland study of trees more than 5 metres says.\n\nBrazil accounted for a third of it, its worst loss in 13 years apart from huge spikes in 2016 and 2017 from fires.\n\nHowever, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo both managed to reduce tree loss.\n\nMeanwhile, Australia saw a sixfold rise in total tree loss, following dramatic wildfires late in 2019, .\n\nAs well as storing massive amounts of carbon, primary, tropical rainforests, where trees can be hundreds or even thousands of years old, are home to species such as orangutans and tigers.\n\nThe study looks at all causes of trees loss, including fires and natural disturbances\n\nThe tropics lost 11.9 million hectares (46,000 square miles) of tree cover, the study found, 3.8 million in older, primary forest areas - the third highest loss of primary trees since 2000 and a slight increase on 2018.\n\n\"The level of forest loss that we saw in 2019 is unacceptable,\" Frances Seymour, from the World Resources Institute, said.\n\n\"And one of the reasons that it's unacceptable is that we actually already know how to turn it around.\n\n\"If governments put into place good policies and enforce the law, forest loss goes down.\n\n\"But if governments relax restrictions on burning, or [are] signalling that they intend to open up indigenous territories for commercial exploration, forest loss goes up.\"\n\nSpeaking about the losses in Brazil, Mikaela Weisse, from Global Forest Watch, said: \"We also noted several new hotspots of primary forest loss within indigenous territories, especially in the state of Pará that were linked to land grabbing and to mining.\n\n\"These incursions are particularly worrisome given that indigenous peoples have been some of the best conservers of forests in Brazil and around the world.\"\n\nIndonesia, however, saw losses remain at historically low levels for the third year in a row, thanks, it seems, to strong government action.\n\nLiz Goldman, from Global Forest Watch, said: \"A number of policies in Indonesia have contributed to this positive story, including increased enforcement to prevent forest fires and land clearing and a forest moratorium to prevent new clearing for oil palm plantations and logging activities, which was first established in 2011 and made permanent just this past year.\"\n\nProtesters in many countries were angry about fires in Brazil\n\nAnd Columbia, which had seen tree losses surge since a peace agreement came into force in 2016, saw a 35% drop in primary forest loss compared with 2018.\n\nBut Bolivia saw losses 80% greater than any other year, after fires set for agricultural clearing spread out of control.\n\nAnd nearly 12% of the Chiquitano dry forest, in eastern Bolivia, home to indigenous peoples, jaguars, giant armadillos and tapirs, was burned.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon urges people to stick to the rules\n\nScotland's coronavirus guidelines could be enforced by new laws if \"even a minority\" continue to flout them, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe first minister relaxed restrictions north of the border on Friday, allowing more people to meet up while outdoors.\n\nShe said the \"vast majority\" had complied with recommendations not to travel and to keep gatherings small.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said it was clear that not everyone had complied, with police dispersing more than 2,000 gatherings.\n\nPolice Scotland said there had been 1,391 \"compliant dispersals\" of groups of people over Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with another 650 where groups broke up \"after a police warning\".\n\nAnd with car traffic trebling at some beauty spots, the first minister said she would not hesitate to put restrictions on group size and travel distance into law.\n\nScotland took its first step on the government's \"routemap\" out of lockdown over the weekend, with people from two different households allowed to meet up outdoors in groups of no more than eight.\n\nPeople are also allowed to travel within their local area for recreation and exercise, although the government \"strongly recommends\" they do not travel more than five miles.\n\nBeaches at Loch Lomond were busy over the weekend\n\nMs Sturgeon said she wanted to thank \"the vast majority\" of people for sticking to the rules.\n\nBut she said it was clear that not everybody was heeding the advice, with police having to move on hundreds of people for not complying with regulations.\n\nShe said the 797 dispersals carried out by police on Saturday was five times the number seen a week previously, and that traffic volumes had risen sharply.\n\nTraffic around beauty spots like Loch Lomond and Glen Coe was \"about three times higher\" than it was the previous weekend, with Ms Sturgeon saying it was \"hard to see how that was caused by local residents\".\n\nShe said ministers had \"deliberately allowed some flexibility\" and \"left some room for discretion\" when setting out the new guidelines, because they trusted the majority to follow the rules.\n\nBut she said: \"It's worth being clear that if there is continued evidence of even a minority not abiding by these guidelines and travelling unnecessarily, or meeting up in larger groups, we will have to put these restrictions on group size and travel distance into law.\n\n\"We will not hesitate to do that if it is necessary for the collective wellbeing of society.\"\n\nPolice said more than 2,000 gatherings had been broke up in total over the weekend.\n\nA total of 16 fixed penalty notice fines were issued, but there were no arrests related to breaches of coronavirus legislation.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Will Kerr said the \"increase in people out and about following the relaxing of some of the restrictions has seen a rise in crime levels\", with increasing demands on police.\n\nHe added: \"We all want to enjoy our outdoor spaces safely and, whilst our officers will continue to robustly tackle crime and anti-social behaviour, please take reasonable steps to keep yourself safe and act responsibly.\"\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in Scotland continues to fall, with just 27 now in intensive care wards.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon warned that the progress which had been made was \"fragile\".\n\n\"The virus is being suppressed, but it has not gone away and it is still extremely dangerous,\" she said.\n\n\"The progress we have made so far is simply not guaranteed and is not irreversible. Cases could increase again, it would not take much for that to happen, and that would result in more loss of life.\n\n\"If all of that happens, then restrictions will have to be re-imposed rather than being further relaxed.\"\n\nThe first minister added: \"To the minority that flout all of this, it's not just the virus running out of control you're risking - it's taking flexibility away from people who are abiding by the rules.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's message remains that people should \"stay at home\" as much as possible\n\nMs Sturgeon said the issue had been brought home to her after one of her own friends had been diagnosed with Covid-19.\n\nShe said: \"Until this weekend, I didn't know anybody personally, within my own family or friends network, who had had this virus in a significant way. That changed this weekend.\n\n\"Why am I telling you that? Because it's still there. Even with these numbers going down, there are still people testing positive for this virus.\n\n\"It's still there - it's ready to pounce, and jump across any bridges we offer it. If we want to stop that, we must, must stick to these guidelines.\n\n\"I'm saying this as a citizen as much as as a first minister - please do that, and together we will continue to make this progress.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nEleven-year-old British skateboarder Sky Brown is \"lucky to be alive\" after a horrific fall from a ramp during training in California on Thursday.\n\nBrown, who was hoping to become Britain's youngest summer Olympian in Tokyo, has skull fractures and broke her left wrist and hand.\n\nShe was taken to hospital in a helicopter and was unresponsive on arrival, but should recover fully.\n\n\"Sky landed head-first off a ramp on her hand,\" said her father Stewart.\n\n\"When she first came to hospital, everyone was fearful for her life.\"\n\nBrown added his daughter was \"super positive\" and would have a \"speedy recovery\".\n\n\"Sky had the gnarliest fall she's ever had and is lucky to be alive,\" he said.\n\n\"Sky remains positive and strong, the whole medical team is shocked to see her positivity.\"\n\nSky, who posted a video on Instagram from her hospital bed, said she was \"going to push even harder\" when she returns to skateboarding, which will make its Olympic debut in the postponed Tokyo Games.\n\n\"I'm going to push boundaries for girls with my skating and surfing,\" she added. \"I'm going for gold in 2021 and nothing will stop me.\"", "MPs have been able to speak via video link during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nMPs will vote on the future of virtual proceedings later, amid a row over how Commons business can take place safely.\n\nThe government says virtual tools allowing members to debate and vote digitally have been ineffective and will be \"better done face-to-face\".\n\nBut critics say the government plan will exclude vulnerable MPs and those with caring responsibilities.\n\nMPs are now meeting to decide and will use a temporary voting process.\n\nThey will be asked to queue up outside the Commons chamber before entering in order to observe social distancing.\n\nThe cross-party Procedure Committee has tabled an amendment to the government's plan to enable the Commons Speaker to authorise electronic voting and allow MPs unable to get to the chamber to participate \"digitally\".\n\nIt has the support of the opposition, as well as some Conservative MPs.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission has joined calls to ensure MPs can work remotely, saying it would place MPs who are shielding or self-isolating because of age, disability, health conditions or pregnancy \"at a significant disadvantage\" if they can't.\n\nThe watchdog's chief executive, Rebecca Hilsenrath, added: \"We urge the government to agree a revised proposal that upholds the principles of equality and human rights, and ensures the Parliament shows leadership to the rest of the country in inclusive workplaces, especially when the decisions which result affect us all.\"\n\nTory MP Henry Smith told BBC Breakfast virtual proceedings had \"curtailed my ability on behalf of my constituents to scrutinise the government\".\n\nHe added: \"We can't put our system of democracy on hold forever, and as the rest of the country starts to unlock, I think it's only right that MPs should as well.\"\n\nBut Labour's shadow Commons leader, Valerie Vaz, told the same programme the government had put forward the proposals \"without any chance for anyone to work out a proper solution\", and there would be a \"whole range of issues about a group of people travelling across the country\" to get to Westminster, possibly spreading the virus.\n\nTory MP Robert Halfon, who has been shielding at home, also told BBC News scrapping virtual proceedings was \"democratically unjust\" for MPs who could not return to Parliament, leaving them as \"parliamentary eunuchs\".\n\nHe added: \"This stern and unbending attitude of the powers that be is unfortunately why many people sometimes have problems with the Conservative Party.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Pete Wishart said he could not get from his rural constituency in Perthshire to London to participate, calling it an \"utterly bizarre\" decision by the government which risked \"disenfranchising millions of people from across the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, has warned of the risk of \"deadlock\" over the government's plans, urging MPs to agree on a solution to allow all members to take part.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe so-called hybrid proceedings have been in place since mid-April.\n\nThe measures were initially due to end on 12 May, but MPs agreed to a motion from the government to extend them until 21 May - the start of the Whitsun recess.\n\nIn a letter to MPs, Sir Lindsay said the Commons now needed to decide how to conduct its business and its votes in the future, but this could only be done in person, because the previous \"hybrid\" arrangements have formally lapsed.\n\nHowever, the usual practice of voting in corridors either side of the main chamber - the division lobbies - has been ruled unsafe by Public Health England, leaving the Commons in potential limbo as it returns from the Whitsun recess.\n\nSir Lindsay proposed an unprecedented process for the decision, in which MPs will have to queue at a two-metre distance from each other before slowly filing into the chamber to cast their vote.\n\nHe said any vote - which will see MPs start their journey in Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the Palace of Westminster - would take about half an hour.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeff Smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I have had to devise a temporary way forward to break the deadlock - because the House must be able to have its say,\" he said.\n\n\"It is not perfect, it will take time, and members will need to be patient,\" he said. \"But, it is the safest method I can think of to enable members and supporting staff to maintain social distancing.\"\n\nThe current set-up has seen a maximum of 50 MPs allowed in the Commons chamber, with up to 120 taking part via video conferencing technology.\n\nBut writing for the Politics Home website, Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg said the virtual set-up \"is no longer necessary,\" and physical working would make the Commons \"much more effective\".\n\n\"Politics is better done face-to-face, even if the whites of the ministerial eyes are six feet away,\" he added.\n\nHe also said work was under way with Commons authorities to determine how MPs shielding at home or with health conditions \"can safely continue to contribute\".\n\nIt is understood the government sees the pairing convention - under which absent MPs from opposing parties have their votes cancelled out - as a way to account for MPs who are not able to vote in person.", "The 2020 Formula 1 season will start in Austria on 5 July, the first of a run of eight races in Europe.\n\nAn F1 statement said the championship would begin across three consecutive weekends - two in Austria on 5 and 12 July and a third in Hungary.\n\nThere will then be a two-week break before two consecutive races in Britain and events in Spain, Belgium and Italy.\n\nAll will be run behind closed doors with participants following guidelines to minimise the spread of Covid-19.\n• None Williams up for sale after £13m loss last year\n\nThe British Grands Prix at Silverstone will be held 2 and 9 August, followed immediately by the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona on 16 August.\n\nThe Belgian and Italian Grands Prix will complete the European part of the season on their original dates of 30 August and 6 September.\n\nPlans for the remainder of the season were not announced, because of the uncertainty of the coronavirus situation in the various countries that would have made up the original schedule.\n\nHowever, F1 said it had \"an expectation of having a total of 15-18 races before we complete our season in December\".\n\nIt is understood that F1 is highly confident of finishing the championship with races in Bahrain on 6 December and Abu Dhabi on 13 December.\n\nBefore that, the low incidence of coronavirus in China, Vietnam and Japan makes races in those countries a strong probability in October.\n\nThe Russian Grand Prix, which is pencilled in for after the European events along with the race in Azerbaijan, and those in the US, Mexico and Brazil are more uncertain because of the high rates of infection in those countries.\n\nF1 bosses have also proposed that some races run to a new format, with the grid for the main grand prix on Sunday decided by a shorter race on Saturday.\n\nBut this plan looks unlikely to happen because of opposition from Mercedes - any change to the rules after the start of a year in which a championship takes place requires the unanimous approval of teams.\n\nMcLaren boss Zak Brown told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It would certainly add some jeopardy and some excitement to the sport so I personally would be a fan of experimenting because we might find we go, you know what, this is actually a pretty good idea, let's pull this forward into future use.\"\n\nBut Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has told other senior figures at meetings to discuss the idea that he has two major objections the plan: it will not succeed in improving the racing; and F1 is not broken so does not require gimmicks to 'fix' it.\n\nThe plan would be to try the sprint races at events where there are races on consecutive weekends, such as in Austria and Britain, to avoid the risk of the second one falling into the same pattern as the first.\n\nMercedes' objections are based on their belief that a reverse-grid race would simply lead to the cars from the top three teams running together as they carved through the field before becoming stuck in so-called 'DRS trains'.\n\nThis is where a series of cars of similar performance run in close proximity but are unable to pass because all have the benefit of the DRS overtaking aid so it is negated.\n\nThey also believe it tips the result of the championship too far towards luck because the penalties of being involved in any incident in the 'sprint' race are magnified by also impacting on the driver's chances in the main grand prix.\n\nAnd they point to the fact that many of the races last year were exciting - especially those at the Red Bull Ring and Silverstone, for which the new format is being proposed.\n\nWolff has underlined to fellow bosses that he will not support the idea.\n\nBrown said: \"There are a variety of things we could try this year. You kind of have licence to do it differently because obviously going back to the same track twice in my memory has never happened in a season and if we end up doing this two times, mixing it up is a good idea.\n\n\"A lot of other forms of motorsport do have some form of reverse grid - it may be new to F1 but it's not new to motorsport. And the other forms of motorsport that do it, it works quite well.\"\n\nHe added that he \"understood\" Mercedes' objections, saying: \"They probably have the most to lose, if you like. It is pretty clear they still have the best car on the grid and so will probably be on pole position more often than not. So I understand from their point of view they are probably risking that pole position.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPlans to introduce a 14-day quarantine for the majority of people entering the country, including UK nationals, will be put before Parliament later, but the BBC has learned the government is already considering ways to relax it. Critics, including Conservative MPs, fear it'll do huge damage to the aviation, travel and hospitality industries. So-called \"air bridges\" are among the ideas being looked at. Read more on the quarantine policy and what it means for your summer holiday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What will flying look like after lockdown?\n\nAs debate rages around international travel, the domestic tourism sector in Northern Ireland has received a boost. The country has become the first in the UK to set a firm date for hotels and other accommodation to reopen - 20 July. Each nation is taking its own decisions when it comes to easing lockdown and police powers to enforce those rules that remain vary too. Our home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani explains them all.\n\nThe House of Commons is struggling to come up with a way to allow all members, including those with health conditions, to continue to take part in Parliament. The government wants to end the existing virtual proceedings and return to physical sittings, but that's opposed by large number of MPs. A decision will be taken later.\n\nMPs have been able to speak via video link during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nOxfam stores have been closed since March\n\nIt's three months since the first person in the UK died after testing positive for coronavirus. To pay tribute to all of those who've lost their lives, BBC Breakfast commissioned Hussain Manawer to write and perform a poem.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page and get the latest from our live page.\n\nPlus, what is it like to work in a hospital suddenly engulfed with victims? The BBC's Thomas Mackintosh talks to some of those who know - the staff at London's Northwick Park.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dating and hook-up app Grindr says it will remove the \"ethnicity filter\" from the next version of its app, following years of criticism from its users.\n\nThe app currently lets people filter potential matches according to their age, height, weight and ethnicity.\n\nBut critics say the ethnicity filter fuels discrimination and that the app does too little to tackle racism.\n\nAnnouncing the change, Grindr said it had a \"zero-tolerance policy for racism and hate speech\" on its platform.\n\nGrindr specialises in dating for gay, bisexual, trans, and queer people.\n\nFor years, LGBT people of colour have flagged the ethnicity filter as an issue - but they received no response from Grindr. Many even got blocked by the company.\n\nBut some are angry that it has only happened as a result of white people speaking up on social media. Indeed, the most-shared social media posts written to shame Grindr into action were posted by white gay men.\n\nThere are also LGBT people of colour who are disappointed that this change is happening at all.\n\nSome have told me that they used the ethnicity filter to find people like themselves, perhaps not to date but for shared experiences and cultural understanding.\n\nIn some cases it was needed. In February, at a queer club night for Black and Asian people, one party-goer showed me how black men did not appear on his Grindr until the white men had been filtered out.\n\nGrindr is not the only LGBT dating app to allow filtering by race. The spotlight will now move to others that have yet to take a similar stance.\n\nOn 29 May, Grindr had tweeted \"Demand justice. #BlackLivesMatter\", with a link to further information. This had prompted several users to accuse the company of hypocrisy.\n\nOne message saying \"remove the ethnicity filter\" was retweeted 1,000 times.\n\nGrindr later deleted its own tweet and on 1 June posted a new message explaining its change of position.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Grindr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral companies have posted messages of their own featuring the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter following six consecutive days of protests across the United States. The events were sparked by the killing of George Floyd - a black man who died after a white officer continued kneeling on is neck even after he had pleaded that he could not breathe.\n\nWhile some Grindr users welcomed the removal of the filter, others said the company had taken too long to implement the change, and had done the \"bare minimum\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by J Æ IA-02 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US president announces he is deploying the military to quell unrest in Washington, DC.", "The UK's statistics watchdog has criticised the government over its handling of coronavirus testing data.\n\nThe chairman of the UK Statistics Authority says presentation of figures appeared to be aimed at showing \"the largest possible number of tests, even at the expense of understanding\".\n\nSir David Norgrove has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock saying the information is \"far from complete\".\n\nThe government says it releases full data.\n\nA spokesman said the government was working with statisticians and that the approach throughout had been to \"increase transparency around the government's response to coronavirus\".\n\nMr Hancock said the government was \"continually looking to improve\" the way tests figures were presented.\n\nHe said part of the problem was that because the way the testing system was expanded so rapidly, the way data was reported struggled to keep up.\n\nOn Sunday Mr Hancock announced that the UK had exceeded its target to increase coronavirus testing capacity to 200,000 a day by the end of May.\n\nHe described it as \"an important milestone on our journey to control the spread of the virus\".\n\nWhile capacity for testing is over 200,000, around 115,000 tests were carried out in the 24 hours up to 09:00 BST on Sunday.\n\nThe headline total of tests adds together tests carried out with tests posted out. There are no data on how many of the tests posted out are then successfully completed.\n\nIt is not clear how many people were tested, however, and a person may need to have a few tests in order to get a result.\n\nThe government says reporting on the number of people tested has been \"temporarily paused to ensure consistent reporting across all pillars\" - by pillars it means tests carried out in the community as well as on staff and patients in hospitals or care homes.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Hancock, Sir David said there were two main purposes for the testing statistics - to help understand the epidemic and to support the management of the testing programme.\n\n\"The way the data are analysed and presented currently gives them limited value for the first purpose.\n\n\"The aim seems to be to show the largest possible number of tests, even at the expense of understanding. It is also hard to believe the statistics work to support the testing programme itself. The statistics and analysis serve neither purpose well.\"\n\nOfficial correspondence on statistics can be dry and opaque.\n\nBut Sir David Norgrove, head of the UK stats watchdog pulls no punches and makes it abundantly clear that he thinks the presentation of testing numbers in England is unacceptable.\n\nThe government has not so far explained how many home test kits sent out to the public have actually been returned. Figures for the number of people tested as opposed to the number of tests carried out are not currently available.\n\nThere has been a dramatic increase in laboratory capacity to process tests which has helped make testing more widely available.\n\nBut the message from the stats watchdog is that public confidence will be undermined if the numbers are not transparent. And that is a vital issue with the government arguing that the new testing and contact tracing programme is a key weapon in the battle to suppress the virus.", "Amid the chaotic scenes convulsing the nation, there have been glimmers of hope, unifying gestures and stirring displays of solidarity.", "Water companies are urging people to use water more carefully during the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nThey are asking people to avoid hoses and sprinklers, and not to fill paddling pools.\n\nHowever, so far a full hosepipe ban has not been imposed.\n\nCompanies are responding to a double water whammy from the record dry spring and a surge in demand as people spend more time at home during the lockdown.\n\nFebruary this year was the wettest on record and you might have thought the UK had enough H2O - following a drenching winter, rivers and reservoirs were full.\n\nBut then it barely rained for three subsequent months – another record.\n\nThen came coronavirus and lockdown meant people stayed home in the sunshine.\n\nChristine McGourty, chief executive of Water UK, which represents water companies, told BBC News: “We’re seeing truly incredible surges of demand.\n\n“People's patterns of using water have changed with the weather - and more people at home because of Covid.\n\n“It's things like paddling pools and sprinklers that are the biggest challenge. So we’re just asking people to save a little bit of water and that’ll make a huge difference.”\n\nIn some places water demand is said to be 25% higher than normal. Reservoirs are still in a healthy state, but some firms can’t get enough water to the taps and pressure is dropping.\n\nMeanwhile the long-term weather forecast suggests more dry summer months to come.\n\nFarmers are fearing potential drought. In fact, experts say, consumers, industries, water firms and the farmers themselves need to find ways of living with less water as the climate changes.", "Three front-line workers from London will star on the cover of British Vogue next month.\n\nA London Overground train driver, an east London midwife and a King's Cross supermarket worker will all feature on July's front page.\n\nPhotographer Jamie Hawkesworth captured the trio of women for a 20-page portfolio for the fashion magazine.\n\n\"They represent the millions of people in the UK who, at the height of the pandemic, put on their uniforms and went to help,\" Vogue's editor-in-chief Edward Enninful said.\n\n\"This moment in history required something extra special, a moment of thanks to the new front line.\"\n\nRachel Millar, 24, has worked as a community midwife at Homerton Hospital, in east London, for almost three years.\n\nShe was on shift on one of the delivery suites at the hospital when a team from Vogue came in to take portraits of numerous staff for what she believed was to be a feature on NHS staff.\n\nTalking to the BBC, Rachel, who lives in Leyton, described being on the cover of British Vogue as \"surreal\".\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed - but in a good way. I had no idea it would be what I now know it is,\" she said.\n\n\"I've had so many lovely comments about it and I think people have enjoyed seeing someone from the NHS on the cover.\n\n\"I feel it has given the NHS a lot of recognition and a lot of love to jobs that were perhaps previously overlooked.\"\n\nNarguis Horsford, who has worked for Transport for London for 10 years and driven London Overground trains for the past five, said her manager called her to ask if she would like to do an interview for the magazine.\n\n\"At first I thought he was winding me up,\" she said. \"But it later turned out to be very real.\"\n\nNarguis, who lives Bounds Green, north London, said: \"I feel amazing to be representing the female front-line key workers.\n\n\"It's very important to highlight the hard work and contributions that we do to keep London moving and to provide services that everyone needs.\n\n\"NHS workers are obviously very important, but it's also good to highlight other workers in other sectors.\"\n\nNargius said she initially felt anxious going to work during the coronavirus outbreak but has since gone on to feel an immense sense of pride.\n\n\"I am proud to be a key worker and proud to be a train driver, taking those important workers to work.\"\n\nAlso featuring on the cover is Anisa Omar, who works as supermarket assistant at the London King's Cross branch of Waitrose.\n\nThe 21-year-old, who lives in Islington with her parents, said the pandemic has given her a new sense of pride in her work.\n\n\"My job was not something that was that big of a deal before,\" she said.\n\n\"But now it's like we're important. We have to be here, regardless of what's happening in the world. It's more than just a job now.\"\n\nThe full feature will be available in the July issue of British Vogue.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hotels and tourist accommodation in Northern Ireland will be allowed to reopen on 20 July.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Executive has confirmed the move as part of the relaxation of coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nIt has been welcomed by the Northern Ireland Hotel Federation (NIHF) as a \"step forward for the industry\".\n\nIn May, the government in the Republic of Ireland confirmed its hotels will also reopen on 20 July.\n\nLast week, the executive said hotels could start taking bookings again but did not say when they could reopen.\n\nThis was met with anger by many in the hospitality trade.\n\nAnnouncing the decision on Monday afternoon, Economy Minister Diane Dodds said she believed it was the right time to provide the tourist accommodation sector with clarity about opening dates following \"unprecedented challenges for our tourism industry\".\n\nEconomy Minister Diane Dodds said she wants to reopen the industry in a \"safe and managed way\"\n\n\"I want to build upon the positive progress in managing the spread of the virus and begin to re-open our tourism industry in a safe and managed way,\" she said.\n\nHoliday parks, self-catering properties and caravan parks may open earlier than 20 July, said the minister, depending on scientific advice.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether bars, restaurants and other facilities in hotels will be allowed to open to residents from 20 July.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, hotel bars will remain closed when hotels reopen on 20 July. The hotels will reopen with limited occupancy and social distancing measures will continue\n\nThe hoteliers have their date.\n\nLast week's announcement that they could take take bookings, but without even an indicative reopening date, was met with a mixture of bemusement and anger.\n\nParticularly when rival operators in the Republic were already working towards a reopening date.\n\nThe question now is what sort of experience hotels will be able to offer in seven weeks time.\n\nThe economy minister has talked about working with the industry to 'explore what facilities and amenities can safely be made available.'\n\nWill restaurants be able to open? What about bars or spas?\n\nAnd if food and drink service is to be allowed then restaurateurs will be clamouring for an opening date too.\n\nThe minister stressed, however, that progress on re-opening will depend on controlling the rate of transmission of the virus.\n\nNIHF chief executive Janice Gault said the federation has been working closely with industry colleagues to ensure that businesses can open in a safe and secure manner.\n\nShe said more work was needed around the details of reopening and said safety was paramount.\n\n\"We will continue to work in a collaborative manner so that the visitor economy, including the hotel sector, can return to business and help restore the Northern Ireland economy,\" she said.\n\n\"Having an agreed date will help us to plan, promote and give businesses the opportunity to assess their viability.\"\n\nBill Wolsey, managing director of the Beannchor group, which owns the Merchant Hotel in Belfast, said the announcement \"provides the first glimmer of hope for the recovery of Northern Ireland's hospitality industry\".\n\nNIHF chief executive Janice Gault said the federation has been working closely with industry colleagues\n\nHowever, he said there \"is a need for further clarification around hotel facilities\".\n\nHoward Hastings, managing director of the Hastings Hotel Group, said there were no \"fully bottomed-out guidelines yet, but we can see the way it is working for other sectors, so there are certain preparations we can make now\".\n\n\"Certainly the suppliers to the industry are well geared up to provide us with the sort of additional equipment or PPE (personal protective equipment) that we might need in order to facilitate guests,\" he added.\n\nNeil Moore, from the union Unite, said the furlough period should be used to \"upskill\" hospitality workers by providing good quality training, accessing apprenticeship levy funding and measures to ensure safety when facilities reopen.\n\nHe said: \"These measures must include testing and contact tracing, supply of appropriate personal protection equipment (PPE), meaningful engagement with employees, extensive risk assessments and their effective enforcement, and continuation of job supports - tied to job retention not redundancy.\"\n\nMr Moore later said he had written to all the Northern Ireland Executive ministers to \"protest today's announcement by the economy minister to reopen hotels and other accommodation without any effective means of enforcement on basic infection controls\".\n\n\"Far from being welcomed by hospitality workers, today's announcement has caused widespread fear and concern among those who face the prospect of returning to work in unsafe working conditions,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nissan's Sunderland plant is \"unsustainable\" without a Brexit trade deal, said Ashwani Gupta.\n\nThe UK's largest car manufacturing plant is \"unsustainable\" if the UK leaves the European Union without a trade deal, owner Nissan says.\n\nThe Japanese company's global chief operating head told the BBC people had to understand the EU was the Sunderland factory's biggest customer.\n\nAshwani Gupta said that Nissan's commitment could not be maintained if there was not tariff-free EU access.\n\nNissan has invested billions of pounds in the plant, which has 7,000 workers.\n\nHis comments come despite the Sunderland site surviving this week's announcement on the Japanese giant's global restructuring programme.\n\nMr Gupta said: \"You know we are the number one carmaker in the UK and we want to continue. We are committed. Having said that, if we are not getting the current tariffs, it's not our intention but the business will not be sustainable. That's what everybody has to understand.\"\n\nHe also said that any plans for its strategic partner and 43%-shareholder Renault to take up spare capacity at Sunderland would be a matter for the French carmaker. The French government has a 15% stake in Renault.\n\nThis is not the first time that Nissan has pleaded with UK and EU negotiators to ensure that the 70% of cars manufactured at Sunderland which are sold in the EU can avoid tariffs of 10% under World Trade Organisation rules - the legal default position if a deal is not struck.\n\nThose talks resumed this week, with the differences between the UK and EU being described on all sides as deep and wide.\n\nLast week, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said the EU would consider a two-year Brexit delay, which was rebuffed by his UK counterpart David Frost, who told MPs the government's policy remains not to extend the transition period beyond the end of the year.\n\nUnder an agreement signed last year, the UK has until the end of this month to decide whether it wants to request such an extension so the coming weeks are crucial.\n\nThe comments by Nissan may dampen hopes raised just last week when the company said that while it was closing plants in Spain and Indonesia, it remained committed to Sunderland.\n\nAn announcement by Nissan that Renault might take the European lead in the companies' global manufacturing alliance (which also includes Mitsubishi) by taking up an estimated 20% spare capacity at Sunderland were quashed for the foreseeable future by Renault last week, when it said it had no current plans to move in to the UK.\n\nMr Gupta confirmed that any decision by its partners would be a matter for them, and that no such deal had been agreed. \"When it comes to the allocation of manufacturing, each company will take the decision based on the competitiveness of the plants.\"\n\nNissan is a huge fan of the Sunderland plant and paid tribute to the efficiency and hard work of the operation. But it reiterated that was not enough to secure its long-term future if tariffs were imposed in a market which it described last week as \"non-core\". It only has a 3% market share of the vehicle market in Europe.\n\nOn a more encouraging note, Mr Gupta said recent sales figures from China showed the world's biggest car market was recovering fast and the company was winning market share. But vehicles for that market are not produced in the UK.\n\nIt is still possible that Renault could decide to move production of certain vehicles to Sunderland. But it is hard to see how a company which is 15%-owned by the French taxpayer could find a way to make that work where Nissan, which has been in Sunderland for 40 years, says it cannot.\n\nNissan's comments are a timely reminder that for many key industries, the Brexit issue - which has not been silenced by coronavirus news - has in many ways been amplified by it.", "Mistajam's BBC 1Xtra show is one of several programmes to reflect the conversation around George Floyd's death\n\nRadio stations and TV channels have changed their programmes to mark \"Blackout Tuesday\", reflecting on George Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nBBC Radio 1Xtra is hosting a series of discussions and debates in support of the black community, with song choices that reflect black pride and identity.\n\nMany record labels and music stars have stopped work to observe the initiative.\n\nMTV went silent for eight minutes - the length of time a white police officer knelt on Mr Floyd's neck.\n\nThe gesture has been replicated on other channels including VH1 and Comedy Central, while 4 Music will pause its output once an hour throughout the day.\n\nThere have also been moments of reflection on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2, while commercial radio stations including Kiss, Magic and Absolute Radio are observing a social media blackout \"to show that racism of any kind cannot be tolerated\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nITV daytime show This Morning briefly went dark, showing a black screen with the words \"Black Lives Matter\".\n\nPresenter Alison Hammond later said Mr Floyd's death \"hurt me to the pit of my stomach\".\n\n\"Firstly, I am a mother of a 15-year-old black boy,\" she said. \"When I saw that image of George Floyd, I saw my brothers, I saw my father and I saw my son, I saw everybody's son and I was disgusted to my core.\n\n\"If black lives mattered, we wouldn't be in this situation.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mike J-C 🏳️‍🌈 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nApple Music's Zane Lowe tweeted that he would skip Tuesday's edition of his radio show, saying he stood \"united with his black and brown friends and colleagues\".\n\n\"I will not be on radio. I will be taking part in Blackout Tuesday, listening, learning and looking for solutions to fight racial inequality,\" the DJ added.\n\nOn Radio 1, Clara Amfo gave a powerful speech about the effects of racism and the recent events on her mental health.\n\nThe broadcaster said Mr Floyd's death reinforced a feeling among black people \"that people want our culture, but they do not want us\".\n\nMusic companies and musicians around the world adopted Tuesday as a day of reflection and protest in the wake of Mr Floyd's death last week in Minneapolis.\n\nKaty Perry posted a plain black square to her Instagram account with the caption: \"I hope that #BlackoutTuesday gives us all (especially in the music industry) an opportunity to take what we're learning and put it into action on Wednesday, and every day going forward.\"\n\nRihanna said her Fenty beauty label would not conduct any business on Tuesday.\n\nApple's iTunes store and its streaming service Apple Music replaced their usual carousels of new music and playlists with a slide stating: \"This moment calls upon us all to speak and act against racism and injustice of all kinds.\"\n\nListeners were then directed to a livestream of the Beats 1 radio station, where the music is focusing on themes of black empowerment and civil rights. (All of the service's usual tracks were still available through the search function, however.)\n\nApple Music has replaced its regular carousel of new music and playlists with a simple message\n\nSpotify, meanwhile, blacked out the artwork for several of its most prominent playlists, including Today's Hits and Rap Caviar.\n\nThe company also inserted a silence of eight minutes and 46 seconds into selected podcasts and playlists \"as a solemn acknowledgement for the length of time that George Floyd was suffocated\".\n\nThe movement began last Friday, when a number of companies and artists shared a statement posted under the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused, calling for \"a day to disconnect from work and reconnect with our community\" and \"an urgent step of action to provoke accountability and change\".\n\nThe initiative was started by Atlantic Records marketing executives Brianna Agyemang and Jamila Thomas, and spread by hundreds of artists including Billie Eilish, Britney Spears, the Rolling Stones, Radiohead, producer Quincy Jones and Eminem.\n\n\"Tuesday, June 2nd is meant to intentionally disrupt the work week,\" wrote Agyemang and Thomas.\n\n\"The music industry is a multi-billion dollar industry. An industry that has profited predominantly from Black art. Our mission is to hold the industry at large, including major corporations + their partners who benefit from the efforts, struggles and successes of black people accountable.\"\n\nThey have subsequently posted several calls to action, including a reading list called Anti-Racism Resources and links to community action groups.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by theshowmustbepaused This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAll three major record labels - Universal, Sony and Warner Music, whose combined annual revenues exceed $16bn (£12.75bn) - signed up to the initiative, as did many independent labels, the Glastonbury Festival and event organisers Live Nation.\n\nInterscope Records also vowed to stop releasing new music for a week, while many others donated money to the George Floyd Memorial Fund.\n\nBut some people in the music industry criticised the initiative's lack of clarity and direction, dismissing it as \"virtue signalling\".\n\n\"I love you all, but this music industry shutdown thing feels tone deaf to me,\" wrote indie musician Bon Iver on Twitter, although he later apologised for \"calling out people when they are on the same side as you\".\n\nIndie labels Father/Daughter Records and Don Giovanni also said they did not plan to observe the blackout.\n\n\"If BLM [Blacks Lives Matter] calls for the music industry to take action, we will,\" wrote the latter on its Twitter page. \"But I have no interest in supporting major label record executive white guilt day.\"\n\nHowever, Agyemang and Thomas have stressed the blackout is just the beginning of a larger campaign.\n\n\"This is not just a 24-hour initiative,\" they wrote. \"We are and will be in this fight for the long haul. A plan of action will be announced.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ashley Banjo: \"I looked at George Floyd and I saw my dad\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Passengers at Heathrow Airport earlier this year, after being rescued from a cruise ship\n\nThe government is looking at ways to relax the 14-day quarantine rule for people entering the UK over the coming months, BBC Newsnight has learnt.\n\nFrom Monday, most people arriving by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - must self-isolate.\n\nBut some MPs and businesses have expressed concern at the plan, warning it will damage the travel industry.\n\nOne government source told Newsnight that ministers were looking at ways around the coronavirus quarantine.\n\nThis could include expanding the list of workers who are exempt from the 14-day rule, or travel corridors to countries with low infection rates, which the government has previously said it was considering.\n\nAny changes would be guided by the science but one possible date for a relaxation to the rule could be 20 July, coinciding with school holidays, Newsnight was told.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest Office for National Statistics figures show the number of deaths each week linked to coronavirus has dropped to its lowest levels in England and Wales since March.\n\nThe ONS figures show there were 2,589 deaths in the week ending 22 May, which was the lowest weekly number for seven weeks. The figures show that overall, there have been around 286,700 deaths this year - some 43,800 have been attributed to coronavirus.\n\nThe quarantine measures come into force on 8 June, although some professions are exempt, such as lorry drivers, police officers, seasonal farm workers, and healthcare professionals.\n\nAlso exempt will be people coming from the Irish Republic, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.\n\nTravellers will have to tell the UK government where they will be staying and if they do not provide an address, officials will arrange accommodation.\n\nIn England, there will be random spot checks and £1,000 fines, while governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can impose their own penalties.\n\nHousing minister Simon Clarke told BBC Breakfast that the quarantine policy was \"a proportionate step\" which would minimise the risk of new cases coming into the UK \"just at the time that we are getting a grip on it\".\n\nHe said it was a \"temporary, time-limited measure\", but added that it was \"vital\" it was introduced for as long as required.\n\nThe plan is expected to be set out in more detail when it is laid before Parliament this week. MPs are returning to Westminster on Tuesday after weeks of proceedings taking place virtually.\n\nExtra guidance about what arrivals would be allowed to do is also expected to be set out, including that travellers will be allowed to take public transport if they are unable to get to their accommodation by any other means.\n\nThe quarantine plan is due to be reviewed every three weeks, with the first review due at the end of June.\n\nOn Monday, some primary children returned to school, but had to socially distance\n\nAnnouncing the plan last month, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the measure would \"reduce the risk of cases crossing our border\".\n\nBut there has been criticism from some of the government's own MPs as well as the travel and aviation industry.\n\nOne former cabinet minister told Newsnight the idea was \"daft\" and suggested the government will not \"go to the stake on this\".\n\nMeanwhile, more than 200 business leaders have called on the government to scrap the policy, saying it was \"deeply worrying for our economy and our country\".\n\nThe group of firms - including hotel The Ritz and upmarket travel agent Kuoni - want the government to instead introduce \"air bridges\", an arrangement which would allow visitors from low-risk countries into the UK without having to quarantine for 14 days.\n\nLast month, the bosses of airlines including EasyJet, Tui, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic also said they had \"serious reservations\" about a \"blanket approach\" to all arrivals into Britain.\n\nThe idea of \"air bridges\" has been around since 18 May, when Transport Secretary Grant told MPs that the government was looking at striking exemption deals with countries with low infection rates.\n\nIf the government can agree a series of \"air bridge\" agreements, then they wouldn't necessarily replace the quarantine altogether.\n\nThis is about moving from a blanket travel quarantine - only the Republic of Ireland will be exempt initially - on 8 June to something more nuanced in a few weeks' time.\n\nOne government source told the BBC that \"a lot of work\" was currently being done on securing safe travel corridors from certain low-risk countries.\n\nThe ambition from certain people in government is that some of these will be in place by the first review date of 29 June.\n\nTesting people for coronavirus when they arrive into the UK from higher risk countries is also being considered.\n\nAt the weekend, former environment secretary Theresa Villiers told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour she thought quarantine rules should be targeted on flights \"from Covid hotspots\".\n\nShe also said the government was \"actively looking at air bridges\".\n\nBBC transport correspondent Tom Burridge said reports in the Portuguese media \"suggest an air bridge with Portugal is on the cards\".\n\nBut, he added, the UK is behind other countries in Europe in terms of controlling the virus and so, in negotiations, \"the ball might not be in the UK's court\".\n\nSpain's tourism minister said British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before the country would receive tourists from the UK, while Greece will not allow UK visitors when it opens up later this month.\n\nA UK government spokesman previously said: \"These cross-government public health measures are designed to keep the transmission rate down, stop new cases being brought in from abroad and help prevent a devastating second wave of coronavirus.\n\n\"All of our decisions have been based on the latest scientific evidence.\n\n\"The list of exemptions has been agreed by all government departments in consultation with their stakeholders which will ensure critical supplies and services can continue and will be kept under review.\"\n\nIt comes as the number of people who have died after testing positive for the virus in the UK reached 39,045.\n\nWhat is your reaction to the possible relaxing of the UK travel quarantine rule? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The care home is next to the University Hospital of North Durham\n\nAt least 25 people have died at a care home amid claims from an industry body that a council's actions \"caused\" or \"increased Covid-19 deaths\".\n\nMelbury Court in Durham is thought to be the care home with the highest number of deaths in the UK.\n\nCounty Durham has had the highest number of care home deaths in England and Wales.\n\nDurham County Council said it \"strongly refuted\" the claim by the County Durham Care Home Association (CDCHA).\n\nSome patients went from the nearby University Hospital of North Durham to Melbury Court without being tested for coronavirus or after a positive test.\n\nOwners HC-One said the 87-bed home was now in \"recovery\" with many residents returning to health.\n\nIt is not known how many people there have been ill.\n\nA BBC investigation has discovered that in a conference call in late March, council officials were told plans to move hospital patients into care homes without testing would be disastrous.\n\nThe CDCHA offered to find a specific home or homes where Covid-19 positive or untested people could be cared for rather than have them spread around the network.\n\nThis was never acted on and now the CDCHA has calculated there has been an outbreak of coronavirus in 81 of the county's 149 care homes.\n\nMaria Vincent, who runs Crosshill Care Home in Stanhope, told the council in March that care homes were not set up to accept Covid-19 patients, and described it as \"neglect pure and simple\".\n\nShe said: \"They knew at the beginning how vulnerable older people were because in Spain they'd had numerous people who'd died in care homes.\n\n\"With just a little bit of forethought, true collaborative working, we could easily have got through this without the number of deaths we've had.\"\n\nMaria Vincent told the council that care homes were not set up to accept Covid-19 patients\n\nThe latest figures from the Office of National Statistics shows there have been 275 deaths in care homes in County Durham - more than in hospitals.\n\nLocal care providers said deaths in care homes in the county are twice as high as the average for the whole of England.\n\nThe council say high levels of ill health and deprivation are contributory factors.\n\nIn a letter sent to Durham County Council and seen by the BBC, the CDCHA said: \"The council has pursued a policy which has caused and/or increased Covid-19 infections and deaths within care homes in County Durham\".\n\nSamuel Wilson's family said the home took an \"unnecessary risk which cost [him] his life\n\nSamuel Wilson died at Melbury Court in early May, aged 92, after testing positive for Covid-19 following his return from a routine procedure at the University Hospital of North Durham.\n\nSome of the family had objected to him going to hospital, arguing it was too risky amid the pandemic and urged staff to manage his condition in the home, but they were persuaded.\n\nHis granddaughter Tracey O'Kennedy said: \"The home was relentless for a family member to take him into hospital for a non-essential procedure in the middle of full lockdown.\n\n\"In my opinion, they took an unnecessary risk, a risk that cost granddad his life.\"\n\nIn County Durham the council initially tied additional funding for coronavirus-related costs to homes being willing to accept people who had tested positive for the virus or were untested, although this was later changed.\n\nDurham County Council said it \"strongly refuted\" the accusation from the CDHCA that it had contributed to care home deaths.\n\nIt said it had considered the idea of a separate care home for Covid-19 patients but felt it was not appropriate due to the predicted number of cases.\n\nJane Robinson, corporate director for adults and health, said: \"We followed national guidelines and we've done absolutely everything that we can do.\n\n\"We've put in additional financial support, provided PPE, and we've provided training and support and psychological support for our care home staff as well.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "House prices fell 1.7% in May from the previous month, the largest monthly fall for 11 years, according to the Nationwide.\n\nAnnual house price growth halved from 3.7% to 1.8%, as the coronavirus crisis hit market activity.\n\nThe latest HMRC data showed that residential property transactions fell 53% in April compared with 2019.\n\n\"The medium-term outlook for the housing market remains highly uncertain,\" the Nationwide warned.\n\n\"We have already seen a sharp economic contraction as a result of the necessary measures adopted to suppress the spread of the virus,\" said Robert Gardner, Nationwide's chief economist.\n\nBut he pointed out that the raft of policies adopted to support the economy should \"set the stage for a rebound once the shock passes\" and help limit long-term damage.\n\n\"These same measures should also help ensure the impact on the housing market will ultimately be less than would normally be associated with an economic shock of this magnitude,\" he predicted.\n\nThe figures are based on Nationwide's lending data, do not include cash purchases, and may have a greater volatility owing to the very low levels of activity.\n\nYet, the big month-to-month drop in Nationwide's house price index in May - the largest since February 2009 - \"is just the start of a protracted decline over the remainder of this year,\" warned Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\nBefore the pandemic struck the UK, the housing market had been steadily gathering momentum, the Nationwide said.\n\nActivity levels and price growth were edging up thanks to continued robust labour market conditions, low borrowing costs and a more stable political backdrop following the general election.\n\n\"Behavioural changes and social distancing are likely to impact the flow of housing transactions for some time,\" Mr Gardner said.\n\nRecent Nationwide research suggested that one in eight people had put off moving because of the lockdown.\n\nBut the majority saw the current situation as a temporary pause in the market, with would-be buyers planning to wait six months on average before looking to enter the market.\n\nEarly indicators of housing demand have picked up since in-person property viewings were permitted again on 13 May, said Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\nIt said the daily volume of Google searches for the three main property portals had increased to be just 13% below its pre-lockdown level, having been down 50% in April.\n\n\"Relatively few people likely will be forced to sell their homes, given that mortgage payment holidays are easily available and home ownership has declined,\" said Mr Tombs.\n\n\"Nonetheless, the huge size of the blow from Covid-19 to households' incomes and the deterioration in consumers' confidence suggests that house prices must drop.\"\n\nHe predicted a 5% fall in prices by the end of the third quarter of the year.\n\nLots of mortgage holders have deferred payments during the coronavirus outbreak\n\nSeparate figures from the Bank of England show how the mortgage market decelerated sharply alongside the house sales shutdown.\n\nSome 15,848 mortgage approvals for house purchases were recorded in April - about 80% below February levels before the coronavirus crisis took hold, the Bank said.\n\nThis was around half the number of approvals taking place in the trough during the financial crisis, and the lowest since the figures started in 1993.\n\nApprovals for re-mortgaging fell by a lesser extent during the month, to 34,400, some 34% lower than in February.\n\nThe UK's financial watchdog has confirmed the support firms should give to mortgage customers who are either coming to the end of a payment holiday or who are yet to request one.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said last month that homeowners struggling financially due to coronavirus would be able to extend their mortgage payment holiday for a further three months, or cut payments.\n\nOn Tuesday, it confirmed customers yet to apply for a payment holiday have until 31 October 2020 to do so. Meanwhile the current ban on lender repossessions of homes will be continued to 31 October.\n\n\"The measures we have confirmed today will mean anyone who needs to can get help from their lender, if they are still struggling to pay their mortgage due to coronavirus,\" said Christopher Woolard, interim chief executive at the FCA.\n\n\"It is important that if a consumer can afford to re-start mortgage payments, it is in their best interests to do so. Customers should talk to their firm about the best option available for them.\"\n\nOn Friday, the Nationwide's chief executive, Joe Garner, argued that it would be prudent for extensions to mortgage holidays to be marked temporarily on a borrower's credit file.\n\nHowever, the FCA said the current guidance - that taking a deferral should not have a negative impact on a borrower's credit file - should continue.\n\nThe regulator pointed out that lenders could still use details obtained from other sources, such as bank account information, when making their decisions on whether to grant other loans.", "BBC Radio 1 host Clara Amfo has been praised for making a candid, emotional speech on air about George Floyd's death and her own mental health.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, Amfo said she had been so affected by Mr Floyd's death that she had missed her show on Monday.\n\n\"I didn't have the mental strength to face you guys yesterday,\" said the DJ, her voice breaking with emotion.\n\n\"I was sat on my sofa crying, angry, confused... stuck at the news of yet another brutalised black body.\"\n\nMr Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, died last week after a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nMinneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin has been sacked and charged with third-degree murder.\n\nAmfo was speaking on \"Blackout Tuesday\", an initiative demanding racial justice and structural change in the wake of the killing.\n\nOriginally organised by the music industry, it has involved stars like Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Drake observing a day of silence, and record labels suspending normal business for 24 hours.\n\nThe movement has now spread across social media, with many users posting a simple black square, alongside messages of solidarity and links to anti-racism resources.\n\nRadio 1 and its sister station 1Xtra have been reflecting the movement by hosting discussions about the issues surrounding Mr Floyd's death, and playing songs that address black empowerment and identity.\n\nSpeaking on her mid-morning show, Amfo said the events in Minneapolis had reinforced a feeling among black people \"that people want our culture, but they do not want us\".\n\nShe added: \"In other words, you want my talent, but you don't want me.\n\n\"There is a false idea that racism - and in this case anti-blackness - is just name-calling and physical violence, when it is so much more insidious than that.\n\n\"One of my favourite thinkers is a woman called Amanda Seales, and she says this and I feel it deeply when she says, 'You cannot enjoy the rhythm and ignore the blues'. And I say that with my chest.\"\n\nFellow broadcasters praised Amfo for her candour and bravery.\n\nThe presenter ended her speech by playing Kendrick Lamar's Alright, which became associated with the Black Lives Matter movement after its release.\n\nThe song opens with the line: \"All my life I had to fight,\" and references police officers who \"wanna kill us dead in the street, for sure\".\n\n\"I want to say to our black listeners, I hope you feel seen and heard today,\" Amfo concluded.\n\n\"And to those of you that already let me know that you are doing the work, to be committed to doing better, I see you, so let's do this. Let's all be anti-racist.\"\n\nMusicians including Rihanna and Beyoncé have called for justice for George Floyd, while Ariana Grande joined protests in LA\n\nAmfo's speech was widely praised by listeners and fellow broadcasters, with many saying they had been moved to tears.\n\nFellow Radio 1 DJ Arielle Free said: \"Clara Amfo is an incredible human being who showed the world today a superhuman strength and bravery whilst broadcasting on the radio.\n\n\"The most powerful broadcast I have ever heard and I am in complete awe and adoration of her in every way shape and form. So much love.\"\n\n\"Thank you, Clara Amfo, thank you,\" said ITV news presenter Charlene White.\n\n\"So many people still confused as to why George Floyd's death has hit so many of us hard. Clara sums it up so well. Hear her anger, hear her pain. I feel it too.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people dying each week linked to coronavirus has dropped to its lowest levels in the UK since March, figures show.\n\nThe review of death certificates by national statisticians showed 2,872 cases where the virus was mentioned in the week ending 22 May.\n\nOverall there were 13,800 deaths in that week - 2,500 more than normal at this time of the year.\n\nAt the peak of the pandemic double the number were dying than expected.\n\nOverall, there have been 190,000 deaths during the pandemic - nearly 62,000 above what would be expected.\n\nThis is known as the excess death rate and is said to be the best guide to the impact of the virus as it takes into account deaths linked to infections and indirect deaths that maybe related to the lockdown from factors such as lack of access to care for other conditions and mental health problems.\n\nSome 48,000 of the deaths have been attributed to coronavirus.\n\nLatest government figures report that 39,369 people with coronavirus have died in the UK, across all settings, with an increase of 324 deaths on Monday's figures. There were 1,613 new positive cases recorded in the past day.\n\nNick Stripe, of the Office for National Statistics, which compiles the data for England and Wales, said despite the number of overall deaths falling, we were effectively seeing the same number of deaths we would expect to see in winter.\n\nHe also said there were considerable regional variations with the north east currently seeing the highest rates of excess deaths.\n\nDr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive at the Health Foundation think tank, said the reduction in deaths was positive, but the figures were still a \"sobering reminder\" of the impact the virus has had.\n\n\"The UK is now among the worst hit countries in terms of excess mortality and we will need to be forensic in searching for the reasons we have been so badly affected.\n\n\"This data underlines just how dangerous a threat the virus remains unless it is fully contained and further outbreaks can be stopped. Having a fully functioning test and trace system will be critical, as will the willingness and ability of the public to maintain recommended levels of social distancing.\n\n\"Without these, there are real risks of more avoidable deaths.\"", "There were long queues in Manchester\n\nThousands of shoppers have queued for hours to get into Ikea stores after the furniture giant reopened 19 shops in England and Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThey had been warned that only a limited number of shoppers would be welcomed with only one adult and one child from a household allowed in.\n\nBut Ikea was forced to shut car parks at some stores to help ease pressure.\n\nIn Warrington, people arrived at 05:40 to start queuing for the Ikea store to reopen at 09;00.\n\nThe company praised shoppers for their patience.\n\n\"Where we've seen strong demand we've taken appropriate decisions to open early for browsing and to temporarily close our car parks to help ease pressure and reduce waiting times,\" Ikea said.\n\n\"We're incredibly grateful to the public in playing their part to help keep everyone safe.\"\n\nIn Warrington, a line of more than 1,000 people snaked around the car park with similar scenes at Ikea's Wembley store.\n\nOn Twitter, shoppers complained of \"five-mile queues\" in Croydon, Wembley and outside of London.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWest Midlands police took to Twitter to warn people of large queues at Ikea's Wednesbury branch. The police urged: \"Please consider if you need to go there today as you may be in for a very long wait.\"\n\nThere were long queues outside the Belfast branch, noted BBC reporter Mark Simpson.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Manchester one shopper (who didn't want to be named) told the BBC that despite queues outside, inside the shop it was easy to maintain social-distancing.\n\n\"It's very busy with every entrance manned by staff with walkie talkies who were managing the long queues that had formed,\" the shopper said.\n\n\"We arrived just after 11:00 and had to queue for about an hour and a half before we were allowed into the store.\n\n\"However, once inside though the store was much emptier than usual, so it was very easy to stay a safe distance from the other shoppers.\"\n\nBut some criticized the long queues as a sign of runaway consumerism.\n\nOne Twitter user said: \"Don't understand how a person sees this Ikea queue and actually joins it, rather than… heading home for a beer.\"\n\nOthers warned that people queuing were risking catching coronavirus.\n\nOne said: \"People shopping at Ikea moaning about the people in the queue at Ikea today. It's the 'it's not me, it's everyone else' attitude that will cause the inevitable second wave.\n\n\"Wear a mask and only go out if you have to. It's not that hard, surely?\"\n\nAn Ikea spokesperson said: \"The health and safety of our customers and co-workers remains our top priority, which is why we put extensive and enhanced measures in place to create a safe and comfortable experience.\"\n\nThe measures include limiting numbers of customers in stores, a staggered entry system, screens in key areas and social-distancing wardens. All play areas and the restaurants have remained closed.\n\n\"We ask that these measures are respected at all times,\" Ikea said.\n\nIt had asked customers to \"come prepared with ready-made lists and their own bags to help ease waiting times\". It also pleaded with customers wishing to return items, \"to do so at a later date\".\n\n\"While frustrating, these planned measures are in place to ensure everyone's safety,\" Ikea said.\n\n\"To avoid queues, we'd ask those purely wishing to browse, to visit us in the coming weeks.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new footfall data from retail analyst Springboard has shown a sharp rise in the number of shoppers as a result of lockdown restrictions in England being eased.\n\nOverall, shopper numbers were up 36% on last week's Bank Holiday Monday and 21% on the week before that. High Streets saw the largest increase, with footfall up 44% on last week and 24% on the week before.\n\nThe increases have come despite only limited reopening allowed in England.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have not yet allowed similar shops to open again.", "Dr Read describes previous research justifying the use of ECT as 'the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career'\n\nThe use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat depression should be immediately suspended, a study says.\n\nECT involves passing electric currents through a patient's brain to cause seizures or fits.\n\nDr John Read, of the University of East London said there was \"no place\" for ECT in evidence-based medicine due to risks of brain damage.\n\nBut the Royal College of Psychiatrists said ECT offers \"life-saving treatment\" and should continue in severe cases.\n\nAt least 1,600 patients were given ECT in the UK and Ireland in 2017, according to psychiatrists.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) currently recommends the use of ECT for some cases of moderate or severe depression as well as catatonia and mania.\n\nHowever, peer-reviewed research published in the journal Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry concludes \"the high risk of permanent memory loss and the small mortality risk means that its use should be immediately suspended\".\n\nNICE says their guidance for ECT was last reviewed in 2014 but it would look at it again if new evidence was likely to affect their recommendations.\n\nThe study's lead author, Dr Read, a professor of clinical psychology, describes previous research justifying the use of ECT in the UK and around the world as \"the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career\".\n\nThe paper concedes that \"the severity and significance of the brain damage and memory loss (following ECT) is rarely studied\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A mum of two talks about having electric shock therapy while pregnant\n\nHowever, the researchers go on to say \"it is not hard to find hundreds of personal accounts of debilitating levels of disruption to people's lives\".\n\nIn 2018, a class action case was settled in the US after a federal court ruled that a reasonable jury could find against manufacturers of ECT equipment if they failed to warn of the dangers of brain damage.\n\nOne manufacturer, Somatics, immediately added \"permanent brain damage\" to the list of risks from the treatment.\n\nThe research criticises a British review of the evidence conducted in 2003 for ignoring the lack of data.\n\nCoronation Street actor Beverley Callard has spoken of how she underwent electroconvulsive therapy to treat her clinical depression\n\nThe UK ECT Review Group \"fails to acknowledge any of these major problems and unquestioningly included the strong finding in favour of ECT\", it says.\n\nThe article argues the quality of previous studies into ECT is so poor, they \"were wrong to conclude anything about efficacy, either during or beyond the treatment period\".\n\n\"There is no evidence that ECT is effective for its target demographic—older women, or its target diagnostic group—severely depressed people, or for suicidal people, people who have unsuccessfully tried other treatments first, involuntary patients, or children and adolescent\", it says.\n\nThe paper suggests the placebo effect may explain why some patients say they find ECT helpful.\n\nThe study's joint author, Prof Irving Kirsch, an expert on placebo effects based at Harvard Medical School, says \"the failure to find any meaningful benefits in long-term benefits compared to placebo groups are particularly distressing.\n\n\"On the basis of the clinical trial data, ECT should not be used for depressed individuals.\"\n\nIn response to the study, the Royal College of Psychiatrists said ECT should not be suspended for \"some forms of severe mental illness\".\n\nDr Rupert McShane, chair of the college's Committee on ECT and Related Treatments, said there was evidence showing \"most people who receive ECT see an improvement in their condition\".\n\n\"For many, it can be a life-saving treatment,\" he said.\n\n\"As with all treatments for serious medical conditions - from cancer to heart disease - there can be side-effects of differing severity, including memory loss.\"", "Tiger King told of the rivalry between Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin\n\nA zoo formerly owned by the star of Netflix documentary Tiger King is to be handed over to the woman he was convicted of trying to have killed.\n\nA federal judge has given Carole Baskin control of Joe Exotic's old zoo in Oklahoma as part of a ruling in a $1m (£800,000) trademark dispute.\n\nJoe Exotic is currently serving a 22-year sentence for his involvement in a murder-for-hire plot and animal abuse.\n\nThe zoo's current operator has been ordered to leave within 120 days.\n\nTiger King, which became a huge hit on Netflix in March, tells of Joe Exotic's colourful life and his rivalry with Baskin, the owner of an animal sanctuary in Florida.\n\nThe rivalry extended to Exotic - real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage - using logos that resembled those owned by Baskin's Big Cat Rescue company.\n\nBaskin sued Exotic for trademark infringement in 2011, a case that ended two years later with the latter being ordered to pay Big Cat Rescue $1m.\n\nIn 2016, Big Cat Rescue sued Exotic's mother Shirley Schreibvogel, claiming he had fraudulently transferred his zoo to her to avoid paying Baskin and other creditors.\n\nAccording to documents posted online, US District Judge Scott L Palk found the transfer had been made to \"remove [the zoo] from the reach of Big Cat Rescue\".\n\nJeff Lowe, Joe Exotic's former business partner, has been told to vacate the premises in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, and remove all of his exotic animals.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Spike Lee on George Floyd's death and his new film Da 5 Bloods\n\nFilm-maker Spike Lee has said people in the US are angry because they \"live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win\".\n\nThe Oscar-winner said the reasons for the current unrest included the deaths of black people like George Floyd but also wider injustices and inequalities.\n\n\"It's not like you're just born angry,\" he told BBC arts editor Will Gompertz.\n\nLee also said President Trump's response showed that \"he's a gangster, he's trying to be a dictator\".\n\nMr Trump has threatened to send in the military to quell growing civil unrest across the US.\n\nOn Monday, the president walked from the White House to a nearby fire-damaged church to pose with a Bible, after demonstrators were cleared from his path.\n\nPresident Trump held up a Bible outside the boarded up St John's Church\n\nLee, whose new Netflix film Da 5 Bloods follows a group of African-American war veterans, said: \"I was watching this last night with my family and we were all screaming in disbelief that this thing was staged.\n\n\"This show of force - gassing, beating innocent, peaceful bystanders so you could clear the street so you could take a walk to the church. It was ridiculous.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Bible did not look comfortable in his hand, and he didn't look comfortable holding the Bible either. I have never seen something like that before in my life, particularly with a world leader.\"\n\nIn his speech before walking to the church, Mr Trump said: \"I am your president of law and order and an ally of all peaceful protesters.\"\n\nMany US cities have seen demonstrations and unrest since the death of 46-year-old Mr Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May, when a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes.\n\nOn Sunday, Lee released a short film combining footage of Mr Floyd and Eric Garner, who was killed while being arrested in 2014, with a scene from his 1989 film Do the Right Thing in which the character Radio Raheem is murdered.\n\nA state grand jury declined to press criminal charges against the officer involved in Mr Garner's death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I'm tired of being afraid': Why Americans are protesting\n\n\"Why are people angry?\" Lee said on Tuesday. \"People are angry because black people are being killed left and right, cops walked away free.\n\n\"Black and brown people are angry at the disparity between the haves and have-nots - education, drinking dirty water, racism.\n\n\"People are angry for a reason. It's not like you're just born angry. You're angry because you live every day in this world where the system is not set up for you to win.\n\n\"The life expectancy… There are just so many things that one could make a list of [them] forever - that's where the anger's from.\n\n\"It's a stupid analogy, but if you leave the pot on the stove, the water boils.\"\n\nSocial inequalities have been particularly evident during the coronavirus pandemic, he said, with people from minorities more likely to die after contracting the disease.\n\n\"It's the black and brown people who had to go to work, front-liners of all aspects, they kept this [country] going,\" he said.\n\nAnd racism is far from being unique to the US, he added.\n\n\"Racism is all over the world. This was a global pandemic before corona.\n\n\"I'm a very spiritual person and I don't think that's a coincidence that these two things are happening at the same time.\"\n\nHe traced the inequalities in the US back to the country's foundation.\n\n\"The land was stolen from native people, genocide was committed against the native people, and ancestors were stolen from Africa and brought here to work,\" he said.\n\n\"So the foundation of the United States of America is genocide, stealing land and slavery.\n\n\"Any architect will tell you that if you don't have a strong foundation, the building's going to be shaky, and shaky from day one... This original sin has not been dealt with since the birth of this country.\"\n\nDa 5 Bloods is on Netflix from 12 June.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "US President Donald Trump has previously supported Russia's return to the group\n\nThe UK and Canada have opposed Russia's return to the G7, deepening a rift over US President Donald Trump's wish for the country to rejoin.\n\nMr Trump said on Saturday he would postpone the G7 summit scheduled to take place this month until September.\n\nThe president said the G7's \"outdated group of countries\" should be expanded to include others, including Russia.\n\nOn Sunday, Mr Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin of his plan to invite him to the summit.\n\nThe White House said making \"progress toward convening the G7\" with Russia was among the topics the leaders discussed in a phone call.\n\nThe G7 summit, which the US hosts this year, convenes the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the UK to discuss matters of co-operation.\n\nBut Mr Trump's invitation to Mr Putin has drawn the ire of the UK and Canada, whose leaders said on Sunday they would not support Russia's readmission to the group.\n\nRussia was expelled from the group - previously known as the G8 - in 2014 in response to its annexation of Crimea.\n\n\"Russia was excluded from the G7 after it invaded Crimea a number of years ago, and its continued disrespect and flaunting of international rules and norms is why it remains outside of the G7, and it will continue to remain out,\" Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a news conference.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he opposes Russia's readmission to the group\n\nEarlier, a spokesman for the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would veto any proposal to allow Russia to rejoin the group.\n\nUnless Russia ceases its \"aggressive and destabilising activity\", the UK would not support the country's readmission to the group, Mr Johnson's spokesman said.\n\n\"Russia was removed from the G7 group of nations following its [2014] annexation of Crimea and we are yet to see evidence of changed behaviour which would justify its readmittance,\" the spokesman told reporters.\n\nNeither the UK or Canadian position rules out Mr Putin's attendance of the summit in the US.\n\nThough representatives of non-G7 members have attended the group's summits before, Mr Putin's presence could prove contentious.\n\nIn recent years, the UK has had an acrimonious relationship with Russia, which it blamed for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in Salisbury, England in 2018.\n\nDespite opposition from other G7 members, Mr Trump has repeatedly expressed his support for Russia's return to the group.\n\nAt a G7 summit in 2018, Mr Trump said he thought it \"would be an asset to have Russia back in\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump to G7: \"They should let Russia come back in\"\n\nAnnouncing the delay of this year's G7 summit on Saturday, Mr Trump echoed that sentiment.\n\nHe said he did not feel the group \"properly represents what's going on in the world\", suggesting Russia, South Korea, Australia and India should be invited.\n\nThe leaders of South Korea and Australia have expressed interest in attending the summit in the US.\n\nLast week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected the president's invitation to attend a summit in person because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe G7 summit was held in France in 2019\n\nThe G7 (or Group of Seven) is an organisation made up of the world's seven largest so-called advanced economies.\n\nThe leaders of these countries meet annually at summits to discuss issues of global governance, including climate change, security and the economy.\n\nThe group regards itself as \"a community of values\", with freedom and human rights, democracy and the rule of law, and prosperity and sustainable development as its key principles.\n• None G7: What is it doing about Ukraine?", "Londoners were three time more likely to die from coronavirus than those in the south-west of England, a study has found.\n\nUp to 8 May there were 7,369 deaths linked to coronavirus in London, according to Public Health England.\n\nWhen taking into account the usual mortality rate and age of the two areas this was 3.7 times more than the least affected region - the south-west, which saw 2,187 deaths over the same period.\n\nThe study found 9,035 excess deaths in London over the same period. Or to put it another way, nearly 10,000 more Londoners have died this year than you would expect - coronavirus is directly linked to 81.7% of these, but not all.", "British soldiers who have been accused of committing war crimes in Iraq are unlikely to face criminal prosecution.\n\nIndependent investigators were asked to look at thousands of allegations made against the British military after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.\n\nBut the director of the Service Prosecution Authority (SPA) said just one remaining case was being examined.\n\nAndrew Cayley said the \"low level\" of offending and lack of credible evidence had led most cases to be dismissed.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Law in Action programme, Mr Cayley said most of those cases were sifted out at a very early stage because of the lack of credible evidence or because the offending was \"at such a very low level\".\n\nMore than 1,000 cases were made by former lawyer Phil Shiner and his firm Public Interest Lawyers (PIL). In 2017 he was struck off as a solicitor after a tribunal found him guilty of misconduct and dishonesty, including false accounts about the actions of UK soldiers.\n\nMr Cayley said seven remaining cases had been referred to the SPA, but in six of those cases it was concluded that no charges should be brought.\n\nOne case is still being considered, but Mr Cayley admitted that it is now \"quite possible\" that none of the original allegations will lead to a prosecution.\n\nMr Cayley also said he is confident a separate investigation being conducted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague will conclude this year without further action being taken.\n\nIn 2014, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda re-opened a preliminary examination of cases involving alleged British abuses in Iraq.\n\nMr Cayley said he was \"convinced\" that examination would soon be completed without any further action.\n\nHe said: \"My sense is these matters are coming to a conclusion; she will close the preliminary examination this year in respect of Iraq and the United Kingdom.\"\n\nThe cloud hanging over British service personnel accused of wrongdoing has already left a bitter taste and contributed to political pressure to do more to protect soldiers on the battlefield from criminal and civil prosecution for alleged actions which took place years ago.\n\nEarlier this year the government presented a bill promising to curb historic allegations and tackle what it calls \"vexatious claims\" against armed forces deployed overseas.\n\nThe bill proposes a five-year time limit on any criminal prosecution unless compelling new evidence is brought to light.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Defence said it was strongly opposed to service personnel and veterans being subjected to the threat of repeated investigations and potential prosecutions.\n\nVeterans minister Johnny Mercer said the bill was introduced \"to reduce the uncertainty currently faced by service personnel and veterans in relation to historic allegations\" - and aimed to make sure \"that we never end up in a situation like this again\".\n\nBut human rights groups and some lawyers have already expressed concern - saying the legislation could place the military above the law, and undermine existing international conventions.\n\nDavid Greene, vice-president of the Law Society, said a balance must be struck to ensure charges are only brought when warranted.\n\nBut he added: \"The argument behind time limits for British service personnel deployed overseas is that there has been a rise in historic prosecutions. Based on Andrew Cayley's comments the evidence for such an assertion is lacking.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson's \"mismanagement\" of the easing of virus restrictions risks a second wave of infections, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has warned.\n\nIn a Guardian interview, he urged the PM to \"get a grip\" and restore public confidence in ministers' handling of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut No 10 said it was proceeding with caution to secure a safe recovery.\n\nIt comes as the government is to outline further details of its quarantine plans later.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel is to tell MPs that the proposals - which have been met with criticism from many Conservative MPs - are necessary to avoid the risk of another wave of coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, the majority of those arriving in the UK will be told to self-isolate for 14 days.\n\nBut Portugal's foreign minister has told the BBC that his government is talking to Home Office officials about a so-called \"air bridge\" agreement so that tourists returning from his country can avoid the restrictions.\n\nHealth minister Edward Argar said he hopes people will be able to go on holiday this year but cautioned \"I'm not going to say a particular date on when that might happen\".\n\n\"We will have to be guided by how the disease behaves, controlling any risk of a second wave and controlling the disease,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nIn the Guardian, the Labour leader also said there was a growing concern that Mr Johnson was now \"winging it\" over moves to reopen schools and relax shielding advice.\n\nEchoing Sir Keir's criticism of the government, shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We have seen an exit from the lockdown with no strategy to make it work.\"\n\nThe Labour MP said the easing of lockdown restrictions was \"the time of maximum danger\" and that the party was calling for an \"effective\" test, trace and isolate strategy, \"fast access to testing\" and \"clear\" public messaging.\n\nIn one of his first acts as Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer announced he would not indulge in opposition for opposition's sake.\n\nThis was seen as a decisive break from his own party's recent past.\n\nBut now he wants to create more distance between the government and the opposition.\n\nSome say they have noted a more hostile, less consensual tone towards Boris Johnson from Sir Keir.\n\nBut, in truth, Sir Keir's stated policy of \"constructive criticism\" has already tended to emphasise the latter of those two words at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nAnd his approach today has much in common with his approach before - to put down a marker in case things go wrong.\n\nThe Labour leader is determined to stay one step ahead of the government.\n\nSo, by raising questions now over the easing of lockdown while doubts remain about the alert level and the efficacy of the track and trace system, he is positioning the party to distance itself further from the government's approach if the R number goes up.\n\nFormer health secretary Jeremy Hunt has stressed the importance of a \"functioning\" test and trace system, which he suggested could be used in place of quarantine measures.\n\nSpeaking on the Today programme, Mr Hunt highlighted comments by Professor John Newton, the national testing co-ordinator, who said contact tracing for travellers arriving in the UK could be used instead of quarantine rules.\n\n\"If you know that you are going to track down anyone that comes from abroad and isolate them really quickly, then you don't need to have a blanket quarantine measure that stops people going on holiday or doing business trips,\" Mr Hunt, the chairman of the Commons Health and Social Care Committee, said.\n\nUnder the quarantine rules, passengers arriving in the UK by plane, ferry or train - including UK nationals - will have to provide an address where they will remain for 14 days\n\nHe added that turning around coronavirus test results within 24 hours was \"absolutely essential\" for an effective test and trace system.\n\nHe express concerned over the time it is taking for tests results to come back, following Sage - the group of scientists advising government - documents that said keeping the R number below one would require 80% of contacts to be found within 48 hours.\n\n\"If the test results themselves take 48 hours to come back, that is going to be impossible,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said while Labour wanted to see society re-open and businesses begin to get back on their feet, he had deep misgivings about the approach in England, compared with that in Wales and Scotland.\n\nHe said children had returned to schools before the system for identifying new cases and tracing their contacts was fully up and running.\n\nHe also complained that public health officials had been given no notice of the changes to shielding advice for the most vulnerable - which was announced a month before a review had been due to take place.\n\n\"After a week or more of mismanagement, I'm deeply concerned the government has made a difficult situation 10 times worse,\" he said. \"We've called for an exit strategy. What we appear to have got is an exit without a strategy.\"\n\nHe warned that trust in the government had been \"burnt\" at a crucial time by the controversy surrounding the PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings and whether he broke the lockdown rules.\n\n\"Like many people across the country, there is a growing concern the government is now winging it,\" Sir Keir said.\n\n\"At precisely the time when there should have been maximum trust in the government, confidence has collapsed.\n\n\"I am putting the prime minister on notice that he has got to get a grip and restore public confidence in the government's handling of the epidemic.\n\n\"If we see a sharp rise in the R rate, the infection rate, or a swathe of local lockdowns, responsibility for that falls squarely at the door of No 10.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said its focus was on \"helping the country recover safely from coronavirus and restoring the livelihoods of millions of people across the country\".\n\n\"Now is the time to look to the future and not the past, as we continue to fight this virus while taking cautious steps to ease restrictions. The PM looks forward to hearing any concrete proposals Labour has to offer.\"\n\nThe BBC understands the PM has established two new cabinet committees to support the next phase of the Covid response - one overseeing the strategy for the recovery and the other the delivery of policy.", "Data on how the coronavirus can spread between aircraft passengers is in short supply\n\nAir passengers should have restricted access to toilets on flights as part of wide-ranging coronavirus safety recommendations, a UN agency has said.\n\nThe International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) guidelines also include limiting or suspending food and drink services on short-haul flights.\n\nThe new guidelines are designed to protect air passengers and workers from the Covid-19 virus as lockdown eases.\n\nAirlines could see revenues plunge £314bn in 2020, the ICAO added.\n\nThe aviation industry has been struggling as lockdown measures around the world have limited flights and passenger numbers.\n\nAs those travel restrictions begin to ease, the ICAO has issued guidelines for governments, with the aim of airlines and airports having a unified response when trying to keep passengers and staff safe from coronavirus.\n\nThe ICAO stopped short of saying that passengers must be socially-distanced on planes, but it did say they should be seated separately \"when occupancy allows it\".\n\nPassengers should travel as lightly as possible, with small hand luggage stowed under their seat. Newspapers and magazines should be removed, and duty free sales should be temporarily limited, the UN's civil aviation body said.\n\nShort-haul food and drinks services should be limited or suspended, or be sold in sealed, pre-packaged containers.\n\nAccess to toilets should also be restricted, the ICAO said. Where possible, one toilet should be set aside for use by cabin crew, and passengers should use a designated lavatory based on which seat they have.\n\nThe new recommendations cover airports, aircraft, crew and cargo.\n\nIn general, face masks should be worn in line with public health guidelines, and social distancing should be made possible where it is feasible, the UN body said.\n\nAreas should be routinely cleaned, and passengers should be checked for signs of coronavirus, by screening temperatures, for example. Contact tracing methods should also be explored.\n\nAt airports, staff should have adequate personal protective equipment, which \"could include gloves, medical masks, goggles or a face shield, and gowns or aprons,\" the guidelines said.\n\nPassengers should be encouraged to check-in before getting to the airport, and to use mobile boarding passes.\n\nAirports should also use contactless technology, including facial and iris scanning, for \"self-service bag drops, various queue access, boarding gates and retail and duty-free outlets\", the guidelines say.\n\n\"This will eliminate or greatly reduce the need for contact with travel documents between staff and passengers,\" the UN agency added.\n\nThe recommendations are extensive and detailed - a blueprint for aviation in the Covid-19 era; and one fact stands out. Flying, for a while at least, is not going to be a whole lot of fun.\n\nFrom the moment you arrive at the terminal building, armed with your pre-printed boarding pass and luggage tags, human contact will be limited, social distancing the norm. Masks will be obligatory, and supplies of hand sanitiser everywhere.\n\nIf you don't like potentially intrusive technology, tough - ICAO suggests that \"contactless biometrics such as facial or iris recognition \" should be used wherever possible, to reduce physical contact between staff and passengers.\n\nAnd it continues on board the plane: there are instructions to \"limit interaction on board\" - so no striking up a conversation with your neighbour - to reduce or suspend food and drink services, and to restrict lavatory access.\n\nWhat ICAO is trying to do here is create a common and consistent framework for the industry to follow around the world - allowing people to travel, while placating even the strictest health authorities.\n\nIt insists the new measures should be temporary.\n\nBut for the moment, anything that was left of the once-lauded romance of flying looks set to disappear in a pungent cloud of disinfectant.\n\nAirlines and aerospace firms have been struggling amid the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAt the beginning of May, Virgin Atlantic said it would axe 3,000 jobs and quit Gatwick. Later in the month, engine-maker Rolls Royce said it would cut 9,000 jobs.\n\nThere has been a huge reduction in air travel, with daily flights down about 80% since the start of the year.\n\nBut now carriers are making plans to get airborne again, with plans to reintroduce some schedules.", "Zoom has become the app many are using to stay in touch with friends, family and work colleagues\n\nWhen it comes to its growth rate, video conference company Zoom has lived up to its name.\n\nUse of the firm's software jumped 30-fold in April, as the coronavirus pandemic forced millions to work, learn and socialise remotely.\n\nAt its peak, the firm counted more than 300 million daily participants in virtual meetings, while paying customers have more than tripled.\n\nThe dramatic uptake has the potential to change the firm's path.\n\nZoom said it expects sales as high as $1.8bn (£1.4bn) this year - roughly double what it forecast in March.\n\nMr Yuan didn't intend to create Zoom for the masses.\n\nZoom has made Eric Yuan, whose visa application to the US was denied eight times, a billionaire\n\nA Chinese-born software engineer, Mr Yuan started the company in 2011, after years rising through the ranks at WebEx, one of the first US video conference companies, which was purchased by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2bn.\n\nAt the time, he faced doubts from many investors, who did not see the need for another option in a market already dominated by big players such as Microsoft and Cisco.\n\nBut Mr Yuan - who has credited his interest in video conferencing to the long distances he had to travel to meet up with his now-wife in their youth - was frustrated at Cisco and believed there was demand in the business world for software that would work on mobile phones and be easier to use.\n\nWhen the firm sold its first shares to the public last year, it was valued at $15.9bn. That shot to more than $58bn on Tuesday.\n\n\"What Zoom has done is kind of democratised video conferencing for all kinds of businesses and made it very simple for everyone from yoga instructors through to board room executives to deploy video,\" says Alex Smith, senior director at Canalys.\n\nWhen the lockdowns started, Zoom lifted the limits for the free version of its software in China and for educators in many countries, including the UK, helping to drive its popularity.\n\nBut the firm's bread and butter customers are corporate clients, who pay for subscriptions and enhanced features.\n\nZoom said on Tuesday that sales jumped 169% year-on-year in the three months to 30 April to $328.2m, as it added more than 180,000 customers with more than 10 employees since January - far more than it had expected.\n\nIt also turned a profit of $27m in the quarter - more than it made in all of the prior financial year.\n\nThe massive uptake has also strained the firm, forcing it to invest to expand capacity to meet the needs of new users, many of whom are not paying customers.\n\nIts reputation also took a hit, as the new attention prompted hackers to hijack meetings and exposed a host of security flaws, revealing that the firm had sent user data to Facebook, had wrongly claimed the app had end-to-end encryption, and was allowing meeting hosts to track attendees.\n\nIt has also faced political scrutiny for its ties to China - where it has more than 700 staff, including most of its product development team - which have prompted warnings that it is not fit for government use.\n\nIn April, Mr Yuan, who is a US citizen, apologised for the security lapses and the firm started rolling out a number of changes intended to fix the problems. Zoom has also announced a number of new appointments familiar with Washington politics, including H R McMaster, a retired Army general and former national security adviser to Donald Trump.\n\n\"Navigating this process has been a humbling learning experience,\" Mr Yuan said on an investor call on Tuesday.\n\nAnalysts said they expected the company would overcome these reputational blows.\n\n\"It's had that mishap and the fact that its name is still very much used as verbatim with video technology still gives it a lot of momentum and opportunity to continue,\" Mr Smith said.\n\nAnalysts say they expect Zoom to maintain its focus on business customers, since that's how it makes money.\n\nBut the pandemic is likely to create more challenges for Zoom in that market, as increased demand for remote work prompts competitors such as Microsoft and Cisco to pour resources into the field.\n\n\"The stakes are higher and the competition's getting tougher, so we'll see,\" says Ryan Koontz, managing director at Rosenblatt Securities.\n\n\"They were on a very strong trajectory before... and happened to be in the right place at the right time as the whole world decided we needed to communicate well on video,\" he says. \"They have this amazing brand... now they have to leverage that brand and figure out which markets they're going to go after.\"", "President Donald Trump has sparked controversy with his photo shoot\n\nLast night he held a Bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House. Today, he'll visit the Shrine to St John Paul II, also in Washington DC.\n\nBut US President Donald Trump's signalling of religious affiliation has not been welcomed by a range of clerics as the nation struggles to manage the twin challenges of a pandemic and widespread political protest.\n\nThe Episcopal Bishop of Washington, the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, said: \"The president just used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without permission, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.\"\n\nJames Martin, a Jesuit priest and consultant to the Vatican's communications department, tweeted: \"Let me be clear. This is revolting. The Bible is not a prop. A church is not a photo op. Religion is not a political tool. God is not your plaything.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRabbi Jack Moline, President of the Interfaith Alliance, said: \"Seeing President Trump standing in front of St John's Episcopal Church while holding a Bible in response to calls for racial justice - right after using military force to clear peaceful protesters - is one of the most flagrant misuses of religion that I have ever seen.\"\n\nPresident Trump does not belong to a particular congregation, only occasionally attends a service and has said many times that he does not like to ask God for forgiveness.\n\nBut while he may not consider church essential to his personal life, it may yet hold the keys to his political future.\n\nIn 2016, Mr Trump won 81% of white evangelical votes and exit polls found that white Catholics supported him over Hillary Clinton by 60% to 37%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump declares himself the \"law and order president\"\n\nMr Trump's status, as the champion of evangelical and conservative voters, can seem peculiar given his use of divisive rhetoric, his three marriages, accusations of sexual assault by dozens of women, the hush-money paid to a pornographic film actress, and the record of false statements made during his presidency - more than 18,000 according to the Poynter Institute's Politifact website.\n\nBut he has sealed a powerful bond with religious voters by embracing their political priorities and appointing two Supreme Court justices - Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch - and federal judges with their support.\n\nThis may explain why - though an irregular congregant himself - the president has repeatedly demanded the reopening of churches, saying, on 22 May, \"If they don't do it, I will override the governors.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is pain right here' - Washington DC protests turn violent\n\nReligious conservatives appear to be the most solid core of Mr Trump's voter base, despite political unrest and the vast number of deaths from Covid-19.\n\nAccording to the latest Pew Research Poll, 75% of white evangelical Protestants say he's doing a good job in handling the pandemic - down 6 percentage points from six weeks before.\n\nBut while one voting bloc remains faithful, the country at large is deeply divided. According to analysis by the website FiveThirtyEight, which collates all polling data, 43% of Americans agree with the president's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, while 53.4% disapprove.\n\nSeveral religious leaders are hoping that Trump's visit to the shrine may encourage him to reflect on the words of then Pope John Paul II, delivered to the United Nations in 1995.\n\n\"The answer to the fear which darkens human existence at the end of the 20th Century,\" he said, \"is the common effort to build the civilization of love.\"", "Simon Waddup said he \"kept hearing this voice telling me to buy a lottery ticket\" before playing online\n\nAn electrician who has been unable to work for a year through ill health has won £1m on the Euromillions lottery.\n\nSimon Waddup, 31, of Coventry, said he hoped the win meant he could realise his \"dream\" of buying and doing up old properties.\n\nHe said a rare blood disorder and faulty heart valve had \"constantly held me back\".\n\nMr Waddup added his daughter, 10, hoped the win meant she could go on holiday abroad for the first time.\n\n\"For as long as I can remember I have wanted to buy old properties, do them up and build my own portfolio,\" he said.\n\n\"Friends and family laughed at my dream, especially when I was a teenager.\"\n\nHe studied Design Technology, worked on building sites and trained to become an electrician with this ambition in mind.\n\nHowever, he said ill health had meant he had \"been in and out of hospital a lot over the last few years\" and had been unable to work since last summer.\n\nMr Waddup said he had played the Euromillions game for the first time this month and had been in \"a bit of a daze\" since the win.\n\n\"Due to coronavirus, I can't celebrate with my family and I can't wait to see people and talk about the win - I will definitely be treating my family,\" he said.\n\n\"I will also get a passport for my daughter and, when we can, take a trip abroad - she has already told me that she wants to go to Spain.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "War-torn Yemen was already experiencing an acute humanitarian crisis Image caption: War-torn Yemen was already experiencing an acute humanitarian crisis\n\nThe UN’s secretary-general has warned that there is a “race against time” to combat the coronavirus in Yemen, where a civil war has already caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.\n\nReports indicated that mortality rates from Covid-19 in the second city of Aden were among the highest in the world, António Guterres told a virtual pledging conference .\n\n“That is just one sign of what lies ahead, if we do not act now,” he added.\n\nJust half of Yemen’s health facilities are operational. There are shortages of testing devices, oxygen, ambulances and protective equipment. Many healthcare workers are among those who have been infected. And 50% of the population do not have access to clean water to wash their hands.\n\nHalf of Yemenis do not have access to clean water Image caption: Half of Yemenis do not have access to clean water\n\nGuterres said the UN and its partners urgently need $2.4bn (£1.9bn) in funding to cover their operations for the rest of the year. Otherwise, 30 out of 41 major UN programmes will have to close in the next few weeks in a country where 24 million people depend on aid.\n\nThe UK has pledged £160m, which Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said would “mean the difference between life and death for thousands of Yemenis”.", "Oxfam has asked people to call ahead before donating goods, because storage space at its network of charity shops might be limited.\n\nOxfam stores will begin reopening in England from 15 June.\n\nThe charity said it could not yet confirm which stores would open in the first phase, nor how many of them.\n\nHowever, it said there would be space for social distancing, while staff and volunteers would have the necessary personal protective equipment.\n\nAll surfaces, doors and equipment will be regularly cleaned and donated items will be isolated for 72 hours.\n\nOxfam GB chief executive Danny Sriskandarajah said it was aware that many people had been \"busy decluttering under lockdown\" and the charity was excited about receiving the resulting donations.\n\nHowever, the charity also pointed out that with the need to quarantine donated items, storage space could be restricted, so it asked people to call ahead to check beforehand.\n\nAll Oxfam shops have been closed since 21 March in response to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe move to start reopening them comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that non-essential retailers would be able to reopen in England.\n\nOxfam shops in Scotland and Wales will remain closed at this stage, as no dates have yet been set for retailers to reopen there.\n\nOxfam has the third-largest network of charity shops in the UK, with 595 High Street outlets around the country.\n\nOther charities, including British Heart Foundation and Barnardo's, have already announced their own plans to resume operations at a limited number of shops.\n\nOxfam said it would take time to reopen all English branches, as they varied in size and shape. Arrangements to curb the spread of the virus had to be made on a completely individual, shop-by-shop basis, it said.\n\nMr Sriskandarajah said: \"Our shops are a much-loved part of their communities and, at this difficult time, we can't wait to reopen our doors and reconnect with our supporters and shoppers.\n\n\"Our shop staff and volunteers are working hard to make sure we can welcome the public back into Oxfam stores safely.\"\n\nThe charity also said it was appealing for volunteers to help shops get back to business over the summer. Each shop typically has a team of 30 dedicated volunteers and one or two staff, with more than 20,000 volunteers required in all.\n\nThe UK's 11,000 charity shops help raise almost £300m for good causes each year and the people who run them are expecting a surge of donations when they open their doors again,\n\nRobin Osterley, chief executive of the Charity Retail Association, said that shops were expecting to be \"full to bursting\".", "Drug gangs have been on a \"recruitment drive\" during lockdown, targeting vulnerable children and increasingly girls, according to a report.\n\nThey are being groomed to carry drugs, because they are unknown to police, the National Youth Agency says.\n\nAnd social media and \"unsafe outdoor spaces\" are being used to recruit them.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England warned with schools and youth clubs closed, thousands of vulnerable young people had \"simply gone off the radar\".\n\n\"Lockdown removed many of the usual ways of identifying children at risk of being exploited by gangs,\" Anne Longfield added.\n\nThe National Youth Agency report, based on responses from youth workers on the ground, is the first detailed examination of drug gangs during lockdown.\n\nIt has been sent to the government.\n\n\"There is increased concern around the use of girls for gang activity\", it says, because they find it easier to move around during lockdown.\n\nIn Bristol, where children make up nearly a fifth of the population, 65 have been identified as at \"highest risk of criminal exploitation\".\n\nIn a deserted adventure playground, in Hartcliffe, in the south of the city, lead youth worker Rob Farrow remembers, before the lockdown was implemented on 23 March, a safe place buzzing with young people.\n\n\"As soon as they walk in through those gates, they know 100% they are safe,\" he says.\n\n\"It gives them that moment to relax and be children without being worried that they are going to be exploited into a gang.\n\n\"What you might see through crime statistics is everything's gone down\n\n\"Actually, the reality is those at risk are now way more at risk.\n\n\"And those that weren't at risk are now at risk.\n\n\"What we've seen is young females introduced by their young male peers in order to get involved in criminal activity that we hadn't seen previously.\n\n\"The worst thing is, because we're not doing this work, we can't see those kids.\n\nMr Farrow's colleague, Joe Secret, says: \"We now see young people in areas that are hotspots that were never involved in [crime] before\".\n\nAnother youth worker, Omari Cato, says: \"These are very fragile minds that don't quite understand that they're being groomed.\n\nNational Youth Agency chief executive Leigh Middleton said: \"Covid-19 brought youth services in many areas to an abrupt halt, just at the time it was needed most.\n\n\"Without ready access to a youth worker, we fear a surge in violence and exploitation post-lockdown.\"\n\nMeanwhile, police have used new tactics to close down 87 phone lines used to sell drugs.\n\n\"We need to design out the ability to run these lines,\" Metropolitan Police Service Commissioner Cressida Dick said.\n\n\"We will work with whoever necessary to restrict the ability of these individuals to carry out this activity and destroy the business model of county lines entirely.\"", "Gyms in Düsseldorf have already reopened\n\nA woman lifts the weights over her head one last time then drops them to ground with a grunt of exhaustion, turning her head towards the slight breeze coming in from the open door.\n\nThis ladies-only gym in Düsseldorf has just reopened. Life in Germany is beginning to look a little like it did before coronavirus silenced its beer gardens, grounded its aircraft and brought production lines to a standstill.\n\nSchools, businesses, restaurants, shops and churches have either reopened or are about to - with strict social distancing measures. There's even the promise of summer holidays elsewhere in Europe.\n\nBut Britta, who's just finished her workout, is unsure about easing restrictions.\n\n\"I'm torn,\" she said. \"I enjoy the new freedoms but at the same time I'm rather scared, maybe it was too early. I think people need to be careful still and mustn't be careless.\"\n\nGermany's calm and successful handling of the pandemic attracted international attention. But its next moves have been chaotic, characterised by squabbling between regional leaders which has culminated in a faster lifting of restrictions than Chancellor Angela Merkel would have liked.\n\nThe leaders of Germany's 16 states have the power to decide how and when they do that.\n\nUnable to agree a common strategy, they've instituted a patchwork of rules and regulations, with people in one state able to, for example, use the gym again, while in another region, fitness centres have remained closed.\n\nIt's fuelled an intense public debate about the \"Lockerung\" or relaxation policy, with many fearing that Germany could squander its initial success.\n\nSome worry Germany is lifting its lockdown restrictions too quickly\n\n\"It's too soon, we're easing up too fast and too much and we risk a second wave,\" said Professor Frank Montgomery, who chairs the World Medical Association.\n\nProfessor Montgomery speaks for many when he says that there's been \"a beauty contest\" from the premiers of the different German states which \"risks all that we have achieved\".\n\nIn the warmth of the early evening sun, cyclists glide around couples and families strolling along Düsseldorf's riverfront. Under a pavement table, a dog opens a lazy eye as a waiter brings beer and wine to cheerful customers.\n\nAs yet, there's been no significantly adverse effect (beyond a couple of outbreaks linked to churches and slaughterhouses) on Germany's infection figures. But, with newly reopened shops and restaurants reporting that customers are cautious and slow to return, it may be too soon to tell.\n\nSurveys suggest that the German public were accepting of the restrictions, that they approved of Angela Merkel's cautious approach, despite the terrible impact on the country's economy.\n\nSo why have some regional politicians been so enthusiastic to open up society again?\n\nSome appear to have been spooked by recent street protests against the measures, perhaps remembering how the small grassroots protest movement Pegida grew into a full-on backlash against Mrs Merkel's refugee policy and seats in parliament for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD).\n\nThe anti-lockdown movement - which appears to be dwindling - has brought together left and right wing extremists, conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers, and could hardly be said to represent the general population.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Berlin has seen small protests against the lockdown\n\nBut many suspect there's another reason for that so-called beauty contest. Angela Merkel is due to stand down next year after four terms in office. The race to succeed her was well under way but the coronavirus crisis has transformed political and public life and, with it, the chances of those with ambitions to the Chancellery.\n\nSome, like the businessman Friedrich Merz, have all but disappeared from the spotlight while others, like the country's health minister Jens Spahn or Bavaria's premier, Markus Söder - who grabbed headlines by announcing the first lockdown in his state - are being talked about as possible chancellors in waiting.\n\nArmin Laschet, whose office overlooks the Düsseldorf waterfront, has been one of the most voluble agitators for a swift relaxation of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe premier of North Rhine-Westphalia - and one of the leading chancellor candidates - denies that his approach has anything to do with trying to maintain a high profile through the crisis.\n\n\"The measures we had to decide now are so important - a matter of life and death - you couldn't act on a tactical basis,\" he said. \"Among the population it was much more popular to close everything down but I thought that was wrong…I acted out of a basic sense of responsibility to this state.\"\n\nArmin Laschet believes lockdown restrictions should be eased more rapidly\n\nHe's a cheerful chap who enthusiastically jabs a finger at official charts showing the downward trend in infection rates. Mr Laschet says it's best that every region, with their differing economies, geographies and infections, should act independently.\n\n\"We have the health problem of the pandemic, the infection, disease, but there are other damages,\" he said.\n\n\"For children from disadvantaged backgrounds: If they can't go to school for 10 weeks they lose chances. Sick people who didn't have Covid-19 didn't get treatment because the hospitals were reserved for Covid-19. People in care homes got lonely, lost the will to live.\"\n\n\"These are damages too and they claimed lives. It's why I always thought you have to consider both sides of the story, not just the virological one,\" he said.\n\nNot far away, in a tent outside a care home, I sit opposite Katharina Resch. A perspex screen divides us but it means we can talk safely, face to face.\n\nKatharina Resch believes politicians are under huge pressure to get things back to normal\n\nThe relaxation has meant her family has now been able to visit the pensioner. But the staff worry. They've kept the virus out but fear the impact of a second lockdown on their residents if general infection levels rise.\n\nKatharina's concerned, likening the rush to lift restrictions to upending a sack of potatoes.\n\n\"I'm sceptical that this head over heels [approach] is a good thing,\" he said. \"But I think politicians are so under pressure that they have to do something.\"\n\nA care worker wheels Katharine back into the home and she waves goodbye. Germany may have got its outbreak under control for now but scientists and politicians are watching anxiously.\n\nIt is, as Angela Merkel has repeatedly acknowledged, a fragile success.", "Journalists from across the US have reported being targeted by police at protests this weekend\n\nDozens of journalists covering anti-racism protests that have rocked the US have reported being targeted by security forces using tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray.\n\nIn many cases, they said it was despite showing clear press credentials.\n\nSuch attacks \"are an unacceptable attempt to intimidate [reporters]\", said the Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based group.\n\nAttacks on journalists carried out by protesters have also been reported.\n\nThe arrest of a CNN news crew live on air on Friday in Minneapolis, where unarmed black man George Floyd died at the hands of police, first drew global attention to how law enforcement authorities in the city were treating reporters covering protests that have descended into riots.\n\nOn Tuesday, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison asked his embassy in Washington to investigate the use of force by police against an Australian news crew as officers dispersed protesters there the previous day.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Scott Thuman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes after dozens of attacks on journalists and media crews across the country over the weekend were reported on social media. In total the US Press Freedom Tracker, a non-profit project, says it is investigating more than 100 \"press freedom violations\" at protests. About 90 cases involve attacks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn Saturday night, two members of a TV crew from Reuters news agency were shot at with rubber bullets while police dispersed protesters in Minneapolis defying an 20:00 curfew.\n\n\"A police officer that I'm filming turns around points his rubber-bullet rifle straight at me,\" cameraman Julio-Cesar Chavez said. Reuters said the Minneapolis Police Department had not commented despite being provided with video footage.\n\nReuters said police appeared to fire directly at their cameraman as he filmed them\n\nIn Washington DC, near the White House, a riot police officer charged his shield at a BBC cameraman on Sunday evening.\n\nThe cameraman was \"clearly identifiable as a member of the media\", said the BBC's Americas bureau chief Paul Danahar. \"The team had been following all directions from the police as they covered the protests in front of the White House. The assault took place even before the curfew had been imposed and happened without warning or provocation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC cameraman was charged by a police officer at a Washington DC protest\n\nOn the same day, on the other side of the country in Long Beach, California, radio reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez said he had been shot in the throat with a rubber bullet by a police officer. The city's police chief told reporters on Monday that he wanted to investigate what happened, adding: \"I do not want anyone from the media to get hurt.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOvernight on Friday, a Fox News crew were chased and hit by a mob of masked protesters near the White House. \"It's the most scared I've been since being caught in a mob that turned on us in Tahrir Square [in the Egyptian capital Cairo],\" veteran Fox correspondent Leland Vittert said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 3 by U.S. Press Freedom Tracker\n\nOn Saturday, Vice News journalist Michael Anthony Adams said he was pepper-sprayed in the face at a petrol station by Minneapolis police despite holding his press card in the air and yelling \"Press!\"\n\nVideo posted by another Vice journalist supports his account of what happened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Roberto Daza This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday night, Linda Tirado, a freelance photojournalist and activist, was struck in her left eye by a projectile that appeared to come from the direction of police in Minneapolis. She has been permanently blinded in that eye.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Linda Tirado told BBC World News that she wouldn't let the injury stop her from telling people's stories\n\nThat same night a reporter from local news station Wave 3 in Louisville, Kentucky was hit by pepper balls fired by a police officer aiming directly at her as she reported live on television. \"I'm getting shot! I'm getting shot!\" she said.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Louisville police said on Saturday that they were trying to identify which officer was involved. \"Targeting the media is not our intention,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nA reporter from Germany's international news broadcaster Deutsche Welle was also shot with projectiles by police in Minneapolis this weekend while preparing to go live on air. He was wearing a vest emblazoned with the word \"PRESS\" and was also threatened with arrest, a video showed.\n\n\"Those policemen are under a lot of stress doing their job but of course they should have let us work and do our job,\" Stefan Simons, the reporter, said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 5 by DW News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Sunday, Minnesota's governor apologised to those who had been detained in his state.\n\n\"I want to once again extend my deepest apologies, to the journalists who were once again in the middle of this situation who were inadvertently, but nevertheless, detained - to them personally and to the news organisations and to journalists everywhere,\" Tim Walz said.\n\nThe incidents come as President Donald Trump continues to attack the media. On Sunday he tweeted: \"The Lamestream Media is doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy.\" He said journalists were \"truly bad people with a sick agenda\".\n\nSeveral press freedom organisation have condemned the attacks.\n\n\"The numerous, targeted attacks that journalists reporting on protests across the country have faced from law enforcement over the last two nights are both reprehensible and clear violations of the First Amendment,\" the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press said.\n\nCourtney Radsch, advocacy director at the Committee to Protect Journalists, told the BBC that the group was calling on authorities to \"instruct police to cease targeting journalists and ensure that they are able to do their jobs safely and without fear of injury\".", "Spain's tourism minister has cast doubt on the prospect of an early return by UK holidaymakers to Spanish beaches.\n\nMaría Reyes Maroto said British coronavirus figures \"still have to improve\" before Spain could receive tourists from the UK.\n\nLast week, the Spanish government said foreign visitors would no longer have to undergo a two-week quarantine from 1 July.\n\nBut Ms Reyes Maroto said tourist activity would be resumed \"gradually\".\n\n\"For Spain, it is very important that the first tourists are tourists who are in the same epidemiological situation as us, and that they are able to fly safely,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"Regarding the United Kingdom, there have been talks with tour operators but British data still have to improve, because it's important to ensure that the person comes well and then returns well.\"\n\nThe tourism minister said that as soon as conditions improved in the UK, Spain would be ready to receive British citizens \"with the same hospitality as ever\".\n\nSpain normally attracts 80 million tourists a year, with the sector providing more than 12% of the country's GDP.\n\nOpening up the holiday market again before the summer season is over is seen as crucial to the Spanish economy.\n\nHowever, just as Spain prepares to end its quarantine policy, the UK is set to impose a 14-day quarantine of its own for arrivals from 8 June, including returning holidaymakers.\n\nThat would mean that any tourists coming home after taking holidays in most foreign destinations would have to spend two weeks in self-isolation.\n\nOther tourist destinations are also beginning to open up, with Greece announcing that flights to Athens and Thessaloniki airports will resume on 15 June - but only from those parts of Europe that have escaped the worst of the pandemic.\n\nOther Greek airports are due to reopen on 1 July.\n\nAt the same time, tourism authorities in the Algarve region of Portugal have said its beaches will be open for tourists on 6 June, with flights resuming to the region's international airport, Faro, from the UK and Ireland.\n\nHowever, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against all non-essential foreign travel.\n\nHave you planned to travel to Spain this year? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Up to 3,000 jobs are at risk after one of the country's biggest restaurant operators decided as many as 120 outlets will not reopen after lockdown, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe Restaurant Group, which owns Frankie & Benny's and Garfunkels, has about 600 outlets across the UK, with about 22,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIt is understood that Frankie & Benny's will bear the brunt of the closures.\n\nThe company, which declined to comment, was due to inform staff on Wednesday,\n\nIn an email to managers seen by the BBC on Tuesday, the company said: \"Many sites are no longer viable to trade and will remain closed permanently.\n\n\"The Covid-19 crisis has significantly impacted our ability to trade profitably, so we've taken the tough decision to close these restaurants now.\"\n\nThe group appears to be speeding up previous plans to shut restaurants as trade suffers due to the pandemic.\n\nThe email was sent to managers in the group's Leisure Division, which includes more than 200 Frankie & Benny's outlets.\n\nIt is not clear which outlets will be shut, or exactly how many, but BBC was told on Wednesday that up to 120 are at risk.\n\nThe group also owns the Wagamama chain and some pub units. Wagamama is not part of the division which received the email and the vast majority of its restaurants are expected to reopen.\n\nThe Restaurant Group said in March that 61 out of 80 branches of its Tex-Mex dining chain Chiquito's would remain closed permanently as it fell into administration.\n\nIt cited the Covid-19 outbreak as having had \"an immediate and significant impact on trading\".\n\nHowever, the group had already announced in February, prior to the introduction of lockdown measures, that it would speed up existing plans to close restaurants.\n\nInitially it had planned to make 150 closures - which were first signalled in 2019 - over a six-year period. It then said it would close 90 restaurants by the end of 2021.\n\n\"I feel completely overwhelmed and upset,\" says Georgia. She has been working as a part-time waitress at one Frankie & Benny's outlet since last April.\n\n\"I'm angry, as they feel as though staff are disposable,\" she says, adding that the lack of certainty around work amid lockdown has created mental stress.\n\n\"I just can't believe that they would send that kind of message to managers without any warning,\" she adds.\n\nThe group had already seen sales falling across many outlets. That came despite stronger revenues across the wider group in its Wagamamas and pub units.\n\nIt said in February that like-for-like sales - which strip out new restaurant openings - in the division that includes Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito, fell by 2.8% in 2019.\n\nMany casual dining chains had already been struggling in the face of rising overheads and falling consumer spending.\n\nBut those in the hospitality sector have seen their problems worsen due to the coronavirus pandemic, as customers have been forced to stay at home amid lockdown.\n\nCarluccio's, for example, was bought out of administration by the owner of Giraffe restaurants.\n\nDespite its rescue, more than 1,000 jobs will be lost at the Italian restaurant chain, more than half of its total workforce. 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